San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Two volumes. Large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) and thick quarto. 156 color plates (and one b&w) laid into folding cloth portfolio, accompanied by the companion volume of text, cloth, gilt labels, in slipcase. Bookplate on each front pastedown, otherwise fine. First edition. One.....

Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930. 40pp. Small octavo. Printed green laid paper wrapper over stiff wrapper. Spine faintly sunstruck, otherwise fine, untrimmed and unopened. First edition of this essay by the Scottish- American mathematician and fantasy fiction writer (the latter works written under his pseudonym, "John Taine"). Published.....

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1732. [10],[1]-350;[6],358pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Engraved title vignettes. Ownership signature "J. Payne Jan. 24 1732/3" in each volume on front pastedown, with authorship ascription in same hand in first, as well as careful correction of the errata. Hinges cracked, one board detached, occasional.....

Bordeaux: Imp. G. Gounouilhou, [nd but ca. 1880-90s]. 16pp. Printed wrapper. Illustrations. Early manuscript notation on upper wrapper repeated on label on upper wrapper, vertical crease, but a very good copy. A promotional on the modes of creating carbonated soft drinks, distributed by a firm d.b.a. "A la Carbonique Liquide.".....

Norwich: Printed by Richard Beatniffe, 1775. [48],xxi,[1],264,[2]pp. plus three plates. Engraved dedication leaf. Octavo. Contemporary calf, newly rebacked in ruled calf with gilt label. Binding a bit darkened at edges, old tidemark in lower gutter quarter of dedication leaf and plates, early ink name on title of A. Wickham and.....

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. ix,[7],342pp. Small octavo. Period calf and marbled boards, rebacked to style, gilt label. Old tidemark to binder's endsheets, early ink authorship attribution, light foxing and occasional light spotting (noticeable in the upper fore- corner of X1-Z3), lacking terminal blank. A good, sound.....

[Np]. [nd. but ca. 1900]. 12pp. Printed wrapper. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Corner creases to final leaf, some tanning, vertical crease, but near very good. A separate printing of this paper, possibly done for Carreda Hermanos or Septimus Parsonage & Co, who share an advert inside the front wrapper. Cameron.....

Patis & Bordeaux: Libraires Associés / Feret & Fils, 1899. 10,[2]pp. Octavo. Sewn printed wrapper. Pulp paper uniformly tanned, small snag at top margin of title, but a good, if fragile, copy. First separate edition, reprinted from the February 1899 BULLETIN DES TRAVAUX DE LA SOCIETÉ DE PHARMACIE DES BORDEAUX.....

Paris: Bachelier, 1839. 903,[1]pp. Large, thick quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth, edges wholly untrimmed and largely unopened. Some tanning at extreme edges, half- title and errata tanned, half-title chipped at lower fore-corner, but a nice, fresh copy. First edition. On pp. 250 through 267 appears the printed record of.....

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1873-4. Four parts bound in two volumes. xi,[1],504; viii,[505]-1068pp. Large octavo. Handsomely bound in full contemporary dark brown morocco, raised bands, spines gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets and edges. Illustrated with 422 wood-engravings and two colored plates. Minor rubbing at tips, bookplates.....

Scarsdale, NY: Privately Printed, February 1940. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit sunned and foxed, but very good. First edition of this publication in the field of his extracurricular fascination by the American mathematician and pioneer in the subject of machine translation. Copy #19 of an edition of 99 numbered.....

London: Geo. Standring, 1892. 94pp. Printed pale rose-tan wrapper. Some dust tanning to wrapper edges, but a very good copy. A new edition of this text first published in 1879, accompanied by a new Preface treating, in part, the prosecution of booksellers for distribution of works on the population question.....

Paris: Bachelier, Libraire, 1824. Two volumes. [4],376pp. plus 3 folding plates; [4],352pp. plus errata and 5 plates. Octavo. Old speckled calf, spines gilt extra. Extremities and joints quite worn (but sound), occasional foxing and mild discolorations in text; a reasonably good set. First edition of this early work by the.....