The Moon by Seymour Simon - 1984

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Albany NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1887. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Internally complete. Some pages detached. Cover very water damaged and musty. Endpapers with some water staining and marks. Maps and plates intact and all present, although some plates are detached as indicated. Book is valuable for the maps and plates as much as anything else. Includes 6 very nice plates of instruments on heavy page stock (Plate titles models of tripod and tower signals; Reconnaissance telescopes and heliotrope; Twelve-inch direction theodolite; Twelve-inch direction theodolite, arranged for use at night, including lams, striding level and vertical circle; Eight-inch repeating theodolite arranged for measuring zenith distances; Eight-inch repeating theodolite with large telescope as used in measuring horizontal angles). Many sketches throughout text to illustrate and accompany measurements and tables. Five independent maps in map pocket at rear endpaper all present and intact with some… Read More

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

Book is in good condition. Some darkening evident on ends of pages. Dust jacket is worn but intact, and has been wrapped in Mylar for protection.

London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. xxxv, [1], 170 p., 4 leaves with composite sectional models: 221 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark brown library buckram with gilt spine title and call number. "Newark N.J.P.L." at tail of spine in gilt. Small bookplate on front fixed endpaper: "The Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of Newark N.J." Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of Preface and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; edges of a few of the composite sections rubbed; otherwise, clean and solid.

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Albany NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1887. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Internally complete. Some pages detached. Cover very water damaged and musty. Endpapers with some water staining and marks. Maps and plates intact and all present, although some plates are detached as indicated. Book is valuable for the maps and plates as much as anything else. Includes 6 very nice plates of instruments on heavy page stock (Plate titles models of tripod and tower signals; Reconnaissance telescopes and heliotrope; Twelve-inch direction theodolite; Twelve-inch direction theodolite, arranged for use at night, including lams, striding level and vertical circle; Eight-inch repeating theodolite arranged for measuring zenith distances; Eight-inch repeating theodolite with large telescope as used in measuring horizontal angles). Many sketches throughout text to illustrate and accompany measurements and tables. Five independent maps in map pocket at rear endpaper all present and intact with some… Read More

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

Book is in good condition. Some darkening evident on ends of pages. Dust jacket is worn but intact, and has been wrapped in Mylar for protection.

London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. xxxv, [1], 170 p., 4 leaves with composite sectional models: 221 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark brown library buckram with gilt spine title and call number. "Newark N.J.P.L." at tail of spine in gilt. Small bookplate on front fixed endpaper: "The Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of Newark N.J." Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of Preface and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; edges of a few of the composite sections rubbed; otherwise, clean and solid.