Austin: W. Thomas Taylor [Designed and Printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press], 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 325 copies, folio size, 100 pp. A catalogue published in connection with an exhibition held at the Grolier Club to explore and celebrate the then-current state of fine press..... More
New York: Doubleday, A Foundation Book, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 239 pp., signed by John Crowley. John Crowley (b. 1942) had "The Deep" as his first novel, but is best known for his seminal SF novel "Little, Big" - this work had such an impact on..... More
San Francisco: The Lantern Press, Gelbert-Lilienthal, Inc. [printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1929. Boynton, Ray. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies on handmade paper (total edition 500), quarto size, 39 pp., signed by Wood below the frontis and with a short MSS note by him at the colophon, with..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo size, 509 pp. The first complete history of the barometer as a scientific instrument. "Even long before the barometer came into common use, its invention contributed powerfully to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century by making obsolete the..... More
Hodder & Stoughton, The Open University, (1991). First Edition. Softcover. First printing, quarto size, 447 pp. From the back cover: "The Scientific Revolution has been described as the most significant event in human history since the rise of Christianity...[this] book carries the reader through many of the major developments in..... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, 1993. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 728 pp. A history of clocks and watches from a scholar's viewpoint with Appendices, glossary, bibliography and index. As stated on the title-page: "with a list of 25,000 makers, revised and extended to 1875, 388 illustrations including 40 in colour". Truly..... More
San Francisco: Braun-Knecht-Heimann-Co. 1929. Hardcover. Quarto size, 552 pp. Issued by the Braun-Knecht-Heimann-Co. of San Francisco, and The Braun Corporation of Los Angeles, this 1929 catalog offers "supplies as are generally used in school laboratories" as well as "a limited line of agricultural equipment", along with "all instruments and equipment"..... More
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Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1726-28. Leather bound. Third printing of the German translation, includes all three parts, large octavo size, 690 pp., all text in German. Nicolas Bion (1652-1733), "chief instrument maker to the French King", published (in French) in 1709 "the 'Traité de la construction et des principaux usages..... More
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY [and] Dracut, MA: Tesseract [and] The Antiquarian Scientist, 1986-2002. Wraps. Volumes I through 16 (published in fifty-six issues); November, 1986 (Vol. I, Issue 1) – December, 2002 (Vol. 16, Issue 56). Octavo size, approx. 4350 pp. total. A continuous run of the first sixteen volumes (published in fifty-six..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. Limp cloth. Octavo size, 287 pp. Part III only of a four-volume work, this can be used as a stand-alone volume for the topic. Illustrations throughout and one chromolithograph (opposite p. 638). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in bull brown cloth over cardstock covers, black lettering..... More
London: David Bogue, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 350 pp. George Edward Davis (1850-1907), in addition to his interest in microscopy (publishing not just this work but the journal "Northern Microscopist") was trained as a chemist, and is often referred to as the founding father of chemical engineering, having..... More
Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, Inc., in association with National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, (1996). Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 304 pp. We cannot state this subject of this work any better than did the authors in the Introduction: "Alvan Clark and his two sons, George Bassett and Alvan Graham..... More
London: The Royal Microscopical Society, 1928. Hardcover. Octavo size, 316 pp. An important book in the history of microscopy; the first part provides an "Historical Introduction" from the "Earliest Times" through 1673, and the second provides descriptive "Catalogues of Instruments and Accessories". Replete with illustrations, with thirty-two in Part I...... More
Chicago: E.H. Sargent & Company, c. 1914. Limp cloth. Quarto size, 382 pp. A catalogue offering for sale "scientific laboratory apparatus" which, we are assured, will either be in stock or "we will import or make to order promptly at a reasonable price" (n.b., from the "Announcement" - i.e., Introduction)..... More
London: Printed for Smith, Beck, and Beck [and published by] John Van Voorst, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 153 pp. plus Plates. Richard (1827-1866) and Joseph Beck were founders of R and J Beck (est. 1843), the firm which manufactured and sold optical instruments such as microscopes and, later..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 282 pp. Reginald Stanley Clay (1868-1964) published this work, with fellow author Thomas H. Court, while a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society; he served from 1936-1937 as its President. According to a contemporary review, "[the] work is..... More
London: R. & J. Beck, Ltd., 1938. Hardcover. Octavo size, 264 pp. Richard and Joseph Beck were founders of R and J Beck (est. 1843), the firm which manufactured and sold optical instruments such as microscopes and, later, cameras. They were nephews of the famed Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869) who..... More
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1993. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 773 pp. The firm of Benjamin Pike (1777-1863) was founded in 1806 and operated in New York for 110 years "under various ownerships and names". They were known as a "pre-eminent makers" of eyeglasses and, when early microscopes came into..... More
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 395 copies, quarto size, 44 pp., with prospectus. Publication 193 from The Book Club of California; the leaves for this book had been at the Club for several years, as David..... More
Ojai, California: The Book Club of California [printed by the Classic Letterpress in Ojai, California], 2014. Campbell, Carolee. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 90 of 300 copies, quarto size, [53] pp., with a broadside signed by Kay Ryan laid in, signed by all five contributing poets. The Book Club of California's..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Lobdell, Frank. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 198 of 275 copies, quarto size, 96 pp., signed by Frank Lobdell, with signed print (number 19/20) and prospectus. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961-1970. Coryn, Sidonie. First Edition. Hardcover. Both volumes first printings, quarto size, 734 pp. and 643 pp. respectively, both volumes inscribed by Julia Child, Volume Two with dust jacket. Julia Child (1912-2004) is best known for this work, written with Simone Beck (1904-1991) and Louisette..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Braby, Dorothea. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 159 of 550 copies, folio size, 267 pp. As with many of the world's great myths and fairy tales, this collection of eleven early Welsh tales would have originally been passed down through word of mouth, the bards..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 93 pp., with original dust jacket. John Helston (1877-?) is now an almost-forgotten poet, whose talent was "discovered" by Lady Margaret Sackville, a poet and cousin to Vita Sackville-West. What little we know of him is gleaned from a...... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1933. Clarke, Harry. First Edition. Hardcover. First Tudor edition, quarto size, 412 pp., with original publisher's dust jacket and box. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) needs no introduction, as the master of the macabre. He gained a reputation as a popular writer and became a household..... More