Calcutta: Printed by Thomson, Ferris, and Greenway, 1798. Lacking the last leaf of music (supplied in photocopy facsimile from the Ferris and Greenway setting, where this appears as pp. 162-3).Fascinating early dictionary and handbook of Hindustani (Urdu). Read More about The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan ;...

Chicago: July 19, 1912. A letter of thanks for a $25 donation to Hull-House. Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Jane Addams"), to "My dear Mrs. Gregory"

Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1713. Second edition. Revised second edition, corrected with additional observations on the serin, a small European finch related to the canary. Hervieux de Chanteloup (1683-1747) composed this treatise in his capacity as "gouverneur des serins de madame la princess …." With wood engraved plates of bird cages... Read More about Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie, contenant la manière de les élever, les apparier pour en...

[London: Thomas Astley, 1745-7]. Engraving showing "Negro Canoas carying Slaves aboard at Mansrow," extracted from A New Collection of Voyages and Travels (4 vols, London: Thomas Astley, 1745-7). Read More about Prospect of the Coast from El Mina to Mowri, from Barbot & Smith

Paris: C. Reinwald...Schleicher Freres & Cie, 1903. First edition. Read More about L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie

London: John & Edward Bumpus, 1914. Copy No. 77 of 100 Printed on Hand-Made paper. Printed by the Chiswick Press. One of 100. Brilliant copy of a magnificently printed and designed book on one of the great French illustrators of the 18th century. With a preface by Emile Bertaux, a.... Read More about Charles Eisen

London: J. and J. Taylor, 1788. Second edition. Second edition of a work often found bound with the third edition of Franklin's Observations on Smokey Chimneys (1793). First published in 1779, with editions in 1788 and 1793. "There is a certain truth in [Clavering's] criticism of esteemed and wordly architects... Read More about An Essay on the Construction and Building of Chimneys. Including an Enquiry into the Common...

Reprinted from Physics Today, 1967. Inscribed to Laszlo Magyar by Kastler on upper cover. He was Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1966 "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms" Read More about Optical Methods for the Study of Radio-Frequency Resonance

San Diego & LaJolla: 1971 & 1972. Both inscribed by Zobell, American microbiologist and marine biologist. Read More about Fifty-Second Annual Meeting Pacific Divsion American association for the Advancement of...

Leipzig: bei Georg Joachim Goeschen, 1817. With Hand-Colored Plates. Includes the orders from Austria, Prussia, Baiern, Sachsen (Saxony), Hannover, Württemberg, Baden, Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Darmstadt and Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. Read More about Almanach der Ritter=Orden. Erste Abtheilung die deutschen Ritter=Orden

Reprinted from Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1968. Inscribed on upper wrapperTiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins. Read More about Reflections from Both Sides of the Counter

Stockholm: Nobel Foundation, 1978. Reimpression de Les Prix Nobel en 1977. Signed. Signed on front cover by MottSir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. Read More about Electron in Glass

Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1826. Fifth edition, corrected and enlarged. The fifth edition of Asher Benjamin's second book, first published in 1806. "[It] became the principal source for the Federal style for carpenters across the eastern half of the United States. Technically the plates were far superior to those... Read More about The American Builders' Companion; or, a System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted to the...