"Essays" and "Society and Solitude" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1904

The only book published by the Doves Press by an American author. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6.5 in (235 x 166 mm). Pp. xiv, 13...

Geometrical and Graphical Essays [and] Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays.; By the late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, & c. London: W. & S. Jones, 1813. Fourth Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (228 x 145 mm). Text volume: pp. frontispiece, xii, 534, [16] ads; Plates vol.: pp. title page and 34 folding plates. Previous owner's name penned on the first free flyleaf. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards, untrimmed, housed in a felt-lined custom clamshell box, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Occasional browning to the edges of some of the plates in Vol. 2, 1/2 inch tear to fold of Pl. VIII and 1 inch tear to the edge of Pl XIV, none of these minor flaws affecting the images. Frontispiece "The Great Theodolite, by Ramsden, Used by the late Gen.l Roy &c. in the great English Trigonometrical Operations." This is the "Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P. S. [ESTC T88416, 1791 edition]. The last chapter of these fascinating volumes includes conversion tables to various standard national measure ranging from the Paris foot to the Russian archine, to the Venice braccio, the Egyptian stadium to 'The mathematical foot of China'. GEORGE ADAMS the younger (1750–1795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. In politics Adams was a Tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III, who made him his official mathematical instrument maker, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. George III was personally interested in instruments and had Adams produce items for him exclusively, many in silver. These instruments now form a collection which is housed in London's Science Museum Royal collection Adams was also known for making globes, and for inventing the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp...

New York Nude, a photographic essay by Charles R. Collum. NY: Watson-Guptill publications. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1981. 128 pp. A collection of nude portraits capt...

One World, One People: A Collection of Photographs and Essays on the Power of the Human Experience. Photographs by Yoshaiaki Nagashima. Text by Robert White and Koichi Shimazu. Hardcover oversized book...

Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800 An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare; An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramat...

A nice radio design by the Eames office. Model 578A. Mahogany veneer case with plastic face and dials.

(3) Vols., John Locke, Esq. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; with Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding. Printed for Mundell & Son and J. Mundell, 1798 (Vol. I) and 17...

'Japan, The Place and the People' by G.W. Browne. Illustrated with over 300 colored plates and half-tones. 438p., col. map, num. (col.) plates and ills., orig. gilt cl., sm. 4to. Par...

The Chessplayer & Other Essays by Edward Thomas, with an introduction by R. George Thomas and with two wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Royal 8vo, 9 7/8 x 6 1/8 in. (250 x 155mm); pp. viii +28 + colophon. Two small wood engravings...

Antique map titled 'Burma und Malayische Halbinsel'. Map of Burma / Myanmar and the Malayan peninsula. This map originates from 'Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas in 126 Haupt-Und 139 Ne...