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Discover the perfect festive gift with our curated selection of rare books this Christmas. Make this season truly memorable with timeless treasures that hold stories from the past.
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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 £1,500.00From 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 £1,250.00Inscribed 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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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 £1,750.00Important 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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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 £1,750.00The 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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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 £1,750.00The 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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Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The origin of modern nursing. First edition, early issue — probably the third or fourth — with advertisements on the endpapers and 'the right of tr...
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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 £3,250.00The 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 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 £1,250.00Paleontological evidence of human evolution. First edition of this important contribution to the debate over Darwinian evolution, offering evidence...
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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 £2,750.00An 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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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 £2,750.00Rare 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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The Histogenesis of Cartilage and Bone in the Long Bones of the Embryonic Fowl
FELL, Honor B.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Early tissue culture work by a prominent woman scientist. The rare offprint of the first major work by prominent cell biologist Honor B. Fell (1900...
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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 £18,500.00The 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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A pair of manuals relating to the operation of the Lunar Module.
[NASA].Original price £975.00 - Original price £975.00Original price £0.00£975.00£975.00 - £975.00Current price £975.00Supporting the moon landing. Two early manuals relating to the Apollo Lunar Module, the craft that ferried astronauts between the moon's orbit and ...
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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 £3,500.00Getting 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 £4,500.00The 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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Konstantinopel und das westliche Kleinasien:
BAEDEKER, Karl.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00With censorship slip.. First edition of this scarce title with the rare censorship slip warning travellers to hide the book from the authorities.Th...
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Handur-álu. Tab. 59
RHEEDE TOT DRAKESTEIN, Hendrik Adrian van.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00The Hortus Indicus is the first comprehensive Flora of the East Indies, containing the first illustrations of a great number of tropical and suptr...
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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 £4,500.00Lange'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 £2,500.00First 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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Plate XXI. Salmo Trutta. Die Lachs forelle. La Truite. The Trut.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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Plate IV. Cyprinus Vimba. Die Zärthe. La Serte.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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Plate XI. Cyprinus Carassius. Die Karausche. Le Carassin. The Crucian.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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Plate VII. Gyprinus Aspius. Der Raapfe. La Raphe.
[BLOCH, Marcus Elieser].Original price £500.00 - Original price £500.00Original price £0.00£500.00£500.00 - £500.00Current price £500.00From "Ichtylogie, ou Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des poissons".Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723 – 1799), a doctor of medicine and famou...
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