Surface Color Perception.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 20 x 14.5 cm. Crown octavo. 206pp. Red cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
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Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 20 x 14.5 cm. Crown octavo. 206pp. Red cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Ashgate, 2004. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 222pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering no jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 12mo. viii 381pp 4 ads. Bound in decorative green19th century cloth. Frontispiece illustration. Rubbing and some toning to the spine. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Park Benjamin wrote 3 books on the history of electricity. He was..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 611pp [4] ads. This copy is signed "With the compliments of the author". Bound in brown cloth, gilt spione lettering. Frontispiece portrait. Front and rear gutter are cracked. Park Benjamin wrote 3 books on the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 148pp. Figures. Black cloth in dust jacket. There is some toning to the page and jacket edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. From the jacket flap: "Before he became a professional architect, Christopher Wren had..... More
Copenhagen: University Library, 1987. Wraps. 24 x 17 cm. Octavo. 298pp. Bound in blue wrappers. Toning to spine and edges. Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium Vo. 39. More
Woodbbury: American Institute of Physics, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 9 3/4" x 6'. 427pp. A fine copy in dust jacket. More
Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1967-1968. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. 30 x 21 cm. Quarto. Four volume set bound in tan boards with red spine labels. 511pp 2 plates, 501pp 3 plates, 520pp, 558pp. Facsimile reproduction of the 1756-7 edition. Also included is "An index of Proper Names in Thomas Birch, The..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 21 x 15 cm. Octavo. xvi 431pp. Many illustrations, frontispiece, engravings, diagrams. Folding "Chart of the Constellations" opposite page 1 in nice condition without tears. Bound into blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. Vertical tear to rear hinge which has been..... More
Paris: CNRS Editions, 2017. Paperback. 20.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. 302pp. French language text. More
Paris: Vrin, 1983. Paperback. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 304pp. French language text. Toning and some soiling to the covers. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. L'Historie des Sciences Textes et Etudes. More
Thames & Hudson, 2000. Hardcover. 30 x 25 cm. Quarto. 272pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. 304 illustrations, 195 in color. Fading to jacket spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
New York: Science History Publicaitons, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 23.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 320pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket. Light edgewear to the jacket, toning to the jacket spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. More
Weimer: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2009. Hardcover. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 317pp 62 color plates. In text illustraitons. German language text. Bound in illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Reprint. Hardcover. 22.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. xvii 288pp. Extensively illustrated with diagrams, drawings, portraits. Bound in decorative 19th century cloth. Scuffing to the covers. Small closed tear at bottom of front cover hinge. Internally nice. Binding is tight. More
Washington, DC: American Chemical Society / Oxford University Press, 2014. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 403pp. Bound in glossy boards. Author and subject index. Figures. Collection of 16 original research papers. More
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979. First edition. Paperback. 24.5 x 17 cm. Octavo. xvii 538pp. Appendices, end notes, bibliography, index. NASA SP-4205. The NASA History Series. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. First Princeton Paperback Printing. Paperback. 23.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 217pp. Light shelf wear. Light fading to spine. More
Paris: Librairie Germer Baillière, 1878. Hardcover. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 223pp 32 ads. French language text. Bound in dark lavender cloth gilt letteirng. 39 in-text figures. Fading to spine. Small tears to the edges of a few pages. Bibliothèque Scientifique Internationale XXVI. More
Hardcover. Octavo. 9.5" x 6.5" 460 pp. Volume 30 in the Archimedes : New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology series. A Fine copy. More
Springer, 2005. Hardcover. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 228pp. Bound in glossy green boards. From the library of Newton scholar Alan Shaprio, with his bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Shaprio wrote an essay for this volume titled "Skating on the Edge: Newton's Investigation of Chormatic Dispersion and Achromatic Prisms and..... More
Springer, 2017. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 310pp. Bound in glossy boards. Archimedes 52. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First printing. Paperback. 25.5 x 18 cm. Octavo. 445p. Some shelf wear. More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 198pp. Figures, bibliography, index. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Some soiling and edgewear to the jacket. Toning to the endpapers. More
Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. [xii], 642 pages. Frontispiece portrait as well as color map opposite page 401. Green cloth. Some rubbing to the edges and corners of the cloth. Previous owner's bookplate and booksellers stamp inside front cover. 3 cm..... More