Regulations of the War Department governing the Organized Militia under the Constitution and the Laws of the United States

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition. 1908 US REGULATIONS FOR THE "ORGANIZED MILITIA" SPECIFYING PRESIDENTAL AUTHORITY. 23 x 14.5 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, 115 pages. Handstamp of Missouri Historical Society with deaccession stamp on verso title page, text pages unmarked, wear to corners. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.

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The Natural History of Selbourne TOGETHER WITH The Natural History of Insects (2 volumes) TOGETHER WITH The Natural History of Birds, Their Architecture, Habits, and Faculties

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1942-1944. 1840s FOUR ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES FROM HARPER & BROTHERS FAMILY LIBRARY FOR CHILDREN: NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, INSECTS, AND BIRDS. Four hardcover volumes from Harper & Brothers Family Library 6 inches tall, brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, many wood engravings. 1) Selborne 1842, 335 pp; 2) & 3) Insects vols. 1 & 2 1843/1844, 292 pp, 308 pp; 4) Birds 1844, 308 pp. Spine ends frayed, spots to some covers, all bindings tight, text... Read More

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Mortality Statistics 1918 TOGETHER WITH Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918.

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. 1) Mortality Statistics 1918. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of "surplus Library of Congress duplicate" to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: "In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction in the population were made for the withdrawal of... Read More

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Coelenterata Offprints

1858-1937. COELENTERATA: BOUND IN 6 HARDCOVER VOLUMES: NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST'S COLLECTION OF 71 OFFPRINTS BY 32 NOTABLE TURN-OF-CENTURY MARINE BIOLOGISTS, MANY PLATES SIGNED BY AUTHORS--FROM THE LIBRARY OF NOTED DANISH ZOOLOGIST INGMAR LIEBERKIND. 3 quarto and 3 octavo hardcover volumes, 3/4 blue cloth with marbled boards and gilt red leather spine labels, each front paste-down with decorative bookplate and handstamp of Ingvald Lieberkind and his signature on 1 front flyleaf and on a few offprint covers, containing 71... Read More

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CONTAINS CANNON'S FIRST USE OF "HOMEOSTASIS". A Charles Richet - ses amis, ses collegues, ses eleves. (n.p., Paris), May 1926. Bound with: Discours prononces a I'occasion du jubile Charles Richet.

by Abelous, J.E., Arthus, M., Fredericq, L., Gley, E., Lusk, G., Hedon, E., Houssay, B.A., Lapique, L., Nolf, P., Lodge, O., Painleve, P., Pawlow, J., Pi-Suner, A., Portier, P., Richet, C.fils, Roger, G.H., Schafer, E., Sherrington, C.S.

Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. There is a small handstamp at the bottom of the front paste-down, "Bound by Maltby Oxford." Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1].... Read More

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A Dictionary of Biology

by Abercrombie, M., Hickman, C.J. and Johnson, M.L.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951. First edition. FIRST EDITION: PUBLISHED BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, A DICTIONARY THAT WENT THROUGH 12 EDITIONS IN 53 YEARS. 7 inches tall paperback, color printed covers, 246 pp, [11 pp publisher's advertisements]. Light wear to covers, browning to page edges, unmarked. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. MICHAEL ABERCROMBIE (1912 – 1979) was first editor of the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. For most readers of the Journal, Abercrombie will be best known as... Read More

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POSTWAR BIOLOGY 1945-1960. New Biology, vols 1-31

by Abercrombie, M., Johnson, M.L., Barnett, S.A., Bowlby, J., Fisher, R.B., Freeman, R.B., Goldschmidt, V.M., Haldane, J.B.S., Hogben, L., le Gros Clark, W.E., Maynard Smith, J., Medawar, P.B., Pearson, K., Picken, L.E.R., Pringle, J.W.S., Spurway, H., Tinbe

London and New York: Penguin Books, 1945-1960. First edition. SCARCE COMPLETE RUN OF ALL 31 ISSUES OF NEW BIOLOGY--SPANNING THE POSTWAR RISE OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 31 volumes, 7 inches tall, color printed paper covers, light wear to covers, bindings tight, pages age-toned, unmarked, very good minus, all printed. Editorial, vol 31: Swan Song of a Penguin: "This is to be the last number of Penguin New Biology. For fifteen years we have tried to perform a particular function in... Read More

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Abt-Garrison History of Pediatrics

by Abt, Arthur F.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1965. First edition. LANDMARK HISTORY OF PEDIATRICS INSCRIBED BY PHYSICIAN SON OF LEGENDARY CHICAGO PEDIATRICIAN ISAAC ABT. 15X23.5 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, ink inscription front free endpaper, "March 25, 1965/ To Charlie, My roomate at Medical School in our freshman year at johns Hopkins, who met Dr Fielding Garrison with me at Warren Harding's inauguration. My warm friend for many years - with admiration for his many accomplshments in medicine/... Read More

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Abt's Pediatrics

by Abt, Isaac, Blackfan, Kenneth D., Brennemann, Joseph, Dandy, Walter E., Garrison, Fielding H., Grulee, Clifford G., Hess, Julius H., Howland, John, Levinson, Abraham, Royster, Lawrence T., Ruhrah, John, Talbot, Fritz B., Veeder, Borden S. and AUTHORS), (S

Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Co., 1923-1826. First edition. LANDMARK 9-VOLUME ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PEDIATRICS EDITED BY EMINENT CHICAGO PEDIATRICIAN. Nine large hardcover volumes, 9 3/4 inches tall, green cloth bindings, gilt title to spines. Vol. !, i-xi, 1240 pp; Vol. II, i-ix, 1025 pp; Vol. III, i-ix, 1051 pp; Vol. IV, i-xii, 1271 pp; Vol. V, i-ix, 865 pp; Vol. VI, i-ix, 736 pp; Vol. VII, i-ix, 879 pp; Vol. VIII, i-viii, 1102 pp; General Index, [2],... Read More

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The Renal Lesion in Bright's Disease

by Addis, Thomas and Oliver, Jean

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1931. First edition. SCARCE RICHLY ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE BY TWO GIANTS OF 20TH CENTURY NEPHROLOGY. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding with blind-stamped publisher's mark on the front and gilt lettering on spine, large fold-out chart of individual cases in pocket on front paste-down, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page and top first paage, xi + 628 pp. 170 full page plates (2 with color), 21 text... Read More

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42 FINE PLATES. Selections from Embryological Monographs I. Crustacea; II. Echinodermata; III. Acalephs and Polyps TOGETHER WITH Bibliography to Accompany I. Crustacea and Bibliography to Accompany III. Acalephs

by Agassiz, Alexander, Faxon, Walter, Mark, Edward L. and Fewkes, J. Walter

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1882, 1883, 1884. First editions. SCARCE ATLAS OF EMBRYOLOGY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ AND COLLEAGUES--42 FINE LARGE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES WITH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. Three paperbound monographs 23x29 cm, printed paper wraps. I. Crustacea: title page, notice, 14 leaves of text, blank, 14 plates; II. Echinodermata: 44 pp, index, blank, 15 plates; III. Acalephs & Polyps: 52 pp, 13 plates. TOGETHER WITH two paperbound bibliographies "to accompany 'Selections from embryological monographs'", 15x24 cm,... Read More

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Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini

by Agassiz, Alexander

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1904. First edition. 2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and... Read More

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Seaside Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay: Radiates.

by Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Agassiz, Alexander

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. 1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to "Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz". 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text. Spine ends frayed, spine dulled, 1/4 inch chip to bottom corner of free endpaper, otherwise unmarked and overall very good.... Read More

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LARGE ATLAS OF PLATES OF FOSSILS. Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles

by Agassiz, Louis

Neuchatel: H. Wolfrath, 1842-1845. 1845 LARGE ATLAS OF FOSSIL MOLLUSCS ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES BY SWISS PALEONTOLOGIST WHO BECAME EMINENT HARVARD PROFESSOR. 11 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with gilt-ruled marbled paper-covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title and gilt compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, xxii, 1-141, [1], 143-287, 105 fine lithographed plates. Binding tight, wear to cover edges and corners, handstamp of Earth Sciences... Read More

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1882 Die Missbildungen des Menschen [Human Malformations]

by Ahlfeld, Johann Friedrich

1882 FOLIO LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF HUMAN MALFORMATIONS. Two 37x 47 cm folio heavy card folders, black cloth corners and spines, printed paper title labels to covers, containing a total of 49 unbound lithographed plates containing over 750 subjects. Vol. 1 containing Plates I - XXIII, Vol. 2 containing Plates XXIV - XLIX TOGETHER WITH 16 x 24 cm hardcover text volume, marbled paper covers, black cloth spine with contemporary autograph ink title label, i-xv, 297 pp. Light soiling and wear... Read More

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Historia Musculorum Hominis

by Albinus, Bernard Siegfried

Leiden: Haak & Mulhovius, 1734. First edition. 1734 MAGNIFICENT LIFE SIZE ENGRAVINGS OF THE HUMAN HAND SHOWING 4 STAGES OF DISSECTION OF THE MUSCULATURE. 25.5 x 20 x 5 cm hardcover, original leather binding, rebacked, spine with raised bands, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste-down, remains of contemporary ink signature top of front free endpaper, small handstamp of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and contemporary ink sigature to title page, "Ex Libris (illegible ... M.D.)." 696 pp... Read More

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A Hen Pidgeon from the Ninkcombar Islands near Pegu in India FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

by Albin, Eleazar

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 NICOBAR PIGEON, RELATIVE OF THE EXTINCT DODO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A... Read More

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Muscovy Drake, FROM A Natural History of Birds: illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

by Albin, Eleazar

London: Printed for the Author, 1736. First edition. 1736 MUSCOVY DRAKE, ADAPTED TO TROPICAL AND COLD CLIMATES, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720),... Read More

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READY TO FRAME. The Crown Bird from Mexico FROM A Natural History of Birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life

by Albin, Eleazar

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE TURACO, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR ALBIN (1690 – 1742) was an English naturalist and watercolorist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38)... Read More

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The Young Mother, or Management of Children in Regard to Health

by Alcott, William A.

Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836. Second edition. 1836 ADVICE ON CHILD HEALTH FOR YOUNG MOTHERS BY A PHYSICIAN AUTHOR OF THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE. 7 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, engraved title page, 336 pp. Rippling to cloth covers, light foxing throughout, binding tight. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM ANDRUS ALCOTT (1798 - 1859), also known as William Alexander Alcott and second cousin to Louisa May Alcott, was an American educator, physician, and... Read More

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Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology

by Alfven, Hannes

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. First English edition. CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel... Read More

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Fundamenta Genetica: The Revised Edition of Mendel's Classic Paper with a Collection of 27 Original Papers Published During the Rediscoery Era. Published for the Celebration of the Centenary of the Publication of Mendel's Discoveries in Brno in 1865

by Allen, G.M., Bateson, W., Boveri, T., Cannon, W.B., Castle, W.E., Correns, C., Cuenot, L., de Vries, H., Farabee, W.C., Garrod, A.E., McClung, C.E., Mendel, G., Sutton, W.S., Tschermak, E. and Wilson, E.B.

Prague, Brno, Oosterhout: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1965. First edition. UNIQUE COMPILATION OF 17 SEMINAL PAPERS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1895 AND 1904 DURING THE REDISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S FAMOUS 1866 PUBLICATION. 16.5x24 cm hardcover, tan cloth binding, bookplate of William Louis Stern to front paste-down, frontispiece portrait of Mendel, 400 pp, illustrations, jacket flap affixed to back paste-down. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. Introductory text in English by B. Nemec and J. Krizenecky (pp 1-18) is followed... Read More

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A Monograph of the Fresh-Water Polyzoa including all the Known Species, Both British and Foreign

by Allman, George James

London: Ray Society, 1856. First edition. STRIKING LARGE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF MINUTE FRESH WATER INVERTEBRATES. 25.5X36.5 cm recently handsomely bound folio hardcover, blue cloth boards, black leather spine with gilt title, i-viii, 119 pp, 11 engravings (10 hand-colored) with facing letterpress descriptions. Small unobtrusive embossed library stamp to text and plates, browning, old water stain, good+ in custom archival mylar cover. POLYZOA--now known as BRYOZOA are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about... Read More

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Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics

by Alma Le Duc, Sister

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933. First edition, first printing. 1933 PRACTICAL PHARMACOLOGY FOR THE NURSE--WHY, WHEN, AND HOW DRUGS SHOULD BE USED. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, previous owner signature top of front free endpaper, i-xx, 329 pp, illustrations. Corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, browning to page edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "Materia Medica is a living subject and not fixed by any means. It... Read More

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The Living Substance as Such: and as Organism

by Andrews, Gwendolen Foulke

Boston: Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press, 1897. First edition. 1897. SCARCE PROVOCATIVE ESSAY ON THE NATURE OF PROTOPLASM BY PIONEERING FEMALE BIOLOGIST BEFORE THE RISE OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 25 x 18 cm volume in publisher's green printed paper wraps, [4], 176 pp. Covers detached with edges chipped, paper spine partially perished, binding secure, all pages present in a custom protective mylar cover. A complete copy of the first edition of this rare volume. SARA GWENDOLEN FOULKES (1863 – 1936)... Read More

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