(Science) Boston Journal of Chemistry; Devoted to the Science of Home Life, the Arts, Agriculture and Medicine Two Issues!

Boston, Boston Journal Of Chemistry, 1876. Wraps. (Science) Boston Journal Of Chemistry; Devoted To The Science Of Home Life, The Arts, Agriculture And Medicine. Boston: Boston Journal Of Chemistry, September, 1876. Quarto; pp; (iv), 25-36, (iv), illustrated ads; original printed paper wrappers; And (Science) Boston Journal Of Chemistry; Devoted To The Science Of Home Life, The Arts, Agriculture And Medicine. Boston: Boston Journal Of Chemistry, March 1876. Quarto; pp; (iv), 97-108, (iv), illustrated ads; original printed wrappers. Eclectic to say the least. Very good .

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Book number: 17398

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Ephemera

Adams, Daniel

The Scholar's Arithmetic: Or, Federal Accountant

Keene NH, John Prentiss, 1814. Ninth edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 216; quarter leather and marbled paper covered boards; Internally complete and very good. Externally the boards are worn and nearly detached, leather spine ends worn. Daniel Adams (1773-1864) was a noted physician, textbook author, and state legislator. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797, and received his M.D. in 1799. Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar's Arithmetic (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled Adam's New Arithmetic, in 1827. Good .

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Book number: 16174

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Mathematics;

Adams, Daniel

The Scholar's Arithmetic: Or, Federal Accountant

Keene NH, John Prentiss, 1819. Stereotype editition revised and corrected with additions. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 224; quarter leather and marbled paper covered boards; edgewear else a solid copy. Daniel Adams (1773-1864) was a noted physician, textbook author, and state legislator. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1797, and received his M.D. in 1799. Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was The Scholar's Arithmetic (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled Adam's New Arithmetic, in 1827. Very good .

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Book number: 16176

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Mathematics;

Armstrong, David M.

Distribution of Mammals in Colorado

Lawrence, Museum of Natural History / University of Kansas, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; x, 415, bibliography, index; charts, range maps; green buckram lettered in gilt. A near fine copy of this informative and important work. Near fine .

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Book number: 17148

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Audubon, John J.

Bartrams Vireo or Greenlet: Plate #242 from Birds of America

1856. Second royal octavo edition. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male on a branch of Ipomea. Very good + .

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Book number: 19464

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Audubon; Birds of America; Bartrams Vireo; Greenlet; J.T. Bowen Ornithology / Birds Antique Prints

Audubon, John J.

Bullock's Troopial: Plate #218 from Birds of America

1856. Second royal octavo edition. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. This plate still has the tissue guard. This plate shows the adult and juvenile male, and the female on a branch of Caprifolium Flavum. Very good + .

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Book number: 19461

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Audubon; Birds of America; Bullock's Troopial; J.T. Bowen Ornithology / Birds Antique Prints

Audubon, John J.

Clarke's Nutcracker: Plate #235 from Birds of America

1856. Second royal octavo edition. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. Showing the male and female. Very good + .

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Book number: 19463

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Audubon; Birds of America; Clarke's Nutcracker; J.T. Bowen Ornithology / Birds Antique Prints

Audubon, John J.

Orchard Oriole, or Hang Nest: Plate #219 from Birds of America

1856. Second royal octavo edition. The royal octavo edition of Birds of America as first published in 1840-44, and was followed by several more editions. This plate is from the second edition, published in 1856, distinct for the colored backgrounds. They are also a little different in that one species is pictured rather than a grouping of birds. This work was done to make Audubon's prints, highly in demand, more affordable for the general public. These hand colored lithographs were printed by J. T. Bowen. This plate still has the tissue guard. This plate shows the adult and juvenile male, and the female with the nest on a branch of the Honey Locust. Very good + .

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Book number: 19462

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Audubon; Birds of America; Orchard Oriole; J.T. Bowen Ornithology / Birds Antique Prints

Aveni, Anthony

Conversing with the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos

New York, Times Books, Random House, 1992. Second printing. Hardcover. (New York, 1992). 6.25" x 9.5"), ivory cloth and boards in pictorial jacket. 255pp. with index, notes and references. Illustrated in black and white. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17798

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Science; Natural History; Planets; Cosmos; Mythology; Astronomy

Barnaby, Joseph T.

Fluctuations in Abundance of Red Salmon, Oncorhynchus Nerka (Walbaum), of the Karluk River, Alaska

Washington DC, Government Printing Office, 1944. First Edition. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 238-295, summary, bibliography; chart and tables; original printed green paper wrappers; Ex-Reading Museum with just a call number and a stamp upper right of wrapper, no other markings what-so-ever. Fishery Bulletin 39. Very good .

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Book number: 13846

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Fish; Icthyology; Alaska; Salmon; Karluk River;

(Bewick, Thomas)

A History of British Birds

Newcastle, Longman and Rees, 1803. Third edition. Two volumes I: 346pp.; II: 400pp. Small quarto (6" x 10"), full polished calf with four raised bands, recent black and brown gilt labels, and with blind devices in three panels. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers, Turn-ins are decorated in blind. Early nineteenth century nameplate of Doune. Edges lightly worn. Covers scuffed. Minor occasional foxing. Volume one has been re-backed with the original spine. Labels are recent on both volumes. This edition has 15 additional illustrations as well as some text revisions. Beautiful wood engravings by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) throughout. Volume I is the land birds, and volume II is the water birds. .

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Book number: 19447

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Natural History; Thomas Bewick; Wood Engravings; English Birds; British Birds; Auk Illustrated Ornithology / Birds

Boyd W H.

The Niagara Falls Survey of 1927, Memoir 164

Ottawa, F. A. Acland, Canada Department of Mines, 1930. First printing. Wraps. Octavo; pp; (iv), 15 pp, five black and white photographs, two folding; twelve black and white folding maps; original printed gray stiff wrappers in a printed slipcase; Slipcase worn, pamphlet and maps near fine. This copy from the library of noted geologist and author Benjamin L. Miller. Near fine .

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Book number: 15394

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Geology; Niagara Falls;

Boyer, Charles S.

The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity

Lafargeville, Henry Tripp, Inc. Publisher, 1973. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Quarto, light blue cloth, gilt. 143pp. with index and appendix. 40 plates follow. Seven hundred drawings by the author. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1916 first edition. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 13151

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Science; Natural History; Diatomaceae; Diatoms;

Burroughs, John

Under the Maples

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition. Cloth. Duodecimo (7" x 4.5"), green ribbed cloth, gilt. Dust jacket with portrait medallion of the author. 222, (2)pp. with index. Book shows very little wear. The jacket has moderate chippong particularly at the top of the spinne and the top of the rear flap. Price of $2.00 on jacket intact. BAL 2207. Essays about wild life in California, time with Theodore Roosevelt on a "strenuous holiday", the Smoky Mountains, Darwinism, cosmic rhythms and other topics of nature. Very good/good.

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Book number: 19443

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Natural History, John Burroughs, Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalists

Carpenter, William B.

Nature and Man; Essays Scientific and Philosophical

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1889. Authorized edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vi, (2), 3-483, (iii) 24; appendix; book catalogue; frontispiece portrait and line drawings; brown cloth, gilt, coated yellow endpapers; Very good, minor wear at head of spine. Quite scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 13795

Catalogue: Science & Natural History

Keywords: Psycology; Science; Evolution;