of the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraved Portrait by T. Wageman.
London: C. Hinton, 1819. Plate: 200x131 mm. Margin: 207x133 mm. Some soiling around edges, faint foxing. More
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Return to earth. Author's signed presentation inscription on front free endpaper
New York: Random House, 1973. Original cloth-backed boards (slightly faded at upper edges), pictorial dust jacket [6], 338, [2]pp. Frontispiece and 6 leaves of plates. Presentation inscription on the Front free endpaper: "To Ruth Phillips You can come & see my gallery anytime. With best wishes Buzz Aldrin." First edition..... More
Engraved Portrait.
Margins: 175x119 mm. Remnants of mounting on reverse of print, very small tear on bottom margin. More
Engraved Portrait.
London: T. Gosden. Margins: 222x146 mm. Some very faint soiling around the edges. More
Professeur de Botanique a l'Universite de Bologne. Engraved Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu after Gandolfi.
Margin: 200x135 mm. Some foxing. More
Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy and Member of the Academy of Sciences. Engraved Portrait.
C. Stalker, 1789. Mounted in passe-partout. Mount: 158x101 mm. Margin: 219x151 mm. Top margin slightly darkened. More
Practica Alexandri yatros greci cum expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de Partibus et Januensis in margine posite
Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. Alexander of Tralles (ca. 525 – ca. 605). Practica Alexandri yatros grecium expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de partibus et Januensis in margine posite. 4to. [8], 93, [1]ff. Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. 241 x 162 mm. 18th- or 19th-century diced calf gilt, brass bosses and clasp fittings..... More
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
Alexander, James. A.L.s. to Latimer Clark (1822-98). Dumfries [Scotland,] August 19, 1873. 4pp. 179 x 117 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. An invitation to Clark to visit, issued in conjunction with Alexander's forthcoming "electrical exhibit." In the postscript, Alexander asks Clark whether he shall "require any batteries from Sir W[illiam] Thomson..... More
Television. Very fine copy in very fine dust jacket.
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First Book on Television in English: Superb Copy Dinsdale, Alfred. Television: Seeing by wireless. 8vo. 62pp. London: W. S. Caines for Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 186 x 125 mm. Original printed paper boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very fine copy. Boxed. First Edition of the..... More
Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted.
London: 1856. Alison, Archibald (1792-1867). Lawyer and historian; author of the 10-volume History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons (1833-43), considered the first scholarly English-language study of the French Revolution. 1858. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm..... More
Essai sur l'appareil locomoteur des oiseaux.
Paris: Masson, 1874. First published edition Original printed wrappers. More
Case of cerebral disease in a syphilitic patient.
London: Churchill, 1868. 1st edition. IN: St. George's Hospital Reports III(1868) [55]-65. 8vo. viii, 409, 24pp. 2 chromolithographed plates & text illustrations. 222 x 138mm.Original cloth, gilt, unopened. Slight wear & browning. Very good copy. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 4778. Syphilitic endarteritis of cerebral arteries described. Garrison/McHenry 471. More
Clinical observations with insulin. 1. The use of insulin in diabetic treatment. Offprint
Morristown, NJ: 1922. Allen, Frederick M. (1879-1964) and James W. Sherrill. Clinical observations with insulin. 1. The use of insulin in diabetic treatment. Offprint from Journal of Metabolic Research 2 (1922). [1], 804-985pp. 4 plates. Original printed wrappers, light dampstaining, extremities a bit chipped. Very good. Ownership signature on front..... More
From an original Painting in Possession of the Author. Engraved portrait by Hopwood.
London: Maxwell & Wilson, 1809. Plate: 178x117 mm. Margins: 213x129 mm. Foxing. More
The science of mechanics
Providence: 1829. Allen, Zachariah (1795-1882). The science of mechanics, as applied to the present improvements in the useful arts. . . . 8vo. v, [1], 364, [2, including errata]pp. Engraved folding frontispiece and 4 plates, text illustrations. Providence, R. I.: Hutchens & Cory, 1829. 240 x 150 mm. (uncut). Original..... More
Engraved Portrait by J. C. Sartorius.
Margins: 206x141 mm. Minor creasing. More
Ueber Nucleinsauren
1889. Original Wraps. Altmann, Richard (1852-1900). Ueber Nucleinsäuren. In Arch. Anat. Physiol., Physiol. Abtheil. (1889): 524-36. Whole number, 8vo. [369]-568pp., folding plate. 242 x 165 mm. (uncut & unopened). Original gray printed wrappers, chipped, a few tears. Light dampstain on folding plate, otherwise very good. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 713. Altmann..... More
Ueber Nucleinsäuren. Offprint with 2 others, Miescher's Copies.
1880-89. Miescher's Copies of Altmann's Papers on Nucleic Acids Altmann, Richard (1852-1900). (1) Ueber Nucleinsäuren. Offprint from Arch. Anat. Phys. (1889). 524-536pp. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically. Stamp of the Vesalianum, Physiologisch-chemisches Anstalt, Basel on the front wrapper. (2) Die Structur des Zellkernes. Offprint from Arch. Anat. Phys. (n.d.). 409-411pp..... More
Entsefalometricheskiye issledovaniya mozga v svyazi s polom, vozrastom i cherepnymi ukazatelyami [i.e. En ephalographic Research of the Brain in Connection with Sex, Age and Skull Measurements]
Moscow: 1891. The First Stereotact INstrument for Mapping the Brain Altukhov, Nikolai. Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic]. iii, 55, [1]pp. 6 folding plates, text illustrations. Moscow: Izdatelstvo Moscovskogo Universiteta, 1891. 265 x 180 mm. (mostly unopened). Original printed wrappers, spine repaired, edges..... More
Anatomy of automation
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962. 245 pp. Orig. cloth, dust-jacket (sl. worn). VG. More
Autograph letter signed to Samuel H. Christie
Paris: 1824. Ampère, André Marie (1775-1836). Autograph letter signed to [Samuel Hunter] Christie (1784-1865). Paris, 14 July 1824. 1 page. 225 x 175 mm. Light marginal staining, lacuna from ink oxidation affecting one word. From Ampère, founder of the science of electrodynamics, to British mathematician and physicist Samuel Hunter Christie..... More
Memoires sur l'action mutuelle de deux courans electriques
Paris: 1821. Ampère, André Marie (1775-1836). Mémoires sur l’action mutuelle de deux courans électriques, sur celle qui existe entre un courant électrique et un aimant ou le globe terrestre, et celle de deux aimans l’un sur l’autre. Extrait des Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 68pp. 5 folding plates. [Paris..... More
Report of the select committee on anatomy
London: 1828. Parliament. House of Commons. Report from the select committee on anatomy. Folio. 150pp. [London:] House of Commons, 22 July 1828. 331 x 212 mm. 19th century boards, rebacked and recornered in calf, light edgewear. Very good copy. Old medical library stamp on title and first page. First Edition..... More
Physician General, Madras. Engraved Portrait by L. Schiavonetti after J. Smart.
Margin: 247x181 mm. Some soiling in bottom right corner, very faint foxing. More