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 about Ancient Anodynes: Primitive Anesthesia and Allied Conditions
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 about Key to the North American Arithmetic, Part Second and Part Third. For the Use of Teachers
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 about Old Bridges of France: a Series of Historical Examples from Roman Times to the End of the XVIIIth...
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 about Agriculture of New York: Comprising an Account of the Classifications, Composition and...
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 about Labor among Primitive Peoples
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 about Mental Maladies: A Treatise on Insanity
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 about Nuova dichiarazione, e comento ne' testi d'Ipocrate sopra le ferite del capo, con le sue figure,...
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 about Science and Politics in the Ancient World
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 about Gems and Gem Minerals
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 about Oil and Gas Fields of the Lost Solider-Ferris District Wyoming
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 about Über die physikalische und philosophische Atomenlehre
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 about Der Wagenbauer: Lehr- und Hilfsbuch für Wagenbau und Automobil-Karosserie & 25 ORIGINAL...
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 about A System of Practical Surgery
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 about Die theistische Weltansicht und ihre Berechtigung
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 about Chirvrgia è Græco in Latinum conuersa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete, cum nonnullis eiusdem...
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1966. First American edition. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 102pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. In this work, the author takes a historical approach to develop the fundamental concepts of abstract set theory. The concepts, as well as... More about Set Theory and Logic
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 about United States Geological Survey. The Magnesite Deposits of California (Bulletin 355
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 about Tractatus integer morborum infimi ventris cum observationibus practicis cuilibet morbo...
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 about Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie
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 about Das Haupthaar und seine Bildungsstätte bei den Rassen des Menschen & Die menschliche...
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 about Die Welt der Pflanze: Band II, Crassula
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 about The Grape Culturist: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Native Grape
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 about Handbook of Philosophical Logic: Volume 4
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 about "Patterns of Nuptuality and Fertility in Israel - with special reference to differences...
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 about Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences