1847. Leblanc, Charles. Collection of manuscript documents and drawings on his design for a “belier d’épuisement” (exhaustion ram or pump) for use in canal locks, including: Letter dated 21 December 1847; hand-drawn plan titled “Détailes du collier et du premier support du quart de cercle”; portion of drawing on tissue;..... More
Baltimore: 1904. Osler, William (1849-1919). Typed letter signed to Edward Osgood Otis (1848-1933). 1 page. Baltimore, 23 November 1904. 162 x 231 mm. Creased where previously folded, but very good to fine otherwise. Docketed in Otis’s hand on the verso. With: Otis, Edward Osgood. Nine pamphlets on tuberculosis (complete list..... More
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Kew: 1853. Not dated--written between 1853 and 1867. Recipient was probably Hooker's uncle and contemporary, Dawson William Turner (1815-85). More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. [Aiken, Howard Hathaway (1900-1973) and Grace Murray Hopper (1906–92).] A manual of operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator by the staff of the Computation Laboratory. [16], 561 [3]pp. 17 numbered plates (including frontispiece), text illustrations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. 268 x 200 mm..... More
Bolton: Tillotson's, 1951. “The Best Single Account of the Ferranti Mark I Computer” Manchester University. Manchester University computer. Inaugural conference. July [9-12] 1951. [Bolton: Tillotson’s, 1951.] 40pp. Text illustrations. 282 x 215 mm. Original maroon printed stiff wrappers, title gilt-stamped on upper wrapper, bound with a maroon cord at the..... More
Downe, Kent: 1945. Keith’s letter to Dr. Curwen concerns a donation to Down House, the onetime residence of Charles Darwin, which had been restored and converted into a museum largely due to Keith’s efforts. The letter reads: “Dear Dr. Curwen, Yes! indeed. Cullen’s Nosologie with Erasmus Darwin’s signature in it..... More
Paris: 1783-84. The First Aerial Voyage Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthélemy (1743-1819). Description des expériences de la machine aerostatique de MM. Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a donné lieu. [Vol. ii: Première suite de la description des expériences aérostatiques de MM. Montgolfier, et de celles auxquelles cette découverte a...... More
New York: Schuman's, 1943. Cushing, Harvey (1879-1939). A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. xxxviii, 229pp. 89 figures. New York: Schuman’s, 1943. 254 x 191 mm. Original quarter leather, cloth boards, top edges gilt, stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover, light wear to extremities, front cover very slightly warped..... More
Rome: Acc. Nat. dei Lincei, 1950. More
Bern: Haller, 1787. More
Paris: Progres Medical, 1877. More
Leiden: Isaac Severino, 1732. More
1932-69. Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908-2000). Collection of 24 offprints and one journal article, as listed below. 1932-1969. In original printed wrappers or without wrappers as issued. One offprint with presentation inscription from Quine to Roderick Firth (1917-87), Quine's colleague as professor of philosophy at Harvard. Five of the offprints..... More
1948. Offprint from Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society 12. 67-74pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1946. Offprint from American Mathematical Monthly 53. 314-317pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly sunned. VG+. More
1948. Offprint from Journal of the Indian Mathematics Society 12. 75-78pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly spotted. VG+. More
1948. Offprint from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 54. 685-692pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1946. Offprint from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 52. 527-537pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1947. Offprint from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 53. 1011-1020pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1947. Offprint from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 53. 1169-1176pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1948. Offprint from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 54. 184-190pp. Original printed wrappers. Fine. More
1588. 173 x 120 mm.; platemark measures 79 x 62 mm. After the portrait by Hans Bock the Elder, painted in 1588. Remains of mounting on verso, but fine otherwise. More
Basel: C. de Mechel, 1778. Pigage, Nicolas de (1723-96) and Christian von Mechel (1737-1817). La galerie électorale de Dusseldorff, ou, catalogue raisonné et figuré de ses tableaux . . . Oblong folio. [iii] - xiv, [2], 34, [2], 28, [2], 52, [2], 42, [2], 28, [2], 44pp. 30 engraved plates..... More
1861. Verso inscribed "A. S. Taylor 1861." 102 x 65 mm. More
London: 1865. 97 x 62 mm. More