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Paris:: Sipuco. 1953. hardcover. 2. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. xxxii, 1152 pp. Indexes; paper toned. Maroon cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. Very good. . Useful medical dictionary with terms translated from French to English, German and Latin. ... more information

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press. 1954. hardcover. 2. 8vo. xv, (372) pp. Illustrations, index. Black cloth, blind stamped cover, orange and white stamped spine title, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Very Good. ... more information

Paris:: Rignoux. 1856. hardcover. 2. At head of title: Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine..., No. 261. 254 x 198 mm. 4to. 118, [2 blank] pp. 3 lithographic plates with 13 figs.; foxed. Modern full brown morocco, gilt-ruled covers, gilt spine. Bookplate of Jerry F. Donin. Very good. RARE. . FIRST EDITION. Louis de la Calle studied under Louis Auguste Desmarres (1810-1882). The plates include figures representing an ophthalmoscope designed by Desmarres... more information

Offprint from:: Contributions of the Meteoritical Society, Popular Astronomy, Vol. LVI, No. 10, December 19. r1948. paperback. 2. 8vo. (255 x 165 mm). pp. (552)-558. Photos. Original wrappers. Very good. . La Paz is best known for his research and study of meteors, as well as his UFO investigations. ... more information

Offprint from:: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 61, No. 359, April 19. l1949. paperback. 2. 8vo. (230 x 150 mm). 11 pp. (pp. 63-73) Photo plates, figs. Self-wraps. Very good. . La Paz is best known for his research and study of meteors, as well as his UFO investigations. ... more information

Genève:: J. Barbezat. 1828. paperback. 1. 4to. 50 pp. Later marbled wrappers. FINE. . FIRST EDITION. La Rive's major work and an influential factor in the development of electrical theory. "It was as a critic of Volta's contact theory that of the pile, which attributed the production of electricity in the pile to an electromotive force arising from the contact of heterogeneous substances, that La Rive made his European reputation." DSB VIII, p. 36. He was a friend of Arago, Amp&egra... more information

[Paris]:: (Madame Huzard. 1825. paperback. 2. 196 x 127 mm. 8vo. 48 pp. Tears at page 47 repaired with only minor loss of text, some staining and spotting on various leaves. Modern marbled wrappers. Housed in a cloth clam-shell box, red gilt-stamped leather label on spine of box. Bookplate of Haskell Norman. INSCRIBED by the author to Pierre Adolph Piorry. Very good. SCARCE. . FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO PIERRE ADOLPHE PIORRY. The first disinfecting agent. Privately printed account o... more information

New Haven:: William Storer, Jun.. 1840. paperback. 2. Third edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Occasional light marginal foxing, extremities worn. Original green printed wrappers; extremities worn. INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR "Library of Washington College, Presented by the Translator" (not signed). Very good. . "First chlorine solution for disinfecting purposes. " Garrison and Morton 5633. This work marked the beginning of scientific antisepsis, and was influential right on through the First World War. G... more information

Paris:: chez l’auteur et Mme Huzard. 1825. paperback. 1. 8vo. (216 x 140 mm). 48 pp. A little foxing. Original printed wrappers, uncut. Housed in a gray clamshell board box with gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. . PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. “In the very beginning of this privately printed account of the uses of sodium hypochlorite solutions for disinfecting, Labarraque states that he did not publish his first successful medical experiences with chlorine solutio... more information

Los Angeles:: Allan Hancock Foundation. 1950. hardcover. 1. Folio. 53 pp. 24 large tipped-in photos, bibliog. Cloth backed pictorial boards. FINE. . FIRST EDITION. Lavishly illustrated record of Lachmann’s collection. ... more information

Oxford:: Clarendon Press. 1954. hardcover. 2. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. viii, 343 pp. Color frontis., 52 fig., 39 tables, refs., index. Navy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust-jacket; corners slightly bumped, jacket chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of M.W. Strickberger. Very good. ... more information

San Francisco:: Fred I. Lackenbach, Biologic Depot. 1915. paperback. 2. Reprint. 8vo. 59 pp. Index; some bottom page edges slightly frayed, red rubber stamp on p. 5. Printed wrappers; rear cover edges with small tears. Very good. . “This booklet contains a reprint of the descriptions of biologic products, which, having been accepted by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, are to be found in New and Nonofficial Remedies, edition of 1915…” Introduction to Biologic Products… p. 1. ... more information

[Upton, New York]:: Brookhaven National Laboratory.... 1968. paperback. 1. Brookhaven Lecture Series, No. 17, BNL 50101 (T-488) (Biology and Medicine - TID-4500). 270 x 215 mm. 4to. iii, 6 pp. 9 figs., 1 table. Printed wrappers. Fine. ... more information

(New York:: Geological Society of America), 1957. The Geological Society of America, Memoir. oir67. hardcover. 3. 253 x 167 mm. Thick 8vo. x, 1077 pp. Frontis. port., figs., numerous tables (many folding), bibliog., index. Red cloth, gilt spine; rubbed, corners bumped. Ex library ms. spine number, label removed from front paste down, rubber stamp. Good. ... more information

Kiel:: Schmidt & Klaunig. 1884. paperback. 2. 8vo. 24 pp. Original printed wrappers; extremities chipped, top cover loose. Ex library ms. notations on top cover. Very good. . Albert Ladenberg pioneered investigations of organic compounds of silicon and tin and advanced theories on the structure of aromatic compounds, but his chief contributions were the elucidation of the structure of alkaloids and their synthesis. In 1860 Ladenburg studied at Heidelberg, inspired by Bunsen's and Kirchhoff's lec... more information

Springfield, IL:: Charles C. Thomas. 1963. hardcover. 1. Thin 8vo. xvi, 153 pp. 53 figs., bibliog., index. Olive cloth, gilt- stamped spine title, dust jacket. Fine. ... more information

Toulon:: G. Mouton. 1911. paperback. .. 135 x 213 mm. 63 pp. Diags. Original green wrappers printed in red. Scarce. ... more information

Paris:: J.S. Chaudé. 1837. hardcover. 1. Complete 3 volume set. 8vo. (215 x 140 mm). xxviij, 672; [4], 704; [4], 580 pp. 6 lithographed plates, 2 hand-colored, the others double-page; some foxing and marginal staining to pages. Modern quarter dark brown morocco with decorative boards, gilt-stamped spine title. Fine. . Fourth edition, considerably increased by Gabriel Andral (1797-1876), the founder of the science of hematology. “Laennec was undoubtedly the most prominent French internist of his ... more information

Boston:: Little, Brown and Co.. 1969. paperback. 2. First printing. 8vo. xii, 574 pp. Photos, figs., glossary. Printed wrappers; corner lightly creased. Ownership rubber stamp of M.W. Strickberger. Very good. ... more information

New Haven & London:: Yale University Press. 1998. hardcover. 1. 216 x 145 mm. 8vo. xi, 156 pp. 28 port. plates, 5 figs., bibliog., index. Quarter cloth, dust-jacket. Fine. ... more information