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1945006648Pennsylvania: Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology 1945. From the collection of noted semiotician linguist and folklorist Thomas A. Sebeok his last name signature in ink front end pages of all 4 bulletins. 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. In addition to Fenton's 4-part article on the Cornplanter Senecas also contains Autumn L. Leonard's 4 part article "The Presque Isle Portage and the Venango Trail" and other related articles. The bulletins paginated 1-38 39-67 68-101 and 102-136. All 4 bulletins Very Good Plus or better in addition to Sebeok's signature there are handwritten titles on front covers and some marginal notes and checkmarks all in Sebeok's hand. SCARCE as a set. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Paperback 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
198118151Beverly Hills: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1981. Revised. Wraps. Very good. 4to. Pictorial wraps. A very good copy. Mild edgewear sunning. Bright clean tight throughout. 248pp. <br/><br/>A reproduction of the 1937 directory of Hollywood actors' headshots phone numbers and studio information. Includes introduction and preface. (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) paperback books
1963149981963. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 18 pp. 17 bw plates. Catalogue lists 112 works with a list of the prize winners and many fine illustrations. unknown books
197629006Mexico: n.p. 1976. First edition. Paper wrappers. Near fine copies with only a little rubbing at the corners. 8vo. In Spanish English or French. Includes Seminars volume plus 5 of 7 Abstracts volumes: 3. South Asia; Asia del sur.-4. SouthEast Asia Sudeste Asiatico.-5. China. Chine-6. Japan and Korea Japon y Corea.-7. Interarea. n.p. unknown 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
1955039798San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences 1955. x 807p. b/w illus. original blue cloth quarto format. California Academy of Sciences unknown books
1963005223Oxford England: Bodleian Library 1963. "100 copies handset by Roy Herman Sowers and printed on the old Daniel press in the Bodleian Library Oxford August 1963". Fine in stitched brown wrappers 6 pgs. A small reprint of one of the first medical books published in English. SCARCE. . Limited Edition. Stitched Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bodleian Library Paperback books
1935004049Reed College Portlaand OR: Griffin Lawrence E. 1935. 6th Edition 1935. Very Good prior owner name and ph. number in ink front wrapper pencilled notes rear wrapper pencilling and underlining throughoutobviously used by a student. Classic guide on this subject matter and SCARCE in any of the early editions. . 6th Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Griffin, Lawrence E. Paperback 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
189456228N.p. Cambridge Mass. 1894. 4to approx. 200 pages several diagrams and drawings in loose sheets often with paste-overs and cancels and bound in contemporary marbled boards tied with string and nearly broken; spine perished; good or better and legible. For a good account of Holmes see DAB. Born in 1815 in Peterborough N.H. and a graduate of Phillips-Exeter Harvard and Harvard Law he removed to St. Louis where he was first the city then the county attorney. In 1868 he returned to Cambridge where he became a professor of law at Harvard. He "did no legal writing but was widely interested in other subjects. His Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself 1888 exhibits extensive philosophic and scientific reading but has no perceptible influence and now seems unreadable . His scholarship and fairness have been praised by his opponents. In his old age he compiled a Genealogy of the Holmes Family of Londonderry N.H. containing garrulous sketches of his relatives and a long autobiography" DAB. As well as this extensive treatise on gravitation and electricity begun when he was nearly 80. <br/><br/> 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
1982S5054Washington D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences 1982. 1982. 254 x 192 mm. 29 pp. Frontis. port. Printed wrappers. Very good. National Academy of Sciences, 1982. 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
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
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
196928952Moscow: Nauka" Publishing House 1969. First Edition. Octavo 21.75cm.; original black cloth-backed decorative boards spine lettered in silver; 309pp. Some dust-soiling boards a bit shelf-worn more heavily so at corners else Near Very Good and sound. First volume to be published of this annual. Nauka" Publishing House unknown 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
1953Z1598Cambridge:: Sanborn C. Brown 1953. 1953. 8vo. 32 pp. Illustrations. Printed wrappers; slightly rubbed. Very good. Scarce. Sanborn C. Brown, 1953. unknown 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
1997BL3726Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1997. 1997. 8vo. 181 pp. Illus. portraits index. Printed wrappers. Very good. Gauthier-Villars, 1997. unknown 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
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
1898006693New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1898. Authorized Edition 1898. Near Fine in Half-Leather over marbled boards leather a few small rubs most pages yet uncut. A quite handsome copy. . Later Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Co. 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
