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Carpenter, M Scott, L Gordon Cooper, Jr, John GlennBiblio.com

We Seven THE ASTRONAUT'S LIBRARY Volume 3 - Signed and Numbered

De CHARPENTIER, JeanBiblio.com

Essai sur Les Glaciers et sur Le Terrain Erratique Du Basson Du Rhone. Avec des vignettes des planches et une carte du terrain erratique du bassindu Rhone

184143875Lausanne: Imprimerie et Labraire de Marc Lucloux Editor 1841. 8vo. 23cm first edition with lithography rear folding map & 8 litho plates 23 text illustrations some slight occasional foxing the text block is clean otherwise rebound in contemporary style quarter speckled brown calf blind ruled raised bands dark crimson calf label gilt title marbled boards and end paper signed binding â€œbound by Pierre Thibideauâ€ a fine unopened attractively bound copy with the original printed wrappers and spine panel laid in. Fine. ~ Jean de Charpentier or Johann von Charpentier 8 December 1786 â€“ 12 December 1855 was a German-Swiss geologist who studied Swiss glaciers. In 1818 a catastrophic event changed his life focus when an ice-dammed lake in the Val de Bagnes above Martigny broke through its barrier causing many deaths. Afterwards he made extensive field studies in the Alps. Using evidence of erratic boulders and moraines and drawing on the works of Goethe he hypothesized that Swiss glaciers had once been much more extensive. These boulders characteristic of glaciers were strewn as if they were brought there by glaciers that no longer existed. Even so he wasn't sure how glaciers first formed moved or how they disappeared. His ideas were later taken up and developed by Louis Agassiz. â€“ â€œCharpentier. Essai Sur le Glaciersâ€¦â€ 1841 a classic of scrupulous care in weighing evidence describing the erratic blocks and explaining the function of glaciers in transporting them. Save for a bit of light foxing to a few pages the text pages are typically fresh clean and bright as are the engraved plates and colored map. The map "Carte du terrain erratique de la VallÃ©e du RhÃ´ne" unfolds to 18 by 15 inches and is like new. The folding plate of the RhÃ´ne Glacier is striking. Imprimerie et Labraire de Marc Lucloux, Editor unknown

Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC) · Canada1 200,00 $CA≈ 815,04 €

Carpenter Horace W.; James Miller & Richard N. Snowden State Prison InspectorsABAA

ANNUAL REPORT Of The INSPECTORS Of STATE PRISON To The LEGISLATURE Of The STATE Of CALIFORNIA February 15 1855.; Document No. 13. In Senate. Session 1855

185520582Sacramento CA: B. B. Redding State Printer 1855. 1st edition. Not in Cowan nor Greenwood. Bound in later blue-grey paper wrappers. Overall VG a faint qtr-circle stain to upper left of text paper/'San Quentin / -- 1855 --" written diagonally to lower half of front wrapper. Ex-lib with 2 small stamps to t.p. & a lightly penciled purchase annotation in the gutter after the 1st leaf 10 Nov 61 JR $10.00. 54 2 pp. "Register and Descriptive List of Convicts under Sentence": pp. 12 - 35 beginning with 1851; "Transcript of Received Escaped and Returned Prisoners since the Inspection of State Prison Books": pp 38 - 40. Last leaf blank. 8vo. 23.5 cm x 14 cm. This an interesting factual account regarding the early days of the prison an era when it wasn't quite impregnable edifice that now stands; in 1854 75 of 520 incarcerated individuals had escaped without recapture. This situation caused Governor John Bigler to write: "Gentlemen: Having learned from various reliable sources that quite a number of escapes have recently occurred from the State Prison which to some extent is in your charge I deem it my duty respectfully to invite your attention to the section of the law regulating your duties. These escapes permit me here to remark give great force to allegations daily and publicly made that the prison building is insecure and that its management is not such as to fully accomplish the object of its erection in prevention and punishment of crime." However since the place is still going strong one can be reasonably confident the governor's concerns were addressed. Rare; Not in Cowan Greenwood nor Rocq. Not in the LoC on-line catalogue. OCLC & Melvyl record but one copy UCSB & no copies have been at auction these last 25 years. No other copies currently offered via the on-line matching services. B. B. Redding, State Printer unknown books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

Carpenter William B.ABAA

Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget

187941099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police FÃªte. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown books

Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

Carpenter, William BBiblio.com

Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget

187941099London 1879. Carpenter William B. 1813-85. Autograph letter signed to Mr. John Paget 1811-98. London 56 Regents Part Rd. N.W. June 2 1879. 4pp. 178 x 114 mm. A few tiny pin-holes but fine otherwise. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain Oxford DNB through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious-he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's letter which discusses a false confession to murder made by a mentally unbalanced young man reads in part as follows: Dear Mr. Paget In turning out my papers at the University today I have come upon a document which I forward to you containing the Father's statement of his Son's relation to the "Brompton Murder" case with full particulars of the latter's confession and its inconsistency with the facts. I believe that I did not send in this to the Home Secy.; but that what I specially urged upon him was the evidence with which Knowles had supplied me of the "cracky" nature of the youth's mind and of the obviously hereditary tendency to brood as shown in the father and aunt-the latter an old servant of Knowles. And I remember also that there was evidence of the youth having had money in the Savings Bank and of his having drawn out a pound just before the Crystal Palace Police Fête. This altogether made so strong an impression on Mr. Bruce that he at once commuted the sentence; and the family were so sensible that the lad was not fit to take care of himself that they expressed no disappointment at his not having received a free pardon. . . . Carpenter's correspondent was the police magistrate and author John Paget whose Paradoxes and Puzzles published in 1874 included accounts of a number of sensational crimes. We have not been able to identify the murder case to which Carpenter refers in his letter. . unknown

Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

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