Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Great Britain: 1855-1872. The Author’s Revisions for the Second Edition. Falconry in the British Isles by Francis Henry... Read More about Heavily-corrected proofs for the second edition of Salvin's Falconry in the British Isles, with...
Price: $37,500
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition. Read More about The History of the First Locomotives in America
Price: $150
Boston: William Hyde & Co, 1832. First Edition. Read More about The Sylva American; or, A Description of the Forest Trees indigenous to the United States...
Price: $150
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
Amsterdam: T.B. Elwe, 1794. First edition. 53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This significant contribution to late eighteenth-century botanical art ably demonstrates the superiority of Dutch horticulture in the period. The 53 plates include stunning illustrations of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas, many of them further..... Read More about Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden
Price: $11,500
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
Price: $300
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New York: Bond Street, April, 1852. First Edition. Read More about Dental Education and Dr. [John] Trenor
Price: $100
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..... 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
Vp: 1902-1920. Typescripts Typescript by Burroughs, corrected in holograph by Fisher, titled in pencil by Fisher, "Fuss & Feathers". 5pp. See The Writings of John Burroughs, vol. XX, chap. IV. Typescript poem attributed to Burroughs with a holograph pencil correction, apparently unpublished, a love poem titled The Eternal Feminine, beginning..... Read More about Archive of letters, typescripts, photographs and other material relating to Burroughs and Dr. G....
Price: $5,000
Roxbury, NY: Sept. 7th [1919]. To the Famous Female Mountain Climber. "Yours recd. Of course I know of you & your wonderful mountain climbing feats, but I have not yet had a chance to read your books. But I shall, as I am expecially interested in that kind of literature..... Read More about Autograph letter signed to mountaineer Annie S. Peck, thanking her for her letter and advising...
Price: $750
Np: Sept. 29, 1887. "I sit here amid the junipers of the Hudson with purpose every year to go to Florida, or to the West Indies, or to the Pacific Coast, yet the seasons pass & I am still loitering, with a half defined suspicion perhaps, that if I remain..... Read More about Autograph quotation signed, a passage from Signs and Season beginning "I sit here amid the...
Price: $500
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. First edition. Read More about Bird and Bough
Price: $250
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 …
Price: $250
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
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...
Price: $350
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:]:...
Price: $500
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...
Price: $750
Detroit: Cadilalc Motor Car Company, [c1915]. Third Edition. Read More about Cadillac Eight Type 51 For care and Operation
Price: $75
San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, Book and Job Printers, 1860. First edition. California Gold, Silver, Lead, &c. Read More about A Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of Gold, Silver, Quicksilver and Lead tracing the crude...
Price: $325
