Amsterdam: N. V. EM. Querido's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1933. Hardcover. Quarto. vi, 108, 54 plates and 3 double sided film flip books; xvi, 334; xxiv, 324 (9), 9 folding plates; xv, 352, 32 plates; xx, 447, 20 plates. Original brown red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Publisher's device on... More
Tolosae (Toulouse): Raymundi Colomerii, 1623. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [24], 458, [6]pp (Index). Full vellum. Engraved vignette on title page. Second edition of this scarce and extravagant medical treatise by Guilhem Ader, the renowned Occitan language writer from Gascony, who studied medicine in Toulouse and became a physician in the... More
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., ca 1866. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (xii) 279pp. Blue-green pebbled cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine. The publication is a first American edition of physician and anesthesiologist Arthur Ernest Sansom's study of chloroform. This is edition follows the edition originally published in... More
Paris: Printed by J. Smith and sold by Treuttel and Würtz, Soho-Square, London, 1821. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Boards and endpapers detached but present. 86, [8]pp. of index followed by an unpaginated section of 15 b/w illustrated leaves entitled "An Introduction to... 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
Firenze: Francesco Onofri, 1657. Second edition (In questa 2. ed. ricorretto da moltissimi errori). Hardcover. 24mo. [4], 256pp. Original full vellum, with contemporary hand-written title and decoration in ink on spine. Engraved vignette on title. Decorative initial. Illustrated with 28 in-text illustrations (mostly skulls), this work is a commentary on... More
Mexico City: Cartón y Papel de México, S.A., 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Oblong folio. IV, 112, [4]pp. Original beige calf over wooden boards with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Additional chromolithographic title. Title page in English and Spanish. Decorative initials. Splendid facsimile edition of this work first..... 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
New York: New York Museum of Anatomy, 1880s. First edition. Softcover. 24mo. 10 (2)pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering and framing on cover. "A Digest of its Principal Attractions – showing how to pass a few hours in cheerful amusement, combined with practical and useful instructions. For Gentlemen Only."... More
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
Venetiis: Jo. Lazzaroni, 1741. Second printing of the augmented edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. XXXV, 639, [3]pp, [30]pp. of index. Original vellum with title neatly handwritten on spine. Title-page in red and black lettering and with woodcut vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Fascinating early edition of one of the most important... 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
Milano: Spartaco Giovene, 1946. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Quarto. 55, [3] (Text), [40]pp (Facsimile). Original glassine over decorative paper covered boards. Title page in red and black lettering. Remarkable work containing a stunning facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscript on the Flight of Birds, along with a text accompanying... 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
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
London: Printed for Sam Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1701. Ex-library, third edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. [32] 17- 208, (1) 193-414pp. Blind-stamped brown leather boards, with gilt-stamped motifs and raised bands on the spine. Edges of the front and back boards in gilt. The book is a third edition of John... 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