The Moon by Seymour Simon - 1984

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Albany NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1887. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Internally complete. Some pages detached. Cover very water damaged and musty. Endpapers with some water staining and marks. Maps and plates intact and all present, although some plates are detached as indicated. Book is valuable for the maps and plates as much as anything else. Includes 6 very nice plates of instruments on heavy page stock (Plate titles models of tripod and tower signals; Reconnaissance telescopes and heliotrope; Twelve-inch direction theodolite; Twelve-inch direction theodolite, arranged for use at night, including lams, striding level and vertical circle; Eight-inch repeating theodolite arranged for measuring zenith distances; Eight-inch repeating theodolite with large telescope as used in measuring horizontal angles). Many sketches throughout text to illustrate and accompany measurements and tables. Five independent maps in map pocket at rear endpaper all present and intact with some… Read More

Chapman and Hall. London. 1930. FIRST U. K. EDITION. 8vo. (8.4 x 6 inches). Illustrated throughout with photos, portraits and diagrams. A fine copy in a fine early binding of half brown diced calf possibly bound by, J. C. Wilbee, publisher and bookseller to Harrow school, and with a Harrow School label on the front pastedown endpaper. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt, including the Harrow crossed arrows symbol in two compartments. Brown cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall a fine, beautifully bound, copy.

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

Book is in good condition. Some darkening evident on ends of pages. Dust jacket is worn but intact, and has been wrapped in Mylar for protection.

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Albany NY: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1887. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Internally complete. Some pages detached. Cover very water damaged and musty. Endpapers with some water staining and marks. Maps and plates intact and all present, although some plates are detached as indicated. Book is valuable for the maps and plates as much as anything else. Includes 6 very nice plates of instruments on heavy page stock (Plate titles models of tripod and tower signals; Reconnaissance telescopes and heliotrope; Twelve-inch direction theodolite; Twelve-inch direction theodolite, arranged for use at night, including lams, striding level and vertical circle; Eight-inch repeating theodolite arranged for measuring zenith distances; Eight-inch repeating theodolite with large telescope as used in measuring horizontal angles). Many sketches throughout text to illustrate and accompany measurements and tables. Five independent maps in map pocket at rear endpaper all present and intact with some… Read More

Chapman and Hall. London. 1930. FIRST U. K. EDITION. 8vo. (8.4 x 6 inches). Illustrated throughout with photos, portraits and diagrams. A fine copy in a fine early binding of half brown diced calf possibly bound by, J. C. Wilbee, publisher and bookseller to Harrow school, and with a Harrow School label on the front pastedown endpaper. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt, including the Harrow crossed arrows symbol in two compartments. Brown cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall a fine, beautifully bound, copy.

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

Book is in good condition. Some darkening evident on ends of pages. Dust jacket is worn but intact, and has been wrapped in Mylar for protection.