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Hertford, 1892. xiv pp. No wrappers. "An abridged report of a lecture delivered to the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, on the 16th October 1889.

Washington DC: United States GPO, 1943. United States. War Department Technical Manual. Radar electronic fundamentals (TM 11-466). Restricted classification. Washington DC: United States GPO, 1943. 459pp. 215 x 140 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Ownership signature to top of front wrapper; laid in is a sheet of paper with electrical diagram drawings. Good to very good. First Edition. 51103.

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.

Bampton, Devon, England: Sunrise Press, 1996. Expanded third edition. 320pp. Author's signature to title page; also, a blindstamp reading "Radio! Radio! / Jonathan Hill" with no. 708 written in blue ink in the center of the blindstamp. (210 x 295 mm). Black cloth with DJ in plastic. A Fine copy. Hill, Jonathan (1952-). Radio! radio! Bampton, Devon, England: Sunrise Press, 1996. 320pp. 295 x 210 mm. Black cloth with dust-jacket. Blind stamp to title page. Fine. Special Numbered Edition, Signed by the Author. Third edition, expanded. Author's signature to the title page, as well as a blind stamp that reads "Radio! Radio! / Jonathan Hill" with "no. 708" hand-written in blue ink to the center of the blind-stamp. Fine. 51113.

1934. Fermi, Enrico (1901-54). Radioactivity induced by neutron bombardment. In Nature 133 (1934): 757. Whole number. [cliii] - clvi, 737-754, viii, 755-772, clvii-clx pp. 268 x 192 mm. Original printed self-wrappers, small chip in front wrapper, light soiling, but very good, and very scarce in this form. Oval stamp on front wrapper. First Edition, journal issue. Fermi's letter to the editor of Nature, published in the issue dated 19 May 1934, was the first announcement in English of his Nobel Prize-winning neutron-bombardment experiments, predating by two months the English-language account he published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. By publishing this brief account in Nature Fermi informed the international scientific community of his work, few of whom read the accounts in Ricerca scientifica. Fermi and his team of young physicists in Rome began conducting their experiments in the spring of 1934, "irradiat[ing] all the substances [they] could lay their hands on" (Segrè, "No. 84a to… Read More

1932. Hahn, Otto (1879-1968). Radioaktivität und chemische Elementarprozesse. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie (1932). 511-518pp. 287 x 203 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Some toning, light creasing, but very good. From the library of Walther Gerlach (1889-1979), with his initials in blue pencil on the first page. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On radioactivity and elementary chemical processes. This copy is from the library of Walther Gerlach, co-discoverer of spin quantization in a magnetic field (the "Stern-Gerlach" effect). .

New York: Van Norstrand.., 1903. 1st edition. First Suggestion of the Use of Radium in Cancer Treatment The First American book on Radioactivity Other than X-Ray, Presentation Copy Hammer, William J. Radium and other radio-active substances. 8vo.viii,72pp.adverts.Fronts. and text illustrations. 230 x 150mm. Original cloth, gilt. Very good copy. Inscribed: George L. Shepley Esq. With the compliments of Wm. J. Hammer, April 21,1904." FIRST EDITION. Hammer brought 9 tubes of radium from the Curies' lab to America in 1902, and the above work contains many first-hand references to the Curies, Becquerel, etc. Hammer delivered some 88 lectures on radium, invented the luminous radium preparation used in watch dials, airplane and automobile instruments, and is credited with the first suggestion and use of radium in cancer treatment. Grigg 786. .

Verona: per gli Fratelli Merli, 1699. Rotario, Sebastiano (1667-1742). Ragioni . . . contra l'uso del salasso . . . 4to. 8, 168, 10pp. Verona: per gli Fratelli Merli, 1699. 210 x 161 mm. Limp boards ca. 1699, a bit soiled and worn. Faint dampstains in outer margins of several leaves, but very good. First Edition. Our copy includes the separately paginated Lettera di Sebastiano Rotario . . . scritta all'illustri Sig. N. N. traduttore del libro francese intitolato Orophile en desordre . . . , not present in all copies. Rotario wrote his treatise against the use of bloodletting as a rebuttal to Stefani Piccoli's Medicina ventilate (1695), which argued for the practice. Included at the end is Rotario's letter to the anonymous Italian translator of Orophile en desordre (1686), another anti-bloodletting treatise originally published in French in 1686. Rotario was the author of numerous medical works, but he is best known today for his letter of 20 November 1716 to Antonio Vallisnieri concerning the many… Read More

Munich and Berlin, 1933. Sänger, Eugen (1905-64). Raketenflugtechnik. ix, 222, [2]pp. Text illustrations. Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1933. 238 x 168 mm. Original cloth, rear hinge partly split, some spotting in the cloth; text is clean. Very good. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Sänger to his former professor, whom he thanked in the introduction, Richard Katzmayr (b. 1884): "Seinem verehrten Lehrer, Herrn Prof. Katzmayr in Verehrung überreicht vom Verfasser." First Edition. Sänger's Raketenflugtechnik (Rocket-powered flight) was the first study to lead to the eventual development of a reusable human-piloted rocket-powered space plane, a concept that evolved into the X-planes and the Space Shuttle. Sänger's "Silverbird," which he and his associate (and future wife) Irene Bredt continued to refine during the 1930s, was conceived of as "a winged vehicle propelled by a rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and kerosene, capable of reaching Mach 10.0 at altitudes in excess of 100 miles"… Read More

Munich & Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928. Valier, Max (1895-1930). Raketenfahrt. viii, 252pp. Text illustrations. Munich & Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928. 216 x 137 mm. Text illustrations. Original pictorial soft covers, slightly worn. Very good. Inscribed by Valier on the title: "Frl. Dr. Gertie Guckenheimer in Hochschatzung und Freundschaft zugeeignet. Mit Kamaradschaftlichen Grüssen Max Valier Berlin 11.11.1928." The rare paperback version of the fifth printing. .

Paris: Baillière, 1841. Orfila, Mathieu J. B. (1787-1853). Rapport sur les moyens de constater la présence de l'arsenic dans les empoisonnemens par ce toxique. 53pp. Text illustrations. 204 x 130 mm. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1841. Original printed wrappers, upper corner of front wrapper chipped. Light toning but very good. First Edition. Orfila founded the science of toxicology with the publication of his monumental Traité des poisons (1814-15; Garrison-Morton.com 2072). He created new techniques for detecting arsenic poisoning as well as refining existing ones, and he played a major role in the 1840 conviction of Marie Lafarge, found guilty of poisoning her husband with arsenic after Orfila provided damning toxicological evidence against her. In the present pamphlet, published a year after the Lafarge trial, Orfila included extracts from reports by the Académie Royale de la Médecine and the Académie des Sciences supporting his findings on arsenic detection, as well as his own refutation of… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. [Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90); Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94), Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-93) et al.] Rapport des commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal. 4to. 66pp. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 238 x 187 mm. 18th-century ownership signature of [Gabriel] Depéret de Maury, physician of Limoges. Bound with: Extrait des registres de la Société royale de médecine. Séance du 24 août 1784. 4pp. Paris: Ph.-D. Pierres, 1784. Together 2 works in 1. Recent full morocco tooled in gilt and blind in antique style. Tear in the Rapport's title-leaf mended, light toning but very good. First Quarto Edition; the official edition, printed at the French king's private press in the Louvre. This copy bears the ownership signature of Gabriel Depéret de Maury, a Limoges physician who played a minor administrative role in the French revolutionary government; he also published a dissertation on opium. In the spring of 1784 the French government, no longer… Read More

Paris, 1879. [Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer.] Sebert, H. Rapport . . . sur la machine à calculer dite arithmomètre inventée par M. Thomas (de Colmar) et perfectionée par M. Thomas de Bojano. Offprint from Bulletin de la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, series 3, 6 (1879). 34pp. 2 folding plates showing details of the Arithmometer's construction. 282 x 227 mm. Unbound; stitched. Edges a bit frayed, plates lightly foxed, a few fingermarks but very good. First Edition. The arithmometer was invented by Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785-1870), who patented its design in 1820. The Thomas Arithmometer, manufactured between 1851 and 1915, was the first commercially successful calculating machine; its debut at the Great Exhibition of 1851 launched the mechanical calculator industry. Between 1851 and 1890 the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator in commercial production, and its design was copied by several European companies. The brand name "Arithmometer"… Read More

Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. Rives, Gustave. Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique. Grand Palais, Paris, Decembre 1908. 91, [5], [4, adverts.]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. 285 x 230 mm. (partly unopened). Original printed wrappers, extremities of spine a little worn, light spotting. Very good copy. First Edition. Catalogue of the first international aeronautical exposition, held in Paris in December 1908. Included are descriptions, diagrams and photographs of the aircraft exhibited (biplanes, monoplanes, blimps, etc.), plus portraits of aviators / inventors, a timeline and a bibliography of aeronautical literature.

Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1867. Denonvilliers, Charles-Pierre (1808-72); Auguste Nélaton (1807-73); Alfred A. L. M. Velpeau (1795-1867); Jean C. F. Guyon (1831-1920); and Léon Labbé (1832-1916). Rapport sur les progrès de la chirurgie. [6], iv, 768pp. Paris: A l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1867. 257 x 171 mm. 19th-century half morocco, light wear at spine and corners. Minor foxing and toning but very good. From the library of Philippe Ricord. First Edition. An official report on the progress of surgery in France, published as part of the French Minister of Public Instruction's Recueil de rapports sur les progrès des sciences et des lettres en France. The report was written by Guyon and Labbé at the suggestion of Denonvilliers, Nélaton and Velpeau, who had been originally selected for the task but were unable to take it on due to professional obligations. .

New York: Merwin Sales Co, 1913.

Paris. Flourens, Pierre (1794-1867). Recherches physiques sur les propriétés et les fonctions du systême nerveux dans les animaux vertébrés. In Archives générales de médecine 2 (1823): 321-370. Whole volume. 647pp. 2 plates. 19th century quarter cloth, mottled boards, remains of library shelf-label on spine, minor edgewear. Stamps (some Nazi-era) of the Bibliothek des Med.-Klin. Institut, Munich on title, verso half-title and endpapers. First Edition, journal issue of Flourens' first paper on cerebral function. In an effort to refute Gall's theory of cerebral localization, Flourens carried out a famous series of experiments on pigeons, in which he selectively removed either the cerebral lobes or the cerebellum in order to demonstrate their roles in brain physiology. The pigeons deprived of their cerebral lobes retained their sense of equilibrium, but lost all sense of volition and showed no sensory awareness of their surroundings; in contrast, those deprived of their cerebellums lost all… Read More

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London: Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. 27pp. 246 x 154 mm. Original printed wrappers, slightly creased. Stamp of Herbert M. Evans on the front wrapper. Very good.

Beginning of Health Information Technology Systems Ledley, Robert S. (1926-2012) and Lee B. Lusted (1922-94). (1) Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis. Offprint from Science 130 (1959). 13pp. Text illustrations. 287 x 211 mm. Original printed wrappers, ownership stamp on front wrapper. (2) Ledley. National Bureau of Standards Report 3363. A digitalization, systematization and formulation of the theory and methods of the propositional calculus. Offset typescript. [2], v, 82pp. Text diagrams. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Feb. 1, 1954. 268 x 206 mm. Original printed wrappers, stamp on front wrapper dated "9-15-54" in manuscript. (3) Ledley. Mathematical foundations and computational methods for a digital logic machine. Offprint from Journal of the Operations Research Society of America 2 (1954). 249-274pp. Text diagrams. 230 x 152 mm. Original printed wrappers, ownership stamp on front wrapper. (4) Ledley. Digital computational methods in symbolic… Read More