Science: Chemistry from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

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… Read more about this item

"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.

520 p., [1] leaf of plates, illus.; 23.5 cm. Italian contributions to the history of science in the form of 96 letters. Covers a wide range of subjects: Leonardo da Vinci , Volta and other electrical advances, Galileo, medicine, Columbus, Vespucci, geographical discoveries. North American libraries own microfilm, but perhaps only the Burdy has the actual volume.… Read more about this item

New York: Printed For The Medical Class Of The University, At The Herald Job Office, 97 Nassau-Street. 1845-6. Soft Cover. 15 p.; 21 cm. Session MDCCCXLV - XLVI (1845-1846). John William Draper (1811-1882) was a scientist, historian, pioneer in photography (credited with the first photograph of the moon, and one of the earliest of the human face), and professor… Read more about this item

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] January 1887. Periodical. Includes list of members; Gibbs, Multiple Algebra; Hill, Hirundo; Brackett, Electromotive Force of the Voltaic Cell; Wiley, Economical Aspects of Agricultural Chemistry; Chanute, Scientific Invention; Chamberlin, Inventory of Our Glacial Drift; Bowditch, What Is Nerve- Force?; Gray, Memoranda of a Revision of North American Violets; Hale, Origin of… Read more about this item

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] March 1888. Periodical. xcviii, 368 p., index, 25 cm. Includes list of members; Prescott, Chemistry of Nitrogen as Disclosed in the Constitution of Alkaloids; Gilbert, Work of the International Congress of Geologists; Farlow, Vegetable Parasites & Evolution; Brinton, Review of Data for the Study of Prehistoric Chronology of America; Alvord, Economy… Read more about this item

Washington, G. P. O., 1864. of the Institution for the year 1863. 38th Cong. 1st sess., H. of Rep. Mis. Doc. 83. 419 p., index, tables, diagrs. Includes Whitney, Principles of linguistic science; Beautemps-Beaupré, Memoir; Wetherill, Modern theory of chemical types; de la Rive, Propagation of electricity; Plateau, Figures of equilibrium of a liquid mass withdrawn from action… Read more about this item

Gottingen, University, 1968. Soft Cover. Dissertation on developments in the science of chemistry to 1800 and how that influenced Hegel. 100749. 169 p. Vg/paper.

Press of Gibson Bros., Washington D.C., 1905. Periodical. Includes Tittmann, Present State of Geodesy; Hall, Tentative Theory of Thermo-Electric Action; Bancroft, Future Developments in Physical Chemistry; Woodward, Lines of Progress in Engineering; Russell, Co-operation among American Geographical Societies; Mark, Bermuda Islands & Bermuda Biological Station for Research; MacBride, Alamogordo Desert; Baldwin, Modern 'Droit d'Aubaine'; executive proceedings & lists of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. BOUND WITH, as issued, Chalmers, Thomas. On the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man. Philadelphia, 1836. Hard Cover. xx, [13]-276 pages, illus., tables; 23 cm. Good+, publisher's cloth. Spine was wet in the distant past, and… Read more about this item

History of Science Society, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., 1973. Periodical. Includes Debus, Motion in the Chemical Texts of the Renaissance; Hine, Mersenne & Copernicanism; Kitcher, Fluxions, Limits, & Infinite Littlenesse; Kohler, Enzyme Theory & the Origin of Biochemistry; Wells, William Charles Wells & the Races of Man; Crosland, Lavoisier's Theory of Acidity; Hendrickson, Science & Culture in the American Middle… Read more about this item

New-York: J. Winchester, New World Press, 30 Ann Street. 1843. Soft Cover. 53, [3] pages; 21 cm. Contains 16 letters. Leibig was a German chemist who made significant contributions to the analysis of organic compounds, the organization of laboratory-based chemistry education, and the application of chemistry to biology and agriculture. He introduced the concept of metabolism into physiology; see… Read more about this item

[Chicago] MLA, 1924. Soft Cover. pp. 782-788, 23.5 cm. "Reprinted from the Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. XXXIX, No. 41." Argues that Chaucer was in sympathy with alchemy. Stock#36333. Good+/ paper.

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] December 1892. Periodical. cxv, 380 p., index, 25 cm. Includes list of members; Prescott, Immediate Work in Chemical Science; Eastman, Neglected Field of Fundamental Astronomy; Thomas, Technical Education in Colleges & Universities; Springer, Micro- Organisms of the Soil; Johnson, Applied Scientist; Williams, Scope of Paleontology & Its Value to Geologists; Gage,… Read more about this item

New-Haven: Printed and Published by S. Converse. Hard Cover. vi, [1], 404 p., 6 plates (4 folding), 1 folding map; 21.5 cm. Errata leaf after p. vi. Four sections: 1, Geology, Minerology, Topography, etc.; 2, Botany; 3, Zoology; 4, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics, and Miscellaneous. Then follows (pp. 170-400) Intelligence and Miscellanies: Foreign; Domestic. Bound in 3/4 leather by Hope… Read more about this item

NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1952. Periodical. 4 p.l., 51 p., illus., 347 lots, 24 cm. Title continues: including Descartes Discours de la Methode, first edition in English, a rare mid-sixteenth century cookbook, Hooke Micrographia, first edition, Wallendarfer Decalogium (1507) with a reference to Vespucci's voyage to the New World, property of a New York private collector." Lots 160-199 are Italian… Read more about this item

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] 1894. Periodical. cxv, 384 p., index, tables, diagrams; 25 cm. Includes list of members; Leconte, Theories of the Origin of Mountain Ranges; Doolittle, Variations of Latitude; Nichols, Phenomena of the Time-Infinitesimal; Hart, 25 Years' Progress in Analytical Chemistry; Robinson, Training in Engineering Science; Walcott, Geologic Time As Indicated by Sedimentary Rocks… Read more about this item

Salem [Mass.]: Published by the Permanent Secretary, 1886. Periodical. xcv, 567 p., index, 24.5 cm. Includes Standards of Stellar Magnitude; Indexing Chemical Literature; International Scientific Congress; Researches on Health & Diseases of Plants; Transmission of Botanical Specimens through Mails; Description of a Printing Chronograph; Observations on invisible heat spectra & recognition of hitherto unmeasured wave lengths; Chemistry in Service… Read more about this item

Brescia, Clas International [1990]. 'Science, finance, society & industry toward new objectives.' A survey of progess in biotechnology in Italy. Not only chemistry and biology, but finance, industry, and society are treated. Published at L.48,000. Soft Cover. xiii, 240 pages, illus., charts, 24 cm. VG. Stock#31581.