G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue...
[New Haven]: T. J. Stafford 88 & 90 State Street, [1859]. Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Carriages, New Haven, Conn
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Science
Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
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Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality.
London: Tavistock Publications Limited, 1952. First edition. Read More about Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality
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Die Raubvögel Deutschland und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas.... Darstellung und Beschreibung der in Deutschland und dem angrenzenden Miteleuropa vorkommenden Raubvögel.
Cassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer in Cassel, 1894. Second edition. 2 auflage der Tafeln mit kurzem Text. With a foreword by von Riesenthal dated September 1893. This edition includes an explanatory text briefly describing each raptor; the sixty plates depict the birds in a natural setting, most frequently at one-third..... Read More about Die Raubvögel Deutschland und des angrenzenden Mitteleuropas.... Darstellung und Beschreibung...
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E.J. Lewis, Wholesale Manufacturer of Fancy Parlor Brackets.
Chicago: 67 W. Washington, c. 1880. Read More about E.J. Lewis, Wholesale Manufacturer of Fancy Parlor Brackets
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CHEMICAL MANIPULATION: being instruction to students in chemistry on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration, or of research, with...
London: John Murray, 1829. Second edition. Read More about CHEMICAL MANIPULATION: being instruction to students in chemistry on the methods of performing...
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Clipped Signature ("Your obliged Servant / M. Faraday").
[ca. 1850]. Faraday (1791-1867) is famous for his discovery of electromagnetic induction and formulation of the laws of electrolysis. Read More about Clipped Signature ("Your obliged Servant / M. Faraday"
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A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter.
New York: Harpoer & Brothers, 1860. First American edition. Read More about A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter
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Illustrative and Descriptive Catalogue of American Felt Company.Manufacturers of felts for all purposes, piano and organ materials, hardware and tools...
New York: American Felt Company. 10 and 112 East 13th Street, [1900]. Read More about Illustrative and Descriptive Catalogue of American Felt Company.Manufacturers of felts for all...
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German Ready Reckoner
Der Geschwinde Rechner oder Des Händlers nützicher Gehülfe, in Kauffung.
Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1774. German Ready Reckoner. Early American German ready-reckoner. Read More about Der Geschwinde Rechner oder Des Händlers nützicher Gehülfe, in Kauffung
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An Introduction to Electricity. In Six Sections.
London: Printed by W. Straham and T. Cadell, 1770. First edition. Read More about An Introduction to Electricity. In Six Sections
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Editor's Own Copy
Proceedings of the First World Congress on Fertility and Sterility. Edited by Dr. Carlot Guerreo and Dr. Abner I. Weisman...
[New York]: Published by the International Fertility Association, [1953]. Editor's Own Copy. Weisman's copy with his name stamped in gilt on the upper cover. In addition to being the editor of this volume Dr. Weisman was also the Associate Secretary General of the International Fertility Association. Read More about Proceedings of the First World Congress on Fertility and Sterility. Edited by Dr. Carlot Guerreo...
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The Modern Philosopher; or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most Repectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, London. By...
Philadelphia: From the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, for I. Riley and Co, 1806. Second American edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. A Poem written in response to the difficulties Fessenden had in building and securing a patent for an invention and as an attack upon the opponenets of Perkinism (named..... Read More about The Modern Philosopher; or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most Repectfully Addressed to...
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Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy
The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in..... Read More about The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to...
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One of the earliest printed records of the great educator’s teaching methods
High Energy Phenomena and Meson Theories. Notes on a Course Given... at the California Institute of Technology.
Pasadena, California: January to March 1951. One of the earliest printed records of the great educator’s teaching methods. A rare mimeographed set of lecture notes made by students of Richard Feynman very early in his academic career, preceding the famous Lectures on Physics by over a decade. The notes provide..... Read More about High Energy Phenomena and Meson Theories. Notes on a Course Given... at the California Institute...
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Eugene Field. A Study in Heredity and Contradictions.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Copy 126 of 250 copies printed on Holland hand-made paper. Read More about Eugene Field. A Study in Heredity and Contradictions
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Les Merveilles De La Science ou Description Populaire des Inventions Modernes.
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Éditeurs, 1870. Read More about Les Merveilles De La Science ou Description Populaire des Inventions Modernes
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Primitive Man.
New York: D. Appleton, 1870. Revised Translation. Read More about Primitive Man
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Century Finger Cots are Perfect Fitting, Protective and Sanitary.
New York: The S.H. Wetmore Company, Sole Manufacturer 240 & 242 Pearl Street, [c. 1910?]. Includes 8 cards with from 3 to 9 actual FINGER COTS in display held in by eyelets on each card, cots made mostly of calf skin, one of linen. Read More about Century Finger Cots are Perfect Fitting, Protective and Sanitary
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Ordnung für diejenige, welche sich in die in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg gemacht- und von gnädigster Landes-Herrschaft genehmigte allgemeine freywillige Brand-Versicherungs-Gesellschaften...
Stuttgart: Cotta, 1756. Read More about Ordnung für diejenige, welche sich in die in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg gemacht- und von...
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UNRECORDED
By-Laws of Mutual Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1.
New York: Piercy & Co. Printers. No. 72 Bowery, 1831. UNRECORDED. Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 was established during British rule, on July 10, 1772. After many of its volunteer members marched off to fight in the Revolution, it was reorganized in 1784 and given the name “Mutual Hook..... Read More about By-Laws of Mutual Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 1
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Constitution and By-Laws of Aetna Fire Engine Company No. 16. Passed March 2, 1829.
New York: Piercy & Co, 1831. First Edition. UNRECORDED. Read More about Constitution and By-Laws of Aetna Fire Engine Company No. 16. Passed March 2, 1829
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The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First edition. Read More about The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York
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Fitted brown calf case for medecines, with 12 beakers (missing 4), scale, folding inner lid with clasps, with 2 outer...
London: Savory & Moore Chemist to the Queen, 143 New Bond Street, after 1862. Savory & Moore was established at 136 New Bond Street by Thomas Field Savory in 1797 and moved in 1840 to 143. In 1845 the name was changed to Savory & Moore.The shop continued to function..... Read More about Fitted brown calf case for medecines, with 12 beakers (missing 4), scale, folding inner lid with...
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The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand
ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie.
London, British Museum: 21 August 1848. The Future Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fitzgerald acknowledges the receipt of “your obliging present of two specimens of Melania from the Falls of Essequibo” [Kaieteur Falls in Guyana] to the National Collections. Gourlie was a noted botanist and member of the Edinburgh Botanical..... Read More about ALS “James Edward Fitzgerald” as Assistant Secretary of the British Museum to William Gourlie
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Memoire sur un Moyen de Faire le Vuide sans Employer la Machine Pneumatique [autograph manuscript with corrections].
N.p: [1812]. Autograph manuscript of a short paper by the French astronomer Honoré Falugergues, with a hand-drawn folding plate. This paper was publisehd in Journal de Physique, LXXV, 1812. Read More about Memoire sur un Moyen de Faire le Vuide sans Employer la Machine Pneumatique [autograph manuscript...
Price: $400