London: 1856. Bennett, William Sterndale (1816-75). Composer, conductor, pianist and music educator, called “the most distinguished composer of the early Victorian era” (Temperley, Lectures on Musical Life—William Sterndale Bennett [2006], p. 3); professor of music at the University of Cambridge; friend of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann; founding president of..... More
Superbly hand-colored india paper proof mounted on larger sheet. Print: 188x116 mm. Mount: 280x189 mm. Excellent condition. More
Dortmund: Mallinckrodt, 1804. Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich (1777-1846). Versuche über das Gesetz des Falls, über den Widerstand der Luft und über die Umdrehung der Erde . . . 8vo. xii, 423, 432a-432h, 433-542, [2]pp. Additional engraved title and 8 plates, including frontispiece. Dortmund: Mallinckrodt, 1804. 206 x 127 mm. 19th century..... More
1947. Berkeley, Edmund C. (1909-88). Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 (1947). 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers, a few tiny spots, almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner’s name-stamp..... More
Dublin & London: W. Innys and C. Hitch, 1744. 8vo. 174, [2]pp. 18th cent. calf, rebacked, corners worn, endpapers renewed. Light toning. Bridgewater Library bookplate. New edition. More
London: I. Sewell, 1788. Plate: 175x120 mm. Margin: 212x145 mm. Some foxing in the margins. More
1857. First edition. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). (1) Sur le mécanisme physiologique de la formation du sucre dans le foie. In Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 44 (1857): 578-586. (2) Remarques sur la formation de la matière glycogène du foie. In ibid.: 1325-1331. Whole volume. xii, 1418pp. 283 x 226..... More
Paris: 1850. Bernard, Claude (1813-73). A.L.s. to M. Cap, dated 25 fevrier 1850. 1-1/2pp. plus integral address leaf. 212 x 136 mm. Creased where previously folded, minor foxing & soiling, but very good. Regarding the submission of an article to an unnamed journal, presumably edited by M. Cap: "I have..... More
Paris: 1861. [Bernard, Claude (1813-78)] (1) Halmagrand [Charles N. G.] (b. 1803). De l'administration de la quinite dans les fièvres d'accès, comme succédané du sulfate de quinine. 165 [1]pp. Paris: Baillière, 1868. (2) Drouet, Arsène. Du collodion riciné appliqué en badigeon sur toute la surface du ventre considéré comme agent..... More
1858. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). De l’influence de deux ordres de nerfs qui déterminent les variations de couleur de sang veineux dans les organes glandulaires. Offprint from Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 47 (1858). 8pp. 281 x 229 mm. (uncut). Original plain wrappers, creased horizontally, tiny chips in..... More
Paris: Didier & Cie. 1869. 53pp. plus 30pp. publisher's adverts. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped and splitting. Very good. More
Bailliere, 1856. Bernard, Claude (1813-73). Fr [ancois] Magendie. Leçon d'ouverture du cours de médecine du Collège de France. . . . 8vo. [4] 36pp. Paris: Baillière, 1856. 222 x 143 mm. Original printed wrappers. Light marginal dampstaining, but very good. Bernard's autograph presentation inscription on the front wrapper: "Monsieur le..... More
Paris: Bailliere, 1877. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Lecons sur le diabete et la glycogenese animale. 8vo. viii, 576pp., plus 18ff. publisher's ads. Text illustrations. Paris: Bailliere, 1877. 225 x 140 mm. (uncut). Original printed wrappers, back wrapper lacking, spine and front wrapper chipped, spine split, stitching loose. Edges a bit frayed..... More
Paris: Bailliere, 1857. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses. vii, 488pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Baillière, 1857. 214 x 136 mm. 19th century quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine a bit faded and worn, one corner bumped. Light toning but very good. Bookplate of French chemist..... More
London: Academic Press, 1985. First English language edition. x, 131pp. Plates. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Fine copy. Monographs of the Physiological Society no. 42. More
1856. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le role du suc pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs . . . Extract from Supplément aux Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1 (1856): 379-563 [1]pp. 9 lithographed plates (4 hand-colored) on 5 sheets. 277 x 216 mm. 19th..... More
Paris: Bailliere, 1856. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Memoire sur le pancreas et sur le role du suc pancreatique dans les phenomenes digestifs. . . . 190pp. 9 lithographed plates (4 hand-colored) on 5 sheets. Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1856. 270 x 213 mm. Original printed stiff wrappers, cloth spine, somewhat foxed. Some..... More
1844. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du nerf spinal. Extract from Mémoires des Savants étrangers à l’Académie des Sciences 11 (1851): 693-776. 2 plates. 270 x 206 mm. 19th century marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. Fine. Second edition, enlarged, of Bernard’s memoir recording his destruction experiments on..... More
Brussels: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1985. Beautifully illustrated catalogue showing the evolution of bookbinding styles in Belgium from 1800 to the present. Includes some in color. More
Paris: O. Doin, 1891. Paris: Octave Doin, 1891. 8vo, (4), ii, 518pp. Modern stiff wrappers, original printed wrappers bound in, spine cracking. Light browning. First edition. Norman 214: 'In this companion volume to De la Suggestion et de ses Applications, Bernehim attempted to set forth a psychological theory of suggestion..... More
Leipzig & Vienna: Deuticke, 1892. BERNHEIM, Hippolyte (1840-1919). Neue Studien ueber Hypnotismus, Suggestion and Psychotherapie .. . Uebersetzt von Dr. Sigm. FREUD. 8vo. xii, 380pp. 245 x 165 mm. Contemporary cloth-backed boards. Ex library but a very good copy. Leipzig & Vienna: Deuticke, 1892. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN, translated by..... More
University of Illinois Press, 1992. More
New York: 1966. Berson, Solomon A. (1918-72) and Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011). Insulin in the blood and insulin antibodies. Offprint from The American Journal of Medicine 40 (1966). 676-690pp. Text diagrams. 268 x 188 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Light toning but very good. Docketed. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Berson and..... More
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1803. From a Royal Library Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748-1822). Essai de statique chimique. 2 vols., 8vo. viii, 543 [1]; viii, 555 [1, errata]pp. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1803. 197 x 125 mm. Tree sheep, gilt spines, French royal arms in gilt on front covers. Occasional scattered foxing, but..... More
Margin: 161x101 mm. Foxing, faint soiling. Mounted.+. More