Category: Science

Coloured Illustrations of the Shells of Japan : Enlarged and Revised Edition

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Hoikusha : 1959

Seller ID: 22455

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

239 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; JAPANESE text throughout, captions in Japanese and English, index in English, index in Japanese, scientific names in Latin. Hardcover, green cloth, color paste-down on front, errata slip bound in, [xvi] + 239 + 7 pages, more than 100 b/w photos and diagrams, over 900 full-color photos on glossy plates. ; Originall published 1955. This is 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, published by Hoikusha in Osaka, Japan, 1959. ; Book shows light edgewear. Boards slightly bowed. Small owner address label on front endpaper.
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Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Shells

By: Tokubei Kuroda, with Tadashiga Habe

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Kairui Bunken Kankokai : 1955

Seller ID: 22552

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

42 pages; 4to (10") 27 cm; White self-wraps, 42 total pages, 110 total b/w photos and illustrations. English throughout, with some parts in parallel English and Japanese, and publication data in Japanese. ; Edited by Tokubei Kuroda. Published by Kairui Bunken Kankokai (? ) and by primary author Tadashiga Habe, 1955. ; This lot includes: Vol-2, No-1, Gastrochaenidae Vesicomyidae, by Iwao Taki and Tadashige Habe, 6 pages, 22 b/w photos and diagrams. Vol-2, No-2, Pholadidae, by Taki and Habe, 10 pgs, 30 illus. Series B, Numbers 1 to 24, 26 pages, 58 b/w illustrations, depicting specimens from sev...
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Squibb Ancient Pharmacy, the : A Catalogue of the Collection

By: Urdang, George, and F. W. Nitardy

Price: $28.00

Publisher: E. R. Squibb & Sons : 1940

Seller ID: 20197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

190 pages; 12mo (7.25") 18 cm; Small hardcover, brown buckram cloth, 190 glossy pages, b/w floorplan, 1102 exhibits listed and described, of which about 400 are shown in b/w photos. ; Guide to exhibit gallery at E. R. Squibb & Sons headquarters in New York, known as Squibb Ancient Pharmacy or Squibb Medieval Drugstore. Text by George Urdang and Ferdinand William Nitardy. Foreword by Theodore Weicker. ; Fascinating guide to collection of 15th- to 19th-century pharmaceutical apparatus including antique glass jars with alchemical symbols, mortars of bronze and marble, ornate porcelain containers,...
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Petticoat Surgeon

By: Van Hoosen, Bertha

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm : 1994

Seller ID: 16856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

324 pages; 8vo (9.25") 24 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-black cloth, gold spine title, 324 pages, 4 b/w photos. ; Originally published 1947. This is 4th printing, 1994, in honor of 120th anniversary of author's birth. Unabridged. ; Autobiography of Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen, MD from University of Michigan 1888, longtime professor of gynecology and obstetrics, founding president of American Womens Medical Association in 1915. Foreword by Dr. A. E. Hertzler. Afterword by niece Sarah Van Hoosen Jones. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No marks. Lacks jacket. ; Item laid in: The Story of the Kenny Method, 12-pg...
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Image for Michigan Flora, Complete in 3 Volumes : A Guide to the Identification and Occurrence of the Native and Naturalized Seed-Plants of the State

Michigan Flora, Complete in 3 Volumes : A Guide to the Identification and Occurrence of the Native and Naturalized Seed-Plants of the State

By: Voss, Edward G.

Price: $53.00

Publisher: Cranbrook Institute of Science : 1972

Seller ID: 23942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Set of 3 heavy hardcover volumes, green cloth, illustrated endpapers, glossy pages throughout, indexes, 1834 total pages. ; Vol-1, Gymnosperms and Monocots, 1972, 3rd printing, 1997, 488 pages, over 700 species, 723 distribution maps, 345 line drawings, 46 photos in full color. Vol-2, Dicots, 1985, 724 pages, about 1000 species, 971 maps, 351 drawings, 51 color photos. Vol-3, Dicots Concluded, 1996, 622 pages, nearly 800 species, 771 maps, 266 drawings, 53 color photos. Cranbrook Institute of Science Bulletin numbers 59, 60, 61. ; Books show only a touch of shelfwear. No mar...
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Hawaiian Marine Mollusks : Recent and New Species

By: Weaver, Clifton S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hawaii Malacological Society : 1960

Seller ID: 22548

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

110 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall white softcover, 110 pages, 284 top-quality b/w photos of shells (most on glossy plates) with plenty of scientific data. Errata sheet laid in. ; Title states mollusks but focus is on shells of recently discovered species in and around Hawaii. ; Photos by Bob Johnson, Walt Pollack and author. Additional data contributed by Alan J. Kohn and E. Alison Kay. Dates range from January 1960 to July 1966. ; Very minor wear. "47" penned on front page. No other marks. Scarce. (Note: this is a run ofperiodicals published monthlythen intermittently, 1960-1966, eachnumber 4 ...
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Living Volutes, the : A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World

By: Weaver, Clifton Stokes, and John Eleuthere Dupont

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Deleware Museum of Natural History : 1970

Seller ID: 22553

ISBN-13: 9780913176016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

375 pages; 4to (12") 31 cm; Tall heavy hardcover, dark blue cloth, [xvi] + 375 glossy pages, index, bibliography, glossary, appendix, over 100 b/w illustrations in text, 13 small b/w maps, 510 specimens (14 living) shown on 79 plates in very high quality full color photos. ; Foreword by R. Tucker Abbott. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No jacket. ; Monograph Series; Vol. 1
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Catalog of Recent Mollusca from all Parts of the World, a : 4e, 4th Edition, 1225 Illustrations

By: Webb, Walter Freeman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Walter F. Webb : 1955

Seller ID: 22465

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

157 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Brown softcover, 157 glossy pages including 66 plates, index of scientific names, 1225 b/w photos and illustrations of seashells, with current (1955) retailprices and brief data on range and rarity. ; 4th edition stated. Published by author, in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1955, for collectors. ; Worn but intact. Spine neatly covered in clear booktape long ago. Light creases and slight discoloration along fore-edge from thumbing. Binding tight. Scarce.
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Sandwich Constructions 2, Complete in 2 Volumes : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sandwich Constructions, 1992

By: Weissman-Berman, Deborah, and Karl-Axel Olsson

Price: $96.00

Publisher: Engineering Materials Advisory Services : 1993

Seller ID: 20775

ISBN-13: 9780947817510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

904 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Set of 2 hardcover volumes, 904 pages, hundreds of b/w graphs, tables, charts, photos, diagrams, formulas, etc. ; Design, engineering and testing of sandwich (layered) materials for yachts, aviation, aeronatics, etc. Highly scientific. Topics include: Fabrication. Analysis. Bonding techniques. Fatigue tests. Drop tests. Much more. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No marks, no defects. Quite scarce. ; Laid in: publisher catalog listing about 50 additional titles.
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Grzybow Jest W Brod : Mushrooms in the Wild

By: Wilczek, Lech

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Nasza Ksiegarnia : 1967

Seller ID: 23679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

228 pages; Folio (13") 33 cm; POLISH text throughout. Tall hardcover, white cloth, 228 unnumbered pages, 200 b/w and 48 color photos of mushrooms in the wild, including four fold-outs, with captions and text. ; This is the coffee-table mushroom book to end all coffee-table mushroom books. ; Book shows little wear. Cloth lightly foxed and sunned along upper edges. Gift note on front blank page, in Polish, in ballpoint. Jacket chipped and worn but mostly intact, all text readable.
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Category: Science