![Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz, entre 1800 et 1814 … en Zoologie et en Botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. [With:] Circular Address on Botany and Zoology; followed by the prospectus of two periodical works, Annals of Nature and Somiology of North America](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/259586.jpg?v=1476381502)
Two by the Great Rafinesque
Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr...
Palermo; Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1814; 1816. First editions of both works. Two by the Great Rafinesque... Read More
Price: $8,000
Science
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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23 Chromolithographic Plates from "Florilegium Harlemense"
[London: 1908] ]. Read More
Price: $1,200
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
Price: $150
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
Price: $8,500
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
Inscribed to Burgess Meredith
The Psychodynamics of Family Life. Diagnosis and Treatment of Family Relationships.
New York: Basic Books, 1958. Second printing. Inscribed to Burgess Meredith. Inscribed to Burgess Meredith. Read More
Price: $200
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
Price: $1,500
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
Price: $250
Autograph Note Signed ("J.C. Adams"), to "Dear Luard", declining to sign a petition.
John Couch Adams (1819-1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer most famous for mathematically predicting the existence and position of Neptune. Here he writes to the antiquarian H.R. Luard, his colleague in editing the papers of Newton, about his inability to sign a petition: "As I am on the Council... Read More
Price: $75
Manuscript receipt for $250, initialled by Agassiz, "for the quarterly Salary of the Agent"
Cambridge, Mass: June, 1865. Alexander, 1835-1910, American naturalist and industrialist was the son of Louis Agassiz. Read More
Price: $75
Notice sur la Géographie des Animaux...Extrait de la Revue Suisse, Aout 1845.
Neuchatel: Imprimerie de Henri Wolfrath, 1845. First separate edition. Read More
Price: $300
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
Price: $50
![A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those whose desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author [With:] [Large Notes, and many Curious Observations. By W. Derham]. Eleazar Albin.](/pictures/thumb/32863.jpg?v=1438724395)
A Natural History of English Insects Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life: And (for those...
London: William and John Innys, 1720-24. With preliminaries and titles of both first and second editions. Read More
Price: $7,500
The Secret Tradition in Alchemy. Its Development and Records.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1926. First edition. Read More
Price: $250
Rare pamphlet outlining the A.A. program
So You Can't Stop Drinking? Here's How to Get a Permanent Seat on the Wagon.
[Chicago: Herald-American, ca.1950]. Rare pamphlet outlining the A.A. program. A rare pamphlet from the early years of Alcoholics Anonymous, written by a midwest newspaper reporter and providing a detailed and positive overview of the program.The pamphlet prints in full a series of six articles written by Elgar Brown for the... Read More
Price: $250
The American Farm Book.
New York: Orange Judd, 41 Park Row, 1865. Nice copy of a standard American work, first issued under this title in 1849 and in print through the end of the nineteenth century. Read More
Price: $125
Observations relative to Lymphatic Hearts (in reptiles).
Philadelphia: E. G. Dorsey, Printer, Library Street, 1838. Read More
Price: $125
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
42 original watercolors
Album of original watercolors of flowers.
ca. 1831-1865. 42 original watercolors. An album of highly accomplished amateur watercolors of flowers — including the double oleander, tiger lilly, China rose, viola, poppy, and tulip. Read More
Price: $6,000
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
Some Birds and Mammals of North America.
London: The Tryon Gallery, in association with George Rainbird, 1971. First Edition, No. 354 of 550 numbered copies. Read More
Price: $600