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1. Baker, Ray Stannard. BOYS
SECOND BOOK OF INVENTIONS. New York, McClure,
Phillips & Co.: 1903. 320 pages. Red pictorial covers. Ex-library markings
on the spine and inside covers. There is some soiling to the binding. The spine
edges and corners are shelf-worn and rubbed. The front hinge has been repaired
with archival glue. There is a crack to the text block near the end of the book,
with a couple of signatures listening, but still attached. Profusely illustrated
throughout. $18.00
2. Bavink, Bernhard. SCIENCE
AND GOD. New York, Reynal and Hitchcock: 1934.
First American edition. Slight shelf wear, else near VG in edge-worn dust
jacket. Jacket has some soiling as well, but is still presentable. $14.50
3. Birkhoff, George David. RELATIVITY
AND MODERN PHYSICS. Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press: 1923. 283 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine and
corners. $70.00
4. Birkhoff, George David. THE
ORIGIN, NATURE, AND INFLUENCE OF RELATIVITY; Lowell Institute Lectures. New
York, Macmillan: 1925. 185 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine and corners. $24.00
5. Bliss, Gilbert A.. ALGEBRAIC
FUNCTIONS: AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY COLLOQUIUM PUBLICATIONS. Volum XVI
(16). New York, American Mathematical Society:
1933. 218 pages. Slight shelf wear. Overall near very good condition. $65.00
6. Bloxam, Charles Loudon. METALS,
THEIR PROPERTIES AND TREATMENT. London, Longman's
Green: 1888. 1888 printing. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Scarce.
An important early work on metals and metallurgy. $35.00
7. Bolsche, Wilhelm. THE
EVOLUTION OF MAN. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr: 1910.
159 pages. Some shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners
slightly bumped. $3.50
8. Brande, W. T.-Editor. BRANDE'S
DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART. New
York, Harper & Brother: 1845. 1352 pages. Nicely rebound in brown cloth.
Binding tight and contents are complete. $40.00
9. Butler, M. Anne. UNITED
STATES SENATE ELECTION, EXPULSION AND CENSURE CASES, 1793-1990. Washington,
DC, Government Printing Office: 1995. 486 pages. Near new condition. Softbound
edition. $11.95
10. Byrne, Oliver. MECHANICS:
THEIR PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. New
York, De Witt & Davenport: 1853. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners.
This is the 1853 edition. Some soiling to covers. Scattered foxing to pages.
$75.00
11. Caillard, E. M. ELECTRICITY:
THE SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, A SKETCH FOR GENERAL READERS. New
York, Humboldt Publishing: ca. 1890's. 154 pages. No date of publication listed,
but it looks to be 1890's. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and
corners. Corners somewhat rubbed. Includes illustrated diagrams. An early
electricity book. $75.00
12. Casti, John & Anders Karlqvist-editors.
NEWTON TO ARISTOTLE: TOWARD A THEORY OF MODELS FOR
LIVING SYSTEMS. Boston, Basel, Berlin, Birkhauser:
1989. Slight shelf wear to the edges of the spine and corners. A scarce title.
$55.00
13. Clodd, Edward. THE
STORY OF CREATION, A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF EVOLUTION. New
York, Humbolt Publishing: circa 1900. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped, else G+.
$10.00
14. Cook, Melvin A. SCIENCE
AND MORMONISM: CORRELATIONS, CONFLICTS AND CONCILIATIONS. Salt
Lake City, Deseret News: 1967. 295 pages. Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and
corners. 1st edition. $19.50
15. Cook, Melvin A. SCIENCE
AND MORMONISM: CORRELATIONS, CONFLICTS AND CONCILIATIONS. Salt
Lake City, Privately Printed: 1967. 295 pages. Shelf wear to spine edges and
corners. Dust jacket has tears and chips to the edges. $24.00
16. Dixon, D.B. THE
MECHANICAL ARTS SIMPLIFIED: A WORK OF REFERENCE... Chicago,
Laird & Lee: 1897. Heavy shelf wear to spine extremities. Binding sound.
Corners bumped. Hinges cracking, but binding holding. This book contains a wide
variety of topics, including architecture, iron work, carpentry, blacksmithing,
railroad, electricity, ice making, machining, road building, firefighting
mining, and other topics. $19.50
17. Doorly, Eleanor. THE
MICROBE MAN: A LIFE OF PASTEUR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. New
York, D. Appleton-Century: 1939. Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with
chips to edges. $4.95
18. Drake, J. A. THE
PRACTICAL MECHANIC, COMPRISING A CLEAR EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
OF MECHANISM. Philadelphia, J. W. Lukenbach: 1879.
Spine and edges shelf-worn, with some fraying to edges. Fading and some
discoloration to covers. Hinges are cracking, but binding is holding. Back blank
endpaper loose within book. $25.00
19. Eddington, Sir Arthur. RELATIVITY
THEORY OF PROTONS AND ELECTRONS. New York &
Cambridge, Macmillan Company & Cambridge University: 1936. 336 pages. Light
shelf wear . A clean and tight copy of a scarce scientific treatise. $95.00
20. Euler, Leonhard. LETTERS
OF EULER TO A GERMAN PRINCESS, ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS IN PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY.
Translated from the French by Henry Hunter D.D., with original notes and a
Glossary of Foreign and Scientific Terms. In Two Volumes. London,
Printed for the Translator and for H. Murray, No. 32 Fleet-Street: 1795. 1st
Edition. This is the 1795 first English-language edition. Two volume set. Both
volumes have new brown leather spines. Corners are vellum, with a couple of the
board corner vellum replaced. Original marbled paper over board covers. Bindings
are tight and the contents are complete, including all plates. I carefully
collated this book and found the following: Page 173 is numbered as
"137"; page 356 is numbered "310"; page 357 is numbered
"307". Page 451 has a small margin tear. There are a few small chips
to a the tops of few of the pages near the front of the book, not affecting
text. Page leaf 474-475 is not in the book, but has been misnumbered as
"476-477. No text is missing and no break in the content. This can be
verified by looking at the final word at the bottom of one page and the initial
word at the top of the following page, which was the collation method
typesetters used at that time. A few of the plates are bound out of order or not
in chronological order, but all plates are present. $2495.00
21. Evans, Frank B.-compiler. Modern
Archives and Manuscripts a Select Bibliography. [n.p.],
Society of American Archivists: 1975. 209 pages. Softbound covers. Some wear to
the covers. $14.50
22. Farnsworth, Elma G. "Pem". DISTANT
VISION: ROMANCE AND DISCOVERY ON AN INVISIBLE FRONTIER. Salt
Lake, Pemberly Kent: 333 pages. Biography of Philo T. Farnsworth, inventory of
modern-day television. Light wear to book and dust jacket. Signed by author. $16.75
23. Foerst, Wilhelm-editor. NEWER
METHODS OF PREPARATIVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Volume III. New
York, Academic Press: 1964. 544 pages. This is volume III. Some shelf wear to
binding. Dust jacket has some small chips to the edges. $8.25
24. Hall, Mosiah. A
PRACTICAL SOCIOLOGY. New York, Scribner's: 1918.
Shelf wear and rubbing to spine and corners. $12.50
25. Hayashi, Teru. MOLECULAR
ARCHITECTURE IN CELL PHYSIOLOGY. Prentice-Hall:
1966. Ex-library label on spine and marks internally. Some shelf wear. $8.00
26. Hittell, John S. A
BRIEF HISTORY OF CULTURE. New York, D. Appleton
& Co. : 1875. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. $20.00
27. Horstmann, Henry C. MODERN
ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION. Chicago, Frederick J.
Drake & Co. : 1913. 1913 edition. Flexible black pebbled leather binding.
Wear to edges. There is a tear to the leather at the bottom of the spine. $7.50
28. Hueppe, Ferdinand (Biggs, Herman,
M.-translator). THE METHODS OF BACTERIOLOGICAL
INVESTIGATION. Translated by Hermann M. Biggs. With 31 woodcut illustrations. New
York, D. Appleton: 1890. 1890 printing. Ex-library, with internal stamps and ink
marks on spine. Cloth on front joint is slightly split. Binding tight. An
important biological work. Scarce. This is the 1890 edition. $28.00
29. International Textbook Company. ARITHMETIC,
ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA, LOGARITHMS, GEOMETRICAL DRAWING. I.C.S. Reference Library
#114. Scranton, Pennsylvania, International
Textbook Company: 1906. Leather spine corners. Shelf wear and some fading to the
binding. $10.00
30. International Textbook Company. LEVELING,
CIRCULAR CURVES, STADIA AND PLANE-TABLE SURVEYING, TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYING,
HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING, UNITED STATES LAND SURVEYS, MAPPING, ASTRONOMY.
International Textbook Company #116 Scranton, PA,
International Textbook Company: 1906. Leather spine and corners. Shelf wear and
some fading to the binding. A few small paint splotches on the covers. Small
tear to leather at top of headcap. The binding is tight. $15.00
31. International Textbook Company. TEXTBOOK
ON MARINE ENGINEERING. Arithmetic; Mensuration; Mechanics; Machine Elements;
Mechanics of Fluids; Strength of Materials Scranton,
PA, International Textbook Company: 1902. Half-leather binding. Wear &
scuffs to spine and corners. There is a chip to the leather at the top of the
spine. Corners rubbed through. Binding tight. $25.00
32. Kafatos, Minas. SUPERNOVA
1987A IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH GEORGE MASON
ASTROPHYSICS WORKSHOP. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press: 1988. 486 pages. Shelf wear and light soiling. Corners are
slightly bumped. $9.95
33. Katritzky, A. R.-editor. ADVANCES
IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY. Volume 2. New York,
Academic Press: 1963. 458 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has
some chips to the edges. $25.00
34. Katritzky, A. R.-editor. PHYSICAL
METHODS IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, Volume 1. New
York, Academic Press: 1963. 346 pages. Volume 1 only. Slight shelf wear. $25.00
35. Katritzky, A. R.-editor. PHYSICAL
METHODS IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, Volume 2. New
York, Academic Press: 1963. 398 pages. This is volume 2. Some shelf wear to
binding. Dust jacket has some wear and chipping to the edges. $25.00
36. Katritzky, A. R.-editor. ADVANCES
IN HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY. Volume 1. New York,
Academic Press: 1963. 476 pages. Shelf wear to binding. Dust jacket has some
chipping to the edges. $20.00
37. Klyce, Scudder. SINS
OF SCIENCE. Boston, Marshall Jones Company: 1925.
1925 edition. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. Dust jacket has wear
to edges and some white staining to front panel. Jacket has a small chip to
bottom of the spine. Scarce in first edition with jacket. A most interesting
book, examining the relationship between science and religion, written from the
point of view of a believer in religion. $50.00
38. Langanke, Kn. COMPUTATIONAL
NUCLEAR PHYSICS 1: NUCLEAR STUCTURE. Berlin,
Springer-Verlag: 1991. 209 pages. Slight shelf wear. A very scarce title. $60.00
39. Lapaz, Lincoln. SOME
ASPECTS OF METEORITICS. New Mexico, University of
New Mexico Press: 1958. 39 pages. Slight wear, else near VG. Softbound covers.
There is an inscription at the top of the front cover that says "with the
writer's compliments" $95.00
40. Lapaz, Lincoln. A
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE DUMAS, MOORE COUNTRY, TEXAS, AEROLITE. a RECENT MACRO-SPICULAR
RECOVERY FROM THE GLORIETTA, NEW MEXICO, FALL. [n.p.],
Meteoritics: 1956. 20 pages. Softbound staple-bound covers. Light wear. This is
an offprint from the periodical "Meteoritics". $20.00
41. Lewis, Arthur M. EVOLUTION
SOCIAL AND ORGANIC. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr:
1909. 186 pages. 1909 edition. Slight shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine
and corners. $3.95
42. McCrone, Walter C. FUSION
METHODS IN CHEMICAL MICROSCOPY. New York,
Interscience Publishers: 1957. 307 pages. Some shelf wear to binding. Dust
jacket has some chips to the edges. $94.00
43. Mebane, Alexander. THE
CANADIAN FIREBALL PROCESSION OF 1913 FEBRUARY 9: OBSERVATIONS OF THE GREAT
FIREBALL PROCESSION. [n.p.], Meteoritics: 1956. 19
pages. Softbound covers, VG condition. $20.00
44. Merton, Richard & Alfred Petersen.
SCIENCE AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER. Frankfurt,
Germany, Mattallgesellschaft: 1956. First American edition. Brown leather
binding. Spine slightly faded, otherwise VG in slipcase. $25.00
45. Meyer, M. Wilhelm. THE
MAKING OF THE WORLD. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr:
1906. 150 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine and corners. $4.00
46. Meyer, M. Wilhelm. THE
END OF THE WORLD. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr: 1908.
140 pages. Slight shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. $4.95
47. Paull, James H. APPLIED
MECHANICAL DRAWING. New York, D. Van Nostrand:
1936. Some wear to spine and corners. $3.90
48. Piotrowski, Nancy A. -editor. MAGILL'S
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. Volume 4-. PSYCHOLOGY: SEPARATION AND DIVORCE:
CHILDREN'S ISSUES-WORK MOTIVATION. Pasadena,
California, Salem Press: 2003. Note: This is volume 4 only. Very good+
condition. $50.00
49. Porter, Keith R. AN
INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE STRUCTURE OF CELLS AND TISSUES. Philadelphia,
Lea & Febiger: 1964. Some shelf wear, else near VG. Former owner's name
and discount price written in ink inside front cover. $5.95
50. Quackenbos, G.P. A
PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC. New York, D. Appleton &
Company: 1866. 323 pages. Black leather spine shows wear to the edges and some
scuffing and slight chipping. Paper over board covers. There is slight
discoloration to the covers. The binding is tight and the pages are clean.
$25.00
51. Rea, Ann E. ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RUTHENIUM, RHODIUM AND IRIDIUM AS CATALYSTS, SELECTED REFERENCES
WITH ABSTRACTS 1881 TO JUNE, 1959. New York,
International Nickel Company: 1959. 192 pages. Slight shelf wear. $48.00
52. Royal Academy of Science. HISTOIRE
DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. (1742 edition). AVEC LES MEMOIRES DE
MATHEMATIQUE, & DE PHYSIQUE, POUR LA MEME ANNEE. Amsterdam,
Pierre Mortier: 1742. 208 pages. Original leather binding. The joint is cracked
and loosening, but holding. Shelf wear to spine edges. Corners are rubbed. Three
folding plates $200.00
53. Ruchlis, Hy. ORBIT:
A PICTURE STORY OF FORCE AND MOTION. New York,
Harper & Row: 1958. Shelf wear, else near VG in dust jacket with chips to
edges. $2.55
54. Salmon, George. TREATISE
ON THE HIGHER PLANE CURVES: INTENDED AS A SEQUEL TO A TREATISE ON CONIC
SECTIONS. New Y, G.E. Stechart & Co.: 1934.
395 pages. Some wear and fading to spine and covers. Binding tight. $18.00
55. Smith, Augustus W. AN
ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS, EMBRACING THE THEORY OF STATICS AND DYNAMICS,
AND ITS APPLICATION TO SOLIDS AND FLUIDS. New
York, Harper & Brothers: 1876. Spine and edges shelf-worn, with some fraying
to edges. This is the 1876 edition. Binding is tight. $30.00
56. Smithsonian Institution. PROCEEDINGS
OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Volume XXI (21). Washington,
D.C., Government Printing Office: 1899. 933 pages. Black cloth covers show wear
to the binding edges and the corners. The corners are slightly bumped. The front
hinge has been nicely glue-repaired. This volume contains good articles on
natural history, entomology, whales, and other items of interest. $45.00
57. Snow, Walter B. editor. MECHANICAL
DRAFT: A PRACTICAL TREATISE. Boston, B. F.
Sturtevant: 1899. Some wear to spine and corners, else near G+. Former
owner's small ink stamp on front cover and several times inside. $10.00
58. Sparks, Frederick. LONGMANS'
SCHOOL TRIGONOMETRY. London, Longmans, Green:
1890. Spine and edges shelf-worn, with some fraying to edges. Some soiling to
binding. $10.00
59. Stone, Richard. MATHEMATICS
IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND OTHER ESSAYS. Cambridge,
M. I. T. Press: 1966. A few pages have underlining. Shelf wear to spine. Dust
jacket has tape reinforcement to the edges, flaps & spine. $3.50
60. T. Nelson & Sons. THE
STARS. London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1900. 120
pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners are
slightly bumped. Color illustration on title page. $25.00
61. Talmage, James E. DOMESTIC
SCIENCE: A BOOK FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND FOR GENERAL READING. Salt
Lake City, George Q. Cannon: 1892. Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners.
Soiling to red cloth covers. $30.00
62. Thompson, M. L. UNIVERSITY
OF KANSAS PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS: PROTOZOA, ARTICLE 5. Topeka,
Kansas, Ferd Voiland Jr. : 1954. 225 pages. Softbound covers. Some wear. $7.50
63. Titchmarsh, M.A. THE
ZETA-FUNCTION OF RIEMANN. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical
Physics, #26. London, Cambridge University Press:
1930. 1st Edition. 104 pages. Scarce first edition of this classic mathematical
work. Softbound covers. Slight darkening around the is of the covers and a few
lightly soiled spots. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. $150.00
64. Tuck, Donald Henry. THE
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY THROUGH 1968. Volume 1-Who's Who,
A-L. Chicago, Advent Publishers: 1974. 286 pages.
Ex-library copy, with library labels on the spine and ink stamps internally.
There is only slight shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. $10.25
65. Widstoe, John A. JOSEPH
SMITH AS SCIENTIST: A CONTRIBUTION TO MORMON PHILOSOPHY. Salt
Lake City, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations: 1920. 164 pages. Shelf
wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners bumped. $25.00
66. Wootton, Richard T. SAINTS
AND SCIENTISTS. Mesa, Arizona, Cox Printing: 1992.
Large softcover book. Light wear to edges. Very nice condition. Scarce. $35.00
67. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. FANTASTIC
ADVENTURES QUARTERLY REISSUE. Winter 1948. With three large sections bound
together. Chicago, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company:
1948. Softbound covers. Back cover is missing. Spine and front cover have chips
and tears to the edges. Pages are browned at the edges. $20.00