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Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II.Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono

Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II.Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono by GALILEI, Galileo

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Title
Discorso al Serenissimo Don Cosimo II.Intorno alle cose, che Stanno in su l'acqua, o che in quella si muovono
Author
GALILEI, Galileo
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Florence: Cosimo Giunti, 1612. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (2) ff, 77 pp, (1), (1) f with printer's emblem. Bound with: [GALILEI, Galileo & CASTELLI, Benedetto]. Risposta alle Opposizioni del S. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del S. Vincenzo di Grazia... Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1615. (1) ff, (2), 319 [ie 335] pp with numerous mispaginations, (5) including printer's emblem. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with MS title on spine, "Galileo Galilei Opera', internally very fresh, an excellent copy in all respects. A remarkable pairing of two Galileana bound together by a contemporary follower of the power struggle between Galileo and the Aristotelians. The second augmented edition of Galileo's classic on hydrostatics, published the same year within months of the first edition, represents his first published work in physics (Drake, p. 179). The Discorso is hailed by historians of science as having united for the first time two previously separate disciplines: statics and dynamics, resulting in a new science of mechanics, containing his first published statements on the concept of moment, an abstract concept of physical force which has been shown to have dominated his early physical thinking, and contains several first announcements concerning some of his great astronomical discoveries relating to sunspots, the triple form of Saturn, and the phases of Venus. The present 2nd edition contains significant additional text concerning this important concept. The Risposta, one of the scarcest of Galileo's works on the market, contains his lengthy and scathing replies to his critics only a year before his official castigation by the Catholic Church. Two years after the publication of the Sidereus Nuncius which assured his place in the history of science, and after displaying his telescopic discoveries in Rome, Galileo returned to Florence and devoted himself to the study of floating bodies, "the real, intrinsic and total cause why some bodies float and others sink." In the Discorso, Galileo supports Archimedes and opposes Aristotle on the behavior of bodies in water, arguing that the reason some solids sink is the excess of their weight over the weight of water. Employing the concept of moment- "the force with which the mover moves and the floating body resists" -and the principle of virtual velocities, Galileo far surpasses the hydrostatic considerations of Archimedes: "The new method enables Galileo to unify statics and dynamics into a new science of mechanics which became the foundation of modern physics" (Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 287). As noted above, the second edition may be distinguished from the first by the additional material contained therein; notably, Galileo drew attention to these additions by printing them in Roman type rather than Italic. Among these additions are Galileo's first announcements of the Sun's rotation period, his announcements of sunspots, and his discovery of the "horns" of Saturn.
The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art.

The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art. by [Dean, Bashford]; Carl Von Kienbusch; Otto Kretzschmar; Steven V. Grancsay.

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art.
Author
[Dean, Bashford]; Carl Von Kienbusch; Otto Kretzschmar; Steven V. Grancsay.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Description
Portland, Maine: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. First edition. 31 cm; 270 pages, frontispiece, and 63 plates. #243 of an edition of 250 copies. Bound in cloth stamped in gilt with the crest of the Arms and Armor Club of New York City. Fine.
Mining and Scientific Press. A Journal of Mining, Agriculture, Manufactures, Science, Art, Chemistry, Inventions, Etc.

Mining and Scientific Press. A Journal of Mining, Agriculture, Manufactures, Science, Art, Chemistry, Inventions, Etc. by [California]

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Title
Mining and Scientific Press. A Journal of Mining, Agriculture, Manufactures, Science, Art, Chemistry, Inventions, Etc.
Author
[California]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
San Francisco, 1863. Very good.. Six issues, each 8pp. Folio, on single folded sheets of newsprint. One issue separated along spine, minor foxing, creasing, and edge wear. A small collection of early issues of a notable scientific journal published in San Francisco beginning in 1860; the present issues were all issued during the opening years of the Civil War. The issues present here include Vol. V, No. 5 (April 9, 1862); Vol. V, No. 13 (June 9, 1862); Vol. V, No. 16 (July 2, 1862); Vol. V, No. 21 (August 8, 1862); Vol. VI, No. 4 (November 8, 1862); and Vol. VI, No. 38 (July 20, 1863). The articles present a wide range of scientific subjects, such as mining news, new inventions, lectures, extracts from scientific publications, metallurgy, balloon ascensions, patents, and more. Illustrations in the present issues include a map of Sinaloa, Heath's Spiral Spice Mill (and various other machines), the Coffey & Risdon Boiler Factory, and sectional illustrations of the Colorado River, among others. There are also articles related to encouraging emigration to Sinaloa, Mexico and notices of local "theatricals;" along with a wealth of advertisements for scientific equipment, services, and local businesses. The June 9, 1862 issue even prints a "Business Directory" of almost seventy commercial interests who have subscribed to the periodical. A nice batch of issues of Mining and Scientific Press from its early few years of publication.
LES ETAINS FRANCAIS

LES ETAINS FRANCAIS by TARDY

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Seller: Boston Book Company
Title
LES ETAINS FRANCAIS
Author
TARDY
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1964. TARDY. LES ETAINS FRANCAIS. Paris: Tardy, 1964. 198 + 113-1030 + 1 pp. Thick 8vo., stiff wrappers with glossy dust jacket. Light soil to jacket spine, a few small closed tears to edges. Some faint age toning to page edges. B/w frontispiece. "1 carte des generalites. 1600 lieux. 7800 nomes cites. 1825 poincons. 745 documents.
Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding, By Kane O'Hara. With Designs by George Cruikshank

Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding, By Kane O'Hara. With Designs by George Cruikshank

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Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding, By Kane O'Hara. With Designs by George Cruikshank
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. First Edition Thus. First Issue. Wraps. Custom clamshell case, quarter morocco, with cloth exterior elsewhere, marbled paper pastedown interior, and substantial walls creating well for the booklet. Good. 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. 34, [2], 4 pp. Five steel engraved plates of Cruikshank illustrations, and three vignettes, one being on wrap cover. With two tipped in sheets, slightly smaller in size, of publisher's additional advertisements, and printing on both sides of these sheets. First issue -- with misnumbered pages 28/29, showing as 21/22. Modern clamshell box with minor light stains on cloth. The book itself has heavy soiling on its yellow wraps. Paper spine largely perished. Interior, though, mostly clean, with some soiling of the first and last leaf.
Exhibition postcard: Rauschenberg (opens 15 May 1975)

Exhibition postcard: Rauschenberg (opens 15 May 1975) by (RAUSCHENBERG, Robert)

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Exhibition postcard: Rauschenberg (opens 15 May 1975)
Author
(RAUSCHENBERG, Robert)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Black & white photographic illus. to recto. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, 1975. A mailed copy of this postcard invitation to Rauschenberg’s 1975 show in Paris with Ileana Sonnabend. The recto photograph depicts the artist’s “muse wall” in his studio where he pinned up images that he liked (with thanks to Lawrence Voytek for this information). Near fine. Mailed to the great Dutch collectors Martin & Mia Visser.
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EMANCIPATION: BY.. by Channing, William E.

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EMANCIPATION: BY..
Author
Channing, William E.
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 1840. 111, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, a couple of rubberstamps in margins. Else Very Good. The first edition. Channing urges emancipation, but warns the Free States that they do not have the power to abolish slavery in the Slave States. Moreover, he does not wish "to give a political aspect to the anti-slavery cause. I am very unwilling, that it should take the form of a struggle for office and power." Dumond 36. LCP 2174. Not in Work, Blockson.
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems by Merrill, James

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The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems
Author
Merrill, James
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very Good in a Very Good jacket.
Description
New York: Knopf, 1959. First Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. First edition of Merrill's second regularly published collection. Cloth. 8vo. 77pp. Pink cloth with gilt and blind stamping. PO's name to front pastedown. Rubbing and a few spots of tiny chipping to extremities of dustjacket, unclipped.
The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs by John Berryman

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Title
The Dream Songs
Author
John Berryman
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780571143184
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First thus. Octavo. 427 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Price sticker to bottom of front flap. Light edgewear at spine ends of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The volume combines 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which were published together as The Dream Songs in the U.S. in 1969 and here, for the first time together in the UK.
Gleanings from the French Broad Hustler ; Hendersonville, North Carolina 1914- 1915 VOl 4

Gleanings from the French Broad Hustler ; Hendersonville, North Carolina 1914- 1915 VOl 4 by Wood, Dorothy Kelly MacDowell

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Gleanings from the French Broad Hustler ; Hendersonville, North Carolina 1914- 1915 VOl 4
Author
Wood, Dorothy Kelly MacDowell
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
By the Author, 1996-01-01. SPIRAL-BOUND. Good. Spiral bound, clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. (tnos)
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Anton Webern: Einführung in Werk und Stil by [WEBERN]. Kolneder, Walter

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Title
Anton Webern: Einführung in Werk und Stil
Author
[WEBERN]. Kolneder, Walter
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
P.J. Tonger: Rodenkirchen, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full ivory cloth. 195 pp. With musical examples. In dustjacket and glassine wrappers. Kontrapunkte Schriften zur deutschen Musik der Gegenwart Herausgegeben von Heinrich Lindlar Band 5.

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