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 about The Logic and Utility of Mathematics, with the Best Methods of Instruction Explained and Illustrated

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 about The Fasciculus Medicinae

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 about Aphorisms on the Application and Use of the Forceps and Vectis

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 about Archimedes

Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1839. Third edition, enlarged and improved. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4"). [4], [VIII], [9]-119, [1]pp. Original black and gilt-stamped olive calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Dentelles. Marbled paper edges and endpapers. Frontispiece. Ribbon marker.Originally published in 1835, Martin Doyle's text lays... More about The Flower Garden, or Monthly Calendar of Practical Directions for the Culture of Flowers

Baltimore: William & Joseph Neal, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. XXIII, [1], 341, [1]pp. Half black cloth over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Books on poisons, first aid and antidotes were popular at the beginning of the 19th century. Popular books on poisons and antidotes were aimed... More about Manual of Practical Toxicology Condensed From Dr. Christison's Treatise on Poisons. With Notes...

New York: C.M. Saxon, Barker & Co., 1860. Hardcover. Octavo. (vii) 120pp. Brown pebbled cloth boards with blind-stamped floral motifs on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated half-title page. The work is a comprehensive and informative manual in the cultivation of cranberries, and is interleaved throughout with... More about A Complete Manual For Cultivation of The Cranberry

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo.76pp. Chestnut cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Explains the physiological and anatomical nature of features that result in these two types of visual conditions. In two lectures dated February 1st and February 3rd, the author, Professor F.... More about The Hunterian Lectures on Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness: Delivered before the Royal College...

East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, (1901). Hardcover. 8vo. 20 pp. One page following text with a color imprinted illustration bearing the logo of the Roycroft Shop, and 10 pp. (blank) following. Olive cloth over gray boards. Pages untrimmed. Corners rubbed. With frontis and illuminated text initial on page one. John... More about Old John Burroughs