ca. 1700. 1. Frontal skeleton, signed, 71 x 26 inches 2. Frontal skeleton, unsigned, 73 x 28 inches 3. Rear view skeleton, signed, 69 x 26 inches 4. Rear view skeleton, unsigned, 71 x 28 inches. It is assumed that these scrolls were used to teach anatomy. It was not..... More
Paris: Gabon, 1829-37. 5 vols. 8vo. Approximately 3000 pp. Half-calf over boards. Preliminary and last leaves are soiled and foxed, the blank leaves are loose, but text is in good condition. From the library of the Liverpool Medical Institution with bookplates on front paste downs. Second edition, revised, corrected and..... More
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[England: ca 1880]. 4to. 164 pp. Manuscript in English in black ink on paper (A. Pirie & Sons), 25 lines to a full page, in one continuous cursive hand. Headings embellished with floral motifs. Contemporary half gilt black morocco over red pebbled cloth, all edges gilt. Neat, legible, fine. An..... More
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 8vo. 542 pp., including half-title and index. First American Edition. Portrait of the author plus 2 separate frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), plus 50 woodcut text illustrations. Modern cloth with the original covers and spine laid down; folding map torn in a number of..... More
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4to. x, [ii], 632 pp. Second edition. With 8 plates, including the hand-colored frontispiece, 4 additional hand-colored aquatints, plus 3 black and white plates (2 double page). Half morocco with marbled boards, chipped and faded along the edge, corners bumped and showing some..... More
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1863; 1863; 1864; 1863. Four volumes. 4to. xv, [i], 203; iv, 203; iv, 247; iv, 250, [1] pp., including the errata leaf at the end. FIRST EDITION. With 238 beautiful hand-colored wood-engravings. Original blind-stamped cloth, covers with illustration and title in gilt, rebacked, new endpapers; all..... More
Turin: Imprimerie Royale, 1862. 4to. 63, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 folding plates. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth; small stamp on title, last signature with early repair in the margin. A very nice copy. First edition of this rare work in French published by the Academy of Sciences in Turin, on..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. Folio. 23 pp. of text. FIRST EDITION. With 33 photographic portraits. Original linen-backed patterned paper boards, edges worn; interior excellent, with all tissue guards in tact. First edition. Portraits include Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, Anatole France, Edmund Dulac, Joseph Conrad, Marshal Foch, and Coburn's..... More
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. 8vo. Disbound. Cocke (1783-1856) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania (by way of this thesis). He served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1767 to 1768 and again from 1772 to 1773. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. 8vo. [viii], 62, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with an image of Mr. Fox on the front cover, author and title on spine, a fine clipped dust jacket with minor soiling; interior excellent. First edition, first printing (with the words..... 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
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: John Murray, 1824. 8vo. 2 vol. xix, 370; vi, 399 pp. Second Edition. Complete with half title, large folding frontispiece map, and 3 additional large folding plates. Half calf and marbled boards, spine and extremities rubbed; lightly foxed on endpapers, text somewhat toned. Overall, a good copy from the..... More
London: Joannes Wright, 1723. Folio (358 x 225 mm.). [6], viii, 6, xxx, 224, [5], 238-591, [1], 25, xi, [2] pp. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Engraved portrait of the author after Vertue. With half-title, engraved vignette on title and dedication, many fine engraved and woodcut vignettes, head- and tailpieces, and initials..... More
Leipzig: Deuticke, 1905. 8vo. [ii], 83, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers preserved in a clamshell box.. An excellent copy with the back strip redone. First edition of the work which Freud himself considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud introduces here his epochal theory of..... More
Jena: [Hermann Pohle], 1888, 1892, 1895. 8vo. [ii], 46; [ii], 8, [2]; 12 pp., including illustrations. FIRST EDITIONS. Three original offprints. Fro:m Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Separately bound in recent boards. Presentation copies, signed by Haeckel to Dr. Bernhard Rawitz, anatomist from the University of Berlin. First editions. Following the..... More
New York & London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. Two volumes. 8vo. xx, 560; xvi, 587 pp. SECOND EDITION. Text illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth, an exceptionally good copy. Ownership signature of the writer and electrical engineer F[ranz] J[osphe] Dommerque. Scarce second edition of Heaviside’s collected works in all aspects of electricity..... More
Amsterdam: Janssonius Waesberghe, 1739. 2 vols. 4to. [xxvi]-4-48,[viii], 715, [1]; [ii], 715-1249, [49] pp. FIRST EDITION IN LATIN. Complete with 38 folding engraved plates. Frontispiece portrait and title in red and black. An excellent copy with a few stains on preliminaries and end leaves, some dust soiling and a few..... More
Goudze; Goudae: & Amsterdam: vander Hoeve, vander Hoeve, Pieter LaBurgh, 1661. Three volumes in one. 4to. [xx], 491 (ie,495), [28]; [xvi], 591, [25]; [xvi, 462, [12] pp. Volumes I and III edited by Gregor Horst, Jr.; Volume II by Daniel Horst. Each volume complete with title and vignette, the first..... More
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchandlung, 1750-51; 1784-87. Six volumes. 4to. FIRST EDITIONS. Titles of first four volumes in red and black, text in double columns. Engraved frontispiece portrait in first volume. Contemporary paneled calf; light browning and some faint marginal damp-stains to Volumes I and II, but generally an excellent..... More
London: John van Voorst (1883-1886); Gurney and Jackson (1887-1903); R.H. Porter (1904-1913); British Ornithologists’ Union (1914-1932). 45 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITIONS. Hundreds of exquisite full-page lithographed plates, many hand-colored, after J.G. Keulemans, J. Wolf, J. Jennens, H. Gronvold and others, text illustrations, distribution maps and tables. The first group of..... More
Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896. Two works in one. 8vo. [iv], [31]-168; [431]-552 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 14 plates in the first work and 14 plates in the second, each containing numerous figures. Original publisher’s cloth; excellent condition. First edition in book form of two articles that appeared as Nos..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. 8vo. xxv, [i], 272 pp., including half-title, plus 24-page publisher’s catalogue. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, illustration of the author on the front cover, boards a bit worn; underlining throughout the book. Overall a...... More
Milan: Marelli, 1784. 8vo. xxxiv, 304 pp. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title vignette, head-piece, initial, and 1 folding engraved plate. Original wrappers, top of front wrapper torn away; minor spotting on preliminary and endleaves, otherwise an excellent unsophisticated copy preserved in a folding clamshell box. First edition of the author’s fascinating..... More
