Lehrbuch der philosophischen Rechtswissenschaft oder des Naturrechts
by Heinrich v. Gros, K - LAW - PHILOSOPHY
Stuttgart ...: J G Cotta, 1822. Fourth Edition.. Original(?) paste paper boards.. A very good copy.. 8vo. The author was a law professor at Erlangen and member of the Wurtemberg government. An informed treatise on natural law free of moral precepts and claptrap regarding the natural state of man.
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Murder and Liberty
by Heinzen, Karl
Indianapolis: H Lieber, 1881. First American Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. Very good; paper cracked (paper flaw?) along the gutter of page 1.. 8vo, 30 pp. The author, a radical journalist, was part of the German diaspora around the events of 1848. He eventually settled in St Louis where he founded a newspaper and took up the cause of anti-slavery and advocacy for women's rights. Lieber, a fellow German emigre befriended Heinzen and printed several of his radical pamphlets. The pamphlet... Read More
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Die Entwicklung des Nervengewebes bei den Wirbeltieren
by Held, Hans - NEUROLOGY
Leipzig: J A Barth, 1909. First Edition.. Original wrappers and protective publisher's paper board portfolio with a printed paper label.. Good; x-lib, but with minimal accessioning and no stamping; printed wrappers worn and chipped, essentially disbound.. 4to, ix, [1], [1] - 378 pp. + 53 plates. Begining in the 1890s Held began to publish a series of papers on cytology and the structures of the nervous system. This work culminated in 1909 with the comprehensive book offered here.... Read More
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Geheimer Medicus .... - BOUND WITH - Der Vernunfftige Medicus, in der Physiologie, Pathologie und Praxi ... nach ... D. Stahls Methode ....
by Hellwig, C / Forbiger, S
Frankfurt / Leipzig: J C Stossel / A Martini, 1718/'26. Later Prtgs.. full contemporary stiff vellum.. Good with some overall age toning; rear endpaper excised; Hellwig is missing the frontispiece.. 8vo. I- [14], (1)2-336, [16]: II- [16], (1)2-510, [18] pp. Both works are absent from the National Library of Medicine. Each author is offering general medical advice. Hellwig appeals to men and women, married and unmarried, rich or poor to accept his advice and appends a treatise... Read More
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Vorlesungen uber Theoretische Physik, 6 vols. bound as 7
by Helmholtz, H von
Leipzig: J A Barth, 1897-1907. First Edition.. Original three-quarter leather and marbled boards. . A very good copy.. 4to. There is a frontis. of Helmholtz and numerous text illus. . The complete lectures on physical science by the famous scientist that was commenced shortly after his death. It contains important addtions to key lectures. The volumes were published out of sequence causing later volumes in the set to be issued prior to the first. The first division, or... Read More
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Cosmographie - Monde Sidereal [Manuscript]
by Anon. - STARS - CONSTELLATIONS - NEBULAE of the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
[France]: Unique, ca1860. Original black, full Russia leather with a fine pebble grain pattern; a.e.g.. Near fine; binding bumped and a bit rubbed.. Oblong 4to, 33 unnumbered pages (stiff glazed paper) with 22 mounted star maps (various sizes) drawn on deep violet colored paper in black and gold ink. An accomplished manuscript, beautifully rendered, by an individual with advanced knowledge of interstellar space. It is also unusual in that the text initially emphasizes findings in the southern hemisphere.... Read More
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Two Lectures on the Efficiency of the Heart and its Measurement
by Henderson, Y
London: Lancet, 1925. Offprint.. orig. printed wrappers.. A very good copy.. 8vo. There is an occasional text illus.. Two lectures on the meaning of efficiency and the applications of this definition to man. The first lecture intorduces new concepts and equipment for measuring the work function of the human heart. See G - M for the author's entries.
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Les Amours au Phalanstere
by Hennequin, V - UTOPIAS
Paris: Librairie Phalansterienne, 1847. First Edition.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. A fine copy; some small amount of wear to the base of the spine.. 12mo. 64 pp. Hennequin's homage to Fourier. But where to begin with Fourier? His books are difficult to read; filled with seemingly endless combinations of categories and typologies of human behavior. The basis was the deliberate and total denial of all past philosophical and moralist schools of thought. This came to be known as... Read More
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L' Usage du Compas de Proportion ....
by Henrion, D - BION'S INSTRUMENTS
Paris: J Jombert, 1685. Later, Revised Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Good; rebacked at an early date.. 8vo, [14], [2 - blank leaf], [16], 290, [12 - errata and index] pp. + an engraved title page and 2 folding plates of the instrument inscribed with Bion's name. It is also worth noting that the instruments illustrated on the plates are different (more complex) than those of the earlier printings of this book. Henrion's book (first 1616) was an... Read More
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The Flying Steam Company, to China in Twenty-Four Hours Certain
by [Henson, William & Stringfellow, John] - FLIGHT
[England], [1843]?. As issued.. Very good overall; good color.. Folio, printed on linen in raspberry colored red ink on a cream ground; meas. appx. 465 x 620+ mm. This commemorative print depicts a flying machine above a panoramic scene of a group of figures with telescopes, and beside a steam boat, a locomotive, and a stage coach, with a title along the top margin, and various accompanying descriptive and satirical texts mentioning Malta, Suez, the "Barbarian Fire Ship"... Read More
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Die Sakralbronzen und ihre Bedeutung in den fruehchinesischen Kulturen, 2 vols
by Hentze, C[arl] - CHINESE BRONZES
Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1941. First Edition.. Original publisher's tan linen.. Near Fine.. 4to, I - 199 pp.; II - Part One - 113 plates; Part Two - 53 plates. Text is in German. An exceptional work on the Shang and early West-Chou Dynasties (1000 BC) iconography and myths related to demon masks.
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Verstand und Erfahrung. Eine Metakritik zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 2 vols.
by Herder, J G - PHILOSOPHY
Leipzig: J F Hartknoch, 1799. First Edition.. Original paste paper boards.. Good; inst. blind stamp on each title; small accession label on verso of title to vol. 2 and modest number and name stamp on the endpapers; some abrasion to the spines.. 8vo; I - xxxii, [3] - 479, [1 - blank] pp.; II - xii, [3] - 402 pp. An important critique of Kant. It is anecdotal that Goethe is supposed to have requested that the book... Read More
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Philosophische Grammatik
by Hermann, C - LANGUAGE
Leipzig: F Fleischer, 1858. First Edition .. Contemporary three-quarter cloth.. A very good copy; some overall toning.. 8vo, 428 pp. . An ambitious undertaking. The book seeks to examine the philosophical issues underpinning the study of language and grammar.
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Die deutsche Karikatur im 19 Jahrhundert
by Hermann, G
Bielefield und Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1901. First Edition.. orig. prtd. stiff wrappers.. A very good copy. lg. 8vo. The text is illus. throughout. An excellent overview of 19th century German caricature and cartoons. The author is especially interested in bitter social lampooning and satires of all kinds.
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Mechanischer verbesserter Wind-Regen-und Trockenheitsbeobachter
by Herrmann, C G
Freyburg & Annaberg: Craz, 1789. First Edition.. contemp. marbled wrappers.. A very good copy; small, inoffensive 19th cent. lib. stamp on the title.. 8vo. There are 4 numbered plates on two sheets illus. the devices. This pamphlet is a description of an elaborate an innovative automatic recording device for rain, wind direction and humidity. Each of the measurement systems devised by Herrmann were clock driven and appear to be the refinement of a similar system designed by Leupold... Read More
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Der Prinzipien der Mechanik ....
by Hertz, H - PHYSICS
Leipzig: J A Barth, 1894. First Edition.. Contemporary half leather.. A near fine copy.. 8vo, xxix, [1 - ornament], [1] - 312 pp. Containing the general title of vol. III of the author's collected works - only issued in this manner because of Hertz's death in 1894. An important book that is devoted to the theoretical implications of Maxwell's electrodynamic equations for the rest of physics. The book also has Hertz' s brilliant introduction on the epistemological problems... Read More
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Tiergeographie auf oekologischer Grundlage
by Hesse, R - ECOLOGY
Jena: G Fischer, 1924. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. Good; some wear to the spine with abrasion at the head and tail.. 8vo. There are occasional text illus.. An early work devoted to ecology and animal adaptive evolution. The book is a detailed study of the life forms associated with various climatic and geographical regions. In each instance the plan, development, necessities, and structure of animal life is examined.
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Das Element Hafnium - BOUND WITH - Das Hafnium
by Hevesy, G / Rose, H - RARE EARTHS
Berlin: J Springer, 1927/26. First Edition.. Later library cloth.. A very good copy.. 8vo, I - [4], [1] - 50, [2 - adverts] pp.; II - [4], [1] - 60 pp. There are text illus. throughout both papers. Hevesy's account of the discovery of one of the last stable rare earth elements Hafnium. The books are of interest because of the emphasis on the atomic theory (and Bohr's suggestions) that gave rise to the suspicion that another element... Read More
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Über Resectionen und Amputationen
by Heyfelder, Johann F - ORTHOPEDICS
Bonn: Akademie der Naturforscher, 1854. First Edition.. Original stiff printed wrappers.. A very good copy; backstrip worn; spotting throughout; small release stamp on title; unopened.. 4to, [xvi], [1] - 269, [1 - errata] pp. + 4 tinted folding litho. plates and inserted advertisements. An exhaustive treatise on amputations and resection illus. with plates of the operation and pathology. The author also contributes a short section on the use of chloroform and related anesthetic agents. G - M #4464;... Read More
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Einige Beobachtungen aus dem Gebiete der Pflanzen-Anatomie
by Hildebrand, Friedrich H G
Bonn: C Georgi, 1861. First Edition.. Later plain paper boards.. Very good; institutional ink stamp on the title and one leaf of text.. 4to, [4], (1)2 - 28, [2] pp. + 2 plates. An interesting paper on the mechanisms whereby flowers unfurl their petals. Hildebrand is best known for his contemporaneous work with Darwin on the process of fertilization. Pritzel #4055 (variant imprint); see Mobius, p. 358; Stafleu/Cowan II, pp. 195-196.
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The Ostrich for the Defense
by Hile, William H - UTOPIA
Boston: George H Ellis, 1912. First Edition.. Original publisher's decorated cloth (a blind stamped, painted ostrich). Near fine.. 8vo, [8], 324 pp. + frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. A utopian lost-race novel. Hile (1869-1943) was a geologist and would-be entrepreneur who, in 1909, founded the not-very-successful African Ostrich Farm and Feather Company in upstate New York. The book concerns a wealthy American who happens to travel to Palestine. There he runs into a "mysterious woman" who instructs him to depart... Read More
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Electroencephalography
by Hill, Denis & Parr, Geoffrey (eds.) - NEUROLOGY
London: Macdonald, 1950. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth and printed dustjacket.. Very good; modest wear to the edges of the dustjacket; copyright statement is masked on the verso of the title page; spine of the dustjacket is somewhat darkened.. 4to, 438 pp. + 18 double-sided inserted plates and numerous text illustrations. What appears to be the earliest monograph on the topic. It is the report of a symposium regarding progress and results since its inception in 1929. There... Read More
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The Influence of Oxygen Inhalation on Muscular Work
by Hill, L & Flack, M
London: Journal of Physiology, 1910. OFFPRINT.. Original publisher's printed wrappers. A very good copy; unopened.. 8vo. An analysis of the effect of oxygen on athlete's muscles.
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Paintsmanship - Course in Paint and Varnish Salesmanship
by Hills, N E
St Louis: Am. Paint & Oil Dealer, [1919]. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. A good copy; stain along lower margin.. 8vo. The text is illus. throughout. ; 193 pp. A ' how to ' book for the paint and oil industry. Filled with useful tips: ' In taking orders be sure to have the buyer give you a written order ....'
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Sir Thomas Gresham (1518-1579)
by Hilton, William (the younger) - WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT
ca1820. As accomplished.. Fine.. Watercolor portrait meas. appx. 185 x 148 mm.. It is on a stiff paper board. Sir Thomas Gresham was councillor, and financier in Elizabethan England as well as the founder of the Royal Exchange. Numerous portraits exist. Hilton made this skillful and appealing watercolor from the attributed Holbein portrait in the Mercers' Company Hall in London. It was once part of the Elhanan Bicknell collection (sold by Christies in a named sale in April... Read More
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