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Reminiscences and Letters of Sir Robert Ball.
 [4041] (ASTRONOMY) W. Valentine Ball [Editor].
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1915. Thick octavo, [408] pages. First Edition. Publisher's cloth, without dust jacket. Frontispiece not bound-in, apagesarently a common occurrence with this title, small owner's name inside; gilt lettering on spine slightly dulled. Top-edge gilt, illustrated; a very good copy. Biography of this Victorian astronomer by his son. $50
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 This Certifies that [name in manuscript] of [name of town in manuscript] is a Member of the Audubon Society of Pennsylvania for the protection and preservation of wild birds...
[141161] (AUDUBON SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA) [Witmer Stone] .
[N.p.]: [Audubon Society of Pennsylvania], [1896]. 4¾ x 6½ inches. A partly-printed certificate, printed in three colors, in near fine condition. The certificate shows an ornate seal of the society and fanciful and calligraphic lettering. In the background, a heron, printed in green, wades in the water. The certificate is signed by Julia Stockton-Robious [sic?] and famed ornithologist, author, and society president, Witmer Stone. The certificate was issue in May, 1897. $45
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 Automation and Social Progress.
[4013] (AUTOMATION) S. Lilley.
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1957. Octavo, 224 pages. First Edition. Presentation Copy. Signed and inscribed by the author. Hardcover in lightly soiled dust jacket; very good condition. $25
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Overtures to Biology: The Speculations of Eighteenth-Century Naturalists.
[4080] (BIOLOGY - 18th Century NATURALISTS) Philip C. Ritterbush.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. 8vo, 287 pages. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good copy with a like dust jacket, owner's name inside. Naturalists: Linnaeus, Galvani, Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck. $20
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The Life of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal society, with some notices of his friends and contemporaries.
[4146] (BOTANISTS - NATURALISTS) Edward Smith.
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911. Octavo, 348 pages, adverts. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth binding, without dust jacket. Binding rubbed and with soiling; owner's name to endpaper, scattered foxing. Good condition, a suitable reading copy. Illustrated. $25
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The History of Botany in Finland 1828-1918.
[4287] (BOTANY) Runar Collander; Yrjo Ilvessalo .
Helsinki: Finnish Society of Science, 1965. Bound in wrappers, paper covers. Small stains to edges of text block; owner's name inside. Very good condition. This title with an appendix on forest science by Yrjo Ilvessalo. Illustrated from photographs. $20
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Henry Edward Armstrong, 1848-1937: The Doyen of British Chemists and Pioneer of Technical Education.
[4196] (BRITISH CHEMISTS) John Vargas Eyre .
London: Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1958. 1958. 325 pages. Hardbound. Very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Small owner's name inside, fore-edge lightly age-spotted; book faintly out of square. Illustrated. $20
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Essays on Museums and Other Subjects Connected with Natural History.
[142314] (BRITISH MUSEUMS -DARWINISM - EVOLUTION) Sir William Henry Flower.
London and New York: Macmillan Co., 1898. Octavo, xv, 394, [2, ads] pages. First Edition. Inscribed, thus: “C.E. Fagan with the kind regards of the author April 9th 1898”. Printed “From the Author” presentation slip laid in. Bound in publisher’s original cloth. A good copy: binding rubbed and with soil; small tear to crown of spine. Hinges strong, contents clean. Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899). Flower began his professional career as a surgeon, but became noted for his work as a zoologist, and more importantly as the head of The Natural History Museum upon Sir Richard Owen’s retirement. [DNB] $250
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The Works of Geber Englished by Richard Russell, 1678...
[4155] (CHEMISTRY - ALCHEMY) E.J. Holmyard .
London & Toronto & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons & Dutton, 1928. Small octavo, 264 pages. Red cloth binding, without dust jacket. Binding with general soil, owner's name inside, rear inner hinge with small split. Modestly illustrated. $20
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A Source Book of Agricultural Chemistry.
[4282] (CHEMISTRY) Charles A. Browne .
Waltham: Chronica Botanica Co., 1944. 290 pages. Bound in publisher's printed wrappers, paper covers. Head of spine with wear, crease at first few pages, owner's name inside. Good condition. Illustrated. $25
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