200 résultats
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
19776781977. Softcover. VG barcode on rear cover. Wraps. 56 pp. 107 bw plates. Introduction by William Gerdts. An illustrated catalogue of 107 paintings located during the Bicentennial Inventory of American Painting conducted by the Smithsonian. unknown books
1984590Morristown NJ: Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences 1984. Softcover. VG Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; corner slighlty bumped. Tan stapled wraps with cut-out in front cover. 28 pp. 12 bw 16 color repros. Issued in conjunction with 1983-1985 exhibitions of art produced by Charles Lanman 1819-1895. With foreward by E. Maurice Bloch & essay by Harry Frederick Orchard. Contains exhaustively documented essays with more than 200 footnotes. Lists 66 works. Great reproductions scarce. Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences paperback books
198451751984. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 38 pp. 6 bw 28 color plates. Catalogue lists 58 works. Bibliography essay on the artist by Harry Frederick Orchard. Nice color plates. paperback books
1983142291983. Softcover. VG- Light wear to extremities; Previous owner's name in ink on title page. Purple wraps. 39 pp. 23 color plates. Exhibition catalogue. This volume goes into detail about cataloging and dating the quilts care of the quilts and their display. Sprinkled throughout are wonderful color illustrations of quilts in the exhibition both historic and modern along with a description of the quilt or quote from the artist. Includes a one-page introduction by David Steven Cohen. paperback books
1896008479Chicago: J. S. Ziegler & Co. 1896. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt lettering marbled page edges flower and leaf patterned end papers. The title continues -"containing Full Information on All the Marvelous and Complex Matters Pertaining to Women including Creative Science; Bearing Nursing and Rearing Children; Hereditary Descent; Hints on Courtship and Marriage; Promoting Health and Beauty Vigor of Mind and Body etc. etc. together with Diseases Peculiar to the Female Sex Their Causes Symptoms and Treatment the whole forming a Complete Medical Guide for Women". Embellished with many superb colored plates phototype and wood engravings. Near Fine light soiling to boards light toning to end papers. A quite lovely copy and SCARCE thus. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. S. Ziegler & Co. Hardcover books
199126499NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0198691564 . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1918008470Hammond Indiana: Indiana Herb Gardens 1918. RARE in the 1918 First Edition. 3" w x 6 3/8" h blue cloth with black lettering and embossed Native American in medallion front cover. 400 pages portrait numerous illustrations in text index. Very Good cloth rubbed at tips boards soiled prior owner name and town in pencil several times front and rear end papers. A book that was in print as late as 1979. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Narrow 12mo . Indiana Herb Gardens Hardcover books
19832183NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. First limited edition set. Limited to 450 numbered copies signed by McPhee on the limitation page of each volume. Copies #187. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Issued without dustjackets. Illustrated slipcase. Faint toning on spine cloth not immediately apparent. Unread copies in Near Fine condition in a Fine slipcase. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
1939006068Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CO-AUTHOR L.S. McClung on the front end page of the Supplement - "For the Archives Of Indiana University L.S. McClung 21 Nov. 1983". Three Volume set. All 3 Volumes are Fine SCARCE in such lovely condition and SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. University of California Press 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
199823190Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0395861624 . Caldecott Medal winner. Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Fifth printing. Fine in a near fine faint crease to front panel price clipped dust jacket. Caldecott Medal emblem on front panel of dust jacket. . Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1893008934New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1893. vii 566 pages with 219 illustrations in text. Dated 1884 copyright page 1893 title page. SCARCE in any edition in current commerce. Near Fine in original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations top edge gilt from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. His ownership signature and name stamp front end page. Slight wear at spine ends light soiling at end pages. . Revised American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
1940006910Helsinki Finland: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1940. Two volumes in original dustjackets. Both volumes are Fine Vol.I dustjacket Very Good 1 1/2" triangular chip bottom edge at spine tears at spine folds and 2 tears horizontally at spine Vol. II jacket Near Fine small chips bottom edge of spine. List of donors laid in. One folding plate map index 15 folding maps at rear Vol. II. Numerous black and white photographs in text. A classic scholarly text ''In the spring of 1906 I received orders from the Russian General Staff to undertake a journey from Russian Turkestan through Chinese Turkestan and Western China and the provinces of Kan Su Shensi and Shansi to Peiping as the final goal. The object of this expedition was to study the conditions in the interior of Northern China collect statistical materials and perform various tasks of a military nature'' Preface. Mannerheim also collected archaeological and ethnographic materials and manuscripts and studied little-known peoples and tribes in Norther China. Mannerheim later became the 6th President of Finland after serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish armed forces during WWII. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura Hardcover books
1927006977London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1927. Very Good board soiled and rubbed at the tips chips to cloth at spine ends prior owner name front end page small number stamped rear paste down. Binding solid and text clean and unmarked. Malinowski's classic critique of psychoanalysis. International Library of Psychology Philosophy and Scientific Method. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
17481641Amsterdam: Chez l'honore et fils libraires 1748. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. I: 10 cxix 7 208 pp. 1 f. "Errata" for Tom. 1. II: 2 231 pp. 1 f. "Addition" 1 f. "Errata" for Tom 1 sic. First title page with unobtrusive paper defect on lower margin not affecting text; this copy is lacking half-title and Errata leaf for Tom. 2. Very attractive 19th-century French red glazed boards red morocco spine lettered in gilt directly two insignificant worm-holes on lower hinge leading nowhere; trifle wear to binding extremities. Completely unsophisticated. First printing of "Telliamed" in every way a remarkable book. Disguised as an Oriental fantasy it contains perhaps the earliest appearance of one of the most important of all evolution speculations namely the so-called ultra-neptunian theory: that the entire Earth was and is a marine deposit and that all life on land originated from creatures of the sea. Maillet hypothesized that the earth was once entirely covered with water and that the water gradually evaporated into space causing land masses to appear. Maillet also created an ingenious methodology to calculate the age of the Earth: he concluded that the Earth is 2 billion years old evolutionists today consider this figure to be more like 4.5 billion. It is known that Buffon Lamark Cuvier and Darwin read this book and that they were very much influenced by Maillet's unorthodox heretical views. Well aware that such an immense figure would incur the wrath of the Church de Maillet presented his conclusions in the guise of a dialogue between a French missionary and an Eastern mystic named Telliamed i.e. de Maillet spelled backwards. The manuscript remained unpublished until a decade after Maillet's death. In order to present his radical conclusions in the guise of an Oriental tale Maillet interspersed monsters and mythological creatures into his text. Overtly anti-Christian "Telliamed" dismisses the Flood of the Old Testament as a fable because rainfall that lasted forty days would have been insignificant to submerge entire mountains. Maillet asserted that the Earth's history could not be read from the Bible but through the rocks themselves. ¶ With uncanny prescience Maillet describes how species have overlapping physical characteristics that suggested a common life origin namely the sea. Through a Oriental mystic we are told that: "The little Wings had under their Belly and which like their Fins helped them to walk in the Sea became Feet and served them to walk on Land." ¶ REFERENCES: Caillet No. 7009. Versins Utopie p. 640. LITERATURE: "Charles Darwin et ses Precurseurs francais Paris 1870 Chapter 1: "the moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world." See also Albert Carozzi "De Maillet's 'Telliamed' 1748: An Ultra-Neptunian Theory of the Earth" in: Toward a History of Geology; Proceedings of the New Hampshire Inter-Disciplinary Conference on the History of Geology Sept. 7-12 1967. Mary Efrosini Gregory "Evolutionism in Eighteenth-century French Thought" Chapter 1. See also the article on Maillet in DSB IX pp. 26 et seq: "Maillet's ideas unquestionably influenced many leading naturalists for almost a century notably Buffon and Cuvier. Chez l'honore et fils, libraires hardcover books
1753008927Holmiae Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii Lars Salvius 1753. SCARCE in commerce in the First Edition. Earlier bookseller's note tipped at front end page states "p. 7576 Original issue removed and corrected pages tipped in. p. 89 90 and 259 260 original issue not removed corrected pages tipped in after dedication." Bound in contemporary quarter calf over paper covered boards with five raised bands and lettering and decorations back recently expertly rebacked with corners repaired and label replaced. 14 1-560 561-1200 pages 1 p. errata. Near Fine slight toning a quite handsome copy in newly refreshed contemporary binding. The first work to apply only two names to any large group of organisms organizing plant identification into a system that had been quite cumbersome into one that was simple and standard marking the begining of taxonomy as it is known today. Species Plantarum contained the names of every know plant at the time 600 species in all. One of the towering classics in the field of botany. . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Near Fine. Thick 8vo. Laurentii Salvii (Lars Salvius) Hardcover books
197236805Chicago: Univ. of Illinois 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. vii44 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Univ. of Illinois unknown 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
1966006689Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press 1966. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket slight rubbing at head of spine spine slightly toned. A handsome copy. . First Edition in English. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Chicago Press Hardcover books
200238385New Brunswick:: Rutgers University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0813530288 . First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . Rutgers University Press, hardcover books
1994SS12911Paris:: Gauthier-Villars Sept. 1994. 1994. Series: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences tome II no. 3 1994. 4to. pp. 149-221. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Includes another biographical paper on Lavoisier by Jean-Pierre Poirier Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794. Gauthier-Villars, Sept. 1994. unknown books
1994SS12910Paris:: Gauthier-Villars Nov. 1994. 1994. Series: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences tome II no. 4 1994. 4to. pp. 223-332. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Includes three papers on Laviosier and his work: 1 Claude Frejacques Modernite de Lavoisier; 2 Patrice Bret Lavoisier a la Regie des Poudres: le savant le financier l'administrateur et le pedagogue; 3 Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyere A propos d'une entreprise intellectuelle: La publication des Oeuvres et de la Correspondance de Lavoisier. Gauthier-Villars, Nov. 1994. unknown books
1949RH1572Paris:: La Revue 1949. 1949. Series: La Revue Litterature Histoire Arts et Sciences des Deux Mondes vol. 24 1959. 8vo. Printed wrappers; cover off. Worn. Full issue of this periodical. It contains additional papers written by d'Harcourt Deon Gignoux Therive Arrigon Humbourg Lizop Croise and others. La Revue, 1949. unknown books
176014266Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1760. Boards. Very Good. Vol 1: III-XVI 727 pages. Vol 2: 2 743 pages. Vol 3: 2 648 pages. Vol 4: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. 4 x 6 1/2 inches 12mo. Uniform period leather bindings with gold decoration to the spine panel leather labels and paper label as well on 4th volume. Leather is rubbed and scuffed corners worn spines hard to read. Second volume has tear to leather at top of spine. Bindings are fundamentally sound. Clean internally. First 3 volumes have decorated pastedown endpapers but plain flyleaves. Last volume has marbled endpapers. Not collated assumed complete sold as is. Boards. Roughly translated "A general table index of the matters contained in the history and the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from the year 1699 through 1734". Three volumes complete covering the alphabet A-Z. Together with the fourth volume not usually found covering years 1735-1751 and including a history of the Royal Academy of Sciences published in 1760 complete in one volume plus another index. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown books