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Used & Rare Science and Nature Books - pg. 2 including Gordion Special Studies II: The Terracotta Figurines and Related VesselsRomano, Irene Bald, G. Kenneth Sams (Ed.)

Physics and astronomy are the largest groups here, followed by botany. Darwin, field studies of animals and older mechanics texts are also in stock.

 

Gordion Special Studies II: The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels


Romano, Irene Bald, G. Kenneth Sams (Ed.)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvaia, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. "University Museum Monograph 86." B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Detailed analytical catalogue of 171 terracotta figurines and figural vessels. These are represented in every period at Gordion from the Early Bronze Age.

Record # 31925


Price: $50.00 

 

Gordion Special Studies Volume 1: Nonverbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps


Roller, Lynn E.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, University Museum, University of Pennsylvaia, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages plus diagrams and plates. Hardcover. "University Museum Monograph 63." B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in navy blue cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover with design. Pages and edges clean. Decorated endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight.

Record # 31926


Price: $25.00 

 

Moons and Planets (Second Edition)


Hartmann, William K.

Hardcover. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2nd Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 509 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated, glossy cover boards. Binding tight, spine straight. Edges have a touch of foxing, pages clean and unmarked. Black endpapers. In very good shape.

Record # 32015


Price: $19.00 

 

Coast of Coral, The


Clarke, Arthur C.

Hardcover. London, England, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover. "With Sixty-four Photographs in Colour and Black-and-White by Mike Wilson and Arthur Clarke." Cover boards bound in light blue, agewear to covers (see image). Tanning to edges, pages lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.

Record # 32248


Price: $25.00 

 

Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Cooke, Roger

Hardcover. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1st Edition, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 235 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. With 21 figures. foxing to edges, and preliminary and back pages. Yellow cover boards with two color decoration. Binding tight. Spine straight. Fading to spine, light spotting to covers. A study of mathematics in the nineteenth century, principally, Kovalevskaya.

Record # 32900


Price: $50.00 

 

People's Republic of China Atlas


N/A

Paperback. Washington, DC, C.I.A./GPO, 1st wraps, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Color maps, black & white photos, charts

Record # 52629


Price: $20.00 

 

Ecology of a Small Forested Watershed Treated With the Insecticide Malathion


Giles, Jr., Robert H.

Paperback. Wash. DC, Wildlife Society, 1st wraps, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Wildlife monographs No 24. 84 pages + wraps

Record # 53947


Price: $15.00 

 

Book of Fishes, A


Farrington, Jr., S. Kip

Hardcover. Philadelphis, Blakiston, 1st , 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 88 color illust. by Lynn Bogue Hunt. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page. Dj with chunks gone from front top

Record # 53952


Price: $25.00 

 

Apointment on the Moon - The Inside Story of America's Space Venture


Lewis, Richard S

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54266


Price: $20.00 

 

Red Giants and White Dwarfs - The Evolution of Stars, Planets and Life


Jastrow, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. Dj price clipped

Record # 54269


Price: $18.00 

 

New World of the Oceans, The


Behrman, Daniel

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos

Record # 54271


Price: $18.00 

 

Oceanography - A View of the Earth


Gross, M. Grant

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st of this ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color photos. 2-color illust., diagrams

Record # 54277


Price: $18.00 

 

Chromosome Botany


Darlington, C. D.

Hardcover. London, G.Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Orig. invoice & signed on front paste-down by Prof. of Horticulture at University of Vermont. Light dust jacket edgewear, chip to rear panel. Black & white drawings.

Record # 54286


Price: $25.00 

 

Search for Life on Mars, The - Evolution of an Idea


Cooper, Jr., Henry S. F.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages, black cloth covers, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 54295


Price: $12.00 

 

Journal of Wildlife Management, The - July 1969


Various authors

Paperback. Washington, DC, Wildlife Society, 1st wraps, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles on wildlife, ecology

Record # 54327


Price: $18.00 

 

Journal of Wildlife Management, The - Oct. 1969


Various authors

Paperback. Washington, DC, Wildlife Society, 1st wraps, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles on wildlife, ecology

Record # 54328


Price: $18.00 

 

Journal of Wildlife Management, The -


Various authors

Paperback. Washington, DC, Wildlife Society, 1st wraps, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles on ducks, antelope, deer, fur seals, etc. 320 pages + wraps

Record # 54333


Price: $18.00 

 

Life and Death of Whales, The


Burton, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Universe, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, drawings

Record # 54895


Price: $15.00 

 

River Keeper, The


Wilkinson, Alec

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 54901


Price: $18.00 

 

"Shedding the Veil"


Suarez, Thomas

Hardcover. NJ, World Scientific, 1st , 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Mapping the European Discovery of America & the World. Many black & white, color repros. of maps 1434-1863

Record # 54957


Price: $40.00 

 

To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechett


Gough, Barry M.

Hardcover. Cambaridge, Hakluyt Soc., 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The journal of Lt. Goerge Peard of HMA "Bloosom" 1825-1828. Fold-out map.

Record # 55803


Price: $45.00 

 

To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821


Houston (Ed.), C. Stuart

Hardcover. Mintreal, McGill-Queen's Univ., rep., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, The journal & paintings of Robert Hood, midshipman with Franklin. Previous owner's bookplate. Black and white color plates, Rubbing, edgewear to dj otherwise

Record # 55806


Price: $60.00 

 

Asimov's Guide to Science


Asimov, Isaac

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st Revised Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A revised ed. of his "The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science" pub. in 1960. 900+ pages, many black & white illust.

Record # 55826


Price: $25.00 

 

Behemoth - The Story of Power


Hodgins, Eric and F. Alexander Magoun

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Cover lettering faded. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Stains to front fly leaf and half-title page. Else clean and tight.

Record # 55830


Price: $8.00 

 

Infinite River, The - A Biologist's Vision of the World of Water


Amos, William H.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55832


Price: $15.00 

 

Iceland - The First American Republic


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. 1/2" tear to cloth top of spine otherwise

Record # 56135


Price: $18.00 

 

Nonsuch: Land of Water


Beebe, William

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, Book Club, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontis, 54 black & white plates

Record # 56838


Price: $12.00 

 

Book of Old Maps, A


Fite, Emerson D. and Archibald Freeman

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, Rep. , 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of the 1926 ed. Dj taped to inside covers otherwise

Record # 56891


Price: $80.00 

 

Discovery - The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition


Byrd, Richard E.

Hardcover. NY, Putnams, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white plates. Spine fade otherwise bright clean copy

Record # 57114


Price: $50.00 

 

Going Wild - The Autobiography of a Bug-hunter


Wyatt, Colin

Hardcover. London, Hollis & Carter, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Slight slant to spine

Record # 57362


Price: $15.00 

 

Natures of John and William Bartram, The


Slaughter, Thomas P.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 57372


Price: $18.00 

 

Last Survivors - The Natural History of Animals in Danger of Extinction


Simon, Noel and Paul Geroudet

Softcover. NY, World Pub., 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 color illust. by Helmut Diller (mammals) and Paul Barruel (birds) 275 pages. Cardboard slipcase

Record # 57393


Price: $30.00 

 

Lectures on the Darwinian Theory


Marshall, Arthur Milnes and C.F. Marshall (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, rep., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Maroon cloth covers w/ edgewear, rubbing. Foxing to edges and pages. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 57465


Price: $21.00 

 

Morphogenesis in Plants


Wardlaw, C.W.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 plates, 42 text illust. Previous owner's signature front end paper,

Record # 57485


Price: $25.00 

 

Path of No Resistance, The - The Story of the Revolution in Superconductivity


Schechter, Bruce

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 200 pages. Black & white photos. Silver gilt titles on spine. Some underlining, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 57487


Price: $15.00 

 

Institute of Marine Biology - Contributions Vol. II


N/A

Paperback. Puerto Rico, Univ. of Puerto Rico, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of 10 monographs in wraps on the marine biology of the area. Bound in covers.

Record # 57629


Price: $23.00 

 

Iceland - The First American Republic


Stefansson, Vilhjalmur

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 275 pages.

Record # 58486


Price: $18.00 

 

Night - Night Life, Night Languages, Sleep and Dreams


Alvarez, A.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 1st pub. UK 1994

Record # 58530


Price: $18.00 

 

Cave Passages - Roaming the Underground Wilderness


Taylor, Michael Ray

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 285 pages.

Record # 58571


Price: $15.00 

 

Water Unlimited


Roberts, Kenneth

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 58613


Price: $40.00 

 

Introduction to the History of Science, An


Libby, Walter

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Rep., 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages + index.

Record # 59143


Price: $15.00 

 

Farther Shore, The - A Natural History of Perception 1798-1984


Gifford, Don

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages.

Record # 59978


Price: $15.00 

 

Wild Flowers of New York (2 vols.)


House, Homer D.

Hardcover. Albany, Univ. of the State of New York,, 1st , 1918, Dust Jacket: None, Volk 1 has water stain in gutter at top so fair only. Vol 2. VG condition & clean. Many color, black & white plates.

Record # 60377


Price: $40.00 

 

Poverty of Power, The - Energy and the Economic Crisis


Commoner, Barry

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Dj with light fade. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf.

Record # 60657


Price: $15.00 

 

Advances in Plasma Physics - Thomas H. Stix Symposium


Fisch (Ed.), Nathaniel J.

Hardcover. NY, Amer. Inst. of Physics, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Proceedings and lectures from the 1992 meeting at Princeton. 239 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 61168


Price: $28.00 

 

Coming of Age In the Milky Way


Ferris, Timothy

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 495 pages.

Record # 61177


Price: $20.00 

 

Life and Death of Whales


Burton, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 2nd ed. revised, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 185 pages. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue otherwise VG/VG

Record # 61179


Price: $15.00 

 

Language of Chemisty, The - Reading, Writing and Understanding Equations


Walker, Ruth A. and Helen Johnston

Paperback. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st wraps, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages.

Record # 61193


Price: $12.00 

 

Structure of Matter, The


Rice, Francis Owen and Edward Teller

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white diagrams. 361 pages. Ex-lib with end paper stamping, residue, embossed stamp on title-page, internally VG.

Record # 61206


Price: $18.00 

 

Fourteen Men - The Story of the Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island


Scholes, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st , 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white photos. 314 pages. Covers with spotting, fade to spine. Dj with edgewear, fraying.

Record # 61452


Price: $15.00 

 

Diseases of Forest and Shade Trees of the United States


Hepting, George H.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Handbook No. 386. 658 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 61605


Price: $18.00 

 

Ontario Weeds


Montgomery, F.H. and C.M. Switzer

Paperback. Toronto, Ontario Dept. of Agriculture and Food, 1st wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white drawings, photos. 141 pages. Previous owner's signature front wrap otherwise VG.

Record # 61606


Price: $12.00 

 

Ideas and Opinions


Einstein, Albert

NY, Bonanza, Rep., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A collection of articles, statements and speeches by Einstein. 377 pages. Light edgewear to dj.

Record # 62077


Price: $18.00 

 

Elephants, The


Blond, Georges

NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transl. from French by Frances Frenaye. Black & white photos. 181 pages.

Record # 62784


Price: $18.00 

 

Eleventh Hour, The


N/A

Hardcover. NY, N.Y. Telephone Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A pictorial survey on how the telephone company worked behind the scenes, circa 1914. Many black & white photos. Edgewear to covers, light soil to end papers, internally VG

Record # 62924


Price: $18.00 

 

Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1888-89


Powell, J. W.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, GPO, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 plates (some color, fold-out) and maps. 774 pages.

Record # 64019


Price: $100.00 

 

Endless Migrations, The


Caras, Roger

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by Kimio Honda. 263 pages.

Record # 64260


Price: $23.00 

 

Far Appalachia - Following the New River North


Adams, Noah

hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages.

Record # 64629


Price: $15.00 

 

Winter Beach, The


Ogburn, Jr., Charlton

hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings. 321 pages.

Record # 64639


Price: $18.00 

 

Lily Pond - Four Years With a Family of Beavers


Ryden, Hope

hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos by Ryden. 256 pages. Previous owner's signature on half-title page.

Record # 64646


Price: $20.00 

 

White Bear - Encounters With the Master of the Arctic Ice


Feazel, Charles T.

hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos 240 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dust jacket price clipped, front flap with crease.

Record # 64648


Price: $18.00 

 

Lions On the Lawn


Chipperfield, Mary

hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos 176 pages.

Record # 64649


Price: $18.00 

 

Atlantean Chronicles


Eichner, Henry M.

Alhambra, CA, Fantasy Publishing Co., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A study of all the theories about the lost continent Atlantis.

Record # 65637


Price: $50.00 

 

Elementary Mechanism: A Textbook for Students of Mechanical Engineering


Slaymaker, Philip K.

NY, Van Nostrand, Revised, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 250 pages. Ex-lib but internally VG, end papers marked, stamped.

Record # 65640


Price: $15.00 

 

Vines of Northeastern America, The


Newhall, Charles S.

NY, G.P. Putnam, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Line drawings throughout by author. 207 pages. Ex-private library with light residue to end papers, small label on spine, green cloth with bright gilt design.

Record # 65955


Price: $63.00 

 

In the Acadian Land - Nature Studies


McLeod, Robert R.

Boston, Bradlee Whidden, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis of author. Blue cloth with gilt lettering.

Record # 66120


Price: $25.00 

 

Laboratory Glass-Working for Scientists


Roberston, A. J. B. and others

London, Butlerworth's Scientific Pub., 2nd, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many black & white line illustrations. 184 pages.

Record # 67244


Price: $100.00 

 

Evolution After Darwin(3 vols.)


Tay (Ed.), Sol

Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Vol l: The Evolution of Life - Its Origin, History, and Future. 627 pages. Vol 2: The Evolution of Man - Mind, Culture, and Society. 473 pages. Vol 3: Issues in Evolution. 310 pages. Various contributors. Vol 2 with small water stain to bottom corner otherwise nice set.

Record # 67246


Price: $35.00 

 

Forest, The


Kummerly, Walter

Hardcover. Washington/NY, Robert B. Luce, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Hardcover. A collection of essays, color and black & white photography on the world's forests. Gilt titles on spine. Gilt decoration on cover. Transl. from German by Ewald Osers. 2 small lib stamps otherwise VG, lacks dust jacket.

Record # 67602


Price: $30.00 

 

Ocean River, The


Chapin, Henry and F.G.Walton Smith

New York, Scribners, 1st , 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR CHAPIN on half-title page. A history of the North Atlantic. 325 pages. Map end papers, black & white illustrations.

Record # 67603


Price: $20.00 

 

Library of Natural History (6 volumes)


Lydekker, Richard

Akron, OH, Saalfield, Rep., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Forward by Ernest Thompson Seton. 72 color lithographed plates, 2,000 black & white full-page and text illustrations. Books VG except for some dulling to spines. Color plates with tissue guards, clean throughout. Over 3,500 pages. Great visual reference.

Record # 67659


Price: $250.00 

 

Katharine Ordway - The Lady Who Saved the Prairies


Blair, Jr., William D.

Wash. DC., Nature Conservancy, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white, color photos. 120 pages.

Record # 67660


Price: $19.00 

 

Dead Heat - The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect


Oppenheimer, Michael and Robert H. Boyle

NY, Basic Books, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages.

Record # 67830


Price: $15.00 

 

Adam's New Arithmetic - Arithmetic in Which the Principles of Operating by Number are Analytically Explained


Adams, Daniel

Softcover. Keene, NH, W. and J.W. Prentiss, Reprint, 1834, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 67998


Price: $40.00 

 

America In Maps - Dating From 1500 to 1856


Klemp (Ed.), Egon

NY, Holmes & Meier, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, 243 pages, index - 76 black & white, color maps. Hugh 15 lb. volume. Ltd to 1,200 copies.

Record # 68008


Price: $300.00 

 

Information Theory


Goldman, Stanford

NY, Prentice-Hall, 3rd, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, One in the Series on Electrical Engineering. 385 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 68995


Price: $15.00 

 

Listening Point


Olson, Siguard F., Illust. by: Francis Lee Jaques

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 28 black & white illustrations by Francis Lee Jaques. SIGNED BY BOTH OLSON & JAQUES on special tipped-in page. Minnesota Statehood Centennial Edition with gold sticker on dust jacket.Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf with embossed stamp.

Record # 69285


Price: $80.00 

 

Seer of Slabsides, The


Sharp, Dallas Lore

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Rep., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, A study of the naturalist John Burroughs. Black & white frontis. 71 pages. Dust jacket with chunks gone, tape repair.

Record # 69423


Price: $15.00 

 

It Started With Copernicus - How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution


Margolis, Howard

NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 224 pages.

Record # 69652


Price: $18.00 

 

Lime Creek Odyssey


Meyers, steven J.

Hardcover. Golden, Co, Fulcrum, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w photos by Steven J. Meyers, 116 pgs

Record # 70674


Price: $15.00 

 

Superpigs and Wondercorn - The Brave New World of Biotechnology and Where it all may lead


Fox, Dr. Michael W

Hardcover. NY, Lyons & Burford, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pgs

Record # 70711


Price: $12.00 

 

Future of the Bady, The - Explorations into Further Evolution of Human Nature


Murphy, Michael

Los Angeles, Jeremy Tarcher, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 785 pgs.

Record # 75027


Price: $18.00 

 

International Atomic Energy Agency: Personal Reflections


N/A

Vienna, IAEA, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 25 recollections by individuals who played major roles in the agency, 311 pages.

Record # 75086


Price: $20.00 

 

Living Trees of the World


Everett, T.H.

New York , Doubleday, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 350 Illustrations, 67 in color. 315 pages. Dust jacket bright, unclipped. light edgewear.

Record # 75316


Price: $15.00 

 

Digging Dinosaurs - The search that unraveled the mystery of baby dinosaurs


Horner, John R.

Hardcover. NY, Workman Pub., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, written with James Gorman. Color, b&w illust.

Record # 100602


Price: $15.00 

 

Canadians on the Nile 1882-1898


MacLaren, Roy

Hardcover. Vancouver, Univ. of British Columbia, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, b&w illust. 179 pgs

Record # 100649


Price: $18.00 

 

Recreations in Botany


Creevey, Caroline A.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations, 216 pgs. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise very good.

Record # 101554


Price: $25.00 

 

Carnival Underneath the Sea


Catala, Rene L.A

Hardcover. Paris, Sicard, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many color photos of underwater life in the South Pacific. INSCRIBED BY CATALA on front fly leaf.

Record # 106139


Price: $35.00 

 

Land Alive - The World of Nature at One Family's Door


Rood, Ronald

Hardcover. Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 106327


Price: $15.00 

 

From Blossom-Time to Autumn Frost


Homoki-Nagy, Istuan

Hardcover. Budapest , Corvina, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Director and photographer of Nature films reveals his secrets. Color, black & white photos.

Record # 106427


Price: $18.00 

 

Way to Game Abundance, The - An Explanation of Game Cycles


Grange, Wallace Byron

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Black & white photos, dust jacket with chunks gone. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper.

Record # 106433


Price: $20.00 

 

Curiosities of the Plant Kingdom


Hohn, Reinhardt

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos, drawings, 212 pgs.

Record # 108374


Price: $30.00 

 

Wildlife in Danger


Fisher, James, Noel Simon & Jack Fisher

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st U.S., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, color, black & white illustrations. 368 pgs. Preface by Joseph Wood Krutch.

Record # 108377


Price: $25.00 

 

World Geography of Forest Resources


Haden-Guest, Stephen and John K. Wright and Eileen M. Teclaff

Hardcover. NY, Ronald Press, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations. Amer. Geographical Society. Spec. pub #33. ex-lib w/ edges stamped. minor residue to end papers otherwise VG.

Record # 125590


Price: $18.00 

 

Einstein und die Sowjetphilosophie. Krisis einer Lehre. Band I: Die Grundlagen. Die Spezielle Relativitatstheorie


MULLER-MARKUS, Dr. S.

Dordrecht Holland, Reidel, unl, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Orig. red Cloth. Dust jacket spine yellowed w/ small tear. The reception of Einstein's General theory of relativity in Russia. xiv,481 pp. (Sovietica 5)

Record # 127221


Price: $18.00 

 

John X

Tuscon, Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Light edgewear at spine.

Record # 176651


Price: $13.00 

 

Raw Materials From the Sea


Armstrong, E. Franklin &L. MacKenzie Miall

Hardcover. New York, Chemical Pub., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W photos, 196 pages, dust jacket with edgewear

Record # 177776


Price: $15.00 

 

Suiting the Heat Treatment To the Job


Steel, United States (published by)

PA, United States Steel , 4th, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Binding is Booklet. Little shelf wear. Clean. Tight. 54 pages. G +

Record # 178711


Price: $18.00 

 

Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Gel filtration chromatography


Fischer, L.

Softcover. London/NY, North Holland/Elsevier, 2nd Fully Revised, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. Previous owner's stamp, spine lettering, slight area of soil to front cover otherwise like new. 1st fully revised edition.

Record # 187678


Price: $30.00 

 

Die Atherischen Ole - Vol II


Gildemeister, E. And Hoffmann, Fr.

Hardcover. Miltitz Bei Leipzig, Verlag Der Schimmel & Co. Aktiengesellschaft, Dritter Auflage, 1931, Book: Very Good, Half leather. All edges with pattern design. Bright gilt design & lettering on spine. Spine and boards matching maroon with some scuffing and wear. Wear to edges. Decorative end papers. Previous owner's label upper rt corner of half-title pg. Maps, photograph, color & b&w illustrations. Internally clean, very good. German text. 864 pgs.

Record # 190231


Price: $62.00 

 

Geometric Inequalities


Kazarinoff, Nicholas D.

Paperback. New York, Random House & Yale University, 1st wraps, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback with light soiling on covers, text edges. A few knicks to back cover. Clean. Binding tight.

Record # 190862


Price: $11.00 

 

Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1888-'89 Part I Geology


Powell, J. W.

Hardcover. Government Printing Office, 1st, 1890, Hardcover. Brown cloth. Gilt lettering decoration on spine, decoration on front cover. Some spotting to cover. Some edgewear, but binding solid. Clean pages. Fold-out United States map in the rear pocket in VG condition. B&W &color plates, maps. 774 pages. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf otherwise internally VG.

Record # 193913


Price: $125.00 

 

National Parks, The


Tilden, Freeman

NY, Knopf , Revised Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Revised and enlarged Ed. 225 black & white photos, 586 pages + index dust jacket with edgewear, short tears.

Record # 200251


Price: $20.00 

 

Invisible Pyramid, The - A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century


Eiselery, Loren

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Woodcuts by Walter Ferro. 173 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short tears. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 200253


Price: $18.00 

 

Dying Of The Trees, The - The Pandemic In America's Forests


Little, Charles E.

NY, Viking Press , 3rd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 202797


Price: $15.00 

 

A Painted Herbarium - The Life And Art Of Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838-1921)


Smith, Beatrice Scheer

Minnesota, University Press of Minnesota, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 203220


Price: $35.00 

 

Open Horizons


Olson, Sigurd F.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, No dust jacket with light soil to cloth. Light marking.

Record # 203545


Price: $12.00 

 

Living Plants of the World


Milne, Lorus and Margery Milne

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Color and black & white photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 203868


Price: $35.00 

 

Plantwatching - How Plants Remember, Tell Time, Form Relationships and More


Wilkins, Malcolm

Hardcover. New York, Facts on File, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Color photographs by Malcolm Wilkins. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 203871


Price: $20.00 

 

Maxwell on the Electromanetic Field - A Guided Study


Simpson, Thomas K.

Paperback. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press , 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Paperback. Black & white photographs and diagrams.

Record # 204014


Price: $18.00 

 

Maxwell on the Electromanetic Field - A Guided Study


Simpson, Thomas K.

Paperback. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press , 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Paperback. Black & white photographs and diagrams.

Record # 204015


Price: $18.00 

 

The Nature of Generosity


Kittredge, William

New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages.

Record # 204687


Price: $20.00 

 

Told at the Explorers Club - True Tales of Modern Exploration


Blossom (ed), Frederick A.

New York, Boni, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Black & white photography. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 205240


Price: $60.00 

 

The Dr. H. Pau. Heineken Prize


Bauer, C.

Amsterdam, Heineken Stichting, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Black & white photography. Back cover sunned. Related information laid in.

Record # 205804


Price: $15.00 

 

Eskimo and His Art, The


Ritchie, Carson I. A.

New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Record # 205931


Price: $25.00 

 

The Lingustic Sciences and Language Teaching


Halliday, M. A. K., Angus McIntosh and Peter Strevens

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages. Dust jacket has wear at spine edge.

Record # 206028


Price: $18.00 

 

Closeup: New Worlds - Astounding Modern Views of the Solar System by Science-Fiction Writers Who are Scientists in Their Own Right


Bova (ed), Ben

New York, St. Martin's, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 206144


Price: $12.00 

 

Protective Metallic Coatings


Rawdon, Henry S.

New York, Chemical Catalog Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Black & white photography and diagrams. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 206936


Price: $30.00 

 

Physics


Wolfson, Richard and Jay M. Pasachoff

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1081 pages. Black & white photography and diagrams.

Record # 207454


Price: $30.00 

 

Analytical Experimental Physics


Lemon, Harvey Brace

Chicago, University Press of Chicago, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 584 pages. black & white photography and diagrams.

Record # 207456


Price: $20.00 

 

Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology


Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine A. M. King

Edinburgh, Arnold, rep, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Black & white photography and illustrations. Dust jacket has edgewear, price clipped. Ex-library sticker on inside of front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 207564


Price: $25.00 

 

Wilderness - The Discovery of a Continent of Wonder


Platt, Rutherford, Illust. by: Frances Ellis

New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frances Ellis.

Record # 208105


Price: $15.00 

 

ARCTIC JOURNEY. Paintings, Sketches, and Reminiscences of a Vanishing World.


Buerschaper, Peter

Hardcover. Toronto, Pagurian Press Limited, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Illustrated with 20 full color, 2 full page and numerous black and white drawings throughout the text. Introduction by Terence Michael Short. Royal 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine. Color pictorial dust jacket with light edgewear and very minor browning around edges.

Record # 219816


Price: $13.00 

 

L®REBOK I BOTANIK FOR MIDDLESKOLEN. (Botany for Middleschools)


Sorensen, H. L.

Hardcover. Kristiania, Kommission Hos. T. G. Brogger., 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Former owner name stamp and neat ink entry top front flyleaf. 92 pages. Illustrated with 16 color plates and numerous black and white plates and illustrations throughout text of plants and flowers. 8vo. Tan printed boards. Dark brown cloth spine. The spine and board tips with wear. Binding good. Text and plates very good. Soiling to covers. Foxing to endpapers. Small tear to one of the color plates.

Record # 220760


Price: $16.00 

 

ELEMENTS OF PLANE AND SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY, WITH THEIR APPLICATIONS TO MENSURATION, SURVEYING, AND NAVIGATION.


Loomis, Elias

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Bound With: Loomis, Elias. TABLES OF LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS AND OF SINES AND TANGENTS FOR EVERY TEN SECONDS OF THE QUADRANT. Harper & Brothers. NY. 1868. 150 pages. 8vo. Brown cloth. Gilt titled spine. Except for two age spots at foot of first title page the book is very good.

Record # 220778


Price: $19.00 

 

Finding the North Pole


Morris, Charles

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W. E. Scull, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Illustrated plates. 8vo. Color pictorial cloth, gilt. Spine worn. Minor soil spotting to cover. Green end papers.

Record # 220878


Price: $26.00 

 

Stars in Their Courses, The


Jeans, James H.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1931, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Blue cloth, heavy spotting. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Water stain to first few pages. Pages foxed throughout. Previous owner's signature front pastedown.

Record # 220890


Price: $13.00 

 

Aurora Australis


Shackleton, E. H.

Shrewsbury UK , Airlife, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, One color, other B&W illustrations. Facsimile of book published in Antarctica in 1908 by the British Antarctic Expedition. Introduction by Mary Goodwin.

Record # 220983


Price: $20.00 

 

Polymer Science and Engineering


Willams, David J.

N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, 401 pages

Record # 300220


Price: $15.00 

 

Introduction to Modern Experimental Organic Chemistry, Second Edition


Roberts, Royston M. and others

NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2nd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 528 pages

Record # 300237


Price: $18.00 

 

Advances in Biotechnological Processes - Volume 1


Mizrahi, Avshalom and Antonius L. Van Wezel

Hardcover. New York, Alan R. Liss, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY MIZRAHI on TITLE PAGE. 344 pages. clean Hardcover with dust jacket

Record # 300329


Price: $15.00 

 

Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State of New York


Peck, Charles H.

Hardcover. Albany, NY, Jamess B. Lyon, 2nd, 1897, Book: Good , Dust Jacket: None, Notable for the 43 lithographed color plates of mushrooms in the rear. 236 pages of text. spine badly worn, top 1"-2" chipped, cloth gone, but internally very good.

Record # 300453


Price: $80.00 

 

Principles of Organic Synthesis - Second Edition


Norman, R. O. C.

Softcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 800 pages. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, otherwise like new. Paperback.

Record # 300506


Price: $15.00 

 

Study of the Sky, A


Howe, Herbert A.

NY , Scribners, Rep., 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. B&W illust. & diagrams. circa 1896. Ex-lib with markings, residue to end papers. Hinges cracked. Internally very good

Record # 300686


Price: $15.00 

 

Story of Our Planet, The


Bonney, T. G.

Hardcover. London , Cassell and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 color plates, many b&w illust. Ex-lib with bookplate on front pastedown, light marking, residue to end papers, small spine label. Bright blue covers with 3-color design and full color pastedown plate.

Record # 300768


Price: $30.00 

 

Intermediate Electromagnetic Theory


Schwarz, W. M.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 438 pages. Dust jacket worn, chipped w/ pieces missing. Else very clean and tight.

Record # 300808


Price: $6.00 

 

Albert Einstein - The Human Side - New Glimpses From His Archives


Dukas, Helen and Banesh Hoffman

NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 300925


Price: $15.00 

 

Energy Transfer in Radiation Processes


Phillips, Glyn O.

NY/Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 182 pages. B&W illustrations. Previous owner's signature stamp to front end paper. Some marking to about 10 pages, otherwise tight, clean.

Record # 301872


Price: $18.00 

 

Handbook of Applicable Mathematics, Volume III - Numerical Methods


Churchhouse, Robert (Ed.)

New York, John Wiley, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 565 pages. Previous owner's signature on title-page, otherwise like new with dust jacket

Record # 301929


Price: $51.00 

 

Biochemical Preparations (Vol 1 - 6)


N/A

New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 matching volumes. Except for previous owner's signature, stamp, all in excellent clean condition.

Record # 301941


Price: $60.00 

 

Biophysical Principles of Structure and Function


Snell, Fred M. and others

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 390 pages. B&W illustrations, 8 page with color marker. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn.

Record # 301958


Price: $12.00 

 

Reaction Kinetics in Micelles


Cordes, Eugene H.

NY/London, Plenum Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Dust jacket edgewear.

Record # 301963


Price: $12.00 

 

Light (2 vols.)


Ditchburn, R. W.

Paperback. New York, Interscience Publishers, Rep. wraps, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 833 pages. B&W, color illustrations. Previous owner's signature, stamp to end papers, otherwise clean, tight copies. 2 Paperback Vols.

Record # 302001


Price: $18.00 

 

Universe Unfolding, The


King, Ivan R.

Hardcover. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman and Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages, illustrated cloth covers. Color, B&W illustrations.

Record # 302279


Price: $20.00 

 

Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton, The


Johnston, Marjorie (Ed.)

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Some autobiographical notes with a collection of his speeches and essays. Yellow errata page laid-in. Dust jacket with light edgewear, top of spine frayed.

Record # 302461


Price: $13.00 

 

Concrete Look at Nature, A - Central Park (and others) glimp


Kinkead, Eugene

New York, Quadrangle/N.Y. Times, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, B&W illustrations. Light crease to dust jacket front panel.

Record # 302490


Price: $15.00 

 

New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science, The (2 vols.)


Asimov, Isaac

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 864 pages, B&W illustrations. Vol. 1 - The Physical Sciences; Vol. 2 - The Biological Sciences. Vol. 1 has last 2 blank pages stuck to rear cover in production flaw, about 8 pages with marking. Vol. 2 is clean, tight

Record # 303208


Price: $30.00 

 

Fossils in America


Ransom, Jay Ellis

New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 402 pages, B&W illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, price clipped.

Record # 303225


Price: $15.00 

 

Chips From the Earth's Crust


Gibson, John

London, T. Nelson & Sons , 1st, 18894, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, 29 B&W line engravings. Bright blue covers with gilt decoration, lettering on spine. Ex-lib, but only minor residue to front end paper.

Record # 303292


Price: $35.00 

 

Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, The - New Edition


Skelton, R. A., Thomas Marston & George Painter

New Haven , Yale University Press, Reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages, fold-out maps, B&W illustrations.

Record # 303729


Price: $30.00 

 

Polar Exploration


Croft, Andrew

London, A. E. C. Black, 2nd, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages, 22 B&W illustrations, 8 maps. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping.

Record # 304307


Price: $20.00 

 

Arctic Prairies, The


Seton, Ernest Thompson

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 415 pages, B&W photos. Account of a 2,000 mile canoe journey to the Arctic Circle. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Corners slightly worn, previous owners signature on front fly leaf, gilt on spine slightly faded, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 304397


Price: $100.00 

 

Wildlife in America


Matthiessen, Peter, Illust. by: Bob Hines

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations by Bob Hines, 8 color plates, 16 pages of photos. Dust jacket with edgewear, fraying to dust jacket spine.

Record # 304762


Price: $44.00 

 

Arctic Trader - The Account of Twenty Years with the Hudson's Bay Company


Godsell, Philip H.

New York, G. P Putnam, 1st , 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages, B&W photos, end paper maps. Visible water stain to top edge of about 50 pages, just affecting margin.

Record # 304863


Price: $15.00 

 

Black Holes & Time Warps - Einstein's Outrageous Legacy


Thorne, Kip S.

Paperback. New York, Norton, Rep. wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 619 pages. B&W Illustrations. Light wear to outer wraps.

Record # 305226


Price: $12.00 

 

Nature of Generosity, The


Kittredge, William

New York , Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages.

Record # 305455


Price: $18.00 

 

Fom Quarks to the Cosmos - Tools of Discovery


Lederman, Leon M. & David N. Schramm

Paperback. New York , Scientific American Library, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Color, B&W illustrations. Paperback Edition.

Record # 305638


Price: $12.00 

 

Copper- Health and Hazard


Bergqvist, U. & M. Sundbom

Softcover. Stockholm, University of Stockholm Institute of Physics, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slightly bent corners on the cover. A little tearing on the corners of the binding.

Record # 401510


Price: $30.00 

 

Occupational and Environmental Chemical Hazards


Foa et al (ED), A.

Hardcover. West Sussex ENG, Ellis Horwood Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages; diagramming, tables throughout. Some b&w photographs. Corners lightly bumped. Previous owner signature on front endpaper.

Record # 401530


Price: $35.00 

 

Nickel in the Human Environment


F.W. (ED), Sunderman

Hardcover. New York NY, The International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 532 pages including indexes; tables, appendices, diagrams, some b&w photographs. Bottom corner of spine bumped. Title in gold on cover and spine. Dust jacket yellowed with age, with edgewear. Clean and tight.

Record # 401531


Price: $60.00 

 

Cadium in the Environment


Friberg, Lars

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, CRC Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, diagrams, tables, maps throughout. Signature of previous owner on front fly leaf. Corners of spine bumped. Title printed in copper with a green block background on cover and spine, some chipping. Very clean copy.

Record # 401534


Price: $12.00 

 

Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning


de Duve, Christian

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages, bright, clean copy in dust jacket.

Record # 401985


Price: $20.00 

 

Contributions from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and from the Cruft High-Tension Electrical Laboratory of Harvard University for the Years 1919 and 1920


Various Authors

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, 28 papers by various authors reprinted. Volume 14 in the series. Covers worn, leather spine peeling. Internally sound, clean.

Record # 402332


Price: $20.00 

 

Selig Perlman's Lectures on Capitalism and Socialism


Owen, A.L. Riesch

Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 183 pages, brown cloth covers. Dust jacket with light wear, soiling.

Record # 402374


Price: $12.00 

 

Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation


Steward, Julian H.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages, clean, tight softcover copy.

Record # 402753


Price: $12.00 

 

Amateur Telescope Making: Book One


Ingalls, Albert G.

Hardcover. New York, Scientific American Inc., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth covers in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket with fading to lettering on spine.

Record # 402990


Price: $18.00 

 

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Enviromental Change


Matthews (Ed.), John A.

Softcover. London, Arnold, 1st pbk, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 690 pages, b&w charts, illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 402998


Price: $35.00 

 

Organic Evolution


Lull, Richard Swann

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out plate. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 403150


Price: $12.00 

 

Debt Disaster? Banks, Governments and Multilaterals Confront the Crisis


Weeks (Ed.), John F.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages, black cloth covers in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403174


Price: $20.00 

 

Economic Behavior and Distributional Choice: Selected Writings of Harold M. Hochman


Hochman, Harold M.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Edward Elgar, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages, black cloth covers with a bright dust jacket.

Record # 403175


Price: $35.00 

 

Extinct Animals


Lankester, E. Ray

Hardcover. London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, 218 b&w illustrations. Decorated maroon covers with gilt mastodon head and lettering on front. Hinges cracked. Naturalist author Ronald Rood's copy with his signature on front fly leaf. Covers a little worn, internally very good.

Record # 403195


Price: $50.00 

 

Concepts & Calculations in Analytical Chemistry: A Spreadsheet Approach


Freiser, Henry

Softcover. Boca Raton, CRC Press, 3rd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, illustrated paper covers. Clean, fresh copy.

Record # 403329


Price: $18.00 

 

Concepts of Genetics: Eighth Edition


Spencer, William S., Michael Cummings and Charlotte

Hardcover. Upper Saddle River NJ, Pearson Prentice Hall, Revised Ed., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 677 pages plus appendix, glossary and index pages in rear. Color illustrations. Clean, tight hardcover.

Record # 404061


Price: $30.00 

 

Measures of Productive Capacity: Report of the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics


GPO

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages, published July 24, 1962. Clean, tight copy bound in reddish boards.

Record # 404138


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 30: Technology and Concentration of Economic Power


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 16,207 through 17,599 plus index pages. Transcripts of the hearings held April 8-26, 1940 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with many charts (some fold-out) and photographs. Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404296


Price: $30.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 8: Problems of the Consumer


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 3,283 through 3,491 plus index pages. Transcripts of the hearings held May 10-12, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (one fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404301


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 5: Monopolistic Practices in Industries, Development of the Beryllium Industry


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 1,647 through 2,304 plus index pages. Transcripts of the hearings held Feb. 28 - March 8, and May 8 & 9, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (one fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404302


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 15A: Petroleum Industry - Report on Marketing Practices in the Retail Distribution of Motor Fuel and Motor Lubricant Products


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 8,731 through 8,835. Transcripts of the hearings held October 7, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (two fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404303


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 5-A: Federal Trade Commission Report on Monopolistic Practices in Industries


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 2,305 through 2,417. Transcripts of the hearings held March 2, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404304


Price: $12.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 17A: Petroleum Industry - Replies of Oil Companies to the Committee Questionnaire on Financial Data and Related Topics


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 9,961 through 10,213. Transcripts of the hearings held October 20, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (two fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404305


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 14-A: Petroleum Industry - Economic Outline and Data Relating to the Petroleum Industry


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 7,697 through 8,145. Transcripts of the hearings held September 25, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404306


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 14-A: Petroleum Industry - Economic Outline and Data Relating to the Petroleum Industry


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 7,697 through 8,145. Transcripts of the hearings held September 25, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404307


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 21: War and Prices


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 11,021 through 11,381. Transcripts of the hearings held December 4-8, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404309


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 19: Iron and Steel Industry - General Price Policies


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 10,455 through 10,742. Transcripts of the hearings held November 6-10, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts. Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404310


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 11: Construction Industry


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 4,933 through 5,593. Transcripts of the hearings held June 27-29, and July 6-14, 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404311


Price: $28.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 26: Iron and Steel Industry - United States Steel Corporation Studies Prices and Costs


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 13,585 through 14,128. Transcripts of the hearings held January 23-25, 1940 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404312


Price: $20.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 20: Iron and Steel Industry - Price Policies on Specific Products, Pacific Coast Problems, Steel Export Association


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 10,743 through 11,020. Transcripts of the hearings held November 8-15 1939 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. One signature bound upside-down but all complete. Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404313


Price: $15.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 25: Cartels


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 13,037 through 13, 583. Transcripts of the hearings held January 15-19, 1940 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404314


Price: $20.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 31: Investments, Profits, and Rates of Return for Selected Industries


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale green heavy paper wraps, pages 17,601 through 18,007. Reports and statistics used by the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts (some fold-out). Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404315


Price: $20.00 

 

Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power - Part 1: Economic Prologue


Congress of the United States

Softcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pale tan heavy paper wraps, pages 1 through 252. Transcripts of the hearings held December 1-3, 1938 before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Congress. Illustrated with charts. Darkening of paper on spine otherwise, clean, very good.

Record # 404316


Price: $20.00 

 

Alpine Plants of China, The


Jingwei, Zhang

Hardcover. Beijing/New York, Science Press/Gordon & Breach, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, illustrated throughout with color photographs. Light wear to dust jacket.

Record # 404680


Price: $12.00 

 

Rural Versus Urban: Their Conflict and Its Causes


Bookwalter, John W.

Hardcover. New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription on blank page in front. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 404703


Price: $15.00 

 

All About Cosmetics: From Factory to Face


Klesper, Walter E.

Hardcover. Wallingford CT, Cosmeticians Research Institute, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (55 pages printed on one side only), dark blue cloth, library binding with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library with stamping to endpapers, envelope inside rear cover. A reference book with complete formulas for various cosmetics: face creams, lipsticks, rouges, lotions, deodorants, etc. Unusual.

Record # 404704


Price: $25.00 

 

Semaine d'Etude sur le Probleme des Microseismes


various

Softcover. Rome, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages, many b&w illustrations. A collection of lectures/papers on geological activity. Text in French, English and German. Copy of noted geologist Maurice Ewing with his signature on front wrapper. Light wear with a few notations by Ewing in margins.

Record # 404751


Price: $38.00 

 

Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (6 Volumes)


Boyle, Robert

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volume complete set. Folios, maroon cloth covers with gilt and dark blue spine designs. Facsimile reprint of the 1772 edition, over 5000 pages. Clean, very good.

Record # 404886


Price: $1,125.00 

 

Mechanical Power Transmission Manual


Williams, William A.

Hardcover. New York, Conover-Mast, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 423 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Light ownership stamp to endpapers, otherwise like new. Red cloth with gilt lettering.

Record # 405033


Price: $15.00 

 

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: Volume 4 1903


Moore (Ed.), Eliakim Hastings and others

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 492 pages. Ex-library from a university and was never circulated. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Four quarterly periodicals bound in one. Minimal stamping and residue. Previous owner's signature and 2 stickers on spine.(One covers the gilt title). Raised bands on spine, interior bright and clean.

Record # 405392


Price: $75.00 

 

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: Volume 6 1905


Moore (Ed.), Eliakim Hastings and others

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 547 pages. Ex-library from a university and was never circulated. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Four quarterly periodicals bound in one. Minimal stamping and residue. Previous owner's signature and 2 stickers on spine.(One covers the gilt title). Raised bands on spine, interior bright and clean.

Record # 405393


Price: $75.00 

 

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: Volume 3 1902


Moore (Ed.), Eliakim Hastings and others

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 501 pages. Ex-library from a university and was never circulated. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Four quarterly periodicals bound in one. Minimal stamping and residue. Previous owner's signature and 2 stickers on spine.(One covers the gilt title). Raised bands on spine, interior bright and clean.

Record # 405394


Price: $75.00 

 

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: Volume 2 1901


Moore (Ed.), Eliakim Hastings and others

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 487 pages. Ex-library from a university and was never circulated. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Four quarterly periodicals bound in one. Minimal stamping and residue. Previous owner's signature and 2 stickers on spine.(One covers the gilt title). Raised bands on spine, interior bright and clean.

Record # 405395


Price: $75.00