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1961ref. M6801Jerusalem:: Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1961. 1961. 242 x 172 mm. 8vo. vi 263 pp. Figs. tables. Printed wrappers; wrappers stained. Very good. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Published for the National Science Foundation Washington D.C. and the Department of Health Education and Welfare. 23 articles translated by M. Roublev. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1961. unknown books
1960ref. 556565Jerusalem: The Israel Program for Scientific Translations 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English-language edition. Quarto. 484pp. Illustrated with charts and graphs. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Top corners of boards and about half the text modestly bumped else a fine copy in a close to fine dust jacket with a corresponding gentle bump and tiny abrasion. Published for two American institutions: The National Science Foundation and The Department of Health Education and Welfare. First published in Russian in 1955. This publisher The Israel Program for Scientific Translations was founded by future mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek in 1959. He is quoted in a 1970 article in The New York Times: "There was a keen need in the West for technically sound translations of Soviet scientific works soon after the launching of Sputnik. We had numerous immigrants with exceptional linguistic and scientific ability so we just put demand and supply together.” The venture began modestly—with a small government grant and five editors—but by 1970 had over 100 editors and published about 150 English-language titles a year. A nice copy of a relatively uncommon title. The Israel Program for Scientific Translations hardcover 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
1997ref. RH1559Firenze:: Leo S. Olschki 1997. 1997. Series: Biblioteca di Physis 5. Articles in English and French. 8vo. 357 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Scarce. Very good. This volume of conference proceedings contains the following contributions: Guido Cimino "Introduction: La problematique du vitalisme"; Roselyne Rey "Lignes de force et tendances actuelles des etudes sur le vitalisme"; Richard Toellner "Principles and Forces of Life in Haller"; Maria Teresa Monti "Les dynamismes du corps et les forces du vivant dans la physiologie de Haller"; Giulio Barsanti "Les phenomenes 'etranges' et 'paradoxaux' aux origines de la premiere revolution biologique 1740-1810"; Federico Di Trocchio "The Vital Principle in Therapy: Barthez and the Theory of Fluxions"; Francois Azouvi "Le vitalisme de Maine de Biran"; Brigitte Lohff "The Concept of Vital Forces as a Research Program from mid-XVIIIth Century to Johannes Muller"; Frederick Gregory "The Newtonian Vitalism of J. F. Fries"; Dietrich von Engelhardt "Vitalism between Science and Philosophy in Germany around 1800"; Roselyne Rey "Bichat au carrefour des vitalismes"; Jacalyn Duffin "Cadavers and Patients: Laennec's Vital Principle and the Historical Diagnosis of Vitalism"; Francois Duchesneau "Vitalism and Anti-vitalism in Schwann's Program for the Cell Theory"; Guido Cimino "Proprietes ou forces nerveuses dans l'oeuvre de Flourens"; Frederic L. Holmes "Claude Bernard and the Vitalism of His Time"; and Francois Duchesneau "Territoires et frontieres du vitalisme 1750-1850." Reviewed: Journal of the History of Biology 33 2000. Leo S. Olschki, 1997. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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