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Used & Rare Science and Nature Books - pg. 4 including Gene Transfer in the EnvironmentLevy (editors), Stuart B/Robert V. Miller

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

 

Gene Transfer in the Environment


Levy (editors), Stuart B/Robert V. Miller

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611130


Price: $25.00 

 

R Factor - Drug Resistance Plasmid


Mitsuhashi (editor), Susumu

Hardcover. Baltimore, University Park Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 315 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at the top right corner of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Some light marking in pencil. Dust jacket worn, with tears along edges. Overall, clean, tight copy.

Record # 611132


Price: $15.00 

 

Microbial Mats - Physiological Ecology of Benthic Microbial Communities


Cohen (editors), Yehuda/Eugene Rosenberg

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., American Society for Microbiology, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 494 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611133


Price: $125.00 

 

Biochemistry of Bacterial Growth


Mandelstam (editors), Joel/K. McQuillen

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Some light marking in pencil. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 611134


Price: $15.00 

 

Fundamentals of Aquatic Ecosystems


Barnes, R. K./K. H. Mann

Softcover. Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611138


Price: $13.00 

 

Microflora of Lakes and Its Geochemical Activity, The


Kuznetsov, S. I./Carl H. Oppenheimer

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas, Reprint, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 503 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611140


Price: $15.00 

 

Genetics of Bacterial Diversity


Hopwood, David A./Keith F. Chater

Softcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 449 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Darkening to page edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611141


Price: $15.00 

 

Microbial Cell Surface Hydrophobicity


Doyle (editors), R. J./Mel Rosenberg

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., American Society for Microbiology, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Standard wear, light/moderate rubbing to covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 611142


Price: $38.00 

 

Aspects of Yeast Metabolism - A Guinness Symposium Held at the Research Laboratory St. James's Gate, Dublin


Mills (editors), A. K./Sir Hans Krebs

Hardcover. Philadelphia, F. A. Davis Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 345 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Clean, unmarked. Dust jacket worn, darkening along edges.

Record # 611159


Price: $25.00 

 

Sediment Microbiology


Nedwell (editors), D. B./C. M. Brown

Hardcover. London, Academic Press Inc., 1st UK, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows standard wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611161


Price: $25.00 

 

Minerals & Man


Hurlbut, Jr., Cornelius S.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611410


Price: $19.00 

 

Ferns and Fern Allies of Wisconsin, The


Tryon, Jr., R.M./N.C. Fassett/D.W. Dunlop/M.E. Diemer

Hardcover. Madison, University of Wisconsin, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611664


Price: $15.00 

 

Atlas of Ancient Archaeology


Hawkes, Jacquetta

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611743


Price: $13.00 

 

Vegetation Map of Africa - South of the Tropic of Cancer


Keay, R. W. J.

Softcover. London, U.N.E.S.C.O. / Oxford University Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Text in English and French. Softcover with full color map in rear pocket. Previous owners name stamped on covers. Covers with light foxing, chipping, along edges.

Record # 611815


Price: $50.00 

 

Radio's Master - Eighteenth Edition - 1953-1954 - Federated Purchaser Inc.


Radio's Master

Hardcover. New York, United Catalog Publishers, Inc., 18th Edition, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pages numbered by section. Hardcover. Electronic parts and equipment catalog. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Faint damp smell. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611828


Price: $38.00 

 

Buzz - The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine


Braun, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Hardcover. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611950


Price: $23.00 

 

Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers


Ferguson (Editor), Eugene S.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612113


Price: $38.00 

 

Gilbert Hydraulic and Pneumatic Engineering


Lynde, Carleton John/Alfred C. Gilbert

Hardcover. New Haven, A. C. Gilbert Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages plus additional pages of ads. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Tanning to endpapers. Areas of slight discoloration to cloth at bottom of front and rear covers. Slight damp odor. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612129


Price: $31.00 

 

Moon as Viewed by Lunar Orbiter


Kosofsky, L. J./Farouk El-Baz

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., NASA, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs with four 3-D photographs in rear - 3-D glasses included. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612575


Price: $63.00 

 

Audels Handy Book of Practical Electricity - With Wiring Diagrams - Ready Reference for Professional Electricians, Students and All Electrical Workers


Graham, Frank D.

Softcover. New York, Theo. Audel & Co., Reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1440 pages plus ads. Stiff Flexi cloth covers. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612582


Price: $25.00 

 

Scientific American - Resource Library - Readings in the Earth Sciences - Volumes 1, 2, 3


Scientific American

Hardcover. San Francisco, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1st Thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 Hardcover volumes. Totals 914 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to all 3 volumes. Clean, unmarked copies.

Record # 612587


Price: $50.00 

 

Simplified Design of Structural Steel


Parker, Harry

Softcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages. Flexi-cloth cover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612666


Price: $13.00 

 

General Engineering Handbook - Second Edition


O'Rourke (Editor), Charles Edward

Softcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2nd, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1120 pages. Flexi-cloth cover. Black & white charts, tables, illustrations. Previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 612667


Price: $13.00 

 

Observer's Spaceflight Directory, The


Turnill, Reginald

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages. Hardcover. Measures: 7.5"W X 5.5"H. Illustrated with black & white photographs, small section in full color. Price clipped dust jacket age toned. Book shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612781


Price: $25.00 

 

Glacial History of the South Shetland Islands, Antartica - Institute of Polar Studies - Report Number 63 - September 1980, A


Curl, James E.

Softcover. Columbus, Ohio State University, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs, charts, maps. Light wear.

Record # 612890


Price: $38.00 

 

Muskeg and the Northern Environment in Canada - By the Muskeg Subcommittee of the NRC Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research


Radforth, N.W./C.O. Brawner

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs, fold-out maps, charts. Spine with fading, sticker residue. Good reference copy.

Record # 612891


Price: $23.00 

 

Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Stewart Area , Northwestern British Columbia - British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources - Bulletin Number 58


Grove, Edward W.

Softcover. British Columbia, British Columbia Dept. of Mines, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages plus section of black & white photographs. Softcover. Portfolio includes 41 folding maps. Previous owners name stamped on front and rear covers of book. Light wear. Clean, tight.

Record # 612904


Price: $38.00 

 

Avalanche Handbook - Alpine Snow and Avalanche Research Project - Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station - Agriculture Handbook 489


Perla, Ronald I./M. Martinelli, Jr.

Softcover. Fort Collins, USDAFS, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612907


Price: $15.00 

 

Eccentric Bogs of Maine: A Rare Wetland Type in the United States - Maine State Planning Office - Critical Areas Program - Planning Report 93 - Technical Bulletin 146 - August 1991, The


Davis, Ronald B./Dennis S. Anderson

Softcover. Orono, University of Maine, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612916


Price: $13.00 

 

Proceedings: 7th International Peat Congress - Dublin, Ireland - June 18-23, 1984 - 4 Volumes


Heikurainen, Leo/The International Peat Society

Softcover. Dublin, Irish National Peat Committee, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 Softcover volumes. Previous owners name on foredge of 2 volumes. Black & white illustrations. Light wear overall. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612929


Price: $150.00 

 

Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel, The


Sauveur, Albert

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 4th edition, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 531 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Some abrasion along top edge of rear board, and top edge of pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613417


Price: $50.00 

 

North American Combustion Handbook - A Basic Reference on the Art and Science of Industrial Heating with Gaseous and Liquid Fuels


North American Manufacturing Company

Hardcover. Cleveland, North American Manufacturing Company, 2nd Printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613461


Price: $38.00 

 

Effects Of Atomic Weapons, The


Hirschfelder J. O.

Softcover. Los Alamos NM, US Department of Defense, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography and tables of data throughout. Cracking and fading to spine. Foxing to fore edge. Previous owners stamp to front cover and title page. All pages clean and neat.

Record # 613501


Price: $25.00 

 

Rivers Of America: The Cumberland


McCague , James , Illust. by: Charles Walker

Hardcover. New York , Holt, Rinehart And Winston , 1st , 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 225 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Charles Walker. Gilt titles on spine, blind stamp on front cover. Edge wear to price clipped dust jacket. Foxing to all edges and several pages.

Record # 613503


Price: $25.00 

 

Time & Timekeepers - Including the History, Construction, Care, and Accuracy of Clocks and Watches


Milham, Willis i.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. No dust jacket. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613870


Price: $19.00 

 

Communication Between Man and Dolphin - The Possibilities of Talking With the Other Species


Lilly, John C.

Softcover. New York, Julian Press, First Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Softcover. Light sunfading to spine. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750479


Price: $25.00 

 

For Love of Insects


Eisner, Thomas

Hardcover. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Second Printing, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & black & white throughout Dust jacket with full color photography, light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750895


Price: $23.00 

 

Our Enemy the Termite


Snyder, Thomas E.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Comstock Publishing Company, First Edition, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with publisher's embossed cameo to cover & gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light toning throughout. Dust jacket with wear to edges, protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750918


Price: $23.00 

 

Ferns of Michigan


Billington, Cecil

Hardcover. Michigan, Cranbook Institute of Science, First Edition, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 240 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with embossed fern decoration, & gilt titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Light foxing top edge. Light toning to edges throughout. Dust jacket with age toning, small chips & tears to edges. Clean & unmarked text.

Record # 750997


Price: $13.00 

 

Universe Around Us, The


Jeans, James

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, The MacMillan Company, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Hardcover, publisher's navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Moderate wear to corners, fraying to crown of spine. Deckled edges, light toning throughout, some pages unopened. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf & bookplate to endpapers. Moisture mark to lower right corner pp. 183 - 212 & light foxing to a few pages. Else clean.

Record # 751452


Price: $25.00 

 

Nature of the Physical World, The


Eddington, A. S.

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, The MacMillan Company, Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages. Hardcover. Navy publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, light scuffing to boards. Fraying & quarter inch tear to crown of spine. Deckled edge, with toning to page edges throughout, foxing to endpapers & preliminary page. Small spots to a few pages, but otherwise clean with figures, tables, formulas in black & white. Tight binding, otherwise clean.

Record # 751455


Price: $50.00 

 

Essayes of Natural Experiments


Tuscany, Leopold of

Hardcover. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp.,, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, originally published in 1684, translated from Italian by Richard Waller, previous owner's book plates, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 801657


Price: $15.00 

 

Story of the Comets Simply Told for General Readers, The


Chambers, George F.

Hardcover. Clarendon, Oxford University Press , 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Ex-library. Bookseller's label on front endpaper. Black & white photographs. Front hinge loose. Darkened spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped.

Record # 801666


Price: $20.00 

 

Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity and Gravitation


Schlick, Morlitz

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 89 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Some pencil notations in text. Some rubbing to extremities.

Record # 801714


Price: $30.00 

 

Operations of The Geometric and Military Compass


Galilei, Galileo

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 95 page facsimile reprint translated with Introduction by William Drake . Includes B/W illustrations, drawings, . Immaculate cover and pages.

Record # 802109


Price: $13.00 

 

Operations of The Geometric and Military Compass


Galilei, Galileo

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 95 page facsimile reprint translated with Introduction by William Drake . Includes B/W illustrations, drawings. Immaculate cover and pages.

Record # 802110


Price: $13.00 

 

Copernicus: Philosophy and Science Bruno, Kepler and Galileo


Drake, Stillman

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. This essay is an elaboration of a paper presented at the Copernicus Quincentenary celebrated at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC 1972. Immaculate dust jacket and pages.

Record # 802111


Price: $13.00 

 

Newtonian Revolution


Cohen, Bernard

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Essay with B/W reproductions pages from Newton's "Principia" and "Optiks". Immaculate condition.

Record # 802120


Price: $16.00 

 

Newtonian Revolution


Cohen, Bernard

Softcover. Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library, reprint, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Essay with B/W reproductions pages from Newton's "Principia" and "Optiks". Immaculate condition.

Record # 802121


Price: $16.00 

 

Etudes de La Nature


Bernardin de Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri

Hardcover. London, W. & C. Spilsbury, revised, 1796, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages, Volume One, revised edition. B/W illustrations on fold out pages. Some foxing on pages due to age. Previous owners bookplates and inscriptions in front end papers. Brown marbled design on covers, minor stain on back cover, raised gold bands and red and brown design on spine. Edges of spine cracking but binding is sound.

Record # 802789


Price: $26.00 

 

Primates in Nature


Richard, Alison F.

Hardcover. New York, W. H. Freeman, 1st, 1985, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. B/W photographs. Green covers with white lettering. Some white spots on covers. Pages very clean.

Record # 802896


Price: $13.00 

 

Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy, The: Miscellaneous Papers and Researches, Especially On The Safety Lamp, And Flame, and on the Protection of the Copper Sheathing of Ships, from 1815 to 1828


Davy, Humphrey

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, 1st, 1840, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Vol. 6 only of 9 volume set. 2 b/w fold-out pages, one with 10 plates. Pages lightly age toned. Light yellow endpapers. Crease/wrinkle in front flyleaf and on inside front cover. Deckled page edges. Pages are slightly damp wrinkled. Light fox spots on a few pages. Page edges browned. Black cloth with embossed decoration. Gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear and scuffing. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Wear to top and bottom of spine.

Record # 803240


Price: $64.00 

 

Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy, The: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Part II.: Miscellaneous Lectures and Extracts From Lectures


Davy, Humphrey

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, 1st, 1840, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Vol. 8 only of 9 volume set. Pages lightly age toned. Light yellow endpapers. Faint crease/wrinkle in endpapers and on front and rear inside covers. Light smudge at top right corner of front flyleaf. Deckled page edges. Pages are slightly damp wrinkled. Light fox spots on a few pages. Page edges browned. Black cloth with embossed decoration. Gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear and scuffing. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Wear to top and bottom of spine.

Record # 803241


Price: $64.00 

 

Manual of the Flora of the Northern States and Canada, A


Britton, Nathaniel Lord

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co, 1st, 1901, Dust Jacket: None, 1080 pages, green cloth cover, gilt lettering to spine. Spine slightly cocked, light wear to cover; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 803281


Price: $16.00 

 

Philosopher Fish Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire


Carey, Richard Adams

Hardcover. New York, Counterpoint, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 pages. Brown boards, brown cloth spine, gilt. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 803493


Price: $13.00 

 

Living It Up: OurLove Affair With Luxury


Twitchell, James B.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 309 pages. Illustrated with numerous b/w plates. Red endpapers. Red boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine. Color pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 803602


Price: $10.00 

 

Annual Report on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1858


n/a

Hardcover. Washington, William A. Harris, 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Black cloth, embossed design, minor spotting. End papers heavily foxed, otherwise internally very good. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Astronomy, Insect Collecting, Atmospheric Electricity, etc.

Record # 803730


Price: $26.00 

 

Annual Report on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1870


n/a

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1871, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 494 pages. Black cloth, minor shelf wear. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Switzerland, Nature, Diamond, etc.

Record # 803731


Price: $19.00 

 

Annual Report on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1856


n/a

Hardcover. Washington, Cornelius Wendell, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Black cloth, gilt, embossed design, hinge cracked, shelf worn. End papers foxed, minor tanning to pages throughout. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Nature, Art, Physics, etc.

Record # 803733


Price: $16.00 

 

Annual Report on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution Up to Jaunuary 1, 1856 and the Proceedings of the Board up to March 22, 1856


n/a

Hardcover. Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, 1856, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 438 pages. Black cloth, gilt, embossed design, shelf wear. Ex-lib. Contains articles on Meteorology, Marine Algae, Physics, Insects, etc.

Record # 803735


Price: $22.00 

 

Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1885-86


Powell, John Wesley

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office , 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages w/ index. Brown-red cloth, gilt lettering. Minor edgewear and corner bumps to boards. Several brown spots on end papers. Pages clean and unmarked. Folded map in back pocket. Illustrations throughout.

Record # 804478


Price: $80.00 

 

Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1893-94


Powell, John Wesley

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 755 pages. 48 plates. Brown-red cloth, gilt. Boards lightly bumped, edgeworn. Folded map in back pocket. Pages clean and unmarked. Illustrations throughout.

Record # 804479


Price: $80.00 

 

Shells: Jewels From the Sea


Harasewych, M. G.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and small design to front cover and spine, blue duotone patterned endpapers, color illustrated dust jacket, full page color photographs by Murray Alcosser. Light wear to jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 804531


Price: $19.00 

 

Environmental Science


Miller, Jr., G. Tyler

Softcover. Belmont, CA, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 11th edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Annotated Instructor's edition. Clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding. A very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 808672


Price: $30.00 

 

Centennial Gazetteer of the United States, The


von Steinwehr, A.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. C. McCurdy & Company, 1st, 1875, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1016 pages. b&w illustrations, frontispiece. Colored endpaper. Leather covers with red and gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature inside. Binding and leather cover cracked, wear and chipping to covers; mild foxing, else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 808892


Price: $60.00 

 

Mercury in the Environment


Friberg, Lars and Jaroslav Vostal

Hardcover. Ohio, CRC Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. B&W charts throughout. Ink mark on end page, otherwise a crisp copy.

Record # 808963


Price: $15.00 

 

The International Scientific Series: Man and the Glacial Period


Wright, G Frederick

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1892, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous seller's sticker inside front cover, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Water damage, slightly warped, covers stained.

Record # 808999


Price: $20.00 

 

Mineral Metabolism: An Advanced Treatise


Comar, C. L.

Hardcover. NEW YORK, Academic Press, 1st Edition, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 623 pages; blue cloth cover. Mild edge wear, some rubbing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Very tight.

Record # 809062


Price: $20.00 

 

Cellular Defence Reactions of Insects, The


Salt, George

Hardcover. London, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Diagrams, graphs, and tables throughout. Clean pages. Black and White photographs. Stamp on front flyleaf. Small brown stain on contents page. Tight and clean copy.

Record # 809070


Price: $12.00 

 

THE TELEPHONE BOOK. Bell, Watson, Vail, and The American Life 1876-1976.


Boettinger, H. M.

Hardcover. Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Riverwood Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, b&w and color photographs. Dust jacket with light edges wear, rubbing. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809152


Price: $15.00 

 

Statistical Techniques in Bioassay


Govindarajulu, Z.

Hardcover. Basel SW, Karger, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages, 4 figures and 33 tables.

Record # 809252


Price: $30.00 

 

Multivariate Statistical Methods: A Primer


Manly, Bryan F.J., Illust. by: ISBN: 0412286203

Softcover. London, Chapman and Hall, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, tables and charts. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover. Otherwise, tight, clean copy.

Record # 809258


Price: $30.00 

 

Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions


Fleiss, Joseph L.

Hardcover. New York , John Wiley and Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages, like new condition, clean and tight.

Record # 809265


Price: $20.00 

 

International Encyclopedia of Statistics (2 Volumes)


Kruskal, William H. and Judith Tanur

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcover volumes. Vol. 1: A-N, Vol. 2: O-Z, 1350 pages. Both books very good, clean and tight.

Record # 809278


Price: $70.00 

 

Statistical Theory and Methodology of Trace Analysis


Liteanu, C. and I. Rica

Hardcover. London , Ellis Horwood, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages, b&w charts and tables. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809298


Price: $30.00 

 

Errors, Measurement and Results in Chemical Analysis


Eckschlager, K.

Hardcover. New York , Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages, charts and tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809303


Price: $12.00 

 

Geography Made Easy: Being An Abridgement of the American Universal Geography


Morse, Jedidiah

Hardcover. Boston, Thomas & Andrews, 11th, 1807, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Full leather, 2 fold out maps, with creases and tears, but still intact. Leather is worn, especially at edges. Pages heavily browned and foxed with slightly musty smell. Binding holding tight.

Record # 809342


Price: $150.00 

 

Contributions from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and from the Cruft High-Tension Electrical Laboratory of Harvard University, for the years 1922 and 1923, Vol 16


N/A

Hardcover. Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University, unknown, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. 1/4 leather, cloth covers. figures and drawings throughout. Spine leather and labels missing. Hinges starting, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 809704


Price: $50.00 

 

Geographical Review


n/a

Softcover. New York, The American Geographical Society of New York, 1st, 1928, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. B&W photographs. Brown stiff wrappers. Water stain to front cover. Soiled front and back covers and spine. Foxing to front cover and missing part of back cover. Folding to left top and bottom corners of back cover and last few pages.

Record # 850140


Price: $12.00 

 

Massachusetts: The American Guide Series


Federal Writers' Project

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. B&W photographs throughout. Blue boards with slight soiling and sun-faded spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850419


Price: $20.00 

 

Brook Book, The


Miller, Mary Rogers

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. B&W photographs. Light green pictorial cover with slight wear. Top edge stained. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850425


Price: $12.00 

 

Aquatic Diptera


Johannsen, O.A.

Hardcover. East Lansing, MI, Entomological Reprint Specialists, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. 14 B&W plates Blue cover with gilt title to spine. Previous owner stamp on front flyleaf. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850617


Price: $25.00 

 

Names on the Globe


Stewart, George S.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 411 pages. Blue pictorial cover. Blue boards with faded gilt title to spine. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850703


Price: $12.00 

 

Ohio, The


Banta, R. E. , Illust. by: Edward Shenton

Hardcover. New York, Rinehart & Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Edge wear, tears, pieces missing from color pictorial dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Stain to inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850770


Price: $25.00 

 

Nonsuch: Land of Water


Beebe, William

Hardcover. London, Putnams, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, b&w photographs, color frontispiece. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages. Light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850808


Price: $12.00 

 

Pastures of Wonder, The


Keyser, Cassius Jackson

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. First two fly leaves starting to separate. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Few small pencil markings. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851549


Price: $25.00 

 

Stress Waves in Solids


Kolsky, H.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, b&w graphs and diagrams. Black covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Foxing to fly leaves, inside covers and top edge. Covers warped. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851567


Price: $20.00 

 

Theory of Generalized Spectral Operators


Colojoara, Ion, Ciprian Foias

Hardcover. New York, Gordon and Breach, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Previous owner's stamp on front and rear flyleaves. MInor edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else nice, clean copy.

Record # 851625


Price: $25.00 

 

Organismic Evolution


Grant, Verne

Hardcover. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman and Co, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt titling. Minor soiling to cover and rubbing to edges. Light foxing to top edge. Else nice, clean copy.

Record # 851634


Price: $12.00 

 

Stars: Their Birth, Life, and Death


Shklovskii, Iosif S.

Hardcover. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman and Co, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 442 pages. Slight musty odor. Rubbing and wear to cover. Pages clean and tight.

Record # 852041


Price: $15.00 

 

Sun, The


Young, C. A.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., revised, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited edition, #369 of 1000 copies. 375 pages, b&w plates. Rough-cut pages. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to rear of frontispiece. Small tear to page 104. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852070


Price: $35.00 

 

Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought


Le Conte, Joseph

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 2nd , 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852075


Price: $20.00 

 

When the Earth Shook


Niddrie, David

Hardcover. London, The Scientific Book Club, reprint, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Minor dust jacket spine and cover edge wear and tear. Minor spotting on back dust jacket cover and book edges. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852394


Price: $12.00 

 

Tool Engineering: Jigs and Fixtures.


Dowd, Albert A., Frank W. Curtis,

Hardcover. New York , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 3rd print., 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Minor bumping on edges. Previous owner's inscription of front endpaper. Inside is bright and clean with many b&w instructional illustrations.

Record # 852458


Price: $12.00 

 

Engineers Sketch Book, The: Of Mechanical Movements Devices and Details.


Barber, Thomas Walter

Hardcover. New York , Chemical Publishing Co, Inc., 7th, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Gray cloth cover with minor wear to edges and spine. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Preface is dated 1934, exact year of publication unknown. Inside is clean and bright with many b&w instructional illustrations throughout.

Record # 852473


Price: $15.00 

 

Scientific Illustration


Ridgway, John L.

Hardcover. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages, illustrated throughout. Gilt title on spine. Minor edge wear and foxing on edges. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852860


Price: $30.00 

 

Leonardo's Inventions


Mathe, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Crescent Books, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 105 pages, translated by David Mac Rae. Illustrated throughout with Da Vinci's notes and sketches. Slight dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853164


Price: $12.00 

 

Steam Turbines: A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of This Class of Prime Movers


Collins, Hubert E.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 2nd Impression, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, illustrated throughout. Corner and edge wear, small bumps on cover and minor soiling. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 853275


Price: $12.00 

 

Snakes of Taiwan


Kuntz, Captain Robert E.

Hardcover. Taipei, Taiwan, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, reprint, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, with photographs of snakes throughout. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, light water damage on first few pages and book slightly bowed, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853353


Price: $20.00 

 

University Algebra: Embracing a Logical Development of the Science, with Numerous Graded Examples


Davis, Charles

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr, reprint, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, leather bound and marbled edges. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, corner and edge wear, small crack in binding along top spine edge, otherwise, overall clean and tight copy.

Record # 853446


Price: $40.00 

 

Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, from the Works of A. M. Legendre


Davies, Charles

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Company, reprint, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Leather bound and marbled edges. Pencil markings on front and rear fly leaf and endpaper, minor foxing throughout. Corner and edge wear and fade, binding cracked at front spine edge.

Record # 853447


Price: $35.00 

 

Strasburger''s Text-Book of Botany


Fitting, Dr. Hans, Dr. Ludwig Jost, Dr. Heinrich Scheneck, Dr. George Karsten

Hardcover. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, reprint, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 799 pages, with 833 illustrations, some in color. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853585


Price: $20.00 

 

Nuclear Power Engineering


Schwenk, Henry C., Robert H. Shannon

Hardcover. New York, Mc-Graw Hill, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, edited by B. G. A. Skrotzki, with charts and illustrations throughout. Light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854154


Price: $12.00 

 

Testing and Chemistry of Dairy Products, The


Newlander, J. A.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, The Olsen Publishing Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages, with illustrations. Minor edge wear and cover rub, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854313


Price: $20.00 

 

An Experiment in the Application of Climate Forecasts: NOAA-OGP Activities Related to the 1997-98 El Nino Event


n/a

Softcover. U. S. Department of Commerce, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages, with maps. Minor edge wear, otherwise, bright and clean.

Record # 854415


Price: $40.00 

 

Morphology of Spermatophytes


Coulter, John M., Charles J. Chamberlain

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages, with illustrations throughout. Gilt title of "Seed Plants" on spine, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854434


Price: $40.00 

 

Production and Properties of Graphite for Reactors


Currie, Et. al., L. M.

Hardcover. n.p., National Carbon Company, unknown, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Black boards with green titles. No dust jacket. Light wear to coves, slight stain to rear board, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855136


Price: $25.00 

 

For the Years to Come: A Story of International Nickel in Canada


Thompson, John F. & Norman Beasley

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 374 pages. Green cloth, silver titles. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket with both front and rear flap creased. Slight bumping to corners. Internally very good.

Record # 855224


Price: $19.00 

 

Realism, Rationalism & Scientific method: Philosophical Papers


Feyerabend, Paul K.

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Very minor wear/marks along spine, some foxing along top edge. Otherwise very tight copy.

Record # 855375


Price: $23.00 

 

Newton & Russia: The Early Influence, 1698-1796


Boss, Valentin

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Dust jacket has some fading around edges and spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855406


Price: $15.00 

 

Solid State Physics


Dekker, A. J.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st ed., 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Brown cloth boards are chipped along edges and have overall shelf wear. Foxing to end papers. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Tight copy.

Record # 855621


Price: $15.00 

 

Principles of the Theory of Solids


Ziman, J. M.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Yellow cloth boards have some shelf wear/marking. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855623


Price: $25.00 

 

Geochemistry of Marine Humic Compounds


Rashid, M. A.

Hardcover. NY, Springer-Verlag, 1st, 1985 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Slight foxing to edges. Previous owner

Price: $63.00 

 

Entomology for Introductory Courses


Matheson, Robert

Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Comstock Publishing Company, Inc, 3rd printing, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. No dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856045


Price: $15.00 

 

Release of Genetically-Engineered Micro-Organisms, The


Sussman, et al. (eds.), M.

Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light foxing on all edges, front flyleaf, and front end paper. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856397


Price: $15.00 

 

Biochemical Ecology of Water Pollution


Dugan, Patrick R.

Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, 3rd printing, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 159 pages. Some edge wear and closed tears on dust jacket covers. Light creasing and edge wear on dust jacket flaps. Minor foxing on rear dust jacket flap along fore edge. Slight foxing on all edges. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856398


Price: $15.00 

 

New Key to the Yeasts: A Key for Identifying Yeasts Based on Physiological Tests Only, A


Barnett, J. A., R. J. Pankhurst

Hardcover. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 273 pages. Light shelf-wear on dust jacket. Some edge wear on dust jacket, including closed tear on rear dust jacket cover. Scratch and mark on front dust jacket cover. Small tear and scratch on dust jacket spine. Minor foxing on all edges. Slight foxing and tanningon front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856399


Price: $19.00 

 

Soil Biochemistry


McLaren (eds.), A. D., G. H. Peterson

Hardcover. New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 509 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Dust jacket with light soiling, foxing, chipping, and small scratches. Closed tear and creasing on front cover. Pen mark on rear cover. Some tanning to spine and flaps. Minor creasing to flaps. Light foxing on all edges. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856401


Price: $15.00 

 

Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Water: An Annotated Selected Bibliography of Their Biological Effects


Mackenthun, Kenneth M.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Fold-out Definitions and Equivalents page in back with measurements and acronyms. Very light foxing on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856404


Price: $19.00 

 

Bacterial Physiology and Metabolism


Sokatch, J. R.

Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 443 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Light shelf-wear and edge-wear. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Very light foxing on all edges. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856406


Price: $15.00 

 

Methodology for Biomass Determinations and Microbial Activities in Sediments


Litchfield (eds.), C. D., P. L. Seyfried

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, American Society for Testing and Materials, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Light shelf-wear to orange cloth covers. Some foxing on all edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf and stamp on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856407


Price: $15.00 

 

History of Cartography


Bagrow, Leo

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press , rep, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, illustrated throughout with maps in b&w. Minor soil to beige cloth covers, light tanning to edges. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856765


Price: $75.00 

 

Mineral Collecting in Vermont


Grant, Raymond W.

Softcover. Montpelier, VT, Department of Water Resources, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages, b&w illustrations. Stapled binding. Light edgewear and sunning to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856855


Price: $63.00 

 

On the Witness Stand


Munsterberg, Hugo

Hardcover. New York, Clark Boardman Co , 1927, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Title sticker on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 857478


Price: $31.00 

 

Rowing Forward Looking Back


Macfarlane, Sandy

Softcover. Brewster, MA, Paraclete Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light ink mark on front wrapper. Shelf wear to rear wrappers. Light wear to spine. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951161


Price: $16.00 

 

Atlantic Reef Corals


Smith, F.G. Walton

Hardcover. Coral Gables, FL, University of Miami Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Fading to dust jacket spine; mild cocking to spine. One inch tear to dust jacket top edge. Edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. A clean copy.

Record # 951164


Price: $15.00 

 

British Prosobranchs


Graham, Alastair

Paperback. NY, Academic Press , 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages, paperback. No. 2 in the Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). Black and white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name stamped on front wraps. Light soiling to rear wraps, shelf wear. Slight bend to bottom/fore edge. A bright copy.

Record # 951174


Price: $24.00 

 

Fundamentals of Cytology


Sharp, Lester W.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages, hardcover. Previous owner's name inscribed on front flyleaf. Mild foxing to front hinge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951175


Price: $19.00 

 

Insects of Micronesia


Gressitt, J. Linsley

Paperback. Hawaii, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages, paperback. An introduction to the insects of Micronesia. Edgewear to spine wraps; chipping to lower spine. Previous owner's name stamped on front wrapper. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951176


Price: $23.00 

 

Aerial Control of Forest Insects in Canada


Prebble (Editor), M.L.

Hardcover. Ottawa, Canada, Department of the Environment, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 329 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Chronicle of Canada's attempts to control certain species by means of aerial spraying. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, top and bottom edges. Chipping to dustjacket spine. All corners mildly bumped. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951260


Price: $19.00 

 

Glass Flowers at Harvard, The


Schultes, Richard Evans and William A. Davis

Paperback. Cambridge, Botanical Museum of Harvard University , reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages, paperback. The glass flowers of Harvard University, beautifully photographed by Hillel Burger. Light rubbing to wraps, slight fading to front flyleaf. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951368


Price: $29.00 

 

Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1862. Arts and Manufactures. Volume II.


N/A

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1865, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages, hardcover. Volume II of a two volume set. Black-and-white technical illustrations of patents on every page. Moderate edgewear, age-soiling, and chipping to spine. Fair amount of soiling, edgewear, and rubbing to boards. Light spotting and age-toning to interior text block as well as outer. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951457


Price: $55.00 

 

Archaeology and the Old Testament


Pritchard, James B.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An appraisal of the impact on new discoveries made in the Middle East and their relation to the Hebrew Old Testament. Fading to dust jacket spine. Light soiling, moderate chipping and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight discoloration to both endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Age toning to top text block edge. A tight copy.

Record # 951459


Price: $19.00 

 

Archetypal Imagination, The


Hollis, James

Hardcover. College Station, TX, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. Number eight in the Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild age toning to text block. Light creasing to lower fore edge pages starting at notes section for ten pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951542


Price: $31.00 

 

Uncle Sam in the Pacific Northwest: Federal Management of Natural Resources in the Columbia River Valley


McKinley, Charles

Hardcover. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 673 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First study to examine management of the land, water, and mineral resources in the Pacific Northwest. It is also the first to explore the relationships of the chief federal agencies engaged in resource management. Heavy fading and chipping to dust jacket. Light rubbing to boards, mild edgewear as well. Heavy age toning and spotting to text block, interior dust jackets, front and rear endpapers and both flyleafs. Moderate spotting and markings to interior text block. A tight copy.

Record # 951564


Price: $24.00 

 

Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic, An


Hacking, Ian

Softcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages, paperback. An introductory textbook on probability and induction written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science. Clipping to lower fore edge corners on first three pages. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951629


Price: $48.00 

 

Apollonius of Perga Conics: Books I-III


Densmore (Editor), Dana, Illust. by: William H. Donahue

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, Green Lion Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, paperback. Translation by R. Catesby Taliaferro, diagrams by William H. Donahue, with an introduction by Harvey Flaumenhaft. Sporadic light pencil marking to 20-25 pages. Mild bumping and edgewear to wraps. A tight copy.

Record # 951656


Price: $31.00 

 

On Sakharov


Babyonyshev (Editor), Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Writings that honor famed Russian scientist and humanitarian. Mild rubbing, fading and soil to dust jacket. Spotting and mild soiling to top text block edge. Rough cut edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952238


Price: $19.00 

 

Beyond the Atmosphere: The Early Years of Space Science


Newell, Homer E.

Paperback. Washington DC, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 497 pages, paperback. The early days of NASA. Moderate rubbing to wraps. Creasing to spine. Fading to text block edges. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and black-and-white photographs. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952247


Price: $15.00 

 

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves


Waal, Frans de

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Hardcover. Crisp, clean & unmarked with illustrated dust jacket, also in very good condition. Interior photographs in black & white. Tight binding, a nice copy.

Record # 2230283


Price: $15.00 

 

Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics


Forward, Robert L.

Hardcover. New York, Wiley, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing on top of text block.

Record # 2230491


Price: $19.00 

 

Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future (SIGNED)


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY Author. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket, and light foxing on page block fore edge, otherwise tight copy.

Record # 2233479


Price: $19.00 

 

Feynman Lectures on Gravitation


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows folding on inside flaps. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233480


Price: $31.00 

 

International Politics of the Environment, The: Actors, Interests and Institutions


Hurrell (EDITORS), Andrew; Kingsbury, Benedict

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 492 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and small tear to upper right corner of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233650


Price: $15.00 

 

Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the Conquest of Space


Lachieze-Rey, Marc; Jean-Pierre Luminet

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light rubbing and curling to dust jacket, otherwise clean bright copy. Color illustrations throughout. Large book.

Record # 4450166


Price: $44.00 

 

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Part I


Smithsonian Institute

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 878 pages. Containing chapters titled "Explorations," "United States National Museum," "United States Geological Survey." Black cloth covers, blind-stamped border to front cover, numerous b&w illustrated plates printed on stiff papers. Spine lightly faded, mild rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807352


Price: $30.00