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1965006465Monuments Serica 1965. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV 1965. Near fine slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. . Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Monuments Serica Paperback books
1935006673New York: E. P. Dutton 1935. Near Fine a bit of toning to end pages top edge dusty in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. P. Dutton Hardcover books
1966003937Washington D.C.: Natl. Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council 1966. SIGNED on front end page "Personal Copy J.A. Simpson University of Chicago 1960". John A. Simpson was an experimental nuclear and cosmic ray physicist who taught and did research at the University of Chicago. Several instruments that he created were launched into space. Near Fine book bottom corners bumped in a Very Good dustjacket moderately chipped at the edges. Several contributions by Carl Sagan among others. . SIGNED. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Natl. Academy of Sciences/ National Research Council Hardcover books
1933006566Oslo Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co. 1933. SCARCE. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his signature in ink front end pages of all 3 volumes. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica the leading periodical in the field. Very Good chips to edges of wrappers corner chips rear end pages. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H. Aschehoug & Co. Paperback books
1927270711Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Co 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The standard collection of the best short stories written and published in the last twelve months. Stories by Sherwood Anderson Lyle Saxon Booth Tarkington Ben Ames Williams and others. The dustjacket has been price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cove.r. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown books
1924006665London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited 1924. SCARCE. Near Fine boards a bit darkened. 276 pp. 12 pp. publisher's catalog map 20 black and white photographs. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seeley, Service & Co. Limited Hardcover books
2003006888Boston: Kluwer Academic Pub 2003. Near Fine tiny rub at head of spine. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kluwer Academic Pub Hardcover books
1992RH1569Geneve Paris:: Droz Champion 1992. 1992. Series: Hautes etudes medievales et modernes 70. At head of title: Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. IVe section. Sciences historiques et philologiques. 8vo. lxxii 473 pp. Illus. index. Printed wrappers. Very good. RARE. Grmek 1924-2000 was a Croatian and French historian of medicine writer and scientist and one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine. . . He put forward the theory of pathocenosis the coexistence of all diseases in a specific time place and society. Droz + Champion, 1992. unknown books
199083294Oxford: Pergamon Press 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. photos index xxvii 505p. plus 3 color folding maps. Original red cloth. dj. 30cm. Minor wear on jacket. <br/><br/> Pergamon Press hardcover books
178518342Boston: Adams & Nourse 1785. Vol. I. 4to. xxxii 20 568 pp. lacking 6 plts. <br><br>The first volume in the series including scholarly papers on mathematics botany geology and medicine among other topics. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Evans 18900; Sabin 1034; ESTC W15739; Rink 8. Lacking covers; leather partially lost from spine. Title-page and several others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution; pages with mild to moderate waterstaining offsetting and foxing. No plates are present. Adams & Nourse hardcover books
1956012701Basel Switzerland: Kyklos 1956. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Four volumes. Each volume contains a bibliography. Paperback wrappers are slightly sunned on the spine with minor rubbing to the extremties and minimal soiling. Vol. I: 134 pages. Vol. II: 135-288 pages. Vol. III: 289-416 pages. Vol. IV: 417-544 pages of text. Includes a inserted seven page summary. Kyklos Paperback books
1955012700Basel Switzerland: Kyklos 1955. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Four volumes. Each volume contains a bibliography. Paperback wrappers are slightly sunned on the spine with minor rubbing to the extremties and minimal soiling. Vol. I: 108 pages. Contributors include: German Bernacer K. E. Boulding Giovanni Demaria Jean Halperin F. M. Heichelheim Calvin B. Hoover Dr. Hanns-Jurgen Kunze Giuseppe Ugo Papi Owe Peters Wilhelm Ropke Edgar Salin Dr. Stefan Valavanis Jean Weiller Leopold von Wiese. Vol. II: 109-224 pages. Contributors include: Alfred Ammon Martin Beckmann Boulding A. Cuvillier P. Fromont Henri Guitton E. G. Jacoby K. William Kapp Lucien Laurat Thomas Marschak Dr. Peter Meihsl Antonio Montaner Kjelf Philip Dr. M. F. Lloyd Prichard P. L. Reynaud Dr. Josef Rosen Dr. G. Sotiroff David Thomson Valavanis von Wiese Dr. Karl Wunderle. Vol. III: 225-350 pages. Authors include: E. Bohler Edwin von Boventer H. Th. Chabot John L. McDougall S. Herbert Frankell Corrado Gini Dr. Z. Y. Hershlag Mortimer Kaplan N. Koestner Emil Kung Vernon W. Mallach Samuel A. Miller Montaner Robert Mosse Dr. Fritz Redlich Salin W. Stark Jean Weiller von Wiese T. M. Whitin. Vol. IV: 351-467 pages of text. Authors include: Gardner Ackley Beckmann Dr. Eric Bovet Cuvillier W. O. Henderson W. Stull Holt Emil Kauder B. M. Niculescu P. L. Reynaud Herman Rubin Salin Richard G. Schmitt Jr. Erich Schneider C. G. F. Simkin Dr. G. Sotiroff F. Trevoux Carl G. Uhr Valavanis Vickrey v. Wiese John Windmuller. Kyklos Paperback books
1928006965Lancaster PA: The Science Press Printing Co. 1928. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR Frank M. Schertz to Dr. Roger Adams Sept. 1935 on front end page. Dr Adams unique book plate front paste down. Very Good gilt at spine faded yet legible title page loosened yet holding nicely light rubbing to cloth at the tips. v-xii 385 pp 9 plates at rear. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Science Press Printing Co. Hardcover books
1990008661Atlanta Georgia: Max W. Fain 1990. RARE Second Edition Revised hardcover 190 pages originally published 1988 in softcover 125 pages. Near Fine bumps at spine ends. Review Copy publisher's review bookmark laid in. This copy from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research marked "Duplicate" and with Kinsey stamps and label at spine no other institutional markings copy feels unread. OCLC records 7 institutional holdings worldwide for the 1988 edition none for this edition. . Second Edition Revised. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Max W. Fain Hardcover books
16190Women's Education. Photograph: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom of the image. Very good condition overall. Approximately eighteen girls conducting experiments on electricity using conducting boxes at an unspecified public high school in New York. They sit on tall stools around long tables wearing expressions that vary from concentration to vexation. High school gave girls the opportunity to advance beyond a rudimentary education and become versed in subjects such as history their rights as citizens and advanced science. The US was the first nation to provide the general public with secondary education and in 1900 there were 6000 public schools. Only a fraction of those however were open to women. These girls were part of the first generation taught science a right denied to their mothers and grandmothers. unknown books
1979S7889Washington D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences 1979-1998. 1979. 16 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Numerous biographies of noted scientists photos portraits bibliog. Full cloth 6 vols. with plain brown dust jackets. A few volumes with ownership rubber stamp or signature of Norman Horowitz. FINE. FIRST EDITIONS. Detailed biographies of many important figures in science such as: Percy Williams Bridgman Edwin P. Hubble George Richards Minot Robert Frederick Loeb Earl W. Sutherland Albert Einstein Vesto Melvin Slipher George W. Beadle Edward L. Tatum Sterling Emerson Alfred Sturtevant & many more. Volume numbers are: XLI-XLVII XLIX-52 58 59 62 63 & 73. National Academy of Sciences, 1979-1998. hardcover books
19531218777Paris: Commission/Societe Francaise/Bibliotheque Nationale 1953. First Edition Thus. Octavo; two 2 volumes; 1 Rapports; 2 Actes; bound in mixed leather black and green spines and cloth boards; contents generally very good; clean and unmarked. Spines; one black with no titles; one green with gilt titles. #424JPH. 1218777. JPH Numismatic Collection. Commission/Societe Francaise/Bibliotheque Nationale unknown books
1941006598Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society 1941. RARE. Very Good from the collection of noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist George Herzog stamped "Herzog Collection" at title page 1/2" paper loss to wrappers at spine ends light soiling to wrappers.sticker shadow front wrapper paginated 763-904. With numerous diagrams. Davidson was noted for his anthropological work among the Australian Aborigines. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The American Philosophical Society Paperback books
1955005041Canberra Australia: Dept. of External Affairs 1955. Very Good toning to front endpage boards a bit bumped in a Very Good dust jacket 1" tear at spine fold and light edge wear. SCARCE in dust jacket. From the library of David G. Frey one of the pioneers of paleolimnology with his namestamp front endpage. With 19 figures in the text and 56 plates in black and white. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dept. of External Affairs Hardcover books
1905006666New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905. SCARCE in such lovely condition. Near Fine small inked letter bottom corner front end page gilt at spine a bit rubbed to publisher's name at bottom edge. In the original green cloth gilt titles and decorations bright tissue-guarded frontispiece with elephants vii-xv 310 pp. with 4 pp. publisher's catalog illustrated with numerous black and white full-page photographs. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
19171781917. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 4to. Ltd. to 500 copies. Well illus. Covers slightly soiled/rubbed. <br/><br/>Covers American artists 1750-1850 hardcover books
1957006306Melbourne Australia: Colorgravure Publications 1957. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase one corner of the slipcase with a tape mend. #4314 of an edition of presumably 5000copies. Profusely illustrated with both B&W and color photographs. 200 pp. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Colorgravure Publications Hardcover books
1898005273Paris: Librairie de Medecine Folklore et Anthropologie 1898. #374 of 1000 copies published for England and America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth marbled end pages. Very Good both volumes gilt lettering mostly rubbed away hinges starting cloth a bit soiled contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Librairie de Medecine, Folklore et Anthropologie Hardcover books
1901008638Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1901. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tipped sheet at front end page - "Christmas greetings from John Burroughs Dec. 24 1920". This title SCARCE SIGNED. Very Good some spotting at end pages rubbed at corners and edges. "With fifteen illustrations in colors after Audubon and a frontispiece from life". . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover books
1956006568American Association for the Advancement of Science 1956. William K. Estes June 17 1919- August 17 2011 was an American psychologist who pioneered the application of mathematics to the study of animal learning and human cognition. He would go on to become a Presidential National Medal of Science winner in 1997 as a selection of President Bill Clinton. George W. Beadle Oct. 22 1903- Jun. 9 1989 along with Edward L. Tatum and J. Lederberg won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1958 for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. The certificate is Near Fine SIGNED BY George W. Beadle as President and by Dael Wolfle as Administrative Secretary. small corner creases. A great piece of history of science ephemera connecting two prominent figures in 20th century American scientific achievement. Beadle's signature is uncommon. SIGNED. One Page. Near Fine. 8 1/2" x 11". American Association for the Advancement of Science Paperback books