The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg - 1977April

G. P. Putnam’s Sons, N.Y., 1907. First Edition (shown). Hardcover. VG+/--. 7 1/2 x 5 x 1 1/2. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. VERY GOOD PLUS. No dust jacket as issued or missing. Sewn binding. Boards and spine are green cloth, lettering is gilt on spine and front. Back cover has slightly bent corners, some edge wear and minor marks from adjacent book on shelf, but no rips or stains. Spine has some edge wear all four sides but no rips, is clean and quite bright, has a few small creases top and bottom. Front cover is same as back cover with a few marks from what looks like black sealing wax. Page edges are tinted, as issued, slightly sunned. Binding is a bit loose. Inside front and back covers have a bit of age darkening, also ink stamp “Property of the B.C. Mountaineering Club”. On ffep is attached the Rules of the B.C. Mountaineering Club, attached only at the top of the small green sheet. There are several places where the book has been… Read More

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards dampstained and worn, bookseller’s ticket . on front pastedown endpaper, name on front free endpaper (Braxton Bigelow, . Treadwell, Alaska) , light soiling and toning throughout.. 1909. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Illustrations, tables, diagrams. A classic mining textbook written by American President Herbert C. Hoover in the days when he was a mining engineer and instructor. “This volume is a condensation of a series of lectures delivered in part at Stanford and in part at Columbia University...The bulk of the material presented is the common heritage of the profession, and if any one may think there is insufficient reference to previous writers, let him endeavor to find to whom the origin o four methods should be credited...If I have contributed one sentence to the accumulated knowledge of a thousand generations of engineers, or have thrown one new ray of light on… Read More

Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. / The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1960. Book. Very Good. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First Edition First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good / good plus. Book: gray cloth hardcover with red lettering to spine; slight mottling around tail of spine; straight; hinges strong; name inside; slight toning to outer edges of text block. Jacket in new mylar protector; mild edge wear; tiny peel spot on spine. .

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Lyon: Amable Leroy, 1804. A very nice copy of this New Edition. Full leather binding with red labels and gilt titles. With engraved folding plate of the Solar System. Binding in immaculate condition. Plate in very good, clean condition, with minor edgewear. Text is in very good, clean condition with a touch of darkening and edgewear. Attractive woodcut vignettes to the front of each section. Lovely edition of Enlightenment essayist Bernard Le Bouvier de Fontenelle's successful popularisation of the Copernican system plus his imaginary dialogues with dead people. xii, 1-394 pp. 190 by 120mm (7½ by 4¾ inches). Très bel exemplaire de cette Nouvelle Edition. Reliure plein cuir avec vignettes rouges et titres dorés. Avec plaque dépliante gravée du système solaire. Reliure en parfait état. Assiette en très bon état, propre, avec une légère usure des bords. Le texte est en très bon état, propre avec une touche d'assombrissement et d'usure des bords. Attrayantes vignettes gravées sur bois au… Read More

Parrow: Cape Times Ltd. 1954. (4to) 247pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Frontispiece, illustrations, distribution maps, references, index. Publisher series: Journal of South African Botany Supplementary Volume No.II. Locale: South Africa. (Natural History, Botanical Journals--South Africa, Botany--South Africa, Flowers, Muraltia--Plant, Wild Flowers--South Africa).

College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of Ca.. Very Good+. 1995. No Edition Stated. Softcover. Very slightest of edgewear, small faint soil mark to front cover; 318 pages .

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

1856. Second royal octavo edition. Very good +. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male on a branch of Ipomea.

London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. xxxv, [1], 170 p., 4 leaves with composite sectional models: 221 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark brown library buckram with gilt spine title and call number. "Newark N.J.P.L." at tail of spine in gilt. Small bookplate on front fixed endpaper: "The Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of Newark N.J." Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of Preface and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; edges of a few of the composite sections rubbed; otherwise, clean and solid.