A History of Pediatrics in the North Pacific.
by BABSON, S. Gorham (comp.).
[Portland]:: (University of Oregon Medical School, 1970)., 1970. 8vo. 114 pp. Photos. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket has minor marginal tears. Inked gift presentation inscription on ffep to Clare G. Peterson. Very good. Contains biographies of pediatricians in the Pacific northwest.
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Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place. Tradition, Translation, and Tourism.
by BACCHILEGA, Cristina.
Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005., 2005. 8vo. xii, 230 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 9780812239751 "Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for... Read More
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Standard mean right-ascensions of circumpolar and time stars, prepared for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey.
by BACHE, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867).
Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office, 1862., 1862. 4to. 15, [1 blank] pp. Tables. Dis-bound. Ms. notations on title. Very good. "When Bache assumed direction of the Coast Survey, it was a small, insecurely established body with high scientific standards. In less than two decades it became entrenched, the largest employer of physical scientists in the United States, and active in many scientific fields. . .. Bache is clearly one of the founders of the scientific community in the... Read More
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Etude sur l'evolution d'un probleme de physique: la propagation thermique dans les solides.
by BACHELARD, Gaston (1884-1962).
Paris:: J. Vrin, 1927., 1927. 8vo. 182, [2] pp. Index; partially unopened. Original printed wrappers. Very good. To obtain his doctorate (doctorat es lettres) in 1927, Bachelard wrote two theses: the main one, Essai sur la connaissance approchee, under the direction of Abel Rey, and the complementary one, Etude sur l'evolution d'un probleme de physique: la propagation thermique dans les solides, supervised by Leon Brunschvicg.
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Etude sur l'evolution d'un probleme de physique; la propagation thermique dans les solides.
by BACHELARD, Gaston (1884-1962).
Paris:: J. Vrin, 1927 [1928]., 1927. 8vo. 182 pp. Index. Original printed wrappers; spine a bit worn at extremities, small stain, else very good. This work was "designed to show how thermodynamics was both established by and liberated from its early, very poor intuitions (such as that a metal bar heated at one end will become larger)." -- DSB, I, pp. 365-5, by F. Dagognet. To obtain his doctorate (doctorat es lettres) in 1927, Bachelard wrote two theses:... Read More
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Neurospora Bibliography and Index.
by BACHMANN, Barbara J. (Joyce) (1924-1999); Walter N. STRICKLAND.
New Haven:: Yale University Press, 1965., 1965. 4to. vii, 225 pp. Printed wrappers; spine rubbed. Ownership rubber stamps of Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology. Very good. Bibliographic list of 2310 papers dealing with Neurospora. Barbara Joyce Bachmann was a lecturer at Yale University, UC Berkeley, Columbia and NYU, and is best known as director of the E. coli Genetic Stock Center and for publishing editions of the standard E. coli K-12 genetic linkage map. Walter N. Strickland... Read More
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Oude Chemische Werktuigen en Laboratoria van Zosimos tot Boerhaave.
by BACKER, Hilmer Johannes (1882-1959).
Groningen:: Bij. J. B. Wolters', 1918., 1918. 8vo. 68 pp. 51 illus. Original black printed wrappers; spine mended with kozo. Early inscription. Backer was a Dutch university professor and chemist.
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Dodeligheten og dens Arsaker I Norge 1856-1955. Trend of Mortality and Causes of Death in Norway 1856-1955.
by BACKER, Julie E.
Oslo:: Central Bureau of Statistics of Norway, 1961., 1961. Statistisk Sentralbyra, Central Bureau of Statistics of Norway, 1961. Head of title: Samfunnsokonomiske Studier nr. 10. 8vo. 246 pp. 160 tables and 54 diagrams. Original printed wrappers. Ex-library bookplate, embossed stamp on title, upper cover with library label. Scarce. Includes summary in English (pp. 235-46).
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Calculs et Recherches sur la Comete d'Encke publiees. I. Tables pour le calcul de l'anomalie excentrique et du logarithme du Rayon Vecteur.
by BACKLUND, Oskar (1846-1916).
St. Petersburg:: Akademiia nauk SSSR, Memoires, 1892., 1892. 4to. iii, 60 pp. Original printed wrappers; chipped at extremities, but generally very good. Series: 7. ser., v. 38, no. 8; v.41, no. 3; v. 41, no. 7. Backlund was a Swedish-Soviet astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics. He earned the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1909) and the Bruce Medal in 1914.
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Francis Bacon; Discovery and the Art of Discourse.
by [BACON, Francis (1561-1626)] Lisa JARDINE, CBE HonFRS FRHistS (1944-2015).
Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press, 1974., 1974. Sm. 8vo. viii, 267 pp. Index. Black gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine. From 1990 to 2011, Jardine was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary University of London. She was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) (2008-January 2014). She was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a dissertation on Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art... Read More
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Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum. With a special introduction by James Edward Creighton. Revised edition.
by BACON, Francis.
New York:: Willey Book, 1944., 1944. 8vo. xii, 476 pp. Frontispiece. Black cloth; a bit faded, corners bumped. Ink ownership signature of David C. Lindberg.
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"Scientia" w uje?ciu Rogera Bacona
by [BACON, Roger (1214-1292)] Malgorzata FRANKOWSKA.
Wroclaw:: aklad Narodowy imienia Ossolinskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, etc., 1969., 1969. Series : Zaklad Historii Nauki i Techniki Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Monografie z dziejo?w nauki i techniki. tom 55. 8vo. 152, [4] pp. Index. Original wrappers printed in green & black. Very good. RARE. Malgorzata Frankowska is a Research Associate with the Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences. Cracow Metropolitan Area.
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The United States and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.
by BADER, William B. (Banks) (1931-2016).
New York:: Pegasus, 1968., 1968. Sm. 8vo. 176 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Very good. William Banks Bader was an American diplomat who served as the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs (1999 to 2001).
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"Two Devices Facilitating Spectrometry in the Far Infrared."
by BADGER, Richard M. (1896-1974).
Reprint from:: Journal of the Optical Society of America and Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 15, no. 6, Dec. 1927., 1927. 8vo. 370-373 pp. Figs. Wrappers. Fine. Richard M. Badger, professor of chemistry emeritus at Caltech, who specialized in molecular spectroscopy with X rays and infrared radiation. He made pioneering studies on the modes of vibrations and spectral energies in small molecules. The so-called Badger's rule relating force and internuclear distance in diatomic molecules is based on his... Read More
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On the Genesis of the Ovum of Mammals and of Man. Translated into English by Charles Donald O'Malley. De Ovi Mammalium et Hominis Genesi . . . With an introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.
by BAER, Karl Ernst von.
Cambridge:: History of Science Society, 1956., 1956. Offprint from: ISIS, vol. 47. [117]-153 pp. Original wrappers. Near fine.
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Nachrichten uber Leben und Schriften des Herrn Geheimraths Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, mitgetheilt vom ihm Selbst. Veroffentlicht bei Gelegenheit seines funfzigjahrigen Doctor-Jubilaums am 29. August 1864 von der Ritterschaft Ehstlands.
by BAER, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876).
Braunschweig:: Friedrich Vieweg und sohn, 1886., 1886. Second edition [first issued in 1865]. 8vo. XVI, 519 pp. Engraved frontis.; foxed. Later quarter brown cloth, boards. Very good. Autobiography and including a comprehensive bibliography of the author's work. Translated: "Communications about the life and writings of the Privy Councillor Dr. Karl Ernst von Baer, communicated by himself. Published on the occasion of his fiftieth doctoral anniversary on August 29, 1864, by the Knighthood of Estonia."
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Statistical Methods in Biology.
by BAILEY, Norman T. J. (1923-).
London:: The English Universities Press, 1959., 1959. First edition. 8vo. ix, 200 pp. Tables, index. Blue cloth, dust jacket; jacket extremities worn, else fine. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology.
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Up From Little Egypt.
by BAILEY, Percival.
Chicago:: Buckskin Press, 1969., 1969. 8vo. xiii, 265 pp. Color frontis., bibliog. Red cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, dust jacket. Fine.
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Neuralgias of the Cranial Nerves.
by BAILEY, Percival.
[Chicago]:: Albert Merritt Billings Hospital, 1930., 1930. Offprint: Clinic given before the Central Neuropsychiatric Association, September 26, 1930. pp. 61-77. 4 figs. Self-wrappers. Very good.
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No, Not Dead; They Live! – a study of personal immorality from the standpoint of a physician and surgeon.
by BAILEY, Wilson Gill (1865-1937).
Camden, NJ:: Wilson G. Bailey, 1923., 1923. 8vo. xi, [1], 254 pp. Frontis. portrait, index. Red gilt-stamped cloth; small nick at head of spine. Very good. Rare. LENGTHY INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR; VERY RARE. Inscribed by W. G. Bailey, M.D., "Oct. 7th, 1929. To My Friend, Dr. William Cashman, With the hope that he will to the extent of reading this book – interest himself in what an impartial investigator, Hereward Carrington, called, 'The coming science, knowledge &... Read More
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The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body.
by BAILLIE, Matthew (1761-1823).
Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library, 1986., 1986. 8vo. [viii], xxviii, 314, [2] pp. Gilt decorated black leather, raised bands, all edges gilt. Fine. Special limited edition reprinting the 1793 edition. "Baillie was a nephew and pupil of William Hunter. The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as an independent science. See also Nos. 2736, 3167.1. Baillie was the last and most eminent owner of the famous gold-headed cane"... Read More
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La circulation retinienne a l'etat normal et pathologique. . . Avec une preface de M. le Pr H. Vaquez.
by BAILLIART, P.
Paris:: Octave Doin, 1923., 1923. 255 x 167 mm. Tall 8vo. vii, 403 pp. 44 figs., 4 color plates; lightly browned. ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS with printed title mounted on top cover; lovingly restored, small hole on lower corner of top cover with some loss to preliminaries (does not affect title). Housed in a cloth drop-back box with gilt spine. Ownership sticker of J. Frederick Herbert on title. Bookplate. Fine. Lovely copy.
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Souvenirs d'un Astronome (1908-1977).
by BAILLAUD, Rene (1885-1977).
Paris:: Carrere, 1980., 1980. Vol. III only. 8vo. 631, (1) pp. Illus., index. Printed wrappers. Fine. "Baillaud is a French astronomer born in Toulouse (1885–1977). He invented the "paraboloïde" a precursor of the radar. This instrument made it possible to establish the position of planes without having to see them, using only the sound they produced. The precision of the instrument was such, that it was used during the first World War by the French military, to repel... Read More
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European and American musical instruments.
by BAINES, Anthony.
New York:: Viking Press, (1966)., 1966. 305 x 230 mm. 4to. x, 174 pp. Color frontis., 19 figs., 821 figs. on plates, bibliog., index. Black cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket; jacket price clipped. Fine.
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Experimentation: an introduction to measurement theory and experiment design.
by BAIRD, D. C.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:: Prentice-Hall, (1962)., 1962. Reprint. 208 x 147 mm. 8vo. vi, 198 pp. Figs., tables, index. Gray cloth, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Very good.
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