Recherches sur l’incubation de la syphilis
by FOURNIER, Alfred
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1865. FIRST EDITION. Including half-title. With the original front printed wrapper. Cloth-backed marbled boards; from the library of Louis A. Duhring. First edition of one of Fournier's early efforts to research the incubation of syphilis, probably the earliest detailed study of the subject. Fournier was almost exclusively a clinician; much of his early work in the study of syphilis was devoted to elaboration of his teacher Ricord's views. However, Ricord, who was willing to accept the... Read More
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Recherches sur la contagion du chancre
by FOURNIER, Alfred
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1857. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; interior somewhat foxed, heavier on the preliminary and last leaves. From the library of Louis A. Duhring. First edition of Fournier's first printed treatise, the first of a number of important clinical works on the subject. Fournier (1832-1914), the favorite pupil of Ricord, here sets down his initial research on topics such as the incubation of syphilis, the primary syphilitic induration, the pseudo-chancre of the tertiary stage, the classification of... Read More
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A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second; with an introductory chapter
by FOX, Charles James
London: Printed for William Miller, 1808. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary calf, rebacked boards ruled in gilt; marbled endpapers; top fore-edge trimmed and dyed; despite very minor spotting on the frontispiece and title, and excellent, wide-margined uncut copy from the libraries of Bernard Gore Brett and Robert Buchanan Stewart (1829–1900) with their bookplates on the front paste-down and the small label of by J. Carss & Co., bookbinders in Glasgow on the verso of the fly-leaf. First edition.... Read More
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Photographic illustrations of cutaneous syphilis
by FOX, George Henry
New York: E.B. Treat, 1881. FIRST EDITION. With 48 hand-coloured photographic plates. Modern half-calf and marbled boards; interior toned with only minimal browning. A very nice copy. First edition. Like his Photographic illustrations of skin diseases, published a year earlier, Fox's aim was "to present a practical exposition of the subject with special reference to points of diagnosis and treatment" (preface). The photographic plates, produced by Harroun and Bierstadt of New York, depict a wide variety of dermatologic manifestations... Read More
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Physician’s edition. Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin in four volumes. A series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics
by FOX, George Henry
New York: Kettles Publishing Company, 1905. With 96 full-page plates comoprising nearly 200 illustrations, most in color. Original red cloth binding; other than some loose leaves, interior excellent. “Physician’s edition.” Fox (1846-1937) was professor of dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and consulting dermatologist to the Board of Health in the same city. As was customary in his day, he traveled as a young man to Europe for further training, and studied with Virchow in... Read More
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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1903. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of Franklin. Title in red and black. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt publisher’s device to front cover; extremities slightly rubbed. Uncut. First edition of the first Lakeside Classic. Even today, Donnelley still produces these modest and dignified books.
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Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea. In the years. 1819-20-21-22
by FRANKLIN, John
London: John Murray, 1824. Second Edition. Complete with half title, large folding frontispiece map, and 3 additional large folding plates. Half calf and marbled boards, spine and extremities rubbed; lightly foxed on endpapers, text somewhat toned. Overall, a good copy from the library of Edwin C. Jellett (1860-1929), an American author well known for his various books about Germantown, Pennsyvania, with his book-label on the paste-down. Second edition (as stated on the title page) of Franklin’s harrowing 5,500 mile... Read More
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The eye: a treatise..
by FRANZ, J.
London: J. Churchill, 1839. FIRST EDITION. Original frontispiece drawn by the author. Original cloth (slight soiling on back cover). A good uncut copy. First edition of an interesting treatise dedicated to Sir Benjamin Brodie. The work deals with the anatomy and physiology of the eye, the art of preserving the eyes and improving sight, and important precautions to be followed in various occupations in order to protect the eyes.
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Mr. Polton explains
by FREEMAN, R. Austin
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Red pictorial cloth in original dust jacket, slightly chipped at edges and near head of spine, otherwise a fine, uncut copy. First American edition. Told by Dr. Thorndyke’s great friend Mr. Polton, whose invaluable childhood experiences and skills as a clock-maker help solve this baffling crime. Thorndyke here is once again faced with a seemingly impossible scenario, that of a mysterious fire in a house filled with supposedly inflammable... Read More
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A few words upon anaesthetics
by FREEMAN, R. T.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1883. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Corrigenda slip tipped in. With frontispiece and 15 text illustrations. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, author and title in gilt on spine; front cover starting to detach, frontispiece actually detached, interior otherwise clean. Stamp of F.J. Schaufelberger (1881-1968) of Fostoria, Ohio on fly-leaf. First and only edition. This short text is intended by the author to showcase up-to-date improvements in the administration and preparation of various anaesthetics. The author... Read More
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Alice thro’ the looking-glass, and other fairy plays for children
by FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate
London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1880. With 4 full-page plates and numerous pages of music. Publisher’s gilt- and black-illustrated cover. A fine copy. First edition. Following the success of her publication of children’s plays which included Alice in Wonderland, the author adapts Lewis Carroll’s next classic, Through the looking-glass, as well as three other works, Dame Holle, or servantgalism in fairy land, The princess and the white wolf, and King Thrushbill and Princess Disdain. These popular children’s stories... Read More
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Opera omnia medica
by FREIND, John
London: Joannes Wright, 1723. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Engraved portrait of the author after Vertue. With half-title, engraved vignette on title and dedication, many fine engraved and woodcut vignettes, head- and tailpieces, and initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked. First and commonly known as the best collected edition, which includes a biography of Freind by the editor, John Wigan.
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Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankheit und beren behandlung. Eine monographie
by FRERICHS, Friedr[ichs] Theod[ore]
Brunswick: Friedrich Bieweg und Sohn, 1851. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half title and folding plate. Contemporary boards, covers and spine show wear; text generally very good with some toning and a few chips on fore-edge, library stamps and bookplate of the New York State Medical Association and Medical Society of the County of Kings. From the library of Caroli Henschel, M.D., with a bookplate and signature. First edition of this important monograph on chronic nephritis, Bright’s disease, and its... Read More
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Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse
by FREUD, Sigmund
Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanlytischer Verlag, 1922. SECOND REVISED EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on cover and spine, front cover a bit worn on the bottom. Presentation copy from Freud to George Sylvester Viereck (see provenance below), his signature and annotation on the fly-leaf and with the bookplates of Viereck and Otto Orren Fisher on the paste-down. Second revised edition of one of Freud’s most popular works, his lectures on the introduction to psychoanalysis. The twenty-eight lectures are... Read More
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Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens (Über Vergessen, Versprechen, Vergreifen, Aberglaube und Irrtum)
by FREUD, Sigmund
Berlin: S. Karger, 1907. SECOND EDITION. Original printed wrappers bound into modern morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in columns with author and title in gilt. Presentation copy, with Freud’s inscription to Dr. Leopold Löwenfeld on the front wrapper dated June 22, 1907. From the library of Haskell Norman MD with his bookplate on the pastedown. Second edition, revised and updated from the first book edition of 1904 which itself grew out of an article Freud published in 1901. “In his... Read More
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Das Ich und das Es
by FREUD, SIGM
Leipzig, Wien, Zurich: Internationaler Psy, 1923. FIRST EDITION. With 1 woodcut diagram. Bound into modern cloth-back boards; an excellent copy with pencil annotations in the text. First edition of the author's fundamental contribution to psychoanalysis. In this work, Freud formulates his revolutionary tripartite theory of personality, based on his earlier discovery of repression and of the unconscious complexes which influence the conscious mind. It is also here that the concept of Superego, the agent which coerces the self to... Read More
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Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie
by FREUD, Sigmund
Leipzig: Deuticke, 1905. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers preserved in a clamshell box.. An excellent copy with the back strip redone. First edition of the work which Freud himself considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud introduces here his epochal theory of infantile sexuality, which linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infancy, a contribution of utmost value. Infantile sexuality was a fact known, Freud said, to every nursemaid, yet the... Read More
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Sahara et Sahel
by FROMENTIN, Eugene
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1887. Third edition. With frontispiece plus 16 plates. Half red morocco over marbled boards, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (first free endpaper nearly detatched), backstrip beginning to detatch, binding split at pp. 176-177; text slightly toned but clean. Ownership of A.L. Roteh dated Algiers, Feb., 1890. Third edition of an important and detailed narrative of the author’s two journeys in North Africa in 1845 and 1847. Each formed as a collection of... Read More
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The green bag. A useless but entertaining magazine for lawyers
by FULLER, Horace W. [ed.]
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1891. FIRST EDITION. Hundreds of photographic portraits and illustrations throughout. Half green morocco over marbled boards; a couple of exterior bumps, still a fine set. First edition of the lawyers repository of knowledge. The first volume contains, among other articles, a history of the Harvard Law School by Louis Brandeis, numerous discussions of murder cases, and lawyer jokes. The Green Bag, which went to twenty-six volumes (1914), was devoted to current legal news and... Read More
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Medianer Gefrierschnitt durch den Rumpf einer in der Ero¨ffnungsperiode an Eklampsie gestorbenen Erstgeba¨renden mit Zwillingen
by FUTH, Heinrich
Wiesbaden: Bergmann, 1918. FIRST EDITION. With 9 lithographed plates (1 in color). Text and plates are loose, laid into a large cloth portfolio with ties, title label on the front cover; text leaves are frayed on edges (without any loss), plates in excellent condition. Only edition of this case study of a young woman who died of eclampsia while in labor with twins. The unnamed patient was 19 years old and unconscious when she was brought into Futh’s clinic.... Read More
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Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano
by GALILEI, Galileo
Florence: Giovanni Battista Landini, 1632. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece by Stefano della Bella depicting Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus in discussion surmounted by the Medici arms, woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut initials, headpieces and diagrams; frontispiece repaired, possibly with a portion from another copy, lacking final blank. Bound in an early antiphonal leaf. A fine wide-margined copy with only a few leaves browned. First edition of Galileo’s statement and defence of the Copernican system of heliocentrism, which directly led... Read More
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Hereditary genius: an inquiry into its laws and consequences
by GALTON, Francis
London: MacMillan and Co, 1869. FIRST EDITION. Half-title, errata, 2 folding charts, numerous tables, original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine and gilt design on front cover, spine faded. First edition of Galton’s study of genius, in which he examines the families of great men and concludes that genius is hereditary. Galton’s work had profound implications for the growing field of genetics. With the publication of his cousin Charles Darwin’s Origin in 1859, Galton became a confirmed evolutionist. Galton (1822-1911)... Read More
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Magic Cards: A Social Amusement to ascertain any lady’s or gentleman’s name or to find any person’s age
by [OCCULT; PARLOR GAME]
England, 1850. 18 cards (89 x 54 mm), 9 printed on pink cardstock and 9 on yellow. Housed in original slipcover made of pebbled green paper over boards with chromolithographed label affixed to the front, open at top and bottom. Light wear to edges of slipcover, otherwise in excellent condition. A charming and unusual magic card game based on mathematical principles that purports to reveal anyone’s name and age. Using the pink cards for women and yellow for men,... Read More
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Oliver Cromwell
by GARDINER, Samuel Rawson
Paris: Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joynat, & Co, 1899. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black with printer’s device, full color frontispiece and 31 black and white plates, chapter headings with engraved portraits surrounded by red decorated headpieces, all tissue guards with red printed captions present. Half-morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands and title in gilt, upper fore-edge gilt; some minor browning and spotting on the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy. First edition, No. 97 of 1475 printed... Read More
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In the suicide mountains
by GARDNER, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. FIRST EDITION. Blue paper over grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket unclipped and preserved in mylar, signature states “To Martha Best wishes and thanks John Gardner March 12, 1981.” A stunning copy of a beautiful book. Signed first edition, as stated. Magnificent illustrations by Joe Servello throughout. “…here creates a magical and mysterious world, a world of tales spun within tales, of dragons and talking babes and kings who have... Read More
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