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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and tight in original printed wrappers with minor toning at spine, former owner's name neatly at top of front wrapper. Number 30, March 1940 - The First Bulgarian Book & Thomas W. Lamont Collection on the Spanish Armada, Kress Library of Business and Economics; Law School Library at Langdell Hall.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (iv), 307-466, (v-viii) pages; Clean and secure in original printed blue wrappers. Contents include Use of Computers for Mechanized Literature Searching in Operations Research Libraries by Russell Coile and Baba Foster; Simulation techniques inn Operations Research by John Harling; Scale of Operations by Edward Bowman; Hub Operations Scheduling Problem by J.S. Minas and L.G. Mitten; Target Assignment Problem by Alan S. Manne; Application of Operations Research to Development Decisions. by Burton Klein and William Meckling; A Practical Guide to the Dual Theorem by Harvey M. Wagner; Optimum Lot Sizes for Parts Used in Aircraft Production by Chambers and Bond; Two queues under Preemptive Priority with Poisson Arrival and Service Rates by Frederick Stephan; Constructing Maximal Dynamic Flows from Static Flows by L.R. Ford and D.R. Fulkerson.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Keski-Suomen Museoyhdistyksen Julkaisuja ; This journal of the Central Finland Museum Society contains three major papers on a various topics from the three science related museums of the University of Jyvaskyla - anthropology, art history, and the history of Finland. Former owner's blindstamp on title page, otherwise clean and tight in original stiff wrappers. The first article is by Marja Rekiaro titled Vuodevarusteet Toivakan Huikon alueella 1871-1971 (textiles and bedding of the region); the second is Lotta Svard-jarjeston Jyvaskylan piirin ja Sisa-Suomen piirin Historia 1924-1944; the third is Taidemaalari Urho Lehtisen tyot Keski-Suomen Kirkoissa (Urho Lehtinen's paintings in Central Finland churches).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 104 pages; Contents clean and tight in original stiff pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated with photographs af various works of textile arts. Beautifully produced, printed on gloss photographic stock. Includes a section titled "Special Public Lecture: Jomon and Craft" [text in Japanese only]. Contributors to that section include: Koyama Shuzo, Fukumoto Shigeki, Sato Doshin, Tatehata Akira, Yanagihara Mutsuo. Table of Contents and Glossary of Weaving, Dyeing Terms and Editor's Afterword in English.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Volume II, No. 3; 28 pages; Clean and secure in original turquoise blue wrappers printed in red. Pagination: (ii), 59-81, (3). From Cerf's preface: "Even in peacetime the casualty list among poets is shockingly high. Now, with the country in its third year of war, almost all the young writers of verse have been absorbed into the armed forces and can find, on the whole, neither the time nor the mood for lyrical flight. Those who remain hors de combat seem to want to talk to themselves in a language understood by a cult of one. . While we wait for the voice that will sing of this war-torn generation, we can do no less than keep alive the songs that linger.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Deel LXXIV; Three Color Lithographs; (iv), 229 pages; Contents complete and secure in original binding of three-quarter leather over cloth covered boards. Former owner's bookplate (institutional) on front paste-down endpaper and release stamp on ffep and titlepage, otherwise clean and unmarked. Three wonderful chromo lithograph plates illustrating these exotic plants: Antigonon Leptopus, Amorphophallus Variabilis, Averrhoa Bilimbi within the article "Bekende en merkwaardige Indische planten in gekleurde afbeeldingen door Dr. Z. Kamerling. Other articles in this volume include: Modderwellen in Nieuw-Guinea. (Ontleend aan het exploratie verslag van 10 Sept -27 Oct. 1913 van de verkenning der Mamberamo delta en Noord-Waropen kust); Testing, Storage, and Preparation of Unpolished Rice (bras pitjah koelit) by Dr. W.M. Ottow; De Regenverdeeling in den Oost-Indischen Archipel door Dr. C. Braak; Vilkanische verschijnselen en aardbevingen in den Oost-Indische Archipel waargenomen gedurende het jaar 1913; etc.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Volume II, No. 2; 28 pages; Clean and secure in original red wrappers. Pagination: (ii), 31-53, (3). From Shuster's preface: "These days men of my generation remember, as fighting moves past slumbering Pompei and towards Rome, that Vergil, Horace and Dante lived among the peasants and townsfolk of Italy. Since they dies, light and shadow have moved tirelessly across the earth, and quite as much blood as wine has been spilled in all the valleys which lie between Messina and Pescara. But who does not know that their mighty spirits, having loved the mortal show, now keep the rapture of immortality? For they were poets, indeed are poets still; and to these is given the taste of sweetness that is in bitter things, like young death, and the savor of aloes such as there is in young love.".

Original Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 94 pages; Frankfurt: Very Good. 1956. First Edition. 94 pages; Contents clean, complete and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. Cover photograph by Franz Hubmann. MAGNUM Zeitschrift Fur Das Moderne Leben (1954-1966) was one of the most important German-language cultural magazines of the post-war period. The large-format magazine combined articles by well-known writers, political scientists and artists with work by important photographers of the time. Articles covered art, politics, theatre, film, photography and the culture of the 1950s and 60s in general. The journal served as an important venue for both art photographers and documentary phtographers. Beautifully illustrated with b&w photographs and reproductions throughout. Braushen wir Religion by Karl Pawek; Verschuttete Quelien by Fredrich Heer; Die Verheissungen der Geschichte by Oskar Kohler; Kinder aus reserven by Anna Salomonson; Die Reserve der Kindheit by Sisigmund von Radecki; Wissenschaft auf dem Eisberg by Wolfgang Wieser; Mensch zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunst, etc. Great photographs by Christian Staub, Herbert Combrowski, Fulvio Roiter, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, Lucien Herve, etc. . ; Art and Art History, German Language and Literature, Most Recent Listing.

Removed Document. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 107 pages; Contents clean and complete, lacking wrappers; some offsetting to titlepage from frontispiece illustration of Zachary Taylor Commemorative medal, engraved by W. L. Ormsby OCLC 12780234 Contents include speeches by some members of Congress, a sermon by Rev. Smith Pyne and other material commemorating Taylor. Zachary Taylor (1784 1850) was best known as an American military leader, but eventually served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor previously was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero as a result of his victories in the MexicanAmerican War.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Autograph; 141 pages; Text block clean and secure in original tan printed wrappers; wrappers toned at edges, chipped at spine ends; corners bumped. Inscribed and SIGNED on first blank: "To my dear Immochka with my best feelings / from one of us fourteen (thirteenth) / Zinaida Troitskaya" The collection of poems by the Circle of Russian Poets in America is being published in the tenth year of the Circle's existence and thus marks an anniversary, albeit modest, but still testifying to the undoubted vitality of the basic principles of its organization. Other contributors include Nicholas All, Elena Antonova, Alexander Bisk, G.V. Golokhvastov, V.S. Ivanov, V.S. Ilyashenko, Gisella Lachman, V.A. Magula, Kira Slavina, Lev Slavin, Tatiana Timasheva, Mikhail Chakhonin. ; Signed by One Author.

Original Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 94 pages; Koln: Very Good. 1959. First Edition. 94 pages; Contents clean, complete and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers; rear wrapper has some creasing. Cover illustration by Will Baumeister. MAGNUM Zeitschrift Fur Das Moderne Leben (1954-1966) was one of the most important German-language cultural magazines of the post-war period. The large-format magazine combined articles by well-known writers, political scientists and artists with work by important photographers of the time. Articles covered art, politics, theatre, film, photography and the culture of the 1950s and 60s in general. The journal served as an important venue for both art photographers and documentary phtographers. Beautifully illustrated with b&w photographs and reproductions throughout. Also pictorial ads for automobiles, coffee, chairs, etc. Contents include: Die Kunst seit 45 by Veilinghause; Das Leben seit 45 by Pawek; Diego Fabbris 'Sohne der Kunst" by Hocke; Balzacs "Spekulant' in Mailand by Singer; Paris: Keine Entdeckersorgen by Vossen; Auf Englande Buhnen der Avantgarde by Hilde Spiel; Die zweite Sensation von Qumran; Der Film und die Intellektuellen by Ulrich Gregor; Geometrische Langewelle by Rolf Becker; Ein Lebenswerk auf Schallplatten by Koegler; Hausse in literarischen Straflingen by Im Querschnitt, etc. Great photographs by Andreas Feininger, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, Werner Wunsch, Wolfgang Haut, Otto Nocker, Kurt Dejmo, Antonio Migliori, Anneke Himpe, Hanns Hubmann, etc. . ; Art and Art History, Photography, Most Recent Listing.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages; A Group of eight amusing Western Union Telegrams sent to Rowland Evans Jr. c/o St Regis Hotel NYC for his 40th Birthday. Age toned, one has some missing paper at left edge, otherwise Very Good. Example: "Boss trying to reach you today. If he failed contact, please call him / at Stockyards Inn Chicago to discuss possible appointment as / Ambassador Antarctica. He understands this your 39th birthday and / wants someone under 40. Regards / Kenny ODonnel" Another: "Have just fired Sylvester. Are you available? Happy 40th / Bob McNamara" And another "Congratulations on your Fortieth Birthday. We are amending / Social Security Act to provide for your care. The new frontier / requires men of youthful spirit. Can you qualify / Hubert H Humphrey USS" "Society desk wants intimate profile Pamela Turnure for Sunday. / Understand she staying at Astor. Urgent. Regards and Happy / Birthday / Donovan PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in the early 1960's, a time when newspaper columnists wielded outsize influence in national politics. The pair pioneered in transferring that influence to the medium of cable television with the political discussion program ''Evans & Novak'' -- carried on CNN from that cable network's beginning. Rowland Evans and his wife Kay (Katherine Winton Evans), also a respected writer and editor, were mainstays on the Washington social scene, hosting many memorable gatherings in their handsome Georgetown house -- to which flocked influential and remarkable people drawn from journalism, politics and general society over the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s. Both Evans and Novak became more predictably conservative over the years, particularly during the Reagan years. Reportedly, both columnists voted for JFK in 1960 and for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Evans earned a place on Richard Nixon's infamous "Enemies List." Novak reported that Evans had JFK as a guest for the first dinner party the latter attended as President Elect. Kay and Rowland Evans has a particularly close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their family.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 16 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers. Toning to front wrapper. OCLC 793452629 Sabin 42564 LCCN 05003909 This anthology includes "Speech of a Brave Old Patriot (by Isaac Funk), " "A Voice from the Army, " "On Foreign Interference, " "For the Croakers, " "Words of a Patriot Soldier (by L.H. Rousseau), " "Cromwell on Destructive Conservatism," and "Pusillanimous Peace." All these articles support the Union cause in the Civil War; the pamphlet was distributed to evoke sympathy and funding for the Union.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 47 pages; Text clean and complete in original tan printed wrappers; wrappers toned at spine and lower edge. Stamp on front wrapper: Maryland Historical Society Baltimore; ink note at top of title page "Gift of Fred E. Dayton / 4-1-40" Lengthy discussion of the failure of the Maryland Legislature to either fund completion of the Canal, or waive the liens, so that the Company could undertake the work on their own chip. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch,"[1] operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. Construction on the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) canal began in 1828 and ended in 1850 with the completion of a 50-mile (80 km) stretch to Cumberland, although the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had already reached Cumberland in 1842. Rising and falling over an elevation change of 605 feet (184 meters), it required the construction of 74 canal locks, 11 aqueducts to cross major streams, more than 240 culverts to cross smaller streams, and the 3,118 ft (950 m) Paw Paw Tunnel.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 138 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in contemporary 19th century calf binding, darkened at spine, scattered toning and foxing throughout. Illustrated with 30 b&w plates (two folding) showing squad manoeuvres, riflemen drills, positions of men, confronting and moving past obstacles, etc. and a page of music. Published by the Department of War, under the Authority of an Act of Congress of the 2d of March, 1829. Handbook of official infantry tactics and maneuvers. Introductory notice from Board of Officers presenting this text to the Secretary of War James Barbour signed in type by include Winfield Scott; Thomas Cadwalader; William H. Sumner; B. Daniel; Abraham Eustis; Zachary Taylor; G. Cutler; Charles J. Nourse. The Abstract is an abridgement of a larger text with particular attention to the requirements of the militia infantry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. iv, 188 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in original publisher's light brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorative stamping at spine and front board, additionally decorative stamping in blind to front and rear boards. Gilt foredge. Some wear to cloth at spine ends and rubbed at corners, light scattered foxing. Tiny name on front pastedown "Emily Maria." Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, plus three additional charming early colour printed plates, each marked "J. M. Kronheim . London" under the image. Each plate has a tissue guard; colours very vivid. Subjects of natural history -- exotic birds, butterflies and sea-life. OCLC 264985657 A nice example of this mid-nineteenth century illustrated book with brief essays on animals from parrots to starfish, as well as poetry and illuminating tales. Examples include "The Village Blacksmith" by Longfellow; "Garden Thoughts" by J. Montgomery; "The Party of Pleasure" by E.F.G.; "The Holy Well" by G.; "The Cornerstone of a Successful Life" by D.W.; etc. Joseph Martin Kronheim (18101896) was a German-born lithographer and wood engraver known for founding Kronheim & Co. and working with George Baxter. George Baxter (18041867) was an an accomplished artist and engraver and printer based in London. He is credited with the invention of commercially viable colour printing. When Baxter renewed the patent for his colour printing process in 1849, Kronheim & Co purchased a licence to use his technique. Kronheim used Baxter's process from 1849 onwards, supplying colour plates to book publishers. Baxter's patent process was not necessarily strictly followed by his licensees for example, Kronheim were lithographic printers as well as wood engravers, and likely mixed all of their printing methods together.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Vol. XXIV, New Series, vol. III -- Jan. to June, 1857; 480 pages; Contemporary light brown half morocco over marbled paper covered boards - covers beveled at the edges, five raised bands, gilt lettered leather labels in red and black. iv & 480 pp. A handsome and sturdy private binding, with initials "D. C. T." in gilt at the foot of the spine. Moderate surface rubbing and scuffing. A very faint tide mark just visible around the edges of most of the leaves. The Southern Literary Messenger was founded by Thomas Willis White who served as publisher and, off and on, as editor until his death in 1843. Famously, Edgar Allan Poe served as an editor for several productive years, although White is alleged to have briefly fired Poe for excessive drinking (before Poe's official span as editor). Poe became one of the nation's most admired critics during this period -- after he left, White resumed editorial duties before hiring Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury (U.S. Navy) as editor from 1840 to 1843. White died in 1843, and a kinsman of Matthew Maury's, Benjamin Blake Minor served as editor and publisher from August 1843 to October 1847. The editorial chair was then taken by John Reuben Thompson, a poet, journalist (and UVA graduate), until 1860. During the years just prior to the Civil War, the pages of the Southern Literary Messenger became more and more devoted to issues and topics of interest mainly to Virginia and the southern states. In this volume, a detailed series of articles spread over four long installments appeared: "The Virginia Navy of the Revolution." Although unsigned, a later letter to the editor published in in the following volume attributed authorship to a University of Virginia classmate (and life-long friend) of John R. Thompson's -- Dr. William P. Palmer, of Richmond, who served as a Surgeon in the U.S., and then the Confederate States, Armies. Palmer is now best known as the compiler and editor of the "Calendar of Virginia State Papers" -- undertaken at the instance of the Virginia government. Palmer's work involved examination, classification and publication of all the State Papers in the files of the Capitol. He had a long career as an historian devoted to Virginia topics, and contributed over 100 articles on Richmond history to the "Richmond Times" in the 1880's and '90's. He also had been Vice President of the Virginia Historical Society. Two years after his significant treatise on the Virginia Navy of the Revolution appeared in these pages, Palmer witnessed the hanging of John Brown, present as a member of the newly organized "Richmond Howitzers." Palmer died in 1892. Highly unusual for any of the American colonies in the south, the provisional government of the Virginia Colony authorized the purchase, outfitting, and manning of armed vessels to protect the colony's waters from threats posed it by the British Royal Navy. And while the history of those times was, and remains, of great interest, it does not take much historical imagination to realise that the author, the editor, and many of the readers were preparing themselves for another unusual attempt by Virginia to build, outfit and staff a naval fleet. Indeed, after the state of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861, it briefly had naval forces of its own. Matthew F. Maury (former Southern Lierary Messenger editior, and, by then, world famous as an oceanographer, etc.) resigned his commission in the U. S. Navy to throw his lot in with his native state. these were eventually adopted by the Confederate States Navy. It is worth noting that another famous man, who also resigned his U.S. military commission, Robert E. Lee, was appointed as head of both the Army and Navy of his newly-succeded state. The second Virginia Navy had a short official existence as it was absorbed into the Confederate States Navy when Virginia joined the Confederate States of America on June 8, 1861. The entire text of Dr. William P. Palmer's inspirational treatise on the first Virginia Navy appears in four of the six issues bound in this volume -- [see pp. 1-20; 134-148; 210-221; and 273-285]. This volume also contains John P. Kennedy's "A Legend of the Chesapeake" and a substantial account of the events celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown -- including the text of an address delivered by former United States President John Tyler, who also chose to align with Virginia after succession, winning election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death, early in 1862.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 2 p.l. & 994 & 1 pages; Contemporary binding, red half morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands on the spine, title, date and volume number lettered directly in spine panels in gilt, top edges lightly marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Just a hint of light rubbing at the edges and corners; the binding is clean and handsome. 1910 was a particularly significant year for the Institut Pasteur's 'Annales' -- with contributions detailing progress in understanding and irradicating diseases and their agents, ever expanding understanding of how complex biological systems operate, and a renewal of the great Pasteur's determined examinations of human food: how and why various agents cooperate (or collide) to make or break what we eat and drink. There is a title singled out in Garrison-Morton: [G-M 5384] -- "Recherches experimentales sur le typhus exanthématique" -- by Charles Nicolle. In what became a series of reports, Nicolle demonstrated the transmission of typhus by the body louse ('Pediculus corporis'). Nicolle produced the disease in monkeys and guinea-pigs by the injection of infected blood. This hugely significant work was finally given its recognition when the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1928. There is also an article by the co-founder of modern immunology, published two years after Élie Metchnikoff became the second of the scientists of the Institut Pasteur to be awarded the Nobel Prize: (E. Metchnikoff, 'Etudes sur la flore intestinale: Deuxieme memoire -- Poisons Intestinaux et scleroses' [pp. 755-70]). In 1908, Metchnikoff and Paul Ehrlich had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity." Metchnikoff, (whose name is also now transliterated as Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) was born near Kharkov in 1845. After studies in Russia and Germany, he held academic appointments in Odessa and St. Petersburg, but left Russia in the 1880's as a reaction to political turbulence. Metchnikoff went to Paris seeking advice from Louis Pasteur, who responded by appointing Metchnikoff to a position as the Institut Pasteur, where Metchnikoff remained until his death in 1916. This paper shows a major aspect of Metchnikoff's final scientific hypothesis -- that human aging is caused by toxic bacteria in the gut and that lactic acid could prolong life. Based on this theory, he drank sour milk every day -- seeking to provide his system with potential life-lengthening properties of lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus). Probiotics, a major theme of twenty-first century medicine and biology, starts here. This 1910 volume also contains a paper of great importance to early advancements in combating poliomyelitis, by Constantin Levaditi and Karl Landsteiner, who demonstrated that poliomyelitis is due to a filterable virus -- (Etude experimentale de la Poliomyélite aiguë,' pp. 833-878. [relates to G-M 4670.3]. Landesteiner had isolated the polio virus the previous year (working with Karl Popper). Levaditi continued working on poliomyelitis, following an outbreak in Sweden. Together with Carl Kling, Levanditi authored the first monograph dedicated to the disease, La Poliomyélite aiguë épidémique (1913). In addition to a partiularly rich mix of the subjects to which the Insittut Pasteur has traditionally focused -- infectuous disease, rabies, serums and vaccination. there is an extensive series by Pierre Mazé on cheesemaking. ['Technique fromagère' published in three parts, all contained in this 1910 volume -- see pp. 395; 435; and 543. The significance of these detailed accounts of the process by which milk becomes cheese was great at the time of publication, and may be greater now, just over a century later. While cheesemakers have, for centuries, assumed that the process they exploited was an example of spontaneous generation -- Louis Pasteur proved them wrong not quite fifty years before this voume appeared. Milk becomes cheese by means of the action of bacteria. Pierre Mazé observed the process with different specific bacteria as the agents, measuring various aspects of the transformation, hour by hour and day by day. This work was a significant deepening of the work he initially report in 1904. As it happened, around these early years of the twentieth century most makers of brie, and then Camembert, cheeses switched the bacteria used in their respective operations from 'Penicillium album' to 'Penicillium candidum.' One result was that the cheeses they made with P. candidum and its different enzymes -- matured as white in color. A study of the facts and figures in these lengthy articles by Pierre Mazé suggests that the cheeses thus transformed also changed in speed of maturation, and, almost certainly, in taste. If there are food historians interested in addressing the consequences of this change in baterial agents -- they would do well to focus here, with Pierre Mazé's three-part 'Technique fromagère.' This 1910 volume also contains brief memorials to Jules Joubert, Robert Koch, and Louis Pasteur's widow.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 2 p.l. & 9828 pages; Contemporary binding, red half morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands on the spine, title, date and volume number lettered directly in spine panels in gilt, top edges lightly marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Just a hint of light rubbing at the edges and corners; the binding is clean and handsome (with a tiny ding of little consequence along the bottom edge of the rear board). This nineteenth volume of the papers of the Institut Pasteur contain the usual mix of cutting-edge science concerning bacteriology, serolgy, vaccination, and the work towards the eradication of tuberculosis, rabies, maleria, etc. These include the fourth part of an ongoing important series on syphilis: (Élie Metchnikoff and Émile Roux : "Etudes expérimentales sur la syphilis." Quatrieme memoire [pp. 673-698]. In two short years since Metchnikoff and Roux published the first part of their researches, they state here that the central revelation and insight they brought to the study of this age-old scourge, the successful transfer of this disease from humans to the "anthropoid apes (particularly chimpanzees) was now being done in laboritories throughout the world. The vastly increased understanding from this reserach window into a disease once thought to have been a uniquely human problem bore spectacular fruit in 1905, with the first observations of the spirochete via microscopy, and the development of the Wassermann test for antibodies to a syphilis infection via examination of the blood. There are two articles by the brothers Sergent -- Edmond Sergent and Etienne. Edmond, along with a distinguished team of colleagues not least his brother, directed the Pasteur Institute of Algeria for over 60 years, from 1900 to 1963. The brothers Sergent had been students of Emile Roux. The first of their articles in this volume deals with Trypanosomiasis of camels occurring in North Africa, called locally El Debab. This is caused by blood-sucking flies. The second article by the Sergents concerned their efforts to deal with malaria in Algeria -- (the Sergents first studied malaria in the less-likely venue of a large lake in the Loire; their determined efforts in Algeria would go on for an extraordinary period of nearly six decades. There is an important paper on the venom of the cobra by Fernand Noc, who organized the many venoms of snakes by the nature and speed of their actions on blood. There is an article concerning pulmonary tuberculosis by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin -- a preliminary work by the pair of scientists who would develop the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. (Over a century later, this remains a mainstay of the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines). But this 1905 volume also contains a series of articles concerning the science of the making of cheese, which still has relevance and substantial influence 110 years later. [Pierre Mazé: 'Les Microbes dans l'industrie fromagere' three parts, all contained in this volume]. Traditional cheesemakers had, for centuries, assumed that the process they exploited was an example of spontaneous generation -- Louis Pasteur proved them wrong forty five years before this voume appeared. Milk becomes cheese by means of the action of bacteria. Pierre Mazé observed the process via microscopy, and in slide preparations made with scientific rigor and great care. Some of the techniques and agents used in cheesemaking changed in France during the early years of the twentieth century. The color (and almost certainly the taste) of several cheeses, most notably Brie and Camembert, changed during that time. Some modern makers (and fans) of the many great cheeses have second thoughts about some of this, and students of the art should examine Pierre Mazé's work. In particular, he is a champion for a traditional baccilus [P. album] the use of which almost universally ceased before the second World War. There are 17 full-page plates at the end, most are color lithographs. Text in French, throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 2 p.l. & 1044 pages; Contemporary binding, red half morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands on the spine, title, date and volume number lettered directly in spine panels in gilt, top edges lightly marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Just a hint of light rubbing at the edges and corners; the binding is clean and handsome. Two of the articles contained in this 1909 volume of the 'Annales' are distinguished by inclusion in Garrison-Morton (Norman). First, there is an important article concerning sleeping sickness and its treatment: "Le mécanisme d'action des dérivés arsenicaux dans les trypanosomiases" By Constantin Levaditi (1874-1953). "A study of the action of atoxyl and arsacétine." [Garrison-Morton 5284]. The other is a two-part article by Charles Nicolle on infantile kala azar. (Kala azar sounds exotic, but instead, is the second largest parasitic killer in the worldonly malaria is more deadly. The parasite is spread to humans through the bite of infected female sand flies [the agent of their infection is protozoan parasites of the genus 'Leishmania' named here by Nicolle as 'L. infantum']. This parasite attacks the immune system, and is almost always fatal if not treated. During the period between the publication of these two articles in 1909, Charles Nicolle, head of the Institut's bureau in Tunis, discovered that lice were the vector of infection in typhus -- (and mainly for this discovery, Nicolle was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1928). There is an article by the great Metchnikoff (and others) continuing his studies of the intestinal bacteria as a system -- his first publication in the Pasteur "Annales" following his Nobel Prize in 1908 -- ["Roussettes et microbes" (in collaboration with MM. Weinberg, Pozersky, Distaso, Berthelot)) -- pp. 937-978, with 3 color plates]. There is a two-part article of significance detailing work by Paul-Louis Simond in Martinique seeking to combat the vectors of transmission for yellow fever (writing here with Aubert and Noc). There are two separate papers by Alexandre Besredka (Élie Metchnikoff's assistant) concerning his major work on anaphylaxis. Besredka's name is still associated with medical treatment of this dangerous condition by means of "Besredka's desensitization" -- a method he proposed for avoiding anaphylactic shock in the usage of serotherapy. The subject also is covered by an article by Charles Richet concerning anaphylaxis (a term he invented): "Etudes sur la crepitine: Immunite et Anaphylaxie." There is an article by Gabriel Bertrand (and F. Duchacek): "Action du ferment bulgare sur les principaux sucres" which details work which led Bertrand to introduce the concept of an "oxidase" -- [briefly put, any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction reaction]. Bertrand, who lived to be 95, also gave us the concept of a trace element, and his name lives on in "Bertrand's rule" [roughly put: at low doses of a nutrient, increased intake is associated with increasing benefits, but beyond an optimal intake any further increase has bad results .] The volume also contains further work by Félix Mesnil on trypanosomes (writing here with E. Brimont). There is an article by Émile Marchoux concerning leprosy -- (Marchoux will long be remembered for his persistence in attempting to provide care for victims; In 1931 with F. Sorel he founded the Institut Central de la Lèpre in Bamako, renamed the Institut Marchoux de Bamako in his honor following his death. With 23 full-page plates at the end, (mostly color lithographs). Text in French.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 2 p.l. & 780 pages; Contemporary binding, red half morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands on the spine, title, date and volume number lettered directly in spine panels in gilt, top edges lightly marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Just a hint of light rubbing at the edges and corners; the binding is clean and handsome. Contents of 1904 include parts two and three of Élie Metchnikoff and Émile Roux's important series on syphilis: ( "Etudes expérimentales sur la syphilis." Deuxieme memoire [pp. 1-6] & Troisieme memoire [pp. 657-671, with 2 color plates). These articles give further detail of the study of syphilis and its morphology and symptoms as the authors trasmit this human pathogen to chimpanzees and other primates. (Garrison-Morton 2398). There is a significant article on an early clinical use of X-rays, in this case used against ringworm, by Raymond Sabouraud (1864-1938). The treatment outlined here is still known as "Sabouraud's method." ('Les Teignes Cryptogramiques et les rayons X,' pp. 7-25, with b/w photographic illustrations). There is also an instrument named for Sabouraud and the co-author of this paper -- the "Sabouraud-Noiré instrument": (A dosimeter that measures the quantity of x-rays via the barium platino-cyanide method). Another article in this volume represents a classic of public health, written by Edmond Sergent and his brother Etienne. Edmond, along with a distinguished team of colleagues not least his brother, directed the Pasteur Institute of Algeria for over 60 years, from 1900 to 1963. The brothers Sergent had been students of Emile Roux. In this case, the brothers Sergent were attacking maleria, not in the tropics, but in the Loire, at Lac de Grand-Lieu -- using the groundbreaking methods directed by Robert Koch's four postulates -- (named, of course, after Robert Koch, the founder of modern bacteriology and the effective study and treatment of infectuous disease, who would win the Nobel Prize in the following year, 1905). The struggle against maleria became a focus of the Institut Pasteur, and the struggle would take Edmond Sergent and his brother far, far from the Loire. Their first article is immediately followed by an account of their anti-malerial campaign in Algeria, also in 1903 ['Essai de campagne antipaludique selon la methode de Koch (Lac de Grand- Lieu 1903)' -- pp. 49-64; followed by 'Campagne antipaludique en Algerie (1903)' -- pp. 64-97.] Another article details studies in another area to which Louis Pasteur turned his team's attentions -- ('Recherches sur les ferments de maladies des vins' -- Pierre Maze and P. Pacottet; pp. 245-266). The heart of the matter, clinically speaking, was the discovery that found that acetic acid could be formed by certain bacteria from alcohol in the absence of air when laevulose is present. Winemakers certainly took note. Sadly, there is also an obituary with text bordered in thick black rules, of Emile Duclaux, the Director of the Institut, with a full-page portrait engraved from a photograph. There are illustrations throughout, and 9 plates at the end (8 in color lithography). Text in French.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 2 p.l. & 1020 pages; Contemporary binding, red half morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands on the spine, title, date and volume number lettered directly in spine panels in gilt, top edges lightly marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Just a hint of light rubbing at the edges and corners; clean and handsome. This 1908 volume contains a significant article by the co-founder of modern immunology, published in the same year that Metchnikoff was awarded the Nobel Prize: E. Metchnikoff, 'Etudes sur la flore intestinale' [pp. 929-55]. This important paper appeared in the same year during which Élie Metchnikoff and Paul Ehrlich were awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity." Metchnikoff, (whose name is also now transliterated as Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) was born near Kharkov in 1845. After studies in Russia and Germany, he held academic appointments in Odessa and St. Petersburg, but left Russia in the 1880's as a reaction to political turbulence. Metchnikoff went to Paris seeking advice from Louis Pasteur, who responded by appointing Metchnikoff to a position as the Institut Pasteur, where Metchnikoff remained until his death in 1916. Other papers of interest in this year include a prescient paper concerning diabetes by the Belgian clinician Jean de Meyer, who would give insulin its name in 1909, the year after his paper ('Glycolyse, Hyperglycemie, Glycosurie et Diabete') was published in this volume. Contents also include -- Nicolle and Pozerski: 'Une conception générale des anticorps et de leurs effets.' Recherches sur la Flore intestinale normale des enfants.' by Henry Tissier. "De L'Anaphylaxie et des toxogénines" by Charles Richet [who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work on anaphylaxis]. And a three-part paper by M. Auguste Trillat: 'L'aldehyde acetique dans le vin, son origine et ses effets.' There is also a tribute, (with full-page gravure portrait from a photograph) to Charles Edouard Chamberland, who died May 2, 1908. Chamberland had worked closely with Louis Pasteur. His fortuitous negligence led to one of the major discoveries in the history of medicine. [Pasteur had requested, some time in 1880, that Chamberland inject some cholera specimens into chickens. Chamberland went on vacation, having forgotten to perform this routine task. Upon his return, Chamberland saw the jar of cholera bacteria sitting on the side of his desk and decided, even though his cholera preparation had been exposed to air for a couple of weeks, to inject this slightly aged specimen into the test chickens anyway. Chamberland was surprized that his chickens did not get sick and die, as expected. He told Pasteur of this result, and Pasteur directed Chamberland to inject the same chickens with fresh cholera. Now, to the amazement of both men, the chickens did not die, even confronted with what was clearly a fresh (and fatal) dose. Even when the fresh dose was repeatedly injected in these fortunate chickens, they remained healthy. Through this happy accident, Pasteur and Chamberland had discovered that a weakened form of a disease might serve as an effective vaccine. Chamberland also invented a porcelain filter the tiny holes of which would filter bacteria out of any solution -- this filter is still used today in labs throughout the world, and bears Chamberland's name. Text in French; 14 full-page color lithographic plates at the end.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 14 Thousandth. 48 pages; Quarter green leather spine and corners over green cloth boards, rubbed at extremeties. Original front wrapper bound in; marbled endpapers. FFEP and first blank chipped at outer edge, number in ink at top of first page of text, a few pencil marks, bookplate of U.S. Patent office on endpaper with release surplus stamp. Illustrated with eight small in-text engravings. OCLC 11361007 This publication was the result of a contest organized to solicit the best essays on methods for growing tobacco. It includes prize essays by Judson Popenoe and others, originally appearing individually in the American Agriculturist. The winning submissions came from Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Excerpt from text: "Having got our tobacco in good order, our hogshead ready, etc., the first mild day that we can spare, we proceed to packing. Let me observe that while putting the tobacco in condition-bulks, all of the bundles that were soft or had an ill smell ought to have been laid one side to be made sweet and dry by a few hours in the sun. The same precaution must be observed while packing. In putting tobacco into the hogshead for packing, a man gets in with shoes off, and lays one bundle at a time in a circle, beginning in the middle, and each circle is extended until the outer circle reaches the staves of the hogshead a single row of bundles is then laid all round the edge of the heads of the last circle, then across the hogshead in parallels with the former, always keeping the middle the highest; this is called a course. These courses are continued until the hogshead is filled. The man who packs, presses with his knees each bundle in each course, and often stands upon his feet and tramps heavily, but cautiously all round and across, so as to get in as much as possible. This concludes the almost ceaseless round of labor that is necessary to prepare for market this important staple of our country.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (3), 4-87 pages; Booklet in original self wrappers, contents clean and secure in a modern binding of red polished buckram with gilt lettering at spine; cream endpapers; minor ex-libris markings - small bookplate and LC surplus duplicate release stamp on rear ep; faint tide mark at lower corner of first third of leaves. Rare and interesting Carolina document - includes Governor George McDuffie's hostile response to the abolition of slavery in the United Kingdom and the British West Indies. In December of 1835 the South Carolina Assembly asserted that the non-slaveholding states should make Abolitionist Societies illegal. George McDuffie (1790 1851) was the 55th Governor of South Carolina and a member of the United States Senate. Graduating from South Carolina College in 1813, he was admitted to the bar in 1814.He served in the South Carolina General Assembly 18181821, and in the U.S. House of Representatives 18211834. In 1834 he became a major general of the South Carolina Militia. In 1821 he published a pamphlet in which strict states' rights were strongly denounced; yet in 1832 he became one of the greater nullifiers. In 1832 he was a prominent member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention, and drafted its address to the people of the United States. He served as governor in 18341836. From 1843 until 1846 he was a member of the U. S. Senate, supporting the leading Democratic measures. McDuffie became an eloquent champion of state sovereignty. Influenced in large measure by Thomas Cooper, he made it his special work to convince the people of the South that the downfall of protection was essential to their material progress. In opposing the 1828 Tariff of Abominations he used the illustration that forty bales of every one hundred went to pay tariffs and therefore Northern interests. His argument that it is the producer who really pays the duty of imports has been called the economic basis of nullification.

Half leather. Condition: Very Good. A complete run of the 'Crimson' -- volume 52, issues 1-108 -- September 24 1907 through February 8, 1908. Contemporary dark brown half morocco over marbled boards. Minor scuffing and rubbing to the binding, but a clean and soundly bound run of Harvard's daily newspaper of record. The paper, founded in 1873, flourished at the beginning of the 20th century with the commission of its own building in 1915, located at 14 Plympton Street in Cambridge, which remains the paper's headquarters, and its purchase of Harvard Illustrated Magazine and the establishment of an editorial board in 1911. Former editors include two U.S. presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, and many journalists, government officials, and academics. The Crimson gave full coverage to all the Harvard sports teams, not least the Football squad. At the head of the issue of November 9, 1907 -- there is a large halftone photograph of the football team of the Carlyle Indian School, against whom Harvard was to play later that day. A walk-on student who had become a Carlyle starter just a couple weeks before this November match is visible in the photograph -- Jim Thorpe. The contest at Harvard before a crowd of 30,000 (according to the New York Times) was pivotal. Harvard had won all seven of its previous games and had earned a national reputation. Carlyle was coming off its only loss of the season -- a season in which they probably should have been National Champions. Carlyle defeated the University of Pennsylvania decisively, 26-6, two weeks before. [Penn finished their 1907 season with an 111 record and claimed the 1907 national championship. Penn outscored their opponents 256 to 40 in 1907; no other team dealt them a significant challenge, much less a loss by twenty points]. This 1907 season saw Carlyle change the very nature of the game of football. "Pop" Warner had returned to Carlyle as football coach for the first time since 1903 -- he credited two factors with the "new" football with which Carlyle was thrilling the world of sports -- unprecidented speed, and skillful execution of the long, forward pass. So, for Carlyle, their 23-15 defeat of Harvard marked a return to winning ways for that successful team. For Harvard, the pivot was in the opposite direction, as Carlyle delivered the first of three losses in a row with which the Crimson season concluded after a promising beginning of seven wins in a row. There is full coverage of the game on three pages of the issue dated 11 November -- along with an unusual graphic chart of field positions of the combatant teams during the first and the second half. (The New York Times saw fit to publish their own long account of this game, but they did not include the interesting graphic attempt to represent the game as it was played. T. S. Eliot was a sophmore at Harvard in the academic year 1907-8. Indeed, he published a poem and three stories in a Harvard publication -- but, as one might expect, this was the Harvard"Avocate" rather than this volume of the 'Crimson.' All the ads are included in the back pages of these issues -- (including a repeating ad extolling the "Marvellously Grand Vintage" 1900 of the Moet et Chandon "White Label." The importer recommends this bottle as "The Champagne of the Twentieth Century" -- citing the 1900 vintage as the best since 1884). The first leaf has a minor vertical crease, which does not affect the large half-tone photograph of the "New" Weld Boathouse. The article states that this now-famous structure was "substantially complete" and was to open, "soon." A fascinating volume whose size and weight may require extra shipping charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. Very thick octavo volume. Contemporary full sheepskin leather, flat spine "paneled" by pairs of rules in blind, red leather label lettered in gilt in the second panel -- covers with a border constructed of decorative tooling in blind, plain endpapers. There are scuff and shallow gouges to the leather suface of the covers, and scattered foxing (both diffuse and little pin-points) affecting many of the text leaves -- as usual for paper used in official publications of the U.S. Congress of the time. 23rd Congress, 1st Session. Ho[use] of Rep[resentative]s. Executive. [Doc. No. 1 (through 49] This is the first volume, only (of six), of the complete set of the Executive Documents produced by the first session of the twenty-third U.S. Congress, during the administration of Andrew Jackson. As detailed at the beginning of the first section -- [an "Index to the Executive Documents. 43 pp.] -- this first volume contains Documents numbers 1-49. The first is the longest, and begins with Andrew Jackson's State of the Union Message, and then incorporates detailed reports from each department of the Executive branch controlled by the office of the President. This Document No. 1 consisted of 292 pages, and its first leaf serves as the title page for this volume, with a full imprint from Gales & Seaton in Washington. These partners were the official printers to Congress for many years. Joseph Gales, Jr. took over as sole proprietor of the 'National Intelligencer,' and after forming a partnership with his brother-in-law, William Winston Seaton, their newspaper started daily publication in 1813. It became the paper of record for Washington and the Federal Government, with a running account of the debates in both Houses. Four major threads run through this part of Andrew Jackson's eventful presidency: the finances of the country and the nature of the (second) Bank of America; the status of the War Department and the several branches of armed services; the ongoing program of "Indian Removal;" and foreign policy (relations, in particular, with Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Denmark, Belgium, the Two Sicilies, and Latin America). Document No. 2 is headed: "Removal of Public Deposites [sic] . from the Bank of the United States." 42 pages, under the aegis of the Secretary of the Treasury [Roger B. Taney, a future Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court]. (Andrew Jackson's determined opposition to the Bank of the United States is still a matter of historical debate -- Document 21 is a protest from the Philadelphia Board of Trade against the removal of those Federal Government deposits). Document 12 is devoted to another significant response: "Memorial of H. D. Gilpin, Peter Wagner, John T. Sullivan and H. McElderry, the officially appointed directors of the Second Bank of America. 40 pp. There is a document No. 20] of great significance to the history of the U.S. Navy -- the entirely re-designed and rewritten Rules and Regulations of 1833, covering all possible details of Naval service, from specification of the uniforms, ranks and commands, pensions, arrests and courts martial, shipyards and quartermaster details, the Marines, etc. [107 pp.] Another of the most substantial documents is Number 26, the detailed report by the long-serving Third Auditor of the Treasury, Peter Hagner, "Claims of Certain Citizens of the United States for Indian Depredations." [117 pp. -- Peter Hagner was first appointed to the Treasury department in 1793 by George Washington, and served under every administration for fifty-six consecutive years, resigning his office in 1849! The details of these claims are printed in three horizontal columns across the pages, and represent an indispensable record of Native American studies. Hagner's remarks on each claim (printed in its own column) from his signficant position as Third Auditor of the Treasury, demonstrate that, whatever the slant of Andrew Jackson's determination to move vast numbers of the inconvenient native Americans of the south east U.S., at least one high officer of his government was taking an independent view of the details of each case of complaint. Document 45 details the granting of licenses to trade with the Indians. Among the various other matters of interest: Purcase by the U.S. of the Louisville and Portland Canal (in order to make it free of tolls); a Memorial from citizens of Pennsylvania, "praying for an appropriation to construct a canal from Chesapeake Bay to Lake Ontario; More canal matters included a substantial report on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal (begun in Washington by President John Quincy Adams turning the first shovel of dirt in 1826) -- (Documents Nos. 36 "Western Section"& 38 -- 24 pp.) There is a brief report from the Commissioner of the Public Buildings (with appropriations of $12,260.40 for alterations and repairs in the Capitol, but only $500. for the "President's House.") There are also documents requesting improvements to various waterways -- "Petition of sundry inhabitants of the northern frontier asking for an appropriation to improve the navigation of the St. Lawrence River." Railroads had not quite come under the scrutiny of Congress yet (but in June of the year of this volume, Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride a train). This thick volume is an unusual survivor of the official issue of the House Documents from this era. It is likely that most of these 49 documents were circulated individually at the time to interested parties. Many that were bound into nonce volumes by their first users have subsequently been broken up into their individual publications. Consequently, most copies of these public Documents which survive on the contemporary market have been disbound from volumes. But this officially bound and issued whole volume seems too interesting to break, having survived in its original form into the twenty-first century. Rare, thus. Various paginations -- the volume is nearly three-and-a-half inches thick.