‎Sciences‎

‎Chun Carl‎

‎Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres - Schilderungen von der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition‎

‎Jena: 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

Bookseller reference : 007889

‎NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL‎

‎Radioactive Waste Disposal into Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Waters: A Report from a working group of the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council‎

‎Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council 1959. Second Printing. Octavo 25cm.; publisher's white pictorial stapleboud card wrappers; viii37pp.; illus. and charts throughout. Light toning along wrapper extremities else Near Fine. Council Publication no. 655. National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 45073

‎Women in Sciences Education‎

‎Original Photograph of Female Students Studying Electricity 1905‎

‎Women'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

Bookseller reference : 16190

‎MAILLET Benoit de‎

‎Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de la Mer la formation de la Terre l'origine de l'homme etc. Mis en ordre par J.A.Guers‎

‎Amsterdam: 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

Bookseller reference : 1641

‎Linnaei Caroli Linne Carl Von; Linnaeus Carolus‎

‎Species Plantarum Exhibentes Plantas Rite Cognitas Ad Genera Relatas .seculum Systema Sexuale Digestas Two Volumes Bound in One‎

‎Holmiae 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

Bookseller reference : 008927

‎Marquis De Nadaillac; Translated by N. D'Anvers ; Edited by W. H. Dall‎

‎Pre-Historic America‎

‎New 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

Bookseller reference : 008934

‎Cazeaux P.‎

‎A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Midwifery Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition‎

‎Philadelphia: 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

Bookseller reference : 006440

‎19th c. Women Education Women in Sciences‎

‎Female Student at Teaching College in 1854 writes on astronomical observations and how she is looking forward to " the eclipse through the telescope.‎

‎19th c. Women's Education Autograph Letter Signed from female student dated May 25 1854. 4 pages folded from single sheet. 6.5 x 5.25 in. Written by student Eloise Hemstreet to her parents. She writes about her school which she feel is one of "the best of schools and one of the edens of the earth." She writes on her interest in astronomical observations and how she is looking forward to looking "at the eclipse through the telescope." She mentions "the college" and talks about the health and wellness of both male and female classmates at the Institution. Additionally she mentions that the College was getting a new roof. Research indicates Eloise was born in 1833 making her 21 at the time of this letter. She became a teacher thus was likely studying for the education profession as she wrote this letter. In the latter half of the 19th century women in America had growing access to higher education especially in the professional training to become teachers. For many women working as a teacher was the key to independence-both financial and socially. Hemstreet went on to teach in New York and Wisconsin where in 1861 she made $16 for teaching a summer session. Toning around bottom left edge and corner of page 1. Original fold lines with small 1/2 inch tear along outer edge of horizontal fold line on all pages. Very small tear 1/2 cm. along top edge of pages. Else in very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 17073

‎La Revue Litterature Histoire Arts et Sciences des Deux Mondes HAUTECOEUR Louis.‎

‎Pourquoi les Academies Furent-elles Supprimees en 1793‎

‎Paris:: 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

Bookseller reference : RH1572

‎Academie des sciences France; Juliette Boue Gauja; Marie Therese Delom; Observatoire de Paris.‎

‎Institut de France Academie des sciences troisieme centenaire 1666-1966 quelques souvenirs rassembles et decrits.‎

‎Paris: Observatoire de Paris 1966. 1966. 8vo. viii 66 pp. With the final supplemental inserted sheet. Facs. illus. Printed wrappers. Very good. Observatoire de Paris, 1966. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : RH1554

‎Academie of Sciences Paris.‎

‎Reglements interieurs de l'Academie des Sciences 1795-1886.‎

‎Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1890. 1890. 8vo. 230 pp. pages 15-16 torn without loss. Original green printed wrappers; covers off good working copy. Signature of Roger Hahn. Rare. Cited in Roger Hahn's classic The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution; The Paris Academy of Science 1666-1803 1971 p. 409. Gauthier-Villars, [1890]. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : RH1434

‎Historicky ustav CSAV Historical Institute Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences‎

‎Sedm pražských dnů 21.-27. serpen 1968: dokumentace Seven Days in Prague: August 21-27 1968: a documentation‎

‎Prague: Historický ústav ČSAV v Praze 1968. Octavo 20.4 × 15 cm. Original printed black wrappers over blind white wraps; 6 IV 1 35 37-54 1 blank 55-494 pp and fifty-six unnumbered pages with photographic reproductions interspersed. Good; wrappers worn and creased; binding shaken but intact. First edition of this documentation in text and image of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia which put a sudden end to the Prague Spring a period of political and cultural liberalization in the mid-1960s. The arrival of Russian troops on tanks on August 21 1968 heralded the onset of the so-called Normalization period presided over by Gustáv Husák and ended the political and cultural liberalization in the mid to late 1960s. Nearly 150 Czech citizens were killed during the invasion and many more wounded during protests. The response of the public was one of non-violent but active resistance: soldiers were misdirected street signs were removed food and water were denied the occupants and anti-Soviet posters and slogans appeared overnight. <br/><br/>This compilation was published semi-legally and at considerable risk only a month after the invasion. To defend themselves against repercussions the publishers used the printed label "Studijní materiál - pouze pro vnitřní potřebu" "Study materials - only for internal use". Aside from detailed timelines of the memorable days eyewitness accounts newspaper articles including translations from foreign press and transcriptions of official Soviet and Czechoslovak documents the volume contains dozens of photographs taken during the invasion. They show the movement of planes and tanks the faces of Czech politicians protests and demonstrations as well as the posters and handbills circulated in the immediate aftermath including many anti-Soviet banners and graffiti. The book was distributed in samizdat copies and quickly forwarded abroad: an English version edited by Robert Littell was published in 1969 with the title The Czech Black Book. paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 50841

‎Washington Academy Of Sciences‎

‎Proceedings Of The Washington Academy Of Sciences 13 Volumes complete‎

‎Washington: The Academy. Very Good. 1899-1911. Complete in 13 volumes 1899-1911 some with several parts ; most in original wrappers with vols 4 5 6 & 7 bound in maroon cloth. In 1911 the name was changed to "Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences" with a new vol. 1 no. 1 issued on July 19 1911. . The Academy hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 246396

‎American Academy of Arts and Sciences.‎

‎Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: To the end of the year MDCCLXXXIII.‎

‎Boston: 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>    <br>    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

Bookseller reference : 18342

‎California Academy of Sciences Colorado River‎

‎Academy News Letter‎

‎San 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

Bookseller reference : 3852

‎l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris‎

‎Table générale des matières contenues dans l'histoire et les mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris Depuis l'annèe 1699 jusques en 1734 Inclusivement 3 Volumes complete WITH a Fourth Volume containing Covering the Years 1735-1751 compl in One vol WITH Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences WITH MEMOIRES de L'Academie Royale Des Sciences Jusqu'a L'Annes MDCCLI. Inclusivement. Contenus dans la premiere Centurie des Volumes de l'Edition de Hollande‎

‎Amsterdam: 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

Bookseller reference : 14266

‎Berkovsky B. M.;International Centre for Mechanical Sciences‎

‎Thermomechanics of Magnetic Fluids: Theory and Applications Proceedings of the International Advanced Course and Workshop on Thermomechanics of Magnetic Fluids‎

‎Hemisphere 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

Bookseller reference : 15872 ISBN : 0891161430 9780891161431

‎Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences.‎

‎16 volumes of Biographical Memoirs.‎

‎Washington 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

Bookseller reference : S7889

‎Calendar R. Academie des Sciences de L'Institut de Bologne.‎

‎Note sur les derniers progres de la question de l'unification du calendrier dans ses rapports avec l'heure universelle. Aux Universites et corps savants representes aux fêtes du Huitieme Centenaire de L'Universite de Bologne.‎

‎Bologna:: 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

Bookseller reference : S6892

‎American Academy of Arts and Sciences.‎

‎Records of the Academy 1999.‎

‎Cambridge MA:: American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999. 1999. 254 x 179 mm. 8vo. vi 154 pp. Illus. lists of members. Printed wrappers. Very good. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : S4779

‎University of Chicago. Division of Social Sciences‎

‎Belorussia‎

‎New Haven: Human Relations Area Files 1955. Paperback. Very Good. maps xi 389p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Name on title-page. Subcontractor's Monograph HRAF-19. Title also appears as "Aspects of Contemporary Belorussia." <br/><br/> Human Relations Area Files paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 60529

‎Democritus Junior‎

‎The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is with All the Kinds Causes Symptoms Prognostics and Several Cures of It In Two Volumes‎

‎Philadelphia: T. Wardle 1836. SCARCE in the First American from the Thirteenth English Edition Corrected. In two volumes apparently rebound in late 1800s green cloth binding about Very Good leather spine labels rubbed and illegible small prior owner name stamp front end pages both volumes end pages foxed period prior owner name in ink volume one only moderate internal foxing and toning hinges starting but holding well. The first edition was published in 1621. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Wardle Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 006552

‎Committee on the Analysis of Massive Data Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics Board on Mathematical Sciences and T‎

‎FRONTIERS IN MASSIVE DATA ANALYSIS‎

‎Washington D.C.: The National Academic Press 2013. 176 pp. Softcover. Small 8vo. Black paper wrappers. Lightly bumped at head; else no other noticeable damage or flaws; interior tight clean and bright. A very nice copy. Very good/No jacket issued. The National Academic Press paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 48777 ISBN : 0309287782 9780309287784

‎White Gilbert; Edited by R. Bowdler Sharpe LLD. with an introduction to the Garden Kalendar by the Very Reverend S. Reynolds‎

‎The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne and a Garden Kalendar. In Two Volumes‎

‎London / New York : S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram gilt lettering at spines top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 008172

‎ThH. Theodoor Henrik Van De Velde . h. H.‎

‎Sex Efficiency Through Exercises Special Physical Culture For Women.‎

‎London: William Heinemann 1933. SCARCE "With 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations". Includes cinematographic supplement of 12 flip films illustrating exercises. From the collection of Rosalind Cassidy her namestamp half-title page one of the most distinguished leaders and thinkers in 20th century American physical education. Later from the collection of The Kinsey Institute for Sex Research its namestamps and "Duplicate Copy" stamp. Very Good hinges broken yet binding holding nicely rear joint 1" split to cloth. A SCARCE and fascinating book with quite nice Association to the fields of sex research and physical education. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Heinemann Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 007840