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The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y., 1968. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y. , 1968. Boards a covered with an interesting texture, a burlap pattern in allusion to the wrapping of the plague victims. Near Fine/Very Good+ slipcase. Being Observations or Memorials of the most Remarkable Occurrences, both Public and Private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665. And written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Now newly Introduced to the Public by James Sutherland, of London & Berkshire, and Embellished with notable Illustrations by Signor Gnoli, of Rome. For A Journal of the Plague Year, Domenico Gnoli created eighth full-page paintings, each of them dominated by a somber, plaque-ridden tone--chartreuse, mulberry, olive, purple-- that captures the horror and madness of that terrible period. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y. , 1968. With SANDGLASS. Book Near Fine, Slip Case Better than Very… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. New York: The Macmillan Company, First American Edition, First Printing, 1923. Stated Copyright, 1923, By Marie Curie. Navy cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine/DJ very good, clean, shows some shelfwear at top and bottom, some small tears at both, back and front, spine corners lower corners. not clipped, price $2.25.. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. Scientist Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the award in two different fields - physics and chemistry. Marie and Pierre Curie were dedicated scientists and completely devoted to one another. At first, they worked on separate projects. She was fascinated with the work of Henri Becquerel, a French physicist who discovered that uranium casts off rays, weaker rays than the X-rays found by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays. She discovered that the rays remained… Read More