London: Eliot Stock, 1893. 2 volumes. xvi, 558; viii, 574 pages, plus 16pp of ads. Thick 8vo, original gilt-lettered brown cloth (spine ends neatly repaired; first several pages torn at top edge but otherwise an unread copy with unopened pages). London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First edition. A very good copy. More about Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure; Military and Civil; Scientific and...

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1964. Numerous illustrations. 264pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Thomas Crowell, (1964). Very good. More about Nebulae and Galaxies

Brasilia: Eletronorte. Filled with color drawings of 500 Brazilian birds. 251pp., folio, pictorial boards; covers slightly bowed, lacks accompanying CD. Brasilia: Eletronorte, no date, circa 2000. A very good copy, internally clean. More about Brasil 500 Passaros

Cincinnati: Shepard, 1843. 72 pages, thin 8vo, lacks paper wrappers; scattered foxing throughout, creasing and folds to first 10 pages--foxing, folding, and wear most notable to title page. Cincinnati: Printed by Shepard & Co., 1843. Text is mostly clean and bright, a very good(-) copy. More about An Oration Delivered Before the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, on the Occasion of Laying the...

Oxford: Clarendon, 1946. Filled with equations, tables, graphs. viii + 265 pages, 8vo, black cloth; ink ownership stamp inside front cover, some foxing to inside covers and endpapers, covers rubbed. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Text is clean and bright, a very good copy. More about Antennae: An Introduction the Their Theory

London: Blackie and Son, 1939. x + 196 pages, 12mo, green cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper worn. London: Blackie and Son Limited, (1939). A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More about Who Invented the Telephone?

New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. 241pp. 8vo, cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Columbia University Press, (1985). Very good. More about Human Nature: Darwin's View

Boston: Little Brown, 1976. Illus., 8vo, 1/2 tan boards, d.w. lightly soiled. Boston: Little Brown, (1976). More about A Wind to Shake the World; The Story of the 1938 Hurricane

Lyon: Chalumeau, 1936. Compte rendu des Journees 5,6,7 et 8 Mars 1936. Numerous plates and text illustrations. 2 vols, 4to, original printed wrappers; upper hinge of vol. I worn.(Lyon: Chalumeau, 1936). Very good. Among the papers presented at this conference in honor of the great French physicist who formulated the mathematical basis of electro-dynamics were contributions by Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Auguste Lumiere, Maurice Broglie, and Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie. More about Celebration a Lyon du centenaire de la mort d'Andre-Marie Ampere 1836-1936

London: Bell, 1923. Illustrations and graphs. 8vo, original blue cloth only lightly rubbed. London: Bell and Sons, 1923. First Edition. Very good (+). Andrade's reputation as a major physicist was established by his work on atomic structure. This is among his most important contributions. More about The Structure of the Atom

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Over 50 text woodcut illustrationa. 300pp. 12mo, original blind stamped brown cloth (rubbing to surface of covers and corners); some foxing. Philadelphia, 1842. Very Good (+). American edition of a work first published in London by the Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction. More about Popular Treatise on Vegetable Physiology

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1960. Illustrated. 224pp., thin 8vo, pale green cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped, chipped. London: Abelard-Schuman, (1960). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More about Sir Isaac Newton

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1996. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, many full-bleed. 223 pages, square 4to, grey-blue boards with silver stamping, dust wrapper. Washington: National Geographic Society, (1996). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More about Orbit: Nasa Astronauts Photograph the Earth