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New listing
$100 or less
HUNTIA, A YEARBOOK OF BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
$20
(LOCKE, Richard Adams.)
The Moon Hoax; or, A Discovery that the Moon has a Vast Population of Human Beings. Illustrated with a View of the Moon, as Seen by Lord Rosse’s Telescope. New York: William Gowans, 1859., An iconic piece of American literary hoax history.
$250

Let the Sunshine In!

Sun Angle Calculator-the 1951 original!
$110
$100 or less
Journal of Dr. Park Lewis: Thoughts on Evolution, Electrons and Other Things
$75

Vision Through Time

Wood, Casey A. (Translator)
Memorandum Book Of A Tenth Century Oculist: For The Use Of Modern Ophthalmologists, A Translation of the Tadhkirat of Ali ibn Isa of Baghdad, the Most Complete , Practical and Original of All Early Textbooks on the Eye and its Diseases
$300

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL OF SCARCE "NONFICTION"

$100 or less
Whitman, John.
THE PSYCHIC POWER OF PLANTS: The Fascinating Book that Reveals the Secret Life of Plants.
$100

X-Rays

E.-N. Santini
La Photographie à travers les corps opaques par les rayons électriques, cathodiques et de röntgen avec une étude sur les images photofulgurales
SOLD

ORIGINAL COMPUTER GAME WITH FOLDED "MAP"

King, Stephen.
THE MIST: Angelsoft Interactive Fiction.
$200

Kingdom of Ava ruled upper Burma from 1365 to 1555

Michael Symes
An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, sent by the Governor-General of India in the Year 1795.
$1790

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

William Denton
Is Darwin Right? Or The Origin Of Man, First Edition
$250

"But honey, it's for science!"

$100 or less
The Journal of Sex Research—inaugural issue (Vol 1, No. 1, March 1965) + 8 other unique issues + 7 duplicates
$50

Scarce "Iron Horse" Advert

Corliss, George Henry [1817 - 1888].
The TELEGRAM And PROVIDENCE. Price 25¢ / CORLISS STEM ENGINE CO.
$175

History of Cosmology

$100 or less
Koestler, Arthur
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
$30

Buena Vista Ca. Ornithologist James A. Calder negs

James Alexander Calder
Bird, Wildlife, Travel and family photo negatives.
SOLD

RIchly Illustrated Catalogue

$100 or less
G. Gennert
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Supplies, No. 72, G. Gennert: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco
$70
$100 or less
Lockyer, J. N., & Arthur Schuster
Report on the Total Solar Eclipse of April 6, 1875
$100

Guns Are Us

Report of the Board of Officers, appointed by Special Orders No. 108, A.G.O., May 31, 1873, on Gatling Guns of Large Caliber for Flank-Defense
$450

Poisons!

Wormley, Theo. G.
Micro-Chemistry of Poisons, including their physiological, pathological, and legal relations: Adapted to the use of the medical jurist, physician, and general chemist. Plates
$150

First book containing stereo photographs

Smyth, Charles Piazzi
Teneriffe, an Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialties of a Residence above the Clouds
SOLD

Amateur Teddy Roosevelt Campaign Poem

Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews
1912 – An amateur paean to Teddy Roosevelt written by a celebrated pioneer female biologist, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

Cremation!

Sir Henry Thompson
Cremation: The Treatment of the Body After Death
$200

Cell Theory

Schwann, T. H.
Microscopical Researches into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants
$350
William H. Bailey
Common Sense, Making and Using Steam
$200

An important late 17th-century essay

Whitelocke BULSTRODE (1650-1724)
An Essay of Transmigration, in defence of Pythagoras, an apparent author’s presentation copy of the first edition of Bulstrode’s most famous work
$1250

FROM HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION TO HAND PRESS

$100 or less
Muir Dawson, and Roger Levenson
The Har-Ma Press
SOLD

All aboard!

Kunhardt, Charles P.
Small Yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. With numerous plates and illustrations, First edition.
$300

Giant Photograph of an Engineering Marvel

Reinhardt, Anton
Albula Bahn. Lehrgerüste der Eisenbahnbrücke bei Solis., Photograph of a trial framework for a gorge-spanning bridge
$450

The Beginnings of American Ophthalmology in Print

Various
The American Journal of Ophthalmology, Volumes 1 - 6
$600

Tornadoes, WEATHER

J. P. Finley
Tornadoes, what they are, and how to escape them
$175

DARWINISM - 17 ITEMS RELATED to EVOLUTION

DARWIN'S THEORY of EVOLUTION - A COLLECTION of EPHEMERA - MISSING LINK - SURVIVAL of the FITTEST - SEVERAL RARE ITEMS
$1500

1st English-Language Edition of Art of Papermaking

Joseph Jerome Le Francoise de LaLande (1732-1807)
The Art of Papermaking, By Joseph de Lalande, 1761. Translated into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson, B.A.
$300

Surgery of Sight

Wenzel, M. de
A Treatise on the Cataract; with Cases to Prove the Necessity of Dividing the Transparent Cornea, and the Capsule of the Crystalline Humour, Differently, in the Different Species of this Disease., Translated from the French with Many Additional Remarks by James Ware, Surgeon.
$400

Emigration trumps Malthus

Matthew, Patrick ("Discoverer of the principle of natural selection")
Emigration Fields. North America, the Cape, Australia, and New Zealand. Describing these countries and giving a comparative view of the advantages they present to British settlers.
$1450

Patents

Max D. Ordain
More Light on Patents
$125

Foundations of Ophthalmc Pathology

Wardrop, James
Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye
$500

Manufacture of Printing Machinery

Anon.
Photograph Album John Wood (Engineering) Ltd., Printing Machinery
$475

Foundations of Mining Science

Agricola, Georgius (Hoover, Herbert Clark and Lou Henry Translators)
De Re Metallica, Translated From The First Latin Edition of 1556
SOLD

A rare, short-lived paleontology journal

Charlesworth, Edward (Ed.)
The London Geological Journal, and Record of Discoveries in British and Foreign Palaeontology. Nos. 1 and 3., Two of three issues published. In original wrappers. With marvelous lithographic plates.
$250
$100 or less
Rink, Evald
TECHNICAL AMERICANA, A CHECKLIST OF TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS PRINTED BEFORE 1831
$25

1889 Cement

$100 or less
The Newark Lime & Cement Manufacturing Company
Illustrated billhead receipt, for cement made at Rondout NY
$65

1954 Boston TV

$100 or less
W. C. Swartley
WBZ-TV Boston Channel 4, Form letter promoting local program "Swan Boat"
$65

Leisure Reading in the New Electric Age

Archer, Charles Maybury (Ed.)
The London Anecdotes., Four volumes in two. Evocative of the world of steampunk.
$200

Record of construction of a national paper factory

Borsodi, Géza (photographer)
Fabriksbau der vaterlandischen Papierfabriks-Aktien-Ges. in Fűzfő. Erbaut nach den Planen des Ing. Josef Schöngut. Schlussfertig übergeben vom 13.III-11.X 1928 in 174 Arbeitstagen., Hungarian title: Hazai Papírgyár Részv.-Társaság Fűzfői Gyártelépenek Építkezése.
$1650

Fusion of art and science

Gallé, Emile
Orchidées lorraines. Formes nouvelles & polymorphisme de l'Aceras hircina Lindl., Loroglossum hircinum Reich. (Congrès International de Botanique, Extrait des Actes.), With a second offprint by Gallé in printed wrappers, La floriculture lorraine au concours régional, Nancy, 1894.
$600

Astronomy

Sinnott, Roger W. [and] Michael A. C. Perryman
MILLENNIUM STAR ATLAS: AN ALL-SKY ATLAS COMPRISING ONE MILLION STARS TO VISUAL MAGNITUDE ELEVEN FROM THE HIPPARCOS AND TYCHO CATALOGUES AND TEN THOUSAND NONSTELLAR OBJECTS, THREE VOLUMES
$450

LSD "Medicine for the Soul"

Albert Hofmann
The chemical formulas for LSD and Psilocybin, drawn, signed and inscribed by Albert Hofmann.
SOLD

Nevada Silver Mines

STATEMENT AND REPORTS CONCERNING THE UNCLE SAM SENIOR AND GOLD CANON SILVER LODES, IN NEVADA.
$1075

The Ascent of Mount Conness, 1890

George Davidson, Carleton E. Watkins, or J.J. Gilbert.
Mount Conness from the Southeast – Summit of Mountain and Camp.
$750