Toledo, Ohio: Blade Printing and Paper Co., 1886. 8vo. 43 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full page woodcuts (1 map). Original printed wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of Fort Meigs. Front wrapper detached, small stamp of the Garrett Biblical Institute as well as their Sold stamp to front wrapper. First... More about Fort Meigs. A condensed history of the most important military point in the Northwest, together...

Oxford: Leon: Lichfield, 1640. Folio. [xxxviii], 60, [14], 477, [21] pp., including contents and index. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND EXPANSION. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and engraved title signed by William Marshall, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Early tree calf, rebacked with decorations and title in... More about Of the advancement and proficience of learning or the partitions of sciences IX. Written in Latin...

Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1878. 8vo. x, 621, [1] pp. Contemporary leather-backed boards. A very good copy; some stains to endpapers. An early work by Baer on alcoholism. What distinguishes the book is the extensive use of statistical samples and an astonishing attention to all facets of the disease from its... More about Der Alcoholismus, sein Verreitung und seine Wirkung auf den individuellen und socialen Organismus...

Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. 4to. [viii], 40, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. First edition of Baer's famous discovery... More about De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi

Antwerp: 1715. 4to. (prelims mispaginated with pp. 5- 12 missing), 64, 854, (1) pp. Frontisportrait (loose), title r/b, half-titles, full-page engra. Contemporary calf, rebacked, new spine with gilt and raised bands. Leaves browned, some staining. Later edition. Included in the present volume is the author's tracts on earthquakes, the tarantula... More about Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica

London: John Murray, 1856. 8vo. xvi, 456 pp., plus 32 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, frontispiece, small vignette of Prince Tshukuma on the title page, large folding plate of plans of the ship Pleiad, folding map of rivers. Half morocco over linen, gilt spine; a very nice... More about Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kow’ra and Bi’nue (Niger and Tsadda) in 1854

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. 12mo. [vi], 196, [2] pp. Later edition. With several text diagrams. Original blind stamped publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine; interior excellent. With the bookplate of Arnold Thackray on the paste- down, and the ownership signature of E.H. Hall... More about Mind and body. The theories of their relation. Part of the “International Scientific Series,”...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 8vo. 542 pp., including half-title and index. First American Edition. Portrait of the author plus 2 separate frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), plus 50 woodcut text illustrations. Modern cloth with the original covers and spine laid down; folding map torn in a number of... More about Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade

London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1921. Three volumes. 4to. xvi, 340; xvi, 328; x, 341 pp., including half-titles and illustrated additional titles. SECOND EDITION. With 60 colored plates after Grönvold, Lodge and Keulemans, 15 black and white plates and 2 maps. Original half-morocco over cloth boards, spines of Volumes... More about The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks

London: Henry S. King, 1876. 8vo. xxiv, 380 pp., including half-title, plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plate (detached) with tissue guard, text illustrations. Contemporary cloth, worn, title in gilt with decoration on front cover; interior uncut. From the James Dolan collection with his bookplate on paste down... More about The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled sheepskin with black morocco spine label, advertising end-papers, all edges marbled; paper residue to front paste-down, small damp-stain to fore-edge margin of first 100 pages, binding lightly scuffed and soiled, overall a solid very good copy. First edition. More about A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the...

San Francisco: The History Company, 1889. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Navy cloth, gilt lettering to top cover. First edition. Gilpin was instrumental in setting up the government of the Oregon Territory, and was first governor of the Colorado Territory. Rare. More about History of the life of William Gilpin; A character study

Utrecht: G. Paddenburg & G. Croon, 1723. 4to. [16], 679, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Originally published as a series of dialogues under the title Historia medicinae (1710), this collection of medico-historical essays deals with practices of and attitudes towards medicine in antiquity through the middle ages... More about De medecinae origine et progressu