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
Rennes-Paris: Imprimerie Oberthur, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. Folio size, 20 pp., in French. Emile Boulanger (1867-1939) was a French pharmacist and biologist; these papers comprise portions of his study on the artificial culture of the truffle following various experiments. Boulanger continued his experiments for some years and published numerous reports..... More
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
Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society, 1986. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 1880 pp. An important reference work which provides reliable data on physical and chemical properties to the technical community; a stand-alone work that provides data over a range of temperatures covering 2,000 compounds. This third edition is a testimony..... More
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
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
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1985. Limited Edition. One of 140 copies, quarto size, 150 pp., with the original prospectus. The 51st publication of The Allen Press, being the first translation from Latin into English of "The Poeticon Astronomicon," the earliest printed book to show the figures of the constellations..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 671 pp. Published just as Cold War tensions were near their peak following the Sputnik crisis, this book was written to "avoid disaster and buy time", according to Kahn. This volume is a treatise on the nature and theory..... More
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
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1954. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 400 pp. Second edition (scarce in dust jacket for the early editions) of this important work on blood groups (blood types), which were first discovered in 1901; by the mid-20th century work on blood groups was progressing at a rapid..... More
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
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
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 320 pp., signed by Glenn Seaborg and inscribed by Eric Seaborg. American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) made monumental strides in the fields of physics and chemistry, and his career as a scientist and teacher has been much..... More
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
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
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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
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
London: Readers Union / Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Hardcover. Octavo size, 143 pp., signed by James D. Watson. The desire to understand the chemical makeup of living things was in full force during the 1950s, epitomised in the work of scientists James D. Watson (b. 1928) and Francis Crick (1916-2004)..... More