One of 50 Copies, Signed
A Road Runs through It: Reviving Wild Places
Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2006. No. 17 of 50 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 59)... Read More
Price: $1,250
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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Automobile Catechism. For the Use of Owners and Drivers of Cars Fitted with Internal Combustion Motors.
New York: The Class Journal Company, 1906. First edition. The author was formerly the President of the Manhattan Automobile School. This was the first edition of a standard work reprinted and revised many times.
Price: $150
Porsche: Excellence Was Expected. The Complete History of the Sports and Racing Cars.
[Princeton, NJ: Princeton Publishing Inc, 1977]. First edition. An Automoblie Quarterly Library Series Book.
Price: $350
1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside
Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside.
Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising Broadside. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working for Waltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was...
Price: $300
1916 Metz Car Advertising
Metz Commercial Cars $600 Completely Equipped Including Electric Starter and Lights.
Waltham, MA: Metz Company, 1916. First edition. 1916 Metz Car Advertising. In 1893 C.H. Metz began working forWaltham Company, early auto manufacturers; in 1909 he bought the company and instituted a plan whereby the public could buy 14 separate packages and build their own car. This approach was superceded in...
Price: $300
The Art of Driving a Motor Car.
London: The Car Illustrated, Ltd, 1907. Third Edition April 1907.
Price: $200
Catalog of Automobile Supplies Catalog A. 1910.
New York: E.J. Willis Company 8 Park Place, 1910.
Price: $125
Signed by Orville Wright
Photograph of Orville Wright with Major Albert B. Lambert seated in the Wright Flyer, 1910, signed by Orville Wright at...
n.p: [1910]. Signed by Orville Wright. Signed by Orville Wright at the right of the image. Albert Bond Lambert was the son of a pharmaceutical magnate and an early St. Louis flight enthusiast; he purchased a flyer from the Wright brothers in 1909, and took flight lessons from Orville Wright...
Price: $4,500
A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medecine.
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by the Author. William Fry, Printer, 1819. First edition.
Price: $275
Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts.
Northampton, Mass: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1937. First edition.
Price: $150
Birds of New Mexico. With contributions by the late Wells Woodbridge Cooke.
n.p: Published by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish …, 1928. First trade edition.
Price: $225
Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur's Periodical of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow. Volume One Number One Spring 1962-Volume Six Number One...
New York: Automobile Quarterly, Inc, 1962-Summer 1967.
Price: $500
The Advancment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: or Descriptions of the Useful Machines and Models contained in the Repository of...
Munich: published by the Academy, nd [ca 1773]. First German Edition. The First English Edition of this work was published in 1772. It contains a great deal on agricultural machinery and makes mention of machinery and practices in America as well as in England and the Continent.
Price: $1,500
![ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." Alexander Bain, British psychologist and logician.](/pictures/thumb/31434.jpg?v=1534804116)
ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."
London: 30th May, [1876?]. Writing of his disappointment that the printer had not yet sent the proof of his Education article and worrying that it might be late. Bain was the author of several books including “Logic” and “Mind and Body” and “Senses and the Intellect.” He founded the periodical.....
Price: $150
Indian Pigeons and Doves.
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies.
Price: $400
Inscribed to His Son
Some Rules of Conduct for my Children and their Children.
[np]: Daniel Moreau Barringer, 1916. First edition. Inscribed to His Son. Flyleaf inscribed by Barringer' to his son Richard on 3 May 1922 on his 13th birthday Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 - 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth...
Price: $200
Founder of Neurology in England
Autograph letter signed "H. Carlton Bastian"
London: 20 Queen Anne Street, 11 March 1879. Founder of Neurology in England. Asking after Youmans following his accident, noting that he had tried to reach Youmans when he was in England but found that he had left the day before. Writing that he had he no photograph of Clifford...
Price: $300
The Passing of the Aborigines. A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia. With a Foreword by The Hon. Sir...
London: John Murray, [1938]. First edition.
Price: $150
The Wall Flower As it grew out of the Stone Chamber belonging to the Metropolitan Prison of London called Newgate...
London: Printed by J. G. and are to be Sold by Peter Parker, 1679. Second issue with the cancel title page. The 1650 edition issued as "Herbaparietis"
Price: $275
Birds of California in Relation to the Fruit Business. Part I.
Washington: GPO, 1907. First edition.
Price: $150
Inscribed with drawings
Eyelids of Morning. The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men ….
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, (1973). Second printing. Inscribed with drawings. Inscribed with drawings on the half-title by Beard to Don and Iris Hunt and extra-illustrated with an 1975 Christmas card on the front endpaper, two inscribed photographs on the half-title (one with dried insect), black-and-white photo of same...
Price: $3,000
Builder Steve Bechtel to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
San Francisco: November 1955. Builder Steve Bechtel to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. One of the most influential and beloved men in the engineering and construction industry, the man who as head of the family's Bechtel Corporation built the first nuclear plant to produce electricity (a FORTUNE article on him was titled...
Price: $300
Narrow Gauge in the Rockies.
Berkeley, Calif: Howeel-North, 1958. First edition, Number 505 of the Clear Board Edition, Signed by Both Authors.
Price: $175
A Monograph of the Pheasants.
London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace...
Price: $4,500
Pheasant Jungles.
[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Special leather-bound edition, Number 19 of 50 copies.
Price: $300
Pheasants, their Lives and Homes.
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931.
Price: $200