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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 175 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, tight and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.… Read more about this item

Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Publishing Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light maroon cloth lettered in gold on spine, no dust-jacket as issued. 669 pages, with a suite of 16 plates appended containing photocopies of title-pages and text pages from historically significant works. An important bibliography compiled by Oxford educated British chemist… Read more about this item

London: Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1935. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, brown cloth with white printed spine label, in publisher's original pale green dust-jacket lettered in black. 182 pages. Illustrated with four full page photographs. First edition, one of a limited edition of 275 copies, with limitation number blacked… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Dunne Books /St. Martin's Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 215 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. Anecdotes and tales to entertain the bibliophile. No previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 231 pages. Bibliography of first editions of books included in list. First edition, no additional printings listed. A review of over 150 titles, organized by category, of the pivotal works in… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format quarto size volume bound in red cloth with pictorial color paste-down of front cover. 285 pages. Auction catalog containing 257 lots, richly illustrated with color photographs, full textual descriptions and price estimates. Absentee bidder page extant. First edition. An… Read more about this item

Washibngton, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, small quarto bound in dark blue cloth boldly lettered in silver, in publisher's dust-jacket. 179 pages. Index. Foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn. Essays by Michael Dirda and Storrs L. Olson. Profusely illustrated throughout in color… Read more about this item

Mansfield Centre, CT / Culver City, CA: Martino Publishing / Krown & Spellman Booksellers, 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, lettered in gold on spine within single gold rule. No dust-jacket as issued. Consisting of 6 separate publications, originally published by Glascow University [1877-1896] in press runs limited from 100… Read more about this item

Mansfield, CT:: Maurizio Martino Publisher Book. As New. Hardcover. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, no dust-jacket as issued. Bound in red buckram with gilt lettering on spine. With illustrations and facsimiles. A reprint of the 1932 revised and enlarged edition of Eckel. Privately printed and limited to 325 copies. An as new copy, with… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2006. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 162 pages. Auction catalog containing 90 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Leaf with absentee bid card after last page still present. No previous ownership marks. No writing or… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2007. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 191 pages. Auction catalog containing 65 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Absentee bidder form still extant. No previous ownership marks, albeit front cover shows short, [approximately one inch],… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2004. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 166 pages. Auction catalog containing 85 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Leaf with absentee bid card after last page still present. No previous ownership marks. No writing… Read more about this item

Paris: Sotheby's, 2006. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two volume set, large folio size books bound in white pictorial boards lettered in black. Text in French; with French and English used to describe individual lots. 318 & 287 pages. Auction includes books' manuscripts, prints and photographs. First editions.… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 142 pages. Auction catalog containing 104 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Leaf with absentee bid card after last page still present. In addition to offers of fine first… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 100 pages. Auction catalog containing 37 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Absentee bidder form still extant. No previous ownership marks. No writing or annotations. A … Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 2004. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large, thick perfect bound soft-cover catalog. 508 pages. Auction catalog containing 433 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. First edition. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound auction catalog (nearly 12"tall). 239 pages. Illustrated throughout with copious text explaining many of the individual items. A unique, single lot sale of the personal library of Dr. King amassed over his lifetime to… Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's , 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, quarto size volume bound in red cloth with color pictorial paste-down on front cover. 124 pages. Auction catalog containing 43 lots, richly illustrated with color photographs, full textual descriptions and price estimates. Absentee bidder page extant. First edition. … Read more about this item

London: Sotheby's, 2008. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format, perfect bound soft-cover. 184 pages. Auction catalog containing 234 lots, illustrated throughout with color photographs, textual descriptions and price estimates. Leaf with absentee bid card extant. No previous ownership marks. No writing or annotations. A clean,… Read more about this item

New York / Princeton: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Princeton University Press, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's gray pictorial dust-jacket. 240 pages. Includes Concordance, Bibliography, Index of Manuscripts Cited and a General Index. With 256 illustrations,… Read more about this item