Search Results: Science from Sandhill Books

Pretoria: Government Printer, 1956. Softcover. Fair/no jacket. 52 pages, diagrams and charts, 24cm tall, octavo, bibliography. Investigational Report No. 21 of the South African Department of Commerce and Industries, Division of Fisheries. "The Cape fur seal forms the basis of a valuable industry operating biannually off the coast of South Africa." Ex-technical library with ink stamps on front and rear covers, noncirculating copy. A lightly worn copy, good interior, good binding.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Softcover. Good/no jacket. pp x, 346, maps, 23cm tall, octavo. United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Bulletin 901. Six folded maps tipped-in, one folded map in pocket. Front cover shows vertical crease, ownership signature at corner.

Geological Society of America, 1947. Softcover in good condition. Brown covers and black title, 27 pages, 24cm tall, octavo. Five plates of site photos and drawings of flint projectile points and flint scrapers. Reprint of article published in a 1947 volume of the "Bulletin of the Geological Society of America." Front cover shows inked note, "compliments of the authors," otherwise clean and unworn.

New York: Netherlands Information Bureau, 1944. Softcover in very good condition, second edition. 28 pages plus 8 pages of b/w photos, 27cm tall, quarto. This title lists and briefly describes the towns and geographic features of the Netherlands East Indies, which are shown on the fold-out map at the rear of the book. At the time of publication some parts of Netherlands New Guinea and some islands in the surrounding oceans were still under Japanese control. Covers show some brown tone at the edges and just a bit of wear, map is in fine condition.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. 49 pages, 23cm tall, octavo. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 1843. Green cloth with gilt title on spine, folded geohydrological map in rear pocket. Trifling of soil on front cover, otherwise clean and unworn.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1957. Softcover. Good/no jacket. Green covers and black title, 68 pages, 23cm tall, octavo, bibliography and index, complete set of 10 plates in rear pocket including the geologic map. Geological Survey Bulletin 1051. Spine is sunned, side binding staples show rust, otherwise a clean and lightly worn copy.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1957. Hardcover in very good condition, no dust jacket. Brown paper over boards, 24cm tall, octavo. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 1378. Sixteen folded maps in a pocket affixed to the rear board, lacking text volume. Ink stamp on front cover: "Wisconsin Geological Survey." No other markings.

Woodbury, New York: American Institute Of Physics, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Red cloth and black title, xi and 553 pages, 24cm tall, octavo. This volume contains the written contributions to the fourth in a series of conferences, "Heavy Quarks at Fixed Target", initiated in 1993. Seven sections in this volume: CP violation and mixing; heavy ions; production dynamics and structure functions; hacronic decays; semileptonic and leptonic decays; spectroscopy; rare and forbidden decays. Publisher's isbn barcode sticker on rear cover, ownership name and address on endpaper. A clean and unworn copy.

University of Chicago Press, 1996. second edition. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Brown cloth, 207 pages, 9-in tall, many illustrations. "All maps must tell white lies. And sometimes these lies are not so little" (from the foreword).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. first paperback printing. Fine/no jacket. x, 486p, b/w illustrations, maps, 28cm tall, quarto. La Selva is an intensively researched nature reserve and field station in Costa Rica.

Garland Publishing, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Blue cloth, lxv and 447 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography. Illustrated with many in-text figures and 17 plates. This study consists of a facsimile of the Leonardo codex MS D with an English translation and commentary, and discussions of Leonardo da Vinci's investigations in optics and his artistic theory. This 1979 edition is a revised version of Strong's PhD dissertation completed in 1967 at the University of California Los Angeles. New considerations are discussed in an introductory section, but the 1967 English translation of the Leonardo codex MS D has not been altered. Published in Garland's Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts Series. Clean and unworn.

Rutgers University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Green cloth, xiv and 234 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography and index. Dust jacket with 1-in edge tear, light brown tone to spine panel. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. first printing. Hardcover in fine condition in a fine dust jacket. Black paper over boards with gilt spine title, 358 pages, 9 in. tall, index. The author traces the history of the annual Gifford Lectures, "the premier venue for the finest scientific and theological minds to speak to all questions about man's conception of God or the Infinite."

Leitz Optical Works, 1910. Softcover. Fair/no jacket. 42 p, full-page and in text illustrations, 26cm tall, quarto. Front cover has quarter size loss at corner, pencilled ownership signature, and light dampstain. Rear cover shows loss at corner and spine shows loss at top. Internal ownership stamps for the zoological museum of the University of Wisconsin, no other markings. Very good internally with good binding.

Madison, Wisconsin: State of Wisconsin, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 103 pp, 24 cm tall, octavo. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 69, Economic Series No. 23. Green cloth with gilt title on spine. Properties of molding sands, geological occurrence of Wisconsin molding sands, a study of the refractoriness of molding sands. Covers show light rubbing at corners, spine gilt shows loss of brightness. Internally fine.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. pp 469, drawings, 22cm tall, octavo. Issued as part of publisher's Cambridge Monographs on Physics series, general editors N. Reather and D Shoenberg. Front cover has small soil spot, ownership signature on endpaper. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, small tape mend inside the jacket, price-clipped.

Viking Penguin, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 295p, 23cm tall, octavo. Top edge of leaves show slight foxing.

Oxford University Press, 1925. sixth edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Red cloth, xii and 64 pages, 11 in tall. World and continental maps throughout showing climate, population, commerce, religion, race, etc. Climate maps show air pressure, temperature, rainfall, and ocean surface temperature. In introductory comments concerning the Negro: "because of climate influences the development of the brain is arrested, and the adult is essentially unintellectual...He is of great use as a manual laborer in a steamy climate, e. g. on a cane-sugar plantation." Front cover with 2 small dampstain spots at edge. Ownership ink-stamp on endpaper, possible glue repair to gutter at title page.

Washington: Department of the Interior, 1964. second printing. Softcover in good condition. Gray covers, 130 pages, 10 in tall, index of chemicals tested. Fish and Wildlife Service Circular 199, the fourth report on studies of pesticides by the Department of the Interior. Reports on fisheries and wildlife studies. Rear cover with a sticker ghost, spine shows brown tone. Ownership ink-stamp inside front cover.

Washington: Department of the Interior, 1963. Softcover in very good condition. Beige covers, 109 pages, 10 in tall. Fish and Wildlife Service Circular 167, the third report on studies of pesticides by the Department of the Interior. Reports on fisheries, wildlife, pesticide-wildlife studies, recommendations for minimizing dangers of pest control and pesticides to fish and wildlife. Front cover with a corner crease. Ownership ink-stamp inside front cover.