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Dictionnaire raisonne de physique .... - BOUND WITH - Observations sur les nouvelles decouvertes Aerostatique ... les Ballons by Brisson, M J - AERONAUTICS

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
Dictionnaire raisonne de physique .... - BOUND WITH - Observations sur les nouvelles decouvertes Aerostatique ... les Ballons
Author
Brisson, M J - AERONAUTICS
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy; some chafing to the jts.; minor edge soiling; small paper flaw in the blank margin of one title.
Description
Paris: Desray, 1790. First Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A very good copy; some chafing to the jts.; minor edge soiling; small paper flaw in the blank margin of one title.. 4to. There are 90 copper eng. plates of all kinds of instruments and devices. A variant made up from the sheets of the first edition with a cancel title and variant imprint. No doubt the result of unbound sheets being sold around the French trade in the late 18th century. Bound at the end of volume two is the 1784 report of the Montgolfier bros. balloon ascent that achieved an altitude of 6000 feet. This is a separately issued account bearing the imprint of Boucher, Lamy, Paris, 1784. It is 34 pp. (no illus.). Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723-1806) a zoologist and natural philosopher was the author of Le R gne Animal (1756) and Ornithologie (1760). He was assistant to R. A. F. R amur (1683-1757) and after the latter's death was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at Navarre and later at Paris. A highly regarded teacher, his Dictionnaire was designed to be a course of study in the natural sciences. The topics are wide ranging. Horology is covered in several articles including two on automata. He quotes most of the rare 1738 text describing the mechanism of the Fluteur Automate of Jacques de Vaucanson. There are articles on contemporary efforts to solve the longitude problem and an introduction to astronomy. Most of the commonly used scientific instruments are also described. Brisson's most important contribution to the scientific literature was his Poids specifiques des Corps (1787) which provided specific gravity data on a variety of materials. The Dictionnaire includes an abbreviated table of his measurements under the heading pesanteurs specifiques. He describes the standard method to compare equal volumes of solid and pure water to derive their relative densities. He was aware that the same relationship held between various liquids and by extension gases. The practical application of the latter was the aerostat or hot air balloon. See Wolf; Roller & Goodman.
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Hypothesis Soni Perraultiana, 2 parts by Bose, George Mathias

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Title
Hypothesis Soni Perraultiana, 2 parts
Author
Bose, George Mathias
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; some overall toning and dustiness.
Description
Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1734 & 1735. First Edition. Disbound. Very good; some overall toning and dustiness.. 4to, I - [8], [1] - 54, [2 - errata] pp.; II - [8], [1] - 49, [1 - errata] pp. A lecturer in mathematics and physics he is best known for his early work on electricity. The subject offered here is his inquiry into sound and acoustics and critique of Perrault. There is an interesting section on the elasticity of air and a commentary on Mersenne. It is rare to find both parts of this work. DSB II, 324-325; DSB X, 521-522.
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard by BUKOWSKI, Charles

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Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
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BUKOWSKI, Charles
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A fine copy with nearly imperceptible toning along wrapper edges
Description
Chicago: The Literary Times and Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. A fine copy with nearly imperceptible toning along wrapper edges. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 23 pages, with an extra copy of the sheet containing pages 5/6 and 19/20 laid in. Stapled as issued in printed wrappers reproducing a sketch by Betsy Milam, photo portrait of Bukowski on rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of this early collection of Bukowski verse. Includes Buk's "foreward" and thirteen poems he felt had been "overlooked (or looked-over and shunned" by those people who, for reasons unknown to society, publish collections of poesy." Krumhansi 16.
Tarzan the Invincible

Tarzan the Invincible by BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice

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Tarzan the Invincible
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A few chips along top of jacket, rear panel lightly rubbed
Description
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc, 1948. 1948 reprint. A few chips along top of jacket, rear panel lightly rubbed. 8vo. 318pp. Illustrations by Studley O. Burroughs. Original grey cloth, blue lettering; pictorial dust jacket.
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Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints. Deluxe leatherbound edition signed by the editor, Leonard F. Peltier by Thomas, Hugh Owen

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Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints. Deluxe leatherbound edition signed by the editor, Leonard F. Peltier
Author
Thomas, Hugh Owen
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1991. 28, 283pp. 26 illus. 5 " 8 ". Norman Orthopedic Series, No.2. Limited edition of 100 leatherbound copies individually numbered and signed by Leonard F. Peltier, M.D. Facsimile reprint of the most important work of the legendary and eccentric Liverpool surgeon Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-91), son of a bonesetter, who revolutionized the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and diseases. This is one of a special limited edition of 100 copies, hand-bound in the finest morocco leather, each copy individually numbered and signed by the editor. ,/p>.
Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam

Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam by BINGAMAN, H.W.

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Reckonings: Stories of the Air War over North Vietnam
Author
BINGAMAN, H.W.
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Vantage Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in well-rubbed and price-clipped, very good dustwrapper. Scarce vanity press collection of poetry and prose by a retired fighter pilot who flew 105 missions over North Vietnam.
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CATALOGUE OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS OF HIS EXCELLENCY MONSIEUR JOHN GENNADIUS

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CATALOGUE OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS OF HIS EXCELLENCY MONSIEUR JOHN GENNADIUS
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
London: Sotheby's, 1895. stiff paper wrappers. Gennadius, John. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xv, 283 pages. Lacking the front cover, chipping with some loss to the spine ends, else a near fine copy. Lot of over 3,200 items. With a preface by John Gennadius.
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half A Century in War and Peace

Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half A Century in War and Peace by WISTAR, Isaac Jones

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Title
Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar 1827-1905: Half A Century in War and Peace
Author
WISTAR, Isaac Jones
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1937. Second Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth (hardcover); 531pp, folding map. Page edges untrimmed. Fine copy. In the original printed dustwrapper, quite faded and a bit soiled, Good. The jacket copy states that the edition was limited, but there is no statement of limitation in the text. Preceded by an edition of 200 copies in 1917.
Let a Soldier Die.
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Let a Soldier Die. by HOLLAND, William E.

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Title
Let a Soldier Die.
Author
HOLLAND, William E.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780385293563
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0385293569 . The author's first book. First printing. Remainder spray on bottom edge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

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