SCIENCE See also: Astronomy, Inventions, Medicine, Natural History . . .
SCIENCE 
Liberal Arts Summarized for
French Students 
Tardieu-Denesle, Mme. Henri. Encyclopédie de la jeunesse, ou novel abrégé élémentaire des sciences et des arts. Paris: Henri Tardieu, X [i.e., 1802]. 12mo (17.6 cm, 7"). 2 vols. I: vi, 216 pp. II: [4], 202, [4] pp.; 2 fold. maps, 2 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The oversized, folding maps of France and the world feature
hand-colored provincial and continental borders; two additional oversized, steel-engraved plates depict the gods atop Mt. Olympus and the seven wonders of the world.
Early editions of this work are uncommon.
• Quérard, La France littéraire, 341. Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; bindings faded and with some soiling/rubbing (most notably to spines). rubbed. Half-title of vol. I, pp. vii/viii of preface, and printed volume labels all bound in at back of vol. II; some signatures of vol. I unopened. Title-pages with traces of mostly effaced inscriptions; first and last few leaves of both volumes very lightly waterstained. One plate with two short tears from lower edge, not touching image. Solid and interesting. (27048)
First Edition, Inscribed bythe Author Toch, Maximilian. Materials for permanent painting. New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1911. 8vo. 208, [8 (adv.)] pp.; 8 plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Presentation copy signed by the author: “To Mr. Breiser[?] with the regards of Maximilian Toch,” dated [19]17.
• Publisher's olive cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title in decorative lettering embellished with an artist's palette, spine with decorative gilt-stamped title; cloth showing minor wrinkling and light discoloration over back cover and part of spine, corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Pages faintly age-toned, else clean. (24491)
The SCIENCE thatMakes a Good CookYoumans, Edward Livingston. The hand-book of household science. A popular account of heat, light, air, aliment, and cleansing, in their scientific principles and domestic applications. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. 8vo. xx, [17]–447, [1 (blank)] pp., [3 (ads)] ff., 18 pp. (ads), illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Whaton & Kelly 6655; Cagle & Stafford, American Books on Food and Drink, 840. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth, covers elaborately embossed in blind. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, lacking the front free endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A rather handsome book, and one in nice condition. (26509)
“ The GREAT BAUBLE of the Christian Priest, Exploded — ‘Busted’! ”
(ZEALOTRY, of Its Own Sort).
Woolley, Milton. The career of Jesus Christ: Being a supplement to
the author’s Science of the Bible. Streator, IL: Free Press Publishing House,
1877. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.2"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 52, [2] pp.; [60 (20
blank)] ff.
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The
printed Career is followed in this little volume by an extended
manuscript section containing neatly written excerpts from Wooley’s
Science of the Bible or an Analysis of the Hebrew Mythology.
• Contemporary half calf over textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; front cover detached, leather scuffed. All page edges marbled. Upper portion of front free endpaper torn away; two front fly-leaves partially excised. Back free endpaper with pencilled owner’s name. Printed portion very slightly age-toned, with faint creasing to first section.
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