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
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
St. Louis: J.H. Chambers & Co., 1883. Second edition, revised. Hardcover. 8vo. xix. 228pp. Gilt embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Corners bumped and worn. Head and tail of spine slightly frayed. Scuffing and discoloration to boards. Red page edges. "With the bookplate and..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1987. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 496, [2]pp. Original gold-tooled leather, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Prior to the 1800's there existed no differentiation between mental deficiency and insanity. With this work, Jean Etienne Esquirol..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, (1965). Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 243pp. Original brown cloth with silver lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine bumped. Overall in good condition. More
Chicago: A.W. Mumford, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 229pp. Green cloth with gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece color illustration of the twelve birthstones. 16 color plates plus 71 b/w half-tones photographs, line engravings, drawings, maps and tables illustrate this classic work on gemology. Thoroughly covers gem properties..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. iv, 58 pp. Green paper wraps. Fading to paper binding, particularly at spine. With fold-out geological and structural maps. Bulletin #756 under the Department of the Interior and the United States Geological Survey. Overall, in good condition. More
Leipzig: Bermann Mendelssohn, 1864. Second revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, (2) 260pp. Rebound in blue cloth with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Account on the physical and philosophical aspects of atomism. Fechner was a German philosopher and physicist. He is known as a pioneer of experimental psychology and considered to..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. Der Wagenbauer: Leipzig. Waldheim-Eberle A. G. 1920. Maroon leather portfolio with decorative folding flaps, gold lettering on cover. Title- and contents pages & 67 loose leaves with illustrations of auto and coach designs by Johann Feldwabel. Some of the designs: Mylord, Stadtkupee, Landauer, Jagdwagen. Illustrations are b/w..... More
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843. First American edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xvi,629,[10]pp. Front board and front endpaper missing. Original leather back cover and spine. William Fergusson, 1st Baronet (1808-1877) was a Scottish surgeon as well as a Professor of Surgery and a surgeon in King's College in London. In five..... More
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1873. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,283,[1],pp. Original wrappers bound in half cloth over marbled boards with title in gold on spine. Rubbing to corners which were originally covered in blue cloth. Wear to parts of edges. Some tearing and staining on half-title page. Chipping to top edge from..... More