New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 1379pp. Quarto [29cm]. Red papered boards with gilt spine stamps. Small amount of scuffing to edges. Faintest amount of sun-bleaching to spines. Pages are clean and bright. 2500+ illustrations and photos with over 250 in full color. More
Paris: Chez les Freres Estienne, 1755. Leather bound. 436; 388pp. Duodecimo [17 cm] Brown leather with a gilt tooled spine and gilt stamped leather spine labels. Marbled endsheets. Good only. Ex-library. The leather covers and spine are mottled, scratched and rubbed, and the underlying boards are exposed along the edges..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. Hardcover. 190pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers are lightly mildly bumped and rubbed. There is an ink stamp on the front free endsheet. The..... More
Circa 1922. Reprint. Paperback. 7pp. Very thin small quarto [25.5 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Very good. The covers are slightly darkened. There is a strip of paper covering 3/4 of the folded spine. It may have been an amateur repair. Reprinted from Popular Astronomy, Vol. XXX, No. 9..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2021. First printing. Paperback. 221 pp. Octavo. [18.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 534pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper covered boards. The book is in near fine condition. In a near fine dust jacket, with lightly creased edges, and a few minor traces of soiling. Nate Silver was named by Time magazine as one..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 164pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light and dark blue hardcover with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good condition. The extremities are mildly rubbed and bumped. The dust jacket is in good condition, with general surface rubbing..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 164pp. Octavo [24 cm] Light and dark blue hardcover with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good condition. The extremities are bumped and mildly rubbed. The dust jacket is in good condition, with general surface rubbing..... More
New York: Broadway Books, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 381pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most..... More
New York: Penguin, 2016. Later printing. Paperback. 323pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
[Washington DC]: Sponsored by International Decade of Ocean Exploration National Science Foundation, October 1982. Hardcover. 140pp. Oblong folio [38 cm x 51 cm] Blue, green, white cloth covered boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and white, black and gilt stamped title information on the front board..... More
Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1992. Reprint with corrections. Hardcover. 376pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black hardcover with gilt stamped titles. Near fine. There is a very light splash stain on the top edge of the text block. Weston M. Stacey’s career spans over forty years of research and teaching in..... More
1980. English and Russian text. Hardcover. 107pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and a silver stamped design on the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Very good. The covers are just a tiny bit warped. The bottom edges of the spine and..... More
New York: Penguin Random House, 2015. First edition. Paperback. 269 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Headstrong delivers a powerful, global, and engaging response. Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby’s vibrant profiles span centuries..... More
Chantilly, VA: The Great Courses, 2011. Original edition. Paperback. 407; 424; 423; 382pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] With light wear to the wraps. Lectures 1-20; Lectures 21-40; Lectures 41-60; Course Guidebook. A course written by the Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College. More
New York: Random House, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 449pp. Octavo [24cm]. 1/4 beige paper over green boards. Gilt title stamped on spine. "In 'An Immense World,' author and Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of..... More