Hand-colored Engraved Portrait by A Van Assen.
London: W, Richardson, 1795. Margin: 115x142 mm. Soiling, foxing, small tear in top margin, manuscript annotation in black ink, torn bottom left corner. More
London: W, Richardson, 1795. Margin: 115x142 mm. Soiling, foxing, small tear in top margin, manuscript annotation in black ink, torn bottom left corner. More
London: Whittaker & Co., 1839. Margin: 266x174 mm. Some very faint foxing, otherwise in very good condition. More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819. Whole volume. xxiii, vii, 435pp. 6 plates. 211 x 131 mm. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards. Very good. "Bostock’s classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus,' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock’s catarrh.' It begins the modern era in the clinical..... More
1820. 202 x 157 mm. Light dust-soiling, faint marginal crease. Good+. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828. Whole volume. xxiii, [3], 463pp. 5 plates. 213 x 130 mm. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards. Very good. "On the history and aetiology of hay fever" (Garrison-Morton.com). More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828. Whole volume. xxiii, [3], 463pp. 5 plates. 227 x 144 mm. Original boards, rebacked in cloth. Library stamp and bookplate. Very good. More
Charlottenberg: 1926. Bothe, Walther (1891-1957). Typed letter signed with manuscript corrections, in German, to Walther Gerlach (1889-1979). 1 page on one sheet; letterhead of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. Charlottenburg, 20 July 1926. 277 x 217 mm. Creased where previously folded, but fine otherwise. Letter with excellent scientific content from Walther Bothe..... More
Paris: 1821. Bottin, Sébastien (1764-1853). (1) Autograph letter signed to Admiral Sir [William] Sidney Smith (1764-1840). Paris, July 31, 1821. 1 page plus integral blank, on stationery of the Société Royale des Antiquaires de France. 317 x 219 mm. (2) Description d'une plaque d'or portant une inscription en lange et..... More
Paris: 1875. Few marginal tears, otherwise good. More
Paris: Jung-Treuttel, 1860. Boucher de Perthes, Jacques (1788-1868). De l’homme antédiluvien et de ses oeuvres. [4], 99, [3]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Jung-Treuttel; Derache; Dumoulin; Didron, 1860. 229 x 140 mm. Modern cloth; original printed wrappers bound in. Fore-edges a bit frayed, small split in inner margin of front wrapper, foxed..... More
Paris: Bechet, 1825. Whole volume, 636pp. 200 x 125mm. Contemporary green cloth with mottled paper sides. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. Library stamp on title page and ffep. Minor foxing and toning, otherwise a very good copy. Jean Baptiste Bouillaud was a French physician who was an early advocate of..... More
Paris: Bechet, 1827. Whole volume, 640pp.130 x 200mm. Library stamp on the half-title page. Quarter morocco with mottled boards and gilt lettering on spine. Spine is rather rubbed. Some edgewear. Pages are a bit toned, otherwise a good copy. Bouillaud identified the anterior lobes as the speech center. Refuting Gall..... More
Paris: Baillière, 1858. Bouisson, Étienne Frédéric (1813-84). Tribut à la chirurgie ou mémoires sur divers sujets de cette science. 2 vols. x, 584; [4], 576pp. 21 lithographed plates. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils; Montpellier, Patras . . . , 1858-61. 265 x 208 mm. 19th-century half morocco, marbled boards, spines..... More
1929. Bourdillon, Robert Benedict (1889-1971) et al. The absorption spectrum of Vitamin D. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 104 (1929). 561-583pp. Plate. 252 x 177 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine. From the library of American chemist and physiologist Jesse Francis McClendon (1880-1976), with his stamp on the..... More
Paris: 1870. Preparation by Ludovic. Engraved by Roussin after a drawing by Jacob. Very good to fine condition. 60 x 40 cm. This is one of the largest and most dramatic images in the spectacular Bourgery & Jacob set of anatomical atlases. More
Brussels: Comptoir des éditeurs, 1854. Bourgery, Jean-Baptiste Marc (1797-1849) and Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871). Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, representant chacune un sujet dans son entier à la proportion de demi-nature . . . Atlas only. Elephant folio. Title-leaf and 20 lithographed plates, most hand-colored. Brussels: Meline, Cans et Cie;..... More
Paris: Delaunay, 1831-54. Bourgery, Jean-Baptiste Marc (1797-1849) & Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme comprenant la médecine opératoire. Multi-vol. set. 8 vols. (text plus atlas) bound in 14 volumes. Frontispiece (bound in the first text volume) and 726 hand-colored lithographed plates by Jacob; lithographed titles in..... More
Paris. Plate: 187x128 mm. Margin: 277x204. Some faint creasing, light foxing and soiling. More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1910. First edition. Boveri, Theodor (1862-1915). Die Potenzen der Ascaris-Blastemeren bei abgeänderter Furchung. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage qualitativ-ungleicher Chromosomen-Teilung. Offprint from Festschrift zum sechzigsten Geburtstag Richard Hertwigs (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1910), vol. 3. [4], 133-214pp. 6 chromolithographed double-page plates, text illustrations. 284 x 203 mm. (uncut..... More
London: 1860. Bowman, William (1816-92). Portrait photograph by Maull & Polyblank. [London: Maull & Polyblank,] n.d. [ca. 1860]. 200 x 147 mm. (image); 299 x 253 (mount). Lower corner of mount a bit soiled, traces of mounting on the verso, but very good. Subject identified in pencil in the lower..... More
Margin: 129x92 mm. Minor foxing. More
Print: 148x93 mm. Mount: 184x125 mm. Print mounted on paper with ink boarder. Some chipping on right and left margins, small pin hole in top margin, remnants of former mounting on reverse of print. More
London: Charles Knight. Margin: 250x172. Very good condition. More
London: Macmillan, 1870. The Beginning of Modern Bibliographical Analysis Bradshaw, Henry (1831-86). A classified index of the fifteenth century books in the collection of the late M. J. de Meyer . . . 28pp. London; Macmillan, 1870. 223 x 147 mm. (uncut and unopened). Original plain wrappers, spine chipped. Very..... More