System World First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Morrow, 2004. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($27.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Folding Plate Of Astronomical Constellations, Plate Of Astrolabe, No Other Plates Or Maps (illustrator). First American Edition. 572 Pp. First American Edition, Corrected, Improved, And Greatly Enlarged (Stated). Volume I Only Of A Two Volume Set. Page 435 Correctly Numbered. Full Tree Calf, 5 Bands, Red And Black Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt Insignia Of Six-Pointed Shaded Star, With Design In Center, In Each Compartment (Another Book From Same Library Had Same Symbol On Front Cover Instead); Ancient Ink Note "Been In Family Since Printed" At Bottom Of Preliminary Blank. Gilt Designs Around Edges Of Bands And Edges Of Boards. Binding Solid But Worn, Light Cracking To Joints; Front Endpaper Lacking, Top Third Of Preliminary Blank Torn Away; Pages With Medium Foxing; Last Leaf (571/572) Trimmed To Text Block Along Foredge, And Lacking Bottom Quarter Removing Four Lines Of Text On P. 571. No Rear Endpapers. Plates With Old Staining Along Edges, Small Edge Tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE PISCEAN AGE - A SYSTEM OF WORLD PROPHECY, by MANLY PALMER HALL. Published by PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, Los Angeles, California, 1942. FIRST EDITION, so stated on the title page. Booklet, green wrappers with black titles and design, side stapled, 6x9 inches, 48 pages. GOOD condition, some soiling to the covers, some corner creases here and there, pages lightly age toned as normal, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. One of Manly P. Hall's more difficult to find first edition astrological booklets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Early US Imprint. Original, full leather binding. Brown leather or sheep, unadorned and in rough condition. Front board hangs on by just one fragile cord. Rear cover well-attached. Leather spine faded, chipped at the bottom. Maroon title label, "Chesterfield Life." Edges, corners of boards scuffed and worn, as are the boards themselves. Front free endpaper detached but present. Second blank page a bit loose. TItle page has the name "Joseph Bass" written at the top. It was a fairly common name in the early US, so I have not been able to ascertain exactly who it was. (John Adams had a servant with that name & that seems to dominate the google searches). 388 pages. Toning throughout. A single leaf, pages 373-374, detached but set in place. Same for 209/210. There are three places where flower have been pressed between the pages & are still here. At page 373, I can see a small straight-pin deep in the gutter. Please email with questions or to request photos. Evans 14472. A nice early American imprint of an oft-quoted, seldom read title. This is the first US edition. It was first published in England in 1774.

Hardcover. Condition: Ausreichend. Lavoisne M., Atlas, anno 1820, with the Melish map A COMPLETE GENEALOGICAL, HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS; BEING A GENERAL GUIDE TO HISTORY, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN: EXHIBITING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN, DESCENT, AND MARRIAGES OF ALL THE ROYAL FAMILIES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD: TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS POSSESSIONS, FOREIGN WARS, BATTLES OF RENOWN AND REMARKABLE EVENTS, TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO . THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY M. Lavoisne Published by M. Carey & Sons, Philadelphia, 1820 The First American Edition of A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas, executed by Matthew Carey in 1820. Complete with all maps and charts of 71 double-page plates -- including the important maps of the "United States of America" by John Melish. Folio, some restorations. But the Melish map in good condition.

Condition: new.

Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing with date 1848 on title page and publisher's address listed as 107 Fulton-Street. 4, v-viii, 9-581 pp., illustrated with engraved frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Recently bound in maroon buckram, title label to spine. Very Good+ with light wear to covers and slight bumping to lower corners; title label beginning to lift at one corner. Band of paper residue to front free endpaper. Light toning and moderate foxing to textblock edges and contents, dampstain to outer textblock edge and outer margin throughout. Cohen pp. 347-352. The first American edition of the foundational physics text, first published in Latin in 1687. Andrew Motte's 1729 translation was reprinted in 1803 and 1819 in Britain, but subsequent 19th century editions were printed only in the United States and Germany. The New York-based publisher Daniel Adee deposited a copyright for the Principia in 1846, then printed five issues between 1848 and 1850. A contemporary notice in the Scientific American declared: "For a long time the 'Principia' was kept far out of the reach of the mere English Scholar, as if Newton had written it exclusively for the classical student and philosopher. It was a scarce book when printed in the Latin language; it is now, thanks to the spirit of an American publisher, printed in our mother tongue, and should find a place in every family library.".