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1900007889Jena: Gustav Fischer 1900. 549 pp. 2 maps in text fold-out map at rear Near Fine small edge tears at folds 6 chromolithographs 8 heliogravures 32 full page plates and 390 plates in text. Bound in quarter black cloth over paper covered boards hand-written label at spine period handwriting title page small stamp "Konigl. Seminar Lobau" title page. Very Good a quite well-bound book and SCARCE in the 1900 First Edition. Carl Chun 1852-1914 was a German marine biologist a specialist on cephalopods and plankton. Chun's expedition on the "Valdivia" in 1898-99 was the first large-scale German expedition to explore the deep sea. First Edition. Quarter Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gustav Fischer Hardcover books
1963S7908Washington D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences 1963. 1963. Thick 8vo. 108 compounds described to supplement the publication Specifications and Criteria for Biochemical Compounds figs. Cloth ring binder. Ownership rubber stamps and signature of Norman Horowitz. FINE. National Academy of Sciences, 1963. hardcover books
1894006961Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co. 1894. SCARCE in such lovely collectible condition. Near Fine tiny rubs to cloth at corners gilt bright contents are clean tight and unmarked. 302 pp. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The F. A. Davis Co. Hardcover books
1850006440Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston 1850. Translated by Robert P. Thomas M.D. xxiv 765 2 ads. Very Good leather rubbed prior owners name front end page some pencil notations rear end pages foxing and toning to end pages and some foxing throughout. Most internal pages clean and unfoxed. Excellent frontispiece lithograph illustration of a female infant with internal organs in color. Illustrated throughout in black and white. . First American Edition. Full Tan Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lindsay and Blakiston Hardcover books
19473852San Francisco 1947. Number 96. Bifolium. 4pp. Single leaf folded in half 20 cm x 28 cm. Near fine. Monthly newsletter featuring a few brief Academy news items including two brief pieces on the Grand Canyon one of which described a trip through the Grand with Norman Nevills. Cover photograph by Otis 'Doc' Marston from the library of Francis Farquhar. <br/><br/>"Members of the Academy will enjoy this series on the exploits of their fellow members the Farquhars and Norman Nevills. The title: Through the Grand Canyon with America's Famous Boatman Norman Nevills. unknown books
1955039798San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences 1955. x 807p. b/w illus. original blue cloth quarto format. California Academy of Sciences unknown books
1981138730San Francisco Calif: The California Academy of Sciences 1981. Hardcover. VG- slight soiling to white canvas; identity mark from previous library owner on slipcase. White stamped canvas cloth matching white canvas cloth slipcase 96 pp. 42 color plates. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Native American paintings by Maynard Dixon 1875-1946. With essays by Donald J. Hagerty Ansel Adams Constance dixon Dan Dixon John Dixon Winona Tomanoczy and Edith Hamlin. Striking and vibrant visuals. With a separate paper catalog from the exhibition. The California Academy of Sciences hardcover books
1888S6892Bologna:: Bamberini et Parmegolani 1888. 1888. 8vo. 26 pp. Original printed wrappers; dis-bound extremities chipped. Ex library rubber stamp and ms. notations on top cover. Good. Bamberini et Parmegolani, 1888. unknown books
1921006507American Philosophical Society 1921. SCARCE. Reprinted from Proceedings of American Philosophical Society vol. lx no.4 1921. Paginated 503-623 with 3 fold out maps. Near Fine bound in stiff cardstock with cloth tape spine light spoiling. Carl Henry Eigenmann Mar. 9 1863 - Apr. 24 1927 was an ichthyologist who along with his wife Rosa Eigenmann described many of the fishes of North America and South America for the first time. Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. American Philosophical Society Paperback 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
1904004761Pittsburgh PA: Murdoch-Kerr Press 1904. First Edition 1904. Very Good in the original blue cloth gilt lettering at spine decorative end pages 267 pages including 6 pgs. of advertisements "confined to manufacturers who had exhibits in the hall at the place of meeting and are exclusively of apparatus included in such exhibits". Includes rosters of officers and members constitution by-laws minutes secretary and treasurer reports and program. Illustrated with photographs. While this was the 4th annual meeting reportedly only the 2nd year that the Transactions were published. Wilhelm Rontgen had made his discovery of the rays that he called X-rays only 9 years earlier in 1895. Very Good lettering at spine dulled yet legible light soiling and rubbing to cloth boards light soiling to page block. RARE. A handsome copy of this important early work of the development and history of x-rays. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Murdoch-Kerr Press Hardcover books
19869013Radnor: Chilton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0801975115 . First printing. Fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Chilton 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
199525799NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0192142143 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1957006613Bruxelles Belgium: Academie Royale Des Sciences Morales et Politiques 1957. SCARCE. pp. 792 fod-out map and a section of black and white photographs at rear. Near Fine prior owner name at top edge front wrapper sticker shadow and slight wear at spine. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academie Royale Des Sciences Morales et Politiques Paperback books
1928006685New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1928. Boas' classic treatise on race and culture RARE in the original 1928 First Edition and in collectible condition. 236pp. 10 pp references. Very Good in the original black cloth with paper labels front board and spine spine label a bit darkened and a trifle rubbed cloth a few small rubs contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W W Norton & Co Inc Hardcover books
1933004111New York: Falstaff Press Inc. 1933. From the Institute for Sex Research The Kinsey Insttitute Library with their small book plate bottom corner half title page library catalog numbers in pencil copyright page "Duplicate" stamp rear pastedown and sticker residue near base of spine. Number 629 of a Limited Edition of 3000 copies. Bound in decorative brown cloth with gilt rules and gilt titles at spine. Page 5 has a small added triangle of paper near top corner a small binding error. Otherwise book is clean tight and square. According to Sigmund Freud Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. Before Bloch homosexuality was analyzed using a pathological approach. SCARCE in collectible condition and with the added significance of having come from the Kinsey Institute !. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. Falstaff Press Inc. Hardcover 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
19685903Binghamton NY: Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences 1968. Hardcover. G Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; front hinge beginning to pull away. Tan buckram. 73 pp. 12 color 59 bw plates. Considers the life and work of American artist Fletcher Martin 1904-1979. With foreword by Keith Martin. Introductory essay by Peter Pollack. Illustrated comment by the artist followed by a detailed chronology and the plates. Lists 9 drawings and 61 paintings. Uncommon. Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences hardcover books
1908004763Indianapolis IN: Aetna Press 1908. Very Good in the original black cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine. Rear hinge starting to separate edges of page block and endpages lightly soiled presentation inscription "For the Library of the Physio Medical College Indianapolis Ind." handwritten in ink front endpage. "Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine which made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries." Wikipedia. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Aetna Press Hardcover books
197815872Hemisphere Pub Corp 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Wear to the dj at the top edges. Bumped at the base of the spine panel. Clean internally. Title: Thermomechanics of Magnetic Fluids: Theory and Applications Proceedings of the International Advanced Course and Workshop on Thermomechanics of Magnetic Fluids. Hard Cover. Hemisphere Pub Corp unknown books
1837007672London: John Van Voorst 1837. First Edition 1837 in signed Tout Binder half red morocco over marbled boards lined in gilt five raised bands gilt lined gilt lettering and tail date end pages marbled top edge gilt ribbon marker numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Armorial bookplate front paste down of Captain James Stewart Alltyrodyn a noted collector. Also laid in the card of noted 20th century American collector Lewis Vogler. Near Fine slight toning to end pages small rubs to two of the raised bands. A quite handsome copy with excellent provenance of this classic work. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Van Voorst Hardcover books
200128272Cambridge: MIT Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0262025027 . First edition. Fine in a very near fine light scratch on front panel dust jacket. . MIT Press hardcover books
1988226721Washington DC: National Academy Press 1988. Paperback. xiii 84p. softbound in 9x6 inch wraps. Covers are a bit rubbed with a little edgewear and a minuscule tear in foredge margin. Clean and sound a good copy. National Academy Press paperback books
1951006191New York: The Studio Publications Inc.in Association with Thomas y Crowell Co. 1951. RARE in publisher's box and with the full set of 16 additional full color Royal Octavo Edition Plates. The book is Fine in light grey cloth with Near Fine set of plates in matted portfolio small corner creases. Publisher's box is Very Good corners tape mended and lightly rubbed. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Studio Publications Inc.in Association with Thomas y Crowell Co. Hardcover books