Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Report by a committee appointed to make a collection of observations on the total solar eclipse of Nov. 30, 1834: Alex. Dallas Bache, Jos. Roberts,Jun., and Isaiah Lukens. [1], 234-247, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read..... More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 210-215, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on Nov. 7, 1834. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and grandson of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Dallas, taught engineering at West..... More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. [1], 428-457, [1] p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. This article was read before the Society on May 6, 1836. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, taught engineering at West Point; served in the United States..... More

Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818. Hardcover. 2 volumes: [8], 251, [1] p.; [3], 6-234 p.; 19 cm. Contemporary tree calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled volume numbers in 4th compartment. Remains of old hand-written paper labels at head of each spine. Each volume contains an..... More

Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1909. Hardcover. Zweite, vollkommen durchgesehene und teilwweise Neubearbeitete Auflage. xvi, 766 p.: color frontispiece and 19 additional leaves of plates (7 in color), many in-text illustrations, including maps; 30 cm. Publisher's half diced calf with maroon cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title. Top page edges gilt..... More

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1940. Paperback. viii, 506 p., 73 leaves of illustrations; 24 cm. Beige paper covers printed in black. Faint stamp at the head of the front cover and title page for the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Philadelphia. Bookplate for the Foundation inside front cover stamped "Withdrawn."..... More

London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1971. Hardcover. xiv, 338 p.: in-text formulas and drawings; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Michael Wade. Contains essays on body movement and human commnication, some previously published and others published here for the first time. Book..... More

Göttingen, Germany: Elie Luzac, fils, 1754. Hardcover. Imprint: A Gottingue & Leide, chez Elie Luzac, Fils. vii, [1], 343, [1] p., 31 leaves of folded plates; 26 cm. Signatures: *4 A-2V4 (4to). Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Reddish leather spine label in second compartment..... More

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1855. Hardcover. Second American from the Third and Revised London Edition. 287, [1], 12 p., 1 folded table: in-text drawings and tables; 20 cm. Dark brown rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Bowman's Medical Chemistry. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Final 12 pages contain publisher's catalog..... More

Philadelphia: Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1935. 1 printed form filled in by hand. The Zoological Society of Philadelphia thanks Howard Page Wood for the gift of one spiny soft-shelled turtle. Signed by the director, C. Emerson Brown. Undated. Clarence Emerson Brown (1869-1949) was director of the Philadelphia Zoo from 1922..... More

London: Printed for the Author, by S. Couchman, 1801. Title continued: "Designed as a Supplement to the Author's Engraved Introduction to Arithmetic; and intended to answer the double purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information. To which are subjoined, Observations on Weights and Measures, with a complete collection of arithmetical..... More

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1874. Hardcover. "A New, Revised, and Improved Edition. To which is added an Appendix, containing The manufacture of Russian sheet iron by John Percy; The manufacture of malleable iron castings, and improvements in bessemer steel by A.A. Fesquet." 683, [1], 23, [1] p.: 609 in-text illustrations..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover. [8], 326, x, [6] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-stamped author's initials on front cover. Top page edges yellow. Dust jacket in mylar cover, with author's photograph on back section. Stated First Edition. In this, one of the founding..... More