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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Pheasant Jungles.
[Lower Basildon, Reading, Berk.]: World Pheasant Association, [1994]. Special leather-bound edition, Number 19 of 50 copies. Read More about Pheasant Jungles
Price: $300
Pheasants, their Lives and Homes.
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
Price: $200
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. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
Price: $150
Pheasants, their Lives and Homes.
New York: Published under the Auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Read More about Pheasants, their Lives and Homes
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..... Read More about Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français-Anglais
Price: $750
Ray Bergman Angling Specialities ... Home of R.B. Products.
Nyack, New York: Ray Bergman, [1941]. Read More about Ray Bergman Angling Specialities ... Home of R.B. Products
Price: $75
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..... Read More about Œuvres Complètes
Price: $1,000
De la Suggestion et de ses applications à la Thérapeutique.
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
Price: $400
Hypnotisme suggestion psychotérapie. Etudes nouvelles.
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
Price: $400
The Analytical Engine. Computers-Past, Present and Future.
New York: Random House, [1964]. Second edition. Read More about The Analytical Engine. Computers-Past, Present and Future
Price: $50
The Maori. Memoirs of Polynesian Society. Volume V.
Wellington, N.Z: Printed by Harry Tombs. Limited, 1924. First edition. Read More about The Maori. Memoirs of Polynesian Society. Volume V
Price: $350
Safe Design and use of Industrial Beta-Ray Sources. Handbook 66.
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
Price: $75
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”. Read More about Allgemeine Artzney. In dreyen Theilen verfasset: der erste handelend, von der Gesundheit … der...
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. Read More about Suite du cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine, contenant le...
Price: $250
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..... Read More about Report on Horne Zoological Corporation
Price: $9,500
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. Read More about Billhead of Richmond & Pray Commission Merchants for a Barrell of Sperm Oil ; 4 Barrrels of...
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. Read More about Billhead of Sanson & Sons Manufacturers...Razors of the best quality, Cutlers to Her...
Price: $125
L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie.
Paris: C. Reinwald...Schleicher Freres & Cie, 1903. First edition. Read More about L'Étude Expérimentale et de Psychologie
Price: $350
Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P.S. Laplace.
Paris: Duprat, An IX. Read More about Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P.S. Laplace
Price: $200