Best.-Nr. 9B-MC0A-E7GUVery Good. unknown
1972Best.-Nr. G0812902920I4N00Quadrangle Books 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Quadrangle Books hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0877622248.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 157331076X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. mon0002960395National Academies Press 2020-08-23. Paperback. Very Good. 0.5000 8.7500 6.0000. National Academies Press paperback
1831Best.-Nr. 54248Philadelphia: Stoddart and Atherton 1831. Second edition. Three octavo volumes 22cm. Contemporary marbled calf with leather spine labels; engraved extra-title present in each volume; xvi7-362;330;264pp; engraved frontispiece v.1 and 48 inserted leaves of plates; text illus. Faint scattered foxing to text but plates generally clean; bindings exhibit moderate external aging and wear with small losses to leather at spine ends and corners. A complete structurally sound Good or better set. Early ownership signature of a Benj. Webb Jr. on endpaper and extra-title of v.1. A quite presentable set of Godman's treatise on the mammals of North America including some ethnographic notes on Native Americans and a lengthy discussion of the fossil record with special attention given to the Giant Mastodon. Much of the third volume is devoted to a description of the American whale fishery. Godman 1794-1830 was trained as a physician and was for some time the director of the Philadelphia Anatomical Rooms a private medical college where he achieved considerable renown as an anatomist. American Natural History described as "the first systematic treatise on the subject" DAB was first published in Philadelphia from 1826-1828; two "Second Editions" appeared in 1831 this one under the Stoddart & Atherton imprint and another by Key & Mielkie. Sabin and Imprints Bruntjen & Bruntjen note only the latter but OCLC records suggest that the two editions are collected with equivalent frequency. Neither Sabin nor Imprints supply a plate count for the Second Edition but our copy conforms to that at the Smithsonian Institution the only OCLC member institution to provide a collation. SABIN 27663. B&B 7271. Stoddart and Atherton unknown
1842Best.-Nr. 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
1840Best.-Nr. 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
1850Best.-Nr. 49285Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams 1850. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 85-100pp. Some chipping and a few small losses to wrapper extremities partly affecting author's inscription at head of upper cover else Very Good and sound. One of a series of fascicles on new species of seashells found in Jamaica. SABIN 176. J.S. & C. Adams unknown
1848Best.-Nr. 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
1865Best.-Nr. 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
1896Best.-Nr. 50094Lynn MA: Nichols Press 1896. First Separate Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; publisher's cream stitched card printed wrappers; 12pp. Wrapper extremities rather toned and brittle with a few small chips to extremities else Good and internally sound. Obituary of the late astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896 first published in the "Boston Transcript" December 12 1896. Nichols Press unknown
1855Best.-Nr. 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
1833Best.-Nr. 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
1872Best.-Nr. 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
1867Best.-Nr. 48943New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor 1867. Offprint. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's peach printed wrappers; 19pp. Wrappers a bit brittle with a few chips along extremities not approaching text bottom fore-edge corner creased else Very Good internally sound. Offprint of a paper by the glass manufacturer first published in the "American Journal of Science and Arts" September/November 1867. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor unknown
1823Best.-Nr. 46664Baltimore: N.G. Maxwell 1823. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; calf-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered spine; xv214-211pp. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners leather somewhat dried and mottled endpapers toned faint dampstaining to first half of textblock else a Very Good sound copy. Theory on the formation of the earth dedicated to Andrew Jackson. Early chapters cover general natural phenomena such as "strata" and "The various colours of Marble" while the latter half of the text focuses on the North American continent describing "A Flood that was produced by the rise of northeast rise of North America" the formation of the Delaware Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers; the formation of the North American prairies; and the "Insects Vegetation &c. of America." The author later published another work titled "Antiquities of America Explained" 1831 arguing that a group of Tyrians and Jews crossed the Atlantic 3000 years ago creating a colony in Nova Scotia that eventually spread across the entire continent. This title missed by Sabin. SHOEMAKER 12827. N.G. Maxwell unknown
1827Best.-Nr. 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
1813Best.-Nr. 45481Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson 1813. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 21.5cm.; Vol. I bound in slightly later half calf over marbled boards black gilt spine label Vol. II in full contemporary sheep red gilt spine label; 4506; 6484pp.; engraved title pages 25 leaves of plates including eight folding. Evidence of previously removed library bookplates to Vol. 1 pastedowns some scuffing to boards more heavily so to Vol. II some light foxing one leaf trimmed close with slight loss of text a couple of closed tears to folding leaves else Very Good and sound overall. Attractive engraved pictorial bookseller ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. II. Complete first and second volumes of the New Series edited by the Anglo-American chemist Thomas Cooper. Though not a particularly brilliant scientist Cooper's "greatest service to science was undoubtedly the dissemination of information" Dictionary of Scientific Biography III p. 400. The present collection includes detailed articles on sugar from beets and grapes "Comparative Height of Mountains on the Earth the Moon and Venus" turnpike roads making "fine Cutlery" foreign and homemade wines criminals from 1805 to 1811 and "the uses of a dead horse by the editor." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 28226. Kimber & Richardson unknown
Best.-Nr. ING9780309459648Natl Academy Pr. New. Special order direct from the distributor Natl Academy Pr unknown
Best.-Nr. 53351Paris Firmin Didot FrÄres 1870. . Stellenw. stockfleckig letzte Bll. wasserrandig. - Der Diamant. Weitere Edelsteine Korund Rubin Smaragd Saphir Topas Opal Türkis Amethyst Turmalin Granat Lapislazuli Aventurin Achat. Perlmutt u. Perlen. Korallen. Bernstein. Gagat. Elfenbein. Gold. Silber. Platin. Aluminium. Geschichte der wichtigsten Schmuckstücke. Paris, Firmin Didot FrÄres, 1870. unknown
1865Best.-Nr. 64536London UK: T. Nelson and Sons Paternoster Row 1865. Tall 8vo. xii 13-470 pp. With 130 text woodcut engravings and plates. Full publisher’s brown morocco over beveled boards gilt decorated borders 5 raised bands on spine gilt lettering on spine a.e.g. minor soot soiling to fore-edges slight rubbing very minor bumping to couple corners still a VG copy w/ former ownership marking on ffep. First edition in English substantially revised & expanded from the 1864 French “Les Mysteres de l’ocean” along with Mangin’s 1863 “Histoire de l’electricite” and 1865 “Le Monde de l’air” offered a broad based scientific overview for Jules Verne’s body of science fiction adventure series including 20000 Leagues Under the Sea Mysterious Island Five Weeks in a Balloon and so many more. Mangin 1824-1887 was a noted French botanist and scientific writer whose works significantly popularized and disseminated scientific ideas and knowledge through the Belle Epoque. T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. G0309671000I3N00National Academies Press 2020. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. National Academies Press paperback
1984Best.-Nr. SBBIH-MZLGNAQ5OW5OWorld Health Organization 1984. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. World Health Organization paperback
1995Best.-Nr. SBBIH-VJDG4YOIQYXRCouncil of Europe 1995. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Council of Europe paperback
