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The Development of the Human Eye. With a Foreword by Sir John Herbert Parsons.
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The Development of the Human Eye. With a Foreword by Sir John Herbert Parsons.

by Mann, Ida C.

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Cambridge: at the University Press, 1928. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. 2 plates, numerous diagrams and illustrations from photos within the text. Spine rolled and a little faded, cloth rubbed at the extremities, upper corner bumped, lower hinge cracked, contents faintly toned. Very good condition. The rare first edition of this ground-breaking work on the embryology of the human eye. No copies are noted in auction records since 1980. Dame Ida C. Mann (married name Gye, 1893-1983) entered the London School of Medicine for Women in 1914, and also undertook training at the Royal Free and St Mary's hospitals. During the period at St Mary's she assisted Professor J. E. S. Frazer in embryological research; her developmental studies were presented as a dissertation for the DSc (London, 1924), and formed the basis of her notable first textbook, The Development of the Human Eye (1928), still in print forty years later" (ODNB). "After qualifying Mann decided to specialize in… Read More
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Women in the War—We Can't Win Without Them.
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Women in the War—We Can't Win Without Them.

by War Manpower Commission

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Washington D.C.: US Govt. Printing Office, 1942. Colour poster (28 x 40 in). Professionally mounted, glazed, and framed using archival materials. Original creases from folding, bright and fresh. Excellent condition. An important Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, "Women in the War" was one of the most widely distributed images of a woman laboring in war production, unlike the "We Can Do It" poster, which was produced only for Westinghouse plants during a few weeks in 1943 and did not become iconic until the 1980s. "Among the many agencies President Roosevelt had created during the war was the War Manpower Commission, formed in April 1942 to oversee war labor issues in the military, industrial, and civilian sectors. And in June 1942, the Office of War Information was formed to manage the flows of news and propaganda about the war to the public. By 1943, when the labor shortage was most acute, the two… Read More
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Letters Upon the Art of Miniature Painting.
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Letters Upon the Art of Miniature Painting.

by Mansion, [Andre Leon Larue]

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London & Paris: R. Ackerman; L. Janet, 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. Original pink boards, printed paper label to spine. Frontispiece and hand-coloured folding plate. Near-contemporary ownership inscription dated 1842. Boards rubbed and tanned at the edges with some small marks and spots, spine browned, ends of spine worn and chipped, corners bumped and worn, a few lights spots to early and late leaves, otherwise contents fresh. A very good copy. First edition of this guide to miniature painting designed for the education of young ladies. The author, Andre Leon Larue was born in 1785 and known professionally as Mansion. The son of a portrait painter, he worked as a miniaturist and also achieved remarkable results as a tinter of photographs during the 1840s and 50s. This was his first book on painting; the second was The Principles and Practice of Harmonious Colouring in Oil, Water, and Photographic Colours on Paper, Glass and Silver Plate. The present volume was… Read More
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O Gadach bez Sensacji.
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O Gadach bez Sensacji.

by Marya ska, Teresa

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Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, Muzeum Ziemi pan Warszawa, 1970. Duodecimo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black with a black and white photo of fossilised dinosaur skin to the upper wrapper. Folding map. Diagrams and illustrations from black and white photographs throughout the text. Contemporary price sticker to the rear cover. Wrappers a little tanned and rubbed, tail of spine bumped. A very good copy. First edition, first impression. A rare copy of this charming, illustrated booklet on dinosaurs published by Warsaw's Museum of the Earth. WorldCat only locates one copy, at the National Library of Poland. The detailed edition statement records that this book was submitted for typesetting in October 1969 and approved for printing in March 1970, with the order number dated 1969, for a total of 5,200 copies. Though the date 1979 appears above the statement, this is a typo, likely for 1970 (many thanks to Philip Penka of Bernett Penka Rare Books for the translation). Author Teresa Marya ska… Read More
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Aspects of Hadrosaurian Cranial Anatomy [offprint from] Lethaia, Volume 12, pp. 265-273.
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Aspects of Hadrosaurian Cranial Anatomy [offprint from] Lethaia, Volume 12, pp. 265-273.

by Marya ska, Teresa & Halszka Osmólska

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Oslo: Lethaia, 1979. 10-page offprint, wire-stitched. Illustrations within the text. A little minor creasing. Excellent condition. A rare, inscribed offprint by Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008), "one of the most productive dinosaur paleontologists of her generation" and "a giant" in the field (Dodson, "Polish Women in the Gobi – In Loving Memory of Halszka Osmólska", American Paleontologist, Vol. 16, No. 3, Fall 2008). Inscribed by the author on the upper cover using an abbreviated form of her signature, "from HOsm...". This article reports on the authors' observations of hadrosaur cranial structures, based on fossils collected from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation by the Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions as well as examination of the hadrosaurs in the collections of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Osmólska graduated from the University of Warsaw in 1955, and spent most of her career at the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she served as… Read More
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Cranial Anatomy of Saurolophus Angustirostris with Comments on the Asian Hadrosauridae...
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Cranial Anatomy of Saurolophus Angustirostris with Comments on the Asian Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria). Results of the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions–Part IX [offprint from] Palaeontologia Polonica Number 42, pp. 5-24.

by Marya ska, Teresa & Halszka Osmólska

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Warsaw & Kraków: Zak ad Paleobiologii, Polska Akademia Nauk, 1981. 11-page offprint, perfect bound. Original olive wrappers printed in black. 2 plates, illustrations within the text. Some minor creasing at the spine and light rubbing along the edges, small spot to the title page. Very good condition. An uncommon offprint announcing results from the important Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions. These expeditions to the Gobi, which were led by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska between 1965 and 1971, resulted in the excavation of thirty-five tons of fossils. They "added greatly to our understanding of the diversity of dinosaurs. The material collected in those few years provided material for major portions of the careers of five or six Polish scientists" and "the scientific descriptions of dinosaurs that soon began to flow from the expeditions were almost exclusively written by Polish women, women who up to then had published on Paleozoic invertebrates" (Dodson, "Polish Women in the Gobi – In Loving… Read More
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Studies on Fibers in Tissue Culture III. The Development of Reticulum into Collagenous Fibers in...
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Chiacgo, IL: The University of Chicago, 1929. 25 page pamphlet. Original grey wrappers printed in black. 4 colour plates, 5 illustrations from microphotographs within the text. Closed tears to the wrappers at the head and tail of spine, light toning and dulling at the edges of the wrappers, a few light marks, contents faintly toned. Very good condition. The rare offprint of the dissertation of the first Black American to earn a doctorate in anatomy, a presentation copy inscribed by the author to his doctoral advisor on the upper wrapper, "To Dr. W. Bloom with my best regards, Roscoe L. McKinney". WorldCat locates only three institutional copies: at Duke University, the University of Chicago, and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Roscoe L. McKinney (1900-1978) earned his bachelor's degree from Bates College in 1921 and then worked as a biology professor, first at Morehouse and then at Howard University, where his department head was the famed zoologist Ernest Everett Just. McKinney's doctoral work was… Read More
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Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la Doctrine Chimique. Nouveau Tirage.
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Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la Doctrine Chimique. Nouveau Tirage.

by Metzger, Hélène

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Paris: Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard, 1974. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. Contents unopened. Slight creasing of the spine, a few small dark spots to the lower wrapper and a faint spot to the upper wrapper. An excellent copy. Second edition, facsimile reissue of this influential work in the history of science, originally published in 1930. Hélène Metzger (1889-1944) studied science against the wishes of her father, specialising in crystallography at the Sorbonne. Her first degree was awarded based on her study of lithium chlorate, and her doctoral thesis, submitted in 1918, was on the historical origins of crystallography. "From this beginning, Metzger began her focus on the history of chemistry, particularly French history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She moved away from the 'great man' idea of science and focused instead on the importance of lesser-known figures who often held 'false' theories... She continued to write the history of… Read More
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[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.
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[Art Nouveau chromolithographic pharmaceutical catalogue] Katalog No. 4.

by Michael Birk, Tuttlingen Deutschland

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Tuttlingen, Germany: Michael Birk, [c. 1890s]. Quarto. Original limp cloth wrappers blocked in gilt, grey, black, and white, blue endpapers, blue top-stain. 15 double-sided leaves of chromolithographic, metallic-printed, and embossed designs, of which 6 are folding, engravings throughout the other 290 pages. Minor bumps at the corners. A superb, fresh copy in unused condition with many of the leaves unopened and still delicately adhering to each other at the edges. A superb, unused Art Nouveau chromolithographic catalogue issued by the German pharmaceutical and medical supply firm Michael Birk, probably in the 1890s. This remarkable, 320 page catalogue catalogue contains 15 double-sided plates of elaborate chromolithographic, metallic, and embossed designs for product labels, as well as another 290 pages advertising an incredible array of other products. The chromolithographic labels could be ordered in bulk to be used on bottles and jars filled in person by the pharmacist, and some could be… Read More
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Field Book of Animals in Winter. With 283 Illustrations, Including 4 Full-Colour Plates.
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Field Book of Animals in Winter. With 283 Illustrations, Including 4 Full-Colour Plates.

by Morgan, Ann Haven

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, all edges dyed red. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 14 plates of which 11 are double-sided, including 2 double-sided colour illustrations. Numerous illustrations within the text. Yellow pencil sometimes used to highlight passages, primarily in the early chapters. A few tiny bumps at the edges of the cloth. An excellent, fresh copy in a very attractive example of the dust jacket that is lightly rubbed with some small nicks and chips, a little creasing at the edges, and mild toning of the spine panel. First edition, first printing and a lovely copy in the dust jacket. The Field Book of Animals in Winter is much less common than Morgan's book on ponds and streams, and is rarely found in such nice condition. As a child, Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) developed a love of nature by exploring the areas around her home in Connecticut. She earned her bachelor's degree and doctorate at Cornell, the latter… Read More
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The Crucible of Creation. The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals.
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The Crucible of Creation. The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals.

by Morris, Simon Conway

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. 2 double-sided colour plates, illustrations throughout the text. Jacket very lightly rubbed, with a contemporary ISBN sticker to the lower panel. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression and a very attractive copy. This volume by leading palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris describes the discovery and interpretation of fossils from the famed Burgess Shale in Canada, which dates from the Cambrian period 545 million years ago. Prior to this time most living things were loosely organised colonies of single-celled organisms, but the Cambrian saw a dramatic increase in diversity, with the evolution of many new body types and survival strategies. The majority of animal and plant body plans we know today evolved during the Cambrian, and this time period has been a source of mystery and scientific debate since the early 19th century. The Burgess Shale is a rich source of Cambrian… Read More
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On the Morphology and Classification of the Brachiopod Suborder Chonetoidea. With Sixteen Plates...
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On the Morphology and Classification of the Brachiopod Suborder Chonetoidea. With Sixteen Plates and Twenty Four Figures in the Text.

by Muir-Wood, Helen

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London: printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, May, 1962. Large octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, borders of boards blocked in blind. 16 plates from photographs, diagrams within the text. First edition of this culminating work by one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric brachiopods, a large phylum of marine bivalves valuable for their role in understanding and dating geological strata. "Brachiopods are characteristic of shallow marine environments, and in some Palaeozoic rocks they are the main rock-forming component. Brachiopods are also particularly suitable for palaeoecological analyses. Influenced by such factors as water depth, salinity, oxygen levels and static lifestyle, the distribution patterns of fossil brachiopods provide a useful tool in deducing the position of ancient shorelines and the past distribution of land and sea. Through the rapid evolution of some brachiopod lineages, they can be useful for understanding the relative ages of rock… Read More
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