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Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Very good condition. Signed and dedicated by co-author C. M. A. Clark to A. B. Atkinson, previous owner. Front cover leading corners are a little dog-eared, slightly affecting corners of first few pages. Pages are sound and clear. TA. Signed and Dedicated By Author. Used.

Paperback. viii, 120p., hint of sunning on front wrap, else in very good condition.

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Good. T. M. Richardson, J. A. Houston R.S.A., R. P. Leitch, T. L. Rowbotham, Edward Duncan, J. Needham (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1881 though not dated. Size quarto, 10" tall, 46 pages. Mid brown cloth covered boards with titles on gilt frame surrounded by a leafy branch in green to the front cover and plain spine, attractive School Board for London prize gilt vignette on the rear cover. Condition good, the binding is slightly rubbed at the edges otherwise very nice. There is foxing to the title page, contents page and first 3 text pages and also the last four text pages, the margins of the last colour plate and the publisher's advertisements and rear end-paper. The rest of the contents are quite clean, there is the odd spot or two to the margins of a couple of the plates but the plates are good, printed on different paper and tipped in to the book. With each plate there are excellent instructions on how to execute the sketch from start to finish and there are also vignettes as chapter headpieces which on the contents page are also recommended to the reader can be reproduced as further sketching lessons. Nine colour plates and black and white sketches by T. M. Richardson, J. A. Houston R.S.A., R. P. Leitch, T. L. Rowbotham, Edward Duncan, J. Needham.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Series: Operating and Programming Systems. x 165p hardback, orange boards fresh and tight, text from typescript, excellent copy, never used, name to inside cover, no traces of use Language: English.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Princeton, New Jersey: Friends of the Princeton University Library, 1976. Appears unread. Fine condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently never read. This issue features articles about The Scheide Library and highlights from it by Edwin Wolf 2nd; Frederic R. Goff; Paul Needham; Bruce M. Metzger; John V. Fleming; etc. First Edition. Softcover. Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. (iv), pp. 67 - 172. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in tan cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and floral design to front, no dustjacket. 46pp + 4pp book catalogue to rear. 9 colour plates, 8 b/w sketches. Not library copy, name/date in ink to front pastedown. (3/1).

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Tipped-in Colour illustrations. Very Good, without dust jacket. Prize inscription on front free endpaper.

xxi,490pp. lar.8vo. with black dust jacket (sl.rubbed). sl.foxing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Contents bright and attractive. Binding firm. Some light foxing on text block and on front and back boards. Else light shelf wear only.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American Printing Thus. 236 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black. Stated First Printing, But Actually First American Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.00 At Bottom Of Front Flap, Price Label At Top Of Front Flap. Reason Demands That Science Be Used To Understand And Improve Society And In Particular Its Institutions And Government; But The Demand Is Unreasonable, As Science Has Boundless Universal Audience And Participation And Review And Analysis And Criticism Subject To Explicit Standards, Whereas Society Does Not- Its Standards Are Vaguely Philosophical But Essentially Clan-Specific And Religious. To The Everlasting Surprise Of Society, Its Standards Are Occasionally Revised By Popular Sentiment When Experience, Including Some Consideration Of Science, Is Overwhelmingly Indicative Of Its Failings. The Academicians Here Assert Some Scientific Expertise In General, Which Is Not The Way Scientific Expertise Works In Social Concerns.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 243 Pp. Cloth. First Edition. A Near Fine Example With A Small Bump To The Upper Tip Of The Front Board. Bookplate Of W H L "Herman" Mayer, University Of Chicago Mathematician, With Photograph At Top, And Also His U Of C Name Stamp. Clean Dj With Some Chipping At Edges/Corners, Loss Of 1/2 Of "N" In Macmillan On Spine, And Last Few Letters In Publisher's Address On Rear Panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. large 8vo., [xii], 167 pages, with 24 colour and 26 black & white plates 9 maps and plans, marbled endpapers, inner double-ruled borders & gilt dentelles, all edges blocked in gilt, specially bound in contemporary navy blue morocco by C. Fox, Manchester Square, London, triple gilt ruled outer borders and gilt design to both covers, together with the 4th Earl of Kilmorey's gilt crest with his initial K underneath to centre of upper cover, fine gilt-ruled and decorated spine in compartments with raised bands. A practically fine clean copy in a most handsome binding. Ex Libris Captain Francis Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey with his gilt crest and initial to upper cover of binding. There is also a neat signed presentation inscription to the Earl of Kilmorey (aka Viscount Newry) which reads 'Newry with every possible good wish.Xmas 1918' to the verso of the frontispiece. Sea Fights of the Great War: Naval Incidents During the First Nine Months (1918) is an historical naval work by William Lionel Wyllie and M. F. Wren, featuring illustrations by W.L. Wyllie, a renowned marine artist. The book, which covers naval incidents from the beginning of World War I, was published with the permission of the Admiralty. With chapters on The Rival Fleets; Incidents in Home Waters; Goeben and Breslau The Far East - Siege of Tsingtau; Samoa and Kaiser Wilhelm's Land; Clearing the Trade Routes; The Battle of Coronel; The Battle of the Falkland Islands; The Destruction of Konigsberg; The Bombardment of the Belgian Coast; Naval Operations against Turkey. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Original printed wraps 19x25cm. 16pp. Covers dusted, reinforced internally with archival tape to the hinges and edges, and externally to the spine with a little loss to spine ends and corners. Interiors very good, lightly tanned with some spotting, and inscription to final page. Suakin, a key trade and Hajj port on the Sudanese Red Sea coast, was at this time a strategic location in the Mahdist War. Dated 15 October 1887 to Moore's Introduction, this coincides with military operations in the region, with Suakin itself coming under Mahdist attack on 20 December. Watson (1844-1916) had served under Gordon in Sudan during 1874-5, and participated in the survey of the White Nile. He performed special intelligence duties in the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882), then appointed as Governor General of the Red Sea Littoral while much of Sudan was under Dervish control. He handed over to Kitchener in 1886, who was based at Suakin during 1886-8. Wilson compiled this work from R.N. Cust's vocabulary, with Khalifah Safwah and Khalifah Abdullah assisting on the Beni-Amer, and Idris Effendi on the Hadendoa, the latter a Madhi supporting nomadic sub-division of the Beja. The whole was revised by Marcopoli Bey. The vocabulary is presented in 7 columns (one for English, and 2 each for Arabic, Hadendowa and Beni-Amer in Latin and original scripts), and includes some short phrases. Scarce. (Ref. Dictionary of Irish Biography).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New.

Zustand: Used: Very Good. Relié, jaquette illustrée, nombreuses illustrations, très bon état.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. Narrow tall 4to. (6) + 65 + (1)pp. 1 bw plate. Publisher's printed blue wrappers, black lettering + royal crest on front. 2 metal staples. Slight browning around cover edges, faint browning to pages else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG. WE SPECIALISE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. [A massive 46 volume set] Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin, and later Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Mixed set with mostly softcovers, printed 1959-1978. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Bookplates of Temkin inside hardcovers. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. 3, 1959-1960; Vol. 6, 1962-1963; Vol. 11, No. 1, Autumn 1967; Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1968; Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 1968; Vol. 11, No. 4, Summer 1968; Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn 1968; Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1969; Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1969; Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1969; Vol. 13, No. 1, Autumn 1969; Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1970; Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1970; Vol. 13, No. 4, Summer 1970; Vol. 14, No. 1, Autumn 1970; Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 1971; Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1971; Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1971; Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1971; Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 1972; Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring 1972; Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1972; Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn 1972; Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 1973; Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1973; Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 1973; Vol. 17, No. 1, Autumn 1973; Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1974; Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1974; Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 1974; Vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1974; Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1975; Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1975; Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1975; Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn 1975; Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1976; Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 1976; Vol. 19, No. 4, Summer 1976; Vol. 20, No. 1, Autumn 1976; Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 1977; Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 1977; Vol. 20, No. 4, Summer 1977; Vol. 21, No. 1, Autumn 1977; Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1978; Vol. 21, No. 3, Spring 1978; Vol. 21, No. 4; Summer 1978. Interesting articles in this collection include: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Intelligence by Arthur J. Jensen; On the Treatment of Stimulant Abuse by Pierre Renault and Charles R. Schuster; The Normal, and the Perils of the Sylleptic Argument by Edmond A. Murphy; The Interdeterminacies of the Brain by Donald O. Walter; The Prometheus Experiment by Bernard L. Strehler; Scientific Medicine and Historical Research by Owsei Temkin; The Origins of Life by Hans Gaffron; Viruses and Evolution by E.A. Evans Jr.; Observations on the Comparative Anatomy of the Avian Brain; Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Joseph Needham; Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective by Sir Julian Huxley; Critical Brain Size and Language by John C. Lilly; Linguistic Habits of Science by Irwin D.J. Bross; The Evolution of Modern Cardiology by Werner Forssmann; Some Possible Genetic Implications of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice by Nathaniel Weyl; In Search of Homunculus by George T. Jacobi; Experimental Tumor of the Interstitial Gland of the Testicle by Robert Courrier; Differential Evolutionary Patters of Experimentally Induced Ovarian Tumors by Alexander Lipschutz; Delight in Evil by Orville T. Bailey; The Origins of DNA by M. Sluyser; Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Theodosius Dobzhansky; Fallacies and Errors in the Wonderlands of Biology, Medicine, and Lewis Carroll by Dwight J. Ingle; A Case of Recurrent Pseudocyesis by C. Knight Aldrich; Medicare in Utopia by Ilza Veith; Malignant Transformation of Cells by Viruses by Howard M. Temin; Natural Selection and the Origin of Life by Gordon Allen; Lasting Biological Effects of Early Influences by Rene Dubos; A Cell Is Not an Island Entire of Itself by Paul A. Weiss; Some Genetic Aspects of Plantations Slavery by Nathaniel Weyl; The Possible Vascular Regulation of Luteal Function by Bruce B. Pharriss; Race, Reality, and Experimental Psychology by Clyde E. Noble; Divine Humor by E. Gellhorn; The Discovery of Serotonin by Irvine H. Page; Lessons from the Discovery of Modern Diuretic Therapy by Karl H. Beyer Jr.; On the Nature of Consciousness and of Physical Reality by David L. Wilson; The Potential of Negative Pions for Cancer Radiation Therapy by Richard Madey; Trends in Current Research on t.