NY:: Doubleday,, 1940. Hardcover; title pg. stamped `A.M.N.H. Cancelled' (American Museum of Natural History); book condition good. ||| Torn, battle-scarred, cello-taped dust jacket shows mallard ducks in flight, skimming over N.J. wetlands.. Color + b&w illus. INSCRIBED & SIGNED in ink on front endpaper--`To Frank M. Chapman / Your lecture that evening at Princeton so long ago helped my first little book. And now, thirty eight years later your Foreword really started my second book Modern ... (more information)

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London:: Longmans Green,, 1889. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; torn leaf 21 repaired; 5 Denver Library stamps (one ad pg. affected); endpapers damaged; 1889 ink name on half-title; otherwise good.. + 16pp. book ads. Bagehot (1826-77), banker, editor of The Economist; `authority in all questions of banking & finance, consulted by Chancellors of the Exchequer of both Parties'--DNB. ||| His book--Lombard Street--`first formulated the modern theory of ... (more information)

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Des Moines:: Iowa Geological Survey,, 1918. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; contents good.. + index. Profuse in-text drawings & full-pg. b&w photos. Letter of Transmittal, Editor's Preface, & four preliminary pages (with portrait) eulogize 42-year-old Dr. Bailey (1875-1917), physician, zoologist, teacher, curator of Iowa's Coe College Museum (renamed Bert Heald Bailey Museum). ||| `Aim of this work is to convince the ... (more information)

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NY:: Garland Publishing,, 1989. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket; spine marks/label; light soiling streak at lower fore edge; otherwise, condition good.. bibliographies + indexes. With 16 full-pg. b&w photos. 130 authorities cover broad range of law enforcement operations, technology, support systems, culture, biographical sketches of past notables in police work + sketches of several police departments. ||| Articles--Administration, Arrest, Artificial Intelligence, Assault... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, 1959.. Hardcover; lightly worn dust jacket in plastic; ink gift inscription on front endpaper; book condition good.. + index. With 16 full-pg. b&w photos of personalities interviewed by the author. United Press roving news reporter, later president of UP, wrote candidly about 45 years' covering news stories--Clarence Darrow & Woodrow Wilson--through WW-2 coverage of Generals De Gaulle & Eisenhower--to Korean `Peace-keeping,' Truman, & MacArthur. ... (more information)

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London:: Collins,, 1947. Hardcover; blue cloth; gilt-stamped spine; condition quite good.. index. With b&w frontispiece (King George VI) + over 125 full-pg. clan tartans printed in colors. April 1947 prtg. of 1946 Revised Edn. ||| Comprises: listing of Clan Septs & Dependants; Personal Names in English & Gaelic; Dress of Highlander; Scottish Clans; Scottish Place Names; Dates in Scottish & Clan History; Clan Map of Scotland; Clans & Tartans of Scotland. ... (more information)

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NY:: Harper & Row,, 1967. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear endpaper renewed; otherwise good.. First American edn. ||| Englishman's 10-year observation of life & habits of the peregrine falcon, `bird of nobility,' favorite of kings. Peregrines are expert hunters, zooming down on their prey at speeds up to 180 m.p.h. ... (more information)

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Oxford:: Clarendon,, 1892. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; spine ends worn; occasional light pencil text check marks or emendations; top edges gilt; otherwise good.. one-pg. Generic Index. Frontispiece drawings of Matonia Sarmentosa. First Separate Offprint Edn. of Annals of Botany V, 1891; updates 1874 second edn. of `Synopsis Filicum' with over 1,200 genera & species received from Madagascar, Far East, Pacific islands, western U.S., Mexico, etc. ... (more information)

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Garden City:: Doubleday,, 1951.. Hardcover; fore edges untrimmed; condition quite good.. index. Photos + b&w drawings. Baker (Director of National Audubon Society), Roger Tory Paterson, Dorothy Treat & Richard Pough wrote & illustrated--how to attract birds; planting practices, feeding birds; water access; making nesting boxes for various kinds of birds; etc. ... (more information)

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Oxford:: Clarendon,, 1888. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn, with three or four 1/8-inch tears; otherwise good.. + tables + index. With occasional in-text b&w drawings. 5th edn. of 1866 first issue. ||| Three books in one: 1--Effects of heat upon bodies; 2--Laws which regulate distribution of heat through Space; 3--Nature of heat, its sources, connection with other properties of matter. ||| Balfour (1828-87), physicist, meteorlogist, ... (more information)

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London:: Cassell,, 1889. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips repaired; spine & cover gilt bright; contents clean, tight; otherwise good.. index. With b&w drawings. Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Cambridge Lecturer on Astronomy; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; knighted 1886 `for services to science & education'; in popular demand as speaker on science & astronomy; gave over 700 such lectures. ||| `Star-Land' was based on his Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures f... (more information)

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NY:: Bangs & Mason for M.E. Church,, 1824. Hardcover; full calf; red leather spine labels; cover tips worn; pp. moderately waterstained 2.5 inches down into head + 1.25 inches up from foot, affecting frontispiece & title pg. but gradually fading on later pp.; light foxing, heavy on several 8pp. sections though still quite readable.. index. With frontispiece portrait of Bishop Thomas Coke. American Methodists were without clergy after British preachers went home during the Revolutionary War. La... (more information)

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(Merida, Yucatan:: Manuel Heredia Arguelles,, 1879). Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplates; no card pockets or spine marks/labels; folded sheets perfect-bound in library buckram-covered boards.. + indexes. `AUTHORIZED FACSIMILE [of Harvard's set] PRODUCED IN 1971 BY MICROFILM XEROGRAPHY...' ||| Vol. I includes 17pp. biography of Vicente Riva Palacio (1832-96)--trusted aide to President Benito Juarez--statesman, diplomat, Mexican Army General, historian, author, poet. ||| Covers--Yucatan Maya Ind... (more information)

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Cambridge, Mass.:: Harvard Univ.,, 1946.. Hardcover; covers + spine lightly age-soiled; small spot on spine near head.. + index. With b&w photos. 2nd printing. ||| Barbour (1884-1946), Director, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, `rejuvenated it, improving the order of collections, encouraging research by its staff, & extending its activities to include fieldwork'--(DAB). ||| `Scrapbook' collects his recollections of earlier Harvard Museum, Charleston Museum, the Peabody in Salem, & memo... (more information)

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NY:: Wiley,, 1952. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; condition rather good.. index. With b&w in-text charts & drawings. Discusses: Physics & Chemistry of the Earth; Formation of Sedimentary Rocks; Igneous Rocks--Descriptive Classifications, Physical Chemistry of the Minerals, Magmas & their Locales, Rocks as Products of Refined Processes, Metamorphic Rocks. ... (more information)

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Paris:: Juven,, [1901]. Hardcover; collector & Hamilton College (NY) bookplates; no spine marks/label; signs of card pocket removal from marbled rear paper; leather spine joints dry & flaking; head of spine lacks 1/4 inch; contents lightly age-toned; otherwise, contents good.. With b&w full-pg. & in-text photos & drawings. Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps (1805-94), French engineer & diplomat; best known for planning / engineering Suez Canal (commenced 1859; opened for use 1869). His ... (more information)

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NY:: Appleton-Century-Crofts,, 1948.. Hardcover; spine gilt rubbed; ink gift inscription in a small hand on front endpaper.. + index. England's literary history surveyed--Old English to 1100; Middle English, 1100-1500; Renaissance (1500-1660); Restoration & 18th Century (1660-1789); 19th Century & After (1789-1939). ... (more information)

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NY:: Viking,, 1928. Hardcover; contents lightly age-toned; otherwise rather good.. With b&w portrait drawing by J.G. Parks. Reads like an improbable Verdi or Puccini opera, but is historically correct. At age 15 Bianca Cappello (1548-87) of a wealthy Venetian family eloped to marry a young clerk in Florence by whom she had a daughter. Her family tried to have her arrested, but Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici protected her. His married son Francesco made Bianca his mistress, pacified her husband with ... (more information)

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NY:: Thomas Selzer,, 1920. Hardcover; Hamilton College bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; cover tips lightly bumped; otherwise good.. + index. With frontispiece portrait. Bax (1854-1926), English Socialist / barrister / economist / philosopher; helped William Morris found Socialist League, co-edited its organ `Commonweal'; joined Social Democratic Federation after League became anarchist, edited paper `Justice.' ||| He reflects on Morris, Kropotkin, Engels, G.B. Shaw, Hyndman, Joynes, Champi... (more information)

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Albany:: Matthew Bender & Co.,, 1921. Cloth covers age-soiled; book block fore edge ink(?)-stained; last 150 pages lightly waterstained at top & fore edge not touching text except on last dozen or so pages.. + index to Penal Law. 5th Edn. `[N.Y.] Justice Court Act of 1921 [requires] this New Edition...[effective] October 1, 1921...Act is printed in full in this Work.' ||| Outlines--Office of Justice of the Peace; Jurisdiction in Civil / Special Proceedings; defines--with citations--rights & ... (more information)

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