New York: Aero Club of America, 1919. Broadside. 8.5" x 14". Printed both sides. Scarce entry form for the $25,000 Ortieg Cross-Atlantic Flight Prize, which was ultimately won by Charles Lindbergh in 1927. Augustus Post of the Aero Club of America approached hotelier Raymond Orteig to sponsor the prize, which..... More
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Viduam Sebastiani, & Christianum Petzoldum, 1710. Second edition. Vellum. Duodecimo. [xvi], 296, [8] pages. Dr. Johannes Bohn was a noted 17th century German physician, professor of medicine, and pioneer in forensic science. He introduced the policy of thorough autopsies of the deceased. Bohn's specialty was the investigation of..... More
New York: O. S. & L. N. Fowler, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 260 pages. The man who greatly popularized the pseudoscience of phrenology in the 19th century here turns his attention to eugenics. Fowler declares in his Preface his conviction that the disposition and mental powers of mankind are..... More
[London]: Royal Society of London, [1908?]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Quarto. [17 pages, 5 plates]. Systematic description of the sulci and gyri of the brain of the distinguished mathematician, Charles Babbage (1791-1871). Babbage is considered the father of computers, and this study of his brain was part of a...... More
[Lakehurst?]: Clements, 1925. Silver gelatin photograph. Framed. Approximately 10 3/4" x 37 3/4", sight 6 5/8" x 31 1/4" Uncommon original silver gelatin panoramic photograph of the Ohio crash of the U. S. Navy's first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah. The Shenandoah encountered a severe storm over Ohio on the..... More
New York: Munn & Company, 1898. First printing. Numerous black and white illustrations. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 148 pages, + 2 leaves publisher ads. Fascinating book by a magician who worked with Alexander Hermann and Prof. Kellar. Robinson had been raised as a spiritualist but no longer acknowledged..... More
New York: The Tea & Coffee Journal Company, 1935. Limited edition. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Cloth over boards. Quarto. xiv, 818 pages. The first independent work to fully cover all aspects of coffee, including the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social, and artistic. Everything from early..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, [1-2], 3-226 [227-237] pages. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of..... More