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

Oxford: By Hall, 1658. First edition. Both a religious radical and a gardner, Austen "was a practical nurseryman who greatly increased the range and output of gardens in the Oxford area; he was a radical puritan, rejoicing in the overthrow of the Anglican establishment; and he was a self-taught scientist... Read More

London: Orr and Smith, 1835. First edition. Read More

London: 56 Regents Park Road, 16 September 1875. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine, continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th “which wil be... Read More

Wellington: John Mackay, GPO, 1906. Inscribed on upper cover, "Dr. --Pranseau with L. Cockayne's Compliments." The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography sums up Cockayne's achievements: He "was one of the most influential of New Zealand's scientists. Although lacking formal training, he made important and original contributions to botany, stimulating research... Read More

Paris: Saillant Desaint, 1768. First Edition. Duhamel du Monceau, polymath and prolific author, became one of the outstanding botanists of the 18th century and made significant contributions to French agronomy with his TRAITÉ DE LA CULTURE DES TERRES and other studies. All of his works included “ideas as well as... Read More

Washington, D.C: Published by the Author, 1938. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Read More

London: Wm. S. Orr, 1840. Second Edition. Read More

London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition. The revised and enlarged third edition, the second by Thomas Johnson, which corrects many of Gerard’s errors and ads 800 new species and 700 woodcuts. The most complete edition. Read More

[San Jose, California]: S.A.S.K.E, 1964. Guidebook to hallucinogenic substances, describing 85 plants, mushrooms, and synthetic substances, “a first attempt to bring practical knowledge to the uninformed public of where and how to obtain psychodelics with little or no expense …”The Society for the Advancement of Self-Knowledge and Evolution seems to... Read More

[Southwarke: Peter Treveris, 1529]. Second edition. Second Edition of the First English Illustrated Herbal. The second edition of the first illustrated English herbal, first published by Treveris in 1526. ""With the exception of the preface and the treatise on urines, the Grete Herball is a translation of the French Grant... Read More

London: Bell and Dalby, 1870. First Edition. Read More

Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report, "The best by far of these individual reports...It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report... Read More