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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: M’Elrath, Bangs & Co., 1833. 8vo. 147 pp., plus 6 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Red cloth, a bit faded; minor foxing and spotting. First edition of this collection of poems, dedicated to Washington Irving. The author states in the preface: “These effusions are the fruit of leisure..... More
London: Robert Barker, 1611. Folio. A-B4 C6 D4 ²A-²C6 chi² A-5C6; ²A-²2A6. 752 leaves. (A3 bound backwards). Title page, the 2 leaves of the engraved map, and the final 2 leaves in excellent facsimile. Additional title page from a later edition bound in behind the facsimile. Gothic and Roman types..... More
London: Excudebat Henricus Middletonus, 1580. Four parts in one. 4to. [xvi], 219, [1]; 299, [1]; 251, [1]; 390 pp. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut title vignette, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Later tree calf in a contemporary style, spine with raised bands and “Biblia Sacra” in gilt; very narrow strip cut away..... More
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1479. Folio. 468 pp. Signatures: [a¹², b-y¹ , z ; A-M¹ , N-O ; P-R¹ , S-T ; V-Z¹ ; aa¹ ; * ]. Third bible printed by Koberger, complete. Double column, 51 lines of Gothic type in Vulgate Latin, some printed marginalia, with versal letters in..... More
Rhemes: John Fogny, 1582. 4to. [xxviii], 745, [27] pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata and tables. Decorative and historiated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco spine label; corners worn, insignificant worming, some minor intermittent discoloration, but generally in excellent condition. Contemporary annotations in English and..... More
Venice: Typographia Herziana, 1740. 3 vols. 8vo. [xxx], 632; 560; 591 pp. Double column, title in red and black, full-page etched frontispiece in Vol I, woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary stiff vellum, manuscript spine titles. Some minor dampstaining, but otherwise a remarkably good set. Folded in are a manuscript devotional poem..... More
Berkeley: The friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964. Small folio. Blue & brown plaid cloth, gilt lettering to spine. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1867. 8vo. xi, [i], 379 pp. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; hinges starting, otherwise a fine copy. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. 8vo. 528 pp. FIRST EDITION. With numerous maps. Maroon cloth, light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, tips bumped; ex-libris, gutters torn. First edition, No. 3 of 1000 numbered copies. An in-depth study of a single campaign of the Civil War. More
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. Two volumes. 8vo. xv, [i], 540; [iv], xvi, 640 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 14 folding plates. Contemporary marbled boards backed in pebbled calf; some foxing, especially in the text toward the end of each volume, otherwise a very good copy with the stamp of the Bibliotheque de..... More
Poitiers: J. Thoreau & A. Mesnier, 1638. 4to. [xviii], 624, [18]. FIRST EDITION. Complete with approbation, Privilege du Roi, and index with errata on verso. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary original binding of richly gilt morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine gilt in compartments with..... More
New York: Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., 1948. 8vo. [iv], 31, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. With a photographic plate and 4 full-page diagrams. Original printed wrappers in good condition. First edition. Of this report on the developments and methods of chromatography adsorption and analysis in the purification and separation of sugars..... More
Paris: Deterville, 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. xiv, 688; [iv], 736 pp. SECOND EDITION. Contemporary green marbled paper boards, gilt title labels, old library shelf mark. Illustrated with eighteen folding etched plates of instruments, projections, a map, optometric explanations, laboratory apparati, and animal dissection. Internally fresh and in excellent condition. More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1870. 4to. iv, pp. 111-48. FIRST EDITION. Presentation slip from the author to Rivett-Carnac with his best regards pasted onto the title page. With 4 full page drawings on heavier paper of each of the new species treated. Half-morocco over linen, boards faded; interior clean but..... More
