La Psycantropie, ou, Novelle théorie de l’homme
by FALCONNET DE LA BELLONIE, Camille
Avignon: Chambeau, 1748. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf (worming to rear board, extremities worn), spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red. Reinaud bookplate on the front pastedown. In very good condition. First edition of this epicurean exposition of human virtues and aesthetics. Divided into three volumes, the text examines genius, poetry, happiness, chance, nobility, pleasure, tragedy, drama, memory, imagination, taste, and beauty. The author classifies these characteristics into personality types and occasionally mentions historical figures that fall into their... Read More
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![De morbo gallico [sic] liber absolutissimus a Petro Angelo Agatho Materate...Additus etiam est in calce de Morbo Callico tractatus, Antonii Fracanciani Bononiae in loco eminentis scientiae faeliciter legentis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/535/911/783911535.0.l.jpg)
De morbo gallico [sic] liber absolutissimus a Petro Angelo Agatho Materate...Additus etiam est in calce de Morbo Callico tractatus, Antonii Fracanciani Bononiae in loco eminentis scientiae faeliciter legentis
by FALLOPIUS, Gabriel
Padua: Lucam Bertellum; Christopher Gryphium, 1564. FIRST EDITIONS. Title page to each work. Three lovely woodblock text initials. Half-calf with paper boards; some leaves lightly water-stained along lower corners, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition of two rare treatises on syphilis. “In this classic work on ‘the French disease,’ Fallopius wrote more knowingly of the Europe-wide scourge of syphilis than previous authors on the subject and was one of the first to oppose the use of mercury in its... Read More
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Offprint collection - 16 offprints
by FANKHAUSER, Gerhard
1946. FIRST PRINTINGS. 16 offprints. We are pleased to offer a collection of 16 offprints by Gerhard Fankhauser. Fankhauser (1901-1981) was a professor of biology at Princeton University and an expert on embryology and cell biology. Born in Switzerland, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Berne and came to America in 1929 as a Rockefeller research fellow, joining the Princeton faculty two years later. He was internationally known for his research on the development of amphibia. In... Read More
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Life, Adventures, and Travels in California
by FARNHAM, T. J.
New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co, 1850. SECOND PICTORIAL EDITION. With frontispiece, engraved title, and 52 full-page wood-engraved illustrations. Decorative dark cloth with pictorial gilt on spine, exterior rubbed and slightly faded, head of spine peeling, marbled edges and endpapers; first and last leaves slightly spotted, text is toned but clean. A nice copy. Second edition of a very enjoyable work on early western travels. In this text, Farnham (1804-1848), an American explorer and author, recounts his travels throughout... Read More
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The Twenty-Second Pennsylvania Cavalry. and the Ringgold Battalion 1861-1865
by FARRAR, Samuel Clarke
Pittsburgh: New Werner, 1911. FIRST EDITION. Green cloth, decorated in gilt; moderately some rubbing to corners and head and head and foot of spine; ex-library copy. First edition. Includes a portrait of Custer, who participated in the Battle of Winchester along with the 22nd.
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Description des expériences de la machine aérostatique
by FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy
Paris and Brussels, 1784. Engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates on thick stock. Contemporary blue publisher’s wrappers with printed spine label, glassine sleeve. An excellent copy in fine original condition. First edition thus, a truncation of the author’s landmark 2-volume work on the first aerial balloon flight published the year before. It records the efforts of the Montgolfier brothers, who, on June 5, 1783, successfully launched their unmanned linen and paper hot air balloon, which was 36 feet in... Read More
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A new guide to health. Compiled from the catechism of Dr. Faust; with additions and improvements, selected from the writings of medical men of eminence. Designed for the use of schools, and private families
by FAUST, Bernhard Christoph
Newburyport: W. & J. Gilman, 1810. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed boards, spine label; interior somewhat browned due to paper stock. An amazing survival. First edition, though Faust’s Catechism had been printed in 1795 with a second edition in 1798. Faust (1755-1842) was a German obstetrician and writer, who produced a range of texts designed at improving health amongst the general public. His “Health Catechism” (Gesundheits-katechismus Zum Gebrauche in Den Schulen und Beim Häuslichen Unterrichte, Bückeburg, 1794) was aimed at... Read More
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Recherches anatomiques et expérimentales sur les fractures du crane. (with) Étude sur les plaies par armes a feu. (with) Pathologie compare de l’ostéomalacie chez l’homme et le animaux domestiques
by FÉLIZET, Georges Marie; VASLIN, Louis; BOULEY, Paul
Paris: Adrian Delahaye; Germer Baillière; P. Asselin, 1874. FIRST EDITIONS. First work with 13 full-page photogravure plates, wood engravings in the text; second with 22 full-page lithographed plates; third with 4 full-page lithographed plates. Nineteenth century gilt sheep-backed marbled boards. Old label affixed to the front panel. Paper lightly toned, otherwise fine. First editions of three illustrated medical texts on traumatic injuries. The first explores the nature and treatment of cranial fractures, including those caused by irradiation. Photographic examples... Read More
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Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and optics. .
by FERGUSON, James
London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, et al., 1790. Seventh edition. Including directions to binder and a page of publisher’s advertisements. With 36 folding engraved plates by Ferguson and numerous text tables. Full calf, spine worn and front joint loose; interior very good with only the occasional stain, loss to margin of the final leaf of the supplement. Many of the plates have minor repairs where the edges have been torn. With the bookplate of J.... Read More
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![Therapeutices Universalis. [Bound with:] De Abditis rerum causis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/793/026/1436026793.0.l.0.jpg)
Therapeutices Universalis. [Bound with:] De Abditis rerum causis
by FERNEL, Jean
Frankfort a.M.: Claude de Marne and Jean Aubry, 1593. LATER EDITION. Woodcut portrait of the author on the title verso. Modern morocco-backed boards. Marginal worming to the first few quires, light marginal dampstaining, final quire gnawed at the outer edge, not affecting text. Early collected volume of two medical treatises by Fernel (1506-1558), the renowned French surgeon who mentored Vesalius. The Therapeutices was the third part of Fernel’s crowning achievement, the Universa Medicina, the first systematic treatise on pathology... Read More
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Esposizione del metodo dei minimi quadrati
by FERRERO, Annibale
Firenze: Barbera, 1876. FIRST EDITION. With 1 full-page plate. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards; an excellent copy from the library of the Mount Wilson Observatory with the presentation bookplate to the Library from Adriaan van Maanen. First edition, though a portion appeared in a journal a few years earlier. Ferrero (1839-1902) was director of the Italian Geographical Institute and a president of the Italian Geodetic Commission. His work here deals with the presentation of the method of least... Read More
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An essay towards a theory of apparitions
by FERRIAR, John, M.D.
London: Cadell and Davies, 1813. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary paste-boards, spine repaired. Small book label on paste-down, signature of Wm. Macmath dated 23rd October 1905 on verso of first blank. Overall a fine copy. First edition. Ferriar “combined literary pursuits with an interest in psychological phenomena in An essay towards the theory of apparitions, 1813 in which he showed from historical examples and his own clinical experience ‘that morbid disposition of the brain is capable of producing spectral impressions, without... Read More
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The Vocation of Man
by FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb
London: John Chapman, 1848. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Publisher’s cloth, embossed emblem of the Catholic Series on covers, corners slightly worn, rebacked with the orginial label; interior very good. From the library of Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, with his bookplate and signature dated March, 1849 on the paste-down, and some pencil annotations at the end of the text. First edition of the English translation by William Smith. Fichte identifies three distinct stages in the development of human... Read More
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Die Thatsachen des Bewußtseyns. Vorlesungen, gehalten an der Universität Berlin im Winterhalbjahr 1810-11
by FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb
Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1817. Original boards, worn and rubbed; interior spotted throughout (due to paper stock) but definitely readable. Uncut. First edition of Fichte’s first lecture at the Berlin University, which opened in the autumn of 1810. He details his theories on the facts of consciousness as he had developed over the previous decade. Published posthumously, Fichte himself had intended it for publication and left the manuscript ready for printing. Baumgartner-Jacobs 73x; Goedeke V,8,21.
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Beitrag ur fauna Centralpolynesiens. Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln
by FINSCH, O. & HARTLAUB, G.
Halle: H.W. Schmidt, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 14 hand colored plates. Later cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; a very good copy from the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr. with his blind stamp on the title page. First Edition of the most valuable contribution to the avifauna of Polynesian. Hartlaub prepared the preface, the introduction, and the diagnoses, with the remaining part of the text being written by Finsch. The work is based chiefly on material... Read More
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Les terres du ciel voyage astronomique sur les autres mondes ..
by FLAMMARION, Camille
Paris: Marpon, 1884. ELEVENTH EDITION. With 8 color plates including 2 woodbury photographs of the moon, all with tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations and charts, many full-page. Original publisher’s pictorial cloth, worn; interior with some browning, otherwise a very good copy. Eleventh edition. Flammarion pursues his stand on astronomical pluralism, the belief that there exists numerous other worlds harboring life and, in particular, intelligent life. With maps, illustrations, photographs, graphs and diagrams, he creates a significantly... Read More
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Geometrical solutions of the quadrature of the circle
by FLEMING, Peter
Montreal: Printed for the author, 1850. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 9 figures on 6 large folding plates. Contemporary cloth, original printed title pasted onto front cover. An excellent copy with the bookplate of the Fraser Institute Free Public Library of Montreal, presented by Mrs. Walter Bell, 1920, on the paste-down. First and only edition. The author attempts to solve the age-old challenge of the quadrature of the circle, which he notes has eluded such luminaries as Newton, Playfair,... Read More
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Appareils pour salles d’opérations et hopitaux
by FLICOTEAUX & Cie., Constructeurs
Paris: Aost and Gentil , 1891. 20 full-page lithographed and 2 photographic plates. Original cloth-backed printed boards (some light stains). In excellent condition. First edition of this advertising portfolio for hospital installations. Flicoteaux and Co. was a Parisian construction firm that specialized in outfitting laboratories, infirmaries, and hospitals. Here the company exhibits their recent work (1885-1891) in operating rooms across France. The schematic drawings illustrate plumbing and drainage systems, ventilation, storage for medical equipment, beds, sinks, filtration apparati, heating... Read More
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The history of Putnam and Marshall Counties; embracing an account of the settlement, early progress, and formation of Bureau and Stark Counties
by FORD, Henry A.
Lacon, ILL: for the Author, 1860. FIRST EDITION. half-morocco and clothHalf-morocco over cloth boards, wear to corners, spine gilt in compartments; some foxing throughout, though overall a good copy. First edition of this very interesting treatise dealing with the history of Illinois and the surrounding areas from the earliest times. Of particular interest is the explanation of how various towns and more “urban” areas became settled and grew. Also included is a chapter on the Black Hawk war. The... Read More
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Der Hypnotismus..
by FOREL, August
Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1918. Original printed wrappers, excellent condition, many papers unopened. An important work on hypnotism, first published in 1888 and here revised with a new foreword by the author. Forel (1848-1931), a Swiss psychiatrist, entomologist, and brain specialist, was the first to achieve histological preparations of human brain specimens. For his research and description on the anatomy of the brain, one of the regions of the hypothalamus was named in his honour.
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The celestial omnibus and other stories
by FORSTER, E.M.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. FIRST EDITION. Original brown cloth, front cover with gilt design (lightly faded), top edges gilt, backstrip with minor wear; illustrated endpapers after Roger Fry. From the library of C.E.L. Tottenham with his armorial bookplate. First edition, first printing, one of one thousand copies. Forster’s fifth book with a collection of short stories, primarily fantasies and fables, written during the prewar years. Includes the story, The other side of the hedge, which tells the famous... Read More
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The Life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A biography: in four books
by FORSTER, John
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s green gilt cloth, worn on edge of spine, front hinge cracked; interior fine. Gift inscription in pencil on fly-leaf. First edition. John Forster (1812-76) was a noted biographer, critic, essayist and historian, probably best remembered for the first biography of his close friend, the novelist Charles Dickens. He edited the Foreign Quarterly Review, The Daily News, and The Examiner. Born in the same year as Dickens, Forster was the son of... Read More
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Manuscript
by FORTESCUE, Chichester
Jermyn St: n.p., 1849. Printed on both sides in a neat small hand in brown ink. This manuscript contains alphabetized selection of books and authors that Fortescue apparently read, and includes his critical notes on each. It would seem that Fortescue might have been planning to write a book of literary criticism, as he would add additional notes throughout the following year to this alphabetized manuscript. Fortescue (Lord Carlingford) (1823-1898) was the son of Chichester Fortescue (d.... Read More
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Systeme des conaissance chimiques...
by FOURCROY, A. F.
Paris: Baudouin, Brumiere, 1802. FIRST EDITION. All half-titles, errata and publisher's advertisements present. Contemporary quarter-calf over boards, a few joints weakened. Some occasional light browning, still a very good set. First edition of Fourcroy's chief work, written for the advanced student, complete with the extensive index Table alphabétique et analytique des matières. His lectures were noted for their completeness and clarity as well as brilliant delivery. The lectures are contained in the present work, which according to Ferguson "is... Read More
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Synoptic tables of chemistry, intended to serve as a summary of the lectures delivered on that science in the public schools at Paris
by FOURCROY, A[ntoine] F[rançois comte de]
London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1801. First English edition. Calf-backed marbled boards; some light marginal spotting, small tear on first two leaves repaired, text unaffected, small stamp (discarded) from the Academy of Natural Sciences on title. Overall in excellent condition. First English edition of this scarce and handsome set of Fourcroy’s chemistry tables. The present work was translated by William Nicholson from the original French (Tableaux Synoptiques de Chimie, 1800), the first set of chemical synoptic tables ever... Read More
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