A.W. Bennett

Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society

London, England, Library of the Royal Microscopial Society, 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being no additional copies available on-line currently. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately worn and soiled, chipped front panel, printed, sunned along edges, but interior clean and unmarked if a bit toned. Aperture Table inside front flap, and then original articles by Edward M. Nelson, Charles F. Rousselet, A. Michael, J. Leon Wiliams, Thomas Comber and others, with plentiful short communications, news and reviews about the Society. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and plates. xxxiv [1], 456-644 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Berman, Alvin L.

The Brain Stem of the Cat: A Cytoarchitectonic Atlas with Stereotaxic Coordinates

Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Elephant Folio 23" tall. Lots of big words and uber-scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available on-line currently, at $450.00 and $580.00. Massively heavy, oversized volume, a legitimate elephant folio hardcover format, measuring 23 1/4" x 17 3/4" tall and wide, respectively. Bound handsomely in a gray linen cloth over boards, with bruised but not broken tips, white lettering to front cover and spine, and a tightly bound, clean, unmarked interior. "The cat," says the author of this authoritative text, Alvin L. Berman, born 19 February 1914, and dead by October 3, 1999, "is one of the most widely used animals in modern research on the central nervous system" (from the Preface). In 1992 the Alvin L. Berman and Ruth Bleier Memorial Student Research Award was initiated, awarded by the Friends of the Waisman Center, commemorating the contributions of these two Waisman Center scientists (Waisman Center dot edu web-site). The brains of nine adult cats were prepared for this study, and the heads were placed in the "standard" Horseley-Clarke Stereotaxic Position (Horseley, 1908), the apparent choice for decades of stereotaxic photography. Preface, Introduction, Materials and Methods, and then three Parts of plates: I (frontal plates 1-30, with descriptive text), II (sagittal plates 31-55), III (horizontal plates, 56-80). Tri-column and double-column texts, xvi + plates in black-and-white, all being full-page format.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Dean, Gordon

Report on the Atom

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. What you should know about the Atomic Energy Program of the United States." Stated First Edition, First Printing. Very handsomely produced in blue cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine, blind-stamped title and author's initials to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for some chipping along top edge, protected by a plastic coat. The author was the Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1950-1953. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [3], 4-321, [i], ii-vi pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Dumond, Jess W.M. DuMond

Autobiography of a Physicist, Complete in Two Volumes

Pasadena, California, Self-published, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Complete in two volumes, an engaging autobiography by the California-based physicist, Jesse William Monroe DuMond (July 11, 1892 – December 4, 1976). Stiff blue card-stock binding, black tape over spines, chipped a bit, wraps a bit sunned, very lightly soiled, else clean and unmarked of interior but for the fact of a photocopied insertion of DuMond's bibliography (177 items, all in) between Table of Contents and first page of text in Volume I. Pasted-on paper label titles to each front cover. Dedicated gratefully to his second wife, Louse Marie (Baillet) DuMond, whom he thanks at end of Volume II the entirety of which she typed. 28 chapters, all in, between the two volumes. DuMond was an American experimental physicist. DuMond was born a U.S. citizen in France, his father being the landscape painter Frederick Melville DuMond (1867 - 1927). His Wikipedia entry notes that his mother Louise Adele Kerr died at his age two, so he moved to Paris when a wee lad and then to the U.S. to live with paternal grandparents in Rochester, New York. He earned a Bachelor's degree in 1916 from the Throop College of Technology (later to become California Institute of Technology), worked steadily as an engineer and physicist to and through and following W.W.I., then for General Electric, then at the Thomson-Houston Company in Paris before joining the National Bureau of Standards. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology and stayed there, retiring in 1963 (Wikipedia). He had a productive, influential career in both business and private industry and was a member of many scientific clubs and societies. Wikipedia notes that the author "became famous for investigating the line broadening in the Compton effect due to the speed distribution of the electrons in the atom. To this end, he developed a new type of X-ray spectrometer with several crystals and also had the original idea for X-ray spectrometers with curved crystal surfaces." All in, an exceedingly scarce item in the trade (there being no additional copies available on-line currently. Volume I: vii [17], 1-186 pp.; Volume II: [4], iii, 187-390 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Einstein, Albert; John Stachel, ed.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1879-1902

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. . This is the first volume of what was projected to be a 40-volume compilation. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, Imperial octavo format, blue linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, and over black label, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Slight bowing to front board, very slight waviness to text-block bottom. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Many, many score black-and-white and duotone illustrations including maps. lxvi [1], 433 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,

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Gould, Stephen Jay

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

New York, Harmony Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another in a long series of assembled essays from the pages of Natural History magazine by the acknowledged master of popular science essays, one of the longest-running series of such in academic or popular history. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for a neat gift inscription. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Extensive frontis matter, 1-422 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,

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Anonymous [Eliza Gutch]

Notes on Un-Natural History Being a Selection of Fictions Accounting As Facts

, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1868. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in green cloth over beveled boards, gilt lettering and flourish to front cover and spine. First Edition copy, bound in blind-ruled green cloth with gilt lettering and flourish to front cover and spine. Lightly soiled endpapers, previous owner's inscription, else clean and unmarked of interior. 152 pp. plus list of publisher's other current works. Eliza Gutch was the author also of Notes on the Months and other popular works. This book contains a wealth of home-spun homilies and gentle corrections as to popular but fallacious conclusions the general public has made about the way things are. For example, "If Eve ever thought that the enlargement of Adam's larynx was due to the forbidden apple* having stuck in his throat, it could not have been until she was in her dotage. If she ever believed that when her infants smiled in sleep, angels were talking to them, it must have been after her expulsion from Eden, for no babies were known in its blissful bowers. If she ever told herself that birds, by raising their heads aloft, say a grace after every draught, she showed an ignorance of ornithological anatomy, which, in the days before she fell, would not have been allowed to remain undissipated.*"Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Helsham, Richard

A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy

London, England, Bryan Robinson, 1743. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. Stated Second Edition, bound in calf leather, gilt lettered title over red Morocco leather in one spine compartment. Richard Helsham, M.D., was also a Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland and, at the time, a contemporary of and friend to the likes of Jonathan Swift. He discourses simply upon hydro- and electrostatic, air, wind, pulleys, light, color, and other aspects of the natural world. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar. Bound in scuffed and rubbed leather, protected in stiff plastic, but the front board is nearly detached, holding on by two threads. Upper joints cracked a bit, rubbing to, scuffing of spine head and foot. Red-speckled fore- and bottom-edges, top-stained in red. Five raised bands to spine of this octavo format text, red and black lettering to title page. Generally clean interior, a few dog-eared pages. Plentiful lectures ranging from "Of Attraction" and "Of Repulsion and Central Forces" to "Of Friction" and "Of the Motion of Projects." xi [1], 2-404 pp. and with plentiful fine black-and-white illustrations hors-texte and in fold-out.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Hodgson, Peter E.

Nuclear Physics in Peace and War

New York, Hawthorn Books, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another contribution to the series, 20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism, edited by Henri Daniel-Rops, being Volume 128 under Section XIII, Catholicism and Science. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Decorative paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. Bookplate from previous owner (Nell Haynes) at first free endpaper, else clean, unmarked and bright. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, sunning to spine, protected by a plastic coat. [11], 12-156 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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Ibelgaufts, Horst, ed.

Dictionary of Cytokines

New York, Basel, Cambridge and Tokyo, Weinheim, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Cytokinesis is the cytoplasmic division of a cell at the end of mitosis or meiosis, bringing about the separation into two daughter cells. This is a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar of a dictionary of such in sterling condition. White cloth over boards, pictorial representation and black lettering to front cover and spine. Double-column texts for ease of reading, one lengthy dictionary-style entry after another. xxi, 1-778 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Elliott, T.J.; introduced and translated by

A Medieval Bestiary

Boston, David R. Godine , 1971. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Handsomely produced in small quarto hardcover format, bound in two-toned cloth, dust jacket, fully intact, mildly worn, a bit sunned at spine, sans slipcase. Designed and printed in Monotype Bulmer at the Press of David Godine. Translated & Introduced by T.J. Elliott. Plentiful wood engravings by Gillian Tyler. First Edition stated, being one of 1000 numbered copies in the deluxe edition. Printed in red and black and blue and with interesting illustrations throughout devoted animals in an imagined medieval-era bestiary, and printed directly from the blocks engraved by Gillian Tyler.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Kahl, Gunter

Dictionary of Gene Technology

New York, Basel, Cambridge, Tokyo, Weinheim, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. This is a big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar of a dictionary of genetics and gene technology in sterling condition. White cloth over boards, pictorial representation and black lettering to front cover and spine. Double-column texts for ease of reading, one lengthy dictionary-style entry after another. xii [1], 3-547 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Kendrew, John, ed.

Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology

Oxford, England , Wiley-Blackwell, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Massively heavy, oversized volume. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxvi, 1165 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Kessler, Brad

Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

New York, Scribner, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The novelist Brad Kessler moved away from New York City with his wife the photograph Dona McAdams to a farm and learned how to live with and on herds of goats. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean but for a fetching, heartfelt gift inscription, minimal rubbing to extremities, with a bright and shiny dust jacket. Slight indentation at book's rear where was removed an anti-theft device. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 1-239 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Long, Cyril, ed.

Biochemist's Handbook Compiled by One Hundred and Seventy-One Contributors

Princeton, New Jersey, D. van Nostrand Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Big, oversized, Imperial octavo hardcover format, black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine including over red label at spine. Edited by Cyrol Long and with 171 additional contributors. Extensive Table of Contents, and then a List of Contributors, A. Albert to M.H. Yeoman, from fields as disparate as Botany and Biology, Chemistry to Engineering. xxii [1], 3-1192 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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