Der endeckte Nutzen des Seegrases zum Füllen der Küssen und Polster.
by Lehmann, M C G - KELP
Copenhagen: köngl. Gen. Landes Oekonomie- und Commerz-collegium , 1814. First Edition. Original yellow paper wrappers.. Near fine.. 12mo, 23 pp. Engraved, vignette title. An original commercial idea proposing the use of dried sea kelp as cushion stuffing for furniture. OCLC cites 2 copies in Denmark.
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Wohlerfahrner Pferde - Arzt ....
by Leib, I - VETERINARY MEDICINE - HORSES
Lebanon [PA]: J Hartman, 1842. First Edition.. Contemporary three quarter leather.. Good tight copy; overall spotting.. 8vo, xii (including the frontispiece), 184 pp. A manual devoted exclusively to equine diseases and ailments. Leib describes himself as a horse doctor in his preface to the text. An interesting original book. S & S #42-2898; Smithcor #914; Tucher #1473.
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The Improved Davis Patent Wood Grainer - OFFERED WITH - A 3 inch quarter-round "rocker" manufactured by Davis.
by Leistner, Oscar
Chicago: Oscar Leistner, 1904. Original paper covered box and label; as issued.. Very good; a stain to the cover title of the pamphlet (does NOT penetrate beyond the cover).. Small rectangular paper covered box (5.5 x 4.25 x 1.75 inches) with paper label that contains 3 cylindrical rubber graining rolls (meas. appx. 5 inches x 1.5 inches in diameter); a publication - intended for inclusion - The Up-To-Date Grainer (providing instructions in the use of the rolls); a... Read More
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![[Drop Title] Rapport sur les Divers Moyens d'Extraire avec Advantage le Sel de Soude du Sel Marin](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/839/145/909145839.0.l.jpg)
[Drop Title] Rapport sur les Divers Moyens d'Extraire avec Advantage le Sel de Soude du Sel Marin
by [Lelievre, Claude-Hugues & Pelletier, Bertrand & Arcet, Jean d' & Girond, Alexandre] -TECHNOLOGY
[Paris], [1793]. First Edition. Disbound from a larger volume retaining the plain front wrapper.. Very good.. 4to, 80 pages and 11 engraved folding plates of appliances and buildings. A learned and detailed account of the extraction of potash and various salts written during the frenzied days of the French Revolution. The work is primarily a technological treatise whose effective use did not come into being until 1805 - 1810 (the period of effective English embargo of the continent).... Read More
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Cours Complet sur la Taille du Pecher et Autres Arbres a Fruit ....
by Lemoine, Leonor
Paris: Marchant, [1805]. Third Edition.. Original plain blue wrapper.. Fine; untrimmed.. 8vo, [4], [v] - viii, 9-156, [2] pp. A later printing of a series of lectures on horticulture but concentrating on fruit trees and their care. The author points out that this printing contains the longest series of lectures she has issued. The lectures were presented at a garden/orchard located at the rue d'Enfer in Mont-Parnasse. Absent from Pritzel, Raphael, and Perkins.
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Flintlåset: Dess uppkomst och utveckling av Torsten Lenk
by Lenk, Torsten
Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1939. First Edition. Limited Edition numbered #118.. Publisher's full leather; t.e.g.. Very good; small waterstain to the leather cover; some scuffing to the spine.. Folio, 184 pp. + frontispiece and 134 tipped in plates of weapons, engravings, mechanical details etc. A detailed overview of an important collection of 17th century European flintlock rifles, makers, and decorative-arts engravers. Text in Swedish. A handsome catalog - accompanied by correspondence concerning the publication and purchase.
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Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Cambridge. Reprints Volume VI 1949 - 1952 Structure of Molecules
by Lennard-Jones, Sir John E - QUANTUM CHEMISTRY - PRESENTATION
Various journals. Original stamped, cloth binding.. Very good; infrequent misc. pencil notations.. Royal 8vo, [6 - recto only, typescript pages of a title and 4 pages of contents] followed by 19 offprints (retaining the original journal pagination) and bearing the printed acknowledgement before each drop title: Reprinted without change of pagination from the Proceedings .... All bound between card stock printed as numerically sequenced tabbed dividers along with 2 additional inserted offprints. The volume bearing the autograph presentation... Read More
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Selectiorum Observationum et Consiliorum ... cum prefatione Hermanni Boerhaave
by [Le Pois, Charles] (ed. H Boerhaave)
Leyden: G Potuliet, 1733. A later prtg. (first is 1618).. Full contemporary calf.. A very good copy; frt. jt. split but holding.. 4to. [32], 1 - 496, [20] pp. According to Jarcho a, '... bold original medical thinker, who converted the ancient gospel of humoralism into a new and valuable doctrine of fluid imbalance.' De Ricci cites this as a 'remarkable treatise' that finally disposed of the old ideas on hysterical or uterine suffocation : '... the... Read More
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An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, and Propagation, of Heat
by Leslie, J
London: J Mawman, 1804. First Edition.. original paper backed boards.. A very good copy with some wear to the spine; feint tide mark to corners of the frontis. .. 8vo. There are nine eng. plates. An important work in the history of thermodynamics that established several fundamental laws of heat radiation, i.e., that the emissivity and absorptivity for any surface are equal; that the emissivity of a surface increases with the increase in reflectivity; that the intensity of... Read More
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Die Kohlenoxydvergiftung ....
by Lewin, L[ouis] - TOXICOLOGY
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. First Edition. Modern linen cloth of the period with original wrappers inset and in place.. Very good.. 8vo, ix, [1], [1] - 369, [1] pp. + one inserted color plate. An exhaustive monograph on all aspects of carbon monoxide poisoning. See G-M for the author's numerous entries under pharmacology and toxicology.
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The Surface Geology of Philadelphia and Vicinity
by Lewis, H C
Philadelphia: Academy of Nat. Sci., 1878. First Edition.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. A very good copy with a small stain to the lower inner margin.. 8vo. There are text illus.. An excellent rendering of the geological features that make up the Philadelphia area.
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Cheap and Contented Labor: The Picture of a Southern Mill Town in 1929
by Lewis, Sinclair
New York: [UTW ... Woman's Trade Union League], 1929. First Edition. First Issue.. Original publisher's blue/green, card stock printed wrappers.. Near fine.. 8vo, 32 pp. There are half-tone text illustrations. Lewis' history of the 1929 labor strikes at the Marion Manufacturing Company and the Clinchfield Mills in Marion, North Carolina. One of 300 copies printed. Pastore, pp. 181-183 - conforming to all the points noted.
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Medical Essays and Observations ...., 2 vols.
by Lewis, W (ed.) - OPHTHALMOLOGY
London: C Hitch, 1746. First Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A very good copy with some toning.. 8vo. There are 22 eng. plates. An important anthology of medicine and chemistry taken from Medical Essays and Obs. published in Edinburgh journal between 1733 - '44. Porterfield's illustrated essay on the nature of vision and physiology of the eye appeared in this manner for the first time. The essay is over 100pp. in length and precedes his book on the topic... Read More
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An Experimental History of the Materia Medica or of the Natural and Artificial Substances Made Use of in Medicine ....
by Lewis, William
London: Printed by H Baldwin, for the Author, 1761. First Edition. Full contemporary calf.. Good; front cover detached.. 4to, xxii, [2 - privilege], [1] - 590, [1 - blank], [32 - indexes] pp. Waring, p. 63 - "A work of considerable merit, containing more original observations than are usually met with in works of the period". Neville I, p. 61 has a laudatory entry about the author and his book (he mis-identifies the first edition as being 1766)... Read More
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An Essay on the Laryngismus Stridulus, or Croup-Like Inspiration of Infants to which are appended ... pathology of nerves ....
by Ley, H
London: J Churchill, 1836. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A good copy; small old circular lib. stamp on a blank portion of the title; pocket; gum label on spine; head a bit worn.. 8vo. There are 5 litho. plates of heart, throat and brain. Two books in one. The author having completed his monograph on the strange ailment appended a large work devoted to neuropathology of the throat and brain because he did not think the published work... Read More
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La Perfettione del Cavallo. Libri Tre. ....
by Liberati, Francesco
Rome: Michele Hereole, 1669. Second revised and expanded edition.. Full contemporary vellum.. Very good; some light toning; one marginal tear along lower edge of plate.. 4to, [12], 224 pp. + large folding plate of a horse inserted. Collation: [#]2, a4, A-R4, S6, T-Z4, Aa-Ee4 [a4 inserted between #1 and #2; Dd2 is mis-signed Cc2]. Liberati's book is dedicated to the management of the horse, the illnesses, and finally, in this edition, a complete illustrated catalog of the... Read More
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Fragments of Political Science on Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism
by Lieber, Francis
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1868. First Edition.. orig. prtd. wrappers.. A good copy with some dust soiling and a little rumpled.. 8vo. Lieber was the noted political scientist and Columbia law professor. The essay offered here is one of his publications. It is dedicated to Grant and the bulk of the pamphlet is given over to discussing the basis of the modern nation. He was known for his work in political science and credited with original... Read More
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Uber Resorption der Knochensubstanz
by Lieberkuhn, N & Bermann, J - ORTHOPAEDICS
Frankfurt: C Winter, 1877. First Edition.. contemp. paste paper bds.. A good copy; ownership stamp on title; spine worn.. 4to. There are 8 color and tinted litho. plates. Lieberkuhn was a student of the famous Johannes Muller. The book offered here is a study of the deposition of bone matter in the skeletons of young animals in order to gain some information about the mechanism and manner of human bone growth. The author's monograph also provides an exceptional... Read More
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Chemische Briefe
by Liebig, J
Heidelberg: Akademische Verlag C F Winter, 1844. First Edition.. contemp. leather backed bds... A very good copy.. 8vo. Liebig's series of 'letters' to a newspaper in Augsburg addressing the need to enhance science and especially chemical education in German schools. Paolini # 400.
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Handbuch der Chemie mit Rucksicht auf Pharmacie, 2 vols.
by [Liebig, Justus ed.] Geiger, P L
Heidelberg: C F Winter, 1843. First Edition by Liebig.. Contemporary paste paper boards.. A very good copy; signature clipped from the free front endpaper of both volumes.. 8vo, I - [2], xvi, [1] - 600, [followed by 7 pages of explanations of the plates numbered 1405 - 1411], [1 - errata] + 2 folding plates and a folding chart; II - [2], [601] - 1400, [2 - divisional title], 43 (index), [5 - adverts] pp. Liebig undertook to... Read More
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Researches on the Chemistry of Food and the Motion of the Juices in the Animal Body
by Liebig, J v
Lowell: Daniel Bixby and Company, 1848. First American Edition. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; gum label on the spine; blind stamped institutional ownership stamp on the title and three other pages; minor wear at spine tips.. 8vo, xxx, 220 pp. Edited from the English translation of E Horsford. Paoloni #515.
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The Natural Laws of Husbandry
by Liebig, J v
London: Walton & Maberly, 1863. First English Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy; some spotting internally.. 8vo. The summation of the author's important views on agriculture and organic chemistry applied to farming. Paolini #704.
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Anleitung zur analyse organischer Körper
by Liebig, J v
Braunschweig: F Vieweg und Sohn, 1853. Second Enlarged Edition.. Original publisher's gilt and blind stamped purple cloth; spine moderately sunned.. Very good; spotting throughout.. 8vo, viii, 130, [8] pp. The book is a landmark in the chemical literature of the 19th century. The first edition (rare), published in 1837, introduced the methodology of modern chemical analysis. See Grolier Science # 67 (for the first ed.); absent from Neville; Paoloni #573.
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Induction and Deduction
by Liebig, J v
Munich: kgl. Akademie, 1865. First Edition.. dsbd.. A good copy with some occ. spotting.. 8vo. A lecture by the great scientist and chemist on logical methods in scientific research.
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Principles of Agricultural Chemistry, with Special Reference to the Late Researches Made in England
by Liebig, J v
London: Walton & Maberly, 1855. First Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; spine darkened.. 8vo, vii, [1], [1] - 136, [20 - adverts] pp. Liebig's detailed critique of the extensive manure experiments carried out by J B Lawes in the 1840s. This copy bears a wonderful full page presentation from John Joseph Mechi the English businessman turned agriculturalist to James Caird. Mechi owned a large experimental farm at Tiptree Heath. There he undertook many successful experiments establishing his... Read More
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