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Levi, Leo
Handbook of Tables of Functions for Applied Optics
Cleveland, OH: CRC Press, Inc. (1974). (1974). Cleveland, OH: CRC Press, Inc. (1974). (1974). Very good. - Small quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], blue boards. The boards are lightly rubbed. [x] & 624 pages of tables. There is an owner's ink name, address & date on the front endpaper & the edges are very lightly foxed. Very good. Very good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICS; OPTICS; APPLIED OPTICS; HANDBOOK OF TABLES OF FUNCTIONS FOR APPLIED OPTICS; LEO LEVI; RADIATION; INTEGRALS; EMITTANCE; LUMINANCE; LENSES; DETECTORS.

 
Levy, Henry M.; and Eckhouse, Richard H. Jr.
Computer Programming and Architecture: The Vax-11.
Digital Press, (1980). (1980). - Octavo, 9-3/8 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Gray cloth titled in black on the front cover and the spine, in a printed dust wrapper. xxi, [iii] & 407 pages, illustrated with diagrams. A previous owner's name & address are penned on the front endpaper and there is some minor soiling to the top & fore edge of the book. Very good. First edition, first printing. Very good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND ARCHITECTURE: The VAX-11; FIRST EDITION; FIRST PRINTING; 1ST PRINTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; HENRY M. LEVY; RICHARD H. ECKHOUSE, JR.; 20TH CENTURY.

 
Lewis, H[enry] Carvill, Prof. (1853-1888)
The Great Ice Age in Pennsylvania
Published by the author, (1883). (1883). Published by the author, (1883). (1883). Good. - Octavo, soft cover bound in printed gray wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled with the edges darkened & the corners lightly creased. There are some small stains to the rear wrap. The top half-inch & the bottom 2 inches of the wraps are detached at the spine. 21 pages plus 1-page ad, with a folding black-and-white map in the rear. The page edges are slightly darkened & their corners are lightly creased. There are a few small, light stains. Good.

First separate edition.

Abstract of a lecture delivered at the Franklin Institute, January 5, 1883. Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, April 1883. Good .

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Keywords: GEOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIA; ICE AGE; THE GREAT ICE AGE IN PENNSYLVANIA; HENRY CARVILL LEWIS; OFFPRINT; FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; LECTURE; MAP; FOLDING MAP; FRANKLIN INSTITUTE; JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

 Luedersdorff, Dr. Friedrich W., The Solution and Reproduction of India Rubber, Called Gum Elastic, for the Manufacture of Air Proof and Water Proof Articles, &C. By Dr. F. Luedersdorff. Translated by James B. Angell, Professor of Modern Languages in Brown University.
Luedersdorff, Dr. Friedrich W.
The Solution and Reproduction of India Rubber, Called Gum Elastic, for the Manufacture of Air Proof and Water Proof Articles, &C. By Dr. F. Luedersdorff. Translated by James B. Angell, Professor of Modern Languages in Brown University.
Berlin: J.W. Boike, 1832. 1832. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed green wraps. The rear cover is detached as the spine is chipped with some loss along the top. The corners of the rear cover are also chipped and there is a tear to that cover's inner edge which has been repaired with archival tape. 48 pages. The pages are slightly toned with an occasional spot of foxing. Good. RARE. WorldCat locates only 6 copies. According to "The Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Guide" by W.H. Richardson, Jr. published in Boston in 1858: "On the 24th day of February, 1839, Mr. Hayward secured a patent for vulcanizing India-rubber by means of sulphur, which patent was assigned to Charles Goodyear -- a man of shrewd and future grasping mind. Some idea of the importance of this improvement may be formed from the fact that it has been a subject of continual litigation for a number of years; yea, almost since the day the patent was issued. It is the real vulcanizing substance now used in the manufacture of India-rubber fabrics of every description.. At the time of the famous contest between Goodyear and Day, testimony was produced by which it was endeavored to be proved that the vulcanization of India-rubber was discovered in Germany by F. Luedersdorff, six years before Hayward's patent was granted. Some doubts have been expressed concerning the statement. Whether true or false, we cannot see why the circumstance should detract in the least from the claims or position of Mr. Hayward, inasmuch as it is very conclusive that his discovery was purely accidental. A Prussian pamphlet published at Berlin in 1832, describes the experiments made by F. Luedersdorff with India-rubber, and the production of sulphurized India-rubber compounds.. 'The question now arises, what reliance is there to be placed upon the authenticity of this pamphlet, published six years before Hayward's patent was obtained?' .. 'Hayward was no doubt totally ignorant of the Prussian doctor's experiments; he probably could not read German..'" Nor apparently were Hayward and Goodyear eager to find the English translation of Luedersdorff's pamphlet published in the same year. Good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; INDIA-RUBBER; DR. FRIEDRICH W. LUEDERSDORFF; GERMAN CHEMIST; PATENT; THE SOLUTION AND REPRODUCTION OF INDIA RUBBER, CALLED GUM ELASTIC, FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF AIR PROOF AND WATER PROOF ARTICLES; J.W. BOIKE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CE

 
(MacVeagh, Lincoln). Gausmann, Roy W.
Water for Athens. (One of 15 Unpublished Copies).
Athens, Greece, 1940. 1940. Athens, Greece, 1940. 1940. Very good. - Quarto, 11-3/8 inches high by 9 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and on the spine. [2], x & 328 mechanically reproduced pages printed on the rectos only. Illustrated with an original photograph as the frontispiece, a pictorial title page, 60 inserted charts and plates not included in the pagination and a folding plate reproducing a document. Most of the plates with drawings were created by the author. Near fine. A RARE AND VALUABLE UNPUBLISHED WORK. Of 15 mimeographed copies this is No. 5 designated for Lincoln MacVeagh and was his copy. Laid into the book is a map outlining the Parnassos Aqueduct with notes on the stages of construction and a "General Plan" of the Athens-Piraeus Waterworks in 1945. The author, Roy W. Gausmann, was one of the designing engineers of the Marathon Dam and, until 1941, the general manager of EEY (the Greek Water Company). He trained as an engineer at Columbia University and worked for Ulen & Co. on the Shandaken Tunnel, bringing water from the Catskill Mountains to New York City. During World War II he supervised camouflaging the dam and purification plant in Athens in order to prevent the Germans from taking control of the water company. From the library of Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades ambo" bookplate. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value. Very good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; ENGINEERING; HISTORY; GREECE; WATER FOR ATHENS; LINCOLN MACVEAGH; ROY W. GAUSMANN; LIMITED EDITION; UNPUBLISHED; SOURCE MATERIAL; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; RARE; ASSOCIATION COPY; PARNASSOS AQUEDUCT; ATHENS-PIRA

 
Malti, Michel G.; and Golomb, Michael.
Electric Propagation on Long Lines Terminated by Lumped Networks.
(Lancaster, PA): (Lancaster Press, Inc.), (1943). (1943). - Octavo, 9-5/8 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled printed buff wraps. The edges of the covers are darkened. There are small minor stains to the covers and the spine is rubbed. [77] pages in all, numbered [41] through 117. The corners of a few pages are bumped. Very good. First Separate edition. "Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 235, No. 1, January, and No. 2, February, 1943." RARE. Born in Lebanon, the American electrical engineer Michel George Malti (1895-1978) was known for his work in circuit analysis. In 1939, he and Fritz Herzog are credited with solving the problem of balancing dynamos, an electric power problem which had remained unsolved since Faraday's time over a century earlier. Malti subsequently oversaw research on 3D modeling of Eddy currents. Born in Munich to a Polish-Jewish family, Michael Golomb (1909-2008) emigrated to the U.S.A. as a refugee fleeing Germany's Nazi regime in 1939. He was an instructor in mathematics at Cornell University from 1940 to 1942. With the advent of the war, Golomb assisted the Navy as chief of analysis at the Franklin Institute from 1943 to 1945. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award for his efforts and became a U.S. citizen in 1945. In 1942, Golomb had joined the faculty at Purdue University, becoming full professor. Very good .
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Marz, Helen C; and Nielsen, Robert L.; chairs/editors.
Cameras, Scanners, and Image Acquisition Systems. 3-4 February 1993, San Jose, California. Proceedings: Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering. Volume 1901.
Bellingham, Washington: SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering, (1993). (1993). - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed yellow wraps. The corners of the covers are lightly creased and an early ink price has been partially erased from the top corner of the front cover. vii, [i] & 222 pages, with textual illustrations and diagrams. There is a piece torn from the bottom corners of pages 153 though 160 without any loss of text. Very good. SPIE is the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Very good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; OPTICS; CAMERAS, SCANNERS, AND IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; PROCEEDINGS; SPIE OPTICAL ENGINEERING PRESS; THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS; OPTOELECTRONIC SCIENCE; ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; HELEN C. MARZ; ROBERT L. NIELSEN; 20TH

 
(Mayor, Alfred G.). Davenport, Charles B
Alfred Goldsborough Mayor. (in Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXI Eighth Memoir)
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 1927. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 1927. Good. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/2 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & unevenly darkened. There is creasing & a short tear to the top corner of the front wrap with a crease & 2 short tears to its front edge. Title & 14 pages, partially unopened. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece. The top page corners are creased. Good.

This eighth memoir in a National Academy of Sciences series is a biography of Alfred Goldsborough Mayor [1868-1922]. Mayor was an American marine biologist and zoologist whose interest in Medusae [jellyfish] was encouraged by Alexander Agassiz and led to their cooperating on a publication on the jellyfish of the Atlantic coast of North America and to many joint expeditions. Mayor was also known for his publications and papers on subjects ranging from physics to hunting and fishing. Good .

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Keywords: SCIENCE; BIOLOGY; ZOOLOGY; ALFRED GOLDSBOROUGH MAYOR; ALFRED G. MAYER; BIOGRAPHY; C. B. DAVENPORT; MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VOLUME XXI; MEDUSAE; JELLYFISH; ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

 Claudet, F. (1826-1906). Analytical chemist, metallurgist and mining engineer, appointed Assayer to the Banks of England and France., Nouveau Procede Pour L'Extraction Des Metaux Precieux Contenus Dans Les Pyrites Cuivreuses. Presente a L,'Academie Des Sciences Dans Sa Seance Du 2 Septembre 1872.
Claudet, F. (1826-1906). Analytical chemist, metallurgist and mining engineer, appointed Assayer to the Banks of England and France.
Nouveau Procede Pour L'Extraction Des Metaux Precieux Contenus Dans Les Pyrites Cuivreuses. Presente a L,'Academie Des Sciences Dans Sa Seance Du 2 Septembre 1872.
Paris: Typographie A. Hennuyer, 1872. 1872. - Octavo, printed blue wraps. The wraps are bumped & chipped with some staining to their bottom edges. The top edge of the rear wrap is darkened. 12 pages. There is some light staining, foxing & chipping to the edges of the pages. Good. First edition. Frederic Claudet [1826-1906] was an analytical chemist, metallurgist and mining engineer, appointed Assayer to the Banks of England and France. His research was in the field of chemical technology, in particular the problems of extracting small quantities of silver present in the cupriferous pyrites from Spain and Portugal which are used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. This is also the subject of the present pamphlet. The text is in French. Rare. Good .
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(Lavoisier). Metzger, Helene
La Philosophie de la Matiere Chez Lavoisier
Paris: Hermann et Cie, Editeurs, 1935. 1935. Paris: Hermann et Cie, Editeurs, 1935. 1935. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The binding is bumped with the spine & extremities slightly darkened. There is a stamp with 2 handwritten prices at the top of the front wrap. There are tears to the head & tail of the spine with a piece out of the tail. 46 & [2] pages. The top page corners are bumped & the edges of the pages are darkened. Good.

Actualites Scientifiques et Industrielles [No.] 213. Exposes d'Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences. Publies sous la direction de Abel Rey, [No.] II.

The text is in French. Good .

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 Michael, Donald N.; Baranson, Jack; Bauer, Raymond A.; Meier, Richard L.; Nadel, Aaron B.; Shepard, Herbert A.; Striner, Herbert E.; Wright, Christopher., [Brookings Report]. Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs.
Michael, Donald N.; Baranson, Jack; Bauer, Raymond A.; Meier, Richard L.; Nadel, Aaron B.; Shepard, Herbert A.; Striner, Herbert E.; Wright, Christopher.
[Brookings Report]. Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs.
Washington, D.C.: House of Representatives, April 18, 1961. 1961. Washington, D.C.: House of Representatives, April 18, 1961. 1961. Very good. INCLUDES THE CONTROVERSIAL SECTION TITLED: "THE IMPLICATIONS OF A DISCOVERY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE" - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, staple bound in original printed self-wrappers with the original owner's name & date stamped at the top of the cover page: "5-15-61 A. M. Levine". There are minor creases to the corners of the front cover. xi, (1) & 272 pages. A few page corners are lightly bumped. Near fine. First edition. RARE in Commerce. "Prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by the Brookings Institution. Report of the Committee on Science and Aeronautics U.S. House of Representatives Eighty-Seventh Congress First Session. April 18, 1961. - Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed." The report contains the following chapters: Introduction: Goals and Methods, Comments on the Organization and Functions of a NASA Social Science Research Capability, Implications of Satellite-Based Communications Systems, Implications of a Space-Derived Weather Predicting System, The Implications of Technological By-products, Implications for Government Operations and Personnel Use, Implications for Space Industries, General Implications for International Affairs and Foreign Policy and Attitudes and Values. A brief 1 and 1/4 page section of the "Attitudes and Values" chapter entitled "The implications of a discovery of extraterrestrial life" became highly controversial and led to accusations of a government cover-up of evidence of extraterrestrial life. The controversies were further exacerbated by a series of footnotes, including the following: "It has been speculated that, of all groups, scientists and engineers might be the most devastated by the discovery of relatively superior creatures, since these professions are most clearly associated with the mastery of nature, rather than with the understanding and expression of man. Advanced understanding of nature might vitiate all our theories at the very least, if not also require a culture and perhaps a brain inaccessible to Earth scientists. Very good .
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 Kunz, George Frederick. (1856-1932). American mineralogist and vice president of Tiffany & Co. where he sought out fine gems for his clients, Typed Letter Signed by Mineralogist and Vice President of Tiffany's George Frederick Kunz Requesting Tickets to a Traprock Lecture.
Kunz, George Frederick. (1856-1932). American mineralogist and vice president of Tiffany & Co. where he sought out fine gems for his clients
Typed Letter Signed by Mineralogist and Vice President of Tiffany's George Frederick Kunz Requesting Tickets to a Traprock Lecture.
New York: October 16th, 1922. 1922. - 31 words typed on an 8-1/2 inch high by 5-5/8 inch wide sheet of cream letterhead with Tiffany's address printed in raised lettering at the top. The paper is watermarked Aurelius and is handmade. The watermark illustrates a large bird, possibly an eagle. Signed "George F Kunz". There is a light smudge above 1 word of the printed address. The recipient has penciled the date the tickets were mailed at the foot of the letter. Folded once for mailing. Very good. Kunz writes to J. B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau, New York City, asking for tickets to a lecture: "I would greatly appreciate having two tickets for the lecture by Dr. Walter E. Traprock on his North Pole trip." George Frederick Kunz [1856-1932], an American mineralogist and mineral collector, took an interest in minerals from a very young age. With no formal training he taught himself mineralogy from books and field work to the point where his expertise won him a job with Tiffany & Co. His knowledge and enthusiasm propelled him into a vice presidency by the time he was 23. He headed the U.S. mining and mineralogical exhibits at five international expositions between 1889 and 1904 and was a member of such professional organizations as the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He was a research curator at the New York City's Museum of Natural History and was the leading advocate for the establishment of the international carat as a unit of measure for precious gems. Very good .
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Keywords: SCIENCE; MINERALOGY; TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY MINERALOGIST AND VICE PRESIDENT OF TIFFANY'S GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ REQUESTING TICKETS TO A TRAPROCK LECTURE; TLS; T.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; POND LECTURE BUREAU; WALTER E. TRAPROCK LECTURE.

 
Mohr, Friedrich
Geschichte Der Erde: Eine Geologie Auf Neuer Grundlage
Bonn: Verlag von Max Cohen & Sohn, 1866. 1866. Bonn: Verlag von Max Cohen & Sohn, 1866. 1866. Very good. - Octavo, three quarters dark green calf & marbled boards, titled in gilt on a black leather label between gilt rules with gilt-decorated raised bands & decorations in gilt on the spine. The boards are bumped & rubbed around the edges. The spine is sunned & rubbed. The endpapers are marbled. xiv & 524 pages plus errata page. There is foxing to the prelims, index & rear blanks. Despite its flaws, a very good, attractive copy.

First edition.

From the library of geologist and mining engineer James Douglas, after whom Douglas, Arizona was named, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Douglas, who was born in Quebec, spent much of his early life in Scotland. For many years, as a metallurgist and mining engineer, he was involved in several important Western American enterprises.

The text is in German. Very good .

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Keywords: GEOLOGY; HISTORY OF THE EARTH; GERMAN; FRIEDRICH MOHR; GESCHICHTE DER ERDE: EINE GEOLOGIE AUF NEUER GRUNDLAGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; JAMES DOUGLAS.

 
Mohr, Dr. E. C. Jul.,
The Soils of Equatorial Regions / with Special Reference to the Netherlands East Indies. Amsterdam 1933-1938. Translated from the Netherlandsch by Robert L. Pendleton
Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards, (1948). (1948). Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards, (1948). (1948). Good. - Quarto, black cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The covers are rubbed & lightly bumped with uneven fading & some light staining & spotting. xii & 766 pages, with Mohr's text printed in 2 columns. Illustrated in black & white with endpaper maps, a folding table & 2 folding maps & numerous textual illustrations & tables. There is occasional soiling & the page edges are slightly darkened. There is a tear to the front edge of 1 of the folding maps. Good.

From the library of cartographer Vincent Kotschar with his signature on the front endpaper. Good .

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Keywords: GEOLOGY; SOIL; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; EAST INDIES; NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES; GEOLOGIST; DUTCH; E. C. JUL. MOHR; ILLUSTRATIONS; MAPS; TABLES; THE SOILS OF EQUATORIAL REGIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES; SOIL FORMATION; WEATHERING; BAL

 
Negroponte, Nicholas
Being Digital
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 1995. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 1995. Very good. - Octavo, black-and-white paper covered boards in a printed acetate dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed with the top of its front fold chipped. viii & 243 pages plus colophon. Very good in a good dust wrapper.

First edition. Very good .

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