Item 316424Menlo Park Reminiscences. Volume I (of 3).
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Dearborn, Michigan: Edison Institute, 1937. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Menlo Park Reminiscences. Volume I (of 3) Add to Wish List
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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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Dearborn, Michigan: Edison Institute, 1937. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Menlo Park Reminiscences. Volume I (of 3) Add to Wish List
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[Utica, NY: State Hospitals Press, 1899]. Inscribed by the Author. Inscribed to “Dr. F. X. Dercum Compliments of Smith Ely Jelliffe,” and what is presumably Dr. Dercum’s signature on the upper cover. Francis Xavier Dercum (1856-1931) began his career in private practice, but was appointed instructor in neurology and chief..... Read More Item Details for Bibliographical Contribution to the Cytology of the Nerve Cell Add to Wish List
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London: Taylor and Francis, 1870. First edition. Early computing. The first edition of Jevons' landmark paper presenting his "logical piano" (so called due to its appearance), the first machine capable of solving problems at superhuman speed and a key precursor of the modern computer. Read More Item Details for On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference Add to Wish List
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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927. First edition. Read More Item Details for Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast Add to Wish List
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London: Printed by E. Cave, jun. at St. John’s Gate. Contains Johnson’s translations of the Mottos and Quotations from THE RAMBLER (pp. 468-470), as well as translations by Dryden, a discussion of “Mr. Franklin’s” electrical experiments and their applications, etc Scarce in original wrappers. Read More Item Details for The Gentleman’s Magazine; for October 1752 Add to Wish List
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London, Vienna: International Pyscho-Analytical Press, 1923. Read More Item Details for Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: John Grigg, No 9 North Fourth Street, 1833. First edition. Read More Item Details for New Conversations on Chemistry adapted to the Present State of the Science...“on the foundation of Mrs. [Jane Haldimand] Marcet's ‘Conversations on Chemistry’ Add to Wish List
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Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1934. First separate edition. Read More Item Details for Physik und Energiewirtschaft. Vortrag auf Universitatswoche in Bad Frankenhausen am 5. Mai 1934 Add to Wish List
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Hamburg: 19/11/71. Solid if anodyne letter from the noted German scientist Pascual Jordan (1902-1980), remarking that his chief interest in recent years has been pure mathematics, which “gives joy to no one who is not already a matehmatician”; Jordan also observes that his books are sold in the Soviet Union..... Read More Item Details for Tyed Letter, signed (“P. Jordan”), to Laszlo Magyar Add to Wish List
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Dublin: Gerrard, [1901]. First edition. Joyce's second publication. The first edition of Joyce’s second published work, and his first appearance in a book, one of only 85 copies printed (his first appearance was a review of Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken published in the Fortnightly Review the previous year). Joyce’s..... Read More Item Details for “The Day of the Rabblement" [published in Two Essays. “A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question” by F.J.C. Skeffington and “The Day of the Rabblement” by James A. Joyce] Add to Wish List
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Zürich: Rascher, 1931. First edition, I-II Tausend. Psychologisch Abhandlungen Band III. Jung’s treatise on psychotherapy and its aims, and the characteristics which distinguish it from psychoanalysis as articulated by Sigmund Freud. Read More Item Details for Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart Add to Wish List
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Berlin: Frau Marianne Stark, 1937. SCARCE FIRST EDITION MULTIGRAPH COPY OF ONE OF JUNG'S PRIVATE 'INVITATION ONLY' SEMINARS. Read More Item Details for Bericht über die Berliner Vorträge Add to Wish List
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New York: Printed by Mahlon Day, 1825. First edition. The program is described with results cited including several cases, a fine early example of the studies of juvenile delinquency. The President of the Society was Cadwallader Colden, former mayor of New York. He was noted for his work on poor..... Read More Item Details for First Annual Report on the Managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York Add to Wish List
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New York: Modern Age Books, [1937]. First Edition. Inscribed. Essays by the dean of American radio broadcasting, with an introductory essay called “Radio and the News”, and essays on the Spanish Civil War, Mussolini, Hitler, Russia, the Orient, Britian, France, Roosevelt, and John Lewis. With a signed inscription on the..... Read More Item Details for Kaltenborn Edits the News Add to Wish List
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[Kansas City, Missouri: Knife and Fork Club], October, 1902. Read More Item Details for Year Book of the Knife and Fork Club of Kansas City 1898-1902 Add to Wish List
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Frankfurt und Leipzig: 1799. Early Raubdruck (Pirate Edition), following the first (Königsberg, 1798 ). In this, the last work published during his lifetime, Kant laid the groundwork for anthropology as a branch of philosophy and as a modern scientific discipline. Also of interest for his efforts in classifying mental illness..... Read More Item Details for Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst Add to Wish List
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n.p: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1979. First edition. Ashley Montagu's Copy. Anatomy was a particular interest of anthropologist Montagu, who wrote several books on the subject. Read More Item Details for Leonardo's Anatomia Naturale Add to Wish List
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Sacramento: University of California publications; Publications of the Lick Observatory; W.W. Shannon, Superintendant of StatePrinting, 1908. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Photographs of nebulae and clusters made with the Crossley reflector; Publications of the Lick Observatory, Volume VIII Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys, 1739. The Third Edition Corrected. Read More Item Details for Introduction to the True Astronomy or Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford Add to Wish List
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Oil Creek Venanga County, Pa: May 3rd 1861. From the First Oil Boom. "Dear Brother & Sister... to let you know where I am and how I am flourishing. Well times are very brisk up here & money plenty. I expect if I have my health this summer to do..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed, from Oil Creek, Pennsylvania. "Dear Brother & Sister ..." Envelope addressed to "Mr. & Mrs Daggette, Buenavista, Allegheny Co, Penna." Add to Wish List
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Norfolk: Norfolk Press by Crouse, Stevenson, and Matchett, Market-Place Norwich for George Nicol, Pall-Mall, London, 1796. Reissue of the 1794 edition. Read More Item Details for General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk: with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By Nathaniel Kent, of Fulham Middlesex. With additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1793. Third edition, expanded, and the first with the Supplement. English Land Management. Kent (1737-1810) was a laid appraiser and agriculturist land valuer and agriculturist, who was first employed in the diplomatic service as secretary to Sir James Porter in Brussels.where he studied..... Read More Item Details for Hints to Gentlemen of Landed Property. To which are now first added, Supplementary Hints Add to Wish List
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New York: 127 Fulton Street; 22 East 41 st. General Office and Factories, Hobeken, No, [1934]. Read More Item Details for Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co. Manufacturers and Importers; Drawing Materials; Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes Add to Wish List
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Calcutta: Office of the Superintendant of Government Printing, 1876. First. King's important work on the manufacture of quinine has become increasingly scarce. Quinine alkaloids and bark had become the standard treatment for malaria as early as 1825. However, methods of cultivation took were ruinous to the plants themselves and within..... Read More Item Details for Manual of Cinchona Cultivation in India Add to Wish List
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Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1855. First edition. Read More Item Details for Glaucus; or the Wonders of the Shore Add to Wish List
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