1720. Astruc, Jean (1684-1766). Tractatus de febrium natura & differentiis. Authore D. D. J. Astruc in alma Monspelliensiu[m] medicinae facultate professore regio dignissimo. Manuscript document. 4to. 76pp. N.p., 1720. Together with another medical ms. in the same hand (Brevis chirurgiae exegesis. Seu synopsis, per summaria capita . . .), 81pp..... More
circa 1670. Print: 125x75 mm. Mount in passe-partout.147x88 mm. Mounted on paper with ink boarder. Faint soiling. More
Plate: 257x160 mm. Margin: 289x187 mm. Very faint foxing. More
London: John Churchill, 1834. 8vo. Original cloth, recased retaining original spine and remains of original paper label. Light foxing to preliminary and last few leaves but a very good copy. Medical library bookplate on pastedown; no library stamps. Perhaps the funniest book in the entire history of bibliography, and one..... More
London: Bacon & Co., 1865. [Atlantic Cable.] The Atlantic Telegraph. Printed broadside, with hand-colored wood-engraved illustrations. London: Bacon & Co., [1865]. 83.6 x 58 cm. Two horizontal folds reinforced on verso, a few tiny lacunae slightly affecting a few words, marginal tear repaired, minor soiling, but very good. Matted. A...... More
Margin: 138x92 mm. Left margin trimmed, faint soiling. More
Paris: Huzard, 1824-1829. The Author's Copy, With his Corrections Aubuisson de Voisins, Jean Francois d'. Memoirs sur le mouvement de l'air dans les tuyaux de conduite. 5 offprints bound under a general title. Calf c. 1829, gilt-ruled, gilt spine, front hinge cracking, rear hinge tender. Minor foxing & browning, but..... More
Vienna: Stamperia imperiale, 1853. More
1969-1979. Invention of the Self-Monitoring Pacemaker Auerbach, Albert (d. 2005) (1) Synaptic transmission. Computer model parametric study. Volume containing autograph ms., computer printouts, graphs, etc., including numerous graphs mounted with clear tape. Approx. 200ff., in cloth binder, hand-lettered label on front cover. 280 x 219 mm. Some tape mountings detached..... More
Washington: G.P.O., 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose, signature on pastedown endpaper, otherwise good. More
London: Luzac & Co, 1930. Inscribed by the author in English and with two Arabic quotations and translations: On the front free endpaper: "Beatrice Davies Cook, Inscribed by the Author. O. Cameron Gruner. On the verso of the front free endpaper: In Arabic in red ink, beneath which is the translation..... More
1873. Japan's Telegraphic System Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. Tokyo, March 2, n.y. [between 1873 and 1878]. 7pp. 155 x 101 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Ayrton, a pupil of Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), was a noted physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, and technical educator; his wife..... More
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London: Nichols, 1794. The First Report Published in Europe on the Hindu Method of Rhinoplasty B. L. Article on Hindu rhinoplasty. In: The Gentleman's Magazine LXIV, pt. 2, no. 4 (October, 1794) 891-92, 1 plate (at p. 883). 8vo. [2], [585]-1212, [16]pp. (containing 6 numbers, July-December, 1794 & supplement). 19..... More
Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1982. [Babbage, Charles] Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the computer. Princeton: Princeton U. P., ©1982. Original dark green boards, pictorial dust-jacket. [16], 287 [1]pp. 16 plate leaves, text illustrations. 236 x 157 mm. Fine apart from sl. wear at extremities. Ownership signature. First edition of a...... More
London: John Murray, 1856. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871). Observations addressed, at the last anniversary, to the president and fel- lows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the med- als. 10, [2]pp. London: John Murray, 1856. 213 x 127 mm. Disbound.Tiny stab-holes in left margin, small chip in last leaf..... More
London: W. Nicol, 1826. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871). On a method of expressing by signs the action of machinery. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions 116, pt. 3 (1826). [2], 16pp. 4 plates. 298 x 229 mm. Original plain blue wrappers, spine split, a few chips; preserved in a quarter morocco drop-back box..... More
1819. Babbage, Charles. (1) On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series. Extract from Philosophical Transactions 109 (1819).249-282pp. Bound with: (2) Babbage and Herschel. Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation..... More
London: 1817. First edition. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871). Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions. Extract from Journal of Science and the Arts 2 (1817): 371-79. 214 x 138 mm. Disbound. Moderate foxing and toning. First Edition. Babbage's major contribution to mathematics was his calculus of functions..... More
1817. Babbage, Charles. Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions. Extract from Journal of Science and the Arts 2 (1817): 371–79. Disbound. 215 x 135 mm. A further continuation of Babbage’s work on the calculus of functions, concerned primarily with its geometrical applications. Van Sinderen 1980..... More
London: Nowello & Co., 1899. 3 vols., 8vo. Original cloth. Library numbers removed from spines but very good overall. The set was translated from the German by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland. London, Novello, 1899. Bookplates of Herbert M. Evans. More
Philadelphia: 1826. One of the First American Scientific Efforts to Alleviate Pain: the First American Study of Acupuncture, Together with First English Translation of Ten Rhyne's "De acupunctura" (1) Bache, Franklin (1792-1864). Cases illustrative of the remedial effects of acupuncturation. In North American Medical and Surgical Journal 1 (1826): 311-321..... More
Philadelphia: for the Author, 1819. More
Paris: Bachelet, 1910. Fine color plates. More
London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. Margin: 200x103 mm. Very faint soiling. More
London: William S. Orr. Margin: 261x179 mm. Very slight discoloration on right margin. More