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  • Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

    HUXLEY, T.H.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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).
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    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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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