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The Marvel Violet Ray" -- Advertising Electrotherapy Quack Medical Device: [Quack Medical Devices, History of Vibrators and Devices Used for Masturbation, Electrotherapy]

New York, New York: Eastern Laboratories, Inc, 1920. Good. Light toning, letter folds, a couple nicks/short tears.. An illustrated advertising leaflet for "The Marvel Violet Ray", a "ray"-emitting device with different attachments, including rectal and vaginal attachments. For modern…
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Vampyroteuthis Infernalis Chun. Vol. I: Natural History and Distribution / Vol. II: External Anatomy [Dana Report nos. 29 and 32]

Grace E. Pickford
Copenhagen: Carlsberg Foundation / C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1946. Very Good-. Copenhagen: Carlsberg Foundation / C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1946 & 1949. First Editions. Two slim quarto volumes (31.5cm); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 40;132pp.; halftone illus. and graphs throughout. Wrappers…
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An Oration, on Chemistry and Botany; delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at New Haven, Dec. 9, 1802

Eli Ives
New Haven, CT: Joel Walter, 1803. Very Good-. New Haven, CT: Joel Walter, 1803. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 16pp. Stock dampstained and browned, margins of leaves a bit creased and wrinkled; Good to Very Good overall. Rather scarce little oration by the…
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World Time Chart" - Printed Volvelle Gadget Promoting General Electric: [General Electric, Volvelle]

Schenectady, New York: General Electric Company, 1930. Good to very good. Toned with light dust soiling, marking, corners bumped. A clever printed volvelle gadget promoting General Electric. The pocket-sized wheel allows the user to determine the current time in various cities around the…
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Exploring the Atom

Marie Neurath
This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard / Chanticleer Edition, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard /. Chanticleer Edition, 1957. First US Edition. Small slim quarto (22cm); publisher's cloth in…
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[INCUNABULUM OF EARLY AI ART EXPERIMENTS] 1 Jaar Peter Struycken aan de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht. 1 year Peter Struycken at the Stateuniversity [sic] of Utrecht

Struycken, Peter (ed.), Rudi Fuchs, Cor Blok, Obe A. de Vries, and A. Veen
Utrecht: Utrecht University, 1971. Oblong octavo (15 × 24 cm). Six printed envelopes and [8] pp. bound with a metal binder (5 of them stamped with subtitle and artist's name); the envelopes contain: 1 folded glassine leaf, 1 separate leaf, [12] staple-stitched pp. (text), 1 sixteen-page…
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MATHEMATICIAN'S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO DEFAME A COLLEAGUE | "ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED INTELLECTUAL INCIDENTS IN HISTORY": Appel au public du jugement de l'Académie royale de Berlin sur un fragment de lettre de Mr. de Leibnitz cité par Mr. Koenig

Samuel König (Koenig)
122, [2]; 68 p. | 8vo | A-G^8 H^6; A-D^8 E^2 | 180 x 110 mm ---- First edition of König's own defense in what came to be called the König Affair, "the leading scientific controversy of the century" (Calinger, Life) and "one of the most celebrated intellectual incidents in history"…
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Die Farbenharmonie mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf den gleichzeitigen Contrast in ihrer Anwendung in der Malerei, in der dekorativen Kunst, bei der Ausschmueckung der Wohnraeume, sowie in Kostuem & Toilette

JAENNICKE, Friedrich; CHEVREUL, E.
CHEVREUL, Michel-Eugène and Friedrich JAENNICKE (editor). Die Farbenharmonie mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf den gleichzeitigen Contrast in ihrer Anwendung in der Malerei, in der dekorativen Kunst, bei der Ausschmueckung der Wohnraume, sowie in Kostuem & Toilette. 275 pp. with 9 colour…
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Memoire sur la vision des couleurs materielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numeriques de cercles....

CHEVREUL, M.E
CHEVREUL, M.E. Memoire sur la vision des couleurs materielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numeriques de cercles. 75 pp., illustrated with 19 plates, including 2 folding plates and 15 colour plates. Folio, 260 x 207 mm., modern cloth. Paris: Typographie de Firmin-Didot et Cie.,…
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Photograph of a Brass Era Car Accident on Cathedral Parkway

[Automobile History - New York City] Unknown Photographer
New York City: Culver Pictures Inc, N.d.. Photograph measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. With Culver Pictures stamps verso, covered by several later Culver Pictures and bar code stickers. Slight damage to edges, particularly corners; spot of more significant wear at upper left edge. Very good…
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Long Beach Home Telephone & Telegraph Co. Directory No. 1 [caption title]

[California]
[Los Angeles?], 1903. About very good.. Broadside, 13 x 9 inches on salmon-colored card stock. Light wear, a few small edge tears. First section poorly printed resulting in some loss or obfuscation. The first telephone directory for Long Beach, California. Residential telephones began…
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Lettere Ottiche Riguardanti Alcuni Fenomeni Della Visione A Madama La Principessa N.N.

Ruggiero, Pietro. 1760-1837
Naples: G. Raimondi, 1807. Mid-19th-century blue cloth, five-line title gilt-lettered on the front panel, gilt-ruled flat spine, edges sprinkled red.
Only Edition. Conversational in tone, this women's book is at the junction of science, medicine and technology. The six essays describe the…
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