Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Modena: Antonio Capponi and the heirs of Pontiroli, 1695. First editions. Gaetano Fontana was an Italian priest and... Read More about Institutio Physico-Astronomica Adiecta in Fine Appendice Geographica
Price: $2,500
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
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
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
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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
Price: $750
Nyack, New York: Ray Bergman, [1941]. Read More about Ray Bergman Angling Specialities ... Home of R.B. Products
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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
Price: $1,000
New York: Random House, [1964]. Second edition. Read More about The Analytical Engine. Computers-Past, Present and Future
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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
Price: $350
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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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...
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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
Price: $9,500
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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Paris: Duprat, An IX. Read More about Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P.S. Laplace
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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... Read More about The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America. A vade mecum For the Naturalist and the Sportsman
Price: $150
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
Price: $400
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1936. First edition. Read More about Oceanic Birds of South America
Price: $175
