Berlin: NP, 1841, 1852. Original documents. Loose leaf. Folio. Two folded, double-paged documents, matted behind clear plastic sheets. Rare original historical documents. 1. Civil Letter (printed): Issued to the barber Heinrich Carl Ferdinand Schrader by the mayor and council of the Royal Prussian Capitol Berlin. It declares that subsequent to Schrader's..... More
Dresden: NP, ND. Softcover. Oblong 8vo. Letter-stamped original wraps. Fourteen page 'engineering overview' of the Naumann Erika typewriter. The typewriter was manufactured in the 1930's by the German company Seidel & Naumann. The company was founded in 1868 by Karl Robert Bruno Naumann. In 1869 Emil Seidel invested into the..... More
London: H. K. Lewis, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 251, [1]pp. Original cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped decoration on covers. 19th century work on tapeworms, their sources, nature, and treatment. This study is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w in-text figs. Minor shelf wear and soiling on..... More
Coimbra: Joam Antunes, 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [42], 763, [1], 16pp. Original speckled calf with gold lettering, tooling and ruling on spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Only edition and all published of this wonderfully zany early 18th century attempt..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins Press, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 266pp. Brown cloth with silver lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Professor Achinstein analyses such concepts as definitions, theories, models. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Age wear, creasing and staining on dj. Dust jacket in fair, book..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions, (1985). Classics of Medicine Library. Hardcover. 8vo. 872 pp. Gilt decorated gray leather binding. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Plates. Facsimile. Translated from the Greek with a Preliminary Discourse and Annotations by Francis Adams, LL.D. Overall, in fine condition. More
Tolosae (Toulouse): Raymundi Colomerii, 1623. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [24], 458, [6]pp (Index). Full vellum. Engraved vignette on title page. Second edition of this scarce and extravagant medical treatise by Guilhem Ader, the renowned Occitan language writer from Gascony, who studied medicine in Toulouse and became a physician in the..... More
Neuchatel, Suisse: Institut Lithographique de H. Nicolet, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10] leaves (Half-Title, Title, Notes and Captions), [14] leaves (lithographic plates). Original illustrated paper covered portfolio. Second part (Livraison II) of the "Embryologie des Salmones", by Louis Agassiz* and Carl Vogt, containing 14 plates (in which 3 are..... More
Tel Aviv: Shoshani, 1923. 8vo. 125pp. Followed by 1 (unpaginated) errata page. Zoology textbook for schools (see above). Illustrated throughout with b/w sketches. Minor age wear, browning. In Hebrew. Very good condition. More
Boston; Providence: American Society of Naturalists, 1884-1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 343, 36, 47, 38, 36, 30, 32, 34, [1], 35, [1], 56, [1], 48pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spines. First 2 volumes of this scarce publication compiling the yearly records of the American Society of Naturalists from..... More
New York: Myra Andrews, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 552 pp. Red cloth binding w/out dj. Some age rubbing to edges. Spine edges frayed and bumped, spine sunned. Side and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis. Former owner stamps to endpapers. Illustrated with two annotated maps printed on glossy paper. "A..... More
Paris; Lisboa: Bonardel e Du Beux, 1756. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XIII, [3], 293, [1]pp. Original full calf with gold lettering and tooling on spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Decorative headpieces and initials. Remarkable 18th-century treatise on public health, written by the renowned Paris-based Portuguese philosopher of Jewish ancestry..... More
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1854. Hardcover. This work was part of the Collection of Dr. Henry Slonimsky (see below), as indicated by a note, with officeal stamp of Hebrew Union College, loosely laid in at free front endpaper. 8vo. vi. 204pp. Followed by fold-out table. 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Theory of..... More
Wien: NP, 1803. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. iv.410pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Upper half of backstrip missing. Raised bands on lower half. Corners bumped and worn. Scuffing and discoloration to boards. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Welling and some sporadic foxing to pages..... More
Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1879. Second edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xii,18-121,[8], pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Scuffing, staining and minor age wear to binding, two-thirds of spine separating from front cover. Name and address of previous owner on free front endpaper. Blind stamp of another owner on..... More
Berlin: Emil Apolant, 1894. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. Folio. xvi, 122pp. Blind stamped decor and lettering on green cloth binding. Elaborate work on Shechitah, the slaughtering of certain animals according to Jewish law (Kosher Slaughtering). The practices of Shechitah are not described in the "Five Books of Moses" but were..... More
Birmingham, Alabama: Gryphon Editions, (1984). Classics of Medicine Library. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 344 pp., 64 pp. Gilt decorated black leather binding w/out dj. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Facsimiles of Corvisart's 1812 edition and Auenbrugger's 1808 edition. In fine condition. More
Cambridge: The University Press, 1968. Hardcover. 3 volumes. Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No. CXXXIII, CXXXIV, CXXXV. 8vo. xvi. 1176pp. Gilt embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in original dj. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Spine sunned. Minor discoloration to front and back cover. Frontispiece in Vol. one. With..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XXVIII, 314, [2]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of Baillie's famous work "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the..... More
Wahington: A.O.P Nicholson, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XLVIII, 757pp, 43 plates (XVII-XXVIII, XXX-LX). Original half leather over marbled paper covered boards. First part of a fascinating survey realised through the combined efforts of the topographical engineers and a sizable contingent of the country's foremost scientists. Not since Napoleon..... More
London: George Kearsley, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Vol.2: 871pp. Vol.3: 810pp. Vol.4: 805pp. Vol.5: 812pp. Vol.6: 801pp. Vol.7: 796pp. Vol.8: 784pp. Vol.9: 804pp. Decorative burgundy morocco boards, with gilt stamped ruling along the edges of the covers. Spine with gilt lettering and raised bands. Marbled endpapers. This set contains..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. XLIV, 429, [1], VII, [1], 589, [1]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable set compiling the collected papers of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, the renowned..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co., (1962). Leonard Baskin. (First Edition). Hardcover. Large 8vo. Unpaginated. Orange cloth binding with dj. B&W illustrations throughout by Leonard Baskin. Light fading to outer edges of binding and light wear to dj. Otherwise, in very good condition. More
New York: Delacorte Press, (1967). Leonard Baskin. (Second printing). Hardcover. 4to. 74 pp. Black cloth binding with original printed dust jacket. Binding in good condition, with some very light spotting to front cover. Dj in very good condition, only showing slight wear at corners. B&W illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Overall..... More
Santa Monica: Graphics Press, 1980. First printing. 8vo. [n.p.] Soft bound. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped. A dictionary of the trees of Santa Monica Bay profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Good condition. More