De la folie, considérée dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciares
by MARC, Charles Chrétien Henri
Paris: Bailliere, 1840. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece lithographed portrait. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, green silk markers; a little foxed, otherwise a nice set. First edition, an exhaustive forensic analysis of mental illness. In the first volume, the author, a French psychiatrist who specialized in monomania, presents a historical and contemporary account of the role of insanity in jurisprudence, distinguishing different types of mental illness and their effects. The second volume describes specific manias and their tendency to... Read More
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Report of the annual dinner of the Institute" in Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Vol. XIX
by MARCONI, G.
New York: AIEE, 1903. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait of Ralph W. Pope and numerous text tables and diagrams. Cloth, title and date in gilt on spine; a fine copy with the stamps of the GEC Electrical Projects Library and H.N. Sporborg. First edition of this fascinating summary of an evening honoring Guglielmo Marconi. Prior to his speech, the president of the Institute, Charles P. Steinmetz, and past president T. Commerford Martin, provide short introductions, including a reading of... Read More
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Le Rameau d’or d’Eleusis
by MARCONIS DE NÈGRE, Jacques-Etienne
Paris: the Author, 1861. Sepia lithographed frontispiece and 6 full-page sepia lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt black sheep-backed marbled boards. Minor foxing, otherwise a very good copy in original condition. First edition of this privately published manual of freemasonry by the founder of the Rite of Memphis, a Templar-based branch of the practice. Intended for use by novices, the text covers the history of the Order from the initiation of King Solomon, lists the Grand Lodges with their masters, number... Read More
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La machine animale, locomotion terrestre et aérienne
by MAREY, Étienne-Jules
Paris: Germer Baillière, 1873. FIRST EDITION. With 117 text wood engravings. Contemporary gilt and embossed publisher’s cloth, front panel central medallion with title and series, rear panel with publisher’s mark, gilt spine lettering; front cover a bit rubbed and spine a bit sunned, minor toning and foxing. Presentation inscription on the title “à ma chère Mère. Marey.”. Rare first edition of Marey’s pioneer work in the use of serial pictures as a method of studying the mechanics of locomotion.... Read More
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Coca erythroxylon. (Vin mariani.) Its uses in the treatment of disease. With notes and comments by prominent physicians. (offered with) Coca and its therapeutic application. (offered with) Eminent physicians’ portraits and biographical notes
by MARIANI, Angelo
Paris; New York; Paris: Mariani & Co.,; J. N. Jaros; Mariani, 1890. THIRD EDITION; FIRST EDITION. I: Original publisher’s cloth, title in gilt on front cover. II: With frontispiece and numerous full-page and text illustrations. Original printed wrappers, stained and soiled; waterstains in margins of second half of the book. III: With the text portraits of 30 doctors (all men). Woodcut printer’s device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, illustration on final leaf. Original printed wrappers. Before the... Read More
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Histoire veritable et merveilleuse d’une jeune Angloise...
by MARIN, Francois
Paris: Lottin, 1772. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half calf over speckled boards, spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled blue. Fine, internally fresh. First edition, a descriptive account of two teenagers with super-human powers. The first, a Provençal shepherd boy, possessed the ability to detect subterranean waters. The second was an English girl who could see through earth and bodies to what lies beneath. The author supports the veracity of their abilities with similar accounts taken from scientists and natural historians,... Read More
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Wonderful balloon ascents; or the conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages
by MARION, F[ulgence]
New York: Charles Scribner & Co, 1870. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With half-title, frontispiece, 16 additional full-page plates, and 20 plates within publisher’s advertisements for the Illustrated Library of Wonders. Half-calf over marbled boards, losses to calf at top right corner of front board, head of spine chipped, marbled edges and end-papers; text is slightly toned. Overall a very good and enjoyable copy. First edition in English of this popular history of balloons and the adventurers who used them... Read More
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Libro del caballero Zifar [facsimile reproduction of Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. Espagnol 36]
by MARTINEZ, Ferrand
Barcelona: M. Moleiro Editore, 1996. FIRST EDITION OF THE FACSIMILE. With 242 decorated miniatures. Full calf with gilt border on both covers, red Moroccan spine decorated in gilt insignia, laurel wreaths, and stars; painted endpaper and gilt dentelles. Preserved in a red Moroccan and gilt case. Fine, as if never opened. First edition of this gorgeous facsimile, No. 649 of 987 printed. The Libro del caballero Zifar was the first adventure story ever written in Spain. Dating to the... Read More
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Patologia generale
by MARTINI, Lorenzo
Capolago: Elvetica, 1834. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half blue sheep over marbled boards, gilt spine, edges sprinkled red. A very nice set. First edition of this Italian work on pathology. The text provides an overview of the nature of disease, divides illnesses based on whether they are treated with medication or surgery, and includes dozens of case studies and the author’s opinion on them. Martini (1785-1844) was physician, physiologist, and medical instructor with over two dozen titles to his name.... Read More
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Lehruch der Elektricitat und des Magnetismus
by MASCART, E. and J. Joubert
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1886. FIRST GERMAN EDITION. With numerous text illustrations and mathematical equations. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards; an excellent copy with very nice marbled fore-edges, paste-downs and endpapers. From the Electrotechnishes Institut in Vienna with their perforated stamp on both titles. First German edition of the first textbook to treat synthetically the works of Maxell, Kelvin and Helmholtz. “Since it concentrated the first French textbook that attempted to treat synthetically the work of Maxwell, Kelvin, and... Read More
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[VARNUM, Joseph; CUTTS, Richard; SEAVER, Ebenezer; BARKER, Joseph; GREEN, Isaiah; COOK, Orchard; DEANE, Josiah; ILSLEY, Daniel; BACON, Ezekiel]. The reply of the majority of the representatives from the state of Massachusetts, in Congress, to the resolutions and instructions of the legislature of that state on the subject of the embargo laws
by [STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS]
City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. FIRST EDITION. Stapled into original wrappers, tattered and detached; some light soiling. Contemporary underlining to text. Embossed stamp of Aurora College, Illinois to title. First edition of this pamphlet, written to discuss the question of the repeal of certain embargo laws.
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A treatise on the eclectic southern practice of medicine
by MASSIE, J[osiah] Cam
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1854. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, spine label, boards a bit worn and corners a bit rubbed; intermittent foxing, overall a very good copy. First edition of the author’s observations and reflections on his practice of medicine, mostly on the Texas frontier. Luckily for the reader, he dispenses with the “history” of medicine (in general) in the preface, so his text is focused on present-day activities. Despite each chapter appearing to be a standard discussion... Read More
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The New Star Chamber and other Essays
by MASTERS, Edgar Lee
Chicago: Hammersmark Publishing, 1904. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary brown cloth backed brown boards with paper title labels on front cover and spine, top edge gilt; a very good copy. Inscribed in pencil by Masters in 1904 on front paste-down. First edition. Masters' third and one of his most elusive books, a collection of political essays. Articles include discussions of Theodore Roosevelt, John Marshall, Jefferson and Hamilton, implied powers and imperialism, election of federal judges, despotism, and observations on democracy, among... Read More
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[Medical Manuscript]
by [MASTURBATION]
55, [19] pp. Manuscript on paper in brown and blue ink in one hand, 22 lines to a full page. Five texts roughly bound together in 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards. Manuscript notes throughout. Ownership inscriptions of Augustin Briffault, medical officer of the French army in Italy, dated 1813, 1818, and 1830. [With:] SAINT-PIERRE, Denis de Petit manuel des prétendus incurables. Paris: the Author [1830]. 16mo. 31 pp. [With:] TISSOT, Simon André L’Onanisme, dissertation sur les maladies produites par... Read More
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Was sind und was sollen zahlen
by [MATHEMATICS SAMMELBAND]. DEDEKIND, R.
Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1888. WITH: O. Fischer, Matyas Lerch, E. Phragmen, C. Neumann, C. Meray. 1. DEDEKIND, Richard Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen. Braunschweig: Vieweg and Son, 1888. 8vo. xviii, 58 pp., including half-title. First edition, rare, of Dedekind’s important work on set theory. His epochal 1872 publication, Stetigkeit und irrationale zahlen, gave the first rigorous definition of the system of real numbers, laying the foundation for much of modern day real analysis and... Read More
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Dictionnaire des rimes et de pronunciation
by MATHIEU, Charles Leopold
Paris: Chez Janet, 1800. Contemporary pastepaper wrappers. Ex-libris stamps of the Bibliothèque Charles-Guillon. A fresh, uncut copy in original condition. First edition, an exhaustive rhyming dictionary for poets who find themselves “too busy with their muse (p. v, tr.)” to ruminate on words. The author begins with an overview of the pronunciation of the French language, then describes verse structure by syllables and using verb conjugations to suit the verse. The main text is listed alphabetically by word endings... Read More
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Moyens de prevenir les crimes dans la society
by MAUCLERC, Hippolyte Vivant
Grenoble: Ferry, 1799. FIRST EDITION. presentation copy Bound in later marbled paper with marbled edges. Fine condition; inscribed by Mauclerc on the title page, “à Monsieur Vigaroux professeur de l’école de Montpellier. Comme preuve de reconnaissance H.V. Mauclerc.”. First edition, the author’s presentation copy. This moving essay extolls the virtues of love and friendship as central to preventing crime and violence. Written in wake of the Revolution, Mauclerc dedicates the work to Napoleon and prefaces it with excerpt from... Read More
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History of Illinois
by MAUE, August
New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco: Charles Sribner’s Sons, 1927. Numerous text and photographic illustrations, including a map of Illinois in 1812. Publisher’s cloth, author and title on front cover; interior in excellent shape. First and only edition. Maue’s work provides a streamlined narrative of the history of Illinois from its earliest settlers through the date of publication, intended for a younger (student) audience. Of particular interest is the details relating to establishment of settlements such as Chicago,... Read More
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The circle. A comedy in three acts
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
London: William Heineman, 1921. FIRST EDITION. including half-title. Original printed wrappers, brown lettering to covers and spine, with publisher’s advertisements to verso of top wrapper and both sides of bottom wrapper; without the binder’s leaf before the first blank. Small slip tipped onto verso of title, from the Samuel French company, regarding representation fees. First few gatherings slightly loose, else fine. First edition, first binding state. The Circle, with its heroine leaving her husband and running off with her... Read More
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Of human bondage. With a digression on the art of fiction. An address by W. Somerset Maugham
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
[Washington]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1946. Original blue-gray printed boards. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf, ownership inscription to front paste-down. Limited edition, first state, with the second blank conjugate to the colophon. This is the lecture given by Maugham when he presented the manuscript of his novel Of human bondage to the Library of Congress. Limited to 800 copies, this is one of 500 signed by the author, and given as souvenirs to those who were at... Read More
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TLS
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] S[omerset]
[Martinique], 1964. Villa Mauresque, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat stationary, watermarked Vidalon, France. Signature in blue ink, most likely that of a fountain pen. To a Mr. Blevins, thanking him for his “charming card and good wishes.”.
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The sacred flame. A play in three acts
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. FIRST EDITION. Original black publisher’s cloth, paper labels to top cover and spine; uncut. First edition. This play was written after Maugham had made the decision to give up writing plays. He apparently had a few ideas left; this is the first of his last four, the others being The breadwinner, For services rendered and Sheppey. An experiment, Maugham chose to use formal literary dialogue rather than colloquial speech.... Read More
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The constant wife. A comedy in three acts
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
New York, Los Angeles: Samuel French, 1938. Original tan wrappers, small dampstain at foot of top wrapper, minor tear to rear fly-leaf. American acting edition. Maugham dedicated this play to the lead actress, Ethel Barrymore, despite the fact that on opening night she forgot her lines due to stage fright. Rothschild & Whiteman, V, 141; Stott, A35a; NCBEL, 4, 664 (all first ed.).
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Cakes and ale: or, the skeleton in the cupboard
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Turquoise publisher's cloth, black & gold label to top cover and spine, cloth is quite sunned, with some light soiling. An uncut copy signed by the author on fly-leaf, ownership inscription of W. Corbin Douglass dated 1930 to front paste-down. First American edition. As with many of his novels, this was also printed in installments in Harper’s Bazaar, starting in the March, 1930 issue. The most favorably regarded novel... Read More
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Christmas holiday
by MAUGHAM, W[illiam] Somerset
London: William Heineman, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Blue publisher’s cloth, in original blue, turquoise and white dust-jacket, two small soil marks to top cover, a couple of small chips to dust-jacket. First edition. This novel also appeared in installments in the August-November, 1939 issues of Redbook Magazine. It is the tale of a young man from London who experiences a bizarre holiday while in Paris. Rothschild & Whiteman, V, 221; Stott, A54a; NCBEL, 4, 663.
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