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Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, Publishers, 1902. 12 x 17 cm. Recent legislation has required teaching of physiology and hygeine in lower grades of schools; this booklet provides a manual for teachers. Illustrations from Blaisdell's ""Practical Physiology"" include frontispiece drawing of principal muscles of the body; drawing showing relations of the duodenum and other internal organs, blackboard exercises. Guidance… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1859. 28 x 39 cm. Peach tree is a native of Persia; Cameron's self-adjusting belt-saw, great advantage over circular saw; Woodward's Smut Machine, for removing fungus from wheat before it is ground; Scientific American has moved to 37 Park Row. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1851. 28 x 39 cm. Black's Cast-Iron Tubular Trackway for Broadway, NYC. Report of dental operation on an elephant, to remove both tusks. Story of M. Boutigny, the French Fire Handler, who dips his hands into a pot of melted iron.New chart to discover where whales have been seen, for use of Whalers.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1859. 28 x 39 cm. Kessler's Distilling Apparatus; woolen factory in Oregon; Spear's Corn Husker; Testing Belting; Lyons' Seed Planter; Iodine for browning iron. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1851. 28 x 39 cm. Scottish Bread Making and Baking Machine; Rail-road News: Inventor of the Tubular bridge; New railroad from Pottsville to Philadelphia. Niagara Suspension Bridge; Bear Hunting in Sweden. Paper periodical, spinefold worn. Good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1859. 28 x 39 cm. Ailen's Knitting Machine, drawings on front and back pages; Baron von Humboldt; Lawrence & Safely's pump; Gould's improved callipers. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1859. 28 x 39 cm. White's Rock and Coal Drill, for mining; Sherwood's grain binder; Fawkes' Steam Plow; to stop bleeding of the nose. How to treat a man who has fainted. Paper periodical, back three pages have some soiling, good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1857. 28 x 39 cm. Stoner's Grappler and Dredger, capable of releasing its grasp, and converting to dredging; Strychnine and whiskey; More American Pearls; Reaping and sowing machine. Paper periodical. Good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1862. 25 x 34 cm. Features Sewell's Patent Steam Pump. War Department inquiry through Scientific American on naval construction--intelligence gathering in the newspaper. Newspaper, spinefold partly torn, good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1857. 28 x 39 cm. Whipple's reciprocating saw mill; Boyd's liquor preserver. Advance wages for seamen--get eaten up by land sharks. The American coal fields. Paper periodical, spinefold partly torn. Very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co., 37 Park Row, 1859. 28 x 39 cm. Halderman's new stave-jointer, for making tight barrels, as for flour; Concrete should be poured in cellar floors; use of straw to conduct electricity; Steamboat explodes on Mississippi, 200 dead. Drake's Seed-planter plants seed with great regularity. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1858. 28 x 39 cm. Kingsland's Pulp Engine-- paper making process: Some rags come from tents used in Crimean war. New washing machine. Potato Planter. Comet last year didn't destroy the earth. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1858. 28 x 39 cm. Dewitt's Circular Sawing Machine; Yellow fever in NYC; Great celebration on completion of Atlantic telegraph. Paper periodical, dampstained. Good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1851. 28 x 39 cm. New railroad from Girard to Mobile will connect that Gulf coast port with New York. Emperor of Russia will build railroad from St. Petersburg to Warsaw. Colorful description of finishing touches on the Palace of Glass in London for a huge international trade fair. Mr. George Peabody, American… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1858. 28 x 39 cm. Evarts' Screw Cutter-- machine on display at Crystal Palace when it was destroyed by fire. Durable wooden water pipes. Shaving soap powder. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1850. 28 x 39 cm. Improved shooting harpoon; Baltimore & Susquehenna RR has turned out another splendid engine. Patented cane cutter. Paper periodical, foxed and stained, edges frayed. Fair. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1851. 28 x 39 cm. Hutchinson's Machinery for Manufacturing Barrels; Sydney Morning Herald reports turning first turf for first Australian railway; Survey of inventions in 1850. Paper periodical, spine partly torn, good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1856. 28 x 39 cm. Apparatus for milking cows, employs box, crank and cams for squeezing teats; New sounding guard for vessels, to prevent groundings; New segmental girder bridge made of wrought iron. Paper periodical, Very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1850. 28 x 39 cm. New style of railway car uses teak wood, for cost savings in repair and painting. New inventions. Joke about Irishman. Patents. Paper periodical, dampstained, spinefold partly torn. Good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.

New York, NY: Munn & Co, 1858. 28 x 39 cm. Winn's Safety Valve and Pressure Gage; New railway car seat for night travelers; Discussion on the air we breathe. The Potato Rot--opinions. Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific.