Paris: Chez la Veuve DeSaint, 1783. Two volumes. Folio. [viii], lvi, 758, [4]; [iv], xlviii, 850, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Including half-titles, approbation and privilege du Roi. Volume I with the Greek and French translations on facing pages. Contemporary tree calf, some wear to joints and corners; marbled..... More
Yonkers, NY: The Arlington Chemical Co., n,d, 8vo. 28 pp. FIRST PRINTING? Full-page and text illustrations throughout. Original printed wrappers with an illustration of Dr. Weelumi MacLure “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush” on the front cover; a fine copy. More
London: John Lane, 1930. 8vo. xiii, [iii], 270 pp., plus 2 pages of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece, 10 (of 11) photographic plates, and a folding map. Original cloth, stained and faded; interior very good, with some damage to front paste-down where bookplate was removed. Illegible signature on the..... More
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. 8vo. [iv], 150, [1] pp., including half-title and leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Later edition. With 4 engraved plates by Stothard. Contemporary calf, marbled endpapers; minor browning on plates, otherwise a nice copy with a contemporary ownership inscription on title. Later edition of..... More
London: T. Cadell, 1770. Two volumes in one. 8vo. vii, [i], 216; iv, 279 pp. First collected edition. Each volume with separate title and table of contents, each part with separate title. Both O3 and O7 of Volume I are cancels, as in nearly all copies. Contemporary calf, rebacked and..... More
Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1837. Two vols. 8vo. xl, 444; viii, 463 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Folding facsimile letter from Armstrong to Rix, who edited the book, bound into Volume I. Recent paper boards, spine labels; waterstains over the lower half of the text, browning and soiling throughout. More
London: Printed by T.B. for J. Taylor, 1696. 8vo. [xii], 444 pp. Third edition in English. Contemporary calf, blindstamped decoration on covers, morocco spine label. Other than minor staining on the endleaves, a very nice copy. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 8vo. [vi], ix-xii, 372 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates and numerous text illustrations. Without the list of the author’s other works that usually faces the half title. Half calf and marbled boards, edges scuffed; a lovely copy with occasional foxing. With the bookplate..... More
Paris: Societe Francaise de Navigation Aerienne, 1876. 8vo. 32 pp. FIRST EDITION. With text illustrations (tissue guards preserved). Original printed wrappers, spine frayed, minor soiling. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION of a rare treatise which proposes some improvements and modifications for the design of hydrogen gas balloons. The author..... More
Paris: Marcum Orry, 1603. 4to. [xii], 269, [20]; 20; 65; 275, [26] pp. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. General title printed in red and black, text printed in Latin and Greek. Beautiful contemporary red russia, covers with double-gilt, author and title in gilt on spine; interior fine. More
Rochester: Published for the authors, 1880. 8vo. 387 pp. Later printing. Engraved frontispiece and inserted leaf with raised letters for the blind. Original publisher’s cloth with gold decoration and embossing. More
Santa Monica, CA: n.p., 1996. booklet, 11.6 x 8.6. 36 pp. Numerous photographs, copies of letters and other documents. More
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1764. 4 vols. 8vo. cxvii, [i], 316; iv, 380; iv, 360 (i.e. 399); vi, 384 pp. Contemporary calf, covers somewhat worn, especially Volume three. Boo. cxvii, [i], 316; iv, 380; iv, 360 (i.e. 399); vi, 384 pp. Contemporary calf, covers somewhat worn, especially Volume three. Bookplate of..... More
Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1759. 2 vols. 12mo. xvii, [iii], 478; [iv], 454 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf, spine and labels gilt, red edges (some damage to spines and hinges, but bindings are sound). Old library plates and stamps of McGill University and Boston Medical Library (withdrawn). Contemporary ownership..... More
London: W. Owen, 1770. 8vo. xxv, [3], 490, [10] pp. Contemporary full calf. Joints weak, spine rubbed. Second edition, much expanded from Chapman's 1755 translation of Astruc's De morbis veneris, Books II-IV. Astruc (1685-1766), a professor of anatomy in Paris, was an eminent historian of syphilis who utilized pathological anatomy..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 8vo. 533 pp. plus leaf of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With frontispiece plus beautiful 51 illustrations and folding map. Black cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; new endpapers, small waterstain on top edge of pages 48-65, otherwise a clean copy with..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. 8vo. xii, 448 pp., plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. With full-page frontispiece plus 82 text engravings based upon the author’s own drawings, large folding map. Publisher’s cloth, title within gilt design on spine, head and foot worn; interior excellent. First American edition. Atkinson published..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Two volumes in three. 8vo. xxiii, [i], 304; [ii], 352; [ii], 353-668 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait cut out and pasted onto a blank leaf opposite the title in Volume I. Contemporary (original?) calf-backed boards, spine labels; other than some..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1924. 8vo. 258 pp. FIRST EDITION. Copies of letters, signatures, some illustrations in the text. Cloth, spine label; interior excellent. More
London: George Eld, 1610. Folio. [xviii], 921, [11] pp. (lacking the initial blank). First edition in English. Woodcut device on title. Contemporary calf rebacked with original backstrip laid down, both covers stamped with central gilt decoration; first two leaves repaired on edges, minor browning to fore-edges, otherwise a very nice..... More
Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1837-41. 4 volumes. 8vo. iv], xxxi, 910; [iv], xv, 980; [iv], xiii, 932; [iv], xiii, 926, liii pp., including index. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-titles, 18 folding plates, errata and all blank leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. An exceptionally fine and clean set. More
London: Humphrey Moseley, 1653. 12mo. [xxiv], 384, [32] pp. Complete with the 8 pagesof publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, woodcut head-pieces, decorative initials. Contemporary calf with contemporary spine label. An impressive copy from the libraries of Arthur V.H. Vaughan-Lee (1862-1933) and the English..... More
Leipzig: J.B. Hirschfeld for Leopold Voss, 1828. Folio. [viii], 30 pp. ONLY EDITION. Full-page etched plate in contemporary hand color. Rare in tehe original publisher’s cloth with etched paper label affixed to the front panel, remains of spine label; minor foxing, overall in excellent condition. More
Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. 4to. xxii, 271, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its..... More
