Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...
I was reading an early post that I made here (“The Invasion of America, 19??--1935--Scenario for Invasions via Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean"), mainly concerned with the fantastic, propagandistic ...
This odd, semi-naïve “outsider-esque” map is found in George Wernher’s (d. 1567) De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation depicts an intermittent lake region of the Inner Carniola region of ...
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, fourth series, volume 6, 1853. 21.5 x 13 cm, viii, 464pp, 5 engraved plates. Half leather and marbled boards; gilt ...
"The Phonograph", being an article in the April 18, 1878 issue of Nature, volume 17, No 442, pp 485-6 in the weekly issue of pp 481-500. This issue comes complete with the scarce outer wrappers and ...
I found this fantastic cross-section of the Harper & Brothers publishing house in Jacob Abbott's The Harper Establishment, or, How the Story Books are Made, published of course and thankfully by ...
The next issue is another major publication, seeing the famous “Atomic Energy for Military Purposes” published in October 1945. This is the report that caused great anxiety in the debate over its ...
ITEM: engraving from Rees' Cyclopedia, 1814. "Table of the Compass of Voices and Instruments, Shewing the Place Each Occupies in the Scale". 11x8 inches. Good condition. $75 This engraved plate from ...
ITEM (1): "Launcing an Aeroplane..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 13x10 inches. Fine. $45 ITEM (2): "The Clapham Junction..." Illustrated London News, 1919. 10x13 inches. Fine. $45 Full descriptions ...
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