The Health of the Child is the Power of the Nation
by Mora, Francis Luis - POSTER DESIGN
April, 1918. Unique. As accomplished; tacked into a frame (easily removed).. Very good; some buckling. Excellent color.. 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches (painted surface). Gouache on paper board. The original art for the Year of the Child poster. Signed by Mora. The "year of the child" was declared by Woodrow Wilson to be 1918. This the result of the failure rate of recruits to the armed services in their medical examinations. Wilson's declaration was the first step in efforts... Read More
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Money
by Moran, C
New York: D Appleton and Co., 1863. First Edition.. Original publisher's pebble grain green cloth and paper label (small chip at the top).. Very good.. 8vo, vi, [7] - 228 pp. Moran appears to be a well informed writer and receives complimentary notices for his analysis of the issues. This is a consistent defence of paper money etc. and a good short history of banks. See Dorfman.
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Report of Experiments on Gunpowder Made at Washington Arsenal in 1843 and 1844
by Mordecai, Alfred Capt.
Washington DC: J & G S Gideon, 1845. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; modest wear along the headband of backstrip; overall toning of the text.. 8vo, viii, 328 pp. + folding chart and 6 lithographic plates by Duval of Philadelphia (some double numbered). A comprehensive series of tests on various size cannon utilizing a ballistic pendulum. Variant compounds of gun powder, modes of manufacture, grain size, hygrometric tests of the compounds as well as types of ignition, 'speed'... Read More
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New , Easy, and Complete Grammar of the Spanish Language Commercial and Military
by Mordente, J E
London: Lackington ...., 1813. Third Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A good copy with some wear to the binding.. 12mo. A grammar and vocabulary directed at merchants and military men.
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Principe Acoustique nouveau et universal de la Theorie Musicale, ou Musique Explique
by Morel, A-J
Paris: Bachelier, 1816. First Edition.. 19th cent. half leather.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There are 12 fldg. eng. plates of music. Morel's book is an analysis of music beginning with the production of sounds and the combination of sounds, audition, speech, etc. through problems of composition, and harmony.
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The Bismarck Bridge. Bridge over the Missouri River at Bismarck, D. T., on the Northern Pacific Railroad
by Morison, George - BISMARCK BRIDGE - F J HAYNES PHOTOGRAPHER
Unknown place: Not Published, [1882]. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Very good; front cover detached; spine worn; card stock pages a bit warped.. Folio. An album of 62 albumen prints (meas. appx. 115 x 195 mm.) mounted two to a page recto and verso on thick card stock meas. appx. 345 x 273mm. Most of the photographs are dated in the negative. There is no text; the exception is a nine line printed label mounted in the center of the... Read More
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A Cyclopedia of Agriculture, ... in which the theory, the art, and the business of farming are thoroughly and practically treated ...., 2 vols.
by Morton, John C.
Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1855. First Edition.. Original publisher's brown cloth.. Very good; occasional spotting to the plates; small wear spot to the head of the spine of vol. 1.. 4to, I - [2], xii, [i] - xliv, 1022, 6 [adverts] pp.; II - [6], 1172, 4 [adverts] pp. + 52 engraved plates. Morton edited this work from the best contemporary sources for all fields. The purpose was to provide a detailed reference manual for farming that covered... Read More
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A Memoir of William Maclure
by Morton, S G
Philadelphia: T K & P G Collins, 1841. First Edition.. dsbd.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There is a frontis. portrait of Maclure. A biography of the great geologist by his close friend Samuel G Morton.
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The Surgical Anatomy of the Perinaeum
by Morton, T
London: Taylor and Walton, 1838. First Edition.. Original publisher's ribbed cloth.. Good; backstrip abraded; small embossed stamp to blank portion the title.. 8vo. [4], [1] - 80 pp. + four litho. plates and text illus. & 8pp. of inserted adverts. The author's first book. He was trained as a surgeon and taught anatomy at Univ. College, London. The illustrations are carefully executed. DNB XIII, 1064.
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My Somali Book. A Record of Two Shooting Trips
by Mosse, Captain A H E
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1913. First Edition. First Issue.. Original publisher's decorated cloth.. Good; some rubbing to the binding.. 8vo. The book is illus. throughout. An excellent account of big game hunting trips to a little known part of Africa. This copy is the first issue in the decorated cloth publisher's binding.
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[MANUSCRIPT] On Hemorrhage from Wounds, and the Best Means of Arresting It
by Mott, V - MILITARY MEDICINE
[New York], 1862. Unique.. Later plain brown wrappers.. Very good.. 4to., 42 pp. (with corrections recto and verso). The original 42 page fully corrected holograph manuscript in Mott's hand. It was written at the request of the Sanitary Commission at the height of the Civil War. A remarkable essay on wound haemorrhages that begins by citing Dryden's description of the death of the Tyrrhenian (Etruscan) queen and moves rapidly to a description of trooper's in the field trying... Read More
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A collection of eighteenth century English science
by Beddoes / Young / Vince / Moyes
various places: various publishers, v.d.. First Editions.. full contemporary calf.. A very good copy; joints cracked; Vince is toned throughout; Moyes pamphlets have a stain on the title.. 8vo. There are 3 engraved plates. A nonce collection of 18th century English science that contains the following: 1] - Thomas Beddoes : Observations on the Nature of Demonstrative Evidence; with an explanation of certain difficulties occurring in the elements of geometry: and reflections on language, London, J Johnson, 1793;... Read More
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Anweisung zu dem eintraglichen Anbau der Erdmantel ... - BOUND WITH - Beitrag zu dem eintraglichen Anbau der Erdmantel ....
by Mueller, J J - HORTICULTURE
Frankfurt: Behrens, 1800 & 1801. First Editions.. Rebound in blue paper wrappers.. Fine; blank fore edge of the first pamphlet appears somewhat trimmed.. 8vo, I - 28, [4 - adverts] pp. + one color plate; II - 16 pp. + one color plate. Mueller provides the history, use, and cultivation of this edible plant that had been cultivated in parts of Europe since the late 16th century. The plant is the Cyperus esculentis (tiger nut, yellow nutsedge... Read More
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Casus Medico-Chirurgicus De Effractura Cranii & Subsecutis gravissimis symptomatibus divina gratia ex voto curatis Cum notis de capite ejusque affectibus in quibus Extracta plurimorum Auctorum Anatomica atque Practicae ... Nec non in calce Casuum Medico-Chirurgicorum de capitis pracipue passionibus, rariorum, Deo benedicente feliciter curatorum Decas ....
by Müller, Joh[ann] Matthia[s]
Suevo-Hallensis: Impensis Auctoris ...., [1711] 1712. First Edition. Second issue.. Unusual 18th century paper covered paste paper boards (original). A contemporary gilt paper decorated with swirling vines (a bit faded); a.e.g. & gauffered. A presentation binding from the author (?) - there is a similar binding on a copy in Bavaria.. Very good; some wear to the spine; some tide marks to the preliminary pages.. 8vo, double page title, [84], 135, [1 - blank], 40, [8 - errata]... Read More
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Dirac, P A - The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition with a worn dustjacket (signed by Mulliken on the endpaper) - WITH - Underwood, H W - Problems in Organic Chemistry, 1926 (a signed presentation to Samuel Parson Mulliken on the endpaper).
by [Mulliken, Robert S]
Original publisher's bindings.. Good; some overall wear to both volumes.. Robert S Mulliken won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966. The Underwood offered here was presented to his father who taught chemistry.
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The Practical Land Drainer ....
by Munn, B
New York: C M Saxton, 1855. First Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy; some fading to the cloth.. 8vo. The book is illus. throughout. Munn describes himself as a ' landscape gardener ' . The book is accomplished, well informed, and to the point. There is a great deal of practical knowledge included by the author. A difficult book to find in such nice condition. Tucher #1639 - citing only a later edition.
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Eine Trauergeschichte, Oder eine neues Lied über eine grausame Mordthat
by Anon. - MURDER
[Pennsylvania]: Unknown publisher, ca1830. As issued.. Good; overall toning; old folds with occasional minor separations; small gouge along lower typographical border.. Large folio broadside meas. appx. 46 x 29 cm. Printed on milled paper; no watermark. 42 verses printed in four columns within a typographical border. First line: Nun höret alle sammt ihr Christen .... A German poem, apparently written in Pennsylvania in the late 18th century (according to Edwin Wolf, around 1795) describing the murder of a poor girl... Read More
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A Memoir on the Diamond
by Murray, J
London: Longman ...., 1831. First Edition.. Original paste paper boards.. Good copy; some toning; loose in casing; rebacked with later marbled paper.. 12mo, x, [11] - 61, [7], [4 - adverts] pp. + frontispiece of diamond cuts and weight scale. A very useful book and account of all aspects of history, geology, matrix, sources, and cutting of diamonds. There are several famous individual stones mentioned. Sinkankis #4663.
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Antarctic Days. Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life ....
by Murray, J & Marston, G
London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. First Edition. Deluxe Issue.. Original publisher's bevelled light blue cloth; t.e.g.. A very good copy with the exterior rubbed and somewhat spotted.. 4to. There are 33 plates mounted on thick paper with tissue guards. "One of the most sought after Antarctic titles ...." states Rosove in his bibliography. The copy offered here is one of the Deluxe issue - limited to 280 copies - with the signatures of James Murray (biologist), George Marston (official... Read More
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Journal of Katherine Mansfield 1914 - 1922
by Murry, J M (ed.)
London: Constable, 1927. First Edition.. orig. cloth and dustjacket.. A very good copy.. 8vo. Mansfield's personal diary for the years. A sharp lookig copy of the book.
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Museographie - Architecture et Amenagement des Musees D ' Art, 2 vols.
by Societe des Nations - MUSEUMS
Madrid: Office Int'l. des Musees, 1934. First Edition.. Original stiff printed wrappers.. Very good.. 4to. Both vols. are illus. throughout. The official report of an international conference on museum design and management that was held in Spain in 1934. The text is comprised of the series of papers by different authors who were generally regarded to be authorities in their respective field. The first volume is devoted to the problems and issues of the design of modern museum... Read More
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Il Duello del Mutio Justinopolitano. Con le Risposte Cavalleresche, 2 vols. bound as one
by [Muzio, Girolamo]
Vinegia: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1568-1569 [1560]. Later Printing.. Later three-quarter parchment.. Good; some minor spotting; very faint tide mark along bottom margin of both volumes; rear joint partially split.. 8vo, I - [8], 104; II - 105 - 223, [1 - printer's device] LEAVES. Consecutively signed and paginated throughout; with engraved chapter initials. A Renaissance courtier and writer on numerous topics who offers a set of dialogs on varied subjects (including the military). See Adams M-2081 (later... Read More
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Über oligodynamische Erscheinungen in lebenden Zellen
by Nägeli, Carl v
Zurich: Zurcher & Furrer, 1893. First Edition.. Contemporary three quarter cloth and marbled boards.. Very good; some soiling to fore edge; gum labels on the spine.. 4to, 52 pp. A posthumous paper examining cell death and its causes. DSB IX, 600 - 602.
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Sapiens architectus, qui aedificat donum super petram propositus dominis Lutheranis ....
by Nandory, Mathias
Trnava [Hungary], 1775. First Edition. Full contemporary dyed calf; gilt stamped spine; raised bands.. Very good, bright copy with modest rubbing to the binding.. Small 4to, 183, [1 - blank] pp. The work refers to the parable of the "wise builder" in Matthew and the necessity of faith as understood by Luther.
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Researches on the Development, Structure, and Diseases of the Teeth
by Nasmyth, Alexander
London: John Churchill, 1839. First Edition. Rebound in modern cloth.. Very good.. 8vo, xvi, 165, [1] pp. + 7 plates (in two series identified as A & C) and 7 pp. of explanatory text paginated 1-4 & 1-3. A learned and important work that makes use of the recent microscopic analysis undertaken by Retzius. Weinberger, NYAM, p. 101; Stromgren, p. 143.
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