Memoires pour servir a l'Historie des Insectes
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1734. "Réaumur’s greatest work in natural history ... He seemed fascinated about all with insect... Read More
Price: $4,000
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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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Pheasants, their Lives and Homes.
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. First one volume edition.
Price: $150
Pheasants, their Lives and Homes.
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.
Price: $150
George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell
Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais.
Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. George Kennan to Alexander Graham Bell. A fascinating association copy, inscribed on the flyleaf of each volume: "Alexander Graham Bell / from George Kennan / August 9, 1919." Kennan's early employment with the Western Union Telegraph Company, laying cable from Alaska through Siberia all...
Price: $750
Ray Bergman Angling Specialities ... Home of R.B. Products.
Nyack, New York: Ray Bergman, [1941].
Price: $75
Outlines of British Fungology, containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi that have been described as natives of...
London: Lovell Reeve. First Edition.
Price: $150
Œuvres Complètes.
Paris: Chez Méquigon-Marvis. Libtraire, rue de L'École de Médecine, 1818. First Collected edition. Chiefly remembered today for his Paul et Virginie, Barnardin de Saint-Pierre was also a naturalist who wrote extensively on the harmony and order of nature. Paul et Virginie, in fact, appears in Volume IV of his Etudes.....
Price: $1,000
The Analytical Engine. Computers-Past, Present and Future.
New York: Random House, [1964]. Second edition.
Price: $50
The Maori. Memoirs of Polynesian Society. Volume V.
Wellington, N.Z: Printed by Harry Tombs. Limited, 1924. First edition.
Price: $350
Allgemeine Artzney. In dreyen Theilen verfasset: der erste handelend, von der Gesundheit … der andere, Von der Ungesundheit ... der...
Frankfurt: Fievet, 1674. Second edition, with additional third part on surgery. Manual on medicine and surgery by the Dutch physician Johannes von Beverwyck (1594-1647). Wellcome refers to this edition as a "Reprint of 1671 ed., with addition of Chirurgia”.
Price: $2,500
Suite du cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine, contenant le traité de Navigation...
Paris: Musier, 1775. First edition was 1767 and there were editions in 1768, 1769, 1770 and this in 1775.
Price: $250
Faune de la Russie et des Pays Limitrophes fondée principalement sur les Collections du Musée Zoologique de L'Académie Impériale des...
St. Petersburg: 1913.
Price: $175
Faune de la Russie et des Pays Limitrophes fondée principalement sur les Collections du Musée Zoologique de L'Académie Impériale des...
St. Petersburg: 1911.
Price: $150
Report on Horne Zoological Corporation.
Los Angeles: 1929. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis, which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals, birds and reptiles to be...
Price: $9,500
Billhead of John McPherson, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all Kinds of Fresh, Salt, and Smoked Meat, Pork, Lard, Sausages...
Buffalo, New York: April 16, 1861.
Price: $100
Billhead of Philadelphia Steam Propeller Co. Regular Propeller Line between Philadelphia and Hartford.
Philadelphia: May 5, 1859.
Price: $125
Billhead of Richmond & Pray Commission Merchants for a Barrell of Sperm Oil ; 4 Barrrels of Standard Burning Oil...
Philadelphia: 26 Central Wharf, June 24th, 1872.
Price: $85
Billhead of Sanson & Sons Manufacturers...Razors of the best quality, Cutlers to Her Majsesty. Pen and Pocket Knives.
Sheffield: March 17, 1847. Receipt for knives and blades of £4-10-8.
Price: $125
Billhead of Whittier & Hardwick Linen Drapers to the Royal Family. No. 107 New Bond Street. Tio Messr. Newton Gordon...
London: June 12th 1816.
Price: $150
De Luxe Edition, Signed by Author and Illustrator
The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America. A vade mecum For the Naturalist and the Sportsman.
Washington DC: The American Wildlife Institute, 1942. First edition, Marked "Gift" of 1000 copies of the DeLuxe Edition, signed by author and artist. De Luxe Edition, Signed by Author and Illustrator. A highly detailed and attractive book, signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page With an added inscription...
Price: $150
Birds of the Russian Tundra
Birds of the Eurasian Tundra.
Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1928. Memoiors of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume 6, Number 3. Birds of the Russian Tundra. A large, scholarly work, based on the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900-1903 undertaken by the St.Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Price: $400
Oceanic Birds of South America.
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition.
Price: $175
Dr. I.[srael] Newton's Anti-Bilious Bitters, much improved of late...wholesale or retail, of M.K. Paine, Druggist, Windsor Vt.
Norwich, Vt: Janurary, 1846.
Price: $250
The Complete Poker Player.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1880. Second edition, later issue, with "Poker Principles and Chance Laws" (pp. 143-174) inserted at end. The second edition of this foundational work on poker. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC — is, along with Winterblossom's The...
Price: $1,250