Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
[Brussels: 1948]. Signed. Oppenheimer’s paper for the Solvay conference, a three part presentation on the history of electrodynamics... Read More about Electron Theory. Report to the Solvay Conference for Physics at Brussels, Belgium, September 27...
Price: $3,000
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1949]. First Edition. This is an update of the author's first book, "Pyrotechnics: the History and the Art of Firework Making." It is still the best book on the History of pyrotechnics. Read More about A History of Fireworks
Price: $250
London: The Aquarian Press, 1953. First edition. Read More about The Occult Arts of Ancient Egypt
Price: $100
London: Published by W. Palmer, From the Press of D. Buchanan, 1806. Read More about The General Gazetteer; or a Compendious Geographical Dictionary in Miniature
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London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood speculates... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...
Price: $5,500
Feltham, Middlesex): McGraw-Hill, (1968). First American edition. Read More about Eagles, Hawks & Falcons of the World
Price: $150
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition. Read More about The History of the First Locomotives in America
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Washington, D.C: GPO, 1867. First edition. Pages 1-320 on West of the Rockies, rest by Taylor "Gold Mines East of the Rockies." Read More about Reports on the Mineral Resources of the United States
Price: $175
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900. Reprint. Read More about Curiosities of Natural History. First & Fourth Series
Price: $200
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Kansas City, Missouri [printed at the 'Press of Grand Rapids Engraving Co., Michigan]: Kingman-Moore implement Company, 1903. Read More about Lion Buggy Co. Cincinnati [upper cover
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New York and London: Luther Burbank Press, 1914. Signed by Burbank on the Colophon page (designed by Tiffany & Co.). Dr. L. G. Visscher's Copy. SIGNED. Read More about Luther Burbank. His Method Discoveries and Their Practical Application. Prepared from his...
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Great South Beach, Long Island, N.Y: 1911. Early Original Watercolor by Edgar Burke. A fine early watercolor drawing of the Turnstone, an American shore bird, by sportsman, artist and physician Edgar Burke Edgar Burke, MD (1889-1950) successfully combined the vocation of medicine (he was a member of the American College of..... Read More about "Turnstone"
Price: $1,250
New York: Macmillan, 1938. First American Edition from English sheets. Read More about Plant Hunter's Paradise
Price: $150
Troy, N.Y: Printed by Wright, Goodenow, and Stockwell, 1808. First American edition. Previously published in England in 1806, then again with revisions in 1807; this first American edition is based on the revised edition of 1807. Read More about Observations on Abortion: Containing an Account of the Manner in which it takes place, the Causes...
Price: $750
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [n.d., c. 1904-1913]. Riverby edition. Attractive group of the works of the noted American naturalist (published over many years and eventually running to 23 volumes). Read More about The Writings of …
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904-1922. Autograph edition, no. 266 of 750 copies, signed by the author and publisher, with EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THE ULTIMATE SET. WITH MANUSCRIPT. Complete in 23 volumes with an extra volume 19 with inlaid manuscripts for "The Hungry Sheep," c. 24 pages in pencil... Read More about The Writings of …
Price: $7,500
Atlanta, Ga: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; and 1943. First editions. “Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful…”. By the mother of William Burroughs, author of Junkie, Queer, The Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys, etc., etc., with help from Coca-Cola. “Boy and Girl Scouts are taught the fundamentals …”. Read More about Flower Arranging — A Fascinating Hobby … and Homes and Flowers — Refreshing Arrrangements
Price: $225
Sacramento, California: US Dept of Interior, March 3, 1947. Copy No. 5-M. 34 Photographs. Read More about "A Report on the Development of a Land Management Plan for the Shasta Reservoir Lands under...
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London: published for the Anthropological Society, by Trübner and Co, 1865-66. First editions. Three volumes of this Society's publication (entitled Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London) were published between 1865-1870); Burton contributed to the first two volumes. Volume I contains his "Notes on certain Matters connected with the..... Read More about Memoirs Read before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I 1863 &1864. [with:]:...
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Marburg: Chr. Garthe, 1829. First edition. Read More about Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde: ein Leitfaden bei akademischen Vorlesungen und bei dem Studium des Faches
Price: $400
London: Caxton Publishing Company, Clun House, Surrey Street, Strand, [1907-1908]. Read More about Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Order Passeres
Price: $500
London: Printed by T. Giller, Salisbury-Square, for R. Phillips, 1801. First Edition in English. The author was Professor of Mathematical Astronomy at Copenhagen. Much on Astronomy, pp. 213-257 on National Observatory and Public Observatories. Read More about Travels in the French Republic; containing a Circumstantial View of the Present State of...
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Paris: 1805. Seconde édition revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur. With half titles. Cabanis's greatest work. Read More about Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme
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Detroit: Cadilalc Motor Car Company, [c1915]. Third Edition. Read More about Cadillac Eight Type 51 For care and Operation
Price: $75