Docteur en Medecine de la Faculte de Montpellier, Medecin Consultant du Roi et Professeur au College de France. Engraved Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu.
Plate: 203x140 mm. Margin: 250x180 mm. Hand colored. Very good condition. More
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Engraved Portrait. Engraved forthe Universal Magazine
Plate: 164x108 mm. Margin: 215x122 mm. Faint crease in bottom margin. More
Tractatus de febrium natura & differentiis.... 82pp. manuscript. With Brevis chirurgiae synopsis manuscript 81pp.
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
Engraved Portrait. Appears to be an early kind of advertisement. Caption reads, "The Effiges of W. Atkins the Gout Dr. who for Gouts, Rumetisms, Palsey, and Convultions, and all Pains in any parts he exceedeth all men. both for Safest and speediest Cures, as appears by his book."
circa 1670. Print: 125x75 mm. Mount in passe-partout.147x88 mm. Mounted on paper with ink boarder. Faint soiling. More
Gout Doctor. Engraved Portrait.
Plate: 257x160 mm. Margin: 289x187 mm. Very faint foxing. More
Medical Bibliography. A. & B.
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
Engraved Portrait by Chapman after Drummond.
Margin: 138x92 mm. Left margin trimmed, faint soiling. More
Memoirs sur le mouvement de l'air dans les tuyaux de conduite
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
Research notebook on synapse transmission, containing notes and computer programs, plus 3 other items
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
Air Service Manual. War Department. Air Service Division of Military Aeronautics.
Washington: G.P.O., 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose, signature on pastedown endpaper, otherwise good. More
A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna, Incorporating a Translation of the First Book, by O. Cameron Gruner, M.D. Original cloth, a bit worn, but with three autograph inscriptions by the author.
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..... More
Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
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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[Article on Indian rhinoplasty] in Gentleman's Magazine.
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
Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the computer by Anthony Hyman
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
Observations addressed, at the last anniversary, to the president and fellows of the Royal Society . . .
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
Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions.
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
Johann Sebastian Bach. His work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 by Philipp Spitta; Spitta, Philipp, ed.
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
Cases illustrative of the remedial effects of acupuncturation.
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
Fortran Programmer's Manual. 8 items.
1957. [Backus, John W. (1924-2007).] (1) FORTRAN introductory programmer’s manual. Section I. New York: Programming Research Department, IBM, March 20, 1957. Reproduced typescript. [2], 37 [1]pp. (2) FORTRAN introductory programmer’s manual. Section II. New York: Programming Research Department, IBM, April 10, 1957. Reproduced typescript. [2], 31 [1]pp. (3) FORTRAN introductory..... More
Baro de Verula St. Albani Vicecomes. Engraved Portrait by George Cooke after G. Shepherd.
London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. Margin: 200x103 mm. Very faint soiling. More
Engraved Portrait by J. Posselwhite after J. Houbraken.
London: William S. Orr. Margin: 261x179 mm. Very slight discoloration on right margin. More
Instauratio magna
London: apud Joannem Billium, 1620. Bacon, Francis (1561-1620). Instauratio magna. [Novum organum sive indicia vera de interpretatione naturae.] Small folio. [12, including blank leaf conjugate with engraved title], 172, 181-360, 36, [2]pp. Beautiful engraved title-page by Simon de Passe (1595-1647); early inscriptions partially erased from top margin and center of..... More
Viscount St. Alban. Engraved Portrait by J. Cochran after Van Somer
London: Harding & Lepard, 1829. Margin: 210x130 mm. Very faint foxing. More
Observations on the inflammatory affections of the mucous membrace of the bronchiae. Garrison-Morton.com 3168
London: J. Callow, 1808. x, 133pp. 163 x 103 mm. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards. Very good. "Badham distinguished acute and chronic bronchitis from pneumonia and pleurisy, with which it had previously been confused. He gave the disease its present name" (Garrison-Morton.com). More