Código de Hidrocarburos de Colombia / The Oil Code of Colombia: Su historia en el Congreso extraordinario de 1930 y 1931 y decreto reglamentario de la Ley del petróleo (Edicion En Español e Ingles) by Manuel A. Alvarado, English text translated by J.M. Restrepo-Millan - 1931

1835. CHAPTAL, John Antony. CHYMISTRY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835. First American edition, translated from the second French edition. xl + 365 pp. 12mo., calf with red gilt leather spine label. Ornate older bookplate with ink ownership on front pastedown; pencil ownership on front flyleaf. Covers edgeworn, gilt label bright. Moderate to light foxing in the text and end matter. Uncommon in the first edition, with many later printings.

Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Zweite, vollkommen durchgesehene und teilwweise Neubearbeitete Auflage. xvi, 766 p.: color frontispiece and 19 additional leaves of plates (7 in color), many in-text illustrations, including maps; 30 cm. Publisher's half diced calf with maroon cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Top page edges gilt. Grey and maroon patterned endpapers. White ribbon bookmark. The color plates have captioned glassine overlays. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed, particularly along edges; cloth on back board scraped; faint dampstain along fore-edges; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight.

Berlin: Königl. Preuß. Akademischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "oder Sammlung der neuesten und wichtigsten Entdeckungen, Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, zur Beförderung und Vervollkommnung der Wollen-, Seiden-, Baumwollen- und Leinenfärberei, der Zeugdruckerei, und der Kunst zu bleichen." xii, 308 p.: 1 leaf of an engraved plate (bound as frontispiece); 20 cm. Original red and white speckled paper over boards with original printed spine label (lacking half). Former owner's small stamp at head of title page: A. Schoen. This is the second volume from a scarce early 19th-century series by the chemist Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, which presented developments in fabric dying and bleaching. In Very Good Condition: joint and corners are rubbed, but solid; lacking half of spine label and the underlying paper; vertical crack in spine with slight loss of paper; browning and light foxing throughout; clean and solid.

Various. Octavo and Quarto. A collection of pamphlets and off-prints in original wraps bound together into a quarto size cloth binding with spine lettering gilt, typed table of contents, 24 works in French, one in English. Most of these works are extremely scarce with only a handful located via OCLC, none for sale. A sample listing of titles: La Psychologie de la recherche scientifique, 1925; La Biologie moderne et le Probleme de la vie, 1930; les cultures de tissue en dehors de l'organisme, 1939; la tension superficielle de liquides de l'organisme, 1931; refelxions sur l'organisation du laboratoire de recherche, 1936; physiological time, 1944; la France inspiratrice. Quelques grands inventeurs, 1946, etc. From 1920 to 1927 he was an associate of the Rockefeller Institute in New York and from 1922 until his death in 1947, head of the division of biophysics at the institute Pasteur in Paris. In 1937 he was named director of the Ecole de Hautes Etues of the Sorbonne. But, he was best known for his… Read More

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

1835. CHAPTAL, John Antony. CHYMISTRY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835. First American edition, translated from the second French edition. xl + 365 pp. 12mo., calf with red gilt leather spine label. Ornate older bookplate with ink ownership on front pastedown; pencil ownership on front flyleaf. Covers edgeworn, gilt label bright. Moderate to light foxing in the text and end matter. Uncommon in the first edition, with many later printings.

Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Zweite, vollkommen durchgesehene und teilwweise Neubearbeitete Auflage. xvi, 766 p.: color frontispiece and 19 additional leaves of plates (7 in color), many in-text illustrations, including maps; 30 cm. Publisher's half diced calf with maroon cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Top page edges gilt. Grey and maroon patterned endpapers. White ribbon bookmark. The color plates have captioned glassine overlays. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed, particularly along edges; cloth on back board scraped; faint dampstain along fore-edges; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight.

Berlin: Königl. Preuß. Akademischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "oder Sammlung der neuesten und wichtigsten Entdeckungen, Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, zur Beförderung und Vervollkommnung der Wollen-, Seiden-, Baumwollen- und Leinenfärberei, der Zeugdruckerei, und der Kunst zu bleichen." xii, 308 p.: 1 leaf of an engraved plate (bound as frontispiece); 20 cm. Original red and white speckled paper over boards with original printed spine label (lacking half). Former owner's small stamp at head of title page: A. Schoen. This is the second volume from a scarce early 19th-century series by the chemist Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, which presented developments in fabric dying and bleaching. In Very Good Condition: joint and corners are rubbed, but solid; lacking half of spine label and the underlying paper; vertical crack in spine with slight loss of paper; browning and light foxing throughout; clean and solid.

Various. Octavo and Quarto. A collection of pamphlets and off-prints in original wraps bound together into a quarto size cloth binding with spine lettering gilt, typed table of contents, 24 works in French, one in English. Most of these works are extremely scarce with only a handful located via OCLC, none for sale. A sample listing of titles: La Psychologie de la recherche scientifique, 1925; La Biologie moderne et le Probleme de la vie, 1930; les cultures de tissue en dehors de l'organisme, 1939; la tension superficielle de liquides de l'organisme, 1931; refelxions sur l'organisation du laboratoire de recherche, 1936; physiological time, 1944; la France inspiratrice. Quelques grands inventeurs, 1946, etc. From 1920 to 1927 he was an associate of the Rockefeller Institute in New York and from 1922 until his death in 1947, head of the division of biophysics at the institute Pasteur in Paris. In 1937 he was named director of the Ecole de Hautes Etues of the Sorbonne. But, he was best known for his… Read More

Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .