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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
1989Best.-Nr. 25572Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1989. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Elizur Wright's Arithmeter. An Early American Spiral Slide Rule by PEGGY A Aldrich KIDWELL. The Microscopes of Charles Fasoldt by PAUL L. FERRAGLIO. The Straight-Line / Nadir Instrument of the Dorchester Bay Tunnel Project by DALE R. BEEKS and A. JAMES HILL. Microscopes and Medicine in the U.S. 1840-1860 by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Squire Whipple's Protracting Trigonometer by FRANCIS E. GRIGGS 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
1991Best.-Nr. 25566Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1991. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Baird Associates's Commercial Three-Meter Grating Spectrograph and the Transformation of Analytical Chemistry by DAVIS BAIRD. Everything from Watch to Locomotive 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
1996Best.-Nr. 25545Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1996. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 97-126. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Tools of Teaching and Research: John Prince the Deerfield Academy and Educational Reform in the Early Republic by SARA SCHECHNER GENUTH. William Wales; An Anglo-American Microscope Optician 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
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
1996Best.-Nr. 25547Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1996. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 33-64 . 8vo. Wraps. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Where did X-Ray Astronomy Come From by DAVID DEVORKIN. That Magnetic Moment: The Birth of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Absorption by BRANDON SHACKELFORD. Precise Levels in Surveys of North America by RANDALL C. BROOKS and HEATHER BAJDIK. Keith's American Heliostat 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
1994Best.-Nr. 25555Hastings-on-Hudson NY and MA: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano 1994. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Fine. First Edition. Pgs 33-64. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. Minor scuffing to rear cover. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: The Holyoke Instruments at Harvard by RAYMOND V. GIORDANO. Alvan Clarks' Customers by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Applying a New Science to a New Industry: The Promise of Spectrum Analysis and the Reality of the Bessemer Process of Making Steel by STEVEN TURNER. 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
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
2005Best.-Nr. 14117Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2005. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. ix 1 270 pages. Publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering. Price sticker w/ISBN on rear panel A crisp clean apparently unread copy. Cloth. University of Michigan Press unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 9832London: Prospect Books 1981. Quarto 2 lx 137 1 blank pages. Illustrated with two images "A Saxon Entertainment" and "The Peacock Feast" the later double-paged. Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. Number 129 of 400 numbered copies. FACSIMILE; originally published 1791. This work was one of the first to examine the history of early English cookery at the forefront of a scholarly movement that developed over the last three centuries of the Eighteenth Century. The book contains: Warner's detailed introductory notes; The Forme of Cury copied from an ancient vellum roll thought to have been compiled about 1390 by the master cooks of Richard II; "Ancient Cookery A.D. 1381" another collection of recipes from the same vellum roll; Ancient Cookery a collection of recipes from a fifteenth century manuscript but which almost certainly dates from a much earlier period; Ancient Recipes to Preserve Fruits" from the mid-Seventeenth Century; and account of the enthronment feasts of George Neville as Archbishop of York in the reign of King Edward IV and of William Warham of Archbishop of Canterbury in 1504. Gray cloth over one-quarter brown calf. Fine. Prospect Books hardcover books
1964Best.-Nr. 329324Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1964. hardcover. very good. 219 b/w plates. 4to green cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1964. Very good. Front and rear end papers and outer edges foxed otherwise very good lacking dust wrapper. Harvard University Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 329353framed. near fine. Signed page and etched portrait of Union Civil Ware general and politician from New York Henry Slocum. Decorative frame. Please inquire for more information. Henry Warner Slocum Sr. was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York. During the war he was one of the youngest major generals in the Army and fought numerous major battles in the Eastern Theater and in Georgia and the Carolinas. While commanding a regiment a brigade a division and a corps in the Army of the Potomac he saw action at First Bull Run the Peninsula Campaign Harpers Ferry South Mountain Antietam and Chancellorsville. unknown books
1996Best.-Nr. 321849New York: Abrams 1996. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated in color many full-bleed images. 255 pages. 4to red cloth dust wrapper. Abrams 1996. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art Abrams unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 318421New York: Thomas Crowell 1975. hardcover. very good. Illustrated abundantly in color and in black and white. 256 pages. 4to navy gilt-stamped cloth edgeworn lower corners bumped. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1975. Internally clean. Very good. Thomas Crowell unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 315901New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1999. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Illustrated in black & white and color. 435 pages. 8vo red cloth-backed gray boards pictorial d.w. slightly edgeworn small stain on rear cover. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1999. First American edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 295773New: Appleton 1928. hardcover. very good-. 245 pages. 8vo black cloth with paper titles on spine and front cover. New York: Appleton 1928. A very good- copy with light foxing. Signed on the title page by the author and with a long personal inscription on fly-leaf signed 'Jay" likely also the author. Appleton unknown books
Best.-Nr. 290812Cleveland: Warner & Swasey Co. paperback. very good. Illustrated. 138 pages. Slim 8vo. cloth-backed heavy paper boards; cloth rubbed at spine. Cleveland: Warner & Swasey Company no date circa 1920's. A very good copy. Warner & Swasey Co unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 282324London: British Council 1998. hardcover. very good. Carroll Lewis. Many photo Illus. 79pp. 8vo 3/4 blue cloth with pictorial boards spine lettering a bit rubbed. London: British Council 1998. A very good copy. Catalogue of an exhibtion that featured photography of Lewis Carroll. British Council unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 2803471904. unbound. near fine. 5.5 x 4-inch black-and-white photo mounted to 10 x 6.75 inches photographer Otto Sarony's embossed blind stamp on the front boldly signed on the matte: "Yours Truly Charles Warner 1904." Near fine condition. British stage actor best remembered for hanging himself in his hotel room after a performance. unknown books
1955Best.-Nr. 276401New York: Abrams 1955. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with 2 color plates and 136 finely printed photogravures. 46 pages of text. Short thin folio black pictorial cloth spine ends are a bit worn still a very good copy internally clean. New York: Abrams 1955. First American edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Abrams unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 274735New York: Architectural Book Publishing 1927. hardcover. near fine/very good-. Preface by G. H. Edgell. Color frontispiece & 145 photographic plates. 4to burgundy cloth chipped d.w. New York: Architectural Book Publishing 1927. Ownership signature still a near fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper. Architectural Book Publishing unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 267297Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2000. hardcover. fine/fine. Illus. 420pp. 8vo gray cloth d.w. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2000. Fine Louisiana State University Press unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 261975New York: Houghton Mifflin 1979. hardcover. very good/very good-. Illus. some in color. 8vo 1/2 black cloth d.w. chipped previous owner's embossed stamp on front flyleaf. New York: Houghton Mifflin 1979. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1899Best.-Nr. 254261Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited. hardcover. fine/good. Garrett. With Illlustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Large 8vo cloth backed boards paper spine label. Cambridge: Riverside Press 1899. Limited Edition. Special large-paper edition. One of 250 signed copies. As new in a plain brown wrapper lettered on the spine. The wrapper is dust soiled and chipped at the edges. Riverside Press unknown books
