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
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Le bombardier François. Ou nouvelle methode de jetter les bombes avec precision.
Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1731. . 4to. [vi], xli, [3], 366 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece plus 8 folding engraved plates showing mortars, rockets, explosive charges, fireworks, etc., text tables. Contemporary calf, gilt paneled spine, rebacked, spine label; a wonderful copy with a “presented by” signature of Lt. Col. T. Sutton..... 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
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
Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints: illustrating the first volume of the Anatomy of the Human body.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme . . . and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. 4to. [iii]-xiv, 138, [2] pp. THIRD EDITION. With 32 engraved plates including 4 outline plates, 2 text engravings. Quarter calf over marbled boards. The plates are very sharp even though the interior..... 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
Liber psalmorum, vulgatae editionis.
Paris, G.F. Quillau for Estienne, Lottin, Chaubert, Simon, and Alix, 1729. 12mo. [iv], 709, [3] pp. FIRST BELLENGER EDITION. Contemporary blind-ruled mottled calf (front joint cracked but holding, crown of spine damaged), gilt spine and red morocco title label, red edges. Title a little browned but otherwise a clean copy..... 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
John Brown’s body: a poem.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1948. 4to. xvi, ii, 454 pp. Original publisher’s cloth, preserved in the original box. Interior excellent. More
Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of King James the First. Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century.
London: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Two volumes. 8vo. xix, [i], 367 pp; vii, [i], 465, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth in Volume 1 signed by W. Bonds after Mich. Joh. Mireveldio. Half-calf and marbled boards bound by T. Mellard, joints loose..... More
Playing Cards. History of the Pack and Explanations of It’s Many Secrets
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1931. 4to. vii, [i], 195 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 242 illustrations, many in color. Publisher’s red cloth with black decoration on front cover, with dust jacket (torn in a number of places and missing the top of the front); interior very good. First edition of..... More
Outline of a new system of logic
London: Hunt and Clarke, 1827. 8vo. xii, 287 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; a very good copy. More
Lucian Freud.
New York: Random House, 1996. Large 4to. 360 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 290 plates, 4 photographic illustrations and a reproduction of a Francis Bacon painting. Publisher’s black cloth, preserved in the publisher’s slipcase with a paper color illustration pasted onto the back. Like brand new, never opened. More
La science experimentale
Paris: Bailliere, 1878. 8vo. 440, [1] pp. Text figures. Original cloth-backed boards; other than minor spotting, a very good copy. First edition of a series of Bernard’s essays, published posthumously. These essays were “chiefly devoted to the restatement of his views on determinism, with, however, and increasing emphasis, as time..... More
Lecons sur le diabete, et la glycogenese animale.
Paris: Bailliere, 1877. 8vo. viii, 576 pp. FIRST EDITION. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled paste-down and fly-leaves, some underlining, an excellent copy. First edition. “Bernard showed that in diabetes there is primarily glycemia followed by glycosuria” (G&M). He here first revealed that one of the primary signs..... More
Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses.
Paris: J B Baillière et Fils, 1857. 8vo. vii, [i], 488 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 32 text illustrations. Contemporary blue quarter roan and marbled boards, rubbed; interior excellent. First edition of a series of lectures on the effects of toxins and their use as medical agents, more specifically carbon monoxide..... More
Memoire sur le pancreas... In: Comptes Rendus, Suppl., I, pp. 379-563.
Paris: Bachelier, 1856. 4to. [vi], 563 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. With 9 lithographed plates (3 colored, 2 folding). Complete volume with 23 additional hand-coloured plates. Uncut in the original wrappers. First edition of Bernard's most important contributions to scientific medicine. This monograph was the culmination of a series of..... More
Memoire sur le pancreas.... From: Comptes Rendus, Supplement, I
Paris: Bachelier, 1856. 4to. pp. 379-563. FIRST EDITION. With 9 plates, the first 4 drawn by Bernard; plates 5 through 9 beautifully hand-coloured. Morocco-backed marbled boards. Minor foxing as usual, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition of Bernard's most important contributions to scientific medicine. This monograph was the culmination of..... More
Ars Conjectandi
Basel: Thurnheysen, 1713. 4to. [iv], 306, 35, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 2 folding charts, 1 folding plate and errata. Contemporary paper over thin boards, marbled paper spine; an excellent uncut copy with wide margins, library stamp on title and some minor browning. More
Elements of the art of dying; with a description of the art of bleaching by oxymuriatic acid.
London: Thomas Tegg, Simpkin & Marshall, Griffin & Co., and J. Cumming, 1824. Two volumes. 8vo. xxviii, 408 ; viii, 453, [2] pp. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 9 engravings (4 folding) signed J. Shury. Quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; other than some minor foxing to..... More
Tabularum geographicarum contractum libri quinque
Amsterdam: Cornelius Nicolai, 1606. Five parts in one. oblong 8vo. [xvi], 679, [9] pp. THIRD EDITION. Allegorical engraved title and 174 engraved maps. Contemporary vellum, ties present; old light dampstain extending from upper margin affecting a number of leaves. Significant early annotations to numerous leaves and rear endpapers. More
Three offprints on sports medicine.
1928-1929. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Three separate offprints from Proceedings of the Royal Society, London. Excellent copies in their original printed wrappers. First editions of these valuable studies from the Department of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Toronto. More