Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Amsterdam: 1685. This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 plates engraved after Gérard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst. Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First printing, in dust-jacket.Very good copy. More
London: 1800. Invention of the Electric Battery Discovery of the Infra-Red Rays Volta, Alessandro (1747-1827). (1) On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds. In: Philosophical Transactions 90, part 2 (1800), pp. 403-31. Folding plate (famous illustration of voltaic pile). With: Herschel, Frederick William..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. [Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90); Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94), Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-93) et al.] Rapport des commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l’examen du magnétisme animal. 4to. 66pp. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 238 x 187 mm. 18th-century ownership signature of [Gabriel] Depéret de Maury, physician of Limoges. Bound with..... More
1784. [Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90); Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94), Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-93) et al.] Exposé des expériences qui ont été faites pour l’examen du magnétisme animal, lu à l’Académie des Sciences . . . 16pp. N.p., 1784. 212 x 141 mm. (uncut). Original plain wrappers. Paper flaw in last leaf, but fine..... More
Geneva: Didot jeune, 1779. Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815). Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal. 8vo. [2], vi, 85, [3]pp. Geneva & Paris: Didot, 1779. 167 x 106 mm. 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine, front hinge cracked, rear hinge tender, small chip in lower spine, corners worn. Very good, crisp..... More
Edinburgh & London: C. Elliot & G. Robinson, 1785. Stevens, Edward (1754-1834). (1) Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis, de alimentorum concoctione . . . In: Thesaurus medicus edinburgensis novus: Sive, dissertationum in academia edinensi, ad rem medicam pertinentium, ab anno 1759 ad annum 1785 . . . Tomus I (Edinburgh & London..... More
London: A. Millar & D. Wilson; T. Payne, 1752. Pringle, John (1707-82). Observations on the diseases of the army, in camp and garrison. xxiii, 431pp. London: A. Millar and D. Wilson; T. Payne, 1752. 207 x 129 mm. Calf gilt ca. 1752, rebacked preserving original spine, corners a bit worn..... More
1926-32. Hammond, John (1889-1964).] Bound collection from Hammond’s library of 13 numbers of the Carnegie Institute’s Contributions to Embryology series, with Hammond’s signature on the front free endpaper and manuscript index in his hand on the two front endpapers. 1926-1932. 291 x 228 mm. Quarter cloth, boards, some wear but..... More
Paris: Crochard, 1832. Manec, Pierre Joseph (1799-1884). Traité théorique et pratique de la ligature des artères. [6], 32pp., plus 12 printed plate keys. 13 lithographed plates by Nicolas-Henri Jacob (1782-1871), enhanced with hand coloring. Paris: Librairie Médical de Crochard, 1832. 458 x 290 mm. Quarter calf, marbled boards in period..... More
Konstanz: 1869. Esmarch, Johann Friedrich (1823-1908). Der erste Verband von Professor Esmarch. Triangular cotton bandage printed with illustrations. Konstanz: Gabriel Herosé A.G., n.d. [ca. 1869]. 89 x 89 x 128 cm. Framed (not under glass). Slight soiling but very good to fine. An original Esmarch first-aid bandage, introduced in 1869..... More
Paris: Crevot, 1825. Morand, J. Mémoire sur l’acupuncture, suivi des observations recueillies sous les yeux de M. Jules Cloquet. 56pp. Paris: Chez Crevot, 1825. 233 x 190 mm. Later marbled boards. Minor foxing and toning but fine otherwise. First Edition, and very rare on the market—this is the first copy..... More
Savur, Srinivasa Rao. The median as a statistic. Offprint from Current Science, 5(8): 419-[420], 1937. 244 x 176 mm. Single unbound sheet, without wrappers. The right-hand margin is chipped and frayed. Good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. From the library of Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980). More
Savur, Srinivasa Rao. A general coefficient for statistical relationship. Offprint from Current Science, 6(1): 18-19, 1937. 246 x 187 mm. Original printed wrappers. Good+. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to Raymond T. Birge (1887-1980) inside the front wrapper. 51305. More