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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
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
1850ref. 49285Amherst: J.S. & C. Adams 1850. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 85-100pp. Some chipping and a few small losses to wrapper extremities partly affecting author's inscription at head of upper cover else Very Good and sound. One of a series of fascicles on new species of seashells found in Jamaica. SABIN 176. J.S. & C. Adams unknown 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
1855ref. 50253New York: Edward P. Allen 1855. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan wrappers printed within decorative border; 24pp. Tiny chip at spine crown extremities slightly toned else Very Good and sound. Lecture dating early in Steiner's storied career delivered while professor at Columbian College now George Washington University and the National Medical College. Following the Civil War Steiner was elected president of the Frederick County School Board in Maryland focussing much of his energy on the education of Black children. Edward P. Allen unknown 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
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
1813ref. 45481Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson 1813. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 21.5cm.; Vol. I bound in slightly later half calf over marbled boards black gilt spine label Vol. II in full contemporary sheep red gilt spine label; 4506; 6484pp.; engraved title pages 25 leaves of plates including eight folding. Evidence of previously removed library bookplates to Vol. 1 pastedowns some scuffing to boards more heavily so to Vol. II some light foxing one leaf trimmed close with slight loss of text a couple of closed tears to folding leaves else Very Good and sound overall. Attractive engraved pictorial bookseller ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. II. Complete first and second volumes of the New Series edited by the Anglo-American chemist Thomas Cooper. Though not a particularly brilliant scientist Cooper's "greatest service to science was undoubtedly the dissemination of information" Dictionary of Scientific Biography III p. 400. The present collection includes detailed articles on sugar from beets and grapes "Comparative Height of Mountains on the Earth the Moon and Venus" turnpike roads making "fine Cutlery" foreign and homemade wines criminals from 1805 to 1811 and "the uses of a dead horse by the editor." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 28226. Kimber & Richardson unknown books
1959ref. 45073Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council 1959. Second Printing. Octavo 25cm.; publisher's white pictorial stapleboud card wrappers; viii37pp.; illus. and charts throughout. Light toning along wrapper extremities else Near Fine. Council Publication no. 655. National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council unknown books
1959ref. 45075Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council 1959. First Edition. Octavo 25cm.; publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; xviii52pp. Light toning to spine edge else Fine. National Academy of Sciences -- National Research Council unknown books
1878ref. 10367Cambridge: Harvard University 1878. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed wrappers; 7pp. Old institutional hand-stamp to front cover; old dampstains to bottom 1/4 of text throughout; moderate soil and edgewear; a solid Good copy. Text includes "A List of the Scientific Papers published during the past six years under my direction from the Physical Laboratory of Harvard University." Trowbridge's name signed in blue pencil on front cover but autograph unverfied; possibly simply an attribution of authorship by a former reader. John Trowbridge 1843-1923 long-time professor of Physics at Harvard was a pioneer in developing laboratory techniques for research in physics; in his 1925 memorial of Trowbridge Theodore Lyman wrote: "The earlier part of the long period during which Professor Trowbridge was a member of the teaching staff of Harvard was characterized by the development of laboratory methods in teaching.Keenly alive to the lack of adequate facilities for the advancement of his chosen field along these lines at Harvard Trowbridge projected a great physical laboratory and found the means to construct it. When the laboratory was begun models for such a building were altogether lacking in this country." Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science v.60 no. 14 p.651 ff. The facility Trowbridge constructed would be named the Jefferson Physical Laboratory: it was the first building in the Western Hemisphere dedicated solely to the physical sciences and is still a Harvard landmark. Trowbridge would serve as Director for the first 22 years of the Laboratory's existence. This pamphlet describing the design construction and funding of the laboratory appears to be uncommon; OCLC notes only 5 physical locations most in Massachusetts; no other copies seen in commerce 2018. (Harvard University) unknown books
1963ref. S11633San Francisco:: California Academy of Sciences 1963. 1963. Series: Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences no. 44 Nov. 8 1963. 8vo. 154 pp. Frontis. 50 figs. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Contains 10 articles among them: Robert I. Bowman "Evolutionary Patters in Darwin's Finches." California Academy of Sciences, 1963. unknown books
1900ref. 235831900. Women in laboratory sciences photo archive circa 1900 to 1946 documenting women's movement into chemistry bacteriology hospital medicine and classroom experiment at a time when scientific training and professional advancement remained largely organized around men with barriers of entry for women. The group begins with a pharmacological laboratory where one woman stands among men predating suffrage in the United States and continues through school laboratories hospital laboratories press photographs and postwar images of young women handling test tubes and glassware. World War I drew women chemists into schools universities analytical laboratories and war work while World War II accelerated laboratory demand again through bacteriology antibiotics and industrial drug production. Photo archive of 11 mixed phtoographic mediums including albumen silver gelatin and real photo postcard photographs various sizes ranging 5 x 4 inches to 8 x 10 inches United States and Europe early 20th century. The images show women and girls conducting experiments at benches lined with burners flasks pipettes test tubes reagent bottles and laboratory stands; a large pharmacological classroom with nearly all male staff and students and one woman present; high school girls in an early science classroom; two nuns or a nun and nurse working in a laboratory at Saint Anthony's Hospital Rockford Illinois identified on verso as early 1930s; and a bacteriological laboratory scene dated October 2 1923. A 1926 Acme press photograph identifies "Miss Virginia Trelease chemist student at Northwestern University Evanston Ill." using liquid oxygen from a Heylandt liquefier to fry an egg over "burning ice." Other images show two young women captioned "Resa Yusko and Bla Pesala" in 1946 smiling while handling laboratory equipment and a 1927 press photograph of Mrs. August Rus Oppenheim Mrs. Oswald Jimenis and Mrs. Arthur Bunker of the Southern Women's Educational Alliance posting a Metropolitan Opera benefit notice evidence of women's educational fundraising alongside the scientific scenes. The photographs trace women's scientific labor from gendered access to instruction into wartime necessity and postwar professional visibility. In the early twentieth century women who entered chemistry and medicine often worked through teaching nursing hospital laboratories and applied science fields that admitted them more readily than elite research posts while still relying on their technical skill. During World War II penicillin moved from laboratory microbiological study in 1940 to mass production by 1945 a shift that depended on fermentation work laboratory handling and industrial coordination rather than discovery alone. Light surface wear toning occasional creasing press stamps captions and handling marks; some images faded or rubbed. Overall good condition. A concentrated visual record of women learning demonstrating and performing laboratory science across the decades when modern medicine and chemistry increasingly required their work while still limiting their recognition. unknown books
1910ref. 231321910. Women in STEM Women's scientific and technical employment photo archive documenting female laboratory labor from the early twentieth century through the 1940s historically significant for showing how women entered academic industrial and commercial research settings in roles that ranged from student and aide to biologist technician and physician at a period when scientific work remained overwhelmingly male and women's access to professional authority was still sharply constrained. The group includes five press photographs and three non press photographs with women pictured not as incidental clerical staff but as active operators of instruments handlers of test animals readers of charts and participants in experimental procedure establishing direct visual evidence of women's expanding place within the infrastructure of American science industrial testing and laboratory employment. Photo archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 3.5 x 5.5 to 8 x 10 inches various U.S. locations circa 1910 to 1940s. The archive spans classroom laboratory and industrial interiors. One 1910 photograph shows two men and one woman standing in a laboratory identified as "three scientists or science students" an early image of mixed gender scientific training. A 1937 press photo titled "aviation biologist works with hatchlings" shows Dr. Manisera in a lab coat hand feeding two week old canaries with a third bird perched on her head turning animal handling and experimental care into a public image of female scientific expertise. Another press photo shows Sally Wulff identified on the verso as an engineering aide with a science degree from the University of Iowa seated at a control bench calibrating experimental instruments at Wright Field. A 1938 non press image shows Dr. Marie D'Amour and Fred D'Amour studying a chart before a blackboard covered with formulas and technical notations linking the photograph to mammalian physiology research. A Hoboken New Jersey press photo depicts a female technician in the chemical division of the United States Testing Company operating a Fisher titrimeter "for performing volumetric analyses by electronic means" while a 1939 press photo from Newton Massachusetts shows a laboratory worker testing newly developed Permatron tubes used in high frequency welding and power transmission. Another press image captioned "A 'noise machine' used in experiments in the Colgate laboratory" shows a woman and man positioned on either side of the apparatus and a separate 1940s laboratory group photograph places a single woman among five men before a long demonstration bench and blackboard diagrams underscoring both women's presence and their numerical isolation within technical settings. Several versos retain typed caption slips editorial markings and reference stamps consistent with press photo circulation. Across the first half of the twentieth century women entered scientific work through normal schools universities wartime research demand industrial laboratories and auxiliary technical appointments yet their advancement was often channeled into subordinate or specialized designations even when their work required substantial training. This archive makes that structure visible through named and captioned examples of women conducting measurement instrument calibration physiological research electronics testing and experimental animal work across corporate academic and applied research environments. Minor residue on versos from former press labels or caption attachments; otherwise clean and well preserved. Overall very good condition. As a record of women's early technical labor the archive supplies concrete visual evidence of the pathways limits and visibility of women's participation in American scientific work before the full opening of postwar professional opportunity. unknown books
1964ref. acs247Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas 1964. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt lettering xxvii 124 pp. Fine in a Fine mylar protected dust jacket with “American Lecture Series.” From dust jacket: It is only possible to understand life in all its forms by understanding it at its origin and in its development. by studying and reproducing the processes by which it arose. In this classic monograph Doctor Oparin describes in as great detail as achievements of contemporary science will allow the three stages in the evolution of organic substances which preceded the appearance of life on Earth. The emergence of the most primitive organic compounds the hydrocarbons and cyanides and their nearest oxygen nitrogen sulphur and phosphorus derivatives with comparatively low molecular weights. Further elaboration of these compounds associated with a progressive increaase in the size of their molecules owing to the polymerisation and condensation of organic substances in the waters of the primaeval seas and oceans the primaeval nutrient broth. Formation within the hydrosphere of multimolecular systems which arise by the association of different high-molecular organic substances into supra-molecular complexes marked off from their environment by a definite boundary of separation but capable of reacting with it as an open system Charles C. Thomas, 1964. hardcover books
1924ref. 560022Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Blanche Colton Williams. Contemporary owner name on front fly sunned spine with light creases very good lacking the dust jacket. First publication of "Phantom Adventure" by Floyd Dell. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover books
1961ref. 382136Washington: Government Printing Office 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Senate Document No. 26 87th Congress 1st Session. Thick octavo. xxii 1392pp. In the original publisher's cloth. Ex-library with two small ink stamps front pastedown else no other markings. Light soiling to the boards near fine. Prepared for the use of the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. A nice copy. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1742ref. SS13441London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . 1742-53. 1742. 5 volumes. 8vo. Vol.1: 4 x 11-456 16; Vol.2: 2 407 15 10; Vol.3: 2 422 16; Vol.4: 2 410 14 11-26; Vol.5: 2 426 14 pp. The first 10 pages of the "Addenda" are bound at the end of vol.2 pp.11-26 are bound at the end of vol.4. 44 of 45 engraved plates mostly folding I: 17; II: 6; III: 6; IV: 6; V: 9 of 10 plates pl. 10 supplied in facs. see p. 422 TOTAL: 44 2 folding tables vol. I tables some folding addenda indexes; 2nd wasp plate vol. V with small scrape effecting some of the image. Original speckled calf; rebacked and with later endleaves vols. I III & V with joints gently mended with kozo. PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Henry and Carol Faul mounted on top of the following engraved bookplate for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: "Sub libertate Florent" dated 1780 "The Gift of . . ." -- also with their gilt-stamp applied to the foot of the later spines "American Academy"; Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. Very good. HENRY FAUL'S COPY -- WORKED FOR ENRICO FERMI & BIKINI ATOLL TEST. A collection of early scientific papers from leading figures all belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris the French equivalent to the Royal Society of London. The abridged papers all appeared between 1699 and 1720 and include diverse topics such as anatomy apiculture astronomy incl. Moon chemistry electricity entomology gases geography geology herpetology invertebrates magnetism medicine meteorology mineralogy monsters music mollusks natural history optics physics scientific instruments including the barometer microscope zoology and more. / AMONG THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS OR NOTABLES MENTIONED: Agricola Amontons Baert Juan de Barros Bernoulli Bignon Borelli Bouvet Robert Boyle Carre Cassini Chazelles Chevalier Coronelli Dampier Descartes Dodart Fermat Fontenay Fontenelle Galileo Gandolphe Gassendi Gesner Gouye Halley Van Helmont de la Hire du Hamel Huygens Jeaugeon Kepler Kircher Leibnitz Lemery Leuwenhoek Malpighi de Marca Mariotte Mollard Gregory Nazianzen Isaac Newton de Nointel Ortelius Parent Picard Renau Riccioli Sanctorius Strabo Tournefort Varignon etc. PROVENANCE: 1 American Academy of Arts & Sciences bookplate: The Academy seal features Minerva the goddess of wisdom science and trade and the arts. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled craftsman writers and actors. She is also depicted as a warrior a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution. Around Minerva are representations of the new country—on her right a field of Indian corn a stand of oaks and the outline of a town; at her feet a hoe a plow and a sickle; on her left a quadrant and a telescope a ship heading for shore and the sun completely risen above the cloud. Over the whole is the motto SUB LIBERTATE FLORENT which suggests that arts and sciences flourish best in. -- 2 Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. -- 3 Henry and Carol Faul. Henry Faul was a geologist working on Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago. He was responsible for prospecting uranium ore in Colorado and Utah. He also travelled to Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos and in Washington DC. Following the war Faul continued to work on nuclear projects and participated in the Bikini Atoll test. He received his M.S. from the University of Chicago during the war and went on to get his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ESTC T131275. Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . , 1742-53. unknown books
1924ref. 84770Washington: GPO 1924. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. folding map and plates ix 84p. plus 134 photographic plates. Original cloth. 30cm. No Jacket as published. Minor rubbing at extremities. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Volume XVIII. GPO hardcover books
1965ref. 59511Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N. 1965. 8vo pp. 3-330 2; maps charts tables graphs etc. in text; original white wrappers printed in red and black; ex-Macalister Library with small stamp on title page page edges and pocket inside back cover; all else very good. Issued as the 6th section in the Bibliothèque générale de l'École pratique des hautes études series. Texts variously in French English German and Spanish. S.E.V.P.E.N. unknown books
1949ref. 59557Brussels: INCIDI 1949. 8vo pp. 8 326 2; text in French with some portions in parallel English text; green paper wrappers; wrappers sunned with a few stains corner bumped clean and sound very good. Previously the International Colonial Institute the INCIDI was a collection of independent "distinguished citizens" to "facilitate and spread the comparative study of the political science of administration and of colonial legislation. Its fellows met regularly and published widely making the institute a strong influence among colonial powers. The Compte Rendu includes organization bylaws and briefs on the meeting of March 1949 as well as a bibliography of titles produced by members and by the institute itself. INCIDI unknown books
1990ref. 2847Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. Very minor shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Navy cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 485pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. National Academy Press hardcover books
1987ref. 2848Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 544pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. National Academy Press hardcover books
1989ref. 2845Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 542pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. National Academy Press hardcover books
1987ref. 2846Washington D.C.: National Academy Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. An collection of biographical essays of Academy members. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering. 8vo. 626pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. National Academy Press hardcover books
