New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1933). Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi,458,xi,pp. Green cloth. Spine sunned. Minor age wear on binding. Signature, place and date handwritten by previous owner on inside of front board. Underlining in blue pen to a couple of pages. Fascinating history of the role of the doctor..... More
New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. xxviii, 229, [3]pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library. With introductions, general and medical, by De Witt T. Starnes and Chauncey D...... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi. 580pp. Title stamped maroon cloth with title plate in original dj. Head of spine and corners slightly bumped. Discoloration, chipping and tears to dj. "The story of man's scientific achievements in the time of ancient Greece and Rome is..... More
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
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
Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot, and for C. Elliot & T. Kay, 1789. 4to. xxiii,432pp. Lacking front and back board as well as rear flyleaf. Original spine with black number- and maroon title-label with gold lettering on spine. Important 18th century expansion of William Cullen's lectures on the Materia Medica..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1894. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Rebound in light brown buckram with gilt lettering on leather label of spine. Illustrated with fifty seven heliogravure plates with explanatory texts on opposite pages depicting changes in the outer form of the human body due to internal illnesses. Striking photographic..... 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
London: John Murray, 1894. Sixth edition, with Additions and Corrections. Hardcover. Octavo. XXI, [1], 432pp. Uncut and partly unopened copy. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable edition of the most important biological book ever written. This copy was published by George Routledge in the binding of Sir..... More
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New York: Orange Judd & Company, (1868). First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x,494,[10]pp. viii,568,[8]pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers and gold lettering on spine. Important 19th century work by Darwin on the domestication of animals and plants with detailed facts about artificial selection and discussion of them..... 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
Basilae: Froben, 1556. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [16], 406, [26]pp. 1/3 calf over paper covered boards. Striking publisher's device on title-page. Decorative initials. First edition of this remarkable work by one of the most famous physician of the 16th century, compiling the author's first four "curationum medicinalium centuriae," or his..... More
Hamburgi: ex Bibliopolio Frobbeniano, 1628. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [22], 226, [42], [2], 541, [43]pp. Full calf with blind stamped borders on boards and gold lettering on title-label. Raised bands. Woodcut engraved vignette on each title-page. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Fascinating and scarce treatise on gynecology. It is divided..... 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