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
Firenze: Francesco Onofri, 1657. Second edition (In questa 2. ed. ricorretto da moltissimi errori). Hardcover. 24mo. [4], 256pp. Original full vellum, with contemporary hand-written title and decoration in ink on spine. Engraved vignette on title. Decorative initial. Illustrated with 28 in-text illustrations (mostly skulls), this work is a commentary on..... 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
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Signed by R. D. Fitzgerald on colophon. 172/350. Elephant Folio. Original three-quarter green calf over textured green paper-covered boards, with gilt decorative ruling on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spine; raised bands. Beautiful marbled stiff endpapers. Facsimiles of illustrated wraps of the..... More
Bruxelles: Ed. Culture & Civilisation, 1970. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Folio. Full leather binding with gilt lettering on black label of spine. This is the 1970 facsimile of the original 1544 edition published in Paris by Petrus Galterius. Illustrated throughout with striking b/w diagrams of the human body and anatomy. Text..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition. Softcover. Large 8vo. 67pp. Original printed wrappers stapled as issued. Department of the Interior. George Otis Smith, Director. Detailed description of magnesium carbonate deposits in California during the early 1900's. Describes quantities and locations by California counties. Includes Mexico and other countries' deposits..... More
NP: NP, ND (ca 1750). Manuscript. Hardcover. Octavo. 445, [1]pp. Contemporary full spotted calf, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Book housed in a modern brown cloth chemise, inside a modern half leather over cloth slipcase, with gold lettering and ruling on..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1920. Third edition (extended and improved). Softcover. Sm. 8vo. 96(2)pp. Original wrappers. Some chipping, creasing and minor staining to wrappers. Two by one inch watermark to top edge. Watermark visible up to page 1. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text. A booklet on Einstein's "Theory..... More
Hardcover. 1) Das Haupthaar und seine Bildungsstätte bei den Rassen des Menschen. Berlin, 1912. Georg Reimer. First edition. [4], 70, [1]pp. of text followed by 30 plates. Evocative work on racial theory by German anatomist, anthropologist and physiologist Gustav Fritsch. The work combines Professor Fritsch's findings & results of his..... More
Berlin: Auriga-Verlag, 1928. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 56pp. Original paper-covered boards with photo-illustrated paste-down. Profusely illustrated with 41 reproductions of b/w photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch (including paste-down on front cover), this work is the photographer's first published book. Renger-Patzsch will later become famous for "Die Welt ist Schön." This volume..... More
New York: Orange Judd Agricultural Book Publisher, 1865. Hardcover. 8vo. vi, 262 pp. Brown buckram with gilt decoration. Cover faded from original maroon. With b&w drawings. Corners bumped. Wear to spine, and front cover slightly loose, but attached. With light water staining to early pages, and worming to inside cover..... More
Dordrecht; Boston; London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 431, [1]pp. Original olive cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Fourth volume of a remarkable series which provides a mostly clear description of the method and facts in predicate calculus, from the zeroith-order to..... More
Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1960. Softcover. 4to. 13 English pp. summary + 275 Hebrew pages of actual dissertations. Original wrappers. Rebacked with blue binder's tape. Amazing hard to find work on the study of fertility in Israel. Contents include but are not limited to: "Fertility of women in the diaspora and..... More
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [5], 288, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Galileo Galilei. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. This work, written during the last years of Galileo's life, incorporates the work that he had done much earlier..... More
Mexico City: Cartón y Papel de México, S.A., 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/2500. Oblong folio. IV, 112, [4]pp. Original green leatherette with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Additional chromolithographic title. Title page in English and Spanish. Decorative initials. Splendid facsimile edition of this work first published in 1877..... More
Mexico City: Cartón y Papel de México, S.A., 1977. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Oblong folio. IV, 112, [4]pp. Original beige calf over wooden boards with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Additional chromolithographic title. Title page in English and Spanish. Decorative initials. Splendid facsimile edition of this work first..... More
New York: De Witt & Davenport, (1866). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,170,[1],pp. Blind-stamped decorated brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. Head and tail of spine chipped. Corners rubbed. Abrasions to endpapers. Illustrated with 5 chromolithographs by T. Sinclair and in-text woodcut..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 448 pp. White cloth binding with dj. Illustrated endpapers. First printing, inscribed by Garfield. With illustrations. Dust jacket with 1/2 inch tear to bottom corner. Else, book in very good condition with good dj. More