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

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: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. Later Printing. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, in cream pictorial dust jacket repeating the same illustration as the binding in black and coral pink (probably once red), brown glazed endpapers; viii,244pp. A few small chips and closed..... More

New York: Published for the Walters Art Museum by Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition; volume II only. Quarto; illustrated dust jacket; brown cloth boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; 344pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Unread and fine. The Archimedes Palimpsest project was a multi-year project..... More

[Cham, Switzerland]: Springer, [2014]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards; xi,[1],207pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Issued as Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26. More

D.F. [Cuidad de Mexico]: Compania de Ediciones Populares, S.A., 1944. First Edition. Signed by Armando de Maria y Campos and dated year of publication at front free endpaper. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket over printed wraps; 192; [5]pp. Four b&w plates. Rubbing and light chipping to dust jacket; mild edgewear and..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First U.K. Edition. Two volumes; small octavos (20cm); publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, dark teal coated endpapers; [4],368; [4],[369]-838pp.; photographic portrait frontispieces. Light wear at corners and spine ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Ownership ex libris of the..... More

New-York: George P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos; publisher's blue-grey blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,418; viii,468pp.; engraved frontispieces, three additional leaves of plates in Vol. I, presumed complete. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a bit sunned and gilt dulled, boards very slightly bowed, textblocks foxed. Overall Very Good..... More