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Different Methods of Establishing an Uniformity of Weights and Measures Stated and Compared.

KEITH (George Skene) · 1817 · Forest Books

£91.38 (€109.42 | $121.21 | ¥19,369)

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1817. First Edition, [iv],32pp., stitched as issued, uncut. “For over thirty years Keith investigated methods for equalizing weights and measures, and strongly supported the adoption of the seconds pendulum as a standa…

Cut Whatever You'Re Doing in a Fraction of the Time: The Olfa Rotary Cutting System "How-to" Video (30 Minutes)

OLFA · 1993 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$49.95 (€45.09 | £37.66 | ¥7,982)

USA: Olfa, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 30 minute VHS video tape with case. "Fast, clean, Precise. This how-to video will prove to you that prep work is no longer an arduos task. It is as simple as laying your material on the Olfa Self-Healing Mat, positioning the pattern, dr…

The Sanctuary Sparrow

Ellis Peters [Edith Pargeter] · 1983 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.57 | $218.86 | ¥34,973)

London, Macmillan, 1983 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the seventh novel in Ellis Peters' best-selling Cadfael Chronicles series of historical murder mystery novels. The first edition, first impression, of the seventh novel in this series.In the publisher&apos…

Galaxy Science Fiction: July 1968 ("a Spectre Is Haunting Texas")

GALAXY (LARRY NIVEN; JOHN BRUNNER; FRITZ LEIBER; R. A. LAFFERTY; BURT K. FILER; BRIAN W. ADISS; ROBIN SCOTT; A. BERTRAM CHANDLER; WILLY LEY) · 1968 · Books from the crypt

$4.25 (€3.84 | £3.20 | ¥679)

NY, Galaxy. 1968. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 26, No. 6. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Gaughan for "A Spectre is Haunting Texas" (pt. 1 of 3) by Fritz Leiber. Includes "There is a Tide" (novelette) by Larry Niven; 'Factsheet Six" (novelette) by John Brunner; "McGrude…

The '\Pixie O. Harris Fairy Book''. Stories and Verse By Lynette Yardley, Eva Lawton, Gwen M. Cock, Pixie O. Harris.

HARRIS, PIXIE O. & LYNETTE YARDLEY, EVA LAWTON, GWEN M. COCK. · 1986 · Little Lane Books

A$75.00 (€46.26 | $51.25 | £38.63 | ¥8,189)

Adelaide, Rigby. 1986, 1st Thus. Soft cover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, (Adelaide: Rigby: no date) First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (that is, flexible covers) pp. 63 (262 x 207 mm) Illustrations in Color, Half-Tone and Line by Pixie O. Harris. Imagine the joy of discovering a…

Cartography, colored lithography | The near side of the Moon [Stielers Handatlas, nr. 5], published 1880, 1 p.

Johann Carl Ausfeld (1782-1851) · 1794 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€145.20 ($160.85 | £121.26 | ¥25,702)

Map of the Near side of the Moon. The near side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces towards Earth, opposite to the far side. Only one side of the Moon is visible from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that the Moon orbits the Earth—a s…

PRIMARY LESSONS, No. 8

[Children's Literature] · 1830 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,650.00 (€1,489.51 | £1,243.94 | ¥263,663)

Boston: Chemical Printing Company, (n. d.). Ca 1830s. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet of printed muslin cloth, 3 columns, 5 'lessons' [The Little Child [6 4-line verses; first line: "See me, I am a little child"], A Morning Prayer [4 4-line verses; firs…

Two Sides Of The Moon: Our Story Of The Cold War Space Race

Alexei Leonov and David Scott · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.50 | £5.65 | ¥1,198)

Pocket Books 2005 Paperback 415 Growing up on either side of the Iron Curtain, Alexei Leonov and David Scott shared the same dream -- to become a pilot. Excelling at flying, they were chosen by their countries' burgeoning space programmes to be part of the greatest technological…

A Thousand Shall Fall at Your Side

WEBB, DEREK (SIGNED) · 2000 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$69.95 (€63.15 | £52.74 | ¥11,178)

British Columbia: Self-Published, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 257 pages. Author's inscription upon title page. Biography of a survivor of World War II. "As I bailed out of the side of the aircraft, I counted to five to make sure I was clear of the plane. Then I pulled the ri…

The Only Approved Guide Through All the Stages of a Quarrell

Joseph Hamilton · 1829 · Rooke Books

£1,350.00 (€1,616.50 | $1,790.67 | ¥286,142)

London; Liverpool; Dublin, Hatchard & Sons; Bentham & Co; Millikin, 1829. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Joseph Hamilton's very scarce treatise on dueling, a unique and very scarce handbook. The first edition of this very scarce work.Half-title is present.A ri…

Arago annonce que M. Daguerre vient de trouver le moyen d'abréger considérablement le temps nécaissaire pour produire une image photographique et M. Arago annonce que M. Daguerre en faisant intervenir l'électricité dans les procédés de la photographie... (Vol. XII, No. 1, p.23 and No. 26, pp. 1228-1229) and several other comments on and additions to the invention of practical photography.

Daguerre, I. J. M. (and D. F. J. Arago) · 1841 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€500.00 ($553.88 | £417.57 | ¥88,507)

Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1841. Thick 4to (20.5 x 26.1 cm). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco labels with gilt title. = First edition of several important papers following the first public announce…

"a Specter Is Haunting Texas" By Fritz Leiber (Found in Galaxy Science Fiction). Parts 1, 2 and 3 of 3 July / August / September 1968

POHL, FREDERIK (EDITOR) · 1968 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.14 | £37.70 | ¥7,990)

New York, NY: Galaxy Publishing Corp, 1968. True First Edition; 1st Printing. Magazine. Illustrated by Gaughan. Cover Art; This is the True First Edition of A Specter is Haunting -Texas, published in Galaxy Magazine prior to the hardback First Edition, in three issues of Galax M…

Joseph Weider's Destructive Self-Defense Course - Lesson No. 6 (Six)

WEIDER, JOSEPH - TRAINER OF CHAMPIONS · 1961 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€135.36 | £113.05 | ¥23,961)

USA: Joseph Weider, 1961. First Edition. Paperback. 12 pages. "The most terrifying secrets of self-defense ever known to man - gathered from confidential sources throughout the world - and published here for the first time!" - from front cover. Contents: The Saga of Rough-and-Tu…

The Best from Startling Stories

Samuel Mines [editor] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.68 | $165.80 | ¥26,495)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from US pulp magazine Startling Stories. First edition, first impression. A scintillating collection of science-fiction tales representing the cream of the fiction t…

An Exhibit Denied. Lobbying the History of Enola Gay

Harwit, Martin · 1996 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€38.00 ($42.09 | £31.74 | ¥6,727)

Copernicus, 1996 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 477 pages. Text in English. As new. At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay released her load. For forty- three seconds, the world's first atomic bomb plunged through six miles of clear air to its preset detonation altitude. Ther…

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano · 2010 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.61 | £6.49 | ¥1,376)

Transworld Publishers Limited 2010 Paperback, 384pp. He had learned his lesson. Choices are made in a few seconds and paid for in the time that remains. A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. …

Trains Magazine, April 1943, Vol. 3, No. 6

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1943 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$79.95 (€72.17 | £60.27 | ¥12,776)

USA: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1943. First Edition. Paperback. 50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Locomotives - Data on Cotton Belt L-1, Southern Pacific P-13; The Man in the Tower; Baltimore Belt Line - tunnel route replaced time-consuming ferry transfer a…

Joseph Weider's Destructive Self-Defense Course - Lesson No. 9 (Nine) - Vandalism - the Cult of Devastating Destruction

WEIDER, JOSEPH - TRAINER OF CHAMPIONS · 1961 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€135.36 | £113.05 | ¥23,961)

USA: Joseph Weider, 1961. First Edition. Paperback. 12 pages. "The most terrifying secrets of self-defense ever known to man - gathered from confidential sources throughout the world - and published here for the first time!" - from front cover. Contents: Joseph Weider's Personal…

If He Hollers Let Him Go. A novel. With a foreword by Jack Aistrop (which did not appear in the US edition).

CHESTER HIMES. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.35 | $331.61 | ¥52,989)

The Falcon Press, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued two years after the somewhat more common US edition. 8vo. viii, 203pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a small gilt-stamped vignette. Top edge dust soiled, with a trace of very light …

Murder by Matchlight ( a Chief-Inspector Macdonald Mystery)

Lorac, E.C.R. · 1946 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$250.00 (€225.68 | £188.48 | ¥39,949)

New York, Mystery House, 1946. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine; 288 pp. A rare first edition issued in the United States. "On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an …