Search Results: Science from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Random House, 1955. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lee J. Ames. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 144pp, (1p ad). Numerous line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Some jacket edgewear and rubbing, with a few small edge chips. Third printing, tight and nice, of #24 in the "allabout books" series, a tight and handsome copy.

Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xx, 282pp. Near fine. Superb and tight first softbound edition of this 1968 study -- part of editor Lester D. Stephens' "History of American Science and Technology Series."

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. xii, 380pp. Near fine. First paperback edition of this 1988 study, tight and quite attractive -- and a bit uncommon.

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. Hardcover. Small 4to. 226pp. Extensive tables. Very good. Blue oval inkstamp of nautical instrument maker Negus on front flyleaf. Fifteenth edition, a quite tight and handsome copy of this oft-reprinted astronomy classic, a Hydrographic Office publication (H.O. No. 71) -- and judging from the number of printings, an edge-of-your-seat page turner it is!

New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 285pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faintest jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition of "this first book about the heroic age of American paleontology." A lovely copy.

Chicago: Nickerson & Collins Co, 1906. Hardcover. Small 4to. B rown cloth with gilt lettering and device. vii, 368pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings, advertising endpapers. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn and spotted, though tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this history of an industry. Subtitle continues: "The Commercial Production of Carbon Dioxide. Design and Construction of Apparatus and Machinery. Efficiency for Refrigerating Purposes. Mineral Waters and Other Beverages. Methods of Carbonating and Bottling. Utilization of Fermentation Carbonic Acid Gas -- Its Collection in the Brewery." Quite nice copy -- and rather uncommon.

Milan: Comitato Nazionale per le Onoranze a Leonardo da Vinci, 1952. Paperback. 4to. Stiff unprinted wrappers, dust jacket. (41pp). Full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket soiling. Handsome first edition of this elaborate program (entirely in English) celebrating the Italian Renaissance figure's life and achievements. Uncommon and unusual.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 238pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of jacket edgewear and rubbing. A tight and attractive first edition of this historical novel about Alexander Graham Bell. From the collection of noted philatelic figure F. Burton Sellers (1918-2010), with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

London: Oxford University PRess, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 227pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and nice later printing.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering. x, 197pp. Fine. Superbly tight and pristine first edition.

New York: Amacom, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black buckram spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 326pp. Fine/fine. Tight and nice second printing, nicely inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf "To Bill / Jim Martin." Martin's promotional bookmark laid in.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 193pp. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket wear and bit of rubbing. A first edition of this fascinating reference work, tight and most handsome.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to.Blue leatherette spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 334pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, diagrams, charts. Near fine/very good. Bit of mild jacket edgewear; ownership name/address inkstamped on rear pastedown. Overall a tight, clean and nice early printing of this useful reference.

Prague: Academia Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Numerous line drawings, sewn-in white silk page marker. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition, entirely in German. Title translation: "The Laughing Sphinx: From Large and Small, from Serious to Silly Problems." Uncommon.

Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 466pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this hefty biography of the groundbreaking American pathologist and physician (1886-1960). Lacks the compact disc.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 285pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Superb and tight later softbound printing of this 1977 study.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete). Small 4to. Blue and grey cloth, dust jackets. viii, 629pp; viii, 473pp; viii, 310pp. Very good/very good. Minor dust jacket edgewear and rubbing; ownership signature on front flyleaf of first volume; several pages bear underlining; evidence of bookplate removal on rear pastedown of each volume. Tight, decent first edition of this trilogy, which consists of "The Evolution of Life," "The Evolution of Man" and "Issues in Evolution."

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. x, 462pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight, decent first edition -- mild ex-library, with very few and mostly-removed markings and handsome bookplate of Northwestern University's Joseph Schaffner Library on front pastedown.

Princeton: Van Nostrand Company, 1968. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xxiv, 39pp, 48 color full-page plates (rectos only), pp. 41-48. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, green marbled endpapers. Fine. Superb copy of this facsimile reprint limited to 2,000 copies -- the first volume in the Delaware Museum of Natural History's "Reproduction Series." Editor R. Tucker Abbott notes in his preface that this is "one of the most beautiful and most rare of shell books... produced in London in three editions, from 1821 to 1841. The early issues were so rare that the book remained a bibliographical puzzle until comparatively recently." This facsimile reproduces the complete third (1841) edition plus portions of the first and second editions. Lovely copy of a lovely book.

Madison: Olive Bell Daniels, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth. xxii, 540pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Bookplate removal residue on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and handsome. Hefty biography of the Wisconsin physical chemist, boldly signed in full by Daniels on the title page.