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[004471] . PEABODY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT in One Bound Volume 1869-1874. ill. Diagrams, Drawings. Salem, Mass.: Printed for the Academy, 1869. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". 3/4 Calf. Academy of Sciences. Good The first six Annual Reports of the Peabody Academy of Science. The FIRST ANNUAL REPORTof January 1869, accompanied by a record of the Proceedings of the Trustees from their organization, March, 1867. Contains George Peabody's letter "Gentlemen, as you will perceive by the enclosed Instrument of Trust, I wish to place in the hands of yourselves, and your successors, the sum of One Hundred and Forty Thousand Dollars, for the PROMOTION OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL KNOWLEDGE IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX...." Includes the Instrument of Trust, The Trustees, Officers, The Reply of the Trustees, and By-Laws. In the Report of the Director of the Museum, there are diagrams of The East India Marine Hall which was purchased by the Trustees of the Peabody Fund for the Promotion of Science in the County of Essex. Reports on Ethnology; Geology, Palaeontology; and Mollusca. Reports written by Famous Americans: F.W. Putnam, Director of the Museum; A.S. Packard, Curator; A.Hyatt, Curator; E.S. Morse, Curator; John A. McNiel's Report on His Expedition to Central America; and William C. Endicott, member of the Executive Committee (Endicott married Peabody's daughter and later became Secretary of War during President Grover Cleveland's Administration). SECOND AND THIRD ANNUAL REPORTS For the Years 1869 and 1870. Contains Dedication of the Museum, Note on Rossis palpebrosa, by A.Hyatt; Catalogue of Batrachia and Reptilia obtained by J.A. McNiel in Nicaragua, by E.D. Cope; Catalogue of Reptilia and Batracjoa obtained by C. J. Maynard in Florida, by E. D. Cope; List of Insects collected at Rebas, Equador, by A. S. Packard, Jr.; and List of Crustacea collected by J.A. McNiel in Central America. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT for the Year 1871: Synopsis of the Family Heteropygil, by F.W. Putnam; Systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies; with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass, by Samuel H. Scudder; New American Moths: Zygaenidae and Bombycidae, by A. S. Packard, Jr.; List of Coleoptera collected in Labrador, by A. S. Packard, Jr.; and Record of American Entomology for the year 1871, by A. S. Packard, Jr. FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT for the Year 1871: all articles written by A. S. Packard, Jr.: Synopsis of the Thysanura of Essex County, Mass; Descriptions of New American Phalaenidae; Notes on North American Mothes of the Families Phalaenidae and Pyralidae in the British Museum; On the cave Fauna of Indiana and Record of American Entomology for 1872. and SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT for the Year 1873: List of Minerals Collected Essex County; Noctuidae of North America, by Aug. R. Grote; Descriptions of New North American Phalaenidae, Phyllopoda,Notice of some Dredgings made near Salem and Record of American Entomology for 1873, all written by A.S. Packard, Jr. Green leather spine and corner tips with black pebbled covers. Spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Rubbing to spine joints/ends with leather worn to boards in places. Small chipped paper label at spine base. Rubbing to corner tips, back cover's top edge, leather worn off. Overall covers are Good. Marbled page ends. Front endpaper with numbers and also on title page(ex-mus.?). Front free endpaper with "J. Duncan Putnam, Davenport Iowa, May 1875". Otherwise interior is tight,clean and Very Good+. $150.00

[003541] . SCIENCE, March 12, 1886. Volume VII. No. 162. New York: The Science Company, 1886. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Very Good Articles by Famous Americans: N. S. SHALER: The swamps of the United States; and ERNEST INGERSOLL: The Rocky Mountains as seen from the Canadian Pacific railway. in Letters to the Editor: S. LOCKWOOD: Apropos to Pteranodon and Homo. Other articles: The origin of human races and types and Comparative distribution of Jewish ability. ex.-mus. numbers on front cover. mild soil at stapled side. Bottom edge chipped. Some chipping to bottom edge. Overall exterior is Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. pp. 229-250. $40.00

[003519] . SCIENCE, November 5, 1886. Volume VIII. No. 196. ill. Etchings. New York: The Science Company, 1886. Size: Approx. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good+ With Science Supplement. Articles by Famous Americans: L. P.GRATACAP: An Archeological Fraud with 2 illustrations; and O. T. MASON: The Guadalajara Pottery with 14 illustrations. In Supplement: Cable Street-Railways with 10 illustrations and The physical basis of aesthetics. Covers slightly soiled. ex.mus. numberson front. light vertical crease, mildly seen throughout publication, very minor. Slight chipping at side edge. small yellow musuem label on front cover. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. pp.401-422. $55.00

[003152] . SCIENCE, A Weekly Newspaper of All the Arts and Sciences, May 10, 1889. ill. Engravings. New York: N. D. C. Hodges, 1889. Size: Approx. 9" X 12". Newsprint. Science. Good Some Articles:The Western Electric Incandescent Lighting System with 12 illustration of The Incandescent Dynamo of Western Electric Company; The Westinghouse Compound Engine with 3 illustrations; and Ethnology: Notes from British Columbia with 2 illustrations of Orthogonal views of skulls; ex-mus. numbers on front cover. Slight soiling and chipping around bottom and side edge, otherwise exterior is VG. Interior is clean, tight and VG+. Several interior pages mildly creased, no interference with text. 2 pages uncut. $50.00

[003116] Packard, A.S.. MEMOIR OF JEFFRIES WYMAN 1814-1874. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1878. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4". Paper Wraps. Biography. Good Read before the National Academy, April 18, 1878. pp. 77-126. The opening paragraph reads " In reviewing the life and works of Jeffries Wyman, we shall consider his contributions to comparative anatomy and physiology, and to palaeontology, as well as to ethnology and archaelogy. " Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874) was a Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. He was also the Director of the Peabody Museum. Paper covers faded around edges. Bottom corner, 1/2"x2" missing. 2 other missing pieces at side: 1" and 1/2". ex.mus. numbers. Back bottom corner missing, 1/2'x1 1/2". Covers are intact and overall Good. Interior is clean, tight and VG+. $30.00

[004142] Pilling, James Constantine. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ESKIMO LANGUAGE . ill. Facsimiles. Washington: Goverment Printing Office, 1887. Size: Approx. 6" x 9 3/4". Paper Wraps. Ethnology. Good Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology: J. W. Powell, Director. 116 pp. Mostly uncut. Mildly soiled covers. Small writing on front upper corner: "Bull A-1, ABC". Missing some of spine end paper, tear on back cover. Covers intact. Overall exterior is Good. Side edge untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and VG. $10.00

[004146] Reid, Captain Mayne. ODD PEOPLE Being A Popular Description of Singular Races of Man.. ill. Engravings. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872. Size: Approx. 4 1/2 " x 6 3/4". Red Cloth. Ethnology. Good+ to Very Good- 461 pp. 8 illustrations.Chapters cover: Bosjesmen, or Bushmen; The Amazonian Indians; The Water-Dwellers of Maracairo; The Esquimaux; The Turoomans;The Feegees, or Man-Eaters; The Tongans, or Friendly Islanders; The Centaurs of the "Gran Chaco"; The Ottomacs, or Dirt-Eaters; the Comanches, or Prairie Indians; The Pehuenches, or Pampas Indians; The Uamparicos, or Root-Diggers; The Guaraons, or Palm-Dwellers; The Laplanders; The Andamaners, or Mud-Bedaubers; The Patagonian Giants; and the Fuegian Dwarfs. Decorative, embossed covers are Good+ to Very Good-. Spine faded. On blank page before title page, numbers? at top of page with gift inscription and date.. Embossed clear initials on top corner of title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $25.00

[000940] Smithsonian Institution. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1866. ill. Figures,Woodcuts. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". 3/4 Leather. Smithsonian. Good+ House of Representatives. 39th Congress, 2d Session. Mis. Doc. No.83. Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution, for the Year 1866. Includes List of Meteorological Stations and Observers for Year 1866. Memoir of Hon. W.W. Seaton in Connection with The Smithsonian Institution..." Included in Appendix: "Memoir of Magendie" by M. Flourens; "On the Senses. 3.-The Sense of Taste", IV.-"The Sense of Hearing"and V.-The Sense of Sight. from the German periodical; "Lecture on the Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to the Heavenly Bodies by Wm. Huggins; "On the External Appearance of the Sun's Disk" from the German periodical; "On Accidental or Subjective Colors. by the Abbe Moigno; "The Figures of Equilibrium of a Liquid Mass Withdrawn from the Action of Gravity.(Sixth Series) by J. Plateau.; "Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva", by Doctor Goss;"Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America", " The American Migration" by Frederick Von Hellwald; "Indian Pottery" by Charles Rau; "Artificial Shell Deposits of the United States." by D. G. Brinton; "Pile-Work Antiquities of Olmutz.", "The Antiquities on the Banks of the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin" by Dr. L.C. Estes; " Collecting Land and Fresh-Water Shells" by Dr. James Lewis; "Meteorological Correspondence"; "Horary Variations of the Barometer." by Marshal Vaillant; "On the Formation of Ice at the Bottom of the Water" by M. Engelhardt; "The Earthquake in Eastern Mexico of the Second of January, 1866" by Dr. Charles Sartorius; and "Statistics Relative to Norwegian Mountains, Lakes, and the Snow-Line".469 pp. Index. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. All edges marbled plus marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Some cracking and scuffing of spine leather with minor chipping at top edge. Rubbing at leather corners. Mild foxing otherwise interior Very Good. $50.00

[004653] Tenri Museum. ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS. ill. Photographs. Japan: Tenri University Press, 1958. Size: Approx. 6 " x 8 1/2". Soft Cover. Ethnology. Good+ "With the establishment of the Foreign Language School in 1925, the Predecessor of the present Tenri University, which aimed to educate and train young Tenri followers for overseas missionary work, the Rev. S. Nakayama, the Shimbashira had planned to collect various ethnographical objects relating to social life and religious customs in the Near Asian countries to study their life and customs. At first he started collecting many instruments and utensils used by the natives in their daily living during his travel through Korea and China. When the Tenri Missionary Centers in Korea, Formosa and China, and others had co-operated with his planning and dedicated various articles from those areas, they accumulated the nucleus of the collection....In no time a museum was born and called Tenri Sankokan for the purpose of study of foreign culture and customs." unpaginated (24 pp.) Each page filled with photographs of the "objects" used by the different tribes and groups. Countries covered: African Continent; American Continent; South Pacific Islands; South Asia-India; China; Central Asia; Korea; North Asia; and Japan. Glossy covers. Faded? strip on front cover. ex.mus. stamp. Mildly soiled/creased side edge area. Overall covers are Good+. Title page and one other page with ex.-mus. stamp. Doesn't interfer with text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004654] Thomas, Cyrus. CATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC WORKS EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. ill. Plates, Maps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Paper Wraps. Ethnology. Covers Poor. Interior Good+ Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology: J.W. Powell, Director. Signed on front cover "With Compliments of the Author". "Special efforts were made to locate definitely all ancient works, mounds, graves, pictographs, etc., including those to which only imcomplete and casual reference had been made by earlier travelers and writers. All the material thus obtained has been incorporated in the present volume." State by State, County by County list of "finds" for those states east of the Rocky Mountains. 16 states with Archeologic Maps. They are: Alabama; Arkansas (2-one of the state and another of Poinsett County, Arkansas); Florida (2-one of the state and another of Le Baron's map of Putnam, Volusia and Orange Counties, Florida); Georgia; Kentucky and Tennessee; Michigan; Missouri; New York; North Carolina; Ohio (2-one of the state and another of Butler County, Ohio); and Wisconsin (2-one of the state and another of Crawford County, Wisconsin). Includes a large foldout map, 15"x17" of the Distribution of Mounds in Eastern United States. 246 pp. String-tied. Missing back cover. Front cover detached and missing most of bottom half. Soiled. ex.mus. numbers. Cover is Poor. Top edges uncut. Side and bottom page edges untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Scarce. $175.00

[002809] Volk, Ernest. The Archaeology of the Delaware Valley.. ill. Maps, Text drawings/Figures, Plates. Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1911. Size: Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4". Paper Wraps. Archaeology. Good Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Vol. V. 258 pp. of text. Two maps, 125 plates , and 26 illustrations in text. Appendix, Bibliography, and Index. Contents include: Geology: THE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE VICINITY OF TRENTON; Archaeology: TRACES OF MAN IN THE BLACK SOIL, TRACES OF MANIN THE YELLOW DEPOSIT OR DRIFT, TRACES OF MAN AND ANIMALS IN THE STRTIFIED GRAVEL AND SAND OLDER THAN THE YELLOW DRIFT and the Journals of Ernest Volk from 1906-1910. Brown paper wraps. ex-mus. numbers on cover and spine. Slightly soiled, two spots on cover at side edge. Side edge overlaps, missing side strip 2/16"x1 1/2". Mild chipping to edges. Overall Good to Good +. Interior is tight, clean and in Very Good + condition. Some pages uncut. $92.50

[002996] Webster, T. B. L.. SOME UNPUBLISHED GREEK VASES. ill. Plates. England: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1939. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Very Good From Volume 83 of "Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Session 1938-39. pp.189-207. most pages uncut. Pale blue covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Fine. 3 plates. $50.00