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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First edition. 1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv,… Read more about this item

Taipei, Taiwan: Newmoon Book Co., Ltd., 1956 - 1965. Reprint. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF FIRST 5 VOLUMES OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM'S MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN CHINA: HONG KONG, TAIWAN CONNECTIONS Five hardcover volumes, 9 3/4 inches tall small quarto, beige cloth boards, spine lettering in red, endpapers discolored, otherwise very good in very good dust jackets. VOL. I. Introductory Orientations. Joseph… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Princeton University, 1903. First edition. FOLIO VOLUME NARRATIVE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXPEDITIONS TO PATAGONIA, 1896-1899, BY J B HATCHER, FUNDED BY J P MORGAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. 13 inches tall folio volume, printed paper binding, photographic frontis with tissue guard, xvi, 314 pp, 50 figures on heavy paper with tissue guards, color double-page map of Patagonia and Terra… Read more about this item

1909 - 1939. First editions. 1909 – 1939 BOUND COLLECTION OF 124 OFFPRINTS BY EMINENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH BIOLOGISTS FROM THE HEYDAY OF EXPERIMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY. Two hefty volumes, each 9 ½ inches tall, 3 inches thick, red buckram binding, gilt titles to spine, bookplates of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf to front paste-down, typed table of contents. Vol. I contains… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. 1865 FIRST EDITION ALEXANDER AGASSIZ SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF AMERICAN MARINE BIOLOGY BOOK WITH DARWIN CONNECTION. 8 3/4 inch hardcover,vi, 155 pages, original dark green cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, inscribed front endpaper to "Prof Jeffries Wyman, with the regards of Alex Agassiz". 185 fine wood engravings throughout the text.… Read more about this item

New York: J. Seymour, 1816. First edition. 1816 DISSERTATION FOR THE M.D. DEGREE AT C. P. & S., NEW YORK, DEDICATED TO PROFESSORS WHO WERE LUMINARIES OF EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE AND INSCRIBED TO HIS COUSIN. 8 inches tall slim volume, marbled paper covers, spine perished, front cover separated from text, string binding secure, text block unmarked and very good.… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the Author, 1737. First edition. 1737 THE BLACK AND WHITE PHEASANT, FROM THE FIRST BIRD BOOK TO INCLUDE COLOR PLATES HANDCOLORED BY THE AUTHOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. 9x11 1/4 inches handcolored engraving from Eleazar Albin's Natural History of Birds. Bright, bold colors, small crease to lower right corner not affecting image; heavy paper, very good. ELEAZAR… Read more about this item

Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1813. New edition. 1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, "THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY." 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain, 1729. 7th edition. 1729 PORTABLE 4-VOLUME ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE IN COURTLY AFFAIRS, ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVED MAPS AND ROYAL PEDIGREES. Four hardcover volumes, each 6 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding, brown paper covers, spine gilt with gilt red leather labels, Vol. I, engraved frontispiece titled, Trahat sua quemque voluptas… Read more about this item

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958. First edition. 1958 FIRST PUBLICATION BY NOTED SOCIOBIOLOGIST DESMOND MORRIS--HIS DOCTORAL THESIS FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper-covered boards, black pebbled cloth spine with gilt title, pp vi, 154, 50 illustrations in text, cover edges and corners worn, residual abrasions from removal of library stickers from bottom spine, back, and front… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1716. Third edition. 1716 MAGNIFICENT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DRUGS AND THEIR ORIGINS ILLUSTRATED WITH 25 FOLDING COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS, EACH CONTAINING 16 IMAGES OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 10 inches tall hardcover, 18th century full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, gilt red leather title label, all edges stained red, original marbled endpapers,… Read more about this item