Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillière, 1838. First edition, with half-titles. The First Textbook of Madness - with 27 Plates... Read More about Des maladies mentales considérées sous les rapports médical,...
Price: $3,750
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. Read More about Automobile Catechism. For the Use of Owners and Drivers of Cars Fitted with Internal Combustion...
Price: $150
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..... Read More about Metz 1916 Touring Car and Roadster Models: printed advertising broadside
Price: $300
London: The Car Illustrated, Ltd, 1907. Third Edition April 1907. Read More about The Art of Driving a Motor Car
Price: $200
New York: E.J. Willis Company 8 Park Place, 1910. Read More about Catalog of Automobile Supplies Catalog A. 1910
Price: $125
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..... Read More about Photograph of Orville Wright with Major Albert B. Lambert seated in the Wright Flyer, 1910,...
Price: $4,500
Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie, [1922]. First Edition. Read More about Recherches Zoologiques dans les Provinces Centrales de l'Inde et dans les regions occidentales de...
Price: $450
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by the Author. William Fry, Printer, 1819. First edition. Read More about A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medecine
Price: $275
n.p: Published by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish …, 1928. First trade edition. Read More about Birds of New Mexico. With contributions by the late Wells Woodbridge Cooke
Price: $225
New York: Automobile Quarterly, Inc, 1962-Summer 1967. Read More about Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur's Periodical of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow....
Price: $500
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. Read More about The Advancment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: or Descriptions of the Useful Machines and...
Price: $1,500
![Item #31434 ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly." Alexander Bain,...](/pictures/thumb/31434.jpg?v=1656539201)
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..... Read More about ALS to [Edward L.Youmans], the Editor of "Popular Science Monthly."
Price: $150
London: The Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. First Edition, one of 1200 copies. Read More about The Indian Ducks and Their Allies
Price: $300
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. Read More about Indian Pigeons and Doves
Price: $400
Philadelphia: The Edgell Company, 1907. First edition. With a compliments card from S.M. Vauchain laid in. Read More about History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831-1907
Price: $80
London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., Bunhill Row, 1880. First edition. Irsish geologist, son of Robert Ball to whom this book is dedicated. He was part of the Geological Survey of India in 1864 -1881. Read More about Jungle Life in India; or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist
Price: $300
Cambridge. Mass, U.S.A: Printed for the Museum, April, 1914. Offprint. Read More about Notes on a Collection of Birds from Yunnan. Offprint from Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative...
Price: $75
New York: Office & Warehouse 99 John Street, 1880. Barbed wire was first invented in the late 1860s and became an indispensible tool for homesteaders in the settlement of the west. An early and large promotional piece for one of the better known manufacturers, whose wire was easily recognizable by..... Read More about The Barb Wire Herald ... Iowa Barb Wire Co. Sole Manufacturers of Burnell's Patent Four-Pointed...
Price: $450
[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..... Read More about Some Rules of Conduct for my Children and their Children
Price: $200
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969. Read More about Photos. 1. 2 x 2 inches with card with complients card wityh "best wishes 1.10.73." in...
Price: $100
Boston: Wright & Ditson Retail Store: 344 Washington Street (nera Milk Street). Wholesale Store: 95 Pearl Street, 1895. A rare trade catalogue of 19th-century baseball gear, profusely illustrated with wood-engravings of products offered by Wright & Ditson -- including Spalding bats and mitts, catcher's masks, bases, shoes, uniforms and caps..... Read More about Illustrated Catalogue of Base Ball Goods and Uniforms. Wright & Ditson
Price: $1,350
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..... Read More about Autograph letter signed "H. Carlton Bastian"
Price: $300
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1913. Third Impression, with additions. Read More about Mendel's Principles of Heredity
Price: $250
Washington: GPO, 1907. First edition. Read More about Birds of California in Relation to the Fruit Business. Part I
Price: $150
London: Harrison, Pall Mall, 1868. Fourth Edition. Read More about How to work with the Microscope
Price: $200
New York: William Wood and Company, 1880. Beard's significance in his field derives from his argument for the methodical study of neurosis, his efforts to end social condemnation of its sufferers, and his understanding of the connections between mental illness and social organization. Although some viewed Beard as a charlatan..... Read More about A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia), its Symptoms, Nature, Sequences,...
Price: $250