Becquerel, Jean

Expose Elementaire de la Theorie D'Einstein

Paris, France, Payot, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Text in French. Binding tight and sturdy, printed brown paper over boards, newly brown cloth-rebacked. Seventeen figures interior. Born in Paris, France, 5 February 1878, died Sainte-Marguerite, near Pornichet, Brittany, France, 4 July 1953, the fourth Becquerel "to hold the chair of physics at the Museum of Natural History in Paris" (encyclopedia dot com). "Like his father, grandfather, and great grandfather Jean was educated at the École Polytechnique (1897) and became professor of physics at the French Museum of Natural History (1909). He discovered polarization rotation in the presence of a magnetic field, and wrote an important book about relativity. He was also a member of the Académie des sciences (1946)" (sciencewolfram dot com).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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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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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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Book number: 356493

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Huxley, Thomas Henry

Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1872. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lay sermons, addresses and reviews by the preeminent 19th-century biologist and natural historian, including glowing reviews of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in red cloth over boards, blind-stamped illustration to covers, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities, bumping to spine head and foot. Former damp-staining to front endpapers and to rear bottom bottom and endpapers, but signs of neither odor nor moisture, else with a clean and tightly bound interior. xi [2], 2-378 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356586

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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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Book number: 356495

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Jungk, Robert

Brighter Than 1000 Suns: The Moral & Political History of the Atomic Scientists

London, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., in association with Rupert Hart-Davis, Ltd., 1958. Third Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Impression, and translated from the original Swedish by James Cleugh. Discussions that are quite readable of Rutherford, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Dirac, Heisenberg, Joliot-Curie, Kapitza, Fuchs, Fermi, Oppenheimer, Szilard and Teller, with a special focus on the German science scene from the 1920s forward. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography series in a project headed at the University of Southern California. His pencil and pen markings at first free endpaper but then only two marginal marks thereafter. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Some pages toned from laid-in newspaper clippings, one left in at outset, being a full-on review from the Times Literary Supplement of Friday, June 20, 1958, reviewing this book and Werner Heisenberg's The Physicist's Conception of Nature. [9], 10-350 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Very Good,

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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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Milne, A.A.

Year in, Year out

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The black-and-white illustrations by E.H. Shepard greatly augment this fine and delightful survey of the wit and wisdom of the beloved A.A. Milne, almost memoirish essays, what Milne calls "autobiographical table talk." Shepard also drew Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Piglet, to name but a few characters. Bound in blue cloth over boards, very light wear thereto, light bumping to spine head and foot, else clean and unmarked of interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Frontis matter, 2-215 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Rentoul, Robert Reid

Race Culture; or, Race Suicide? (a Plea for the Unborn)

New York, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1906. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Edition Thus, being in effect a second and enlarged edition of Proposed Sterilization of Certain Mental and Physical Degenerates, which he published in 1903. Like other eugenicists of his era, motivated as they were more by racialized notions and unscientific understandings of mental health and reproduction, he "called attention to the large and increasing number of the insane in the United Kingdom; to our disgraceful system of child-marriages; to the growing suicide rate; to our disgusting system of inducing certain mentally and physically disease persons to marry; and to a slight operation which I was the first to propose as a means of checking the increase in the number of the insane, and in preventing innocent off-spring from being cursed by some parental blemish" (p. vii). A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Red cloth bindings, still sharp gilt lettering to spine, slight forward cock to spine, moderate toning to endpapers, text-block, xiv [1], 2-182 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Rickett, Harold William

Wild Flowers of the United States, Volume Two, Part Two

New York, McGraw-Hill For The New York Botanical Garden, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound exemplar of Part Two of Volume Two, The Wildflowers of the United States, being the Southeastern States, with General Editor, William C. Steere, edited specifically by Harold William Rickett, and with collaborators such as Rogers McVaugh, Clair A. Brown, Aaron J. Sharp, Daniel B. Ward, Robert K. Godfrey, Robert Kral, Robert L. Wilbur, Carroll E. Wood and others. Originally published in six volumes in 14 parts, from 1966 -73. This volume covers Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. Big, tall brown sailcloth-covered boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. 323-688 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Thomson, G.P.

The Atom

London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A cute little tome, another fine contribution to the series, The Home University Library, penned by George Paget Thomson. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Bound in light blue cloth over boards, darker blue lettered and rules. Printed, illustrated paper dust wrapper, protected by Mylar jacket, but moderately worn and chipped at spine and along top edge. Ex-libris bookplate of Bernard Kotkin inside front flap.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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Book number: 356494

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