Science And Medicine from Ravenroost Books

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Inc., 1930. x.218pgs. Very Good condition brown cloth hardcover. Pages slightly aged-toned, binding sound, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with drawings and black and white photos. Vintage text on hair diseases, health and treatment. Index of Illustrations. Sections: Preface, The Arrangement of Human Hair, Ectodermal Defects, Development, Abnormalities of Development, Scarring Alopecia, Seborrhoea capitis,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1928. xv.500pgs. Very Good condition blue cloth hardcover. Some rubbing to cloth at edges and corners. Owner name on free front endpaper, for which there are several small tears where ir overlays the binding, which is firm and intact. A dense and thorough reference in early to mid 20th century hair and skin anatomy, physiology, disorders,… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1942. xv.495pgs. Very Good+ condition green leatherette covered with gilt lettering to front and spine. Owner name neatly printed opposite his personal bookplate of a ship at sail on front endpapers. Internally pristine, binding tight, illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams, charts and tables. Chapters: Surveys and Their Purposes-Sources of Surveying Information, Measurement of Distances,… Read more about this item

New York: Berkeley Boulevard, 2002. xxiii.276 pgs. Fine condition softcover trade paperback. Author and forensic psychologist investigates the myths and realities of vampires and vampirism via interviews with scientists, creative artists and actual modern day blood drinkers. ISBN 0425186164. Book# 2665. Contents: Introduction. What is the Science of Vampires?; 1. Dracula's Shadow; 2. Shapeshifter; 3. Creating a Vampire; 4. Vampire… Read more about this item

New York and Chicago: Potter, Ainsworth and Co., 1874. viii.405 pgs.+ 2 world maps. Good to Very Good condition original cloth hardcover. Overall wear and rubbing to edges and corners. Light foxin and penciled notes on front endpapers. Endpaper wear to rear hinge, binding sound. Colored frontis plate with intact protective tissue. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and… Read more about this item

Oregon: Timber Press, 1993. 8vo. vi.139 pgs. Near Fine hardbound in Fine dust jacket. Very faint shelf rubbing to bottom edges, else fine. Illustrated throughout with water colors by Fay Anderson and line drawings by Margo Branch. Concise yet systematic study of these South African perennial irises. Contents include: preface, introduction, history, morphology, characteristics, phylogeny and evolution, geology,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam-Oxford-New York: Elsevier, 1979. xiv. 390 pgs+adv. Very Good condition black cloth hardcover with light wear to cloth at edges and corners, else pristine, tightly bound, unmarked. Sections: 1. Theory of electromigration processes (J. Vacik), 2. Classification of eclectromigration methods (J. Vacik), 3. Evaluation of the results of electrophoretic separations (J. Vacik), 4. Molecular size and shape in electrophoresis (Z.… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1970. x. 228 pgs. Near Fine condition green cloth hardcover, clean and unmarked, binding tight, very slight wear to cloth at edges and corners. Illustrated plates. Author was former Regius professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow and Fison Memorial lecturer. Contents: Preface, The Earth or Sun as Center of the Universe?,… Read more about this item

New York Vintage prescription form. Very Good condition vintage oculist's hand written prescription for an eye wash formula, with pharmacist's envelope in which it had been folded, undated, circa early twentieth century. Oculist is Thomas Dixon, M.D. in the Arbuckle Building, 367 to 373 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY . Pharmacist is Thomas Lamb, 84 Livingston St. Brooklyn NY "established… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, As New condition, clean and unmarked first printing of first dition. Illustrated with finely detailed drawings by Laura Westlake. By the author of Hawk Hill. If you enjoy reading about wildlife rehabilitation and the dedicated rehabbers who make it possible, this well written personable and poignant chronicle… Read more about this item

Washinton D.C. And London: American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1993. xviii.286 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with light rubbing to paper of jacket at edges and corners. Contents: Contributors, Foreword by Donald F. Klein, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Body Image and Experience Disorders, Anorexia Nervosa, Hypochondriasis, Trichotillomania, Tourette's Syndrome, Sexual Compulsions, Pathological Gambling, Impulsive Personality Disorders and… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Co., 1924. 105 pgs. Verg Good+ cloth hardcover in original dust jacket. Book is clean and umarked, binding sound, very slight rubbing to edges and corners. Jacket has small chips at spine edges and corners and paper is worn through in places along the flap edges. Flap information lists other titles in the Little Books… Read more about this item

Kent, Ohio: The Davey Tree Expert Company, 1936. 32 pgs. Very Good staple bound softcover. Owner name and subject category Ulmus-Diseases on front cover, small chip to upper edge of rear cover, otherwise clean, sound and unmarked. Illustrated with black and white tables, drawings, photographs and charts. Historical overview, symptoms, experimental data, effect of treatments, biibliography. Historical snapshot of a… Read more about this item

Paris: Denoel & Steele, 1932. 196pgs+adv. Very Good condition softcover, original stiff red paper cover. Light wear to edges and corners, bottom of spine chipped. Original paper price tag intact on spine. Internally clean and unmarked, paper is a bit stiff and age darkened. Text block is untrimmed and pages after pg 144 remain unopened (top edges of page… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Inc., 1911. vii.200pgs. Very Good brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front and spine. Rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, with 3/4 inch worn through along spine edge at bottom corner. Binding sound, contents clean and unmarked. Advertisements of additional Blakiston's textbooks for medical students on front and rear endpapers. See what chemistry… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Writers & Readers, 1982. 175pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Clean and unmarked, binding sound. Jacket has no chips or tears, very slight age-toning to edges. Clever, entertaining, informative and very readable introduction to Darwin's life and theories as well as an overview of the general history and controversy of the development… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office., 1975. xii.144 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, slight yellowing to paper of spine, else clean and unmarked with minimal discernable shelf wear. Contents: Preface, Introduction, Geographic Setting, The Landscape and Its Attributes: The Western Uinta Mountains, The Eastern Uinta Mountains, Other Drainage Adjustments, Time and the Rocks, Geologic Structure, What the Future Holds,… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rocky Mountain Research Service, Colorado), 2002. 4to. 123 pgs. Near Fine condition softbound, clean and unmarked. Chapters: Loranthaceae and Viscaceae in North America, Psittacanthus in Mexico, Phoradenron in Mexico and the United States, Arceuthobium in North America, Damage, Effects amd Importance of North Mistletoes, Dwarf Mistletoe Surveys, Management Strategies for Dwarf Mistletoes: Biological,… Read more about this item

New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1957. xii. 376 pgs. Very Good condition navy cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean, sound, unmarked with minimal shelwear. Jacket price intact, light edgewear, sunning to paper at spine. Based upon the Tarner lectures given by the author in 1946, its primary purpose is to explain, by way of detailed… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907. 608 pgs. Good condition brown cloth hardcover. Original binding sound. Wear and rubbing to cloth at corners and spine edges. Rubbed spots on cloth at top of spine, scattered worn spots on front and rear boards. Endpapers lightly foxed, internally very good, clean and unmarked. Numerous detailed illustrations in black and white and multi tone… Read more about this item