The English physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this
by CULPEPER, Nicholas
London: Printed for the bookseller, 1785. later edition. Contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, morocco spine label; interior very good. Gift inscription dated Sept 12, 1900 on the first blank. Culpeper first published The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse on the vulgar herbs of the nation in 1652, and followed it up with his Complete herbal the next year. The books were combined and issued in over forty editions since that time. Although a later edition, Culpeper’s theory of... Read More
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Sketches of a tour to the western country, through the states of Ohio and Kentucky
by CUMING, F.
Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. FIRST EDITION. Full calf, spine label, new endpapers; interior with some discoloration and foxing due to paper stock. First edition. Cuming (1762–1828) was an Irish-born doctor, traveler, and author. In 1806, he purchased land in Ohio which prompted his exploratory trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers through Louisana and the Floridas. He wrote about his journey in Sketches of a tour providing an "excellent and extensive observations on pioneer conditions throughout the... Read More
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Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa
by CUMMING, Roualeyn Gordon
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. First American Edition. Vol 1 with illustrated half-title, dedication; vol 2 with 1805 ownership inscription, illustrated half-title, and lists of other publications and reference texts. Both volumes bound in modern gray cloth, some minor spotting. Very good condition. First American edition of Cumming’s wildly successful and vivid narrative of his nomadic exploits in South Africa in search of wild game. Cumming was the first to venture into the interior of the Bamangwato country,... Read More
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Le Systeme de l’ame
by CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin
Paris: Jacques d’Allin, 1665. Contemporary mottled calf, spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red. Ownership inscriptions on the title and verso, one dated 1674. Bookplate of “Pitfirrane.” In very good condition. Second edition of this pioneering work in neuropsychology. The author attempts to explain the guiding principles of human behavior and argues that life processes are responses to linking images that are innate to the organism. The text describes cognition in all living things, including plants, natural instinct, and... Read More
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Propriétés magnétiques des corps à diverses températures." In Annales de Chimie et de Physique
by CURIE, Pierre
Paris: Gauthier-Villers, et fils, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; a fine copy, uncut and unopened. The first printing following the author's defense of his thesis on 6 March 1895 presented to the Faculty of Science, University of Paris, for the degree of Docteur dés Sciences Physiques. Curie devoted a great deal of effort to studying the magnetic properties of substances at various temperatures, at the time one of the most obscure areas of physics. The results form the... Read More
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A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America. At different seasons of the year. With an account of the most improved method of treating them
by CURRIE, William
Philadelphia: J. & A.Y. Humphreys, 1811. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary boards, rebacked, uncut; foxing and spotting throughout. First edition. Currie (1745-1828) was a highly esteemed physician and one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. He here treats a number of diseases, from yellow fever, dropsy, pneumonia, gastritis, influenza and consumption to dysentery, cholera and hepatitis, among others. Each of these ailments, which he considers the most prevalent in America, are detailed with causes, symptoms and treatment in... Read More
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The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and the stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are added, their names, class, order, generic and specific characters, according to the celebrated Linneaus, their places of growth and times of flowering. Together with the most approved methods of culture. . .
by CURTIS, William
London: Stephen Couchman, 1795. FIRST EDITION OF VOLS. 9 & 10. With 75 hand-coloured plates. Original full tree calf, front hinge weak. First edition of Volumes 9 and 10. Each issue of The Botanical Magazine was sold separately. Beginning in 1787, it became the longest running botanical magazine published. Each issue contains a full description in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Many plants received their first... Read More
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The Life of Sir William Osler
by CUSHING, H.
Oxford, 1925. FIRST EDITION. With photographic frontispieces and 19 photographic illustrations. Original cloth (light rubbing to spine of Volume 2); an excellent set with the presentation signature of Cushing dated June 6, 1925 on the fly-leaf of the first volume. First edition, first printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning biography. Cushing, Osler’s pupil and friend, presented this copy to his friend and colleague F. William Marlow Jr. (1902-1988), an internal medicine physician who practiced in Massachusetts and was on... Read More
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On the action of...the Digitalis. In: Jl. of Experimental Medicine
by CUSHNY, Arthur Robertson
New York: [n.p.], 1897. FIRST EDITION. With 8 full page plates. Original wrappers bearing Cushny's manuscript presentation in German as well as the eminent neurophysiologist R. Magnus's manuscript exlibris. A small section off the spine and library stamp on front cover. First edition. The present rare offprint is one of Cushny's most important works on the subject of digitalis.
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Le Règne Animal
by CUVIER, Baron Georges; LATREILLE, P.A.
Paris: Déterville and Crochard, 1829. SECOND EDITION. With 20 full-page etched plates. Contemporary gilt green sheep-backed marbled boards. Ownership stamps of J.E. van der Dussen. A fine set. Second edition, enlarged, of this landmark in the history of zoology and comparative anatomy, the most comprehensive biological work since Linnaeus. “Cuvier’s valuable work represented the fruits of a lifetime’s study of living and fossil animals. In his day Cuvier exerted an enormous influence on science. He played a leading part... Read More
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Recueil des Éloges Historiques
by CUVIER, Baron Georges
Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1861. LATER EDITION. Contemporary gilt green morocco-backed embossed green cloth. A fine set. Later edition of this important chronological collection of biographies in praise of French scientists. Composed by the secretary of the Academy of Sciences, these festschrifts were read aloud during public sessions. The speeches address such famed scholars as Pierre Lassus, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Henri Cavendish, Nicolas Desmarets, and André Thouin. The first volume covers the years 1800-1813, the second 1815-1826, and the... Read More
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The animal Kingdom
by CUVIER, BARON
New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With 19 (of 20) plates (lacking the first plate in Volume 1). Modern calf-backed marbled boards; some foxing to text leaves in Volume 1, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Bookplate in each volume of the Newburyport Public Library and dated in manuscript Jan. 8, 1859, plus book label on the rear paste-down. First American edition of a landmark in the history of zoology and comparative anatomy,... Read More
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
by DAHL, Roald
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with an image of Mr. Fox on the front cover, author and title on spine, a fine clipped dust jacket with minor soiling; interior excellent. First edition, first printing (with the words “First Edition” on the copyright page) of this classic work by Dahl. The story revolves around Mr. Fox’s determination to protect his family from three farmers. Descriptions of the farmers as well as the... Read More
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Johannis de Dondis Paduani civis Astrarium: facsimile du manuscrit de Padoue et traduction française
by DALL’OROLOGIO, Giovanni
Padova & Paris: Biblioteca Capitolare; Les Belles Lettres, 1987. FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION. Reproduction in photographic facsimile of manuscript D39 of the Capitolare Library of Padova. Soft vellum binding leather laces in imitation of the original. A fine copy. This is a facsimile of MS D39, the manuscript of Dondi’s Tractatus astrarii in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Padova. This facsimile was issued with a separate text volume, which is not present. Both were limited to 500 copies printed. The Astrarium... Read More
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Horace : Quintus Horatius Flaccus “Crescam laude recens”. The Roman poet presented to modern readers. (with) Horace : Qunitus Horatius Flaccus “Crescam laude recens”. The letters of Horace presented to modern readers. (with) A book of satires
by DANA, Charles Loomis and DANA, John Cotton
Woodstock, Vermont: Elm Tree Press, 1916. FIRST EDITIONS. I: Frontispiece plus 24 plates. Vellum-backed boards, portrait of Horace on front cover. No. 349 of 500 copies printed; II: With frontispiece plus 22 illustrations. Vellum-backed boards; III: With frontispiece and 16 full-page plates. Cloth-backed paper boards, spine label. Three separate volumes. All three books are signed by Charles Dana, who has also crossed out his brother John Dana’s name on the title page. All three with the book plate of... Read More
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Yankee faith and other stories
by DANIELE, Michele F.
NY: Greenberg, 1935. First edition in English. Tipped in errata leaf typed on blue scratch paper. Publisher’s brown cloth, no dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author on the fly-leaf, “To the great Miss Mary Pickford, who is becoming as famous in the American literary field as insuperable she is in the movies, with devotion. F.M. Daniele. Hollywood, California, November 21-1935.” The author’s stamp with his name and address also on the fly-leaf. First edition in English. “This group of eleven... Read More
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A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory..
by DARBY, William
New York: Kirk & Mercein, etc., 1819. FIRST EDITION. With 3 folding maps (1 hand-colored). Contemporary boards; interior is foxed and stained throughout due to paper stock. Basically an unsophisticated copy, uncut and partially unopened, preserved in a folding case from the library of Ernest J. Wessen with his bookplate. First edition of this series of letters recounting famed American geographer William Darby’s expedition to survey the border between Canada and the United States. The book is a meticulous... Read More
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CAHIERS D’ART
by CAHIERS D’ART
Paris: Cahiers d’art, 1960. 4to. Seven issues. Five issues of the famous art periodical Cahiers d’Art as well as monographs by two of its most important contributors. The collection includes the following five issues: 1. Vol. 8, No. 5-6 (1933). Folio. pp. [173-208], 209-252 (excluding the numerous pages of advertisements). Small tear to spine, text unglued from wrappers, some staining. This issue includes articles on a number of artists, including Jean Duvet, Juan Gris, Max Ernst, K. Ghika, and... Read More
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Le piante insettivore (offered with) Le diverse forme dei fiori in piante della stessa specie
by DARWIN, Carlo
Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1884. FIRST EDITIONS IN ITALIAN. Original printed wrappers. I: First and only Italian edition of Insectivorous plants, first published in London in 1875. Darwin’s meticulous study of the adaptation of plants, particularly under impoverished conditions. A chance observation of flies caught on a leaf of Drosera rotundifolia led the author to a series of experiments and subsequent conclusion about the significance of carnivorous feeding and how this remarkable adaptation ensures the survival of the plant.... Read More
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
by DARWIN, Charles
London: John Murray, 1871. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Numerous text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth binding; an excellent set. First edition, first issue of Darwin’s classic work in comparative anatomy, his first inclusion of man in the general theory of natural selection, and the first appearance of the term “evolution” in any of his works (see Volume I, page 2). In the twelve years since the publication of Origin, the author had expanded his thinking as to man's... Read More
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Des differentes formes de fleurs dans les plantes de la meme espece
by DARWIN, Charles
Paris: C. Reinwald, 1878. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Woodcut illustrations and tables in text. Original cloth; an excellent copy, uncut and unopened. First edition in French of the author’s important work on the adaptation of plants. In these investigations, Darwin crosses a “long styled” individual with another long styled flower to produce a comparatively infertile primrose, illustrating a degree of sterility within the limits of a single species comparable to that produced in the crossing of distinct species. Darwin’s... Read More
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Geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America; Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle
by DARWIN, Charles
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1846. I: First edition. Includes a description of six species of corals from the Palaeozoic formation of Van Diemen’s Land by W. Lonsdale. “Darwin’s published work during this period secured his position as one of Britain’s foremost naturalists. His study of the volcanic islands visited during the Beagle voyage was based on a wide range of rock and mineral specimens, including his own, and considerable research into contemporary theories of volcanic activity, mountain... Read More
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“Sexual selection in relation to monkeys.” In Nature, Volume VX, November 1876 to April 1877, pp. 18-19
by DARWIN, Charles
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1877. FIRST EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with the bookplate of Charles Edward Fewster of Hull. First printing of Darwin’s original paper discussing sexual selection in his 1871 work Descent of man, stating that the case of the “brightly-coloured hinder ends and adjoining parts of certain monkeys” was the most interesting and perplexing to him. He quotes a work by Johan von Fischer, partly published in Der zool. Garten.,... Read More
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
by DARWIN, Charles
London: John Murray, 1868. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. With several text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth, a few small bumps, minor wear to boards; approximately 2 inches of the top of the fly-leaf of both volumes cut out. Generally a very nice set, uncut, with the presentation bookplate of the University of Southern California Messrs. Milton and Stanley Slotkin in each volume, ownership signature on the title to Volume II. First edition, first issue of Darwin's great contribution to... Read More
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On various contrivances by which British & Foreign Orchids are fertilised by insects
by DARWIN, Charles
London: John Murray, 1862. FIRST EDITION. Text illustrations. Original plum cloth with an orchid in gilt on front cover. Covers and spine worn, spine a bit shabby, chipped at foot. Interior is excellent with a modern presentation signature on front flyleaf. First edition of Darwin's primary work on plant fertilization. Detailing the relationship between the sexual structure of orchids and the insects that fertilize them, this was the first of three volumes that followed the publication of the Origin... Read More
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