Timbuctoo the Mysterious
by DUBOIS, Felix
New York: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1896. First edition in English. Wonderful title illustration, and numerous text illustrations, some full-page. Later cloth, with gilt illustration on front cover and title on spine, new endpapers; ownership signature on small board once pasted in (now unglued but present), interior very clean. First edition in English, translated from the French by Diana White. French explorer and journalist Dubois (1862-1945) describes his time as a reporter in Timbuktu in 1894. With one hundred... Read More
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The Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey. A History of Political Parties in the United States, from 1834 to 1864; Especially as to the Origin of the Confederate States
by DUBOSE, John Witherspoon
Birmingham: Roberts & Sons, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, extremities rubbed, boards soiled and rubbed; light internal soiling, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Yancey (1814-1863) was a state legislator in Alabama, elected to Congress before he resigned to lead the successionist movement. Following Lincoln's election, Yancey directed the proceedings of the Alabama convention and authored the ordinance of secession. He was even sent overseas by Jefferson Davis in an attempt to gain recognition of the Confederate... Read More
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Traitte de la politique de France. Par Monsieur P.H. Marquis de C.
by [DU CHASTELET, Paul Hay]
Cologne: Pierre du Marteau, 1669. Woodcut vignette of globe on title. Contemporary vellum with overlapping edges; other than lacking the front free flyleaf, an excellent copy with a contemporary signature on the last blank. A rare variant edition of this anonymously published political treatise. The author criticizes the abuses of the clergy and the persecution of Protestants. He examines the French economy and offers tax reforms in order to reduce poverty and increase the population. When the King discovered... Read More
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The Land of the Midnight Sun
by DU CHAILLU, Paul
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, numerous plates and text illustrations. Contemporary three-quarters calf and marbled boards, worn, marbled fore-edges; interior, with marbled endpapers, excellent. First American edition of a foundational work by the prominent nineteenth-century explorer Du Chaillu, who coined the title phrase. The author traveled extensively across Scandinavia between 1871 and 1878. His aim in writing more than a simple travel account “was to make a study of the... Read More
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Ferments et maladies
by DUCLAUX, E.
Paris: G. Masson, 1882. FIRST EDITION. With 12 plates and numerous text illustrations. Uncut in the original front wrapper, chipped, wrapper and first few leaves nearly detached; preliminary leaves somewhat spotted. First edition of the author's most important book. The work is divided into two parts, the first on the history, origin and theories of microscopic beings and their division into air, water and soil. The second section is devoted to aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, fermentation, bacterial reproduction and... Read More
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Recueil de dissertations anciennes et nouvelles . .
by DUFRESNOY, [Nicolas] Lenglet
Avignon & Paris: Jean-Noel Leloup, 1751. With half-title, woodcut initials, and decorative head- and tail-pieces in each volume. Full calf, gilt spine with raised bands, joints somewhat fragile, spotting and soiling to exteriors; text is toned but clean. First edition. In a long preface, the French historian Dufresnoy presents a fascinating treatise on apparitions, dreams and visions. Intended to supplement his Traité historique et dogmatique sur les apparitions, les visions et les révélations particulières, published only a few months... Read More
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The Baronage of England. or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our English Noblity in the Saxon Time, to the Norman Conquest; and from Thence, of Those Who had Their Life Before the End of King Henry the Third
by DUGDALE, William
London: Printed for Tho. Newcomb, 1675. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece in Volume 1, genealogical charts. Contemporary full speckled calf with blind panel and gilt floral border, spine with 6 raised bands with gilt compartments and morocco labels, rebacked preserving original spines, extremities rubbed, boards scuffed; marbled endpapers, all edges red, light soiling, dampstain to top margin of 50 pages in second volume, scattered neat underlining and notes. From the libraries of noted Shakespeare scholar Charles Tyler Prouty with his signed... Read More
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Essai sur les etablissemens necessaires et les moins dispendieux
by DULAURENS
Paris: Royez, 1787. FIRST EDITION. With 2 large folding letterpress tables. Nineteenth-century calf-backed boards; spine rubbed, occasional light foxing, but otherwise a good, complete copy. First edition of this economic guide to hospitals. Here the author, a military and port physician, sets out the services that must be offered at a medical facility along with the cheapest way of providing them. He describes the proper furniture and rooms that should be built as well as pharmacies, chaplains, and staff.... Read More
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Peter Ibbetson; Trilby; The Martian
by DU MAURIER, George
London & New York: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; Harper Bros., 1898. FIRST EDITION IN SINGLE BOOK FORM; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE MARTIAN. With hundreds of illustrations. Uniform bindings by Bayntum in blue polished calf, covers with gilt double-ruled around edges and inner dentelles, spine in 6 compartments. Spines with incorrect dates (binder's error); all edges gilt. These books are in mint condition, preserved in a box. First editions in single book form (The Martian is first American edition).... Read More
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Zoologie analytique, ou methode naturelle de classification
by DUMERIL, A.M. Constant
Paris: Allais, Libraire, 1806. FIRST EDITION. With 197 text tables. Original wrappers, title in ink on spine; a fine uncut copy. First edition of a valuable treatise by Duméril (1774-1860), a protégé and close friend of Cuvier.
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Considerations generales sur la classe des insectes
by DUMERIL, Andre-Marie-Constant
Paris: F.G. Levrault, 1812. FIRST EDITION. With 60 engraved plates made after drawings by Pretre. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, head of spine worn and the covers a bit faded; interior excellent. First edition of the author's major work on the classification of insects, with the exquisite and detailed illustrations. Duméril (1774-1860) was a protégé and close friend of Cuvier. According to Bourdier (DSB), "his skills in preparing anatomical demonstrations and the clarity of his exposition brought him rapid... Read More
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Elements of logic. In four books
by DUNCAN, William
Edinburgh: W. & J. Deas, 1807. fifth edition. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt lettering and decoration; minor staining to endpapers, ownership signature on front fly-leaf. An excellent copy. Fifth edition. Designed for young gentlemen at university to pave the way for their study of philosophy and mathematics, Duncan discusses the rise, progress, and nature of human language; the grounds of human judgment; reasoning and demonstration; and the methods of invention and science, and how all of these affect and... Read More
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What’s on your mind
by DUNNINGER
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth, original dust jacket, other than some wearing at the corners and edges, in excellent condition. First edition of this really incredible book by Dunninger, probably the most famous mentalist of all time. Here he defines mental telepathy and challenges his readers to understand the techniques of the practice. Not only does he explain the methods of thought reading, but provides twenty-four practice tests, enabling the reader... Read More
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Alcaloides. Histoire, proprietes chimiques et physiques, extraction. .
by DUPUY, B.
Paris: G. Rongier, 1889. Contemporary morocco-backed mottled boards, rubbed. Second edition of Volume I, first edition of Volume II of Dupuy’s foundational work on alkaloids, a group of naturally-occurring chemical compounds that mostly contain basic nitrogen atoms. The treatise examines the history of the compound as well as the medical usages and effects.
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The Making of a Frontier
by DURAND, Colonel Algernon
London: John Murray, 1899. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait, 35 plates (of which 33 are photographs), and 1 folding map. Tightly bound in modern blue cloth with the original publisher’s front cover pasted on top, gilt spine; new endpapers, some browning and spotting, heavier on the first 20 pages, but overall a very good copy with an ownership signature dated 1909. First edition of Durand’s important personal narrative of his time spent in India and Pakistan, and the role... Read More
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Monographie der Gicht
by DURINGE, Louis
llmenau: von Bernh Friedrich Voige, 1830. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. Original boards, gilt lettering on spine, covers a bit worn; some spotting, but generally in excellent conditions. From the library of Th. Renz with his light stamp on the verso of the title page. First edition in German translated by Dr. Carl von Fitzle (from the French of 1829) of a thorough treatise on gout and its treatment. The author, Dr. Louis Duringe, recounts the important results of his... Read More
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La philosophie divine
by DUTOIT-MEMBRINI, Jean-Philippe [KALEPH BEN NATHAN]
[Lyon]: s.n., 1793. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary pastepaper wrappers lined with printing waste (rear panel of Vol III detached). In excellent original condition, uncut. First edition of this strange work of mystical theology and “astral light.” The author, who Brunet calls a madman, rambles almost incoherently about the fall of man and the resulting supernatural forces that operate in and around humanity. He claims that Adam’s sin caused faith to be at odds with reason, and the “abuse” of reason... Read More
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Les monstres par defaut et les monstres. Offprint from Ann. de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique
by DUVAL, Mathias
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1895. With text illustrations. Original wrappers (spine reinforced). Presentation copy, signed by the author. An interesting work on teratology based on fertilization anomalies.
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Frozen sections of a child
by DWIGHT, Thomas
New York: William Wood & Company, 1881. FIRST EDITION. With 15 full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. Cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Annotations on plate I and remnants of glue on the inner margin plate III. Ownership signature of Dr. James H. Meldee (?) on front free endpaper and K.L. Duke on front paste-down. First edition of a classical work of great importance in pediatrics, and the first American group of serial sections. This work provided tomographic... Read More
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Stellar movements and the structure of the universe
by EDDINGTON, Sir Arthur S.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1914. FIRST EDITION. With 4 photographic plates, including frontispiece, and numerous text illustrations. Publisher’s original cloth, author and title in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine; an excellent, clean copy with the small ownership signature of W.E. Ravenhall on the fly-leaf. First edition of Eddington’s first published book. He here collects a number of earlier-published articles (the majority from the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) to summarize the current knowledge... Read More
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The Nile without a Dragoman
by EDEN, Frederic
London: Henry S. King, 1871. SECOND EDITION. Half-morocco over textured boards, gilt stamp of Royal Engineers Library on front cover, edges and corners worn; text slightly toned but clean. Signature of Harry Hashmall on first free endpaper (dated ’33) and stamp of the Library of Royal Engineers on title page. In this second edition narrative, Eden recounts his unique and fascinating journey down the Nile without the aid of a guide. Sent to Egypt for his declining health in... Read More
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Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis
by [COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH]
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1792. Contemporary tree calf, joints worn and cracked; waterstain to top corner of first quire. From the library of Nicholas I. Quackenbos with his small book label on the paste-down and his signature dated 1802 on title. Eighth Edinburgh edition. The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, compiled by the Royal College of Physicians, basically consists of a catalogue of drugs and preparations. It acted to standardize medical prescriptions and the substances used in treatment. The work first appeared... Read More
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A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49
by EDWARDES, Major Herbert B.
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with half-title, frontispiece portrait in Volume I, 6 plates (3 colored lithograph, 1 double folding), text illustration, 2 folding plans, and a facsimile letter from Vans Agnew to General Van Cortlandt. Contemporary full calf, rebacked, with the gilt logo of the Society of Writers to the Signet on all covers, small stain to lower corner of front board of Volume II; interiors excellent. First edition of Edwardes account of the Punjab... Read More
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A letter from a gentleman of quality in the countrey, to his friend … being an argument relating to the point of succession of the crown …
by E.F.
[London]: n.p., 1679. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound; some discoloration on the title page. Preserved in a cloth clamshell box. First edition. Written in the form of a letter addressed “To my Honoured Friend A.B.” and signed “Your Faithful and Humble Servant, E.F.”, the author was a supporter of Charles II and the monarchy. The pamphlet was issued during a moment of political and religious strife in England following restoration. Charles’s brother, James II, who was next... Read More
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Relativity. The Special and General Theory
by EINSTEIN, A.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. THIRD EDITION. With frontispiece portrait Einstein dated 1920. Blue cloth, small tear at top of spine, corners slightly worn, no dust wrapper; front hinge a bit loose, otherwise a very clean copy. From the library of Martin J. Klein, professor of the history of science at Yale, and the first recipient of the Abraham Pais Prize for the History of Physics. This copy was given to Klein as a gift from his... Read More
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