Paris: Bernard, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners, stamp to title page, quite clean internally. 336pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 043292. More
Paris: Klosterman, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners, stamp to title page, bump to one edge, quite clean internally. 344pp and five folding plates, 4 of them of Edouard Adam's distilling equipment laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available..... More
Paris: Klosterman, 1813. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners, stamp to title page, bump to one edge, quite clean internally. 336pp, three folding plates. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory..... More
Paris: Klosterman, 1813. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half leather over marbled boards with decorative endpapers. Worn at corners, stamp to title page, bump to one edge, quite clean internally. 336pp, one plate. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No..... More
Paris: Klostermann, 1806. First Edition. Softcover. Later wraps, light wear and browning at edges, page edges darkened, a few minor stains wear to last few pages, otherwise clean internally and largely uncut. 336pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo..... More
Paris: Bernard, 1809. First Edition. Softcover. Early wraps, page edges darkened, a few minor stains, otherwise clean internally and largely uncut. 336pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 044545. More
Paris: Joseph de Boffe, 1793. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Volumes 17-20, 1793-1797, of the crucial French scientific journal, still published today. Half leather over marbled boards, general wear at edges, chipped and wear at corners and spine ends, bindings tight and intact. Stamp on title pages, browning to endpapers..... More
Paris: Joseph de Boffe, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 9 volumes, published 1804-1806, bridging the use of the French Republican calendar and the return to the Gregorian, in uniform half calf bindings. Modest general wear, some chipping at spine ends, all bindings intact, stamps to titles. 358pp, 1 folding..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1914. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Inscribed on a business card to J.T. Wadsworth. Light cover wear, browning to endapers, ptherwise fine internally. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 048064. More
Jena: Birchner, 1701. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, soiled, frontis and title page stained and detached with some chipping and old tape marks, wear to first few pages, a few old marks and notes, but very good otherwise. Three works bound in one, the first two, by Hoping, typically..... More
London: William Pickering, 1837. Fifth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full early calf, wear at edges, hinges a little rubbed, some surface marks, corners worn, but sound. Quite clean internally. One of the eight teleological treatises commissioned by the Earl of Bridgewater. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity..... More
Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early blind tooled English calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges, corners a little bumped, endpapers and title browned at the edges from the leather turn ins, old ownership marks to front blank, scattered mostly minor browning and staining to pages,a few marginal..... More
Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1641. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in calf backed marbeld boards. Lacking the title (supplied in facsimile) and the preliminary leaf a2 as well as the engraved title but otherwise complete with 32 plates including one two page plate (counted here as 2, of the "machina..... More
Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1679. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, soiled and stained, scattered stains, foxing, minor paper flaws, generally clean and unmarked. Old signature to title. Lacking 3 of the 12 plates, provided in fine facsimile, bottom section of Tower plate repaired in facsimile. Extra engraved title present, chipped at..... More
Leeuwarden: Ferwerd, 1790. Early Edition. Hardcover. Leather backed boards, modest wear, endpaper browned, lettering piece missing; first title page slightly creased, fine internally with very occasional light foxing. 39 engraved folding plates, handcolored. (2),36; (4),70; (4),87,(5)pp. Knoop lost his job in Frisia designing gardens in 1749 due to his love of..... More
Washington D.C. Government Printing Office, 1886. Hardcover. Original cloth backed boards, neatly rebacked, modest wear at edges, surface scrapes; binding very sound overall. A few U.S. Geological Survey Library stamps dated 1887, small tear to edge of title, but otherwise unmarked internally. 243pp with 56 plates including the large folding..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 048056. More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Slight shelfwear - a bright, attractive copy of collected papers of the late 19th century chemist. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 038308. More
1902. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, spine perished, tears to vellum on rear cover, binding still generally sound. Paper uniformly browned, a few small tears to page edges, fine otherwise. A 1902 manuscript translation of books 22-24 of Morin's 1661 Astrologia Gallica into French. 315 leaves written on one side..... More
Leiden: Verbeek, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two parts in one volume, old worn calf, respined with new endpapers. xvi, xlviii, (xii), 193, 1, 192, 14, pp. With 32 folding plates and one table - plates 29 and 30 bound out of order. Foxed and browned, page edges a...... More
Instar, 2022. Softcover. Fine copy Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Inventory No: 048239. More
Moscow: Mir, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear and chipping to jacket edges; first English language edition, from the 1986 Russian. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; ISBN: 5030007512. ISBN/EAN: 9785030007519. Inventory No: 038799. More
1785. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in acid calf, modest wear, covers slightly bowed. Manuscripts on laid paper in a fine hand, the first volume on metaphysics (65pp) and then physics, meteors, the sun, optics and colors 67 (with some number errors adding about a dozen pages) - 206 with..... More
Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1798. Early Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Early Dutch edition of Pallas's work on Corals first published in 1767 (and first published in Dutch as Lyst der plant-dieren, 1768. This appears to be an exact republication) It details the discoveries that he made in the Dutch Museum, including..... More
Paris: Klostermann, 1811. Softcover. Original blue wraps, worn, binding splitting but largely unopened. Parmentier's essay is a 20 page history of the sources of sugar - and is interesting if self serving - he was trying to get a business going that would extract sugar from grapes. Ultimately sugar beets..... More