Science, mostly popular, with many microscopy titles. More recently arrived microscope books are listed on my website.
First Edition. Part I describes the Billings collection; part II describes the A.J.W. Kaas collection. In all, more than 300 microscopes are pictured and described. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. First edition (first printing). Very good or better in the publisher's green cloth binding.
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A descriptive and illustrated catalog of microscopes and other instruments. Dated based on reference to the Second World War in the past tense in the introduction. 207 pages. A very good or better copy with an errata sheet laid in.
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First Edition. A popular book on the subject, which was revised at least three times, about a decade apart, as photo technology changed rapidly. This is the original edition. Illustrated throughout. 322 pages, with 10 collotype plates at the end. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy in.....
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Includes microscopes, photomicrographic equipment and lenses, colorimeters, etc. 288 pages. Most of the gilt chipped off of the front cover but generally very good. With January 1, 1940, price list.
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Fifth edition. About 250 are pages devoted to microscopes and their use followed by chapters on what is visible under them. This edition is illustrated with 25 black-and-white plates, one folding, and 449 wood engravings. xxxii,848 pages. 5 by 7-1/2 inches. Light wear to the corners; generally a very good copy.....
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First Edition. xiv, 266 pages. 164 illustrations. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the publisher's red fabrikoid binding.
Price: $75
A trade catalog with prices. 172 pages. Illustrated with engravings, drawings, and half-tone photographs. A very good hardcover copy. Cloth at corners worn through.
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First Edition. A guide for parents on good mental health for children, by one of the pioneers of cognitive-behavioral therapy. According to Wikipedia, in 1982, Ellis (1913–2007) was ranked the second most influential psychotherapist in a survey of psychologists. First edition (with no indication of later printings). A very good.....
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Second Edition. "This second edition has been rewritten in part and much new material has been added." xv, 376 pages. 54 black-and-white plates. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some tape repairs on the back (verso). Gift inscription on front free endpaper apologizing for the belated.....
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Third Edition. A classic work; the final edition. 302 pages. Third edition. A near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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First US edition. An uncommon mid-19th century American edition of work on ophthalmology. The first edition was London, 1840. Series: Dunglison's American Medical Library. pp. iv, [5]-201, [v]-vi. Half leather binding over marbled paper-covered boards, recently rebacked. Generally very good, with wear to the edges. Stamp of a defunct library.....
Price: $150
Fifteenth edition, re-constructed, re-written, revised, and enlarged throughout. "With upwards of nine hundred engraved and coloured illustrations by Tuffen West and other artists." There are eight chromolithograph (printed color) plates. xxiv, 704 pages. A very good copy, with some foxing to the pages. Bound in the publisher's maroon cloth. No.....
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First Edition. A chemistry textbook focused on materials used in agriculture, particularly manures and mineral supplements, with descriptions of simple experiments that could be performed in schools to illustrate some principle of science. The author was an M.D. who taught at the Penn Medical University in Philadelphia. xi (sic xii), 13–108.....
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First Edition. A gripping non-fiction mystery about the first murderer whose apprehension was live-streamed, or captured in real-time on wireless telegraph. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Larson on the title page.
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First Edition. A treatise on the anatomy of the elephant and other pachyderms. According to the section divider, the other animals considered are the hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, babirusa, pecari, and the wild boar. This is an offprint of Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, vol. XXII, p. I......
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First Edition. An English translation from the German of the first seven (of ten) chapters of the 1877 edition of Das Mikroskop. The preface explains why this translation lacks the final three chapters: the manuscript and all but one copy of the printed edition were burned in a fire at.....
Price: $75
First Edition. Subjects covered include microscopy of the living eye, the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and chromosomes. 260 pages plus publisher's ads. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50
"The success of the author's former, larger, more pretentious, and more expensive treatise on Photo-micrography, and the desire to put into the hands of wholly inexperienced workers a manual, brief, explicit, practical, and moderate in price, have led to the production of this book"—preface. This edition is undated (1893 is.....
Price: $60
First Edition. The first separate printing of an important paper in the history of the treatment of glaucoma. In this paper, Argyll Robertson was "the first to recommend trephining the sclera in those cases of glaucoma where extensive degenerative changes in the iris made an iridectomy impracticable"—Andrzej Grzybowski, "A Tribute.....
Price: $150
A popular work exploring the microscopic organisms in the freshwater ponds of London. The book was first published in 1871 and went through many editions in the 19th century. xii, 147 pages, plus six color plates. A near fine copy, with minor wear to the covers. Some offsetting to the pages.....
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First Edition. Book I: Some reflections on Abraham Trembley and his Memoires; Book II: A Translation from the French of Memoires pur servir a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce a bras en forme de cornes. xvi, 60, xii, 191 pages, plus many folding facsimile plates. First edition (first printing).....
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First Edition. An illustrated catalog of 453 microscopes and microscope-related objects. 379 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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36th edition. Dated based on a reference to a factory expansion in 1936. 260 pages. A very good hardcover copy. "All prices increased 20%" stamped in various places.
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Second Edition. An introduction to tide-pool life and a handful of birds found on the coast of Great Britain. Illustrated by "Mr. Sowerby", probably one of the George Sowerbys, with in-text cuts and 12 color plates. A note on the plate count: the index at the back calls for 13 plates.....
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First Edition. With 298 illustrations. Focuses on the components and function of the microscope, rather than what you can see with one. The author was the chief chemist of the Igranic Electric Co. 296 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good or better copy in a like dust jacket.
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