Maps include Capri, Naples and Palermo. Issued c.1903.Fourteenth edition. lii, 444pp, 27 maps and 24 plans, previous bookseller's label pasted dow...

Paving the way for dorothy hodgkin and rosalind franklin. Three rare, early offprints by Kathleen Lonsdale, one of the first women elected to the R...

Silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed Bible case. A sweet pocket King James Bible in a silver-gilt Renaissance Revival embossed case, the upper ...

Cosmology for the masses. First UK edition (published simultaneously in the US), the corrected second printing, of one of the most successful popul...

The first comprehensive evidence for continental drift, in the rare dust jacket. First edition, first impression, an attractive copy in the rare du...

An unusual guide printed in the USA published between the two World Wars. Intourist (the Soviet State Travel Bureau), a nationwide network running...

Inscribed presentation copy of the most important medical biography. Fourth printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one great physicia...

From the library of oliver sacks. First English language edition, from the library of neurologist Oliver Sacks, with his octopus bookplate.This Eng...

Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...

Important early account of epilepsy. First edition of this volume on mental illness that contains 'the best early account of epilepsy after [Thomas...

The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...

The rare first american book on neurology. The rare first edition of the first American neurology book.Psychiatrist Amariah Brigham (1798-1849) was...

The origin of modern nursing. First edition, early issue — probably the third or fourth — with advertisements on the endpapers and 'the right of tr...

The first volume of supporting evidence for the origin of species. First edition, first issue, of this important contribution to Darwin's theory of...

Paleontological evidence of human evolution. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence...

An early and influential materialist explanation of ghost sightings. First edition of a key work attributing ghost sightings to the human mind, an ...

Rare popular anatomy by the neurologist who identified bell's palsy. First and only edition of this rare popular work by the anatomist, neurologist...

Early tissue culture work by a prominent woman scientist. The rare offprint of the first major work by prominent cell biologist Honor B. Fell (1900...

The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

Supporting the moon landing. Two early manuals relating to the Apollo Lunar Module, the craft that ferried astronauts between the moon's orbit and ...

Getting to the moon & back. A rare, early technical manual for the Apollo Lunar Module, the craft that ferried astronauts between the moon's or...

The rare first account of the manhattan project, with secret page. The rare lithoprint edition, the first obtainable edition of the official accoun...

With censorship slip.. First edition of this scarce title with the rare censorship slip warning travellers to hide the book from the authorities.Th...

The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and suptr...