The beat generation & the angry young men
New York: The Citadel Press, 1958. 8vo. 384 pp. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth with silver lettering on spine, dustjacket lightly worn on the edges; a very crisp and clean copy. More
New York: The Citadel Press, 1958. 8vo. 384 pp. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth with silver lettering on spine, dustjacket lightly worn on the edges; a very crisp and clean copy. More
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906. 4to. v, [i], 79, [1] pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Armorial vignette on title page. Original green gilt cloth; end-papers browned and lightly foxed; uncut. First edition, printed for the members of the Town and Country Medical Club. A collection of verse, chiefly medical..... More
London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, et al. 1790. 8vo. [xiv], 396, [6], 48 pp. Seventh edition. Including directions to binder and a page of publisher’s advertisements. With 36 folding engraved plates by Ferguson and numerous text tables. Full calf, spine worn and front joint loose; interior..... More
Frankfort a.M. Claude de Marne and Jean Aubry, 1593. 8vo. 562, [44] pp. ; 272, [24] pp. LATER EDITION. Woodcut portrait of the author on the title verso. Modern morocco-backed boards. Marginal worming to the first few quires, light marginal dampstaining, final quire gnawed at the outer edge, not affecting..... More
Firenze: Barbera, 1876. 8vo. x, 228 pp., plus leaf of errata at the end of the text. FIRST EDITION. With 1 full-page plate. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards; an excellent copy from the library of the Mount Wilson Observatory with the presentation bookplate to the Library from Adriaan van..... More
London: John Chapman, 1848. 8vo. 198 pp., plus 2-page advertisement of Fichte’s popular works and life followed by a 32-page publisher’s catalogue da. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Publisher’s cloth, embossed emblem of the Catholic Series on covers, corners slightly worn, rebacked with the orginial label; interior very good..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896. 8vo. [ii], xiii, [i], 253 pp. FIRST EDITION. Full morocco, spine in compartments with author, title and date in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers; an excellent, uncut copy. More
Halle: H.W. Schmidt, 1867. 8vo. xxxix, (i), 290 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 14 hand colored plates. Later cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; a very good copy from the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr. with his blind stamp on the title page. First Edition of the most..... More
S.l [Strassbourg?]: s.n, 1571. 4to. [7], [1 blank] leaves. ONLY EDITION. Modern calf-backed boards. Light dampstain to inner margin. More
Paris: Marpon, 1884. 4to. [viii], 773, [3] pp. ELEVENTH EDITION. With 8 color plates including 2 woodbury photographs of the moon, all with tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations and charts, many full-page. Original publisher’s pictorial cloth, worn; interior with some browning, otherwise a very good copy. Eleventh..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes’ Company, 1913. 8vo. xvi, 224 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the author plus 5 full-page photographic illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth. An excellent copy with the bookplate of Larry C. Parks, M.D. More
New York: Appleton & Co., 1886. 8vo. 37 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Flint with tissue guard. Printed on very heavy stock paper. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover. With an ownership inscription of E. M. Gallion, Harriman (presumably a geographical location) dated 1892 on..... More
New York: Appleton and Company, 1873. 8vo. 470 pp., plus 20 pages of publisher's advertisements. SECOND EDITION. Original brown pebbled cloth. Small bookplate of A.H. Crosby, MD. Overall an excellent copy. Volume 4 (only) of five volumes in the set of medical works by Flint, professor of physiology at Cornell..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1846. 8vo. 192 pp. LATER EDITION. Contemporary morocco-backed cloth, spine and corners worn, light browning. More
N.p. N.p., 1833. 8vo. [v], 196-258. FIRST EDITION. Cloth, partly faded; interior very good. Presentation copy addressed to Lord Adair, with his bookplate on the paste-down. From the library of Arnold Thackray with his bookplate on the front free end paper. First edition. The offprint of Forbes’s paper, with a...... More
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, and Baldwin and Cradock, 1833-1835. Four volumes. 4to. [x], 713; [vi], 894; [vi], 731; [vi], 714; iv, 183 pp. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with half-title and contents, fourth volume with general index and separate title to Select medical bibliography. Half-calf and cloth boards spine and..... More
London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1921. 8vo. xvi, 350 pp. Reprint of the first edition published in the same year. With frontispiece and 71 photographic illustrations, plus a folding map detailing the journey. Original cloth, light staining mostly around the edges; interior very good throughout, although..... More
Lacon, ILL: for the Author, 1860. 16mo. vii, [i], 160 pp. FIRST EDITION. half-morocco and clothHalf-morocco over cloth boards, wear to corners, spine gilt in compartments; some foxing throughout, though overall a good copy. First edition of this very interesting treatise dealing with the history of Illinois and the surrounding..... More
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1918. 8vo. viii, 355 pp., plus 5 pages publisher's advertisements. Original printed wrappers, excellent condition, many papers unopened. An important work on hypnotism, first published in 1888 and here revised with a new foreword by the author. Forel (1848-1931), a Swiss psychiatrist, entomologist, and brain specialist, was..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. Crown 8vo. [viii], 164, [4] pp., including 3 pages of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, front cover with gilt design (lightly faded), top edges gilt, backstrip with minor wear; illustrated endpapers after Roger Fry. From the library of C.E.L. Tottenham with his armorial..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Four parts in one volume. 8vo. xvii, [ii], 704 pp., including frontispiece and more than 30 text woodcuts. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s green gilt cloth, worn on edge of spine, front hinge cracked; interior fine. Gift inscription in pencil on fly-leaf. FROM DICKENS’ BIOGRAPHER. First edition..... More
Jermyn St. n.p., 1849. 4to. 150 pp. Printed on both sides in a neat small hand in brown ink. This manuscript contains alphabetized selection of books and authors that Fortescue apparently read, and includes his critical notes on each. It would seem that Fortescue might have been planning to write..... More
London: G. Robinson, 1782. 8vo. [ii], xx, [x], [5]-582, [2], 609-661, [3] pp. (complete), including the advertisements for books printed by John Walker. With frontispiece portrait of Fothergill plus 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked; foxing throughout, light water damage on the upper corners of the preliminaries, repair to..... More
Paris: Baudouin, Brumiere, 1800-1802. 11 vol. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. All half-titles, errata and publisher's advertisements present. Contemporary quarter-calf over boards, a few joints weakened. Some occasional light browning, still a very good set. First edition of Fourcroy's chief work, written for the advanced student, complete with the extensive index Table..... More