Science & Technology




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Bell, J. Pettigrew, Animal Locomotion, Or, Walking, Swimming and Flying, With A Dissertation on Aeronautics (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st American ed., 1874). Bell (1834-1908) was a renowned medico, naturalist, and museum director who developed an international reputation in the field of animal locomotion. This volume was his most popular work. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 264 pp, with 10 pp of advertising at back for other volumes in the series. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 130 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1874.” Rare. HBB price: $175.20150503_180328.jpg

Croll, James, Discussions on Climate and Cosmology (D. Appleton & Co., 1st ed. 1886). Fascinating survey of weather and climate change from 125 years ago. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Fine condition. Octavo, 327 pp, with six pp of advertisements for other science books. Rare. HBB price: $100.

Evans, Geoffrey, Medical Treatment: Principles and Their Application (C.V. Mosby, 1951). One-volume guide to what ails ya, from Addition to X-Rays (including hysteria in women and nematode infestations), as seen by the leading medicos of the United Kingdom.  Blue cloth boards with red title block on spine. Stout volume of 1398 pp., plus index. Good condition. HBB price: $79.95.

Georgano, G.N., Encyclopedia of American Automobiles (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1979; revised edition from The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, published by Dutton in 1968). ISBN 0-525-097929. Profiles of over 1640 brands of automobiles manufactured in the US and Canada, from Abbott (1909-18) to Zip (1913-14). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. HBB price: $30.

Parramore, Thomas C., First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation (University of North Carolina Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-8078-2676-6. A noted North Carolina historian presents the state’s role in flight, from Jules Verne’s Robur building a death zeppelin in an extinct Rutherford County volcano (Master of the World, 1904), to the major travel center Charlotte-Douglas International Airport has become. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 372 pp. HBB price: $25. thurston.jpg


Thurston, Robert, A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine (Appleton & Co, International Scientific Series, 1st ed., 1878). Thurston (1839-1903) was a Civil War naval engineer, professor at the Naval Academy, Stevens Institute of Technology and Cornell. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Embossed red boards, duodecimo, 490 pp, with 2 pp of advertising at back for Appleton textbooks. Very good condition; illustrated throughout by 162 black-and-white wood engravings. Front end paper inked-in notation by ex-owner: “B.F. Stern, 1878.” Rare. HBB price: $175.

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