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1972Best.-Nr. 107414New York: International Universities Press 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Volume V only. Hardly visible rubbing on the boards else a fine copy in an about fine dustwrapper with one short tear near the crown. International Universities Press hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 25335Hastings-on-Hudson NY and Acton MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1998. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 97-128 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Joseph Henry's Contributions to the Electromagnet and the Electric Motor by ROGER SHERMAN. Andrew Ellicott's Determination of Latitude and Longitude at the Confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by JOSEPH H. SENNE. Thomas Hill: Minister Intellectual and Inventor by PEGGY A Aldrich KIDWELL. Hassler's Instruments at NIST by LISA GREENHOUSE. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication and a total of 70 issues the journal covered areas including mathematical optical and philosophical instruments chemical physical and electrical apparatus sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions collectors and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 25558Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1993. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Cathetometers and Precision Measurement: The History of an Upright Ruler by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Tempest in a Milk Pail: The Lactometer and 19th Century Dairy Disputes by MARJORIE BERRY. The Reflecting Goniometer by STEVEN TURNER. The Zealous Marketing of Rain-Band Spectroscopes by THOMAS F. PETERSON JR. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication and a total of 70 issues the journal covered areas including mathematical optical and philosophical instruments chemical physical and electrical apparatus sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions collectors and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 25336Hastings-on-Hudson NY and Acton MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1998. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 32 pages.Publisher's printed wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: John Bird and the Origin of the Sextant by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Circular Dividing Engines in the United States before 1900 by ROBERT C. MILLER. Thomas Alva Edison's Gift to Milan High School by THOMAS B. GREENSLADE Jr. A Constant Deviation Wavelength Spectrometer Made by Adam Hilger Ltd. by NOAH RINDOS. The Beckman DU Spectrophotometer by JON EKLUND. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication and a total of 70 issues the journal covered areas including mathematical optical and philosophical instruments chemical physical and electrical apparatus sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions collectors and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 25556Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1993. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: French Instruments in the United States by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication and a total of 70 issues the journal covered areas including mathematical optical and philosophical instruments chemical physical and electrical apparatus sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions collectors and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 63367Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover in jacket. 0807108227 . 679 pages blue cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine. Previous owner signed the front free endpaper otehrwise this is a clean nice copy but it does have a remainder mark along the top edge. . Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1984Best.-Nr. 9018007Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1984. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Includes bibliography. Previous owners name and date in ink on fffep. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 9018323Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Louisiana State University Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 7135New York Harry N. Abrams 1984. 1st edition. Cloth chipped dust jacket. Very good. New York, Harry N. Abrams, [1984] hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 2677London, Fisher Unwin, 1924 in-12, carte en couleurs dépliante, 44 pp., reliure éditeur
1908Best.-Nr. 224691908 Boston: Small, Maynard & Company,. 1908. title page printed in lavender and light green, text printed in lavender and black throughout, original pictorial lavender cloth stamped in purple, black and gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers.. a fine copy. A very nice copy. of a pretty book. (#133550). First edition. A short story with strongly allegorical aspects about a woman and a panther, Destiny, etc. A good example of American Edwardian book design, with its art nouveau aesthetic. Smith, American Fiction, 1901- 1925 W-130. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and black & white plates by Paul K. M. Thomas, with decorative borders printed in violet around each page of text, without dustwrapper
1985Best.-Nr. S88012London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985 xxiii + 417pp.+ 100 bl/w illustrations out-of-text, editor's hardcover, ill. dustwrapper, 24cm., very good condition, S88012
19648vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a double-page coloured plate and 16 monochrome plates on 10; pictorial boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, black top, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TIN PLATE WORKERS ALIAS WIRE WORKERS WITH ITS COLOURED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY FREDERICK ERNEST CLEARY, MASTER OF THE COMPANY. Published to commemorate the tercentenary of the Company.
Best.-Nr. 9780241573785Penguin Books UK
1904Best.-Nr. 45608Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1904. Twenty fifth impression 8vo pp. viii 391; original green pictorial cloth stamped and lettered in gilt; spine ends lightly rubbed else about fine. Houghton, Mifflin, and Company unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 39891Sierra Madre California: The Castaway Press 1951. Edition limited to 100 copies of which this is an unnumbered copy 16mo pp. 7; text printed in green; original wrappers printed in red uniformly toned; a very good copy. Reprinted from the San Padro Shipping Gazette Volume 1 Number 2 Saturday October 13 1883. The Castaway Press unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 120045Ann Arbor Michigan: University of Michigan 1920. Softcover. VG- clean and tight interior; covers sunned at edges and with lower right corner turned. Grey stiff paper wraps with black lettering stapled; 10 pp. Reprinted from School and Society Vol. XII No. 299 Pages 205-214 September 18 1920. Bishop was the chief cataloguer at University of Michigan from 1902-1906 and reference librarian from 1906-1907. University of Michigan paperback books
1944Best.-Nr. 4394NY: Columbia University Press 1944. Hardcover. VG in tattered dustjacket. Red cloth. 54 pp. 78 bw plates. The first detailed study of this renowned American Genre artist of the mid-19th century. Extensive general index and also an index to painting titles. Extensive bibliography and several appendices. Columbia University Press hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 163853Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1999. Softcover. VG. Glossy color-illustrated softcover. xiii 178 pp. BW and color illustrations. Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in 1999. The exhibit highlighted the 18th century fascination with science and men of science. University of Pennsylvania Press paperback books
2005Best.-Nr. 122582Syracuse New York: Syracuse University Press 2005. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 159 pp.; A few bw decorative illustrations. A collection of Turkish verse from pre-Islamic Ottoman classical folk and modern times; Includes pieces by Fazil Husnu Daglarca Nazim Hikmet Rumi Yunus Emre and many others. Syracuse University Press paperback books
2002Best.-Nr. 131057London / New York: Merrill; distributed in the USA by Rizzoli International 2002. Softcover. VG- a lovely book with a vertical curve and a bumped corner. Little wear otherwise. White and blue illustrated wraps. 255 pp. Over 300 illustrations chiefly in color. "Based in London but working across Britain and beyond Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades the projects have materialised in a range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media." From the Artangel website. "Surveying 40 projects realised over the past decade by film-makers writers visual artists composers choreographers and performers this text provides a unique overview of the special alchemy generated when a location becomes central to the development of a work of art." - book jacket. Merrill; distributed in the USA by Rizzoli International paperback books
1936Best.-Nr. 17384.2NY: McFarlane Warde McFarlane and Japan Society of New York 1936. Hardcover. Good ex art school library with one line stamp on the verso of all plates. Olive colored cloth rebound with no spine title. 55 pp. 85 bw plates. McFarlane, Warde, McFarlane and Japan Society of New York hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 107472New Haven CT: Yale Center for British Art / Yale University 1998. Softcover. VG Library stamp on inside front cover; library stickers on front and back covers. Color illus. wraps; 216 pp.; 80 color plates; 19 bw figures; 2 gate-folds. Accompanied the traveling exhibition of the same name which appeared at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Queensland Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1998; 53 artists represented including Constable Hogarth Sickert Turner and others. Yale Center for British Art / Yale University paperback books
1996Best.-Nr. 172295Washington DC: National Gallery of Art 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG minimal shelf wear at corners in excellent condition. Red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine color-illustrated dust jacket with red and white lettering. 255 pp. 170 illustrations including 70 color plates. "J.M. Turner John Everett Millais Ford Madox Brown Edward Burne-Jones James Tissot and William Holman Hunt are among the Victorian painters whose work is showcased in this elegant volume which accompanies an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art Washington . Illustrated and discussed are not only chatacteristically Victorian narrative and genre paintings but also works that reflect international development such as the European symbolist movement. From the medieval tendencies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other Pre-Raphaelites to the classicism of Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema Victorian painting encompassed a broad range of subjects and styles." - dust jacket description. National Gallery of Art hardcover books
1996Best.-Nr. 141399London: National Touring Exhibitions Hayward Gallery 1996. Softcover. VG. Lilac & illus. wraps 95 pp. color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with several 1996-1997 exhibitions assembled to the theme by Marina Warner. With an essay by her and many examples from a variety of artists. National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery paperback books
