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1932ref. 019186Bear Flag Museum 1932. Original Wildflower Sample Box . No Binding. Good. 9 1/4" x 7. A Simple White Box With A Long Hand-Lettered Description Presenting The Contents To Isaac O Levy For His Support Of The Bear Flag Museum And Dated 1932. The Contents Are Glassine Sheets Holding Actual Dried Wildflowers Seeds Etc. Some With Notes Showing Exact Locations And Dates Where They Were Picked. Apparently Unique. Bear Flag Museum unknown
1879ref. 033758Colorado 1879. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Black Paper Card Covers Gilt Lettering On Front Cover Bound By A Ribbon At Top. Contains 12 Cards Each With A Mounted Flower With Printed Scientific Description And The Location Where Collected All Locations At 6000-7500 Ft. Altitude. Flowers In Good Condition One Mostly Loose But All Present And Apparently Complete. Worldcat Does Not Identify An Institutional Holding Nor Does Google Identify Any Information; No Publication Information Just The Title And Date On Front Cover. paperback
1896ref. SB11487NY: American Geographical Society 1896. Four original issues bound into one volume in plain green cloth; Volume XXV; Retired library copy with the usual stickers ink-stamps labels and notations; Binding lightly edge worn and bumped at the spine tips; Topics in this issue include: Americana Exploration Geography Portrait of Columbus Carl Lumholtz in Northern Mexico Obelisk Finger Lakes New York Honduras Mosquito Shore Nicaragua Wilds Peoples of Farther India Angola West Africa Life in the Wilds of Central Africa Carl Lumholtz in Northern Mexico Greece and Modern Athens Bantu Notes and Vocabularies. Folded map of the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua; Map of Angola District of Loanda; Territories of the British South African Company; lxxvii 609p. Green Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Photgraphs Maps. 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover. American Geographical Society
ref. 0942102002.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1979ref. R63094Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1979. 1st edition. Nice copy. lge. octavo. chipped dust jacket 904pp. b/w plates index Bulgarian Academy of Sciences unknown
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
2019ref. 2-1076966039Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 84 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.19 inches. Independently published paperback
2019ref. __1076966039Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 84 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.19 inches. Independently published paperback
ref. 2083002115801179Nakasu old book publishing company N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nakasu old book publishing company paperback
1974ref. 49047Milan Italy: Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 1974. Paperback. Nine 9 full issues. Small 4to. Stiff printed wrappers. Various paginations most ca. 200pp. Occasional illustrations. Very good overall. Mild wear to outer wrappers only else all are internally tight and fine. Unusual large group of contributor copies of this long-established Italian scholarly journal all from the library of Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano 1950-91 the controversial Romanian philosopher essayist and historian of ideas religion and culture who on May 21 1991 was murdered -- some say assassinated -- in a bathroom at the University of Chicago's Divinity School likely because he proved a vocal critic of Romania's Communist post-Revolution regime in interviews and articles. Consists of the following issues the first three of which bear his name/address Milan inkstamp on first page: Settembre-Dicembre 1974 Fasc. V-VI Gennaio-Aprile 1975 Fasc. I-II Maggio-Agosto 1975 Fasc. III-IV Gennaio-Aprile 1976 Fasc. I-II Settembre-Dicembre 1977 Fasc. V-VI Gennaio-Aprile 1977 Fasc. I-II Maggio-Agosto 1978 Fasc. II Maggio-Agosto 1979 and Gennaio-Aprile 1981. All nine issues feature an article or essay by Culianu. He signs the inside front wrapper of the Gennaio-Aprile 1976 issue in black fineline and he has inked a couple "x"s in margins near end of the Gennaio-Aprile 1977 issue. Laid into the first issue is a color picture postcard beach scene heavy stock 6" X 4" postal cancellation blurred hence no place or date -- addressed to Culianu in Milan and penned in blue ballpoint message in Italian remains untranslated and appears unsigned. Quite an interesting grouping. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore paperback
1977ref. 49048Milan Italy: Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 1977. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff printed wrappers. P. 411-609. Illustrations. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers only else internally tight and near fine. Contributor's copy of this long-established Italian scholarly journal from the library of Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano 1950-91 the controversial Romanian philosopher essayist and historian of ideas religion and culture who on May 21 1991 was murdered -- some say assassinated -- in a bathroom at the University of Chicago's Divinity School likely because he proved a vocal critic of Romania's Communist post-Revolution regime in interviews and articles. His article appears on pp. 548-51. Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore paperback
1971ref. 7842San Francisco CA: R and E Research Associates 1971. First Thus. Hardcover. Good. 8 1/4 X 10 3/4 Inches. 39 PP. "The Mexicans besides being found in all industries form the basis labor for farm and city. They dig trenches lay railroad tracks build streets drive trucks garden peddle and do anything and everything that heretofore had been done by the negro the Italian or other European foreigners. The Mexicans have always had a monopoly of the common labor in San Antonio and more and more will they as such penetrate all parts of the United States." - PG 37 Original 1971 reprint of this Doctoral Thesis by William John Knox of the University of Texas. Originally written in 1927 this monograph reads like a manual of the struggles of immigration today. Well written and researched Knox's case study of Mexicans in Texas in the 1920's deserves recognition as one of the first in America of its kind. Knox's appeal to aid the Mexican immigrant. Original red boards as issued. Ex-Fisk University library copy with usual stamps and plates. R and E Research Associates hardcover
ref. ria9781787957367_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Few thinkers have shaped the language of power as profoundly as Niccolò Machiavelli. Often misunderstood frequently invoked and endlessly debated Machiavelli stands at the crossroads between the medieval world and the birth of m paperback
1992ref. 2081502111900728Zenkoku Zukan Literature Reduction and Reproduction Center 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 Hardcover Zenkoku Zukan Literature Reduction and Reproduction Center paperback
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1890ref. 16764Paris: Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire 1890. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 79 pages. 4to. Original marbled boards with leather spine and gilt titling. Rubbing to the extremities. Occasional soiling internally generally bright and clean. Boards. Roughly translated title: "Collection Of Memoirs Reports And Documents Relating To The Observation Of The Passage Of Venus On The Sun: Annex Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire unknown
ref. 18722Issued by Tass Agency Chronicle House 72-78 Fleet Street E.C.4. London. No. 8669 28 June 1947. 5pp. folio. Duplicate typescript on three leaves. In fair condition on aged paper. The first article produced on the eve of Indian independence begins: 'Moscow radio broadcast an account of a lecture given by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Zhukove on "The Situation in India" at the Polytechnical Museum in Moscow.' It proceeds with a summary of Zhukov's lecture the view he expounds including the following: 'Britain's new policy derives from the economic changes which took place in India during the years of the Second World War. India's big bourgeoisie made profits from the war and have become richer and at the same time more compliant towards Britain. The bourgeoisie's fear of the popular masses is greater than their fear of Britain.' The second articles is pure propaganda beginning: 'A vast territory of over 1158000 sq. miles lies in the North-East of the Soviety Union. In Tsarist days it was known as "the Siberia of Siberia." It is now the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic - a part of the Russian Federation - which is just celebrating the 25th anniversary of its foundation says a TASS message.' From the papers of Jimmy Shields of the International Department of the Communist Party of Great Britain. No other copy traced. Issued by Tass Agency, Chronicle House, 72-78 Fleet Street, E.C.4., London. No. 8669, 28 June 1947. unknown
ref. 70088Official annual proceedings of the French Royal Academy of Sciences documenting the scientific discoveries and mathematical and physical memoirs presented during 1738. These volumes are among the most important primary sources for the history of Enlightenment science and include contributions by many of the leading European scientists of the eighteenth century. Contributions of M. Winslow M. Nicole M. Geoffroy M. Camus M. CLairaut M. de Buffon M. Grandjean de Fouchy M. Le Monnier M. de la Condamine M. Nicole M. Lemery M. Cassini M. Hellot M. Pitot M. Lemery M. Cassini M. Godin M. le Monnier M. de Reaumur Titlepage: Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année MDCCXXXVIII. Avec les Mémoires de Mathématique & de Physique pour la même année tirés des registres de cette Académie.Full leather binding with gilt decorations on spine. Some small holes in the leather some discoloration and wear on the extremities but overall a good copy. Volume 68 in a series of 105 volumes. Interior cirsp and clean and complete. Collation: A-O4P22Z43E43F2. Quarto edition in -4 26 x 195 cm.Provenance: pasted in exlibris: Prefecture de l'aisne Prefectuur van het departement Aisne from the library of the department of Aisne main capital Laon. NL De jaarlijkse uitgaven van de Académie Royale des Sciences behoren tot de belangrijkste wetenschappelijke publicaties van de achttiende eeuw. Zij bevatten de officiële verslagen van de vergaderingen van de Franse Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen aangevuld met uitgebreide memoires over wiskunde natuurkunde sterrenkunde scheikunde anatomie botanica en natuurhistorie. De hier aangeboden band behandelt de werkzaamheden van het jaar 1738 maar werd overeenkomstig de gebruikelijke praktijk twee jaar later in 1740 gedrukt door de Imprimerie Royale te Parijs. De Académie Royale des Sciences werd in 1666 opgericht door minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert onder koning Lodewijk XIV en groeide uit tot het belangrijkste wetenschappelijke instituut van Frankrijk en een van de meest invloedrijke academies van Europa. De jaarlijkse delen documenteren de nieuwste ontdekkingen en experimenten van de vooraanstaande geleerden van hun tijd. hardcover
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
1845ref. 1160505.23Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1845 1846. Hardcover. Good. 8vo hardcover no dj. Binds together the 12 monthly issues for each of 1845 and 1846: 24 issues total. Good condition. Quarter leather over brown cloth boards gilt spine lettering. Moderate interior foxing contents otherwise clean no markings binding & hinges firm. Reconditioned leather supple & smooth with pea-sized scuff spot at front edge of spine; gilt title lettering bright. 98 & 118 pp. incl's Index for each volume. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard hardcover
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
1962ref. 10289Vista CA: Borderland Sciences Research Associates 1962. Second edition. Quarto 130; 28; 34; 38; 35 1; 30; 35 1; 30; 28; 32pp. Thirteen parts each with its own cover sheet and index on various color and thickness of stock; complete as issued. Original two-brad paper folder binding. Very clean. Included are 3 relevant issues of Mystic Magazine: August 1954 February and June 1955 on Mark Probert. A complete series of transcripts of thirteen seances held in September of 1946-February of 1949. Meade Layne occultist and founder of the Borderland Sciences Research Associates came to prominence when a story recorded in his newsletter "Round Robin" was broadcast via the wire service. Layne claimed he knew a medium ex-vaudeville star Mark Probert who was communicating telepathically with people in a space ship. Probert also became quite popular in his channeling of an "Inner Circle" that included Lao-Tse Michael Faraday Thomas Carlyle and Yada di Shi'ite a supposed 500000 year old Himalayan priest. Layne and Probert were a bit ahead of the UFO craze of the 50s and their theories that flying saucers were not extraterrestrial but rather materialized from a parallel plane became central in what would later be known as the interdimensional UFO hypothesis. The original memoranda were issued from San Diego and Borderland Sciences was operating from Vista by the late 1950s so these are likely the second printing of these transcriptions and perhaps the first collected edition. In any event these are quite scarce with OCLC citing no physical holdings. An important group of writings from an early duo who were quite influential in advancing ufology. . Borderland Sciences Research Associates unknown
1993ref. 147063New York: Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. New York Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library 1993 facsimile edition/ 1858. Quarto ii v-xvi 17-536 1 colophon pages with a frontispiece. Gilt-decorated full leather all edges gilt; light mark to the leading edge of the front board; early leaves very lightly scored; an excellent copy. The complete title is 'A Manual of Psychological Medicine containing the History Nosology Description Statistics Diagnosis Pathology and Treatment of Insanity with an Appendix of Cases'. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper. Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library hardcover
1996ref. 147062New York: Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library 1996. Hardcover. Fine. New York Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library 1996 facsimile edition/ 1908. Octavo ii xii 364 1 colophon pages. Gilt-decorated full leather all edges gilt; a fine copy. An account of the abuses which a young man witnessed and experienced in American mental institutions in the early years of the twentieth century prior to overcoming his own severe paranoia. The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the front pastedown. Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library hardcover
