London: Abelard-Schuman, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (25 /- net); 223pp.; portrait frontispiece, plates and illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Forms part the series The Life of Science Library. More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition from the British sheets. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in printed price-clipped dust jacket; xxvii,[1],692pp.; frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Jacket quite worn with substantial loss affecting nearly the entirety of rear..... More

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1950. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 220pp.; portrait frontispiece, text illus. Light wear and dust soil to jacket, ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown; Very Good or better overall. More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped decorative dust jacket; x,148pp. Light edge wear to jacket margins, top textblock edge lightly dust-soiled; Very Good and sound. More

Oxford: Butterworth / Heinemann, [1998]. First Edition Stated. Quarto (25cm); publisher's glossy black paper-covered boards; xx,443pp.; eight leaves of color photographic illus., diagrams throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good or better, internally clean and sound. More

[Shelton, CT]: Greenwich Workshop Press / Easton Press, [1998]. Collector's Edition Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 1720. Large quarto (31cm); publisher's full blue bonded leather stamped in gilt, color plate mounted to upper cover, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers; 176pp.; full color illus. throughout. Brief..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1923. First U.S. Edition. Octavo (18 cm); publisher's gilt-lettered navy cloth; 123pp. Boards bumped at corners, spine ends scuffed. Water staining to spine crown bleeding into upper cover, minor separation of head of spine material from book block. Last free endsheet creased. Endsheets toned. Endsheets, first..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1878. Seventh Edition. Four volumes; thick octavos; publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, brown glazed endpapers; text illus. throughout. Corners bumped, spine cloth faded to tan and gilt dulled, textblocks lightly foxed, discreet 20th century ownership signature to front free endpapers of three volumes, else..... More

New York: Published for the Walters Art Museum by Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition; volume I only. Quarto; illustrated dust jacket; brown cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; 342pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Unread and fine. The Archimedes Palimpsest project was a multi-year project to conserve..... More

New York: Published for the Walters Art Museum by Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Two quarto volumes; illustrated dust jackets; brown cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; 342; 344pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Mild rubbing to dust jackets, else Fine. These volumes are the product of..... More

Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1981. Facsimile reprint of the 1674 edition. Octavo; publisher's red printed card wrappers, yapp edges; [10],319pp. Light shelf wear, spine a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature inside upper cover, else Very Good and sound. More

[New York]: [s.i.], 1961. Second printing. Large octavo. 265 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Toning to edges; mild curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good."Second Printing" stated on copyright page though with following notice printed on title page - "This preliminary printing is for..... More

Geneve [Geneva, Switzerland]: Imprimerie Ramboz et Schuchardt, 1877. First Edition. Octavo; bound in later red cloth with spine stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers; original front wrap bound at rear; 277 + 1 page table of contents. Original albumen frontis. Light edgewear; corners bumped; minor soiling. Binding sound; previous owners' bookplates..... More