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Seminar On Scientific Computation, November, 1949
by IBM Applied Science Department  Notes New York: International Business Machines, (1950) 4to., 109pp. Blue cloth with original plain paper dj. Owner's signature on front wrap and ffep. Very good condition. Proceedings of a seminar on scientific computation held in 1949. MJ...
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Rare Books: $2000.00 Vellum
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Hoc In Volumine Haec Continentur: M. Val. Probus de Notis Roma... Petrus Diaconus de Eadem Re... De Metrius Alabaldus de Minutiis... Ven. Beda de Computo Per Gestum Digitorum [etc.]
by Marcus Valer Probus Notes Venice, Joannes Tacuinus, 1525. Quarto, title printed in black and red. Full page woodcut of a sibyll beckoning under a decorated arch. Contemporary limp vellum, slight worming to inner margin of first few leaves. Contains the first printing of the...
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Rare Books: $950.00 Hardcover
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Treatise on Dynamics 1ST Edition
by William Whewell Notes Cambridge: J. Deighton & Sons, 1823 First edition of the philosopher & science historian's second book (A Treatise on Mechanics, 1819) with "A Consid-erable Collection of Mechanical Problems." Octavo, in recent full green buckram with gilt stamped black...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Set Softcover
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The Probabilistic Revolution 2 Volumes
by Lorenz Kruger Notes Cambridge: The MIT Press, (1990). 2 volumes. Octavo, 15x22.5cm. First edition thus, in paperback. Original wrappers. Volume 1: Ideas in History. Volume 2: Ideas in the Sciences. Bindings rubbed, with light edgewear. Very good condition. JMW...
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism 1st Edition
by Bernard Shaw Notes London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1928. Octavo, 16x24cm. xxxvi + 495pp. First edition. Original olive green cloth with a celtic design stamped in green and gilt on the front board and spine, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. First issue as per...
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Automatic Digital Calculators, 1st Edition
by Andrew Booth and Kathleen Booth Notes London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1953. First edition. Original green cloth. Corners bumped, otherwise near fine. Andrew Booth was influenced by von Neumann's Princeton work in the late 1940's. OCLC 941768 MJ...
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Rare Books: $300.00 Hardcover
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Challenging Strategic Planning Assumptions: Theory, Cases, and Techniques, Signed 1st Edition
by Richard O. Mason and Ian I. Mitroff Notes New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1981). Octavo, 16x23cm. xii,324pp. First edition, inscribed and signed by co-author Richard O. Mason (as "Dick") on the front free endpaper. Original burgundy cloth, spine stamped in silver. In an unclipped dust jacket...
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Tabulae Regiomontanae Reductionum: Observationum Astronomicarum ab Anno 1750 Usque ad Annum 1850 Computae
by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Notes Konigsberg: Sumtiburs Fratrum Borntraeger, 1830. Octavo, 15x24cm. lxiii, 542pp. First edition. Bound in 20th Century half calf, marbled paper over boards, spine compartments decorated in gilt. Text in Latin. Lightly rubbed. Occasional foxing...
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Rare Books: $450.00 Hardcover
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Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern; with an Atlas: 2nd Edition
by J. E. Worchester Notes Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1822 Second edition (stated) thick duodecimo, rebacked in brown cloth with an ivory label on the spine, w/ original mar- bled paper covered boards; 322pp. plus 2 pages of tables. Frontis table regarding heights of mountains &...
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Rare Books: $1800.00 Pamphlet
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Remarks on the Astronomy of the Brahmins, Signed
by John Playfair Notes [No Place: 1789] 4to., 60pp. With half title page and printed notification of the paper being read by the author on March 2, 1789. Inscribed to William Robertson "with Mr. Playfair's compliments" on verso of the half title. In modern green wraps with...
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The Middle Ages of the Internal-Combustion Engine 1794-1886
by Horst O. Hardenberg Notes Warrendale: Society for Automotive Engineers, Inc., (1999). Octavo, 15x22cm. [vi], 498pp. Original wrappers. Black & white illustrations throughout. Trace of edgewear and rubbing. Very good condition. Original ISBN: 0-7680-0391-1. SIL...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Set Hardcover
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Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical and Vital Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature: 2 Volumes
by Samuel Metcalf Notes Philadelphia: J B Lippincott & Co., 1859. 2 volumes. Cloth binding decorated in blind. Corners bumped, cloth faded. Volume 1 is only partially opened; volume 2 remains unopened. Good condition....
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Rare Books: $200.00 Set Hardcover
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Rivers of the United States Volume 4: Part A The Mississippi River Tributaries North of St. Louis and Part B The Mississippi River Tributaries South of St. Louis
by Ruth Patrick Notes New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998. 2 volumes (Part A and Part B). Octavo, 162x242mm. xi,389pp; xi,391-863pp. First edition. Original blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Numerous charts, some maps and diagrams. Trace wear to the corners and spine...
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New Levels in the Stock Market
by Charles Amos Dice Notes New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1929. Octavo, 15x21cm. x + 264pp. First edition. Original burgundy cloth panelled in blind, spine stamped in black and gilt. Errata slip tipped in at page 69. Corners bumped. Light wear to the corners and spine ends...
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Rare Books: $950.00 Leather
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The Surveiors Dialogue: Very Profitable for All Men to Peruse, But Especially for Gentlemen, Farmers, and Husbandmen...3rd Edition
by John Norden Notes London: Thomas Snodham, 1618. Octavo, 15x18cm. [xii],174pp,179-256pp. Third edition. Recent quarter calf, marbled paper over boards; spine ruled in gilt, with a gilt-tooled morocco label. Recent endpapers. All edges tinted burgundy. Two stubs follow the...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Slipcase
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Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity
by Albert Einstein Notes New York: George Braziller, (1996). Folio, 26x39cm. 192pp. First edition thus. Original blue cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt. Housed in the original pictorial paper-covered slipcase. Pictorial endpapers, manuscript facsimile plates...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Hardcover
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Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine
by Robert Stuart Notes London: John Chidley, 1831. Octavo, 15x23cm. [viii],249pp. "A New Edition." Full modern brown cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt. No dust jacket. Engraved frontispiece and vignette, along with 53 black & white plates, mostly diagrams. Cloth lightly...
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Rare Books: $1700.00 Vellum
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L'Uso Dello Strumento Geometrico detto La Tavoletta Pretoriana Proposto, ed Ampliato
by Angelo Maria Ceneri Notes Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1728. First edition. 4to. A4-K2, with 12 folding plates & 1 folding chart. Full comtemporary vellum. Vellum worn, with small hole in spine. Marginal dampstaining throughout text & plates in the bottom right corner. Good...
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Rare Books: $500.00 Hardcover
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Elementia Artis Docimasticae: Duobus Tomis comprehensa, Quorum Prior Theoriam, Posterior Praxin, &ct.
by Joannes Andreas Cramer Notes Leyden: Conrad & George Jac. Wishoff, 1739. Full modern black cloth. 8vo.; (10), 311, (15), 5 folding plates at rear. Part one, "Theoretica" only. Cloth worn at tail of spine. Prelims chipped & brittle, with library stamp, notes in old hand. Lightly...
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Rare Books: $2500.00 Leather
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Fundamenta Astronomiae Pro Anno MDCCLV Deducta Ex Observationibus Viri Incomparabilis James Bradley in Specula Astronomica Grenovicensi per Annos 1750-1762 Institutis, 1st Edition
by Frederich Wilhelm Bessel Notes Regiomonti: Frid Nicolovium, 1818 First edition, folio in format, modern quarter leather, w/ gilt stamped red morocco label, marbled paper over boards; 325pp. plus errata page. Text in Latin, w/ charts, tables & equations. An ex-library copy; small oval...
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