Item 322154Idle Days in Patagonia.
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London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1893. First edition, first issue. One of 1750 copies. Read More Item Details for Idle Days in Patagonia Add to Wish List
Item #322154
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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London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1893. First edition, first issue. One of 1750 copies. Read More Item Details for Idle Days in Patagonia Add to Wish List
Item #322154
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Naturalist in La Plata Add to Wish List
Item #210324
Price: $1,750
London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Miss C.V. Hall/ with kindest regards/ from/ W.H. Hudson/ June 1894." A celebrated work on natural history and travels in the Argentine. Read More Item Details for The Naturalist in La Plata Add to Wish List
Item #322111
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Potsdam: nd. Humboldt writes to a colleague thanking them for a poem on the occasion of his "goldenen, geschlrchsloen Hochzeitfeyer" (translating literally as his 'Golden, non-sexual wedding feast'). He also refers to a lecture by Tieck, who sends his best wishes. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines Add to Wish List
Item #254453
Price: $75
Detroit: Hupp Motor Car Corp, [March, 1927]. Read More Item Details for Hupmobile Eight-Cylinder-Series E Instructions Add to Wish List
Item #237285
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Detroit: Hupp Motor Car Corp, [8/29/1921]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Hupmobile Eight-Cylinder. Instructions. Series C Add to Wish List
Item #237286
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Jany 18, 1875. Huxley and Fayrer met in 1844 at the University of London. "Fayrer became a firm friend. The two often worked through the night..." (Desmond). Indeed, it was Fayrer, who suggested Huxley take to the sea and thus he joined the Rattlesnake under the command of Owen Stanley..... Read More Item Details for ALS. To Joseph Fayrer (1824-1907), refusing to sponsor his paper for Royal Society as Dr. (T.L.) Brunton is now among us Add to Wish List
Item #261826
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New York: Appleton, 1872. Read More Item Details for More Criticism on Darwin and Administrative Nihilism Add to Wish List
Item #267086
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Romane Lecture, 1893, Evolution and Ethics Add to Wish List
Item #242859
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Paris: E. Plon, 1887. First edition. Read More Item Details for L'Hypnotisme et Les États Analogues au point de vue Méidico-Légal; les états hypnotiques et les etats analogues les suggestions criminelles cabinets de somnambules et societes de magnetisme et de spiritisme l'hypnotisme devant la loi . Préface par M. le Dr P. Brouardel Add to Wish List
Item #316420
Price: $2,500
New York: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 1936. First edition. The Apogee of 1930s Information Processing. First Edition of this manual issued in separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating..... Read More Item Details for Machine Methods of Accounting. A Manual of the Basic Principles of Operation and Use of International Electronic Bookkeeping and Accounting Machines Add to Wish List
Item #321732
Price: $500
Ranchi: “Man in India” Office, 1935. First Edition. Inscribed. Abundantly illustrated work on the Hill Bhuiyas of the Orissa region of south central India. Uncommon. WIth an excellent presentation to British anatomist and physical anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith. Read More Item Details for The Hill Bhuiyas of Orissa,with comparative notes on the Plains Bhuiyas Add to Wish List
Item #55093
Price: $850
[London]: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, (c.1870). Various artists including S. Austin, Clarkson Stan. A wonderful album containing images of India drawn during the first two decades of the British Raj, signed by "J.T.C. Ross as belonging to Aunt Jini (?)." J.T.C. Ross (1823-1897) recieved his medical education..... Read More Item Details for Album of Indian Views without title-page Add to Wish List
Item #302484
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[London: 1785]. Read More Item Details for BROADSIDE: Walkden's Fine British Ink-Powder for Records, Universally experienced and found to be the best for making of Black Writing Ink, it excelling any other sort whatsoever yet made .. Add to Wish List
Item #255975
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Nuremberg: Johann Joseph Fleischmann, 1746-61. First edition. First edition of the Insecten-Belustigung ("Insect Entertainment"), one of the outstanding entomological works of the eighteenth century. Having established himself as a talented engraver and miniature painter in Nuremberg, August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759) developed a reputation as a gifted naturalist as..... Read More Item Details for Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung Add to Wish List
Item #305865
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London: Printed for J. Wyatt, 1804. Arts, Manufacturers and Agriculture. Contains the specifications of patents including Freemantle's improvements on the steam-engine as well as those of Mr. Willcox, Atkins' on the hydrometer, Logan's on canal locks and Alderson on lining lead pipes with tin. Among the original communications are articles..... Read More Item Details for The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journals of all Nations. Monthly Intelligence relating to the Useful Arts, Proceedings of learned Societies and Notices of All Patents granted for Inventions. Volume V. 2nd series Add to Wish List
Item #28248
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench. Trubner & Co, 1927. First Edition. ASHLEY MONTAGU'S COPY. Read More Item Details for Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands Add to Wish List
Item #231352
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Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report, "The best by far of these individual reports...It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report..... Read More Item Details for Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Under the Direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in Charge [Caption title] 36th Congress 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. [Unnumbered] Add to Wish List
Item #230141
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Chicago: J.J. Spalding & Co., Printers, 158 Clark Street, March, 1879. Read More Item Details for Illustrated Catalogue of J.S. Ford, Johnston & Co. Manufactures of Chairs Add to Wish List
Item #258717
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London: Sold by B. White and Son, 1789. Third edition (first edition was 1756). Browne was an Irish physician who lived for several years in the West Indies and settled in Jamaica in 1746. This is his major work, particularly valuable for its contribution to botany. Read More Item Details for The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Containing 1. An accurate Description of that Island, its Situation, and Soil; with a brief Account of its former and present State, Government, Revenues, Produce, and Trade. 2. An History of the Natural Productions, including the various Sorts of Native Fossils; Perfect and Imperfect Vegetables; Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects; with their Properties and Uses in Mechanics, Diet, and Physic … There are now added Complete Linnaean Indices and a Large and Accurate Map of the Island Add to Wish List
Item #227355
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Philadelphia: James W. Queen & Co. 924 Chewsnut Streety & No. 601 Braodway, New York, 1873. Thirty-Third Edition. Part First. James W. Queen started operations in 1853 and continues as that entity until 1925. Here under the leadreship of Samuel L. Fox, Jesse S. Cheney & William H. Walmsley, as..... Read More Item Details for Priced and Illustrated Catalogue and Descriptive Manual of Mathematical Instruments and Materials, Drawing, Surveying and Civil Engineering Add to Wish List
Item #323418
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Chicago: Spaulding, [n.d., ca. 1900?]. “To make a collection of Japanese Ivory carvings that is comprehensive in its scope and of superior quality, requires not only a good jufge of this fascinating art, but also a great deal of time and much patient study.” Signed F. R. K. in type..... Read More Item Details for Art Department Spaulding & Co. [Cover title] Add to Wish List
Item #314233
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Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 3, St. James Sqaure, nd. ORNITHOLOGY ONLY. Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library is a monument to Victorian industry and zeal for natural history education. On account of the high-quality hand-colored illustrations, it is seldom found complete. The work is divided into four main sections: Ornithology, Mammalia, Entomology..... Read More Item Details for The Naturalist’s Library. Ornithology Add to Wish List
Item #267583
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Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars …, 1835. Jardine’s Cows, Goats, Deer, Antelopes, Camels, etc. Read More Item Details for The Naturalist’s Library: Mammalia. Vol. III & IV. Ruminantia. Parts I & II Add to Wish List
Item #250533
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1875. First edition. Read More Item Details for Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System. A History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a Record of Its Results Add to Wish List
Item #242334