The Principles and Practice of Medicine

by OSLER, William

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Third edition. 8vo. 1181, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked, ex-library with spine marking crudely effaced; book-plate Presentation copy, inscribed "A.J. Nellis with kind regards of Wm Osler. 5.25.00.""Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time" (Garrison-Morton). “This book went through sixteen editions in its fifty-five years in print and gained and maintained a place in English, American, and even continental practice only comparable with that... Read More

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Les Provinciales:

by [PASCAL, Blaise]

London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, 1657. First edition in English. 12mo. Additional engraved title by Robert Vaughan. [22], 504, 405-409, [7] pp. COLLATION: A-Y12 Z6 (complete with blank A1 and errata and catalogue at rear). Contemporary blind-ruled sheep; rubbed with some surface loss; occassional light staining to text, some small paper flaws, with flaw on K5 costing a few letters Anonymous translation, sometime incorrectly ascribed to John Evelyn, of Pascal's 18 Lettres provinciales (1656-1657), an attack on... Read More

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Traité Médico-Philosophique sur l'Aliénation Mentale

by PINEL Philippe

Paris: J. Ant. Brosson, 1809. Second edition. 8vo. 2 engraved plates, 2 folding tables. [4], xxxii, 496 pp., half-title. Near contemporary half calf and marbled boards; rubbed, pp. 71-72 torn at bottom with loss of several words Inscribed on the half-title to dermatology pioneer Jean Louis Marc Alibert, "de la part de l'Auteur" (the inscription is slightly shaved). "In this entirely recast and greatly enlarged second edition, Pinel adds much new material and discusses the results of new... Read More

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[Drop-head title:] When the Cat's Away The Mice May Play. A Fable, Humbly Inscrib'd to Dr. Sw––t

by (Swiftiana)

[Colophon:] London: Printed for A. Baldwin, [1712]. Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat … in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink... Read More

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Akëdysséril

by VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM, Comte de

Paris: M. de Brunhoff, 1886. First edition, no. 230 of 250 copies on japan vellum. 4to. Portrait photograph frontispiece with facsimile inscription, plate by Félicien Rops in three states (blue and red before letters, and gray with letters), headpiece and vignette in two states (black and red). [4], 67, [3] pp. Publisher's wrappers; fine First edition in publisher's wrappers of this "conte cruel," with the plate by Félicien Rops depicting the titular warrior queen of Benares in three states.REFERENCE:... Read More

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