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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
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Bindschadler, Robert A., H. Jay Zwally, Judith A. Jamor, and Anita C. Brenner. Surface Topography of the Greenland Ice Sheet from Satellite Radar Altimetry. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1969. 4to (large book). 105 pages. Maps. Tables. 17 folding maps. NASA SP-503. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), folding maps in very good slipcase. Exlibrary: labels, stamps. #27330. $40
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fisher Scientific Company, and Eimer and Amend. Modern Laboratory Appliances for Chemical-Metallurgical-Biological Laboratories. #90. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Fisher Scientific; New York: Eimer and Amend, 1942. Small 4to (medium-large book). 966 pages. Index. Illustrations. Very good hardcover, with stain on lower front cover. #27316. $25
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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
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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
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Gordon, Arnold L. Studies in Physical Oceanography: A Tribute to Georg Wust on His 80th Birthday. Volume 2. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1972. 1st printing. ix, 232 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Diagrams. Folding illustrations. Very good cloth-covered hardcover. Fold in flyleaf. ISBN 0677151705. #18842. $52.50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hunt, Robert. The Poetry of Science, or Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature. Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850. First American from the Second London Edition. Small 8vo (small book). 388 pages, plus 24 unnumbered pages of advertising. Index. Illustrations. First published in London in 1848. Good hardcover; worn embossed cloth-covered boards with gilt spine title, light foxing throughout. #26408. $250
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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
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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 0771597045. #23404. $20
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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
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Middleton, W. W. Knowles, and Athelstan F. Spilhaus. Meteorological Instruments. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. 3rd edition, revised. Reprinted. Small 4to (medium-large book). xi, 286 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. The 3rd edition was first published in 1953. Very good hardcover in worn, chipped and stained dust jacket; former owner's name on blank front flyleaf. #27315. $17.50
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Negoita, Constantin Virgil, editor. Cybernetics and Applied Systems. Foreword by Dobrivoje Popovic. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992. 1st printing. xii, 358 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Review Copy sticker on blank front flyleaf. Contributions by more than 20 experts from around the world, illustrated with nearly 150 figures, display equations, and tables, intended for computer and systems scientists, electrical, electronics and artificial intelligence engineers, and graduate-level students in these disciplines. - Rear cover. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0824786777. #27035. $175
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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
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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
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Rao, M. S. V., W. V. Abbott III, and J. S. Theon. Satellite-Derived Global Oceanic Rainfall Atlas (1973 and 1974). Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1976. Oblong folio. (very large book). v, 31, 3, 111, 26, 10, 4 pages. Rainfall charts. NASA SP-410. Prepared by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Fair wrappers (soft cover). Exlibrary: front cover label, stamps; the entire volume is damp-wrinkled and damp-stained; part of text on page E-4 missing. #27329. $65
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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
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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
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Rat, Robert, et Pierre Roger. Lumiere et Couleurs: Notions d'Optique et de Chimie. Preface [de] Charles Brunold [et] Louis Machard. Paris: Editions Eyrolles, 1953. 147 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations. Text in French. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), some cover tears and wear. #24745. $40
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wadachi, Kiyoo. Climate of Japan. Tokyo: Tokyodo. Co., Ltd., 1958. Small 4to (medium-large book). 492 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Color and black-and-white weather maps. Title, copyright information, and front dust jacket panel in English. 'This book explains the climate of Japan and all related matters through the use of numerous diagrams and tables. The first part gives an introduction to climatology, changes of climate. Individual features of the Japanese seasons, the relationship of climate to industry and life, and meteorological disasters in Japan. The second part describes individual climatic conditions, the influence of climate upon local industries, and other climatic matters, treating separately each district from Hokkaido to Kyushu. The third part contains detailed series of climatic tables which have been compiled with the specific idea of supplying handy and accurate climatic date.' - Front dust jacket. Text in Japanese. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Japanese consular stamps on front and rear flyleaf and on title page; small date stamp on lower edge of title page. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23942. $150
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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
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