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
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
Budapest: Szathmáryné Bánó Vilma, 1936. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 131, [1]pp. Unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. Title page inscribed and signed by the author. First edition of this scarce Hungarian work on the pathophysiology and treatment of headaches. Some soiling to front cover. Wrappers age-toned on spine and along edges..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [8], 289, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. The ideas of Galileo Galilei have had profound consequences for Western thought. In "Galileo Studies", Stillman Drake presents his famous subject in a unique..... More
Madison; Milwaukee; London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 428, [2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Physical science in the 16th century marked the transition from medieval to modern scientific thought; thus its study is crucial to an understanding..... More
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
Paris: A. Hermann, 1886. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. [2], XI, [1], 247, [1]pp. Uncut. Contemporary blind wrappers, with handwritten title on front cover. Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861-1916) was a French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and..... More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann, 1908. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 43, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers. In this brief sketch, French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science Pierre Duhem, emphasizes on the two points that Gibbs was essentially an algebraist and that "his mind was of..... More
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann, 1908. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 43, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. French physicist Pierre Duhem was one of the first to appreciate the work of American scientist W. J. Gibbs, writing the earliest critical examination of Gibbs' “On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances” in 1887, and..... More
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
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1939. Seventh Revised Edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. 463pp. red cloth, gold lettering on spine. With 157 illustrations and 5 colored plates. Chapters include Origin and Source of Meat Food, Regulations Governing the Meat Inspection of the United States Department of Agriculture, and Postmortem Changes of Meat..... More
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
Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, (1949). Softcover. 8vo. 305pp. Original wrappers. Creasing and some discoloration to wraps. Few tiny closed tears to edges. Writing in black ink to upper right corner of front wrapper. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. "Skrifter Utgivna av Vetenskaps-Societeten I Lund. Publications of the New Society of Letters..... More
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
London: Wm. Heinemann - Medical Books, 1946. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. 187pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and publishers logo on spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by T. K. Penniman. Captivating work looking at early methods of anesthesia. Heavy chipping and staining on dj. Four by two-inch part..... More
Boston: Jenks and Palmer, 1845. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 72pp. Contemporary full calf, with previous owner's name laid on front cover. This work contains solutions of some of the questions in the Oral exercises, and answers to all the examples in the Written exercises of the "North American Arithmetic, Part Second."..... 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
Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1854. Hardcover. Large 4to. viii, 272 text pages and 47 plate pages. Gilt-stamped, decorative full brown cloth. Cloth is chipping from top and bottom of spine, binding has been resewn in spots, foxed throughout - badly in some places - still many of the plates are..... More