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1933rif. 20290New York: Liveright Inc 1933. Cloth. Very Good -/Very Good -. A perfectly presentable copy of the 1933 1st American edition. Solid and VG- in its orange cloth with light staining along the upper-edges and the spine. And in a bright price-intact VG dustjacket with light chipping along the panel edges mild soiling to the rear panel and several ghost stains of removed tape. Thick octavo 9 full-page illustrations including frontispiece complementing Jacob Wassermann's text. Liveright Inc unknown books
1901rif. 16764New York: The Macmillan Company 1901. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1901 1st edition of essentially Jacob Riis's autobiography. Tight and VG to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth with bright gilt-insignia and titling along the front panel and lightly-faded titling and insignia at the spine. Light foxing as well at the frontispiece and its tissue-guard light offsetting to the dedication page. Armorial bookplate Anne C. Ewing at the front pastedown OF THE WOMAN TO WHOSE HUSBAND RIIS TWICE INSCRIBED THIS COPY AND WROTE HIS 1 PG. ALS. This copy furthermore includes 2 tiny corrections in Riis's hand one at pg. 283 one at pg. 436. Thick octavo 443 pgs. plus publisher's ads. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1976rif. S11687Ithaca:: Cornell University Press 1976. 1976. 8vo. 228 pp. Bibliography index. Orange cloth blue-stamped spine dust- jacket. Ink ownership signature of David C. Lindberg. ISBN: 0801409810 / 0-8014-0981-0 Cornell University Press, 1976. hardcover books
rif. 8487London: Holtzapffel& Co. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The first 4 volumes of this sweeping comprehensive work complete in 6 volumes. All 4 volumes are tight well-preserved and VG in their decorative blindstamped cloth with bright gilt-lettering along each of the spines. Small tasteful former owner inscription at each of the front free endpapers otherwise very solid and clean. Thick octavos over 2000 pgs. all told plus publisher's ads which include a number of beautiful steel engravings. The text also includes thousands of woodcuts "drawn on the wood by the Author". Vol. I 2nd edition: Materials; Their Differences Choiceand Preparation; Various Modesof Working Them Generally Without Cutting Tools; Vol. II 1875: The Principles of Construction Action and Application of Cutting Tools Used by Hand; and Also of Machines Derived from the Hand Tools; Vol. III 1864: Abrasive and Miscellaneous Processes Which Cannot Be Accomplished with Cutting Tools; Vol. IV 1881: The Principles and Practice of Hand or Simple Turning. Holtzapffel& Co unknown books
1998rif. S11466New York:: Alfred A. Knopf 1998. 1998. 8vo. xii 274 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Ink ownership signature of David C. Lindberg. Very good . ISBN: 0394327993 / 0-394-32799-3 Alfred A. Knopf, (1998). unknown books
1961rif. S11041Moscow:: Academy of Sciences 1961. 1961. 8vo. 172 4 pp. Frontispiece publisher's note laid-in. Quarter pebbled brown cloth over paper-backed boards; covers rubbed. Text in Russian. SCARCE. Very good. "Jons Jacob Berzelius 1779-1848 was a Swedish chemist . . . who worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation and is together with John Dalton Antoine Lavoisier and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry." web-source. In 1957 Yuri Ivanovich Soloviev became head of the history of chemistry section. His work focuses on the history of chemistry for which he had written numerous biographies of chemists. Academy of Sciences, 1961. hardcover books
1862rif. S11187Giessen:: Ferber'sche Universitats 1862. 1862. 8vo. iv 32 pp. Original printed wrappers; front cover notation covers reattached. Good. Moleschott was a Dutch physiologist who taught at Heidelberg and the Sapienza in Rome and "was especially concerned with research on the cardiac nervous system the respiratory system the smooth muscles and embryology" as well as "the metabolism of plants and animals and in the effect of light on it in nutrition" DSB Vol. IX 456-7. Ferber'sche Universitats, 1862. unknown books
1976rif. S11149Ithaca:: Cornell University Press 1976. 1976. 8vo. 228 pp. Bibliography index. Orange cloth blue-stamped spine dust-jacket. Bookplate. Fine in near fine jacket. ISBN: 0801409810 Cornell University Press, (1976). hardcover books
1893rif. S11179Stuttgart:: J. G. Cotta'Schen Buchhandlung 1893. 1893. 8vo. xvi 503 1. Frontispiece 1 plate 12 figures index. Quarter navy blue cloth over tawny paper-backed boards; top front cover dented corners worn but generally very good. First edition of this collection of "minor" papers by Mayer some of his letters etc. Another work also edited by Weyrauch Die Mechanik der Warme 3rd ed. 1893 contained Mayer's major scientific papers. "In both works Weyrauch provides not only extensive notes and commentary but also a thorough biography of Mayer." DSB. / Julius Robert von Mayer was a German physician chemist and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". CONTENTS partial: Biography 1832-44 etc.; Das Santonin his dissertation; diary of his journey to the East Indies; correspondence with Carl Baur 1841-1844; correspondence with Wilhelm Griesinger 1842-1845; correspondence between Mayer & Gustav Reuschle 1848-1871 an "incident" with Otto Seyffer 1849-50 "In 1849 a young German physicist named Otto Seyffer published a brutal attack on Mayer's work declaring it to be a collection of unfounded speculations about forces of nature. More researchers piled on in other journals no doubt leaving Mayer to feel himself besieged and rejected by the scientific community." web-source etc. REFERENCES: DSB IX pp. 235-240; Hirsch IV 133. Poggendorff IV/2 977. J. G. Cotta'Schen Buchhandlung, 1893. hardcover books
1980rif. S10533Princeton NJ:: Princeton University Press 1980. 1980. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. 8vo. xvii 328 pp. 7 illustrations 3 maps bibliography index. Blue cloth silver-stamped spine dust-jacket; jacket spine slightly sunned. Ownership signature. Fine in near fine jacket. ISBN: 9780691052816 Princeton University Press, (1980). hardcover books
1974rif. S8615London:: Allen Lane 1974. 1974. First edition in English. 8vo. viii 348 pp. Index. Maroon cloth dust-jacket; jacket extremities a bit worn else fine. Allen Lane, (1974). hardcover books
1963rif. S8610No place:: Journal of Molecular Biology 1963. 1963. 8vo. 23-42 pp. Figs. tables. Self-wraps. Ownership signature of Norman Horowitz. Fine. RARE. Jacob was one of the most important geneticists of the 20th century. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Journal of Molecular Biology, 1963. paperback books
1998rif. 49942Seattle WA: University of Washington Press 1998. Very Good -/Very Good -. Seattle WA: University of Washington Pres 1998. First Edition Stated. Slim square quarto 25.5cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 79pp.; halftone and full color illus. throughout. Faint dampstaining and subsequent cockling to jacket and bottom edge of textblock brief crack to front hinge; About Very Good only. Inscribed and signed on series page "To Norman / with great affection / Barbara." Forms part of the Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists. University of Washington Press unknown books
1656rif. 1408574Amsterdam: Ian Iacobsz Schipper Jan Jacobsz. Schipper 1656. Early Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 8 154 165-200; 8 207; 5 124; 2 46; 6 154 4 pages including an engraved title page three engraved human anatomical plates and many in-text illustrations. In Good minus condition. Quarter-bound in black leather with green paper boards. Paneled spine with gilt titling. Boards have light cracking to joints moderate chipping to edges bumping to corners and scuff marks and wear throughout. Textblock has patterned end papers has started to separate from the spine along the front hinge the front free end paper is partially detached from spine archival repairs to some pages from the engraved title page to page 8 impacting text light age toning and wear to edges light soiling scattered throughout. Missing pages 155-164. Text in Dutch. Shelved in Room A. This volume contains several works all published in 1656 by Jan Jacobsz. Schipper. Titles include: "SCHAT DER GESONTHEYDT"--"SCHAT DER ONGESONTHEYDT"--"BERGH-VAL"--"INLEYDINGE TOT DE HOLLANDTSCHE GENEES-MIDDELEN"-- "STEEN-STUCK"--"HEEL-KONSTE"-- "VERVOLGH VAN DE HEEL-KONSTE". Johan van Beverwyck 1594-1647 was a prominent Dutch physician and author who played a key role in popularizing medical knowledge during the Dutch Golden Age. Based in Dordrecht he was one of the first doctors to write medical treatises in the Dutch vernacular rather than Latin making health advice accessible to the general public. His most famous work Schat der Gesontheyt Treasure of Health combined practical medical guidance with moral philosophy and citations from classical literature. 1408574. Special Collections - Upstairs. Ian Iacobsz Schipper [Jan Jacobsz. Schipper] hardcover books
1938rif. 21847New York: R. R. Bowker Company 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. vi 153pp. Brick colored buckram gilt spine title. Wear to edges and corners; inner hinges cracked but firm else a very good copy. Extensively annotated in pencil by a former owner. Inscribed in pencil on the half title by Jacob BLanck to Milton Starr. One of 500 copies. . R. R. Bowker Company hardcover books
rif. 1418804Amsterdam & Utrecht 17th Century. A collection of 39 engraving plates extracted from an edition of Jacob Cats' celebrated emblem works Alle de Wercken. Each print features a detailed circular composition set within a square frame with architectural corner ornaments typical of the moralistic and satirical allegories popularized by "Father Cats" during the Dutch Golden Age. Dimensions: Image: 5.75 x 5.75 in. by sight; Mat: 10 x 10 in. Each print is individually matted and shrink-wrapped. In Very Good condition with light age toning. Shelved at Rockville Room C. . Jacob Cats 1577 - 1660 was one of the most prominent poets lawyers and politicians of the Dutch Golden Age. His emblem books combined vivid everyday visual metaphors-ranging from unruly horses to household scenarios-with witty moralizing text to instruct readers on faith romance prudence and the fickleness of human fortune. 1418804. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown books
1962rif. 623581New York: Futuro Press for Cyco Bicher Farlag 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 372 3 pp. bound and paginated in the Yiddish style. Text in Yiddish. Owner name of a noted Jewish-American psycholoigst on the front pastedown and a Yiddish-language inscription on the front fly. Pale green cloth with spine titled in gilt. Binding a big cocked cloth irregularly sunned flyleaves tanned a very good copy. The text is fine. A collection of Jewish legends of which the Lithuanian-born Yiddish poet published several later in life. Futuro Press for Cyco Bicher Farlag hardcover books
rif. 622962Detroit Michigan: United American Heathcare Corporation. Softcover. Fine. Catalog. Introduction by Jan van der Marck. Essay by Luisa Washington Chapman. Quarto. 64pp. Perfectbound in glossy wrappers. Appear fine in original shrinkwrap with unprinted cardboard backer. A catalog documenting the first works of African-American art collection acquired and maintained by the United American Healthcare Corporate an African-American-owned business "to educate both our staff and the community about the richness of African-American culture." Each work of art is pictured along with a brief biography of the artist. They include Charles Burwell David Driskell Richard Mayhew Benny Andrews Nadine DeLawrence Jacob Lawrence Gilda Snowden Romare Bearden Shirley Woodson and David Fludd. United American Heathcare Corporation unknown books
1960rif. 611721New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 310pp. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning rubbing and edgewear. "An authoritative report on equality and inequality in America - in employment education housing government and other areas of communal life by a New York senator. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1985rif. 602553New York Mills Minnesota: Jacob W. Heikkinen 1985. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 257pp. Pictorial wrappers. Ex-library with label and stamp tiny abrasion with a bit of spotting on wraps lightly toned spine very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Jacob W. Heikkinen unknown books
1975rif. 602911Port Washington New York / London: National University Publications / Kennikat Press 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Prefaratory essay by Boniface I. Obichere. Octavo. 270pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket a bit tanned at the rear pane and flaps and a couple of tiny creased tears. National University Publications / Kennikat Press hardcover books
1860rif. 1726401860. CHEVREUL Michel-Eugène and M. JACOB editors. Le teinturier universel: echo des applications des Matières colorantes. 96 fascicles in four volumes. 192; 192; 192; 192 pp. together with 192 specimens of various dyes on paper cotton silk rope and leather. Folio 310 x 228 mm. bound in original printed wrappers together in a new red cloth box. Paris: Teinturier Universel 1860-1864. Complete set containing every issue from 1 année no. 1 1 avril 1860 through 4 année no. 24 15 mars 1864. The periodical was issued semi-monthly; each issue includes lecture notes from M.E. Chevreul's "Cours de teintures des Gobelins" here in its first printing. Chevreul's colour studies made him one of the most influential scientists in France during the nineteenth century. From 1824 he was director of dyeing at the Manufactures Royales des Gobelins where he taught chemistry for nearly sixty years. "Chevreul's immediate task at Gobelins was to work on the improvement of colour intensity and fastness in wools. He had been selected for this position because he was an outstanding chemist; and his initial studies were on the chemical aspects of dyes and dyeing attempting to place the art of dyeing on a more rational basis than the complicated and empirical procedures then employed.Chevreul rendered an important service to the dye industry during the years prior to the advent of synthetic dyestuff" DSB. With nearly two hundred specimens of various colour dyes on paper cotton silk rope and a few illustrating the tanning and colouring of leather. The final volume investigates a large number of contrasting colours on the same type of sample Échantillon de Papier. Fragile spines somewhat worn but an excellent copy in original condition with many gatherings unopened. A desirable copy of a rare and important work. Bibliotheca Tinctoria 1218. hardcover books
1931rif. 606708New York: The Hebrew Actors Union of America 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Volume I only. Quarto. xiv 799pp. Text in Yiddish. Illustrated with halftone portraits. Black cloth gilt bound and paginated in the Yiddish style. Binding with light wear endleaves are rather brittle with both hinges split but sound a very good copy. The project eventually ran to six volumes published over the span of nearly 40 years. The Hebrew Actors Union of America hardcover books
2002rif. 559355New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 371pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jeremy P. Tarcher hardcover books
1940rif. 552347New York: The Macmillan Company 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. 284pp. Light toning on endpapers a couple small spots on spine and rear board about near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears creases on the cover and a sunned spine. The Macmillan Company hardcover books