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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A light, even offset stain running down the left side of the letter. One page, 8vo. Regarding a meeting. (A difficult handwriting!). (BA).
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Autograph letter signed ("M. F. Maury") to "My dear Sir"; Washington, "Observatory," 21 December 1857
by MAURY, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873), oceanographer, hydrographer, during the Civil War a Commander in the Confederate Navy
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A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, from the First to the End of the Seventieth Volume
by MATY, Paul Henry
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London: Lockyer Davis and Peter Elmsly for The Royal Society, 1787. First edition. Some intermittent pale spotting, generally a tall, crisp copy.. Thick quarto. 801 pages. 20th-century black buckram, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITION. Complete printed indexes of Volumes 1-70 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Each index arranged in two formats: alphabetically by subject (through page 552) and alphabetically by author (pages 555-end). Twenty entries are recorded for Isaac Newton, eighteen for Christian Huygens, and a full fifty-eight for Robert Boyle.
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Group of offprints
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7 items, comprising: PERUTZ, M.F. "The Composition and Swelling Properties of Haemoglobin Crystals." Offprint from Transactions of the Faraday Society Vol XLIIB, 1946. 10 pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Ownership signature ("G. Wald?") to upper margin, hole punched at upper left. - PERUTZ. "An X-ray study of horse methaemoglobin. II." Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, A, vol 195. 1949. 28 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. Ownership signature ("G. Wald?") to upper margin. - WOLLMAN, E.L., and F. JACOB. "Etude Genetique d'un Bacteriophage Tempere d'Escherichia coli." Offprint from Annales de l'Institut Pasteur vol 87, p 674 (December 1954). 18 pp. Self-wrappers. - HIROTA, YUKINORI and F. Jacob. "Genetique Biochimique: Production de bacteries sans DNA." Offprint from C.R. Acad Sc. Paris, vol 263, pp 1619-1621 (November 21, 1966). 4 pp. plus plate. 8vo. Self wrappers. Ownership signature of E. Meywall. - "Report of the Working Party on the Practice of Genetic Manipulation." London, 1976. 8vo. 32pp.…
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Le diverse et artificiose machine ... Nellequali si contengono varij et industriosi movimenti
by RAMELLI, Agostino
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Paris: The Author, 1588. Folio (375 x 252 mm). Text in French and Italian, in roman and italic types respectively. Engraved title within architectural frame, engraved portrait of the author on verso of title, title and portrait by Léonard Gaultier, 194 engravings, of which 174 full-page and 20 double-page [numbered to 195, numbers 148-149 a single double-page plate], three signed with the monogram "JG", text and engravings printed within borders of typographic floral ornaments, 4-line historiated and 2-line floriated initials, woodcut tail-pieces and corner ornaments. Green-stained vellum over boards. Title and a few leaves repaired (including: d4, l1, z2, B2, C7, D1. M1, X2 and Kk1-2), L3 with hole affecting text and image. Provenance: from the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, purchased from George Staack, 1963. FIRST EDITION of this foundational work in the histories of technology and book design. Ramelli explains in his preface that the extravagance of the book was meant as much to foil…
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The Path of Evolution Through Ancient Thought and Modern Science
by PEMBERTON, Henry
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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1902. First edition. Endpaper sprung, some light rubbing to cloth. 8vo. 374pp. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pemberton to Claude de la Roche Francis (the author of 'London: Historic and Social') in 1902.
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The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year 1700 to the Year 1720) Abridgíd, and Dispos'd under Heneral Heads. In Two Volumes. Vol. IV. Containing: PFront board separated, discrete stamp on front end paper. Some wear to extremities, else a very good copy in contemporary calf with gilt stamped leather spine label. art I. The Mathematical Papers [and] Part II. The Physiological Papers
by JONES, Henry
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London: J. and J. Knapton et al., 1731. Second Edition. Front board separated, discreet stamp on front end paper. Some wear to extremities, else a very good copy in contemporary calf with gilt stamped leather spine label. 4to. 476; 326 pages. Several plates and some folding. Contemporary gilt-decorated boards with raised bands on spine. Second Edition. Edition contains two parts of "The Mathematical Papers" and "The Physiological Papers.
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Quantitative Vectorelectrocardiography
by BRINBERG, Louis
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Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc, 1960. First edition. Jacket with a few tears/chips at edges. 8vo. Photographic illustrations, diagrams in text. Original black cloth; original printed dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Roy with best wishes from Louis Brinberg". Brinberg was a cardiologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His work on vector cardiography gained international recognition when he was a research assistant at Mount Sinai from 1957 to 1967. Laid in: 'The Frame of Reference of Three-Dimensional Vectorcardiograms Drawn by a Computer-Driven Cathode Ray Tube," offprint from Cardiovascular Research, v. 3, n.2, pages 227-234, April 1969. Diagrams. Stapled as issued (a tear throughout from the fore-edge). Very scarce offprint from Brinberg.
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Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of Connecticut River by John C. Warren, M. D.
by WARREN, John C.
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Minor fading to spine, minor wear at top and tail. Frontispiece a bit faded as usual and with minor chipping along one edge. 8vo (231 x 141 mm). 54 pages, plus a folding photographic frontispiece, being an original salt print of a Greenfield, Massachusetts trackway slab with dinosaur tracks, executed by George M. Silsbee, and with two additional engraved vignettes in the text. Original blue cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt. First edition. John Collins Warren (1778-1856), surgeon and member of the Harvard Medical School faculty, performed the first operation using ether as an anesthesia (in 1846). John Warren also collected fossil tracks, with the help of his colleagues, from the Jurassic rocks of the Connecticut River Valley. 'Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions' is based upon a talk he gave at the Boston Society of Natural History on the fossil slab depicted in the frontispiece photograph. He states in the text, "we are indebted to photography for…
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A collection of 17 autographs on cards
by SCIENTISTS
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Comprising: Cleveland Abbe (U. S. Weather Bureau); Luther Burbank (botanist); W. Martin Conway (explorer); J. A. Fleming (engineer); Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (mathematician and physicist); Joseph Lister, 2 (surgeon); Hiram S. Maxim (inventor of the first automatic machine gun); Hudson Maxim, on photo postcard (inventor and chemist); John Murray (oceanographer); Simon Newcomb (astronomer); Max Nordeau, 2 (physician and Zionist); Mihajlo Pupin (physicist); William Ramsay, 2 (chemist); Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (mathematician and Nobel Prize winning physicist).
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