London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1918]. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; pp. lightly age-toned; otherwise good.. index. Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist; Natural Philosophy Prof at Lycee d'Avignon; Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur; noted for meticulous observations & absorbing essays on life history / habits / instincts of insects. His 10-vol. magnum opus, `Souvenirs Entomologiques' received special honors from ... (more information)

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NY:: Century,, 1918. Hardcover; old ink name/date inside front cover; faded spine lightly worn at ends; covers faded toward edges; tips bumped; otherwise good.. index. Frontispiece + 15 additional full-pg. b&w photos of insects & their activities. Fabre (1823-1915), entomologist/biologist, retired to a small property where--for over 40 years--he studied insects & natural inhabitants. ||| Here he stresses value of Instinct to bees, wasps, grasshoppers, & other insects. ... (more information)

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N.Y.:: Century,, 1918. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; card pocket removed; no spine marks/label; faded spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. index. Frontispiece + 15 additional full-pg. b&w photos of insects & their activities. Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist & biologist, retired to a small property where he intensely studied insects & natural inhabitants. ||| Here he stresses the value of Instinct to bees, wasps, grasshoppers, & countless o... (more information)

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NY:: Dodd Mead,, 1916. Hardcover; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; ink name inside front cover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. index. Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist writes of Butterflies & Moths or their caterpillars: Fine Processionary--Laying the Eggs; (do)--The Nest; (do)-- The Community; (do)--Procession; (do)--Meteorology; (do)--The Moth; --: Stinging Power; Arbutus Caterpillar; Insect Virus; Psyches--The Laying; (do)--The Cases; Great Peacock; Banded Monk; Sense of Smell; ... (more information)

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NY:: Dodd Mead,, 1916. Hardcover; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; spine ends worn; otherwise good.. index. Fabre (1823-1915) French entomologist; writes about Butterflies, Moths, or their caterpillars ||| Pine Processionary: Laying the Eggs; (ditto)--The Nest; (ditto)--The Community; (ditto)--Procession; (ditto)--Meteorology; (ditto)--The Moth; (ditto)--Stinging Power; Arbutus Caterpillar; Insect Virus; Psyches--The Laying; (ditto)--The Cases; The Great Peacock; Banded Monk; Sense of Smell; Cabbage-Ca... (more information)

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NY:: Dodd Mead,, 1914. Hardcover; top edges gilt; ink name inside front cover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. index. Fabre (1823-1915), French entomologist & teacher, writes about Chalicodoma muraria--the C. of the Walls--who build with hard clay, & also the C. sicula--the Sicilian C.--though it is also found in Greece, Algeria, & the south of France. ||| Translator included two essays, an absolute delight to read, concerning the infallible homing instinct in Cats & in Insec... (more information)

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NY:: Dodd Mead,, 1915. Hardcover; top edges gilt; ink name inside front cover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. index. `All the essays on Wild Bees...with exception of...Mason-Bees...which form a separate volume bearing that title...' ||| Bramble Dwellers; The Osmiae; Distribution of the Sexes; Mother Decides Sex of Egg; Permutations of Sex; Instinct & Discernment; Economy of Energy; The Leaf-Cutters; Cotton-Bees; Resin-Bees; Poison of the Bee; The Halicti: a Parasite; (ditto): Portress; (... (more information)

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NY:: Century,, 1921. Hardcover; ink `C-19' (?) inside front cover + ink name/date on front endpaper; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. Profuse in-text b&w drawings. Fabre (1823-1915), entomologist; retired from teaching (1870) to a modest property at Serignan to study the nature, structure, social habits, etc. of its insects & natural inhabitants. ||| Using a narrative form, his `Uncle Paul' talks about Teeth & their shapes; Bats' Senses; Hedgehogs; Moles; Birds of Prey; Mice; Owls;... (more information)

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NY:: Blue Ribbon,, 1939. Hardcover; owner label inside front cover; otherwise good.. index. Drawings in b&w. 1939 prtg. of 1933 first issue. ||| A real `Roughing It' kind of camping, using only an axe & jacknife to build a shelter; reading maps & animal tracks; signaling; cooking; the compass; camping hints; etc. ... (more information)

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NY:: Random House,, 1981.. Hardcover; dust jacket has few small chips; otherwise good.. + notes, index. `Correspondent for Atlantic Monthly analyzes shortcomings of the nation's defense, reveals the technical, bureaucratic, often psychological sources of these shortcomings...complex weapons that operate--when they operate at all--only under narrowly specific ideal conditions...' ... (more information)

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Np,, 1917. Hardcover; collector bookplate inside gilt-stamped front cover; top edges gilt, others untrimmed; condition quite good.. Selected verse composed by Hamilton College (NY) undergraduates, mostly 1909 through end of WW-1. ||| Includes--Carl Lamson Carmer (1893-1947), novelist, folklorist; asst. editor Theatre Arts Monthly; first real success was `Stars Fell on Alabama,' 1934. ||| John Van Alstyn Weaver (1893-1938), author, playwright; `His use of vernacular in poetry lauded by Mencken'--Benet... (more information)

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Amherst:: Univ. of Mass. Graduate School,, 1982. Hardcover; dust jacket has two crudely-mended one-inch tears; otherwise, book condition quite good.. appendixes + participants. With profuse color + b&w photos, maps, drawings & charts. Papers / addresses of 1980 Conference by commercial, academic, government geologists / engineers on--Groundwater / aquifers; Tunnel engineering; Underground energy / Crude oil / Nuclear waste storage; Hydroelectric & Tidal power development; Mineral resources; ... (more information)

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NY:: McGraw-Hill,, 1962. Hardcover; name inside front cover; otherwise quite good.. + index. With mathematical formulas, graphs, + charts. First English of 2nd Dutch edn. ||| By Chief Metallurgist at Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, Holland. ||| Entropy Concept as it relates to Physics, Chemistry, paramagnetic & ferromagnetic substances, electronic theory of metals & semi-conductors, specific heats of solids, fuel cells, heat pumps, etc. ||| Covers--Concept of Entropy in Classical Thermodynami... (more information)

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NY:: Garland,, 1990. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; gilt-stamped cloth cover & spine; non-circulating; no card pocket or spine marks/label; otherwise, rather good.. index. With in-text b&w photos. Hardcover Humanities Vol. 846. ||| Almost 1,000 articles on Early Christianity, from 27 B.C. (time of Augustus) to 604 A.D. (Pope Gregory I). Discusses people, places, doctrines, art, liturgy, heresies, schisms, etc. ... (more information)

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Boston:: Russell Odiorne,, 1835. Hardcover; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped & worn; 1/4-inch nick in front joint; light foxing; otherwise good.. index. With 28 woodcuts of 1830s-era farm machines. Fessenden (1771-1837), lawyer-journalist-inventor, established & edited `New England Farmer' 1822-27, & 3 other agricultural papers. ||| Here-- soils; grasses; grains; `stimulation of soils'; farm animal care, feeding & treatment of disorders; recommendations for barn construction. ||| Thoug... (more information)

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Mountain Lake Pk., Md.:: National Publishing Society,, 1930. Hardcover; dust jacket frayed at edges & corners; nickel-size red ink spot on rear panel of jacket. Book: contents untrimmed; otherwise, clean, binding tight, condition good.. bibliography + painter's terms glossary. With 4 full-pg. color plates. Physiology Prof / chemist-researcher in colloidal chemistry, Martin Henry Fischer M.D. (avocation: landscape oil painter) chemically studied why paintings of Rembrandt & Gainsborough kept c... (more information)

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NY:: Oxford Univ.,, 1934. Hardcover; Hamilton (NY) College bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; cover tips lightly worn; 2 small light-tan-color spots on pg. 155; two half-inch squares of dried cellotape adhesive at top of front endpaper; otherwise good.. index. With 5 full-pg. b&w drawings. Layman's guide to the atmosphere--history of manned research balloon flights into the stratosphere; why loud sounds are heard afar but not nearby; ultra-violet rays & ozone; radio waves; meteor sh... (more information)

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NY:: Colton,, 1856. Hardcover; spine ends quite worn; occasional light foxing; cover tips bumped.. + appendix + 3pp. publisher's book ads. With 6 double-pg. hand-colored world maps + b&w in-text woodcuts. `Eighth Large Edn.' of 1855 first issue, to fill `the want of a treatise on Physical Geography...[because among school textbooks] there is not one devoted exclusively to this science; the consequence is that Physical Geography, as a separate study, is rarely taught in our schools.' ||| Though not e... (more information)

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NY:: Coward-McCann,, 1928. Hardcover; faded bookcloth; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; contents clean; otherwise good.. With 24 full-pg. b&w photos of stage designs & theatre personalities. Year-long travel in Europe & Russia, visiting theatres; interviewing St. John Ervine, John Galsworthy, W.B. Yeats, Frank Fay, Bjorn Bjorenson, Gordon Craig, Karel Capek, A.G. Bragaglia et al., in England, Ireland, Scandinavia, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, France & Central Europe. ||| ... (more information)

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NY:: Simon & Schuster,, 1941. Hardcover, spine lettering faded; fore edges untrimmed; otherwise, condition quite good.. index. With 12 b&w full-pg. portraits. Tales of Jacob Fugger, 15th-c. capitalist; John Law, France's money-man; the Rothschilds; Robert Owen, utopian reformer; Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad magnate; Hetty Green, financial miser; Mitsui, Japanese merchant; Cecil Rhodes; Basil Zaharoff, military sales; Mark Hanna, political kingmaker; Rockefeller; J.P. Morgan. ||| Flynn (1882-... (more information)

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