Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1947. A Foundational Document in the History of Computing. A foundational document in... Read More about Planning and coding of problems for an electronic computing instrument. Report on the...
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Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Co, 1825. Fifth Edition , with errata slip. Read More about A System of of Geometry and Trigonometry together with a Treatise on Surveying…with Important...
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N. P [Birkenhead, Cheshire, England]: n.d [ca.1900's]. Birkenhead was known for it's flour mills and steel manufacturing as well as being a center for shipping and shipbuilding. W. Vernon & Sons had several mills including the Millennium Mill in West Ham. The Millennium Mill and possibly the others were later..... Read More about Illustrated broadside showing 5 views of the Wheat Cleaning Department at W. Vernon & Sons...
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London: George Allen, nd. Later Edition. Read More about Flowers and Flower Lore
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Stuttgart: Jannar 1866-1868 (36 issues complete),1873 (11 issues), 1877 (1-10). Read More about Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung herausgegeben von der Gartenbau-Gesellschaft
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Modena: Antonio Capponi and the heirs of Pontiroli, 1695. First editions. Gaetano Fontana was an Italian priest and astronomer who corresponded with Cassini: in fact, Cassini said that Fontana's obervations were the most exact of all that were sent to him. This is his most famous work. [Bound with:] WARD..... Read More about Institutio Physico-Astronomica Adiecta in Fine Appendice Geographica
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Paris: Michel Brunet, 1698. Fourth edition. A defence of the heliocentric model of the solar system, one of the major early works of the Enlightenment. Read More about Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
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London: John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd 3, Pilgrim Street, [1894]. Keulmans, J.G. First edition. Read More about Monkeys
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Boston: 1929. Vol. I reprint; others first editions. Read More about Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States
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Henry Ford II Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Henry Ford's grandson and Chairman of the family firm, writes, “I enjoyed very much sitting for the pictures which you have taken...”. Eisenstaedt's 1955 portrait of Ford appears on page 202 of his WITNESS TO OUR TIME. Read More about Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt, n.p., November 1955
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. First edition. Dr. Fortune was Margaret Mead's husband to whom the book is dedicated. He spent six months studying the islanders living off the east coast of New Guinea. Read More about Sorcerers of Dobu. The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific. With an...
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New York: [A. R. Elliott Publishing Company], 1911. Included are Editorial Appreciations and “Forty-Six Years of Medicine in New York” (A Posthumous Article) by Frank P. Foster, M.D., Late Editor of the New York Medical Journal. Dr. Foster (1841-1911) specialized in dermatology, obstetrics and gynaecology. This pamphlet was reprinted from..... Read More about In Memoriam. Biographical Sketch of the Late Frank P. Foster, M.D., of New York
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New York: Medical Life Press, 1926. Inscribed to Paul E. Bechet, and signed by Fox on the title page as well. Dr. George Henry Fox (1846-1937), reknowned physician and medical school professor, was one of the six founders of the American Dermataological Association in 1876 and involved at the executive..... Read More about Reminiscences
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New York: Printed by Henry Ludwig, 1847. John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861), was an expert obstetrician and professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children at the State University of New York (Eimas). Read More about Anniversary Discourse before the New-York Academy of Medicine. Delivered in the Broadway...
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London: Published by Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769; London: [William Bowyer], 1764. The fourth edition, being the first collected edition and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin..... Read More about Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America. To which are added,...
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[Philadelphia]: Press of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911. First separate offprint. Originally published in the "Journal of the Franklin Institute," July 1911. The American physicist was author to several works on electricity and magnetism. At the time of this paper he was the professor of Physics at Lehigh University. Read More about Principle of Relativity
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Paris: Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1764. For the Commercial Traveller. Read More about Instructions pour les Voyageurs et les Commercans, contenant l'indication des Villes commercantes...
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Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1776. Nouvelle edition plus correcte que les précédents. Rules of the Hunt. Environmental law: Including game and fishing laws and those of the hunt as well as those for forestry and water. Read More about Ordonnance de Louis XIV…sur le Fait des Eaux et Forets Donnée à S. Germain en Laye au moid...
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Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1753. Nouvelle edition plus correcte que les précédents & augmentée des Réglement rendus en interprétation, depuis le mois de Juin 1673 jusqu'en 1752. Rules of the Hunt. Environmental law: Including game and fishing laws and those of the hunt as well as those..... Read More about Ordonnance de Louis XIV…sur le Fait des Eaux et Forets Donnée à S. Germain en Laye au mois...
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Paris: Chez Debure l'aîne, 1772. Commentary on the environmental and game laws. Read More about Commentaire sur l'Ordonnance des Eaux et Forêts du mois d'Août 1669
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Lille: De l'Imprimerie de C. M. Peterinck-Cramé, 1787. Twisting Mills. Charles François Hyacinthe Esmangart, Chevalier, Seigneur de Montigny, des Bordes, de Feynes, Pierrerue & autres Lieux as Conseiller du Roy, Maître des Requêts honoraire de son Hôtel, Indendant de Justice, Police & Finances en Flandres & Artois forbidding the inhabitants..... Read More about Ordonnance de M. Esmangart, Intendant de Flandres & d'Artois, qui défend à tous habitans de...
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Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1835. First edition. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers, history of commerce, engineering, agriculture, customs, schools, hospitals, laws, medicine, mines, prisons, science and government. Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire
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Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1836. Nouvelle edition “augmentée de la Manière de considérer ce traité et de s'en servir”. Signed. With a leaf at the front captioned “Pétition” signed by Monteil the 9th March 1836. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers..... Read More about Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire
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Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1847. Funfte verbesserte auflage. Read More about Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse. Oder die Lehre von der Gewichtsbestimmung und...
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