Paris: Chez Didot le jeune, Musier, fils, Dehaney, Panckoucke, 1763. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Baumé, Antoine (1728-1804). Manuel de chymie. First Edition 12mo; Full contemporary tree calf, raised bands on spine (richly gilt), maroon Morocco spine label: Endpapers, xii (including title page), 495 (1) pp Very slight abrasions on boards; overall.....
Paris: Dunod, (cancel stickers over publisher in each volume: J. Baudry, Libraire-Éditeur), 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, First Edition, 2 Volumes, Speckled morocco over boards, raised bands, gilt titles. I: xxxi (1), 566 pp; II: xi, (1), 774 pp. Woodcut frontispiece in Volume 1.This volume does not have the.....
Montpellier: De l Imprimeries de Jean-François Picot, 1790. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INTRODUCED NITROGEN TO THE WORLD. In 1790, Chaptal published the scientific treatise, Elements of Chemistry which introduced the term "nitrogen". 8vo, 3 volumes, First Edition. I: Endpapers, blank leaf, xcvj, 259 pp, blk leaf; II: Endpapers, blk leaf, 443.....
Amsterdam: Apud Joan. Ludov. de Lorme, 1710. Fourth edition. A dense and ambitious early Enlightenment scientific work by the noted Swiss-Dutch philosopher and theologian Jean Le Clerc (Joannis Clerici), examining the natural world through the lens of physics, anatomy, botany, zoology, and natural philosophy. The text reflects the transitional intellectual.....
Oxford: printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, 1689. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST BOOK TO USE THE TERM "STROKE". William Cole’s A Physico-Medical Essay Concerning the Late Frequency of Apoplexies, first published in Oxford at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1689, is a landmark in the history of neurology and cerebrovascular medicine. Notably.....
Dijon: J. Ressayre, 1700. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Fifth Edition, disbound 392pp. This book of "medical recipes" was published for poor women in France. These are the recipes, tested through the charitable care of Madame Fouquet, throughout her long life dedicated to serving the poor. At the request of.....
Johann Wendler (Liepzig), 1750. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first issue. 8vo. 1 bl. 8 lvs (including beautiful engraved frontispiece), 339, (1) pp, 10 lvs, endpaper, 4 folding copperplates of chemical and metallurgical apparatus. Large folding engraved plate of chemical symbols facing p 172. Cont. leather, very worn but solid.....
Paris: Chez Debure l’aîné, 1735. First edition. First French edition of Hales’s Vegetable Staticks (originally published in London, 1727), a foundational work in plant physiology and experimental biology, translated and introduced by the eminent naturalist Buffon. In this landmark text, Hales presents his systematic experiments on the movement of sap.....
Apud Casparum Rotelium (Frankfurt), 1634. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 4 lvs + 652 pp + [52] index + blank. Bound in very early vellum manuscript, 4 leather ties, some foxing and dampstaining but overall G-VG. Johann Hartmann's Praxis Chymiatrica is one of the earliest systematic works on iatrochemistry, the application.....
Halle: Cum Privilegio S.R.M. Polon. Et Elect. Sax, 1722. 1st Edition. Hardcover. KEY BREAKTHROUGH IN HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. 4to cont. leather, raised bands on spine, leather label: 14 leaves, 378 pp, 11 leaves. Title page in black and red with engraved vignette. Friedrich Hoffmann was one of the most distinguished.....
London: O. Pulleyn, 1670. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. A Compleat Body of Chymistry; wherein is contained whatsoever is necessary for the attaining to the Curious Knowledge of this Art; Comprehending in General the whole Practice thereof. Second Ed. This book provides an extensive introduction to alchemical theory and practice. It serves.....
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. "MEN GO MAD IN HERDS": Mackay's books later used in charting the stock market. Two volumes, Octavo, early 20th century three-quarter polished tan calf gilt, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Second.....
De l Imprimerie de la Société Typographique (Neuchatel), 1789. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. RARE LATE COPY OF MACQUER'S CHEMICAL DICTIONARY WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) was a leading 18th-century French chemist known for his contributions to both theoretical and practical chemistry. His Dictionnaire de Chymie was first published in 1766.....
Venice: Ambrogio and Bartolomeo Dei, 1616. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. "Magati was a proponent of conservative treatment of wounds and extolled the virtues of natural processes to heal wounds. The second part mainly deals with wounds of the nerves and head" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2143). Wellcome I, 3942. BOOK DETAILS AND.....
Paris: Chez Laurent D’Houry, 1701. Third edition. An early 18th-century French medical treatise devoted to the nature, causes, and treatment of fevers, written by the Paris physician Pierre Minot. The work reflects the transitional state of medicine at the turn of the eighteenth century, when Galenic traditions of bleeding and.....
Pasadena: Lithographed by Edwards Bros. (Privately printed), 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A RARE PRELIMINARY EDITION OF PAULING'S MAGNUM OPUS TEXTBOOK: GENERAL CHEMISTRY. Issued before the "official" 1947 first edition. BOOK DETAILS AND CONDITION: 8vo, softcover, some stains on original wrappers, internally VG xi+239pp+1 blank, preliminary edition of Pauling's 1947 text.....
Paris: Chez P. Fr. Gueffier, Libraire, 1779. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This book is a treatise on the different gases known in 1779, their preparations and their properties: carbon dioxide (fixed air that kills animals), shiny nitrous vapors, nitrogen (a kind of moss that kills animals), flammable air (hydrogen), dephlogisticated air.....
London: Typis R.N. impensis Walteri Kettilby, 1685. Second Edition. This 1685 Opera Universa of Thomas Sydenham, the celebrated “English Hippocrates,” presents a comprehensive collection of his medical writings, including his influential observations on fevers, epidemic diseases, venereal illnesses, chronic disorders, and practical therapeutic regimens. The volume includes the major works.....
London: Andrew Bell, Ralph Smith, Dan Midwinter, Tho. Leigh, Will. Hawes, Will. Davis, Geo. Strahan, Bern. Lintott, Ja. Round, and Jeff. Wale, 1704. First English Edition. This 1704 first English edition of Giorgio Baglivi’s The Practice of Physick presents one of the most influential early-18th-century medical treatises, notable for its.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912. First edition. Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson’s 1912 monograph Progressive Lenticular Degeneration represents one of the most important foundational works in modern neurology. Published as an offprint from the journal Brain, this landmark study constitutes the first complete clinical and pathological description of the hereditary.....