New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers Ltd. 1974. Later printing. iv, [1], 118 pages. Small 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with pink spine titles. A new copy. Fine. Cloth. More

Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company 1981. xiv, 530 pages. Publisher's green mottled cloth with black titles. Minor loss to titles on spine, shelf leaned, previous owner information stamped and embossed on front endpaper. Otherwise a clean working copy. Very Good. Cloth.

The second edition was first printed..... More

Canada: Oberon Press 1978. First Collected Edition. 147,[1] pages. Publisher's red cloth with printed dust jacket. Dj scrunched at top of the front panel, and otherwise lightly soiled. Book is INSCRIBED by the author "for the Trinity family, from Bob Gibbs with thunder and lightning and backout" at the base..... More

New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, ... McGraw-Hill Book Company 1969. First Edition. xii, 236 pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Pictorial dust jacket in white and black. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Dust jacket with several tears and associated creasing. A nice working copy in the original dust jacket..... More

Rockville, MD: Robert A. Madle mid 1990s. Stapled wrappers, 60 to 90 pages each. With address stickers on rear, generally near fine condition. Two copies of #20, so a total of seven catalogues plus one multi-fold pamphlet on magazine runs. Near Fine. Wraps.

Back in the Very Early Days..... More

[Washington, DC]: Government Printing Office 1846, 1880. 528 pages. Large 8vo. Cloth. WITH 8 pages. Henry's Memorial was published in 1880 and has several letter fragments affixed to the front pastedown (Smithsonian envelope fragment addressed to Dr. William P. Vail" with Vail's note thanking the sender for the book). The..... More

Paris: Dentu 1803. First French Edition. [2], 6, 316 pages + 2 maps + [4], 304 + 2 folding maps. Two volumes bound in one. 3/4 vellum over paper boards (paper spine labels, now illegible). Stamped exlibrary copy with several institutional stamps on title page and early Library of Congress..... More

Stuttgart Und Tubingen: J.G. Cotta 1817. viii, 192 pages. Original paper covered boards, with 2 paper spine labels with old markings (perhaps library markings, hard to read - but there is a "Museum Karlsruhe" stamp on title page). 2 old paper tickets on the front pastedown. Minor wear to the..... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press 1993. xx, 342 pages. 4to. Publisher's black cloth. Ex-library Rowland Institute (properly deaccessioned). With the usual library markings. Good. Cloth. More

Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan 1968. [6], 183 pages. Publisher's wrappers. 8vo. Wear to the extremities, an old label on rear cover. Clean internally, a sound working copy. Good. Wraps. More

London: Novello, Ewer and Co. circa 1900. [2], v, 162, [2 ads] pages. 8vo. Publisher's original black pebbled cloth (blank). Front endpaper lacking. Paper label of conductor B.J. Lang on front cover and title page. All edges gilt. Very Good. Cloth.

Conductor B.J. Lang's copy. He conducted this work..... More

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and Acton, MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1998. First Edition. 32 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Near Fine. Wraps.

ISSUE CONTENTS: John Bird and the Origin of the Sextant by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Circular Dividing Engines in the United States..... More

London: Trubner & Co 1870. 596 pages. 8vo. Red quarter leather over marbled paper boards. 25 plates in rear (two colored), 3 portraits of Geologists, and woodcuts in the text. Fore edges of boards bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Leather spine still bright and clean, noting rubbing with minor losses..... More