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Books
The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants : ethnopharmacology and its applications
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Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Books
"This introduction to the biology of standing waters integrates the effects of abiotic constraints and biotic interactions at both the population and community level, and examines how the distribution and success of different organisms in this freshwater habitat can be explained and predicted"--Provided by publisher.
QH96 .B724 2005
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Manuscripts
A collection of 648 items from 1918 to 1937, it consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents and photographs primarily related to Rost's interests in cacti. Included is a typewritten manuscript of his book Something about cacti, a translation of Alwin Berger's Kakteen (1929), and articles by Ernest N. Rost and his wife Etta Newbury Rost, who wrote under the pseudonym Esther Norton. Correspondents in the collection include Joseph Nelson Rose, Curator of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution and Nathaniel Lord Britton, director of the New York Botanical Gardens. The collection also contains 505 photographs, including 287 photographs of cacti and succulent plants which were to be included in Something bout cacti, 3 oversize photograph albums, and approximately 800 glass plate negatives.
mssRost
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Rare Books
"This encyclopedia of printing and lithographic inks is the most comprehensive book of its kind ever published, and the aim is to help all who desire more knowledge. No one volume contains such a wealth of information. It shows simplified methods, for mixing and matching colors so simple that inks can be matched in any press room without extra equipment. It contains complementary and harmonious color combinations and many secrets of color blending"--From dust jacket.
656926
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Rare Books
The first facsimile of one of the great books of botanic art from the edition held in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Jacquin left Vienna in 1754 and spent the following five years collecting, recording and shipping back specimens from across the Caribbean region: Martinique, the Leeward Islands and Antilles, Jamaica, Cuba and the Colombian coast. In the course of his voyage Jacquin's herbarium was destroyed by termites, prompting him to make drawings in situ of the species he had discovered- the originals from which many of the beautiful plates of Plants of the Americas were painted. In 1780 he published the second edition of Plants of the Americas. This book was a true meeting of science and art, with breathtaking results. 264 hand-painted plant portraits of extraordinary detail and accuracy, prefaced by a title page of exuberant beauty. For this facsimile Christopher Mills, Head of Library, Art and Archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has produced a comprehensive account of the genesis and publication of Plants of the Americas, with complete details of the surviving copies of the deluxe second edition and full-colour reproductions of all ten variants of the book's stunning title page. He also documents all the plant species illustrated in Plants of the Americas and provides an extensive bibliography. Richard Deverell, Director of Kew Gardens, has contributed a foreword in which he pays tribute to the beauty and continuing relevance of Jacquin's great work.
762361
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Rare Books
"Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body."--Jacket.
655829
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Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with the professional and personal activities of Samuel Brooks Morris, a civil engineer of note in Southern California who was most active from the 1930s into the early 1960s. The collection deals with local (Pasadena and Los Angeles), state and national engineering concerns, largely related to water reclamation, dams, hydrogeology, water litigation, and a wide range of related technical publications. The material consists of a highly diverse mix of manuscripts and printed materials, including correspondence, maps, notes, charts, fliers, and brochures, often interspersed within each folder. The correspondence is primarly to and from colleagues, but also includes discusion with government officials at all levels from local to national. The collection includes a small number of photographs, located in appropriate sections of the collection by subject.
mssMorris, Samuel papers