Dahlgren, Virginia and White Oak, Maryland: Naval Surface Weapons Center, 1981. Hardcover. This symposium is one of a series which began in 1951 as an Office of Naval Research sponsored "Conference on Detonation". Sponsorship has expanded during the years and now includes Army, Air Force, Department of Energy and Navy... More about Proceedings Seventh Symposium (International) on Detonation, June 16 - 19, 1981 Annapolis, MD

Claremont, California: Scripps College [Anderson, Ritchie & Simon: The Ward Ritchie Press], 1962. Original wraps. Octavo size, 12 pp. Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a marine biologist and conservationist best known for her book "Silent Spring", a study of the negative effects of pesticides on the environment and an unsparing criticism... More about Of Man and the Stream of Time

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. Crowder, William. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 469 pp. Written in 1931 by noted marine biologist William Crowder, this detailed guide to representative species of nearly all types of invertebrate animals of the North American Atlantic coast includes 571 species. This guidebook is... More about Between The Tides

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 about General Chemistry of the Enzymes

Ayuntamiento de Valencia, 1964. Soft cover. Folio size, 115 pp., in Spanish. A collection of facsimiles of the anatomical etchings of Crisostomo Martinez (1638-1694), an artist of Valencia known for his atlas of anatomy.___DESCRIPTION: Thin cream paper boards, title page in crimson and black with illustration, seventeen black-and-white reproductions of... More about El Atlas Anatomico de Crisostomo Martinez

New York, San Francisco, London: Academic Press, 1976. Hardcover. Octavo size, 293 pp. Second volume published by this author in the area of Molecular Spectroscopy; per the Preface, "this volume offers reviews of new experimental and theoretical developments in molecular spectroscopy and is intended to serve as a useful resource... More about Molecular Spectroscopy: Modern Research, Volume II

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 about Silicon Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry

Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Folio size, 106 pp., three plates. This memoir (part memoir, part history, and part cultural study) deals with the Pitcairn and Norfolk Islanders who are the descendants of an eighteenth century cross between two groups: English and Tahitian, the progeny... More about Descendants of the Mutineers of the Bounty; Memoirs of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Volume XI,...

London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1850. Hardcover. Octavo size, 354 pp. "Instinct and Reason" is Alfred Smee's (1818-1877) treatise on electrical physiology, and it delves into the sensations and thought processes, such as pleasure and pain, instincts, and the use of language, in humans, often comparing these processes to those... More about Instinct and Reason: Deduced from Electro-Biology

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1925. Hardcover. 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 California, principally in application of the... More about Lick Observatory Bulletins; Contributions of the Berkeley Astronomical Department Volume I,...