Search Results: History of Science from The Owl at the Bridge

Subjects: Valley of the Jordan, crystals in plant tissue, magnetism, New England coprolites, minerals, geology, astronomy, caricography, Alabama Meteoric Iron, many bibliographical notices & miscellanies (Prof. Henry's Experiments on Soap Bubbles); galvanography, zinc, a New Jersey fossil crocodile, Egyptian crania, meteorology, North Atlantic drift ice & currents, meteoric iron. vi, 408 pages, 2 plates, illus.; bound in 3/4 leather, edges & spine worn, pencil owner name on title; Good. Stock#ofc0364.

Contents include mineralogy, Connecticut reptiles, compound salt radicals, Niagara River, fossil footmarks, gallic acid, sailing, North American Equisetum species, astronomy, fossil infusoria, geology, iceberg theory of drift, travels in the Alps of Savoy, analysis of wines from Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, specimens of American Cider, birds in Cumberland County PA, meteorology, glaciers, mastodon remains in KY; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; pencil owner name on title; bound in blue marbled boards, 3/4leather; edges & corners worn; Good. Stock#ofc0366.

Contains much on geology, mineralogy, and metals esp. copper & silver; plants; a new electro-magnetic engine; many bibliographical notices. vii, 412 pages, folding plate, text illus., index; edges & hinges scuffed; Good. Stock#ofc0363.

Subjects include a memoir of William Maclure with portrait, climate, computing interest, fishes of Connecticut, astronomy, geology, natural history, corals, the Gulf Stream, chemistry; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; Number II, Gauss's theory of terrestrial magnetism, natural history of New England, fossils, copper, astronomy, mensuration, a new hippopotamus. vi, 424 pages, 5 plates incl. portrait frontispiece; bound in blue marbled paper, 3/4 leather; lacks front cover, the remainder Good. Stock#ofc0365.

Subjects include Asa Gray on NC botany, geology, chemistry, mensuration, geometry, meteorology, fossils, storms, smelting, mathematics; bibliographical notices & miscellanies; vii, 408 pages, 4 plates, illus.; pencil owner name on title-page; bound in blue marbled boards, 3/4 leather; front cover detached, the rest Good. Stock#ofc0369.

"First Series No. 2." This is the photo-lithographic reprint of the 1906 edition, with a two-page Foreword by F. Sherwood Taylor. Two volumes: [6], xvi, 487; [7], 598 pages; 24.5 cm. Bound in grey-brown linen, red spine labels, gold spine lettering; no dust jackets; light smudging to covers; Very Good. Stock#ofc0709.

336 items, b&w illus.; Very Good in paper covers. Stock#ofc0212.

Glasgow, R. Maclehose, 1943; reprint Martino 2002 with Krown & Spellman. Hard Cover. Ferguson, Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow, is well known among scholars for his 'Bibliotheca Chemica', a catalogue of the alchemical collection of James Young (1811-1883) published in 1906. This two-volume work describing Ferguson's own collection of some 7500 books (about 2500 on alchemy) and 338 manuscripts was first brought out during World War II in only 40 copies due to paper rationing. Two volumes: xv, 384 & [ii], 385-820 pages, oversize octavo; binder's cloth; new from publisher. Besterman 277. Stock#32758x

"A selection of 300 rare and important books illustrating the history of Medicine, Science and Technology including Chemistry and Pharmacology, Natural History, Botany, Zoology and related subjects." Bookseller catalogue, 299 items, index, illus.; paper covers; Good. Stock#ofc0280.

NY, Frederick Unger (1959). Soft Cover. vii, 136, [1] p., illus.; 17.5 cm. "First published, 1929." Thompson on exploration and discovery; Rowley on art; Schevill on Italian society; Sarton on science. Stock#47090. Vg / soft cover.

AAAS [Washington, Press of Gibson Bros., 1915]. Periodical. All you need to know about members & activities, 1911-1915. 63d Meeting, Washington, D.C., 27-30 Dec. 1911; 64th Mtg., Cleveland, 30 Dec. 1912-4 Jan. 1913; 65th Mtg., Atlanta, 29 Dec. 1913-3 Jan. 1914; 66th Mtg., Philadelphia, 28 Dec. 1914-2 Jan. 1915. 495 p., lists, proceedings, members, committees; 25 cm.; sewn in printed paper wrappers; VG. 30566.

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, 1998. Soft Cover. 'An educational institution dedicated to the history, art, and science of glass.' Includes Director's Report, David Whitehouse; Additions to the Glass Collection (Ancient, European, American. 20th-Century); Donors to the Glass Collection; Exhibitionsd (The Glass Skin, 30th Annual Student Art Show, Glass on Loan); The Rakow Library; Research; Publications; Public Programs; Education; Financial Statements (incl. color graphs); Museum Staff; Museum Members. 48 p., 46 color photos incl. front cover; paper covers, 27.5 cm.; fine. Stock# 34.562.

N.Y., Dover [1954]. Soft Cover. xxi, 300 p. 20.5 cm. Facsimile of the title-page of the1638, Discorsi E Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze. This translation by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio first pub. 1914. Stock# 30,942. Vg, new/ wrappers.

New York : Penguin Books, 2000.. Soft Cover. ix, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21.5 cm. "Galileo's Daughter dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion." ISBN (10): 0140280553. Stock# 47809. Vg / soft cover.

Begun with a first edition of Freud's Die Traumdeutung (1900) and assembled by a practicing psychiatrist to include incunabula of science as well as books on anatomy and American medicine & science as well as psychiatry. This list emphasizes provenance and association. 44 pages, 123 items listed, illus., author index; 28 cm. Blue stiff paper wraps, spine sunned; Very Good. Stock#ofc0169.

Contents: Scientific Instruments (lots 1-28), Scientific Books & Manuscripts (29-102), Technology (104-115), Index. 115 lots, color photos; 26.5 cm.; color pictorial stiff-paper covers; VG+. Stock#ofc0196.

Preface by Sidney F. Huttner, Assistant Department Head, Special Collections; essay "Joseph Hale Schaffner, Gentleman Book Collector" by Jacob Zeitlin of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge BooksellersExhibition catalogue: 30 leaves, 107 items, illus., index of names; 28 cm. Paper; Very Good with minor shelfwear. Stock#ofc0167.

NY, Vintage/Random House, 1993. 'First Vintage International Edition, October 1993'. 'In a brilliant illumination of the Renaissance mind, the acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler [1571-1630] and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe.' Soft Cover. 193 pages; 20 cm. Paper, front edge a bit scuffed; VG+. Stock#30328.

title continues: ...Nouvelle Edition corrigée et disposée dans un ordre plus méthodique, Augmentée d'une exposition des recherches ou des opinions de la Chambre, de Porta, de Camper, de Gall, sur la physionomie; d'une histoire anatomique et physiologique de la face; précédée d'une notice historique sur l'auteur, Par Moreau (de la Sarthe), Professeur à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Ornée de 600 gravures en taille-douce, dont 82 tirées en couleur, et exécutées sous l'inspection de Vincent, peintre. Tome Deuxième. Bound in brown mottled boards, leather spine gone, internal foxing; a good using copy. Stock#ofc0878.

Madrid, Sanz, 1971. Soft Cover. 32 pages, illus. (8 facsimiles, 6 maps); 24.5 cm. VG/ wrappers. Stock#30030.