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1988ref. 164131988. Softcover. VG very slight wear on cover. White wraps. 21 pp. 11 color 4 bw plates. paperback books
1967ref. EEG1119Washington D.C.:: National Academy of Sciences 1967-8. Series: NAS/NRC publication No. 1485 AB. 1967. 2 volumes. 8vo. 8 150; 9 187 pp. Printed wrappers. Book-label of professor Ralph H. Kellogg Very good. These two volumes cover research requested by NASA's Office of Advanced Research & Technology and the Space Science Board which in 1966 initiated studies of the physiological problems of manned space flight. The two-part study on respiratory physiology and circulatory physiology were done by a team of experts who wrote the report published here. Due to the complexity of problems relating to the unknown possible effects of prolonged space flight on the circulatory system these studies were vital to the success of NASA programs. / PROVENANCE: Ralph H. Kellogg 1920-2009 matriculated to the medical school at the University of Rochester then after WWII he taught at the Dept. of Physiology at Harvard Medical School taking his Ph.D. in 1953 then he joined UC Berkeley and then UCSF as Professor of Physiology where he worked for more than 50 years specializing in renal and respiratory physiology with particular attention to physiology of high altitude. "Facilities were primitive and they were subjects for their own experiments. Their measurements yielded additional information about the control of breathing that helps people adjust to the lack of oxygen pressure in the air. Very few physiologists in the world had laboratory facilities to work at such high altitude and Ralph came to know most of them." He also collected rare books on mountaineering clearly relating this interest to the study of high altitude conditions and the human experience. National Academy of Sciences, 1967-8. Series: NAS/NRC publication No. 1485 A+B. unknown books
1949ref. RH1572Paris:: La Revue 1949. 1949. Series: La Revue Litterature Histoire Arts et Sciences des Deux Mondes vol. 24 1959. 8vo. Printed wrappers; cover off. Worn. Full issue of this periodical. It contains additional papers written by d'Harcourt Deon Gignoux Therive Arrigon Humbourg Lizop Croise and others. La Revue, 1949. unknown books
1959ref. 200076Fayetteville Arkansas: College of Arts and Sciences University of Arkansas 1959. Paperback. Fair wraps with Good interior Wraps are heavily worn/foxed/toned/smudged; textblock edges are lightly worn/toned/scuffed; some interior pages are dog-eared; interior is clean with some light foxing or smudging; binding appears solid. Grey illustrated stapled wraps with black and blue lettering; 55 pp.; richly illustrated. This volume includes a color woodcut by Robert Rorex. College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas paperback books
1921ref. 232279New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good. Hardcover is rubbed at spine ends and corners cover and foredges soiled gold stamping on front cover and faded spine front hinge cracked inside front cover. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover books
1921ref. 232280New York: Doubleday Page & Co 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good. Hardcover is rubbed at spine ends and corners cover and foredges soiled gold stamping on front cover and faded spine. Doubleday, Page & Co hardcover 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
1899ref. 246396Washington: The Academy. Very Good. 1899-1911. Complete in 13 volumes 1899-1911 some with several parts ; most in original wrappers with vols 4 5 6 & 7 bound in maroon cloth. In 1911 the name was changed to "Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences" with a new vol. 1 no. 1 issued on July 19 1911. . The Academy hardcover books
ref. 16421pamphlet. 15 pages. Slim 8vo stitched now in modern wrappers. Paris 1837. Pages foxed otherwise very good. Report on Dr. A. Legrand's publication advocating therapeutic use of gold for lymphadenitis. 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
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 books
1890ref. RH1434Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1890. 1890. 8vo. 230 pp. pages 15-16 torn without loss. Original green printed wrappers; covers off A poor working copy. Ownership signature of Roger Hahn. Rare. AS IS. Cited in Roger Hahn's classic The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution; The Paris Academy of Science 1666-1803 1971 p. 409. Gauthier-Villars, [1890]. 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
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
1987ref. 50343New York: Skidmore College 1987. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. No. 73 Winter 1987. Near fine in wrappers with a small crease on the rear wrapper. Skidmore College unknown books
1971ref. 42862Staten Island NY: Staten Island Museum 1971. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with light soiling along bottom margin of front wrapper contents clean. Unpaged 28 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. 8vo. Staten Island Museum unknown books
1760ref. 14266Amsterdam 1760. Boards. Good. Four volumes in uniform period leather bindings. 12mo 6 1/2 x 4 inches. Spines with gilt decorations raised bands and leather labels. Clean internally. Bindings are worn but fundamentally sound. Tome Premier: III-XVI 727 pages. Tome Second: 2 743 pages. Tome Troisieme: 2 648 pages. These three volumes comprise a set and contain the indices of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris for the years 1699-1734 inclusive. Headband of Tome Second torn. Marbled pastedown endpapers with plain flyleaves. Published in 1741 by Chez Pierre Mortier. These three volumes contain a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1699 to 1734 inclusive. Tome Quatrieme: 8 404 XXXVI 372 2 III-VIII 256 pages. This volume has a paper label with manuscript notations at the head of the spine. Marbled endpapers. Published in 1760 by Chez J. Schreuder Et Chez Pierre Mortier le Jeune. The first section 8 404 pages is a general table of the matters contained in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris from 1735-1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH XXXVI 372 pages the "Histoire de L'Academie Royale Des Sciences Centie'me ou Dernier Volume De La Premiere Centurie. Contenant un Abregd Historique de chaque Sceince. Avec une liste generale des Memoires de Mathematique & de Physique jusqu'a l'annee 1751. inclusivement." History of the Royal Academy of Sciences Hundredth or Last Volume of the First Century. Containing an Historical Summary of each Science. With a general list of Memoirs of Mathematics & Physics up to the year 1751 inclusive. BOUND WITH III-VII 256 pages "Memoires de L'academie Royale Des Sciences. Jusqu'a L'Année MDCCLI. Inclusivement. Contenus dans la premiere Centurie des Volumes de l'Edition de Hollande." Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Up to the Year MDCCLI. Inclusively. Contained in the First Century of Volumes of the Holland Edition. This last section has no title page. Boards. 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
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
1974ref. 42825Binghamton NY: Robertson Center for the Arts and Sciences 1974. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with sunned and scuffed wrappers contents clean. Unpaged 19 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. Obl. 4to. An exhibition from March 10-April 21 1974 on New York State handicrafts. OCLC locates 5 copies all but one in New York. Robertson Center for the Arts and Sciences unknown 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
1966ref. RH1554Paris: Observatoire de Paris 1966. 1966. At head of title: Institut de France Academie des sciences. 8vo. viii 66 pp. With the final supplemental inserted sheet. Facs. illus. Printed wrappers. Very good. Observatoire de Paris, 1966. unknown books
1992ref. 75341992. Softcover. VG orange label on cover. Wraps. 8 pp. 1 color 7 bw plates. Extensive essay written by Pamela D. King with notes. Catalogue lists 39 sculptures. paperback 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
1971ref. 29191Moskva: Nauka 1971. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles in shades of gray cream and blue. A very good set some browning to leaves on a few volumes otherwise clean unmarked one volume with damp stain to boards and a few leaves at the inner margin. Illus. 8vo. The complete run of the publications of the 7th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Moscow in 1964. Contributions in Russian English French German Italian or Spanish. Hard to find in a complete run. Nauka hardcover books
