New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1845. Rivers, Henry Wheaton (1814-67). Accidents: Popular directions for their immediate treatment; with observations on poisons and their antidotes. 108pp. Text illustrations. New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1845. 191 x 118 mm. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine (faded, extremities chipped). Title-leaf..... More
Oxford: Humphrey Milford Oxford U. P., 1920. A physician’s anthology of English and American poetry. xxiii, 346pp. London: Oxford University Press, 1920. 165 x 110 mm. Original cloth, very slight wear at extremities. Fine. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Wood on the front free endpaper: “To Mrs. Spotiswood in memory of..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1856. Reeves, Charles Evans. Diseases of the stomach and duodenum. xv, [1], 354, [2]pp. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1856. 198 x 125 mm. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine, some wear at hinges and extremities. Moderate toning but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the..... More
Leipzig: Johann Gottfried Mueller, 1793. Treutler, Friedrich August (1766-1819). Observationes pathologico-anatomicae auctarium ad helminthologiam humani corporis continentes. 4to. [8], 43pp. 4 hand-colored engraved plates. Leipzig: Sumptibus Ioannis Godofredi Mueller, 1793. 225 x 186 mm. Half sheep, boards ca. 1793, a little rubbed and spotted. Outer margin of first plate trimmed..... More
Thames Ditton. Watson, Hewett Cottrell (1804-81). Autograph letter signed to [Thomas?] Twining. 7pp. on two bifolia. Thames Ditton, 28 January [no year; ca. 1850]. 185 x 115 mm. Fine. From Hewett Watson, British botanist, phrenologist and evolutionary theorist. Watson, the editor of the London Catalogue of British Plants from 1844..... More
1883. Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-95). Etched portrait (mounted) by Leopold Flameng after the 1883 portrait by John Collier (1850-1934), signed in the plate by Huxley. London: The Fine Art Society, 1 January 1885. 583 x 423 mm.; mount measures 604 x 440. Scattered foxing, small tear in lower margin not..... More
London: Dr. Thornton, 1805. Linnaeus, Carl (1707-78). Linnaeus in his Lapland dress. Mezzotint portrait, hand-colored, by Robert Dunkarton after the painting by Martin Hoffman. London: Published by Dr. Thornton, 1 June 1805. 505 x 351 mm. (platemark); 565 x 459 mm. (sheet). A few small chips and marginal tears not..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1871. Howe, Joseph W. (1843-90). Emergencies and how to treat them: The etiology, pathology, and treatment of the accidents, diseases, and cases of poisoning, which demand prompt action. 265pp. plus 6pp. adverts. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871. 220 x 147 mm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered..... More
1930-32. Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954). (1) Sul calcolo degli spettri degli ioni. Offprint from Memorie della Reale Accademia d’ Italia: Classe di scienze fisiche matematiche e naturali 1, Fisica no. 2 (1930). (2) L’effeto Raman nelle molecole e nei cristalli. Offprint from ibid., Fisica no. 3 (1932). Together 2 offprints. Rome..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1939. xiv, 429 [3]pp. Text illustrations. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. P., 1939. 230 x 151 mm. Original cloth, a little shaken, light wear at edges and extremities. Very good copy. Ownership signature (Fred Weiss) dated 8/29/39; a few penciled notes and underlinings. First Edition. Pauling’s..... More
1954. Offprint from Annual Review of Nuclear Science 4 (1954). 219-270pp. 219 x 151 mm. Original printed wrappers. From the library of Nobel laureate Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006), with his signature on the front wrapper. Very good. First edition, offprint issue. Gell-Mann, the physicist who coined the term "quark," received the..... More
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaards Forlag, 1954. 55pp. 234 x 149 mm. Original printed wrappers. From the library of Nobel Laureate Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006), with his signature on the front wrapper. First edition. Aage Bohr, the son of Niels Bohr, received the 1975 Nobel Prize in physics together with Ben Mottelson and..... More
1958. Reproduced (dittoed) typescript. In two parts: 1 - 56; 57 - 98ff. 281 x 217 mm. Unbound, stapled. Light toning but very good. From the library of Nobel Laureate Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006), with his signature on the first leaf of each part. Preprint edition. Dittoed preprint of a paper Bethe published..... More
1950-1960. 1. (with Clyde Wiegand) Proton-proton scattering at 340 Mev. Offprint from The Physical Review 79 (1950). 81-85pp. 268 x 201 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Tear in lower margins of all leaves, light toning. First edition, offprint issue. 2. (With Clyde Wiegand). Experiments on proton-proton scattering from 120 to..... More
1956. Reproduced (dittoed) typescript. 15ff. 282 x 218 mm. Unbound, stapled. From the library of Nobel Laureate Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006), with his signature on the first leaf. Light horizontal creases where previously folded, but very good. Preprint issue of Schwinger's paper, published under the title "The dynamical theory of K...... More
Uppsala: Uppsala University Institute of Physics, 1976. [1], 104ff. Includes illustrations and diagrams. 300 x 214 mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip. Fine apart from small tears in front wrapper. Siegbahn won a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of high-resolution..... More
Uppsala: Uppsala University Institute of Physics, 1975. [2], 70ff. Includes illustrations and diagrams. 300 x 214 mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip. Fine. Siegbahn won a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy. The present paper is "a..... More
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1990. More
San Francisco: Norman, 1990. Since its original publication in 1964, this outstanding book has become the essential and definitive history of electrocardiography. The authors trace the history of electrocardiology from Galvani's discovery in 1787 of electromotive activity in living tissue, to the earliest instruments used to measure electromotive forces in..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1907. First edition. x, [2], 345, [5]pp. 188 x 122 mm. Library buckram. Very good. More
1884. Pasteur, Louis (1822-95). Sur la rage. Offprint from Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 98 (1884). 4pp. 271 x 223 mm. Original plain wrappers, stitching loose, spine splitting but still holding together. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Pasteur began investigating the rabies virus in 1881 (see..... More
New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1873. Later ed. 768pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations. 201 x 133 mm. 19th cent. half calf, marbled boards, rubbed. Very good. More
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington & Haswell, 1837. First American edition. viii, 339pp. 214 x 133 mm. 19th cent. half calf, marbled boards, rebacked, ink-stain on front cover, light wear. Some browning and foxing but very good. More
London: Walter Scott, 1897. First edition in English. vii, 341pp. 181 x 120 mm. Half morocco, marbled boards ca. 1897. Very good. Bookplate. More
London: Walter Scott, 1891. First edition in English. xvi, 370pp., plus 16-page publisher's catalogue. Folding map. 181 x 121 mm. 19th century half morocco gilt, marbled boards, light rubbing. Very good. Bookplate. More