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Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, Waar in de veelerley Aart en bijzondere Eigenschappen...
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Naauwkeurige Beschryving der Aardgewassen, Waar in de veelerley Aart en bijzondere Eigenschappen der Boomen, Heesters, Kruyden, Bloemen, Met haare Vrugten, Zaden, Wortelen en Bollen, Neevens derzelver waare Voort-teeling, gelukkige Aanwinning, en heylzaame Genees-krachten

by MUNTING, Abraham

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Leiden & Utrecht: Pieter van der Aa & Francois Halma, 1696. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large Folio (396 x 261 mm). 40 pp., 930 (i.e. 932) columns, 64 pp., text printed in two columns, half title to each part (second misbound after col. 516)), letterpress title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, engraved additional title by J. Baptiste Monnoyer after Jan Goeree, engraved head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, 243 etched and engraved plates. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum, spine with morocco lettering piece (binding restored, vellum soiled, boards rubbed and slightly bowed). Text and plates very little browned, occasional very minor spotting, first 6 leaves slightly frayed at corners and with light waterstain at blank fore-margin, a few leaves with torn lower corner, ink scribbling to one page and plate 129, plate 136 soiled at fore-margin. A very fine copy, collated & complete. ---- Nissen, BBI… Read More
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Nachweisung eines Ueberganges von dem Gesetze der Elektricitätsverbreitung zu dem der Spannung,...
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Nachweisung eines Ueberganges von dem Gesetze der Elektricitätsverbreitung zu dem der Spannung, part 1, pp. 1-25. Ergänzender Nachtrag . . ., part 4, pp. 452-461

by OHM, Georg Simon

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Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, 1829. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In: Archiv für die gesammte Naturlehre in Verbindung mit mehreren Gelehrten, herausgegeben von K. W. G. Kastner. Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, 1829. Entire parts 1 and 4 of volume XVII. 8vo (205 x 123 mm). xii, 144; 385-500 pp., folding engraved plate (plate partially detached and a little frayed). Original green printed wrappers (spine paper gone, wrappers dust-soiled, second part lacking lower wrapper). Text quite clean and crisp with only little age-toning and minor occasional spotting. Provenance: Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. ---- FIRST EDITION of two papers by Ohm in which he provides a physical explanation for the difference between electrical force and tension, based on his empirically derived law of the galvanic circuit. - Visit our website to see more images!
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Natur-Geschichte des Schweitzerlandes: samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge....
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Zurich: D. Gessner, 1746. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Natur-Geschichte des Schweitzerlandes: samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Aufs neue hrsg. und mit einigen Anmerkungen versehen von Joh[ann] Georg Sulzern. Zürich: David Gessner, 1746. 16, 488, [2]; [8], 381 [1] pp. First title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, errata leaf at end of vol. I, 30 engraved plates (7 folding). Tear in folding plate to p.191 in vol. II verso repaired by tape, some minor browning and occasional spotting. [Bound with]: SULZER, Johann Georg, Untersuchung von dem Ursprung der Berge, und andrer damit verknüpften Dinge. Zürich: David Gessner, 1746. 44 pp. 1 folding engraved plate, woodcut tailpiece. [Bound with:] SULZER, Johann Georg. Beschreibung einiger Merckwürdigkeiten, welche er in einer Ao. 1742 gemachten Berg-Reise durch einige Oerter der Schweiz beobachtet hat. Zürich: David Gessner, 1747. 71 [1] pp. Engraved title vignette, woodcut initials,… Read More
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Natur-Spiegel : Worin der Mensch vom ersten Augenblick seiner Werdung bis zu seinem Ausschluss...
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Basel: Johann Rudolf Im-Hof, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (327 x 207 mm). [8], 16 pp., two double-page engraved plates bound at the end, title with woodcut vignette. Contemporary black-sprinkled paper-covered boards, spine with hand-lettered paper label, original endpapers (extremities rubbed, small wormtrack to front board). Internally generally crisp and clean with minor occasional spotting (title a bit stronger), vertical crease and single wormtrack at gutter of title-leaf. Provenance: Bonifacius Brix of Wahlberg (inscribed on first flyleaf "Ex bibliotheca Doctoris Brix de Wahlberg Archiatri[cis] Fürstenberg[ensis]"). A very good copy. ---- Waller 5407 (with one plate only); not in Wellcome or NLM/Blake. VERY RARE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this early anatomical flap book on obstetrics and embyology. The illustrations of plate II were indended to be cut out and attached as overlay flaps to plate I, explaining the fact that… Read More
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Naturae historiarum libri XXXVII [Historia Naturalis]
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Naturae historiarum libri XXXVII [Historia Naturalis]

by PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius / PLINY THE ELDER

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Venice: Johannes Alvisius, 1499. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 18 May 1499. Chancery folio (302 x 197 mm). 268 unnumbered leaves. 57 lines plus headline, initial spaces, most with printed guides. Types 2:83R, 3:180G. Signatures: a-e8 f6 g-z8 &8 A-I8 K6. Colophon on K6r reads "C. Plynii Secundi de naturali historia libri .xxxvii. Ex castigationes Hermolai Barbari diligentissime Recogniti. Impressi Venetiis per Ioannem Aluisium de Varisio Mediolanensem anno a Natali Cristiano M.CCCCLXXXXIX. die .xviii. Maii." Text upto leaf n5 with large initials painted in red. Bound in 18th century Italian plain vellum, spine reinforced with broad vellum band in early times (vellum soiled and stained, corners worn and bumped), sprinkled edges, original endpapers. Text very little browned (just a few pages stronger), pale waterstaining to outer margins of gathering a and stronger at lower outer corner of final 4 gatherings, few marginal wormholes in first 3 gatherings, title… Read More
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The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable...
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The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds, &c. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Translated into English by R. G. Gent

by BACON, Francis

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London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard; and Tho. Dring at the George in Fleet-street, 1653. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (142 x 80 mm). [24], 384, [32] pp., including engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, and final blank, without 8pp. advertisements found in some copies (see Gibson). Text in double-ruled borders. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and re-sewn, corners little scuffed. 4 leaves with partially erased ink marginalia in purple pencil, occasional spotting or light soiling. Top margin trimmed close, often shaving outer ruled borders and slightly shaving page number on p.228. Provenance: Nicholas Wall (small bookplate to rear pastedown). Still a very good and fairly fresh copy. ---- Gibson 115; Wing B305; Sotheran I, 5911; ESTC R208945. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first published in Latin in 1622, and exceptionally rare. The translation is… Read More
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Navis aeria et elegiarum monobiblos
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Navis aeria et elegiarum monobiblos

by ZAMAGNA, Bernard

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Rome: Paul Giunchio, 1768. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (190 x 126 mm). vi, 151 [1] pp., including engraved title-vignette, one full-page engraving of an airship (after Lana Terzi), errata on final page. Pages untrimmed. Fine 20th century quarter calf, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label (little rubbing to spine ends), marbled endpapers. Internally crisp and clean with only very minor age-toning. Provenance: Brooklyn Public Library (bookplate to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION. Zamagna's narrative poem of an imaginary aerial voyage around the world which was inspired by Lana Terzi's aeronautic experiments.
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Nervus opticus sive tractatus theoricus, in tres libros opticam, catoptricam, dioptricam...
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Nervus opticus sive tractatus theoricus, in tres libros opticam, catoptricam, dioptricam distributus : In quibus radiorum a lumine, vel objecto per medium diaphanum processus, natura, proprietates, & effectus, selectis & rarioribus experientijs, figuris, demonstrationibusque exhibentur

by TRABER, Zacharias

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Vienna: Johann Christoph Cosmerovius, 1675. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (293 x 198 mm). [24], 225 [1] pp. Engraved additional title by Sadler, letterpress title, 35 engraved plates on 33 sheets (3 folding, of which one, facing p. 114, double-sided with 3 plates numbered Tab X-XII), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, bound without final blank Ff2. Signatures: a-c4 A-Ee4 Ff2 (-Ff2). Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, spine hand-lettered, original endpapers (spine vellum partly chipped off, minor worming to inner hinges, spine ends scuffed, extremities rubbed, vellum soiled and spotted). Text and plates generally quite crisp and clean with only very minor browning, some light foxing of a few pages. Provenance: from a German private collection, erased old ownership inscription on letterpress title. An exceptionally well preserved copy internally. ---- VD 17 32:701326B (1 of 2 variants); NLM/Krivatsy 11945; Sommervogel VIII,… Read More
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Neue Erfindung mittelst des Anschlagens an den Brustkorb, als eines Zeichens, verborgene...
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Neue Erfindung mittelst des Anschlagens an den Brustkorb, als eines Zeichens, verborgene Brust-Krankheiten zu entdecken. Im lateinischen Original herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Dr. S. Ungar. Begleitet mit einem Vorworte von Joseph Skoda

by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold

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Vienna: J.B. Wallishausser, 1843. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (225 x 145 mm). viii, 72 pp. Latin and German parallel text, printed in two columns. All pages uncut. Original printed wrappers (dust soiled, creased, upper wrapper and spine repaired, corners chipped, front wrapper working loose). Protected in custom-made half-morocco over cloth slip case. Text slightly browned, occasional foxing and dust soiling. Provenance: J. Desmonts J. Mac Donald Co., Norwalk, Conn. (bookbinder's stamp to slip-case). ---- PMM 514, Heirs of Hippocrates 954; Garrison-Morton 2672; Osler 1864; Waller 519; Wellcome II, p. 70 (all for 1st ed.), Norman 86, Waller 522. RARE FIRST GERMAN TRANSLATION of Auenbrugger's Inventum novum with an introduction by Joseph Skoda who was the author of Abhandlungen über Perkussion und Auskultation. A "milestone in the history of medicine" (Heirs 954). Auenbrugger (1722-1809) had already learned from Van Swieten that… Read More
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Neue Mondkarten und neue Grundlagen einer Mondkunde auf 16 Tafeln. Publikation VI seiner Sternwarte
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Neue Mondkarten und neue Grundlagen einer Mondkunde auf 16 Tafeln. Publikation VI seiner Sternwarte

by FAUTH, Philipp

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[Grünwald bei München]: by the author, 1932. 1st Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. 1st Edition. No Binding. Large Folio. Folio (402 x 425 mm). 16 Maps and 1 leaf of explanatory text in original printed grey wrappers, additional hand-lettered paper dust wrapper. Little age-toned, the explanatory sheet soiled at lower margin, light dust-soiling to margins throughout. Ink stamp of the British Astronomical Association to wrappers. ---- Ashworth, The face of the moon, Linda Hall, 36 - EXCEEDINGLY RARE. "Fauth published a number of works on the moon between his initial maps of 1895 and his death in 1941: a general book on the moon in 1907, a work espousing the glacial theory of the moon in 1925, a map in six sections adopting the new nomenclature system of the International Astronomical Union of 1935, and a comprehensive guide to the moon in 1936; all are in the Library's collections. In addition, he published these 16 studies for a large-scale moon map that he never completed. The… Read More
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Neurographia universalis. Hoc est, omnium corporis humani nervorum, simul & cerebri, medullaeque...
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Neurographia universalis. Hoc est, omnium corporis humani nervorum, simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica. Cum ipsorum actione et usu, physico discursu explicatis. Editio nova

by VIEUSSENS, Raymond de

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Lyon: Jean Certe, 1685. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (345 x 227 mm). [16], 252, [2] pp., including half-title, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait by Mathieu Boulanger, armorial plate, 22 engraved plates (15 folding) and 8 text engravings, numbered I-XXX in a single series. Contemporary sprinkled vellum, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt-lettered red morocco label (extremities slightly rubbed, hinges partially cracked at head and foot, corners bumped and worn, boards bent outwards, first flyleaf removed). Text somewhat browned, occasional minor spotting and dust-soiling, a few short tears at folds of plates, plate facing p.153 with long repaired tear (without loss), occasional short clean tears at margins of text leaves, former bookplate removed from pastedown. Very good copy. ---- Norman 2153; Heirs of Hippocrates 641; DSB XIV, p.25-26; Parkinson-L. 2522; Garrison-M. 1379; NLM/Krivatsy 12403; Waller 9961;… Read More
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New Memoir on the Nervous System

New Memoir on the Nervous System

by HALL, Marshall

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London, Paris: Baillière, 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New Memoir on the Nervous System. London, Paris: Baillière, 1843, 4to. (281 x 215 mm), x, [2], 3-94 pp., half title, 5 folding engr. plates (the last with a little hand-colouring), unobstrusive library stamps to title and plates, pages untrimmed, new endpapers. Original cloth with blindstamped covers, neatly rebacked, spine gilt. Interior clean and unspotted. ---- Norman 973. First Edition. A summary of Hall's experiments on reflex action and the spinal cord.
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A New System of Geology in Which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are...
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A New System of Geology in Which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature are reconciled at once to Modern Science and Sacred History

by URE, Andrew

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London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1829. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (218 x 135 mm). [2], lv [1], 619, [1] pp., 7 steel engraved plates (6 of them engraved in copper, the other a lithograph), 51 woodcuts in the text (two of them hand-colored). Contemporary calf, spine rebacked, two-line gilt tooled border on sides (light wear to boards and extremities), cut edges gilt. Internally very light age-toning, scattered minor foxing to first 3 leaves, otherwise crisp and unstained. A fine, unmarked copy with ample margins. ---- DSB XIII, 547-8. FIRST EDITION. Ure (1778-1857) "studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, receiving his degree in 1801. In 1804, he was elected to the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the Andersonian Institution. He became a consulting chemist when he moved to London in 1830. Ure was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822" (Mineralogical Record). "A pioneer in the teaching of… Read More
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]

by DALTON, John

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Manchester: Printed by S. Russell, 125, Deangate, for R. Bickerstaff, Strand, 1808. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Part I. ... [Part II.]. Manchester: S. Russell for R. Bickerstaff, 1808 [vol. 1, part I]; Russell and Allen for R. Bickerstaff, 1810 [vol. 1, part II]. 8vo (204 x 125 mm), viii, [2], 220 pp., with four leaves of plates; [8], 221-560 pp., with four leaves of plates. Contemporary quarter calf (hinges repaired, some wear to spine ends, rubbed), internally little browned, occasional light spotting and staining. A very good copy. ---- Dibner 44; Horblit 22; PMM 26; Sparrow 47. - First edition of the two parts of the first volume (the second volume was published 17 years later in 1827). While the idea that all matter is composed of singular, indestructible particles goes back to speculative philosophers and scientists (Democritus and Lucretius among the ancients, Newton among the moderns), the great exposition of such a theory… Read More
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A New Type of Secondary Radiation

A New Type of Secondary Radiation

by RAMAN, Chandrasekhara Venkata & KRISHNAN, K. S.

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London, 1928. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Nature, vol. 121, Supplement, 31st March 1928, pp. 501-502, original printed wrappers with rusted staples, slim large 8vo. --- On February 28, 1928, Raman through his experiments on the scattering of light, discovered the effect which is named after him. It was instantly clear that this discovery was an important one. It gave further proof of the quantum nature of light. Raman spectroscopy came to be based on this phenomenon, and Ernest Rutherford referred to it in his presidential address to the Royal Society in 1929. He won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him. He was the first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in the sciences.
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Nosce te ipsum, vel Anatomicum Vivum, oder Kurtz gefastes doch richtig gestelltes Anatomisches...
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Nosce te ipsum, vel Anatomicum Vivum, oder Kurtz gefastes doch richtig gestelltes Anatomisches Werck, Worinnen die gantze Anatomie, nebst ihrer Eintheilung deutlich zu finden

by HELLWIG, Christoph von

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Frankfurt & Leipzig: Hieronymus Philippus Ritschel, 1720. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (327 x 205 mm). [8], 42 pp. Title printed in red and black and with large vignette of the author's portrait, woodcut headpiece and initials, 4 (2 folding) engraved plates by Johann Heinrich Werner with approx. 82 (of with some detached) superimposed flaps illustrating successive layers of human anatomy. Contemporary full calf, spine with 7 raised bands and lettering in second compartment, original endpapers (soiling of boards, corners bumped, head of spine damaged, extremities rubbed, a few worm holes to lower spine and board edges). Text and plates with light even browning, minor spotting and marginal soiling in places, occasional creasing of text leaves, plates and flaps; first plate with frayed at bottom edge, leaf F1 with long clean tear inside text field w/o loss. Provenance: illegible stamps to title. ---- SECOND EDITION, REVISED, of the… Read More
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Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome 1 (=all...
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Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome 1 (=all published)

by ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc, baron

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Paris: Caille & Ravier, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (341 x 265 mm). [6], lxxxviii, 616 pp., including half-title and 24 engraved plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with 4 raised bands tooled in blind and gilt and with gilt lettering (joints repaired). Text with minor browning and spotting mostly to and outer margins (first prelim. pages and plates a bit stronger), final 16 pages with pale dampstain to lower inner margin. Very good copy. Collated and complete. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION of this ambitious and luxurious publication of which only the first volume appeared. With this work Alibert intended to describe the diseases of the human body classified by the name of the organ from which they originate. This first (& only) volume describes 10 families: Gastroses - Enteroses - Choloses - Uroses - Pneumonoses - Angioses - Leucoses - Adenoses - Ethmoplecoses - Blennoses. The book is illustrated with 24… Read More
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Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British...
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Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army. [bound with:] Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War

by NIGHTINGALE, Florence

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London: Harrison and Sons, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two works in one volume. 8vo (222 x 141mm). [4], iv, [9], vi-xix, [2] 2-12, 2, xxx, 66, xlvii [1], iv, 67-80, xxxiv [2], 81-176, [2], 177-234, xliv, 235-332, xxvii [1], 333-556, lviii, 557-567 [1] pp; iv [2] v-x, 28, 133 [1], 23 [1] pp. First work with 6 plates (5 folding, 1 coloured), second work with 1 folding plate. Contemporary red half calf, plain spine titled in gilt, upper board with Lord Houghton's stamp in gilt, powder blue endpapers (extremities slightly rubbed). Several leaves unopened. Text quite crisp and clean, little spotting to a few pages only, folding plate 'Diagram of the Causes of Mortality' a few mm proud of the book block resulting in slight soiling and short closed tearing at fore-edge. Provenance: Richard Monckton Milnes, first baron Houghton (1809-1885, stamp on binding); Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st marquess of Crewe (The Lord Houghton),… Read More
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Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not
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Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not

by NIGHTINGALE, Florence

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London: Harrison, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [1860]. 8vo (218 x 140 mm). [1-5] 6-79 [1] pp. Original dark-brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on front cover, blind-ruling to covers, endpapers with publisher's adverts (spine mostly gone, cloth rubbed and spotted, some minor wear to corners). Text with minor even browning, slight dust-soiling mostly to outer margins of pastedowns. Provenance: from a private Durch collection. ---- VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without the notice "[The right of translation is reserved]" on the title-page and the textual errors uncorrected, but with the publisher's printed adverts and not the plain yellow endpapers. "The earliest known copy of the Notes is in the Nurses' Home at St. Thomas's Hospital and bears the inscription in Florence Nightingale's hand: 'For my dear Beatrice from her loving F.N. New Year's Day 1860. This copy does NOT carry '[The right of translation is reserved]' on the title… Read More
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Nouveau systeme de mineralogie, ou Essai d'une nouvelle exposition du regne mineral, auquel...
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Nouveau systeme de mineralogie, ou Essai d'une nouvelle exposition du regne mineral, auquel on a joint un Supplement au Traite de la dissolution des metaux, avec des observations relatives au Dictionnaire de chymie

by MONNET, Antoine-Grimoald

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Bouillon / Paris: Société typographique / Jombert, 1779. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo (168 x 102 mm). viii, 597 [1], [2] pp., including half-title, errata leaf, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary French mottled calf, gilt-decorated plain spine with gilt-lettered morocco label, red-dyed edges, marbled endpapers (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Text only very little browned, occasional black and brown spotting, a few pencil markings to blank margin, short clean tear in C1. A very good copy in untouched binding. ---- C. Schuh, Bibliography of Mineralogy, 3422; J. Etienne, Impressions bouillonnaises, p. 83. - VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the Bouillon print. "Monnet was appointed France's first inspector-general of mines in 1774, and as a consequence, he traveled extensively in Alsace and the German states to study metallurgy and mining. Most of his publications are… Read More
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