San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1947. Signed by Pauling & the Illustrator, Roger Hayward Inscribed by the Publisher PAULING, Linus (1901-1994). General chemistry: An introduction to descriptive chemistry and modern chemical theory. Illustrations by Roger Hayward. Inscribed by the publisher on the flyleaf facing the title page: “To..... More

Lepizig & Vienna: Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. Haeckel, Ernst (1834-1919). Kunstformen der Natur. 11 fascicles, fascicles I - X containing 10 chromolithographed or halftone plates each (some with printed overlays) together with index leaves and leaf of descriptive text for each plate, fascicles I and VI with general titles, fascicle I...... More

San Francisco / San Jose: 1977-78. [16], 334, [2]; 505, [7]pp. 277 x 212 mm. Vol. 1 in library buckram, original wrappers bound in; Vol. 2 in original printed wrappers. Proceedings of "the first West Coast computer faire" and of the second "faire" a year later. More

London: Henry Frowde, 1907. 44pp. 230 x 155 mm. Original printed wrappers, light spotting, edges a bit frayed. VG. More

1902. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association. 29pp. 222 x 145 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit sunned, some wear at spine. VG. More

Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1891. 12pp. 210 x 140 mm. Modern facsimile wrappers. Offprint from "Deutschen medicinischen Wochenschrift," no. 32 (1891. More

23 Feb. 1803 - 25 March 1817. More

Wiesbaden: Bergmann, 1910. 19pp. + 12pp. adverts. 258 x 174 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertically creased, top a bit sunned. Front wrapper inscribed by Pavlov to British physiologist and biochemist John Beresford Leathes: "Herrn Prof. Dr. J. B. Leathes mit vielen Grüssen d. Vorfasser." More

Ipswich: George Ransome; M. & N. Hanhart, 1851-52. 598 x 438 mm. (sheet); 290 x 242 mm. (image without facsimile signature). Signed in the stone by the artist; Waterhouse's facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Minor foxing. Portrait of British naturalist George R. Waterhouse, author of Part II (Mammalia) of Darwin's..... More

Ipswich: George Ransome; M. .& N. Hanhart, 1851-52. 598 x 439 mm. (sheet); 292 x 242 mm. (image without facsimile signature). Signed by the artist in the stone; Forbes's facsimile signature beneath the portrait. Portrait of British botanist, geologist and paleontologist Edward Forbes, discoverer of the natural mechanism for the..... More

Nuremberg: Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, 1790. 734, [2]pp.187 x 115 mm. Rare 18th century facsimile of Servetus's 1533 magnum opus in which the lesser circulation is mentioned in print for the first time. The work had circulated in manuscript as early as 1546 and then was secretly printed at Vienne..... More

San Francisco: Bank of America, 1956. [6], 32pp. Illustrated. 280 x 218 mm. Original comb-bound stiff wrappers, slightly rubbed, slight edgewear. First edition, first printing. In 1955 Stanford University began the computerization of the banking industry by developing the ERMA system for Bank of America in San Francisco. General Electric..... More

New York: Scientific American Library, 1983. [10], 239pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. From the library of Melvin Calvin, recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of the Calvin cycle. More