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1954403339London: J. M. Dent 1954. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy the jacket with several creases on front panel and small losses at head of spine and upper front joint. FIRST EDITION. <br/><br/> J. M. Dent hardcover books
1970S5403New York:: W. A. Benjamin 1970. 1970. Series: Frontiers in Physics. 229 x 150 mm. 8vo. x 374 3 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. W. A. Benjamin, 1970. unknown books
1884Z1356Madison:: Democrat Printing 1884. 1884. 8vo. v 347 appendix 53 pp. Woodcut frontis. of Washburn Observatory plates tables; some pages marginally water-stained very faint. Brown cloth gilt-stamped spine title; lightly faded corners a little bumped. Very good. The appendix is a catalog of the holdings within the Observatory's library. Democrat Printing, 1884. hardcover books
1987Z1693Herts:: Epsilon Press 1987. 1987. Third edition. Series: Project for Historical Biobibliography P356. 8vo. 20 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good. An ambitious project which produced some useful reference tools. ISBN: 1850270066 Epsilon Press, 1987. unknown books
1961PW1222London:: Collins 1961. 1961. 8vo. 320 pp. Index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust jacket. Very good. Collins, 1961. hardcover books
1956S5224Iowa City:: Department of Physics State University of Iowa 1956. 1956. SUI-56-7. 276 x 215 mm. 4to. v 77 ff. Figs. Printed wrappers; top cover torn sticker label on spine. AS IS. Department of Physics, State University of Iowa, 1956. unknown books
184147722London: Hamiton Adams and Co 1841. 1st Printing. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title medallion to front board professionally recased. Pale yellow eps. Square & tight modest wear. Bookplate of Caroli i.e. Charles E Doble designed by T. Erat Harrison 1858 - 1917. A pleasing VG copy. viii 82 2 pp. 16mo. 5-3/4" x 3-5/8" <br/><br/>Fairly scarce work with OCLC recording 8 holding institutions with only 3 in the US. Hamiton Adams and Co hardcover books
1965S9535New York & London:: Academic Press 1965. 1965. 8vo. xvii 288 pp. Blue cloth white-stamped cover and spine titles. Bookplate of Andras Gedeon. Very good. FIRST EDITION of THE INVENTION OF AUTOMATED CLINICAL ANALYSIS. "The automation technology introduced by Skeggs has become the indispensable backbone of modern clinical chemistry laboratories." Gedeon. "The autoanalyzer represented a significant advance in medical laboratory technology in the 20th century. This device developed by Leonard T. Skeggs ended the days in which laboratory technicians spent hours mixing reagents to test for substances in blood or urine. The autoanalyzer could perform over 20 tests in 24 seconds." "Leonard Skeggs earned his master's degree in 1941 and his PhD in 1948 in biochemistry at what would become Case Western Reserve University. He joined the faculty in 1950 became a full professor in 1969 and became emeritus professor in 1988. He was also director of the hypertension research laboratory at the Cleveland Veterans' Administration Hospital. Skeggs was affiliated with various well known Cleveland medical researchers including: Harry Goldblatt a pioneer in hypertension research Jack Leonards a former head of the biochemistry department at CWRU and Paul Berg who went on the win the Nobel Prize for his work on recombinant DNA." "Although Skeggs was involved in all of these important projects his major accomplishment remains the autoanalyzer. Fed up with long waits in for blood sample tests and confusion in the laboratory Skeggs decided to look for a better way. He stated that "One day it suddenly occurred to me that analyses could be done in a continuous flowing stream rather than batches or discretely." Skeggs set to work building his prototype. With borrowed money he bought the necessary materials. By 1951 a working model had been developed. Skeggs continuously improved and streamlined his design for the next 3 years. The instrument automatically mixed equal amounts of reagents and successive specimens and then measured the resulting color changes of each mixture." One of Skeggs' later designs the sequential multiple analyzer with computer SMAC series moved the state of the art from one test per specimen per minute to more than twenty tests every twenty-four seconds. The SMAC did its own calibrations and transmitted results directly to a laboratory computer. The results were highly accurate and reproducible and the mechanization increased productivity and lowered costs." Case Western Reserve University Dittrick Medical History Center. Gedeon Science and technology in medicine #81.10 p. 417. Academic Press, 1965. hardcover books
1955RB1064New York & London:: Grune & Stratton 1955. 1955. Series: Modern Medical Monographs 12. Sm. 8vo. xii 131 pp. Charts index. Blue gilt-stamped cloth; spine faded. Lightly foxed. Very good. "Dr. Holley played a major role in the development of Rheumatology as a formal medical subspecialty. Through his leadership UAB established a Rheumatology program that became recognized throughout the world for its research teaching and caring. It was his concept that lead to the multidisciplinary Spain Rehabilitation Center which employs physical therapy specialized nursing and social service all under the direction of a physician. To Dr. Holley the history of medicine was a passion and he is considered perhaps the foremost medical historian in Alabama. The author of 34 publications Dr. Holley published the classic A History of Medicine in Alabama." – Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame. Grune & Stratton, 1955. hardcover books
23408Colour photo-mechanical portrait printed in tones of sepia red black and tan with short textual addition below portrait. Published in the satiric journal L'Assiette au Beurre in 1902. Sheet size 313 x 241 mm. With portrait of the French composer Jules Massenet 1842-1912 to verso.<br/><br/>Fine impression on tan wove paper. <br/><br/>Slightly worn browned and brittle. unknown books
188628421Paris: Brandus & Cie PN B. et Cie. 13083 1886. Large octavo. Half dark brown calf with brown textured paper boards rules and titling gilt to spine. 1f. recto decorative title by L. Denis verso blank 1f. recto dedication verso blank 1f. recto notes on first performance named cast list and contents verso blank 309 i blank pp.<br/><br/>Named cast includes Fugère Soulacroix Mouliérast Grivot Belhomme Balanqué Mauguière Sujol Troy Deschamps Patoret Pierron Dupont and Degrandi.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; head and tail of spine frayed. Minor foxing; annotation in blue pencil to front free endpaper; small publisher's facsimile signature handstamp to lower margin of title; small handstamp "232" to lower margin of last page of music. First Edition.<br/><br/>Plutus to a libretto by Millaud and Jollivet was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique Favart on March 31 1886. <br/><br/>"Much of Lecocq's music is characterized by a light touch but he could also adopt a more lyrical and elevated style than Offenbach and termed several of his operettas opéras comiques. His greatest popular triumph La fille de Madame Angot has remained a classic among operettas and demonstrates Lecocq's abundant flow of pleasing melodies his deft exploitation of rhythm for a lively theatrical effect impressive building up of extended numbers and typically French shaping of phrases." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. Brandus & Cie [PN B. et Cie. 13083] unknown books
P6434Letovice: self-published 1931. Octavo 18.6 Ã 12.8 cm. Original typographically designed wrappers anonymous; 18 2 pp. Wrappers detached from text and lightly soiled; text lightly toned; still good or better. Scarce provincial book of poetry with understated but appealingly avant-gardistic wrapper design by OldÅich Elbl. We are unable to find much information about the author here using a pseudonym who authored numerous books of poetry as well as art criticism. Equally little is known about the designer OldÅich Elbl. A scarce example of Czech regional avant-garde publishing. One of 180 copies. Not in Vloemans. KVK and OCLC only show the copy at the Czech National Library. unknown books
196936238London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1969. 1st UK edition. Hardback. Orange dust jacket. VG slight lean/VG spine panel a bit sunned. 175 1 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover books
73706A collection of four photo albums three panoramic photographs and other material associated with the service of Warren I. Johnson of Northampton Pennsylvania in the U.S. Army during World War II. Extensively annotated the albums are accompanied by 16 issues of the mimeographed shipboard newspaper - Noah's News Noah News is Good News - published aboard the SS Noah Webster during Johnson's return voyage to the United States.<br/><br/>Johnson was working as an elementary school teacher in Columbia Pennsylvania at the time of his enlistment on May 20 1942. The first album which contains 149 original photographs corresponds to his basic training in Miami Beach Florida; radio school in Scott Field Illinois and in Orlando Florida; assignments at Hammer Field Squaw Valley and Hamilton Field California; and service with the 356th Fighter Group in Tonopah Nevada and Santa Rosa California in the spring of 1943. The second album houses 67 photographs taken at Camp Edwards in Massachusetts and Camp Davis in North Carolina and a color rendering of Flick-Flak a cartoon mascot designed by Walt Disney that was adopted by the 247th AAA SL Battalion.<br/><br/>In September 1944 Johnson attended infantry school at Fort Benning Georgia which is extensively shown in the third album. There are 97 original photographs and several acquired images in this album. It also covers his service in England France Belgium Holland and Germany beginning in December 1944. Of particular interest are the seven photographs from Johnson's assignment guarding political prisoners at the internment camp in Schwarzenborn Germany. The final album which includes 64 original photographs covers the remainder of Johnson's service from October 1945 to February 1946. It opens with images from General Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit to Seventh Army Headquarters in Heidelberg and also shows scenes of the German countryside the SS Noah Webster at the docks in Bremerhaven and the evacuation of a seriously ill solder off Plymouth England.<br/><br/>The albums are accompanied by three panoramic photographs: a printed 42" x 10 ½" image of Camp Davis in North Carolina; a 23" x 8" portrait of Class 73 2nd Platoon - 19th Battery at Camp Davis on September 27 1943; and a 40" x 8" portrait of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer's Candidate School Course No. 73 at Camp Davis on September 30 1943. All the men pictured in the second image are identified on the verso while those in the 19th Battery are identified on the recto of the third. All three photographs were rolled for storage. Also present here is a spent anti-aircraft shell label July 1942 and a Souvenir Edition of Noah's News which corresponds with the aforementioned shipboard newspaper.<br/><br/>The photographs are tipped or pasted to the black paper leaves and labeled by hand in white ink below the image. Many of the earlier photographs are additionally labeled on the verso. They vary in size from 2" x 2 ¾" to 8" x 10" with most measuring 4 ½" x 3 ¼". A very small number of photographs appear to be missing. The bindings of the last three albums are loose particularly the second album which is partially disbound. However the images are clean and neatly organized offering a unique glimpse at the American GI experience during the Second World War. unknown books
19771340695New York: Four Winds Press 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with white print; DJ in mylar small tears at spine ends and flap corners slight spotting toning to top edge; Boards in grey cloth with gold print light wear to spine caps and corners wear/creasing to hinges small blemish to front top corner; Text block has spotting to endpapers else clean and tight; unpaged illustrated color. 1340695. FP New Rockville Stock. Four Winds Press hardcover books
1952YF1016-003New York:: Museum Books Inc. 1952. Hardcover. Like New. LIMITED EDITION of 2000 copies. Oblong 4to. 9 x 12 inches. iv pp. 25 ff. 10 pp. Printed in brick-red and black inks throughout; text clean unmarked. Vellum spine blind-stamped brown paper over boards added clear mylar jacket; binding square and tight slight bumps to corners else Fine. This is the first English-Language Edition of Feder und Stichel printed on Italian Fabriano paper in the private printing office of D. Stempel AG type foundry Frankfurt am Main. The calligraphic pages were designed by Hermann Zapf between 1939 and 1941. The Historical Appendix in this volume was also contributed by Hermann Zapf and translated by Paul Standard who contributed the Preface to this volume All the metal plates were cut by hand by August Rosenberger punch-cutter to D. Stempel AG. Text set in Palatino. Museum Books Inc., hardcover books
1910SGG213B-10San Francisco:: Paul Elder & Company 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. iv 7 1 blank pp. Frontispiece title page and text printed within a green ruled border printed on laid paper; text clean unmarked. Green printed wrappers printed on laid paper front cover titled in green with vignette all printed within gilt-ruled border sewn binding; binding square and tight lower corner roughed up a bit. Very Good. This little fable about the meaning of life was printed for "Paul Elder and Company by the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Henry Nash during the Month of April nineteen hundred and ten." From the colophon. References: Checklist of the Publications of Paul Elder & Co.: No. 230; Smith American Fiction 1901-1925: A Bibliography No. D-258. Paul Elder & Company, paperback books
40617The eighth wealthiest American of all time was a German-born lumber magnate who began his empire in Rock Island Illinois in 1856 starting as a night fireman at a sawmill and working his way up until he owned this sawmill then began adding more until the "Weyerhauser Syndicate" was enormous; he moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1900 where the firm still operates and is the world's largest timber seller. Partly-Printed Document Signed 1p 8 3/4" X 3 3/4" Rock Island IL 1881 November 15. Very good. Ornate check drawn on the Peoples National Bank printed in black on blue stock and featuring decorative border a variety of ornate typefaces and a steel-engraved vignette at left showing a puffing locomotive at a train station. The check has been made out to Weyerhaeuser in the amount of $25000 and is signed by the bank president Bailey Davenport. Davenport 1823-90 was the son of Davenport Iowa's murdered founding father fur trader/Indian agent/frontiersman Colonel George Davenport 1783-1845 and was himself a wealthy banker real estate entrepreneur and mayor of Davenport during the Civil War. On the check's verso Weyerhaeuser signs boldly adding "pat to the Order / of H C Putnam" above. Below this Putnam then signs. Henry Cleveland Putnam 1832-1912 was a Wisconsin lumber baron and philanthropist one of the founders of Eau Claire. Three more unidentified persons also sign below Putnam. Twenty-five thousand dollars was a huge sum of money in 1881. Real estate developer Davenport and Weyerhaeuser who also served on the board of directors of this bank surely had many and complex business dealings -- as Weyerhaeuser likewise also had with fellow lumber baron Putnam. Weyerhaeuser's syndicate was vast and he had arrangements with a large number of other lumber businesses. It's possible the transaction had to do with the purchase of timber lands but this warrants further research. In any case a unique and intriguing document. unknown books
19641338404Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1964. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine black with silver print; Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and grey cloth to boards wear to spine caps mild shelfwear slight stain on rear; Text block has slight tanning to endpapers slight stain to top edge else clean and tight; xxvii 317 pages illustrated chiefly b&w. 1338404. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover books
47210Ca 1960s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Faint horizontal abrasion under artwork. Evidence of prior mounting to blank verso. Overall Very Good. 6-3/4" x 6-3/8" <br/><br/>Harry Corbett was an English puppeteer magician and television and stage presenter who is best known as the creator in 1948 of the glove puppet character Sooty. In this original art Sooty is pictured in a play room standing over a box of "Oofle dust". unknown books
19501005Thebom Blanche 1918- 2010. Original silver print photograph by Angus McBean. 1950. Extremely large 20 x 15 3/4" image; 23 11/16 x 17 5/16" mat. Signed by McBean on mat. Image in perfect condition mat with several small closed tears to margin lower right corner chipped. Reference: Wilson Frederic Woodbridge The Theatrical World of Angus McBean 2008.<br /><br />Thebom was the first American female opera singer to perform in Russia. With a beautiful mezzo soprano voice and equally beautiful hair that extended six feet in length she had a long and successful career as a soloist that began when Giuseppe Boghetti Marian Anderson's teacher discovered her singing aboard a cruise ship with her parents in 1938. Thebom performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in over 350 performances. <br /><br />Photograph by Angus McBean 1950. Pictured in the new biography of McBean p.103: "After a series of conventional poses the singer suggested that McBean might photograph her with her own hair which reached the floor when let down. McBean contrived this pose which required that the singer lie down on a bed of sand. He tore a sheet of wrapping paper to fit the contours of her hair in order to protect it from the grit." books
13459Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An original photograph of the great dancer and choreographer far left together with the Hungarian conductor Ferenc Fricsay the ballerina Karola Szalay and the dancer and choreographer Gyula Harangozó pictured after a performance in Szeged Hungary ca. 1933. Signed on the verso by the photographer Bela Liebmann with some further notes in Hungarian. In fine condition. 5.5 x 3.5 inches 13.8 x 8.9 cm. Also included is a photograph of Nijinksy and his wife issued by Life Magazine in 1973 as a quiz card with trivia questions relating to Nijinksy printed on the verso.<br style="">Hungarian Jewish photographer and businessman Béla Liebmann opened his first photographic supply store in Szeged in 1927. His first wife and daughter were killed in World War II but he survived his conscription in the Hungarian labor service and continued his work after the war becoming the Vice President of the Hungarian Association of Photographers.<br style=""><br style=""><br style=""> unknown books
1864WRCLIT81569Paris: Cadart & Luquet 1864. Original etching plate 16 x 22 cm with full margins 33.5 x 44.5 cm. Short tear in top blank margin some vestiges of mounting tape in extreme corners of blank verso otherwise near fine. An etching by Bracquemond illustrating a scene from Gautier's CAPITAINE FRACASSE printed by Auguste Delâtre. Published as an element in Cadart & Luquet's portfolio for the Sociéte des Aquafortistes. With the publisher's blindstamped paraph in the lower margin. Signed in the plate. Cadart & Luquet unknown books
189734779Leipzig: M. P. Belaïeff PN 1556 1897. Octavo. Original publisher's gray wrappers with titling within decorative border. 1f. recto decorative title printed in dark green verso blank 3-10 pp. 1f. 8 parts: flutes clarinets bells 1 leaf each harp 3 pp. Title in Russian and French to upper. Publisher's catalogue of orchestral music to verso of upper wrapper and recto and verso of lower. Decorative title printed in green with printed dedication at head: "à mon fils Michel."<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn. Minor browning. Parts uncut. First Edition of this arrangement. M. P. Belaïeff [PN 1556] unknown books
1870M13702Philadelphia:: Henry C. Lea 1870. 1870. 8vo. xvi 17-195 1 pp. Original quarter black calf marbled boards gilt-stamped spine; upper joint with kozo repair. Ownership signature Ross MD. Very good. Dedicated to Sir William Jenner. Smith attended University College London. He became F.R.C.P. in 1874. "Early in his career he was through the introduction of the late Sir William Jenner appointed to the Duke of Brabant afterwards Leopold II King of the Belgians and travelled with him in the East visiting India Ceylon and China. King Leopold whose physician he remained until that monarch's death appointed him a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold." He worked at a Children's hospital and gained a wide ranging respect for his personality and knowledge being well read and kind. Sir H. Bryan Donkin singled out this and his Treatise on Diseases of Children as distinguished. See: British Medical Journal 1914 Nov 21; 22812: pp. 904–906. Henry C. Lea, 1870. hardcover books
