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Zustand: Good. Good condition. Rebound in blue wrappers. (Batteries, Electricity) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition antique book bound in handsome marbled half-leather with a banded spine. Notable wear to the book edges. The contents have toned edges but the inner contents are decently well-kept and well-bound for their age. Rare.

8vo. Pp. iv,187-320,[14]. Orig. cloth. - With a new index compiled by P.J. Whitehead. We hold the very small remaining publisher's stock.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Blue cloth on boards. Embossed design on both covers. Corners bumped and slightly worn. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Fairly tightly bound. Pages age-toned. Internally clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:

Brown hardback leather cover. Zustand: Fair. Sixth Edition. Worn condition. Lacking front cover, front endpapers and spine - retaining rear board. Contents tightly bound. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). viii, lxxvi, 263pp, xxxii, 111pp, [x]. 4 [of 5] plates and vignettes.

18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Number of copies in libraries.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). A Report on the Progress of the Vegetable Physiology during the year 1837, written by F. J. F. Meyen, professor of Botany in the University of Berlin. Translated from the German by William Francis, associate of the Linnean Society. In original publishers paper wraps. Externally, a trifle rubbed with some general marks and spotting. Internally, firmly bound, bright and lightly foxed throughout with many sections remaining uncut. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 2 books bound as one. [8], 147, [1];66, [2], vip., plate) : ill., ports & a further 66 pages. leather binding with rubbed spine.

Zustand: Used-Like New. Octavo, xx [2] 176 pp. Rebound on full deep navy leather; spine in 6 compartments with elaborate gilt stamped decoration; spine label gilt stamped on light brown leather; boards gilt tooled; marbled endpapers. There is some very minor bumping to corners. Otherwise, this is a very bright and attractive rebinding that although unsigned is very much in a Zaehnsdorf style.

Half leather hardcover. Red title label with gilt text. cxl,534 pp.; 25.x17 cm. Text in French / Français. - (leather sl. rubbed, edges covers sl. dam., paper sl. browned, some spots, few pages slightly damaged at edges) Although still very good, see picture, more pictures on request. 1240g.

First edition. 4to. pp.xi./pp.100 + 6 plates . Compliment slip inserted before half title: "Copy No. 27. Presented to The Rev. J. H. Pollexfen, Colchester. With the best wishes and respects of The Author. June 16, 1868." A very good later quarter calf binding. Maroon morocco spine over maroon buckram boards. Gilt titlesand bands to spine. Recent clean endpapers. Compliment-slip inserted before half-tile. Title in red & black. Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** Reverend John Hutton Pollexfen MD, FSA. (1813 - 1899). A renowned coin collector, he was also a plant collector and algologist. He took a degree as Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh University, but later studied theology and was ordained in 1844. From 1851 he was rector of St Runwald, Colchester, moving to Yorkshire in 1870 where he became vicar first of East Witton, Bedale, and then from 1874 until his death of Middleton Tyas, Richmond. In the Glasgow Exhibition Catalogue of 1876, Edward Burns describes Pollexfen as A ripe and accomplished numismatist, who has long made Scottish coins the subject of loving study'. He was greatly handicapped by very poor sight in his right eye." - See Scottish Coin Collectors by Lord Stewartby 1996 .

N. I. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Good copy professionally recased. Scattered foxing. Physical description; 444 pages, 20 cm. Subjects; Poets, English ; Biography ; Early works to 1800. English poetry ; Bio-bibliography. English drama ; Bio-bibliography. Dramatists, English. English drama. English poetry. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 8vo (small). Contemporary calf. Speckled edges. [8], 147, 66, vi. Engraved frontis. portrait of Tillotson. Joints cracked, rubbing to extremities, soiling to front board, chipping to spine ends.

Zustand: Good. Sixth Edition. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Slight foxing. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). viii, lxxii, 262pp,xxxii, 111pp, [x] + plates. 5 b/w plates + vignettes. Hardback marbled boards with brown leather spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Various (illustrator). Color Illustrations; xv, 287; 288-604 pages; One of Them which originally appeared in parts in 1860 and published in book form in 1861. This consists of 2 only volumes with original waterclours, hand colored plates, extra illustrated, very ornate tooled leather. The final set onsisted of 37 volumes. Green morocco leather faded to olive on spines. All gilt is bright, binding is quite striking. Inner covers are also full leather with green frames surrounding a red morocco blank [back and a tooled story related drawing 4.5 x 7.5". Volumes are 6 x 9. Double end papers consist of silk and also watercolor marbling. Binding by Becourt stamped in gilt inside front cover. Possibly this was done in collaboration with Zahnsdorf as Z bound editions in 1902 and 1911. Limited to 10 special copies of which this is the Publisher's proof copy especially prepared for D C Goodwin. No autographed letter so this is probably not the first volume.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fourth Edition. 15-volume set (complete). A well-preserved set of George Steevens' 1793 15-Volume edition of Shakespeare's works, in original full calf. The leather has become dry and cracked with age, and there is some chipping and rubbing to the corners of the boards and heads and feet of the spines, but the binding remains fully intact. The hinges and joints of several volumes are cracked, but holding well. The front board of Volume 3 has been neatly re-attached with linen hinges. Book pages have normal age related wear with some foxing, mainly around endpapers, but overall are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. The front pastedown of each volume has the bookplate of Edward King, with coat of arms and the motto 'Kings Ay to Kin Kindlie'. Volume One has handwritten note, with initials "E.K", on front free endpaper "This is known as 'Steevens' Own Edition' and is by many considered the most accurate and desirable edition published." Overall, very sound and presentable. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: 750; Add. Inventory No: 201005PHB5-01.

Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED BY HERSCHEL TO CHEVREUL. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of this seminal early work of photography, the invention of the world's first photocopying process, 'cyanotype,' later called 'blue-printing'; this remained by far the most important reprographic process for more than a century after the publication of Herschel's paper. This is an extraordinary presentation copy, inscribed by Herschel to the great French colour theorist Michel-Eugène Chevreul. "Photography in Prussian blue was discovered in 1842 by Sir John Herschel just three years after Louis Daguerre and Henry Talbot had announced their independent inventions of photography in silver, using metal and paper substrates, respectively. Their successes in finally securing silver photographs represented the fruition of an idea that had been gestating for more than a century in the minds and laboratories of many noted natural philosophers. In contrast, the birth of cyanotype came, literally and metaphorically, 'out of the blue', to a single parent . As one of the leading physical scientists of his day, Herschel was driven by the urge to understand photochemical phenomena, and to harness them as tools for probing the electromagnetic spectrum beyond the narrow optical limits imposed by human vision. Using light-sensitive coatings on paper, he sought to venture below the shortwave end of the visible spectrum, into the region of the ultra-violet or 'actinic' rays discovered in 1801 by Johann Ritter; and above the longwave visible limit, into the region of the infra-red or 'thermic' rays, which had been discovered in 1800 by his father, Sir William Herschel . There is no compelling evidence to suggest that he was in pursuit of commercially useful methods of reprography, unlike Talbot, whose clear aim was to multiply his photographic images in printer's ink. It is therefore a happy irony that Herschel should have been responsible for inventing the first process for photocopying" (Ware, Cyanotype: the history, science and art of photographic printing in Prussian blue (1999), p. 11). "Only in 1872, one year after Herschel died, was the cyanotype revived, when the Paris-based Marion and Company renamed his invention 'ferro-prussiate paper' and began marketing it for the replication of architectural plans. (Previously, they had been copied by hand, which was expensive and prone to human error.) At the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the process reached American shores, where it finally met success as the blueprint, the first inexpensive means of duplicating documents. All that was required was a drawing traced on translucent paper. Pressed against a second sheet coated with Herschel's chemical under glass, the drawing was exposed to sunlight, then washed in water. The blueprint paper recorded the drawing in reverse, black lines appearing white against a cyan background" (Keats, 'The Blueprint,' Scientific American 301 (2009), p. 90. ABPC/RBH list only a copy offered by Goldschmidt in 1936 (not a presentation copy). We have located only one other copy in commerce, offered by Ernst Weil in his Catalogue 7 (ca. 1946). Provenance: Michel-Eugène Chevreul (inscribed by Herschel on title 'M. Chevreul with the authors respects' and on original front wrapper 'M. Chevreul Membre de l'Inst[itut] &c &c. Paris'). "As a scientist Sir John Herschel was naturally more interested in the theory of photography than in its practice. Photography is indebted to him for a wealth of ideas, but those who developed them often neglected to acknowledge their originator. Herschel was of a retiring disposition and never pushed forward his claims; indeed, we marvel at the restraint with which he bore the incorrect behaviour of Talbot who, thwarted in his desire for public acclaim, hastened to the Patent Office with more than one idea which Herschel had freely published. "Herschel's photographic researches are concentrated within the first few years after the discovery of photography, and the genius and energy which he displayed were overwhelming. For him, it would have been an easy matter to invent a photographic process earlier had he felt, like Niépce, any urge to do so, or had he believed that it would facilitate his work, as Daguerre and Talbot and Reade did. As far back as 1819 Herschel discovered the property of the hyposulphites as solvents for silver salts, whereas ignorance of this fact had proved the stumbling-block to other investigators in photography for a long time. Herschel's scientific knowledge was indeed so great that on merely receiving a note, on 22 January 1839, from Captain (later Admiral) Beaufort telling him the bare fact of Daguerre's discovery, 'a variety of processes at once presented themselves,' and only a week later Herschel succeeded in producing his first photograph" (Gernsheim & Gernshein, The History of Photography1685-1914 (1969), p. 95). Herschel learned of Talbot's competing process just a few days after Daguerre's. "In January of 1839, stimulated by Talbot's announcement of his invention of photogenic drawing, Herschel took up the study of photographic phenomena. Within a week he had solved the problem of silver fixation. In contrast to Talbot's single-minded pursuit of the silver image, however, Herschel soon began to widen his investigations in the search for other viable photographic systems . To the enduring benefit of the embryonic science of photography, the spring of 1840 was remarkably brilliant. Herschel had already initiated a new series of exposure tests of 'vegetable colours' using extracts of the juices of plants and flowers, but this work was interrupted in March by the removal of the family home from Slough in Buckinghamshire to Hawkhurst in Kent. Once resettled, Herschel resumed his experiments in August, but by then he frequently found the sun to be 'pale' or 'desultory', requiring long exposures for these very insensitive processes. He pursued them nonetheless, during the very poor summer of 18.

Full Calf. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Part 1, all published? Book measures 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches. Collation, xxvi,[2],108pp, half title. Bound in full calf. Rebacked retaining the original panelled boards. raised bands, gilt lettering. Calf lightly rubbed, stain marking to bottom board. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice well bound copy. Size: 8vo.

4to. [ii], 225-273 pp. 5 figs., tables, 8 plates (5 folding). Dis-bound. Very good. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of James Forbes' study of the effects of the atmosphere on solar radiation. As early as 1830 Forbes had begun to investigate radiant heat phenomena without significant results. After learning of Melloni's successful detection of the refraction of thermal radiation, he visited Paris in 1833 to confirm Melloni's results, whereupon he requested Melloni to supervise the manufacture of a thermopile for use in his own investigations. With this instrument Forbes, in November 1834, discovered the polarization of radiant heat by transmission through tourmaline and thin mica plates and by reflection through the latter. Using mica for dipolarization, he was successful in demonstrating the double refraction of thermal radiation, and in 1836 he found that heat could be circularly polarized by two reflections in a Fresnel rhomb of rock salt. He received the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1838 for these discoveries and in 1845 was granted a royal pension for his scientific work. James Forbes was professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh and was Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1840 to 1851. DSB, V, 68-69; Houzeau & Lancaster, II, col. 865; Poggendorff, I, col. 771.

8vo. (8), 240, 108, (12) S. Pergament-Einband der Zeit. Rücken stark beschabt, Titelblatt mit repar. Ausschnitt (mit geringem Textverlust). Insgesamt schönes Exemplar. Mit 2 ganzseitigen Stichen (Demosthenes und Aischines), beide Bilder etwas beschabt; vorderer Vorsatz mit kleinem Fehlstück. Sprache: griechisch / lateinisch.

First Edition. Large octavo (23cm). Cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 92,[12]pp; illus. Cloth lifting slightly on front and rear boards, else a tight, Near Fine copy, free of markings or significant wear. Essentially a trade catalog for the firm of John & Edwin Wright, proprietors of the "Universe Works" at Birmingham. Illustrated throughout with both halftone text-illustrations and unusual (in this context) colored lithographic plates demonstrating the design and use of the product; includes Index and 10-pp price list. The author was the Managing Director of the company.

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 14-172; folding frontispiece facsimile plus 2 other facsimile plates (1 folding); original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; label rubbed, crack in the bottom third of the front joint; all else very good and sound. Halkett & Laing attribute this to Madamoiselle R. d' Ancemont, likely a pseudonym and the text is likely a fabrication.