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New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. 1eng. 4to.v,[5]69pp.16 lithographed plates. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. Very good copy. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, limited to 360 numbered copies, published on the centennial of the original German edition. This elegantly produced English translation is the only medical work published by Elmer Adler's Pynson Printers. One of the most beautiful books in orthopedics and very scarce. See G-M 6257.Waller 6804. Reynolds 2928.

Tokyo: Ishyaku, 1980. Manners and Customs of Dentistry in Ukiyoe. By Sen Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo and Kuninori Homma. Translated into English by Yoshihis Shino and Kuninori Homma. Original silver cloth, stamped in red and gold. Printed on excellent paper and finely bound. 115 color plates. Very fine copy in original slipcase. This is the standard work on dentistry and related topics as depicted in Japanese prints. Scarce.

Savona: Francesco Silva, 1503. Nani Mirabelli, Domenico (ca. 1455 - after 1528). Polyanthea opus suavissimis floribus exornatum . . . Folio. [12], CCCXXXIX, [1]ff. Title-page and dedication printed in red. Hand-colored woodcut on first leaf of text showing the author surrounded by important religious and secular figures; decorative initials, the first printed in red and hand-illuminated; rubrication and flourishes through leaf LXXX. Savona: Francesco Silva, 1503. 297 x 207 mm. 19th century full vellum gilt, all edges gilt, front cover a bit warped. Occasional faint dampstains, but a very good copy. First Edition of this enormously popular encyclopedic work, one of the first general reference works produced for the printed-book market. "The conception of the reference work compiled from a neutral stance, for the common good, to cater to a wide range of interests, and by multiple contributors working collaboratively at one time and over time was honed in early modern Latin reference works like the… Read More

Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Includes biographical cover page. Very good condition.

Quito, Ecuador: Imp. de la Universidad, 1950. 220pp. Text illustrations. 215 x 154 mm. Original soft covers, front cover lacking. Good copy.

Washington DC: Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept, 1944. United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships. Radar system fundamentals, NAVSHIPS 900, 017. Washington DC: Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., 1944. VI, 394pp. 235 x 150 mm. Library stamp to front wrapper. Confidential classification status. Stamp of the "Inspector of Naval Material" to the last page. Very good. First Edition. "There are some activities [of the United States Navy] ... employing relatively few navy personnel which are almost unknown to civilians and only vaguely understood by most officers and men of the Navy. [This is] the Naval Inspection Service" (Manning, G.C., "The Navy Material Inspection Service", Proceedings 62(402): 1143-1155, August 1936. Accessed online 27 June 2023). 51104.

2014. Neave, Richard. Ecorché sculpture in bronze of a flayed male figure holding a Neanderthal skull, signed in the bronze "R. N. 2014." N.p., 2014. 420 mm. (16.5") high (excluding wooden plinth). No. 3 of 12 examples. With artist's signed authentication. Ecorché sculpture in the Renaissance tradition, reminiscent of the famous "musclemen" from Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica but showing much greater anatomical detail than was possible in the 16th century. Neave, a British expert in forensic facial reconstruction, has earned fame for his reconstructions of historical figures including Jesus, King Philip of Macedon and the Yde Girl, a bog body dating from ca. 54 B.C. He also collaborated with Pascale Pollier on the Vesalius monument unveiled at Zakynthos on September 4, 2014; the monument is a life-size ecorché similar to our smaller version, but holding a different skull. .

Nekrassoff, V. A. (1881-) Nomography in applications of statistics. Offprint from the Bell System Technical Journal. pp. 95-99 [7pp.] 230 x 150 mm. 28 February 1930. Original blue printed wrappers. Faded around the margins of the wrappers, otherwise a Very good copy. First Edition, offprint issue. Raymond T. Birge's (1887-1980) copy. A genesis of an efficient nomogram replacing several pages of cumbrous tables of "students" integral. "A genesis of an efficient nomogram replacing several pages of cumbrous tables of "students" integral" (front wrapper).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. Hirshfeld, Samuel and Neuhof, Harold (1885 - 1964). The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. xiii, 297 pp. Figs. Bookplate tipped to front paste-down, from the library of Richard Boies Stark with his signature on the ffep. (260 x 168 mm). Black cloth with title in gilt; gilt lettering on the spine. Head and foot of the spine are worn, and the spine is only slightly faded. Pages are a little toned. Colored plate opposite to title page, library stamp on title page. but still a very good copy. Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography. .

Paris: Hermann, 1935.

Washington DC: Smithsonian Inst, 1873. First edition. vii, [1] (errata), 288 pp. Library buckram. Endpapers spotted. Library stamps on endpapers and title.

1956. Newell, Allen (1927-92); Herbert Simon (1916-2001). The logic theory machine: A complex information processing system. Reproduced typescript. Offprint from IRE Transactions on Information Theory IT-2 (September 1956). 61-79pp. 278 x 218 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Punched for a 3-ring binder. Boxed. Light toning, slight edgewear and creasing, but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Extremely rare. During 1955 and 1956 computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Allen Newell, political scientist, economist and sociologist Herbert A. Simon and systems programmer John Clifford Shaw, all working at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, developed the Logic Theorist, the first program deliberately engineered to mimic the problem-solving skills of a human being. They decided to write a program that could prove theorems in the propositional calculus like those in Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. As Simon later wrote, "LT was based on the… Read More

London: Batsford, 1958.

London: Longmans, Green, Longman, Robert and Green, 1864. Newman, John Henry (1801-90). (1) Apologia pro vita sua: Being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?" 8 parts. 430, 127, iv pp. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. 221 x 140 mm. Original printed wrappers, a little worn and chipped, wrappers on parts 1 and 5 detached but present, wrappers on last part browned. Very good set. (2) Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman: A correspondence on the question whether Dr. Newman teaches that truth is no virtue? 34pp. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. 212 x 142 mm. Original printed wrappers, back wrapper lacking, spine repaired with gummed paper. Light spotting but very good. Together 2 items. Owne First Edition, Rare in Original Parts, of the Apologia; First Edition of the Correspondence. Newman, one of the key figures in the religious history of 19th-century England, was a leader of the Oxford Movement, a group of Anglican clergymen who… Read More

Petrograd: M. M.Stasiulevicha, 1915. Newton, Isaac (1643-1727). Matematicheskiye nachala natural'noy filosofii. Translated from Latin with notes and explanations by A[leksei] N. Krylov. 2 vols. vi, 276; [4], 277-620pp. 36 plates. Petrograd: M. M. Stasyulevich, 1915-16. Original printed wrappers, spines restored, edges of wrappers repaired, front wrapper of Vol. 1 a bit creased, a few tiny chips. Library stamps on titles and last pages of both volumes, some ink lines in the margins. Very good. First Edition in Russian of Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687), made by Russian naval engineer and applied mathematician Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov (1863-1945), who became internationally famous for his works on magnetic compasses, ship floodability, hydrodynamics and computational mathematics. He built the first machine in Russia for integrating ordinary differential equations, and in 1931 published a paper on what is now called "Krylov subspace," dealing with computation of the… Read More

London: The Museum Galleries, 1922. Newton, Isaac (1642-1727). Color mezzotint portrait by William Jeans after the painting from the studio of Enoch Seeman (ca. 1689 - 1744), signed in pencil by the engraver. London: The Museum Galleries, 1922. 279 x 354 mm. (platemark); 362 x 519 mm. (sheet). Slight foxing but very good. Attractive color mezzotint after the portrait of Newton produced by the studio of Enoch Seeman, showing Newton seated at a table with a celestial globe and an open volume of what appears to be the third edition of his Principia Mathematica. The Seeman portrait, now in London's National Portrait Gallery, was painted circa 1726-1730. .

Amsterdam, 1822. Nicati, Constant. Specimen anatomico-pathologicum inaugurale, de labii leporini congeniti natura et origine. 8vo. [8, incl. initial blank leaf], 72pp. 1 plate. Utrecht & Amsterdam: Typographia Italica et Gallica, 1822. 209 x 130 mm. Original printed wrappers, a little soiled. Light browning and foxing, but very good. Author's presentation inscription to Gerard Sandifort (1779-1848) on front blank: "Viro clarissimo Sandifort / m. a." From the library of French surgeon Auguste Nelaton (1807-73), with the characteristic note "Melanges" in colored pencil (erased but still visible) on the title. First Edition of Nicati's thesis on harelip and cleft palate, written from the standpoint of pathological anatomy; Nicati lists Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Vrolik, Soemmerring and Meckel among his sources. Nicati was also indebted to the work of the Belgian pathological anatomists Eduard Sandifort, author of Observationes anatomicae-pathologicae (1777-81; G-M 2278), and his son Gerard, author of… Read More

New York: Nesté Nutrition; Raven Press, 1991. xix, 295pp. 8 color plate leaves; text illustrations. 235 x 155 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Text block a bit warped. Good+.

Yorkshire, 1868. Nicholson, Henry Alleyne (1844-99). Autograph letter signed to Dr. William Francis. 1-1/2 pages. Yorkshire, Feb. 29 [1868]. 201 x 124 mm. Minor soiling but very good. From British paleontologist and zoologist H. A. Nicholson, specialist in fossil invertebrates and author of Ancient Life-History of the Earth (1877), Manual of Palaeontology (1872) and numerous other scientific books and papers; to Dr. William Francis, co-founder with Richard Taylor of the publishing firm Taylor & Francis. In the letter Nicholson asks Francis to accept one of his papers for publication in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Zoology, Botany and Geology, a scientific journal co-edited by Francis and published by Taylor & Francis: ". . . The subject is mainly the occurrence of the genus Ptilograpsus in Britain, & I have added a few remarks on the other Ludlow Graptolites—Though strictly speaking a geological paper, still it will not be out of place in a zoological periodical, as Ptilograpsus,… Read More

1912. Nicholson, John William (1881-1955). (1) The constitution of the solar corona. I. Protofluorine. Offprint from Monthly Notices of the Roy. Astr. Soc. 72, no. 2 (Dec. 1911). 139-150pp. (2) The constitution of the solar corona. II. Offprint from ibid., no. 8 (June 1912). [2], 677-692pp. (3) The constitution of the ring nebula in Lyra (N. G. C. 6720). Offprint from ibid., no. 3 (Jan. 1912). [1], 176-177pp. (4) On the new nebular line at l4353. Offprint from ibid., no. 8 (June 1912). 1 page. (5) A structural theory of the chemical elements. Offprint from Phil. Mag. (Dec. 1911). 864-889pp. Together 5 offprints. 221 x 142 mm. Original printed wrappers except for no. 4, which is unbound as issued. Wrappers of no. 5 detached, light browning, but very good. From the library of Theodore von Karman (1881-1963), with his characteristic docketing on the front wrappers. First Separate Editions. Nicholson is best known for his atomic theory of coronal and nebular spectra, which he announced in a series of… Read More