1914. Abel, John Jacob (1857-1938); Rowntree, Leonard G.; and Turner, B. B. On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis. Offprint from J. Pharm. & Exp. Therapeutics 5 (1914). 8vo. 275-316pp. Text illustrations. 267 x 182 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly chipped at..... More
Edinburgh: 1820. Abercrombie, John (1780-1844). Autograph letter signed, dated Edinburgh, 20th November 1820, to Dr. Thomas H. Burder (1789-1843). 4pp., including integral address leaf. 251 x 202 mm. Creased where previously folded, light wear along a few folds, light soiling, but very good, preserving Abercrombie's wax seal. Excellent long letter..... More
London: 1862. Airy, George Biddell (1801-92). A.L.s. to Charles Tilston Bright. London, August 15, 1862. 4pp. 188 x 119 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Airy served as Great Britain's astronomer royal from 1835 to 1881, and was a noted critic and frequent adversary of Charles Babbage. In 1862 he undertook the..... More
Washington DC: NASA, 1969. [Apollo 11.] Hage, George H. (1925-2008). Apollo 11 mission director’s briefing for news media. Reproduced typescript. 78pp. (irregularly numbered), including diagrams. Washington, DC: NASA, 16 June 1969. 268 x 205 mm. Unbound (stapled). Some damage from paper clips on a few leaves, including rust stains and..... More
Bailliere, 1856. Bernard, Claude (1813-73). Fr [ancois] Magendie. Leçon d'ouverture du cours de médecine du Collège de France. . . . 8vo. [4] 36pp. Paris: Baillière, 1856. 222 x 143 mm. Original printed wrappers. Light marginal dampstaining, but very good. Bernard's autograph presentation inscription on the front wrapper: "Monsieur le..... More
1848. Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848). Jacobus Berzelius. Medal in bronze showing a right-facing bust of Berzelius on the obverse with his birth and death dates in roman numerals; the reverse with a standing winged figure and the seated figure of Hygeia along with text in Latin. Signed “P. H. Lundgren..... More
Paris: Chez Labe. Blandin, Philippe-Frédéric (1798-1849). De l’usage des inhalations d’éther dans les opérations chirurgicales. Offprint from L’Union médicale (March 1847). 15pp. Paris: Labé, 1847. 205 x 135 mm. Later marbled wrappers. Fine copy. First Edition, Offprint Issue, very rare. Blandin, the noted French surgeon and professor at the Faculté..... More
London: 1861. Bright, Charles Tilston (1832-88). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. London, January 31, 1861. 2pp. 178 x 110 mm. Remains of mounting on verso of second leaf. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Bright was engineer-in-chief of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, formed by himself, Cyrus Field, George Saward, and J. W. Brett in..... More
Paris: Bailliere, 1826. 1st edition. Calmeil, Louis Florentin (1798-1895). De la paralysie consideree chez les alienes, recherches faites dans le service de feu M. Royer-Collard et de M. Esquirol. 8vo. [4] ii, 446pp. Paris and London: J.-B. Bailliere, 1826. 198 x 122 mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards in period..... More
London: 1809. With an Autograph Letter from Dibdin Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). The bibliomania; or, book-madness; containing some account of the history, symptoms, and cure of this fatal disease . . . iv, 87pp. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. 214 x 124 mm. 20th century half calf, marbled..... More
Boston: Willam A. Hall & Co., 1843. Dods, John Bovee (1795-1872). Six lectures on the philosophy of mesmerism, delivered in the Marlboro’ Chapel . . . 68pp. Boston: William A. Hall & Co., 1843. 180 x 113 mm. Disbound. First and last leaves a bit soiled, but very good. First..... More
1907. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: “Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung etc.” Offprint from Annalen der Physik 22 (1907). Single sheet (p. 800). Unbound as issued. 223 x 145 mm. Lower corner lightly creased, but very good. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue. Einstein’s important correction to his paper..... More
1941. Offprint from Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Revista, Serie A, 2 (1941). 11-15pp. 270 x 179 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. "Address to joint meeting of the American Physics Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers, Princeton, Dec. 29, 1941, under the title: 'Solutions of finite mass of..... More
Paris: 1546. Leaf S2. Recto (p. 275): Prone male figure with top of skull removed, caption beginning “Entends que tout ce qui estoit comprins dens les os de la teste . . .” Verso: no image. 360 x 241 mm. Front margin reinforced on the verso, small tear in lower..... More
London: Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, Hugh (1808-65). Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer, A.M., M.D. . . . Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. Vol. I: lvi, 590pp. 34 plates, text illustrations. Vol. II: xiii, [77], 675pp. 38 plates, text illustrations. 215 140 mm..... More
1933. Stern, Otto (1888-1969); Otto Robert Frisch (1904-79) Über die magnetische Ablenkung von Wasserstoffmolekülen und das magnetische Moment des Protons. I. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 85 (1933). 4-16pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly spotted. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Using the molecular beam method he had developed in the..... More
Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1756. Haller, Albrecht von (1708-77). Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang et sur les effets de la saignée, fondés sur des expériences faites sur des animaux. [2], viii, 343pp. Engraved frontispiece. Lausanne: Marc-Mic. Bousquet, 1756. 165 x 100 mm. Calf gilt ca. 1756, worn especially at..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1878. 1st edition. folio.viii, 130pp. With 20 hand-colored lithographed plates after drawings by J.B. Leveille. 283 x 202mm. Contemporary half morocco, gilt, rubbed, front hinge needs repair, tear in free-endpaper. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. One of the great teachers of anatomy and surgery in England, Heath was..... More
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1866. Hodgkin, Thomas (1978-1866). Narrative of a journey to Morocco, in 1863 and 1864. 8vo. [20], errata slip, xii, 183pp., plus 24pp. adverts. 7 lithographed plates, including frontispiece (4 hand-colored, 2 tinted), the hand-colored Moroccan scenes after Hodgkin’s drawings. London: T. Cautley Newby, 1866. 268 x...... More
Boston: 1875. Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94). Autograph verses from “The Chambered Nautilus,” signed. 1 sheet. Boston, 9 December 1875. Lightly creased vertically. Framed with: Holmes. Engraved portrait by J. A. J. Wilcox (1835-1913), signed by Holmes in the plate. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1870]. And: Holmes. An example of his “Chambered..... More
1880. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-95). On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the vertebrata, and more particularly of the mammalia. Offprint from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1880). 649-662pp. 223 x 156 mm. Original plain wrappers, small split at spine, minor dust-soiling. Very..... More
1932. Joliot, Frédéric (1900-1958) & Joliot-Curie, Irène (1897-1956). Sur la nature du rayonnement pénétrant excité dans les noyaux légers par les particules alpha. Offprint from C. r. des séances de l’Acad. d. Sci. (April 11, 1932). 8vo. 3, [1]pp. 243 x 161 mm. Original printed wrappers, somewhat faded. Moderate browning..... More
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1910-1912. Keibel, Franz (1861-1929) & Franklin P. Mall (1862-1917), editors. Manual of human embryology. 2 vols. iii-xviii, 548; viii, 1032pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott, 1910-12. 260 x 176 mm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered spines, shaken, inner hinges in Vol. II splitting..... More
Paris: V. Masson, 1871. Lancereaux, Etienne (1829-1910). Atlas d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. (text and atlas). Text: xi, 552pp.; atlas: [4], [30, interleaved plate keys], [6, “Table des figures”]pp. and 60 chromolithographed plates by P. Lackerbauer. Paris: Victor Masson et fils, 1871. 267 x 186 mm. Quarter morocco gilt, mottled boards..... More
1828. Lindley, John (1799-1865). Autograph letter signed to Richard Taylor (1781-1858). 4pp. N.p., December 26, 1828. 192 x 122 mm. Minor soiling but very good. From botanist John Lindley, professor of botany at London University, longtime assistant secretary at the Royal Horticultural Society, and the foremost British expert on orchids..... More