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Tokyo: A.D.A. EDITA, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 173 pp. Clean, crisp copy.

Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster and Company, 1861. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Fascinating account of the author's years in Chili from an outsider's somewhat judgemental perspective, "We are not satisfied with the location of our house, from which nothing is to be seen but filthy people, donkeys, dogs, and sailors' boarding-houses." p. 51. viii, 158 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth covered boards with blind embossed boards, gold embossing to spine. Light wear and scuffing, minor soiling from age, now in paper covered slipcase. Endpapers appear to have been replaced at some point, a masterful job, light foxing within.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 617 pp. 8vo. Green cloth library binding with call number written at base of spine in white ink. Various library markings within, but none overly aggressive.

Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Each month features a different photographer (Tom Till has two). Days without a historic event or a holiday is filled with a quotation from the writer featured for the month. Quotations from Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, William Eastlake, Colin Fletcher, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stegner, and Ann Zwinger.. The cover photograph is signed by John Telford. Internally, the calendar is signed by a number of contributors: John Telford, Tom Till (signed twice), William Eastlake, Fred Hirschmann, Chris Wangsgard, and Lawrence Clark Powell. Oblong 8vo. Staple spine binding. Clean, crisp copy.

New York: Time-Life Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An important series of essays by Edward Abbey, often overlooked. First Printing (Hourglass printed at base of last page of index). 184 pp. 4to. Light wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Crisp within. Light blue ink underlining on pages 21-25. Clean otherwise.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxv, 448 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine, blind embossed titling to cover. Slight wear to covers. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, quite clean within.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1935/1936. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. v, 89, 15, 4 pp. 8vo. Brown paper wraps with slight wear and tiny chips at edges. All volumes clean within.

London: Royal Society of London, 1886. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920) extended his interests to spectroscopy and was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887). Articles illustrated by Plates 24-28. 842 pp. 43 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Numerous pages throughout volume are brittle with small tears and losses at edges, a large tear at midpoint in the title page of Poynting's article.… Read More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared. "Extending his interests to spectroscopy, Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887)." "Abney, William De Wiveleslie." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. iv, [2], vii, [1]-842 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

Bedford, NY: Mianus River Gorge, Inc, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Abranowicz, William. A wonderful record, in 36 color plates, of a year in the Mianus River Gorge. Published in an edition of 1,250 copies in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Mianus River Gorge. Unpag. 36 plates. Folio. Light scuffing to dust jacket with minor stains from shelf wear, now in mylar cover.

Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1985. First Editiion. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Third Printing. xii, 400 pp. 4to. Slight darkening to dust jacket from age. Clean within.

London: Royal Society of London, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adams corrects Pierre-Simon Laplace's (1749-1827) earlier equations for the moon's motion. Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light.- No. II" (pp.385-386). iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

Santa Monica, CA: Waverly Books, 2014. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 171 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

London: Royal Society of London, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adams and Day's paper outlines their discovery that, when illuminated with a candle, that selenium produced a flow of electricity. Current solar panels and other solar charged equipment like desktop calculators were built off this principle. Also contains John Tyndall's "Further Researches on the Deportment and Vital Persistence of Putrefactive and Infective Organisms from a Physical Point of View" (pp. 149-206). v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the title page. First Printing. 435 pp. 8vo. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, "Signed by the Author" sticker on front panel. Dust jacket now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Inscribed by the author to a co-worker in 1952. 233 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips and tears at edges, darkening from age, tape repairs on verso, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards, slight darkening to pages from age, very clean within.

Naples, Italy: Electa Napoli, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This two volume, heavily illustrated survey of Campania's art and craft and industrial design is split into one volume that documents from the Bourbons to Italian Unity, the second from Italian Unity through the Modern Age. 143, 150 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copies with photo wrapped covers. No dust jackets, as issued. Housed in a slipcase that reproduces the covers of the two volumes on either side.

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the quantum mechanical phenomenon that allows a charged particle to be affected by an electromagnetic field that does not exist in the vicinity of the particle, one of the stranger manifestations of quantum mechanics. This paper first predicted and described this phenomenon. First Printing. 485-764 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp. Red ink library stamp on the cover. Housed in a custom black cloth folio with gold embossed tilting to spine.

London: Castell Brothers Ltd, [1905]. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Ainslie, Kathleen. The colorful misadventures of a young boy peg doll at boarding school. Unpag. 18mo. Stiff paper wraps with silk ribbon tie binding. Darkening to covers from age, chip missing from lower right corner of front cover. Interior has darkened slightly from time, gift inscription in very light ink at head of title page. Clean within. Trade card for a York, PA, dentist using the same characters laid in.

Netherlands: Springer, 2007. Second Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Inscribed by the author on the isndie front cover in the year of publication. First Printing. xxx, 288 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to covers from shelf wear, clean within.