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A CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS FOUND IN IRELAND, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF THE RARER SORTS...PART I [all published].
Mackay, John Townsend:
Dublin: R. Graisberry, 1825.
98pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, rather foxed and dusty, title.. more
Price: $125.00
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A COMPLETE TREATISE ON ARITHMETIC, RATIONAL AND PRACTICAL; WHEREIN THE PROPERTIES OF NUMBERS ARE CLEARLY POINTED OUT...WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF PROPER EXAMPLES IN ALL THE RULES, PERFECTLY SUITED TO THE MAN OF BUSINESS, ACADEMIES, SCHOOLS, AND STUDENTS OF E
Deighan, P[aul] ("Philomath"):
Dublin: Printed and Sold for the Author, by J. Jones, 1804.
Two volumes bound in one. xxxviii,[2],268;177,[5]pp. Octavo. Early 20th century library buckram. Faint old stamps and binding markings of a.. more
Price: $150.00
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A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ZOOPHYTES.
Johnston, George:
London: John van Voorst, 1847.
Two volumes. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt extra. Portrait. Illustrations. Plates. Portrait offset on title, else a very good set... more
Price: $225.00
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A MISCELLANY CONTAINING SEVERAL TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. By the Bishop of Cloyne.
[Berkeley, George]:
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752.
[7],266,iii-vi,267-[268]pp. (the dedicatory verses having been bound out of order). Octavo. Old calf, rebacked to style sometime in the 20th.. more
Price: $400.00
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A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL.
Burke, Edmund:
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.
viii,[8],[1]-184pp. Small octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Half-title bound in. Neatly and properly released institutional.. more
Price: $2,500.00
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A SECOND PAPER ON HYGROMETRY...FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS.
Luc, Jean André de:
[London. ca. 1791].
33,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates. Quarto. Contemporary stiff wrappers, sewn. Old bookplate stains inside front wrapper, spine covering quite chipped,.. more
Price: $125.00
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A THESIS ON THE QUALITY OF ILLUSION IN THE CONTINUITY OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE IN THE HIGHER METAZOA, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SPECIES HOMO SAPIENS.
Wells, H.G.:
[London: Printed for the Author by C.A. Watts, 1942].
Printed cream wrappers. First edition of Wells's thesis in support of his D.Sc. The text saw first public printing in.. more
Price: $75.00
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A TREATISE ON FOREST-TREES: CONTAINING NOT ONLY THE BEST METHODS OF THEIR CULTURE HITHERTO PRACTISED, BUT A VARIETY OF NEW AND USEFUL DISCOVERIES, THE RESULT OF MANY REPEATED EXPERIMENTS...[etc].
Boutcher, William:
Dublin: Printed for William Wilson...and John Exshaw, 1784.
[8],xxviii,307,[1]pp. plus folding plate. Octavo. Extracted from old binding. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, short snag in.. more
Price: $250.00
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A VERY CURIOUS AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF SOME SKELETONS OF HUMAN BODIES, DISCOVERED IN AN ANCIENT TOMB IN FRANCE, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF COCHEREL...TO WHICH THE VARIOUS OPINIONS AND CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THESE BODIES ARE ADDED. T
[Skeletons and Petrified Human Bodies]:
London: Printed for W. Bristow..., 1760.
[2],ii,27,[1]pp. plus large folding engraved frontis. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Terminal leaf detached and ragged at gutter, some.. more
Price: $275.00
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ADVENTURES OF IDEAS.
Whitehead, Alfred N.:
New York: Macmillan, 1933.
Gilt cloth. First (American) edition. Some faint flecks to the cloth sizing, but a very good copy. .. more
Price: $45.00
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ADVENTURES OF IDEAS.
Whitehead, Alfred North:
Cambridge: University Press, 1933.
Cloth. First British edition. Edges very rubbed, but a good copy of one of the philosopher/mathematician's most important works for.. more
Price: $45.00
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ALICE EASTWOOD'S WONDERLAND THE ADVENTURES OF A BOTANIST.
Wilson, Carol Green:
San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, [1955].
[6],iv,222pp. Gilt green cloth, botanical illustration to upper board. Black & white frontis portrait. Pen & ink chapter headings. Fine,.. more
Price: $35.00
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AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DAVID HUME, ESQ.
[Hume, David]: Ritchie, Thomas E.:
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807.
vi,[2],520pp. Octavo. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Light but fairly consistent foxing, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.. more
Price: $550.00
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AN URCHIN IN THE STORM ESSAYS ABOUT BOOKS AND IDEAS.
Gould, Stephen Jay:
New York: W.W. Norton, [1987].
Cloth and boards. First edition. Slightly cocked, top edge a bit dusty, but a near fine copy in dust jacket... more
Price: $30.00
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ARTHUR SCHNITZLER ALS PSYCHOLOG.
Reik, Theodor:
Minden: Verlag von J.C.C. Bruns, [ca. 1913].
[8],303,[1]pp. Printed decorated wrappers. Light use at edges, else a near fine copy. First edition of this very early work.. more
Price: $125.00
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ARTS REVEALED, AND UNIVERSAL GUIDE; CONTAINING MANY RARE AND INVALUABLE RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES....
[Hutchinson, E.]:
New York: American Family Publication Establishment, 1854.
186pp. Octavo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Endsheets a bit foxed, cloth dull and with a few spots,.. more
Price: $75.00
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ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES THE OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, 1940-1945.
Smyth, Henry D.:
Princeton: Princeton, 1945.
Cloth. First "popular" edition. Top edge dusty, two small bookplates on front pastedown, else a very nice copy in a.. more
Price: $75.00
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ATOMICITY AND QUANTA.
Jeans, James H.:
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1926.
64pp. Printed boards. First edition. Bookplate and small ink note on endsheet, else a nice copy. .. more
Price: $50.00
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BIBLIOTHECA MECHANICA.
Roberts, Verne L., and Ivy Trent:
New York: Jonathan A. Hill, [1991].
xiv,[2],391pp. Quarto. Linen and pictorial boards. Frontis portrait. Illustrations. As new in unprinted dust jacket, as issued. First edition, trade.. more
Price: $260.00
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BIRDS AND MAN.
Hudson, W.H.:
London:
Gilt cloth. First edition. Slight offsetting from endleaves to facing leaves, cloth slightly soiled, with two small spots, minimal rubbing.. more
Price: $85.00
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BIRDS AND MAN.
Hudson, W.H.:
London: Duckworth & Co., 1915.
Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Color frontis. Preliminary signature starting a bit at toe, foxing to prelims, upper cover a bit.. more
Price: $65.00
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BIRDS OF LA PLATA.
Hudson, W.H.:
London, Toronto & New York: Dent/Dutton, 1920.
Two volumes. Quarto. Gilt cloth and boards. Illustrated with twenty-two colored plates by H. Gronvold. Spine gilding patinated, as usual,.. more
Price: $175.00
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BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEDICAL CLASS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1861.
Holmes, Oliver W.:
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Original cloth. First edition (one of 1500 copies printed), first binding. A few small spots to cloth, otherwise a very.. more
Price: $150.00
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BOTANICAL BOOKS, PRINTS & DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. ROY ARTHUR HUNT....
[Hunt Botanical Collection]:
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1952.
Pictorial wrappers. Frontis, plates. First edition. Small dampstain to upper right corner of front cover, light soiling to wraps, else.. more
Price: $30.00
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BUCOLICORUM ECLOGAE DECEM. THE BUCOLICKS OF VIRGIL, WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES... [with:] ...GEORGICORUM LIBRI QUATOUR. THE GEORGICKS OF VIRGIL, WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES.
Vergilius Maro, Publius:
London: Printed by R. Reily, for T. Osborne [and:] Printed T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1749 & 1755.
Two volumes. xcix,[1],390,7,[11]pp. plus folding frontis portrait, two maps (one folding), and two plates; xvi,487,4,[13]pp. plus folding map, folding celestial.. more
Price: $350.00
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BURNING CONSCIENCE THE CASE OF THE HIROSHIMA PILOT CLAUDE EATHERLY, TOLD IN HIS LETTERS TO GUNTHER ANDERS....
Eatherly, Claude, and Gunther Anders:
New York: Monthly Review Press, [1962].
Cloth. Frontis. First U.S. edition. With a Preface by Bertrand Russell. Near fine in lightly spine-faded dust jacket. .. more
Price: $25.00
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CAROLVS LINNAEVS.
[Linnaeus, Caolus]: Greene, Edward Lee:
Philadelphia: Sower, [1912].
Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Fine and bright. First edition. A collection of essays and addresses on various aspects of Linnaeus's.. more
Price: $50.00
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COLOR STANDARDS AND NOMENCLATURE.
[Color Nomenclature]: Ridgway, Robert:
Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, 1912.
iii[1],43,[1]pp. plus fifty-three plates, each bearing twenty-seven color swatches. Gilt forest green cloth. Extra color title-leaf. Errata slip (referring to.. more
Price: $850.00
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COSMIC RADIATION FIFTEEN LECTURES....
Heisenberg, Werner [ed & contrib]:
New York: Dover Publications, 1946.
Cloth. First U.S. edition, translated by T.H. Johnson, from the text of the 1943 German edition. Head and toe of.. more
Price: $30.00
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CREATIVE EVOLUTION.
Bergson, Henri:
London: Macmillan, 1911.
Cloth. First edition in English, translated by Arthur Mitchell. Ink name on front free endpaper, spine tanned, several small chips.. more
Price: $55.00
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CRITIK DER REINEN VERNUNFT.
Kant, Immanuel:
Riga: verlegts Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781.
[24],856pp. Octavo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and paper boards, spine gilt extra, gilt label. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials. Scattered.. more
Price: $17,500.00
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DARWINISM AN EXPOSITION OF THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION WITH SOME OF ITS APPLICATIONS.
Wallace, Alfred Russel:
London: Macmillan, 1889.
xvi,494,[2]pp. Gilt forest green cloth. Portrait. Folding map. Illustrations and diagrams. Spine a bit darkened, lower fore-corners rubbed, a few.. more
Price: $200.00
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DIALOGUES CONCERNING TWO NEW SCIENCES.
Galilei, Galileo:
New York: Macmillan, 1914.
Large octavo. Cloth and boards, printed paper spine labels, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Portrait, diagrams and illustrations. Boards irregularly.. more
Price: $45.00
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DIE MUTATIONSTHEORIE. VERSUCHE UND BEOBACHTUNGEN ÜBER DIE ENTSTEHUNG VON ARTEN IM PFLANZENREICH.
De Vries, Hugo:
Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp, 1903.
Two volumes. xiv,752 plus four color chromolithographed plates and one leaf of preliminary ads; xii,648pp. plus eight color chromolithographed plates... more
Price: $650.00
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ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ATOMIC POWER.
Schurr, Sam H., and Jacob Marschak:
New Brunswick: Princeton, 1950.
Quarto. Cloth. Folding maps. First edition. Top edge dusty, else near fine in a spine-darkened dust jacket with some chipping.. more
Price: $60.00
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EINE TEUFELSNEUROSE IM SIEBZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERT.
Freud, Sigmund:
Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924.
Tall octavo. Printed boards. First edition. Pages edge- tanned, half-inch chip from crown of spine, spine lettering worn, corners worn,.. more
Price: $75.00
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ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.
Stewart, Dugald:
Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, 1793.
xi,[1],500pp. Octavo (signed in 4s). Full contemporary sheep, gilt label. Front free endpaper affixed to pastedown at an early date.. more
Price: $500.00
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ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA; OR, A DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, COMPILED UPON A NEW PLAN....
[Encyclopedia]:
[Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Co., 1971].
Three volumes. Thick quartos. Full publisher's faux-leatherette, stamped in black and gilt. Illustrations and plates (some folding). Facsimile reprint of.. more
Price: $175.00
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ESSAIS DE SYNTHESE SCIENTIFIQUE.
Rignano, Eugenio:
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1912.
xxxi,[1],292,[2]pp. plus inserted catalogue. Original printed wrappers. First edition in French of this collection of papers by the Italian positivist... more
Price: $45.00
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EUSTACE BURNABY'S MANUFACTURE OF WHITE PAPER IN ENGLAND.
[Papermaking]: Hazen, Allen T.:
[Np]: Separate from the PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 48, IV, 1954.
315-333pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Illustrations. An author's separate, retaining original pagination. About fine. .. more
Price: $22.00
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FAMILY REUNION AN INCOMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE MAXIM-LEE FAMILY.
[Maxim, Hiram Percy]: Lee, Percy Maxim, and John Glessner Lee:
Farmington, CT: Privately printed, 1971.
x,421pp. Large octavo. Gilt sea-green buckram. Black & white photographs. Line drawings and other illustrations. Map and genealogical tables. A.. more
Price: $75.00
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FREUD 1956 ... AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE GROLIER CLUB FEBRUARY 21, 1956.
[Freud, Sigmund]: Zilboorg, Gregory:
New York: Privately Printed, 1956.
Printed wrappers. First edition. One of 750 copies printed at the Peter Pauper Press for distribution to the membership. About.. more
Price: $30.00
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FROM TIN FOIL TO STEREO EVOLUTION OF THE PHONOGRAPH.
Read, Oliver, and Walter L. Welch:
Indianapolis & New York: Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc./The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1959].
Cloth and boards. Illustrated. Ink ownership inscription, upper corners bumped, else a bright, near fine copy in lightly rubbed dust.. more
Price: $100.00
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HARVEY CUSHING A BIOGRAPHY.
[Cushing, Harvey]: Fulton, John F.:
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1946.
Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait, illustrations and photographs. First edition of the early standard biography. Accompanied by a 1.. more
Price: $85.00
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HEN'S TEETH AND HORSE'S TOES.
Gould, Stephen Jay:
New York: Norton, [1983].
Cloth and boards. Illustrations. First edition. Near fine in a slightly soiled dust jacket. .. more
Price: $40.00
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HEN'S TEETH AND HORSE'S TOES.
Gould, Stephen Jay:
New York: W.W. Norton, [1983].
Cloth and boards. First edition. A near fine copy in faintly dustsoiled dust jacket. .. more
Price: $65.00
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HERALDS OF SCIENCE AS REPRESENTED BY TWO HUNDRED EPOCHAL BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS IN THE DIBNER LIBRARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Dibner, Bern:
Norwalk & Washington: Burundy Library / Smithsonian Inst., [1980].
xiii,[1],96,[2]pp. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Introduction. Black & white reproduction engravings. Facsimiles. Index. Corners lightly rubbed, minimal soiling to wrappers, else.. more
Price: $35.00
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY.
Roback, A. A.:
New York: Library Publishers, Inc., [1952].
xiv,426pp. Blue cloth and grey paper boards. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations, charts, etc. Footnotes. Index. First edition. Modestly sunned top.. more
Price: $20.00
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HISTORY OF BOTANY TWO PAPERS PRESENTED AT A SYMPOSIUM...
Lawrence, George H.M., and Kenneth F. Baker:
Los Angeles and Pittsburgh: Clark Memorial Library / Hunt Botanical Library, 1965.
Printed wrappers. First edition. Sunned along the spine, back wrapper somewhat dust smudged, but near very good. .. more
Price: $12.00
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HOMEOPATHY, AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS; TWO LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Holmes, Oliver W.:
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842.
Original tan boards, paper spine label. Spine chipped, upper board neatly detached, internally a very good copy. First edition of.. more
Price: $165.00
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