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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Approx. 7x3.5", black, yellow and cream colored box w/black, yellow and green lettering. Light soiling, spotting and wear, peeling along one upper edge, box is folded flat along its lines, possibly never used.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How many lives would you trade for the one you love Damond has already lost count.After a brutal government raid leaves his wife dead and his own body shattered, Damond awakens inside a cybernetic body with no idea who rebuilt him - or why. Armed with enhanced strength, military-grade weaponry, and an advanced artificial intelligence modeled after his late wife, Delphine, he sets out to assassinate the powerful Robber Barons responsible for destroying his life.But revenge comes at a cost.As revolution ignites across the Four Districts and the ruling regime begins to fracture, Damond's grip on reality starts to unravel. Shadow figures stalk him from the corners of his vision. Memories bleed into the present. And the line between man and machine grows increasingly difficult to distinguish. Yet through it all, Delphine remains at his side, guiding him deeper into a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a single act of murder.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Size: 9" x 6 1/4". . Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering, printed ads on paper covering boards, 180 pages, numerous ads on end papers, includes map dated 1890 in front of book. Title continues: "Embracing the Residents of the Villages of Bennington, Bennington Center and North Bennington. A Business and Street Directory. A Sketch of Bennington, its Business Industries, Churches and Local Organizations." Covers worn at extremities, spine cloth is pitted, pages toned, scattered pencil marks, previous owner's name on front free end paper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016850.…

Paper-Covered Boards. Zustand: Fine. Early Reprint. Fifth (and most desirable) Edition of this seminal work on electricity and its applications (first published 1784), with corrections and additions by William Jones. 8vo: xiv[bound out of sequence],594pp, with six copper-engraved plates. Tall, uncut, wide-margined copy, completely unsophisticated, in original drab grey boards, beige paper spine, printed paper label. An exemplary example, binding square and tight; pages, clean fresh and bright. Wheeler Gift 519b. Adams came from a family of makers of scientific instruments and globes, and was Mathematical Instrument-Maker to His Majesty George III. In the 1780s, he began publishing a series of illustrated texts dealing with the physical sciences. Following close on the heels of Essay on Electricity were Essays on the Microscope (1787), Astronomical and Geographical Essays (1789), Geometrical and Graphical Essays (1791), and Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (5 vols., 1794). The six engraved plates, including a new frontispiece, contain 105 figures, mostly illustrating various experimental instruments constructed by Adams, often at the request of the king in line with his interest in the practical applications of science. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). …

The Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker. Folding engraved frontispiece and 5 folding plates depicting instruments at back. 1 vols. 8vo. George Adams, an English optician and writer of the late eighteenth century, published a wide variety of scientific works, including essays on microscopy, electricity, astronomy, geography, and natural and experimental philosophy. Adams, who was mathematical instrument-maker to King George II of England was well-known in London. The five folding plates at the rear of this volume illustrate his mathematical and scientific instruments in detail. At the back of this volume is "A Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments made and sold by W. and S. Jones" (14 pages) followed by a two-page notice of W. and S. Jones having taken over the stock of Mr. George Adams' "Philosophical Essays" after Adams' death in 1795. John Birch, whose letter on medical electricity accompanies this edition, was a surgeon, and the author of "Della Forza dell'Elettricita" (Naples, 1778). Motteley, p. 281 as well as numerous other citations for various statements, comments and descriptions given in this work Nineteenth century half roan over marbled boards. Rubbed, upper joint cracking, some browning and spotting of text, generally light, creasing of plates, signature of Andrew Peck, dated 1874 on title, but a good copy of this important work Folding engraved frontispiece and 5 folding plates depicting instruments at back. 1 vols. 8vo The Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker.…

1 text volume and 1 plates volume. Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text and illustrations greatly expanded. Adams earned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and microscope lenses and wrote many scientific publications that give regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements, including the present one devoted to microscopes. With an owner's inscription of the Edinburgh Royal Society on the title-page of the text volume and an inscription, perhaps by the Glasgow professor of medicine, eye surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society Thomas Wharton Jones (1808-1891) on the first contemporary endpaper of the plates volume: "For the Royal Society Edinburgh from their . humble servant / Mr Jones". Bindings only very slightly worn. Frontispiece and title-page slightly foxed, also some foxing throughout the text volume. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC T88415; Hagen, p. 2; Horn & Schenkling 39; Nissen ZBI 24; Pritzel 18; cf. Poggendorff I, p. 10 (1787 ed.). Uniform 20th-century dark blue morocco, blind-stamped spine with title in gold, grey marbled sides, marbled endpapers and new endpapers, brown sprinkled edges. With an allegorical mezzotint frontispiece in sepia in the text volume and 32 numbered double-page plates (numbered I-XXXII) mounted on guards, printed from 36 copper plates (plates 2, 7, 23 and 24 each from 2 copper plates distinguished as A and B) with hundreds of figures showing microscopes, associated equipment and microscopic views of insects, microbes, shells and tissue samples. Pages: XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.…

Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a James Rule dated 1807 to the front pastedown. Frontispiece and 5 plates, all folding. Repair to the head of the spine and adjacent part of the upper joint, a very good copy.…