Enzymes. by Haldane, J. B. S - 1930

Newark [1929]: Colyer Printing Co., 1929. First Edition . Maroon Cloth. Fine. Louis V. Aronson Was An American Inventor, Industrialist And Philanthropist Who Is Best Remembered As The Inventor Of Ronson Lighters. Aronson Was An Exceptionally Gifted Young Man Who Graduated From Public School At The Age Of 12 Before Entering New York Technical School Specializing In Metallurgy, Practical Metal Working And Mechanical Drawing. At The Same Time, He Set Up A Laboratory In The Basement Of His Parent'S Home Where He Experimented With Plating Processes And Turned Out Money-Making Items While He Devised Ways Of Metalizing Common Items, In A Durable Finish Of Matte Gold, Including Flowers, Butterflies, Animal Claws And Baby Shoes. Aronson Demonstrated A Natural Ability For Designing Which Was Honed At The New York Technical School And Served Him Well Throughout His Life. He Excelled And Completed The School'S Four Year Academic Program In Three Years. When He Graduated In 1885, At The Tender Age Of 15,… Read More

London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1884. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 1/4" Tall. Numerous Black and White Charts. Viii, 39 Pp + Clean And Bright Pages, With 16 Pages Of Publisher's Ads At The Rear, Dated 1884. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Black Endpapers. Illustrated With Numerous Charts Including Two Fold-Out Charts. "This Little Book Contains An Exact Reprint Of All The Papers On Relations Among The Atomic Weights, And On The Periodic Law (Provisionally Termed The 'Law Of Octaves'), Written By Myself (Newlands) And Printed In The 'Chemical News', Some Years Before M. Mendelejeff Had Published Anything On The Subject Of The Periodic Law." Covers Are Immaculate With Bright Gilt Lettering, An Exceptional Copy With No Wear But A Few Nicks To The Cloth, Otherwise Fine: Rear Spine Gutter Has 1/2" Loss Of Cloth And Two Circular 1/16" Areas With Loss Of Cloth. Rear Panel Fore Edge Has 1/4" Loss Of Cloth Near Bottom And Several Miniscule… Read More

Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij N. V., 1938. First Edition 1st Printing. Light Blue Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 9 7/8" Tall. Drawings. Viii, 222 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Dark Blue. True First Edition Of "The Evolution Of Physics", Issued Just Prior To The English Translation. A Clean, Unmarked Copy, With Signs Of Removal Of A Single Bookplate On The Front Endpaper, No Other Marks. Dust Jacket With Some Wear And Browning, Also With A 1 3/8" X 1 5/8" V-Chip At Top Of Rear Panel Adjacent To The Spine, Very Small Chips At Tips With A 1" X 1/8" Loss Along Top Of Front Flap Fold, And A 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel With A Few Small Chips And Very Short Closed Tears. A Nice Copy In The Nearly Complete And Scarce Jacket.

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Fine Book/Near Fine Dustjacket. 8 5/8" Tall. Black and White photographs and Diagrams. Stated First Edition. Xvi, 226 Pages. Book Has No Wear, No Fading To Yellow Topstain, All Lettering As New, Small Vroman's, Pasadena Bookseller's Label On Front Pastedown. Original First Issue Dj Is Original, Bright, No Wear Or Fading At All, No Tears, Price Clipped. Book Cloth Covers With 1/8" Fading Along Bottom Edges All Around

London: Longmans, Green And Co, 1921. Second Edition, Revised 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Viii, 320 Pp. Enlarged Second Edition, With Certain Corrections, Rewritten Sections, And Extended Sections. Covers Clean And Unfaded, Gilt Lettering On Spine Very Bright And Entirely Complete, Black Lettering On Front Cover Strong.Small Erasure On Front Pastedown (A Name?), With Date Remaining; Browning To Outer Surface Of Free Endpapers, Ownership Signature "J Kaye" [Physicist Joseph Kaye] On Half Title, Pages Clean And Without Foxing Or Browning. The Author, O. W. Richardson, Received The Nobel Prize For His Work On Thermionic Emission.

Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1667. Hardcover. Very Good-. Elzevir Printer's mark to Titlepage. . Duodecimo (132x67mm) 18th century roan spined marbled boards (upper hinge repaired/head of spine chipped/tips worn) All edges rouged. Titlepage +[6] +424pp. Coat of arms bookplate & location on front end-paper otherwise completely unmarked crisp copy. *The only Elzevir edition. These essays are the first edition of Boyle's work in Latin to be printed on the continent. Physiologica in this sense included discourses on physics, chemistry, meteorology, medicine & related subjects as well as observations that we would still classify as physiology (eg. dog's digestive system). There are accounts of purely chemical research. According to Fulton "the importance of this work lies in the fact that in a very real sense it was a prologue to the Sceptical Chymist since it continued the attack on the alchemists began in New experiments, and actually it was as much of a landmark in the history of chemistry" [as those… Read More

Franklin, New Jersey: Privately Published, 1927. Very Good condition. SEE PHOTOS. This is the RARE original 1927 first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Bound in the original printed brown wraps. 6" wide by 9" tall. NOT a library discard. Pages are creamy white, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. From the preface: "The contents of this review is a brief outline of interesting data that have come to the attention of the writer during many years' service with the mining companies operating at Mine Hill and Sterling Hill." Included here are chapters on settlement, land titles, early mining, 1664-1800; ownership, exploration, development, 1800-1850; Colonel Samuel Fowler, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company, 1850-1897; litigation caused by conflicting mineral titles; zinc mining and mill construction, 1897-1927.. First Edition. Softcover (stapled wraps). Very Good condition. vi, 47pp.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1911. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 plates of which 1 is folding and the others are double-page. Ownership signature "Ric" and short note on the upper wrapper. Wrappers a little toned at the extremities, lightly rubbed, lower corner bumped, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. Offprint, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper wrapper, "Schrader, with kind regards of the author". Cell biologist Kristine Bonnevie (1872-1949) was Norway's first female professor and the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. She studied with chromosome researcher Theodor Boveri in Germany, and was awarded a PhD in 1906 for her study of sex cells. "The problem of chromosome halving in the sex cells was not well understood at the time, and her work challenged the classic work of the Norwegian cytologists Alette and Kristian Emil Schreiner. In response to criticism by the Schreiners about her chromosomal work, Bonnevie went to Columbia… Read More

1853 Use of GLOBES Astronomy Outer Space Moon Constellations Navigation Keith

Thomas Keith was a 19th-century astronomer who, along with Joseph Guy, was heavily involved in astronomical research on planetarium models and globes. In his book "Use of the Globes", Keith describes phases of the moon, stars and constellations, use of compasses and navigational tools, motion of the earth, and much, much more.
Item number: #19035
Price: $499
KEITH, Thomas

A new treatise on the use of the globes, or, A philosophical view of the earth and heavens ... : designed for the instruction of youth
London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xxiv, 423, [1], 16
o 9 folding plates
· Provenance: Handwritten – Augusta Norton
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 4.25in (18cm x 11cm)
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1745 Astronomy Plurality of Worlds Fontenelle Isaac Newton Planet ZODIAC Science

"And seeing the Earth makes her circle in a year, I see the Sun likewise in the space of a year answer successively to the whole circle of the fixed stars, which circle is called…the zodiac."
– Fontenelle, Plurality of Worlds

A rare, new and enhanced edition of the "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds" including "Dialogues of the Dead" by Bernard de Fontenelle. This work was originally in French, which was quite rare at the time considering most scientific works were written in Latin. The book is presented as hypothetical conversations between philosophers while gazing at stars. The book discusses the prospects of extraterrestrial life.

'Plurality of Worlds' is considered Fontenelle's most famous work and is also one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment. The work offers explanations of various models of the universe, space, the heavens, and the zodiac, through a philosophical lens, and… Read More