ANNALS OF THE LOWELL OBSERVATORY, VOLUME III: OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLANET MARS During the Oppositions of 1894, 1896, 1898, 1901 and 1903 Made At Flagstaff, Arizona de Lowell, Percival - 1905

Stuttgart Schweizerbart, 1850. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. 3rd edition. Folio. Internally very good, with clean, unmarked and unfoxed pages. Lovely plates throughout. 123 plates. Marbled boards. Original spine material is missing and spine is covered with binding tape. Ships daily. Please note our pictures.

London: printed by J. Dillon, and Co. for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, Holborn, 1799. Early Reprint. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. Fifth (and most desirable) Edition of this seminal work on electricity and its applications (first published 1784), with corrections and additions by William Jones. 8vo: xiv[bound out of sequence],594pp, with six copper-engraved plates. Tall, uncut, wide-margined copy, completely unsophisticated, in original drab grey boards, beige paper spine, printed paper label. An exemplary example, binding square and tight; pages, clean fresh and bright. Wheeler Gift 519b. Adams came from a family of makers of scientific instruments and globes, and was Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty George III. In the 1780s, he began publishing a series of illustrated texts dealing with the physical sciences. Following close on the heels of Essay on Electricity were Essays on the Microscope (1787), Astronomical and Geographical Essays (1789), Geometrical and Graphical Essays… Leer más

London: John Martyn & James Allestry, 1670 Sylva or a Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesties Dominions, as It was delivered to the Royal Society the XVth of October, 1662, upon occasion of certain queries propounded to that illustrious assembly by the honourable the principal officers, and commisioners of the navy to which is annexed Pomona, or an appendix concerning fruit trees in relation to cider; the making and severall wayes of ordering it; published by expresse order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarum Hortense; or the Gardners' Almanak; directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year. All which several treatises are in this second edition much enlarged and improved. [4]. 247, [4], 67,33, plus errata.Five copper plate engravings plus engraved title page. Bound in period leather with five raised bands, later black spine label with gilt titles and borders. Front hinge with old repair, half title with old repair of a closed tear, intermittent… Leer más

LEIDEN, GEORGE WISHOFF, 1753. WITH LUCUBRATIUNCULA DE FORMATIONE, CREMENTO ET COLORIBUS TESTARUM, TENTAMEN.... 177 PAGES, PLUS INDEX. ALSO, QUAE SUNT COCHLIDUM ET CONCHARUM (44 PAGES). ALSO COMMENTARIOLUM IN LOCUM PLINII (16 PAGES). 12 PLATES OF SHELLS. BOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH RAISED BANDS. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE. THE BOARDS ARE PITTED AND THE PAGES ARE VERY BROWNED. NEVERTHELESS, COMPLETE AND TIGHTLY BOUND.

Urbana & London: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature in blue ink to the front free endpaper. An excellent, fresh copy in the lightly rubbed jacket that is tanned, particularly along the spine panel, and has some nicks and short splits at the edges. First edition of this important work on self-reproduction in machines and life forms, scare in the dust jacket. Von Neumann became interested in the abilities of computers to self-reproduce during his work on the Institute for Advanced Studies computer project - noting that, since a Turing machine can make exact copies of any readable sequence, it can copy itself. He hoped to formulate a theory of self-reproduction that would be general enough to explain and predict self-reproduction in both machines and living things. "Using the same method of logical substitution by which a Turing machine can be instructed to interpret… Leer más

Amsterdam. (amstelodami): Amstelodami, Apud Andream Frisum. Very Good. 1686. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in vellum . Stain on rear cover. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. A few pages slightly age darkened. Eight engraved illustrations of which five are fold outs. Front and rear paste-down endpaper have hand-written notes from long ago. Printed book on the subject of glass making technology. This recipe book contains over a hundred different preparations that range from the commonplace to the spectacular. It became the bible of glass makers throughout Europe. Glass, Science & Technology ; Engraved illustrations; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 455pp pages .

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

Paris:: Ph. -D. Pierres, 1787, 1782, 1787, 1784, 1784, 1781., 1787. 6 volumes. 8vo. xvi, 256; viii, 357, [1]; xii, 488; viii, 432; viii, 479, [1]; [ii], xiv, 319, [1], 98 pp. Title woodcut vignettes, vol. VI with half-title [Traite de Navigation], extensive logarithmic tables, 37 [=7 + 4 + 5 + 11 +10] engraved folding plates (incl. atlas & star maps). Contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine, red leather gilt-stamped spine labels; minor wear to spine ends. Near fine, a choice complete set. Bezout was a French mathematician and member of the French Academy of Science who did pioneering work in elimination theory. He is the namesake of Bezout's Theorem, which plays a crucial role in the study of intersection of manifolds in algebraic geometry. While his impact on mathematical research was significant, he played a larger role in the development of mathematical education, as his textbooks dramatically influenced the course of math education in both France and abroad. His works were popular and thus… Leer más

London:: James Knapton, 1723., 1723. 2 volumes. 8vo. [xxxvi], 285, [3]; 292, [24] pp. 27 folding engraved plates, decorative headpieces, titles printed in red and black. Original paneled blind-stamped calf, raised bands; extremities worn, joints slightly cracked at head and tail. Contemporary signature of Henry Monck on titles. Very good. The first English edition of Rohault's Traite de Physique (1671), with Newtonian commentary provided by Samuel Clarke, first published in Latin in 1697, and here translated into English by Samuel Clarke's brother John Clarke. "Prior to this version's publication, the standard physics text used at Cambridge was Theophile Bonnet's clumsy Latin translation of Jacques Rohault's Physics. Clarke's tutor, Sir John Ellis, urged him to prepare a more elegant version of the work. Making use of his familiarity with Newtonian theory, Clarke included a series of detailed notes that had the novel effect of turning a Cartesian treatise into a vehicle for disseminating the ideas… Leer más

Wittemberg:: (Ephraim Gottlob Eichsfeld for) Gottlieb Heinrich Schwartz, 1741., 1741. Small 4to. 206x167 mm. [24], 624, [40] pp. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary vellum boards; contents toned with scattered foxing. Previous ownership inscription partly removed from title. From the astronomical library of Martin Charles Gutzwiller (not marked). Rare. FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive history of astronomy. / "Weidler's Historia astronomiae sive, De Ortu et Progressu astronomiae, published in 1741, promised to be a more thorough treatment of the history of astronomy, dealing with observations, cosmologies, and astronomical theory as well as giving biographical accounts of astronomers from the beginning og the world down to his own time (the last entry dealing with Christian Ludovic Gersten and the Giessen observatory is dated to 1740). Weidler, a professor of mathematics at Wittenberg University, made astronomical and astro-meteorological observations (mock suns, aurora borealis, etc.) during the… Leer más