Science & Technology, and
History of Science & Technology

Abbot, C. G. Solar Variation and Weather. A Summary of the Evidence, Completely Illustrated and Documented. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963. Publication 4545. 67 pages, 4 plates. Illustrations. Folding illustration. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 146, Number 3. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover and on title page; binding tape along spine; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23803. $30
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Birkhead, Guthrie S., and Clark D. Ahlberg. Science and State Government in New York: A Study of the Scientific Research and Development Activities of State Government Agencies in 1953 and 1954. Foreword by Frederic N. Cleaveland. Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1960. xvi, 249 pages. Bibliographical references. Tables. Folding tables. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: call number on spine, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover; pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #25157. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Bostrom, Kurt, and Kurt Fredriksson. Surface Conditions of the Orgueil Meteorite Parent Body as Indicated by Mineral Associations. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Publication 4667. 39 pages, 14 plates. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 151, Number 3. Charles D. and Mary Vaux Walcott Research Fund. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover and on title page; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23786. $35
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Burbank, Luther. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application, Volume I. Under the editorial direction of John Whitson, Robert John, and Henry Smith Williams. New York & London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914. 308 pages. Illustrated with 105 tipped-in color photographs. Pictorial hardcover, slightly soiled and stained. Good copy. #17174. $52.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

California State Mining Bureau. State Oil and Gas Supervisor. California Oil Fields. Summary of Operations. Volume 12, no. 1, 1926-no. 12, 1927. San Francisco: California State Mining Bureau, 1926-1927. 12 issues bound in 1 volume. Folding maps. Photographs. Exlibrary. Cloth. Water stains throughout, but volume is quite useable. #19626. $60
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Chapelle, Francis H. The Hidden Sea: Ground Water, Springs, and Wells. Illustrated by James E. Landmeyer. Westerville, Ohio: National Ground Water Association, 2000. 2d printing. xiv, 231 pages. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. The author chronicles how mankind has dealt with the secret treasure of groundwater throughout history. He divides his story into three sections: folklore of ground water, the geology of aquifers, and environmental problems occurring as the result of ground water contamination. - Rear jacket. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 0945005261. #25240. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Conant, James. Anglo-American Relations in The Atomic Age. London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Small 8vo. 42 pages. Delivered on 17 March 1952 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. #15946. $40
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Critchley, G. N., editor. The Future of Fuel Technology. Proceedings of a Conference held by the Institute of Fuel at The Invitation of, and in Collaboration with, The Royal Institution of Engineers in The Netherlands, Amsterdam, May 1963. New York: Macmillan, 1964. 237 pages. Illustrations. A Pergamon Press Book. Good hardcover in slightly worn and frayed dust jacket. #19908. $60
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Cullwick, E. G. The Fundamentals of Electro-Magnetism. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1949. 2d edition. Reprinted with corrections. xxvi, 327 pages. Index. Illustrations. Folding plate. First published in 1939. Good hardcover in worn and chipped dust jacket. #20293. $22.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Daumas, Maurice, editor & introduction. A History of Technology & Invention: Progress through The Ages. Volume II: The First Stages of Mechanization. Translated by Eileen B. Hennessy. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969. Small 4to (medium-large book). 694 pages. Index. Illustrations. Very good cloth-covered hardcover in slightly torn and chipped dust jacket. #18114. $17.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Eastwood, Bruce Stansfield. The Elements of Vision: The Micro-Cosmology of Galenic Visual Theory According to Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982. 59 pages. Index. 3 plates. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 72, Part 5, 1982. Good original wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary: library call number label and stamp on front cover, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, 'Review Copy' stamp on title page; barcode label and pocket inside rear cover. ISBN 0871697254. #25906. $90
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Geissbuhler, H., P. C. Kearney, and G. T. Brooks, editors. Advances in Pesticide Science. Abstracts and Addendum from The Fourth International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry, Zurich, 24-28 July 1978. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979. 1st printing. Seven numbered sections. Index. Very good stiff wrappers. ISBN 0080239307. #19897. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Good, Ralph E., Dennis F. Whigham, Robert L. Simpson, and Crawford G. Jackson, editors. Freshwater Wetlands: Ecological Processes and Management Potential. Foreword and Introduction by Robert G. Wetzel. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xvii, 378 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Proceedings of the Symposium Freshwater Marshes: Present Status, Future Needs, held in February 1977 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Exlibrary. Spine label removed; stamps on Contents page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. Good hardcover. Front hinge weak, backstrip has small tear. ISBN 0122901509. #23659. $60
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Guest, Richard. Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture; with a Disproval of the Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of Its Ingenious Machine. London: Frank Cass, 1968. Facsimile reprint. Small 4to (medium-large book). 70, [3], [12] pages. 12 full-page plates. Cass Library of Industrial Classics, 16. First published Manchester: Printed by Joseph Pratt, 1823. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamp inside front cover and on front flyleaf, barcode label and stamp on rear flyleaf. #25998. $150
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Harris, Franklin Stewart. Scientific Research and Human Welfare. New York: Macmillan, 1924. 1st printing. ix, 406 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: call number on spine, stamp and perforation on title page, strip of paper on rear flyleaf. #25289. $45
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Hawley, Mones E., editor. Coal, Part I: Social, Economic, and Environmental Aspects. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1973. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). xiii, 384 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Benchmark Papers on Energy, 3. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0879332190. #20109. $47.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Henry, John, editor and introduction. Cambridge Physics in the Thirties. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1984. 209 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. 'Between about 1930 and 1935, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge provided the scene for an unprecedented sequence of breakthroughs and discoveries in the course of which nuclear physics as we know it was born.' - Preface. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on all edges, stamp inside front cover, on title page; barcode label inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 0852747616. #24120. $40
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Hill, M. N. (Maurice Nevelle, 1919-1966), General Editor, volumes I-III, Arthur E. Maxwell, General Editor, volumes 4, Part I & II, Edward D. Goldberg, Editor, volume 5. The Sea: Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas. Volume I: Physical Oceanography. Volume II: The Composition of Sea-Water, Comparative and Descriptive Oceanography. Volume III: The Earth beneath the Sea, History. Volume IV: New Concepts of Sea Floor Evolution, Part I: Regional Observations, Concepts; Part II: Regional Observations, Concepts. Volume 5: Marine Chemistry. New York: Interscience Publishers, a division of John Wiley & Sons & Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1966, 1974. 5 volumes in 6. Indexes. Photographs. Illustrations. Volume I-III, 2d printing, 1966 (Volume I first published 1962; Volume II-III first published in 1963). Additional ISBN 0461579114, ISBN 0471310905. Exlibrary. Labels on spines. Stamps on top edges. Cancelled barcode labels and stickers on front flyleaves. Volumes 4-5, stamps and call number in ink on title pages. Hardcover volumes in dust jackets covered by clear library acetate covers. Very good volumes. ISBN 0471579106. #23296. $1200
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1983. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). xi, 474 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Endpaper photographs. History of electric power systems in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Former owner's name in ink on half-title page. ISBN 0801828732. #24420. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

James, John. History of the Worsted Manufacture in England from the Earliest Times; with Introductory Notices of the Manufacture among the Ancient Nations, and during the Middle Ages. London: Frank Cass, 1968. Facsimile reprint. xvi, 640, 40 pages. Illustrations. Cass Library of Industrial Classics, 9. First published London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamp inside front cover, barcode label on rear flyleaf. #25999. $80
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Ranger VIII: Photographs of the Moon. Part I: Camera 'A' Series. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Division, 1964. Folio (very large book). ix, 17 pages, 199 photographic plates. Photographs. NASA SP-61. Prepared under contract for NASA. Very good softcover. Front cover has been soiled, edges slightly worn. #22215. $45
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Kasper, Louis. Cams: Design and Layout. New York: Chemical Publishing Co., 1954. 1st printing. 101 pages. Illustrations. 'A cam is a device for transmitting motion to a machine member in a direction or in a sequence of movements differing from that of the machine member which provides motion for the cam.' - Chapter 1. Very good hardcover. #24198. $25
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Keating, Michael. To the Last Drop: Canada and the World's Water Crisis. Preface by Noel Brown. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1986. 1st printing. xviii, 265 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Inscribed and signed by the author. A study of the water supply and water pollution in Canada. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0771597405. #23404. $20
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Lydekker, R. Life and Rock: A Collection of Zoological and Geological Essays. London: Universal Press, 1894. xi, 221 pages. Illustrations. Knowledge Series. Good pictorial cloth-covered hardcover. #21052. $75
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

National Research Council. Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems. Marine Board. Water Science and Technology Board. Committee on Coastal Erosion Zone Management. Managing Coastal Erosion. Preface by William L. Wood. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1990. xv, 182 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Very good pictorial hardcover. ISBN 0309041430. #22867. $32.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Nelson, David L., and Brook Chase Soltvedt, editor. One Hundred Years of Agricultural Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wisconsin: Proceedings of the 13th Annual Steenbock Symposium in Biochemistry, August, 1983, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, Wisconsin: Science Tech Publishers, 1989. 1st printing. xii, 307 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Contributors are Hector F. DeLuca, Howard A. Schneider, Aaron J. Ihde, Conrad A. Elvehjem, Agatha Ann Rider with Ernestine Becker McCollum, Esmond E. Snell, La Vell M. Henderson, Van R. Potter, Karl Paul Link, Clinton F. Ballou, Robert E. Feeney, Israel Zelitch, Paul D. Boyer, Kamaluddin Ahamad, Elizabeth L. Miller and James A. Miller, and H. Gobind Khorana. Very good hardcover. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. ISBN 091023924X. #24417. $25
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Ramelli, Agostino. The Various and Ingenious Machines of Agostino Ramelli: A Classic Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Treatise on Technology. Translation and Biographical Study by Martha Teach Gnudi. Annotations and Glossary by Eugene S. Ferguson. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1994. Reprint. 4to (large book). 604 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Dover Classics of Science and Mathematics. Translation of 'Le divers et artificiose machine'. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Some yellow highlighting in the Preface and Introduction. Former owner's name on upper right-hand corner of front cover and blank front flyleaf and inside front cover. ISBN 0486281809. #25712. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Rasetti, Franco. New Lower Cambrian Trilobite Faunule from the Taconic Sequence of New York. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1966. Publication 4662. 52 pages, 12 plates. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 148, Number 9. Charles D. and Mary Vaux Walcott Research Fund. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover and on title page, small stamps on top, fore and bottom edges; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23797. $20
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Rasetti, Franco. Upper Cambrian Trilobite Faunas of Northeastern Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. Publication 4598. 127 pages, 21 plates. Bibliographical references. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 148, Number 3. Charles D. and Mary Vaux Walcott Research Fund. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover and on title page; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23798. $30
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Reay, D. A., and A. Wright, editors. Innovation for Energy Efficiency. Proceedings of The European Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., 15-17 September 1987. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1988. 1st edition. x, 398 pages. Index. Illustrations. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0080347983. #19927. $60
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Rutherford, G. K., editor. The Physical Environment of the Faeroe Islands. The Hague, Boston, London: Dr W. Junk Publishers, 1982. 148 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Monographiae Biologicae, 46. 'This is a treatise on the physical environment of a little known archipelago in the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands, their influence on human activities. This is a unique collection of scientific information about the islands written in English by five local authorities and three visiting scientists.' - Rear cover. Very good pictorial hardcover. ISBN 9061930995. #25062. $50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Thompson, B. W. The Climate of Africa. Nairobi, London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Elephant folio (very large book). 132 pages. Maps. 15 pages of text and 117 full-page climate and meteorological maps. 'The purpose of this work is to present maps which describe and assist in explaining the main elements of the climate of Africa. The first group shows the monthly or seasonal distribution of the more important elements which are observed from the surface; these maps describe the climate. The second group consists largely of upper air data but includes also maps of mean sea level pressure and surface winds.' - Introduction. The author was Director of the East African Meteorological Department in Nairobi, Kenya. Exlibrary. Spine label. Blacked-out stamps on all edges, stamps on title page; call number and stamp on title page verso, stamp and label on rear flyleaf. Good hardcover with metal studs binding. Edges slightly worn and scuffed, upper part of front back strip slightly torn. #23573. $55
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Toft, Peter, Richard S. Tobin, and James Sharp, editors. Drinking Water Treatment: Small System Alternatives: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Drinking Water, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, June 12 to 14, 1988. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989. 1st edition. viii, 346 pages. Very good hardcover. Dampstain along top of fore-edge, not affecting text. ISBN 0080369367. #18851. $100
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Van Heyningen, W. E. (William Edward). Bacterial Toxins. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1950. 1st printing. 133 pages. Index. Bibliography. Plates. Illustrations. This book concerns itself with bacterial substances which are directly toxic to the host and which assist the organism in its invasion. The author presents pathologists and bacteriologists with the viewpoint of a biochemist. - Front dust jacket. Very good hardcover in frayed, chipped, soiled and slightly torn dust jacket. Former owner's name stamp on front dust jacket and blank front flyleaf. #23885. $32.50
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Williams, Jerome, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and Albert C. Dyer. Water Transparency Observations along the East Coast of North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960. Publication 4391. 180 pages, 2 plates. Maps. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 139, Number 10. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary. Small call number label on upper left hand corner of front cover; small stamps on front cover, inside front cover, small stamps on top, fore and bottom edges; remainder of pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23801. $20
Place an Order or Ask a Question ~ Ordering Information

Science & Technology, and History of Science & Technology

Science & Technology, and
History of Science & Technology