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Mechanicorum Liber

Mechanicorum Liber by MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese del

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Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc.
Title
Mechanicorum Liber
Author
MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese del
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Rare first edition of the author’s first work, generally regarded as the most important treatise on mechanics since Archime
Description
Pesaro: H. Concordia, 1577. Rare first edition of the authors first work, generally regarded as the most important treatise on mechanics since Archimedes and a critical influence on Galileo. The work is notable for its commitment to establishing mechanics on a rigorously mathematical basis, for its powerful argument that mechanics and statics are separate sciences and for its insistence that mechanics should not consider abstract and/or abstruse entities but the activity of machines. Stillman Drake particularly emphasizes the importance of the section on pulleys, where Monte reduces them (as he does most other simple machines) to a lever. As such, the work has technological implications for navigation, manufacture, the plastic arts and medicine (f. 245).From the time of its publication in 1577... [it was] the most authoritative treatise on statics to emerge since antiquity, and it remained pre-eminent until the appearance of Galileos Two New Sciences in 1638. It marks the high point of the Archimedean revival of the Renaissance (Rose, Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 222).Monte (1545-1607) studied mathematics at Padua and subsequently at Urbino, where he studied with Commandino, editing and publishing the latters translation of Pappus. He conducted an extensive scientific correspondence with Galileo, securing for the Florentine his chairs at Pisa and later at Padua.* Adams U-7; Riccardi II.178; P.L. Rose, DSB IX.487-89, & The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, pp. 222ff.; Biblioteca Mechanica, pp. 228-9.. Folio [29.4 x 19.6 cm], (8) ff. (the last blank), 130, (1) f. [colophon], 1 integral blank, with numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. Old ownership stamp Darquier neatly stenciled on title (the Toulousain astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix 1718-1802?) Bound in 18th century vellum over paste boards, covers a bit soiled and abraded. Inconsequential soiling and a little spotting to title; even toning to some quires, but generally a fresh and appealing copy.
Uncommon Signed Engraving of Thomas Carlyle

Uncommon Signed Engraving of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
Uncommon Signed Engraving of Thomas Carlyle
Author
Thomas Carlyle
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
1865. Engraving of a photograph of the great writer and historian by Elliott and Fry, taken approximately 1854.  Signed and dated by Carlyle in 1865, as he finished his great work on Frederick the Great.Signed images of Thomas Carlyle are very uncommon, this being the first we have carried.
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Science Fiction Fanzine Culture and Fan News Networks in Degler! and SF Weekly, 1967 by Degler!; SF Weekly

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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.
Title
Science Fiction Fanzine Culture and Fan News Networks in Degler! and SF Weekly, 1967
Author
Degler!; SF Weekly
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1967. Porter, Andrew, Degler! and SF Weekly archive, 1967, documents late-1960s science fiction fandom as a fast-moving print culture built from newsletters, convention reports, awards coverage, market intelligence, personality news, and debate over the relationship between fans and professional writers. The archive belongs to the cultural sphere of mimeographed fan publishing, where weekly amateur journalism functioned as a social record, news service, and argumentative space for a genre community increasingly connected to publishers, conventions, awards, and professional authorship. Bibliographic references identify Degler! and SF Weekly as titles edited by Andy Porter, published from 1964 into the early 1970s, and note the publication as an early attempt at a weekly science fiction news magazine; surviving issues are also marked "formerly DEGLER!" and identify Porter as editor and publisher. Degler! / SF Weekly. New York: Andrew Porter, 1967. Twenty-seven issues, from Degler! No. 155, January 6, 1967, through SF Weekly No. 195, August 7, 1967. Most issues are two pages, mimeographed recto and verso on one 8½ x 11 inch sheet, with some issues including additional stapled pages. The archive traces the title transition at issue No. 181, as the publication moved from Degler! toward SF Weekly and a more explicitly news-oriented engagement with professional science fiction culture. Contents include announcements of Hugo and Nebula finalists, convention coverage of Philcon, NYCon 3, Westercon, and Midwestcon, reports on sales, deaths, book deals, fan controversies, professional organizing, and publishing gossip. The February 17 issue includes "Voting Comparison Report: Vandalism of the Hugo," with breakdowns of 1964 to 1966 Hugo voting and the conclusion that "Although SF is increasingly accepted, the fans' average age has not changed much in ten years." The March 10 issue uses the headline "Silverberg for President!" for Robert Silverberg's growing visibility in fan circles, while the March 12 issue reports the Nebula Awards, listing Flowers for Algernon and Babel-17 as joint Best Novel winners and naming Samuel R. Delany, then a young Black gay writer, prominently. The run is especially valuable for its week-by-week evidence of fan tone and infrastructure. Porter moves between insider humor, grievance, institutional critique, and literary news, as when the May 26 issue states, "I am not ashamed of being a science fiction fan, nor of having published a fanzine. I am ashamed of publishing Degler!" The June 19 "Midwestcon Issue" summarizes industry conversations and late-night fan culture with the line, "These 3:15 a.m. room parties celebrating diluted innovation in civilian life, left me wondering whether the whole field had passed me by." The July 31 issue comments on writer-fan tensions with "SF writers still behind fan coup of Ultimate Organization," documenting anxiety over the professionalization and governance of the field. Age toning and minor edge wear to several issues; No. 188 with loss at upper corner and left margin; otherwise clean and complete with supple paper, very good overall. Dense 1967 science fiction fanzine archive preserving the weekly communications through which fans tracked awards, conventions, publishing news, professional writers, and emerging voices including Samuel R. Delany and Daniel Keyes.
Land of Terror

Land of Terror by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Land of Terror
Author
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket designed by John Coleman Burroughs. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped. Blue cloth, pushed and a spot of fading at the head of the spine, with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. The sixth novel in the Hollow Earth series.
NOSTROMO. A Tale of the Seaboard

NOSTROMO. A Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph

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Title
NOSTROMO. A Tale of the Seaboard
Author
Conrad, Joseph
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1904. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black. First American Edition of Conrad's well-known novel involving a South American silver mine, and the corruption and dishonesty fostered by its riches. Conrad was extending his "Lord Jim" theme: that the man who slowly grows rich can be a victim of the silver, not its conqueror; that wealth is not something gained but a trap for those who relinquish, however momentarily, their sense of themselves... [Karl] This copy is bright and near-fine, with a touch of rubbing at the tips. Supino A10.6.0 and Plate 11; Cagle A10b.
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Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907: A History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood by Foreman, Carolyn Thomas

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Title
Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907: A History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood
Author
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xxiv, [2], 499. Illustrated with 27 facsimiles, maps, portraits (some folding). Bibliography, index. Decorated black cloth, paper spine label. A very fine and bright copy with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. The standard bibliography on the subject which Includes books, newspapers, magazines and government documents..
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Butter by Yuzuki, Asako

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Butter
Author
Yuzuki, Asako
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780063236417
Condition
New
Description
New. New book.
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Improvement Era vol XVII No.10 Aug 1914

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Title
Improvement Era vol XVII No.10 Aug 1914
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
YMMIA, 1914. Very Good. Improvement Era vol XVII No.10 Aug 1914. Salt Lake City: YMMIA, 1914. pp. 8vo. Wraps. Book condition: Very good.
Stamps of the United States: U.S. Possessions and British North America

Stamps of the United States: U.S. Possessions and British North America

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Stamps of the United States: U.S. Possessions and British North America
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: H.E. Harris & Company, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Second 1962 edition. Stapled wrappers. Very good minus with some pen check marks on a few pages, cover lightly faded.

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