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New York,: W. Wood,, 1925. 80 pp. 8vo (15,3 x 23,3 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations. Detailed description of current publication, amongst them many "classics". William Wood was (and still is) one of the leading American scientific publisher. Very usedfull for its collations. Indexes on author and subject.

London,: W. Watson & Sons,, (1924).. 36 pp. 12mo (12,5 x 18 cm.). Original [printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations. ¶ The house of Watson was renowned for their quality optical and scientific instruments. One of the most famous of them is the Henri Van Heurck microscope (build ca. 1910).

Vienne (Isère),: Ternet-Martin,, 1954. 72 pp. Large 8vo (14,5 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers, partly discoloured. With illustrations and advertisements. ¶ Comprises i.a. J. JARRICOT, Sur la nouvelle offensive du Bas-Dilutionnisme en France.

Paris,: Gallimard,, (1979).. 242, [iv] pp. Small 8vo (11 x 17,5 cm.). Original simili leather, spine gilt decorated. With the printed dust jacket. and original slip-case. With 392 illustrations. ¶ Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Conçu et réalisé spécialement à l'occasion de la Quinzaine de la Pléiade 1979.

Paris,: La Phosphatine Falière,, (1904).. [ii, blank], ][ii], 14 [plates], [ii], [iv, blank] pp. 4to (21,5 x 31 cm.). Original printed decorated Art Nouveau wrappers (spine worn; some scattered lightly staining; wrapper's rear side has traces of 2 (small) rodents bites. ¶ A charmingly illustrated illustrated album in Art Nouveau decoration.

Amsterdam,: Johannes Loots,, (1710).. [iv, blank], [viii], 114, [vi], [iv, blank] pp. Small 8vo. (10,5 x 16,5 cm.) 19th century marbled boards (worn), uncut. With 26 folding engraved plates. ¶ Bierens de Haan 4400. - Only edition of this uncommon work on the constructions of sundials. The author taught mathematics and astronomy at the Amsterdam Athenaeum. Fine copy of a work that rarely appears on the market. A number of leaves have annotations in the outer margin in a fine contemporary handwriting.

Louviers,: Pinot,, (n.d. ca. 1910).. 10 leaves with description and a half-page illustrations on each. 8vo (17 x 25 cm.). Original printed limb boards. ¶ A nicely illustrated catalogue of various types of ovens and stoves.

(Köln),: Parklan,, (1996).. xi, [iii], 322 pp. 4to (22,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original publisher's boards with coloured dust-jacket. With 16 coloured plates and numerous black & white illustrations. ¶ A very good copy.

Munn and Co.,: (New York),, 1935-1937.. 2 volumes: xii, 499; vi, 650 pp. 8vo (14,5 x 19,5 cm.). Original red publisher's cloth. With a large number of plates and text illustrations. ¶ A great American classic, written with contributions by numerous authorities. The first volume is in the 4th, completely revised and enlarged, edition, the second volume in the first edition.

Princeton,: Princeton U.P., (1992).. xii, 299, [i] pp. 8vo. (16,5 x 24 cm.). Original cloth with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations. Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, find quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in the earlier and allegedly more naive areas. "A masterful case history of the complexity of achieving early social welfare legislation..."(Glenn Sonnedecker). Finely printed from the Linotron Galliard type on acid-free paper. Nice copy with author's autograph dedication.

New York,: N.B.C.,, 1939.. 32 pp. 8v0 (14 x 22,5 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers. With numerous photographs. ¶ This booklet introduced televion to the entire American people.

Amsterdam,: Architectura & Natura,, 1991.. 32, 64, [ii] pp. Oblong 4to (24 x 21,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With test illustrations 64 magnificent coloured photographs by Jan Derwig. ¶ A photographic guide to The famous Dutch architectural movement from ca, 1910-1930.

Paris,: Le Bailly,, (1886).. 48 pp. 8vo (14 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 24 charming steel engraved plates. Originally published in 1845. This edition is quite rare (only a few copies in the WorldCat). -- (The plates have some scattered pencil annotation in their margins).

Paris, ,: Plon-Nourit,, 1909.. 2 volumes, text: xv, [i], 270 with some figures & atlas viii pp., 130 plates (1-110 & 87bis-107bis). Large folio (28,5 x 37 cm.). In sheet as published, uncut and preverved under the original printed wrappers. Complete with the orginal publisher's half cloth portfolio (spine faded and slightly worn; the boards dust soiled). Over 300 drawings by Richer. ¶ Copy with ample margins. The work is divided into 2 parts (anatomy & morphology). One of the most impressive works of Richer, artist at "la Salpêtrière" put the study of medicine in relation to art upon a sound footing. See Garrison & Morton 6605-07. --(Outer edges slightly foxed, text and plates clean).

[s.l.n.d.], [ca. 1910].. Pictorial; post card of the brewing room of the former brewery of the Hoogstraten (Antwerpen) seminary. Inscribed on the verso, with a stamp. Size: 13,8 x 9 cm.

Cassoviae,: Typis Academicis Soc. J. per J.H. Frauen, 1732.. [14], 28 pp. Small 4to. (15.5 x 21.5 cm.). Original simili vellum, gilt decorated. ¶ Facsimile (Gent, Christian de Backer, 1977) of the edition Kaschau, 1732 with an introduction by R. Fundárek.--(Opera Pharmaceutica Rariora, vol. XVII). Not in Volckringer.

Bruxelles,: Soc. pour l'émancipation intellectuelle,, (1854).. 2 parts in one volume: 201, [ii] pp. Amall 8vo (12 x 17,5 cm.). Contemporary half cloth (discoloured; top of rear joint slightly worn), spine gilt lettered (faded). With 2 engraved title-pages and 2 wood engraved portraits (Herman Boerhaave & J.B. van Helmont). Quite rare. The portrait of Boerhaave engraved by Hendricks after H. Brown seems not to be described elswhere (Burgess, etc.). -- Encyclopédie Populaire Série 6.

Paris,: Gabon; J.-A. Brosson,, 1809.. vi, [ii], 240 pp. 8vo (13,6 x 21,3 cm.). Original contemporary blue wrappers (spine slightly rubbed), entirely uncut and unopened (reliure d'attente à la barbe d'originale.). ¶ Rare, not in Lindeboom, Bibliographia. Boerhaaviana. "The Viennese professor Stoll used Borhaave's Aphorisms on febrile diseases for his lectures. He adapted Boerhaave's text to newer views and insights"(Lindeboom). The first edition of this Mahon translation was published in 1801, the last edition in 1837. (Cette oeuvre est inspirée des "Aphorismes" de Boerhaave. D'après le "Dictionnaire de Dezeimeris", Corvisart aurait également traduit ce texte. Trad. de : "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis febribus").-- First 60 pages have a light clear waterstain in the upper inner marging, but a fine copy in its pure state.

Paris,: C.E.F-B,, (n.d. ca. 1925). 74, [ii, blank] pp. Oblong 8vo (26 x18,5 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers in Art-Deco style. With a large number of illustrations. A rare and splendidly illustrated catalogue of a great vaiety of lustres, chandeliers, ornamental lamps, armatures, etc. all in Art-Deco style.

Paris,: (Beauvais et Blanchet),, 1834.. 4 pp. 8vo (14 x 22 cm.). Blind wrappers. ¶ Between 1834 and 1840 27 volumes have been published.