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1893ref. 008934New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1893. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Revised American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii 566 pages with 219 illustrations in text. Dated 1884 copyright page 1893 title page. SCARCE in any edition in current commerce. Near Fine in original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations top edge gilt from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. His ownership signature and name stamp front end page. Slight wear at spine ends light soiling at end pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover 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
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
1905ref. 006666New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1905. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in such lovely condition. Near Fine small inked letter bottom corner front end page gilt at spine a bit rubbed to publisher's name at bottom edge. In the original green cloth gilt titles and decorations bright tissue-guarded frontispiece with elephants vii-xv 310 pp. with 4 pp. publisher's catalog illustrated with numerous black and white full-page photographs. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1928ref. 006685New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1928. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boas' classic treatise on race and culture RARE in the original 1928 First Edition and in collectible condition. 236pp. 10 pp references. Very Good in the original black cloth with paper labels front board and spine spine label a bit darkened and a trifle rubbed cloth a few small rubs contents are clean tight and unmarked. W W Norton & Co Inc Hardcover books
1898ref. 006693New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1898. Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. Later Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Authorized Edition 1898. Near Fine in Half-Leather over marbled boards leather a few small rubs most pages yet uncut. A quite handsome copy. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
1903ref. 006748New York: Henry Malkan 1903. Book. Very Good Plus. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original green cloth gilt titles and Indian basket front cover boards rubbed at corner edges light soiling prior owner name stamp front paste down period school stamps title page and rear paste down. Henry Malkan Hardcover books
1933ref. 006566Oslo Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co. 1933. Book. Very Good. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his signature in ink front end pages of all 3 volumes. 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. Very Good chips to edges of wrappers corner chips rear end pages. H. Aschehoug & Co. Paperback books
1975ref. 006588Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard Univ. 1975. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Thirty page illustrated catalog in stapled wrappers and 16 large 11"x17" loose color plates in orange cloth-covered folio as issued. Near Fine corner bump to folio and to plates small tear to paper lining of folio catalog is Fine. Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard Univ. Hardcover books
1965ref. 006465Monuments Serica 1965. Book. Near Fine. Pamphlet. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV 1965. Near fine slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. Monuments Serica Paperback books
1957ref. 006306Melbourne Australia: Colorgravure Publications 1957. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase one corner of the slipcase with a tape mend. #4314 of an edition of presumably 5000copies. Profusely illustrated with both B&W and color photographs. 200 pp. Colorgravure Publications Hardcover books
1951ref. 004685Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1951. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHORS. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS "Eleanor Maccoby with the sincere regards of Talcott Parsons Clyde Kluckhorn S.A. Stouffer Robert R. Sears Gordon W. Allport Harry Murray" A unique Association Copy Eleanor Maccoby was a noted psychologist best known for her contributions to developmental psychology and the psychology of sex differences. The signees were a Who's Who of eminent sociologists psychologists and anthropologists. Talcott Parsons career was entwined with the development of sociology as an academic discipline at Harvard and in this book he was refining his "general theory of action". In 1931 Parsons was one of the inaugural faculty members in the Dept. of Sociology at Harvard. Gordon W. Allport is known as one of the founding figures of personality psychology and along with Harry Murray were faculty in the Psychology Dept. at Harvard. Robert R. Sears was head of the Psychology Dept. at Stanford University Samuel Stouffer a Professor of Sociology at Harvard and Clyde Kluckhorn a Professor of Anthropology at Harvard. Book is Very Good no dustjacket corner crease bottom corners last 10 pages of book and top corners title page into contents page cloth a bit rubbed. The signatures of all 6 of these gentlemen are SCARCE individually and as a group along with the Association to Eleanor Maccoby this represents a RARE and unique opportunity in the academic collecting world !. Harvard University Press 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
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
1999ref. S4779Cambridge MA:: American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999. 1999. 254 x 179 mm. 8vo. vi 154 pp. Illus. lists of members. Printed wrappers. Very good. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. unknown books
1888ref. S6892Bologna:: Bamberini et Parmegolani 1888. 1888. 8vo. 26 pp. Original printed wrappers; dis-bound extremities chipped. Ex library rubber stamp and ms. notations on top cover. Good. Bamberini et Parmegolani, 1888. unknown 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
1734ref. D4425Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1734. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes comprising Vol. III parts I to III of Memoires de lAcadémie Royale des Sciences depuis 1666 jusquà 1699. Paris: Par La Compagnie des Libraires 1733-1734. Part I: 231pp.; Part II: 294pp.; Part III: 215pp. 97 engraved folding plates depicting animals and skeletal diagrams. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Claude Perrault in first volume. Contemporary French calf spines gilt edges red; some occasional browning; repairs to joints some rubbing. Unidentified armorial bookplate to front pastedown beneath monogrammed bookplate D.P. with chipmunk and two mice. A later reduced format edition of Perraults Memoires of 1671-1676 Perraults study of this nature was first published in 1669 with the results of investigations of five animals and later expanded with studies of over forty animals. Prior to 1670 most descriptions of animals paid little attention to their internal structure and there were very few images in natural history encyclopedias that depicted skeletons or muscles. That changed with the establishment of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert with the approval of King Louis XIV. The Academy functioned with neither statutes nor regulations until 1699. At that time the Academy used the term mathématique to encompass the fields that are now called astronomy mathematics and physics and the term physique to encompass the fields that are now called anatomy botany zoology and chemistry. In January 1699 Louis reorganized the Academy giving it first regulations. The effect was to give the King more control over their activities in exchange for becoming an official institution under his protection with the new name Académie Royale des Sciences. One of the original academicians the physician Claude Perrault organized regular sessions at which participants could dissect deceased animals from Louis XIVs royal menagerie and record all they observed. Lions chameleons bears gazelles wolves ostriches crocodiles monkeys eagles tigers porcupines and salamanders among some were all laid open by the academics scalpels. These superb folding plates record in great detail the pioneering work at the Academy. These three volumes in three parts focus on the transformative and foundational years of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and Claude Perraults efforts which had made comparative anatomy a vital tool for the classifying naturalist. Par La Compagnie des Libraires hardcover books
1893ref. 1946New York: NY Academy of Sciences 1893. First Edition. As issued. A fine copy. 4to. An engraved invitation meas. appx. 8 x 11 in. with a portrait of Audubon. A superb engraved invitation with the original admission ticket and mailing envelope to the unveiling of the Audubon monument at Trinity Cemetery. NY Academy of Sciences unknown books
1811ref. 6790Munich: I J Lentner 1811. First Edition. Contemporary paste paper boards. Good; some spotting and browning throughout. 8vo xxiv 4 1 - 224 239 pp. large folding table. The author is responsible for the striking physiological observation and first description of the circulation of endoplasm in Paramecium. The significance of this was not realized by Ehrenberg at the time and was finally confirmed by Carus in 1834. The discovery had a profound impact on the ideas of cell theory and evolution in the early 19th century. He was a staunch opponent of the 'romantic' in natural philosophy see his later work Uber Naturforschung and an indefatigable teacher and researcher. A little known and important work. See Cole; Poggendorff I 964 -`5; NDB VII 211. I J Lentner hardcover books
1975ref. 78945Seoul: Printed by Samhwa Printing Co 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 627p. Original green cloth. 23cm. Minor scuffing and wear. No Jacket. Printed by Samhwa Printing Co hardcover books
1955ref. 60529New Haven: Human Relations Area Files 1955. Paperback. Very Good. maps xi 389p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Name on title-page. Subcontractor's Monograph HRAF-19. Title also appears as "Aspects of Contemporary Belorussia. Human Relations Area Files paperback books
1948ref. 11319Cairo 1948. Paperback. Good. maps photos ills 87 9 113 14p. Softcovers in orignal wrapper. 30 cm. Ex lib. Two consecutive issues of this annual which are largely focused on natural history. paperback books
1905ref. 7611Washington: Governments Printing Office 1905. Hardcover. g. 4to. 272 pp. Brown cloth binding. Corners frayed and spine have a small amount of fraying very slightly shaken otherwise good to very good. Sixty-one full-page plates in color and b&w of drawings and photographs with two or more images on each plate. Good. Governments Printing Office hardcover books
1977ref. M14364Washington DC:: GPO 1977. 1977. Series: Fogarty International Center Proceedings no. 37. 8vo. xvi 370 pp. Figs. tables index. Gilt-stamped dark red cloth. Ownership signature of Willard Goodwin. Nice copy. Proceedings of a conference with papers by numerous attendees. The organization of the 25 papers is divided into four sections: I: THEORIES OF STONE FORMATION: Birdwell Finlayson George H. Nancollas William G. Robertson Martin I. Resnick John L. Meyer H. Fleisch; II: GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF STONE DISEASE: Scott B. Halstead Aree Valyasevi & Sakorn Dhanamitta Valyasevi & Dhanamitta & Bhinyo Susilavorn Soemilah Sastroamidjojo Adel H. Loutfi & Gilane Abdel Hamid Farakh A. Khan Mahin Sadre & Mohsen Ziai Sardinder Man Singh Amrit Lal Aurora Andre de Vries & Abraham Weinberger R. Kadivar & M. Tabatabai; III: METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS: Lawrence G. Raisz Howard Rasmussen & Philippe Bordier Hibbard E. Williams Andre de Vries & Oded Sperling; IV: TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF STONE DISEASE: William C. Thomas Jr. & Marjorie H. Malagodi Lynwood H. Smith Loutfi Valyasevi & Dhanamitta & Siripath Watthana-Kasetr & Robert Van Reen. GPO, 1977. hardcover books
