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1945ref. 006648Pennsylvania: Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology 1945. Book. Very Good Plus. Stapled Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. From the collection of noted semiotician linguist and folklorist Thomas A. Sebeok his last name signature in ink front end pages of all 4 bulletins. 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. In addition to Fenton's 4-part article on the Cornplanter Senecas also contains Autumn L. Leonard's 4 part article "The Presque Isle Portage and the Venango Trail" and other related articles. The bulletins paginated 1-38 39-67 68-101 and 102-136. All 4 bulletins Very Good Plus or better in addition to Sebeok's signature there are handwritten titles on front covers and some marginal notes and checkmarks all in Sebeok's hand. SCARCE as a set. Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Paperback books
1979ref. 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
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
1976ref. 29006Mexico: n.p. 1976. First edition. Paper wrappers. Near fine copies with only a little rubbing at the corners. 8vo. In Spanish English or French. Includes Seminars volume plus 5 of 7 Abstracts volumes: 3. South Asia; Asia del sur.-4. SouthEast Asia Sudeste Asiatico.-5. China. Chine-6. Japan and Korea Japon y Corea.-7. Interarea. n.p. unknown 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
1972ref. 36805Chicago: Univ. of Illinois 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. vii44 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Univ. of Illinois unknown books
1893ref. 009363London: Adam and Charles Black 1893. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Published 1893-1896 the original four parts bound in quarter red leather over printed hardpaper boards gilt lettering at spines black end papers. Each volume with a contemporary bookmark promoting the Scottish Widows Fund laid in along with publisher's slips for obtaining cloth bindings and notice of next publication laid in Part I. Very Good leather at soines rubbed rear board of Part I separating from top edge. Uncommon in the original parts as most copies seen today wound up being bound by the original owners. Illustrated with drawings fold-out map Part I Fine. vii 2 304 305-576 577-832 833-1088 followed by A Dictionary of Birds at rear of part IV with separate half-title and title pages xii 124. Adam and Charles Black Hardcover books
1930ref. 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
1837ref. 007672London: John Van Voorst 1837. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition 1837 in signed Tout Binder half red morocco over marbled boards lined in gilt five raised bands gilt lined gilt lettering and tail date end pages marbled top edge gilt ribbon marker numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Armorial bookplate front paste down of Captain James Stewart Alltyrodyn a noted collector. Also laid in the card of noted 20th century American collector Lewis Vogler. Near Fine slight toning to end pages small rubs to two of the raised bands. A quite handsome copy with excellent provenance of this classic work. John Van Voorst Hardcover books
1925ref. 010620Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd. 1925. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. Large 8vo. First Edition. Off-white cloth covered boards with brown lettering and fish design to front and brown lettering rules and insect design to spine shell design at rear cover. Near Fine lacking the scarce dust jacket but now protected in clear mylar cover. Small bump to top front corner faint overall soiling to cloth front end page with vertical crease. "Illustrated with numerous Photographs and one hundred and eight sketches by the Author". 270 pages Errata slip tipped at Contents pages. . North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd. Hardcover books
1833ref. 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
1864ref. 009261Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea 1864. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxviii 49-706 32 adverts. In original brown embossed cloth Very Good spine a touch sunned light edge wear. Bookplate of Edward Delos Churchill front paste down and his last name signed in pencil front end page. With excellent medical provenance from the collection of Edward Delos Churchill 1895-1972 a pioneering American thoracic surgeon best remembered for describing the Churchill-Cope reflex. Blanchard & Lea Hardcover books
1982ref. S5054Washington D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences 1982. 1982. 254 x 192 mm. 29 pp. Frontis. port. Printed wrappers. Very good. National Academy of Sciences, 1982. unknown 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
1940ref. 006910Helsinki Finland: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 1940. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 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. Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura Hardcover books
1867ref. 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 books
1975ref. 010683New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1975. Book. Illus. by Haller Emanuel. Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition First Printing with complete number line. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt facsimile author's signature to the front and gilt lettering to the spine. Orange end papers. Illustrated by Emanuel Haller. Fine in a Fine dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon author portrait by Frank Ross. . Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1831ref. 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 books
1823ref. 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 books
1840ref. 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
1926ref. 010202Philadelphia London and Chicago: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1926. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good no jacket small scratches and rubs to cloth internally clean tight and unmarked. First Edition of Kinsey's First Book with no additional impressions stated. xiv 558 pages : 430 illustrations At head of title: "Edited by William F. Russell./ Includes index./ "Reference books": pages 537-542". SCARCE in the First Edition. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Hardcover books
1848ref. 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
1827ref. 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
1859ref. 009785London: H. G. Bohn 1859. Book. Very Good Plus. Full Calf. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Handsomely bound in full polished calf intricate gilt back marbled end papers and edges stamp-signed "Huches & Kemp Binders Oxford" bottom edge verso front end page. Very Good Plus front board top 1" slight fading boards lightly rubbed and soiled moderate foxining at first few end pages front and rear but clean of foxing internally. Presentation inscription front end page dated 1865 gifting the book to a fellow Etonian on leaving the school. New Edition Thoroughly Revised and Partially Re-Written. . Uncommon in commerce in contemporary fine binding. H. G. Bohn Hardcover books
1933ref. 004111New York: Falstaff Press Inc. 1933. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Limited and Numbered First Edition. 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 !. Falstaff Press Inc. Hardcover books
