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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 about Les Chevaux du Sahara [SIGNED
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
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 about Medici Physici Praestantissimi. Curationum medicinalium centuriae quatuor, quarum duae priores ab...
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 about Medicina, Novo et Antehac a Nemine Tentato Ordine Opus Absolutissimum. 2 vols bound in one
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 about Color Atlas of Dermatology. 5-vol. set
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
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 about Mecanisme et Education des Mouvements. Avec 565 Figures dans le Texte
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
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 about Astro-Theology: Or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, From a Survey of the Heavens
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 about An Abridgment of Mr Heath's translation of Baudelocque's Midwifery with notes
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 about A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in...
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
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 about The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods...
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
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 about A fejfájást (A fejfájást okozó betegségek kórtana és gyógyitása) [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED
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 about Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution
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 about Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, &...
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...
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 about Le Potentiel Thermodynamique et ses Applications à la Mécanique Chimique et à l'Étude des...
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 about Josiah-Willard Gibbs à Propos de la Publication de ses Mémoires Scientifiques
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 about Josiah-Willard Gibbs, A Propos de la Publication de ses Mémoires Scientifiques
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
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 about Text-book of Meat Hygiene
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...
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 about Ignis Divinus le feu Comme Moyen de Rajeunissement et D'Immortalite: Contes Legendes Mythes et Rites