Anleitung zur mikroskopischen bestimmung und untersuchung von Erzen ....
by Schneiderhöhn, H
Berlin: Gesell. Deutscher Metallhutten und Bergleute, 1922. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There are text illustrations and 15 tables - some in pocket on inside of rear cover. A most interesting book on the microscopic investigation of minerals and metallic compounds.
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Entwurf einer Apotheker-Ordnung für den österreichischen Kaiserstaat
by Schneller, J & Würth, I von - LAW FOR PHARMACISTS
Vienna: Carl Ueberreuter, 1849. First Edition. Original publisher's printed wrappers.. Good; some dog earring; some spotting and dustiness to the wrappers; untrimmed.. 8vo, 73, [1 - blank], [2 - adverts] pp. A signed presentation from Schneller on the inside of the front wrapper dated Nov.4, 1849. An informative and lengthy account of the attempt to draft legislation for the Austro-Hungarian Empire that reflects the advances in the medical sciences and separates the governance of the practice of medicine... Read More
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I - The School of Battery Commander; II - Technical Supplement ... Ballistics. Topography. Radio ....; III - Practical Supplement
by Saumur Artillery School
Paris: Imp. Nationale, 1918. First Edition of parts 1 & 2; revised edition of part 3.. Bound in library cloth ca. 1920 with the front original green, stiff, card stock wrappers in place.. Very good.. 8vo; I - 343, [1 - blank] pp + 2 large inserted folding tables; II - 237, [3 - blank] pp. + 1 inserted folding map; III - 207, [1 - blank] pp. Each front wrapper with the word "Confidential" printed on it.... Read More
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Mimeographed medical notes with commentary for Tufts Medical School 1929 - 1930
by Tufts Medical School
[New Orleans]: Not published., 1929 - 1930. Edition Unknown.. Commercial binders.. Very good.. 4to. Mimeographed notes for lectures on pharmacology (one volume, recto only, appx. 150 pp) given by Alden and Haskins. The second volume has notes for neurology, neuropathology, and otolaryngology (one volume, recto only, appx. 200 pp. with manuscript additions and occasional drawings) by Myerson, MacDonald, Loman, and Inglis. The student was Reuben Rothblatt of Boston; his annotations appear throughout.
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Beschreibung einer neuen und vollkommneren Einrichtung der Luftpumpe angegeben und ausgeführt
by Schrader, J - SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
Flensburg und Leipzig: Korten, 1791. First Edition.. Later plain wrappers.. Very good. . 8vo, 24 pp. + folding plate. Schrader was a physics prof. at Kiel who was noted for his work in optics. He laments the difficulties inherent in attaining high vacuums and maintaining them. One solution he offers is a newly designed valve to aid mechanical vacuum pumps reach and then maintain higher levels. An interesting invention and solution to a vexing experimental problem. Poggendorff II,... Read More
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Das Reich des Kindes
by Schreiber, A (ed.) - EDUCATION - CHILDREN
Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, [1930]. First Edition.. Publisher's half leather.. A very good copy; some spotting to the cloth.. 8vo. There are numerous half tone plates. An omnibus work that addresses the nurture, psychological well being, and education of young children. The rather poignant introduction describes a situation of perverse contradictions in attitudes toward children and child rearing in then present economic depression. The family, men, women, educators, physicians, and state are not blameless. Each bears a responsibility for... Read More
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Schreiber Collection. Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels ....
by Schreiber, C & Lady Charlotte Elizabeth
London: South Kensington Museum, 1885. First Edition. Later issue.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good.. 8vo, xi, [1] - 241, 3("Additional Examples Received in 1889") pp. + 8 plates of makers marks and two frontispiece portraits of Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber. One of the earliest collections in a field that had been ignored. The collection was begun in 1865 and was an attempt to bring together the best examples of the beauty and art of English ceramics.... Read More
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Zur Theorie des Debyeefekts
by Schrödinger, E - CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Leipzig: Physikalischen Zeitschrift, 1914. OFFPRINT.. Original printed wrappers. Very good.. 4to. This is Schrödinger's commentary on errors in the Debye - Schererr equation and assumptions they had made concerning molecular motion, and the effect of temperature. The equations of Debye - Schererr were quickly established as the most powerful tool for the determination of crystal structure shortly after their introduction in 1912. It was Debye's original work in this field that explained inconsistencies in Bragg's results earlier that... Read More
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On the Minute Structure and Functions of the Spinal Cord and Medulla Oblongata, and ... Treatment of Epilepsy
by Schroeder van der Kolk, J
London: New Sydenham Soc., 1859. First English Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; inst. stamp on title & endsheet; neat attractive gilt ownership stamp on spine; some wear to the joints in places.. 8vo. There are 10 lithographic plates of the brain and spinal cord. This is two works bound as one. The first deals with the spinal cord the second with epilepsy. The careful microscopic studies of the author brought histological examination of the nervous system to... Read More
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Over Het Fijnere Zamenstel en de Werking van Het Verlingde Ruggemerg en over de naaste oorzaak van Epilepsie en Hare Rationele Behandeling
by Schroeder van der Kolk, J L C - NEUROLOGY
Amsterdam: C G Van der Post, 1858. First Separate Edition.. Modern library linen.. A very good copy; blind stamp of previous owner on the title with a neat signature.. 4to. There are 3 plates very detailed lithographic plates. [2], (1)2-204 pp.; 3 plates. This is the original offprint that describes Schroeder van der Kolk's histological studies of the brain, brain function localization and confirmed the medulla as the ulitmate seat of epilepsy. A rare and important neurological work.... Read More
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Historia anatomica systematis absorbentis corporis humani
by Schubert, J A
Leipzig: Hirschfeld, [1821]. First Edition.. Original plain paper wrappers.. A good copy.. 4to. A detailed review of the literature of the lymph system.
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Roentgen Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Head
by Schuller, A
St Louis: C V Mosby Co., 1918. First English Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy with some mottling to the cloth cover.. 8vo; text illustrations throughout. A fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull. G - M # 4596.1.
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Sur la Circulation et sur les Vasseaux Laticifères dans les Plantes
by Schultz-Schultzenstein, Carl [Karl] H - PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Paris / Berlin: A Hirschwald, 1839. First Edition.. Contemporary embossed binder's cloth.. Good with spotty foxing throughout.. 4to, [2], [1] - 110 pp. + 23 large folding lithographic plates. An important study that was based on earlier work. The book identifies the circulation of nutrients in vascular plants and comments on their cell structure. Schultz's research took place during a crucial time in the development and understanding of the cell theory of plant and animal structures. Pritzel #8478;... Read More
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[Manuscript] Lagerkunde nach Vortragen und Zeichnungen ....
by Schumacher, [Major] - MILITARY FIELD CRAFT
[Unknown]: Manuscript., 1859. Unique.. Contemporary half leather.. A near fine copy with some occasional spotting and dustiness. 8vo, 91 pp + complex text pen & ink drawings and 10 full page ink drawings. An exceptional notebook illustrating all the facets of camp craft for troops in the field. The illustrations demonstrate the construction of bridges, camp sites, individual shelters etc.. The plates are renderings of kitchen installations for large groups of men, encampments, shelters, barracks, latrines, stockades etc..... Read More
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Autograph indenture agreement between Johannes Schuster, Bremen, Germany and Mark Reeve of Burlington, New Jersey in 1802
by Schuster, Hannah - INDENTURED AT THE AGE OF SIX
Burlington, NJ, 1802. As issued.. Very good; some old folds.. Single sheet written by Josiah Foster, Justice, Burlington NJ Johannes Schuster, the father of Hannah Schuster, indentured his daughter to Mark Reeve and his heirs until she was 18 (in 1814) for the price of her passage to New Jersey from Bremen Germany ($45.). She was to receive full lodging, apparel, five quarters of "day schooling", and at the end of her term of indenture her clothes and... Read More
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Uber die Umdrehung der magnetischen Erdpole und ein davon abgeleitetes Gesetz des Trabanten un Planetenumlaufes
by Schweigger, J S C
Nurnberg: J L Schrang, 1814. First separately issued.. disbound.. A very good copy.. 8vo. [4], (3)4 - 90, [2] pp. An early attempt to account for the variations in orbits of the satellites of Saturn and Uranus. The pamphlet is written in a rather annoying epistolary style. Schweigger is best known for his editorship of the important Journal fur Chemie und Physik. See DSB for a biography of the author; Houzeau & Lancaster, III, 1427 & 1472
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Unveiling of the Audubon Monument ....
by New York Academy of Sciences
New York: NY Academy of Sciences, 1893. First Edition.. As issued.. A fine copy.. 4to. An engraved invitation meas. appx. 8 x 11 in. with a portrait of Audubon. A superb engraved invitation, with the original admission ticket and mailing envelope, to the unveiling of the Audubon monument at Trinity Cemetery.
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Scott's New Coast Pilot for the Lakes ....
by Scott, G
Detroit: Free Press Job and Printing House, 1886. First Edition.. Original cloth backed printed paper bds.,. Very good with some rubbing and modest wear to the covers.. 8vo, [4], [3] - 226 pp. There are text illus. of harbors and an inserted, un-numbered, leaf of signals printed in color. A pilot manual for both American and Canadian shores of the Great Lakes describing the harbor approaches etc..
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A Biochemical Survey of Some Mendelian Factors for Flower Coloration
by Scott-Moncrieff, Rose
Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1936. OFFPRINT.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. A good copy.. 4to. A pioneer in chemical determination in genetics.
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Woodstock ; or, the Cavalier ...., 3 vols.
by [Scott, W Sir ]
Edinburgh: A Constable, 1826. First Edition.. Original paste paper boards and paper labels.. A very good set; some wear to the spine and labels.. 8vo. A handsome set of the book in the original boards, as issued. Todd & Bowden #190A - earliest issue with the printer's slug on the verso of the half-title.
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[Equality]
by Anon. - BALTIMORE SCREENS
ca1935. As found.. Very good with one abraded (chipped?), circular, gap (on the necklace of the primary figure) in the painted image that measures appx. 3/16 of an inch in diameter. The gap is on the verso of the screen. The screen mesh is in good condition, i.e., not punctured.. Color lithography [?] on wire screen. The colored surface measures appx. 31 x 24.5 inches. It is stapled on to the plain painted framing boards. A most unusual... Read More
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[Manuscript] Golden Wedding celebration - Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hilton Scribner, Inglehurst, Yonkers-on-Hudson ... 1906
by Scribner, G H
Yonkers [ NY ]: Not published, 1906. Unique.. Contemporary (1907) three quarter morocco; signed binding.. A very good copy with a brown spot on the rear cover appx. 1.5 inches in diameter.. Large 4to,196 leaves. There are watercolors and photographs to accompany the manuscript. Gilbert H Scribner was the Sect'y. of State for New York, wealthy, and part of the social blue book. In 1906 he and his wife, Sarah Woodbury Pettingill, celebrated their golden anniversary. This volume... Read More
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Von den Flüssen des Haupts und der ursachen wie sich dafür zu hütten ....
by Seiller, H
Lignitz: N Schneider, [1612]. First Edition.. Linen rebacked 19th century boards.. A very good copy; some slight spotting.. Small 4to, unpaginated, A P4, Q2 A early provincial imprint from a small Silesian town. One incunable imprint is known to exist from the town but then there is nothing until 1595 when according to Brunet printing was re-established. Durling cites a 1596 imprint (#3703) by the same printer on a book remarkably similar in content to the Seiller... Read More
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L'inoculation du Bon Sens
by [Selis, N J]
Oxfort [sic]: Chez Dan. Prince, 1766. Later Printing.. dsbd.. A very good copy.. 8vo. [2], (3) 4-26 pp. The third (?) printing of a surreptiously printed critique of French society. All printings appear to scarce. An attractive copy. NUC Cites only the defective MH copy.
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Dresden theater
by [Semper, Gottffried] - THEATER - OPERA
[Dresden ?]: Not published., ca 1845. Unique.. Contemporary ebony (?) frame.. Very good.. 68 mm diameter An early painted rendering on a bisque porcelain disk of what has come to be known as the Semperoper Dresden. The building was designed by Gottfried Semper, arguably the most important German architect of the Victorian era, and opened in 1841. This was his first major building - a neo Renaissance theater with subdued ornamentation and an exterior that clearly expressed its... Read More
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