Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass.

First edition of this impassioned paean to the history of the American coke industry (that is to say: coke, the fuel byproduct of coal or petroleum distillation, not the other one, or the other other one).

Early publication on anthropogenic global warming by Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate (1903) Svante Arrhenius, "On the heat absorption by carbon dioxide and its influence on the temperature of the Earth's surface."

Scarce early monograph on human subject research by the pioneering medical ethicist, whose work was foundational to the current understanding of informed consent.

Second revised and augmented edition of Bellamy's scarce first book on the Moon's surprising origins and terrible destiny, in the gorgeous original dust jacket designed by Eric Fraser.

Rare inscribed first edition of this long influential, but now discredited, early study of lesbian women.

First printing of a scarce volume in Corliss's Catalog of Biological Anomalies.

First printing of this essential guide to the secret movements of the earth and the manifold horrors that fall from the skies.

Review of the "scientific and semiscientific" literature on anomalous phenomena in the near and far reaches of the solar system.

Uncommon astronomical volume in Corliss's grand and ambitious Catalog of Anomalies.

Mysterious weather, collected and categorized with impressive thoroughness and intermittent reliability.

First edition of this "essay about basic research" from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, exploring the ways in which biogeochemists apply their tools to questions of human prehistory.

First edition of these collected essays, papers, and letters on contraception and related scientific matters, by the research chemist responsible for the development of the first birth control pill.