Aviation, the Oldest American Aeronautical Magazine

McGraw-Hill, 1942. Softcover. A paper magazine with black text on a white spine. 368 pages; profusely illustrated with majority black-and-white images. G-: Stains to the cover. Rips and wear along the edges and corners. Some stains and tanning to the pages, but they remain easy to read and well-bound.

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Book no.: 207788

USD 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 30.5 | JP¥ 6168]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Aeronautics ; ;

Cambridge Problems: Being a Collection of the Printed Questions Proposed to the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at the General Examinations, from the Year 1801 to the Year 1810 Inclusive, with a Preface by a Graduate of the University

Cambridge, F. Hodson, 1810. Hardcover. A three-quarter leatherbound book with gilt text on a red plate on the spine. xvii, 179, xix, 653 pages. Contains several foldout diagrams and black-and-white figures. VG: Wear to the covers. Tanning and foxing to some pages. Overall clean and with solid binding.

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Book no.: 206158

USD 175,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 151.75 | £UK 133.25 | JP¥ 26985]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Cambridge Exams ; ;

Catalogue No. 7

Paris, Etablissements Aera, 1926. Hardcover. A leather casebound book with dark brown text on the spine and dark brown text and design on the front cover. Sepia pictorial end pages. 231 pages; profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. Text is in French. Contents are as follows: A. Instruments de bord; B. Equipements; C. Appareils de controle au sol; D. Materiaux, Outillage, Bibliographie. VG: Wear to the edges and corners. Stray mark on the cover. Beautiful, heavy pages with bright diagrams and solid binding.

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Book no.: 209583

USD 150,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 130 | £UK 114.25 | JP¥ 23130]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Instruction Manual ; ;

Columbia River and Tributaries, Northwestern United States. Letter from the Secretary of the Army Transmitting a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, Dated June 28, 1949, Submitting a Report, Together with Accompanying Papers and Illustrations, on a Review of Reports on, and Preliminary Examinations and Surveys of, the Columbia River and Tributaries, Northwestern United States, Made Pursuant to Several Congressional Authorizations Listed in the Report. In Eight Volumes

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1952. Hardcover. All volumes, beige cloth/boards with black lettering on spine. 4,326 pp. numbered consecutively through all 8 volumes, plus additional pages of charts, bw illustrations, and both bw and color-coded folding maps in numerous appendices throughout all volumes. Heavy and will require extra postage. All volumes together weigh just over 25 pounds (about 11.4 kilos). Plenty to keep you occupied for years with this set. Hundreds of maps by the Army Corps of Engineers. Charts galore. All sorts of information on fish and wildlife. Great, descriptive detail about minute portions of the river and its surroundings. Dams, power plants, railroads, and many other things and considerations of their effects upon the river. Appears to be unused. Clean and tight internally but for ex-lib. stamps inside front covers. No other lib. (or any other) marks. Covers lightly soiled from dust (but cleaned up a bit) and page bottoms (when closed) a bit grey at corners.

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Book no.: 149990

USD 350,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 303.5 | £UK 266.25 | JP¥ 53970]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science; Columbia River; Marine Science; Conservation; Army Corps of Engineers ; Columbia River; Army Corps of Engineers; Marine Science ; ;

Contributions from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Weir Mitchell Station, Volume II

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, 1929. Hardcover. A black casebound book with gilt text on the spine and a tan plate on the front cover. Brown end pages. A compilation of research at various sizes and bindings, from different sources with alternate page numbers. (For instance, there is are several smaller staplebound essays bound then among the larger pages.). VG: Exlibrary book. Marking at the base of the spine. Plate to the front pasted end page. Majority clean body pages and solid binding.

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Book no.: 207099

USD 30,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 23 | JP¥ 4626]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Biology ; ;

The Geography and Geology of Erie County, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, 1967. Softcover. A white softcover book with black text and a black-and-white image on the front cover. 64 pages; illustrated with black-and-white images and color maps. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp and ink notation on front cover; stamp on back cover. Clean body pages and solid bindng.

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Book no.: 207207

USD 30,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 23 | JP¥ 4626]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Geology Survey ; ;

Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts

Philadelphia / Pittsburgh, Troutman & Hayes / Kay & Co, 1852. Leather bound. Octavo. Hardcover. Leather bound. 456 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. New American, from the latest London ed. / with numerous and important additions generally; and the medical part carefully rev. and adapted to the climate of the U. States; and also a new and most copious index. By an American physician. Fair. Leather has heavy edge wear rubbing and scuffing. Joints are seperated, front board is fairly well attached, but rear board is dangling fairly loose. Interior has penciling on the front end paper and a name penned to title page.

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Book no.: 206873

USD 80,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 69.5 | £UK 61 | JP¥ 12336]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Home Economics ; ;

The Pigeon Standard

Medford, MA, C. E. Twombly. Softcover. A small brown softcover book with black text on the front cover. 96 pages; illustrated with black-and-white images. VG-: Tear in the front cover, with the top right corner missing. Thin tear along the top left corner of the back cover. Small tears at the top and bottom of the spine. Some foxing to the end pages. Clean body pages and solid binding.

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Book no.: 206561

USD 30,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 26 | £UK 23 | JP¥ 4626]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Pigeons ; ;

Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 2

Tokyo, The Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research, 1940. Staplebound. Quarto. Staplebound. Plain paper wraps with black titles and seal. English entries: Yuasa, Akira; Studies in the Cytology of Pteridophta Yuasa, Akira; Critical Observations on the Origin of the Blepharoplast and Centrosome in Plants. Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.

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Book no.: 208127

USD 60,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 52 | £UK 45.75 | JP¥ 9252]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Tokugawa Institute ; ;

Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 3

Tokyo, The Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research, 1940. Staplebound. Quarto. Staplebound. Plain paper wraps with black titles and seal. English entries: Yuasa, Akira; Studies in the Cytology of Pteridophta XVIII. The Structure pf the Chloroplast of Some Pteridophytic Plants Yuasa, Akira; Studies in the Cytology of Pteridophta. Plants, Observed on Fixed and Stained Materials. XIX. The Structure of the Chloroplastof Some Pteridophytic Sinoto, Y; Yuasa, Askira; The Cytomorphological Effects of Halogens and Halogen-Salts on Plant Cells. Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.

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Book no.: 208128

USD 60,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 52 | £UK 45.75 | JP¥ 9252]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Tokugawa Institute ; ;

Tracts Written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. Cosmicall Suspitions. The Temperature of the Subterraneall Regions. The Temperature of the Submarine Regions. The Bottom of the Sea. To Which Is Praefixt, an Introduction to the History of Particular Qvalities

Oxford, Printed by W.H. for Ric. Davis, 1671. Leather bound. Full leather with gilt border, 5 raised bands, gilt reeded edges, brightly marbled goldish endpapers with bookplate of Charles F. Cox, New York and gilt tooling on outer borders of inner pastedowns. 6 unnumbered pages, 42 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 27 pages (page 26 erroneously as 23), 1 unnumbered page, 28 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 43 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 21 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 16 pages, 2 blank sheets and endpaper. Book measures 6.5" x 4.5" A rare collection of tracts, some printed in 1669 and others in 1671, but gathered under one title-page in 1671. Title-page is followed by two-page (one sheet) Advertisement of The Publisher To The reader, then aone-page listing of errata. Followed by the following essays: An introduction to the history of particular qualities -- Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things -- Cosmicall suspitions (subjoyned as an appendix to the discourse of the cosmicall qualities of things) -- Three tracts written by the Honourable Robert Boyle. Of the temperature of the subterraneal regions, as to heat and cold ; Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold ; Relations about the bottom of the sea (which is preceded by a one-page Advertisement for the tracts that follow). Notes from others: "Of the systematicall or cosmicall qualities of things" and "Cosmicall suspitions" each have separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous. "Three tracts" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. "Of the temperature of the submarine regions as to heat and cold" has separate divisional title page, pagination, and register. "Relations about the bottom of the sea" has separate divisional title page and pagination; register is continuous./ Includes errata (unnumbered page 3 at beginning). Charles F. (Finney) Cox (1846-1912) was a president of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was an avid book collector as well as a self-trained scientist (and aficionado of Magic Books) whose extensive collection of Darwiniana is deposited at The New York Botanical Garden Library and are known as the Charles Finney Cox Papers. VG .

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Book no.: 173402

USD 2.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 2166.5 | £UK 1901.5 | JP¥ 385501]

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Keywords: Science ; Robert Boyle Experiments ; ;

Agassiz, Louis (and) A. Gould

Principles of Zoology: Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races of Animals, Living and Extinct, Part I.

Boston, Gould and Lincoln, 1855. Hardcover. A green casebound book with gilt text on the spine and a debossed design on the front cover. 250 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. VG: Wear to the edges and corners. Sunfading to the spine. Sticker at the base of the spine. Library card holder on the back pasted end page.

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Book no.: 206296

USD 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 30.5 | JP¥ 6168]

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Keywords: Science ; Zoology ; ;

Ahern, Eleanor

The Way We Wash Our Clothes (School Edition)

New York / Chicago / San Francisco, Silver Burdett Company / M. Barrows & Company, 1941. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with yellow titles and illustration. vi, 140 pages illustrations, plates 21 cm. VG. No jacket, possibly as issued? Light signs of aging, otherwise in very good condition.

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Book no.: 207154

USD 75,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 65 | £UK 57.25 | JP¥ 11565]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Laundry ; ;

Allen, Winfred Emory

A Quantitative and Statistical Study of the Plankton of the San Joaquin River and Its Tributaries in and Near Stockton, California, in 1913

Berkeley, University of California, 1920. Softcover. A gray softcover book with black text on the cover. 292 pages; 12 black-and-white plates. VG-: The spine is faded to brown. Ink notation at the base of the spine. Wear to the edges and corners of the wraps, with a tear along the top corner of the front cover. Ink stamp and ink notation on front cover. Clean body pages and solid binding.

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Book no.: 207169

USD 40,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 34.75 | £UK 30.5 | JP¥ 6168]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Biology ; ;

Amaldi, Ginestra

IL Nostro Mondo E L\'Universo Che Lo Circonda: Primo Volume - L\'Universo, la Terra; Secondo Volume - la Materia, la Vita

Milano, Garzanti Editore, 1966. Hardcover. Orange and navy cloth over boards; gold lettering. 2 volumes with 624 pages and 464 illustrations in color and bw, total. In board slip case with textured paper cover, illustrated and with black lettering and orange edge at opening. Includes a single, folded paper (3 pp.) of introductory information about the texts and the author. Text in Italian. All kinds of everything: maps, dinosaurs, the heavens, volcanos, animals, periodic table, isotopes, the Hydrogen bomb, cells, etc. An introduction to the science of our world and universe. VG+/VG+/Good+ with light wear to slip case and sunning to slip case top.

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Book no.: 143527

USD 60,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 52 | £UK 45.75 | JP¥ 9252]

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Science ; Our World and Universe ; ;