Analytical Techniques from

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays, from ancient to modern, with a special emphasis on Shakespeare; systematicrather than historical. First English edition, from the fifth German, where it had become the standard work on the subject. Publisher's European Studies in English Literature series. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, minor… Read more about this item

New York / London: Plenum Press, 1974. Proceedings of the 18th annual "OHOLO" conference, presenting 23 technical papers & transcriptions of some of the panel discussion. Includes "several chapters of medical relevance...[summarizing] recent advances in the control of transcription, translation, viruses, hormones, and metabolism, and control during differentiation." The OHOLO Conferences were held annually from 1956 to at least the… Read more about this item

Westport, CT/London: Bergin & Garvey, 1997. Study of the remains of a working-class African-American church's burial ground, used from about 1822 to 1843, forgotten and paved over until the 1980s. Along with a study of archival documents, analysis of the skeletal remains discovered gives a rare picture of the lives & health of Black people in the period. Hardcover, as… Read more about this item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pioneering study of microscopic analysis of stone tools (British, in this case), which the author asserts is useful in determining they ways in which they were used by prehistoric hominids. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover, lacking the jacket (as issued?), as pictured. Shows some wear, corners rubbed &… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Dense post-structuralist study using the works of Henry James to formulate "an interactive model of literary interpretation and pedagogy emphasizing process, critical self-awareness and strategies of rereading/rewriting." Hardcover in jacket as pictured, stated first American edition (first printing); originally published in the UK the previous year. Light wear to book, bottom edge rubbed; minor… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. The authors' second book on matrix analysis, which "develops a further set of slightly more specialized topics in the same spirit", including the field of values, matrix stability and inertia (including M-matrices), singular values and associated inequalities, matrix equations and Kronecker products, Hadamard products of matrices, and ways in which matrices and functions interact. Hardcover… Read more about this item

Cambridge & London: MIT Press, 1981. Early study of how depth perception allowed by stereo vision can be interpolated by computers, based on the author's dissertation, itself partly an elaboration of David Marr and Tomaso Poggio's work. Grimson remains at MIT, where he became head of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, and Chancellor from 2011-2014. Hardcover in jacket,… Read more about this item

London/Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Technical study of statistical methods in analysis of fossil pollen grains & spores, applicable to other forms of stratigraphic analysis. Hardcover as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, corners bumped, some marginal ink notation, rubberstamped name of University of Wisconsin geologist Louis J. Maher, Jr. on free endsheet. Maher was a notable palynologist, with… Read more about this item

London: Chemical Society, 1980. Technical manual with articles discussing the preparation & purification of labelled compounds, the "determination of the degree and specificity of labelling by means of a suitable analytical technique", and applications. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, spine fade, label(?) stain inside front cover. Text clean; xii, 400 pages; figures, tables, references.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 5¾" by… Read more about this item

Oxford: IRL Press Limited, 1987. Technical manual on various aspects of high-performance liquid chromatography, then a rapidly-developing analytic technique, and still important in several fields; intended "to provide detailed practical h.p.l.c. procedures for the analysis of small molecules in the life sciences" including amino acids, small peptides, biogenic amines, carbohydrates, lipids, bile acids, steroids, vitamins, nucleotides & nucleosides, porphyrins and… Read more about this item

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1992. Scholarly study discussing the idea, held for centuries, that one purpose of Art was the imitation of Nature, and its inspiration in technical ideas of optics, particularly perspective and color; including sections on the theory of perspective; devices to manipulate it; the colour theories of Aristotle & Newton. Large paperback, as pictured.… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Study of contrasting ideas around the world on what constitutes "the good life", based on interviews with college students from the USA, Canada, Norway, India, China, & India, in an attempt to bring scientific principles to bear on questions of human values; Morris was influential in the field of semiotics. Hardcover, first edition in… Read more about this item

New Haven: Bureau of Social Hygiene/Yale University Press, 1948. Technical study of fingerprint classification, as developed by Scotland Yard. Seventh printing, 1948, first published 17 years earlier. Hardcover, full grey cloth, black titling. General wear, corners frayed, Dane County [Wisconsin] Sheriff rubberstamps here & there, ugly rubber cement stain to inner rear cover; no jacket. Text clean; [2], 98 pages;… Read more about this item

Bristol / Boston: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1985. Practical account of the process of radiography for art conservators, including information on X-ray units, film & film processing, the darkroom, taking radiographs, radiographing paintings, stone & wood, special techniques, protection. Blue hardcover, gilt titling. Minor wear to book, covers slightly curved; ink name on free endsheet; jacket shows minor edgewear. Text clean;… Read more about this item

Bussum: Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1976. Six essays, three in English, two in German, one in French: a general introduction, underdrawings, 16th century frames, Jan van Scorel's workshop underdrawings, Lucas van Leyden diptych, Pierre Breugel. Hardcover, full moss cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, corners bumped; jacket shows some rubbing, light spine fade, head of spine wrinkled. Text clean; x, 268 pages; notes,… Read more about this item

Göteborg: Göteborg University, 1998. Thesis based on six papers studying the long-term outcomes of various implementations of this popular procedure, not strongly regulated, with the intent of determining whether the then-new 'Spectron' prosthetic was better than the "gold standard" 'Charnley' prosthetic; and to develop tools for improving outcome analysis. Includes the six papers the thesis is based upon. Text in… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Japan Food Additives Association, 1988. Mostly technical monographs on over 300 chemicals used in the food processing industry, with sections on reagents & solutions and test methods, standards & procedures. Only about 30 pages on Japanese use & labelling standards. Bright green hardcover, black titling. General wear, ink mark on front, corners bumped; minor pencil notation… Read more about this item

Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1977. Two volume set, complete. Technical studies of microfossils and their use in climatology and the dating of stratigraphic layers; Benchmark Papers in Geology volumes 46 & 47, collecting 42 papers in all. Navy hardcovers, gilt titling. Light general wear, corners lightly bumped. Text clean; xv, blank, 381, blank,… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: Fisher Scientific Company, 1952. Big trade catalog of scientific equipment, including glassware, tools, devices, supplies, centrifuges, analyzers, balances, etcetera. Stout black hardcover, silver titling. Light wear, small white marks on front cover; first page nearly torn out; paper lightly tanned. Text clean; viii, 968 pages; index, tables, b/w photos, engravings, line drawings.. Later Edition. Cloth. Very… Read more about this item

Chicago: Chicago Apparatus Company, 1949. Big trade catalog full of all types of laboratory, measuring & testing gear; glassware, hardware, electrical, microscopes, balances, timers, chemicals; etcetera. Hardcover, full red buckram, blue titling. General wear, fading, small spots, corners rubbed & frayed; some rear pages creased, first page torn at gutter. Text clean; [6], 700 pages; index, b/w… Read more about this item