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218 pages. "Indispensable for the millions of people who will inherit over $1 trillion during the next 25-30 years." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Book
72 pages. Features: The De Pinedo Inheritance - Fortune or Fraud? - a reply; Canadian Painters in Philately - Part 2 of 2; "Corrected" airmail special delivery stamp - first day of use; Unique from the Yukon - publicity cover for the Yukon Exposition of 1912; Postmarked Ottawa; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
"Focuses on Jung's conception of archetypes - the stories and symbols that are shared by different cultures and that make up the collective unconscious. Rare footage traces Jung's travels to Africa, Britain, and New Mexico." - from cover. Voice of C.G. Jung by Max von Sydow. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Book
Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Many black and white illustrations. "An objective and unbiased look at an important historical component of the European anthropological scene." - from page 1. Average wear. Some curling to corners. Unmarked. Book
Features include: An Amateur Raises Cattleyas and Questions; Polyploidy in White Cattleyas; Hereditary Influences of the Cattleya Alliance; A Primer on Orchid Growing: Cattleyas for the Beginner; Inheritance of Semi-Alba in a Cattleya Pedigree; An Unusual Hybrid between Cattleya and Dendrobium; The Ecological Habitat of Cattleyas; Variation in Cattleyas and Laelias; and Collectors' Item: A New Central American Masdevallia. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
124 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
72 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
Pages 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
56 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
Inscribed 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
148 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
pp. 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
"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
Book is in excellent condition with a bump to the lower corners, light shelf wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 410 pages, heavily illustrated with a great many full page and large b&w and color photos. Contents include: Northwest coast, Craft and technology of the Artist, Kwakiutl religion and mythology, Inheritance, Potlatch, Copper complex, Ceremonial year, Klasila, Tsetsekseason, Staging Tsetseka, Hereditary officals, ceremonial roles, Dancing societies, Hamatsa ritualWinalagilis ritual, Atlakim dancing, Dluwalakha dancing and masks, Supernatural treasures, Batons, whistles, clapers and rattles, Mourning masks, Masks of gakhula, the intruder, Hamatsa bird-monster masks, Hamatsa cedar bark head and neck rings, Noohlmahla masks, Tanis masks, Ceremonial skulls, Sisiutl headdresses and eremonial objects, Atlakim masks, Tsonokwa masks, etc.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. Edge wear to dust jacket. 7 1/2"w x 9 3/4"h. 214 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 168 pages.
Brown cloth boards with blind stamped dragonfly design and gilt lettering on cover. Gilt top page ends. Edge wear and spots on cover. Tears on front hinge. 5"w x7 5/8"h. 478 pages. Age-toned paper. Contents: The Harmas, The Anthrax, Another Prober (Perforator), Larval Dimorphism, Heredity, My Schooling, The Pond, The Caddis-Worm, The Greenbottles, The Grey Flesh-Flies, The Bumble-Bee Fly, Mathematical Memories: Newton's Binomial Theorem, Mathematical Memories: My Little Table, The Bluebottle: The Laying, The Bluebottle: The Grub, A Parasite of the Maggot, Recollections of Childhood, Insects and Mushrooms, A Memorable Lesson, Industrial Chemistry.
Fine English Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Turkish. [xiii], 170 p., b/w ills. Bir devrin cemiyet adami Doktor Fuad Umay, (1885-1963).
Very Good Arabic Paperback. Contemporary marbled boards. Chipped on margins of cover papers. Added a paper to spine in its period. Slightly toned on paper. Otherwise a good copy. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14,5 cm). Bilingual in Ottoman script and Arabic. 78 p., ills. and tables. Lithograph. AH 1303 = AD 1886. First and Only Edition. Only one copy in OCLC: 463334715.; Özege 13820.; Not in Ihsanoglu -Sesen - Izgi. He was the son of Haci Ömer Agha. His family was called the Blind Halîloghuls. He did his education in various madrasahs and with famous scholars of Harput. He had his 'ijazat' by Ibrâhim Hulûsî Efendi. He worked as a teacher in Elazig Military Office for almost 30 years. Here he taught logic, religion, and Arabic philology. In addition to his profound knowledge of Arabic and Persian, he was also familiar with mathematics, science and literature. He also had the ability to determine the time by measuring the condition of the sun by using astrolabe. He made a special astrolabe. In addition he was a poet, also he was a calligrapher and he had written 25 qurans. (Türkedebiyatiisimlersözlügü). This book is the first science book printed in Mamuret al-Aziz Printing House which is written by Muallim Ibrahim Lebib Efendi from Harput includes account of 'Djem', 'Tarh', 'Taqsim', 'Zarp', 'Karrat djatwal [i.e. the multiplication table]', account marks, 'Qasrî adî', 'Qasrî âshârî', and 'Tanasub [i.e. proportioned]' as mathematical and calculus elements. Printed in Elazig vilayat. In this region where located this printing house, so Elaziz city in the Ottoman period was a city where was in addition to Turkish, Arabic was also widely spoken. (Müteferrika No: 46, Mamuretü'l-Aziz Matbaasi).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original 1/4 leather bdg. with boards decorated flowers. A traditional flap. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script. 163 p. [ONE of EARLIEST KARRAT JATVAL - MULTIPLICATION TABLE] Ceride-yi ferâiz li-Salih Efendi [sonunda] Mürsidü'l-vârisin ile Metn-i seraciye. First two works Turkish in Arabic script; 3rd work in Arabic. It starts with 'Sûret-i Kerrât' [i. e. Multiplication table] with Arabic numbers. There are fraction calculations. It's very important book for including earliest multiplication table and other analytical and mathematical calculations although the purpose of writing the book is to show the sharing of inheritance according to Islamic law. Extremely Rare First Edition. Özege 2958.; Not in Ihsanoglu - Sesen - Izgi.; Beydilli .; OCLC 40260123 / 780197453.
Fine Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original quarter leather and cloth binding with traditional flap (miklep). Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). Bilingual in Arabic and Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 164 p., tables. Exceedingly scarce first and lithographed edition of one of the frequently referenced sources in Islamic law on inheritance and succession which is a bilingual edition in Arabic and Turkish. In the work, the situations of the children, brothers, sisters, and siblings, grandfather, Asabe (Ashab-i fürûz), 'Awl, Münâseha are addressed by Islamic scholars. The summaries of the subjects are first written in Arabic, and then their applications are made in Turkish, accompanied by tables. Takvîmhâne-i Amire is an innovative printing house established by Sultan Mahmud II as part of the reform movements in the Ottoman Empire after Ibrahim Müteferrika (1674-1745) established the first printing house and continued printing activities for 16 years and then passed away. The printing press was established for the purpose of publishing Takvîm-i Vekâyi [i.e. The calendar of events] as the first official newspaper in line with the purposes of informing and directing the domestic and foreign public and then continued its publication life for a long time. Typographic and lithographic sections are available separately. Özege 2958.; OCLC 40260123 (10 copies).
1980rif. 5098Nouvelles éditions rationalistes 1980 186 pages in8. 1980. broché. 186 pages.
1981rif. 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
1970rif. 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
