New York: Pacific & Atlantic Photos Inc. 1927. First Edition. An unframed press photograph (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) with the original paper description affixed to rear. Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. credit instructions stamped on rear. Some minor offsetting of ink apparently from paper description on lower 3/4..... More
![Photograph ] Edison Radios First Phonograph's Words! Thomas A. Edison, Governor Moore](/pictures/thumb/26732_1.jpg?v=1509117871)
Unknown: [ Underwood & Underwood ] [ 1922 ]. Later printing. An unframed silver print mounted on backing board showing Steinmetz (the Father of Electrical Engineering and the founder of the GE Research lab) and Thomas Edison examining some insulators on a laboratory table at GE in 1922. While this..... More
![Photograph ] A Wonderful Image of Thomas Edison and Charles Steinmetz Examining Insulators....](/pictures/thumb/24593_1.jpg?v=1504285893)
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society 1949. First Edition. [1], 521-548, iv pages. 8 x 10.5 inches. Printed tan wrappers. Signature of previous owner (Penn Professor of Physics Emeritus Sidney Bludman) at top of front wrapper, and notations in his hand throughout. Minor browning to extremities, wear to spine (which is..... More
Lancaster, PA and New York, NY: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics 1958. First Edition. [681]-1038 pages. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue/green printed wraps. Entire number offered. A clean copy noting minor browning to the extremities, spine tips, and spotting to the textblock edges. Bright and clean internally..... More
Chicago: Electric Appliance Company 1897. First Edition. 567 pages (plus additional tipped in pages). 8vo. 7 x 10 1/4 inches. Publisher's red cloth with black embossed lettering. Minor soiling to the covers. Clearly used, but still sound. Very Good. Cloth.
A copiously illustrated general catalog of electrical supplies from..... More
[ Roxbury, Vermont ]: Self published [ circa 1860 ]. First Edition. A manuscript document of Roxbury Vermont on a thick blotter like paper. 17 x 14 1/2 inches edge to edge. There are four large edge chips and some water damage affecting the content. The document includes 176 identifiable..... More
![Manuscript document of Roxbury Vermont ] "Elijah Winch Plann of Roxbury [VT] circa 1860" Elijah...](/pictures/thumb/23653_1.jpg?v=1504285786)
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
![Memoir of John Endecott [ Endicott ], First Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay : Being...](/pictures/thumb/24535_1.jpg?v=1504285888)
London: Bernard Quaritch (Vols I and II) / Richard Taylor and William Francis (Vol III) [ 1839, 1844, 1855 but 1878-1882 ]. Later printing. Three Volumes. Vol I: vii, 574 pgs + 8 folding plates. Vol II: [5], viii, [v-vi], 302 pages + 5 plates (two folding). Vol III: [5]..... More
London: Richard and John Edward Taylor (Vols I and II) / Richard Taylor and William Francis (Vol III) [ 1839, 1844, 1855 ]. First Edition. Three Volumes. Vol I: viii, 574, [2-ads] pgs + 8 folding plates plus 4 leaves of advertisements dated May 13, 1839. Vol II: viii, 302..... More
![Experimental Researches in Electricity ... in Three Volumes [ HARRISON D. HORBLIT COPY ]. Michael...](/pictures/thumb/27547_1.jpg?v=1573441206)
[ Lancaster, PA ]: The Physical Review 1947. First Edition. 1139-1146 pages. 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (8vo). Original green printed wrappers. Offprint from The Physical Review, Vol 72, No 12, pp. 1139-1146, December 15, 1947. A touch of fading to the edges, otherwise a fine copy. Near Fine..... More
Prov. R. I. [ Providence, Rhode Island ]: Henry L. Tillinghast [ circa 1850 ]. First Edition. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on recto only. 6 1/4 x 9 inches (15.8 x 22.9 cm). Wove paper with no watermarks. Cleanly trimmed (with minor variation on upper edge). A nice impression noting..... More
[ London ]: [ C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society ] [1753]. First Edition. 565-568 pages. 4to. 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). An extract from "Philosophical Transactions Giving some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts..... More
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger for the Library Committee of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 1875. First Edition. xv, [17]-236 pages. Plus thirteen plates with albumen photographs by Frederick Gutekunst. 8vo. Publisher's vibrant blue cloth with highly decorated gilt spine. #991/1000 copies. A bright clean copy, noting old tape repair..... More
Geneva, Illinois: Riverbank Laboratories 1918. First Edition. 24 pages. 29 cm. One of 200 copies per limitation statement on copyright page. Provided in the originally issued Riverbank Laboratories button and string flapped manila envelope with matching limitation number printed in red upper right corner. Clean copy noting several small spots..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press 1957. Later printing. xvi, [1], 302, [1] pages. Publisher's grey cloth with red and black printed dust jacket. The second printing, issued in the same year as the first, 1957. Dust jacket noting "Second impression" and with five dollar retail price. Dj with lower corner..... More
Paris: Imprimerie-Librairie Militaire Universelle, L. Fournier 1921. First Edition. Publication No 22 (English): 87 pages; WITH Publication No 22 (French): 91 pages. Together 2 volumes. Lacks the rare English and French 8 page appendix inserts. Publisher's stiff tan wrappers with black printed front cover duplicating title page. Hinges reinforced with..... More
Troy, [NY]: Moffitt & Lyon 1802. First Edition. 285, [3] pages. 12mo. 4 x 6 1/4 inches. Polished calf with black spine label "Electricity" with minor loss. Light wear to the extremities. Minor worming in the gutter base of spine affecting a few letters in the Preface. No flyleafs (as..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1931. First Edition. [8], 114, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Lacks the original dust jacket. Previous owner name "K. T. Bainbridge, Dec 25, 1931" on the front pastedown. A few passages highlighted in the margins with pencil marks. Folding plate of the periodic..... More
A. Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy 1773. x, [2], 460 pages including tables + 11 illustrations on 5 plates. 8vo. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Marbling worn, overall minor wear to the binding. Marbled endpapers dampstained. Marbled page edges. Unobtrusive occasional marginal dampstaining throughout. (pages 157-160 mis-numbered or bound out of..... More
Leipzig: E. B. Schwickert 1842. First Edition. 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Oblong. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Ex-libary "Deventer Bibliotheek", with blue ink-stamp on title page and a few labels on the spine. Otherwise unmarked. An atlas volume containing all copper plates, with most plates clean, and a few..... More
Lancaster, PA: American Institute of Physics 1962. First Edition. [2], 1130 pages. Light brown buckram binding with gilt spine lettering, bumped at head of spine. Physical Review 125 Jan-Feb 1962 (entire volume offered). Ex-library, properly de-accessioned, with minor markings. Very Good. Cloth.
This volume contains the article "Symmetries of..... More
[ no place ]: [ General Motors Acceptance Corporation ] 1960. First Edition. 14 x 15 inches (dimensions of artists' board). Illustration extends almost to the board extremities. Taped to the rear of the artist board is a copy of the magazine cover it was used on. Artist is unknown..... More
![Original art ] Cover art for GMAC MIC [General Motors Acceptance Corporation's Motors Insurance...](/pictures/thumb/27899_1.jpg?v=1590640323)
New York, NY: Walter Gibson and Bruce Elliott / Bruce Elliott 1942-1954. First Edition. A complete run of 300 issues of the Phoenix, continuously paginated across issues. 1201 total pages of Magic!!! Each issue with four pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, one sheet folded. B&W reproduction process. Includes index..... More
![The Phoenix [ Magic Magazine, published every other Friday ; complete run, 300 issues ]. Walter...](/pictures/thumb/27640_1.jpg?v=1579052109)
Japan: Electrotechnical Laboratory 1956. First Edition. [2], viii, [2], [10 plates], [1]-214 pages. Original blue cloth with white titling on spine and front panel. Minor bumps to corners and wear to the extremities. Errata sheet tipped in on rear pastedown. INSCRIBED by author Komamiya "to Mr. Albert E. Slade with..... More
Mainz: Victor v. Zabern [ no date ]. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 11 x 7 1/2 inches. Brick red cloth (worn at head/tail of spine) with brass clasp closure at fore-edge. Front hinge tentatively re-attached with tissue. Aeg. Contains 50 albumen photographs of paintings, marked '1a' to '50a', each on..... More
