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Fort Meigs. A condensed history of the most important military point in the Northwest, together...

AVERILL, James P.

Fort Meigs. A condensed history of the most important military point in the Northwest, together with scenes and incidents connected with the sieges of 1813, and a minute description of the Old Fort and its surroundings, as they now appear.

Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co., 1886. 8vo. 43 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full page woodcuts (1 map). Original printed wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of Fort Meigs. Front wrapper detached, small stamp of the Garrett Biblical Institute as well as their Sold stamp to front wrapper. First... More

Price: $250.00

Fisica de corpi ponderaili. Amedeo AVOGADRO

AVOGADRO, Amedeo

Fisica de corpi ponderaili

Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1837-41. 4 volumes. 8vo. iv], xxxi, 910; [iv], xv, 980; [iv], xiii, 932; [iv], xiii, 926, liii pp., including index. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-titles, 18 folding plates, errata and all blank leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. An exceptionally fine and clean set. First... More

Price: $24,000.00

Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences IX. Written in Latin...

BACON, Francis

Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences IX. Written in Latin by the most eminent illustrious & famous Lord Francis Bacon … Interpreted by Gilbert Wats.

Oxford: Leon: Lichfield, 1640. Folio. [xxxviii], 60, [14], 477, [21] pp., including contents and index. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND EXPANSION. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and engraved title signed by William Marshall, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Early tree calf, rebacked with decorations and title in... More

Price: $2,750.00

Sylva sylvarum. (bound with) New Atlantis. (bound with) Historie of the reigne of King Henry the...

BACON, Francis

Sylva sylvarum. (bound with) New Atlantis. (bound with) Historie of the reigne of King Henry the Seventh

London: I: John Haviland for William Lee; II: I.H. and R.Y., 1635; 1629. Three works in one. Folio. [xx], 260, [27]; [iv], 47, [3], [ii], 248, [10] pp. FIFTH AND SECOND EDITIONS. Complete with frontispiece portrait of the author and the uncommon second engraved title, the tables and the recipe... More

Price: $5,000.00

Der Alcoholismus, sein Verreitung und seine Wirkung auf den individuellen und socialen Organismus...

BAER, Abraham A.

Der Alcoholismus, sein Verreitung und seine Wirkung auf den individuellen und socialen Organismus sowie die Mittel, in zu bekampfen.

Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1878. 8vo. x, 621, [1] pp. Contemporary leather-backed boards. A very good copy; some stains to endpapers. An early work by Baer on alcoholism. What distinguishes the book is the extensive use of statistical samples and an astonishing attention to all facets of the disease from its... More

Price: $400.00

Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion. Karl Ernst von BAER

BAER, Karl Ernst von

Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion.

Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. 4to. xxii, 271, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its..... More

Price: $4,500.00

De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . . Karl Ernst von BAER

BAER, Karl Ernst von.

De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . . .

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. 4to. [viii], 40, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. First edition of Baer's famous discovery... More

Price: $32,000.00

Physics and politics; or, thoughts on the application of the principles of “natural...

BAGEHOT, Walter.

Physics and politics; or, thoughts on the application of the principles of “natural selection” and “inheritance” to political society. Part of the “International Scientific Series.”

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. 12mo. [x], 228, [2] pp. Later edition. Original blindstamped publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine. An excellent copy. Later edition of this work, first published in London in 1872, and issued here as the second volume in the International... More

Price: $150.00

Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. G. BAGLIVI

BAGLIVI, G.

Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica.

Antwerp: 1715. 4to. (prelims mispaginated with pp. 5- 12 missing), 64, 854, (1) pp. Frontisportrait (loose), title r/b, half-titles, full-page engra. Contemporary calf, rebacked, new spine with gilt and raised bands. Leaves browned, some staining. Later edition. Included in the present volume is the author's tracts on earthquakes, the tarantula... More

Price: $250.00

Libyan sands. Travel in a dead world. Ralph A. BAGNOLD

BAGNOLD, Ralph A.

Libyan sands. Travel in a dead world.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 8vo. 351 pp., including half-title and index. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece map of the Libyan desert, 4 additional folding maps and numerous full-page and text illustrations (some double-page). Publisher’s cloth, a bit worn on head of spine; 2 leaves (pp. 23-26) loose, otherwise a very good... More

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Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kow’ra and Bi’nue (Niger and Tsadda) in 1854....

BAIKIE, William Balfour

Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kow’ra and Bi’nue (Niger and Tsadda) in 1854.

London: John Murray, 1856. 8vo. xvi, 456 pp., plus 32 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, frontispiece, small vignette of Prince Tshukuma on the title page, large folding plate of plans of the ship Pleiad, folding map of rivers. Half morocco over linen, gilt spine; a very nice... More

Price: $950.00

Traite de l'astronomie Indienne. Jean Sylvain BAILLY

BAILLY, Jean Sylvain

Traite de l'astronomie Indienne...

Paris: Chez Debure, 1787. 4to. [4], clxxx, 427, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With decorative woodcut headpieces. Contemporary half-calf over boards; occasional browning, otherwise an excellent copy from the library of Jacob and Friedrich Schurer with their bookplate. First edition of Bailly's valuable history of Eastern astronomy which was separately published... More

Price: $1,500.00

Mind and body. The theories of their relation. Part of the “International Scientific Series,”...

BAIN, Alexander.

Mind and body. The theories of their relation. Part of the “International Scientific Series,” volume IV.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. 12mo. [vi], 196, [2] pp. Later edition. With several text diagrams. Original blind stamped publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine; interior excellent. With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray on the paste- down, and the ownership signature of E.H. Hall... More

Price: $100.00

Indian ducks and their allies. (offered with) Indian ducks and their allies. E. C. Stuart BAKER

BAKER, E.C. Stuart

Indian ducks and their allies. (offered with) Indian ducks and their allies

Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1898-1900; 1908. Two works offered together. 8vo. I: Ten parts bound together. 222 pp.; II: xi, 292 pp., including half-title. I: First printings; II: First edition in book form. I: Half burgundy morocco on black cloth boards. With 10 chromolithograph plates by J.G. Keulemans. Despite... More

Price: $750.00

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade....

BAKER, Samuel

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 8vo. 542 pp., including half-title and index. First American Edition. Portrait of the author plus 2 separate frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), plus 50 woodcut text illustrations. Modern cloth with the original covers and spine laid down; folding map torn in a number of... More

Price: $350.00

The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. Sir Samuel W. BAKER

BAKER, Sir Samuel W.

The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1868. 8vo. xxii, [2], 596 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With portrait frontispiece of Baker and his wife, 2 hand colored maps (1 folding), and 23 woodcut plates. Buckram, gilt spine; foxing on frontispiece and first few leaves, otherwise very clean. Ownership inscription in pencil... More

Price: $300.00

The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks)....

BAKER, Stuart

The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks).

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1921. Three volumes. 4to. xvi, 340; xvi, 328; x, 341 pp., including half-titles and illustrated additional titles. SECOND EDITION. With 60 colored plates after Grönvold, Lodge and Keulemans, 15 black and white plates and 2 maps. Original half-morocco over cloth boards, spines of Volumes... More

Price: $650.00

Indian pigeons and doves. Stuart BAKER

BAKER, Stuart

Indian pigeons and doves.

London: Witherby & Co., 1913. 4to. xv, [i], 260 pp., including half-title and index. SECOND EDITION. With chromolithographed frontispiece and 26 colored plates after Grönvold and Lodge. Contemporary half morocco over cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, some wear to hinges and corners, otherwise a very clean copy from the... More

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The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India. Captain J. H. BALDWIN

BALDWIN, Captain J.H.

The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India

London: Henry S. King, 1876. 8vo. xxiv, 380 pp., including half-title, plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plate (detached) with tissue guard, text illustrations. Contemporary cloth, worn, title in gilt with decoration on front cover; interior uncut. From the James Dolan collection with his bookplate on paste down... More

Price: $600.00

Gypsy and other poems. James q. BALDWIN

BALDWIN, James q

Gypsy and other poems

Leeds, MA: Gehenna Press, 1989. Large 4to. [15] printed leaves, including half-title and limitation page, numerous blanks. FIRST EDITION. Printed in red and black. Etched portrait of Baldwin by Leonard Baskin on blue paper. Original gray paper-covered boards, red morocco labels on front cover and spine. In amazing condition, like... More

Price: $375.00

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the...

BALDWIN, Thomas.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy: Embracing also, Important Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Information, from Recent and Original Sources; Together with the Results of the Census of 1850, and Population and Statistics in many Cases to 1853.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled sheepskin with black morocco spine label, advertising end-papers, all edges marbled; paper residue to front paste-down, small damp-stain to fore-edge margin of first 100 pages, binding lightly scuffed and soiled, overall a solid very good copy. First edition. More

Price: $200.00

Parisian life. Honore de BALZAC

BALZAC, Honore de

Parisian life.

Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Co., 1901. Eight works in ten volumes. Titles in red and black. Each with frontispiece and illustration. Red cloth bindings with gilt spine titles, mostly in excellent condition (back cover to Vol. VIII waterstained). Works include Cousin Betty; César Birotteau; Scenes from a Courtesan's life; The Government..... More

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History of the life of William Gilpin; A character study. Hubert Howe BANCROFT

BANCROFT, Hubert Howe

History of the life of William Gilpin; A character study.

San Francisco: The History Company, 1889. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Navy cloth, gilt lettering to top cover. First edition. Gilpin was instrumental in setting up the government of the Oregon Territory, and was first governor of the Colorado Territory. Rare. More

Price: $150.00

Ornithologie d’Angola. J. V. BARBOZA DU BOCAGE

BARBOZA DU BOCAGE, J.V.

Ornithologie d’Angola.

Lisbonne: Imprimerie Nationale, 1881. 4to. xxxii, 576 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 10 hand-colored plates by Keulemans. Later half calf over marbled boards, original front printed wrapper bound in, gilt lettering on spine; other than repair to the edges of the final plate, a very nice uncut copy from the Library... More

Price: $2,500.00

De medecinae origine et progressu. J. C. BARCHUSEN

BARCHUSEN, J.C.

De medecinae origine et progressu.

Utrecht: G. Paddenburg & G. Croon, 1723. 4to. [16], 679, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Originally published as a series of dialogues under the title Historia medicinae (1710), this collection of medico-historical essays deals with practices of and attitudes towards medicine in antiquity through the middle ages... More

Price: $600.00

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