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	Paleontology Book by Searles V. Wood; Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, vols. 1 & 2. Wood, Searles V.; A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with Descriptions of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. 2 volumes bound in 3. London, Palaeontographical Society, 1848-1853. Quarto, vol. 1 Univalves, pp. 208, 21 plates. Vol. 2 Bivalves, part 1, pp. 150, 12 plates, 2nd title page for part 2, pp. 151-216, plates 13-20. Vol. 3 Bivalves continued, pp. 217-342, plates 21-31. The set is complete with all parts present and in a modern cloth with calf spine labels. The bindings are tight and clean. Light toning to some text pages and to some pages opposite plates. Light outer margin wear to a few pages nicely restored with archival tissue. Over all a very good set. PRICE: $400.00
	Rare Americana Pamphlet: Benjamin Silliman, An Oration, Delivered at Hartford on the 6th of July, A. D. 1802. Silliman, Benjamin; An Oration, Delivered at Hartford on the 6th of July, | A. D. 1802. Before the Society of the Cincinnati for the State of Connecticut, Assembled to Celebrate the Anniversary of American Independence. Hartford, 1 of only 300 copies printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1802. Octavo, pp. 34. The pamphlet is in a modern archival wrap with typed titles on cover. The wrap is pristine, light foxing to first and last pages of pamphlet. A very good copy of a very rare Silliman speech. PRICE: $800.00
	Rare Archeology Book, Eugene Dubois, Pithecanthropus Erectus Dubois, Eugene, Pithecanthropus erectus. Eeine Menschenaehnliche Uebergangsform aus Java. Batavia, Landsesdruckerei, 1894. Small folio, pp. 2, 39, 1, 2 plates (one being tinted). This first printing, 1st edition is complete and in the original hard title bords with cloth spine. Binding is soiled and worn with some signatures separating. Text is toned due to poor quality of the paper. X-lib. with book plate on pastedown and rubber stamp verso of plates. The work is in a modern clam-shell folder. Over all in good to very good condition. The work is quite rare. PRICE: $2,800.00
	Rare Astronomy Book, Lelande, Joseph-Jerome Lefrancis de; Observations Faites par ordre du Roi, Pour la Distance de la Lune a la Terre, 1752. Lelande, Joseph-Jerome Lefrancis de; Observations Faites par ordre du Roi, Pour la Distance de la Lune a la Terre, a l’Observatoire Royal du Berlin, en 1751 & 1752. Hist. L’Academie Royale des Sciences. Anne M. DCCXLVI, Paris, 1751. Quarto, pp. 457-480, numerous tables. The work is complete and in a modern archival folder. The binding is tight nd clean, the text is very clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $700.00
	Rare astronomy book, Lowell, Percival; Mars. Boston & New York, Houghton, Miflin & Company, Riverside Press, 1895. Lowell, Percival; Mars. Boston & New York, Houghton, Miflin & Company, Riverside Press, 1895. Quarto, pp. viii, 228, 24 plates including colored frontispiece, 2 figures. The work is complete and in the original red cloth with gilt cover and spine titles and gilt Mars vignette on cover. Scuffing and light toning to titles. Small blemish on lower spine, very narrow damp margin to very outer margin of front end sheet pages only. The text is very clean. In very good condition. PRICE: $350.00
	Rare astronomy book: Sacro Bosco, Johannes de; Sphaera Mundi. 1485. Sacro Bosco, Johannes de; Sphaera Mundi. Ioannis de Sacro Bosco Sphȩricum opusculum. Georgiique Purbachii in motus planetarum]accuratiss. theoricȩ. Necnon contra Cremonensia in eorundem planetarum theoricas delirame]ta Ioannis de Monte Regio disputationes. Venice : Erhard Ratdolt, before 4 November 1485. Quarto, pp. 58 unnumbered leaves (light penciled numbers on text page corner), 1 full page woodcut of the astronomical sphere, 61 astronomical woodcuts in text (of which seven are printed in colour). This rare work is complete and in a 20th century full calf with gilt titles gilt borders, marbled end sheets. The binding is tight and very clean. The text is very clean with early, very neat and small faint notations at text margin of first twelve pages. Very small worm hole in a few text pages toward rear. The size of a pin hole. In very good condition. PRICE: $8,500.00
	Rare Astronomy-Cosmology Book, Apian-Bennewitz, Peter; Cosmographia, sive, Descriptio vniversi orbis auctoribus Petro Apiano. 1584 Apian-Bennewitz, Peter; Cosmographia, sive, Descriptio vniversi orbis auctoribus Petro Apiano, et Gemma Frisio, mathematicorum insignium ; cuius huic editioni additus est de Astrolabo catholico libellus, nunc primum à Martino Euerartho in epitomen contractus ; caetera vide pagina quinta. Antverpiae : Typis Joan. Withagii, 1584. Quarto, pp. [16], 478, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., folded Map of the World. (pages 426-429 missing in pagination BUT NO TEXT LACKING. THIS ERROR IN PAGINATION IS PRESENT IN ALL COPIES). The work is complete and in the original limp vellum binding. The binding is tight, spotting to covers, light stain to outer margin of title page and first few pages, light soiling to title page. The four rotating parts of the diagrams on pages 20, 25, 65, 189 have been restored with exact facsimiles. These figures have been lost on most copies of the work. They are present here in facsimile. The map is exceptionally clean as is the remainder of the text and illustrations. The text is in a modern cloth clam shell box. In very good condition. PRICE: $18,000.00
	Rare biology books by Spencer, Herbert; Principles of Biology. 2 vols. First edition. Williams & Norgate, London & Edinburgh, 1864-1867. Spencer, Herbert; Principles of Biology. 2 vols. First edition. Williams & Norgate, London & Edinburgh, 1864-1867. Quarto, vol. 1 pp. viii, 492, illustrated; vol. 2, pp. viii, 569, 2 pages of ads, illustrated. PRICE: $750.00

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