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1981ref. 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
1992ref. 75341992. Softcover. VG orange label on cover. Wraps. 8 pp. 1 color 7 bw plates. Extensive essay written by Pamela D. King with notes. Catalogue lists 39 sculptures. paperback books
1998ref. 164761998. Softcover. VG some soiling/pencil on cover. White wraps. 14 pp. 5 color 7 bw plates. paperback books
1962ref. 65601962. Softcover. VG slight soiling. Wraps. appx. 12 pp. 10 bw plates. One page foreword by Henry B. Caldwell. Catalogue lists 35 works. One page of biographical information. paperback books
1981ref. 138730San Francisco Calif: The California Academy of Sciences 1981. Hardcover. VG- slight soiling to white canvas. White stamped canvas cloth matching white canvas cloth slipcase 96 pp. 42 color plates. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Native American paintings by Maynard Dixon 1875-1946. With essays by Donald J. Hagerty Ansel Adams Constance dixon Dan Dixon John Dixon Winona Tomanoczy and Edith Hamlin. Striking and vibrant visuals. With a separate paper catalog from the exhibition. The California Academy of Sciences hardcover books
1968ref. 5903Binghamton NY: Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences 1968. Hardcover. G Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; front hinge beginning to pull away. Tan buckram. 73 pp. 12 color 59 bw plates. Considers the life and work of American artist Fletcher Martin 1904-1979. With foreword by Keith Martin. Introductory essay by Peter Pollack. Illustrated comment by the artist followed by a detailed chronology and the plates. Lists 9 drawings and 61 paintings. Uncommon. Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences hardcover books
1984ref. 51751984. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 38 pp. 6 bw 28 color plates. Catalogue lists 58 works. Bibliography essay on the artist by Harry Frederick Orchard. Nice color plates. paperback books
1963ref. 149981963. Softcover. VG. White wraps. 18 pp. 17 bw plates. Catalogue lists 112 works with a list of the prize winners and many fine illustrations. paperback books
1951ref. 12896New York: New York Council of the Arts Sciences and Professions 1951. Three items stapled together at top left corner together with a separate leaflet totaling seven pages. Minor edge wear one item with a short closed tear. Overall very good. A group of four printed items pertaining to an effort by New York arts professionals to encourage equality for African American arts professionals in midcentury United States where the lower half of the country was still mired in Jim Crow laws. The most notable of these items is a four-panel program detailing the conference with introductory text describing the ways in which racism limits the opportunities of Black artists and scientists and the failure to put recent anti-racist court decisions into actual practice. The program for the conference lists such themes as the effects of Jim Crow policy on the arts and representation of Black subjects the deleterious effects of racism on health and welfare and how cultural standards are lowered and violence encouraged by discrimination. According to the speakers list on the fourth page of the program participants in the conference included Oliver Harrington Jacob Lawrence Julian Mayfield Paul Robeson and other artists educators scientists and musicians. Attached to this program are two handbills; one is an invitation to an opening night event featuring new works of ballet chorus calypso and drama the night before the conference. This performance took place at the Pythian on November 9 1951. The other handbill announces the program for the Annual Convention of the New York Council which appears to have been a more general event on the day after the conference on equal rights. The text on this handbill notes the suppression of free speech under McCarthyism. The last item is an 8.5-x-14-inch handbill probably a press release of sorts announcing the conference also titled "A Call to a Conference on Equal Rights for Negroes in the Arts Sciences and Professions." The language of this handbill is the same as the second page of the four-page brochure but is dated a month before the conference in October 1951. Some of the language in the program introduction and handbill merit quoting here: "In the sciences and professions the majority of Negroes are deprived of equal educational opportunities by segregation and quota systems denied employment in the professions restricted to the most menial occupations confined to ghetto areas for their private practice and thus prevented from making a full contribution to the welfare of the nation. Blacklisting character assassination political inquisitions and other forms of censorship against white artists scientists and professionals cannot be ended - so long as discrimination against Negroes and other minority group members is maintained For those who violate the Constitution and foster a policy of discrimination against Negroes are the very same persons who are responsible for censorship blacklisting and the debasement of our science and culture. It is they who tolerate and promote the campaigns of violence and brutality against the Negro people as exhibited in Cicero in the bombing of the home of a world-renowned Negro chemist in the refusal of platforms to the most outstanding American Negro artists in the ‘legal lynchings’ of many young men guilty of nothing more than being Negroes. American culture Cannot live in the face of such terror against a large segment of our people. Standards of truth and humanism cannot be maintained in our cultural media so long as the truth of the Negro people's lives is denied expression. Nor can there be decent standards for white professionals in many fields so long as a reservoir of Negro unemployed is used to depress salaries and rates." Surprisingly OCLC is silent on any material from the conference though we doubt this group of ephemera is a unique survival. New York Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions unknown books
2003ref. 51932NY: Knopf 2003. First edition first prnt. Co-authored with Andrew Berry. Signed by Watson in his diminutive hand on the title page. Author's Note. Introduction. Notes. Index. Color and black & white illustrations. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversay of the discovery of the double helix. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
2002ref. 34070Cambridge:: Harvard University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0674008936 . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Harvard University Press, hardcover books
1959ref. 25996Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council 1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. ix 155 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Printed two-tone blue wrappers. Minor creasing and sun browning. Clean internally. Nuclear Science Series Report Number 24. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council publication 573. Wraps. Essentially the verbatim transcript of an informal conference on the matter. Early for this subject. National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council unknown books
1890ref. 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
1760ref. 14266Amsterdam 1760. Boards. Good. Four volumes in uniform period leather bindings. 12mo 6 1/2 x 4 inches. Spines with gilt decorations raised bands and leather labels. Clean internally. Bindings are worn but fundamentally sound. Tome Premier: III-XVI 727 pages. Tome Second: 2 743 pages. Tome Troisieme: 2 648 pages. These three volumes comprise a set and contain the indices of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris for the years 1699-1734 inclusive. Headband of Tome Second torn. Marbled pastedown endpapers with plain flyleaves. Published in 1741 by Chez Pierre Mortier. These three volumes contain a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1699 to 1734 inclusive. Tome Quatrieme: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. This volume has a paper label with manuscript notations at the head of the spine. Marbled endpapers. Published in 1760 by Chez J. Schreuder Et Chez Pierre Mortier le Jeune. The first section 8 404 pages is a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1735-1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH XXXVI 372 pages the "Histoire de L'Academie Royale Des Sciences Centie'me ou Dernier Volume De La Premiere Centurie. Contenant un Abregd Historique de chaque Sceince. Avec une liste generale des Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique jusqu'a l'annee 1751. inclusivement." History of the Royal Academy of Sciences Hundredth or Last Volume of the First Century. Containing an Historical Summary of each Science. With a general list of Memoirs of Mathematics & Physics up to the year 1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH III-VII 256 pages "Memoires de L'academie Royale Des Sciences. Jusqu'a L'Année MDCCLI. Inclusivement. Contenus dans la premiere Centurie des Volumes de l'Edition de Hollande." Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Up to the Year MDCCLI. Inclusively. Contained in the First Century of Volumes of the Holland Edition. This last section has no title page. Boards. unknown books
ref. 16421pamphlet. 15 pages. Slim 8vo stitched now in modern wrappers. Paris 1837. Pages foxed otherwise very good. Report on Dr. A. Legrand's publication advocating therapeutic use of gold for lymphadenitis. unknown books
1960ref. 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
ref. 18077FIRST EDITIONS. Publisher’s cloth many covered in protective brown paper. From the library of Robert S. Mullikan 1896-1986 winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He was primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. His signature appears in Volumes 29-39. First printings. The biographical memoirs include a photograph and short biography of recently-deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. Columbia University Press printed the Memoirs on behalf of the Academy through 1974; thereafter the Academy’s own press in Washington began publishing the books. Biographies of all members that passed away are included; we find such luminaries as Enrico Fermi Thomas Hunt Morgan Robert Andrew Millikan Leo Loeb William Castle Arthur Compton Robert Yerkes Herbert Hoover Leo Szilard Edwin Hubble Ernest Lawrence Herbert Evans Herbert Spencer Jennings Harlow Shapley Vannevar Bush and even Albert Einstein. All were members of the Academy. unknown books
1740ref. 14160Paris: de L’Imprimerie Royale 1740. Complete with errata’s and original blank leaves two of three finely engraved frontispieces chapter vignettes ornamental head and tail pieces and 82 folding plates. Full mottled calf rebacked the corners a bit worn. Interior is lightly toned with some browning on the preliminaries and last leaves. Generally this is an excellent set. First editions of these three volumes from a series published by the Academy of Sciences. It is a summary of the activities and inventions that have been made and contains the most important discoveries of the time. These periodicals which were at the forefront of scientific development during the Enlightenment contain works produced by an elite class of French scientist for the years 1722 1731 and 1740. Each volume provided an overview of advancements in math and science for each year and the writings therein shaped the world’s understanding of physics mathematics astronomy anatomy and other fields of science. They further provide invaluable historical data such as meteorological and astrological records for each year. The memoirs for 1722 include data recorded on both a lunar and solar eclipse as well as other astronomical observations by Jacques Cassini 1677-1756 best know for completing his fathers work on determining the meridian of Paris. The distinguished astronomer provided further research on lunar eclipses in the memoirs of 1731 where he is in great company alongside distinguished mathematicians Alexis-Claude Clairaut 1713-1765 Pierre Bouguer 1698-1758 known for his work in physics photometry and hydrography and the foremost proponent of the Newtonian movement in France Pierre de Maupertuis 1698-1759. Of special note in the 1731 memoirs is Maupertuis’s ballistic arithmetic which was used to try to better understand the movement of the earth and its gravity. Too an article by Clairaut on new formulas for finding the center of gravity. These articles contributed greatly to a better understanding of the earth’s shape and the mechanics of its rotation particularly Bouguer’s essay on the tendency of objects set in motion to move in a curvilinear fashion. The 1740 edition contains Cassini De Thury’s De la Maridienne de Paris. which was an important step in the process of mapping the shape of the earth. Cassini 1714-1784 representing the third generation of the distinguished family of astronomers was the first to question Picard’s measurements which had been used to map the Maridian of Paris. Clairaut’s essay on integral calculus in the same volume which established the existence of an integrating factor for linear differential equations was an important step in the history of mathematics and Mairan’s treatise on reflection and refraction of light and the human eye was essential to the advancement of optics. Mairan 1678-1771 would set the foundation for optical theory with this treatise. de L’Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1975ref. 99708Moscow: Progress Publishers 1975. Paperback. 413p. foldout map scattered illus. wraps wraps worn toned and creased else very good condition. Inscribed boldly in Russian and English to Abraham Lincoln Brigade vet Leonard Levenson presumably by one of the editors on the title page. Veterans of the International Brigades from 21 countries collect their memories of the war at a Soviet reunion along with contributions by Dolores Ibarruri and Luigi Longo. Progress Publishers paperback books
2002ref. 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
2001ref. 22873Moscow: Nauka 2001. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Lg 4to. White paper dust-jackets over faux leather boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Color-coordinated by year. Yearly publication by the Russian Academy of Sciences reporting on Literature Art and Archeology research projects performed by the members of the Academy. Each year's work is summarized in 1 volume replete with ample b&w illustrations photographic reproductions and charts. Research areas for the most part centered around Western and Eastern Russia Central Asia former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe but also occasionally incorporating Western Europe. Research includes a wide cross-section of both ancient and modern topics for example the 1992 topics range from Chekhov to Meyerhold to Machiavelli to ancient archaeology of the Solovetsky Islands off the coast of Archangel. 10 vols total between 1989-2001. Missing years: 1991 1998 1999. Text in Russian. Corners of dust jackets and boards slightly bumped Interiors in fine. 1990 missing dust-jacket. Set overall in near fine condition. Nauka hardcover books
1988ref. 226721Washington DC: National Academy Press 1988. Paperback. xiii 84p. softbound in 9x6 inch wraps. Covers are a bit rubbed with a little edgewear and a minuscule tear in foredge margin. Clean and sound a good copy. National Academy Press paperback books
1988ref. 19600Washington: National Academy Press 1988. Paperback. x 239p. notes figures indexappendixes very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. National Academy Press paperback books
1947ref. 3852San Francisco 1947. Number 96. Bifolium. 4pp. Single leaf folded in half 20 cm x 28 cm. Near fine. Monthly newsletter featuring a few brief Academy news items including two brief pieces on the Grand Canyon one of which described a trip through the Grand with Norman Nevills. Cover photograph by Otis 'Doc' Marston from the library of Francis Farquhar. "Members of the Academy will enjoy this series on the exploits of their fellow members the Farquhars and Norman Nevills. The title: Through the Grand Canyon with America's Famous Boatman Norman Nevills. unknown books
1996ref. 38278Cambridge:: MIT Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0262071789 . Translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx-Macdonald. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . MIT Press, hardcover books
