Marci Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Titum Pomponium Atticum, Sebastiani Corradi breuissimis interpretationibus illustratae
by CICERO, Marcus Tullius; CORRADI, Sebastiano
Venice: Girolamo Scoto, 1544. Wood- and metalcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary limp vellum (stained, front endleaf renewed). Scattered contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Ownership inscription on the title “Hiero: Ruuereus. Ex libris congregationis oratorii cherii.” Ownership inscription on the front endleaf “Orazio Fumagalli 1951”. Other than some minor dampstains, a crisp, sound copy. Corradi’s recension of Cicero’s correspondences with Titus Pomponius Atticus, the famous Roman rhetorician and banker with whom he shared a close friendship. According to Schweiger, Corradi’s... Read More
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The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England
by CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of
Oxford: University Press, 1843. Early edition. Text in double columns. Modern morocco-backed cloth, title in gilt on spine, upper edge red; interior clean and in excellent condition. Early edition of Clarendon’s complete text. According to the advertisement, “in this edition the original manuscript of the noble author deposited in the Bodleian Library has been followed throughout, the suppressed passages have been restored, and the interpolations made by the first edition have been rejected.” This classic work on British history... Read More
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Quelques faits remarquables d’infanticide
by [CLAVEL DE BRENLES, Samuel François Louis César]
Lausanne: Corbaz, 1825. Lithographed plate. Contemporary marbled wrappers. A good copy in genuine original condition. First edition of this compilation of case studies of infanticide. The text begins with a pathological analysis of mothers who kill their children and the laws surrounding the crime in France, followed by seven narrative accounts of infanticide and their court proceedings. The plate at the beginning of the book portrays the perpetrator in the first case study. OCLC locates only 2... Read More
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Mark Twain’s Autobiography
by [CLEMENS, Samuel]. PAINE, Albert Bigelow
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Including duplicated half-title in Volume II and a list of books by Twain at the end. Sepia-toned frontispiece in each volume. Original publisher’s cloth with Twain’s facsimile signature in gilt on covers, top edge gilt, original light blue dust jackets and slipcase, small tears to dust jackets, slipcase without a spine; interior pages bright and crisp. Presentation copy from Paine signed “For Mr. Earl J. Bonheimer, sincerely... Read More
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The common sense of the exact sciences. Part of the “International Scientific Series,” Volume LI
by CLIFFORD, William Kingdon
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1885. First edition. With 100 text illustrations. Original blind stamped publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on the spine, slightly faded; interior excellent. First edition. An attractive copy, published as part of a series of popularized science-related monographs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Published after the author’s death, this work is divided into chapters on Number, Space, Quantity, Position, and Motion. It was edited and completed by Karl Pearson,... Read More
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Etat de la medecine ancienne et moderne avec un plan pour perfectionner celle-ci..
by CLIFTON, F. [Cantwell (trans)]
Paris: Quillau, 1742. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, and 2 folding tables. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, marbled endpapers, spine chipped at foot, top hinge weak; interior excellent. Contemporary signature on title page, ownership stamp of Doctor Charreau. First edition in French. This fine work on the history of medicine, originally published in 1732, is divided into five sections, starting from the Greeks (heavier on Hippocrates), to... Read More
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Anatomie de l'homme..
by CLOQUET, J. G.
Paris: Lasteyre, Paris, 1821. FIRST EDITION. With 258 lithographs by Lasteyrie after drawings by Feillet and Haincelin (22 folding, some coloured). Contemporary full calf, gilt border on upper and lower covers, gilt spines; some browning and foxing. Bookplates and small release stamps of the Library of Congress; a very good set with ownership signature, possibly of A[ristide] Monteiro, dated Nov. 1871, with a few pages in manuscript laid in. First edition of one of the most magnificent anatomical atlases... Read More
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More men of mark
by COBURN, Alvin Langdon
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. FIRST EDITION. With 33 photographic portraits. Original linen-backed patterned paper boards, edges worn; interior excellent, with all tissue guards in tact. First edition. Portraits include Thomas Hardy, Ezra Pound, Anatole France, Edmund Dulac, Joseph Conrad, Marshal Foch, and Coburn's self portrait. Coburn (1882-1966) was an American photographer famous initially for his portraits from an elevated point of view. He later made some of the first completely abstract photographs. He lived in England during... Read More
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A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary to the frontiers of China, the frozen sea, and Kamchatka
by COCHRANE, Capt. John Dundas
Edinburgh: Constable and Co, 1829. New (third) edition. Each volume with half-title, author portrait in Volume I, engraved view of St. Petersburg in Volume I and of Irkutsk in Volume II, folding map in Volume II. Cloth-covered boards, morocco spine label, new endpapers; text exceptionally clean. A very good copy. New (third) edition of a lively narrative detailing a four-year journey intended to explore unmapped regions of the arctic coast of Siberia and other previously uncharted and obscure vacation... Read More
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An attempt to ascertain the cause of the extensive inflammation, which attacks wounded cavities and their contents
by COCKE, James
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. Disbound. Cocke (1783-1856) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania (by way of this thesis). He served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1767 to 1768 and again from 1772 to 1773.
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Speeches and Addresses of the Late Hon. David S. Coddington. with a Biographical Sketch
by CODDINGTON, J., [compiler]
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1866. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait. Brown cloth with blind-stamped boards, rubbed and scuffed; small rubber stamp to contents page. Inscribed by J. Coddington on the front free end-paper. First edition. Coddington, a free soil democrat from New York, worked for Van Buren, a friend of his father's. Ultimately he became a representative to the state legislature. Apparently he was a well-known orator, and this work highlights the best of his speeches, including a... Read More
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A study in hospital efficiency
by CODMAN, E.A.
n.p.: n.p., 1916. FIRST EDITION. With a folding chart in a pocket on the rear board. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on spine. Laid in is a printed card stating: “This book is sent to you as an officer of the Massachusetts General Hospital, in fulfillment of a special request made by Dr. Codman shortly before his death on November 23rd, 1940.”. First edition, privately printed. The Hospital Standardization Movement founded by the American College of Surgeons... Read More
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Hermippus redivivus, or the sage’s triumph over old age and the grave. Wherein a method is laid down for prolonging the life and vigour of man. Including a commentary upon an antient inscription, in which this great secret is revealed; supported by numerous authorities. The whole interpreted with a great variety of remarkable, and well attested relations
by COHAUSEN, Johann Heinricdh
London: J. Nourse, 1749. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. Woodcut headpiece and initial. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, spine in compartments with author and title in gilt. An excellent copy. Second edition, revised and enlarged by the addition of new material expanding it by 80 pages from the first printing in 1742. “A curious and rare book, according to which human life could be prolonged beyond normal limits, by a sort of elegant vampirism which combines with the most scientific conclusions.... Read More
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The Microcosm and other poems
by COLES, Abraham, M.D., L.L.D.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. FIRST EDITION. With 3 full-page illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, title within decorated border in gilt on front cover; there appears to be a bookplate removed from the paste-down, otherwise interior excellent. The author’s presentation copy to Oliver Wendell Holmes with his inscription on the fly-leaf dated the first of January, 1869. First edition. The illustrations include the frontispiece of Andreas Vesalius, Rembrandt’s painting of Nicholas Tulp and his pupils entitled “Lesson in Anatomy”... Read More
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11 items from the Transactions of the Linnean Society (1 from the Transactions of the Zoological Society)
by NATURAL HISTORY OFFPRINT COLLECTION
London, 1881. 1. HOOKER, Joseph Dalton “On the vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other tropical islands and of the continent of America.” Offprint from Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XX, pp. 235-262, 1851. 4to. 28 pp. Wrappers (front detached). 2. HOOKER, Joseph Dalton “Outline of the distribution of arctic plants.” Offprint from Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XXIII, pp. 251-348, 1862. 4to. 98 pp. With full-page map and tables in... Read More
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13 volumes of music with over 60 titles
by MUSIC COLLECTION
18th and 19th century. The compositions include pieces for the voice, piano, violin, and cello, and range from sonatas to airs to operas. The majority of the works, many with fine engravings, were printed in Britain from notable music publishers. The publication dates vary from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. The collection contains works by classical composers like Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven as well as poets like Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, and Robert Burns. Overall, the books... Read More
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The tour of Doctor Syntax
by COMBE, William; ROWLANDSON, Thomas
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. FIRST EDITION OF BOOK THREE, second edition of book two, fourth edition of book one. Each volume contains directions to the binder, hand-coloured engraved frontispieces, hand-coloured title pages in Volume I and III. With 80 hand-coloured engraved plates altogether, plus 3 vignettes (2 hand-coloured). Uniformly bound in full polished calf by Tout Binders. A superb set, the plates sharp and bright, with only a very few and minimal spots. From the library of Louis E.... Read More
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Trade catalogues. 1. Appendix to the Descriptive list of instruments; 2. Physiological instruments; 3. A descriptive list of instruments
by CAMBRIDGE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY
Cambridge: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, 1899. All with numerous text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. 1. The company’s new apparatus and designs for instruments in physics and biology. 2. Sections include recording cylincers, myographs, motors; supports for apparatus; time markers; nerve and muscle; electric; blood circulation; spectroscopes and blood analysis; microtomes and microscope accessories; surgical and various apparatus; botany; and anthropometric and models. 3. Preface by Horace Darwin. With 28 sections, including measurement of length, time, heat, optics, sound,... Read More
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Essai sur l’origine des connoissances humaines. Ouvrage où l’on réduit à un seul principe tout ce qui concerne l’entendement humain
by CONDILLAC (Etienne BONNOT, abbé de)
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1746. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut initials, head- and t ailpieces. An excellent copy bound in contemporary tree calf, spine labels, edges sprinkled red. First edition of Condillac’s first work in which he details his “sensualist doctrine,” the basis of the origins of human knowledge and the formation of concepts. Taking Locke’s anti-Cartesian philosophy to the next level, Condillac argues that knowledge arises from sensory experience, the mind itself being initially passive until external stimuli is received and... Read More
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The nigger of the “Narcissus.”
by CONRAD, Joseph
London: William Heinemann, 1898. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher’s slate-colored cloth with gilt stamping on front cover, and with the imprint on spine uniform. An excellent copy. First English edition (first printing), with “hi” missing from “his” on page 146. It was first published in America under the title Children of the sea. This allegorical novella is derived from Conrad’s personal experience aboard a voyage from Bombay to London. Exploring the themes of isolation and solidarity, the turbulent journey of... Read More
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The Alps
by CONWAY, W. Martin
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, 70 illustrated plates by A.D. McCormick and 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. Green publisher’s cloth, illustrated front cover and spine, gilt letters; interior hinges starting but sound, text is clean and bright with minor notations in blue pen on list of illustrations. A beautiful copy with an ownership signature on the fly-leaf. First edition of a vivid description of one of the world’s most famous and beautiful mountain ranges.... Read More
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The history of the navy of the United States of America
by COOPER, James Fenimore
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. FIRST EDITION. With 2 frontispiece maps. Original publisher’s cloth, gilt-stamped spine, rebacked with the original backstrips laid down; new endpapers. An excellent copy from the libraries of Arthur Burgett Benton and Irma Peixotto Sellars with their bookplates. First edition. This is Cooper’s most important non-fiction work, an essential history of the U.S. navy, including naval events that occurred from inception through the War of 1812. This work is recognized as a classic history of... Read More
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A reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons, on the 30th of April, 1792
by COOPER, Thomas
Manchester: Printed by M. Falkner and Co., 1792. FIRST EDITION. Lacks wrappers, first and last page soiled as consequence; marginal stain to last three leaves at hinge (adhesive?). First edition of this pamphlet, which nearly caused Cooper to be arrested for sedition. Cooper (1759-1839) was an English radical and Jacobite sympathiser. After his return from a trip to Paris with James Watt Jr. (1769-1848), he was strongly reproached by Burke for consorting and marching with revolutionaries. Cooper gives this... Read More
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De revolutionibus orbium..
by COPERNICUS, N.
Torino: Chiantore, 1943. FACSIMILE OF FIRST EDITION. With diagrams and tables in text. Half calf. An excellent copy despite occasional foxing; from the library of J.L.E. Dreyer, with his bookplate on the front paste-down, and a few annotations. A fine facsimile of the first edition of Copernicus’ epochal work, No. 171 of 200 copies printed on hand-made paper. This work revealed one of the greatest advances in human thought proving that the Earth was not after all the central... Read More
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Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: with means of correcting a bad constitution
by CORNARO, Lewis
Philadelphia: Reprinted for the Rev. M.L. Weems, by Parry Hall, 1793. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Contemporary calf, worn around edges and spine, spine label; interior mildly toned but overall a very good copy. First American edition. The author focuses not only on the basics of healthy living, but on the means of correcting bad habits, especially with respect to diet. Chapters include "Of a sober and regular life," "The method of correcting a bad constitution," and "The birth and death... Read More
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