Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Amsterdam: T.B. Elwe, 1794. First edition. 53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This... Read More about Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden
Price: $11,500
September 11, 1894. Edison and the Birth of Film. A letter dating from the birth year of motion picture exhibition, from the inventor of the medium, Edison, to one of the first motion picture distributors and producers, Norman C. Raff, mentioning a third important figure in the history of film..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Edison"), to Norman C. Raff, relating to the early efforts in...
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26 February 1980. Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for “studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy” (shared with Ronald Norrish and George Porter). The present draft manuscript discusses biochemical, physical, and..... Read More about Leben. Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Manfred Eigen”) at head of first page
Price: $2,500
New York: Edwin Miles Fadman, Inc, [1923]. first edition. Read More about The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Price: $175
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1920. First edition. Read More about From Newton to Einstein. Changing Conceptions of the Universe
Price: $75
[Deering, NH]: c. 1960s. Read More about Albert Einstein, Physicist, Princeton, N.J., 1938, signed
Price: $1,500
Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, [1927]. First edition. Number 85 in the Wege Zum Wissen series. The author was a Professor at the University of Berlin. Read More about Von Kopernikus bis Einstein. Der Wandel unseres Weltbildes
Price: $125
![Item #316570 Pourquoi la guerre? [Translated by Blaise Briod]. Albert Einstein, Sigmund FREUD](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/316570.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669654062)
Paris: Institut International de Cooperation Intellectuelle. Societe des Nations, 1933. One of 3000 copies on Chataignier paper. Published simultaneously in French, English, and German. Read More about Pourquoi la guerre? [Translated by Blaise Briod
Price: $350
New York: Philosophical Library, [1950]. First Edition. Read More about Out of My Later Years
Price: $125
[St. Louis]: np, [1873]. Decomposing liquids with Electricity. Casselberry's discovery was a less expensive method of decomposing liquids. He used electricity and during his experiments found that two decomposing cells attached to a galvanic battery or magneto-electric machine will generate twice the gas as a single cell. Prior to Casselberry's..... Read More about A Discovery in the Science of Electricity
Price: $150
Verona: Giannalberto Tumermani, 1747. First edition. Maffei On the Formation of Lightning, 1747. Collection of fifteen letters on the origins of lightning by the enlightened polymath Maffei (1675-1755), "said by Grimelli (Storia) to contain all the anterior letters on Lightning published by him, i.e. all before 1746, the date of..... Read More about Della Formazione de' Fulmini Trattato del sig. marchese Scipione Maffei, Raccolto da varie sue...
Price: $1,500
London: Saunders and Stanford, 1853. First Edition. Watson patented several galvanic batteries. He was an early advocate of more commercial use of “electrical illumination” with the by-product of fine color pigments. Read More about A Few Remarks on the Present State and Prospects of Electrical Illumination
Price: $150
London: Heinemann, 1946. First Edition. INSCRI|BED TO ASHLEY MONTAGU. Inscribed on ffep and signed below by the recipient, with TLS laid in. Read More about Ancient Anodynes Primitive Anæsethesia and Allied Conditions
Price: $100
London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More about The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...
Price: $1,250
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. Read More about Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road and Railway Guide Book through England and Wales
Price: $450
c 1830-1860. Read More about Botanical Drawing: Gouache on Paper
Price: $1,500
London, Ontario: 19007-1925. Read More about The Canadian Entomologist. Volume XXXIX 1907-Volume LVII, 1925
Price: $400
Erie, Pa: c. 1893. Read More about Erie Engine Works. Engines and Boliers
Price: $125
Glogau [Polland]: Verlag von Carl Flemming, 1864. 8th edition. Railroads and Steamships. Read More about Karte der Eisenbahnen Mittel-Europa's mit Angabe sämmtlicher Bahnstationen, Hauptpost und...
Price: $200
London: Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679. Third edition, “much inlarged, and improved,” etc. Evelyn’s Sylva , first published in 1664, is a treatise on forestry, written to promote the cultivation of timber for building the Royal Navy. As Disraeli wrote: “It was an author in..... Read More about Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions....
Price: $1,750
Guben (Germany): F. Fechner, nd (c. 1865). Read More about Excercises in Colouring. The English Farm. Part I
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San Francisco: Flash, 1974. A. Faber. First edition. Read More about A Guide to Growing Cannabis Under Fluorescents
Price: $175
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University (Series “Cornell Publications in the History of Science”), 1942. Read More about The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymous Fabricius. The Formation of the Egg and of the Chick...
Price: $175
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, 1778. First edition. A Pioneer of Systematic Entomology. Fabricius first major work on the system and theory of entomology, and perhaps his greatest theoretical contribution to the science. "Fabricius was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished entomologists and ranks with Carl de Geer, P.A...... Read More about Philosophia entomologica sistens scientiae fundamenta adiectis definitionibus exemplis,...
Price: $800
