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London: 1878. [Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80).] Post mortem examinations for accident insurance companies [and] Found drowned. Galley proof, with autograph corrections, of two unsigned articles published in the British Medical Journal (Jan.-June 1878): 25-26 and 96-97. [London, 1878.] 1 sheet. 635 x 150 mm. Creased but very good. From the..... More
![The Englesham [sic] poisoning case. Galley proofs, with pencil corrections. Alfred Swaine Taylor](/pictures/thumb/46193.jpg?v=1614123363)
London: 1858. [Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80).] The Englesham [sic] poisoning case. Galley proofs, with pencil notes and corrections, of an unsigned article published in the Medical Times and Gazette, n.s., 16 (1858): 36-38. [London, 1858.] 2 sheets printed on rectos only, the longer measuring 570 x 156 mm. A few..... More
London: 1847. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Experiments on Professor Liebig’s new test for prussic acid, with remarks on its application in medical jurisprudence. Galley proofs, with autograph corrections, of Taylor’s article published in The London Medical Gazette, n.s., 4 (1847): 765-770. [London, 1847.] Single broadsheet, printed on recto only. 448..... More
London: 1864. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Cases and observations in medical jurisprudence. Galley proofs, with extensive autograph corrections, of Taylor’s article published in Guy’s Hospital Reports 25 (1864): 173-201. [London,] 1864. 10 sheets of the same width but varying lengths, the longest measuring 634 x 150 mm. Some rodent damage..... More
Berlin: 1909. First Sales Brochure for a Wright Brothers Airplane [Wright Brothers.] Flugmaschine Wright G.m.b.H. Flugmaschine Wright G.m.b.H. 12pp. Text illustrations. Berlin: Vereinigte Verlagsanstalten G. Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei Aktiengesellschaft, 1909. 256 x 168 mm. Original wrappers printed in silver, light wear, fore-edge irregularly trimmed. Very good copy. Ownership stamp of..... More
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, 1958. Inscribed to British botanist William T. Stearn. Garrison-Morton.com 9740. More
Cincinnati: 1861. Fine copy. See HistoryofInformation. More
1839. Jacquard, Joseph Marie (1752-1834). Portrait in silk of Joseph-Marie Jacquard after an original oil portrait by Claude Bonnefond, manufactured by Didier, Petit et Cie; woven by Michel-Marie Carquillat (1803–1884) in Lyon, France, 1839. The image, including caption and Carquillat’s name, taking credit for the weaving, is 55 x 34..... More
1948. 1 Feynman, Richard (1918-88). A relativistic cut-off for classical electrodynamics. In The Physical Review 74 (1948): 939-94. Whole number. 851-990pp. 267 x 197 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine. First Edition, journal issue of Feynman’s paper proposing a modification of classical electrodynamics to a form suitable for quantization. Feynman received..... More
1906. Hornaday, William Temple (1854-1937). Autograph draft in ink and pencil, unsigned, with numerous emendations, to Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). 4 pp. on 3 sheets, on letterhead of the New Willard Hotel in Washington DC. Washington DC, 3 December 1906. 265 x 202 mm. 2 small marginal tears, small rust-stains..... More
1862. Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume B. A. (1806-75). Signed charcoal drawing of a faradized subject after Fig. 53 in Duchenne’s Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862). N.p., n.d. (between 1862 and 1875). 172 x 155 mm. Fine. Extremely Rare Signed Original Drawing of the subject illustrated in Fig. 53 of..... More
Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1569. Daléchamps, Jacques (1513-88). Chirurgie françoise . . . avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necessaires pour l’operation manuelle . . . 8vo. [52], 933, [5]pp. Lacking leaf y1 (pp. 337-338). Woodcut author’s portrait and over 300 woodcut text illustrations. Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1569. 160 x 103 mm..... More
Lear, Walter J. (1923-2010). Archive of manuscript, typescript, reproduced and printed materials dealing with his health activism and researches on the U.S. health left. Circa 300 pages. 1980s-1990s. Very good. Archive of materials created by Walter J. Lear, pioneering LBGT physician and activist for health care reform and LGBT rights..... More
1653. [Shakerley, Jeremy (1626 – ca. 1655).] Tabulae Britannicae, the British tables . . . Manuscript copy in an unidentified 17th or 18th-century hand. 63, [1], [16]pp., plus several blank leaves in front and back. N.p., n.d. [1653 or after]. 153 x 98 mm. Old sheep ruled in blind on..... More
1933. Fermi, Enrico (1901-54) and George Uhlenbeck (1900-1988). On the recombination of electrons and positrons. Offprint from Physical Review 44 (1933). 2pp. 268 x 201 mm. Single sheet, unbound. Some marginal fraying especially at right, some soiling, horizontal crease, a few small marginal tears. Good copy. From the library of..... More
1909-1910. [Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer.] Payen, L. (Veuve [Widow]). (1) Arithmomètre Payen modèle 1908 . . . Machine à calculer . . . [4]pp. Text illustrations N.p., n.d. [ca. 1910]. 287 x 231 mm. Unbound advertising circular. Creased horizontally, a few marginal tears. (2) Arithomètre L. Payen . .... More
Paris: 1879. [Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer.] Sebert, H. Rapport . . . sur la machine à calculer dite arithmomètre inventée par M. Thomas (de Colmar) et perfectionée par M. Thomas de Bojano. Offprint from Bulletin de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, series 3, 6 (1879). 34pp. 2 folding plates..... More
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