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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics; With Applications to Chemistry
Pauling, Linus; Wilson, E. BrightNew York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-xiii, [1], 1-468, [4] pp. Bound in dark blue cloth with border in blind on the front board, lettering and rules in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with numerous in-text diagrams and equations. Lacks the dust jacket. ANB.....
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55.
Kane, Elisha KentPhiladelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], 5-464, [4] pp. Contemporary polished brown calf, blindstamped decorations on the boards, spine in six compartments, each spine with an orange and a black morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Each.....
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Leçons sur L'Intégration et la Recherche des Fonctions Primitives
Lebesgue, HenriParis: Gauthier-Villars, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], vi, [2], 2-138, [2] pp. Half contemporary black morocco over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments; all edges sprinkled. With publisher's device on the title page. Part of the Collection de Monographies sur La Théorie des Fonctions, publiée sous.....
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Lysistrata
Aristophane, [= Aristophanes]Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1898. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [11], 8-179, [5] pp. Contemporary quarter green morocco over marbled paper boards with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. A ribbon bookmark bound in with marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a......
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Tobacco Leaf; Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture
Killebrew, J.B.; Myrick, HerbertNew York: Orange Judd Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], v-xiv, [2], 3-506, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Maroon cloth with a tobacco leaf stamped in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several full-page wood engravings, and with.....
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Among Cannibals; An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland
Lumholtz, CarlLondon: John Murray, 1889. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xx, [1], 2-395, [3] pp. Contemporary half purple morocco over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments and with gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges decoratively speckled. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece.....
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The Blackbird
Stark, Richard (Donald E. Westlake)[New York]: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 7-184, [4] pp. Black cloth with purple lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author as "Donald E. Westlake" on the title page, here.....
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Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, DanielLondon: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1820. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], iv-xcii, [1], 2-429, [5]; [5], iv-v, [2], 2-415, [5] pp. Turn of the century morocco (ca. 1899) over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, top edges gilt; marbled.....
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Undecidable Theories
Tarski, Alfred; Mostowski, Andrzej; Robinson, Raphael M.Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [3], 3-98, [2] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer.....
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Opera Theologica, Moralia, Historica, Philosophica, Mathematica & Rhetorica, quotquot hucusque haberi pouterunt omnia, in Vetus et Novum Testamentum ... in...
[Bede]; Venerabilis Bedae [= The Venerable Bede, Saint Bede]Coloniae Agrippinae [= Cologne]: Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. (8 vol. bound in 4). Folio. [8], 2-452, [2]; 1-238 (with a section of these leaves mispaginated); [4], 2-499, [2]; [4], 2-916, [1]; [2], 2-815; [2], 2-851; [4], 2-486, [1]; [4], 2-967, (a lengthy, unpaginated index of.....
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Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics; The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
Feynman, Richard P.; Weinberg, StevenCambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-x, 1-110, [6] pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontis sketch of Dirac and with several in-text diagrams and one in-text photograph. Lecture notes compiled by Richard MacKenzie and Paul Doust. Feynman's.....
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Just and Unjust Wars
Walzer, MichaelNew York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 361 pp. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, first published in 1977, has.....
