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Paris: Chez Montalant, Imprimeur-Libraire Quay des Augustin a la Ville de Montpellier, 1738. First French Edition. Full Leather. 16 x 10 cm. 16mo. Two volume set. xij 279pp (11), 309pp (9), Translated from the Italian into French by Francesco Algarotti. Bound in brown leather. Lacking pages xv - xxxiv of..... More
Hamburg: Genehmigt vom Facbereich Mathematik, 1974. Paperback. 21 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. Bound in grey wrappers. 686pp German language dissertation on optics. A couple pages are loose but present. Toning to spine. More
Paris: Chez Desaint, Libraire, rue du Foin, 1766. Nouvelle Edition. Full Leather. 20.5 x 13 cm. Octavo. 204pp. 12 fold-out plates in rear. French language text. Bound in full contemporary brown leather, red spine label, floral embellishments to spine. Marble endpapers. "New edition" (second edition). Closed tear to top of..... More
Paris: Chez J. Klostermann Fils, Libraire de l'Ecole impériale Polytechnique, rue du Jardinet, n0. 13, quartier Saint=André-des-Ares, 1813. Deuxième Edition. Hardcover. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xiv 484pp 9 plates in rear. French language text, translated from the German.Bound in half leather with marble boards and foredges. Previous owner's bookplate..... More
London: James, John, and Paul Knapton at the Croppwn in Ludgate-Street, 1735. Third Edition. Full Leather. Two volume set. 20 x 12.5 cm. Octavo. (36) 285pp (3), (1) 292pp (25, index). Complete with 27 plates,14 fold-out plates in volume 1 numbered I-XIV, and in volume 2 numbered XV-XXVII. Bound in..... More
Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1966. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. 29 x 20 cm. Quarto. 244pp. Bound in tan boards with spine labels. Facsimile edition of the London edition of 1665, preserving formating and with fold-out plates. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. There are three closed tears to the spine..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Reprint. Paperback. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 221pp. Some fading to spine. More
London: The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, 1987. Reprint. Paperback. 29.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. 243pp, diagrams. Translated from the Latin into English. Please note that because of the glued "perfect binding" about 1/3 of the pages are detached but present and the book is complete. A few passages are..... More
Smithsonian Institution, 1975. First printing. Wraps. 28 x 21 cm. Quarto. 49pp. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by the author: "For Alan [Shapiro] with Regard & affection Jon [Eklund] | a rare first printing (my last one)". Errata attached to the inside front cover. Crease to the top of..... More
Trinity College, Cambridge: The Boydell Press, 2005. Hardcover. 28.5 x 24.5 cm. Quarto. 120pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Extensively illustrated with color and black and white reproductions. There is a small hole to the jacket spine leading to a some gouge in the cloth of the spine. More
Paris: Diffuse par la librairie A. Blanchard, 1990. Paperback. 29.5 x 21 cm. Quarto. 169pp. Bound in blue wrappers. Translated from the Latin into France by Jean Peyroux. Toning to the spine and edges. More
Basic Books, 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover. 28 x 28 cm. Quarto. 409pp. Red cloth spine, grey boards in slipcase. Only printed record of a little known organization that was the first modern scientific society called Otiosi. Facsimile of the English translation of the work, done in London in 1658. Toning..... More
New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. 31 x 20.5 cm. Quarto. xxvii, xxviii 572pp, plates some fold-out, index. Boundin burgundy cloth. Facsimile of the London 1705 edition with a new introduction. The Sources of Science No. 73. More
Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1879. Third Edition. Hardcover. 23 x 16 cm. Octavo. xx 330pp. Color frontispiece, as well as other plates and in-text illustrations. Bound in green cloth. Some of the pages show some damp-staining to the edges. Toning to the spine. Binding is tight. More
Madison, Milwaukee, and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Hardcover. 25 x 17 cm. Octavo. xvii 300pp [1]. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Parallel text in English and Latin of Peacham's Middle Ages treatise "Perspectiva communis". Jacket is worn with chipping and a closed tear to the spoine and..... More
Roma: Institutum Historicum S. I., 1983. Paperback. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 151pp. Plates. Toning to spine. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Toning to spine. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S. I. Vol. XLIV, More
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1978. Paperback. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 304pp [4]. Text is moslty in French language, with one article in English. Staining to the spine. Bumping to corners. Collection D'Histoire des Sciences. 3 - C.N.R.S. More
Cambridge: For the Royal Microscopical Society by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 227pp. Frontispiece, plates, figures, diagrams. Green cloth in dust jacket. Jacket is chipped and torn. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Six essays on the history of the scientific study..... More
London: The Holland Press, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 266pp.164 illustrations. Black cloth in dust jacket. Some toning to the paper. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1980. Paperback. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 490pp. French language text. Translated into French by Catherine Chevalley. Back cover bumped. Staining to the spine. Previoius owner's bookplate inside front cover. Part of the series: "L'Hisorie des Sciences Textes et. More
PD Publications, 1992. Paperback. 21 x 15 cm. Octavo. 406pp. Fadiong to the covers. Chapters include: Waves versus corpuscles, Newton versus Huygens?, Corpuscles versus waves, Corpuscles revised, Corpuscles or Quanta?, What happened to the Aether?, The Origins of duality. This work: "presents a reinterpretation of two concepts which the author..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921. Second Edition. Hardcover. 25 x 16 cm. 365pp. Figures, index. Previous owner's bookplate, a professor of physics, on front fixed endapper and an optician's stamp oin front and rear free endpaper. Toning to the spine. Some rubbing to the corners. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 626pp. Figures and diagrams. Bound in green cloth and brown leather. The spine has completely chipped off and binder's tape has been used to reinforce it. Text block is tight and text is internally clean. Boards feel a bit..... More
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1866. A New Edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. viii 159pp, fold-out chart, 28pp ads. Originally published in 1831, this copy states that it is "a new edition" reprinting the essay from the Fourth Edition of "Mathematical Tracts". The cloth head of the spine..... More
Leipzig und Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 23 x 16 cm. Octavo. 511pp. 251 in-text figures. Bound in green boards with gilt lettering to spine. German language text. Spine heavily rubbed. Corners lightly bumped. Binding tight. B. G. Teubner's Sammlung von Lehrbüchern auf..... More