Ueber Lebensmagnetismus und über die magischen Wirkungen überhaupt
by CARUS, Carl Gustav
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1857. FIRST EDITION. Modern marbled boards; water stain on both top and bottom edges throughout most of book. First edition of the author’s treatise on vital magnetism. Carus here examines mesmerism or animal magnetism deeming it “life magnetism.” He makes the assumption that humans are connected to the whole world by means of this life magnetism. “The dual nature of our entire mental existence, conscious and unconscious, is the knowledge of which provides the real key to... Read More
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by CASSERIUS, Giulio Cesare
[Ferrara]: [Victorius Baldinus], 1601. FIRST EDITION. Elaborately engraved title, 2 engraved portraits, and 33 engraved anatomical plates. Our copy is one of a few printed with a blank verso M3, a printer's error, considered by researchers to be an earlier issue. It is also bound in the original boards, and due to a probable binder's error, it was bound without 4 congruent text leaves (Q2-3 and B2-3), which are supplied in facsimile. A few insignificant spots, but overall a... Read More
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A group of 5 scientific trade catalogues, all with numerous illustrations throughout, and all bound in their original illustrated bindings
by SCIENTIFIC TRADE CATALOGUES
1. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-501. Chicago: Central Scientific Company, 1950. [iv], 516 pp. 2. CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog C No. 227. Chicago: Central Scientific Company, 1917. 779 pp. 3. REDMAN SCIENTIFIC CO. Laboratory Apparatus and supplies. Catalog H-461. San Francisco: Redman Scientific Company, 1946. [viii], 492, [1] pp. Chemistry, chemicals, health and hygiene apparatus (bacteriology and blood testing), natural sciences (agriculture, biology, botany and zoology), chemical and... Read More
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Aperçu sur les canon rayés se chargeant par la bouche et par la culasse et sur les perfectionnements a apporter a l’art de la guerre en 1861. From Mémoires de l’académie des sciences de Turin, Série II, Tome XXII
by CAVALLI, J[ean]
Turin: Imprimerie Royale, 1862. FIRST EDITION. With 4 folding plates. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth; small stamp on title, last signature with early repair in the margin. A very nice copy. First edition of this rare work in French published by the Academy of Sciences in Turin, on new technology in military armaments. The author provides an overview of the refinements proposed to barrel rifle and muzzle-loading and breech canons. He details the changes that the military is making to their... Read More
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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
by CAVENDISH, George
London: Rivingtons, 1852. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Decorative embossed brown leather, red morocco spine label, spine with 5 raised bands, marbled end-papers; boards scuffed, hinges starting, otherwise a very good copy with a previous owners bookplate and inscription. New edition. Biography of the cardinal of the Roman Catholic church.
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“On the theory of groups, as depending on the symbolic equation theta^n=1.” From Philosophical Magazine, Fourth Series, Vol. 7, pp. 40-47
by CAYLEY, Arthur
London: Taylor & Francis, 1854. FIRST PRINTING. Bound into boards, label with author and title in gilt on front cover. An excellent copy. First edition of Cayley’s groundbreaking work on identification of groups. This work contained a number of invaluable insights and provided mathematicians with what is now the accepted procedure for defining a group. “In the abstract theory of groups, where nothing is said of the nature of the elements, the group is completely specified if all possible... Read More
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Le Diable amoureux
by CAZOTTE, Jacques
Paris: Léon Ganivet, 1845. Six full-page wood engraved plates and 200 wood engravings in the text, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary gilt morocco-backed marbled boards. Armorial bookplate. An excellent copy. Finely illustrated edition of this occult novel that initiated the genre of the fantastique. The narrative follows Don Alvaro, a young man with whom Satan has fallen in love, as he attempts to rebuff the advances of Biondetta, who is actually the devil in disguise. This edition... Read More
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North
by CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. Red printed wrappers, a bit sunned, otherwise an excellent copy. Uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition, translated by Ralph Manheim. Céline’s third novel offers a vivid chronicle of a desperate man’s frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II. Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, the narrator leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a... Read More
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Death on the installment plan
by CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original dark blue cloth, slightly worn at head and foot of spine, otherwise an excellent copy. First American edition. A French writer and doctor, Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (1894-1961) adopted the pseudonym Céline when he wrote his first novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit. He here looks back on his Paris childhood, depicting the tale of a young boy struggling with his parents and life. These first two novels are a... Read More
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De Medicina
by CELSUS, Aulus Cornelius
Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1687. LATER EDITION. Etched frontispiece and portrait, full-page etched plate of medical instruments, half-page etched plate of a spinal disc. Contemporary stiff vellum, manuscript spine title, red edges. Contemporary and later manuscript notes and concordances throughout. A very good copy. The oldest western text on medicine after the Hippocratic corpus containing all the medical knowledge of ancient Rome. It was the first printed medical book, originally published in 1478 from an incomplete Greek manuscript. This revision... Read More
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De plantis libri XVI
by CESALPINO, Andreae
Florence: Georgium Marescottum, 1583. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut printer’s device on title and on the colophon, woodcut initials. Full calf, gilt decorations in an antique style, morocco spine label, spine label; minor waterstain to index leaves. Faint contemporary ownership signature at foot of title page. An excellent copy. First edition of the first “rational system of plant classification” (PMM). Cesalpino’s work became the foundation of scientific botany and the first articulation of the modern concept of species. With the knowledge... Read More
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Suite Provinciale
by CHAGALL, Marc. COQUIOT, Gustave
Paris: Andre Delpeuch, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, skillfully rebacked, covers soiled but internally clean and sound. Uncut. First edition of a rare Chagall illustrated title. Number 344 of 500 copies printed on Velin de Rives. Not signed. French text by Gustave Coquiot; with 92 original unedited drawings by Chagall.
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A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases
by CHANNING, Walter
Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, 1848. FIRST EDITION. With the 8-page publisher's brochure laid into the front of the book containing excellent reviews. Original green-stamped cloth. A fine, crisp copy with a presentation inscription from the author on the fly-leaf. First edition of an American classic on the earliest use of anaesthesia in obstetrics. Channing was one of the first to use ether anesthesia in maternity cases. The present work was founded on nearly 600 cases in his... Read More
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The birds of the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume LXV
by CHAPIN, James P.
New York: AMNH, 1932. FIRST EDITION. I: With frontispiece, 10 plates, including a folding colored map of the Congo, and 208 figures; II: With colored frontispiece, 21 plates (2 in color) and 38 figures; III: With 14 plates and 36 figures; IV: With 27 plates and 46 figures. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; a very clean copy from the Library of James M. Dolan Jr., with his small blind stamp on title and with a hand-colored... Read More
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Unexplored Spain
by CHAPMAN, Abel & BUCK, Walter J.
London: Edward Arnold, 1910. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece, 31 full-page plates, many with multiple photographic illustrations, and numerous text illustrations. Half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; an excellent copy from the library of James M. Dolan Jr., former head curator and director of collections at the Zoological Society of San Diego, with his small blind stamp on title. First edition of an important work on Spain and its wildlife, intended as the sequel to the authors’... Read More
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Theriaque d’Andromacus avec une description particuliere des plantes, des animaux & des mineraux ... Nouvelle edition revue et augmentee
by CHARAS, Mose
Paris: L. d'Houry, 1685. SECOND EDITION. With 2 title pages, the first with a beautiful engraving showing a beaver and vipers. Contemporary calf, spine in compartments with label and gilt decorations. A beautiful copy. Second edition, the original printed in 1668. The first chapters describe theriac, its origin and its methods of elaboration. The main part of the volume describes the natural history of the animal and plant species which make up the composition. This edition is augmented by... Read More
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Les fous, les insensés, les maniaques let les frénétiques ne seraient-ils que des somnabules désordonnés
by CHASTENET DE PUYSÉGUR, Armand Marie Jacques
Paris: Dentu, 1812. Modern boards, front board detached; internally fresh. Bookplate of Clements C. Fry (1892-1955), chief psychiatrist at the Yale University department of health and a Yale professor and lecturer for 30 years. First edition, a case study of the author’s magnetic treatment of 12-year-old Alexandre Hébert, a boy who suffered from fits of rage. Chastenet de Puységur here posits that most mental illness stems from disordered sleep and champions a close relationship between the clinician and the... Read More
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Recherches, expériences et observations physiologiques sur l’homme dans l’état de somnambulisme naturel, et dans le somnambulisme provoqué par l’acte magnétique
by CHASTENET DE PUYSÉGUR, Armand Marie Jacques
Paris: J.G. Dentu, 1811. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, spine label (a bit worn); interior fine. First edition of one of the first important studies on artificial and natural somnambulism. The author reaffirms that the major difference between artificial and natural somnambulism lies in the dependence of the magnetized (hypnotized) subject in relation to the magnetizer in the case of artificial somnambulism. He observes the changes in consciousness in a state of magnetic sleep, which will open the way to... Read More
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Le parnasse médical français, ou Dictionnaire des Médecins-Poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants . .
by CHEREAU, Achille
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1874. FIRST EDITION. Red cloth, slightly bumped; marbled end-papers. Some light foxing. First edition. The present work provides, in a dictionary-type format, a significant amount of biographical and bibliographical information for a legion of French doctor-poets. A French doctor and bibliophile, Achille Chéreau (1817-85) was the author of several studies on medicine and bibliophilia. His works include La Vérité sur la mort de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Essai sur les origines du jounalisme médical français.
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Recollections of Seventy Years
by CHETLAIN, Augustus L.
Galena: Gazette Publishing, 1899. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait. Green cloth, patterned end-papers, spine sunned and frayed, light shelf-wear and soiling to boards; gutters torn, a little loose, otherwise good. First edition of General Chetlain's memoirs. Chetlain (1824-1914) was a long-time friend of Ulysses S. Grant, having served under him during the war, where he attained the rank of Major General. Apparently he was a frequent visitor to Grant's White House, where they spent many an evening playing cards. After... Read More
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The voyages and adventures of Captain Robert Boyle in several parts of the world. Intermixed with the story of Miss Villars, an English lady, with whom he made his surprising escape from Barbary. Likewise including the history of an Italian captive, and the life of Don Pedro Aquilio, &c. Full of various and amazing turns of fortune
by [CHETWOOD, William Rufus]
Walpole, New Hampshire: Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Thomas, 1799. Later edition. Contemporary tree-calf, rebacked, new spine label and endpapers; interior browning due to the quality of the paper, with one small tear on the lower corner of leaf C5 with loss of some letters. Later edition of this classic work, a scarce New Hampshire imprint. This inventive work of fiction has been attributed to several different authors, including Benjamin Victor and Daniel Defoe. It contains a... Read More
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Methode naturelle de guerir les maladies du corps...
by CHEYNE, [George]; LA CHAPELLE, [Abbe] de (trans.)
Paris: J.F. Quillau, 1749. FIRST FRENCH EDITION WITH ADDITIONAL PREFACE BY DE LA CHAPELLE. Numerous woodcut initials, head- and tail pieces. Contemporary mottled calf, decorative gilt spine. Minor rubbing to joints, otherwise a lovely copy. First French edition, greatly enlarged with an additional article on blood transfusion. La Chapelle describes an attempt at direct dog to dog transfusion, explaining each stage of the operation in detail. He goes on to discuss blood transfusion in humans, referring to the work... Read More
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Fluxionum methodus inversa; sive quantitatum fluentium leges generaliores . .
by CHEYNE, George
London: J. Matthews, 1703. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text diagrams and mathematical equations. Contemporary Oxford-style sprinkled calf, a bit worn, front hinge weak but holding; interior excellent. A duplicate from the library of the University of St. Andrews with a contemporary inscription on the title page and a gift inscription, also contemporary, on the verso. First edition of Cheyne’s attempt at mathematics. It is quite likely that Cheyne had knowledge of Newton’s manuscript on the calculus despite it not having... Read More
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An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain...
by CHEYNE, John
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1814. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, spine label; margin of fly-leaf repaired, slight browning, otherewise a very nice copy from the library of George Milton Smith, with his small book-label. First American edition, originally published in 1808 in Edinburgh and London. "Cheyne's Essay, one of the first noteworthy monographs on neuropathology to appear in the nineteenth century, contains the first description of acute hydrocephalus or basilar (tuberculous) meningitis, a disease that primarily affects children.... Read More
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Ciba Symposia
by CIBA
Summit, NJ: Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, 1951. Later buckram, title and date in gilt on spine, the original wrappers for each number bound in. An excellent set with many illustrations. First edition of this journal published by the CIBA pharmaceutical company starting in 1939. This was a “companion” journal to the Ciba Zeitschrift which began publication for the chemical industry in 1933. From the preface: “Each month, and in a literary and scientific manner, Ciba Symposia will treat a pertinent... Read More
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