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Portland, Maine: Wolfe editions. VG first in a series of broadside poems. August 1998. 76/150. Printed for The Cafe Review. "Her death was the worst thing that could happen, and caring for her was the best." . "Hours are slow and weeks rapid in their vacancy. Each day lapses as I recite my complaints. Lust is grief that has turned over inbest to look the other way." .

Paris: Guerin & Delatour. Good. 1754. 1st. Important work of Bougainville (1729-1811) on the differential and integral calculus in which Bougainville clarifies the work . of the Marquis l'Hopital (1696). Contents tight and bright, corners bumped, front hinge cracked, ex lib with library book plate inside front cover and library blind stamp from Columbia College, NY, library ink stamp from Bibliotic Academ Vilnensis title page, ink notation top edge of fep and title page. .

Paris: Firmin Didot. Very Good. 1831. Priemiere Part. 258 pp with 1 fold-out chart of figures. Edge and corners sl worn, sl foxing, contents bright and tight. Fourier (1768-1830) . was a distinguished mathematician and physicist who was active in the French Revolution and went with Bonaparte on his Egyptian expedition in 1798. This first edition of Fourier's work on the theory of equations was published in 1831 after his death by Claude-Louis Navier. it contains much original matter, including a demonstration of Fourier's theorem on the position of the roots of an algebraic equation. Fourier is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect involved with global warming. .

Philadelphia: Mitchell. Fair. 1861. 2nd ed. Cloth binding, leather spine and corner tips, gilt lettering on front cover. Stains on page edges on beginning and ending pages . heavy binding wear, binding shaken and loose, all maps and plans present and attached, one map water stained. .

Paris: Klostermann. Good. 1812. Two volumes in one book containing both Monge's first 9 1lectures (132 pp and 25 fold-out plates) and Hachette's Supple . ment with additional lectures (120 pp plus 11 fold-out plates). Edge, spine and corner wear. Handwritten note in French commenting on text loosely inserted at page 100. Owner's notation in pencil fep "The work which created descriptive geometry". Monge (1746-1818) was a professor at the Ecole Normale de l'An III in Paris in1795 and presented a series of 13 lectures on descriptive geometry to students in training to be secondary school teachers. Monge was called one of the most original mathematicians of his age. Hachette (1769-1834) was an eminent mathematician and engineer, and was Monge's assistant compiling his 1795 lecture notes, and prepared the supplement with the lectures not included in the original 1799 work with Monge's first 9 lectures (pub Baudouin, Paris, AN VII (1799)). .

Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons. Fair ex-library. 1887. Author Baxter's bookplate and gift inscription 1893. Marbled binding, black spine, library binding, top of spine split at top. . damp stains on few beginning and ending pages. .

np: Keystone Company. VG. nd. Original boxes holding telebinocular with view lamp, along with two boxes of stereographs. Some edge wear. .

Paris: Duprat. Very Good. AN VII (1799). 2nd. Edges and corners worn, contents tight and bright. Laplace's famouns work - classic history of astronomy on the origin and . formation of the solar system. One of the most successful popularizations of science every composed. Five books (livre) contained in one volume. .

NY: Beers, Ellis, Soule. Fair. 1867. Covers detached, edge wear, few scrapes to binding. Maps appear to be intact and all present. .

NY: Macmillan. G. June 1911. 1st ed. London's sailing adventures in S. Pacific. Paste down pictorial cover sail boat, blue binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear, . Frontis repeats the color illustration on the front cover. Many photos of his travels on his Ketch The Snark. 4 pages of ads at back of book, owner name and notation front endpapers, illustration on page 270-271 tipped in and not included in list of illustrations. Few mnor marks on binding. .

NY: Random. VG PB. (2005). 1st ed. Profound insights into the nature of God, revelation and what we mean by religious truth as Pagels takes us into the world of . the early Christian texts that were left behind but now are with us and lets us enter afresh into the ancient debates over whether Christianity is better understood as a system of doctrines or a spiritual inquiry into the divine. .

NY: Penguin Books. Fair PB. (1977). This novel appeared just a year after the author's explosive On the Road put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac . on the best-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier novel sparks this one but through a more cohesive story. The principals are two ebullient young men engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or Truth. Their major adventure is the pursuit of the Zen way, which takes them climbing into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude- a lesson that has a hard time surviving their forays into the pagan groves of San Francisco's Bohemia with its marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam esssions, experiments in "yabyum" and similar nonacetic pastimes. New York Post called it "Vivid evocation of a part of our time." Edge wear, underlining and highlighting .

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. VG in VG DJ. 1970. 1st edition. The movement to separate Maine from Massachusetts, 1785 - 1820, ISBN 0-8195-4028-5. dj slightly soiled, slight wear to top edge . library stamp on fep, no other ex lib marking or defects. clean, tight copy showing little wear. .

NY: Macmillan. VG. June 1936. 1st ed. The Classic. Gray binding, dark blue lettering, slight edge wear. . Although there was another edition before the June one in May, it was recalled by the publisher and the June edition is the true First Edition. .

NY: Windmill Books/SimonSchuster. VG in G DJ. (1969). 2nd ptg. Meet Skinny Longnecker, the world's worst athlete, Jared and the dog for sale, the true love of Bessie-Between, Redbear and . his brother wolf, Grandpa Penny and his magic skates, Dad and the Golden Comet, Jet, Nat and the South End basket ball team! DJ price clipped and edge wear. Unusual signature of Rockwell for this book. .

Paris: Courcier. Good. 1811. Volume 1 only. Lagrange (1736-1813) is considered the greathest mathematician of the 18th century. This monumental . work was produced during the 20 years he lived in Berlin in a position with Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Spine covering is loose and missing pieces. Contents are tight and bright. Former owner has loosely inserted notes in French with calculations in the book. .

Albany, NY: Joel Munsell. VG. 1875. Rust colored binding, gilt lettering & illustration of monument. Inscription showing presentation of book to T. G . Thompson (fund collector for erection of the monument) by the mother of Col. Ellsworth, 1875. Laid in letters from Thompson to his niece dated 1937 discussing how as a schoolboy Thompson first called attention to the unmarked grave of Ellsworth at Thompson's commencement speech in 1871. Also laid in two copies of the program fro the Memorial Service for Col. Ellsworth in 1977. Ellsworth organized the U. S. Zouave Cadets of Chicago where he taught new methods of military conduct, to be abstemious & enforced by rigid discipline such teaching. Afterwards Ellsworth went to Springfield, Illinois, where he hoped to secure Abraham Lincoln's help in founding a National Militia Bureau which would have all information & control of the militia; distribution of that information; a system of instruction for the militia; the uniform… Leer más

N. Abington, MA: Zerviah Gould Mitchell. VG. 1878. 35 page appendix. Some edge wear especially at corners. Black binding rubbed, owner name ft flyleaf, few corner page creases. .

Dover, MA: Hired Hand Press. VG. 1979. First complete study of photos of Booth, actor & assassin of Abraham Lincoln & pictures of him at Lincoln's 2nd inauguration. . Brown paste down pictorial cover with gilt outline & gilt lettering. .

NY: Mansfield. G. nd (ca 1898). Pictorial cover of group of sailors on deep blue binding, gilt lettering. .