Solem, ErikABAA
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1933réf. 006566Oslo Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co. 1933. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. H. Aschehoug & Co. Paperback books
2003réf. 006888Boston: Kluwer Academic Pub 2003. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine tiny rub at head of spine. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Kluwer Academic Pub Hardcover books
1890réf. 16764Paris: Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire 1890. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 79 pages. 4to. Original marbled boards with leather spine and gilt titling. Rubbing to the extremities. Occasional soiling internally generally bright and clean. Boards. Roughly translated title: "Collection Of Memoirs Reports And Documents Relating To The Observation Of The Passage Of Venus On The Sun: Annex Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire unknown books
1840réf. 50127Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown 1840. First Separate Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 225pp.; illus. throughout. Stock a bit foxed else Very Good and sound albeit lacking orinal wrappers. Inscribed "From the Author" at head of title page. Article by the recording secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Charles C. Little & James Brown unknown books
2002réf. 22874Simferopol: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2002. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. I: 270pp II: 348pp. Blue faux-leather boards with gild lettering on front and spine. Yearly report on archaeological research in the region of Bosphorus presently Crimea. Funded by the philanthropic fund Demetra and the Crimean chapter of the Institute of Eastern Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. A compilation of anthropological historical geographical archaeological historiographical and ethnographic research papers. The 2001 volume recounts the First Bosporos Lectures given in the city of Kerch on Sept 4-8 2001. The 2002 volume recounts the Second Bosporos Lectures again given in Kerch on May 20-23 2002 dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the Kerch Museum of Ancient Times. Both volumes' corners slightly bumped interiors in fine. Set overall in near fine condition. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine hardcover books
1961réf. 382136Washington: Government Printing Office 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Senate Document No. 26 87th Congress 1st Session. Thick octavo. xxii 1392pp. In the original publisher's cloth. Ex-library with two small ink stamps front pastedown else no other markings. Light soiling to the boards near fine. Prepared for the use of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. A nice copy. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1981réf. 186980Sarasota Fla: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art 1981. Softcover. VG slight bumping to corners. Color pictorial wraps. 15 pages : illustrations some color ; 28 cm. Exhibition venues: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art July 16-August 30 1981 : collages and drawings Polk Public Museum September 18-October 16 1981 Daytona Museum of Art & Sciences October 23-November 22 1981. John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art paperback books
1990réf. 008661Atlanta Georgia: Max W. Fain 1990. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition Revised. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE Second Edition Revised hardcover 190 pages originally published 1988 in softcover 125 pages. Near Fine bumps at spine ends. Review Copy publisher's review bookmark laid in. This copy from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research marked "Duplicate" and with Kinsey stamps and label at spine no other institutional markings copy feels unread. OCLC records 7 institutional holdings worldwide for the 1988 edition none for this edition. Max W. Fain Hardcover books
1959réf. 200076Fayetteville Arkansas: College of Arts and Sciences University of Arkansas 1959. Paperback. Fair wraps with Good interior Wraps are heavily worn/foxed/toned/smudged; textblock edges are lightly worn/toned/scuffed; some interior pages are dog-eared; interior is clean with some light foxing or smudging; binding appears solid. Grey illustrated stapled wraps with black and blue lettering; 55 pp.; richly illustrated. This volume includes a color woodcut by Robert Rorex. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas paperback books
1955réf. 005041Canberra Australia: Dept. of External Affairs 1955. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good toning to front endpage boards a bit bumped in a Very Good dust jacket 1" tear at spine fold and light edge wear. SCARCE in dust jacket. From the library of David G. Frey one of the pioneers of paleolimnology with his namestamp front endpage. With 19 figures in the text and 56 plates in black and white. Dept. of External Affairs Hardcover books
1905réf. 006666New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in such lovely condition. Near Fine small inked letter bottom corner front end page gilt at spine a bit rubbed to publisher's name at bottom edge. In the original green cloth gilt titles and decorations bright tissue-guarded frontispiece with elephants vii-xv 310 pp. with 4 pp. publisher's catalog illustrated with numerous black and white full-page photographs. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1992réf. RH1569Geneve 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
1905réf. 009184Indianapolis IN: Wm. B. Burford Contractor for State Printing and Binding 1905. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy "Compliments of W. H. Freeman Secretary" tipped in slip at front end page. Very Good Plus boards a bit soiled gilt at front board a bit rubbed. Large fold-out map Fine. Wm. B. Burford, Contractor for State Printing and Binding Hardcover books
1930réf. 009365Springfield IL/ Baltimore MD: Charles C. Thomas Publishers 1930. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Uncommon. Near Fine in original green cloth gilt spine prior owner name in ink front paste down who was a professor at Purdue University at time of publication a couple of pages with her tidy scholarly notations in ink. Charles C. Thomas, Publishers Hardcover books
1848réf. 49981Philadelphia: John H. Gihon 1848. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; removed; 1811adspp. Errata slip tipped to title page serving as upper cover slip starting to separate text uniformly foxed contemporary manuscript note at head of title page else Very Good and sound retaining leaf of publisher's advertisements on p. 20. Quite uncommon. John H. Gihon unknown books
1865réf. 48958Cambridge: American Journal of Science and Art 1865. Offprint. Octavo 24cm.; stitched self-wrappers; 9pp. Spine ends starting to split light chipping along extremities faint vertical fold else a Good or better unopened copy. Faint pencil inscription at head of upper cover: "With respects of the author." The second in a series of collected abstracts this first appearing in the "American Journal of Science and Art" Vol. XXXIX January 1865. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of April 2020 though we find a copy of No. 1 at the Library of Congress. [American Journal of Science and Art unknown books
1842réf. 54245Albany: W. & A. White & J. Visscher 1842. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 30cm. In original publisher's cloth signed binding by Warner & Boynton of New York stamped in gold and blind with crinoid and trilobite ornaments in gilt to front board and base of spine; yellow coated endpapers; errata at rear; 2 1-5 6-306 2 pp; engraved series title page and 80 in-text wood engravings. One volume from a longer series. A sound and fresh copy with some gentle wear to joints head and tail; boards bumped and rubbed; heavy foxing to engraved series title and occasional light foxing throughout: Very Good. Vanuxem initiated certain practices adopted by other geological surveys including "anchoring rock units to specific type localities" and dating strata "on the basis of fossils" ANB. This volume was part of a larger geological survey which in turn was part of a series on the Natural History of New York. The Third Geological District here included the counties of Montgomery Fulton Otsego Herkimer Oneida Lewis Oswego Madison Onondaga Cayuga Cortland Chenango Broome Tioga and eastern Tompkins County. HAZEN & HAZEN 10589. SABIN 53782. W. & A. White & J. Visscher unknown books
1833réf. 49821New York: G & C & H Carvill 1833. First Edition. Octavo. Original pebble-grained boards; paper spine title; 1-78-1582pp. Backstrip partially detached ; spine label faded barely legible; text fresh and unmarked - Good or better. Ex-U.S. Naval Lyceum with ink pressure stamp to endpapers and title page with de-accession dated 1927 on verso of title page. Pencil ownership inscription of a "Thos. J. Manning U.S. Navy" at head of title page. Verso of final text leaf prints a brief list of errata. G & C & H Carvill unknown books
1855réf. 50253New York: Edward P. Allen 1855. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 24pp. Tiny chip at spine crown extremities slightly toned else Very Good and sound. Lecture dating early in Steiner's storied career delivered while professor at Columbian College now George Washington University and the National Medical College. Following the Civil War Steiner was elected president of the Frederick County School Board in Maryland focussing much of his energy on the education of Black children. Edward P. Allen unknown books
1960réf. 556565Jerusalem: The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English-language edition. Quarto. 484pp. Illustrated with charts and graphs. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Top corners of boards and about half the text modestly bumped else a fine copy in a close to fine dust jacket with a corresponding gentle bump and tiny abrasion. Published for two American institutions: The National Science Foundation and The Department of Health Education and Welfare. First published in Russian in 1955. This publisher The Israel Program for Scientific Translations was founded by future mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek in 1959. He is quoted in a 1970 article in The New York Times: "There was a keen need in the West for technically sound translations of Soviet scientific works soon after the launching of Sputnik. We had numerous immigrants with exceptional linguistic and scientific ability so we just put demand and supply together.” The venture began modestly—with a small government grant and five editors—but by 1970 had over 100 editors and published about 150 English-language titles a year. A nice copy of a relatively uncommon title. The Israel Program for Scientific Translations hardcover books
1984réf. 010308Bloonimgton Indiana: Indiana University Press 1984. Book. Illus. by William Zimmerman. Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST William Zimmerman at title page - "Best wishes to my good friends Marilyn & Cy - Bill Zimmerman". First Edition First Printing with complete number line. Fine in Fine dust jacket. xviii 1 376 1 pages with 165 color paintings. Indiana University Press Hardcover books
1957réf. 006306Melbourne Australia: Colorgravure Publications 1957. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase one corner of the slipcase with a tape mend. #4314 of an edition of presumably 5000copies. Profusely illustrated with both B&W and color photographs. 200 pp. Colorgravure Publications Hardcover books
1979réf. S7889Washington 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
1872réf. 48012New York: D. Van Nostrand 1872. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed "To Commander J.S. Skerrett with the regards of the author" undated but apparently contemporary. Octavo; publisher's pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind; 11416pp. Errata slip inserted folowing author's introduction; 16pp publisher's catalog of "Naval Books." Bit of discoloration at base of front cover; private library stamp to front endpaper and title page; Very Good. A basic treatise on astral navigation written as a textbook for students at the U.S. Naval Academy where the author was an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy. Inscribed to J.S. Skerrett at this time commanding officer of the U.S.S. Portsmouth. A nice copy of what was according to a contemporary review in the journal Popular Science ".a harmful book being full of doubtful statements of confused mathematics and questionable precepts and one not likely to improve the art of navigation or the science of nautical astronomy in any way. D. Van Nostrand unknown books
1827réf. 44516New Haven: Hezekiah Howe 1827. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's peach wrappers printed within double rule; 24pp. Previously removed from larger volume coin-sized loss at bottom spine edge of upper cover not approaching text upper wrapper fore-edge rather chipped some soil and foxing later ink shelf number to upper cover and title page else Good to Very Good overall. Inscribed at head of front cover: "Revd. Mr. Duttow with the respect of the author." Address by the American physicist who would pioneer the study of meteor science in 1833 following the Leonid Meteor Shower over North America becoming the first American to observe Halley's Comet in 1835. SHOEMAKER 30115 misspelling author name "Olmstead". Hezekiah Howe unknown books
