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[003222] . SCIENCE, October 16, 1885. Volume VI. No. 141. ill. Etchings, Tables. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good- With Science Supplement Articles by/or about Famous Americans: H.M. PAUL "Timing the Flood Rock explosion"; T. C. MENDENHALL "The explosion at Flood Rock"; GEORGE M. STERNBERG "Disinfection"; and "Life of AGASSIZ" with a full page portrait. In Letters to the Editor: C. A. YOUNG "Flood Rock explosion observed at Princeton, N.J."; S.P. LANGLEY "False report of the fall of a meteorite in western Pennsylvania"; and G. BROWN GOODE "The care of pamphlets". Also in Letters to Editor: "Color and other associations" with 2 illustrations; " Education and The Health of Women" with 2 tables; and " An African smithy" with illustration. Covers detached but "intact". ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Slightly soiled. Vertical crease, goes through, but very minor. some chipping to side/bottom edges, exterior is Good to Good-. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. Supplement's border mildly soiled. Some pages uncut. Overall Supplement is VG-. $40.00

[003167] . SCIENCE, May 8, 1885. Volume V. No. 118. ill. Portraits, Engravings, Map,. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good- Articles by Famous Americans: S. NEWCOMB "Mortality experience of the Connecticut mutual life-insurance Co."; and in Letters to the Editor ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL "The Wisconsin Bill relating to the instruction of deaf-mutes"; and EUGENE A. SMITH " Tertiary phosphates in Albama". Other articles: "Composite Portraits of Members of the National Academy of Sciences" with a full page of 4 portraits protected by a tissue guard; " American Flash Language in 1798" with Tufts's glossary, 1793-98; "Walking and Running" with 5 illustrations; and under Notes and News, a paragraph on the "earlier floods of the lower Mississippi" with a map. Also "Naval architecture in England, and "Recent British locomotives". Paper covers lightly soiled with chipping around edges. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Top right corner of front cover missing,and another piece of top border. Bottom edge piece folded up and corner missing. Tearing at spine. Covers still intact. Overall covers are Good-. First 3 pages' upper corners missing, 1 1/2"x1/2", not on text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $40.00

[003215] . SCIENCE, September 11, 1885. Volume VI. No. 136. ill. Etchings. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ Articles by Famous Americans: W. R. NICHOLS "Chemistry in the service of public health"; EDWARD ORTON "Problems in the study of coal, with a sketch of recent progress in geology"; DR. BURT G. WILDER "Educational musuems of vertebrates"; and EDWARD ATKINSON "The application of science to the production and consumption of food". Other articles: on Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Science, Geology and Geography, Biology, Histological Investigation, Histology and Microscopy, Native Tribes of Alaska, Anthropology and Economic Science and Statistics. In Notes and News: Paragraph on a monument of the first duke of Sutherland in England being struck and injured by lightning with an illustration; Use of the telephone for military purposes with an illustration and An electric railway at Frankfort with illustration. ex. mus. stamp (faint) on front cover. Covers slightly soiled. Bottom edge lightly chipped on front cover, back cover chipped with one 1" tear and 3/4"x1/2" circular spot?goes through on bottom edge on several pages, never close to text. Otherwise exterior is VG. First page of text with several soiled spots? otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. Vertical crease through publication as if once folded. Not obtrusive. $45.00

[003246] . SCIENCE, December 18, 1885. Volume VI. No. 150. ill. Etching. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ With Science Supplement. Some articles: "The Meeting of the American Public Health Association"; "The government and its scientific bureaus" and "Methods of teaching political economy". Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor: "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; LESTER F. WARD "A National university"; P. J. FARNSWORTH "The English sparrow"; and WILLIAM FERREL "The temperature of the moon". In Science Supplement:.I. C. RUSSELL "North Carolina coal-fields"; "Laying a Cable" (joining the two islands Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket); "Physics at Johns Hopkins"; and "The American ferret" with an illustration of one. Covers slightly soiled. Slight chipping at edges. Overall covers are Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement"s edges lightly soiled/chipped, otherwise in VG condition. $45.00

[003254] . SCIENCE, December 11, 1885. Volume VI. No. 149. ill. Tables. New York: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good+ With Science Supplement. Some articles: "A National University"; "The Decay of the Obelisk"(in Central Park) by ARNOLD HAGUE; " The Meeting of the American Public Health Association" with diagram exhibiting the comparative mortality by absolute number of decedents from fifteen most important causes of death, in Rhode Island, during 25 years, from 1860 to 1884; "Telpherage"(in England) with 4 illustrations, under Astronomical Notes: "Two new comets" with table and "The Biela comet meteor-stream" with table. Articles by or about Famous Americans: in Letters to the Editor:E. J. JAMES "NEWCOMB's Political Economy"; and H. M. PAUL "The Biela comet meteor-stream". In Science Supplement: G. BROWN GOODE " Recent Challenger Monographs"(report of Challenger Expedition); "Heights in France"(of country's inhabitants) with map; and "Progress in Metallurgy". Tipped in one page: THREE NEW PORTRAITS OF WASHINGTON". Covers only 1/5 attached, but covers "intact". Slightly soiled. ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Slight chipping at edges. label residue covering up part of "title" contents. Some creasing. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Supplement is in VG condition. $45.00

[003374] . Agricultural Chemicals: What They Are / How They Are Used. ill. Drawings. Manufacturing Chemists" Association., 1963. Size: Approx. 6 " x 8 1/2". Stiff Wraps. Agriculture. Very Good- Contents include: Nature and Man; Tools for Survival; Chemicals in Agriculture; Chemicals in Public Health; Chemicals and Wildlife; Effectiveness and Safety; and Questions and Answers. Appendices. Index. 64 pp. illustrated. Slight fading? foxing? along side edge. Rubbing? silverfish? along spine & joints and slightly along edges. Otherwise exterior is VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $30.00

[003488] . PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Reports Relative to Their Sanitary Condition. ill. Diagrams. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Washington D.C.. Very Good Senate. 55th Congress, 3d Session. Document No. 65. Disbound but intact. Exterior is clean and Very Good. pp. 39-43 loose, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. "Report on the sanitary condition of the public schools in the city of Washington...together with reports on the influence of school life upon the health of children..." 43 pp. 13 Diagrams, some include Increase in Headache in Relation to Classes. London Elementary Schools; Increase of Nearsight with Age, Girl's Schools, Sweden; Common and Latin Schools, Sweden; and Variations in Brain Weight at Different Ages. $50.00

[004000] . TRANSACTIONS OF VASSAR BROTHERS' INSTITUTE And Its Scientific Section 1894-1896. ill. Tables, Line Drawings. Poughkeepsie, New York: A. V. Haight, Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Missing Paper Wraps. Science. Good Vol.VII Part I and II. Two Articles by Theodor Neumann (Artists and Artisans in the Feathered World and Ento-Parasites and Hygiene); Chas. W. Pilgrim: The care and treatment of the insane; 2 articles by D. B. Ward: Diatoms and Bacteria; Chas. W. Fowler: Purification of Public Water Supplies; Frederick S. Arnold: Gypsies; Rev. Wm. Bancroft Hill, President of The Institute: The Gothenburg or Norwegian System of Liquor Traffic; Edward Elsworth: The Sanitary Disposal of Sewage; Charles B. Warring: The insufficiency of Physical Law and 2 articles by Dr. J. W. Poucher: Tuberculosis and Cremation as a Sanitary Meaure. 309 pp. Front cover loose and all edges missing pieces-back cover missing. Stapled. Title page clean. Interior is clean, tight and in VG+ condition. Have other "volumes" from Vassar Brothers Institute. $40.00

[004263] . Bulletin of Basic Science Research, Nos. 1 and 2, Nos.3 And 4. Vol. 4. 2 Bulletins. 1932. ill. Figures( Graphs)Tables. Cincinnati: Basic Science Research Laboratory, 1932. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9". Stiff Covers. Medicine. Very Good Nos. 1 and 2: Two articles by Francis F Heyroth: The Evaluation of Vitamin B1, Concentrates by the Rat Cure Method and Deductions as to the Chemical Constitution of Vitamin B1 from the Absorption Spectra of B1 Concentrates(also written by John R. Loofbourow). By G. Park Goode: The Formation of Vitamin A in Corn Sprouts by Light, and the Transfer of the Vitamin from the Sprout to the Grain. By John R. Loofbourow: Vitamin D-A Review, Part I. Ultra-Violet Absorption Spectra in Relation to Vitamin D (continued). 69 graph illustrations, 8 Tables. 112 pp. ex. mus. stamps on front cover, otherwise covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Nos. 3 and 4: The Wave-Length Threshold in the Ultra-Violet for the Destruction of the Vitamin A Chromogen and the Absorption at 3280 A. by Robert J. Norris and John R. Loofbourow and 3 articles by Francis F. Heyroth: An Attempt to Confer Antineuritic Activity Upon Thymus Nucleic Acid; An Apparent Effect of Thymus Nucleic Acid on the Incidence of Rat Polyneuritis; and Further Observations on the Changes Induced in Uracil by Irradiation. Preliminary Tests by a Chemical Method. pp.113-135. 2 graph illustrations and 2 tables. ex. museum stamp on front cover, otherwise Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $50.00

[003179] . SCIENCE, July 10, 1885. Volume VI. No. 127. ill. Foldout Map, Etching, Table. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good Articles by Famous Americans: J. H. RAUCH "Chicago-River pollution"; IRA REMSEN "City-Wells"; and E. L. CORTHELL "The ship-railway between the Atlantic and Pacific" with large, laid in, foldout map, 29"x18" of the "proposed Tehuantepec ship-railway, and illustrations showing the various appliances to be used on the railway" (The article "presents the scientific and commercial reasons why the ship-railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec may be superior to either the Panama sea-level canal or the Nicaragua lock canal". Several articles relating to medicine and health: "Sanitation and science"; "Quarantines and their scientific value"; "How to deal with yellow-fever"; "Soils and health"; "Berlin exhibition of hygiene in 1882-83" and "Animal diseases and public health". Paper covers lightly soiled and chipped. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Map is Very Good, one tiny tear at bottom edge, not within border of illustration. $100.00

[002151] Colton, Buel P.. Elementary Physiology and Hygiene. 1908. Good covers worn/soiled. ex-mus. stamped on free endp. and owner's name. otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG. index. glossary and 108 figures/drawings. $6.50

[002343] Crook, William G., M. D.. Dr. Crook Discusses Yeasts and How They Can Make You Sick . 1986. Soft Cover. Very Good to Very Good+ four tiny rubbing to front cover otherwise VG+. price sticker on front endp. $6.50

[001976] Ellwanger, George H.. Meditations on Gout; With a Consideration of Its Cure Through the Use of Wine. 1968. VG+ / Vg-. $8.00

[004855] Hall, W. W. M.D.. Health By Good Living. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1873. Size: Approx. 4 3/4" x 7". Green and Red. Health. Good "This book is to show how high health can be maintained, and common diseases cured by good living, which means eating with a relish the best food prepared in the best manner." 265 pp. including Index, Appendix and Notes. Chapters cover: The Object of Eating; When to Eat; What to Eat; How Much to Eat; Regularity in Eating; How to Eat; Biliousness; Dyspepsia; Neuralgia; Nervousness; The Unity of Disease; Air and Exercise; Food Cure and Health by Good Living-The Argument. Green covers with red spine. Covers are worn. Corners bumped. Spine ends rubbed and fraying.One tiny piece at spine top edge repaired. Page ends soiled and foxed. ex. mus. stamp and numbers on inside blank page. Foxing mainly around borders/margins of text. Otherwise interior is tight. Overall book is Good. Author was a doctor. Editor of "Hall's Journal of Health" and author of "Bronchitis and Kindred Diseases", "Sleep", "Health and Disease", "Coughs and Colds", etc. On title page, states "Twenty-First Thousand." $55.00

[002239] Heller, Rachael F.; Heller, Richard F.. The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet : The Lifelong Solution to Yo-Yo Dieting. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1991. Health. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 0-525-24953-2. DJ mylar protected. black mark on bottom page edge, remainder? $6.00

[002342] Hittleman, Richard. Richard Hittleman's YOGA 28 Day exercise Plan. 1975. First Edition. Near Fine / Very Good to Very Good+. Twelfth printing. Book is Near Fine to Fine. DJ price chipped. $11.50

[004885] Library of Congress. CLASSIFICATION. Class R. MEDICINE. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. Size: Approx. 7 " x 10 ". Paper Wraps. Library of Congress. Good Printed as Manuscript. Synopsis includes:General Medicine; State Medicine-Hygiene-Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; Pathology; Practice of Medicine; Surgery; Ophthalmology; Otology-Rhinology, Laryngology; Gynecology and Obstetrics; Pediatrics; Dentistry; Dermatology; Therapeutics; Pharmacy and Materia Medica, Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Nursing; Eclectic Medicine; Homeopathy and Other Schools. 174 pp. includes Index. Brown paper covers. Mildly soiled. Tiny piece of top spine edge missing. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $40.00

[002235] Michaud, Ellen, Alice Feinstien, & The Editors Of Prevention Magazine. FIGHTING DISEASE The Complete Guide to Natural Immune Power . Emmaus, PA, U.S.A.: Rodale Press, Incorporated, 1989. Medicine. Near Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0-87857-830-7. $8.00

[003305] Sparkes Boyden . Zero Storage In Your Home, . ill. Photographs, Tables. New York: Doubleday, 1945. Brown Cloth. Signed by Author. Very Good- Gift inscription by author on front free endpaper. Dated 1945 Chicago, Ill. Contents includes: a grocery store in your home, the freezer in city homes, what does a freezer cost?, the locker plants, Mrs. Spencer"s acre, the first freezer in Kalamazoo, emphasis on better eating, the Fyler family, revolution in Connecticut, what is security?, progress from poverty, sharing the work, yesterday"s and tomorrow's freezer; operation and care, equipment for quick freezing, planning, fruits, vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and game, dairy products and eggs, and cooked foods. 149 pp. including index. Spine and cover edges faded. Spine edges slightly bumped. Small dent on back bottom edge. Overall Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $10.50

[002408] STOPES, MARIE C.. MARRIED LOVE: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties . 1931. Very Good $5.00