1883. Hardcover. Folio notebook (ex-libris U.S. Bureau of Standards) marbled boards, ½ leather extremely worn, separation from boards.
1979. No Binding. CHEMISTRY The New Royal Encyclopaedia or Complete Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences A New System of Chymistry by A.G. Sinclair, MD MA London: C. Cooke, 1797 (probable date; probably third edition) Folio *15 ½ X 9 ½ ) disbound 13 pp includes plate of apparatus.....
London: J. Wright, 1800. Third edition. Copies of Original Letters from the French Army in Egypt is a remarkable early compilation of military correspondence from Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), issued by the British Government after the letters were seized at sea. This volume—Part the Third, complete in itself—contains dispatches originally.....
Wiley, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Written by some of the industry's leading names, Credit Derivatives - Trading & Management of Credit and Default Riskprovides a comprehensive overview of this increasingly important financial instrument. Credit Derivatives promise to revolutionise the management of credit risk in banking and capital markets. Credit Derivatives.....
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1937. This official government-issued volume provides a complete alphabetical listing of registered dental practitioners as of the year 1937, printed under the authority of the Dental Board of the United Kingdom. It includes all dentists registered under the Dentists Act of 1878, with practitioners divided.....
1798. No Binding. Extracted CHEMISTRY SECTION of Encyclopaedia; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Extract from Vol. IV, pp 374-635 (index: pp 615-637), 4 plates (Chemical Symbols, following p 436; chemical apparatus following pp 440 and 454 and 1 huge folding plate (Chemical Nomenclature) following p 598.Philadelphia.....
Paris: du fonds de la Veuve Lecomte; chez Didot, Nyon, Damonville, Savoye et Durand, 1758. A fascinating mid-18th-century French popular medical compendium designed for the rural poor and charitable practitioners. This anonymous guide presents hundreds of remedies and treatments for common ailments, organized by body part and symptom—from headaches, fevers.....
Paris: Jean Camusat, 1638. Le Predicateur, printed in Paris in 1638 by Jean Camusat, is a seventeenth-century French treatise on the art and spiritual responsibilities of preaching within the Catholic Church. Written in the decades following the Counter-Reformation reforms of the Council of Trent, the work reflects the renewed emphasis.....
London: Printed for Robson (New Bond Street); Walter (Charing-Cross); and Robinson (Paternoster-Row), 1777. First edition. This is Volume III of Memoirs of the Marchioness de Louvois, an epistolary narrative written "By a Lady", published London, 1777. Presented in letter-form, the work recounts the personal life, relationships, and emotional tribulations of.....
Leipzig: Typis Thomae Fritschii et Francofurti ad Moenum: apud Joh. Philippum Andream, 1694. First edition. This is the first volume (Annus Primus) of the Miscellanea Curiosa, the celebrated scientific journal of the Academia Leopoldina, the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences in the world. Issued in 1694, this “Ephemerides”.....
The Hague: Chez Pierre Gosse, 1718. A handsome 1718 Hague edition of the Nouvelles Lettres of Gui Patin (1601–1672), the celebrated French physician, medical professor, humanist scholar, and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Paris. Patin’s correspondence is one of the great documentary sources for seventeenth-century intellectual and medical.....
R. L. Polk & Company. 1925. Thirteenth edition. A substantial professional directory documenting the dental landscape of North America in 1925, this thirteenth edition of Polk’s Dental Register offers an extraordinary snapshot of the dental profession at a pivotal moment in modern medical history. It includes exhaustive listings of dentists.....
Paris: Chez Thiboust, Imprimeur du Roy, Place de Cambray, 1745. First collected edition. A significant and scarce mid-18th century legal compendium collecting royal edicts, declarations, and decrees concerning the administration, funding, and regulation of France’s charitable and medical institutions, most notably the Hôpital Général de Paris, the Enfants-Trouvés (Foundling Hospital).....
Letchworth, Herts: The Garden City Press Limited, 1953. Tenth International Congress of Dermatology, London 1952 — Proceedings, published by the British Medical Association, London, 1953, documents one of the major global gatherings of dermatologists in the mid-20th century, held just seven years after WWII when international scientific exchange was resuming.....
London: Cadell & Davies, 1797. First edition. This third installment of John Abernethy’s influential Surgical and Physiological Essays contains detailed case studies, operative descriptions, and discussions on injuries of the head, vascular pathology, and the physiology of irritability and disease. Abernethy—assistant surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and F.R.S.—was one of.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1810. First edition. John Abernethy’s Surgical Observations on Injuries of the Head (1810) represents one of the foundational early nineteenth-century clinical texts on cranial trauma and neurological injury. Drawing upon his extensive experience as Assistant Surgeon and Lecturer at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in.....
New York City: The Medical Art Agency; Rebman Company, 1913. This classic ophthalmological atlas, Ophthalmoscopic Diagnosis, presents one of the most comprehensive early visual guides to the appearance of the fundus of the human eye. Based on typical pathological and normal variations seen in clinical ophthalmoscopy, the work provides detailed.....
London: The Sydenham Society, 1856. First edition. This 1856 Sydenham Society edition presents the complete surviving works of Aretaeus of Cappadocia, one of the most important medical writers of the Greco-Roman world. Edited and translated by the renowned classical physician Francis Adams, the text provides both Greek originals and English.....
Appresso Albondio Menafoglio (Venice), 1682. 1st Edition. Hardcover. EARLY ITALIAN ALCHEMICAL TREATISE. Giovanni Francesco Aggravi's Protolume Chimico echeggiante di condupplicati paraphasia (1682) is a rare and little known work of late 17th-century Italian alchemical and pharmaceutical literature. Published in Venice by Albondio Menafoglio, it presents a synthesis of spagyric medicine.....
Halae: Typis & Impensis Orphanotropheii, 1722. First edition. An important early-18th-century medical monograph on the theory and treatment of haemorrhoids, by the influential German physician Michael Alberti (1682–1757), professor of medicine and philosophy at the University of Halle and a major figure in the school of Christian Wolff and Georg.....
Leiden: Apud Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium, 1734. First edition. A cornerstone of early modern anatomy, Historia Musculorum Hominis (1734) presents Bernhard Siegfried Albinus’s systematic study of the muscles of the human body, illustrated with some of the most refined copperplate engravings of the eighteenth century. A professor of anatomy.....
Paris: De lImprimerie de François Muguet, 1671. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 1 blank leaf, woodcut crest of King Louis XIV on title page, 175, (1) pp, 8 leaves, 1 blank leaf; contemporary leather with raised bands, morocco label, gilt lettering and decorations on label and spine; somewhat worn externally with.....
Paris: Imprimerie de Fournier Fils, An XII, 1804. First edition. First edition of this seminal scientific treatise by Jean Aldini (1762–1834), the nephew of Luigi Galvani and one of the foremost figures in the early study of bioelectricity. In Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme, Aldini expands upon his.....
Paris: Du fonds de la Veuve Lecomte, 1758. This important and widely reissued medical manual was written by Don Nicolas Alexandre, French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint-Maur and one of the most influential practical medical authors of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Nicolas Alexandre composed La.....
Paris: Rémont, Libraire, quai des Augustins, 1776. First edition. This rare first edition of Allouel’s Explication des Mots d’Usage en Anatomie et en Chirurgie (Paris, 1776) is an important 18th-century medical reference work designed to clarify anatomical and surgical terminology for students and practitioners. Structured as both a glossary and.....