OTHER PEOPLE'S TRADES
First edition of these collected essays, translated by Raymond Rosenthal and published shortly after Levi's death.
First edition of these collected essays, translated by Raymond Rosenthal and published shortly after Levi's death.
Riots-inspiring anti-vivisection exposé by two leading Swedish-British feminists, medical students, and early animal rights activists, withdrawn by its publisher after sparking a lawsuit.
Quintessentially 1950s booklet accompanying Monty MacLevy's Figurama, a "slenderizing table" marketed to women and intended for home use.
First edition of this lively popular history of aeronautics, from Daedalus to the Wright brothers, with a particular emphasis on historical ballooning anecdotes of the most sensational kind.
First US edition of this in-depth history of chemistry's beginnings as a science, from classical antiquity through medieval alchemy and on through the 17th century. Part of the Watts History of Science Library series.
Early pirated edition of this "runaway best-seller" targeted at women that introduced popular audiences to Newton's work on light and color (Mazzotti) – an apparently unauthorized printing issued in the same year as the first edition.
A typescript on the medical and surgical treatment of burns, written by Army Nurse Corps Major Martha C. Peake.
First edition of this general introduction to the problems of chemistry, published as part of Oxford University Press's series "The Problems of Science."
Signed second edition of this critique of government interventions in economy by a major figure of the 20th-century libertarian movement.
Inscribed first edition of these classic papers on countertransference in psychoanalysis.
First edition of this autobiography of chemist Streitwieser, native Buffalonian and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
First volume in a two-volume monograph on the structure and dynamics of ions and ion pairs. Contributors include Paul Kebarle, Johannes Smid, Walter F. Edgell, J. Howard Sharp, and others.
Signed first printing of this history of the development of organic chemistry, by two distinguished research chemists.
First edition of this comprehensive study of chemistry as occupation, profession, and discipline in America over a 100-year period, issued as part of the publisher's "CHEMISTS AND CHEMISTRY" series.
A complete, two volume patient ledger covering the entirety of the year 1957 from the office of Dr. John Melvin Thomason, a general practitioner operating out of Bruce Hospital in Florence, SC.
First printing of Tufte's classic work on data visualization.
First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache.
First book edition of these twelve lectures delivered by Watson at the People's Institute, whose publishing arm would soon become the legendary W.W. Norton.
First edition, important association copy of this early work on subroutines in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee).