Nurnberg [Nuremburg]: Johann Leonhard Schrag, 1830. Revised Edition. Octavo (23 cm); xxviii; 466pp+4 fold-out copper plates, collated complete. Boards half bound in leather and brown marbled paper with gilt decoration and titling to spine with red leather label. All edges stained red with black flecking. Boards worn, bumped, and rubbed..... More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1935, 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher’s cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp, frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece, sixty-six (66) leaves of plates &..... 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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],407pp.; illus. Very light wear to jacket and board extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "For Ron Wilkinson, with best wishes and..... More

New York: Distributed to its Policy Holders by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, 1875. One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand. Octavo. 144pp. Black and white illustrations. Chromolithographed wraps. Wraps quite soiled and chipped along edges; loss to bottom rear corner. Binding sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Quite..... More

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,173pp. Moderate wear to jacket from handling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 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]: [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..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],v,[1],253pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes essays on the Suez Canal..... More

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Two volumes; small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],237; [2],238pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1931. First Edition Stated. Octavo (22 cm); x, 277pp+1ad. Publisher's red dust jacket with $3.00 price to back panel. Boards full bound in red with silver stamping and black decoration. Jacket chipped, rubbed, and torn with loss to tail of spine and..... More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in at front. Octavo; 206pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £4.50 price intact; book in sea-blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a couple dime-sized chips at top and bottom of back panel, with another small..... More

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Brian Warner with brief inscription to photography historian Larry Schaaf. Octavo. 241 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated glossy boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Errata slip laid in at front. Boards show light shelfwear with..... More