‎Sciences‎

‎Pliny the Elder ; translated by J. Bostock and H. T. Riley‎

‎The Natural History of Pliny Translated with Copious Notes and Illustrations. Six Volumes‎

‎London: Henry G. Bohn 1855. RARE the last complete set seen at auction 1956. Six volumes published 1855-1857. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards backs gilt with black morocco labels end papers and edges marbled. Very Good remnants of bookplate removal front paste downs hinges Vol. I starting from top edge yet still holding wear showing at hinges other volumes spines calf darkened light rubbing at edges of boards interiors clean and lovely. Additional postage required for international and priority mail shipping. Please inquire. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 008687

‎The Society of Arts and Sciences Blanche Colton Williams Introduction‎

‎O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1926‎

‎Garden 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

Bookseller reference : 270711

‎Mannerheim Carl Gustav‎

‎Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908 Two Volumes‎

‎Helsinki 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

Bookseller reference : 006910

‎International Review for Social Sciences‎

‎KYKLOS. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Sozialwissenschaften. Revue internationale des sciences sociales. International Review for Social Sciences. Vol. VIII. 1955. Fasc. I II III IV. Four volumes.‎

‎Basel Switzerland: Kyklos 1955. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Four volumes. Each volume contains a bibliography. Paperback wrappers are slightly sunned on the spine with minor rubbing to the extremties and minimal soiling. Vol. I: 108 pages. Contributors include: German Bernacer K. E. Boulding Giovanni Demaria Jean Halperin F. M. Heichelheim Calvin B. Hoover Dr. Hanns-Jurgen Kunze Giuseppe Ugo Papi Owe Peters Wilhelm Ropke Edgar Salin Dr. Stefan Valavanis Jean Weiller Leopold von Wiese. Vol. II: 109-224 pages. Contributors include: Alfred Ammon Martin Beckmann Boulding A. Cuvillier P. Fromont Henri Guitton E. G. Jacoby K. William Kapp Lucien Laurat Thomas Marschak Dr. Peter Meihsl Antonio Montaner Kjelf Philip Dr. M. F. Lloyd Prichard P. L. Reynaud Dr. Josef Rosen Dr. G. Sotiroff David Thomson Valavanis von Wiese Dr. Karl Wunderle. Vol. III: 225-350 pages. Authors include: E. Bohler Edwin von Boventer H. Th. Chabot John L. McDougall S. Herbert Frankell Corrado Gini Dr. Z. Y. Hershlag Mortimer Kaplan N. Koestner Emil Kung Vernon W. Mallach Samuel A. Miller Montaner Robert Mosse Dr. Fritz Redlich Salin W. Stark Jean Weiller von Wiese T. M. Whitin. Vol. IV: 351-467 pages of text. Authors include: Gardner Ackley Beckmann Dr. Eric Bovet Cuvillier W. O. Henderson W. Stull Holt Emil Kauder B. M. Niculescu P. L. Reynaud Herman Rubin Salin Richard G. Schmitt Jr. Erich Schneider C. G. F. Simkin Dr. G. Sotiroff F. Trevoux Carl G. Uhr Valavanis Vickrey v. Wiese John Windmuller. Kyklos Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 012700

‎National Academy of Sciences‎

‎Biographical Memoirs: Volume 59‎

‎Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. Very minor shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Navy cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 485pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. <br/><br/>An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. National Academy Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2847 ISBN : 030903938X 9780309039383

‎National Academy of Sciences‎

‎Biographical Memoirs: Volume 58‎

‎Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 542pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. <br/><br/>An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. National Academy Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2845 ISBN : 030903938X 9780309039383

‎Goodale SL. S. L.‎

‎The Principles of Breeding: or Glimpses at the Physiological Laws Involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals‎

‎Boston: Crosby Nichols Lee and Company 1861. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page - "To Hon. Simon Brown with the regards of The Author". Simon Brown was the 21st Lt. Governor of Massachusetts serving from 1855-56. He was also a printer and publisher including of the New England Farmer. Simon Brown's signature in pencil at top edge title page. Very Good Plus title at spine faded and not quite legible. 164 pp. in publisher's pebbled cloth with rules in blind. Quite sturdily bound in line with its intended audience. SCARCE SIGNED and with a nice Association. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Association Copy. Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 008331

‎Davidson Daniel Sutherland‎

‎Aboriginal Australian String Figures‎

‎Philadelphia: 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

Bookseller reference : 006598

‎Association pour l'enseignement des sciences anthropologiques‎

‎Légende Internationale des Cartes et Publications Palenthnologiques‎

‎Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière 1897. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy. 15 pp. Sm. 4to. Revue Mensuelle de L'École d'Anthropologie de Paris Publièe par les Professeurs. Septiéme année XII. 15 décembre 1897. Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 41520

‎Solem Erik‎

‎Lappiske Rettsstudier Lappische Rechtsstudien. Instituttet vor Sammenlignende Kulturforsking Serie A XXIV.‎

‎Oslo Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co. 1933. SCARCE. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his signature in ink front end pages of all 3 volumes. 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. Very Good chips to edges of wrappers corner chips rear end pages. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H. Aschehoug & Co. Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 006566

‎LAVOISIER Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences.‎

‎La Vie des Sciences.‎

‎Paris:: Gauthier-Villars Sept. 1994. 1994. Series: Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences tome II no. 3 1994. 4to. pp. 149-221. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. Includes another biographical paper on Lavoisier by Jean-Pierre Poirier Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794. Gauthier-Villars, Sept. 1994. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : SS12911

‎Academy of Sciences of the USSR.‎

‎Science in the USSR To the 50th Anniversary of the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922-1972.‎

‎Moscow:: Progress Publishers 1972. 1972. 8vo. 364 pp. Illus. Red gilt-stamped fabrikoid cover dust-jacket; jacket worn ffep rubbed. Very good. br Progress Publishers, [1972]. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : S12391

‎Union Internationale d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences.‎

‎La Science au Seizieme Siecle: Colloque International de Royaumont 1-4 Juillet 1957.‎

‎Paris:: Hermann 1960. 1960. Series: Histoire de la Pensee II. 8vo. 344 pp. Printed wrappers; edges and corners rubbed. Ownership signature. Very good. Hermann, (1960). unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : S10630

‎Brooklyn Inst. of Arts & Sciences‎

‎EARLY AMERICAN PAINTINGS‎

‎1917. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 4to. Ltd. to 500 copies. Well illus. Covers slightly soiled/rubbed. <br/><br/>Covers American artists 1750-1850 hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 178

‎PERRAULT Claude 1613 1688 HISTORY OF ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES Royal Academy of Sciences‎

‎Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences: Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Animaux‎

‎Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusqu’à 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 Perrault’s Memoires of 1671-1676 Perrault’s 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 XIV’s 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 academic’s 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 Perrault’s efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. <br/><br/> Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : D4425

‎Rostand Jean‎

‎Pendant Qu'on Souffre Encore. Presentattion Copy‎

‎Paris: Bernard Grasset Editeur 1921. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -"hommage de l'auteur Jean Rostand". His 3rd book. Jean Rostand 1894-1977 was a noted French biologist and philosopher whose work in the area of cryogenics gave the idea of cryonics to Robert Ettinger. Finely bound and stamp-signed C. Fox Manchester Square. Quarter calf over beige buckram five raised bands and gilt lettering back marbled end papers top edge gilt. Near Fine pages uniformly browned. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Quarter Calf. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bernard Grasset, Editeur Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 008743

‎Kinsey Alfred C.‎

‎The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips‎

‎Bloomington Indiana: Indiana Univ. Press 1936. SCARCE. Near Fine wrappers a bit sunned. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Early study by Kinsey who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. He is best known for writing "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" 1948 and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" 1953. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Indiana Univ. Press Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 006139

‎McCoy Elizabeth; McClung L. S.‎

‎The Anaerobic Bacteria and Their Activities in Nature and Disease: A Subject Bibliography In Two Volumes. Vol. 1: Chronological Author Index. Vol. 2: Subject Index. Supplement 1: Literature for 1938 and 1939‎

‎Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1939. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CO-AUTHOR L.S. McClung on the front end page of the Supplement - "For the Archives Of Indiana University L.S. McClung 21 Nov. 1983". Three Volume set. All 3 Volumes are Fine SCARCE in such lovely condition and SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. University of California Press Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 006068

‎Dr. Jacobus X.... French Army Surgeon Louis Jacolliot‎

‎The Ethnology of the Sixth Sense Studies and Researches Into Its Abuses Perversions Follies Anomalies and Crimes‎

‎Paris: Charles Carrington 1899. pp. xx 422. Title page printed in red and black. Out of a sequence of 1000 unnumbered copies. Very Good rebound in dark blue cloth gilt. Slight weakness to joints prior owner blind stamp title page slight browning. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Carrington Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 005593

‎{John Lydgate} William Caxton‎

‎A Dyetary or The Medecine of the Stomach as Printed By William Caxton in 1489‎

‎Oxford 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

Bookseller reference : 005223

‎A French Army Surgeon‎

‎Untrodden Fields of Anthropology Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of a Semi-Civilized Peoples; Being A Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia Africa America and Oceania; Second Edition in Two Volumes‎

‎Paris: Librairie de Medecine Folklore et Anthropologie 1898. #374 of 1000 copies published for England and America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth marbled end pages. Very Good both volumes gilt lettering mostly rubbed away hinges starting cloth a bit soiled contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Librairie de Medecine, Folklore et Anthropologie Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 005273

‎Haeckel Ernst‎

‎Der Kampf Um Den Entwickelungs -Gedanken. Drei Vortrage Gehalten am 14. 16. Und 19. April 1905 Im Saale Der Sing-Akademie Zu Berlin‎

‎Berlin: Georg Reimer 1905. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page -" Herr Professor Dr. Hans Wattengren Lund see pictures Ernst Haeckel". Title translates to "Last Words on Evolution". Ernst Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" claiming that an individual organism's biological development or ontogeny parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development or phylogeny. Wikipedia. Book is Very Good wrappers have 1" and 2" tears at spine and wrappers a bit rubbed. SCARCE in collectible condition and especially so SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Georg Reimer Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 004886

‎Pratt EH. Edwin Hartley E. H.‎

‎Orificial Surgery and Its Application to the Treatment of Chronic Diseases‎

‎Chicago: 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

Bookseller reference : 004764

‎Churchill William‎

‎Easter Island; The Rapanui Speech and the Peopling of Southeast Polynesia‎

‎Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institute of Washington 1912. Very Good 1/2 leather 1/2 marbled clot with red leather title labels and gilt lettering gilt rules marbled endpages edges of page block with red speckles. Leather rubbed prior owner name stamps front endpage. Contents are clean tight and free of markings. Tight binding. SCARCE in the hardcover and in collectable condition. . First Edition. Cloth and Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Carnegie Institute of Washington Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 004661

‎Bloch Dr. Iwan‎

‎Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises in All Races of the World‎

‎New 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

Bookseller reference : 004111