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The Roycrofters, 1905. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vol XVII July 1905 No.1. A little soiling on cover, clean throughout. Corners bumped.

The Roycrofters, 1905. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vol XVI April 1905 No.4. Clean throughout. Corners bumped.

The Roycrofters, 1905. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vol XVII August 1905 No.2. Clean throughout. Corners bumped.

The Roycrofters, 1905. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vol XVII December 1905 No.6. Clean throughout. Corners bumped.

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor wear/age-toning. Vol. XVII, No. 2, August 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778), the Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature, and who is known as the father of modern taxonomy. With frontis illustration of Linnaeus..

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor wear/age-toning. Vol. XVII, No. 4, October 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of John Tyndall (1820 - 1893), a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism..

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor wear/age-toning. Vol. XVII, No. 5, November 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823 - 1913), a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist who is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. With frontis illustration of Wallace..

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor wear/age-toning. Vol. XVI, No. 1, January 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), the Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Includes the illustration..

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor wear/age-toning. Vol. XVI, No. 2, February 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), commonly known as Galileo, the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. With frontis illustration of Galileo..

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Minor edgewear. Vol. XVI, No. 6, December 1905 issue of this periodical, being on the "home" of John Fiske (1842 - 1901), an American philosopher and historian, who did extensive study on Darwin's theory of evolution. Frontis illustration of Fiske shows age-marks around the edges..

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East Aurora: John Fiske /Roycrofters, 1905. Paperback. Very Good. 1905, Edition not stated. Softcover, sewn binding, in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear and moderate handling soil to the exterior, and also the pages and wraps are tanned.

MP3 Audio CD. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists SIR ISAAC NEWTON An honest farmer, neither rich nor poor, was Isaac Newton. He was married to Harriet Ayscough in February, Sixteen Hundred Forty-two. Both were strong, intelligent and full of hope. Neither had any education to speak of; they belonged to England's middle class—that oft-despised and much ridiculed middle class which is the hope of the world. Accounts still in existence show that their income was thirty pounds a year. It was for them to toil all the week, go to church on Sunday, and twice or thrice in a year attend the village fairs or indulge in a holiday where hard cider played an important part. Isaac had served his two years in the army, taken a turn at sea, and got his discharge-papers. Now he had married the lass of his choice, and settled down in the little house on an estate in Lincolnshire where his father was born and died. Spring came and the roses clambered over the stone walls; the bobolinks played… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists SIR ISAAC NEWTON An honest farmer, neither rich nor poor, was Isaac Newton. He was married to Harriet Ayscough in February, Sixteen Hundred Forty-two. Both were strong, intelligent and full of hope. Neither had any education to speak of; they belonged to England's middle class—that oft-despised and much ridiculed middle class which is the hope of the world. Accounts still in existence show that their income was thirty pounds a year. It was for them to toil all the week, go to church on Sunday, and twice or thrice in a year attend the village fairs or indulge in a holiday where hard cider played an important part. Isaac had served his two years in the army, taken a turn at sea, and got his discharge-papers. Now he had married the lass of his choice, and settled down in the little house on an estate in Lincolnshire where his father was born and died. Spring came and the roses clambered over the stone walls; the bobolinks played… Read More

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East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1905. First Edition . Suede / Boards. Very Good. 7 3/4" Tall. Color Title Page, Plates.; Design By Samuel Warner. Green suede, mostly aged to brown. Leather spine labels, lettering brilliant. Top edge gilt. Color title page. Silk marker intact. Vol I: no loss of suede, slight wear, three tears to suede at top of spine, top edge, and foredge.

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East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Quarter leather. Portrait plates. Shelf wear. Scuffing and fading to leather. Tight and clean. This is a single leather-bound volume collecting 6 biographical pamphlets from this series. Original portrait pages complete and bound in. Limited edition handmade book by the Roycrofters, the celebrated arts and crafts community of East Aurora, NY. (McKenna 117).