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Germs and the Man.
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Germs and the Man.

by Hill, Justina

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. Octavo. Original buff cloth, titles to spine and upper board blocked in green, decorative design blocked in brown, top edge dyed green. 8 double-sided plates. Light rubbing at the extremities, small bump to the edge of the lower board, small white spot to spine, slight abrasions and creasing to the edges of a few leaves, some light spotting to the plates. A very good copy. First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Dr. G. A. C. Colston, from his long-time associate, Justine Hill, Baltimore, Mar 26, 1940". This work on disease-causing microbes was described as "the best popular presentation that had yet appeared" on the subject by psychiatrist Karl Menninger (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 601). Author Justina Hill (1893-?) attended Smith College and the University of Michigan, then served as a Red Cross worker, running a bacteriological laboratory in Spartanburg,… Read More
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Ging's ohne Forschung Besser? Der Einfluß der Naturwissenschaften auf die Gesellschaft. 20...
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Ging's ohne Forschung Besser? Der Einfluß der Naturwissenschaften auf die Gesellschaft. 20 Abbildungen und 5 Tabellen.

by (Brenner, Sydney) Perutz, Max F.

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Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1982. Perfect bound. Original glossy white wrappers printed in black and grey. Frontispiece, diagrams within the text. Wrappers partially yellowed, minor creasing affecting the lower half of the spine panel. First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his close friend and colleague, Nobel prize-winning biologist Sydney Brenner, on the half title, "To Sydney, as ammunition, from Max". The present volume is a short discussion of the relationship between science and public policy, and it is unclear how the contents were intended as ammunition for Brenner. Works signed by Perutz are uncommon. Author Max Perutz (1914-2002) was an eminent molecular biologist who founded a major Cambridge research institute, the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1962 for his study of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. It was at the Laboratory of Molecular… Read More
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The Great Comet of 1843 as seen at the Cape of Good Hope in the Evening of March 3rd.
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The Great Comet of 1843 as seen at the Cape of Good Hope in the Evening of March 3rd.

by Smyth, Charles Piazzi

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[Edinburgh], June 1848. Lithograph (print 115 x 182 mm; sheet 277 x 384 mm). Conservation mounted, framed and glazed using archival materials. Professionally cleaned using archival methods but with some faint spots remaining, short closed tear at the right edge archivally repaired. Excellent condition. A rare and evocative lithograph of the Great Comet of 1843 as seen from the Cape of Good Hope, observed and, most unusually, also lithographed by the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900). Copies of this print are exceptionally scarce, with none recorded in COPAC, WorldCat, or auction records. Given that the paper was never published, it seems unlikely that more than a handful were produced. Smyth was born to well-connected British parents in Naples, his father being a naval officer and respected amateur astronomer, and his mother the daughter of the British Consul to the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Smyth's godfather was the famous Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, from… Read More
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A Guide to the Rudolph Zallinger Mural The Age of Reptiles in the Peabody Museum, Yale...
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A Guide to the Rudolph Zallinger Mural The Age of Reptiles in the Peabody Museum, Yale University. Discovery Supplement Number 1.

by (Zallinger, Rudolph) Ostrom, John H. & Theodore Delevoryas

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New Haven, CT: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 1966. 38-page pamphlet, wire-stitched. Original green wrappers printed in black. Folding plate depicting the mural and "Earth Clock". Pencilled number to the edge of the upper wrapper. A fine copy. Reissue of this illustrated visitor's guide to the magisterial Age of Reptiles mural in the Great Hall of Yale's Peabody Museum, written by John Ostrom, one of the most important palaeontologists of the 20th century. Originally published in 1966 in the same pamphlet form. A beautiful copy in unusually nice condition. "The Age of Reptiles mural is an artistic masterpiece and was, for its time, perhaps the most scientifically accurate representation of the Mesozoic world ever created" (Black, "Creating the Age of Reptiles", Smithsonian Magazine, January 3, 2012). The 110-foot-long, 16-foot-high mural was completed between 1943 and 1947 by art student Rudolph Zallinger (1919-1995), who had previously been employed at the museum painting… Read More
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