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Las Heroidas de Ovidio traducidas por un Mexicano by OVIDIUS (43 BC-17/18 AD)-[OCHOA Y ACUÑA, Anastasio María de, tr. (1783-1833)]

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Title: Las Heroidas de Ovidio traducidas por un Mexicano
Author: OVIDIUS (43 BC-17/18 AD)-[OCHOA Y ACUÑA, Anastasio María de, tr. (1783-1833)]
Seller: Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: OVID TRANSLATED BY A MEXICAN POET Two volumes, 8vo (150x96 mm). [4: title page and Advertencia], 229, [1 blank]; [2: title page], 221 [recte 219], [1 blank] pp. Pages 219/220 omitted in pagination. Contemporary or slighlty later calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, marbled endleaves (worn and rubbed). On the front pastedown bookplate of Jesús Guzmán y R.G. ("Ex libris JG RG Cave! ne cadas Mexici Nonis Junii a.D. MDCCCLXIX") and his stamp on the title page verso (dated 14 June 1920). Some marginal tears, but a very good, clean copy. Extremely rare first and only edition of the Spanish translation by Anastasio María de Ochoa y Acuña of the Heroides (or Letters of Heroines), a collection of epistolary poems written by the Roman poet Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by various aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology. Ochoa y Acuña was born in Huichapan, Hidalgo, in 1783. He studied at the College of San Ildefonso and at the Royal and Pontifical University. In 1813, he decided to join the clergy, studying at the Conciliar Seminary of Mexico, where he was ordained a priest in December 1816, at the age of 34. From 1817 to 1827, he served as a parish priest in Querétaro. From 1828 onwards, he devoted himself exclusively to literary work. He was a member of the Arcadia Mexicana and translated classical and modern works from Latin, French, and Italian. Much of his poetic work appeared in "El Diario de México", but he also published two poetry collections, Poesías satíricas y morales (Mexico, 1812) and Poesías de un Mexicano, printed in 1828 both in Mexico City and New York. He favoured the festive genre and he is considered as the finest chronicler of the social life of his era, much like José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. Ochoa is credited with introducing nacionalismo pintoresco ('picturesque nationalism') into poetry. He died of cholera in Mexico City in 1833 (cf. A. Muñoz Fernández, Fichero bio-bibliográfico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XIX, Mexico, 1995, vol. 2, s.v.). Palau y Dulcet, 207556.

Engraving of Pilgrims at the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca, 1884 by Print 1884

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Title: Engraving of Pilgrims at the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca, 1884
Author: Print 1884
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Description: 1884. 19th Century engraving of the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca. Image measures 5x7.5" on a 7x10.5" page 115 from volume 3 of Élisée Reclus' "Nouvelle géographie universelle" (Hachette, 1884). The engraving depicts a sweeping view of Mecca with the cityscape in the background. In the foreground are the thousands of pilgrims gathered to worship near the Kaaba, which stands in the center of the court. In very good condition.

Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology by Alfven, Hannes

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Title: Worlds-Antiworlds. Antimatter in Cosmology
Author: Alfven, Hannes
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Description: San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1966. First English edition. CONTROVERSIAL BOOK ON ANTIMATTER BY NOBEL LAUREATE HANNES ALFVEN - SIGNED WITH MARGINAL NOTES BY NOBEL LAUREATE MARSHALL NIRENBERG, TRANSLATOR OF THE GENETIC CODE. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, signature of Marshall Nirenberg to front flyleaf, with handstamp of Section of Biochemical Genetics, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014; [vi], 103 pp, marginal notes in penciel on pages 12 and 12; very good in very good dust jacket with small edge tears. HANNES ALFVEN (1908 - 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. His theoretical work on field-aligned electric currents in the aurora (based on earlier work by Kristian Birkeland) was confirmed in 1967. Alfvén's work was disputed for many years by the senior scientist in space physics, the British mathematician and geophysicist Sydney Chapman. He was regarded as a person with unorthodox opinions in the field by many physicists, R. H. Stuewer noting that "... he remained an embittered outsider, winning little respect from other scientists even after he received the Nobel Prize..." Alfvén waves (low frequency hydromagnetic plasma oscillations) are named in his honor, and propagate at the Alfvén speed. Many of his theories about the solar system were verified as late as the 1980s through external measurements of cometary and planetary magnetospheres. But Alfvén himself noted that astrophysical textbooks poorly represented known plasma phenomena. Alfvén believed the problem with the Big Bang was that astrophysicists tried to extrapolate the origin of the universe from mathematical theories developed on the blackboard, rather than starting from known observable phenomena. He also considered the Big Bang to be a myth devised to explain creation. Alfvén and colleagues proposed the Alfvén–Klein model as an alternative cosmological theory to both the Big Bang and steady state theory cosmologies. MARSHALL NIRENBERG (1927 - 2010) was an American biochemist and geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In 1959 he became a research biochemist at the NIH and began to study the steps that relate DNA, RNA and protein. Nirenberg's groundbreaking experiments advanced him to become the head of the Section of Biochemical Genetics in 1962 in the National Heart Institute (now the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), where he remained a laboratory chief until his death. In August 1961, at the International Congress of Biochemistry in Moscow, Nirenberg presented a paper to a small group of scientists. Francis Crick convinced the conference leaders to invite Nirenberg to repeat his performance the next day. Speaking before the assembled congress of more than a thousand people, Nirenberg electrified the scientific community. He quickly received great scientific attention for these experiments. Within a few years, his research team had performed similar experiments and found that three-base repeats of adenosine (AAA) produced the amino acid lysine, and cytosine repeats (CCC) produced proline. The next breakthrough came when Philip Leder, a postdoctoral researcher in Nirenberg's lab, developed a method for determining the genetic code on pieces of tRNA. This greatly sped up the assignment of three-base codons to amino acids so that 50 codons were identified in this way. Khorana's experiments confirmed these results and completed the genetic code translation.

HOBBY MASTER 1:200 AIRLINER SERIES LOCKHEED L-188 ELECTRA WITH ORIGINAL BOX (HL1006)

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Title: HOBBY MASTER 1:200 AIRLINER SERIES LOCKHEED L-188 ELECTRA WITH ORIGINAL BOX (HL1006)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Hobby Master. Hobby master 1:200 Airliner Series Lockheed L-188 Electra in Like New Condition. Includes original landing gear. Box in Very Good condition, with shelf wear and rubbing to edges and corners. Shelved PS1100. 1412647. Special Collections - Upstairs.

[The] Initiation (Original photograph from the 1968 film) by William Wellburn (director); Tom Parker, Ron Sands (screenwriters); Lawrence Andrews, Sandy Baker, Linnell Barrett (starring)

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Title: [The] Initiation (Original photograph from the 1968 film)
Author: William Wellburn (director); Tom Parker, Ron Sands (screenwriters); Lawrence Andrews, Sandy Baker, Linnell Barrett (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: Original Films, 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Chuck arranges orgies in the family guest house, with his younger sister spying, and is planning an erotic homecoming from their older brother Kelly, returning from Vietnam. Film now presumed to be lost. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT DIRECTORS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1896

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Title: REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT DIRECTORS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1896
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Description: Washington, [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1896. 23 cm. 4pp. Printed wrappers. Stamps of Bureau of Railway Economics.

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