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Subject: History of Science
From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics
John Lyon, Phillip R. Sloan
/ University of Notre Dame Press 2016
422 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0268009554
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
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Item #: 1327996
$23.00
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late William Alexander Forbes. Edited by F. E. Beddard. With a preface by P. L. Sclater
William Alexander Forbes
/ London: R. H. Porter 1885
first edition; xiii, [1], 496 pp., frontis., color plates; contemporary gilt stamped full green leather, a.e.g., spine and corners worn, front and rear blanks foxed, else internally clean and tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history birds ornithology bck
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Item #: 1328106
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$225.00
Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science
Ernest Nagel
/ Columbia University Press 1979
352 pp., Hardcover, very good in a worn and faded dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0231045042
Subject/Keywords: philosophy science bck
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Item #: 1328098
$26.89
Lamarck the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations between Science and Ideology
Barthelemy-Maudaule, Madeline; Shank, Michael H., translator
/ The MIT Press 1982
192 pp., Hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 026202179X
Subject/Keywords: bck philosophy science
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Item #: 1328099
$10.00
Manual on Requirements Handling and Quality Control of Gas Turbine Fuel: A Symposium Presented at the Seventy-Fifth Annual Meeting American Society for Testing and Materials Los Angeles, California, 25-30 June 1972
H. vonE. Doering, J. A. Vincent
/ Astm Intl 1973
198 pp., Hardcover, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0803107641
Subject/Keywords: physics science
Item #: 1328021
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$105.00
Joseph Grinnell's Philosophy of Nature. Selected writings of a western naturalist
Joseph Grinnell
/ University of California Press 1943
237 pp., hardcover, book plate and a hand stamp to the front paste down, else very good in an edge-worn, darkened dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
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Item #: 1328081
$70.59
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
Warner, John Harley
/ Blast Books 2009
208 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0922233349
Subject/Keywords: photography history of medicine bck
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Item #: 1328069
$14.00
Concession to the Improbable: An Unconventional Autobiography
Simpson, George Gaylord
/ Yale University Press 1978
291 pp., hardcover, dust jacket, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0300021437
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
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Item #: 1328073
$18.92
William Beebe: An Annotated Bibliography
Berra, Tim M.
/ Shoe String Pr Inc 1977
157 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to title page, else very good in rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0208016082
Subject/Keywords: bck natural history
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Item #: 1327982
$9.00
The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods Volume 2: Mammals
Benton, Michael J., editor
/ Oxford University Press 1988
340 pp., hardcover, edges foxed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0198577125
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
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Item #: 1328053
$28.00
A life of invertebrates
Russell-Hunter, W. D
/ Macmillan 1979
650 pp., HARDCOVER, hand stamp to the bottom edge, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0024046205
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
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Item #: 1327935
$22.09
The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod. Edited, with a biographical memoir of the author, by W. A. Forbes. In Memoriam
Alfred Henry Garrod
/ London: R. H. Porter 1881
first edition; xxv, 537 pp., frontis., plates, some of which are in color; rebound in mid-20th century blue cloth (hardcover), small hand stamp to the front free endpaper, foxing to early and late leaves, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history fauna bck
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Item #: 1327934
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$150.00
Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History
Wang, Q. Edward
/ Cambridge University Press 2015
210 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1107023963
Subject/Keywords: vnh food history chopsticks
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Item #: 1327416
$20.00
Feedback Control of Linear and Nonlinear Systems: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Feedback and Synthesis of Linear and Nonlinear Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 39
Hinrichsen, D., Isidori, A., editors
/ Springer 1982
300 pp., paperback, previous owner's name to the title page, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 3540117490
Subject/Keywords: computer science krn
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Item #: 1327925
$54.00
Adaptive Systems With Reduced Models: Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences 47
Petros A. Ioannou & P. V. Kokotovic
/ Springer Verlag 1983
162 pp., paperback, previous owner's name to the title page, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0387121501
Subject/Keywords: computer science krn
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Item #: 1327923
$45.14
Systems, Models and Feedback: Theory and Applications : Proceedings (Progress in Systems and Control Theory 12)
Isidori, A., Tarn, editors
/ Birkhauser 1992
402 pp., hardcover, spine faded, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0817636331
Subject/Keywords: computer science krn
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Item #: 1327921
$52.82
Natural history and the American mind, (Columbia studies in American culture)
W. M . Smallwood
/ Columbia University Press 1941
first edition; 445 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history bck
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Item #: 1327929
$18.00
Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 1: Production, Perception & Design Features of Sounds
Donald Kroodsma, Edward A. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors
/ Academic Press 1983
360 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0124268013
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck
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Item #: 1327942
$32.00
Acoustic Communication in Birds, Volume 2: Song Learning & Its Consequences
Donald Kroodsma, Edward H. Miller, Henri Ouellet, editors
/ Academic Press 1983
392 pp., Hardcover, top edge foxed, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0124268021
Subject/Keywords: birds natural history bck
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Item #: 1327943
$26.89
Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, butterflies, and history
Miriam Rothschild
/ Balaban Publishers 1983
398 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 086689019X
Subject/Keywords: natural history lepidoptery birds bck
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Item #: 1328052
$22.59