First published London, 1820, this is the second enlarged edition of Barlow's shipboard study of magnetism. In 1819 Barlow became interested in the compass deviation caused by the iron in ships. He therefore investigated the action of terrestrial magnetism and conducted a series of experiments on the interaction of..... More

"A rare untranslated, original work in French documenting the slave trade--not merely reproducing and translating Clarkson or other English abolitionists" (Miller, p. 172). In this abolitionist pamphlet, the anonymous author describes the capture of La Vigilante, a French vessel from Nantes employed in the slave trade. It was apprehended by..... More

Rare, illustrated collection of nine ephemeral fête programs documenting three generations of royal entries into Barcelona: Charles III in 1783, his son Charles IV in 1802, and grandson Ferdinand VII in 1827. This group of pamphlets affords a comparison between royal entries staged before and after the French occupation of..... More

Extremely rare illustrated brochure announcing the introduction of mass public transport to Paris, the second city to adopt the ‘omnibus’ after its invention in Nantes by Stanislas Baudry in 1826. As the present work makes it clear, however, the original purpose of such carriages was hardly to transport workers to..... More

Scarce first printing of this elaborately produced facsimile of a 14th-century manuscript containing Philip the Fair's legislation concerning wagers of battle, the chivalric custom of settling disputes by force of arms rather than by the rule of law. This legislation, along with the ordinances of Louis IX against dueling (which..... More

First edition of a pivotal book in organic chemistry and the most important and original scientific work of a self-taught, somewhat belligerent scientist-politician (1794-1878). "Raspail held a prominent place in the development of science in the 19th century. In organic chemistry he specified the properties of numerous substances... Raspail belonged..... More

A highly unusual format to display statistical information, this extremely rare, gigantic chart, measuring 5 ft by nearly 5ft., distills in 6 densely printed, assembled letter press folia, an encyclopedic survey of Milan and Lombardy (c. 1839-40). The categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub categories number around 2000 (!), all contained within..... More

Rare, boldly printed broadside announcing the early exhibition of one of the most famous discoveries in the history of American paleontology, that of the ‘Warren Mastodon,’ excavated in 1845 from a peat bog near Newburgh, New York, and since 1906 on display at the Museum of Natural History. The animal..... More

Very rare first and only edition of this travel guide to Europe, written, as the title suggests, for young readers in a pocket 12mo format. The guide moves from tours of Italy and Switzerland all the way to Poland, Lithuania, and Turkey, as well as Great Britain, providing 8 lithograph..... More

Very rare first edition of Lobachevsky’s last work on analysis, a treatise on the values of certain defined integrals, along with an examination of the Gamma function. More

Rare first edition presentation copy of a work on fossilized reptile footprints found in the New Red Sandstone formations of Corncockle Muir, located near Templand in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The naturalist William Jardine (1800-74) here records many specimens he found on the family estate, as well as items collected..... More