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Price: $250.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2263983
First edition. Signed by both authors without attribution on half-title page ('Sincerely, George Beadle, Muriel Beadle'). Faint abrasion on front board. 1966 Full-Leather. x, [4], 242, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full beige morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A description of the science of gen... View more info
By: Bird, Kai & Sherwin, Martin J.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281571
First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 721, [1] pp. 8vo. American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events–the Depression, World War II and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history, and essential to our understanding of our recent past–and of our choices for the future. View more info
By: Boyne, Walter J.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Publications International, Ltd. / The Easton Press: 2003
Seller ID: 2277127
Rebound by Easton Press in burgundy leather with photographic picture plate mounted on front board, gilt titles, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Blank publisher bookplate laid in. 2003 Full-Leather. 512 pp. A thorough history of flight from the earliest concepts to the present day, illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. View more info
By: Brillouin, Leon
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1953
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2266485
Second edition. Large closed tear on rear wrapper, wrappers lightly toned, ink name and details of previous owner on half-title page (he was a member of the physics department at the University of Illinois). 1953 Trade Paperback. xii, 255, [21] pp. Classic treatment of wave propagation covers a broad variety of problems with a common mathematical background, from solid state physics to propagation along electric lines, X-rays, rest rays, certain optical reflections, elec... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Random House: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2280081
First edition. An exceptional copy. 1998 Hard Cover. It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. View more info
By: Choulant, [Johann] Ludwig; Frank, Mortimer; Garrison, Fielding H.; Streeter, Edward C.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2161371
First English translation. Former library copy, usual marks. Front hinge loosening. 1920 Hard Cover. xxvii, 435 pp. 8vo. Reproductions of numerous historical anatomical illustrations from various sources throughout text. Garrison-Morton 440: 'In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography... An English translation by Mortimer Frank appeared in 1920 (Chicag... View more info
By: Clark, John
Price: $4.00
Publisher: George Philip Limited: 1999
Seller ID: 1781651
Sticker on back corner. 1999 Trade Paperback. 318 pp. It's been a long trip from 10,000 BCE, when humans domesticated dogs, to the present day when geneticists successfully cloned sheep and physicists produced an atom laser beam. The development of science and technology has altered almost every aspect of the way we live. Trace those amazing changes in more than 200 pages of timecharts that summarize the decisive moments in astronomy and space, biology, medicine, chemist... View more info
By: Comstock, J.L.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Reed and Barber: 1839
Seller ID: 2260338
Spine repaired, loss from head and foot, edges rubbed, lightly foxed throughout. 1839 Full-Leather. 258 pp. A look at how the world saw the science of physics in the early 1800s. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, New York: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1539081
First edition. Spine faded, cover edges slightly faded. 1920 Hard Cover. xvi, 161 pp. 7 1/4 x 5. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt emblem in center of front cover mirrored in blind stamp on corners and center of back cover, gilt titles. An early study of the atom as it relates to electromagnetic and gravitational theory, and the structure of matter. Crehore published a number of scientific works relating to atomic physics, the force of gravitation, matter, and energy. Creho... View more info
By: Da Vinci, Leonardo; MacCurdy, Edward
Price: $125.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 2014
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2275792
Faint discoloration to gilt page ridge along top corner, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2014 Full-Leather. 1180 pp. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The remarkable record of the workings of what many consider to be the greatest human mind that history has ever witnessed. The complete notebooks have been translated and edited by the most distinguished Da Vinci scholar of his generati... View more info
By: Davis, Audrey B.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Greenwood Press: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2008830
First edition. 1981 Large Hardcover. xiv, 285 pp. Garrison-Morton 2682.55 A rare and useful book of wide interest in a field too often dominated by esoterica. It combines the techniques of traditional, perceptive social, and intellectual history with an analytic approach to the material culture of the medical field... An extensive bibliographic essay on the literary sources pertaining to medical instruments and an equally perceptive essay on collections of medical instru... View more info
By: Einstein, Albert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philosophical Library: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275970
First edition. Boards a bit soiled. 1950 Hard Cover. 282 pp. 8vo. Writings from Albert Einstein on a variety of scientific and personal topics. View more info
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By: Erdtman, G. [Gunnar]; Wodehouse, Roger P.; Verdoorn, Frans
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chronica Botanica Company: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266467
First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page. 1943 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject of research in just a few countires and made it an internationally recognized field, and revolutionized Quaternary vegetation and climate change research. Illustrations, diagrams, and charts throughout. Oddly, the verso of the ... View more info
By: Foster, M.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1901
Seller ID: 2035173
Former copy of Rochester Academy of Medicine, usual marks, including bookplate on front endpaper stating 'Acquired by the Library through the Bequest of Clarence V. Costello, M.D.' First gathering loose (easily repaired), a few small spots on boards, some pages unopened. 1901 Hard Cover. 310 pp. 8vo. A three-century history of physiology, with the following chapters: Vesalius: His Forerunners and Followers; Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. The Lacteals and Lympha... View more info
By: Frugoni, Chiara; McCuaig, William
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281337
First edition. Edges lightly rubbed. 2003 Large Hardcover. xiv, 178 pp. 11 x 8 1/4. Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a period of extraordinary technological innovation. This entertaining romp through the inventions of the period tells the story of the first appearance of dozens of items of lasting significance. From the invention of eyeglasses (by a now-forgotten layperson who sought to keep his methods sec... View more info
By: Geymonat, Ludovico; de Santillana, Giorgio; Drake, Stillman; Bradbury, Ray
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1994
Seller ID: 2274216
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1994 Full-Leather. xviii, 260 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Galileo. Translated from the Italian with additional notes and an appendix by Stillman Drake, with a foreword by Professor Giorgio de Santillana, and a special foreword by Ray Bradbury. A biography of the famous astronomer, physicist, engineer, phil... View more info
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By: Glasser, Otto; Boveri, Margret
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Charles C Thomas: 1934
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275123
Former library copy, usual marks. 1934 Hard Cover. xii, 494 pp. 4to. Green cloth, black leather spine label, gilt titles. An account of the discovery of x-ray technology by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, and the early development of diagnostic radiology. Garrison-Morton 2702 (referencing 1933 British edition): The standard biography of Roentgen with a detailed history of the discovery of the Roentgen rays and the early period of roentgenology. Bibliography of 1044 items publis... View more info
By: Gorn, Michael; Aldrin, Buzz
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Merrell / The Easton Press: 2005
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2274856
Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy. 2005 Full-Leather. 304 pp. Original full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, photographic plate mounted on front board, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281123
First edition. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, [4], 222 pp. 8vo. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field. In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle h... View more info
By: Gribbin, John
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 2006
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2274205
2008 4th printing. 2006 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 706 pp. Navy blue leather spine over pictorial cloth boards, gilt titles, top edge gilt, color frontispiece. A four hundred fifty year of scientific discoveries and theories in Western civilization, illustrated with color plates and reproductions of historical engravings. View more info
By: Herter, Christian Archibald
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company / The Gilliss Press: 1904
Seller ID: 2072415
Author's calling card and ink name & address of previous owner on front endpaper. Edges lightly rubbed. 1904 Hard Cover. 77 pp. A brief history of Louis Pasteur's contributions to medical science, the most obvious of which is of course pasteurization, but which also related to vaccination and microbial fermentation, and the prevention and curing of various diseases. Pasteur is now considered among the founders of the science of bacteriology. View more info
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By: Hunter, Louis C.; Bryant, Lynwood
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation / Hagley Museum and Library / The University Press of Virginia / The MIT Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2164094
First edition. Minimal wear to corners of vol. 1 jacket, front panel of vol. 3 jacket faintly toned.Near Fine. 1979 Hard Cover. xxiv, 606; xxii, 732; xxv, 596 pp. 8vo. An immense and authoritative account of industrial power in the United States, begun by Hunter (who wrote the first two volumes himself) in 1979, and completed from Hunter's notes by Lynwood Bryant in 1991. Due to the stretch between dates of publication, complete sets are uncommon. View more info
By: Isaacson, Walter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2007
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2271011
Book club edition. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 675, [7] pp. 8vo. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity ... View more info
By: Isaacson, Walter
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2008
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275638
1st printing. Lightly rubbed. 2008 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 675 pp. By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the ... View more info
By: Isaacson, Walter
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2279790
First edition. 2007 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxii, 675, [7] pp. 8vo. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and ... View more info
By: Jenner, Edward
Price: $175.00
Publisher: R. Lier & C., Milan: 1923
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 1999545
Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Includes original onion skin jacket and publisher's box. Minimal wear to board corners, a few 1/2 inch chips from fragile jacket's edges, box edges rubbed with one small tear to box closure. Bookplate of Jerome Glaser M.D. on front paste-down, tipped in on front free endpaper is a card with a lengthy gift note to Dr. Glaser from a patient, dated March 28, 1938, in which they express thanks for his help, and mention that this book may b... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1986
Seller ID: 2268785
From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date ('86) in black ink on front endpaper. 1986 Full-Leather. xii, [2], 511, [3] pp. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Includes an index. Numerous B&W photographs. The most comprehensive and readable biography on Edison ever published. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for history. Regarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edi... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272177
First edition. Edges and jacket lightly foxed, boards lightly soiled, closed tear and minor loss to spine head and foot. 1959 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, [2], 511, [3] pp. Includes an index. Numerous B&W photographs. The most comprehensive and readable biography on Edison ever published. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for history. View more info
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By: Kelly, Emerson Crosby; Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Williams & Wilkins Company: 1936
Seller ID: 2159814
Boards rubbed with minimal loss from spine base, minor notations on six pages only, related pages of typed notes on puerperal fever included - one sheet tipped in on verso of front free endpaper, the other laid in. 1936 Hard Cover. 195-268 pp. 8vo. Four glossy plate pages - one a portrait of Holmes, the other three facsimiles of title pages. A medical journal featuring two essays by Oliver Wendell Holmes on puerperal fever. Includes: Biography and Bibliography (with Inde... View more info
By: Mackenzie, Catherine; Bruce, Robert V.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274215
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. xviii, 382 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, orange silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece of Alexander Graham Bell. Foreword by Robert V. Bruce written specially for this edition. A biography of the inventor Alexander Graham Bell who, though he will be remembered forever for the telephone, contributed far more to the world of science. View more info
