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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Haven: 1852. Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864). Autograph letter signed (“B. Silliman Senior”) to N. O. Round [?]. Bifolium (4pp.). New Haven, 14 September 1852. 206 x 134 mm. Small tears along folds, light soiling but very good. More
