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
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
Treviso: Typographia Archiana, 1774. First edition. Softcover. octavo. 75pp. Paper covered spine with title plate over tan wraps. Heavy chipping to spine. Closed tear to midsection of spine. Some water staining to last few pages not affecting text. Brief inked numerals and letters on cover and inside front cover. Light..... More
Paris: Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, 1975. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. CXXVII, 215, [3]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on covers and title-page. Fascinating French translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy. Includes 6 folding maps at rear..... More
Boston: The Colonial Medical Press, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XI, [1], 280pp. Original black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The purpose of this remarkable work is to demonstrate what one Roentgen clinic has accomplished toward establishing a method for exact diagnosis in the common surgical..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Large Quarto. xi (1), (14), 67 (3)pp. Original green half cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine housed in illustrated cardboard slipcase. Illustrated title pages. Initials, decorative head- and endpieces. Beautifully illustrated with b/w scientific drawings is this facsimile reprint..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Classica De Alves, 1900–1906. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 4, 8, 20, 8, 8, 48 plates with printed tissue guards. Original illustrated tan wraps with black lettering on cover. Illustrated title page. Three lots with separate printed covers for each lot. Developed as Atlas for the..... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1990). First edition. Hardcover. Lg. folio. 224pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original color illustrated dust jacket. Endpapers with color reproduction of the 1662 map of Nova et Accuratissma Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. "Johannes Blaeu's The Atlas Major, first published in 1662, was and..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, 1357, [3], 24, [10]pp. Original gold-tooled leather, with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of this landmark in the field of neurological studies. This work is a copy..... More
Tyrone, Pennsylvania: Bodley and Brooks, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. iv, 341(6)pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph. A complete and practical guide in the use of water, both internally and externally, for the prevention of disease and the promoting of healthy activity of the human..... More
Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. lxiv, 236 (1)pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with black and white lettering on cover and spine. Account on the life and work of the English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole, best known for his work "The Laws of Thought," focussing..... More
Düsseldorf: VDI-Verlag, 1968. Neudruck. Hardcover. Folio. xxxi,394pp. Gold-stamped mottled tan cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Fore- and bottom page edges uncut, as published. New printing of "Experimenta Nova Magdeburgiga de Vacuo Spattio" which was first published in Amsterdam in 1672. This work by Guericke still ranks as one of the..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (ix) 357pp. 98pp. [2] + 7 fold-out plates. Original period brown mottled leather. Red label, gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. This educational and informative work provides a basis of the study of astronomy, in the state it was..... More