Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...
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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..... Read More about Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais
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Philadelphia and Camden: Delware River Joint Commission, 1921-1927. The Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission (now the Delaware River Port Authority) was created in 1919. The chief engineer of the bridge was Polish-born Ralph Modjeski. Work began on January 6, 1922 and opened to traffic on July 1, 1926. At completion..... Read More about Archive of printed material relating to the construction of the Delaware River Bridge, assembled...
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New York: Edmund C. Berkeley and Associates, 1952. First edition. Read More about Circuit Algebra - Introduction
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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..... Read More about Œuvres Complètes
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Paris: 1886. "Bernheim, a professor in the Faculté de médecine at Nancy, began studying hypnotism, suggestion and hysteria after observing Liébeault's method of treatment by induced sleep. After two years of working closely with Liébeault, Bernheim published the present work in which he stated that hypnosis was not a pathological..... Read More about De la Suggestion et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique
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Paris: Octave Doin, 1891. First edition. Garrison-Morton: "Like Liebeault, Bernheim studied the scientific application of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenomena as being the result of suggestion." Read More about Hypnotisme suggestion psychotérapie. Etudes nouvelles
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Wellington, N.Z: Printed by Harry Tombs. Limited, 1924. First edition. Read More about The Maori. Memoirs of Polynesian Society. Volume V
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Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1958. Handbook of the National Bureau of Standards. This pamphlet prepared by a subcommittee which included R. S. Rochlin, W. R. Clore, G. B. Foster, L. Eggman, S. J. Harris, S. D. Millhouse, G. W. Morgan, S. E. Olson, H. W. Rapp, E. Shapiro..... Read More about Safe Design and use of Industrial Beta-Ray Sources. Handbook 66
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Paris: Musier, 1775. First edition was 1767 and there were editions in 1768, 1769, 1770 and this in 1775. Read More about Suite du cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine, contenant le...
Price: $250
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..... Read More about Report on Horne Zoological Corporation
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Philadelphia: 26 Central Wharf, June 24th, 1872. Read More about Billhead of Richmond & Pray Commission Merchants for a Barrell of Sperm Oil ; 4 Barrrels of...
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Sheffield: March 17, 1847. Receipt for knives and blades of £4-10-8. Read More about Billhead of Sanson & Sons Manufacturers...Razors of the best quality, Cutlers to Her...
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London: 1712. First edition in English. Ozanam's Cours de mathematiques, first published in 1693, contains sections on algebra and Euclid's Elements, arithmetic, trigonometry, geometry, fortification, mechanics, perspective, geography and dialling. John Theophilus Desaguliers, whose name is mentioned on the title-pages of volumes 4 and 5, published his translation of Ozanam's..... Read More about Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with...
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Paris: C. Reinwald...Schleicher Freres & Cie, 1903. First edition. Read More about L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie
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Paris: Duprat, An IX. Read More about Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P.S. Laplace
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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. Read More about Birds of the Eurasian Tundra
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New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition. Read More about Oceanic Birds of South America
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Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC..... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
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