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Boston ABAA 2015

A selection of the material we will be taking to the Boston ABAA fair in November 2015.� There will be many other new items at the fair not listed here.

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Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing, a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective ; with Many New Practical Problems Illustrated By Thirty Four Copper Plates

London: J. Dillon & Co 1797. [4], [i]-vi, [6], [1]-518 pages. Followed by title leaf for plate section, and then 34 double folding plates, a 14 pages catalog of Jone's instruments and finally 2 pages ads. Calf binding rebacked to style with original red label preserved. Plates are trimmed nearly..... More

Item #21068 Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing, a General Description of the...
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THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS

Mémoire Présenté à l'Académie royale des Sciences, le 2 octobre 1820, où se trouve compris le résumé de ce qui avait été lu à la même Académie les 18 et 25 septembre 1820, sur les effects des courans électriques. [Original journal appearance of the separately issued and updated "Memoires sur l'Action Mutuelle de Deux Courans Electriques"]

Paris: Chez Crochard 1820. First Edition. 448 pages plus 5 plates (1 folding). 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with black spine labels. Early label (Coquard a Epinal) on front pastedown. The entire volume of "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", Vol. Quinzieme [XV 15] offered. Surface wear/damage to..... More

Item #22536 Mémoire Présenté à l'Académie royale des Sciences, le 2 octobre 1820, où se...
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A Preliminary Checklist of Books Relating to Microscopes and Microscopy

Redondo Beach, CA: The Gemmary 1993. First Edition. [2], 133 pages. 8vo. Original tan and black printed wrappers. A bright clean copy. Fine. Wrappers.

The first 1333 entries (112 pages) are related to light microscopes and microscopy. The final 292 entries are related to electron microscopes and microscopy. Although..... More

Item #22931 A Preliminary Checklist of Books Relating to Microscopes and Microscopy. V. A....
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Minutes of Evidence Given Before THE ROYAL COMMISSION by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, Ph. D. of Washington D.C. U.S.A. on the 14th, 21st, 22nd, and 26th June 1888

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1889. First Separate Edition. [1]-66 pages plus 3 diagrams (1 folding). Original publisher's buff printed wrappers. 8 1/4 inches x 12 inches. Old paper tape spine repair, wrappers laid down on reinforcing paper when reattached. Closely trimmed on the bottom edge..... More

Item #23010 Minutes of Evidence Given Before THE ROYAL COMMISSION by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell,...
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Lecons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale

Paris: J. - B. Bailliere et Fils 1877. First Edition. viii, 576 pages + 8 pages publisher's ads (dated Juillet 1879). 8vo. Beautifully rebound in 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Tear to blank flyleaf neatly repaired on verso with archival tape. Original wrappers bound in. Previous owner name penned on..... More

Item #23870 Lecons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale. M. Claude Bernard
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Gospel of Luke in Chinese

[Gospel of Luke in Chinese: Translated by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Walter Henry Medhurst, John Stronach, & William C. Milne.]

Fuchou [?]: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions [?] 1856 [?]. 8vo., [ff 37] with leaves printed on one side only, then folded to create two pages for binding; original plain wrappers with Chinese woodcut text to front wrapper; contemporary ink annotation in English to front wrapper and library..... More

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Construction and use of mathematical instruments

Traite de La Construction et des Principaux usages des Instrumens de Mathematique avec les Figures necessaires pour l'intelligence de ce Traite. Dedie a son Altesse Royale, Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans

A Paris: Chez Jean Boudot, Jacques Collombay, et Jean Boudot fils rue S. Jacques 1709. First Edition. [8], 347, [6] pages + 28 plates. 8vo. Full calf binding with red spine label, raised bands and gilt decorations. Light rubbing to leather, stain to front leather lower right. Speckled edges. Previous..... More

Item #24011 Traite de La Construction et des Principaux usages des Instrumens de Mathematique...
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One of 500 copies printed

The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments

London: Holland Press 1972. Reprint. [6],v-vii, [1 blank], [1]-325, [ads 1] pages. 30 plates. Publisher's black cloth. 9 1/4 x 14 inches. Corners bumped. Purple dj front panel has jagged tear near spine panel upper left, and is clipped lower right corner front flap. Minor fading to the spine panel..... More

Item #21384 The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments. M. Bion, Edmund Stone
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Law Tracts, Containing, I. An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity, its Limits Extent and Duration. II. Considerations on the Question whether Tenants by Copy of Court Roll, according to the Custom of the Manner, Though not at the will of the Lord, are Freeholders Qualified to Vote in Elections for Knights of the Shire. III. The Law of Descents in Fee-Simple. IV. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, with other Authentic Instruments : to which is prefixed an Introductory Discourse containing an History of the Charter

Dublin: Elizabeth Watts, in Skinner-Row 1767. [4], vi, 136, [2], 87, cxiv, [2], 106 pages. 8vo. Recently rebacked preserving endpapers, and with new red leather spine labels. "A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee-Simple" with separate title page, printed for Richard Watts and dated 1760. First plate is..... More

Item #23611 Law Tracts, Containing, I. An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity, its Limits Extent...
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One of only 25 copies containing 12 etching proofs of the frontispiece

Les Villanelles, de Joseph Boulmier avec ses poésies en langage du XVe siècle

Paris: Isidore Liseux 1879. Second Edition. [4], 140 pages plus 12 etching proofs as frontispieces. Bound in full vellum (4 x 6 inches) with title, author, and date hand decorated on the spine with flourishes. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers bound in including the spine panel here found affixed to it's..... More

Item #24498 Les Villanelles, de Joseph Boulmier avec ses poésies en langage du XVe siècle....
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PMM 406b Presentation Copy

X Rays and Crystal Structure

London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd 1915. First Edition. vii, [1], 228 pages., [2 index, blank], [2 advertisements]. Original blue cloth with faded spine labeling, boards bowed and corner tips bumped. Binding overall is worn at the extremities. 'Presentation Copy' embossed at head of the title page (no inscription just..... More

Item #17696 X Rays and Crystal Structure. W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg, William Henry, William Lawrence
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Views in Philadelphia and its Environs, from original Drawings taken in 1827-30.

Philadelphia: C G Childs Engraver 1827-[1830]. 37 un-numbered leaves + 24 plates + 1 plan + additional engraved title page (includes a list of subscribers). 5.5 x 8.75 inches. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Full red calf binding with old professional rebacking. Wear at the joints, old brown linen tape..... More

Item #22995 Views in Philadelphia and its Environs, from original Drawings taken in 1827-30....
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Roland Clark's Etchings

New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. First Edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 16 inches), pp. [unpaginated]; nicely rebound in three-quarter red morocco and rose linen boards gilt; spine stamped in gilt; minor scuffs or soil to boards; minor wear to one corner's leather ; t.e.g.; marbled endpapers; clean throughout; near..... More

Item #20235 Roland Clark's Etchings. Roland Clark
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with 2 albumen photographs

A memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A. late Vicar of Hursley

New York: Pott & Amery 1869. Second Edition. Vol 1: xvi, [17]-309 pages. Vol 2: iv, [311]-649 pages. 8vo. Original green cloth. Top edges gilt. Volume 1 contains a portrait frontispiece after a painting or drawing, Volume 2 contains an image of Hursley Parsonage (both are albumen photographs). Wear to..... More

Item #24515 A memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A. late Vicar of Hursley. Sir J. T. Coleridge,...
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Untersuchungen uber die Radioaktiven Substanzen

Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn 1904. Later printing. VIII, 132 pages. Stiff paper wrappers. Grey cloth with black printed titles. Text in German. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. A clean copy. Very Good. Stiff wraps.

Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize..... More

Item #23284 Untersuchungen uber die Radioaktiven Substanzen. Mme. S. Curie, Marie Sk odowska
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First Detailed, Publicly printed description of Daguerre's photographic process

Le Daguerreotype

Paris: Bachelier 1839. First Edition. [4], 903, [1-errata] pages. 8 x 10 inches. 4to. 1/4 cloth over marbled boards with corners tipped in cloth. Ex-library (Harvard Chemical Library), properly withdrawn, with library bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and one stamp. Professionally rebacked with original spine panel laid down. Pageblock sound..... More

Item #18602 Le Daguerreotype. Louis JM Daguerre, Francois Arago
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First American fourth state with author's additions

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. First American Edition. xi, [5]-116, 116*-121*, 117-440, [2-ads] pages. 1 folding plate opposite page 108. 8vo. Publisher's original green pebbled cloth with blind stamped decorations. Corner tips and head/tail spine with wear. Previous owner's label affixed to front endpaper. Rear hinge with thin..... More

Item #23682 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin
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La photographie. Traité théorique et pratique

Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1886-1888. First Edition. 2 volumes. Vol 1: xvi, 467 pages. Vol 2: xiii, 573 pages. Half calf over marbled boards. Large 8vo. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. Light browning to pages. Frontispieces and plates each accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Near Fine. Boards.

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Item #24326 La photographie. Traité théorique et pratique. A. Davanne, Alphonse
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The Scattering of Electrons by Crystals

Lancaster, PA; Grand Central Terminal N.Y.C. ; Garrison, N. Y. The Science Press 1929. First Edition. viii, [1]-96, ix-xvi pages. Original printed paper wrappers. 7 x 10 inches. The January 1929 issue of Scientific Monthly, offered in it's original wrappers. Upper corner bumped, curling of the wrappers around the textblock..... More

Item #22970 The Scattering of Electrons by Crystals. Dr. C. J. Davisson, Clinton Joseph
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Post-mortem Examination of a Collapsed Lung in Jan. 1823

Observations on Air Found in the Pleura, in a case of Pneumato-Thorax ; with Experiments on the Absorption of Different Kinds of Air introduced into the Pleura

London: William Nicol 1823. First Edition. [2], 21 pages. 4to. Disbound. Ex Libris stamp Edinensis Medicae Societatis in several places. Inscribed BY DAVY at head of title page "The Royal Medical Society from the author" and in pencil the number 2. Apparently extracted from a bound volume, this is the..... More

Item #24071 Observations on Air Found in the Pleura, in a case of Pneumato-Thorax ; with...
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1 of 2 issues published

Gernsback, Hugo. Television, Vol 1 No 2

New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1928. First Edition. 8.5 x 11.75 inches. 32 pages. In excellent condition. Light crease down the center fold, light bump to the corners. An excellent example. Near Fine. Magazine.

Early television magazine edited by Hugo Gernsback - the father of modern Science Fiction and..... More

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1 of 2 issues published

Gernsback, Hugo. Television, Vol 1 No 2

New York: Experimenter Publishing Company 1928. First Edition. 8.5 x 11.75 inches. 32 pages. In excellent condition. Light crease down the center fold, light bump to the corners. An excellent example. Near Fine. Magazine.

Early television magazine edited by Hugo Gernsback - the father of modern Science Fiction and..... More

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High Speed Photography Flashes into Engineering

Group of Industrial Bulletins from Arthur D. Little, Inc. related to High-Speed Photography as well as a photograph of "Golf Ball at Instant of Impact" by Harold Edgerton and K. J. Germeshausen from MIT

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Arthur D. Little, Inc. 1933. First Edition. A set of 4 Industrial Bulletins from Arthur D. Little, Inc. (Jan, Mar, and Dec 1933 plus June 1934) along with a letter from Frank L. Tucker of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (Chemists, Engineers) and a small promotional photograph (c) 1933..... More

Item #24125 Group of Industrial Bulletins from Arthur D. Little, Inc. related to High-Speed...
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Memoir of John Endecott [ Endicott ], First Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay : Being also a Succinct Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colony, from 1628 to 1665.

Salem: Printed at the Observer Office 1847. First Edition. 116 pages. 4to. Publisher's original cloth. This copy has the bookplate of William Goddard Weld, and an inscription on the back of the frontispiece: "Wm G. Weld with the regards of Chas. E. Endicott" (perhaps a relative of the author). Minor..... More

Item #24535 Memoir of John Endecott [ Endicott ], First Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts...
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