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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 £1,750.00| /The 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 £1,750.00| /The 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 £750.00| /The 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 £3,250.00| /The 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 £1,250.00| /Paleontological 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 £2,750.00| /An 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 £2,750.00| /Rare 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 £350.00| /Early 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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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 £975.00| /Supporting 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 £3,500.00| /Getting 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 £4,500.00| /The 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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The Nervous System of the Human Body.
BELL, Charles.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Bell's palsy & the anatomy of the nervous system. Second edition and a handsomely bound copy of Bell's collected papers about the nerves that w...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
CUVIER, Georges L.C., Baron; KERR, Robert (translator).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Biology as a newtonian science. First English language edition of Cuvier's important essay establishing the role of cyclical geological catastrophe...
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
[PHILOSOPHY]. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, WRIGHT, John (editor).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /The best of the 'jesuits' editions. The highly regarded first Glasgow edition of the 'Jesuits' text. This set handsomely bound with the gilt arms o...
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The Complete Herbal.
[MEDICINE]. CULPEPER, Nicholas.Original price £175.00 - Original price £175.00Original price £0.00£175.00£175.00 - £175.00Current price £175.00| /An excellent commemorative edition, published on the 300th anniversary of Culpeper's Complete Herbal, reproducing the exact text and plates in col...
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On London Fogs.
CARPENTER, Alfred.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A rare work urging municipal action against the london fog. First and only edition of this rare pamphlet by a doctor and reformer imploring the Lon...
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