Basel: ex officina Isingrinana, 1542. Fuchs, Leonhardt (1501-1556). De historia stirpium. Folio. [26, of 28], 33, 35-60, [1], 61-896, [4]pp.; lacking leaf 2, containing the first two pages of Fuchs’s letter to the Elector of Brandenburg. Woodcut portrait of Fuchs on verso title, full-page woodcut illustrations drawn by Albrecht Meyer... More
Paris: Didot jeune, 1804. Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe (1781-1826). Propositions sur la doctrine d’Hippocrate, relativement à la médecine-pratique . . . 4to. 39pp. Paris: Didot jeune, An XII (1804). 247 x 195 mm. Later half calf gilt, paste paper boards, slight edgewear. Fine. From the library of Meyer Friedman (1910-2001), with his..... More
London: apud Joannem Billium, 1620. Bacon, Francis (1561-1620). Instauratio magna. [Novum organum sive indicia vera de interpretatione naturae.] Small folio. [12, including blank leaf conjugate with engraved title], 172, 181-360, 36, [2]pp. Beautiful engraved title-page by Simon de Passe (1595-1647); early inscriptions partially erased from top margin and center of... More
Verona: per gli Fratelli Merli, 1699. Rotario, Sebastiano (1667-1742). Ragioni . . . contra l’uso del salasso . . . 4to. 8, 168, 10pp. Verona: per gli Fratelli Merli, 1699. 210 x 161 mm. Limp boards ca. 1699, a bit soiled and worn. Faint dampstains in outer margins of several... More
Paris: Sebstian Cramoisy & Gabriel Cramoisy, 1651. Pecquet, Jean (1622-1674). Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, & ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. 4to. [12], 108pp. Text engravings, including full-page engraving on p. 21. Paris: Sebastian Cramoisy and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1651. 222 x.... More
Paris: Didot le jeune, 1828. Poiseuille, Jean Léonard Marie (1799-1869). Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique. Thèse . . . 4to. 45pp. Engraved plate. Paris: Didot le jeune, 1828. 257 x 206 mm. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. Tiny paper flaws in 2 leaves, a few small spots, but... More
1951. (1) Rutishauser, Heinz (1918-70); Speiser ; and Stiefel, Eduard (1909-78). Programmgesteurte digitale Rechenger‰te (elektronische Rechenmaschinen). Basel: Verlag Birkhauser, 1951. Text diagrams. 227 x 148 mm. (2) Stock, John Robert. Die mathematischen Grundlagen f¸r die Organisation der elektronischen Rechenmaschine der Eidgenissischen Technischen Hochschule. Basel: Birkh‰user Verlag, 1956. 73 [1]pp. Text... More
Berlin: Hobbing, 1929. [Tabulating Machine Company - C-T-R - IBM]. Feindler, Robert. Das Hollerith-Lochkarten-Verfahren f¸r maschinelle Buchhaltung und Statistik. Berlin: Reimar Hobbing, 1929. Modern black cloth. 425pp. Text illustrations. 243 x 166 mm. Provenance: This copy bears several circular rubber stamps of the Treuhandseminar an der Universit‰t Kˆln. In the..... More
New York: Dover, 1961. Babbage, Charles. Charles Babbage and his calculating engines. Selected writings by Charles Babbage and others. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison. New York: Dover Publications, ©1961. Original pictorial soft covers, back cover a bit soiled. VG. xxxviii, 400pp. Text illustrations. 203... More
1819. Babbage, Charles. (1) On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series. Extract from Philosophical Transactions 109 (1819).249-282pp. Bound with: (2) Babbage and Herschel. Account of the repetition of M. Arago's experiments on the magnetism manifested by various substances during the act of rotation... More
1962. [Von Neumann, John.] Burks, Arthur; Goldstine, Herman; and von Neumann. Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument. In Datamation 8, no. 9 (September 1962): 24-31; and no. 10 (October 1962): 36-41. Together two numbers, in original printed wrappers. Small rust-marks from paper clips. Both numbers... More
1920. First edition, offprint issue. 347-399pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "Professor [John] Howland with the kind regards of J. J. A. and T. N."; Howland's stamp on front wrapper. Very good. John Howland (1873-1926), the recipient of this copy, was a director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and... More
1919. Offprint from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 13 (1919). 243-300pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper inscribed: "Professor [John] Howland with the kind regards of J.J. A. & S. K."; Howland's stamp on front wrapper. Very good. Abel isolated histamine from the pituitary extract of animals and demonstrated its... More
Philadelphia: for the AMA by T. K. and P. G. Collins, 1847. [Hays, Isaac (1796-1879).] American Medical Association. Proceedings of the national medical conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847. [5]-175pp. (all present). Philadelphia: Printed for the American Medical Association, T. K. & P. G.... More
Lausanne: Marci-Mic. Bousquet & Soc. 1758. Tissot, Samuel Auguste André David (1728-97). Dissertatio de febribus biliosis; seu histori epidemiae biliosae . . . accredit tentamen de morbis ex manusturpratione. 8vo. xiv, 264pp. Lausanne: Marc-Michel Bousquet & Soc., 1758. 204 x 127 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, vellum corners, light... More
Paris: Baillière, 1837-41. Rayer, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Traité des maladies des reins et des altérations de la sécrétion urinaire . . . 3 vols. 8vo, plus folio atlas. xvi, 638; [4], 620; [4], 810pp. (text); [6], 4, [86]pp. (atlas). 6 plates in the first text volume; 60 hand-colored plates... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898. Schimper, Andreas F. W. (1856-1901). Pflanzen-Geographie auf physiologischer Grundlage. xviii, 876, [2, errata]pp. 69 plates, 4 chromolithographed folding maps, text illustrations. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898. 153 x 171 mm. Modern quarter cloth, marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in, top edges gilt. Wrappers a bit soiled... More
London: John E. Taylor, 1862. Hanbury, Daniel (1825-75). Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions. [4], 48pp. Text illustrations. London: John E. Taylor, 1862. 208 x 133 mm. Original cloth, spine faded, inner hinge cracked but sound overall. Light toning but very... More
Edinburgh: 1784. Hutton, James (1726-97). The theory of rain. Offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1 (1788). 4to. 46pp. 255 x 198 mm. Quarter calf in antique style. First and last leaves coming loose, minor toning but very good. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue, with only... More
1880-91. Goetz, Wolfgang. The Red Cross, a monthly journal for practical instruction, to aid the sick and wounded in military and civic life. Vol. I, no. 3 (all published?). Bound from parts, variously paginated, original printed wrappers bound in; two presentation leaves bound in the front of the volume, the... More
1840-43. Poitevin, Alphonse (1819-82). Archive consisting of 24 autograph signed manuscript notebooks from Poitevin’s student days at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures and 2 ledgers documenting Poitevin’s business and other expenses in later years. Together 26 volumes, containing over 7000 pages total. 1841-43 and 1856-94. Notebooks measure 217... More
London: Lovell Reeve, 1859. Hooker, Joseph (1817-1911). On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859)..... More
Florence: Schemboche, 1871. Menabrea, Luigi Federico (1809–96). Cabinet photograph portrait (head and shoulders) by [Michele] Schemboche (fl. 1865-1906), mounted on printed card. Florence, Rome, Turin, Paris, n.d. [ca. 1870]. 165 x 109 mm. (mount); photograph measures 133 x 98 mm. Light soiling and edgewear but very good to fine. Menabrea’s... More
