London: Whittacker, 1896. Sennett, Alfred Richard. “Carriages without horses shall go.” Being a reprint of a paper on horseless road locomotion . . . to which is added remarks on the future of horseless road locomotion; notes on the new enactment; the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896; evolution in modes..... More
1957. [Backus, John W. (1924-2007).] (1) FORTRAN introductory programmer’s manual. Section I. New York: Programming Research Department, IBM, March 20, 1957. Reproduced typescript. [2], 37 [1]pp. (2) FORTRAN introductory programmer’s manual. Section II. New York: Programming Research Department, IBM, April 10, 1957. Reproduced typescript. [2], 31 [1]pp. (3) FORTRAN introductory..... More
New York: IBM, 1936. IBM. Machine methods of accounting: A manual of the basic principles of operation and use of international electric bookkeeping and accounting machines. 23 separately paginated parts plus [8]pp. preliminaries. Text illustrations. New York: International Business Machines Inc., [1936]. 282 x 217 mm. In original cloth pressure..... More
1917. Fokker, Adriaan Daniel (1887-1972). The virtual displacement of the electro-magnetic and of the gravitational field in applications of Hamilton’s variation principle. Offprint from Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Proceedings 19 (1917). 17pp. 266 x 182 mm. Original printed wrappers, sunned, light spotting. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed to..... More
Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1930. Milankovi , Milutin (1879-1958). Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, ed. W. Köppen and R. Geiger, Band 1, Teil A. iv, 176pp. Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1930. 256 x 169 mm. Bound with Teil D, Teil E and Teil F of the Handbuch..... More
Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1940. Bennett, Abram Elting (1898-1985) and Avis B. Purdy. Psychiatric nursing technic. 172pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1940. 216 x 145 mm. Original cloth, a bit soiled, minor wear to extremities. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by both authors to Dr. Elvin B. Semrad..... More
1903-1904. Arrhenius, Svante (1859-1927). Collection of 6 offprints on immunochemistry from the library of Hans Sachs (1877-1945) as listed below, five with presentation inscriptions to Sachs from Arrhenius. 1903-1904. Overall very good; see below for condition details. 1. (with Thorvald Madsen [1870-1957].) Anwendung der physikalischen Chemie auf das Studium der..... More
Cadiz: Don Manuel Ximinez Carreño, 1789. Canivell [y Vila], Francisco (1721-96). Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Cirugia de Cadiz. 4to. [8], 156, [4]pp. Cadiz: Por Don Manuel Ximinez Carreño, 1789. 194 x 143 mm. Vellum ca. 1789..... More
1858. Bernard, Claude (1813-78). De l’influence de deux ordres de nerfs qui déterminent les variations de couleur de sang veineux dans les organes glandulaires. Offprint from Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 47 (1858). 8pp. 281 x 229 mm. (uncut). Original plain wrappers, creased horizontally, tiny chips in..... More
Paris: 1793. France. Conseil de Santé. Tableau des infirmités qui nécessitent la réforme, et doivent empêcher l’admission au service militaire [title on leaf 2]. Manuscript document addressed to the Minister of War, signed by nine members of the Conseil de Santé including Antoine-Auguste Parmentier (1737-1813), Antoine Dubois (1756-1837), Guillaume Daignan..... More
1954-66. Crick, Francis H. C. (1916-2004). (1) Nucleic acids. Offprint from Scientific American (September 1957). 8, [4]pp. (2) The structure of the hereditary material. Offprint from Scientific American (October 1954). 7, [1]pp. (3) The genetic code. Offprint from Scientific American (October 1962). 9, [1]pp. (4) The genetic code: III. Offprint..... More
Philadelphia: Literary Rooms, 1831. Thackrah, Charles Turner (1795-1833). The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity . . . 180pp. Philadelphia: Literary Rooms . . . Office of the Journal of Health . . . 1831. 128..... More
London: W. Phillips, 1825. Scrope, George Poulett (1797-1876). Considerations on volcanos, the probable causes of their phenomena, the laws which determine their march, the disposition of their products, and their connexion with the present state and past history of the globe, leading to the establishment of a new theory of..... More
Paris: Béchet jeune, 1832. Trebuchet, Adolphe (1801-65). Code administrative des établissemens dangereux, insalubres ou incommodes. [6], xvi, 17-320pp. Paris: Béchet jeune, 1832. 211 x 126 mm. 19th-century quarter calf gilt, marbled boards, paper label on spine, light rubbing and edgewear. Minor foxing but very good. 19th-century French library stamp on..... More
Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. Alexander of Tralles (ca. 525 – ca. 605). Practica Alexandri yatros grecium expositione glose interlinearis Jacobi de partibus et Januensis in margine posite. 4to. [8], 93, [1]ff. Lyon: Franciscus Fradin, 1504. 241 x 162 mm. 18th- or 19th-century diced calf gilt, brass bosses and clasp fittings..... More
Paris: Lesguillez Frères, 1801. Legallois, César Julien Jean (1770-1814). Le sang est-il identique dans tous les vaissaux qu’il parcourt? [2], 5-149, [1]pp. Paris: Chez l’auteur; de l’Imprimerie de Lesguilliez Frères, An X—1801. 193 x 126 mm. 20th-century quarter vellum, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, remains of paper label on spine. Minor..... More
1937. Wigner, Eugene (1902-95). On the consequences of the symmetry of the nuclear Hamiltonian on the spectroscopy of nuclei. Offprint from Physical Review 51 (1937). 107-119pp. 267 x 200 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly darkened at margins. Very good. H. A. Kramers’ copy, with his name in pencil in block..... More
1532. Paul of Aegina (fl. 640). De medica materia libri septe[m], totius fere artis medic breviarum . . . Albano Torino Vitodure[n]si interprete . . .Sextus vero de chirurgia quem German non sunt interpretati, a Ioane Bernardo Feliciano Veneto nunc primum latinitate donatus. Folio. [28], 438pp. Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 1532..... More
1938-39. Rabi, Isidore I. (1898-1988); Sidney Millman (1904-2006); Polykarp Kusch (1911-93); Jerrold R. Zacharais (1905-86). (1) A new method of measuring nuclear magnetic moment. Offprint from Physical Review 53 (1938). Single sheet, unbound. 267 x 200 mm. Browned at edges, light fraying, piece missing from upper corner (not affecting text)..... More
1536-44. Adamantius (fl. 5th century CE). Physiognomicon, id est de naturae indiciis cognoscendis libri duo, per Ianum Cornarium medicum physicum latine constripti. 8vo. 203, [5]pp. Basel: Robert Winter, 1544. [With:] Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca (1467-1504). Physiognomiae et chiromantiae compendium. 8vo. [214]pp. Numerous text woodcuts of chiromancy. Strasbourg: Apud Ioannem Albertum..... More
Lyon: Jacques Myt, 1516. Valesco de Tarenta (fl. 1382-1418). Practica Valesci de Thara[n]ta: Que alias Philonius dicitur. Una cum domini Joannis de Tornamira introductio. 8vo. [8], 424pp. (paginated in roman numerals). Lyons: Jacobus Myt, 1516. 178 x 123 mm. Old half calf, paste paper boards, original clasps lacking, spine wormed..... More
Antwerp: En casa de Juan Latio, 1555. One of the Rarest Botanical Works of the 16th Century [Laguna de Segovia, Andrés (1499-1559).] Dioscorides Pedanius (ca. 40-90 CE). Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y...... More
Strasbourg: Joannus Scotus, 1532. [Abulcasis (936-1015.] [Priscianus, Theodorus (fl. 4th cent.)] Horatianus, Octavius. Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor . . . Albucasis [sic] chirurgicorum omniu[m] primarii, lib. tres . . . Folio. [8], 319pp. 8 full-page woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin (ca. 1480 – post 1526). Argentoratum [Strasbourg]: apud Joannem Schottum, 1532..... More
Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 1519. Ptolemy (c. 100 – c. 170). Quadriparti Ptolo. Que in hoc volumine continentur hec sunt: Liber quadripartite Ptolomei . . . Folio. [4], 140ff. Woodcut initials and text diagrams. Venice: Heirs of Octavianus Scotus, 1519. 310 x 216 mm. Old quarter vellum, boards, rebacked, corners worn..... More
1927. Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958). Über Gasentartung und Paramagnetismus. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 41 (1927). 81-102pp. 228 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly worn. Very good. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Pauli to H. A. Kramers (1894-1952) on the front wrapper: “Meinem lieben Kramers mit den herzlichsten Grüßen! [in pen]..... More