San Francisco: American Institute of Dental Medicine, 1953. Limited First edition. Hardcover. "To Marion with my most sincere thanks for her spirit and loyal assistance, which made it possible to complete this work. Hermann Becks, San Francisco, Calif. Christmas 1954" on front free endpaper. Numbered by hand 108/300. Quarto. xxxv..... More
Paris: Chez Bernard, An XIII (1805). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXVIII, [2], 330, [4], [331]-582pp (text), 16 folding leaves (plates), 16pp (advertisement). Original half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling on spines. All edges yellow. Elementary Treatise on Physical Astronomy by renowned Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862)..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Classica De Alves, 1900–1906. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 4, 8, 20, 8, 8, 48 plates with printed tissue guards. Original illustrated tan wraps with black lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Three lots with separate printed covers for each lot. Developed as Atlas for the..... More
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Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, (1966). Facsimile reprint of the 1697 edition. Octavo. Faux-leather with brown title label and gold lettering. Arcana Naturae Detecta: [10],568,[14]pp. Continuatio Arcanorum Naturae Detectorum: 192,[8]pp. Both volumes illustrated with b/w reproductions of engravings, many in fold-out. With original publisher's protective paper-wrapping and cardboard shipping box (title..... More
New York: The Natural Science Association of America, 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Folio. Original three-quarter maroon leather over gold-stamped cloth and blind-embossed spine. Finely gold-tooled initials on lettering on front board, gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge. Silk moire endpapers. Title-page printed in red and black: "The..... More
Leipzig: Bey Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1740. Tenth ed. Hardcover. 4to. (6) 1035, (68). Decorative paperboards over half vellum. Frontispiece. Illustrated title-page with text in red and black. Head and tailpiece. Two inscriptions, dated 1741, on front endpaper. Early medical and pharmaceutical dictionary by German doctor and professor Johann Jacob Woyt..... More
Neuchatel, Suisse: Institut Lithographique de H. Nicolet, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10] leaves (Half-Title, Title, Notes and Captions), [14] leaves (lithographic plates). Original illustrated paper covered portfolio. Second part (Livraison II) of the "Embryologie des Salmones", by Louis Agassiz* and Carl Vogt, containing 14 plates (in which 3 are..... More
New York: The Banks LawPublishing Co., 1904. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Inscribed "Very Sincerely, November 7. 1914 David N. Carvalho" atop title page. Small Quarto.viii, 374pp. Original salmon pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on red and black leather labes of spine, brown ruling. Introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels..... More
London: J. Cuthell et al. 1821. 12th edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). XXIV, 121, [1], 461, [1]pp (Vol. 1); [4], 612pp (Vol. 2). Original gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Originally published in 1621, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is Robert..... More
London: W. & J. Innys, 1719. Third edition (improved). Hardcover. Octavo. (16) (lvi) (8) 246pp. + 2 fold out maps, + a 10 page index at the back. Rebound in full modern blue pebbled leather boards, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Raised bands. The book is..... More
Berlin: Auriga-Verlag, 1928. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 56pp. Original paper-covered boards with photo-illustrated paste-down. Profusely illustrated with 41 reproductions of b/w photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch (including paste-down on front cover), this work is the photographer's first published book. Renger-Patzsch will later become famous for "Die Welt ist Schön." This volume..... More
Seattle: American Spelean History Association, 1968-1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large quartos. 121, 91, 85, 79, 101, 113, 62, 33, 21, 35, 59, 65, [2]pp. Black library cloth with gold and silver lettering on spines. Original wrappers bound in. Rare and fascinating work being a compilation of the first 10 years..... More
Brussels: C. W. Froment, 1851. Hardcover. 8vo. XI, 409 pp. + XII, 456. 3 quarter leather over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Raised bands. A tentative physical description of the world. The author, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was one..... More
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New York: The Kny-Scheerer Co., 1910. Ex-library, Tenth edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 1-319pp., 621-707pp. Burgundy cloth boards with some paper labels and stickers. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Endpapers and edges of the book block marbled. Original grey wrappers bound into a library binding. This is the eleventh catalog..... More
Lisboa: Tipografia Do Commercio, 1919. Softcover. Original paper wrappers. 949 pp. Twenty fold-out maps, most in color. Quarto. The front wrapper and first 1/3 of text in vol. 2 is nearly disbound, connected only by middle stitching, wrappers are brittle, edges are browning, but overall in good condition, with the..... More
New York: The Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1925. Limited ed. Hardcover. Large portfolio. [n.p.], loose sheets. Portfolio is tan cloth spine over dark blue boards with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed, sides of spine near the head and tail starting to tear..... More
Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Lrg. 12mo. xvi, [1], 18-464, 34pp. Original gold- and blind-stamped red cloth with richly gold decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom edges. Frontispiece engraving of author, half-title page with engraving of a Blackfoot Indian. Illustrated with 27 chromolithographic plates..... More
München: J. F. Lehmann's Verlag, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Vol. I: xxxii,419,[16],2pp. Die Vorbereitungen zu einer Operation an den Gallenwegen und die allgemeine Technik der Gallenwege-Chirurgie. Vol. II: xv,661,1,16,1pp. Die spezielle Technik der Gallenwege-Chirurgie mit Einschluss der Nachbehandlung und der Operationserfolge. Detailed work by Professor Dr. Hans Kehr on..... More
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. From the second revised English edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xxxi (i), 33-700, 32pp. original calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine. Brown edges. Publisher's device on title page. With two hundred and ninety-five in-text illustrations. Major work of the period on inorganic and..... More
Hardcover. 1) Das Haupthaar und seine Bildungsstätte bei den Rassen des Menschen. Berlin, 1912. Georg Reimer. First edition. [4], 70, [1]pp. of text followed by 30 plates. Evocative work on racial theory by German anatomist, anthropologist and physiologist Gustav Fritsch. The work combines Professor Fritsch's findings & results of his..... More
Koblenz: K. Bädecker, 1833. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxii,375pp. Contemporary calf with gilt border and gilt decorated spine. Scuffing, rubbing, discoloration and minor staining to boards. Minor cracking to leather on spine. Wear to edges and corners. Two small pieces of cello tape inside of front and rear board. Frontispiece. Upper third..... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903–19. First edition. Softcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original yellow wraps with publisher's device and black lettering on cover. A series of fine collotype photographic plates with accompanying text. Each part is complete in itself. While some are thematic by type of vegetation, such as nut-trees, lychen, or meadows..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Theodorum Haak, 1759. Revised. Hardcover. Small octavo. (12), 68pp. Modern 3/4 vellum over cloth with blind-stamped lettering on spine. Decorative initials, head-, and tailpieces. Commentary on the most remarkable diseases, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures' in which the author made use of Joseph Mede's "Doctrine of Demons"..... More
San Francisco: Wm. Hatteroth's Surgical House, ca 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 576pp. (xvi). Blue cloth boards with black lettering, publisher's device and ruling on the front cover and spine. Double-sided photo-illustrated frontispiece. The catalog of medical, surgical and hospital supplies from Wm. Hatteroth's Surgical House is profusely illustrated with..... More
Neukölln: Verlag Recht & Schutz (H. Müller), ca. 1913. Softcover. Folio. Illustrated stapled green wrappers, as issued. Interesting look at the use of horses and machinery in early 20th century construction in Germany. Illustrated with annotated b/w reproductions of photographs, plans and b/w drawings. Few plates in photogravure. Some creasing..... More