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

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

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

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

Paris: Chez Debure, 1787. 4to. [4], clxxx, 427, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With decorative woodcut headpieces. Contemporary half-calf over boards; occasional browning, otherwise an excellent copy from the library of Jacob and Friedrich Schurer with their bookplate. First edition of Bailly's valuable history of Eastern astronomy which was separately published..... More

Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1898-1900; 1908. Two works offered together. 8vo. I: Ten parts bound together. 222 pp.; II: xi, 292 pp., including half-title. I: First printings; II: First edition in book form. I: Half burgundy morocco on black cloth boards. With 10 chromolithograph plates by J.G. Keulemans. Despite..... More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1868. 8vo. xxii, [2], 596 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With portrait frontispiece of Baker and his wife, 2 hand colored maps (1 folding), and 23 woodcut plates. Buckram, gilt spine; foxing on frontispiece and first few leaves, otherwise very clean. Ownership inscription in pencil..... More

London: Witherby & Co., 1913. 4to. xv, [i], 260 pp., including half-title and index. SECOND EDITION. With chromolithographed frontispiece and 26 colored plates after Grönvold and Lodge. Contemporary half morocco over cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, some wear to hinges and corners, otherwise a very clean copy from the..... More

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

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

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

London: Chappell & Co., 1893. 8vo. 52 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, faded, front wrapper detached; interior good. First edition, without the advertisements. Rare in this original condition. More

Boston: Draper and Halliday, 1866. Royal 8vo. 477 pp. Original printed wrappers (top wrapper only), chipped, needs re-sewing (first few leaves loose; very fragile. Interior fine. Uncut and unopened. One of the most comprehensive bibliographies of the literature of the Civil War. Sabin, 3743. More