Category: Pennsylvania

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE BOTANICAL LABORATORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Vol II, Number 3

Price: $18.50

Publisher: : 1904

Seller ID: 003085

Binding: Wraps

"A Comparative Study of the Cytology and Movements of the Cyanophyceae" by Orville Phillips. Plates XXIII-XXXIV. Reprinted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania. Printed on the Mrs. James McManes Fund. pp.237-438. ex.mus. numbers on front cover. mildly soiled/faded covers. paper spine ends missing some pieces. Covers intact. Overall Good +. ex-mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Index.
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SCIENCE, August 31, 1883. No. 30.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Science Company : 1883

Seller ID: 003361

Binding: Wraps

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, ...
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SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY GOSSIP, 5 Issues 1883

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Boston, S. E. Cassino & Co. : 1883

Seller ID: 003022

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good+ or Better

January-October 1883. Vol.I, No.3 January 15, 1883 Articles: Cuvier, and English Universities. Vol. I, No.6 April 16, 1883, Article: American Museums, Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, PA. Vol.I, No.7 May 15, 1883, Articles: American Museums, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and American Archaeology: The Work of the Peabody Museum. Vol.I, No.8 June 15, 1883, Articles: American Museums: The Lyceum of Natural History at Williams College, American Archaeology: The Work of the Peabody Museum (continued), The Atlantic Right Whales, and Land Leeches of Ceylon. Vol...
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, OF THE 17th INSTANT, INCLOSING, WITH OTHER PAPERS UPON THE SUBJECT, A PETITION OF THOMAS MULVEHILL, OF PITTSBURGH, PA.

By: Arthur, Chester A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1883

Seller ID: 006104

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

...Praying for the Repossession of Certain Shore Lands at Pittsburgh, Erroneously Conveyed by him to the United States. 47th Congress, 2d Session, Senate, Ex. Doc. No. 46. January ---, 1883. Read and referred to the Committee on ---, and ordered to be printed. 7 pp. Fold-out map "showing the entire Tract of land purchased by Thomas Mulvehill from Jonathan Gallaher et lix, by deed dated Nov. 30, 1867. Also the portion of said Tract sold to 'The United States of America'". Disbound government document. Chipping/small holes to spine edge where attached to the book. Light browning ...
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THREE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN SOMERSET COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA

By: Butler, Mary

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical Commission : 1939

Seller ID: 005524

Binding: Soft Covers

Condition: Very Good

Bulletin No. 753. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Instruction. 79 pp. with index. Three foldout maps of dig sites. Blue paper covers are dirt smudged with slight chipping to page edges. Interior is tight and clean. Document in VG condition.
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BREAKWATER IN DELAWARE BAY

By: House of Representatives

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1828

Seller ID: 006718

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Good+

20th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Rep. No. 118. January 30, 1828. "The Committee on Commerce, to which was referred, the resolution of the 24th of December last, directing them to inquire into the expenditure of erecting a breakwater, or artificial harbor, at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, together with certain memorials received from the Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia, the cities of New York and Boston, Wilmington, Delaware, New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, report:..." 8 pp. Disbound government document. Residue from book, ch...
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LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF PHILADELPHIA, IN RELATION TO THE EXPLOSION OF STEAM BOILERS

By: House of Representatives

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Washington, Blair & Rives, Printers : 1836

Seller ID: 007074

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

Steam Boilers. 24th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Treasury Department, Doc. No. 162. March 1, 1836. Read, and laid upon the table. Members of the sub-committees include A. B. Bache, Benjamin Reeves, W. H. Keating, M. W. Baldwin, S. V. Merrick, Isaiah Lukens, W. R. Johnson. 95 pp. Six b/w plates, many other drawings and tables. Disbound government document. Residue from book binding, creasing and chipping to spine edge. Mild tanning to page edges, some foxing spots, few corners are creased. Text is clean and easily legible. Part of blue ink stamp from House of Representatives ...
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LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING INFORMATION UPON THE SUBJECT OF EXECUTING THE LAW FOR BUILDING LIGHT-HOUSES, BOUYS, &c.

By: House of Representatives

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington, Thomas Allen, Print : 1837

Seller ID: 005873

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

Light-houses, Buoys, &c. 25th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Treasury Department, Doc. No. 27. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, December 14, 1837. "...making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-lights, buoys, and dolphins..." describing work approved and rejected in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin. 27 pages. Disbound...
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LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR AD INTERIM, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, SUBMITTING PLAN AND ESTIMATE FOR REPAIR OF THE WHARF AT SCHUYLKILL ARSENAL, PENNSYLVANIA

By: House of Representatives

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1867

Seller ID: 005867

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

Schuylkill Arsenal. 40th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 10. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. December 3, 1967. Message sent from Secretary of War ad interim U.S. Grant to Speaker of the House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax. 7 pp. Three fold-out maps depicting the plan of the Schuylkill U.S. Arsenal in Philadelphia and its extension into the wharf into the Schuylkill River. Disbound government document. Small tears along spine edge where document was removed. Some light browning along page edges, otherwise docume...
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LOCKS AND DAMS, MONONGAHELA RIVER. Letter from The Secretary of War

By: House of Representatives

Price: $60.00

Publisher: : 1895

Seller ID: 004340

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good+

53d Congress, 3d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 249. Transmitting The report of the Chief of Engineers on the subject of acquiring by purchase the locks and dams on the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania. 65 pp. including 8 Appendixes. 9 plates, 6 of which are foldouts. Famous Americans in document: Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War; Thomas Lincoln Casey, Brigadier General, Chief of Engineers; Joseph K. McCammon, Attorney for the Monongahela Navigation Company; J. M. Schofield, Major General, Acting Secretary of War; S.V. Benet, Brig. Gen., Chief of Ordnance, and Acting Secretary of War; J.C. Duane, Brig...
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ROAD--WASHINGTON TO NORTHWESTERN PARTS OF NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA

By: House of Representatives

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office : 1828

Seller ID: 007274

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Good+

20th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Rep. No. 91. January 21, 1828. "The Committee on Roads and Canals, to which were referred a memorial from the Milesburg and Smithport Turnpike Company, and sundry resolutions instituting inquiries into the expediency of constructing a National Road from the City of Washington, by various routes, towards the Northwestern frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, report:..." 43 pp. Four fold out charts/tables. Disbound government document. Residue from book binding remains on spine edge, spine is chipped and creased with string-ties vis...
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THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT ACCIDENT. HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, JUNE 2, 1979

By: House of Representatives

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office : 1979

Seller ID: 007402

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Very Good-

No. 54. Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Technology. 251 pp. Paper covers with staple binding. Creasing to front cover, particularly near spine, bottom of document bent with back pages slightly creased. Ex. library stamps and identification numbers on front cover. Interior pages are clean, no marks. Document in VG- condition.
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ON A NEW SUBSTANCE RESEMBLING DOPPLERITE FROM A PEAT BOG AT SCRANTON.

By: Lewis, Henry Carvill

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : 1881

Seller ID: 000919

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Lewis, at the time of this paper, was the Professor of Mineralogy in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This was read before the American Philosophical Society, Dec. 2,, 1881. "In the course of an excavation for a new court-house at Scranton, Pa., made last July, a very interesting substance was discovered, specimens of which were sent to the writer at that time for investigation. The excavation cut through a peat bog, and it was at the bottom of this bog, some 25 feet from the surface of the ground, that the substance here referred to was found." pp.112-117. Wraps sligh...
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ON PHILADELPHITE (Sp. Nov.)

By: Lewis, Henry Carvill

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences : 1879

Seller ID: 000915

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

Read before the Mineralogical and Geological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, December 22d, 1879. " The mineral to which the above title has been applied was found by the writer four years ago, ...". 16 pp. Wraps slightly discolored around edges otherwise the pamphlet is Very Good+ to Near Fine. Laid in a 5" x 2 1/4" paper hand written "With the Compliments of H. Carvill Lewis." ( Have 8 more pamphlets by Lewis, all different titles)
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ON SUPPOSED GLACIATION IN PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH OF THE TERMINAL MORAINE

By: Lewis, Henry Carvill

Price: $22.50

Publisher: : 1884

Seller ID: 000921

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

At the time of this paper, the author was a Professor of Geology at Haverford College. From The American Journal of Science, Vol. XXVIII, Oct., 1884. Large foldout map at back of "Supposed Glaciated Localities in Pennsylvania South of the Terminal Moraine" The glaciated areas on the map are colored. pp. 276-285. Very Good +. (Have 8 more pamphlets by Lewis, all different titles)
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THE IRON ORES AND LIGNITE OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY VALLEY

By: Lewis, Henry Carvill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences : 1879

Seller ID: 000914

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

Read before the Mineralogical and Geological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, October 27th, 1879. 12 pp. 2 diagrams. Wraps slightly discolored around edges otherwise the pamphlet is Very Good+ to Near Fine. ( Have other pamphlets by Lewis, all different titles)
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THE DEVONIAN SYSTEM OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

By: Prosser, Charles S.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: American Journal of Science : 1892

Seller ID: 005526

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

From the American Journal of Science, Vol. XLIV, September 1892. Signed by author on title page (Mr. G. R. Putnam with the compliments Charles S. Prosser). Pages 210-221. Ex. museum with number identification and stamp on front cover. Large sections of front and back cover corners missing, and spine is exposed. Interior is slightly browning, but text is easily legible. Overall document in Good condition.
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Notes on the Bacteriological Examination of the Soil of Philadelphia.

By: Ravenel, Mazyck P., M.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Washington, GPO : 1896

Seller ID: 000124

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

Memoirs of the Natl.Academy of Sciences, Vol.VIII. House of Representatives, 54th Congress 1st Sess., Doc. No.253. An examination of "the greater mortality among persons living in houses built on made ground over those living on virgin soil." Soil was examined in both made and virgin soil to a depth of 12 feet, over a period of 10 months. Results are detailed. 3/4 red calf, marbled boards and endpapers, all edges marbled. A handsome, deluxe presentation. Some rubbing on spine and corners, else Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. 42 illustrations. 4 color plates.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF GEORGE W. TRYON JR. (CONSERVATOR OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA)

By: Ruschenberger, W. S. W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Horace Binder : 1888

Seller ID: 006964

Binding: Paper Cover

Condition: Very Good-

{From the Proceedings of the Academy, No. 27, 1888}. 22 pp. Original gray paper wraps with "George W. Tryon Jr." printed on front. Cover corners are chipped, soiling and chipping to cover edges, spine is darkened, tears to spine ends. Ink numbers written on top corner of front cover. Frontispiece photograph of Tryon. Interior pages are lightly browning along edges, some pages uncut, otherwise clean and text is easily legible. Document in VG- condition.
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Readings on Heredity, Ecology, and the Human Life Cycle

By: Saul, Frank P. (editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Selected Academic Readings : 1969

Seller ID: 004276

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Textbook for Pennsylvania State University's course on Human Physical Growth, Development, and Ageing (Anthropology 31). Previous owner (student)'s name/address? on title page. Some underlining, highlighting and "notes" written in margin. All neatly done. Back free end paper in red. "DONE-YEA!" Numerous illustrations. Laid in 3 separate sheets with multiple choice questions for First, Second and Final Exam for Anthropology 31, 1970. Covers overall Good. "Used" yellow sticker on spine. Watermark on back cover, leaving some discoloring on inside endpaper. Otherwise interi...
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Category: Pennsylvania