Omaha: Kratville Publications, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 97, [23]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over decorative paper covered boards. Photo-illustrated endpapers and title page. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous b/w photographic reproductions, and a large folding plan, this fascinating volume is a striking pictorial history of America's most popular steam... More about Those Daylight 4-8-4's: The Story of Southern Pacific GS Class Locomotives

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xiv, 555pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Proceedings of the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, September 1-11, 1957. Sixteen major papers were presented in six areas of... More about Critical Problems in the History of Science

New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii, 229, [3]pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library. With introductions, general and medical, by De Witt T. Starnes and Chauncey D.... More about Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Observations (Book of Medical Observations 1596

Breslau: F. U. Kern's Verlag (Max Müller), 1896. Zweite vermehrte Auflage (second revised edition). Hardcover. 2 volumes. Sm. quarto. xii,484pp. xi,574pp. Original color illustrated cloth with gold decorated spine. All red edges. Decorative golden endpapers with floral design. Collection of botanical lectures and essays by Dr. Ferdinand Cohn. Profusely illustrated..... More about Die Pflanze. Vorträge aus dem Gebiete der Botanik

NP, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. (21pp). Reprinted from Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Vol. XI, Number 31, 1927, pp. 522-541. "When freshly developed or so-called "green" motion picture film is passed through a projector, there is a tendency for an incrustation to accumulate on the aperture plate or... More about The Lubrication of Motion Picture Film

Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot, and for C. Elliot & T. Kay, 1789. 4to. xxiii,432pp. Lacking front and back board as well as rear flyleaf. Original spine with black number- and maroon title-label with gold lettering on spine. Important 18th century expansion of William Cullen's lectures on the Materia Medica... More about A Treatise of the Materia Medica (Vol. I only

Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 341, [3]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of "The Pituitary Body and its Disorders" in which the Cushing's syndrome is described for the... More about The Pituitary Body and its Disorders: Clinical States Produced by Disorders of the Hypophysis...

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition for this translation. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 273, [1]pp. Original gilt decorated blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Fabre d'Olivet. In this remarkable work Fabre d'Olivet is shown as a humanitarian... More about The Healing of Rodolphe Grivel, Congenital Deaf-Mute: A Series of Letters

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. Octavo. 399pp (8). Maroon cloth with blind stamped publisher's device on front cover. Gilt lettering and gilt stamped publisher's device on spine. Marbled edges. Protective tissue guard at title page. The work is a comprehensive study on human physiology, illustrated throughout with relevant... More about A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene; for Schools, Families, and Colleges

Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club at the Griffin Press, 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Quarto. xvii,362pp. Half gold-decorative leather over patterned paper-covered boards in matching publisher's slipcase. Illustrated title-page. Signed by illustrator Fritz Kredel on colophon page. "The sole object of this work," writes Darwin, "is to consider... More about The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR

New York: D. Appleton and Company, ca. 1902. Westminster edition (Appleton authorized edition). Hardcover. 1/1000. 63 volumes. Octavo. Privately bound in exquisite three-quarter gold-ruled maroon leather over marbled boards with finely tooled floral design in gold and green on spine. One raised band on each volume. Top edge gilt. Deckled... More about Selected Library of Modern Science