A history of the warfare of science with theology in Christendom
by WHITE, Andrew D.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on front covers and spines. An excellent copy. First edition. White was one of the founders of the conflict thesis, which states that science and religion have historically been in conflict, and tried to prove it here. He lectured on the subject for years, maintaining that religion’s interference in science only results in the “direst evils” to both, but scientific investigation, regardless of... Read More
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A popular essay on the disorder familiarly termed a cold
by WHITE, E. L.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, spine label; a lovely uncut copy. First edition. A fascinating work on an ailment that still afflicts us without cure, despite our advanced medical knowledge. This book could very easily have been published 200 years later. The author describes the causes of colds, including climate, which at the time was thought of and actually could lead to other serious maladies. Of particular interest is a discourse... Read More
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Memorials of the English affairs: or, an historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration. Containing the publick transactions, civil and military. Together with the private consultations and secrets of the cabinet
by WHITLOCKE, Bulstrode
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1682. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut initials. Contemporary calf, rebacked spine label; other than a paper repair on p. 433, interior in excellent condition. From the library of Sir Charles Wolseley Bart, one of the Wolseley baronets in Staffordshire, with his bookplate on the paste-down. . First edition. This late seventeenth-century text covers the reigns of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II from 1625 to 1660. It is essentially a history of the Puritan Revolution and... Read More
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Leaves of Grass
by WHITMAN, Walt
New York, 1855. FIRST EDITION, First issue. Half morocco on marbled boards with original front cover bound inside (at the back). First edition, first issue binding (BAL’s and Myerson’s Binding A), first state of the frontispiece portrait (on heavy paper), second state of the copyright page as usual, second state of p. iv. According to the description in Christie’s (New York) catalogue of their sale of the same edition on December 4, 2009 (lot 196 of Sale 2153, which... Read More
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Songs of three centuries
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. FIRST EDITION. First edition. In addition to being a writer, Whittier was a collector of poetry, songs and music. This anthology includes lyrics written by a number of famous celebrity-types that were certainly not known for their artistic endeavors. These include people such as Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmuch Spenser, George Herbert, Abraham Cowley, and Sir Humphry Davy, to name just a few. Others such as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Browne, Milton, Joseph... Read More
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Uber eine Klasse singularer Integralgleichungen. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phys.-Math. Klasse, Vol. XXXI
by WIENER, N. & HOPF, E.
Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1931. FIRST EDITION. The author's original offprint in the original printed wrappers. First announcement of the Wiener-Hopf equation, or the integral equation for (x). This equation occurs commonly in many applications. In its solution a study of the Fourier transform in the complex plane is necessary. The Fourier transform as a function of a complex variable proved to be very important in Wiener's subsequent research. Wiener's interest in the integral equation led to a... Read More
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California as it is & as it may be, or a guide to the gold region
by WIERZBICKI, F.P.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Cloth backed boards, paper label to spine. First Grabhorn edition. Zamorano, 79.
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Hal, the barge boy
by WILBRAHAM, Frances
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1883. FIRST EDITION. Steel-engraved frontispiece and several illustrations. Original fine-grained decorative cloth; minor browning. Presentation inscription on front endpaper, “Aldburgh Church Sunday School. Awarded to Winifred Creasy. A prize for regular attendance and good conduct. December/97.”. Seemingly the first edition of this uncommon didactic work in verse for young children, by the Victorian author Frances Maria Wilbraham. This moral tale includes many common Victorian themes including sick orphans, poverty, cruelty, and temperance. Various... Read More
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The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent
by WILLIAMS, Francis Henry
New York: Macmillan, 1901. FIRST EDITION. With nearly 400 text illustrations. Contemporary cloth boards; new endpapers. An excellent copy. First edition of one of the first major textbooks on use of X-rays. As we all know, X-rays were first discovered on November 8, 1895, by Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), who received the first Nobel prize in physics in 1901. The medical potential of X-rays was clear and by early February, 1896, literature on the subject began to be published. In... Read More
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The cod head
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
[n.p.]: Harvest Press, 1932. LIMITED EDITION. Uncorrected proof sheet, pale blue paper, folded once. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed at the Harvest Press for the friends of Milton Abernethy. This copy has neither the place nor the date printed on the title, and the dedication and copy number are different from the first edition of this leaflet (Wallace A, 14). Not in Wallace.
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The collected later poems of William Carlos Williams
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
[Norfolk, Conn.]: New Directions, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Separately printed 8-leaf pamphlet entitled The Rose laid in. Original cloth-backed publisher’s boards; a fine copy. First edition, with the Horace Mann School binding. The inserted pamphlet consists of a group of poems that were accidentally omitted in the first printing due to an oversight by the typist. Poems include A rosebush is an unlikely garden, The birdsong and Writer’s prologue to a play in verse. Wallace, A31.
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A novelette and other prose (1921-1931). To publishers
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
[Toulon]: [Imprimerie F. Cabasson], 1932. FIRST EDITION. An uncut and partially unopened copy in the original printed wrappers. First edition, containing several poems, essays and stories many of which were to later appear in periodicals. “While tearing around tending the sick I’ve composed a novelette in praise of my wife whom I have gotten to know again. . . .” [taken from an unpublished letter printed in Wallace]. Wallace, A12.
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A beginning on the short story. [Notes]
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Yonkers, New York: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. A fine copy in the original printed wrappers. A beginning on the short story. [Notes]. [np]: [np], [1950]. 8vo. 24 ff. Unbound. Browned and fragile. First edition and uncorrected proof sheets. The proofs did not include a title page. This pamphlet contains a condensed version of an address originally delivered to students of the University of Washington, Seattle, by Williams, in the fall of... Read More
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Direction. A quarterly of new literature. Vol. I, No. 1
by [WILLIAMS, William Carlos]
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1934. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Contains the first and only appearance of Williams’ essay Reply to a young scientist berating me because of my devotion to a matter of words. Also contains works by Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Richard Aldington and many others. Wallace, C208.
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White mule
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1937. FIRST EDITION. including half-title and page of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket. First edition of this novel about the American dream. “White mule is the story of a plain American family of immigrant origin in pre-war New York . . . Through its depth of observation White mule becomes more than a good novel. It is also a definition of the American spirit.” Some of the chapters of this novel were... Read More
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Make light of it. Collected stories
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
New York: Random House, 1950. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Gray publisher’s cloth, in original dust-jacket, minor chipping. Inscription from Williams “Purchased by my dear friends: Madeline & Drew - no kiddin’. with my love, Bill. alias William Carlos Williams. 12/7/50.”. First edition, first printing. This is a collection of all the stories that Williams wished to preserve dating from his first published work in 1909 to 1950. Includes The knife of the times, Life along the Passaic River and... Read More
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American ornithology; or, The natural history of the birds of the United States . . . . ; American ornithology; or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson
by WILSON, Alexander; BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien`
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1828. FIRST EDITIONS. I. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, gilt spine; some wear to extremities, offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple, with their bookplates. II. Contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, gilt spine; some wear to extremities, offsetting from plates. Ex-libris David Bixler and Lee Lawrence Stopple, with their bookplates. I. First edition of "the first truly great American ornithology . . . absolutely basic... Read More
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Gold rush steamers of the Pacific
by WILTSEE, Ernest A.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. FIRST EDITION. Two-tone cloth. Uncut. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition, limited to 500 copies.
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Dissertation sur l’incertitude des signes de la mort, et l’abus des enterremens
by WINSLOW, Jakob Benignus ; BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean, tr
Paris: Morel, Prault, and Simon, 1742. Contemporary mottled calf (edges worn), spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red, green silk marker. Contemporary inscriptions, pen trials, and calculations on the flyleaves and half-title, ownership inscriptions of Marie de Varrennes. In excellent condition [Bound with :] BRUHIER, Jacques-Jean Memoire sur la nécessité d’un réglement général au sujet des enterremens. Paris : Morel, Prault, and Simon 1745. 8vo. 36 pp. First edition thus, a medical treatise on premature burials. Winslow asserts that... Read More
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A hand book of Wisconsin; or guilde to travellers & immigrants; designed as an accompaniment to Chapman's map of Wisconsin. (together with) Chapman's sectional map of Wisconsin with the most recent surveys, 1855
by [WISCONSIN]. CHAPMAN, Silas
Milwaukee, WI: Silas Chapman, 1855. FIRST EDITION. Hand-coloured outlines. Original plain green cloth boards. Folding map in brown cloth folder with gilt title on cover; book dampstained and toned, map has dampstaining with loss of paper but mainly to blank portions and a little at the upper left corner; many other small splits at folding points. Folder is worn and rubbed. First edition of the book and of the map, which is quite scarce. Each county is hand-oulined in... Read More
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![Vitellionis ... Peri optikes, id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum uisus, luminum, colorum atq[ue] formarum, quam uulgo perspectiuam vocant, libri X. . .](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/767/870/661870767.0.l.jpg)
Vitellionis ... Peri optikes, id est de natura, ratione, & proiectione radiorum uisus, luminum, colorum atq[ue] formarum, quam uulgo perspectiuam vocant, libri X. . .
by WITELO
Norimbergæ: Apud Io. Petreium, 1535. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black with large woodcut, full-page woodcut arms on recto of second leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout text. First 4 numbered leaves (following preliminaries) are in facsimile on old paper. Full blindstamped calf in an antique style. Overall a fine copy. First edition of the earliest treatise on optics written by a European. An extremely rare work, the text of which is derived from the optics of Abu al-Hasan... Read More
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Philosophical Investigations. (offered with) Remarks on the foundations of mathematics
by WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. FIRST EDITIONS. I: The German text is reproduced side by side (facing pages) with the English translation. Original dust jacket; in absolutely perfect condition. II: Again, the German text is reproduced side by side with the English translation. Text figures, including some in color. Original dust jacket, small tear at top of front (taped); an excellent copy. I: First edition of the most important philosophy book written in the twentieth century. Published posthumously in 1953,... Read More
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A specimen of a general catalogue, arranged in zones of north polar distance, and adapted to Jan. 1, 1790: containing a comparative view of the mean positions of stars, nebulae, and clusters of stars ... Together with a proposal for setting on foot some regular method of observing the heavens, through the concurrent assistance of astronomers in all nations
by WOLLASTON, Francis
London: G. And T. Wilkie, 1789. FIRST EDITION. With 3 engraved illustrations. Modern boards, spine label; other than some very light marginal browning, an excellent overall copy. First edition of this uncommon and practical star catalogue compiled by Francis Wollaston, and a precursor to his more ambitious Fasciculus Astronomicus of 1800. The present volume was considered to be of great value by contemporaries, and used by the likes of William Herschel. The arrangement in Zones of North Polar distance... Read More
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The art and craft of hairdressing. A standard and complete guide to the technique of modern hairdressing, manicure, massage and beauty culture
by WOLTERS, N.E.B.
London: The New Era Publishing Co., 1950. FIRST EDITION. With 4 color plates and over 550 text illustrations. Blue half morocco over cloth boards, author and title in on spine; binding a bit worn, interior very good. First edition of the standard modern work on creating hair styles. Extremely popular over the years with hairdressers as well as hair and makeup artists in the film and television business, this work covers nearly every type of (modern) style that one... Read More
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Athenae Oxonienses. An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the most antient [sic] and famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500, to the Author's death in November 1695. Representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their lives, and the fate and character of their writings. To which are added, the fasti, or annals, of the said University, to the year 1690
by WOOD, Anthony
London: Printed for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and T. J. Tonson., 1721. Printed in two columns. Titles in red and black, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary full calf with gilt-ruled boards, spine with 6 raised bands and morocco labels, re-backed with original spines laid down, hinges reinforced, boards scuffed and rubbed; interior good with wide margins. From the libraries of the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, with his engraved bookplate, and Shakespeare scholar Charles Tyler Prouty, with his signed book label.... Read More
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