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Softcovers reprint/offprint from journal; minor shelfwear and light soiling of wraps; o/w in very good condition.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Slightly foxed in prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 94 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Confectionery. Desserts. Sweets. Chocolate. Turkish delight. Candy. Cocoa butter. Syrup. Icing. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Plates Including A Map. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Pp 219-241 + Publishers Offprint Wrappers. Covers With Some Edge Wear, Contents Fine. Leaves Unopened (Still Attached Along Edges). Chester Stock (1892 -1950) Was An American Paleontologist Who Specialized In The Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna Of The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits. He Served As A Professor Of Geology At The California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena. He Attended The University Of California, Berkeley With The Intent To Study Medicine But, Influenced By John C. Merriam, Instead Took An Interest In Paleontology. He Authored A Paper Of The Remains Of The Rancho La Brea For His Graduation In 1914, After Which He Continued His Studies Under Merriam. He Collected Paleontological Samples In The Hawker Cave For His 1918 Phd Dissertation. He Soon Joined The University As An Instructor And, When Merriam Moved To Washington In 1921, Began Teaching Vertebrate Paleontology. The Newly Founded California Institute Of Technology Was Being Expanded By R.A. Millikan, Who Recruited J.P. Buwalda And Chester Stock For The Geology Department. Stock Worked There Until His Death. The Plesiosaur Morenosaurus Stocki, A Flamingo Phoenicopterus Stocki, And A Fossil Bat Desmodus Stocki Are Among The Species That Have Been Named After Him. Stock Was Elected To The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences In 1941, The American Philosophical Society In 1946, And The United States National Academy Of Sciences In 1948.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. BE/W : 362 Seiten - Raetz ist einer der renommiertesten Schweizer Gegenwartskünstler. Bereits zu Beginn seiner künstlerischen Arbeit nahm er 1968 an der documenta 4 und 1972 documenta 5 teil und war 1969 in Harald Szeemanns legendärer Ausstellung When Attitudes Become Form in der Kunsthalle Bern vertreten. Raetz beschäftigt sich in seinen Arbeiten, die er in den unterschiedlichsten Materialien und Medien ausführt, mit den Phänomenen der Wahrnehmung. Nicht das Dargestellte steht bei ihm im Vordergrund, sondern die Art und Weise der Rezeption.