Wien: NP, 1803. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. iv.410pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Upper half of backstrip missing. Raised bands on lower half. Corners bumped and worn. Scuffing and discoloration to boards. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Welling and some sporadic foxing to pages..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxiv,536pp. 7pl. Brown cloth with blind and gold embossed ornamentation on front and spine. Title page vignette reproduction of steel plate engraving. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of illustrations and tables describing the minerals of..... More
Wien: Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 332 (2)pp., 1 folding table. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Based on years of studying of life orchids, J. G. Beer present his results in three parts. Part one describes the shape of the plant..... More
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, (1884). Hardcover. 8vo. 720pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine. Two title plates with gilt titles. Bottom corners slightly bumped an some wear to edges and corners. Decorated page edges. Small stamp of library to top and bottom page edges. Marbled endpapers..... More
Paris: Decourchant, imp. ND (ca 1850). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 107, [1]pp. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold tooling and lettering on spine. Frontispiece. A concise study of phrenology as professed by prominent French physician François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (1772-1838). Heavy rubbing on spine and along edges. Head..... More
Berlin: Louis Marcus Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909. 41. -60. Tausend. Siebente bis neunte, um einen Anhang vermehrte Stereotyp-Auflage. Hardcover. 8vo. ix (2). 850pp. xix (3)pp. Beige paper covered boards with red lettering. Illustrated title page. Maroon endpapers. Extensive work on sexuality, with focus on psychology, sexual transmitted diseases and homosexuality. With alphabetic..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxiv, Volume 1 (Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary). 596pp. of text followed by eight full-page annotated plates. Half brown cloth over light brown linen. Gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Minor shelf wear. Corners rubbed. Minor staining to..... More
Detroit: F. B. Dickerson, 1888. Third revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xv (i), 873pp. Original black cloth. Frontispiece portrait engraving. German translation of the third edition of Chase's "Practical Recipes." Compendium containing the newest useful and valuable prescriptions of all branches of medicine, general advice for the household, and a treatise of..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio.IX, [1], 128, [4]pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first (Venetian) edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae, a “bundle” of six..... More
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo. 523pp. 32pp. Stamped purple cloth with gilt lettering. Ex library. Grayish blue endpapers. Stamp on title page: "War Department, Office Chief of Staff. Mar -7 1904. Military Information Division." Work on anatomy and movement. Illustrated throughout with 565 b/w sketches. Age wear and staining..... More
Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 422pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. First thorough analysis of Archimedes' method carried out on a strictly historical basis, and which covers the whole of that corpus of his writings that has come down to us..... More
Leipzig: Bermann Mendelssohn, 1864. Second revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, (2) 260pp. Rebound in blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Account on the physical and philosophical aspects of atomism. Fechner was a German philosopher and physicist. He is known as a pioneer of experimental psychology and considered to..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843. First American edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xvi,629,[10]pp. Front board and front endpaper missing. Original leather back cover and spine. William Fergusson, 1st Baronet (1808-1877) was a Scottish surgeon as well as a Professor of Surgery and a surgeon in King's College in London. In five..... More
Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1960. Softcover. 4to. 13 English pp. summary + 275 Hebrew pages of actual dissertations. Original wrappers. Rebacked with blue binder's tape. Amazing hard to find work on the study of fertility in Israel. Contents include but are not limited to: "Fertility of women in the diaspora and..... More
Midland, Texas: Randall Gibson, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 1/1500 unnumbered. Quarto. 280pp. Light blue faux leather with embossed silver emblem and lettering on cover, embossed silver lettering and ruling on spine. Light blue endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "The Krieghoff Luger has always been a rare and highly prized collection piece ever..... More
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen Printing House, 1867. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to. xi,428pp. 63pl. Black cloth with blind and gold embossed ornamentation on front and spine. Title page vignette reproduction of steel plate engraving. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of illustrations and tables describing the fossils of New York, all with..... More
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Wellington: Samuel Costall/ Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 32pp. Beige stapled wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. This is a presentation copy of the publication, signed and inscribed by the author on the front cover. The work is scientific study on the mineral content of..... More
Zurich: Pro Telephon, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 67, [1]pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over soft covers. Remarkable work on the history of telephony in switzerland. This work was published at the occasion of the schweizerische landesausstellung (swiss national exhibition) or "landi" in 1939, and is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w..... More
Wien: Anton Schroll & Co., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 59 plates & 16 text pages resting in quarter-cloth over printed paper-covered portfolio with folding flaps. Lacking string ties. Profusely illustrated with diagrams showing the systematology of geometrical drawing. Contents: Bild- und Flächenanalyse. Reductionsdreiecke und Flächennetze. Feldereintheilungen von Figuren. Text..... More
San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 230pp. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped shell on cover, gilt lettering on cover and spine. Red edges. Frontispiece lithograph, with tissue guard. "The kind reception given to my little book on the "Common Sea-shells of California," has induced me..... More
Bowie, MD: The Charles Press Publishers, Inc., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 363, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over light green cloth, with brown lettering on spine and front cover. The "Atlas of Endoctrine Diseases" is a compilation of photographic and graphic presentation of patients with endoctrine diseases accompanied by..... More
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1878. Softcover. 8vo. viii. 111pp. Wrappers. Forepage edge untrimmed. Work on physics by renowned German scientist and philosopher Kurd Lasswitz (see below). Front wrapper loose but present, with part missing at right bottom. Rear wrapper and parts of spine missing. Binding starting to split between..... More
Detroit: The Illustrated Medical Journal Co., 1879. Ninth Thousand. Softcover. 8vo. 320 pp. Paperback. Minor wear to edges. Head and tail of spine chipped. Light discoloration to edges and to spine. Illustrated with 116 b/w images. A tight copy in very good condition. More
Avignon: Hirschner, 1751. Hardcover. 8vo. 157 (3)pp. Brown leather with ornamental gilt illustration and lettering to spine. Raised bands. Illustrated title page. This very useful reference work consists of tables to calculate different interest rates according to days. Very few copies online. Corners bumped and partly worn, boards bent, rubbed..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1985. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 499, [1], 455, [1], 643, [1]pp. Full black leather with gold tooling and lettering on front covers and spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker in each volume. Exquisite edition of the Collected Essays of the best-known physician..... More