London: William Pickering, 1833. Second edition. 1/2 leather. 8vo. 314pp. Text illustrations after Bell's drawings. Half-calf, rubbed. corners worn. Ex-libris stamp on pastdown, signature on title-page, otherwise good. One of the great classics on the hand, touching on the hand's anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, sense of touch, kinesthetics, adaptive..... More
London: Pickering, 1837. Fourth edition. Cloth. xvi, 368pp. 227 x 139 mm. 8-page publisher's catalogue in the front. Text illustrations after the author's drawings. Original cloth, paper spine label, spine a little faded. Light toning but very good. Fourth edition of one of the great classics on the hand, touching..... More
London: Pickering, 1834. Third edition. Cloth. vii, 348pp. 8-page publisher's catalogue in the front. Original cloth, paper spine label, light wear at hinges and extremities. Very good copy. 222 x 140 mm. One of the great classics on the hand, touching on the hand's anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, sense..... More
London: Pickering, 1833. 1st edition. xv, 288pp. Text illustrations after Bell's drawings. Later cloth. 225 x 140 mm. Library bookplate. First Edition of one of the great classics on the hand, touching on the hand's anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, sense of touch, kinesthetics, adaptive importance, etc. "In this work..... More
Boston: Wells & Wait... 1811. Letters concerning the diseases of the urethra. [8], 13-155, [9]pp. 6 engraved plates after Bell’s drawings. Boston: W. Wells & T. B. Wait . . . , 1811. 206 x 122 mm. 129th century quarter sheep, marbled boards, spine a bit worn. Some foxing and..... More
London: Longman, 1807-1809. 1st. Surgery Based on Anatomy. Bell, Charles (1774-1842). A system of operative surgery, founded on the basis of anatomy. 8vo. xxxii, 448; xxiv, 385, [1], [6]pp. (adverts.). 21 full-page plates engraved after Bell's drawings by J. Stewart; 93 engraved text figures after Bell. London: Longman. .... More
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1815. 1st American ed. Badly browned and stained. More
New York: Collins & Perkins, 1810. More
New York: Collins and Perkins, 1810. Bell, John (1763-1820). The principles of surgery. Abridged by J. Augustine Smith . . . with notes and additions. xii, 562pp. 7 plates, text illustrations. New York: Collins and Perkins, 1810. 210 x 130 mm. 19th century tree calf, front hinge cracked, light wear..... More
New York: Collins, 1812. 2Am. 4 vols. in 2. (vols. 3 & 4 by Charles Bell.) 2nd American edition. 8vo. with125 engravings including 33 plates. Contemporary tree-calf, red morocco labels, worn at edges of backstrips. Covers are loose. Lightly browned, foxed, signature of an early owner, dated 1815, but good..... More
Bologna: ex typographia HH. Antonij Pisarrii, 1683. First edition. Inscribed by Bellini Bellini, Lorenzo (1643-1704). De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris. 4to. [20], 606 [i.e., 608]pp. Woodcut ornaments. Bologna: ex typographia HH. Antonij Pisarrii, 1683. 216 x 161 mm. Vellum c. 1683..... More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp. 1958. Bellman, R. E.; Glicksberg, I.; and Gross, O. A. Some aspects of the mathematical theory of control processes. Santa Monica, Calif.: The RAND Corporation, January 16, 1958. Original cream printed wrappers, sl. darkened at spine and edges. xix [1], 244pp. Text diagrams. 236 x...... More
Brussels: 1875. Beneden, Edouard van (1846-1910). La maturation de l'oeuf, la fécondation, et les premières phases du développement embryonnaire des mammifères. . . . Offprint from Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2nd series, 40 (1875). 8vo. 53 [3]pp. Brussels: F. Hayez, 1875. 212 x 137 mm. Original printed wrappers, a...... More
Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Faint foxing in bottom margin, otherwise in very good condition. More
Leuven: 1836-39. Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van (1809-94). Cours de zoologie et d’anatomie comparée. Unpublished manuscript notebook in the hand of Beneden’s student Amand Proost. 530, [64], [86], [34]pp. (irregularly numbered; last 184 pages unnumbered), plus a few inserted leaves. Louvain [Leuven], 1836-39. 192 x 161 mm. Quarter cloth, marbled boards ca..... More
1907. Benedikt, Moritz (1835-1920). Autograph note signed on mourning stationery, dated 30.1.07 (January 30, 1907). Single sheet, 178 x 113 mm. Creased horizontally, light wear along fold. Accompanied by typescript translation and portrait photograph of Benedikt. Very good. Benedikt's response to a letter of condolence--"Your kind note is of special..... More
Plate: 110x76 mm. Margin: 193x125 mm. Some faint foxing in top left corner. More
1952. (1) Bennett, John and Kendrew, John (1917-97). The computation of Fourier syntheses with a digital electronic calculating machine. In Acta Crystallographica 5 (1952): 109-116. (2) Cochran, William; Crick, Francis (1916-2004); and Vand, Vladimir. The structure of synthetic polypeptides. I. The transform of atoms on a helix. In ibid.: 581-586..... More
London. Longmans... 1889. 1st edition. Bennett, William H. A case in which acute spasmodic pain in the left lower extremity was completely relieved by sub-dural division of the posterior roots. . . IN: Medico-chirurgical Transactions. 72 (1889) [329]-348. 8vo. xcv, 457pp.10 plates (2 or 3 color) & text illustrations. 220..... More
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
La Haye: 1784. 1st edition. More
The Hague: 1784. 1st edition. More
