Custer’s Indian Battles
Bronxville New York: n.p., 1936. 4to. 36, [2] pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. In excellent condition. More
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History of the bench and bar of California.
San Francisco: Bench and Bar Publishing Company, 1912. Thick 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Full maroon calf, gilt lettering to top cover and spine. First edition in book form. More
Mendel’s principles of heredity, a defence
Cambridge: The University Press, 1902. 8vo. xiv, [ii], 212 pp., including half-title and the rare leaf of errata. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of Mendel. Original cloth, a bit worn and rubbed, minor tears to spine and top of rear board, otherwise an excellent copy with the small book label..... More
Mendel’s principles of heredity
Cambridge: University Press, 1913. 8vo. xiv, [ii], 413 pp., including half-title. THIRD EDITION. With photographic portraits, 2 full-page and 4 double-page color plates, numerous text illustrations and diagrams. Original cloth, bumped; interior excellent. Stamp on fly-leaf, “purchased by H.M.S.O. for S.D. 8 War Office” with a sold stamp over it..... More
Bull Run to Bull Run. or Four Years in the Army of Northern Virginia containing a Detailed Account of the Career and Adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B, Twelveth Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A, with Leaves from my Scrapbook.
Richmond: B.F. Johnson, 1900. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Green cloth with silver vignette on front cover, gray end-papers, boards scuffed and soiled; ex-libris, but overall very good with a solid clean text block. First edition of this detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B...... More
Health, a poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and resotre it. To which is annexed, the doctor’s decade.
London: J. Roberts, 1750. 12mo. xii, 28 pp., including half-title. Sixth edition. All blanks present. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, some wear to spine and corners; interior excellent. More
Traite experimental et clinique d'auscultation.
Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1856. 8vo. xii, 626 pp. With 1 woodcut plate of Dr. Spittal's apparatus. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, foxing throughout as usual, ink ownership inscription on title. The present volume contains the author's famous researches on the physiology of the heart and lungs, many of which..... More
Experiments & observations on the gastric juice.
Plattsburgh: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to. 280 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original boards; a very good copy with the contemporary signatures of William Wallace, Chas. E. Williams, C. E. Williams, Jr. and A. G. Harrison. Preserved in a clamshell case. First edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into..... More
Experiments & observations on the gastric juice.
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. 8vo. 303, [1] pp. VERY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original cloth in blind, recased; an exceptionally clean copy. More
The collected works of Samuel Beckett
New York: Groce Press, Inc., 1970. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Uniformly bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the covers and spines, dustjackets beautifully preserved, prices clipped, all in pristine condition as if never opened; a gorgeous collection. More
I can’t go on, I’ll go on
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1976. 8vo. xlviii, 621 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket unclipped and preserved; a very nice copy. More
The poems posthumous and collected.
London: William Pickering, 1851. Two volumes. 8vo. cxxxiv, 231; [viii], 288 pp., plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements before the title in Volume I. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, front cover detached and spine unglued on Volume I. From the library of John Farquhar Fulton, with his book-label in both books. FULTON’S..... More
A monograph of the pheasants
London: Witherby, 1918-1922. Four volumes. Folio. FIRST EDITION. With 90 colored plates of birds by Thorburn, Lodge, Gronvold and others, 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery and 20 distribution maps. All tissue guards present. Original cloth, title in gilt on cover and spine; an excellent set. More
Ueber Magnetismus. Ein Vortrag gehalten im wissenschaftlichen Verein am 13. März 1852. (with) Über die Wärme. Ein Vortrag gehalten im wissenschaftlichen verein am 28. Januar 1854. (with) DOVE, Heinrich Wilhelm. Ueber Elektricitä eine am 26. Februar in Vereine für wissenschaftliche Vorträge gehaltene Vorlesung. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von G. Reimer, 1848. (with) E. Mach. "Uber Herrn A Guébhard's Darstellung der Äquipotentialcurven." From: Akademie der Wïssenssch, 1882.
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1852. Five items. 8vo. 28; 39, [1]; 38; 5 pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITIONS. Each disbound, as issued; lightly browned. First and only edition. The first lecture includes "historical notes on the compass, Faraday's researches on diamagnetism (and notes about) polar aurorae." Beetz (1822-1886), a German physicist..... More
Borstal boy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. 8vo. [iv], 372, 2 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Grey cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine, unclipped dustjacket slightly worn and chipped with larger chip on the back; overall a near fine uncut copy. More
Hold your hour and have another
London: Hutchinson of London, 1963. 8vo. 192 pp. FIRST EDITION. Green and red tweed-like cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, dustjacket price clipped but otherwise in lovely condition; overall a fine copy. More
A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta and Lues Venerea,
Albany: E. and E. Hosford for E.F. Backus, 1814. Half-sheet 8vo. Vol I: 1/4, 2/2, 3-30/4, 31/2; xii, 17-244 pp. Vol II: 1/2, 2-43/4 and 3 double-page and 1 folding etched plate; [iii], 8-332, [. FIRST ALBANY EDITION. Contemporary brown calf (worn but sound), gilt red morocco title label. Internally..... More
A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers: With a Dissertation of White Swellings of the Joints. To Which is Prefixed, an Essay on the Chirurgical Treament of Inflammation and its Consequences
Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791. 8vo. 295 pp. including index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved frontispiece of a joint abscess and surgical tools to deal with it. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked; some browning and spotting due to paper stock. Bookplate of Alfred M. Hellman, signature and stamp of..... More
The hand.
London: Pickering, 1833. 8vo. xvi, 314 pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Without the half-title. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Small book-label of E.L. Kepner on verso of fly-leaf and contemporary ownership signatures on title and above "Notice." First edition, second issue. In this..... More
The hand.
London: William Pickering, 1834. 8vo. xvi, 348 pp. Text illustrations. SECOND EDITION. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-sheep over pebbled cloth, worn, spine stained; small marginal stain toward the back of the book, otherwise interior fine. Ownership inscription of Ediom Himt, dated 1864 on front flyleaf. Second..... More
A treatise on baths; including cold, sea, warm, hot, vapour, gas, and mud baths: also, on the watery regimen, hydropathy, and pulmonary inhalation; with a description of bathing in ancient and modern times.
Philadelphia: Barrington and Haswell, 1850. 8vo. 658 pp., plus leaf of publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, worn at foot of spine; interior lightly foxed throughout. More
The treasury of human inheritance. Volume IV. Nervous diseases and muscular dystrophies.
Cambridge: University Press, 1934-48. Six volumes. 4to. [iv], 1-68; [iv], 69-140; [iv], 141-282; [iv], 283-342; [iv], 343-410; viii, 411-420 pp. (continuous pagination). FIRST EDITION. With 61 plates (1 folding), 14 photographs, and numerous text illustrations. Last volume contains the contents and index, other sections include lengthy bibliographies. Original printed wrappers..... More
Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the new world.
London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878. Folio. 226 pp. Second edition. With 51 drawings on wood and 6 etchings by Léopold Flameng. Original publishers decorated cloth, rebacked and recornered in morocco, a.e.g.; interior excellent. First edition published in England; it appears the first edition in English was printed in Philadelphia..... More