Science from Rare Books Honolulu

Lugdunum Batav (Lyon, France): Pieter et Cornelis Hackius, 1664. very good. 2nd unusual edition of the critical commentary of the Satires of Juvenal and Persia by the Dutch grammarian Corneille Schrevel -- Full title: D. Junii Juvenalis et auli Persii Flacci Satyrae - Cum veteris Scholiastae. Variorum. Commentariis. Accurante. Cornelio Schrevelio -- Pieter et Cornelis… Read more about this item

Lugduni ( Lyon, France ): François Anisson & Jean Posuel, 1679. 1st edition. Hardcover. Rich manual for priests written by the theologian of the Inquisition Francisco de Toledo (1679) -- Lugduni ( Lyon, France ), François Anisson & Jean Posuel, Leatherbound Hardcover very good François Anisson & Jean Posuel, Lyon, France, 1679. IN LATIN. Octavo… Read more about this item

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1935. 1st edition. plates in hardcover portfolio. Walcott, Mary Vaux Illustrations of North American Pitcherplants Smithsonian Institution Press, 1935. First Trade Edition. Hardcover, 1/2 Leather over Cloth four-fold portfolio closing all sides. Smithsonian Institution seal on the front cover, gilt spine. Inside: 7 pages with title, content & foreword; 15 color plates with… Read more about this item

New York: Victor Gifford Audubon, 1854. First quarto edition. Leatherbound Hardcovers. J.J. and J.W. Audubon. New York, Victor Gifford Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854, First Octavo Edition, Full leather binding Half-title pages present in vol 1 and 3, not in vol 2. Illustrated with 155 hand-colored lithographed plates with tissue guards present after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, drawn on… Read more about this item

Barcelona: KroneckerWallis, 2018. 1st edition. Softcover Hardcover. NEW. Books are something to touch and look at. Not just read. This is a very thorough and meticulously-produced edition. NEW, in publisher's shrink wrap. Kronecker Wallis, 2018. size 8.5: x 6" x 2" (148 x 210 mm} (Din-A5). Book I. Of the Motion of Bodies. 240 pp. /… Read more about this item

Barcelona: KroneckerWallis, 2019. 1st edition. Holographic Hardcover. NEW. There is no art without perception of colors and light. NEW, in publisher's. Kronecker Wallis, 2019 500 pages, 8.5: x 6" x 1.25" (148 x 210 mm} (Din-A5). Holographic film cover Engravings in stamping Spine lined in cloth Gradient colored interior pages We have set out to… Read more about this item

Barcelona: KroneckerWallis, 2021. 1st editions. Hardcover/Paperback. NEW. 2 BOOKS: NEW Kronecker Wallis, 2021, hardcover, 500-page, 11" x 8" (20 x 27 cm) All of Nikola Tesla's US Patents. 500 fascinating pages of patents and technical illustrations, illuminating Tesla's wonderfully inventive mind. PLUS: NEW. Kronecker Wallis, 2020, Softcover, 140 pages and A5 size (148 x 210mm - 5.8… Read more about this item

Barcelona: KroneckerWallis, 2020. 1st edition. paperback. NEW/no dj as issued. NEW. Kronecker Wallis, 2020, 140 pages and A5 size (148 x 210mm - 5.8 x 8.3 inch) -- We have created a small book for "Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency". Tesla's most celebrated lecture, held in 1892 With a clean design,… Read more about this item

Bologna: Bernia for Tebaldinus, 1645. 4th edition. Full leather binding. very good. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), Italian natural scientist and physician. From 1553 professor in Bologna, where he founded a Botanical Garden and a Museum. He started producing a very extensive summary of natural sciences, but published only four of the volumes himself. He employed writers and woodcutters and… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1996. 1st edition. softcover. very good. The Hawaiian Copula Verbs HE, 'O and I, as used in the publications of Native Writers of Hawaiian: A Study of Hawaiian Language and Literature. 408 pages, softcover. Clean copy, no notes or underlining Ships from Hawaii.

Princeton University Press, 2007. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Princeton University Press, 2007, 496 pages, 8.25 x 1.5 x 10 inches. NEW, ships from Hawaii. Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home to nearly sixty taxonomic families of bivalves such… Read more about this item

Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1901. 1st ed. Wrappers. very good/no dj as issued. Bishop Museum Press, 1901. 4to (12" x 9"). 76 pages, plus 15 plates (No. XVI-XXX). Bound in original wrappers. Covers have shelf wear and a small tear at the bottom of the spine. Text pages and plates clean, some wear on edges .Some pages… Read more about this item

Calgary: Laksa Media Groups, 2023. Limited Illustrated edition. Hardcover. New/NEW. Ernst Haeckel. NEW, Laksa Media Groups, 2023, 642 pages,This special limited Kickstarter edition of the book is adorned by interior artwork consisting of 19th century naturalist Ernst Haeckel's beautiful and mesmerizing illustrations of life on Earth. -- Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science… Read more about this item

Hamburg: Christian Volbracht Edition, 2006. Signed, Limited Edition of 750. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good. A scarce and unique bibliography about books on Mushrooms of the last 500 years.450 illustrations, mostly in color, including 90 full-page mushroom plates. The bibliographical catalog of the Christian Volbracht- Collection with 3000 books and prints from six centuries (1481-1959). Limited edition… Read more about this item

Honolulu, HI: Privately Printed by the Author, 1957. 1st ed. loose leaf in hardcover, with removable screws in binding. very good/no dj as issued. Privately Printed by the Author 1932-1962, 6 volumes in very good condition, with occasional shellf wear or signs of age.. Vol with a signed dedication. Former owners name stamped on inside of covers. Comes… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Edition Medicina Rara, 1970. Fascsimile, De Luxe edition with additional prints. Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Medicina Rara Stuttgart, 1970. Edition originale. De Humani corporis fabrica librorum Epitome. Luxusausgabe. Von Andreas Vesalius. Stuttgart 1970. 20 x 14.5 inches (39 x 52 cm)   24 pages, printed on Fabiano Rug, half-leather binding with leather corners, extra suite of… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1922. 1st edition. Folios (20x14") with loose plates. very good. 2 of 3 Volumes. [2], 12, [2]; 11, [3], pp. 80 full page plates in each volume. Each plate with mostly one full plate and also some plates with 2 or 3 photos. (Folio) 51x36 cm (20x14") red cloth-backed color printed paper-covered boards. First… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Leipzig: Edition, 1974. Limited Edition of 1750. Elephant folios (19x15 inches) housed together in a plain green board slipcase. very good. Maria Sibylla Merian: Leningrader Aquarelle / Leningrad Watercolours; text in English, German, French, Russian. Edition Leipzig, 1974. Limited. hardcover. Maria Sibylla Merian. 50 fine large color facsimiles of original watercolors in 2 volumes -- plate volume… Read more about this item

New York: A. O. Moore, 1860. hardcover. The American Farmer's Encyclopedia embracing all the recent discoveries in agricultural chemistry, and the use of mineral, vegetable and animal manures, with descriptions and figures of American insects, injurious to vegetation. Being a complete guide for the cultivation of every variety of garden and field crops. Illustrated by numerous engravings of grasses,… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966. very good. NASA, 1966. Press Kit, Project: Lunar Orbiter A, Aug. 9 through 13 1966. - - 46 pp. Illustrated with 11 diagrams and drawings of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft and its photographic system. Stapled at spine. NASA Release No. 66-195. This was to be the first launch of… Read more about this item