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Edinburgh / London: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech / Geological Society, 1795. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Edinburgh: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech, 1795 (Vol. I and II); London: Geological Society, 1899 (Vol. III). Bound in three volumes, including the posthumous third part edited by Sir Archibald Geikie for the Geological Society. 4to (211 x 129 mm). viii, 620; viii, [103] 4-567 [1], xvi, 278, xiii [1] pp., including half-title in each volume and 6 folding engraved plates. Uniformily bound in fine 20th-century half calf, by Bayntun of Bath, spines ruled in gilt and with gilt-lettered morocco labels, original printed green wrappers of vol. III laid down and bound in at end (very slight fading to spines and light rubbing of extremities), brown sprinkled edges. Text and plates of first two volumes somewhat browned and foxed as usual (plate 2 in vol. II stronger), large folding plate of Mont Blanc with small defect…
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Boston: Press of John Wilson and son, 1877. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From: Proceedings of the American Academy of arts and science. New Series vol. IV, whole series vol. XII, from May 1876 to May 1877. 8vo. iv, (1)-10 pp. General journal title and content list bound in as issued. Later (20th century) black paper binding with grey cloth spine, paper label with title on cover, protective paper wrapper. Faint damp staining and soiling, minor paper repairs to gutter and margins of general title, few minor tears to margins. A very fine, unstamped copy. ----
Dibner 69; PMM 365; Origins of Cyberspace 116; From Gutenberg to the Internet 5.3; Norman 164. - THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Philip Reis had produced the first telephone in 1861, but it was not capable of transmitting intelligible speech. In March 1876 Bell spoke the first words to be heard and understood over the telephone, patented his invention the same month, and on 10 May this paper was read to the American Academy The following year the first public telephone service was installed between Boston and New York.
Dibner 69; PMM 365; Origins of Cyberspace 116; From Gutenberg to the Internet 5.3; Norman 164. - THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Philip Reis had produced the first telephone in 1861, but it was not capable of transmitting intelligible speech. In March 1876 Bell spoke the first words to be heard and understood over the telephone, patented his invention the same month, and on 10 May this paper was read to the American Academy The following year the first public telephone service was installed between Boston and New York.
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Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations
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Diophanti Redividi, pars prior + posterior. In qua, non casu, ut putatum est, sed certissima methodo, &analysi subtiliore, innumera enodantur Problemata, quae (aliud quàm) Triangulum Rectangulum spectant. - [FOUNDATIONAL WORK IN THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF NUMBER THEORY]
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1670. Lugduni [Lyon], Apud Ioannem Thioly, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with simple gilding to spine. Gilt title-label to spine partly missing. Four tiny worm-holes to upper front hinge, just touching front free end-papers and nothing else. Minor edge-wear, but a nice, clean, and tight binding. Ex-libris stamps to title-page (one being R.D.-E. Gelin's, the other unlegible but probably a theological library). Mostly very faint marginal dampstaining to lower margin thorughout, not touching text. Neat old owner's name to inside of front board (Soldner). Without the two blank leaves between the end of the dedication and the beginning of the text (there is clearly no leaf with any text lacking; there is either a pagination-error, or there has been one or two blank leaves between the end of the dedication and the beginning of the work. In the other copies that we have been able to find collations of, there has been no leaf a4 nor A1 either - there is no doubt that the text is complete), and without…
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Collection Des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs Publiee Sous Les Auspices Du Ministere De L'instruction Publique Par M. Berthelot...Avec La Collaboration De Ch.-em. Ruelle
by Berthelot, Marcellin. Ruelle, Emile Charles
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Paris: George Steinheil, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. 4to. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, red morocco labels on spines. Three volumes bound in two. This is a limited edition of 150 copies, this being No. 11. Volume 1: xxvjii, 284 p.p.; Volume 2: 458 p.p., Volume 3: x, 477 p.p. Illustrations throughout text of alchemtical symbols. Light rubbing to spine labels and extremities to boards. Slightly bumped edges. Light foxing throughout. Top edge gilt. A nice set in fine condition. Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) was a French scientist and professor at College de France in Paris. Berthelot believed that all chemical reactions depend on the physical forces that can be measured. He proved that organic compounds can be formed by ordinary methods of chemical manipulation and obey the same principles as inorganic substances. He was the recipient of the Davey Medal (1883) and the Copley Medal (1900) for his scientific achievements. Berthelot was interested in and…
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Physico-Mechanical Experiments On Various Subjects. Containing An Account of several Surprizing Phenomena touching Light and Electricity, Producible on the Attrition of Bodies. With many other Remarkable Appearances, not before observ'd. Together with the Explanations of all the Machines, (the Figures of which are Curiously Engrav'd on Copper) and other Apparatus us'd in making the Experiments.
by HAUKSBEE, Francis (1666-1713).
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London:: R. Brugis, 1709., 1709. Small 4to. (201 x 160 mm) [14], 194 pp. 8 plates (7 folding); foxing to some sections, plates 3 and 4 bound in reverse order, 1 plate facing p. 160, margins of two plates reinforced. Full modern speckled olive calf, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine title, by Johanna Rojgard [Sweden]. Bookplate of Andras Gedeon, ink ownership marks of James William Heath (1869) on front endleaf. Very good. FIRST EDITION. THE DISCOVERY OF NEON LIGHTING. By 1705, Hauksbee had discovered that if he placed a small amount of mercury in the glass of his modified version of Otto von Guericke's generator and evacuated the air from it, and then he caused a charge to be built up on the ball, a glow was visible if he placed his hand on the outside of the ball. This glow was bright enough to read by. This effect later became the basis of Neon lighting and mercury vapor lights. "Hauksbee's important experiments on electroluminescence, static electricity, and capillarity, described in the present…
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La Sexualité des Bactéries.
by (Brenner, Sydney) Wollman, E. L. & F. Jacob
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Paris: Masson et Cie, Libraires de l'Académie de Médecine, 1959. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 3 double-sided plates from photographs. Wrappers rubbed, a little creased, and partially tanned with a few small spots and marks. Slight crease affecting the margins of the first half of the contents. A very good copy. First edition, first impression of this uncommon and important monograph on bacterial genetics. An exceptional presentation copy signed by author François Jacob, with whom Brenner would partner only a year later to perform one of the most elegant experiments in the history of biochemistry, proving the role of messenger RNA and elucidating a key mechanism in the cell's process for decoding DNA. Cheekily inscribed by Jacob's co-author, Elie Wollman (1917-2008), "To Sydney Brenner, to disgust him / a good of bacterial sex" (possibly missing the word "dose" or similar before "bacterial sex"). And with Brenner's ownership signature in pencil on the upper cover. Wollman and…
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Ethicae, seu, moralis philosphiae breuis et perspicua descriptio: diligenter & ordine perfacili explicata. (102, [2] pages). Bound w/: Physicae, seu, de naturae philosophia institutio: perspicue et breutier explicata. (103, [1] pages); w/: De sphaera.
by Valerius, Cornelius; Karnelis Walther
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Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three important early textbooks in ethics, physics, mathematical geography; in De sphaera are eleven illustrations; bound in early vellum, rebacked; edges colored red with some bleeding into leaves and some staining, not affecting text. Title pages have printer's device. Valerius (1512-1578), professor at Louvain and author of popular textbooks, professed the Capellan system. Category: Astronomy - Early works to 1800..
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Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations
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Edinburgh / London: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech / Geological Society, 1795. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Edinburgh: printed for Cadell and Davies, London, and William Creech, 1795 (Vol. I and II); London: Geological Society, 1899 (Vol. III). Bound in three volumes, including the posthumous third part edited by Sir Archibald Geikie for the Geological Society. 4to (211 x 129 mm). viii, 620; viii, [103] 4-567 [1], xvi, 278, xiii [1] pp., including half-title in each volume and 6 folding engraved plates. Uniformily bound in fine 20th-century half calf, by Bayntun of Bath, spines ruled in gilt and with gilt-lettered morocco labels, original printed green wrappers of vol. III laid down and bound in at end (very slight fading to spines and light rubbing of extremities), brown sprinkled edges. Text and plates of first two volumes somewhat browned and foxed as usual (plate 2 in vol. II stronger), large folding plate of Mont Blanc with small defect…
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Bergwerck Buch: darinnen nicht allein alle Empter, Instrument, Gezeug, und alles, so zu diesem Handel gehörig, mit Figuren vorgebildet und klarlich beschrieben: Sondern auch, wie ein rechtverständiger Bergmann seyn soll
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Basel: Verlegung Ludwig Königs, 1621. Hardcover. See Description. Small folio. Third German edition of Agricolas most famous mining book ("De Re Metallica"). ff. iv, pp. ccccxci, [7]. Title page is printed in red and black and displays a vignette depicting an assayer working at a muffle furnace. 273 woodcut illustrations by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch accompany the text, including two fold out plates. Many of the woodcuts are almost a full page in size. Bound in full period vellum with usual age-toning, soiling and wear. Ribbon ties are lacking. Two small areas of careful repair are visible on the inner front cover, near the joint. The bottom tail cap contains minor restoration. Interior pages show scattered foxing, browning and age-toning in varying degrees. A couple of minor carefully sealed marginal tears are present. A neatly sealed tear (6.5 cm) is located on the upper portion of the title page, difficult to notice at first glance; a name is written unobtrusively in an old…
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Georgius Agricola, DE RE METALLICA, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations & Appendices upon the Development of Mining, Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy, and Mining Law from earliest times to the 16th Century.
by [Georg Agricola, 1494-1555], Hoover, Herbert [Clark] 1864-1964 and Lou Henry 1874-1944, Tr.
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Salisbury House, London, E. C: Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912. Translated by Herbert Clark Hoover [1874-1964] and Lou Henry Hoover [1875-1944]. Illustrated by Plates, one folding and reproduction of original title page [after the first Latin Edition of 292 plates by Blasius Weffring (and Hans Rudolf Manuel 1525-1571)]. First English Translation edition. Initially 3,000 copies (which cost over $20,000 to produce due to plate replication), actual printing is about half intended. Original full vellum, black spine print, 5 raised bands, uncut. Hinge repaired with J. Hewit acid free (AF) undyed calf, new AF front endpaper, spine numbers retouched and vellum cleaned. In custom Clambox in full AF undyed J. Hewit calf, Hollander AF brown Japapnese tissue sides, Shepherds AF paper bottoms with parchment label to be affixed for flat or upright storage. Restoration and box done by by KTB of Old Working Books & Bindery. Three items laid in: a notation to reduce and move the plate…
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Opera Omnia, tam antea sparsim edita, quam hactenus inedita.
by BERNOULLI, Johann (1667-1748).
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Lausanne & Geneva:: M. M. Bousquet, 1742., 1742. 4 volumes. Large 4to. Engraved frontis., engraved title vignettes, 91 engraved folding plates, titles printed in red and black. Fine contemporary mottled vellum over boards, spines gilt; minor binding defects, very slight worming to final leaves of index of vol. 4. Small Jesuit library stamp on titles. Near fine. First edition, a lovely set. Bernoulli rose to fame, along with his brother Jakob, for his investigations into the then-new fields of differential and integral calculus. Most of Bernoulli's writing appeared only in the journals of the time, and remained uncollected until the present edition. / "His chief discoveries are the exponential calculus, the treatment of trigonometry as a branch of analysis, the conditions for a geodesic, the determination of orthogonal trajectories, the solution of the brachistochrone, the statement that a ray of light traversed such a path that Smds [in Greek] is a minimum, and the enunciation of the principle of…
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Researches in Telephony [microform]
by Alexander Graham 1847-1922 Bell
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Marktech Optoelectronics Data Book
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Menands, NY, USA: Marktech International, Corp., 8888. 9840 20M : Circa late 80's-90's, Very Good condition Softcover Quarto, no date anywhere in this book, 1st edition presumed. Light edgewear of the wraps. Interior unmarked and tight.. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Book.
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A Beginner's Guide to True BASIC to Accompany Exploring Macintosh: Concepts in Visually Oriented Computing
by Abitabile, John; Abernethy, K
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose
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This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama
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LUNAR IMPACT: A HISTORY OF PROJECT RANGER
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Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Very Good. 1977. Trade Paperback. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, mild offsetting to front cove & spiner, light creasing to front cover, mild soiling to covers else a bright and solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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Lahey Blackbeard Editor Reference Manual : Revision A 1990
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Incline Village, NV, USA: Lahey Computer Systems, Inc., 1990. Good condition Spiral Bound Softcover Octavo, Revision A, June 1990. Edgewear of wraps, with creasing at fold-over rear flap. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Lahey Personal Fortran Toolkit Reference Manual : Revision B
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Incline Village, NV, USA: Lahey Computer Systems, Inc., 1990. Very Good Minus condition Stapled Softcover Octavo, 1990, Revision B, June 1990. Edgewear of wraps, with creases along spine edge. Interior unmarked and tight.. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Very Good -. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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A General Approach to the Analysis of Holographic Optical Systems for Stress Analysis
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Robert Joseph Sanford. Good. 1971. Hard Cover. An original dissertation. Contents include: General Theory of the Holographic Polariscope, Application of the Theory to Specific Cases, Holographic Circular Polariscope for a light Field, Holographic Polariscope for a dark field, photoelastic interferometry using a holographic polariscope, interpretation of fringes in stress-holo-interferometry, differential stress-holo-interferometry, computer simulated stress-optic patterns. Illustrated with drawings and charts; Ex-Library .
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Advanced Materials III, Proceedings of the Special Symposium on Advanced Materials, High Tech Materials, 1991, Nagoya Japan
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy
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