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New York: D. Appleton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 654 and 613 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Index. Backstrip Vol. I sunned.

Rome: Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempel, 1768. First edition. Boards. Recased in later full boards. Near fine. 283 pages. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. Four copper engraved plates; large fold-outs, plus title vignette, head and tail pieces and initials. Index and errata page. A discussion of the magical mineral waters and baths of Porreta Terme near Bologna at the foot of the Appennines. Elegantly printed with wide text margins, title page remargined, uncut, last few leaves with dampstains in gutter not affecting text, a very clean and crisp copy.

Adelaide: Limited Editions Club, 1971. leather_bound. Half morocco and wood veneer sides. Fine in tattered glassine overwrapper in very good, lightly soiled slipcase. Kredel, Fritz. 362 pages. Illustrated with black and white and color drawings by Fritz Kredel. With a Preface by Ashley Montague. Extensive index. Limited edition, copy 685 of 1500 signed by Fritz Kredel. NEWMAN & WICHE 435.

Paris: Chez Les Freres Levrault, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon library cloth, Very good. Pages 322 - 329 with a full page plate bearing ten figures (illustrations) for the construction D'une oreille de Charrue -- Jefferson's new design for a plough-ear which he tested in Monticello. This article appeared in "Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" -- Tome Primiere with 32 engraved plates (2 folding, one colored). Jefferson wrote to A. Thouin, a major contributor to the Society: "I have made a small alteration in the form of the toe of the Mould-board, which, while it preserves the principle untouched enables us to shorten the ploughshare six to eight inches, which is preferred by the agriculturists here to the first form." He sent Thorin a small box containing the model, and calls himself "not to be adept, but only a zealous amateur in the objects of the society." Ex-library, Harvard College bookplate.

Paris: Vve A. Cadart, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco, original red aubergine cloth recased with original leather spine label laid-down. Teg. Near fine. Folio, 48 x 34 cm, Inscribed and signed by Martial on the etched title page. 48 etched india proof plates with descriptive text mounted to stiff paper. Each plate about 6 1/2 x 5 inches. This exposition, larger in scale than any previous covered some 66 acres. More than 13 million people paid to attend, making it a great financial success. The French exhibit filled one half of the entire space, the United Kingdom occupied one third. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone was on display, as was Thomas Edison's megaphone and phonograph. On June 30, 1878 the completed head of the Statue of Liberty was showcased in the garden of the Trocadero Palace. There are two separate images of the latter herein. Another advance consisted of low cost temporary building materials for statues and exhibit structures invented two years earlier in… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark salmon boards. Very good. 136 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Six colored aquatint plates, one a large foldout. HENREY Vol.II, p.583. "No author's name appears on the title page......in the later editions the author signed her name and address" (rear of book). ABBEY LIFE p.13. Wide text margins, generally clean interior, tight and firm binding., nicks to corners.

Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Orig. buff, stapled stiff wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols.. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two foldout maps at rear pocket -- one aerial and one topographic -- also details "Principal Earthquakes in Japan from 559 AD through 1948. Forty-six figures and 291 figures respectively : maps, photographs, drawings, tables, etc. The Japanese Islands along the western side of the circum-Pacific seismic belt have been subject to particularly severe disturbances within historic time. Printed on quality glossy stock, cover soiling, minor nicks fore-edge Vol.I.

New York: TK Asian Antiquities, 2004. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. decorated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 95 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated mostly in color. Glossary of Technical Terms.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, with eleven plates. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Orig. blue linen cloth. Fine in worn original acetate wrapper.

London: John & James Rivington, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. Full straight-grained red morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger Payne. Minor, intermittent toning, light stain back cover, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt cover border panels.

Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856. New and Revised Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown roan. Very good. 379 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Illustrated with 320 engravings. First edition published 1851. Nice, tight copy, modest age-toning, backstrip chipped at head, binder stamp, lacks spine label.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 208 pages. 28 x 30.5 cm. Signed by Caponigro in ink on half title. 143 duotone illustrations. Text by Marriane Fulton. Caponigro explores the various configurations of these prehistoric monuments. Selected Bibliography. Owner inscription. Clean, bright copy.

London: Bemrose & Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth lettered in gilt, spine and front cover. Very good. 198 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Inscribed to Scientist and Polymath Herbert Spenser (1820-1903). The latter, a notable English intellect credited with coining the term "survival of the fittest," after reading Darwin's 'On the Origin of The Species.' He became the most famous philosopher of the age. 21 lithographed plates, some in color. Interior contents clean, bright and fresh.

London: White, Cochrane, And Co., et al., 1816. New Edition. Hardcover. Modern half navy spines and marbled boards. Fine in custom, very good solander case with leather spine label printed in gilt. 2 vols. 586 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Mitford's large paper edition with wide text margins. Half title, engraved folding frontispiece, additional pictorial title, vignette to Vol. II, and nine plates, two hand colored [a hybrid bird, and the painting presented to the church]. White is regarded by many as England's first ecologist, and one of those who shaped the modern attitude of respect for nature. Interior contents clean and fresh, folding frontispiece and some additional engravings toned, mostly marginal, new endpapers. .

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First edition. Orig. crimson cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 206 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 286 illustrations printed on high gloss stock and 226 in full color and one map. Chronology. Index.

New York: George McKibbin & Son, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine. 31 pages. Eleven text figures. A discussion of the basic elements of scientific book production.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 164 pages.

New York: New York World's Fair Corp, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. Wraps. Orig. embossed and decorated stiff wrappers. Fine. 62 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Prefatory notes by Robert Moses and Paul R. Screvane. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. full blue buckram stamped in gold and in blind. Fine in near fine slipcase. Eisenstaedt, Alfred. 284 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000. Color photographs by Eisenstaedt printed by Princeton Poly-chrome Press, and designed by Philip Grushkin. NEWMAN & WICHE 515. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter and "Number Four -- The fourth volume in the Forty-fifth series" printed one side only.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. full blue buckram stamped in gold and in blind. Fine in near fine slipcase. Eisenstaedt, Alfred. 284 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 752 of 2000. Color photographs by Eisenstaedt printed by Princeton Poly-chrome Press, and designed by Philip Grushkin. NEWMAN & WICHE 515. Laid-in the LEC Monthly Letter and "Number Four -- The fourth volume in the Forty-fifth series" printed one side only.