Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, tan cloth with black spine label & gold stamping, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with engraving of Newton's sextant, xiii = 501 pages. Exceptional Condition! More
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2015. Photographs B&W, maps. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. 8vo, black boards with silver lettering on spine, illustrated with 16 pages of glossy B&W photographs & a few in-text maps and charts, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) painted by Jans Cossiers, xx + 376 pages. Synthesizing..... More
New York: Bantam Books / Random House, 2010. Photos. First Edition, Second Printing. Blind-stamped cloth. Small 4to (9 1/4" x 6 3/8"), black boards, profusely illustrated in B&W and color images, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), glossary, index, 198 pages + [2] About the Authors. "A succinct, startling, and..... More
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Period reproductions of engravings. First Edition. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Author on the free front endpaper, 8vo, black cloth with scarlet lettering on spine, illustrated with B&W frontispiece of Charles Darwin plus 32 comparable period images, xv, [xvi] + 205 pages with..... More
New York Oxford: Oxford University Press / A Solomon Press Book, 1998. Brian Silver. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (10 1/4" x 7 1/2"), black cloth with blue lettering on spine over off-white textured boards, illustrated with numerous B&W diagrams, blue-black photographic dust jacket (unclipped), xviii..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. PHOTOS, CHARTS, inventions. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Small quarto (10" x 7 3/4"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Introduction by Joseph Needham, lavishly illustrated with examples of Chinese inventions and technology in B&W and some color, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket..... More