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1984réf. 006989Civitate Viticana Rome: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 1984. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 9 1/2" Tall. Photographs Charts Tables. 318 Pp. Printed Wrappers Softcover. A Bright Clean Copy With Just A Touch Of Wear. A Thorough Survey Of Modern Theoretical Issues From Scientists Around The World. With A Presentation Card From P. Enrico Di Rovasenda Of The Chancellerie Of The Vatican. Pontificia Academia Scientiarum unknown
1888réf. 026102Chicago: A C McClurg & Co 1888. First Edition First Printing . Green Cloth. Good. 276 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Artistic Engraved Bookplate Of Elizabeth G Hughes With A Checkmark Next To Her Name On P. 275 Where She Is Cited As Co-Author With Jordan Of An 1886 Article Published In The Proceedings U. S. Nat. Mus. Pp. 56 - 70 And With A Few Pencil Notes In The Article Published Here On Darwin. With Her Short Note On The Bookplate 1889 - From Dr. Jordan" And With Jordan's Short Handwritten Note "Comp Of" Above His Name On The Title Page. Jordan Was A Perceptive Writer Whose Ideas On Education Etc. Not Only Withstand The Test Of Time But Are Still Quite Readable And Interesting. Binding With Wear Top And Bottom Of Spine Chipped Away To Level Of Page Block Slight Loss Of Gilt Lettering Which Is Otherwise Bright Front Joint Repaired And Cloth Touched Up At Tips. Professionally. A C McClurg & Co hardcover
1920réf. 024977London: Charles Griffin & Company Limited 1920. Sixth Editon . Red Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. Plates and Drawings. 197 Pp.Red Cloth Black Lettering On Spine. Sixth Ediiton "Thoroughly Revised". Lightly Worn Hinges Cracked Charles Griffin & Company Limited hardcover
1989réf. 021555American Association for Clinical Chemistry 1989. First Edition . Red Cloth Gilt. Near Fine/No DJ. Frontispiece Photographs. 428 Pp Red Cloth Gilt. With Extensive Errata Page. Signed Authorial Inscription 3 Lines To Inventor Industrialist And Philanthropist Arnold O Beckman. American Association for Clinical Chemistry hardcover
1985réf. 020203Konstanz: Universitatsverlag Konstanz 1985. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Photographs. 282 pp. Corner crease to one page and to upper corner of rear cover. Inscribed "with great admiration" to Cardiologist Richard J Bing by the author dated10/10/1985. Universitatsverlag Konstanz paperback
1824réf. 025104London: J. F. Dove 1824. First Edition . Quarter Calf Gilt. Very Good . 11 " Tall. Frontispiece Portrait. X 2 667 2 Pp. Letter To Subscribers And List Of Subscribers Present. Half Brown Calf Re-Backed Using Original Backstrip 5 Bands Tooled And Gilt Gilt Rules On Covers. White Endpapers Edges Of Page Block Marbled. 11" X 8 3/4". Light Edge Wear Small Frays At Tips Very Faint Damp Stains To Boards. A Little Loss Of Paper At Edges . Slight Foxing To Tissue-Guarded Portrait But No Spotting To Portrait Plate Or Other Pages. Pages White Clean Fine. J. F. Dove unknown
1993réf. 0156031993. Original Manuscript . No Binding. Near Fine. Neatly handwritten manuscript by a professor at CalTech two volumes about 120 pp. unknown
1926réf. 021433New York: E. P. Dutton / to-Day and To-Morrow Series 1926. First Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 107 Pp. Red Cloth With Spine And Cover Paper Labels. First Printing This Book Not In List Of Series Books On Endpapers And No Later Date Or Printing Indicated. A Near Fine Bright Clean Unmarked Spine And Cover Labels Immaculate A Few Tiny Points Of Fraying At Top Of Spine. Dj Lightly Chipped At Top And Bottom Of Spine Tips And Part Of Top Edge Of Rear Panel With No Loss Of Lettering And Design A Little Sunning To Spine. E. P. Dutton / to-Day and To-Morrow Series hardcover
1925réf. 015738Edmonton: Province of Alberta Geological Survey Division 1925. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Fine. Map and plate in pocket at rear. A clean virtually unusued example with small pencil name of a petroleum geologist on front cover. Province of Alberta Geological Survey Division unknown
1897réf. 020311London: Longmans Green and Co. 1897. First Edition . Library Buckram. Good. Plates. 73 pp 32 pp catalog at end. Ex-library and re-bound in library buckram now quite worn. Contents very good just two library number lines 5 digits long on title and several pages no other marks; could be nicely rebound. Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover
1910réf. 018012New Haven: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters / Yale Publishing Association 1910. First Separate Editon . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Pp 109-136. Printed Wrappers Aged At Edges Else Near Fine. Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters / Yale Publishing Association unknown
1905réf. 019888New York: The Macmillan Company 1905. 2nd Edition 5th or later Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 259 Pp 6 Pp Catalog At End. Black Cloth Gilt. Stated Second Edition Title Page Fifth Printing Copyright Page. One Small Area Of Fraying At Bottom Of Spine. Hinges Solid Contents Clean No Marks Covers Evenly Colored And All Gilt Bright. Clipping Of Osborn's 1940 Time Magazine Obituary Laid In Loosely. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1999réf. 021389Urbana- Champaign: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology 1999. First Edition . Leather/Boards/Slipcase. Fine. Color Photographs Throughout. Two Volumes Bound With Leather Spines Illustrated Boards Lettered In Gilt. A Compilation Of The News And Annual Reports Published By The Institute Specially Bound For The Founder Of The Institute Dr. Arnold O. Beckman And From His Library. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology hardcover
1985réf. 006990Civitate Viticana Rome: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 1985. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. 9 1/2" Tall. Photographs Charts Tables. 350 Pp. Printed Wrappers Softcover. A Bright Clean Copy With Just A Touch Of Wear. A Thorough Survey Of Modern Pattern Recognition Issues In The Optical System From Scientists Around The World Including J. C. Eccles Etc. Pontificia Academia Scientiarum unknown
1922réf. 017718Science Press / Scientific Monthly 1922. First Separate Edition . Wrappers. Very Good. An Offprint From The Scientific Monthly In Their Printed Wrappers. A Complete Example Some Edge Wear And Very Short Edge Tears. Per Wikipedia A. E. Andrew Ellicott Douglass 1867 - 1962 Was An American Astronomer. He Discovered A Correlation Between Tree Rings And The Sunspot Cycle And Founded The Discipline Of Dendrochronology Which Is A Method Of Dating Wood By Analyzing The Growth Ring Pattern. He Started His Discoveries In This Field In 1894 When He Was Working At The Lowell Observatory. During This Time He Was An Assistant To Percival Lowell But Fell Out With Him When His Experiments Made Him Doubt The Existence Of Artificial "Canals" On Mars And Visible Spokes On Venus. After Douglass's Analysis Of Results From The Third Beam Expedition In 1929 For The First Time In History Dates Could Be Assigned To Southwestern Ruins With Certainty. Cliff Dwelling At Tsegi Canyon Mesa Verde And Canyon De Chelly Dated Back To The 13Th Century. It Was Determined That Aztec Ruin Was Constructed During A Period Ranging From 1111 To 1120. Pueblo Bonito Was Found To Be Built In The Latter Portion Of The 11Th Century. Douglass Returned To The University Of Arizona Where He Became The First Person To Formally Teach Classes In Dendrochronology. In 1937 Douglass Established The Laboratory Of Tree-Ring Research At The University Of Arizona. The A.E. Douglass Papers Are Held At The University Of Arizona Special Collections Library.Douglass Was Elected To The American Philosophical Society In 1941. Craters On The Moon And Mars Are Named In His Honor. Science Press / Scientific Monthly unknown
1932réf. 015753Chicago / New York: The Century Company 1932. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine DJ. Xv 683 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing. A Bright Example. Dust Jacket With Some Tanning To Spine And Edges All Lettering Quite Distinct Otherwise Near Fine. Inscribed To Irvine E Stewart An Associate By The Author. With The Unfortunate Inclusion Of The Hoax Piltdown Man As If Genuine. The Century Company hardcover
1961réf. 022127New York: Academic Press 1961. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Brown Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 374 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt Lettering. First Printing. Ownership Signature Of Prof. N Ronald Walters Of The Bacteriology Section Of U. S. C. Book Is Fine No Other Marks Dj Worn Lightly Soiled Minute Losses At Corners. Academic Press hardcover
1986réf. 021811New York / Fullerton: Rockefeller University / Beckman Instruments 1986. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine Slipcase. Photographs Diagrams and Drawings. 93 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. One Of Arnold O Beckman's Personal Copies As New. Arnold O Beckman Was The Recipient Of Many National Awards For His Engineering Business And Philanthropic Achievements. Beckman Was One Of The Most Generous Of All California Philanthropists Over Many Decades Establishing A Highly Unusual Record Of Concern For Education And Science. Signed By Beckman At The Bottom Of His Frontispiece Portrait. Beckman's Single Personal Copy In A Special Matching Slipcase With His Name In Gilt. Rockefeller University / Beckman Instruments hardcover
1920réf. 020074Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture / Government Printing Office 1920. First Edition . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Maps Photographs. 87 Pp Very Very Large Multi-Fold Color Map In Rear. Tan Wrappers Printed In Black No Names Or Marks. U. S. Department of Agriculture / Government Printing Office unknown
1986réf. 021388New York / Fullerton: Rockefeller University / Beckman Instruments 1986. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Fine. Photographs Diagrams and Drawings. 93 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition. One Of Arnold O Beckman's Personal Copies As New. Arnold O Beckman Was The Recipient Of Many National Awards For His Engineering Business And Philanthropic Achievements. Beckman Was One Of The Most Generous Of All California Philanthropists Over Many Decades Establishing A Highly Unusual Record Of Concern For Both Education And Science. Rockefeller University / Beckman Instruments hardcover
1961réf. 001166Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas 1961. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Diagrams and Photographs. Ex-library with external marks and wear clean and solid internally. Charles C. Thomas hardcover
1937réf. 019591London: Macmillan and Co. 1937. First Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Portraits of Authors. 360 Pp. Red Cloth First Printing. Inscribed "With The Compliments Of The Editors" And Signed By Cohen And Travers. Bright Clean No Marks Except Three School Stamps On Front Endpapers. Dj With Slight Wear Not Price Clipped Browning 1" X 2" Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Rear Panel. Despite The Sub-Title Intellectual Articles Varied Human Factors In The Attempted Implementation Of The Scientification Of Modern Life Including Personal Artitudes And Behavior Society Government. A Worthy Subject But Never Again Attempted By So Many Authors In A Single Book This Being A Subject Where All Fail At Optimal Behavior. Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1933réf. 023213Oxford: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford 1933. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good /Good DJ. Photographic Plates Two Maps. Xii 389 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Black. First Or Early Printing; No Date Except Preface Dated In 1933; Ads On Rear Panel For Books Prior To 1933. This Book Later Printed In Second And Third Editions But This Is The Original Edition. Book Bright And Clean Hinges Tight. Bookplate Of American Zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid Elaborately Decorated With A Scholarly And Zoological Theme. Dj Clean Some Chipping At Corners/Edges Some Wear/Abrasion Near Center Of Rear Panel All Lettering Is Complete Except Partial Or Complete Loss Of About Two Dozen Letters In Descriptions Of Two Other Books On Rear Panel Not Price-Clipped Spine Somewhat Sunned Crease 2/3 Down Center Of Front Panel. Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford hardcover
1917réf. 005947Chicago: The University Of Chicago Press 1917. First Edition . Maroon Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 1/2" High. 142 Pages. Red Cloth Gilt.First Printing. Some Underlining In Red Pencil. No Inscriptions. Previous Owner's Small Book Label On Front Pastedown. Covers As New With A Clear Plastic Adhesive Neatly Affixed To Covers. Per Wikipedia Shiro Tashiro Or Tashiro Shirosuke 1883 - 1963 Was An American Biochemist Of Japanese Origin Who Worked At The University Of Cincinnati As A Professor Of Biochemistry. He Contributed A Technique For The Accurate Detection Of Very Small Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide Produced During Metabolic Activities Using Barium Hydroxide. Tashiro Was Born In Kagoshima Prefecture And Moved To The Us In 1901. He Studied At The University Of Chicago Receiving A B.S. 1909 And A Ph.D. 1912. He Worked As An Associate In Physiological Chemistry And Became An Assistant Professor In 1918. The Next Year He Moved To The University Of Cincinnati And In 1923 He Received A Medical Degree From Kyoto University For Work On The Metabolism Of Nerve Fibres. This Was To Be A Major Tool For Studies In Animal Physiology. Apart From Detection Of Carbon Dioxide And Ammonia Production With The Use Of The So-Called Tashiro's Indicator He Also Examined The Possibility Of Assays For Acetylcholine. He Became A Full Professor In 1925 And Retired In 1952. He Received An Osaka Mainichi Prize In 1924. The University Of Chicago Press hardcover
1910réf. 022475New York: New York Zoological Society 1910. First Edition . Embossed Wrappers. Very Good . 11 3/8" Tall. Photographs. Clean Light Edge Wear Very Good . Name Stamps Of Hollywood Art Director Jack Okey . John Clark "Jack" Okey June 3 1889 - January 8 1963 Was An American Art Director. He Was Raised In Los Angeles And Attended The Harvard School For Boys. After Leaving He Was Given Instruction In Art By His Uncle The California Artist J. Bond Francisco. While He Was In His Early 20S He Traveled To Paris With His Friend Stanton Macdonald Wright And Spent Several Years There Studying Art. Around The Time Of His Marriage In 1913 He Became Involved In The Nascent Film Industry In The Los Angeles Area And Was Involved In The Design And Construction Of Some Of The Earliest Studios There. He Continued In The Film Industry As An Art Director Until His Retirement In 1959. In The Mid-1930S He Spent Several Years In England Working For Alexander Korda Designing Studios For Him. After His Return To The United States He Spent The Remainder Of His Active Career Working For Rko. He Was Nominated For Two Academy Awards For Art Direction 1929 And 1944 But His Best Known Film Is "It'S A Wonderful Life". New York Zoological Society unknown