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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
1981007455New York: A Studio Book/ the Viking Press 1981. SCARCE. Publisher's promotional poster 20"w x 27"h featuring a striking photograph portrait by Kirk. Distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1981. Near Fine faint small creases. Well suited for framing. All posters shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20" x 27". A Studio Book/ the Viking Press books
200120599NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0060193611 . Fifth printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge else near fine in a near fine trace edge wear fold-out dust jacket. . HarperCollins hardcover books
16706Boole Mary. " Mathematical Psychology". First Edition. Hardcover 116 pages Swan Sonnenschein & Co. LTD. New York. G.P Putnam's Sons 1897. Wife of famous mathematician George Boole. She had progressive ideas on educationand feminists. Boole mathematical work crossed disciplines showing that mathematical data could help humans to better predict and understand cognitive processes. Very Good Condition. 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
195925996Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council 1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. ix 155 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Printed two-tone blue wrappers. Minor creasing and sun browning. Clean internally. Nuclear Science Series Report Number 24. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council publication 573. Wraps. Essentially the verbatim transcript of an informal conference on the matter. Early for this subject. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council unknown books
1734D4425Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de lAcadémie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusquà 1699. Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1733-1734. Part I: 231pp.; Part II: 294pp.; Part III: 215pp. 97 engraved folding plates depicting animals and skeletal diagrams. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Claude Perrault in first volume. Contemporary French calf spines gilt edges red; some occasional browning; repairs to joints some rubbing. Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate D.P. with chipmunk and two mice. A later reduced format edition of Perraults Memoires of 1671-1676 Perraults study of this nature was first published in 1669 with the results of investigations of five animals and later expanded with studies of over forty animals. Prior to 1670 most descriptions of animals paid little attention to their internal structure and there were very few images in natural history encyclopedias that depicted skeletons or muscles. That changed with the establishment of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the approval of King Louis XIV. The Academy functioned with neither statutes nor regulations until 1699. At that time the Academy used the term mathématique to encompass the fields that are now called astronomy mathematics and physics and the term physique to encompass the fields that are now called anatomy botany zoology and chemistry. In January 1699 Louis reorganized the Academy giving it first regulations. The effect was to give the King more control over their activities in exchange for becoming an official institution under his protection with the new name Académie Royale des Sciences. One of the original academicians the physician Claude Perrault organized regular sessions at which participants could dissect deceased animals from Louis XIVs royal menagerie and record all they observed. Lions chameleons bears gazelles wolves ostriches crocodiles monkeys eagles tigers porcupines and salamanders among some were all laid open by the academics scalpels. These superb folding plates record in great detail the pioneering work at the Academy. These three volumes in three parts focus on the transformative and foundational years of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and Claude Perraults efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. <br/><br/> Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover books
1785876331785. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: TO THE END OF THE YEAR MDCCLXXXIII. Vol. 1: Boston: Adams and Nourse 1785. i-iii - xxxii 568pp. 1 f.errata. 4to 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". Six folding plates. Contemporary calf binding. Front and rear hinges cracked but attached. Vol. 2: pt.1 Isaiah Thomas & Ebenezer T. Andrews 1793. i-v- 200. pt.2 Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge 1804. i-iii - 24. 1- -168. Bound as one in contemporary calf. Contains 3 plates including one folding plate of a reproduction of James Winthrop's sketch of the Deighton Rock petroglyphs.Front board detached; rear hinge cracked. Ex-library copy previously owned by noted Boston physician Buckminster Brown. Text is mostly clean with some mild foxing and ink staining . First two volumes of the series published by one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the country. Created during the Revolution it included John Adams Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock among other luminaries. Volume 2 which includes an obituary of George Washington published in 1804 is quite scarce. $3250.00. unknown books
17854672Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse in Court-Street 1785. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare complete copy with the six folding plates. Later 3/4 leather and marbled boards; boards loose. The Academy's members included George Washington John Adams John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin. <br/><br/> Printed by Adams and Nourse, in Court-Street 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
198927435NY:: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 1989. Hardcover. 0521372941 . First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Number stamped on front free endpaper else near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, hardcover books
200036145Boston:: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0395977657 . Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Houghton Mifflin, hardcover books
193766152Washington: National Academy of Sciences. Good. 1937. Hardcover. Ex-library with usual library marks. 350 pages rebound with cloth tape and cardboard covers with the original pamphlet cover pasted to the front. The covers are rough but the contents are bright and complete. Good. . National Academy of Sciences hardcover books
198225134Cambridge: The MIT Press 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good . 8vo. 266 pp. First American edition. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer. Rear cover blurbs by Michel Foucault Georges Canguilhem and Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. A fine copy in lightly worn dustwrapper. History of Science. The MIT Press hardcover 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
200122619Cambridge: MIT Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0262041871 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. . MIT Press 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
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
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
1902587491902. WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1902. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Vol. IV pp. 1-47 March 22 1902. Washington DC: Published by the Academy 1902. 8vo. printed wrappers. Moderate edgewear soil notation to wraps. Very good. unknown books
1887004764Chicago: W.t. Keener 1887. Very Good in the original green cloth gilt lettering spine and front board boards are rubbed and solied lacking the rear endpage. Presentation book plate front paste down -"Presented to the Physio-Medical College of Indiana By Melville C. Keith M.D. Christmas 1888". Errata slip tipped in at final page of text. Edwin Hartley Pratt was the founder of the Chicago-based Orificial Surgery Society in 1887. Orificial surgery sought to cure many of the physical and psychological ills of the body by surgical corrections to the various orifices mainly those below the waist. This movement in mainstream American medicine flourished until the 1920s and the numbers of those subjected to orificial surgery during its brief heyday are estimated to be in the tens of thousands. It is remembered mainly today for its advocacy of circumcision in both males and females. RARE in the 1887 First Edition a wonderful curiosity for any medical book collection !. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.t. Keener 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
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
196265601962. Softcover. VG slight soiling. Wraps. appx. 12 pp. 10 bw plates. One page foreword by Henry B. Caldwell. Catalogue lists 35 works. One page of biographical information. unknown books
1988164131988. Softcover. VG very slight wear on cover. White wraps. 21 pp. 11 color 4 bw plates. unknown books