Theorie der Bessel'schen functionen. Ein analogon zur theorie der Kugelfunctionen
by NEUMANN, Carl
Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards. An excellent copy from the library of Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen, with his signature on the title page and his presentation bookplate to the Mount Wilson Observatory. First edition of one of Neumann's most important works. Neumann (1832-1925) was professor of mathematics at both the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig. His main interests were in applied mathematics, and he wrote on mathematical physics, potential and electrodynamics. He was... Read More
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Demon possession and allied themes being an inductive study of phenomena of our own time
by NEVIUS, John Livingston
Chicago: Fleming H Revell Company, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Black cloth boards with red lettering and borders, rebacked; a fine copy with the ownership stamp of Charles E. Wilson on the fly-leaf. First edition of the author’s account of demon possession and spirit practices in rural China, where he lived and worked for over 40 years. Nevius records stories of spirits, demonic encounters, haunted houses, exorcisms, and traditional Chinese spirit practices and mediumship. For example, he tells of a demonic-possessed... Read More
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A view of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy
by [NEWTON]. Pemberton, Henry
London: S. Palmer, 1728. FIRST EDITION. With engraved title-vignette of an observatory within a border of instruments, 12 folding plates, and historiated initials, all engraved by J. Pine after J. Grison, including the arms of Sir Robert Walpole, to whom the work is dedicated. Complete with subscriber’s list (including Isaac Newton’s 12 books). Half-calf over marbled boards,spine with gilt decorations and morocco label. An absolutely exquisite, wide-margined copy preserved in a slipcase. First edition. Pemberton’s ability in mathematical problems... Read More
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . perpetuis commentariis illustrata, communi studio PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier
by NEWTON, Isaac
Glasgow: Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan, 1822. FIRST GLASGOW EDITION. Numerous text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary calf, all covers with blind-stamped floral border within gilt floral borders within gilt-lined borders, spines in compartments with gilt decoration, spine labels; first few leaves of each volume spotted, otherwise an excellent set. First Glasgow reprint of the first Jesuit edition printed in Geneva from 1739-1742. This edition of Newton’s Principia was edited by John Martin Frederick Wright of Trinity College, who contributed... Read More
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Excerpta quaedam
by NEWTON, Isaac
Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1765. FIRST EDITION. The first ten pages contain a list of subscribers (mainly from Oxford and Cambridge) and a corrigenda. With12 folding plates. Bound in old boards, rebacked, a clean and crisp copy, uncut. First edition of this rather rare series of excerpts from Newton’s Principia. “Although there is no mention of it in the book itself, the annotators were John Jebb, M.D., Rector of Ovington, Robert Thorp, Archdeacon of Northumberland, and Francis Wollaston, Rector of... Read More
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The method of fluxions
by NEWTON, Sir Isaac
London: Henry Woodfall, 1736. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece, interpolated leaf [143-144], and leaf containing errata on the recto, publisher’s advertisements on the verso. Paneled sprinkled calf in a contemporary style; a large paper copy with very wide margins, a few contemporary annotations. First edition of Newton’s treatise on the calculus, a work of great importance and rarity. Ready for publication in 1671, Newton circulated the manuscript among his friends who urged him to establish priority by publishing his... Read More
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The Nirvana Blues
by NICHOLS, John
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. FIRST EDITION. Blue printed dust jacket in perfect condition. Inscribed by the author on the title: “For Martha, Laugh, and the world will always laugh with you—Qué no?” The signature features a small doodle. An excellent copy from the collection of Martha Sattler, renowned West Coast bibliophile and patron of alternative authors. First edition of this visionary novel about the dangers of capitalism and consumerism. Set in a hypothetical Hispanic community at... Read More
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Memoirs of the life and times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G.. Vice-Chamberlain and Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. Including his correspondence with the Queen and other distinguished persons
by NICOLAS, Sir Harris
London: Richard Bentley, 1847. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt-ruled borders and tooled edges, spine with 5 raised bands; other than light scuffing to boards, a very good clean copy. First edition.
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Geometres Francais sous La Revolution & Geometres Francais de Dix Huitieme Siecle
by NIELSEN, Niels
Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1935. FIRST EDITIONS. Both works in original printed wrappers; fine copies, uncut and partially unopened. I: First edition of this study of scientists, especially mathematicians, during the French revolution. Bailly. Carnot, Condorcet, Delambre, Courier, Hassenfratz, Laplace, Monge, and Puissant are but a few in this rare work. II: First edition of the continued study of scientists during the eighteenth century. Includes biographies of D'Alembert, Bouguer, Buffon, Cassini, Clairaut, Coulomb, Courtivron, Gallois, L'Hopital, Jeaurot, Lacaille,... Read More
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A manual of the ornithology of the United States and Canada. The land birds. (together with) A manual of the ornithology of the Unites States and Canada. The water birds
by NUTTALL, Thomas
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown; Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1834. FIRST EDITIONS. With 114 beautiful woodcut text illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth decorated in blind, spine labels, head and foot of spine of both volumes torn or small piece missing; some light browning (heavier to preliminaries and endleaves) and scattered foxing. From the library of Prof. Paul Farber with his signature on the first blank of one volume. First edition of "one of the earliest landmarks in the history of American... Read More
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Furniture Treasury
by NUTTING, Wallace
New York: MacMillan Company, 1954. With 5000 (according to the title page) photographic illustrations with descriptions on the same page. Publisher’s blue cloth; an excellent set. Later edition (first published in 1928), with amazing photographs of furniture. Nutting (1861-1941) was a antiques expert as well as a photographer and writer; he was best known for his landscape photos of the New England area.
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A Reprint of the List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln. Compiled by Daniel Fish
by OAKLEAF, Joseph Benjamin
Illinois: Augustana Book Concern, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Full-page portrait of Lincoln. Half-morocco and boards; interior very clean and uncut. Signed by Oakleaf on the limitation page. The 1926 Oakleaf reprint of Fish’s original 1906 publication, No. 79 0f 102 signed copies (excluding another 6 unnumbered copies). Fish published the first comprehensive bibliography of Lincoln material. Oakleaf was a nationally-recognized expert on Lincoln.
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Tell me a riddle
by OLSEN, Tillie
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. FIRST EDITION. Grey cloth with white lettering on spine, dustjacket price clipped and in pristine condition, top edges red; overall a crisp and beautiful copy. First edition of the author’s first book. This is a collection of Olsen’s fiction she had written thus far, “disarming in its simplicity, is a sounding of the depths of human love” (dustjacket). Tillie Olsen (1912-2007) was an American Jewish writer rooted in politics and an active participant... Read More
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[Manuscript] Instruction on Renovation of Vows
by ANONYMOUS [Religious Orders]
[England, 1880. Manuscript in English in black ink on paper (A. Pirie & Sons), 25 lines to a full page, in one continuous cursive hand. Headings embellished with floral motifs. Contemporary half gilt black morocco over red pebbled cloth, all edges gilt. Neat, legible, fine. An attractive guide for a three-day devotional retreat prior to the renewal of religious vows. To be used by a nun or monk, this proscriptive text assigns meditations, prayers, and exhortations on the vows... Read More
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Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine, also of distinguishing real from apparent death
by ORFILA, M. P.
London: Longman, hurst, rees, orme, and brown, 1818. Contemporary calf, boards with blind-stamped borders, spine label; top margin trimmed, ownership signature on title page lost except for the word “surgeon,” annotations on pp. 33-34. First edition in English, translated by R.H. Black, first printed under the title Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées in Paris in 1816. This is a comprehensive guide on poisons and the dangers that can ensue when one is not particularly aware of... Read More
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Coup d'oeil sur quelques appareils prothetiques. Extrait du bulletin General de therapeutique
by [ORTHOPAEDICS]
Paris: Bureau du Bulletin General de Therapeutique, 1862. With numerous text illustrations of prosthetic devices. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. First printing, apparently for purposes of handing out at a conference of orthopedic surgeons. This work contains fourteen short articles by famous physicians, including presentations of new devices used for massage, artificial limbs, feet (in an article by Duchenne de Boulogne), legs, and other amputated body parts. With absolutely wonderful illustrations, this work is a medically-substantive journal which... Read More
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The principles and practice of medicine
by OSLER, Sir William
New York: Appleton, 1892. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Finely bound in full morocco, gilt lettering and decorations on spine, a very fine copy belonging to Robert Saundby, president of the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society, with his bookplate. With an autographed letter tipped into the book, written by Osler, concerning a lecture by Ronald Ross (Nobel Prize winner for medicine, 1902) on maleria in Greece. Osler invites Saundby to the lecture and a dinner to be held prior to the... Read More
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Incunabula medica. A study of the earliset printed medical books, 1467-1480
by OSLER, Sir William
Oxford: For the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1923. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Title in red and black, frontispiece portrait and 16 plates. Original cloth-backed boards; covers very lightly soiled, still an excellent copy. First edition in book form, originally issued as an address read before the Bibliographical Society in 1914 and printed two years later in the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. It is here first edited with a preface by A.W. Pollard, and with... Read More
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Group of 8 Osler items
by [OSLER, Sir William]
(1). Annotated answers to the 1902 examination of Osler's Principles. . . . Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1973, pp. 460-72; (2). JAMA. William Osler commemorative issue. Vol. 210, No. 12, December 22, 1969. pp. 2213-69. Wrappers; (3). Sir William Osler Memorial Number, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 84, no. 1. Chicago: American Medical Association, July 1949. 198 pp. Original printed wrappers; (4). KEYS. Sir William Osler and the medical library. Offprint. January and April. pp. 24-148. Wrappers; (5).... Read More
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Bibliotheca Osleriana: a catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science; collected, arranged, and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt., and bequeathed to McGill University
by OSLER, Sir William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red & black. Original navy blue gilt-stamped cloth, hinges weak. Deaccessioned from the Yale Medical Library with the gift bookplate from Frederick N. Sperry and an annotated presentation inscription to Dr. Sperry from on the flyleaf. FIRST EDITION of Osler’s annotated library catalogue with over 7500 titles.
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The principles and practice of medicine
by OSLER, William
New York: Appleton, 1893. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Original publisher’s cloth, worn around the edges and corners as well as edges of spine; interior very good. Ownership inscription of H.L. Willis (?) on the fly-leaf. First edition, second printing with “Gorgias” spelled correctly on the verso of the third leaf and the publisher’s advertisements dated December, 1892. Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. It provided a systematized text on internal medicine as well... Read More
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On chorea and choreiform affections
by OSLER, William
London: H.K. Lewis, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, German library stamp on half- title and title. An excellent, bright copy. First edition, printed in London. This is Osler’s second neurological work, dedicated to his friend W.R. Gowers. He here provides an encyclopaedic view of chorea bolstered by his understanding and clinical experience with the varieties of involuntary movement. He played a considerable role in the development of child neurology through this monograph. Of special interest is the appendix containing... Read More
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1. “Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.” Offprint from The Lancet, October 14, 1905; 2. 2. [PROGRAM]. Dinner to Dr. William Osler previous to his departure for England to assume the Regius Professorship of Medicine in the University of Oxford. May second, nineteen hundred and five. Waldorf-Astoria; 3. [MEMORIAL SERVICE]. Osler memorial service. St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore. Thursday, January 1st, 1920
by OSLER, William
New York;: Black, Starr & Frost, 1905. 1. Original printed wrappers; 2. Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy, uncut; 3. Original printed front wrapper. Three Osler-related items: 1. OSLER, William “Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.” Offprint from The Lancet, October 14, 1905. 8vo. 22 pp. Original printed wrappers. First description of aortoduodenal syndrome, an abstract duodenal obstruction caused by abdominal aortic aneurysm. Golden & Roland, 790. 2. [PROGRAM] Dinner to Dr. William Osler previous to his departure for England... Read More
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The principles and practice of medicine
by OSLER, William
New York: Appleton, 1893. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Original publisher’s cloth, worn around the edges and corners as well as edges of spine; interior very good. Ownership inscription of H.L. Willis (?) on the fly-leaf. First edition, second printing with “Gorgias” spelled correctly on the verso of the third leaf and the publisher’s advertisements dated December, 1892. Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. It provided a systematized text on internal medicine as well... Read More
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Outlines of General Chemistry
by OSTWALD, Wilhelm
London: Macmillan and Co, 1912. Third edition. Publisher’s cloth. An excellent copy from the library of George E. Hale with his signature on the fly-leaf and the blind-stamp of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Third edition. Ostwald’s textbooks was designed to “meet the requirements of the student who, while not intending to devote himself to the detailed study of General Chemistry, still wishes to follow intelligently the progress recently made in this important branch of science.” Translated by W.W. Taylor... Read More
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