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Paperback. Condizione: New. Species account number 105 in the Birds of North America Life Histories for the 21st Century series. In 1992 the American Ornithologists' Union in partnership with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia undertook the publication of species accounts for each of the more than 700 species which breed in the United States and Canada. These illustrated reviews provide comprehensive summaries of the current knowledge of the species, with range maps and an extensive list of references. The series is finally complete, in 716 parts. Accounts are 8 ½ x 11 booklets.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1906 First Edition. Size octavo, 274 pages including index plus 86 page publisher's catalogue to the rear. Dark burgundy cloth covered boards with blind double border to covers and gilt titles to the spine, black end-papers. Condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, ex King's College Hospital Library with presentation stamp to front end-paper, previous owner's label to front paste-down and publisher's compliments stamp and label to half-title, contents very clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A Determination of the Ratio. . . . Experiments with Ionized Air. The Structure of the Nucleus. . . . On the Absorption and Emission of Air. . . .Rebound in sturdy green library buckram with gilt title and volume number and dewey decimal number on white label on spine. Ex-library with due date slip and library stamps on top, bottom, and fore-edges. No other library markings such as cardholder, etc. As is often the case, the Smithsonian advertisement has chips, tears, and tape mends. Original front wrappers bound in. Slight edge tanning to leaves, single tape mend to the edge of the Morley and Schumann front wrappers and a Schumann plate, else Very Good. Large quarto (nearly folio). xi + xii + 117 + iii + 81 + 43 + 48 + v + 29 + x + 95 + xiv + 176 + iv + 30 pp. All 5 plates called for in these monographs are present. The Table of Contents calls for a Michelson article entitled "On the Application of Interference Methods to Spectroscopic Measurements" that is not bound in this volume. Includes some important monographs. Bound in are the library catalog slips that go with each monograph.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 74 Pp. Brown Cloth, Beveled Edges, Gilt, Floral End Papers. First Edition. Book Of The Speeches And Testimonial Letters And Telegrams At A Large Congratulatory Dinner At Delmonico's, With A Full List Of The Approximately 360 Attendees Which Included Man Of The Most Prominent Men Of Intellect And Scholarship In New York. Abraham Jacobi (1830 - 1919) Was A German Physician And Pioneer Of Pediatrics, Opening The First Children's Clinic In The United States. To Date, He Is The Only Foreign-Born President Of The American Medical Association. He Helped Found The American Journal Of Obstetrics. He Is Regarded As The Father Of American Pediatrics. Born In Hartum (Now A District Of Hille), Westphalia, He Was The Son Of A Poor Jewish Shopkeeper And His Wife Who Educated Him At Great Sacrifice. He Attended The Gymnasium In Minden. After Graduating There, He Studied Medicine At The Universities Of Greifswald, Göttingen, And Bonn, Receiving An Md At Bonn In 1851. Shortly Thereafter, Jacobi Joined The Revolutionary Movement In Germany (See Revolution Of 1848). He Was Detained In Prisons At Berlin And Cologne In 1851, And Eventually Convicted Of Treason And Imprisoned At Minden And Bielefeld Until His Discharge In The Summer Of 1853. Upon Release, Jacobi Sailed To England, Where He Stayed With Both Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels. In The Following Autumn He Moved To New York Where He Settled As A Practicing Physician. He Remained In Contact With Marx And Engels And In 1857 Jacobi Was Involved In Founding The New York Communist Club. Starting In 1861 At New York Medical College, He Was A Professor Of Childhood Diseases. From 1867 To 1870, He Was Chair Of The Medical Department Of The City University Of New York. He Taught At Columbia University For 30+ Years From 1870 To 1902. He Later Moved To Mount Sinai Hospital, Where He Established The First Department Of Pediatrics At A General Hospital. He Was President Of The New York Pathological And Obstetrical Societies, And Twice Of The Medical Society Of The County Of New York, Visiting Physician To The German Hospital Beginning 1857, To Mount Sinai Hospital Beginning 1860, To The Hebrew Orphan Asylum And The Infant Hospital On Randall's Island Beginning 1868, And To Bellevue Hospital Beginning 1874. In 1882 He Was President Of The New York State Medical Society, And In 1885 Became President Of The New York Academy Of Medicine. From 1868 To 1871, He Was Joint Editor Of The American Journal Of Obstetrics And Diseases Of Women And Children. Civic Work Was An Important Part Of His Life. He Advocated For Birth Control And Civil Service Reform And Opposed Prohibition. He Was Strongly Anti-Hohenzollern During World War I.[4] In The Summer Of 1918, A House Fire Destroyed The Manuscript Of His Autobiography And Other Personal Papers At His Lake George Home. His First Wife, Fanny Meyer Jacobi (1833?1851), Was A Sister Of Sophie Meyer Boas (1828?1916), The Mother Of Ethnologist Franz Boas, Who Also Attended The Gymnasium In Minden. In 1873, He Married Mary Putnam Jacobi, Also A Physician. She Was The Very First Female Student At The Faculté De Médecine De Paris In Paris, France. Works Include: Contributions To Midwifery And Diseases Of Women And Children (With E. Noeggerath; New York, 1859); Dentition And Its Derangements (1862); The Raising And Education Of Abandoned Children In Europe (1870); Infant Diet (1874); Treatise On Diphtheria (1880). Jacobi Contributed Chapters On The Care And Nutrition Of Children, Diphtheria, And Dysentery To Gerhardt's Handbuch Der Kinderkrankheiten (Tübingen, 1877), And On Diphtheria, Rachitis, And Laryngitis To Pepper's System Of Practical Medicine (Philadelphia), And Has Published Lectures And Reports On Midwifery And Female And Infantile Disease, And A Number Of Articles In Medical Journals. His "Sarcoma Of The Kidney In The F?tus And Infant " Is Printed In The Transactions Of The International Medical Congress In Copenhagen. [See Wikipedia Which Has A Longer Article].

Couverture souple. Condizione: bon. RO20215205: 1997. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paginé de 442 à 604. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans le texte. Texte sur deux colonnes en anglais. Nombreuses annotations à l'encre sur le second plat. Annotation à l'encre sur la couverture. Fiche de notes manuscrites en supplément. . . . Classification Dewey : 598-Ornithologie.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers with screenprinted cover with price sticker, rubbed, very good. Magazine limited edition to just 500 copies in honor of Jim Lowell. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertow, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Guy Davenport, R. Wolter, Mitchell Goodman, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carol Woideck, d.a. Levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby, Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D.R Wagner, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Brown Miller, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfels, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, and Walter R. Keller.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers with screenprinted cover with price sticker, lightly rubbed and bumped, about fine. Magazine limited edition to just 500 copies in defense of Jim Lowell, owner of the Asphodel Book Store, who was arrested along with D.A. Levy on obscenity charges. Contributors include Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, Guy Davenport, R. Wolter, Mitchell Goodman, Russell Atkins, Marvin Malone, William Wantling, Jacob Leed, T.L. Kryss, Dwight Macdonald, Paul Carroll, Carol Woideck, Levy, Douglas Casement, George Dowden, Hubert Selby, Jr., Mike Murphy, Franklin W.W. Osinski, Geoffrey Cook, Kent Taylor, D.R Wagner, Donald Cauble, J.M. Edelstein, James Laughlin, Brown Miller, Philip Kaplan, Gilbert Sorrentino, Felix Pollak, Michael McClure, Dave Cunliffe, Ron Caplan, Carl Weissner, David W. Harris, Walter Lowenfels, John Cornillion, Allen De Loach, Jasper Wood, and Walter R. Keller.