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New York: Random House, [1990] First U.S. edition. Terra cotta cloth over brown paper boards. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.

[Charleston, SC:] Wyrick & Company, [1993] Cloth. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations in text. Fine in fine d.j. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.

[Hurst, Berkshire:] The Peacocks Press, 1955 First edition. Green cloth with gilt spine. A fine copy. One of 350 copies.

London: Charles Griffin, 1908 First edition. Calculator on varnished thick card with three moving circular pieces of graduating size fastenedat the center with a brass rivet on a back-board (this measuring 6.5 inches square),with an accompanying text of 12 pages, stitched, as issued, all in fine condition, inoriginal slim cardboard box. It is unusual for such a comparatively earlycomputing machine to have survived in this condition. "The computer is an ingenious form of mechanical calculator for solving the numerousproblems connected with the power, size, and speed of steam engines of all kinds. Its action isbased upon the well-known principle of logarithmic calculation, the operations ofmultiplication and long division being effected mechanically by the addition and subtraction ofdistances proportional to the logarithms of the quantities represented..." (Introduction).

[Los Angeles:] 1933 Mauve wrappers, stapled at spine, with title in black on front cover. . 5" x 3 ." 51 pp. . Frontispiece, with portraits of the officers of the Associated Women's Students of Occidental College, and other campus women leaders. Typographical vignette on title-page, decorative headbands. Wrappers slightly creased and lightly toned. Small chip and minor tear to crown of spine. Pages untrimmed. A very good, clean copy. The Ward Ritchie Press was founded in 1932, though Ritchie also produced a number of student publications. Ritchie graduated from Occidental College in 1928, and so it was understandable why he was asked to produce this handbook. In addition to being a sample of the master type-designer's early work, it is an interesting glimpse into the life of girls attending a good liberal arts college in the thirties. "The standard of Occidental womanhood has always been held high, and we are dependent upon you, the new women, to carry on its purpose…Occidental does not try to… Read More

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972 First edition. Blue cloth with spine stamped in green and white. Octavo. Fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has one short tear and a little wear at top of spine.

La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, [1976] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-cllipped, very good d.j.

La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, [1976] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Schilpp. Cloth. Octavo. Back cover a bit spotted. Very good in very good d.j. Includes the essays: "The Duty of a Philosopher in This Age,' by Bertrand Russell; 'The Myth of Framework,' by Karl Popper; 'The Outlook of Scientific Humanism,' by Herbert Feigl, et al.

Cambridge: At the University Library 1897 Large octavo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine. Spine extremities lightly frayed, old bookplates and rubberstamps of Bedford College for Women on front pastedown and title-page. Aside from markings, a very good, tight copy, partially unopened. Baker (1866-1956) was a British mathematician who served as Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry (1914–36). His principal interest was in the theory of algebraic functions and related topics, and later in partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. "His treatise contains a wealth of information, including many special (sometimes almost forgotten) results and examples which are again of great interest to geometers, analysts, and physicists" (Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931 – 2001).

Hobart: Fullers Bookshop Pty. Ltd., but pasted over the publisher's name is a label stating this was distributed by Humanities Press, New York, in 1969 Cloth. Large octavo. Plates, including large folding map at rear. Light shelfwear. Near fine in good dust jacket. Jacket has some chipping.

New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1868 First edition. Publisher's green cloth, ruled and stamped decoratively in blind, gilt spine, light blue endpapers. Octavo. Woodcut headpiece and vignettes, initial letters. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Trivial soiling to cloth, a few very minor stains not affecting text, endpapers lightly foxed, bookplate on front pastedown. A very good, bright copy of a scarce book Frederick Saunders (1807-1902) was a London-born librarian and writer, who relocated to New York in order to open a branch of his family's bookselling firm. He petitioned Congress for the passage of an act that sought to protect both American and British authors; though it was backed by George Bancroft, Henry Clay, William Cullen Bryant, and Washington Irving, it failed to pass. For a time, he was the editor of The New York Post and was the assistant librarian at the Astor Library, later becoming its head librarian. About Woman, Love, and Marriage is both a work of advice and an interesting… Read More

Geneve: Chez Henri-Albert Gosse & Compagnie, 1743 First French edition of Reid's Abstract of Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms, which first appeared in 1732. Another French abridgement of this Newton work was published in 1725, appearing at the end of Volume VII or Prideaux's Histoire des Juifs (1725), but that was unauthorized and was the work of another translator. Modern antique-style calf over marbled boards, gilt spine. . Octavo. A little light foxing, title-page has some minor chips and one small stain. Still, a very good copy of a scarce work. OCLC lists seven copies of this work, five in North America—including two copies at Berkeley and copies at the University of Chicago, Kent State, and the Burndy Library.

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 First edition. Contemporary speckled calf. Gilt spine gilt with burgundy morocco label. . Octavo. A very good copy of an uncommon book. An important life, the text of which is interspersed with a large number of Hume's letters. The appendix includes essays not inserted in his miscellaneous works, a letter from Hume to the author of the Critical Review about Wilkie's Epigoniad, and Exposé succinct de la contestation, qui s'est élévé entre M. Hume et M. Rousseau.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and William Creech...[et al.], 1806 First edition of this early biography of poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie (1735–1803). Compiled by a close friend, it is largely made up of Beattie's letters, linked together by comments from Forbes. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style. Gilt-decorated flat spines. . Two volumes, quarto. . Engraved frontispiece in Volume I, seven facsimile plates, and one plate of music. Without half-titles. Contemporary booksellers' labels of T. Wickham, Maidstone. Some light staining to boards, light foxing to first and last few leaves, some offsetting from plates. A very good, clean copy.

Edinburgh: Privately printed for the Club by T. and A. Constable, 1902 One of only thirty-five copies printed. This is George Dunlop's copy, signed by him on the front free endpaper. A preliminary blank has signatures of club members who were present at the dinner of 1st May 1902 (Harry Cheyne, George M. Paul, John L. Mounsey, William Babbington, Archibald R.C. Pitman, George Dunlop, James Mylne, Charles Cook, William Stuart Fraser, John Cowan). Laid in are letters to Dunlop from other club members (Hew Hamilton Crichton, Sir Charles Bowman Logan, William John Dundas, and Henry Cook). All are dated May 1902 and thank Dunlop for this book. Also laid in is the menu for a dinner at the Signet Club in November 1890, on the occasion of the club's centenary. . Quarter black straight-grain morocco over burgundy paper-covered boards, gilt spine, gilt coat-of-arms on front cover. . Quarto. Spine extremities a bit rubbed. A very good copy.

Recent blue decorative boards. . Octavo. This is one of the few papers which shows Babbage as a capable experimentalist and as a master of classification. During the period when Babbage was preoccupied with the construction of the calculating engine, he and John Herschel undertook to investigate the ten earthshaking discovery of Arago: a copper disc rotating next to a magnetic needle tends to "drag" the needle from its position of rest. In the course of this investigation Babbage and Herschel came very close to discovering electromagnetic induction, seven years before Faraday. They even went as far as concluding that time delay and magnetic change must be responsible for the rotation, but fell short of realizing that a totally new phenomenon need be postulated: the induction of eddy currents.

New York: Macmillan, 1908 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Plates, photographs in text. Spine a bit faded. Very good.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1938] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. A little light edgewear. Near fine in near fine jacket. Clean and bright.

Seattle: The Windowpane Press, [2010] No limitation given. Printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman and eight student collaborators in a Windowpane Press printing class. . Leaves bound at top edge with fabric strip. Backed with brown board. Top edges perforated so each leaf can be removed and handed out (like leaves in a prescription pad). 6 x 13 in. Printed in red and black on heavyweight paper. A fine copy. Each leaf is printed with a quote themed around social change and caring for one's community. A C.S. Lewis quote reads, "Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor, act as if you do."

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, [1975] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.