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Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.
HELMHOLTZ, Hermann L.F.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /From the library of oliver sacks. First English language edition, from the library of neurologist Oliver Sacks, with his octopus bookplate.This Eng...
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Palaeontology or
OWEN, Richard.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. First edition, presentation copy inscribed 'from the author' on the title and 'B Cockray, March 20, 1860, from Mr. Owe...
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Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.
HUXLEY, T.H.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The first book to apply darwinian evolution to humanity. First edition of the first book to apply Darwinian evolution to humans, just preceding Dar...
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A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System.
PRICHARD, J.C.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Important early account of epilepsy. First edition of this volume on mental illness that contains 'the best early account of epilepsy after [Thomas...
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An Inquiry Concerning the Diseases and Functions of the Brain, the Spinal Cord, and the Nerves.
BRIGHAM, Amariah.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The rare first american book on neurology. The rare first edition of the first American neurology book.Psychiatrist Amariah Brigham (1798-1849) was...
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The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man.
LYELL, Charles.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Paleontological evidence of human evolution. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence...
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On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects,
DARWIN, Charles.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /The first volume of supporting evidence for the origin of species. First edition, first issue, of this important contribution to Darwin's theory of...
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The Organs of the Senses Familiarly Described,
BELL, Charles.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /Rare popular anatomy by the neurologist who identified bell's palsy. First and only edition of this rare popular work by the anatomist, neurologist...
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Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions;
HIBBERT, Samuel.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00| /An early and influential materialist explanation of ghost sightings. First edition of a key work attributing ghost sightings to the human mind, an ...
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Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo
MANDEVILLE, Sir John.Original price £18,500.00 - Original price £18,500.00Original price £0.00£18,500.00£18,500.00 - £18,500.00Current price £18,500.00| /The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...
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Lunar Excursion Module Familiarization Manual.
[NASA].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /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...
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A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
SMYTH, Henry DeWolf.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /The rare first account of the manhattan project, with secret page. The rare lithoprint edition, the first obtainable edition of the official accoun...
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Das Hoffest zu Ferrara, in den Saelen des Koeniglichen Schlosses zu Berlin.
LANGE Edouard; FRENZEL, Wilhelm.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Lange's rare work on Ferrara. 'The plates herein represent fancy-dress costumes for this 1843 recreation of a celebration at the Court of Ferrara,...
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The Congo
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare.
SHAKESPEARE, William.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A beautifully illustrated twelve-volume set of Shakespeare's plays in a handsome contemporary tree calf binding, comprising his 36 canonical works...
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A Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible: Exodus XXXIX].
[GUTENBERG, Johann.Original price £120,000.00 - Original price £120,000.00Original price £0.00£120,000.00£120,000.00 - £120,000.00Current price £120,000.00| /Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...
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Stanford's Map of the British Metropolis and Suburbs
STANFORD, EdwardOriginal price £1,450.00 - Original price £1,450.00Original price £0.00£1,450.00£1,450.00 - £1,450.00Current price £1,450.00| /Edward Stanford Sr. (1827–1904) was an English mapmaker and publisher, who built his firm to be the largest and best mapmakers and publishers in L...
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A suite of four hand coloured engravings.
[CONVERSATION PIECE ENGRAVINGS].Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /An exquisite suite of four eighteenth century conversation piece engravings in the rococo style, showing the nobility at leisure, dining and danci...
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Vokrug Sveta v Vosem'desiat' dnei [bound with] Vorkrug Luny [Around the World in 80 Days [bound with] Around the Moon].
VERNE, Jules.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /A rare illustrated Russian translation of Jules Verne's acclaimed Around the World in 80 Days together with Around the Moon in a remarkably fresh ...
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Ukrainska Abetka [Ukrainian Alphabet].
KHOLODNY, Petro Ivanovych.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Extremely rare production by the Ukrainian diaspora.Attractively illustrated, by the son of the Minister of Education of the Ukrainian People's Re...
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Three Men in a Boat; Three Men on the Bummel; The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.
JEROME, Jerome K.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00| /A fine set of Jerome K. Jerome's comic masterpieces, all first editions, beautifully bound.First editions, first impressions (Three men without '1...
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One Hundred and Eleven Poems.
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; HERRICK, Robert; Sir William Russell Flint (illustrator).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /One of 105 copies - signed by the artist with 8 extra plates. A beautifully produced edition of Herrick's poetry, illustrated by Sir William Russel...
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Great Expectations.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price £9,500.00 - Original price £9,500.00Original price £0.00£9,500.00£9,500.00 - £9,500.00Current price £9,500.00| /An attractive set of Great Expectations, the most popular of Dickens' novels, in a contemporary binding.Although the title-pages states 'Second an...
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