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1909Best.-Nr. 21635New York: The Macmillan Company 1909. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . W.T. Benda. SIGNED BY JACOB RIIS on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1909 1st edition. Solid and VG in its gilt-bordered pictorial cloth with light rubbing to the rear panel. Thick octavo line-drawn sketches by W.T. Benda complementing the text. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 21250New York: Macmillan 1910. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JACOB RIIS on the front free endpaper. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the September 1910 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial light-green cloth with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. 12mo a number of full-page illustrations supplementing the text. Uncommon as such with Jacob Riis's inscription and in superb condition. Truly a collector's copy. Macmillan unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 21285Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co 1903. Cloth. Near Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JACOB RIIS on the front free endpaper. A tight well-preserved copy to boot of the May 1903 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth with bright gilt-titling along the spine. Light scuffing to the rear panel otherwise very sharp. 12mo top-edge gilt 190 pgs. George W. Jacobs & Co unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 21441New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1890. Pictorial boards. Very Good. A solid very presentable copy of the 1890 true 1st edition of this seminal study of poverty on New York's Lower East Side with its pictorial boards over navy-blue cloth and with the matching "1890" dates at the title and copyright pages. Tight and VG with light spotting and offseting along the top-edges and a touch of light wear to the spine ends and the fore-edges. Thick 12mo bright gilt-titling at the spine. 43 illustrations -- many of them pictorials-- complementing Jacob Riis's timeless text. Charles Scribners Sons unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1901Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1998Best.-Nr. 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
1961Best.-Nr. 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
1862Best.-Nr. 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
1976Best.-Nr. 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
1893Best.-Nr. 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
1980Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
1998Best.-Nr. 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
1656Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1962Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 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
1985Best.-Nr. 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
1975Best.-Nr. 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
