Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Potsdam: nd. Humboldt writes to a colleague thanking them for a poem on the occasion of his "goldenen... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (" A. Humboldt"). In German 10 lines
Price: $1,250
Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton & Co, 1835. Third edition. Read More about The Conchologist’s Text-book, Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and Linnus, with a Glossary...
Price: $150
Pittsburgh: John H. Campbell & Co. [The Armor Lithographing Company], 1883. The Golden Age of King Coal, Queen Coke and Princess Steel. A very rare and detailed cadastral map, identifying the land holdings in the coke producing region (including those of H.C. Frick Coke Co.) but also naming towns, railroad..... Read More about Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA to Fairchance, Fayete...
Price: $4,500
Philadelphia: 1839. Fifth American from the Last London Edition. Read More about The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart, F.R.S. Surgeon to the King
Price: $150
Bismarck, N. D: The Tribune Co., Printers, 1900. Only edition. ‘The wolf is the enemy of civilization, and I want to exterminate him’. Scarce polemical guide to wolf hunting by Benjamin Corbin (1835-1912), Civil War soldier, trapper, hunter, stockman and frontier land promoter, who called himself the “boss wolf hunter.”..... Read More about Corbin's Advice or The Wolf Hunter's Guide. Tells How to Catch 'Em and All about the Science of...
Price: $2,750
[n.p., New York?]: Privately Printed, [1924]. William E. Corey was a director of the Mechanics & Metals National Bank in New York. His boon companions on the trip were John Hill Prentice (“Badger”), Frederic N. Watriss, and Frederick C. Havemeyer (“Meyer”). The trip by private car "Constitution" left en route..... Read More about The Trail of the Buccaneers. By the Chief
Price: $2,250
New York: 36 Howard-Street. John Reed, Steam Printer, 43 Centre-Street, 1870s. Read More about Cornell & Co.'s Great Gift-Book Sale...100,000 dollars worth of books...to be sold at Lowest...
Price: $75
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. First edition. Read More about A View of the Present State of the Salmon and Channel-Fisheries
Price: $125
London: W. J. Ham-Smith, 1913. First edition. Inscribed copy by the Author. Published after her death by her husband Vaughan Cornish (1862-1948), Ellen Cornish (1854-1911) was a geographer who traveled with Vaughan to Jamaica, Japan, and Panama, documenting water and rock formations as well as other natural occurences in landscape..... Read More about The Travels of Ellen Cornish. Being the Memoir of a Pilgrim of Science
Price: $300
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1884-1885]. First edition, one of 300 copies. Comprises 18 plates of birds, and 1 plate of a nest, only (without any of the text, the map or the three plates of bird heads). Read More about The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo
Price: $950
London: Jacob Ilive, 1746. First edition. Rare Presentation Copy. George Costard (1710-1782) was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he became fellow and tutor. One of the earliest writers on the history of astronomy, his “Letter to Martin Folkes” was the first fruit of the research which eventually led to..... Read More about A Letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society, Concerning the Rise and Progress...
Price: $800
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. First edition, one of 950 copies. Read More about The Journal of Jacob Fowler. Narrating an adventure from Arkansas through the Indian Territory,...
Price: $225
Hagerstown, Maryland: Crawford, 1893. Read More about The Crawford Manf'g Co., 1893
Price: $125
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. First edition. Inscribed: "To Shirley (Clurman)-For when I wish only the very best things Love, John. The author's first book and helped make him one of the most literate comnetators on TV and radio. Read More about Out of the Blue. A Book about Radio and Television
Price: $75
London: J.H. Cuff's Cattle Medicine Warehouse, No. 10, Smithfield Market. Brochure. Read More about Cuff's Farmer's Friend
Price: $250
Chicago: University of Chicago, [1947]. First edition. Science Classic. Dr. McIntyre and his colleague Dr. A.E. Bennett study here curare as a therapeutic agent and give its complete history for the first time. Read More about Curare. Its History, Nature and Clinical Use
Price: $200
London: Privately printed at R. Martin's Lithographic Office, 1827. Done Entirely in Lithography. According to the subscriber's list the privately-printed work was limited to only 100 copies, subscribed for by 97 individuals. Very scarce with five examples cited by OCLC, with varying numbers of leaves: British Library (41 leaves); Yale..... Read More about Flowers: A Series of Short Poems, original and translated: illustrated with figures drawn and...
Price: $4,500
[Paris] “au jardin du Roi”: 22, Janvier 1828. Cuvier: the Protestant Scientist. Cuvier, the great naturalist and Lutheran who managed to reconcile his beliefs in the Bible with his scientific findings. His work was extremely popular with Christian evangelists in the English-speaking world. This fine letter demonstrates his committment to..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed to Mr. Manon ("Monsieur le Président"
Price: $850
Chicago: Mead Cycle Co, c 1921. Read More about Ranger Bicycle Catalogue
Price: $200
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Vienna: Ioannis Thomae Trattner, 1756; [ca. 1750]. Two philosophical and mathematical works published in Austria by Trattner and bound in a contemporary Italian binding — the second work comprises charts of logarithms, cosines, sines, and tangents. The volume evidently belonged to an Italian professor of philosophy. Read More about Psychologia, seu Doctrina de Conditione Nostrum Animorum … [with:] BRIGGS, Henry. Canon...
Price: $750
Down, Beckenham, Kent: November 26, [1869]. Regarding a new American edition of Origin. Unpublished. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) writes to Charles Layton, London agent for Appleton, about bringing out a revised and expanded second American edition of On the Origin of Species. The letter is a reply to Layton's of the..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Darwin"), to Charles Layton, Appleton's London agent,...
Price: $50,000
New York: HaFiner Press, 1952. Number 55 of 250 copies of a facsimile reprint of the First edition done for the Book Collectors Society. Read More about Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various countries visited by...
Price: $200
Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at The Stone House, 1797. First American Edition. A New Edition. UNCUT, IN ORIGINAL BINDING. “As a physician Erasmus Darwin was widely recognized as England’s finest medical doctor. He was asked several times to be personal physician to King George, although his lack of respect..... Read More about Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life. Second Part.l & Part II...with an Introductory...
Price: $1,500
