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. 8vo - over 7.75” to 9.75” tall, 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... More about Between The Tides

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 352 p. 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... More about General Chemistry of the Enzymes

New York, London, Paris: Pergamon Press/McGraw Hill, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with library inventory number written in white ink on spine and also stamped on bottom on Contents page; other than these two library markings and "U.S. Government" stamped on top and side edges, volumes is in near fine..... More about Millimicrosecond Pulse Techniques

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

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 about Blood Groups in Man

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 about Molecular Spectroscopy: Modern Research

New York: Plenum Press, 1966. Hardcover. Ex-institutional library, only markings are a small while label on lower left of front board with library inventory numbers, a small label inside of front cover For Reference, Not to be taken from this room, and what has now been blacked out assumed library... More about Instrumentation in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries - Vol. 2

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,...

New York, London: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1960. Hardcover. Ex-library from Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Library, Livermore, California with library pocket pasted to inside of rear board and library inventory number written on spine (now blacked out) and also stamped on bottom on Preface page; other than these three library... More about Properties and Structure of Polymers

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,...

New York, Oxford, London, Paris: Pergamon Press, 1961. Hardcover. Volume is in excellent condition, square and tight, minimal rubbing to head and foot of spine, all pages clean, no PO name or markings. Is ex-library, from Lawrence Livermore Lab; has vestiges of a library label on lower left of front... More about Microanalysis by the Ring Oven Technique