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	Rare book by Robert Plot, De Origine Fontium Philosophicum Plot, Robert; De Origine Fontium, Tentamen Philosophicum. In Praelectione babita coram Societate Philosophica nuper Oxoniae Instituta ad Scientiam Naturalem Promovendam per Rob. Plot .... Oxonii e theatro Sheldoniano, 1685. Octavo, pp. title page with 1684 date on verso, 187, errata at verso of last page, engraved frontispiece. This rare work is complete and in the original vellum with an inked spine title. The binding is tight with light soiling to the boards. The text is clean with one page having an early archival repair to the very outer edge. Over all in very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $1,900.00
	Rare Book by Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; The Selkirk Range, British Columbia, Vol. 1 & 2. Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; The Selkirk Range, British Columbia, Vol. 1 & 2. Ottawa Ontario: Government Printing Bureau, 1905. Quarto text and atlas. Text pp. xvii, errata, 459, frontispiece, 95 plates and illustrations. Atlas, 13 folded maps and panoramas. The set is complete and text is in the original green cloth with gilt cover and spine titles, x-lib. Harvard, with embossed stamp on title page and discard stamp verso of title page, light discoloration on lower spine from call number. The atlas is in the original red case with gilt cover ad spine titles, case nicely repaired at hinges, Harvard stamps verso only of sheets. A very good set. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $300.00
	Rare Book by: Psalmanaazaar, George; Memoirs of ****. Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanzaar; a Reputed Native of Formosa. Psalmanaazaar, George; Memoirs of ****. Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanzaar; a Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by himself, in order to be published after his death . . . 2nd edition. London, 1765. Octavo, pp. ii, 307, frontispiece portrait of author. The book is complete and in recent full calf with gold/red spine titles, light minor foxing, inscription on first leaf "to be returned in three weeks James Hall, President Edinburgh Soc. Lib.". A very nice association copy. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $700.00
	Rare book by: Williams, Samuel; The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. 1794. Williams, Samuel; The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle Jr., Walpole, New Hampshire: 1794. Original map, (12 x 15”) engraved by James Whitelaw, dated 1793. Large octavo, pp. xvi, 416, folded 12” x 15” map of Vermont engraved by James Whitelaw dated 1793. The book is complete and in the original calf with gilt spine titles. Binding is tight, spine restored and titles partially perished. Inner hinges tightened, owners book plate on paste down, end sheets toned at margins. The map and text are very clean. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $550.00
	Rare Book French Jura Geology: J. Thurmann; Lethea Bruntrutana..Jura Bernois, 1861-64 Thurmann, Jules & Etallon, A.; Lethea Bruntrutana ou Etudes Paleontologiques et Stratigraphiques sur le Jura Bernois et en Particulier les Environs de Porrentruy. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helvetique, Zurich ,1861-64. Quarto, pp. 500,  hand-colored geological map, hand-colored profiles, columnar sections, 62 plates of fossils. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS The work is complete with text and plates bound into one volume. The binding is a contemporary half calf with raised spine bands and gilt titles. The binding is tight, light wear to spine edges.  From the library of the famous geologist Jules Marcou with his book plate and the canceled book plate of the A.M.N.H. The text and plates are very clean. Rare with both text and atlas present. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $1,100.00
	Rare Book Lisbon Earthquake: Haller, Freiherr Albrecht von; Physikalische Betrachtungen von den Erdbeben und den Bewegungen der Daraus erfolgten auserordentlichen Gewässer wie auch von den anderen Natur-Begebenheiten, welche am 1ten Nov. 1755. Haller, Freiherr Albrecht von; Physikalische Betrachtungen von den Erdbeben und den Bewegungen der Daraus erfolgten auserordentlichen Gewässer wie auch von den anderen Natur-Begebenheiten, welche am 1ten Nov. 1755. den grösten Theil von Europa und andere Welt-Theile betroffen, besonders aber die Königl. grösten den Theil von Europa und andere Welt-Theile betroffen, aber besonders die Königl. Portugisische Haupt-Stadt Lisabon bis auf den Grund zerstöret haben...... Frankfurt und Leipzig, Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, 1756). Octavo, pp. 36, 2, 216, 3 folded engraved plates ( two showing views of Lisbon and the harbor prior to the earthquake and the last the conflagration during the earthquake. This very rare work is complete and in the original binders wraps and never trimmed. The original wraps are tight and lightly soiled, the text has minor foxing to the first and last pages, the plates are very clean. The work is housed in a 20th century calf and cloth case with gilt titles and owners book plate on inside of case. An exceptionally nice copy of one of the earliest works on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $4,000.00
	Rare book on Bohemia and mining: Martin Zeiller; Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae, das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten und bekandtisten Stätte und Plätze in dem Königreich Boheim..1650. Zeiller, Martin; Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae, das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornehmsten und bekandtisten Stätte und Plätze in dem Königreich Boheim und einverlebten Landern, Mähren und Schlesien an Tag gegeben unndt verlegt durch Matthaeum Merian ... Franckfurt, Matthaeus Merian, 1650. Small folio, pp 192, 16, 74 engraved plates, maps, plans. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS This rare work is complete and in the original vellum covered boards. The binding is tight and clean with light wear to boards and small archival repair to spine at upper margin, penned titles. Owners book plate on paste down, the text, plates and maps are exceptionally clean and bright. The book is cased in a cloth covered archival box. In exceptionally good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $7,800.00
	Rare book on Oceanography: Maury, M. F.; The Physical Geography of the Sea. 1st edition Maury, M. F.; The Physical Geography of the Sea. 1st edition, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1855. Quarto, pp. xxiv, 25-274, with 12 plates (8 rear folding, including text illustrations, maps, tables, charts). The text is complete and in the original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt vignette on the cover. Heavy brown toning to end sheets (caused by original binder's glue). Text and plates very clean. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $800.00

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