Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Lyon, France: J. Bouvard & Cie 20, Rue Lafont, c. 1900. This very unusual French sample book contains... Read More about J. Bouvard & Cie catalogue of mounted samples of epaulets and military regalia
Price: $2,500
Boston: Beacon Press, [1963]. First edition. Davenport's First Book. Read More about The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings. Selected, with an...
Price: $200
New York: Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, No. 82 Cliff Street, 1832. First edition. Davies was Professor of Mathematics at The Military Academy at West Point. Read More about A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective
Price: $400
London: Printed fort J. Johnson by Biggs and Cottle, Bristol, 1800. First edition of his first book. Landmark of Anesthesiology in Boards. "Davy, apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary, published the above at age 22. Two years earlier, he experimented with various gases at the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, to determine..... Read More about Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide or Dephlogisticated...
Price: $9,500
London: Macmillan, 1874. First Edition. Read More about Cave Hunting. Researches on the Evidence of Caves
Price: $250
New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1848. 62nd Edition. Read More about An Introduction to Algebra, being the first part of a course of mathematics, adapted to the...
Price: $100
Albany, NY: Printed for Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1844. Read More about Zoology of New York or the Fauna … Part II. Birds
Price: $1,250
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, [1960]. Reprinted from Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 1, January 1960. Read More about Predictions of Sequences of Successes and Failures
Price: $100
London: Andrew Melrose Ltd. 3 York St. Covent Gardens, n.d. [ca. 1928?]. Inscribed to David Sarnoff. A novel set in ancient Israel, during the time of the invasion of the Assyrians. Inscribed to the radio and television pioneer, David Sarnoff: "To David Sarnoff "The man who not only possesses the..... Read More about Huns in Palestine
Price: $300
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1849. Third edition. Read More about Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail-road to San-Francisco, at their Public Meeting, held at the...
Price: $250
Paris: Libraire Hachette et Cie, 1874. First edition. On China Paper. A work on the history and science of transportation, printed on China paper, from the Bibliothèque des Merveilles. Read More about Les Merveilles de la Locomotion
Price: $300
Paris: L'Auteur, rue de la Paix, No. 19, Méquignon-Marvis & Gabon, 1819. First edition. A Classic of Orthodontics. Read More about Traité de la Seconde Dentition, et Méthode naturelle de la Diriger; suivis d'un Aperçu de...
Price: $600
London: Country Life Limited, 1951. First edition. Read More about The Pheasants of the World
Price: $150
Paris: 1860. Troisième édition. INSCRIBED TO BECQUEREL. Inscribed on half-title "à M. Becquerel de l'[auteur], témoignage de respectueuse affection Ch. Delaunay." The recipient is likely Antoine César Becquerel (1788-1878), a pioneer in the study of electricity and first in a line of distinguished scientists (his grandson, Henri Bequerel, won the..... Read More about Cours elementaire d'Astronomie. Concordant avec les articles du Programme official pour l'...
Price: $750
N.p: Privately Printed for Alfred Denison, 1872. Limited to 25 copies. Read More about A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written...
Price: $4,000
Baltimore: Huber & Jarvis, Printers, No. 212 and 214 Baltimore St, 1850. First edition. Read More about Valedictory Address, delivered before the Class of the Baltimore College of Dental...
Price: $175
Baltimore: John W. Woods, 1848. First edition. Read More about Address delivered at the Eight Annual Commencement of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery,...
Price: $150
Syracuse: Lathrop, 1853. Dr. Ehrick Parmly was on the faculty. Read More about Third Annual Announcement of the New-York College of Dental Surgery, Syracuse, N.Y. Session of...
Price: $150
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets, this is number 183. Remarkable Nature-Printed Work, Accompanied by Thirty-One Original Moth and Butterfly Specimens From the Denton Brothers. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets (this is number 183) of this sumptuous color plate book on..... Read More about As Nature Shows Them. Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains
Price: $8,500
New York: The Derrydale Press 36 Park Avenue, [1927]. The Press moved from Eugene Connett's home in New Jersey to Park Avenue early in 1927. Books listed herein are The Hitchcock Edition of Somerville and Ross, The Dalmatian, Trouting along the Catasaqua, The Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club;..... Read More about Books on Sport Printed at the Derrydale Press
Price: $250
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 23. Read More about Psycho-Analysis of the Neuroses. … Translated by W.D. Robson-Scott
Price: $250
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1922. First edition. Historical accounts of life and travel in India by the noted ornithologist. Wide ranging and well written. Read More about Bygone Days in India
Price: $250
London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird. WITH THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT SIGNED BY JOHN LOGIE BAIRD. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline..... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless
Price: $6,500
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers. New York Charles T. Dillingham, 1877. First edition. Printed by the Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Co., Boston. A. E. Dolbear (1837-1910) was a physics professor at Tufts College. He was also twice mayor of Bethany, West Virginia. Read More about The Telephone: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as involved in...
Price: $150
