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‎Our Daily Bread Ministries; Discovery House [Compiler]‎

‎Grief STRENGTH FOR THE SOUL BOOK‎

‎Discovery House 2006-10-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Discovery House paperback‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : Q-1572932023 ISBN : 1572932023 9781572932029

‎Packard, J. F.‎

‎STANLEY IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA. A Complete Record of the Great Explorations In the Heart of the Dark Continent, By Henry M. Stanley, Embracing How He Found Livingstone. Also a Full Description of His Perilous and Thrilling Adventure of 2,500 Miles to th‎

‎pp. iv, 714 + Plus portrait frontis. Numerous full page wood engravings. Foxed. Some signatures loose. Penciled ownership of Percy Schock. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, embossed in gold and black. Binding somewhat worn and spotted. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/5‎

‎PARES E./ROY J.E/DONCOURT A.S.‎

‎Voyage et aventures de trois jeunes français en Californie,Le fossoyeur de Kerbiane,Voyage de François Levaillant aux pays des grands et des petits Namaquois- l’Afrique Australe à notre époque.Histoire de Russie depuis les temps les plus reculés continuée jusqu’à nos jours par M de M.les petits-fils d’Emaïou la Nouvelle Zélande à notre époque.‎

‎1)Voyage et aventures de trois jeunes français en Californie suivi de Le fossoyeur de Kerbiane, suivi de Voyage de François Levaillant aux pays des grands et des petits Namaquois-l’Afrique Australe à notre époque. 2) Histoire de Russie depuis les temps les plus reculés continuée jusqu’à nos jours par M de M. 3) les petits-fils d’Emaï ou la Nouvelle Zélande à notre époque.Trois titres en un volume in 4 pleine toile rouge d’éditeur à décor passe-partout,titre au dos fers à froid, J Lefort Lille Paris 1878 1879 1885.1) Faux-titre titre illustré 196 pages, 1 illustration pleine page Lefort 1885, 2) faux-titre, frontispice, titre 192 pages 3)faux-titre, frontispice, titre, 192 pages Lefort 1878. Coiffe supérieure et coin supérieur droit dur premier plat réparés‎

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‎PARKMAN, Francis‎

‎Pionners of France in the new world - Huguenots in Florida - Samuel de Champlain‎

‎BOSTON, Little, Brown and company - 1907 - In-12 - Reliure éditeur légèrement frottée, illustrée au 1er plat - Frontispice, carte, index - Texte en anglais - 491 pages - Très propre‎

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‎PASTEUR, (LOUIS). - THE DISCOVERY OF ANAEROBIC LIFE‎

‎Animalcules infusoires vivant sans gaz oxygène libre et déterminant des fermentations.‎

‎Paris Mallet-Bachelier 1861. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 52 No 8. Pp. 321- 368. Entire issues offered. Pasteur's paper: pp. 344-347. Minor marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a milestone paper in microbiology being the paper in which Pasteur disclosed his discovery of organisms that lived without oxygen. Two years later he named them anaerobic or zymics contrasting to aerobic which only lived in the presence of free oxygen."In 1861 he turned his attention to the butyric fermentation and made another importent discovery viz. that this fermentation proceeds in the absence of oxygen. In the fermented material he found cylindrical rods which he showed were the cause of the fermentation. Following the nomenclature and ideas of the time he regarded them as animal in character and named them Vibrio." Bullock "The History of Bacteriology" p. 61. </em> unknown‎

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‎PASTEUR, LOUIS - ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF "MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY"‎

‎Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline et la composition chimique et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire; Extrait. Séance du Lundi 22 Mai 1848.‎

‎Paris Bachelier 1848. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 26 No 21. Pp. 529- 548. Entire issue offered. Pasteur's paper: pp. 535-538. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of the announcement of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of "molecular assymetry" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages in order to establish priority the paper offered. A more full exposition was published the same year in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome XXIV."In 1848.Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise now-counterclockwise effect under the microscope and found that the xcrystasls were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resemmbled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove.This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work.Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance to follow various chemical reactions and so on."Asimov. Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry" p. 374-379. </em> unknown‎

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‎PASTEUR, LOUIS - DISCOVERY OF "MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY"‎

‎Recherches sur les relations qui peuvent exister entre la forme cristalline la composition chimique et le sens de la polarisation rotatoire. Note sur la Cristallisation du soufre. Memoir on the relation that can exist between crystalline form an.‎

‎Paris Victor Masson 1848 a. 1851. 8vo. 2 contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepages and on verso of 1 plate. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome XXIV and XXXI. 6512 pp. and 2 plates 512 pp. a. 4 plates.2 entire volumes offered. Pasteur's papers: pp. 442-459 a. pp. 459-460 1 double-page folded engraved plate pp. 67-102 a. 1 plate. Some scattered brownspots to first part of the first volume not affecting P's papers. <br/><br/><em>First full exposition of Pasteur's momentous and revolutionary discovery of "molecular assymetry" and founding the science of Polarimetry.The discovery was first announced by Pasteur in may 1848 by the printing of the preliminary report of only 4 short pages in order to establish priority. The announcement - 4 pages - was published in Comptes rendus hebdomadaires de l’Académie des Sciences Paris Seance of May 15 1848 26 21 535-538 Published on May 1848."In 1848.Pasteur studied the crystals of tartrates one of the substances that exhibited the now-clockwise now-counterclockwise effect under the microscope and found that the crystals were mirror images of the others. The two crystals resembled each other as a right-hand glove resembles a left-hand glove.This was a revolutionary discovery and it took some courage to announce it. A few years before the well-known chemist Mitscherlich had studies the same tartrate crystals and declared them all to be identical. Pasteur was only a twenty-sic-year-old unknown. neverthelless he announced his findings and went before Biot to repeat the separation ofthe crystals before the eyes of the aged authority in the field. Biot was convinced and Pasteur received the Rumford medal of the Royal Society for his work.Pasteur had thus founded the science of polarimetry in which the measurements of the manner in which the plane of polarized light was twisted could be used to help to determine the structure of organic substance to follow various chemical reactions and so on."Asimov. Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book of Chemistry" p. 374-379. </em> hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 49336

‎Patent Office Reports.‎

‎ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1851. PART I ARTS & MANUFACTURES. U.S. Senate.‎

‎519 p. + Two lithographed plates of items for the Chinese market. Foxed. Original full purple cloth binding. Hardbound. Good. BOX 66 Basement.‎

‎Patent Office Reports.‎

‎ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1853. PART I ARTS & MANUFACTURES [MECHANICS]. U.S. House.‎

‎510 p. Illustrated throughout in white on black woodcuts. Foxed and damped. Original full purple cloth binding. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BOX 66 Basement‎

‎Patent Office Reports.‎

‎ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1856. ARTS & MANUFACTURES. U.S. Senate.‎

‎Three volumes. pp. 640; 518; 593. The third volume contains the drawings and illustrations for the patents. Worn original full black cloth binding. Scarce. Hardbound. Good. BOX 66 Basement‎

‎Patent Office Reports.‎

‎ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1860. ARTS & MANUFACTURES. Vol. II. U.S. House.‎

‎Volume Two only (Plates). 643 p. Original full black cloth binding, chipped. Great Civil War era commercial and industrial illustrations. Hardbound. Good. BOX 66 Basement‎

‎Patent Reports.‎

‎REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS FOR THE YEAR 1854. Arts and Manufactures. In two volumes.‎

‎Two volumes. pp. vii, 776; xxxii, 332. Includes a great many technical drawings. 8vo. 240 mm. Original cloth bindings, decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Non-uniform. Hardbound. Very Good. NOTE: Early embossed ownership of Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816-1892) a career U.S. Army officer and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the Union Army during and after the American Civil War. Despite his Southern birth, Meigs strongly opposed secession and remained loyal to the Union; his record as Quartermaster General was regarded as outstanding, both in effectiveness and in ethical probity, and Secretary of State William H. Seward viewed it as a key factor in the Union victory. The ownership stamp highlights his favorite pre-war engineering project - the Washington Aqueduct (1852-1860). He supervised the construction of the monumental Union Arch Bridge across Cabin John Creek, designed by Alfred Rives, which for 50 years remained the longest single-span masonry arch in the world. It also mentions his service (1853-1859) supervising the building of the wings and dome of the United States Capitol. A remarkable record of 19th Century American invention and ingenuity, in an example associated with one of the most important figures of the Civil War era. BOX 66 Basement‎

‎Patrick Restellini‎

‎Les merveilles du monde et leurs secrets‎

‎FERNAND NATHAN Sans date.‎

‎Bon état‎

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‎Paul Martin‎

‎Défis fous à travers le monde‎

‎Nathan Sans date.‎

‎Bon état‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 500308819

‎PAULHAN Jean.‎

‎Oeuvres complètes.‎

‎Paris, Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1966. 5 volumes in-8, format oblong, pleine reliure verte, 312-341-436-545 et 524 pages, plus une table et des notes par volume. Edition originale des Oeuvres complètes réalisée d'après les maquettes de Bruno Pfäffli pour le compte des Editions Tchou. Exemplaire sur numéroté sur vélin. Trsè bel exemplaire en PARFAIT état. Tome 1 : Récits. Les instants bien employés suivis de Jean Paulhan, voyageur et conteur ou le Monde inconnu par André Dhôtel. (Lalie. - Progrès en amour assez lents - Le Pont traversé. - Le Guerrier appliqué.- La guérison sévère. - Aytré qui perd l'habitude. - La métromanie ou les dessous de la capitale.- Les Causes célèbres. - Guide d'un petit voyage en Suisse. - L'aveuglette. - De mauvais sujets. - Une semaine au secret. - 13 Entretien à la radio avec Robert Mallet. Etc., etc...)‎

‎PAYEN, A et JF PERSOZ - DISCOVERY OF THE FIRST ENZYME, DIASTASE J F‎

‎Mémoire sur la diastase les principaux produits de ses réactions et leurs applications aux arts industriels" Memoir on diastase the principal products of its reactions and their applications to the industrial arts‎

‎Paris Crochard 1833. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands gilt spine with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spine. Stamps to verso of titlepage. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." Series 2 tome 53. Entire volume offered. 448 pp. Payen & Persoz's paper: pp. 73-92. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneering paper in industrial chemistry and microbiology being the discovery of the first Enzyme Diastase. It catalyses the breakdown of starch into maltose. </em> hardcover‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 51493

‎PEARY (Robert).‎

‎La Découverte du pôle Nord en 1909, sous le patronage du Club arctique Peary. […] Introduction de Théodore Roosevelt.‎

‎Paris, Pierre Laffitte, 1911. In-4° de 341, 1 bl., [2] pp. Portrait en phototypie de l'auteur en front., 32 pages d'illustration photographique en 2 couleurs et 32 pages de photographies en noir. Demi-toile bleue, pièce de titre en maroquin brun, couverture et dos conservés Ex-libris ms. « Hasselmann ».‎

‎Première édition française du récit de l’expédition polaire conduite par l’explorateur américain Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), qui revendiqua la conquête du pôle Nord le 6 avril 1909, accompagné de Matthew Henson et de quatre Inuits. Traduit de l’édition américaine de 1910 (The North Pole), l’ouvrage relate les préparatifs, les conditions extrêmes de la traversée de la banquise arctique et la marche finale vers le 90° nord. Illustré de nombreuses cartes et photographies, il est précédé d’une introduction élogieuse de l’ancien président Theodore Roosevelt, soutien de Peary. Témoignage majeur de l’histoire des explorations polaires et pièce importante de la controverse sur la véritable découverte du pôle Nord. M8-B‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : PHO-2079

‎Pedersen, Holger‎

‎The Discovery of Language. Linguistic Science in the Ninenteeth Century. [By Holger Petersen].‎

‎Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1962. (10), 360 Seiten. Mit einigen Illustrationen. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Broschur. [Softcover / Paperback].‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual marks (signature marks on spine, stamps on edges, inventory marks on a few pages). - Cover rubbed. Pages slightly browned. - Good copy.‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 99080

‎PELLETIER, PIERRE et JOSEPH CAVENTOU - THE DISCOVERY OF STRYCHNINE‎

‎Note sur un nouvel Alcali Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 10 août 1818. Mémoire Sur un nouvel Alcali végétal la Strychine trouvé dans la fève de Saint-Ignace la noix vomique etc. Lu à l'Academie des Sciences le 14 décembre 1818.‎

‎Paris Crochard 18181819. No wrappers. In: "Annales de Chimie et de Physique Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago." tome 8 Cahier 3 a. 10 Cahier 2 pp. 225-336 and pp. 129-240. Entire issues offered. Pelletier & Caventou's papers: pp. 323-324 tome 8 and pp. 142-176 tome 10. A few scattered brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of these classic papers in chemistry in which the authors announced their discovery of Strychnine. This was the first alkali of vegetable origin to be discovered after morphine. This discovery and their discovery of chlorophyll brought them international fame. The first small paper contains the announcement of the discovery and the second long memoir contains the elaborate exposition of the discovery."Strychnine was only the second alkaloid to be extracted the first was morphine. Pelletier and Caventou wanted to name their new alkaloid vauqueline after Nicolas Vauquelin one of their associates who had refined the technique of ether extraction for use in isolating alkaloids. However the officers of the Académe des Sciences in Paris rejected the idea on the grounds that a respected scientist’s name should not be paired with a deadly poison. In addition to strychnine the pair isolated other important compounds from plants including caffeine chlorophyll and the anti-malaria drug quinine. Paul L. Burnham.Parkinson:"Breakthroughs" 1818 C. - Garrison & Morton: 1846.The first issue also contains their importent memoir "Examen chimique de la Cochenillee et de sa matière colorante" pp. 250-287 which describes how they obtained crotonic acid from croton oil and analyzed carmine in the cochineal. </em> unknown‎

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‎Pendray John‎

‎Sur les traces de La Pérouse : Carnets d'expédition à Vanikoro‎

‎Glenat 2006 in4. 2006. Cartonné jaquette.‎

‎Comme neuf encore sous son plastique d'emballage‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 100140734

‎Pennsylvania German Society.‎

‎PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN SOCIETY. Volume VIII. Includes: Jacobs. THE GERMAN EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, 1709-40 // Nead. INDEX TO NAMES IN VOLUMES I-VI // & Richards. THE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA WERE GERMAN.‎

‎pp. 26, 222, 100, 28 + Illustrations. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Library Binding. XLib. Limited Edition. Text includes: Jacobs. THE GERMAN EMIGRATION TO AMERICA, 1709-1740; Nead. INDEX TO NAMES IN VOLUMES I-VI; & Richards. THE DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA WERE GERMAN. BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE Email to RareBooks@POBox.com so that we can CONFIRM AVAILABILITY‎

‎PEREZ Jean Claude‎

‎L'ADN decrypté . La découverte et les preuves du langage caché de l'ADN‎

‎1999 1999, preface de Jean Marie Pelt president de l'institut Europeen d'ecologie Marco Pietteur , Resurgence , broché 398 pages comme neuf .‎

‎Ray F1*‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 7033

‎PEROWNE Stewart‎

‎Rome, de sa fondation jusqu'à nos jours. Collection : Cités d'Art.‎

‎Paris, Albin Michel, 1972. 20 x 28, 246 pp., 26 planches en couleurs, 180 illustrations en N/B, cartonnage d'édition pleine toile + jaquette en couleurs, très bon état.‎

‎"Photos : Edwin Smith; traduction de l'anglais : Robert Latour."‎

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‎PERSIGNY (Jean Fialin, duc de).‎

‎Mémoires. Publiés avec des documents inédits, un avant-propos et un épilogue par M. H. de LAIRE, comte dEspagny. Ornés dun portrait de lauteur. Troisième édition.‎

‎Paris, Plon, 1896. In-8° ; portrait, XX-512 pp. ; demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs orné de filets à froid (rel. ép.).‎

‎Ardent bonapartiste, Persigny fut tout dévoué au prince Louis-Napoléon quil aidera à devenir et à rester empereur. Il sera deux fois ministre de lIntérieur, et ambassadeur à Londres. Ses Mémoires nous montrent son rôle depuis décembre 1848 jusquà 1866 ; sa personnalité, attachante, mérite infiniment mieux que sa réputation.Qq. piqûres sur les tranches, rousseurs claires sans gravité sur le portrait, bon exemplaire. Photos sur demande.‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 17596

‎Pethick, Derek‎

‎The Nootka Connection - Europe and the Northwest Coast 1790-1795‎

‎281 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Explains the far-ranging factors bearing on the Nootka stage: European War, the Russian presence in the northern Pacific, the onset of Spain's waning fortunes, America's thrust west, the British East India and South Sea trading monopolies, and the steady advance of coastal charting by explorers like George Vancouver. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. A sound copy. Book‎