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HuntingtonDate Published1836; Atlas c.1835 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #33 Maestlin, Michael Heading(Astronomy)AuthorEpitome AstronomiaeHeadlineAstronomy book by the mentor of Johannes Kepler, 1588PublisherGeorg GruppenbachDate Published1588 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Lot #34 Tychonis Brahei, Equitis Dani, Astronomorum Coryphaei, Vita Heading(Astronomy)AuthorGassendi, PierreHeadlineGassendi's lives of Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, von Peurbach, and RegiomontanusPublisherEx Typographia Adriani VlacqDate Published1655 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #35 Map of the Moon...based on the fiducial measures of S.A. Saunder and J. Franz Heading(Astronomy)AuthorWesley, W.H.HeadlineScarce 1935 lunar atlasPublisherPercy Lund, Humphries & Co.Date Published1935 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #39 Anatome Quartum Renovata AuthorBartholin, ThomasHeadlineFourth edition of Bartholin's AnatomyPublisherSumpt. Marci & Joan Henrici HuguetanDate Published1684 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #57 Essai sur les Machines en Général [bound with] Réflections sur La Métaphysique du Calcul Infinitésimal AuthorCarnot, Lazare Nicolas MargueriteHeadlineTwo scientific/mathematical works by Lazare CarnotPublisherI'Imprimerie de Defay; Chez DupratDate Published1786; An V [i.e. 1797] View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #58 Notes sur la théorie des fractions continues et sur certaines séries AuthorCatalan, EugeneHeadlineCatalan on continued fractions, inscribedPublisherAcademie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de BelgiqueDate Published1883 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #74 Hemorrhage and Transfusion [with] A Physical Interpretation of Shock, Exhaustion, and Restoration AuthorCrile, George W.Headline2 medical texts by George W. CrileDate Published1909; 1921 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #84 The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester AuthorDircks, HenryHeadlineOn the life and inventions of Edward SomersetPublisherBernard QuaritchDate Published1865 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #91 The Practice of Pharmacy: A Treatise on the Modes of Making and Dispensing Officinal, Unofficinal, and Extemporaneous Preparations, With Descriptions of Their Properties, Uses, and Doses Heading(Drugs)AuthorRemington, Joseph P.HeadlineThe Practice of Pharmacy 1889PublisherJ.B. LippincottDate Published1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #96 Warum Krieg? [Why War?] AuthorEinstein, Albert and Sigmund FreudHeadlineEinstein and Freud on the roots of war, 1933PublisherInternationales Institut Für Geistige Zusammenarbeit VölkerbundDate Published1933 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #97 Das Relativitatsprinzip: Eine Sammlung von Abhandlungen AuthorEinstein, AlbertHeadlineEarly papers on Special RelativityPublisherB.G. TeubnerDate Published1913 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #101 Principia Philosophiae [bound with] Dissertatio de Methodo...Dioptrice et Meteora [and] Passiones Animae Heading(Elzevier, Daniel)AuthorDescartes, RenéHeadlineElzevier edition of Descartes works including his Discourse on MethodPublisherApud Danielem ElzeviriumDate Published1672 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #109 Traité des Maladies Vénériennes AuthorFabre, [Pierre]HeadlineTraité des Maladies Vénériennes, 1765PublisherRegnardDate Published1765 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #110 Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics: With the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the Mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses AuthorFerguson, JamesHeadlineLectures on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, etc. 1799PublisherJ. JohnsonDate Published1799 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #111 Nuclear Physics: A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago AuthorFermi, EnricoHeadlineFermi's courses on physics, 1949PublisherNotes compiled by Jay Orear, A.H. Rosenfeld, and R.A. SchluterDate Published1949 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #151 The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud AuthorFreud, SigmundHeadlineThe Standard Edition of Sigmund FreudPublisherHogarth PressDate Published[1964-1974] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$343.75StatusSold Lot #156 Our Wandering Continents: An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting Heading(Geology - Continental Drift)Authordu Toit, Alex. L.HeadlineOur Wandering Continents by Du Toit, 1937PublisherOliver and BoydDate Published1937 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #168 The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human Ontogeny and Phylogeny AuthorHaeckel, ErnstHeadlineHaeckel's Evolution of Man, 1st in EnglishPublisherKeegan Paul, Trench, & Co.Date Published1883 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$162.50StatusSold Lot #172 The Work of Hertz and some of his Successors Heading(Hertz, Heinrich)AuthorLodge, OliverHeadlineOliver Lodge's lecture on Heinrich Hertz, 1897Publisher"The Electrician" Printing and Publishing CompanyDate Published[1897] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #173 WITHDRAWN - A treatise on the diseases of the arteries and veins containing the pathology and treatment of aneurisms and wounded arteries AuthorHodgson, JosephHeadlineWITHDRAWN - Hodgson's treatise, 1815PublisherJ. Moyes for Thomas Underwood, et.al.Date Published1815 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #177 Theatrum machinarum universale of keurige verzameling waterwerken, schutsluizen, waterkeringen, ophaal- en draaibruggen...[with] Theatrum machinarum universale of keurige verzameling van verscheide groote en zeer fraaie waterwerken, schutsluysen,...door Jan Schenk AuthorHorst, Tieleman van der and Jacob PolleyHeadlineKeeping Holland dry, engineering platesPublisherPetrus SchenkDate Published1757; 1774 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #178 How to Lie with Statistics AuthorHuff, DarrellHeadlineHow to Lie with Statistics 1st edPublisherW.W. Norton & Company, Inc.Date Published[1954] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$175StatusSold Lot #187 De L'Auscultation Mediate ou Traite du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, Fonde Principalement sur ce Nouveau Moyen d'Exploration. AuthorLaennec, Rene Theophile HyacintheHeadlineDe L'Auscultation Mediate 1st ed., LaennecPublisherJ.-A. BrossonDate Published1819 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot #188 Élémens des Mathématiques ou traité de la grandeur en général, qui comprend l'Arithmétique, l'Algèbre, l'Analyse, et les Principes de toutes les Sciences qui ont la Grandeur pour objet. AuthorLamy, BernardHeadlineLamy's mathematical works, 1710PublisherChez Paul MarretDate Published1710 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #191 Note sur la fonction L (w, x, s) AuthorLerch, M.HeadlineInscribed Lerch on his function, 1887PublisherF. & G. BeljerDate Published1887 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #192 History of the Origins of Medicine: An Oration... AuthorLettsom, John CoakleyHeadlineLettsom's oration on the history of medicinePublisherPrinted by J. Phillips for E. and C. DillyDate Published1778 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #205 The London Practice of Physic Heading(Medical)HeadlineThe London Practice of Physic 1769PublisherW. Johnston, and Robinson and RobertsDate Published1769 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #210 The Smithsonian Series Heading(Natural History)AuthorAbbot, Charles Greeley, ed.HeadlineThe Smithsonian Series, Charles Greeley Abbot EditionPublisherThe Series Publishers, Inc.Date Published[1944] View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #215 Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, No. 366, Vol. 15 Heading(Natural History)Author[Darwin, Charles]HeadlineDarwin on monkeys' sexual selection, 1876PublisherNatureDate Published1876 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #216 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man First EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1871 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$3,750StatusSold Lot #217 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Descent of Man 1888 EditionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1888 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #218 The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin's Different Forms of Flowers 1st edPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1877 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #219 The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCross & Self Fertilisation Charles Darwin 2nd ed.PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1888 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #220 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin on Emotions in Man and Animals, 1stPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1872 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #221 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin on vegetable mold, 1st ed.PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1881 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #222 The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844 Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadline2 essays foundation for Origin of Species 1909PublisherUniversity PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Lot #224 The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin on climbing plantsPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1875 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #225 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineOrigin of Species, 6th editionPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1885 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #226 On the Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects. Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineCharles Darwin On the Fertilization of Orchids, 2nd ed.PublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1877 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #227 The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Heading(Natural History)AuthorDarwin, CharlesHeadlineDarwin Variation of Animals and Plants Under DomesticationPublisherJohn MurrayDate Published1868 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #228 The Selfish Gene Heading(Natural History)AuthorDawkins, RichardHeadlineDawkins' Selfish Gene 1st signedPublisherOxford University PressDate Published1976 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,500StatusSold Lot #237 Observations regarding the Salmon Fishery of Scotland [bound with] An Inquiry into the Present State and Means of Improving the Salmon Fisheries [and] Remarks upon a Proposed Bill [and] Proceedings of a Meeting of the Proprietors of Salmon Fishings [and] Remarks on the Proposed Changes... Heading(Natural History)HeadlineSalmon fishing in ScotlandPublisherPrinted for Bell & Bradfute, et al.Date Published1824-1836 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #244 Letters on the Elements of Botany. Addressed to a Lady. Heading(Natural History)AuthorRousseau, Jean JacquesHeadlineRousseau's Letters on the Elements of BotanyPublisherPrinted for B. White and SonDate Published1796 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #250 Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays Heading(Natural History)AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineAlfred Wallace's Natural Selection, 1st ed.PublisherMacmillan & Co.Date Published1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #251 Darwinism: an Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with some of its applications Heading(Natural History)AuthorWallace, Alfred RusselHeadlineWallace defends Darwinism 1889 1st ed.PublisherMacmillan and Co.Date Published1889 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #254 Studies in the Theory of Descent Heading(Natural History)AuthorWeismann, Dr. AugustHeadlineWeismann's foundational work of biology, 1st EnglishPublisherSampson Low, Marston, Searle, & RivingtonDate Published1882 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #257 Physica. Latine vertit, recensuit, & Adnotationibus ex Illustrissimi Isaaci Newtoni Heading(Newton, Isaac)AuthorRouhault, JacquesHeadlineClarke's Latin translation of Rouhault's Traité de PhysiquePublisherJacobi KnaptonDate Published1718 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #258 Newton's Principia. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy... AuthorNewton, IsaacHeadlineEarly American edition of Newton's PrincipiaPublisherDaniel AdeeDate Published[1848] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #262 Aequanimitas With other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine AuthorOsler, WilliamHeadlineWith mounted signature by William OslerPublisherP. Blakiston's Son & Co.Date Published1904 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #265 "Memoire sur la Fermentation Alcoolique" in: Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances se L'Academie des Sciences, Tome XLV, No. 25 AuthorPasteur, LouisHeadlinePasteur's first note on alcoholic fermentationPublisherMallet-BachelierDate Published1857 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #266 Collected Scientific Papers AuthorPauli, WolfgangHeadlineCollected Scientific Papers of Nobel laureate Wolfgang PauliPublisherInterscience Publishers / John Wiley & SonsDate Published1964 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1.25StatusSold Lot #268 I was a Doctor in Auschwitz AuthorPerl, GisellaHeadlineI was a Doctor in Auschwitz, first edition in jacketPublisherInternational Universities PressDate Published[1948] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #280 De Humana Physiognomonia Ioannis Baptistae Portae Neapolitani Libri IV [bound with] I.B. Portae Neapolitani Physiognomoniae Coelestis Libri Sex AuthorPorta, Giovanni Battista DellaHeadlineEarly work on physiognomy, 1650PublisherIoannis BerthelinDate Published1650 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #282 A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind AuthorPrichard, James CowlesHeadlinePrichard diagnoses "moral insanity", 1837PublisherE.L. Carey & A. HartDate Published1837 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #286 Results of an experiment on radiation in soil for growing vegetables Heading(Radiation)AuthorBerthelot, DanielHeadlineRadiation in soil experiments, letters & photosDate Published1925 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #287 Rugby Radio Station as published in the Minutes of Proceedings of The Institution of Civil Engineers V. 221, Session 1925-26, Part I Heading(Radio)AuthorAngwin, Arthur StanleyHeadlineRugby Radio Station by Arthur Stanley Angwin, 1926PublisherInstitution of Civil EngineersDate Published1926 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #295 Physiologie du Laboratoire AuthorRichet, CharlesHeadlineRichet signed Physiologie du LaboratoirePublisherFelix AlcanDate Published1893 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #300 Psychodiagnostik/Psychodiagnostics, Tafeln / Plates AuthorRorschach, HermannHeadlineRorschach test inkblot cards, 1921PublisherHans HuberDate Published[1921] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #305 Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography AuthorSchweitzer, AlbertHeadlineSigned with inscription by Albert SchweitzerPublisherHenry HoltDate Published[1933] View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #306 Wireless Telegraphy; Its Origin, Development, Inventions, and Apparatus AuthorSewall, Charles HenryHeadlineWireless Telegraphy by Charles Henry Sewall, 1903PublisherD. Van Nostrand CompanyDate Published1903 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #307 Miscellanea... Medica, cum praestantissimis quinque medicis... AuthorSmetius, HenricusHeadlineSmetius Miscellanea Medica 1611PublisherJonae RhodiiDate Published1611 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #313 Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency AuthorTesla, NikolaHeadlineCharles Tart's copy of Tesla's Experiments with Alternate CurrentsPublisherMcGraw Publishing CompanyDate Published1904 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #315 The Modern Practice of Physic: Exhibiting the Character, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, Morbid Appearances, and Improved Method of Treating the Diseases of All Climates AuthorThomas, RobertHeadlineThe Modern Practice of Physic 1828PublisherLongman, Reese, Orme, and GreenDate Published1828 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #321 Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, V., VI., VII. Heading(Wien, Wilhelm)HeadlineWien on blackbody radiation, 1893PublisherVerlag der Koniglichen Akademie der WissenchaftenDate Published1893 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #345 Récréations Physiques AuthorCastillon, A.HeadlinePyrotechnics, tricksters, somnambulism 1886PublisherLibrairie HachetteDate Published1886 View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #363 LSD Psychotherapy AuthorGrof, StanislavHeadlineStanislav Grof's LSD Psychotherapy, first edition in jacketPublisherHunter HouseDate Published[1980] View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Lot #376 Rational Recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards. AuthorHooper, W[illiam]HeadlineWilliam Hooper's Rational Recreations 1stPublisherPrinted for L. Davis, et alDate Published1774 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #391 Recreations Mathematical and Physical: Laying Down and Solving Many Problems of Arithmetick, Geometry, Opticks, Gnomonicks,... AuthorOzanam, JacquesHeadlineJacques OzanamPublisherPrinted for R. Bonwick, W. Freeman, et al.Date Published1708 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Lot #408 Science, Ethics and Politics AuthorSzent-Györgyi, AlbertHeadlineSigned by Nobel Prize winning biochemist Albert Imre Szent-GyörgyiPublisherVantage PressDate Published[1963] View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next