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Arcana of Science and Art: Or an Annual Register of Useful Inventions and Improvements, abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies, and from the Scientific Journals, British and Foreign, of the Past Year. Fourth Year.

London: John Limbird, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp iv, 312, indexed. illustrated with tissued frontis of Liverpool Station and 18 other engravings related to science and technology, including a locomotive, botanic microscope, and bread making machine. Contemporary blue cloth with paper spine label. Spine lean, light general shelfwear... (Item #15213)

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Arcana of Science and Art: Or an Annual Register of Useful Inventions and Improvements, abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies, and from the Scientific Journals, British and Foreign, of the Past Year. Fourth Year.
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NASA/JPL Technical Repot 32-1265. Surveyor Project Final Report, Part II: Science Results

Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 470 pp, with numerous photographs, charts, and diagrams (several folding). Minor cover wear. Tight binding, unmarked text. Presents the science data derived from the lunar soft-landing missions and the scientific analyses conducted by the Surveyor Scientific... (Item #11554)

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NASA/JPL Technical Repot 32-1265. Surveyor Project Final Report, Part II: Science Results
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A Treatise on Small-Pox and Measles [Spine title: Rhazes on the Small-Pox and Measles]

Birmingham, AL: Classics of Medicine Library, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1848 edition, translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. Bound in full brown leather with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt design on spine and front, ribbon bookmark. A very near fine copy, with mild... (Item #12781)

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A Treatise on Small-Pox and Measles [Spine title: Rhazes on the Small-Pox and Measles]. Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar Razi, Rhazes.
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The Cornish Beam Engine

Cornwall: D. Bradford Barton, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 285 pp + foldouts, with illustrations, appendices, index. Light soiling and spotting to edges of text block; contents clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and soiling, some nibbling at edges and folds. A.... (Item #1207)

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The Cornish Beam Engine. D. B. Barton.
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The Microscope in Medicine

London: J. and A. Churchill, 1878. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth edition, "much enlarged." xxxi, 539 pp + author's catalogue; indexed. Extensively illustrated with wood engravings. Boards and corners rubbed, light foxing to title page and first few leaves; binding sound and text clean. Includes chapters on examining tissues, preserving specimens... (Item #2703)

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The Microscope in Medicine. Lionel S. Beale.
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Drug and Specialty Formulas, A Selection of Tested, Modern, and Practical Formulas for Medicinal, Household, Industrial, Commercial, Veterinary, Cosmetic, and Food Specialties

Brooklyn, NY: Chemical Publishing Co., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 307 pp, indexed, bound in red cloth. Boards rubbed at the extremities. Binding sound, text clean. An impressive compendium of recipes for household products, food and beverage products, cosmetics, and medicinal and veterinary preparations. (Item #13631)

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Drug and Specialty Formulas, A Selection of Tested, Modern, and Practical Formulas for Medicinal, Household, Industrial, Commercial, Veterinary, Cosmetic, and Food Specialties. Emil J. Belanger.
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An Easy Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

Philadelphia: Solomon W. Conrad (Joseph Rakestraw, Printer), 1818. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth edition. 3.5" x 5.5", pp. vii, 160, (2) publisher's ads. Two folding plates (one the frontispiece, both astronomical) and 8 additional plates. Contemporary full calf with black spine label. Early ownership markings "Cara J. Carter, Boston, Mass" on... (Item #15216)

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An Easy Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. David Blair, attributed variously to Sir Richard Phillips or Jeremiah Joyce Pseudonym.
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The Use of the Rontgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 9" x 11", 98 pp + 38 leaves of plates, with an additional 26 figures in the text. Original black cloth, signficantly soiled and rubbed. First page of introduction detached (but present), rest of first gathering loosening, dampstain to last 30... (Item #18681)

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The Use of the Rontgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898). W. C. Borden.
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The Practice of Hand-Turning in Wood, Ivory, Shell, Etc. With Instructions for Turning Such Works in Metal as May be Required in the Practice of Turning in Wood, Ivory, Etc. Also, An Appendix on Ornamental Turning. A Book for Beginners

London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1868. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. pp.vii, 304, 16 (ads), illustrated with 99 figures in the text. Publisher's green cloth with beveled edges, gilt stamping on front board and spine. Lower corners rubbed through, mild rubbing to spine ends, title page somewhat browned. All else... (Item #15207)

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The Practice of Hand-Turning in Wood, Ivory, Shell, Etc. With Instructions for Turning Such Works in Metal as May be Required in the Practice of Turning in Wood, Ivory, Etc. Also, An Appendix on Ornamental Turning. A Book for Beginners. Francis Campin.
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Cheselden's Plates of the Human Bones Correctly reduced from the Original Copy, and Improved with Additional Figures; Accompanied with Concise Explanations for the Use of Students

Edinburgh and London: W. M'William and P. Brown; Ogles, Duncan and Cochran; T. Underwood, 1816. Hardcover. Very good_. 4.5 x 7.75 inches, in original paper-covered boards with mounted paper label. Some staining to front board and endpapers, paper over front hinge cracked, about one-third of spine covering lost. Text and... (Item #15155)

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Cheselden's Plates of the Human Bones Correctly reduced from the Original Copy, and Improved with Additional Figures; Accompanied with Concise Explanations for the Use of Students. William Cheselden.
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History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration

New York: Hafner Publishing, 1962. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Reprint of the revised edition of 1945, translated by Mortimer Frank, with additional essays by the other listed authors and a bibliography of Mortimer Frank by J. Christian Bay. 435 pp, indexed and illustated. Bound in green... (Item #13981)

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History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration. Ludwig Choulant, Fielding Garrison, Mortimer Frank, Edward Streeter, Charles Singer.
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Determination of Lunar Equatorial Radius Using Image-Motion Compensation Sensor Data from Lunar Orbiter I

Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. NASA Technical Note (TN) D-5231. 18 pp, stapled wrappers. Original address label from mailing (to Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories) on back cover; initials on front cover. Otherwise unmarked, with minimal wear. (Item #11465)

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Determination of Lunar Equatorial Radius Using Image-Motion Compensation Sensor Data from Lunar Orbiter I. Harold R. Compton, William R. Wells.
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Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New-York for the year 1825, together with the Annual Address by Alexander Coventry, M.D., President of the Society

Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1825. Wraps. Good. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4", disbound from a larger volume (lacking the orignal wraps?); pp. [3], 4-63; pages significantly toned, otherwise very good. The "transactions" portion herein are of standard fare, but the President's Address by Dr. Coventry (1785-1831) is another matter altogether... (Item #20293)

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Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New-York for the year 1825, together with the Annual Address by Alexander Coventry, M.D., President of the Society. Alexander Coventry.
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Diseases Peculiar to Civilized Man, Clinical Management and Surgical Treatment

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 427 pp, with illustrations, bibliography, index of names, index of subjects, foldout of hypertension case studies. Diseases included: neurocirculatory asthenia, hyperthyroidism, peptic ulcer, epilepsy, diabetes, kinetic diseases, psychoneurosis, and hypertension. Discusses presentation and treatment and includes case histories. Boards generally worn; contents... (Item #147)

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Diseases Peculiar to Civilized Man, Clinical Management and Surgical Treatment. George Crile, M. D.
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Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Animals and Plants Under Domestication; Emotions in Man and Animals; Movement in Plants; Descent of Man; Life and Letters; Natural History and Geology; Forms of Flowers; Insectivorous Plants; Geological Observations; Origin of Species; Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs [Complete in 15 Volumes]

New York: D. Appleton and Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, but c. 1900. Westminster edition (also denoted as an Authorized Edition). Limited to 1000 numbered sets, this being #270. Complete fifteen-volume set. Bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering and top edge gilt. Each with a different tissued frontispiece, title... (Item #20271)

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Selected Works of Charles Darwin: Animals and Plants Under Domestication; Emotions in Man and Animals; Movement in Plants; Descent of Man; Life and Letters; Natural History and Geology; Forms of Flowers; Insectivorous Plants; Geological Observations; Origin of Species; Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs [Complete in 15 Volumes]. Charles Darwin.
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Explorer XXXV Attitude Control System

Washington, D.C. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. NASA Technical Note (TN) D-5187. 24 pp, stapled wrappers. Original address label from mailing (to Wright Patterson Air Force Base Aerospace Research Laboratories) on back cover; initials on front cover. Otherwise unmarked, with minimal wear. (Item #11468)

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Explorer XXXV Attitude Control System. J. V. Fedor, T. W. Flatley, M. F. Federline, J. R. Metzger.
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First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of New-York

Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. 336 pp, with 4 plates, index. Original cloth boards show moderate general wear; endpapers foxed, ownership markings on flyleaf, text clean and binding sound. Fitch was a natural historian and entomologist whose extensive studies helped scientists to... (Item #2327)

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First and Second Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of New-York. Asa Fitch.
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Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge

New York: George Braziller, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good dust jacket. xiii, 529 pp, with abbreviations, notes and references, author index, subject index. Minimal wear, book store stamp on front free endpaper; else fine. Dust jacket has edgewear, some losses from old insect damage. According to... (Item #317)

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Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge. J. T. Fraser.
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