Le Mystere de la Redemption du corps
by COROZE, Paul
Paris: La Science Spirituelle, 1948. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers (faded). An excellent copy. First edition of this strange attempt to reconcile anthroposophy with Christian esoterism. Followers of anthroposophy believe in a comprehensive spiritual realm that can be accessed by humankind through non-sensory independent thought. Here Coroze asserts that the same kind of mental exercise can be applied to Christian teachings. The text argues that the mainstream human experience is not intellectually complex enough to fathom the full Biblical... Read More
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Sketches of society and manners in Portugal. In a series of letters...to his brother in London
by COSTIGAN, Arthur William
London: T. Vernor, 1787. FIRST EDITION. Recent cloth; spotting throughout both volumes with minor tear on lower blank corner on Aa4 in Vol. I. A good copy with illegible signature dated 1818 at top of title page. First edition of a series of letters written during the author’s time in Portugal (1778-1779) describing the current political and social climate of the country. The common thread throughout a majority of the letters is Costigan’s disapproval of the Portuguese government and... Read More
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La logique de Leibniz
by COUTURAT, Louis
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1901. FIRST EDITION. With numerous text illustrations. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, a bit worn; interior good. Ownership signature dated 1932 on the half-title. First edition, a significant contribution to the understanding of Leibniz’s philosophy. Along with Bertrand Russell’s A critical exposition of the philosophy of Leibniz, which appeared a year earlier, these two books did more to further the acceptance of the importance of logic in Leibniz’s philosophy. “Although their accounts differ, Russell and Couturat both... Read More
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Regolamento dei regi spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio
by [COVONI-GIROLAMI, Marco]
Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding, 4 full-page, and 22 double-page typographic tables, 10 folding engraved plates. Contemporary stiff vellum, edges marbled blue and red, old bookseller label on the pastedown. In excellent condition. First edition of this groundbreaking guide to psychiatric institutional reform. The text lists the rules and regulations for the recently established Florentine Saint Bonifacio Hospital for the mentally ill as well as the reformed Santa Maria Novella, both of which reflected... Read More
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Regolamento dei regi spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio
by [COVONI-GIROLAMI, Marco]
Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding, 4 full-page, and 22 double-page typographic tables, 10 folding engraved plates. Contemporary stiff vellum, edges marbled blue and red, old bookseller label on the pastedown. In excellent condition. First edition of this groundbreaking guide to psychiatric institutional reform. The text lists the rules and regulations for the recently established Florentine Santa Bonifacio hospital for the mentally ill as well as the reformed Santa Maria Novella, both of which reflected the new... Read More
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Travels in Switzerland in a series of letters to William Melmoth..
by COXE, William
Dublin: L. White, P. Byrne, et al., 1789. Dublin Edition (Second Edition). Half-title in vol 1. Water damage in spine, some light spotting and discoloration throughout. Missing map in vol 1. First Dublin edition of Coxe’s elaborate narrative detailing his second sojourn to Switzerland in a series of letters to William Melmoth, a popular English lawyer and religious writer. Coxe intended this work to be an expansion of an earlier book entitled Sketches on the natural, civil, and political... Read More
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Elements of the art of assaying metals in two parts
by CRAMER, John Andrew
London: Tho. Woodward, 1741. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 6 folding engraved plates of laboratory apparatus. Contemporary calf, rebacked; interior excellent. A beautiful copy. First edition in English, greatly enlarged from the first edition printed in Latin in 1739. One of the first of it’s kind, this treatise contains the entire art of theoretical and practical assaying. The illustrations and descriptions of instruments and apparatus are considered exceptionally accurate. In addition, Cramer here first describes the use of the... Read More
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Portugal old and new
by CRAWFURD, Oswald
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title, frontispiece, illustrations in text, and folding colored map of Portugal. Recently rebound in half-cloth with marbled boards and end-papers; text block is clean with only minor browning, a few pages slightly chipped. The folding map is in excellent condition. Stamp on title: “Sold from the collections of the Long Island Historical Society.”. First edition, though portions were previously published in the Fortnightly Review, the New Quarterly Magazine,... Read More
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The birds of Tierra del Fuego
by CRAWSHAY, Richard
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1907. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates of birds by Keulemans and 23 photographic landscape illustrations, including the frontispiece, plus a coloured map of the region. Contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards, a bit worn and spine a bit sunned; generally a good copy with the ownership signature of R.L. Blakely of Chicago dated December 1, 1959, the small sticker of W.B. Frostick, and the small blindstamp of James M. Dolan, Jr. First edition, Number 150 of 300 copies... Read More
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Opera di agricoltura. Nellaqual si contiene a che modo si debbe coltivar la terra: seminare, inserire gli alberi, governar li giardini e gli horti. .
by CRESCENTIO, Pietro
Venice: [Li heredi di Joanne Padouano], 1553. With historiated woodcut initials, printer's device on recto of last leaf. Later vellum, manuscript title on spine; minor paper repairs throughout, one leaf restored. Contemporary annotations. An extremely rare edition (only five copies located) of what was the first agronomic treatise of the middle ages, the original printing of which appeared in Augsburg in 1471. Crescentio was "seventy years of age when he undertook to write, in Latin, a sort of Gentleman's... Read More
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Essai sur la declamation oratoire
by CRESP
Paris: Hachette, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Original printed blue wrappers. A perfect copy of a fascinating book. First edition of this manual for curing speech disorders. The text addresses stuttering, stammering (apparently different from stuttering), mumbling, inability to roll R’s, and guttural pronunciation. It describes repetitive verbal and physical exercises to combat each of these issues. The final chapter is an alphabetic guide to correctly forming each letter with the mouth and tongue. In the introduction, the author stresses... Read More
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The great train robbery
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition of Crichton’s best-selling historical novel, the story of the 1855 massive gold heist which took place on a train traveling through Victoria-era England. Details of the years-long planning, execution, and escape are a non-stop thrill. It was made into a film in 1979 starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
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Five patients. The hospital explained
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. Ownership signature of Tom and Helen Little on fly-leaf. First edition. The fascinating stories of five separate patients brought into Massachusetts General Hospital. This work was the basis for the television show ER, which was created by Crichton.
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Airframe
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice-president at Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and fifty-six injured, all while dealing with corporate political intrigue. Airframe remains one of Crichton’s few novels to be unadapted to film.
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Congo
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Green printed wrappers with publisher’s promotional material taped to recto and stapled to verso of top wrapper. An excellent copy. Uncorrected proof of Crichton’s fifth novel, which was made into a popular Paramount film. He took his inspiration from H. Rider Haggard’s adventure story, King Solomon’s mines, and modeled his main character, Amy the gorilla, after the true sign-language-using gorilla Koko.
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Congo
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition of Crichton’s fifth novel, which was made into a popular Paramount film. He took his inspiration from H. Rider Haggard’s adventure story, King Solomon’s mines, and modeled his main character, Amy the gorilla, after the true sign-language-using gorilla Koko.
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Eaters of the dead
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition. Narrated as a scientific commentary on an early manuscript, the story is about a 10th-century Muslim Arab who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement. The ambassador from the Caliph of Baghdad is taken by the group to fulfill a prophecy for success in their battle with a tribe of vicious savages. It is based partly on the... Read More
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The lost world
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition. The lost world is a sequel to Jurassic Park (1990), and takes place six years following the disaster that occurred at the Park. Like the original, The lost world was made into a film directed by Steven Speilberg.
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The terminal man
by CRICHTON, Michael
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. FIRST EDITION. An excellent copy in the original dust jacket, uncut. First edition. A computer scientist, a specialist in artificial intelligence, is suffering from seizures resulting from a car accident. He agrees to an experimental treatment wherein a tiny computer is implanted in his head. What happens thereafter is a non-stop series of events that comprise a frightening commentary on psycho-surgery and the use of computers. Although the reviews were unanimously positive (“superb... Read More
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The astonishing hypothesis. The scientific search for the soul
by CRICK, Francis
New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1994. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher’s cloth; dust wrapper in perfect condition. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition of Crick’s search for the answer to the meaning of consciousness. Though his focus is the human brain and the neurobiology of vision, his purpose is to discover why humans might be different from other animals, “challenging the very foundations of current scientific, philosophical, and religious thought.” Crick (1916-2004) was awarded the 1962... Read More
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Grand canary
by CRONIN, A[rchibald] J[oseph]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, yellow lettering to spine; in the original yellow dust-jacket. From the library of Zane Grey, with his embossed stamp to fly-leaf. First edition. A physician who is blamed for the death of three patients leaves his job and his country in disgrace, ultimately finding redemption when thrust into the middle of an epidemic. Made into a motion picture a year after its publication, starring Warner Baxter, Madge Evans and... Read More
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Hatter’s castle
by CRONIN, A[rchibald] J[oseph]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931. FIRST EDITION. Black publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in original dust-jacket. First edition of Cronin’s first novel, the story of an arrogant and cruel hat-maker who struggles for social acceptance. It was made into a motion picture in 1942, starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr and James Mason. The Scottish born Cronin (1896-1981) earned his M.D. from the University of Glasgow. After a few years, he gave up practice due to the... Read More
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The comic almanac an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing merry tales, humorous poetry, quips, and oddities, by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A. Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew. With many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists
by CRUIKSHANK, George
London: Chatto and Windus, n.d.. Hundreds of engraved illustrations throughout including the folding transportation engraving "Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration" (which is the frontispiece to the second volume). Original publisher’s cloth, gilt title and design on covers and spines; bindings lightly rubbed, half-title to Volume 1 with straight cut along top edge about ¼ inch, frontispiece to Volume 2 nearly detached with browning down the edge, otherwise set in excellent condition, partially unopened. The Comic Almanacks of George Cruikshank... Read More
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Experiments on the insensible perspiration of the human body
by CRUIKSHANK, William
London: George Nicol, 1795. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. With 1 folding plate containing various figures in color. Modern morocco, gilt spine; interior excellent. Early signature on the fly-leaf. Second edition with corrections and additions, released as a response to remarks made by Dr. Priestly (which indicated his disagreement with Cruikshank’s conclusions) and further experiments made by Abernethy (which confirmed his work). Priestley wrote: “Cruikshank’s experiments ... would both prove that fixed air is composed of common air... Read More
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Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale
by CRUVEILHIER, Jean
Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1864. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf-backed boards. Fresh and complete. First edition, rare in the complete set. A monumental effort to compile the known pathology of the human body. Describe here for the first time are chronic stomach ulcers, cancerous fluid, brain tumors formed from fat and cholesterol, and fibroids of the mammary glands. Despite having no chapter structure, the last volume contains a comprehensive index. Jean Crueilhier (1791-1874) was a French anatomist and pathologist credited with... Read More
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