London: 1858. Garrod, Alfred Baring (1819-1907). Autograph letter signed to Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-80). 12pp. [London] Harley Street, Cavendish Square, 10 December 1858. 178 x 105 mm. Minor soiling to first and last pages, creased along previous folds, but very good. Docketed in Taylor’s hand. Excellent and unusually long letter...
London: 1839. Brande, William Thomas (1788-1866). Autograph letter signed to Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-80). 4pp. [London] The Royal Mint, 21 October 1839. 233 x 185 mm. Last page a bit dust-soiled, but very good otherwise. Docketed in Taylor’s hand. Letter discussing “photogenic drawing” from chemist William Thomas Brande to toxicologist...
1807. Rare engraved portrait of James Fraser, a well-known London bookbinder, alluding to his role as one of “The Prosecuting Masters” in a late eighteenth-century labor dispute between bookbinding masters and journeymen. It may be the only print relating to social conditions in the English bookbinding industry published during this.....
1870-71. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Autograph medical report relating to the notorious Boulton and Park sodomy trial in Victorian London. 2 pages on one sheet. N.p., n.d. [London, 1870 or 1871]. 319 x 202pp. 2 lacunae along folds, affecting a few words, otherwise very good. Remarkable document in the hand...
Cambridge: MIT, 1952. [Forrester, Jay Wright (1918-2016) and Charles W. Adams.] Digital computers and their applications. Lecture-notes summer session 1952. Mimeographed typescript. [123]ff., variously numbered. Text diagrams. Cambridge: Digital Computer Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952. 286 x 220 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit faded, in later cloth binder...
St. Petersburg: 1832. Korsakov, Semyon Nikolaievich (1787-1853). Aperçu d’un procédé nouveau d’investigation au moyen de machines à comparer les idées. [2], 22pp. 2 folding plates. St. Petersburg: De l’imprimerie de la III-me section de la chancellerie privée de Sa Majesté Impériale, 1832. 213 x 135 mm. Original printed wrappers, vertically.....
National Physical Laboratory, 1948-51. Wilkinson, James Hardy. (1) Confidential. Progress report on the Automatic Computing Engine. Mimeograph typescript. [1], 127ff. 12 plates. N.p.: National Physical Laboratory, April 1948. 324 x 202 mm. Original tan printed wrappers, green cloth spine, small tear in upper portion of backstrip, corners a bit worn...
1898-1904. Curtis, Charles (1853-1928); Walter Fox (1858-1934). Archive of 21 autograph letters (18 by Curtis, 3 by Fox) signed to James Kortright Birch (1850-1927), plus a watercolor sketch of orchids and additional materials; list available on request. Penang Botanic Gardens (Malaysia), 12 December 1892 – 23 November 1904. Various sizes...
London: The Patent Office, May 26, 1954. ENIAC. Patent specification 709,407 . . . Electronic numerical integrator and computer. 188pp. 65 diagrams (all but 1 folding). London: The Patent Office, 26 May 1954. 275 x 191 mm. Library buckram. First edition. First Printed Edition of the Patent for the the...
1828. Morton, Samuel George (1799-1851). Description of two new species of fossil shells of the genera Scaphites and Crepidula: With some observations on the ferruginous sand, plastic clay, and Upper Marine formations of the United States. Offprint from Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6 (1829). 16...
London: 1867. Lombe, Thomas (1685-1739). A.D. 1718. No. 422. Specification of Thomas Lombe. Engines to wind, spin, and twist silk. 5pp. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867. 266 x 173 mm. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Fore-margin a bit trimmed, marginal tear on front wrapper, traces of glue from...
1964. Mathematical Theory behind the CT Scanner-Beginnings of Digital Image Processing. Cormack, Allan M. (1924-98). (1) Representation of a function by its line integrals, with some radiological applications. In J. Applied Physics 34 (1963): 2722-27. Whole number. 2535-2922pp. Text illustrations. (2) Representation of a function by its line integrals, with...
New York: Henry Holt, 1890. James, William (1843-1910). The principles of psychology. 2 vols. [2], xii, 689; [2], vi, 704, 8 (adverts.)pp. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. 218 x 142 mm. Original olive cloth, gilt-lettered spines, light wear, a few tiny splits in spinal extremities. Light toning, minor...
1953. Watson, James D. (1928- ) and Francis H. C. Crick (1916-2004). Molecular structure of nucleic acids. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. With: Wilkins, Maurice (1916-2004); A. R. Stokes; H. R. Wilson. Molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids. With: Franklin, Rosalind (1920-58) and R. G. Gosling. Molecular configuration in...
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1774. Hunter, William (1718-83). Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures. Double folio. 21 unsigned and unpaginated leaves, each leaf a single sheet. 34 engraved plates prepared by 17 engravers from drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk (fl. 18th...
Morristown, NJ: 1922. Allen, Frederick M. (1879-1964) and James W. Sherrill. Clinical observations with insulin. 1. The use of insulin in diabetic treatment. Offprint from Journal of Metabolic Research 2 (1922). [1], 804-985pp. 4 plates. Original printed wrappers, light dampstaining, extremities a bit chipped. Very good. Ownership signature on front...
New York: 1966. Berson, Solomon A. (1918-72) and Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011). Insulin in the blood and insulin antibodies. Offprint from The American Journal of Medicine 40 (1966). 676-690pp. Text diagrams. 268 x 188 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Light toning but very good. Docketed. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Berson and...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. Evans, Herbert McLean (1882-1971) & Olive Swezy (b. 1878). The chromosomes in man: Sex and somatic. [6], 41pp. 11 plates; text illustrations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. 327 x 252 mm. Library buckram, a bit soiled, library shelfmark on spine, library card pocket...
Boston: Little & Brown, 1840. Second edition. Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773-1838). Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By his son, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch [1805-61]. 172pp. 2 plates, including frontispiece. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Original cloth, gilt-lettered label on front cover, moderate wear, faded strip along foot of front cover...
1856. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Mémoire sur le pancréas et sur le role du suc pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs . . . Extract from Supplément aux Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1 (1856): 379-563 [1]pp. 9 lithographed plates (4 hand-colored) on 5 sheets. 277 x 216 mm. 19th.....
1844. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du nerf spinal. Extract from Mémoires des Savants étrangers à l’Académie des Sciences 11 (1851): 693-776. 2 plates. 270 x 206 mm. 19th century marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. Fine. Second edition, enlarged, of Bernard’s memoir recording his destruction experiments on.....
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1921. Osler, William (1859-1919). The evolution of modern medicine: A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913. xiv, [2], 243pp. Text illustrations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. Original cloth, light wear at extremities and corners. Very good...
Halle: Carl Marhold, 1909.
Halle: Carl Marhold, 1909. Magnus-Levy, Adolf (1865-1955). Das Koma diabeticum und seine Behandlung. 54, [10, adverts.]pp. Halle: Carl Marhold, 1909. 233 x 151 mm. (unopened). Without wrappers. Light spotting but very good. First Edition. Magnus-Levy pioneered the study of human metabolism and its relation to such diseases as diabetes, goiter...
Chicago: 1924. Libman, Emanuel (1872-1946) and Benjamin Sacks (1896-1939). A hitherto undescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis. Offprint from Archives of Internal Medicine 33 (1924). 39pp. Text illustrations. 256 x 174 mm. Original gray printed wrappers, slight wear and spotting. Very good. From the library of Herbert M. Evans...
