Critical Path by Fuller, R. Buckminster - 1981

No place (but Champaign, Illinois?): Privately Printed, 1991. Very scarce (said to be limited to only 6 copies). Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.75" thick. Posthumously printed memoirs of Ralph Early Grim (1902-1989), geologist and Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana. The February 2009 newsletter of THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY (photocopy laid-in) contains a tribute to Grim from the University of New Mexico's Dewey Moore. In it Moore writes: "The contrast between his rather humble origins and his lofty reputation as a scientist and world traveler was perhaps the stimulant for him to write his memoirs. After his death, his wife, Frances E. Grim, had them transcribed and a few… Read More

Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Fine Book/Very Good Dust Jacket. 492 Pp. Book Is Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Lower Tips, Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight, A Little Very Faint And Light Pencil Underling. Dj Lightly Used, Not Price-Clipped, Spine Sunned [Browning And With Damp Stain Along Much Of The Middle Of The Spine [No Traces Of Damp Staining Anywhere In The Book], Wear Along Edges With 1/8" Loss Along Top Edge Of Spine, 1/2" Splits At Top Of Front Flap Folds, And A Few Other Minor Chips And Tears Along Top Edge, And 12 Small Inked Characters, Crossed Out, At Lower Right Of Front Panel. Signature "Hans Reichenbach / Los Angeles, Feb. 1944" On Front Free Endpaper, His Signature And Possibly His Ownership Mark.

Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980, first printing. 8vo., 7 1/2" x 9 1/4", 235pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. A seminal work by a pioneer in computer graphics and cinema techniques. Near fine, clean and bright, in a very good dust jacket with edgewear and a short, closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.

1656 Gervase Markham Farewell to Husbandry Agriculture FARMING Garden Rice Wheat
Gervase Markham is one of the most prolific and well-known 17th-century authors of husbandry and jockey athletics. His book 'Farewell to Husbandry' is a rare work of agricultural history, focusing on the preservations and planting of grains and seeds. Other important topics include:
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Preparing and grooming farmland
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Techniques in plowing
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Rice and wheat harvesting
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Farm tools
Item number: #16344
Price: $750
MARKHAM, Gervase
Markhams Farewell to hvsbandry : or, The enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our nation, to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse and grasse, as best grounds whatsoever
London : Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster and George Sawbridge, 1656.

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[6], 126, [4]
· References: Wing S 3650
· Language: English

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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1798 1ed FLORIDA & LOUISANA Colonies Vesuvius Napoleon Yellow Fever Plague RARE
The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.
This 1798 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:
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English Naval losses near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Admiral Nelson commands and military decisions
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Yellow Fever epidemic in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the West Indies
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English control of Cape of Good Hope
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Description of the eruption of Vesuvius and the uncovering of its ruins
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Secession of Florida and Louisiana from Spain to France
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Irish Rebellion of 1798
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Napoleon's campaign to Egypt
Item number: #20125
Price: $750
URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]
The Gentleman's Magazine: for 1798, volume LXVIII.
London:… Read More

1636 ATLAS Nicolas Tassin MAPS Beauce France French Geography Chartres Montargis
Nicolas Tassin was a mid-17th-century French cartographer whose maps were some of the most thorough and accurate of the time. This collection of Tassin maps includes his maps and engravings of cities, towns, and villages, in Beauce, France. Notable maps include: Chartres, Estampes, Corbeil-Essonnes, Gallardon, Montargis, and Saint-Mathurin
Item number: #20411
Price: $950
TASSIN, Nicolas
Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considérables de France… Province de Beau[L]ce avec la carte generale…

Paris : Tavernier, 1636.

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18 engravings (incl. title page & table)
· Language: French
· Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 9.75in (18cm x 24.5cm)
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1814 Ferguson Physics ATLAS Inventions Astronomy Isaac Newton Optics Brewster

James Ferguson was a prominent Scottish physicist and astronomer known for his lectures and studies on mechanics, hydraulics, optics, and astronomy. These public lectures on experimental philosophy and physics were repeated throughout various towns in England and eventually transcribed for publishing.
This 1814 printing of the lectures of Ferguson includes impressive, folding engravings depicting mechanical inventions, gears, optics, hydraulics, clocks, and globes.

Item number: #40107
Price: $750
FERGUSON, James ; BREWSTER, David [edit.] ; PATTERSON, Robert [edit.]
Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.
Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1814.

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Language: English
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22.5cm x… Read More

1764 Electricity Letters by Nollet Ben Franklin Attacks Science Experiments 2v

Jean-Antoine Nollet was an 18th-century French physicist who made incredible contributions to world of physical science. Perhaps his best work came with from his experiments with electricity and his displays of static electricity. In his myriad of letters on electricity, Nollet describes his process and studies with electricity, but his letters on electricity are certainly most famous for attacking Benjamin Franklin's electricity research. In fact, it is thought that these letters were responsible for separating electricity scientists into 'Franklinists' and 'anti-Franklinists' (Priestly)
This 1764 two-volume edition of Nollet's "Electricity Letters" contains all of his criticism of Franklin, published in Paris by Guerin and Delatour.
Item number: #20624
Price: $750
NOLLET, Jean Antoine
Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénoménes électriques; et fur les effects nuifibles ou avantageux qu'on peut en… Read More