Engraved Portrait by C. H. Jeens. From "Nature" October 31, 1878.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1878. Plate: 230x150 mm. Margins: 280x196 mm. Very faint offsetting in some areas, slight discoloration from remnants of former mounting. More
London: Macmillan & Co, 1878. Plate: 230x150 mm. Margins: 280x196 mm. Very faint offsetting in some areas, slight discoloration from remnants of former mounting. More
London: 1862. Airy, George Biddell (1801-92). A.L.s. to Charles Tilston Bright. London, August 15, 1862. 4pp. 188 x 119 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Airy served as Great Britain's astronomer royal from 1835 to 1881, and was a noted critic and frequent adversary of Charles Babbage. In 1862 he undertook the..... More
London: Nichol, 1825-1826. Airy, George Biddell (1801-92). On a peculiar defect in the eye, and a mode of correcting it. Offprint from Trans. Cambridge Phil. Soc. [2], 5, [1]pp. London: J. Smith, 1825. Bound with: On the figure of the earth. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions [2], 31, [1]pp. London: W...... More
London. Margins: 173x110 mm. A couple of faint spots in left margin. More
London: Richardson, 1798. Plate: 194x141 mm. Margins: 245x167 mm. Very faint soiling in top margin. More
Print: 136x102 mm. Mount: 180x145 mm. Mounted on white paper with black ink boarder. Text on reverse of print shows through faintly. More
London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1838. Margins: 245x159 mm. Crease along bottom margin. More
Bologna: 1825. Aldini, Giovanni (1762-1834). Letter signed with autograph postscript to Cardinal Zurla. 2pp. plus integral blank. Bologna, 28 [probably September] 1825. 297 x 210 mm. Slightly worn in the center crease, but fine. From the Thomas Philipps collection. Aldini, the nephew of Galvani, was the premier apologist for his..... More
London: C. Hinton, 1819. Plate: 200x131 mm. Margin: 207x133 mm. Some soiling around edges, faint foxing. More
Margins: 175x119 mm. Remnants of mounting on reverse of print, very small tear on bottom margin. More
London: T. Gosden. Margins: 222x146 mm. Some very faint soiling around the edges. More
Margin: 200x135 mm. Some foxing. More
C. Stalker, 1789. Mounted in passe-partout. Mount: 158x101 mm. Margin: 219x151 mm. Top margin slightly darkened. More
Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. Alexander of Tralles (ca. 525 – ca. 605). Practica Alexandri yatros grecium expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de partibus et Januensis in margine posite. 4to. [8], 93, [1]ff. Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. 241 x 162 mm. 18th- or 19th-century diced calf gilt, brass bosses and clasp fittings..... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1928. vii, 17-171pp. Text illustrations. 201 x 135 mm. Original cloth, a bit shaken, light wear. Very good. More
1917-36. 235 x 162 mm. Library buckram, some wear. Good+. More
1917-36. 241 x 162 mm. Library buckram. Typewritten table of contents pasted in. Very good. More
1940-1950. Typed index inserted. 255 x 178 mm. Library buckram. Very good. More
Alexander, James. A.L.s. to Latimer Clark (1822-98). Dumfries [Scotland,] August 19, 1873. 4pp. 179 x 117 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. An invitation to Clark to visit, issued in conjunction with Alexander's forthcoming "electrical exhibit." In the postscript, Alexander asks Clark whether he shall "require any batteries from Sir W[illiam] Thomson..... More
Berlin [Ann Arbor]: Julius Springer [J. W. Edwards], 1945. [Shannon, Claude E. (1916-2001).] Alexandrov, Pavel (1896-1982); Heinz Hopf (1894-1971). Topologie. xiii, 636, [2]pp. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935 [i.e., Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards, 1945]. Original cloth, slight edgewear. Very good. From the library of Claude E. Shannon, with his..... More
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First Book on Television in English: Superb Copy Dinsdale, Alfred. Television: Seeing by wireless. 8vo. 62pp. London: W. S. Caines for Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 186 x 125 mm. Original printed paper boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very fine copy. Boxed. First Edition of the..... More
London: 1856. Alison, Archibald (1792-1867). Lawyer and historian; author of the 10-volume History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons (1833-43), considered the first scholarly English-language study of the French Revolution. 1858. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm..... More