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[Washington, DC]:: Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, 1873., 1873. Second edition. 8vo. [6], xxxviii, 262 pp. 36 tables; offsetting to pastedowns and free end-leaves. Half black calf over marbled paper-backed boards, gilt-stamped spine; extremities worn, spinal library label. Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory blind-stamp and ink number (paper label on spine). SCARCE. Very good.

Washington, D.C.:: Naval History Division, Navy Department, 1969., 1969. 8vo. 41 pp. Photos and illustrations. Printed wrappers. Bookplate of the Burndy Library on rear cover. Fine. A brief brochure issued by the Navy offering highlights of their efforts from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam.

London:: Taylor and Francis, 1866., 1866. 302 x 231 mm. 4to. Pages 441-451; 453-543 pp. Numerous tables. Dis-bound. Edward Sabine, graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was an artillery officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He is known for gathering and analysis of geophysical data on a large, global scale. From 1861 to 1871 Sabine was the president of the Royal Society. See: DNB, XVII, pp. 563-567; DSB, XIII, pp. 49-53.

New York & London:: Rebman Co., 1906., 1906. 8vo. vi, 660 pp. 231 figs. Original grey cloth, gilt-stamped red spine label; hinges broken, spine ends frayed, corners bumped. Exlib perforated stamp at top of 3 pages and on the title-page, embossed library stamp of Edward A. Sprague. Good.

Geneva:: Editions Antiquorom, (1993)., 1993. Thick 4to. 719 pp. Numerous photos & figs. (many color) detailing clocks, time keepers, watches and many other marine instruments, bibliog., index. Gilt stamped brown cloth. Plain card slip case; short tear at joint. INSCRIBED BY SABRIER on title. FINE. FIRST EDITION. Monumental and comprehensive study of the attempts by French horologists Berthoud & Motel to solve the problem of establishing longitude at sea. Replete with photos and illustrations, this work uses original instruments and documents to support its arguments, and offers great detail on French horology as well as the instruments and watches themselves. Text in French and English.

Stockholm:: H. Sackmanns, (1906)., 1906. 226 x 290 mm. 151 pp. Illustrated throughout. Original dark gray printed wrapper; LACKS entire front cover, trimmed away. Still a very rich source for this Swedish horological manufacturer. RARE.

Philadelphia:: J.B. Lippincott, 1892., 1892. 8vo. xiv, 13-519 pp. 127 illus., index. Original dark green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; inner hinges reattached with kozo. Good. SCARCE. Sadtler, American chemist, trained at Pennsylvania College (where he later taught, 1871-4), became in 1908 the first President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He took a position at the University of Pennsylvania as professor of chemistry, 1874-91. From there he went to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy to continue teaching till retirement. His son, of the same name, joined him to establish a firm, Samuel P. Sadtler & Son. See: West, Clarence J., Bibliography of Bibliographies on Chemistry and Chemical Technology 1900-1924, 1925, p.155 [citing the 1923 fifth ed.].

[No location given]:: [No publisher given, n.d.].. Photocopied facsimile reprint of an original copy (Leipzig, Germany: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908). 8vo. ix, 546 pp. Fold-out table, bibliography. Navy blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Very good.

Newark, NJ:: Presented by the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey to the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1980., 1980. 4to. 70 pp. 29 figs., 528 items, indexes. Pictorial wrappers. [Kraus Library]. Fine.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1977., 1977. Series: The First Edition Society. 24 cm. [xvi], 535 pp. Illus. Decorative gilt-stamped full black leather, a.e.g., satin endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Fine.

New York:: Random House, (1985)., 1985. Second printing. 4to. xiv, 398 pp. Lavishly illus. (many color), bibliog., index. Quarter black cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.

No place:: Journal of General Physiology, 1954., 1954. 8vo. pp. 729-742. Printed wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz. Fine. Ruth Sager (1918-1997), American geneticist, chiefly noted for recognizing the importance of nonchromosomal genes. While at the Rockefeller Institute, Sager began to question the traditional belief that all the genes governing heredity were to be found arranged linearly on the chromosomes of cell nuclei. In 1953 she discovered in the alga Chlamydomonas a second genetic-transmitting system: not located on the chromosomes of the alga. This gene governs the cell's sensitivity to the antibiotic streptomycin. Her experiments showed that the many nonchromosomal genes in Chlamydomonas could be passed on by either partner in sexual reproduction, that they controlled a variety of hereditary characteristics, and that they replicated and remained active through successive generations. In the 1960s research inspired by her pioneering studies showed that chloroplasts and… Read More

In: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series, Vol. 49, Part 1, 1959. Philadelphia:: American Philosophical Society, 1959., 1959. 4to. [ii], 54 pp. 20 figs., 11 tables, 30 spectrographic photographs, bibliog. Original printed wrappers. Ex library rubber stamps on top cover. Fine.

Itasca, Illinois:: F. E. Peacock, (1968)., 1968. 248 x 175 mm. 8vo. xiv, 559 pp. Figs., bibliog., index. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth; lightly rubbed, else fine. Ownership signatures.

[Upton, New York]:: Brookhaven National Laboratory. . . , (1965)., 1965. Brookhaven Lecture Series, No. 40, BNL 903 (T-369) (Physics - TID-4500, 38th ed.). 270 x 215 mm. 4to. iii, 13 pp. 15 figs., illus., bibliog. Printed wrappers. Fine.

Paris:: Societe du Pantheon Litteraire, 1841., 1841. Tall 8vo. [6], XXXII, 683, [1] pp. Text printed in double columns. Contemporary quarter green calf, marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine; rubbed. Very good. Scarce.

Edinburgh and London:: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1960., 1960. Square 8vo. viii, 64 pp. Frontispiece, 18 plates. Black gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. "The hospital was established at home of Armstrong Todd, a surgeon, in Great Marylebone Street as the Hospital for Stone and Diseases of the Urinary Organs in 1860. It moved to Berners Street and became the St Peter's Hospital for Stone in 1863. It moved again, this time to a purpose-built facility in Henrietta Street, designed by J. M. Brydon in the Queen Anne style . . . It closed in 1948. / The hospital joined with St Paul's Hospital to form the Institute of Urology in 1948. The Institute was joined by St Philip's Hospital in 1952 and the hospitals became known as 'the three Ps.' After services were transferred to the Middlesex Hospital the Institute closed in 1992. The building in Henrietta Street has since been converted for residential use." [Wikip.].

Lyon:: Francois Demasso, 1674., 1674. Small 8vo. [xiv], 324pp. [Signatures: [1], a6, A-V8, X2]. Additional engraved title, woodcut initial letters, tailpieces, and 81 engraved plates (plates numbered 1 to 72 [the last is a double-page folding pl.], + plates 18a, b, c, d, 31a, 36a and 52a, b, c), errata. Pages 58, 206 and 220 are wrongly numbered 52, 106 and 120 respectively. Nineteenth century quarter vellum, marbled paper over boards; slightly rubbed and soiled, a few gatherings browned, fore-margin of a few plates cut close sometimes shaving a plate number or illustration. Very good copy. Fourth edition, revised and augmented with added material and figures. A fine horological work, mostly given to gnomonic instruments, detailing sundials and other chronographs. The author gives a method of telling time at night by means of measuring the moon and stars. The first edition was issued in 1641 by Melchior Tavernier, and contained 59 engraved plates. A second edition was issued in 1645. All editions… Read More

Paris:: P.-J. Loss, 1840., 1840. 8vo. [viii], viii, 930 pp. Indexes, 24 plates with tissue guards; foxed, some signatures browned. Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine, decorative end-leaves; lightly rubbed. Very good. FIRST EDITION. An important series of lectures on the morphology of plants, written by Auguste de Sainte-Hilaire, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris, and noted for his work on Brazilian botany. BM (Nat. Hist.), IV, p. 1783; DSB, XII, p. 72.

London:: Printed for the author by John Nichols, Red-Lion Passage, and sold by J. Debrett, Piccadilly. . . and by all the principal booksellers in Great Britain, 1797., 1797. 8vo. 22 cm cxci, [1], 224 pp. LACKS engraved frontispiece (supplied in photocopy). Subscriber's list. Modern beige gilt-stamped cloth. Foxed. Binding is new. First separate edition in English, by Tytler, and first edition of this translation. Originally written in Latin in 1584, the text has been reprinted many times. The poem is divided into three parts-the first being advice for pregnant women; the second concerning care of children from birth until weaning; the third concerning diseases of nursing children-all with numerous footnotes and with both historical and mythological references. The poem is preceded by a dedication, preface and life of the author. A list of subscribers is found at the rear of the book. This copy has the frontispiece available in photocopy. / Peltier points to this work and two other accounts, Nicolas… Read More