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London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless
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London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless
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London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace..... Read More about A Monograph of the Pheasants
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[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Special leather-bound edition, Number 19 of 50 copies. Read More about Pheasant Jungles
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New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
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New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. First one volume edition. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
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New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
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Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell. A fascinating association copy, inscribed on the flyleaf of each volume: "Alexander Graham Bell / from George Kennan / August 9, 1919." Kennan's early employment with the Western Union Telegraph Company, laying cable from Alaska through Siberia all..... Read More about Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais
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London: John van Voorst, 1837. First edition. Read More about A History of Quadrupeds including the Cetacea
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Philadelphia and Camden: Delware River Joint Commission, 1921-1927. The Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission (now the Delaware River Port Authority) was created in 1919. The chief engineer of the bridge was Polish-born Ralph Modjeski. Work began on January 6, 1922 and opened to traffic on July 1, 1926. At completion..... Read More about Archive of printed material relating to the construction of the Delaware River Bridge, assembled...
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New York: Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates, 1952. First edition. Read More about Circuit Algebra - Introduction
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Paris: Chez Méquigon-Marvis. Libtraire, rue de L'École de Médecine, 1818. First Collected edition. Chiefly remembered today for his Paul et Virginie, Barnardin de Saint-Pierre was also a naturalist who wrote extensively on the harmony and order of nature. Paul et Virginie, in fact, appears in Volume IV of his Etudes..... Read More about Œuvres Complètes
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Paris: 1886. "Bernheim, a professor in the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, began studying hypnotism, suggestion and hysteria after observing Liébeault's method of treatment by induced sleep. After two years of working closely with Liébeault, Bernheim published the present work in which he stated that hypnosis was not a pathological..... Read More about De la Suggestion et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique
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Paris: Octave Doin, 1891. First edition. Garrison-Morton: "Like Liebeault, Bernheim studied the scientific application of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenomena as being the result of suggestion." Read More about Hypnotisme suggestion psychotérapie. Etudes nouvelles
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Wellington, N.Z: Printed by Harry Tombs. Limited, 1924. First edition. Read More about The Maori. Memoirs of Polynesian Society. Volume V
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Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1958. Handbook of the National Bureau of Standards. This pamphlet prepared by a subcommittee which included R. S. Rochlin, W. R. Clore, G. B. Foster, L. Eggman, S. J. Harris, S. D. Millhouse, G. W. Morgan, S. E. Olson, H. W. Rapp, E. Shapiro..... Read More about Safe Design and use of Industrial Beta-Ray Sources. Handbook 66
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Paris: Musier, 1775. First edition was 1767 and there were editions in 1768, 1769, 1770 and this in 1775. Read More about Suite du cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine, contenant le...
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Los Angeles: 1929. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis, which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals, birds and reptiles to be..... Read More about Report on Horne Zoological Corporation
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Philadelphia: 26 Central Wharf, June 24th, 1872. Read More about Billhead of Richmond & Pray Commission Merchants for a Barrell of Sperm Oil ; 4 Barrrels of...
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Sheffield: March 17, 1847. Receipt for knives and blades of £4-10-8. Read More about Billhead of Sanson & Sons Manufacturers...Razors of the best quality, Cutlers to Her...
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London: 1712. First edition in English. Ozanam's Cours de mathematiques, first published in 1693, contains sections on algebra and Euclid's Elements, arithmetic, trigonometry, geometry, fortification, mechanics, perspective, geography and dialling. John Theophilus Desaguliers, whose name is mentioned on the title-pages of volumes 4 and 5, published his translation of Ozanam's..... Read More about Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with...
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