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1934124 pages. The following only touches upon the highlights of the considerable fascinating photos and text in this issue. Features: Cover illustration of a plane with paddle wheels for wings; Sensational study of heredity may produce new race of men; Amazing new uses fround for glass; Border guard wages war on smugglers; Phonograph disks run crewless war tank!; Fiends of the desert (reptiles) found to be harmless; Photo of noted inventor George W. Bowers in his Somerville, MA workshop; Shortwave machine broadcasts death to plant enemies; Mysterious lost rivers run mills and power plants; Homemade planetarium for amateur astronomers; World's strangest circus produced by amateurs - article with great photos of the Gainesville, Texas Community Circus; You can grow mushrooms in your cellar; Great color-photo back cover ad for Camel cigarettes features Jack Ford, Engineer of the Burlington Railroad's "Zephyr" which travels 1015 miles in 785 minutes from Denver to Chicago. Average wear. Signature upon both covers. Four-inch and six-inch openings to back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
197272 pages. Features: Cover photo of George Meany; The Five Warring Tribes of South Africa - photo-illustrated article by James Michener discusses the Afrikaners, English, Asiatics, 'Coloureds' (of mixed heredity) and the black Bantu; Photo-illustrated article on Prince Sihanouk, head of a Cambodian government-in-exile in China; George Meany's Way isn't President Nixon's; In the Matter of H. Bruce Franklin - the very model of a modern militant radical and - until this month - a tenured professor of English at genteel Stanford University; One-page ad for Gold Key Lake Estates; Ad for the Garrard Zero 100 turntable features inset photo of Emile Berliner; Charming centerfold illustrated ad for Health-tex clothing; Fashion photos featuring ruffles and Taffeta; Geometric Mansion - photos of a Richard Meier designed modern mansion; Lovely color fashion photos; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1914Pages 207-312 plus 6 pages of ads. Maps. Black and white photos. Contents include: An Expedition to the Coral Reefs of Torres Straits; The Cellular basis of Heredity and Development (II); The Decreasing Population of France; The Rise of a New Profession - The Age of Administration; The Place of Illustration in Book-making; Determining Educational Values; A League of Peace; Nice one-page illustrated ads for Thomas Dunham Company sidecars for motorcycles, and Reading Standard (RS) Motorcyles. Front cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Some pages unopened. A sound working copy. Magazine
195756 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Duncan Macpherson shows Montreal at night; The pitfalls of the Ten Commandments, by Brock Chisholm; Are Heredity Titles on the way out in Britain?; Bright colour one-page Del Monte Catsup ad; Five pages of rare and colorful art for children from the children's book collection of Edgar Osborne; Olive Diefenbaker - her not-so-private life; Toronto's David Caplan - The Jazz-happy Tailor; The Bonnie Babes of the Bank of Lower Canada; We Found Our New World in the Arctic - Peter and Helga Bading spent an isolated year in side the Arctic Circle - article with photos; How Scrooge might spend Christmas 1957; Nice centrefold Maclean's subscription ad features Jasper the bear; Great 2/3-page colour ad for Thistle toys, including bikes and pedal cars; Fantastic one-page Philishave ad features Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens; Canada Dry Sparkling Water ad features photos of bartenders Stuart Holllander, George Clark, Geoffrey Dutson, Paul Chevrier, and Harry Arger; How Edgar Osborne collected his priceless treasures of children's books; Photos of the Tremblay family which has six surviving sets of twins!; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover features construction of the first Trans-Newfoundland Highway; Back cover Coke ad features illustration of Santa eating snacks left for him on fireplace mantel; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1910Inscribed by author to his daughter Alice, signed "from her father, Xmas 1910" upon front free endpaper. [Documentation supporting this provenance will be provided.] xiii, [1], 375 pages. Index of Subjects. List of Authorities. Complete with 82 black and white plates, several of which fold out. Gilt lettering and decoration upon olive cloth. Top edge gilt. "Explains where we fall short, and suggests how the true remedies for individual, anti-social and collective misconduct or communal misunderstandings may be best applied". - Introductory Preface. Chapters include: Humanity, Normal and Abnormal; The Degenerate; The Criminal; How Criminals are Made; Responsibility; Sin and Crime; British Methods and Results; The Relations of Physiology to Justice; Development and Its Dangers; The Physiology of the Brain; Where is Mind?; The Physical Basis of Mind and Personality; Social Hygiene in Holland; The Treatment of Vagabonds and Crime in Belgium; Treatment; The Way Out - General William Booth of the Salvation Army offers a message for England. Wilson was "A genius before his time. The blatant truths of his observations are staggering. Political correctness was in the long distant future so he told it like it was. Open this book at random and you will find yourself drawn into the narrative, without fail." - online review. Light foxing. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A special copy of this landmark study. Book
2011148 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Asian Art in London 2010; Eskenazi Limited - London gallery celebrates fifty years; The portrayal of life in a splendid age - Qianlong emperor's imperial seals; Power and Clothing - Imperial Chinese robes from the forbidden city; Evolution of Yongzheng rank badges; Inheritance and Innovation - an archaeological perspective of Qin culture; Korean traditional ceramics; India's fabled city - the art of courtly Lucknow; The Silk Road in history and pre-history; Book Review; and more. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1902pp. ix, [1], 237, [1], [2] ads. Patten [1852-1922] was a long-serving professor and Chair of the Wharton Business School. "That many people regard life as a burden cannot be doubted, but this state of mind is due to a misuse of goods, not to a lack of them. The gap is not between effort and goods, but between goods and enduring satisfactions." - Introduction. Binding sound. Unmarked. Moderate wear to publisher's textured navy cloth. Bright gilt lettering to backstrip. Two tiny old tape repairs to page edges. Small vintage bookstore tag inside back board. A well-preserved copy of this fascinating study. Fundaburk 8407, Batson p.152, Masui p.1500. Book
1903"Prof. Patten's little book, which he modestly calls an essay, abounds in bold speculation and startling conclusions. Were it conveyed in some other form than that peculiar language of evolution, so clear and satisfactory to the evolutionary student, but so repellent to the ordinary untrained reader, the book would make a veritable sensation." - New York Times, 4 April 1903. "How is the social surplus transformed into permanent conditions and mental traits? An answer will be given in the following pages, or at least an endeavor will be made to throw some light on it." - page 5. Simon Patten [1852-1922] was chair of the Wharton School of Business. Pp. vii, 214. 19 x 13 cm. Former library copy with usual markings and wear, firmly rebound in green buckram. A worthy reference copy. Batson p.152. Book
1880268p. Boston Monday Lecture series. Hardcover Good condition, top of spine chipped & repaired
1959397 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1923303p. Hardcover Good condition, spine lightly faded, front flyleaf clipped Notes: The work is based on an essay entitled: The new decalogue of science, which appeared in the Century magazine of March, 1922; the correspondence between the author and G. Bernard Shaw in reference to this essay is here reprinted from the August, 1922, issue.
1996some creasing down the spine
1980réf. 5098Nouvelles éditions rationalistes 1980 186 pages in8. 1980. broché. 186 pages.
1981réf. 6218Gallimard 1981 354 pages in8. 1981. broché. 354 pages. La Logique du vivant est un ouvrage de vulgarisation scientifique écrit par le biologiste et prix Nobel François Jacob. Il retrace l'histoire de la biologie des idées et des théories élaborées pour comprendre le vivant de la Renaissance aux découvertes modernes de biologie moléculaire dont l'auteur fut l'un des acteurs
1970réf. 7245Presses Universitaires de France 1970 collection que sais je n° 1099. poche. 1970. broché. Cet ouvrage de la collection 'Que sais-je ?' présente une synthèse des connaissances sur les groupes sanguins. Il retrace leur découverte explique leur nature biochimique et sérologique et aborde leur mécanisme d'hérédité ainsi que les techniques usuelles d'immuno-hématologie
2001réf. 11053Erès 2001 118 pages 14x21x1cm. 2001. Broché. 118 pages. Le livre 'Le Gène et son Génie' d'Anna Feissel-Leibovici explore la rencontre entre la génétique du cancer dotée d'un pouvoir prédictif impressionnant et la psychanalyse. Il examine comment le patient le médecin et le psychanalyste font face aux questions d'hérédité et de cancer en interrogeant la possibilité pour le consultant de rester sujet de son devenir face au discours scientifique
1966réf. 13209Presses Universitaires de France 1966 125 pages in12. 1966. broché. 125 pages. Cet ouvrage de la collection 'Que sais-je ?' présente une synthèse des connaissances sur les groupes sanguins. Il retrace leur découverte explique leur nature biochimique et sérologique et aborde leur mécanisme d'hérédité ainsi que les techniques usuelles d'immuno-hématologie
1964réf. 15708Methuen Publishing Ltd 1964 324 pages 12 7x1 27x19 558cm. 1964. Broché. 324 pages.
réf. 367aafZürich, 1938, gr. in-8°, 1 Porträt + 52 S., broschiert.
réf. 7036aafGenève, Kündig, 1909, gr. in-8°, 62 p., brochure originale.
réf. 9771aafLondon (u. a.), Macmillan, 1941, gr. in-8°, XII + 207 p., clothbound with orig. jackett, fine copy of the First edition.
réf. 14742aafJena, Gustav Fischer, 1913, in-4°, XIV + 342 S.; VIII + 360 S. mit 90 Abb. im Text + 3 farbige Bildtafeln (Schmetterlinge und Raupen), Stempel auf Vorsatz ‘Aus der Bibliothek H. Bluntschli angekauft 1955 / + Bibl.-Stempel auf Titel, Halbleinenband. Sehr gutes Ex., beide Bde in 1 Band fest gebunden.
réf. 24719aafBruxelles, Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique, 1971, gr. in-4°, 148 p., avec 5 p. de littérature, non rogné, cachets, brochure originale.
réf. 27338aafParis, (Paul Renouard pour) J.-B. Baillière, et Londres, H. Baillière, 1847, in-8° et in-4°, XXXVI + 479 p. + 1 tableau repl., légères rousseurs / 2 ff. + 30 p. (explication) + 20 planches chromolithographiques (gravées par Oudet d'après les dessins de l'auteur; planche 20 dépl.), papier et planches très frais, 1 exlibris héraldique (blason surmonté du monogramme -M.M.- avec devise - mel linet dulce madore -, (vol. de texte:) reliure en demi-cuir, dos à nerfs orné de filets dorés et Initales "C.M.", pièce de titre, lég. fente dans la charnière du plat supérieur, petits accrocs aux coiffes, et (l'atlas:) reliure en demi-toile originale traces d'usage et tachée.>
réf. 30154aafJena, Gustav Fischer, 1909, gr. in-8°, VI + 70 S., mit 3 Abb. + 1 Farbtafel, Stempel auf Umschlag. Original-Broschüre.
