Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Auditor of passenger receipts. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 8pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Freight claim agent. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 5 [1]pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Treasurer’s office. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 12pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style 15. Each..... More
Detroit: Burroughs, 1909. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. Users of the railroad Burroughs. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Company, January 15, 1909. Original printed wrappers. [2], 20 [2]pp. Illustrated. 230 x 100 mm. This advertising brochure for the electric version of the Burroughs Railroad Machine includes a list of users..... More
London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1956. National Physical Laboratory. Interdepartmental Study Group on the Application of Computer Techniques in Clerical Work. Wage accounting by electronic computer. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1956. Original white printed wrappers. [2], 57 [1]pp. Text diagrams. 244 x 152 mm. The first report of the study..... More
1817. Babbage, Charles. Solutions of some problems by means of the calculus of functions. Extract from Journal of Science and the Arts 2 (1817): 371–79. Disbound. 215 x 135 mm. A further continuation of Babbage’s work on the calculus of functions, concerned primarily with its geometrical applications. Van Sinderen 1980..... More
1937. Calculating machines in scientific computing. Offprint from Nature 139 (May 15, 1937). Unbound. [2]pp., on single sheet. 215 x 134 mm. A brief notice of the growing use of commercial calculating machines in scientific applications. Special mention is made of L. J. Comrie’s Scientific Computing Service, newly established in..... More
1953. Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua (1915–75). Machine translation. Reproduced typescript. New York: Edmund Berkeley and Associates, [1953]. Without wrappers as issued. [2], 6pp. 281 x 216 mm. The Israeli logician, philosopher, and linguist Bar-Hillel, a professor at MIT, was one of the first theoreticians of machine translation of languages, and a central..... More
1950. Booth, Andrew D. Design principles of all purpose digital computers. Offprint from Acta physica austriaca 4 (1950). Unbound. Inscribed on the first page: “With the compliments of Andrew D. Booth. [85]–97 [1]pp. Text diagrams. 232 x 154 mm. Provenance: Andrew D. Booth. Probably the first paper on the principles..... More
1980. First edition. Booth, A. D. Computers in the University of London, 1945–1962. Offprint from A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, ed. Metropolis, Howlett, and Rota (New York: Academic Press, 1980). Unbound. Inscribed by Booth on p. 551: “I thought that this might interest you. ADB.” 551–561pp. Text..... More
1984. Booth, Andrew Donald and Booth, Ian J. PET revisited, a 40 year overview. Offprint from Physics in Canada 40 (March 1984). Unbound, stapled. Inscribed on p. 57: “With the compliments of IJB.” 57–60pp. Text diagrams. 280 x 217 mm. Provenance: From Andrew D. Booth. Written jointly with Booth’s son..... More
1882. Darwin, Charles (1809-82). Funeral of Mr. Darwin. Westminster Abbey, Wednesday, April 26th, 1882 at 12 o’clock precisely . . . G. G. Bradley, Dean. Printed card, black-bordered, with the Dean’s seal in black wax in the left margin and the letters “C. H.” in red ink on either side..... More
Baltimore: John Murphy, 1881. Sternberg, George M. (1838-1915). A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva. Offprint from National Board of Health Bulletin (1881). 22pp. Plate. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1881. 237 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers, small split in..... More
1933. Blumgart, Hermann L. (1895-1977); Samuel A. Levine (1891-1966); David D. Berlin. Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity. Offprint from Archives of Internal Medicine 51 (1933). 12pp. 255 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers, tiny..... More
![The Antikamnia calendar 1899 [-1900]. Antikamnia Chemical Company, Louis Crusius](/pictures/thumb/45137.jpg?v=1571849246)
St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Co., 1898-99. Antikamnia Chemical Company. (1) The Antikamnia calendar 1899. 6 sheets (plus duplicate of November-December sheet). Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98). St. Louis: Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1898. (2) The Antikamnia calendar 1900. 6 sheets. Chromolithograph illustrations after watercolors by Louis Crusius (1862-98)..... More
San Francisco: 1935. Leake, Chauncey D. (1896-1978). Typed letter signed to Berthold Richard Stuehler. 1 sheet. San Francisco, 18 December 1935. Light spotting, tiny holes along folds, but very good. From pharmacologist and medical historian Chauncey D. Leake, co-discoverer of the anesthetic properties of divinyl ether (Garrison-Morton.com 5713) and author..... More
Venice: per Simonem de Luere, 1499. Guy de Chauliac (1300-1368). Cyrurgia Guidonis de cauliaco. De balneis porectanis. Cyrurgia Bruni. Theodorici. Rolandi. Roberii. Lanfranci. Bertapalie. Jesu Hali de oculis. Canamusali de baldac de oculis. Folio. 270ff. Venice: Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresamus, 23 December 1499. 316 x 213 mm. Blind-paneled..... More
Venice: per Simone de Luere, 1510. Bruno da Longoburgo (1200-1286). La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. 4to. 40ff. Venice: Simon de Luere, 17 June 1510. 201 x 144 mm. Early vellum, author’s name in ink on the spine, endpapers renewed. Small wormholes in last 10..... More
![Erster [ander - dritte] Theil der grossen Wundartzeney. Theophrastus Paracelsus](/pictures/thumb/45126.jpg?v=1571849242)
Frankfurt: G. Raben & heirs of W. Hanen, 1562. Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541). Erster [Ander; Dritter] Theil der grossen Wundartzeney . . . von allen Wunden, Stich, Brendt, Thierbissz, Beinbrüch . . . 3 vols. in 1, 4to. [12], 115, [1, blank]; [12], 129, [1, colophon];..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1869. Leeds, Lewis W. (1829-96). Lectures on ventilation: Being a course delivered in the Franklin Institute, of Philadelphia, during the winter of 1866-67. [4], 60pp. 2 color plates. New York: John Wiley & Son, 1869. 229 x 147 mm. Original green printed paper boards..... More
Paris: Masson et Cie. 1898. Amoëdo y Valdes, Oscar (1863-1945). L’art dentaire en médecine légale. [4], vi, [5]-608, [2, adverts.]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Masson et Cie., 1898. 253 x 166 mm., uncut and unopened. Quarter morocco, marbled boards in period style. Light toning but very good. First Edition of the..... More
1876. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80); Neil Arnott (1788-1874). Elements of physics, or, natural philosophy. Manuscript consisting of text pages, from an earlier edition, of the book’s “Prefatory Note” and Part IV (Heat), sections 554 – approx. 643 and 699 – approx. 716, heavily amended in Taylor’s hand, together with extensive..... More
1862-73. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). (1) Autograph letter signed (draft copy) to publisher John Churchill (1801-75). 3pp. 19 February 1862. Written on the verso and integral blank leaf of Churchill’s letter to Taylor of 18 February 1862. 190 x 114 mm. Minor dust-soiling. (2) The principles and practice of medical..... More
