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[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] “No time like the old time.” In: The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, No. 96, Vol. 16, pp. 398-99, October, 1865. 1865
[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]; WATERHOUSE, Benjamin Order of exercises for commencement, XXVI August, MDCCCXXIX. (bound with) Oratio inauguralis, quam in Academia Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae Novanglorum, nonis Octobribus, A.D. MDCCLXXXIII, habuit Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. et med. theor. et prax. professor. 1829
[LINCOLN]. THAYER, William M. The Martyr Presidents [cover title]: From Pioneer Home to the White House. Life of Abraham Lincoln. Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination, Death. [bound with] From Log-Cabin to the White House. Life of James A. Garfield: Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination, Death, Funeral. 1882
[STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS] [VARNUM, Joseph; CUTTS, Richard; SEAVER, Ebenezer; BARKER, Joseph; GREEN, Isaiah; COOK, Orchard; DEANE, Josiah; ILSLEY, Daniel; BACON, Ezekiel]. The reply of the majority of the representatives from the state of Massachusetts, in Congress, to the resolutions and instructions of the legislature of that state on the subject of the embargo laws. 1808
BAKER, Richard A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans government unto the death of King James. Containing all passages of state and church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle. Faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern, and digested into a new method . . . Whereunto is now added in this third edition, the reign of King Charles I. With a continuation of the Chronicle to the end of the year M.DC.LVIII. Being a full narrative of the affaires of England, Scotland, and Ireland; more especially relating unto the transactions of Charles, crowned King of the Scots at Scone, on the first day of January, 1650. 1660
BESSARD, T(oussaint) de Dialogue, de la longitude: est-oueste, De T. Bessard d'Auge en Normandie. Qui est, la premiere partie du miroer du monde: contenant, tous les moyens, que l'on pourroit avoir tenues, en la naviguation, iusqu'à maintenat: que, les deux filles de cosmographie, asçavoir, geo-graphie, & hydro-graphie, en mettent un nouveau, & plus-seur, en avant: touchant le fait de cette longitude, tant par mer, que par terre. THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON NAVIGATIONWITH EARLY DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH AMERICA 1575
BLAES, Gerard [BLASIUS] Anatome animalium, terrestrium variorum, volatilium, aquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque structuram naturalem ex veterum, recentiorum, propriisque observationibus proponens, figuris variis illustrata. FIRST SYSTEMATIC TREATISE ON COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 1681
CHEN, K.K., CHEN, A.L., et al. (1). CHEN, Ko Kuel. A comparative study of synthetic and natural ephedrines; (2). CHEN, A.L. & STUART, E.H. The occurrence of Methybenzylamine in the extract of Ma Huang; (3). CHEN, K.K. & CHEN, A.L. The constituents of Wu Chu Yu (Euodia Rutaecarpa); (4). ---. The alkaloid of Chin-Shih-Hu; (5). ---, ANDERSON, R.C., FREIHAGE, L.J. & CHOU, T.Q. Pharmacological action of Ephedrine; (6). CHEN, A.L., ANDERSON, R.C. & ROSE, C.L. The pharmacological action of Tetrandrine, an alkaloid of Han-Fang-Chi; (7). CHEN, A.L. The chemistry of Mu-Fang-Chi. 1928
DAVENPORT, Bishop. A Pocket Gazetteer or Traveller's Guide Through North America and the West Indie. Containing a Description of all the States, Territories, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Seas, Bays, Harbors, Islands, Capes, Railroads, Canals, &c. Connected with North America and the West Indies: to which is added a Large Amount of Statistical Information Relating to the Population, Revenue, Debt, and Various Institutions of the United States. 1833
DESAGULIERS, Jean Theophile A system of experimental philosophy prov'd by mechanicks, wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments. . . To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine, with its apparatus: and Rowley's Horary; a machine representing the motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System. 1719
DESAGULIERS, Jean Theophile A system of experimental philosophy prov'd by mechanicks, wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great number of curious experiments. . . To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine, with its apparatus: and Rowley's Horary; a machine representing the motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System. 1719
DIOSCORIDES PEDANIUS [Greek title]. Opera Quae Extant Omnia. Ex nova interpretation Jani-Antoine Sarrasin.Lugdunaei, Medici Addita sunt ad calcem eiusdem Interpretis Scholia, in quibus variae codicum variorum lectiones examinantur, diversae de Medica materia, seu priscorum, seu etiam recentiorum sententiae proponuntur, ac interdum conciliantur: ipsius denique Autoris corruptiora, obscuriora, difficilioraque loca restituuntur, illustrantur, & explicantur. 1598
FERMI, Enrico Group of 5 offprints: (1). Sui momenti magnetici dei nucei atomici. Rome: Tipografia del Senato, 1930. Fiscia no. I. 12 pp.; (2). Sul calcolo degli spettri degli ioni. Rome: Tipografia del Senato, 1930. Fisica no. 2. 10 pp.; (3). L'effetto Raman nelle molecole e nei cristalli. Rome: Reale Accademia D'Italia, 1932. Fisica no. 3. 22 pp.; (4). -- & SEGRE, E. Sulla teoria delle strutture iperfini. Rome: Reale Accademia D'Italia, 1933. Fisica no. 4. [2], pp. 131-58.; (5). -- & AMALDI, E. Le orbite s degli elementi. Rome: Reale Accademia D'Italia, 1934. Fisica no. 6. [2], pp. 119-49. 1930
JACKSON, G. A. Algiers: being a complete picture of the Barbary states: THEIR GOVERNMENT, LAWS, RELIGION, AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS: and containing a sketch of their various revolutions, a description of the domestic manners and customs of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks: an account of the four great capitals of Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, and Morocco, and a narrative of the various attacks upon Algiers, by the European states: including a faithful detail of the late glorious victory of Lord Exmouth. 1817
MAGINI, [Giovanni] Antonio De planis triangulis liber unicus. Eiusdem De dimitiendi ratione per quadrantem, & geometricum quadratum, libri quinque. Opus valde utile gaometris, astronommis, geographis, mechanicis, architectis, militbus, agrorum mensoribus, et denique omnibus mathematicarum professoribus. INVENTION OF CALCULATING DEVICES 1592
Owen, Richard 2 Autograph letters, signed Rd Owen: (1) 3 pages on octavo bifolium (180 x 113 mm). To M. Émile Blanchard, Hunterian Museum, College of Surgeons, London, July 27, 1849; (2) 3 pages on black bordered octavo bifolium imprinted returns thanks for kind inquiries (179 x 114 mm). To Comte Gustave d'Enzenberg and Mlle. Eliza du Mont de Soumagne, Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, 14 June 1873.
PALLAS, [Peter Simon] Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie, et dans l'Asie Septentrionale; traduits de l'Allemand par le Cit. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle édition, revue et enrichie de notes par less CC. Lamarck, Professor de Zoologie au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Langlès, Sous-garde des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, pour les langues Arabe, Persane, Tatare-Mantchou, &c., & billecocq, homme de lettres.
PATTERN FOR SEWING [CORNWELL] Cornwell's improved chart for cutting ladies, misses and children's dresses, cloaks, basques & postillions. (with) GODEY'S Presentation sheet of Embroideries, etc. January, 1870, 121/2 x 19. (with) ROOD, Will C. Advanced studies for those using the Dressmakers' Magic Scale, a new book, profusely illustrated. (with) Supplements 1, 2, and 3 to advanced studies for those using the Dressmakers' Magic Scale. 1873
PENNECUIK, Alexander (BROWN, Robert, ed.) The works of Alexander Pennecuik, Esq., of New-Hall, M.D.; containing the description of Tweedledale, and miscellaneous poems. A new edition, with copious notes, forming a complete history of the county to the present time. To which are prefixed, memoirs of Dr. Pennecuik, and a map of the Shire of Peebles, or Tweeddale. 1815
PRYCE, William -- Mineralogia Cornubiensis; a treatise on minerals, mines, and mining: containing the theory and natural history of strata, fissures, and lodes, with the methods of discovering and working of tin, copper, and lead mines, and of cleansing and metalizing their products; shewing each particular process for dressing, assaying, and smelting of ores. To which is added, an explanation of the Cornu-technical terms and idioms of tinners; with the topography of most parishes, mines, gentlemens seats, and houses in Cornwall, according to their British derivations and terminations. PRESENTATION COPY 1778
SCOTT, Joseph - - EUGENE FIELD’S COPY A geographical dictionary; of the United States of North America. Containing a general desctiption of each state; and of each the population, number of acres, soil, productions, natural curiosities, various climates, &c. Also a description of the rivers, lakes, mineral springs, mountains, manufactures, trade and commerce. . . EUGENE FIELD'S COPY 1805