Breslau: F. U. Kern's Verlag (Max Müller), 1896. Zweite vermehrte Auflage (second revised edition). Hardcover. 2 volumes. Sm. quarto. xii,484pp. xi,574pp. Original color illustrated cloth with gold decorated spine. All red edges. Decorative golden endpapers with floral design. Collection of botanical lectures and essays by Dr. Ferdinand Cohn. Profusely illustrated..... More
Edinburgh: MacLachlan & Stewart, and John Anderson Jun. 1836. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (17), viii, 194 (2)pp., vi plates. Plain brown boards with white library tape reinforcing spine. "Many persons desire to know something about Phrenology, who nevertheless are not prepared to bestow much either of time or money in..... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 6 leaves, 60 (Nos. I–LIX plus XXXIb) plates, two of them folding, the others doubled-paged. Original three-quarter red morocco over green pebbled cloth, tightened with twelve original metal pegs, with gilt lettering and decor embossed medallion of cover, gilt lettering..... More
Genève; Paris: Librairie Georg & Cie; Librairie O. Douin, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 6 1/2"). xii, [4], 92pp (Text), 60 leaves (Plates). Original light blue green cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Correvon's album of orchids of Central and Northern Europe is splendidly illustrated..... More
NP, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. (21pp). Reprinted from Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Vol. XI, Number 31, 1927, pp. 522-541. "When freshly developed or so-called "green" motion picture film is passed through a projector, there is a tendency for an incrustation to accumulate on the aperture plate or..... More
PelitiAssociati, (1995). Hardcover. Inscribed by author on half-title page: "Willie, most affectionately from Franco." 8vo. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Front endpapers with genealogical table, rear endpapers illustrated with a map. Frontispiece of Baillie after a painting by William Owen. Exhaustive and richly..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 341, [3]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of "The Pituitary Body and its Disorders" in which the Cushing's syndrome is described for the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition for this translation. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 273, [1]pp. Original gilt decorated blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Fabre d'Olivet. In this remarkable work Fabre d'Olivet is shown as a humanitarian..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. Hardcover. Octavo. 399pp (8). Maroon cloth with blind stamped publisher's device on front cover. Gilt lettering and gilt stamped publisher's device on spine. Marbled edges. Protective tissue guard at title page. The work is a comprehensive study on human physiology, illustrated throughout with relevant..... More
Teheran: Farhang-e Iran Zamin, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. Pagination in Persian. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on covers and title page. First time ever published these two 6th-century texts on Meteorology were edited by M. T. Danesh-Pajouh (1911-1996), a renowned Iranian scholar and author on Persian and Islamic..... More
Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club at the Griffin Press, 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Quarto. xvii,362pp. Half gold-decorative leather over patterned paper-covered boards in matching publisher's slipcase. Illustrated title-page. Signed by illustrator Fritz Kredel on colophon page. "The sole object of this work," writes Darwin, "is to consider..... More
New York: Hurst and Company, No date. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 501pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece Darwin portrait engraving. Reprinted from the sixth London edition, with all additions and corrections. The ground breaking work on evolution with "Historical Sketch" of the..... More
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Paris: Schiller Ainé, 1853. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/2 x 7"). [2], 480pp. Uncut. Modern full brown cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Original blue wrappers bound in. Verso of title page hand-signed by the author. The almost spiritual relationship between the Arab and..... More
New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1865. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 375pp. Black cloth, gold lettering on spine, marbled edges. Includes chapters on Definitions, Operations of the Mind, Quantities, and Science and Art of Numbers. Head and tail lips of spine missing, rubbing to all edges. Ex-libris of C...... More
Chicago: The Year Book Publishers, Inc., 1955-1965. First American edition. Spiral Bound. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original green cloth spiral bound folders with gold lettering on front covers and spines. General Index at the beginning of first volume. Title page in each volume. This completed English language edition of the French "Atlas..... 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
Leipzig: Slavische Buchhandlung H. Roskoschny, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 116pp., 2 plates with tissue guard. Rebound in gray decorative boards with black lettering on spine, original wraps bound in. Work executed from a humanitarian and hygiene viewpoint. Includes letter by Dr. W. Preyer to medical doctor J. A...... 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
Leominster: Printed by Salmon Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, 1806. Second American Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 108pp. Contemporary calf with modern gilt decorated spine. Authoritative work by Thomas Denman dedicated to Dr. Thomas Savage,"... on preternatural labours-on labours attended with hemorrhage-and with convulsions." Usual age wearing throughout binding. Wear to corners. Two..... 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
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1811. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI + 588pp. Original full leather over 5 raised bands. 7 b/w engravings, including 1 fold out. Fascinating work on facilitating birth in the early 19th century. Front and back boards detached, but present. Heavy abrasion on binding. Spine edges chipped and..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1959. Second printing. Hardcover. Folio. xxx, 485 plates. Original illustrated dustjackets, white lettering on spine, over blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; housed in a black cardboard slipcase., protected by modern mylar, with printed illustrated label. Illustrated throughout with 485 full-page plates. "Artists, illustrators..... 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
London: Printed for the Author and for F. and C. Rivington, 1792-1798. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). 80, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); 96, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [2], 98, [8]pp (Text), 36 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 3); 96, [6]pp (Text), 36..... More