1920. First edition, offprint issue. 347-399pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "Professor [John] Howland with the kind regards of J. J. A. and T. N."; Howland's stamp on front wrapper. Very good. John Howland (1873-1926), the recipient of this copy, was a director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and... More
1919. Offprint from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 13 (1919). 243-300pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "Professor [John] Howland with the kind regards of J.J. A. & S. K."; Howland's stamp on front wrapper. Very good. Abel isolated histamine from the pituitary extract of animals and demonstrated its... More
Philadelphia: for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins, 1847. [Hays, Isaac (1796-1879).] American Medical Association. Proceedings of the national medical conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847. [5]-175pp. (all present). Philadelphia: Printed for the American Medical Association, T. K. & P. G.... More
1908-1910. Dakin, Henry Drysdale (1880-1952). Comparative studies of the mode of oxidation of phenyl derivatives of fatty acids by the animal organism and by hydrogen peroxide. Offprint from Journal of Biological Chemistry 4 (1908). 419-435pp. 234 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers. Stamps of biochemist Lafayette B. Mendel (1872-1935; see... More
1930. Doisy, Edward Adelbert (1883-1986), et al. The preparation of the crystalline ovarian hormone from the urine of pregnant women. Offprint from Journal of Biological Chemistry 86 (1930). 499-509pp. Text illustrations. 226 x 150 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. From the library of Herbert M. Evans (1882-1971), co-discoverer of... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1906. Enderlen, Eugen (1863-1940) and Emil Gasser (1847-1919). Stereoskopbilder zur Lehre von den Hernien. [2], 76pp. 72 stereoscopic photographs, some with additional hand-coloring, in 18 blue card sleeves; the photographs are removable. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1906. 300 x 210 mm. Original cloth, rebacked preserving original gilt-lettered spine... More
Lausanne: Marci-Mic. Bousquet & Soc. 1758. Tissot, Samuel Auguste André David (1728-97). Dissertatio de febribus biliosis; seu histori epidemiae biliosae . . . accredit tentamen de morbis ex manusturpratione. 8vo. xiv, 264pp. Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bousquet & Soc., 1758. 204 x 127 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, vellum corners, light... More
Leuven: 1836-39. Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van (1809-94). Cours de zoologie et d’anatomie comparée. Unpublished manuscript notebook in the hand of Beneden’s student Amand Proost. 530, [64], [86], [34]pp. (irregularly numbered; last 184 pages unnumbered), plus a few inserted leaves. Louvain [Leuven], 1836-39. 192 x 161 mm. Quarter cloth, marbled boards ca... More
Paris: Baillière, 1837-41. Rayer, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Traité des maladies des reins et des altérations de la sécrétion urinaire . . . 3 vols. 8vo, plus folio atlas. xvi, 638; [4], 620; [4], 810pp. (text); [6], 4, [86]pp. (atlas). 6 plates in the first text volume; 60 hand-colored plates... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898. Schimper, Andreas F. W. (1856-1901). Pflanzen-Geographie auf physiologischer Grundlage. xviii, 876, [2, errata]pp. 69 plates, 4 chromolithographed folding maps, text illustrations. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898. 153 x 171 mm. Modern quarter cloth, marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in, top edges gilt. Wrappers a bit soiled... More
London: John E. Taylor, 1862. Hanbury, Daniel (1825-75). Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions. [4], 48pp. Text illustrations. London: John E. Taylor, 1862. 208 x 133 mm. Original cloth, spine faded, inner hinge cracked but sound overall. Light toning but very... More
Edinburgh: 1784. Hutton, James (1726-97). The theory of rain. Offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 (1788). 4to. 46pp. 255 x 198 mm. Quarter calf in antique style. First and last leaves coming loose, minor toning but very good. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue, with only... More
1880-91. Goetz, Wolfgang. The Red Cross, a monthly journal for practical instruction, to aid the sick and wounded in military and civic life. Vol. I, no. 3 (all published?). Bound from parts, variously paginated, original printed wrappers bound in; two presentation leaves bound in the front of the volume, the... More
1840-43. Poitevin, Alphonse (1819-82). Archive consisting of 24 autograph signed manuscript notebooks from Poitevin’s student days at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures and 2 ledgers documenting Poitevin’s business and other expenses in later years. Together 26 volumes, containing over 7000 pages total. 1841-43 and 1856-94. Notebooks measure 217... More
London: Lovell Reeve, 1859. Hooker, Joseph (1817-1911). On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859)... More
Florence: Schemboche, 1871. Menabrea, Luigi Federico (1809–96). Cabinet photograph portrait (head and shoulders) by [Michele] Schemboche (fl. 1865-1906), mounted on printed card. Florence, Rome, Turin, Paris, n.d. [ca. 1870]. 165 x 109 mm. (mount); photograph measures 133 x 98 mm. Light soiling and edgewear but very good to fine. Menabrea’s... More
Zwickau: Schumann. 270 x 221 mm. Light foxing but very good. More
1704. 271 x 170 mm. Tiny tear in lower margin, small crease but very good. Portrait of the author of the "Lexicum Technicum," the first English encyclopedia. More
London: 1939. Whole volume. liv, 1080, iii-vi pp. 258 x 185 mm. Half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, corners worn. First edition. Printing and the Mind of Man 422b. In 1938 Hahn and Strassmann, who were bombarding uranium with neutrons in the expectation of producing “transuranium” elements, discovered barium isotopes among... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1887. More
Montpellier: Picot, 1776. More
Dublin: James McGlashan, 1853. xii, 265pp. plus leaf of adverts. 168 x 105 mm. 19th cent. quarter morocco, marbled boards, slight wear. Very good. First edition. More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878. xxii, [5]-315pp. Frontispiece. 178 x 116 mm. Original cloth, extremities a bit worn. Inner hinges beginning to crack, but very good. Bookplate. First edition. More
