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London: Oxford, 1949.

Paris: Bachelier, 1839. 1st edition. [Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé (1787-1851).] Arago, François (1786-1853). Le Daguerréotype. In: Comptes rendus IX (July-Dec. 1839): 250-67. 4to. [4], 903, [1]pp. Paris: Bachelier, 1839. Later wrappers, uncut & unopened. Slight browning & foxing but fine. First Edition of the first official disclosure of the "daguerreotype" photographic process invented in the 1830s by Louis Daguerre (1787-1851), preceding the publication of Daguerre's Historique de description des procédés du daguerreotype et du diorama (1839). The daguerreotype was the first practical and commercially viable photographic process, and the first to be announced publicly. Daguerre, an artist and chemist, had been working for over a decade on methods of fixing images photographically, initially in partnership with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833), whose "heliographic" process, developed in the 1820s, is now recognized as the first successful example of photography. After Niépce's death… Read More

Birmingham: John Baskerville, for the Author, 1764. Rare Medical Book Printed by Baskerville [Baskerville, John (1706-75).] Dalby, Joseph (d. 1784). The virtues of cinnabar and musk, against the bite of a mad dog . . . 4to. [8], 3-56pp. (leaf B1 not present as in all copies). Birmingham: John Baskerville, for the author, 1764. 256 x 203 mm. Full morocco, gilt-ruled, in antique style. Marginal repairs to title and one or two other leaves, not affecting text, but very good. Errata corrected in an early hand. First Edition, second state, with the title dated 1764. "The title-page is also found in an earlier state, with line 7 set in English instead of Great Primer and ending with a full point instead of a colon, and with the last line reading: M DCC LXII. Both states are printed from the same setting of type (with these exceptions), and neither is found as a cancel" (Gaskell). Dalby's short work on the treatment of hydrophobia is the first of only two medical books printed by Baskerville, the other… Read More

Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1569. Daléchamps, Jacques (1513-88). Chirurgie françoise . . . avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necessaires pour l'operation manuelle . . . 8vo. [52], 933, [5]pp. Lacking leaf y1 (pp. 337-338). Woodcut author's portrait and over 300 woodcut text illustrations. Lyons: Guillaume Rouille, 1569. 160 x 103 mm. 17th-century sheep, gilt spine, some wear and rubbing. Minor worming in first few leaves, title a bit soiled, running heads on leaves N3-N4 trimmed. Very good. Extensively annotated by Lyonnais master surgeon Pierre Marchand (d. 1616), who signed his name on the last leaf. Old library stamp (Bibliothèque de Adn. de Gasparin) on title. First Edition. A remarkable copy of Daléchamp's important manual of Renaissance surgery, extensively annotated by one of Daléchamp's contemporaries—Lyonnais master surgeon Pierre Marchand, who signed his name on the last leaf ("ce pr[ese]nt livre appartient a moy Pierre Marchand compagnon barbier a Lyon"). This is the first time… Read More

London: Wellcome Trust, 1965. xvi, 652pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations. 229 x 152 mm. Original pictorial cloth, light wear. Several leaves creased. Inscription signed by Dale, Franks and Michael Perrin on the verso of the title. Very good.

Plate: 207x155 mm. Print: 231x168 mm. Mount: 241x172 mm. Mounted on paper. Print shows horizontal creasing, repaired tearing on edges of the crease, tape on reverse of print, faint soiling, light foxing.

Margin: 163x135 mm. Small spot in top margin, faint soiling, edges trimmed.

Paris: Masson, 1881.

Glasgow: William Mackenzie. Margin: 264x175 mm. Light foxing.

Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Includes biographical cover pages (2). Very faint soiling in bottom margin.

Philadelphia: Annals of Surgery, 1918. 1st edition.

1735. Mostly in Latin, with a few in French, 1 or 2 in German & English. Together in 1 4to. vol. & mostly 4to. 10 plates, including marvellous 18th century engraved title with gravid uterus & instruments & 1 hand-colored plate. 2 or 3 fine 18th century head & tail pieces. 19th century half morocco, rubbed - needs to be re-backed. Some foxing & soiling, otherwise good.Small stamp on first 3 leaves. Some annotations, probably Danyau's. Danyau's bookplate & booklabel probably of [Louis A.A.] Charpentier (1836-99) 1735-1853. Collection of theses assembled by the distinguished obstetrician, teacher, and medical writer, Antoine Danyau, surgeon at the Bicetre and Maternite, and professor of surgery at the Paris Faculty.

Rochester, NY, 1875. 30x23 cm.. Some creasing, otherwise in very good condition.

London: D. Wilson, 1750. [D'Arthenay, Guillaume Marie.] Fordyce, William (translator and editor). Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius . . . 8vo. 4, 68pp. London: Printed for D. Wilson, 1750. 202 x 123 mm. Modern full morocco, gilt-lettered front cover. Minor dampstaining and toning, small spot on title, but very good. First Edition in English of d'Arthenay's Mémoire sur la ville souterraine découverte au pied du Mont Vésuve (1748), and one of the first publications in English on the recently discovered lost city of Herculaneum, the ancient Roman city buried in ash during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. D'Arthenay's pamphlet is one of the early unauthorized memoirs on the official excavation of Herculaneum, which had begun in 1738 under the patronage of King Charles VII of Naples. The Neapolitan government, anxious to prevent theft and to exploit the site's prestige value, severely restricted access to the buried city to… Read More

London: Pilot, 1945.

London: British Museum, 1961. In vol.2, nunber 6 Bull. of the British Museum Natural History.

Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.

London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1958.

1873. Darwin, Charles (1809-82). Origin of certain instincts. In Nature 7 (1873): 417-418. Whole number. [cix] - cxii, 417-436, cxiii - cxvi pp. 269 x 183 mm. Without wrappers. First and last leaves (conjugate) detached, but very good otherwise. First Edition, of one of Darwin's lesser-known discoveries. Darwin was the first to postulate, in this paper, the existence of an inertially-based navigational system in animals; his suggestion was confirmed by studies done in the 20th century. This type of navigational system, now known as path integration, uses input from the vestibular organs and other sensors in the body to enable an animal, such as a migrating bird, to estimate its position with relation to its home. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, 1760. .

Wellington, NZ: Nova Pacifica, 1980. Darwin, Charles (1809-82), ed. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle during the years 1832-1836. Facsimile reprint. 3 vols., 4to. Variously paginated. 111 plates (incl. color). Wellington, New Zealand: Nova Pacifica, 1980. 319 x 250 mm. Original quarter morocco, cloth boards. Fine. No. 147 of 750 copies. Excellent facsimile reproduction of one of the rarest Darwin titles, "a superb example of nineteenth-century scientific book publishing" ("Publisher's Note"). Originally published in parts and in book form between 1838 and 1843, The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle had never been reprinted prior to this facsimile edition.