First Edition. A memoir of Sacks' experiences in England during and just after the Second World War. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. Essays on fascinating cases of neurological disease, revised from their appearances in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. First edition (stated). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with cracking to back fold.
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First Edition. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A......
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Second American edition. The 1874 and 1882 transits of Venus—when that planet crossed the face of the sun as seen from earth—were major astronomical events and they spurred many expeditions to view the phenomena. This book gives a history of the previous transits of Venus in the 17th and 18th.....
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First Edition. 60 pages with 26 figures in the text, plus 25 leaves of plates. Fossil fish. In the series, Treaarsexspeditionen til Christian den X's Land 1931-34 under ledelse af Lauge Koch. First edition. Very good in green wrappers (paperback). Inscribed to a Harvard paleontologist: "Professor Dr. H. C. Stetson.....
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![A Treatise on Mechanics [The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy]. Henry Kater, Dionysius Lardner](/pictures/thumb/305953.jpg?v=1597107755)
vii, 287 pages plus index and 20 plates. 4-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. An introduction to the topic issued in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia series. Second American edition (first was 1831). In the publisher's original plain boards with a cloth spine and paper spine label. Outer corners of the page block shaved.....
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First Edition. 452 pages. Explores mythologies of the cataclysmic deluge from around the world. With contributions from Stephen Jay Gould, Leonard Woolley Hans Kelsen and others. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. This was Gould's own copy. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and.....
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xxiv, 696, [1] pages. 1973 printing. Very good or better in a like dust jacket.
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First Edition. xxxiv, 434 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light wear to top of spine.
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x, 272 pages. A decent quality facsimile of the 1674 third edition. Fine hardcover; no jacket as issued.
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First Edition. xvii, 327 pages including the index. This book "brings together the most important essays and reviews of Corliss Lamont in the areas of humanist philosophy, civil liberties, world peace, and socialism"—dust jacket. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a like dust jacket; some dampstaining to.....
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First Edition. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp.....
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Second edition. xii, 95 pages. An influential work on the gradual transition to a curve required to keep trains (and later cars) from flying off the route. Such transitions are now commonly called Searles curves. Early editions are uncommon. Flexible leather wallet-style binding, with fold-over flap. Near fine. A nice.....
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First Edition. 320 pages. 11-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches. Index. 174 instruments described; most illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback).
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First Edition. 749 pages. Reproduced from typescript. First edition (first printing). Near find hardcover.
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310 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Fine, clean copy.
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First Edition. 697 pages. 8 by 11 inches. Illustrated with facsimile title pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in publisher's blue cloth; no dust jacket.
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First Edition. 301 pages. "An exhibition coordinated by the Dutch section of the Antiquarian Horological Society." 11 by 12-1/2 inches. Illustrated in color. A large, heavy book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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First Edition. 256 pages. The first American edition, corrected and enlarged, of this introductory work on derivatives over time, based on Newton's calculus. First American edition (first printing). Very good in tree calf; outer joints cracking. Old ownership label inside. A nice copy.
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First Edition. 152 pages plus 61 black-and-white plates, most depicting two objects. 9 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Errata slip laid in.
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First Edition. xvi, 350 pages including an index. A reprint of 22 separately paginated articles and papers by King about Islamic astronomical instruments. One in French, one in German, one in Arabic; the rest in English. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates. An uncommon and out-of-print work by one of the.....
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First Edition. Three volumes, xxii, 563, 387, 318 pages plus 24 black-and-white plates. Vol. I: Texts and translations; Vol. II: The Life of Richard of Wallingford, introductions and commentaries to the texts; Vol. III: Illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossaries, bibliography, and indexes. The definitive collection of the 14th century British clockmaker.....
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Three volumes. A mixed set: Two-volume second edition of the text: octavo; [4], vi, 350; [4], ii, 334 pages. One-volume first edition of the plates: quarto, entitled Plates Illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy; and of the Twelve Supplementary Chapters by David Brewster. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Company 1811; 8 pages, 25.....
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First Edition. "The whole translated from the French... by John Robertson." Octavo. xii, 390, [2 (advertisements)] pages, plus 10 folding engraved plates, woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. Lacaille was a French astronomer known for his intensive interest in calculation and observation. The heart of this book is devoted to.....
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![The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy [Two Volumes]. Henry Raper](/pictures/thumb/35346.jpg?v=1598070983)
Nineteenth edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas A. Hull. xxv, 376; 377–934 pages, plus one map and one plate. One of the most popular and widely used 19th century manuals on navigation. An attractive two-volume set in a half black roan binding. Complete. The second volume, which is mostly devoted.....
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