1. [ABBOTT, Edwin A.] A SQUARE. Flatland. A romance of many dimensions.

Seeley & Co. 1884.

[sold]

Square 8vo. Nineteenth century maroon morocco prize binding of St Olave's Grammar School, with gilt crest to upper board, gilt foliate borders to sides, spine with gilt lettering, with…

 

2. BAKER, Henry Beytrage zu nüzlichem und vergnügendum Gebrauch under Verbesserung des Microscopii.

Augsberg: Klett. 1754.

£950

8vo. Original boards, paper label to spine (half missing)l; pp. [xx] + 576 + [xiv, index], 17 folding plates; boards somewhat worn, remnant of medern bookplate to front pastedown, ink…

 

3. BYRNE, Oliver. Dual Arithmetic. A New Art.

Bell & Daldy. 1863, 1867.

£500

8vo. 2 vols. Recently rebound in quarter speckled calf, marbled boards, spines with red morocco labels with gilt lettering; pp. xl + 244 + vii + 85, xii + 218; internally very clean, very…

 

4. FEYNMAN, Richard. The Character of Physical Law.

British Broadcasting Corporation. 1965.

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8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 173, 4 pages of plates, text diagrams; wrapper a little rubbed, internally fine.First UK edition, scarcer than the M.I.T. edition that was published…

 

5. GODEL, Kurt. On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1962.

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8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. viii + 72, with loose invoice of previous customer; small spot to top edge of text block affecting a few leaves, otherwise near fine.First English…

 

6. GRAF, Ulrich. Plastiches Sehen. Zwei Anaglyphentafelm mit erläuterndem text als Anschauungs- and Lehrmittel zur Photogrammetrie, Stereoskopie und Physiologie. Mit zwei rot-grünen Betrachtungsbrillen.

Dresden: L. Ehlermann. [nd, c. 1935].

£190

4to. Two anaglyph 3D cards 300 x 210 mm, printed in red, cyan and black, printed text mounted to verso, with two pairs of 3D glasses in red and cyan, contained in original cream printed…

 

7. HALE, George Ellery. The Depths of the Universe.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1924.

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8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. xvi + 98, illustrated with photographs throughout; previous owner's signature to front pastedown, very good.First edition. A compendium of three…

 

8. HEISENBERG, Werner Die Physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie.

Leipsiz: Hirzel. 1930.

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8vo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and spine; pp. viii + 117 + [ii, ads], 2 photographic plates, text diagrams; very good. Provenance: front pastedown with booklabel…

 

9. NEWTON, Sir Isaac Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Glasgow: Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan. 1822.

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4to. 4 vols bound in 2. Contemporary full brown calf, boards with gilt double fillet panels and acanthus and shell-motif blind rolls to borders, spines with gilt panels and red morocco…

 

10. POINCARÉ, Henri. Science and Hypothesis.

The Walter Scott Publishing Co. 1905.

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8vo. Original blue cloth; pp. xxvii + 244; very good. Provenance: from the library of Arthur R. Crathorne (1873-1946), professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois from 1916…

 

11. RETI, Ladislao and Bern DIBNER. Leonardo Da Vinci. Technologist.

Norwalk CT: Burndy Library. 1969.

£30

4to. Original paper wrapper; pp. 96, text illustrations; a little rubbing to wrappers, otherwise near fine.First edition. Three essays on Leonardo as an engineer and inventor.

 

SMYTH'S REPORT ON ATOMIC ENERGY

12. SMYTH, H.D. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945.

Washington: Government Printing Office 1945.

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8vo. Original printed wrappers, in custom-made red buckram fall-down-back box, gilt lettering to spine; pp. viii + 182, two text diagrams; slight darkening to the wrappers, but a very nice…

 

13. THOMSON, Sir J. Arthur. Riddles of Science. Clear explanations of how science has solved mysteries of every-day phenomena.

~i~New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.~i. 1932.

£50

8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 387, text illustrations throughout; a little browning to endpapers, two spots to fore-edges, small chip to top edge of wrapper, otherwise very good.First…

 

The announcement of the Venn diagram

14. VENN, John. On the forms of logical proposition.

Williams and Norgate. 1880.

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8vo. Contemporary khaki cloth, gilt lettering to spine; pp. viii + 592 (Venn pp. 336 - 349); small paper library labels to spine, very good. Provenance: donation bookplate of Edward Seymer…

 

15. [WALLACE, Robert]. Various prospects of mankind, nature, and providence.

A. Millar. 1761.

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8vo. Contemporary full brown calf sometime sympathetically rebacked, gilt rules and lettering; pp. viii + 406; previous owner's signature to front pastedown, occasional browning, very…