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By: N/A
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Philosophical Society of Washington: 1901
Seller ID: 002957
Condition: Very Good
Bulletin, Vol..XIV, pp. 93-138. most pages' top edge uncut so interior is Fine. Articles on HYDRODYNAMICS by R.A. Harris; PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS by C.F. Marvin; TIDES by L.P. Shidy; ACOUSTICS by C. K. Wead and METHODS FOR MEASUREMENT OF FORCE OF GRAVITY ON THE OCEAN By G.W.Littlehales. Salmon colored covers slightly soiled. Spine faded and mildly chipped.Bottom front cover edge one small tear and corner tip missing. Overall exterior is VG. Interior is clean, tight and Near Fine. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Boston, Popular Science News Co.: 1892
Seller ID: 003135
Condition: Good or Better
Articles by Harlan Hoge Ballard,"then" President of the Agassiz Association; and THE NEW STAR IN AURIGA, by Charles Augustus Young. Articles include: NOVELITIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY (6 etchings); WATER AND AIR BAROMETERS (2 etchings); PHOTOGRAPHING LIGHTING-STROKES(1etching); FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF COCHIN CHINA (1etching); SOME CURIOUS MINERALS (5 ETCHINGS); ABOUT LICHENS(17 etchings); MIMICRY IN ANIMALS (3 etchings); EXPERIMENTS WITH WATER-JETS(3 ETCHINGS); EVOLUTION FOR THE CONTINENTS( 4 etchings); MINIATURE SUN-DIALS (4 etchings); SOUP-BUBBLES (6 etchings); JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (2 etch... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company: 1883
Seller ID: 003361
Condition: Good
Articles: Notes on the Geology of the Troad, by J.S. Diller; Occurrence of Mound-Builders Pipes in New Jersey, by Charles C. Abbott with an illustration; The Igloo of the Innuit. -III. with 9 illustrations; Minnesota Weather; Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geology of Philadelphia by Henry Carvill Lewis; The Iroquois Book of Rites; The Evidence for evolution in the history of the extinct Mammalia with a table; A classification of the natural sciences by T. Sterry Hunt with a table; Orbit of the great comet of 1882 by Edgar Frisbie; The tornado at Racine, May 18, ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York,
Seller ID: 003994
Condition: Covers Poor. Interior Good+
Vol.1 Part I and 2. " Object of the society is to promote education and useful knowledge in the departments of Science, Literature, and Art, by investigating and discussing subjects...by establishing and maintaining a Museum, a Library and a collection of works of art and objects of historic interest ..." Articles by Famous Americans include: T. SHERRY HUNT's "Mineral Physiology"; and 3 articles by LEROY C. COOLEY-"Chemistry and the Question of Life"; "Examination of a Stain found on Monumental Marble"; and "The Work of the Scientific Section". Other ar... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York,
Seller ID: 003996
Condition: Covers Fair Interior Very Good
Vol.III Part I and II. " Object of the society is to promote education and useful knowledge in the departments of Science, Literature, and Art, by investigating and discussing subjects...by establishing and maintaining a Museum, a Library and a collection of works of art and objects of historic interest ..." Articles by Famous Americans include: MARY WHITNEY - "The Sun-Spots of the Past Few Years" with an illustration; and LEROY C. COOLEY-"The Evolution of Science". Other articles by William B. Dwight, C.B. Warring (Gyroscope with 4 plates), and Edward D. Cope . 216 pp... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, New York,
Seller ID: 003998
Condition: Covers Poor.Interior Very Good
Vol.5 Part I and II. " Object of the society is to promote education and useful knowledge in the departments of Science, Literature, and Art, by investigating and discussing subjects...by establishing and maintaining a Museum, a Library and a collection of works of art and objects of historic interest ..." Articles by Famous Americans include: CHARLES A. YOUNG - "Nebulae and the Nebular Hypothesis"; and LEROY C. COOLEY-"Limit of Visibility for Minute Masses". Other articles by Henry V. Pelton, President of the Institute, William A. Mowry (Oregon Settlement), W.B. Dwigh... View more info
By: Bell, Alexander Graham, Prof. W. H. Brewer, Prof.S.P. Langley and Prof. C. A. Young
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1884
Seller ID: 001178
Condition: Very Good
4 separate reports by Famous Americans: 1. Report of the Eclipse Expedition to Caroline Island, May 1883 by Prof. C. A. Young, pp.10-146, 22 Figures ( illustrations, charts/graphs, maps). 2. Wave-lengths in the Invisible Prismatic Spectrum, by Prof.S.P. Langley, pp. 147-162, 5 Tables, 4 Figures, 4 Plates (fold-out graphs) 3. Subsidence of Particles in Liquids, by Prof. W. H. Brewer, pp.163-175 and 4. Formation of Deaf Variety of Human Race, by Alexander Graham Bell pp.177-224, 30 Tables, 12 Figures (some foldout graphs), Also Appendix pp.225-262 with Tables A-Y. 3/4 brown leather with marble... View more info
By: Birckner, Victor
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1912
Seller ID: 004598
Condition: Very Good
University of California Publications in Physiology. Vol. 4, No. 16. Presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California. "The matter which is being taken up on the following pages represents the first trial, to my knowledge, to bring together and arrange systematically all important experimental results of recent years which have helped to elucidate somewhat the phenomena involved in the decomposition of grape sugar." pp.115-183. Most pages uncut at top edge. ex.mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Spine sunned.... View more info
By: Hunt, Prof. T. Sterry Hunt and Dr. Richardson
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat: 1873
Seller ID: 004665
Condition: Good
Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science. No. 10. Two "addresses": ORIGIN OF METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS by T. Sterry Hunt, F. R. S., before the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute of New York. "There are about sixty bodies which chemists call elements; the simplest forms of matter which they have been able to extract from the rocky crust of our earth, its waters, and its atmosphere..." pp. 375-391 and THE PHENOMENA OF SLEEP by Dr. Richardson, F. R. S. " The twinkling of oblivion, as Wordsworth exquisitely defines the phenomena of sleep, has, from the time of Hi... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1913
Seller ID: 004881
Condition: Good
Adopted 1905. As in force November, 1912. Synopsis includes: Science (general); Mathematies; Astronomy- Geodesy; Physics; Chemistry- Crystallography; Geology- Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleontology; Natural History-Microscopy, General biology; Botany-Ecology; Zoology; Human Anatomy; Physiology-Experimental Psychology; and Bacteriology. 196 pp. includes Index. Brown paper covers. ex.mus.numbers and faint stamp. Mildly soiled covers.Faint watermark along the upper spine joint, 3" unto the top border, 2". Top border "mark" shows on title page only. Overall covers are Good. ex.mus. ... View more info
By: McCulloh, R. S.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: 1845
Seller ID: 004428
Condition: Very Good-
Transmitting REPORT OF CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SUGAR, MOLASSES, &C , AND OF RESEARCHES ON HYDROMETERS, MADE UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF PROFESSOR A. D. BACHE, by Professor R. S. McCulloh. 28th Congress, 2d Session. Ho. of Reps. Treas. Dept. Doc. No. 146. Contents: Different kinds of sugar defined; Qualitative and quantitative analysis of sugars, sirups, and molasses and particularly those derived from the cane; Analysis of several specimens of molasses by the circular polarization of light; Remarks upon molasses and other saccharine substances; Drawback to be allowed on foreign sugars refined in... View more info
By: Rainwater, Frank H.; and Harold P. Guy
Price: $10.50
Publisher: Washington, United States Government Printing Office: 1961
Seller ID: 002496
Condition: Very Good+
Shorter Contributions ot General Geology. Geological Survey Professional Paper 414-C. Analysis of a program of sampling and measuring precipitation and melt water to determine water quality and suspended-sediment concentration, July-August 1958, and interpretation and summary of available data. 14 pp. Sunning to cover edges, corners are bumped and creased. Interior clean and tight. Document is VG+. View more info
By: Richards, Theodore William, & Wilfred Newsome Stull.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Washington, Carnegie Institution: 1903
Seller ID: 001744
Condition: Good
With Application to Bromine, Iodine, Chloroform, Bromoform, Carbon Tetrachloride, Phosphorus and Water. "It has been suggested recently that since the volume of a solid or liquid must be determined in part by the internal pressures to which it is subjected by chemical affinity and cohesion, the compressibilities of substances are probably data of important chemical significance. In attempting to interpret this significance, the enquirer at once faces the fact that few pertinent compressibilities are accurately known...In order to fill this important gap in physicochemical knowledge, the fo... View more info
By: Senate
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1845
Seller ID: 006911
Condition: Very Good-
28th Congress, 2d Session, Senate, Executive Doc. No. 50. February 21, 1845. Read, and ordered to be printed. March 3, 1845. Ordered that 500 additional copies be furnished for the use of the Senate. Two other reports are included as part of the same document: ((1)) Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating a report of scientific investigations relative to the chemical nature of saccharine substances, and the art of manufacturing sugar; made, under the direction of Professor A. D. Bache, by Professor R. S. McCulloh. 29th Congress, 2d Session, Senate, Executive Doc. No. 50. March 1... View more info
By: Washburn, Edward W. (ed.), et al
Price: $500.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006034
Condition: Good
Prepared under the Auspices of the International Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences by the National Research Council of the United States of America. Seven volumes and separate index. VOLUME I: 415 pp. Printed 1926. Stated First Edition. Errata included. VOLUME II: 616 pp. Printed 1927. Stated Second Edition. VOLUME III: 444 pp. Printed 1928. Stated First Edition. Errata included. VOLUME IV: 481 pp. Printed 1928. Stated First Edition. Temporary Index for Volumes I-IV and errata included. Wrapped in torn brown paper cover. VOLUME V: 470 pp. Printed 1929. Sta... View more info
By: Washington, Henry Stephens
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1903
Seller ID: 001600
Condition: Good to Good-
" This work is primarily a compilation of chemical analyses, and is especially valuable to petrographers, and chemists..." 495 pp. plus two p. of Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Indexes. unattached leather covers, no spine "cover". String-tied text. First fifty pages loose. Several p. string loose. Text is clean and in Very Good condition View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Company: 1919
Seller ID: 006919
Condition: Very Good-
Volume 5, July 1919, Number 7. Pages 225-320. Brown paper covers with contents listed on back cover. Cover corners and edges are chipped and creased, light soiling to cover faces, spine ends are torn, spine is creased. Very light browning to interior page edges, otherwise pages are clean with no marks. Document in VG- condition. View more info
By: Wilson, Edwin Bidwell (ed.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Easton, PA, Mack Printing Company: 1928
Seller ID: 006924
Condition: Very Good-
Volume 14, June 1928, Number 6. Pages 439-503. Brown paper covers with contents listed on back cover. Cover corners and edges are chipped and creased, light soiling to cover faces, spine is creased. Very light browning to interior page edges, otherwise pages are clean with no marks. Document in VG- condition. View more info
By: Wilson, Edwin Bidwell (ed.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Easton, PA, Mack Printing Company: 1929
Seller ID: 006925
Condition: Very Good-
Volume 15, July 1929, Number 7. Pages 539-621. Brown paper covers with contents listed on back cover. Cover corners and edges are chipped and creased, light soiling to cover faces, spine is creased. Very light browning to interior page edges, otherwise pages are clean with no marks. Document in VG- condition. View more info
