London: B. Law, etc. 1797. Eight volumes. 8vo. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Volume I with hand-coloured frontispiece portrait of Smollet by Holloway; each of the remaining seven volumes with hand-coloured frontispieces by Cruikshank. Full polished calf, with the large armorial crest of the Marquis of Bath in gilt on both covers..... More
Frankfurt: Varentrapp und Wenner, 1806. Folio. vii, [1], 7, [1], II, 6 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 engraved plates (2 in outline). Modern paper covered boards. First edition of the author's principal work on the special sense organs which contains concise and accurate descriptions of the tongue and the male..... More
Frankfurt: Varrentrapp und Wenner, 1806. Folio (408 x 282 mm). x, 36 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 5 engraved plates (4 duplicates in outline) by G. Rücker and J. C. Eckardt after drawings by C. Köck. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. A fine uncut copy. First edition of a magnificent anatomical study..... More
Kyoto: [n.p.], 1789-90. 3 vols. Approximately 300 double pages, including nearly 150 woodblock illustrations. Original wrappers with printed labels; interior with minor browning and occasional wormholes, otherwise a fine and complete copy preserved in a folding box. More
Paris: Thomas Moette, 1696. 12mo. [xii], xii, 47 pp. FIRST EDITION. Both blanks present. With 35 full-page plates. Tree skin calf binding, gilt spine, edges stained red; corners slightly rubbed. An excellent copy. First edition of this extremely scarce treatise on swimming, considered one of the earliest books on the..... More
New York: Rebman Co., 1911. 4to. [ii], 175, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 16 coloured illustrations (3 double-page and 1 folding) and 15 text figures. Original cloth, red spine label, frayed at head and foot of spine; covers toned, still an excellent copy. First edition in English describing..... More
Vitemberg: Georg. Marcum Knochium, 1725. 8vo. [xvi], 876, [20], 32 pp. SECOND EDITION. Title in red and black. With 48 leaves of plates. In a contemporary full calf binding dated 1729 in blind on the back cover. Overall in excellent condition, with only minor wear. Second edition, greatly enlarged with..... More
Vienna: Anton von Haykul, 1828. 8vo. xxxii, 484 pp. With 5 full page plates (4 coloured) and a folding plate of instruments. Modern cloth-backed boards; some light spotting, library stamp. The present book is the author's most famous. It has been corrected and improved from the original printing of 1822..... More
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep; Samuel Augustus Mitchell, I: 1808; 1810; II: 1825; 1828; 1828. Vols. I and II of nine volumes. Folio (350 x 265 mm); Vols. I, II, and III of four volumes. Folio (375 x 290 mm). iv (ie., vi), 158; v-xii, 13-167, [1] pp. Each volume with..... More
