Charles f a mann (6 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Scarce Centennial Celebration program for Tacoma, Wa.; 4to, 56pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color & b/w Illustrations (illustratore). Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust jacket. First Edition. ISBN . Staple bound, 56 page, Trade Paperback Booklet. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. ; Unbound, neatly trimmed & in mylar with a stiff backing board. ; Illustrations; 10x14; 3 pages; Please note: This is NOT A BOOK, but from a vintage journal. This scan may not show the complete page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Deaccessioned from a Harvard University library, originally the gift of Charles T. Brues, who is the author of a few of the works in this collection; spine labels are black morocco leather with gilt lettering; binding has some wear and minor soil; spine is sunned; top margin of title page has some soil; top of one gutter (inner margin) has a one-inch vertical closed tear, repaired with archival document repair tape; several margins have chips and/or other wear; a few top margins were roughly opened; one interior hinge towards the back is starting a bit, holding well overall; aside from about 24 small manuscript corrections in the text, some or most of which are probably by Brues or the other authors, the text is clean. Includes: solitary wasp -- ants of haiti -- acalyptrate muscidae -- ants collected by w.m. mann in hidalgo, mexico -- insect resistance to sprays -- blow flies -- bristles in greenbottle fly -- catalog of phoridae -- american species of myrmica -- harvesting ants, pogonomyrmex -- new peripatus from colombia -- new parasitic hymenoptera from brazil -- diseases of caterpillars -- myrmecophilous insects from mexico -- list of insects that have wilt disease -- luminous organ of new zealand glow-worm -- anatomy of adelphocoris rapidus -- additions to n.a. ant-fauna -- australian honey-ants -- n.e. hemiptera -- vulturops floridensis -- paranomopone -- mutillid from montana -- ant cocoons, australia -- cat flea -- anatomy of boreus brumalis -- pentatomidae -- new phoridae from java -- hister -- myrmecophilous insects from hayti -- prodiscothyrea from queensland -- new myrmicine ants, brazil -- australian ants -- british guiana ants, 1911 -- phelister, mars. -- phillips exp. ants, palestine, 1914 -- trinidad ants -- new hemiptera, new england -- wilt of gipsy moth caterpillars -- lampyrids (nice plates) -- thripoctenus -- slave-raids of w. amazon ant -- brazil ants, 1911 (nice plates) -- polyhedral bodies found in insects -- australian ants of genus aph. mayr -- egg parasites of apple tree tent caterpillar. All 46 works are present and accounted for; article no. 90 was "omitted," according to the printed table of contents. Interesting provenance. Huge, heavy volume. [otob: 15].…

Original side stitched 13½'' x 10'' vintage paper sheet music comprising 11 pages of score plus the covers. Wonderful full-page colour lithograph front cover, rear cover in place. This was at one time bound in a larger collection but was originally published as a single piece, consequently some of thread to the stitching has worked loose, but still perfectly acceptable. Hastings Pier is a pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, built in 1872. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.…