Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, manyargs, Toungous, Touzemts, Goldi, and Gelyaks; the hunting and pastoral tribes
by ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. With full-page frontispiece plus 82 text engravings based upon the author’s own drawings, large folding map. Publisher’s cloth, title within gilt design on spine, head and foot worn; interior excellent. First American edition. Atkinson published his first work on Oriental and Western Siberia in 1858. This is a continuation of his travels to Siberia and the Russian orient. He states that this book (as opposed to his first one) provides information “of a... Read More
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Oriental and Western Siberia. A narrative of seven years..
by ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With frontispiece plus beautiful 51 illustrations and folding map. Black cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; new endpapers, small waterstain on top edge of pages 48-65, otherwise a clean copy with an ownership inscription that indicates “purchased April 30, 1858.”. First American edition of an incredible journey through Siberia undertaken by the English architect and artist Atkinson (1799-1861). The author traveled nearly forty thousand miles, nearly a third... Read More
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Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; to which are added, Hearne's journeys to reading, and to Whaddon Hall . . . and lives of eminent men. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations
by AUBREY, John and others
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait cut out and pasted onto a blank leaf opposite the title in Volume I. Contemporary (original?) calf-backed boards, spine labels; other than some minor spotting on the first few leaves in each volume, an excellent uncut copy from the libraries of William Greenwood and Dr. Herbert Silvette with their bookplates and Greenwood’s signature on the title to Volume I dated 1873. First edition of this... Read More
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Nouvelle méthode pour reconnaitre les maladies internes de la poitrine par la percussion de cette cavité
by AUENBRUGGER, Leopold
Paris: I’Imprimerie de Migneret, 1808. FIRST EDITION OF CORVISART’S TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN. Complete with half-title and errata. Uncut in the original wrappers, re-backed with the original spine label. An absolutely fantastic copy, preserved in a slipcase. First edition of Corvisart's classic translation of one of the great medical masterpieces. The results of Auenbrugger's experiments, with the immediate percussion of the chest as a new diagnostic method, were first published in Vienna in 1761. For nearly fifty years this... Read More
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Hypnotisme double conscience et alterations de la personnalite
by AZAM, [Etienne]
Paris: Librairie J. B. Bailliere et Fils, 1887. FIRST EDITION. With half title and 5 pages publisher’s advertisements. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine, marbled end papers. Exteriors faded, edges of text block speckled. Occasional spotting throughout with generally clean text. A very good copy. First edition of a fascinating work on personality disorders featuring Dr. Azam’s famed case study of “Félida X,” one of the first confirmed cases of alternating personalities (later referred to as multiple personality disorder and... Read More
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Sylva sylvarum. (bound with) New Atlantis
by BACON, Francis
London: John Haviland for William Lee, 1635. FIFTH EDITION. Complete with frontispiece portrait of the author and the uncommon second engraved title, the tables and the recipe for gout in the first work, woodcut vignette on the title page of New Atlantis. Contemporary calf, rebacked; an excellent copy. Fifth edition of Bacon’s collection of exceedingly significant scientific experiments and observations on natural history, published posthumously by his personal chaplain, William Rawley. It was in this work that Bacon strove... Read More
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Der Alcoholismus, sein Verreitung und seine Wirkung auf den individuellen und socialen Organismus sowie die Mittel, in zu bekampfen
by BAER, Abraham A.
Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1878. Contemporary leather-backed boards. A very good copy; some stains to endpapers. An early work by Baer on alcoholism. What distinguishes the book is the extensive use of statistical samples and an astonishing attention to all facets of the disease from its incipient forms right through delirium tremens. Included is an overview of the problem in other European countries and a section devoted to the means of overcoming the problem for the community and individual. A... Read More
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Untersuchungen Ueber Die Gefaessverbindung Zwischen Mutter und Frucht in den Saeugethieren
by BAER, Karl Ernst von
Leipzig: J.B. Hirschfeld for Leopold Voss, 1828. ONLY EDITION. Full-page etched plate in contemporary hand color. Rare in tehe original publisher’s cloth with etched paper label affixed to the front panel, remains of spine label; minor foxing, overall in excellent condition. First and only edition of this groundbreaking treatise on placental physiology dedicated to the famous anthropologist S. T. v. Soemmerring (1755-1830) on the 5th anniversary of his doctorate. Building on his published discovery of the mammalian ovum the... Read More
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Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion
by BAER, Karl Ernst von
Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its first president, Benjamin D. Greene, M.D., dated 1863. FIRST EDITION of the first part of von Baer's classic of embryology, complete in itself. The author here treats the development of the chicken in the... Read More
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De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. . .
by BAER, Karl Ernst von
Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. DISCOVERY OF THE HUMAN OVUM. First edition of Baer’s famous discovery of the mammalian ovum, a classic in the history of embryology. “The notion that all animals come from eggs was pronounced by Harvey, and de Graaf proclaimed that the... Read More
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Traite de l'astronomie Indienne..
by BAILLY, Jean Sylvain
Paris: Chez Debure, 1787. FIRST EDITION. With decorative woodcut headpieces. Contemporary half-calf over boards; occasional browning, otherwise an excellent copy from the library of Jacob and Friedrich Schurer with their bookplate. First edition of Bailly's valuable history of Eastern astronomy which was separately published as a supplement to his outstanding work on ancient and modern astronomy. The author here expands upon his earlier theories that the astronomical sciences of various Eastern civilizations were remnants of a single ancient culture.... Read More
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Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body
by BAILLIE, Matthew
Albany: Barber & Southwick for Thomas Spencer, 1795. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Calf-backed contemporary marbled boards, spine label; interior somewhat browned, but a good copy from the library of the prominent Rhode Island physician Irving Addison Beck (1911-1998) with his very interesting bookplate. First American edition of this distinguished work of pathology, the first systematic textbook to treat morbid anatomy as an independent science. Baillie describes the morbid appearance of each organ at autopsy and categorizes his findings with case... Read More
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The Albert N’yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources
by BAKER, Samuel White
London: Macmillan and Co, 1866. Two volumes. First edition. Illustrated with two maps, one of which is a large fold-out, portrait frontispiece, 14 fine plates, and 23 illustrations within the text. 8vo, original green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on spines, with gilt-decorated pictorial upper covers ruled in gilt. xxx, 395; xi, 384 pp. First edition of one of history’s greatest travel accounts. Baker, an established explorer in the Black Sea region, went to Africa to discover the sources... Read More
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Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
by BAKER, Samuel
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First American Edition. Portrait of the author plus 2 separate frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), plus 50 woodcut text illustrations. Modern cloth with the original covers and spine laid down; folding map torn in a number of places (but all present), most illustrations with the tissue guards, otherwise interior very good. First American edition after the first printing in London the prior year. Baker’s expedition through Egypt down to Lake Albert in present... Read More
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The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Ducks and their allies (swans, geese and ducks)
by BAKER, Stuart
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1921. SECOND EDITION. With 60 colored plates after Grönvold, Lodge and Keulemans, 15 black and white plates and 2 maps. Original half-morocco over cloth boards, spines of Volumes I and II different color, gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers. An enjoyable copy from the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan with his faint blind-stamp on the title pages and the stamp of Peshawar Club Library on the verso of some plates. Second edition... Read More
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Indian pigeons and doves
by BAKER, Stuart
London: Witherby & Co, 1913. SECOND EDITION. With chromolithographed frontispiece and 26 colored plates after Grönvold and Lodge. Contemporary half morocco over cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, some wear to hinges and corners, otherwise a very clean copy from the libraries of James M. Dolan (stamp on title page), James M. Dolan Jr., (blind stamp on title page), and bookplate of the Van Oosten Foundation Ornithological Library. First edition of this fascinating work on Indian ornithology, intended for... Read More
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The large and small game of Bengal and the north-western provinces of India
by BALDWIN, Captain J.H.
London: Henry S. King, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece plate (detached) with tissue guard, text illustrations. Contemporary cloth, worn, title in gilt with decoration on front cover; interior uncut. From the James Dolan collection with his bookplate on paste down and blind stamp on title page. First edition of a scarce work on hunting in India written by an observer and lover of nature. Baldwin, a Captain in the British Army stationed in India, recounts his experiences hunting for tiger... Read More
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A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy: Embracing also, Important Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Information, from Recent and Original Sources; Together with the Results of the Census of 1850, and Population and Statistics in many Cases to 1853
by BALDWIN, Thomas
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled sheepskin with black morocco spine label, advertising end-papers, all edges marbled; paper residue to front paste-down, small damp-stain to fore-edge margin of first 100 pages, binding lightly scuffed and soiled, overall a solid very good copy. First edition.
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Scientific American, Supplement, Vol. XLIV, No. 1128
by X-RAYS; BALLOONING
New York: Scientific American, 1897. FIRST EDITION. Newspaper format. With 5 large plates as listed below: 1. Transportation of the packing case containing the balloon, June 14, 1897 2. Inspection of the balloon, July 2, 1897 3. The balloon house in Virgo Bay, Danes Island (gun boat Svensksund) 4. Pike's log house on Danes Island and gas works (gas pipe to balloon) 5. Andrée's balloon, The Adler.
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Travels in phrenologasto
by BALSCOPO, Giovanni Battista
London: Saunders and Otley, 1829. SECOND EDITION. Full contemporary calf, boards outlined in gilt, title and year in gilt on spine, paste-downs, fly-leaves and edges marbled. An absolutely exquisite, wide-margined copy. Second edition, apparently preceded by an 1825 printing from Calcutta, India. A fascinating, crazy story bordering science fiction and fact. Cranioscopy (literally skull observation) was coined by the German physician Franz Gall who pioneered the study of localized brain functions. It was replaced by the term phrenology coined... Read More
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Parisian life
by BALZAC, Honore de
Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Co, 1901. Titles in red and black. Each with frontispiece and illustration. Red cloth bindings with gilt spine titles, mostly in excellent condition (back cover to Vol. VIII waterstained). Works include Cousin Betty; César Birotteau; Scenes from a Courtesan's life; The Government clerks; Cousin Pons; The Thirteen; Father Goriot; and Middle Classes.
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Traite de l’art metalique
by BARBA, Alphonse
Paris: Saugrain, 1730. Folding engraved frontispiece and 7 folding engraved plates. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red, red silk marker. First quire misfolded. First French edition of this mining and metallurgy treatise, the first to describe the system of extracting gold, silver, and copper by boiling the mineral with saline and mercury. Barba invented the “heating pan” method, wherein finely ground silver or gold ore is melted in a copper cauldron with water, salt, and... Read More
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Travels in China, containing descriptions, observations, and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton. . .
by BARROW, John
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Second edition. With 8 plates, including the hand-colored frontispiece, 4 additional hand-colored aquatints, plus 3 black and white plates (2 double page). Half morocco with marbled boards, chipped and faded along the edge, corners bumped and showing some loss, hinges weak; very faint damp stain along the outer edge of the text block, light scattered foxing. From the John Crear Library in Chicago, with its perforated stamp on the title, ink stamps... Read More
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Nouvelle mechanique des mouvements de l’homme et des animaux
by BARTHEZ, P.-J
Carcassonne: P. Polere, 1798. FIRST EDITION. A lovely copy partially printed on blue-tinged paper, interior with wide margins, occasional browning and spotting due to paper stock. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt I compartments, red moroco label, triple gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First edition of a rare scientific contribution to the study of aerial flight, as well as of the body movement of humans and other animals. This work, of historic importance following that of... Read More
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The literature of the rebellion
by BARTLETT, John Russell
Boston: Draper and Halliday, 1866. Original printed wrappers (top wrapper only), chipped, needs re-sewing (first few leaves loose; very fragile. Interior fine. Uncut and unopened. One of the most comprehensive bibliographies of the literature of the Civil War. Sabin, 3743.
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