IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
An Introduction to Electricity. In six sections. I....
London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, (successor to Mr. Millar,) in the Strand, 1770. First Edition... Read More
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A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.
London: W. Owen, 1763-4. Second edition, enlarged. Second and best edition of this extensively illustrated early encyclopedia. Read More
Price: $900
An Essay on the Central Influence of Magnetism.
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1814. His intention in this pamphlet is to show that the seat of earthly magnetic power comes from the center of the earth. The author was from Washington, Georgia. Read More
Price: $250
Everything for the Sporting Set: the Printer’s Copy
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. New York. Established 1892. Ezra H. Fitch. President.
New York: Abercrombie & Fitch 53-55-57 W. 36th Street, 1913. Everything for the Sporting Set: the Printer’s Copy. Copy of printer E.E. Vreeland, whose firm Vreeland Adverising Press printed this sumptuous Sales Catalogue. In 1913, after moving into Reade Street, which was not a convenient shopping location for women, the store... Read More
Price: $400
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Abercrombie and Fitch Co. [Cover title].
[New York: Abercrombie and Fitch, 1910]. The ultimate one-stop camping and expedition outfitters. With notes by Ezra Fitch on “Secrets of the Wilderness” and “Camping Out”, including five varieties (Canoe, Pack-Horse, Tramping, Forest Cruising, and Automobile Camping). The catalogue is abundantly illustrated throughout. Read More
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Abracheff School of Art. Founded 1928.
Boston: 172 Newbury Street, n.d., ca. 1930. Scool of art founded by Bulgarian-born artist Nicolai Abracheff and his brother Ivan Abracheff. Includes illustrations of student work by Irma Orvokki-Saïla, John Andreev, Esther F. Trachtenberg, Irving E. Smith, Aaron Bornstein, Lotte Korson, and Charlotte J. Fox. Read More
Price: $100
ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences ... depuis son établissement en 1666 jusqu'à 1686. Paris: Gabriel...
Paris: vd. Together 44 volumes, 4to. Woodcut vignettes, engraved frontispieces in some volumes, numerous engraved plates, some folding. (Vol. I of Table lacking title-page.) The Académie des Sciences was founded in Paris in 1666 by Colbert as an informal gathering of scholars, who met twice-weekly in the King's library. In... Read More
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A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856
Manuscript Account Book of Edward R. Clark, Shoemaker.
Haddam Neck, CT: 1825-1856. A Connecticut Shoemaker's Account Book 1825-1856. A wonderful look at a craftsman's life in early 19th century Connecticut. Most of Clark's trade came from mending shoes, for which he averaged 40 cents a pair, his steadiest customers being members of the Brainerd family, an old and... Read More
Price: $850
Chemical Amusement Comprising A Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry Which are Easily Performed and Unattended By Danger.
London: Printed for Thomas Boys. 3, Paternoster-Row, 1819. Fourth Edition, with plates and considerably enlarged. Read More
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The Father of Acoustics
Die Akustik.
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1830. "Neue, unveränderte Ausgabe". Third (revised) edition (first published 1802 and 1817). The Father of Acoustics. An amateur musician and instrument maker fascinated by the phenomenon of sound, Chladni is now famous for studying the vibrations of surfaces by observing the patterns created by sound waves... Read More
Price: $1,750
An Essay on Electricity, explaining the Principles of that Useful Science; and describing the Instruments, contrived either to illustrate the...
London: Printed by J. Dillon and Co, for, and Sold by, W. and S. Jones, Opticians, 1799. The Fifth edition, with corrections and additions by William Jones, Mathematical Instrument Maker. George Adams, an English optician and writer of the late eighteenth century, published a wide variety of scientific works, including... Read More
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An Essay on the Use of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; Exemplified ina Greater Variety of Problems...Exhibiting the General Principles...
Philadelphia: Published by William W. Woodward, 1808. Fifth Edition, with the author’s last improvements. Read More
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Inscribed by Hoover to Adolph Lewisohn
De Re Metallica.
London: The Mining Magazine, 1912. One of 3000 copies. Inscribed by Hoover to Adolph Lewisohn. The Herbert Hoover translation of the classic work on mining and metalurgy. This copy inscribed by Hoover to mining magnate Adolph Lewisohn, “To Adolph Lewishon [sic] Esq, With compliments of HC Hoover.” Lewisohn (1849-1938) was... Read More
Price: $3,000
As Secretary for Prince Albert
ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson.
Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for... Read More
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The Secret Tradition in Alchemy. Its Development and Records.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1926. First edition. Read More
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With review by Ashley Montagu
A People of Alor. A Social-Psychological Study of an East Indian Island ...with Analyses by Abram Kardiner and Emil Oberholzer.
Minneapolis, Minn: University of Minnesota, [1944]. First edition. With review by Ashley Montagu. With 2 page holograph review by Ashley Montagu laid in. Read More
Price: $300
First Publication of the AAA
Year Book 1907 of the American Automobile Association.
New York: The American Automobile Association, November 1, 1907. First edition. First Publication of the AAA. This is the first publication and first year book of AAA. Read More
Price: $250
Ethnology. An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology. Vols. 1, 5, 9-22.
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962-1984. Read More
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CLASSIC ANTI-SEMTIC WORK
Waters Flowing Eastward.
Paris: Éditions R.I.S.S. 8, Avenue Portalis, 1931. First edition, with errata pasted to front pastedwown. CLASSIC ANTI-SEMTIC WORK. The first edition of this notorious work of anti-Semitism. Based largely on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Waters Flowing Eastward warns of a comming Jewish new world order. Read More
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Waters Flowing Eastward.
Paris: Éditions R.I.S.S. 8, Avenue Portalis, 1933. Second edition, revised and enlarged. The second edition of this notorious work of anti-Semitism, first published in 1931 and based largely on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Read More
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The Jewish Question: A Selection of the Articles (120-22) Published by Mr. Henry Ford’s Paper The Dearborn Independent and Reprinted...
Paris: Éditions R.I.S.S, 1931. Articles reprinted from Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. Ford, who had paid for a printing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the '20s, here repudiates Anti-Semitism in a letter printed in the Preface. Read More
Price: $150
Surveyer's Handbook
Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un nivellement nouvellement inventé...
Paris: Nicolas Langlois, 1688. First edition. Surveyer's Handbook. Bullet (1639-1716), "Architecte du Roy," was the author of the often reprinted L'ARCHITECTURE PRATIQUE (1691), which became a standard (v. Fowler, pp. 69-70) for the next 100 years. Bullet's Traité is similarly written in a spirit of pure practicality, treating that branch... Read More
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The Mysteries of Astrology, and the Wonders of Magic: including A History of the Rise and Progress of Astrology, and...
Boston: Published by the Author, 1854. First edition. An interesting book of astrology and similar fortune-telling methods, such as chiromancy (palm-reading), nativities, geomancy, etc., written by a practitioner of the field. He advertises in the back for "Verbal Consultations" and "Nativities Accurately calculated and read in full, according to the... Read More
Price: $225
Inscribed to Dannie Heineman
Vistas in Astronomy. In Two Volumes. (Special Supplement No.3 & No. 4 to the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics).
London & New York: Pergamon Press, 1955. First edition. Inscribed to Dannie Heineman. Edited by Beers, the 2 volumes were published on the occasion of the retirement of F.J.M. Stratton from the chair of Astrophysics in the University of Cambridge. Each volume is inscribed to Dannie Heineman from Arthur Beer. Read More
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Old Salem Families
Clipped autograph signature, “Albert S. Flint”.
[Salem: 1863]. Old Salem Families. Albert Stowell Flint (1853-1923)the noted astronomer. Flint, born in Salem, Mass., a Harvard and M.I.T. graduate, was best known for his work on the meridian circle on the paralaxes of stars, also his contributions to the reobservation of the secondary stars in Auwer's catalogue and... Read More
Price: $175
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The Uses of Astronomy, a Discourse [forming a part of] The Inauguration of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, August 28, l856.
Albany: Charles van Benthuysens Print, 1856. First Edition. NO COPY LOCATED IN NUC. In addition to the "Discourse" by Everett, this book, issued in honor of the dedication of the Dudley Observatory at Albany contains various speeches and a long poem dedicated to the American Association for the Advancement of... Read More
Price: $250