A decade's worth of birdwatching. An exceptional set of notebooks recording the observations of an Audubon Master Birder between 1985 and 1992, pri...

Beautifully bound Victorian book on insects. Second edition, an expanded and improved version of the text originally published in 1835 as the Gramm...

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

First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...

Hundreds of watercolours including unusual animals and plants. A remarkable English natural history album of beautifully-executed watercolours and ...

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

Rare Japanese Treatise on Silk Manufacturing. Illustrated treatise on the rearing of silkworms and the manufacturing of silk. The work traces the h...

Collected by German palmist Marianne Raschig who spent 60 years taking more than 2,000 hand prints of around 1,000 leading artists, actors, scient...

The definitive edition of Darwin's first published book, The Journal of Researches, containing the naturalist's last alterations to the text, incl...

Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...

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

The major medical book of the 17th-century, translated for the general public. The sixth edition of William Salmon's popular English translation of...

Early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist. First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions...