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