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A Catalogue of Portraits and Other Works of Art in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society.

By: American Philosophical Society.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia:, American Philosophical Society, 1961.: 1961

Seller ID: S12085

FIRST EDITION. Series: Memoirs of the APS Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Vol. 54. 8vo. viii, 173 pp. 59 illustrations, including color frontis. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, dust-jacket; jacket edge worn, else very good. First Edition.
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Sir Isaac Newton.

By: ANTHONY, H.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, New York, Toronto:, Abelard-Schuman, (1960).: 1960

Seller ID: BL1553

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 224 pp. Frontis., plates, glossary, index. Beige cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Very good. First Edition.
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A tribute to Michael Faraday.

By: APPLEYARD, Rollo.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London:, Constable, 1931.: 1931

Seller ID: BL1335

8vo. xiii, 203 pp. Frontis., 19 illus. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket; jacket chipped with tape repairs. Bookplates of Burndy and A. Still. Rare in jacket. Very good. Dust jacket present.
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An Index to Biographical Fragments in Unspecialized Scientific Journals.

By: BARR, E. Scott.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University, AL:, University of Alabama Press, (1973).: 1973

Seller ID: BL4000

8vo. vii, 294 pp. Blue gilt-stamped cloth. Very good +.
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Haeckel, Chwolson und die Chinesische Mauer. Ein Epilog.

By: BERGFELD, Ludwig.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Heidelberg:, Karl Groos, 1908.: 1908

Seller ID: BL4272

8vo. 18 pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good.
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Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry.

By: BOAS, Marie.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, University Press, 1958.: 1958

Seller ID: RH1246

8vo. vii, 239 pp. Index. Gilt-stamped red cloth, dust jacket; rubbed. Scarce in jacket. Very good. Dust jacket present.
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My life & my views. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.

By: BORN, Max (1882-1970).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribners Sons, (1968).: 1968

Seller ID: S3640

215 x 150 mm. 8vo. [vi], 216 pp. Index. Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket; jacket lightly worn. Ownership signature. Fine.
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My life & my views. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.

By: BORN, Max (1882-1970).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons, (1968).: 1968

Seller ID: S4626

FIRST EDITION. 215 x 148 mm. 8vo. vi, 216 pp. Index. Black cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket. Fine. First Edition.
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My life & my views. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen.

By: BORN, Max (1882-1970).

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons, (1968).: 1968

Seller ID: S4860

217 x 152 mm. 8vo. [vi], 216 pp. Index. Gilt-stamped green cloth, dust-jacket; jacket chipped else fine.
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John M. Brooke: Naval Scientist and Educator.

By: BROOKE, George M., Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charlottesville:, University Press of Virginia, (1980).: 1980

Seller ID: BL2024

ISBN: 0813908094

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xiii, 372 pp. Illustrations, maps, index. Navy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. ISBN: 0813908094 First Edition.
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Scientists at Work. Profiles of today's groundbreaking scientists from Science Times, New York Times . . . Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould.

By: CHANG, Laura (editor).

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York:, McGraw-Hill, (2000).: 2000

Seller ID: S6474

8vo. xix, 372 pp. index. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea.

By: CLARK, Ronald William.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York:, Random House, (1984).: 1984

Seller ID: BL1512

ISBN: 039452134X

Second printing. 8vo. x, 449 pp. Plates, index. Quarter blue cloth with brown paper boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, dust-jacket. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 039452134X
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Giovan Stefano Conti lettere a Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich. A cura di Edoardo Proverbio. Volume I (1760-1771).

By: CONTI, Giovan Stefano.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Roma:, Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL, 1996.: 1996

Seller ID: RH1334

Series: Scritti e documenti, 22; Documenti boscovichiani, IV. 8vo. 339 pp. Illus. Printed wrappers. Fine. A second (and final) volume was issued in 1998.
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Oltre il Mito; Lamarck e le scienze naturali del suo tempo.

By: CORSI, Pietro.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: (Bologna):, Il Mulino, (1983).: 1983

Seller ID: S12461

ISBN: 8815002715

8vo. 433 [10] pp. Bibliography, index; pp. 65-68 dog-eared due to improper bindery trimming. Green printed wrappers; rubbed. Title INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO ROGER HAHN. Very good. Rare. ISBN: 8815002715
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British Scientists of the Twentieth Century.

By: CROWTHER, J.G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London:, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1952).: 1952

Seller ID: BL4060

8vo. xiv, 320 pp. Plates, index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket torn. Very good.
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Statesmen of science. . ..

By: CROWTHER, James Gerald (b. 1899).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London:, Cresset Press, (1965).: 1965

Seller ID: S4919

FIRST EDITION. 222 x 147 mm. 8vo. xiii, [3], 391 pp. Frontis., numerous plates, index. Red cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket; jacket chipped. Very good. Biographies of Henry Brougham, William Robert Grove, Lyon Playfair, The Prince Consort, The Seventh Duke of Devonshire, Alexander Strange, Richard Burdon Haldane, Henry Thomas Tizard, and Frederick Alexander Lindemann. First Edition.
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Recueil des Eloges Historiques lus dans les Seances Publiques de l'Institut Royal de France. Tome Troisieme.

By: CUVIER, George.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: (Brussels):, (Culture et Civilisation, 1969).: 1969

Seller ID: S11299

Reprint of 1827 edition (Paris: F. G. Levrault). Series: Eloges Historiques des Membres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1820 a 1827. Vol. III only. 8vo. [iv], 506 pp. Paper-backed boards, gilt-stamped red leather spine labels. Burndy Library bookplate. Fine.
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Lawrence and Oppenheimer.

By: DAVIS, Nuel Pharr.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York:, Simon & Schuster, (1968).: 1968

Seller ID: S0923

SECOND PRINTING. 239 x 162 mm. 8vo. 384 pp. 2 text figs., bibliog., index. Gray cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.
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Einstein.

By: DE BROGLIE, Louis, Louis ARMAND & Pierre-Henri SIMON.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York and London:, Peebles Press, (1979).: 1979

Seller ID: BL1777

ISBN: 0856900702

English translation of original 1966 French text. 8vo. 219 pp. Photos, figs. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket rubbed, else fine. Burndy bookplate. ISBN: 0856900702
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The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse: The Autobiography of Carl Djerassi.

By: DJERASSI, Carl.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York:, Basic Books, (1992).: 1992

Seller ID: S12486

ISBN: 0465057594

8vo. viii, 319 pp. Illus., index. Quarter black gilt-stamped cloth, paper boards, dust-jacket; small remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine. ISBN: 0465057594 "Father of the birth control pill, developer of antihistamines, founder of biomedical companies, teacher of world-class chemists, best-selling novelist.. . . As The Scientist notes, "Few can match Carl Djerassi's juggling act for success and longevity." Here is Djerassi's remarkable autobiography. Blending vivid descriptions of the lucrative world of drug development with controversial chapters on the politics of contracept...
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