Search Results: Authors starting with D from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

London: Oxford University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. xvii, 306 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains J. Frederic Daniell's article, "Further Observations on Voltaic Combinations. In a Letter addressed to Michael Faraday" (pp. 141-160). x, [1]-178, [179]-446 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.

London: John W. Parker, 1845. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. xxxv, 341 pp. 5 Plates; viii, 389 pp. 3 Plates. Brown cloth publisher's binding with small chips at edges, splitting along hinges but boards still tight to text block. Two folding plates in Volume I housed in small pocket on front pastedown. Clean within. Illustrated.

London: Royal Society of London, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains John Dalton's article, "Sequel to an Essay on the Constitution of the Atmosphere." (pp. 347-363). x, [1]-178, [179]-446 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.

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12). iv, [5], [1]-12, [1]-438, [8] 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.

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Charles Wheatstone's article, "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision." (pp. 371-394). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] 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.

New York: Assouline, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Unpag. 228 Plates. Folio. Black covers with minor bumping top corners, clean and crisp within. Nicely engineered with a three-part folding cover. No dust jacket, as issued.

London: John Murray, 1875/1888. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume I: Second Edition, Revised. Four Thousand. 1875. xi, 473 pp. 8vo. Volume II: Second Edition, Revised. Sixth Thousand. 1888. x, 495 pp. 8vo. Greern cloth publisher bindings with blind embossed borders to covers, gold embossed titling to spines, which has faded slightly. Light wear and scuffing to covers, small losses at corners. Light foxing to prelims and final pages of each volume. Volume I has previous owner's name in ink dated 1881 on second free endpaper. Volume II has a library bookplate on front pastedown, but no library markings within or on spine. Both volumes very clean within.

London: John Murray, 1893. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 377 pp. 8vo. Dark green publisher's binding with bold embossed titling to spine, decoration at head and foot of spine. Dark brown endpapers, clean and tight within. This copy is in exceptional condition with hardly a blemish, just some very slight bumping to the corners and very light wear to the head and foot of the spine.

London: Royal Society of London, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains J. Norman Lockyer's "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. V" (pp. 561-576). iv, v, [2], [1]-922 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.

London: Royal Society of London, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. George H. Darwin's (1845-1912) "Resonance Theory" of the origin of the moon, according to which the moon might have originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides. Also contains William Huggins's paper on stellar spectrum photography, "On the Photographic Spectra of Stars." x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 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 Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Davis, Lynn. Unpag. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. davis, scott b.. Stark black and white images of edges, famliar images that will be recognized by anyone who has spent time in the Sonoran Desert, or would like a sense of what the desert "feels like" visually. Scott's work is simple, with subtle detail that causes the eye to linger. Singed by scott on a tipped in page. 125 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 117 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. x, 210 pp. Light wear and chipping to dust jacket, darkening to spine from sunning, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Endpapers have darkened from contact with dust jacket, interior clean.

Washington DC/New Haven, CT: National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. de Kooning, Willem. 231 pp. Folio. Blue cloth boards with silver embossed titling to cover and spine. Slight sunning to spine, housed in a matching cloth slipcase in Very Good condition. No dust jacket as issued.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First Printing. 207 pp. 4to. Dust jacket very crisp and in mylar cover. Earlier seller stamp and price on first free endpaper, clean within.

Neuchatel, Switzerland: Samuel Fauche, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume explains Horace Bénédict de Saussure's (1740-1799) development of the hygrometer that used a hair as the humidity and pressure indicator. Important work in early scientific apparatus. xxiv, 367 pp. 2 Plates. 4to. Red past paper covers with brown leather spine. Blind embossed tilting and rules to spine. Scuffing and wear overall. Two paltes at rear illustrating text and apparatus, first plate folding. Blue silk ribbon page marker still present. Text in French.

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Traders Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Fine. 27 pp. B/w ills. Tiny book has gilt lettering on tiny spine, outline of a gentleman on front in gilt. Handmade paper eps. 1969 intro by Jack R. Levien to this 1888 work on type size. This is #53 of 500 copies. Set in 6 point on 9 Optima type, it was "reduced to 4 point on 6 (or with 2 points leading.) Optima was designed by Herman Zapf. I (Levien) set up the repros and made the little designs. Then Willis MacDonald Co, N.Y., printed the book offset. The paper is Olin's Waylite. This bright opaque sheet adds legibility to small letters...T.C. Woolnough & Son, Ltd. in London bound these sheets by hand with great care and skill." This perfect little treasure is jacketed in tan tissue.

San Diego, CA: Top Shelf Productions, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Debus, Luca. A fascinating, visual biography of Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz. First Printing. 440 pp. Oblong 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.