Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1925. Hardcover. All volumes bound into one book, quarto size, 191 pp. "The Lick Observatory Bulletins assembled in this volume (Volume I only) represent contributions by the members of the Staff and by Graduate Students of the Berkeley Astronomical Department of the University of..... More
(Oxford): (Oxford University Press), (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the OUP publication, four volumes (complete), large octavo size, total of approximately 2000 pp. One could spend a lifetime studying the life and work of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). An ordained Catholic priest as well as a scholar, philosopher and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, octavo size, 396 pp. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was interested in the origins of life from a young age, and when the "Beagle" had an opening for a naturalist, his interest and reputation for "collecting, observing, &..... More
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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 318 pp. From the jacket flap: "The book traces the development of the concept of form - one of the most important and persistent elements in natural philosophy - from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 352 pp. First English edition of this work on enzymes. The author, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin (1873-1964) was a Swedish biochemist, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929. Chapters include Special Chemistry of the..... More
Pisis [Pisa]: Francesco Bindi, 1710. Second Edition. Leather bound. Quarto size, 160 pp., text in Latin. Dom Luigi Guido Grandi (1671-1742) was trained in theology and philosophy; while assigned to teach both fields in Florence he took an interest in mathematics. By 1707 he had gained such recognition in the..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson (printed at The Philopolis Press), 1912. Mathews, Arthur F. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 118 pp., inscribed by Alexander McAdie. This volume is a thorough examination of weather patterns in the city of San Francisco, famous for its year-round fog, written by American meteorologist Alexander..... More
New York and London: Academic Press, 1972. Hardcover. Octavo size, 435 pp. Contains reviews of then-current advances in several phases of research in high-resolution molecular spectroscopy, with particular emphasis on electronic, infrared, and microwave studies of molecular species in gas phase and in matrices (from dust jacket flap). ***Professor K...... More
London: Academic Press / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. Octavo size, 258 pp. Seven presentations by noted scientists all having to do with silicon geochemistry. As an essential nutrient, and the basis of the skeletal material of certain organisms, silicon occupies a dominant position in biogeochemistry; and this book..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 243 pp. This one of the "Oxford Science Publications"; per the Foreword: "this book [is] an important contribution to the nature-nurture controversy." Replete with charts and graphs, with a substantial Reference section at the rear. ___DESCRIPTION..... More
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London and Worcester: S. Crowder and S. Gamidge (1765, 1766, 1765), 1765. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in one, first edition of the first and third titles, second edition of "A View of the Earth", quarto size, [160] pp., illustrated with maps and globes. Following his matriculation from Magdalen Hall, Oxford..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Small quarto size, 311 pp., in dust jacket. Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (1885-1955) "had major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines such as number theory. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and an important..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 501 pp. The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has been vastly influential to artists and thinkers alike; despite having only one book published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein was a prolific writer and many of his manuscripts were..... More