Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$1,699.50
Shipping:	$23.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$1,722.50
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $85.00 2 - 7 days

Standard Shipping $23.00 5 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $1,722.50 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$1,699.50
Shipping:	$23.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$1,722.50
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

Autograph letter signed to [Jabez] Hogg, discussing microbiology by Bastian, Henry

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$750.00

( US$)

Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Autograph letter signed to [Jabez] Hogg, discussing microbiology
Author: Bastian, Henry
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: London, 1876. "I Was Able to Obtain Fermentation or Putrefaction with Well Marked Turbidity" Bastian, Henry Charlton (1837-1915). Autograph letter signed to Jabez Hogg (1817-99). [London,] March 6, 1876. 3pp. 114 x 90 mm. Traces of mounting on blank verso of second leaf, but fine otherwise. From Henry Bastian, a physician who made notable contributions to the emerging specialty of clinical neurology, and a pioneer writer on theories of the origin of life; to Jabez Hogg, ophthalmologist, microscopist and early adopter of the germ theory of disease. Bastian published important papers on aphasia (see Garrison-Morton 4622, 4629) and was the first to demonstrate "Bastian's law": that complete section of the upper spinal cord abolishes reflexes and muscular tone below the level of the lesion. Bastian is best known, however, for his defense of the doctrine of spontaneous generation (abiogenesis) in the face of accepted scientific opinion. In opposition to Pasteur, Koch, Tyndall and other bacteriologists, Bastian argued that there was no fixed boundary between organic and inorganic life, stating that "since living matter must have arisen from nonliving matter at an early stage in evolution, such a process could still be taking place" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). He can thus be seen as one of the first to consider the question of the origins of life from a scientific standpoint. Some of Bastian's experimental work in support of his views on abiogenesis (contrary to his intent) ended up advancing the progress of bacteriology. It was Bastian, for example, who showed that boiling did not destroy all bacteria, a finding that led to the discovery of heat-resistant spores. Bastian's letter to Hogg critiques the findings of John Tyndall, whose recent experiments had shown that air from which all dust and floating particles had been removed was incapable of generating bacterial life. The letter reads in part as follows: "I have no doubt that your surmises would prove perfectly correct concerning a certain number of Tyndall's solutions. Freedom from turbidity does not by any means imply absence of organisms-but in the experiments which he has imperfectly endeavored to repeat I was able to obtain fermentation or putrefaction with well marked turbidity . . ." Tyndall had undertaken his experiments specifically to discredit Bastian's theories of spontaneous generation. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. .

Saigon Photo Album by [Original Photographic Album]

7 to 10 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$400.00

( US$)

Seller: Harper's Books

Title: Saigon Photo Album
Author: [Original Photographic Album]
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine in spiral-bound blind-stamped printed boards.
Description: [N.p.: n.p., 1966]. Near fine in spiral-bound blind-stamped printed boards.. Unique Vietnam era photo album, featuring vernacular snapshots of an American officer's personal life in the city of Saigon. Comprises 64 3 1/2 X 2 1/2 inch black-and-white prints, with 2 additional prints in color, housed in a Polaroid "De Luxe Album" in individual cascading small-format sleeves. Images include portraits, party snapshots, and cityscapes of Saigon's crowded streets. The album's original owner has written brief descriptive captions for each print on three cardstock sheets separating the photograph sleeves. Impressive personal archive of an officer's experiences in wartime Vietnam, with scarce allusion to the conflict and its politics.

Walt Disney's African Lion by Algar, James (text); Alfred and Elma Milotte (photographs)

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$350.00

( US$)

Seller: ReadInk

Title: Walt Disney's African Lion
Author: Algar, James (text); Alfred and Elma Milotte (photographs)
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, in collaboration with Marc Barraud - Geneva. Near Fine. [1956]. First Edition. Hardcover. 23456 . (laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, but now protected by a custom-fitted mylar wrapper) [a very nice copy, the covers a little bit rubbed and with one tiny surface nick to the front cover and a short scrape to the rear cover, in both instances exposing a little bit of white beneath the otherwise black surface; there is also a neatly-inked gift inscription (dated April 1957) on the ffep]. (color photographs) Beautifully-produced companion volume to the 1955 Disney "True-Life Adventure Film" THE AFRICAN LION. Per the statement on the copyright page, the book was "designed by Armand A. Bigle and produced by Marc Barraud from the original French language edition 'Walt Disney Lions d'Afrique' [published in 1955]," and was printed in Switzerland. The text, in this edition at least, was credited to James Algar, who began at the Disney studio as an animator in 1934, but after the war was made principal director (and later producer) of the studio's "True-Life Adventure" series of nature documentaries, which were produced between 1948 and 1960. The highlight of the book, though, are the color photographs of African wildlife (not just lions!) by Alfred and Elma [typo'd as "Emma" in the book's introduction, over Walt Disney's signature] Milette, which are tipped onto the pages throughout. (The volume has been carefully checked, and all photos are present and attached; mostly they are 7" x 3-1/2" or 3-1/2" x 3-1/2", although there are seven full-page (7" x 7-1/2") prints.) The Milottes, independent filmmakers before going under contract to Disney in the late 1940s, received cinematography credit on the earlier True-Life Adventure films (which until 1953 were all short subjects) and also on THE AFRICAN LION itself; the series earned a total of eight Academy Awards for the Disney studio, although this particular film wasn't nominated. I can't quite account for the scarcity of nice examples (or any examples) of this book in the current marketplace, but I suspect it may be due to many copies having been either sold to libraries, or placed in the hands of children -- both environments which would have been highly detrimental to the survival of the tipped-on photos. .

SAMARKAND, HEART'S DESIRE, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA [cover title.]

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $8.00

Details

$150.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Bartlebys Books

Title: SAMARKAND, HEART'S DESIRE, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA [cover title.]
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: [Santa Barbara, CA?]: The hotel, 1920. 24mo. (28) pp. Lower margin illustrations from line drawings throughout, depicting the town and activities in the hotel, double-page map of the hotel and its grounds and a street plan for the city. Promotional for the hotel and its amenities, with a romantic text suitable for life in Santa Barbara. Not in Rocq. OCLC locates one copy (California - Berkeley.) Very good. Original color illustrated wrappers, stapled. (6139).

Where the Sun Began: Poems. by ABBOTT, Kathleen.

5 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $2.50

Details

$30.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA

Title: Where the Sun Began: Poems.
Author: ABBOTT, Kathleen.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Enitharmon Press, , 1970.. First edition.. 20 pp. Fine in stiff wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Introductory note by Anne Ridler. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Abbott. Her first book. Halliwell 15.

L'Assommoir by ZOLA, Emile

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.50

Details

$19.50

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: L'Assommoir
Author: ZOLA, Emile
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924. Hardcover. Good. Good Wear and discoloring at all 3 edges of pages. Strong bumping at the book corners. Wear and top and bottom spine.

Secure Checkout