The Double Helix by Watson, James. D - 1968

1834 1ed Mariner's Chronicle PIRATES Shipwreck NAVY Boat Ship Sailing Navigation
A rare first edition of 'The Mariner's Chronicle' – a collection of sea narratives, shipwreck stories, naval battles, and pirate adventures! Written and collected by an unknown author, this work features accounts of specific ships and their crew lost to sea, explosions of boats in wharfs, and is filled with charming woodcut illustrations!
Item number: #18391
Price: $499
DUNCAN, Archibald
The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences.

New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1834. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
xii, 504
o
12 plates with 25 engravings
· Provenance: Handwritten – Moses Chefs
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size:… Read More

1765 Institutions of Geometry Philosophy Psychology Math Illustrated Mathematics
"Institutions of Geometry" is a rare, mid-18th-century philosophical treatise containing notes and commentary on the human mind by Jean Baptiste de la Chapelle. Chapelle, of course, also offers a discourse on mathematical principles designed to aid mathematics educators. Note that this 1765 French text contains numerous folding engravings throughout depicting geometric shapes and geometry problems.
Item number: #19514
Price: $599
CHAPELLE, J. Baptiste de la
Institutions de géométrie : enrichies de notes critiques et philosophiques sur la nature et les développemens de l'esprit humain
A Paris : Chez Debure pere ..., 1765.

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o
Vol. I – xl, 438
o
Vol. II – xxxii, 415, [1]
o 34 folding engravings
· Language: French

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 12.5cm)
Our Guarantee:
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1863 1ed Huxley EVOLUTION Man's Place in Nature Darwin March of Progress APES

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."
– Thomas Huxley

Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however, biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution, moral philosophy, and scientific ethics.

Huxley's "Man's Place in Nature" is an important work of evolution theories focusing on:
·
natural history of the man-like Apes
·
relations of Man to the lower animals
·
fossil remains of Man
This book contains the famous 'March of Progress' illustration – the view of an ape skeleton into a human skeleton.
Item number: #18558
Price: $499
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry
Evidence as to man's place in nature
New York : D. Appleton, 1863. First American edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
184, 8
o
32 in-text… Read More

1798 1ed FLORIDA & LOUISANA Colonies Vesuvius Napoleon Yellow Fever Plague RARE
The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.
This 1798 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:
·
English Naval losses near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
·
Admiral Nelson commands and military decisions
·
Yellow Fever epidemic in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the West Indies
·
English control of Cape of Good Hope
·
Description of the eruption of Vesuvius and the uncovering of its ruins
·
Secession of Florida and Louisiana from Spain to France
·
Irish Rebellion of 1798
·
Napoleon's campaign to Egypt
Item number: #20125
Price: $750
URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]
The Gentleman's Magazine: for 1798, volume LXVIII.
London:… Read More

1814 Ferguson Physics ATLAS Inventions Astronomy Isaac Newton Optics Brewster

James Ferguson was a prominent Scottish physicist and astronomer known for his lectures and studies on mechanics, hydraulics, optics, and astronomy. These public lectures on experimental philosophy and physics were repeated throughout various towns in England and eventually transcribed for publishing.
This 1814 printing of the lectures of Ferguson includes impressive, folding engravings depicting mechanical inventions, gears, optics, hydraulics, clocks, and globes.

Item number: #40107
Price: $750
FERGUSON, James ; BREWSTER, David [edit.] ; PATTERSON, Robert [edit.]
Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.
Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1814.

Details:
·
Collation: Complete
o 48 engraved plates
·
Language: English
·
Binding: Leather; tight and secure
·
Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22.5cm x… Read More

1834 1ed Mariner's Chronicle PIRATES Shipwreck NAVY Boat Ship Sailing Navigation
A rare first edition of 'The Mariner's Chronicle' – a collection of sea narratives, shipwreck stories, naval battles, and pirate adventures! Written and collected by an unknown author, this work features accounts of specific ships and their crew lost to sea, explosions of boats in wharfs, and is filled with charming woodcut illustrations!
Item number: #18391
Price: $499
DUNCAN, Archibald
The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: also naval engagements, piratical adventures, incidents of discovery, and other extraordinary and interesting occurrences.

New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1834. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
xii, 504
o
12 plates with 25 engravings
· Provenance: Handwritten – Moses Chefs
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size:… Read More

1765 Institutions of Geometry Philosophy Psychology Math Illustrated Mathematics
"Institutions of Geometry" is a rare, mid-18th-century philosophical treatise containing notes and commentary on the human mind by Jean Baptiste de la Chapelle. Chapelle, of course, also offers a discourse on mathematical principles designed to aid mathematics educators. Note that this 1765 French text contains numerous folding engravings throughout depicting geometric shapes and geometry problems.
Item number: #19514
Price: $599
CHAPELLE, J. Baptiste de la
Institutions de géométrie : enrichies de notes critiques et philosophiques sur la nature et les développemens de l'esprit humain
A Paris : Chez Debure pere ..., 1765.

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o
Vol. I – xl, 438
o
Vol. II – xxxii, 415, [1]
o 34 folding engravings
· Language: French

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 12.5cm)
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe.… Read More

1863 1ed Huxley EVOLUTION Man's Place in Nature Darwin March of Progress APES

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."
– Thomas Huxley

Charles Darwin is unquestionably the most prolific evolutionist of the 19th-century; however, biologists such as Thomas Henry Huxley were important advocates for Darwin's studies. Huxley was best known for his studies on evolution, moral philosophy, and scientific ethics.

Huxley's "Man's Place in Nature" is an important work of evolution theories focusing on:
·
natural history of the man-like Apes
·
relations of Man to the lower animals
·
fossil remains of Man
This book contains the famous 'March of Progress' illustration – the view of an ape skeleton into a human skeleton.
Item number: #18558
Price: $499
HUXLEY, Thomas Henry
Evidence as to man's place in nature
New York : D. Appleton, 1863. First American edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
184, 8
o
32 in-text… Read More

1798 1ed FLORIDA & LOUISANA Colonies Vesuvius Napoleon Yellow Fever Plague RARE
The Gentleman's Magazine was an English periodical which first appeared in 1731. It was published without interrupt for nearly 200 years and was the first of its kind to use the term 'magazine'. It was published by Edward Cave, pseud. Sylvanus Urban.
This 1798 edition includes a variety of important and interesting contents including:
·
English Naval losses near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
·
Admiral Nelson commands and military decisions
·
Yellow Fever epidemic in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the West Indies
·
English control of Cape of Good Hope
·
Description of the eruption of Vesuvius and the uncovering of its ruins
·
Secession of Florida and Louisiana from Spain to France
·
Irish Rebellion of 1798
·
Napoleon's campaign to Egypt
Item number: #20125
Price: $750
URBAN, Sylvanus [Edward Cave]
The Gentleman's Magazine: for 1798, volume LXVIII.
London:… Read More

1814 Ferguson Physics ATLAS Inventions Astronomy Isaac Newton Optics Brewster

James Ferguson was a prominent Scottish physicist and astronomer known for his lectures and studies on mechanics, hydraulics, optics, and astronomy. These public lectures on experimental philosophy and physics were repeated throughout various towns in England and eventually transcribed for publishing.
This 1814 printing of the lectures of Ferguson includes impressive, folding engravings depicting mechanical inventions, gears, optics, hydraulics, clocks, and globes.

Item number: #40107
Price: $750
FERGUSON, James ; BREWSTER, David [edit.] ; PATTERSON, Robert [edit.]
Plates illustrating a new edition of Ferguson's lectures on mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, optics, geography, astronomy, and dialling.
Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1814.

Details:
·
Collation: Complete
o 48 engraved plates
·
Language: English
·
Binding: Leather; tight and secure
·
Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22.5cm x… Read More