Category: History of Science

Natural Philosophy (Eighth Treatise): Meteorology

Price: $89.58

Publisher: London and Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers : 1856

Seller ID: Books006739

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

82 pages. Stamped brown cloth with chipping to head of spine. Gilt title faded on spine. Leaves evenly tanned; a few unobtrusive stains. Hinges secure; no loose pages. One of the volumes in Chambers's Educational Course. First issued 1849; author (not credited in this volume) is the noted Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain.
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An Account of the Progress In Physics in the year 1883. From the Smithsonian Report for 1883.

By: Barker, George F.

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Washington, DC, Government Printing Office : 1884

Seller ID: Books015020

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

52 pages. Brief x-library notation to front panel and first leaf; else unmarked. 9.2 x 5.8 inches.
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Libellus de Materie Medica et Remdiorum Formulis, quae serviunt aphorismis de cognoscendis et curandis morbis [BOUND WITH]: Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Curandis Morbis, in usum doctrinae domesticae digesti

By: Boerhaave, Hermanno

Price: $1,033.60

Publisher: Parisiis, Guillelmum Cavelier : 1720

Seller ID: Books012764

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Two works bound in one, both issued by Cavelier, Paris. The earliest [Materie Medica, 1720] is bound second: [x], 186, [42] pages. The Aphorismi [1728] title page is a cancel; [xii], 277, [33], with page 277 misnumbered. Sound contemporary binding unrestored; all edges red, marbled endpapers, with heraldic shield (?) painted over paper on front pastedown. Light toning and foxing throughout. One the property of one Petrus Bonifax D.M with signatures to first title page and pencil notation to first blank at rear.
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History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

By: Draper, John William

Price: $82.69

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1897

Seller ID: Books014083

Binding: half leather, marbled boards

Condition: Very Good

xxii, 373 pages. 1/2 leather, marbled boards, top edges gilt, spine lightly scuffed, corners with some wear.
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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)

By: Fissell, Mary E.

Price: $62.01

Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press : 1991

Seller ID: Books011006

ISBN-13: 9780521400473

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xi, 266pp. Previous owner's name obscured on ffep. Light pencil marginalia in first chapter.
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SETI Science Working Group Report

By: Frank Drake, John H. Wolfe, Charles L. Seeger eds.

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Aeronautics and Space Administration : 1983

Seller ID: Books012982

Binding: Saddle Stapled Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

xix, 110, [1] pages. NASA Technical Paper 2244. October 1983 on cover. Clean and unmarked.
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The Farm Chemurgic: Farmward the Star of Destiny Lights Our Way

By: Hale, William J.

Price: $241.17

Publisher: Boston, The Stratford Company : 1934

Seller ID: Books012008

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

iii, 201 pages, and two leaves of ephemera laid in. Light soil and wear to covers; interior clean, binding sound.
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The Child is Father of the Man

By: Harper, Edgar

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Kathleen Harper : 1995

Seller ID: Books006934

ISBN-13: 9780968030400

Binding: Card Cover

Condition: Very Good

v, 147pp. These reminiscences were posthumously published by the daughter of Edgar Harper (1877-1960), a British radio engineer, active during the First World War and later in Ceylon, the Middle East and the Bahamas.
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PCB Poisoning and Pollution

By: Higuchi, Kentaro (ed.)

Price: $162.50

Publisher: Tokyo / New York, Kodasha / Academic Press : 1976

Seller ID: Books015133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x, 184 pages. Jacket spine sunned; signature top right first leaf. Library pocket at rear with unused card - no other library indications. 9 x 6.25 inches.
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Zur Erinnerung an Gustav Magnus

By: Hofmann, Aug. Wilh.

Price: $103.36

Publisher: Berlin, Ferd. Dümmler : 1871

Seller ID: Books001584

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

111 pp. in plain gray wraps, spine sunned, foxing and one water stain to edges throughout. ".. Nach einem am 14 December 1870 in der General-Versammlung Der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin Gehalten Vortrage von Aug. Wilh.Hofmann". Mit portrait und facsimile.
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Giants and Pigmies: (Geological.) Earth's Order of Formation and Life, and Harmony of the Two Records. Revised and Corrected, with Synoptical Table

By: Honeyman, Rev. David

Price: $68.91

Publisher: Halifax, N.S,, Museum and Booksellers : 1887

Seller ID: Books012023

Binding: Side stapled card covers

Condition: Very Good

98 pages, + Synoptical Table of Geological Formations. Llight wear to spine; binding sound.
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A New Basis For Chemistry: A Chemical Philosophy.

By: Hunt, Thomas Sterry

Price: $103.36

Publisher: New York, Scientific Publishing Co. : 1891

Seller ID: Books001495

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xv, 247 pages. Light rubbing to extremities; clean, sound, and unmarked.
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Trait de Minralogie applique aux arts, a l'industrie, au commerce et a l'agriculture...

By: Jagnaux, Raoul

Price: $344.54

Publisher: Paris, Octave Doin : 1885

Seller ID: Books004367

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

iv, 883pp. Marbeled boards rubbed but firm, small hole in last page of index not affecting text; binding square and tight, leather spine supple and scuffed; hinges sound.
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

By: Latham, Robert Gordon

Price: $137.81

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst : 1850

Seller ID: Books006212

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

574 pages plus advert leaf at rear. Original green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Covers show general modest wear with rubbing to head and foot of spine, paper along rear inner hinge split to webbing but binding and hinges are sound. Tiny former owner marks to front pastedown and endpaper; foxing along hinge of half-title only, else a clean unmarked interior.
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The Development of the Atomic Theory. Complete in seven parts, as printed in Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1910 - 1911

By: Meldrum, Andrew Norman

Price: $487.50

Publisher: Manchester, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society : 1911

Seller ID: Books007517

Binding: Side stapled photocopies

Condition: Very Good

The 7 papers of Meldrum that appeared 1910-1911 in "Manchester Memoirs" under the title The Development of the Atomic Theory . Not to be confused with the 13-page work of the same title published 1920 at Oxford by Humphrey Milford. Early photocopies, each well stapled and made sturdy by each internal leaf being composed of one folded sheet. The papers run from 1 February 1910 [Vol. liv, No. 7] to 12 June, 1911 [Vol. lv, No. 22]. The titles are: (1) Berthollet's Doctrine of Variable Proportions pp. 16 / (2) The Various Accounts of the Origin of Dalton's Theory pp. 12 / (3) Newton's Theory, and ...
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The Typhoons of the Eastern Seas. A Review.

By: Palmer, H. S.

Price: $475.45

Publisher: Hongkong [Hong Kong], Kelley & Walsh : 1882

Seller ID: Books011695

Binding: Sewn wraps

Condition: Good

26 pages. A review of Marc Dechevrens' books The Typhoons of the Chinese Seas in the year[s] 1881 and 1882. Reprinted from the Hongkong Telegraph, and printed at their office, 1882. Bookseller's stamp to front cover and title page: G. Falconer & Co. Hong Kong. Tideline to wrapper; first leaf somewhat grubby; a few marginal ticks in pencil.
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Science, American Style

By: Reingold, Nathan

Price: $89.58

Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press : 1991

Seller ID: Books008825

ISBN-13: 9780813516615

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

429 pages. Inscribed by Reingold to former colleague Stuart Pierson; else unmarked, with no creasing to spine.
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The Papers of Joseph Henry Vol. 1 December 1797- October 1832; The Albany Years

By: Reingold, Nathan [ed]

Price: $41.35

Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institute Press : 1972

Seller ID: Books001604

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xxxix, 496pp. Jacket slightly darkened at spine, one " tear at top. A short personal note from Reingold to assistant editor Stuart Pierson is laid in.
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