Sacramento: W.W. Shannon, 1905. Ex-library, second edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 171pp. Blue cloth binding, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Includes a fold-out topographic relief map of California, by N.F. Drake at the front, as well as five photographic plates (including the frontispiece). The work is the..... More about Gems, Jewelers' Materials, and Ornamental Stones of California (California State Mining Bureau,...

Amsterdam: N. V. EM. Querido's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1933. Hardcover. Quarto. vi, 108, 54 plates and 3 double sided film flip books; xvi, 334; xxiv, 324 (9), 9 folding plates; xv, 352, 32 plates; xx, 447, 20 plates. Original brown red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on... More about De Volmaakte Vrouw / Geschikt Of Ongeschikt Voor Het Huwelijk / Het Volkomen Huwelijk / De...

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., ca 1866. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xii) 279pp. Blue-green pebbled cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine. The publication is a first American edition of physician and anesthesiologist Arthur Ernest Sansom's study of chloroform. This is edition follows the edition originally published in... More about Chloroform: It's Action and Administration

New York: New York Museum of Anatomy, 1880s. First edition. Softcover. 24mo. 10 (2)pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering and framing on cover. "A Digest of its Principal Attractions – showing how to pass a few hours in cheerful amusement, combined with practical and useful instructions. For Gentlemen Only."... More about A Visit to the New York Museum of Anatomy, 618 Broadway, Above Houston Street

New York: The Natural Science Association of America, 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Folio. Original three-quarter maroon leather over gold-stamped cloth and blind-embossed spine. Finely gold-tooled initials on lettering on front board, gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge. Silk moire endpapers. Title-page printed in red and black: "The... More about The Birds of North America

Neuchatel, Suisse: Institut Lithographique de H. Nicolet, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10] leaves (Half-Title, Title, Notes and Captions), [14] leaves (lithographic plates). Original illustrated paper covered portfolio. Second part (Livraison II) of the "Embryologie des Salmones", by Louis Agassiz* and Carl Vogt, containing 14 plates (in which 3 are... More about Histoire Naturelle des Poissons d'Eau Douce de l'Europe Centrale: Embryologie des Salmones

London: J. Cuthell et al. 1821. 12th edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). XXIV, 121, [1], 461, [1]pp (Vol. 1); [4], 612pp (Vol. 2). Original gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Originally published in 1621, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is Robert... More about The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and...

London: W. & J. Innys, 1719. Third edition (improved). Hardcover. Octavo. (16) (lvi) (8) 246pp. + 2 fold out maps, + a 10 page index at the back. Rebound in full modern blue pebbled leather boards, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Raised bands. The book is... More about Astro-Theology: Or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens

Seattle: American Spelean History Association, 1968-1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large quartos. 121, 91, 85, 79, 101, 113, 62, 33, 21, 35, 59, 65, [2]pp. Black library cloth with gold and silver lettering on spines. Original wrappers bound in. Rare and fascinating work being a compilation of the first 10 years... More about Journal of Spelean History. Vols. 1-12 (1968-1978). 3 vols. (complete

New York: The Kny-Scheerer Co., 1910. Ex-library, Tenth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 1-319pp., 621-707pp. Burgundy cloth boards with some paper labels and stickers. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Endpapers and edges of the book block marbled. Original grey wrappers bound into a library binding. This is the eleventh catalog..... More about Modern Hospital Supplies, Catalog Number 11 [U.S. Patent Office Copy