THE GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS OF KNOTS
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. 78 pages, references, index. Paperback octavo. Nice bright copy. First published in 1990. More
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THE AMERICAN BOYS' BOOK OF BUGS, BUTTERFLIES AND BEETLES
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. Hardcover. TENTH IMPRESSION. NEW EDITION, ENLARGED. Founder of the first Boy Scouts Society, and author of "American Boys' Handy Book." From the dust jacket, "Dan Beard was only five years old when he made his first real scientific discovery. Without anyone's help he... More
OUTLINE OF THE EVOLUTION-PHILOSOPHY
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Some wear to extremities and edges of spine. Corners nudged. Very small dent to top of front board (hardly noticeable), and a small amount of rubbing to boards. More
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY (2 VOLUMES, COMPLETE)
New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. 2 VOL. SET. Volume I1 is Theory and Application; Volume 2 is Instrumental Techniques. Light brown cloth-covered boards. Black lettering to spines. Corners of both volumes lightly nudged. Light scuffing to dustjackets, both now protected by archival mylar. Unused book labels loose on... More
THE MADRID CODICES: (5 VOLUMES); PLUS CERTIFICATE VOLUME, COMPLETE IN PUBLISHER'S LUCITE CASE)
NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Leather_bound. FACSIMILE EDITION of Madrid Codices (1493), the original of which is located in the National Library in Madrid. Essentially, these are several of Leonardo DaVinci's private notebooks, full of drawings, schematics, gear-and-pulley-driven devices (including military equipment)(, explanations, commentaries, experiments, etc. The original Spanish... More
URANIUM AND ATOMIC POWER (WITH APPENDIX ON THE ATOMIC BOMB) (SIGNED)
Brooklyn: Chemical Publishing Co., 1945. Hardcover. ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY ONE AUTHOR. "The authors firmly believe that a work on uranium, from the standpoint of atomic energy, would serve to integrate essential facts for the physicists, chemists and engineers who might shortly be called upon to engage in an accelerated... More
SPACE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. First Printing (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo, in green boards and light umber dj. Tight, clean, bright copy, with graphs, charts, and index; mild rubbing to corners and spine ends; dj shows edgewear. Part of the international series in space technology. Dust jacket in protective archival mylar cover. More
IF WE CAN KEEP A SEVERED HEAD ALIVE . . . DISCORPORATION AND U.S. PATENT 4,666,425 (SIGNED)
St. Louis, Missouri: Polinym Press, 1988. Hardcover. SIGNED. Spine slumped in a bit. Dustjacket near fine. Very faint sunning to jacket spine. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of navy blue cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 461 pp with appendices and index. "If We Can Keep A Severed Head Alive... More
WOOD IDENTIFICATION BY MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; A GUIDE FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGIST ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA
British Columbia: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1978. Kay Allen (Microphotograpy). FIRST PRINTING. Paperback. Oversized paperback (4to), perfect-bound in heavy cardstock; 84 pages. Microphotography of wood grains. Clean, cirsp, unmarked copy; light shelfwear. Oversize paperback. More
KRONOS : A JOURNAL OF INTERDISCPLINARY STUDIES (COMPLETE RUN OF 44 ISSUES: VOLUMES I - XII: 1975-1988)
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania: KRONOS PRESS, 1975. Paperback. Forty-four (44) issues staplebound, average between 70-80 pp. each. Several bear small, easily-removeable price stickers, in top right corner. Kronos, unapologetically dedicated to exploring (and criticism of) the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky, Kronos "published articles on...subjects as diverse as ancient history, catastrophism and mythology..."... More
NON-LINEAR OSCILLATIONS (Oxford Engineering Science Series)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. The ONLY blemish in this near-perfect book is the previous owner's name, blacked out, on front pastedown endpaper. Privately owned.Just a trace of shelf-rubbing to dustjacket. No markings except as above-mentioned. Bright and tight. Name and Subject Indices. More
CERENKOV RADIATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS
New York: Pergamon Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards with mild shelfwear, and a bit of shelf-rubbing to spinecaps. Previous owner's stamped name, overlaid with felt marker, to top and bottom edges. Privately-owned. Unmarked. Tight, clean copy. Cerenkov(or Cherenkov) radiation results when a charged particle (eg., an electron)... More
RELATIVISTIC HYDRODYNAMICS AND MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS: LECTURES ON THE EXISTENCE OF SOLUTIONS
NEW YORK: W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1967. Paperback. SCARCE. Author's second book. Lectures given at the SW Center of Advanced Study in Texas to graduate students. Topics include the mathematical study of the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics; the study of a thermodynamical perfect fluid, with a vanishing heat current; and... More
MICROWAVE BREAKDOWN IN GASES
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. References, appendix, index. 201 pages. Gray cloth, octavo. Small black marking pen stripe to bottom edge. Text clean. Nice copy in complete dust jacket with a scuff on the back and some light edgewear. Wiley Series in Plasma Physics. More
THE MATHEMATICS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY (Volume Two)
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1964. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Intended as a supplement to the first volume, here the authors cover material which became important in physics, chemistry, and engineering after the publication of Vol. 1. Includes chapters on transport theory, random processes, information theory, operations analysis, quantum statistics... More
THE GALLERY OF NATURE : A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR THROUGH CREATION, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE WONDERS OF ASTRONOMY, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY
London: William S. Orr & Co., 1846. Hardcover. 4to (measuring 10" x 7" x 2"), three-quarter bound leather over black buckram, a later but handsome rebinding, with original spine label affixed. Fourteen engravings on steel, "eight line engravings, and two hundred and fifty vignettes on wood, with several hundred diagrams... More
THE NATURE OF MATTER : WOLFSON COLLEGE LECTURES 1980
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. UNMARKED. Gilt lettering to spine of black boards. Dustjacket Near Fine. Very light edgewear. Figures. Tables. 202 pp with glossary, notes, bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. "The nature of matter presents a fundamental challenge to Mankind in his attempts to understand the... More
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ULTRASOUND : MECHANISMS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Bethesda, Maryland: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1986. Paperback. PRIVATELY OWNED. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Mild edgewear. Scuffs to card cover. Black titles on white cover which is bordered top and bottom with two blue stripes. Includes 38 figures, 14 tables and list of symbols... More
ATOMIC ARTILLERY : MODERN ALCHEMY FOR EVERYMAN
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1938. Hardcover. Reprinted, July 1938. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, clipped corner. Age-tanning. Six plates with 26 figures. Black lettering and orange design to spine and front of grey cloth-covered boards. Dustjacket Good Plus. Moderately chipped to edges. Now Mylar protected... More
THE PRIMACY OF MOVEMENT (ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH VOLUME 14)
Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Paperback. Very mild wear to extremities. Black and red lettering on spine of illustrated glossy tan front cover. Clean, bright, solidly bound. 583 pp with references, index of subjects and index of names. This book addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and... More
PIHKAL : A CHEMICAL LOVE STORY
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2000. Paperback. FIFTH PRINTING. Cover has some creasing to front. Mild edge and shelfwear. Lightly thumbed. Red and white lettering to spine and front of black and blue covers. Diagrams of chemical compounds. Clean, bright, solid binding. 978 with appendices. The title is an acronym of Phenethylamines... More
SOLAR PHOTOSPHERE: STRUCTURE, CONVECTION AND MAGNETIC FIELDS (INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION, SYMPOSIUM NO. 138); Proceedings of the 138th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Kiev, U.S.S.R., May 15-20, 1989
Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. First Edition. HARDCOVER. One corner bumped Light edgewear to dustjacket. Unmarked except for reference library stamp to front free endpaper. 560 pp. Clean, Tight, and Bright copy. More
VOYAGE THROUGH THE UNIVERSE (20 VOLUMES, COMPLETE)
New York: Time-Life, 1988-1990. Hardcover. 20 harcover volumes, including: Atlas, Between the Stars, Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites, Cosmic Mysteries, The Cosmos, The Far Planets, Frontiers of Time, Galaxies, Life Search , Moons and Rings, The Near Planets, The New Astronomy, Outbound, Spacefarers, Starbound, The Stars, The Sun, The Third Planet... More
THE THEORY OF WAVEGUIDES AND CAVITIES
NEW YORK: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. FIRST U.S. PRINTING. From the dust jacket, "Supplements an account of the fundamental principles of the theory of guided waves with discussions of aspects of the general theory which develop from its application to particular situations." The author offers accuracy, precision... More
AGRICULTURE IN THE TROPICS
London: Longman, 1973. Hardcover. Authoritative and comprehensive treatment of the basic factors affecting agriculture in the tropics, with particular reference to methods of improving tropical arable farming and the classes of livestock specially important in the tropics and the improvement of this livestock. 488 pp. Light shelfwear to DJ. Corners... More