Dissertation sur les causes du ressort ....
by Crousaz, [J P] - MECHANICS - PHYSICS
Bordeaux: R Brun, 1721. First Edition.. later marbled bds... A very good copy; old ownership stamp on frt. pastedown.. 12mo. There is one fldg. eng. plate. A 'disgusting outrage' is how Perceval characterised his incarceration for madness in the early 1830s. He was forced into asylums on three separate occasions between 1831 ans 1833. He was in the 'care' of a Dr. Fox near Bristol. The experiences related in this memoir were typical of the treatment of the... Read More
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Vollständige und deutliche anatomische Anweisung für gerichtliche Ärzte und Wundärzte zu gerichtlichen Leichenuntersuchungen - BOUND WITH - Vollständige Anleitung zur gesetzmässigen Leichenöffnung
by Crusius, G H C / Hesselbach, A K - AUTOPSY - FORENSIC EXAMINATION
Goettingen / Wurzburg: J F Danckwerts / J Stabel, 1806 / 1812. First Editions.. Contemporary three-quarter leather and paper covered boards.. Very good; some light spotting. . 8vo, vi, [1] - 162pp.; II - viii, [1] - 136 pp. + engraved plate. Two detailed guides for the examination of the dead and the legal procedures and ramifications. Fatal wounding, poisons, mis-adventure are all covered; special consideration for new borns and children is given by Hesselbach.
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The Gambling Games of the Chinese in America ....
by Culin, S
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1891. First Edition.. Original printed stiff grey boards.. Good; small lib. sticker affixed to front board; bookplate with withdrawn stamp; frontispiece split at the gutter; some uneven discoloration to the printed boards; modest corner chipping.. 8vo, [6], [1] - 17, [1] + frontispiece and text illustrations. An explanation of the games and their social context.
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A Bibliographical History of the Ray Society
by Curle, R
London: Ray Society, 1954. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth and dj. .. A very good copy.. 8vo. There is a frontis.. An essential reference for the Society's publications that contains invaluable information on the many obscure monographs issued by the group. Each entry has a detailed collation.
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The Western Reserve and its Medical Traditions
by Cushing, H
Cleveland: [Private Printing], 1924. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. Fine.. 8vo. A map. 33 pp. A presentation in the hand of Cushing on the front wrapper, but unsigned. Cushing's dedication speech for the new medical building of Western Reserve Univ.. Cushing Bibliography, #224.
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Observations Upon the Origin of Gall-Bladder Infections .... - OFFERED WITH - Observations Upon the Neural Anatomy of the Inguinal Region relative to the Performance of Herniotomy ....
by Cushing, Harvey - EARLY PAPERS
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin / Annals of Surgery, 1899; 1900. OFFPRINTS.. Publisher's original printed wrappers. . Near fine; slight dustiness.. 8vo, I - 12 pp.; II - 16 pp. - with text illus.. Two early papers by Cushing in the first two years of his career. Biblio. of the Writings of Harvey Cushing, #33 & #36.
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An Address, Delivered Before the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences
by Cutbush, E
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1817. First Edition.. orig. blue paper wrappers.. A good copy with some foxing.. 8vo. Cutbush's talk highlighted the need of exploration in America to collect and identify those natural products that could possibly become the source of new industries. He cites a series of examples but dwells on plant products. S & S # 40604.
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A System of Pyrotechny ... designed for exhibition and for war
by Cutbush, J
Philadelphia: Clara F Cutbush, 1825. First Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Fair; binding worn with boards detached; internally some moderate spotting and toning.. 8vo, xliv, 612 pp. + one plate of rocket designs. Cole describes this as a systematic and comprehensive work that is based upon careful experiment and extensive reading. The central part of the book contains a detailed discussion of the substances used in the manufacture of explosives, munitions, and fireworks. Rink #2158; Cole #317.
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Chaos by Albert Helms
by [Czeschka, Carl Otto - painter] - WIENER WERKSTATTE - DESIGN
Hamburg: Alfred Jannsen, 1909. First Edition. Original publisher's pictorial paper covered boards designed by Czeschka with the designer's monogram incorporated into the pattern. All edges colored black; black endpapers.. Near fine.. 8vo, 152 pp. Carl Otto Czeschka, Austrian painter and graphic designer, was associated with the Wiener Werkstatte. A rare example of his design work for book bindings executed in a most fragile medium. OCLC cites 7 holdings with only two in America (Wolfsonian & Wisconsin).
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Daboll's Ready Reckoner for Ship Builders ....
by Daboll, D A
Connecticut: The Author, 1863. First Edition.. Original printed boards.. Good.. 12mo. A very specialized set of tables that were calculated for ship builders and their specific needs.
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Dadd's Chart of Veterinary Reformed Practice Being a Synopsis of the Diseases of Horses, Cattle, and Sheep ....
by Dadd, George H - VETERINARY BROADSIDE
Boston: G H Dadd, 1848. First Edition. Original gilt stamped cloth.. Near fine; some minor separation at the intersection of folds; bright copy.. Broadside, meas. 28 x 18.5 inches. Issued folded and mounted in a publisher's cloth binding. Dadd was a manufacturer of veterinary medicines located in Boston. He also published several well received books on domestic animals. The broadside offered here was an early effort of his at self promotion since all the "cures" cited in... Read More
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Esperimenti e Considerazioni sull' Ariete Idraulico
by Dal-Negro, S - HYDRAULICS
Padua: Tipo. della Seminario, 1811. First Edition.. Original blue wrappers.. Fine.. 4to, 108 pp. + 2 copper engraved plates of the hydraulic ram and details. Dal-Negro's experiments have their origin in the work of Bernoulli and his work on the lateral pressure of fluids in motion. The experiments utilize a hydraulic ram with a sophisticated valve design of his own invention. The valve design is detailed on one of the plates. Dal Negro's work rapidly follows the announcement... Read More
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Meteorological Observations and Essays
by Dalton, J
London: Printed for T Ostell, [1793]. First Edition. Second Issue.. later 19th cent. three quarter leather.. A very good copy; some age toning throughout; frt. endpaper excised; small inst. stamp at base of spine but no accessioning.. 8vo. There are several text illus. . Dalton's first book. He acknowledged years later that it contained the germs of most ideas later expanded by him into discoveries, e.g., his years of observations of the auroral lights led him to claim... Read More
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Catalogue of a Valuable and Interesting Collection of Books Formed by a Prominent American Playwright, Consisting of an Unusually Choice and Desirable Assemblage of Books Relating to the Drama, Shakespeariana, History of the English and American Stage....
by [Daly, John Augustin] - BOOK AUCTION
New York: G A Leavitt & Co., Auctioneers, [1878]. First Edition. Contemporary three quarter leather & marbled bds. - bound by Blackwell. Original printed wrappers in place.. Near fine.. 8vo, viii, 201pp. + frontispiece portrait. Each lot priced and identified throughout. The first of five of Daly sales that took place prior to WWI. This first part composed of many items relating to theater history and original plays benefits from the fact that it contains a manuscript record... Read More
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An Epitome of Chymical Philosophy
by Dana, James Freeman
Concord, NH: I Hill, 1825. First Edition. Original publisher's paste paper boards and paper label.. Very good; some spotting; spine somewhat abraded; label in tact; untrimmed.. 8vo, 231, [1 - errata] pp. Dana was educated at Harvard and eventually took a medical degree. He spent time in London working with Accum and acquiring instruments for the college. After a brief stint of medical practice in Cambridge he took up his position at Dartmouth and published the book offered... Read More
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De L'Arsenic, suivi d'une Instruction propre a Servir de Guide aux Experts dans les Cas D'Empoisonnement - OFFERED WITH - Seance Extraordinaire de L'Académie Royale de Médicine, du 14 Aout
by Danger, [E P] & Flandin, [C F] - POISON - CRIME
Paris: Bachelier ...., 1841. First Edition. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers.. Very good; some dustiness; plate (on a different paper stock) is toned.. 8vo, xvi, [1] - 301 pp. + folding plate. The Seance .... is an OFFPRINT (stitched as issued) of 22 pp. paginated 293 - 315. The sensational Madame La Farge murder trial of 1840 that had drawn the noted toxicologist and physician Mathieu Orfila into its vortex no doubt prompted this encylcopaedic work on... Read More
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Recherches experimentales relatives au mouvement de l'eau dans les tuyaux
by D'Arcy, H - HYDRAULICS
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1857. First Edition.. Text is in half leather; folio is boxed.. The text is rebacked; inst. blind stamp on title; folio with the original front printed wrapper (rear wrapper wanting) with stamp and institutional bookplate - NO other accessioning; blank margin of one plate with dust smudges and some chipping.. 4to, xxii, [2 - blank], [4], [1] - 268 pp.; folio atlas, [4] pp. + 12 lithographic plates. One of the great experimental and theoretical works... Read More
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Mémoire sur l'art de dorer le bronze: ouvrage qui a remporté le prix fondé par M. Ravrio et proposé par l'Académie royale des sciences
by D'Arcet, Jean-Pierre-Joseph - FIRE GILT BRONZE
Paris: De l'imprimerie de Mme. veuve Agasse, Rue des Poitevins, no 6 , 1818. First Edition.. Contemporary half leather.. Very good; occasional spotting; modest rubbing.. 8vo, xl, [1] - 192, [2 - folding tables] pp. + 6 leaves of plates Rare. Among the most lethal of the commercial decorative-arts trades practiced in the 18th & 19th centuries. The gilding of bronze castings and the high finish and design achieved for such articles was a defining characteristic and mainstay of the... Read More
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Drawings of the Anatomy of the Groin with Anatomical Remarks
by Darrach, W
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1844. Second Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. Fair; x -library with perforation stamps to the title and margins of several pages; ink number on the spine; some spotting throughout.. Royal 8vo, xiii,[1], [15] - 127 pages and 4 lithographic plates. An unusual book containing some vivid lithographs.
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[The Descent of Man] Di Upshtamung fun Mentchen, 3 vols.
by Darwin, Charles - YIDDISH PRINTING
New York City: [Max N Maisel], 1921. First Yiddish language edition.. Original publisher's blue cloth.. Very good; some staining to the cloth of volume 1. Chipped dustjacket present for volume 2 only. Some moderate spotting throughout.. 8vo, I - [6], [3] - 364 pp. + frontispiece of Darwin; II - [8], [9] - 368 pp.; III - [6], [9] - 312 pp. Text illustrations throughout. Unsigned. This edition also contains volume 1 of J A Thomson's Essay on... Read More
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Instruction pour les bergers et pour les propiétaires des troupeaux
by Daubenton, [Jean-Louis-Marie]
Paris: Ph.-D Pierres, 1782. First Edition.. Contemporary stiff marbled wrappers.. Very good; small gum label on the spine; the spine titled in ink.. 8vo, xvi, [1] - 414, [2] pp. + 22 engraved plates The classic treatise on the breeding of sheep. Trained as a physician Daubenton did his best work as a naturalist and a teacher of veterinary science at the French national school at Alfort. He established an experimental farm in his home town of Montbard... Read More
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Etudes Synthetiques de Geologie Experimentale
by Daubree, A - GEOLOGY
Paris: Dunod, 1879. First Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Near fine; some chafing to the joints.. 8vo, [4], iii, [1 - blank], [1] - 828 pp. + 7 plates (4 are maps with printed, translucent, glassine overlays) and 3 mounted chromolithographs in the text. This is Daubree's most important work. It is the summary of his research. He was a French geochemist and a pioneer in the application of experimental methods to the study of geological phenomena. In 1838... Read More
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La Vie Arabe et la Société Musulmane
by Daumas, [Eugene] Gen'l.
Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1869. First Edition.. Original plain pale yellow publisher's wrappers.. Very good; unopened; small portion of lower corner of rear wrapper has been torn away.. 8vo, [4], xv, [1 - blank], [1] - 590 pp. The author spent his career in Algeria and wrote several books on the country and its inhabitants. There is a biography of Daumas in Pouillon's recent book (pp. 258 - 259) Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue francaise.
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The Measure of the Circle. Perfected in January, 1845.
by Davis, J
Providence: Published for the Author, 1854. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A good copy with some soiling to the cloth and a chip at the head of the spine.. 8vo. There are text illus. throughout. An erudite amateur mathematician ' proves ' the circle can be squared. An interesting artifact and by-way in American mathematics.
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Prospectus for the Planetelles Manufacturing Company ....
by [Davis, John] - PLANETARIUM
Philadelphia: Planetelles Manufacturing Co., 1868. First Edition.. Disbound.. Good; fragile; some chipping to the extremities; tape applied to half the length of the spine.. 8vo, 12 pp.+ several text illustrations of the demonstration devices Davis designed. This is the original stock issue prospectus for the Davis' company that was established to manufacture the mechanical models of planetary motion that he had patented. Davis was a resident of Pittsburgh. He held a number of patents for mechanical inventions and... Read More
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