Le conducteur de machines typographiques.
Paris: Imprimerie de Jules Claye, 1872. More
New Arrivals
Victorian Color Printing. Ltd to 141 copies.
Leicestershire: Plough Press, 1981. More
The companion to the newspaper; and journal of facgts in politikcs, statistics, and public economy.
London: Charles Knight, 1834. More
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-94). Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Authorized edition. [8], 138, [2, blank], [4, adverts.]pp. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886. 178 x 125 mm. Original publisher’s green cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front cover, top edges gilt, slight edgewear... More
Observations recueillies à la Clinique de M. Trouvé, médecin en chef des hôpitaux de Caen . . . Effets de l’acupuncture dans des cas de paralysie . . .
1828. Pelletier, B. Observations recueillies à la Clinique de M. Trouvé, médecin en chef des hôpitaux de Caen . . . Effets de l’acupuncture dans des cas de paralysie . . . In Archives Générales de Médecine 18 (1828): 196-212. Whole volume. [3]-624pp., plate. 204 x 124 mm. 19th century... More
Discours de reception de Claude Bernard. Reponse de M. Patin
Paris: Didier & Cie. 1869. 53pp. plus 30pp. publisher's adverts. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped and splitting. Very good. More
The factors of insanities.
London: Danks & Son, 1894. "Reprinted from the Medical Press and Circular, June 15, 1894." 25pp. No wrappers. 180 x 126 mm. More
Ueber das Schreien der Kinder im Mutterleibe vor dem Risse der Eihäute
Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1826. vi, 113pp. 208 x 123 mm. 19th century boards, handwritten paper spine label, light wear. Upper corner of front endpaper cut away; bookplate of Harvard Medical University Library. Very good. First edition. On the phenomenon of "Vagitus uterinus" (fetal crying in the womb) prior to... More
The life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. Cushing, Harvey (1879-1939). The life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. xiii, [3], 685, [3]; x, [2], 728pp. Frontispieces and 39 photographic plates. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1925. 231 x 147 mm. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines, somewhat worn and shaken, small tear in top of... More
Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu [Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki].
[Japan and Western Medicine.] Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu [Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki]. Original pen, ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk, with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century]. 483 x 363 mm., mounted as a.... More
Illustrations of cutaneous disease
London: Bailliere, 1841. Willis, Robert (1799-1878). Illustrations of cutaneous disease: A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms . . . Folio. [166]ff., unpaginated. 94 hand-colored lithographed plates by Arch[ibald] Henning (1805-64). London: Hippolyte Baillière; Paris: J. B. Baillière; Leipzig: J.... More
Experienze . . . intorno a diverse viscere taglite a diversi animali viventi . . . dedicate all'illustrissimo Signore Francesco Redi
Florence: F. Onofri, 1680. Zambeccari, Giuseppe (1655-1728). Esperienze . . . intorno a diverse viscere tagliate a diversi animali viventi . . . dedicate all’illustrissimo Signore Francesco Redi. 4to. 30, [2]pp. Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1680. 250 x 182 mm. 19th-century marbled boards, paper spine with printed label, spine a bit... More
Some aeronautical experiments. Experiments in soaring flight. Journal issues.
1901-1903. Invention of the Airplane Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912). (1) Some aeronautical experiments. In Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 6 (1901): 489-510. (2) Experiments and observations in soaring flight. In Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 8 (1903): 400-417. Together two journal volumes. 222 x 145 mm. Library... More
Doctor Willis. Medal in tin
1789. Willis, Francis (1717-1807). Doctor Willis. Medal in tin showing Willis in three-quarter profile on the obverse, with the reverse reading “Britons rejoice your king’s restored 1789.” Signed “C. I.” on the obverse, followed by a serpent (?). N.p., 1789. Minor discoloration, tiny nick in edge, but very good. A.... More
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On the interaction of elementary particles II [- IV]. 3 parts
1937-38. First Japanese Physicist to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics Yukawa, Hideki (1907-81). (1) [with Shoichi Sakata] On the theory of the -disintegration and the allied phenomenon. Offprint from Proceedings of the Physico-Mathematical Society of Japan, 3rd series, 17 (1935). 467-479pp. Original printed wrappers. Presentation Copy, inscribed “With the... More
Selected papers 1945-1980 with commentary. Emilio Segrè's copy
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1983. [14], 596pp.; halftone illustrations. Original soft covers, light wear & finger-soiling. From the library of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè (1905-89), with his signature on the half-title. Yang shared the 1957 Nobel Prize with Tsung-Dao Lee for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. More
Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent
London: 1912. Autograph letter signed, with natural history content. 2pp. London, May 28, 1912. The Rev. Theodore Wood wrote several popular works on natural history, including "The Animal World" and "Birds One Should Know." In the present letter Wood answers a query about the turbot, a species of flatfish: "I... More
Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted.
London: 1856. Wiseman, Nicholas, Cardinal (1802-65). Influential Roman Catholic leader in England; appointed first Archbishop of Westminster by Pope Pius IX after the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850; author of numerous works, including the enormously popular pro-Catholic novel Fabiola (1854). 1857. 200 x 148... More
Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted.
London: 1856. Williams, William Fenwick (1800-1883). Military leader and war hero best known for his defense of the Turkish city of Kars during the Crimean War (1855); Member of Parliament from 1856 to 1859; first Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. 1857. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm. More
Pol i razvitie ego priznakov. K analizu formoobrazovania u zhivotnykh. Das Geschlecht und die Entwickelung der Geschlechtsmerkmale.
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1922. Zavadovsky, Mikhail Michailovich (1891-1957). [In Cyrillic:] Pol i razvitie ego priznakov. K analizu formoobrazovania u zhivotnykh. Das Geschlecht und die Entwickelung der Geschlechtsmerkmale. 255pp. 20 colored plates, text illustrations. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1922. Original printed boards, worn at edges, corners and spine, one corner bumped. Minor... More
Human gastric function
London: Oxford University Press, 1943. xv, 195pp. Plates. 236 x 154 mm. Original cloth, spine a bit faded, slight wear. Very good. Typed letter signed from Steward Wolf to Eugene Bliss laid in. First edition. More
Sketches in Bedlam; or charactieristic traits of insanity
London: Sherwood, Jones, 1823. xl, 312pp., plus 16pp. publisher's adverts. 228 x 135 mm. Modern quarter calf, boards. Very good. First edition. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 757-758. More
Medicine and science: A bibliographical catalogue [Cat. 91]. Modern quarter morocco, original front wrapper bound in
London: Dawson, 1958. [4], 610, [4]pp. 70 plates. 230 x 150 mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards, light edgewear. Very good. First edition. More
The Journal of Psychological Medicine. Vols. 1-13
London: 1848-60. 13 volumes. 214 x 133 mm. 19th century half calf, marbled boards (not uniform), some wear, hinges cracking. Very good internally. Edited by Forbes Winslow. The first English journal exclusively devoted to discussion of medico-psychological literature. After 1860 it continued another three years as "The Medical Critic and Psychological Journal" More