Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
c 1837. A superior ornithological album of well-finished watercolors and pencil drawings of British birds on a Linnean... Read More about British Birds. Drawn and Painted by A.S.H. Lowe [Manuscript title
Price: $7,500
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1930. First English edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 17. In Dust Jacket. Freud’s masterful meditation on the human condition, and one of his last works. No. 17 of The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by Ernest Jones. Freud’s work occupied a...... Read More about Civilization and Its Discontents. Authorized Translation by Joan Riviere
Price: $5,000
Amsterdam: Allert de Lange, 1939. First edition. Read More about Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion. Drei Abhandlungen
Price: $150
Leipzig & Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1905. First edition. Read More about Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten
Price: $2,500
London: Hogarth Press and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1936. First edition. The International Psycho-Analytical Library. No. 28. Read More about Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. Authorized translation by Alix Strachey
Price: $375
[Wien: aus der E.K. Hof.- und Staatsdruckerei, 1878]. First Seperate edition. Offprint of Freud's very rare third paper. Freud's Contribution to Evolutionary Biology. Freud's third paper, done while he was a medical student. Read More about Über spinalganglien und Rückenmark des Petromyzon. from Sitzungsberichte der der...
Price: $1,100
Washington, D.C: GPO, 1930. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, Bulletin 153. Presentation copy from Friedmann to Childs Frick on front wrapper "To Mr. Childs Frick with the regards and compliments of Herbert Friedmann." INSCRIBED TO CHILDS FRICK. BY FRIEDMANN. Read More about Birds Collected by the Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya Colony: Part 1: Non-Passeres
Price: $300
Minneapolis, Mn: [SOO Line Railway Company, W.R. Callaway], 1904. First Edition. angling, shooting, etc. Read More about The Other Man
Price: $275
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1887. Dannie Heineman’s Copy. Remarkable copy, signed in the top right corner of the front free endpaper, “Dannie Heineman Stud. Elekr. 1885”. Dannie N. Heineman was a Belgian-American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who became the managing director and controlling shareholder of the Belgian industrial multinational Sofina. Read More about Handbuch der Elektricität und des Magnetismus
Price: $500
n.p. WATERCOLOUR. Fanciful mathmatical equations based on the landscape and buildings represented in two small engravings, printed recto and verso on a single leaf, each bearing a neat manuscript note describing the various mathmatical calculations, and the accompanying equations. Read More about From a Window near the bottom of a house… with "What is the perpendicular height of a...
Price: $250
Chicago: Van Noy Inter-State Co, ca. 1920. Read More about From Salt Lake City to San Fransisco Bay via Western Pacific Railway Feather River Canon Route
Price: $100
Wandsbeck: Chromolgraphie und Verlag Artistische Anstalt Gustav W. Seitz, nd. ca. 1890. Read More about Frühlingsblumen. Zwölf Blätter mit Sinnsprüchen Deutscher Dichter
Price: $250
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. First edition, special publication of the Field Museum of Natural History. Read More about Album of Abyssinaian Birds and Mammals
Price: $200
Birmingham: [n.d., ca. 1820-1830]. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given (usually not noted in such a work). While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830, some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier, ca. 1800-1810 Plates..... Read More about Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware
Price: $6,500
New Haven: Baker & Goodwin, printers, New York, 1860. superb copy of a landmark trade catalogue. "Excellent tinted lithographic plates of every American carriage of the day" (Romaine). Founded in the 1850s, G. & D. Cook & Co. quickly became among the most successful northeastern U.S. carriage makers of..... Read More about G. & D. Cook & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Carriages and Special Business Advertiser
Price: $2,000
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1959. First edition. Review copy, with slip, and with Ashley Montagu's SIGNED carbon copy of his review laid in. SIGNED by Montagu on flyleaf. Read More about The Skeletal Remains of Bambandyanalo. Edited by Phillip V. Tobias who contributes the Epilogue....
Price: $150
Gaylordsville: Slide Mountain Press, 1931. No. 31 of 77 copies. Three stanzas beginning I know a little serval cat - Never get out! Read More about Never Get Out!
Price: $100
London: Printed by Willoiam Clowes and Sons, 1844. Offprinted from the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England”. Following the passing of the Allotment system which provided a plot of land for laborers the author wished to provide the basic instructions necessary to grow a successful garden. He recommends..... Read More about Cottage Gardening
Price: $125
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More about The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice...
Price: $400
Paris: Henry Soulangfe-Bodin, 1927. #241 of 300 copies. Read More about La Gazette Illustrée des Amateurs de Jardins Années MCMXXXVI-MCMXXXVII. Coup d'Oeil sur les...
Price: $450
Paris: D.-A. Longuet, (c.1913). First edition. Read More about Les Jardins de France des Origines à la fine du XVIIIe Siècle
Price: $350
[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Number 19 of 50 copies of a Special leather-bound edition, signed by the author. Read More about Peafowl, Their Conservation, Breeding and Management
Price: $400
New York: The Viking Press, [1967]. Clem, Robert Verity. Deluxe Limited Edition, Number 114 of 350 copies signed by Stout, Matthiessen, Clem and Palmer. The rare deluxe edition of this landmark book on shorebirds. Read More about The Shorebirds of North America. Text by Peter Matthiessen. Species Accounts by Ralph S. Palmer
Price: $750
London: Yates and Alexander, Printers, 1867. First Edition. Inscribed by the Author to Horace Greeley. Inscribed on the title-page "Horace Greeley Esq. / New York / With the Author's compliments". The author demonstrates the principle by which a perpetual motion machine might be constructed. An early work on the subject..... Read More about Perpetual Motion
Price: $500
Katonah, New York: Martha's Glen Publishing, 1977. Deluxe edition, no. 76 of 128 copies, signed on the half title by the author and with a signed remarque by the artist Robert Seaman. Deluxe Issue, Inscribed. A classic work, with careful and explicit illustrations: a unique celebration of a sporting implement..... Read More about A Master's Guide To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod
Price: $2,000
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London: Jacobi Flesher, 1653. Secunda editio priori correctior. The Starry Messenger. First published in 1647, Gassendi's important astronomical text book which outlines the various competing Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic models, also includes printings of Galileo's Siderus Nuncius (the third overall edition) and Kepler's important work on optics Dioptrice. Wing does not..... Read More about Institutio astronomica [...] Galilei Galilei Nuntius sidereus, et Johannis Kepleri Dioptrice
Price: $15,000