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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, all edges dyed red. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 14 plates of which 11 are double-sided, including 2 double-sided colour illustrations. Numerous illustrations within the text. Yellow pencil sometimes used to highlight passages, primarily in the early chapters. A few tiny bumps at the edges of the cloth. An excellent, fresh copy in a very attractive example of the dust jacket that is lightly rubbed with some small nicks and chips, a little creasing at the edges, and mild toning of the spine panel. First edition, first printing and a lovely copy in the dust jacket. The Field Book of Animals in Winter is much less common than Morgan's book on ponds and streams, and is rarely found in such nice condition. As a child, Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) developed a love of nature by exploring the areas around her home in Connecticut. She earned her bachelor's degree and doctorate at Cornell, the latter…
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Field Book of Animals in Winter. With 283 Illustrations, Including 4 Full-Colour Plates.
by Morgan, Ann Haven
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Fish Hatching.
by Buckland, Frank T.
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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Excellent. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. Original green pebble-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards blocked in blind. Frontispiece. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown. Just a little rubbing at the extremities, minor spotting to edges of textblock. A fresh and attractive copy in excellent condition. First edition. A lovely, fresh copy of this important early work on raising young salmon by the Victorian Era's leading authority on pisciculture. The naturalist Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880) began his career as a military surgeon in London, where he "eagerly embraced every opportunity of examining curious specimens of natural history, and abnormal growths, describing his observations in his Curiosities of Natural History, begun in 1858". In 1856 he joined the staff of the Field newspaper, and in 1865 he founded his own journal, Land and Water, an 'independent channel for diffusing knowledge of practical natural history,…
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Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos. A Study of Bird Parasites. With 90 Black and White Photographs, 4 Maps & 22 Drawings.
by Rothschild, Miriam & Theresa Clay
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London: Collins, 1952. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 20 plates, illustrations within the text. Cloth very slightly faded along the edges of the boards, gilt spine titles dulled, light partial toning of the free endpapers. A very good copy in the rubbed and dulled jacket with two closed tears and associated creasing at the top of the upper panel, as well as a few other small nicks and a crease along the fold of the upper flap. First edition, first impression of this classic by a leading British parasitologist. Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005) was a member of the prominent banking family and was introduced to zoology by her father, an amateur naturalist, and her physician uncle. Though Rothschild had only a limited formal education, she was intellectually self-directed and was recommended for study at the Naples Biological Station, where she "developed a strong interest in parasitology, noting that the molluscs with which she was working were infected with…
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Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House. A Practical Guide to the Home Arrangement of Plants and Flowers. With Numerous Illustrations
by Hassard, Annie
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London: Macmillan & Co., 1875. Octavo. Original green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt and black with floral designs on the spine and upper board, brown coated endpapers. Burn & Co. binder's ticket to the rear pastedown. 9 steel engraved plates, steel engravings throughout the text. Single leaf of ads at rear. Blind stamp of the W. H. Smith lending library to the front free endpaper. Cloth only very lightly rubbed at the extremities with a few small marks, a few light spots to the title. An excellent copy. First edition, and a lovely copy, of this delightful, well-illustrated work on flower arrangements and indoor plants that was highly praised by contemporaries. By 1875, botanical pursuits such as flower collecting, pressing, and arranging had been a major hobby for British women for at least a generation. Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House expanded on the work of earlier authors, such as A. E. Maling (Flowers for Ornament and Decoration, 1875), by adding advice on living plants in addition…
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The Flutter of Monoplanes, Biplanes and Tail Units (A Sequel to R. & M. 1155). Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda No. 1255 (Ae 404.) January 1931.
by Frazer, R. A. & W. J. Duncan
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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1931. Sextodecimo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. 8 plates of which 4 are double-sided. Slight rubbing at the extremities, contents faintly toned. An excellent, fresh copy. First edition of the sequel to The Flutter of Aeroplane Wings (1929), widely considered the "Bible of Flutter". Scarce; WorldCat locates only nine institutional copies, and auction records include one copy sold at Dominic Winter in 2011. The term "flutter" refers to sustained oscillations of the structures of planes that can damage or destroy them. The first documented case occurred in 1916, affecting the tail of a Handley Page O/400 bomber, and by the 1920s flutter was a major area of aeronautics research. "At the NPL [National Physical Laboratory] work was initiated in 1925 by R. A. Frazer; he was joined in the following year by W. J. Duncan. Two years later, in August 1928, they published a monograph, 'The Flutter of Aeroplane Wings', R&M 1155. This…
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The Flutter of Aeroplane Wings. Aeronautical Research Committee. Reports and Memoranda No. 1155. (Ae. 320.) August 1928.
by Frazer, R. A & W. J. Duncan
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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1929. Sextodecimo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. 3 plates from photographs, 2 double-sided plates of charts, charts and figures throughout the text. Pencilled ownership initials to front free endpaper. Tail of spine and lower corner bumped, cloth a little rubbed and scuffed, contents faintly toned. A very good copy. First edition of this key work on aeronautical engineering, widely known as "The Flutter Bible". Scarce, with only institutional 15 copies recorded in WorldCat and one in auction records, at Dominic Winter in 2011. The term "flutter" refers to sustained oscillations of the structures of planes that can damage or destroy them. The first documented case occurred in 1916, affecting the tail of a Handley Page O/400 bomber, and by the 1920s flutter was a major area of aeronautics research. "At the NPL [National Physical Laboratory] work was initiated in 1925 by R. A. Frazer; he was joined in the following year by W.…
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Focus on Food.
by Peck, Leilani, Leonora Moragne, et al
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New York: Webster Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Quarto. Original orange laminate boards printed in green and purple. Colour illustrations throughout. Binding a little rubbed and bumped, mild waviness to text block. A very good copy. First edition. One of the authors of this home economics textbook was the prominent Black nutrition scientist Lenora Moragne (1931-2020) who worked as a hospital dietician before earning her doctorate at Cornell. "With an illustrious career that spanned 60 years, Moragne held positions in hospitals, industry, nutrition publishing, academia and government. Her positions within the federal government include head of nutrition education and training for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service; nutrition coordinator at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and a professional staff member for Sen. Bob Dole (Kan.), specializing in nutrition. She was the first professional female (of any race or ethnic group) to be employed by the…
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Food Values in Shares and Weights
by Taylor, Clara Mae
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Tall quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. Colour frontispiece. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, pencilled notes in the same hand to the front pastedown. Cloth rubbed and with a few small marks and spots, spine and edge of upper board tanned, edges of contents spotted. A very good copy. Third printing, published the year after the first. With the ownership inscription, pencilled notes, and December 1944 report card of Eva Bernice Simmons, a student at the North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University. Author Clara Mae Taylor (1989-?) attended Columbia University Teacher's College and then taught at the Rhode Island Teacher's College and at her alma mater. She earned her PhD in nutrition science at age forty after spending a year in research at Oxford. "During World War II, Taylor directed a research project under the Department of Agriculture that investigated…
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Freezing and Survival of Insects at Low Temperature. A thesis submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the university of Minnesota in partial fulfillment for the degree of doctor of philosophy." Reprinted from the Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 1926, pp. 270-282.
by Payne, Nellie M.
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Baltimore: Quarterly Review of Biology, 1926. 14 page offprint. Original cream wrappers, titles printed to upper wrapper, stapled. Tiny pencil notation to upper wrapper. Wrappers partially toned and a little rubbed and creased, mild creasing of the top corners of the leaves. An excellent copy. The uncommon offprint of the doctoral thesis of entomologist and agricultural chemist Dr. Nellie Maria de Cottrell Payne (1900 - 1990). WorldCat locates only nine copies, mainly in central European institutions, as well as the University of Minnesota, Cornell, and McGill. Payne was born in Colorado and obtained her graduate degrees at Kansas State Agricultural College and the University of Minnesota. Her research encompassed "insect and invertebrate cold hardiness, pigments of hydroids, and the physiology and mathematics of population growth... Following the completion of her doctorate, she was appointed as a National Research Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania until 1927, spending a brief…
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The Fundamental Properties of the Galactic System. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume XLII, Art 2. Pages 113-272.
by [Vyssotsky] Williams, Emma T. R., et al.
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New York: by the Academy, October 15, 1941. Octavo. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Charts and graphs within the text. Ownership initials in black ink to the upper wrapper. Some loss from the ends of the spine, wrappers rubbed and toned with few small marks and some mild creasing. Very good condition. First edition, first printing of this collection of eight papers from the New York Academy of Science's conference on the Fundamental Properties of the Galactic System, held in New York on May 2nd and 3rd, 1941. One of the papers, "Mean Parallaxes from Peculiar Motions", is by the prominent female astronomer Emma Vyssotsky (née Williams). This copy from the library of Allan R. Sandage, the most important astronomy and cosmologist of his generation, who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble Constant and the age of the universe. With the ownership initials of his wife, the astronomer Mary Connelly, who had studied at Indiana University and Radcliffe, and was teaching at…
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