Darien, CT: Hafner Publishing Co., 1970. Reprint. Original Wraps. Underlining by Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks often made comments in the margins or had conversations with the author in the text. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for.....
Price: $100.00
New York: ArtCover, 1979. First Edition. Original Wraps. First issue of periodical published in May 1979 and devoted to conceptual art and artists, edited by Judith Aminoff. This debute issue featured work by Lea Douglas, Les Levine, Suzanne Harris, Richard Nonas, Barbara Kruger, Micha Laury, Gerard Hovagimyan, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Greenwood Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription of noted medical historian and physician. A near pristine copy. Owner signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, white ink lettering. 8vo. 442pp. Appendix. Bibliography.
Price: $275.00
Glastonbury, UK: Glastonbury Books, 2007. First Edition / Reprint. Hardcover. A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cornerstone of Western esotericism. It offers important insights not only into occult practices and beliefs but also into the transmission of magical.....
Price: $100.00
Paris: Éditions de la Maisnie, 1981. Reprint. Original Wraps. Canseliet published his secret correspondence to a friend on the whistles emitted by his Egg. Atorène, in “Le Laboratoire Alchimique” 1981, analyzes the musical proportions of the Egg densities, comparing them to a musical organ. The graphs are my work, for.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Columbia University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy with ownership signature of C.C. Hurd on ffep. Hurd was an important IBM executive in the late 1930s and thereafter. [See, A History of Computing in the 20th Century] Hard to find in nice condition, this with an interesting.....
Price: $325.00
Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Though reprinted relatively recently, the original editions are quite uncommon...scarce with the maps remaining. Noted flaws not withstanding, a very presentable copy. Light shelf/edge wear, fraying at head/heel, minor soiling to boards, through at tips, gentle bump at fore-edge, else tight.....
Price: $145.00
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926. First Edition. Original Wraps. “A well-annotated and well-illustrated historical catalogue, focusing primarily on European calculating machines and instruments from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. . . . This remained the most useful and informative exhibition catalogue of early calculating instruments through the.....
Price: $345.00
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New York: Whisper Shit Press, 1966. First Edition. Original Wraps. Includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Clarence Major, Douglas Blazek and Harvy Tucker, among others. Also includes Tuli Kupferberg's "prevue Fug song," "Street Fuck". Typed and screenprinted art. Light shelf/edge wear, light even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed yellow.....
Price: $125.00
London: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minimal shelf wear, small crease at rear, else bright and clean. Black textured paper boards, gilt lettering. 4to. 240 pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Gazetteer. Glossary. Index.
Price: $27.00
New York: American Journal of Surgery, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Entire issue bound. Notable for its opening editorial 'The Growth of Neurosurgery'. This copy bound in cloth with the editorial title lettered at spine. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, original wraps bound in. 268pp. Illus. (b/w.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Bulletspace, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. It took nearly a decade to bring this remarkable urban/rural art project to fruition. 177 artists, writers, and fracktivists contributed between 2010 and 2020. Contributors are listed below but notably include: John Fekner, Anton Van Dalen, Sue Coe, David Sandlin, Tom McGlynn, Yoko.....
Price: $9,500.00
Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies. Essays by E. Harold Hugo, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward F. Stevens, Carl J. Weber, Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence C. Wroth. A very handsome copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, blue cloth boards, patterned paper boards, green endpages, fold-out plate.....
Price: $75.00
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of Kentucky. Overall, a very presentable copy. Very minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, minor wear at head, heel and tips, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt.....
Price: $35.00
Paris: Société d'Édition, Les Belles Lettres, 2002. First Edition. Original Wraps. "In the treatise, there is no mention of medicine and iatrochemistry, and Anonymous lightheartedly tells us of chrysopoeia or the art of making gold. Almost all the recipes in the book are about the first preparatory works—the works to.....
Price: $125.00
New York. Third Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a very nice set of this well known reference set. Very minimal shelf wear, touch of foxing at text block edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. xxxiii, 773pp; xxv, 800pp; xxv, 787pp; xxv, 840pp; xxv.....
Price: $75.00
Los Angeles, CA: Getty Museum, 2024. [First Edition]. Hardcover. Through the manipulation of materials, such as gold, crystal, and glass, medieval artists created dazzling light-filled environments, evoking, in the everyday world, the layered realms of the divine. While contemporary society separates science and spirituality, the medieval world harnessed the science.....
Price: $65.00
Boston, MA: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. This anthology originated from a 1981 conference sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and includes contributions by a number of significant figures in the area. A handsome copy of this scholarly and significant reference. Tight, bright and unmarred.....
Price: $75.00
Glasgow: W R M'Phun & Son, 1855. Second edition, corrected and inlarged [sic]. Hardcover. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800[a]) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. Published posthumously. Annotated by former owner on front endpapers of a calendar of travel or.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Arthur Dee (1579-1651) was the eldest son of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee. asciculus Chemicus or Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors is an anthology of.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical ‘Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On.....
Price: $225.00
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon in period binding. A wonderful collection of images, each with supporting prose and poetry. Light shelf/edge wear, tips gently bumped (one through), light wear at head and tail, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full burgundy leather, gilt lettering.....
Price: $425.00
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very small (>2mm), closed, tear, very minor shelf wear, price clipped, else bright and clean. Deep rose cloth boards, in blind decorative element, gilt lettering, cream endpages. 8vo. 287pp.
Price: $55.00
New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Dr. Welch founded the Baltimore School of Hygiene and Mental Health and founded the Welsh Library of Medical History, etc. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of light fraying at head and heel, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Health Education Council/New York Academy of Medicine, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Letter to C.W. Mayo (7/27/54) from Bismarck A. Schifferes. Schifferes' son was the apparent publisher of this volume and Bismarck sent the book to Mayo as a gift (as he did a prior book written by his.....
Price: $225.00