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Chicago:: University of Chicago Press, 2000., 2000. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 202 pp. Figs., index. Quarter black cloth over boards, dust jacket. Some scholarly pencil marginalia. Very good. ISBN: 0226014606

New York:: Walker, 2006., 2006. Small 8vo. xiii, [1], 194 pp. Figs., index. Hardcover, dust-jacket. Embossed stamp of Alan Bishop. Very good. ISBN: 0802714943 The author uses the prime meridian - the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks - to reconstruct the story of humankind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons. – Jacket. Raymo was associated with Stonehill College.

Philadelphia:: Franklin Library, 1977. First edition., 1977. Series: The First Edition Society. 24 cm. [xii], 227 pp. Brown lettered title, illus. Decorative orange and gilt-stamped full textured leather, a.e.g., satin endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Fine. " On the verge of a new life in New Haven, Elaine Quinlan becomes the unsuspecting and increasingly fearful object of the vague advances and designs of self-styled security salesman Eddie Macaboy."

Cambridge & London:: Harvard University Press, 1987., 1987. 8vo. xiv, 520 pp. Illus., index. Cloth, dust-jacket. Lightly foxed, top edge dust soiled, else very good.

Cambridge, MA:: Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 2000., 2000. 8vo. x, 644 pp. Frontispiece, index. Dark greenish brown cloth, gilt-stamped black leather spine label, dust-jacket. Fine. [From the flap]: "This second volume completes the story begun in Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist (Harvard University Press, 1987). It traces the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished crusaders of medical science from his service in World War I until his death at the end of World War II in 1945."

New York:: George Braziller, 1960., 1960. Series: The Masters of World Architecture Series, A114. 8vo. 128 pp. Photos and illustrations, index. Printed wrappers. Burndy bookplate. Very good.

Stuttgart:: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1978., 1978. 4to. Fig. Printed wrappers; a few creases and small marginal tears. Inscribed. Very good.

Lancaster:: Lancaster Press, [1950]., 1950. (240 x 160 mm). 93-114 pp. Illustration. Printed wrappers. Very good. Johnson graduated from Harvard College and became a distinguished scientist and educational reformer, serving as professor of chemistry and physics at Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. He was the first Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes an extensive bibliography of Johnson's writings.

New York:: Clarkson N. Potter, (1965)., 1965. FIRST EDITION. 210 x 142 mm. 8vo. [x], 309 pp. Green cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.

Leipzig:: Hirzel, 1935., 1935. 8vo. 45 pp. Printed yellow wrappers. FINE. FIRST EDITION. This paper was taken from a Heisenberg lecture. Wasson, Nobel The Man & His Prizes; DSB vol. 17; Cassidy, Werner Heisenberg, A Bibliography of His Writings, 24i; Cassidy, Uncertainty. The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg.

Boston:: Little, Brown, 1976., 1976. 8vo. xvi, 624 pp. Illus., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed, edges foxed. Good. ISBN: 0316130605 / 0-316-13060-5

Bungay:: Fontana, 1984., 1984. Sm. 8vo. 256 pp. Index. Printed wrappers (paperback). Browned. Good. ISBN: 0006355471

New York & London:: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927., 1927. 8vo. xiv, 415 pp. Appendix, index; marginal pencil notes on index, browning between page 100-101 due to inserted newspaper. Yellow-stamped red cloth, spine faded. Good +. "The author [MAYNARD SHIPLEY],. . .traces here briefly and in a most interesting manner the fundamentalist attacks on evolution and modernism. Through Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and through other Southern states, he proceeds to the shame of Tennessee, quoting from the press items which reveal that there is hardly a state in the United States that has not an unscientific fundamentalist group. The cases of such fundamentalists as Straton and Bryan are quite fully revealed, as well as the enlightened dictums of Fosdick and Jordan. For anyone interested in the trend of American thought, this is a highly stimulating volume." –JAMA, The War on Modern Science. A Short History of the Fundamentalist Attacks on Evolution and Modernism. 1927; 89 (14):1173. Other (4 pages) of… Ler mais

Cambridge (etc.):: Cambridge University Press, 1985., 1985. 203 x 213 mm. 8vo. 48 pp. Profusely illustrated. Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0521275792 Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G., K.T.

Offprint from:: The Practitioner, March, 1897., 1897. 213 x 139 mm. 8vo. 16 pp. 1 table. Printed wrappers; 2 holes punched along spine. Ownership rubber stamp on top cover. Very good.

New York:: American Time Products, Inc., 1940-1945., 1940. 13 issues (broken run). 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Approx. 42 pp. Illus.; three-hole-punched (for inserting in a binder). Self-wraps. PROVENANCE: Mr. Barny's copies. Includes the first issue, Volume one, number one [1940]. Also: 8/40, 11/40, 5/41, 7/41, 8/41, 9/41, 10/41, 11/41, 12/41, 1/42, 2/42, 11/45. War years issues. Scarce.

New York:: Viking Press, (1969)., 1969. Sm. 8vo. xiv, 529 pp. Figs., index. Paperback; rubbed. Very good.

London:: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.. 4to. viii, [2], 305, [1] pp. 12 tipped in colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith, title-vignette and numerous figures. Original full publisher's orange cloth stamped in black and blue; supper corner bumped, corners showing, a hint of wear to spine ends. Rubber-stamp of the Montreux English Library (ffep). Very good. First British edition with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's, On The Origin of Species. The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labor, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise. – Holt, Jenny, "'A Partisan… Ler mais

Philadelphia, et al:: J. B. Lippincott, (1941)., 1941. First edition. 8vo. 523 pp. Original gilt and blind stamped red cloth; jacket flap book summary and manuscript note mounted on f.e.p., former ownership name, Ffep corner trimmed. Very good.

(Cambridge, MA):: Perseus Books, (2003)., 2003. 8vo. xiv, 363 pp. Plates, chronology, index. Quarter cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.