Sciences

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Delagrave, reprints, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: Premiere Partie- La Ligne Droite, Le Plan, Les Polyedres, 265 pages including fold-out diagrams. Vol. 2: Deuxieme Partie- Cones et Cylindres, Sphere et Surfaces du Second Degre, 714 pages including fold-outs. Ex-library copies in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. Usual stamping, residue to end papers, previous owner's signature, sticker shadow to bottom of spines. Internally clean, very good. Leather shows wear, especially volume one. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Taylor & Francis, Inc./Garland, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 343 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rockefeller Institute Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, 395 pages. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Clean, tight cover.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover has some faint smudges, and some fraying to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations and educational diagrams throughout.

Softcover. US, National Park Service , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press;, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 584 pages. The only field guide to cover all North American butterfly species, this monumental work is also a complete natural history, fully describing the biological and ecological world of butterflies in general. It is without question the most important book on butterflies in several decades, and the most complete treatment of a major butterfly faun ever published. The book is written at several levels of detail, most of it accessible to anyone, and employs the minimum of technical terms necessary for ensuring scientific accuracy. Extensive introductory material-a book in itself-stresses butterfly biology and ecology: structure, flight, metamorphosis, hibernation, physiology, roosting, migration, mating, egg laying, intelligence, social behavior, larval and adult foods, enemies, mimicry, variation, evolution, habitats, distribution, and conservation. The main text is arranged in phylogenetic sequence, and characteristics or behavior common to all members of a family, subfamily, or tribe are discussed at those levels. The skippers, a large group often excluded, are treated in full. Several unique features make identification easier and more certain than with any other field guide. First, every species (and many subspecies) of butterfly ever recorded north of Mexico (or in Bermuda or Hawaii) is treated at length and illustrated in color. Over 1,800 butterflies representing all 679 species (males, females, uppersides, undersides, subspecies, etc.) are illustrated on 42 full-page plats. Another 136 color photographs illustrate the various life forms in natural habitat: eggs, larvae, pupae, and the more familiar and more spectacular adults.

Hardcover. White River Jct VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on title page and INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Novelist and shepherd Mitchell presents this account of what happened after a biologist from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department asked for permission to track bats on his farm. The author having been an iconoclast since his youth, the book is as much a story about a back-to-the-land Vermont farmer coming to collaborate with government as the story of the bats for whose benefit the forested land was managed. This idealist muses on the process of balancing concerns of money, ecology, independence and co-dependence, wrapping up the book with insights learned in convoluted manner about nature, society, and himself.

Hardcover. Chicago, W.M. Welch Scientific Company, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 989 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Former ownership signature on front fly, else near fine. Massive trade catalog of school and industrial scientific equipment in the 1960's. indexed, illustrated with many thousands of drawings and photos of scientific instruments from microscopes to corks, everything for a laboratory, basic and advanced. Large, heavy volume, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and white, 433 pages. When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how--unlike in Roman Catholic lands--discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1st UK, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, frontis. portrait, 223 pages. First UK edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einsteins stepdaughter, writing under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Foreword by Albert Einstein. First published in the US in 1930. Clean copy.