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LA CORONA  AND THE TIN FROG.
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London, Cape, 1979.. FIRST EDITION 1979, 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards, (32) pages. Exquisite coloured illustration throughout featuring old toys and objects hoarded and forgotten by children (who do not appear in the book). No inscriptions, a Fine crisp unread copy (issued without dustwrapper). 3 wonderful tin toys, a frog, a mounted Red Indian and a crocodile on wheels come to life and live out romantic fantasies, a spinster mouse edits a literary journal and a wizard works spells from inside a little glass topped puzzle toy. Amazing magic happens when the old clock manages to arrest its mechanism at exactly midnight. The fascinating story is beautifully and simply told. The stories were first published in Puffin Annual 1974. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LA CORONA  AND THE TIN FROG.
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London, Cape, 1979.. FIRST EDITION 1979, 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards, (32) pages. Exquisite coloured illustration throughout featuring old toys and objects hoarded and forgotten by children (who do not appear in the book). No inscriptions, a Fine bright unread copy (issued without dustwrapper). Three wonderful tin toys, a frog, a mounted Red Indian and a crocodile on wheels come to life and live out romantic fantasies, a spinster mouse edits a literary journal and a wizard works spells from inside a little glass topped puzzle toy. Amazing magic happens when the old clock manages to arrest its mechanism at exactly midnight. The fascinating story is beautifully and simply told but seems rather sophisticated for young children. The stories were first published in Puffin Annual 1974. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LA CORONA  AND THE TIN FROG.
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London, Cape, 1979.. FIRST EDITION 1979, 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards, (32) pages. Exquisite coloured illustration throughout featuring old toys and objects hoarded and forgotten by children (who do not appear in the book). No inscriptions, a Fine crisp clean unread copy (issued without dustwrapper). 3 wonderful tin toys, a frog, a mounted Red Indian and a crocodile on wheels come to life and live out romantic fantasies, a spinster mouse edits a literary journal and a wizard works spells from inside a little glass topped puzzle toy. Amazing magic happens when the old clock manages to arrest its mechanism at exactly midnight. A fascinating story is beautifully and simply told. The stories were first published in Puffin Annual 1974. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LA CORONA  AND THE TIN FROG.
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London, Cape, 1979.. FIRST EDITION 1979, 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards, (32) pages. Exquisite coloured illustration throughout featuring old toys and objects hoarded and forgotten by children (who do not appear in the book). No inscriptions, book a touch leaning (see image), otherwise a Fine bright unread copy (issued without dustwrapper). Three wonderful tin toys, a frog, a mounted Red Indian and a crocodile on wheels come to life and live out romantic fantasies, a spinster mouse edits a literary journal and a wizard works spells from inside a little glass topped puzzle toy. Amazing magic happens when the old clock manages to arrest its mechanism at exactly midnight. The fascinating story is beautifully and simply told but seems rather sophisticated for young children. The stories were first published in Puffin Annual 1974. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LA CORONA  AND THE TIN FROG.
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London, Cape, 1979.. FIRST EDITION 1979, 4to, 270 x 210 mm, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, colour illustrated glazed boards, (32) pages. Exquisite coloured illustration throughout featuring old toys and objects hoarded and forgotten by children (who do not appear in the book). No inscriptions, a Fine bright copy (issued without dustwrapper). Three wonderful tin toys, a frog, a mounted Red Indian and a crocodile on wheels come to life and live out romantic fantasies, a spinster mouse edits a literary journal and a wizard works spells from inside a little glass topped puzzle toy. Amazing magic happens when the old clock manages to arrest its mechanism at exactly midnight. The fascinating story is beautifully and simply told but seems rather sophisticated for young children. The stories were first published in Puffin Annual 1974. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LA FAUCONNERIE DE CHARLES D'ARCUSSIA DE CAPRE... seigneur d'Esparron, de Pallieres, et du Revest,...
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LA FAUCONNERIE DE CHARLES D'ARCUSSIA DE CAPRE... seigneur d'Esparron, de Pallieres, et du Revest, en Prouence. Divisee en dix parties. Avec les portraicts au naturel de tous les oyseaux.

by ARCUSSIA, Charles De. Lord Lilford, Guy Aylmer.:

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Rouen, Francois Vaultier et Jacques Besongne, 1643.. Divided into 10 parts,1643. Text in French, small 4to, approximately 210 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, 12 full page engravings of hawks, and 2 woodcuts of L'Anatomie des oyseaux in the text, one folding plate of hawking implements, LACKING 4 PLATES OF IMPLEMENTS AT PAGE 296 as usual, which seem to be often missing, now supplied in facsimiles and tipped in at rear after final page (slightly smaller than the original pages), decorated intials and headpieces. Pages: LA FAUCONNERIE: [8], 1-334, pages 327-328 repeated, no duplication of text, [8]; LA FAUCONNERIE DU ROY: [12], 1- 51, [1]; DISCOURS DE CHASSE: [6], 55- 107, [1]; LETTRES DE PHILOIERAX: [10], 119-173, [1]. Bound in full 19th century panelled calf, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, gilt decoration and blind decoration to covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed, upper hinge beginning to crack at head and tail, covers still firmly attached, top outer corner of… Read More
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LA GNOMONIQUE OU L'ART DE TRACER DES CADRANS OU HORLOGES SOLAIRES sur toutes sortes de surfaces,...
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LA GNOMONIQUE OU L'ART DE TRACER DES CADRANS OU HORLOGES SOLAIRES sur toutes sortes de surfaces, par differentes pratiques. Avec les demonstrations geometriques de toutes les operations.

by HIRE, Philippe de la.:

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Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1682.. FIRST EDITION 1682, 2 parts in 1 volume, French text, 12mo, approximately 160 x 90 mm, 6½ x 3½ inches, 6 folding engraved plates, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, pages: [3], 4-89, 100-194, (i.e. 184), [54] - mostly tables, missing the final blank leaf, jump in page numbering is in all copies, collated and guaranteed complete, bound in full 20th century morocco, blind rules to covers, raised bands, blind rules and gilt lettering to spine, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers. 2 signatures on title page, 1 very faint, edges of title page slightly browned, tiny wormhole in upper margin from title page to page 157, sometimes affecting running title, final unnumbered page browned at edges, otherwise contents clean and bright, plate I has a couple of misfolds. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy of the first edition. See: Library Hub Discover, Cambidge University, for collation. Philippe de la Hire (1640 - 1718) was a French mathematician best known for… Read More
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LA HYPNEROTOMACHIE OU DISCOURS DU SONGE  POLIPHILE.
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LA HYPNEROTOMACHIE OU DISCOURS DU SONGE POLIPHILE.

by COLONNA, Francesco.:

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A PARIS, L. Blaublom pour Jaques Kerver, aux deux Cochetz, Rue S. Jaques, 1546.. FIRST FRENCH EDITION 1546. Translated from the Italian. Folio in sixes, approximately 345 x 215 mm, 13½ x 8¼ inches, 181 woodcuts of various sizes, 13 full page, large arabesque initials, leaves: [vi], 1-157, [1] (numbered on rectos only), the initials "M" on leaf C6 recto and "F" on leaf D3 verso, were originally printed from crible blocks but arabesque initials have been tipped in over them, modern full morocco binding, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, blind floral decoration between raised bands to spine, tiny gilt fish to centre of lower cover, blind decoration to covers, new cream endpapers, housed in a slipcase of marbled paper covered board with leather surround at opening. TITLE PAGE AND LAST PAGE (COLOPHON), ARE VERY GOOD FACSIMILES ON OLD PAPER (a pencil note on first pastedown states that it was purchased from Quaritch, London booksellers, in 1977, and that the facsimiles were done in line block and… Read More
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LA MAGIE DEVOILEE and SUPPLEMENT,  A LA MAGIE BLANCHE DEVOILEE  Ou explication des Tours...
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LA MAGIE DEVOILEE and SUPPLEMENT, A LA MAGIE BLANCHE DEVOILEE Ou explication des Tours surprenants qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale et de la Province.

by DECREMPS, Henri.:

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Paris, Chez F. J. Desoer, 1789.. TITLE CONTINUED: Avec des réflexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les Automates joueurs d'échecs, etc. TEXT IN FRENCH. Volumes 1 and 2 bound together, 1789. 8vo, approximately 200 x 125 mm, 8 x 5 inches, VOLUME 1: 1 engraved plate, 2 full page woodcuts and 1 small woodcut in text, pictorial headpiece to first page, pages: viii, 1-118; VOLUME 2: 1 engraving, 2 full page woodcuts, 29 numbered small text illustrations, 1 folding table, pages: viii, 1-272, last page blank, both half-titles present, bound in full speckled sheep, gilt lettered label and gilt decoration to spine. Binding slightly rubbed and scuffed, repair to top of upper cover (see attached image), 1 top corner worn with board showing, minor worming to inner margins of Volume 1, pages 1-18 and pages 71-118, not affecting text, and minor worming to all lower margins of Volume 2 not near text or illustrations, most hardly visible, minor browning to pastedowns and endpapers, a good copy, text clean. See:… Read More
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LA MINERVE, Vaisseau Aerien Destine aux Decouvertes, et propose a toutes les Academies de...
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LA MINERVE, Vaisseau Aerien Destine aux Decouvertes, et propose a toutes les Academies de l'Europe; par le Physicien Robertson, Ci-devant Professeur a l'Ecole centrale du departement de l'Ourte, de la Societe Galvanique,

by ROBERTSON, Estienne Gaspard.:

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Paris, chez Hocquet, 1820.. TITLE CONTINUED: de celle d'Emulation de Liege, et de celle pour l'Encouragement des Sciences et Arts de Hambourg. SECOND EDITION, revue et corrigee, 1820. French text, 8vo, approximately 190 x 125 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, woodcut title vignette, 4 woodcut illustrations printed on 3 pages, 1 large folding plate of the Minerve, plus at the end ONE EXTRA folding plate of a fantasy flying machine which seems to come from an Italian work, pages: 36, (4), bound in half calf over cloth sides, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, contrasting gilt lettered labels, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Corners and hinges very slightly rubbed, small blemish to upper hinge, front inner paper hinge cracked, 2 tiny repairs to edge of front endpaper, occasional pale foxing and pale age-browning, the folding plate is faintly foxed at the edges, there is a small light stain at the top outer corner, a tiny piece missing from the lower corner and a very short closed edge tear at the inner edge… Read More
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LA PYROTECHNIE PRATIQUE, ou Dialogues entre un Amateur des Feux d'Artifice, pour le Spectacle, &...
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LA PYROTECHNIE PRATIQUE, ou Dialogues entre un Amateur des Feux d'Artifice, pour le Spectacle, & un Jeune homme curieux de s'en instruire.

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Paris, L. Cellot, & Jombert fils jeune, 1780.. FIRST EDITION 1780, French text, 8vo, approximately 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 1 folding table, 6 of 7 folding plates, (PLATE IV IS MISSING), pages: xxxviii, [2], 1-340 including Explanation of the Plates, bound in full antique calf, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettered morocco label, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Spine worn, rubbed and chipped, hinges cracked at tail, maximum 60 mm (2½ inches), lower hinge just starting to crack at head, covers holding firmly, tiny chip to leather on lower hinge, just showing on spine, some slight surface cracks to spine, very slight chipping to head and tail, covers show surface pitting, corners just slightly worn, inner paper hinges cracked, small early cutting about the publisher pasted to second endpaper, intermittent damp stains to lower corners and upper third of title page and first 69 pages, Plate V has some large pale damp stains, the rest of the contents are clean, small closed tear… Read More
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LA PYROTHECNIE PRATIQUE, ou Dialogues entre un Amateur des feux d'Artifice, pour le Spectacle, &...
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LA PYROTHECNIE PRATIQUE, ou Dialogues entre un Amateur des feux d'Artifice, pour le Spectacle, & un Jeune homme curieux de s'en instruire.

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Paris, L. Cellot, & Jombert fils jeune, 1780.. FIRST EDITION 1780. French text, 8vo, approximately 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, 1 folding table, 6 of 7 folding plates, (PLATE IV IS MISSING), pages: xxxviii, (2), 340 including Explanation of the Plates, bound in full antique calf, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettered morocco label, all edges red. Hinges cracked at tail, maximum 60 mm (2½ inches), lower hinge just starting to crack at head, covers holding firmly, tiny chip to leather on lower hinge, just showing on spine, some slight surface cracks to spine, very slight chipping to head and tail, covers show surface pitting, corners just slightly worn, inner paper hinges cracked, small early cutting about the publisher pasted to second endpaper, intermittent damp stains to lower corners and upper third of the page on title page and first 69 pages, Plate V has some large pale damp stains, the rest of the contents are clean, small closed tear and tiny chip to lower corner of title… Read More
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LABORATOIRE DE FLORE, ou CHYMIE CHAMPETRE VEGETALE.contenant la manière de faire avec les...
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LABORATOIRE DE FLORE, ou CHYMIE CHAMPETRE VEGETALE.contenant la manière de faire avec les plantes les liqueurs, les ratafias, les essences, les huiles, les eaux cosmétiques et officinales.

by BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph 1731-1807.:

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Paris, chez Fetil Libraire rue des Cordeliers pres celle de Conde au Parnasse Italien, 1772.. 1772, SECOND EDITION, first published as the second part of the author's 'Toilette de Flore.' in 1771. Small 8vo in 4s and 8s, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, French text, pages: viii, 9-384, Contents table on 373-384, bound in pitted sheep, gilt lettering, decoration and rules to spine, endpapers and edges marbled, printer's small headpiece to each part. Binding rubbed with some loss to original leather, shelf wear to edges and corners, tiny repair to top corner, small crack to hinge of upper cover, ink number on verso front endpaper, tiny hole on a6 with loss of 3 letters, minute chip to margin of O3 and Ff1, otherwise a very good clean copy. The author was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist. He wrote many works on botany including tea, chocolate and tobacco and also on animals. Wellcome Library Volume 2, page 264; 2 copies on OCCL, 1 on Library Hub, not in Brunet or Bibliotheque… Read More
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LADY FILMY FERN or The Voyage of the Window Box.
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LADY FILMY FERN or The Voyage of the Window Box.

by BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator). Story by Thomas Hennell.:

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London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1980.. FIRST EDITION 1980, small oblong 4to, 220 x 275, 11 x 8½ inches, coloured pictorial boards, green endpapers. 18 wonderful coloured illustrations with facing text. No inscriptions, tiny bump at head of spine, tiny erasure mark to front free endpaper (see images), a near Fine clean crisp copy in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, a touch of wear to corners, 10 mm (½") pale stain on lower panel (image). The introduction describes how the book was created before the war, stored at the bottom of a well and then recovered. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LADY FILMY FERN or The Voyage of the Window Box.
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by BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator). Story by Thomas Hennell.:

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London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1980.. FIRST EDITION 1980, small oblong 4to, 220 x 275, 11 x 8½ inches, coloured pictorial boards, green endpapers. 18 wonderful coloured illustrations with facing text. No inscriptions, 6 very faint small pencil numbers, mostly erased at top of front endpapwer (see image) otherwise a Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped. The introduction describes how the book was created before the war, stored at the bottom of a well and then recovered. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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LADY FILMY FERN or The Voyage of the Window Box.
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London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1980.. FIRST EDITION 1980, small oblong 4to, 220 x 275, 11 x 8½ inches, coloured pictorial boards, pale green endpapers. 18 wonderful coloured illustrations with facing text. Front free endpaper very faintly spotted, very small light scratch to rear endpaper, no inscriptions, an almost Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped. The introduction describes how the book was created before the war, stored at the bottom of a well and then recovered. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1980.. FIRST EDITION 1980, small oblong 4to, 220 x 275, 11 x 8½ inches, coloured pictorial boards, green endpapers. 18 wonderful coloured illustrations with facing text. No inscriptions, tiniest bump to top corner of lower cover, otherwise a Fine clean crisp copy in Fine DUSTWRAPPER, not price clipped. The introduction describes how the book was created before the war, stored at the bottom of a well and then recovered. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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L'AMI DES ENFANTS.
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L'AMI DES ENFANTS.

by BERQUIN, Arnaud. Avec une Notice de M. Bouilly.:

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Paris, Didier, Libraire-Editeur, 1847.. NEW EDITION 1847, French text, large 8vo, approximately 235 x 150, 9¼ x 6 inches, 12 attractive cream tinted lithographed plates including frontispiece, all with tissue guards, title vignette of "l'ami" surrounded by small children, 100 vignettes in the text, pages: (4), vii, (1)-480 including Table, bound in the original publisher's handsome black cloth, blind stamped borders, large oval floral frame in gilt, red, green and blue to upper cover with gilt illustration and gilt title, floral decoration in gilt and colours to lower cover, spine gilt decorated with vignette and gilt title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Minute nick at top of upper hinge and another at bottom of lower hinge, tiny bump to top corner of upper cover, gilt bright, one faint French inscription dated 1852 on front endpaper, another English dated 1920, occasional slight foxing, mainly on pages near plates, 1 small pale spot to background of frontispiece. A very good tight clean… Read More
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THE LANCET.  A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature...
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THE LANCET. A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature and News. In Two Volumes Annually.

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London, printed for the editor and published by George Churchill, 1847.. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF ETHER ANAESTHESIA PUBLISHED IN EUROPE. 2 volumes for 1847, 4to, approximately 280 x 195 mm, 11 x 7½ inches, illustrations and diagrams in the text, pages: (2), 702; (2), 698, both volumes with index at rear, bound in original publisher's dark green diamond grain blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered spine. Spines very slightly faded, gilt bright, very slight rubbing to upper cover of Volume 2, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, endpapers and title pages slightly foxed, occasional small red ink stamp of the Lancet Newspaper to lower corners, closed tear to lower margin of page 457 in Volume 1, affecting footnote, neatly repaired, no loss of legibility, occasional very light browning, pale foxing and creasing. A very good set in the publisher's original cloth. Volume I contains the first account published in Europe of anaesthesia produced by the inhalation of ether used to perform surgical… Read More
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THE LANCET.  A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature...
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THE LANCET. A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature and News. In Two Volumes Annually.

by WAKLEY, Thomas, Surgeon (editor).:

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London, printed for the editor and published by John Churchill, 1846.. 2 volumes for 1846. THE ANAESTHETIC PROPERTIES OF ETHER. 4to, approximately 280 x 195 mm, 11 x 7½ inches, illustrations and diagrams in the text, pages: (2), 726; (2), 714, both volumes with index at rear, bound in original publisher's dark green diamond grain blind stamped cloth, gilt lettered spine. Spines very slightly faded, gilt bright, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, light spotting to endpapers and to title page of Volume 2, occasional small red ink stamp of the Lancet Newspaper to lower corners, occasional very light browning, pale foxing and creasing. A very good set in the original publisher's cloth. IN VOLUME 2 DECEMBER 26 THERE IS A BRIEF MENTION OF THE DISCOVERY BY SURGEONS IN BOSTON USA OF THE ANAESTHETIC PROPERTIES OF ETHER. The first mention in the English press was a week earlier in the London Medical Gazette of December 18th. The two are evidently based on the same source, and are statements only, rather… Read More
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