The Book of Butterflies, Sphinges, and Moths
by Brown, Thomas
London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., and Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh, 1832. First edition. 96 PLATES OF INDIVIDUAL BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS IN BRILLIANT HAND-COLOR. Two hardcover volumes, 9x14.5 cm, full leather binding, gilt rulings to covers, spines with raised bands, gilt titles on black leather labels, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of Francis Hubert Barclay to front paste-down of each volume, ink inscription front free endpaper Vol. I: "F. H. Barclay/ Leyton/ Essex/ From G. G. B. 1886". Engraved title page to... Read More
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![1792 BESTSELLING HOME HEALTH GUIDE. Domestic Medicine: or a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicines, with an Appendix, containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners TOGETHER WITH Melanie King, Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache?, Bodlean Library, Oxford University, 2012 - [an abridgement of the 13th edition offered here with publishing history]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/853/768/1650768853.0.s.jpg)
1792 BESTSELLING HOME HEALTH GUIDE. Domestic Medicine: or a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicines, with an Appendix, containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners TOGETHER WITH Melanie King, Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache?, Bodlean Library, Oxford University, 2012 - [an abridgement of the 13th edition offered here with publishing history]
by Buchan, William
London: W. Strahan, T. Cadell in the Strand; and J. Balfour and W. Creech in Edinburgh, 1792. Thirteenth edition. 1792 13th EDITION OF DR. WILLAM BUCHAN'S BESTSELLING HOME HEALTH GUIDE THAT SOLD 19 EDITIONS IN AUTHOR'S LIFE, TRANSLATED INTO 7 LANGUAGES. 8 1/2 inches tall, 3 inches thick hardcover, full leather binding, rebacked with leather spine and red leather label with faded gilt title, new marbled endpapers xxxvi, 712 pp, [34 pp index]. Abrasions to covers, corners worn, scattered light foxing, browning... Read More
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SIGNED. The Joy of Children: Text by Pearl S. Buck with an introduction by Roy Sorenson. Based on the photographic exhibit prepared for the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth, "These Are Our Children"
by Buck, Pearl S. and Sorenson, Roy
New York: John Day Co., 1964. First edition. 1960 PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM OF AMERICA'S CHILDREN ANNOTATED BY NOBELIST PEARL BUCK--SIGNED BY HER. 21x28 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, pictorial endpapers depicting faces of children, inscribed and signed on half title, "To Margaret Symonds, Greetings from Pearl S. Buck, February 1965." i-xi, 247 photographs . Very good in very good-minus price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear in protective mylar sleeve. THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH was... Read More
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The Development of the Heart in the Rat
by Burlingame, Paul L. and Long, J.A.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1939. First edition. 1939 SERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF EMBRYOLOGY OF THE MAMMALIAN HEART IN 27 PLATES. 17x26 cm softcover, gray printed wraps, pp [249-262], text figures 1-9, 27 photographic plates [Nos. 26-52] with facing descriptive text. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOSEPH ABRAHAM LONG (1879-1953) had a remarkably long association with the University of California: forty-five years. He joined the faculty in Zoology as an Instructor in 1908, immediately after the completion of his doctor's... Read More
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The Viruses. Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties. Vol. 1. General Virology; Vol. 2, Plant and Bacterial Viruses; Vol. 3, Animal Viruses
by Burnet, F. M. and Stanley, W.M.
New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1959. First edition. 1959 COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES: THE DEFINITIVE 20TH CENTURY TREATISE ON VIRAL BIOLOGY PUBLISHED 6 YEARS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, EDITED BY TWO NOBEL LAUREATES. Three hardcover volumes 9 1/4 inches tall, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, xvi, 609; Vol. II, xvi, 408; Vol. III, xvii, 428. fine in very good+ dust jackets. FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET (1899 - 1985) was an Australian virologist best known for... Read More
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The Complete Writings of John Burroughs
by Burroughs, John
New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1924. First edition thus. NEAR FINE: COMPLETE 23-VOLUME SET OF JOHN BURROUGHS WORKS: 1924 WAKE-ROBIN EDITION. 23 hardcover volumes, 7 ½ inches tall, dark green cloth bindings with embossed decorative cover and spine, image of Burrough's country home framed by trees and leaves, embossed title to spine, top edge gilt, deckled fore-edge, photographic frontispiece, 224 to 355 pages per book (total 6,355 pages), each in original dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. Despite being over... Read More
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![Röntgenologische Skelettstudien an menschlichen Zwillingen und Mehrlingen. Ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Konstitution und der Phylogenese. Mit Unterstützung der Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der Universität Zürich. Aus dem Röntgeninstitut der Universität Zürich (Prof.Dr. H.R.Schinz). Mit einem Geleitwort von H.R.Schinz. [Radiographic Skeletal Studies of Human Twins and Multiples. A Contribution to the Problems of Constitution and Phylogeny. With the support of the Foundation for Scientific Research at the University of Zurich. From the X-ray Institute of the University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. H.R. Schinz). With a foreword by H.R. Schinz]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/001/438/1740438001.0.l.jpg)
Röntgenologische Skelettstudien an menschlichen Zwillingen und Mehrlingen. Ein Beitrag zu den Problemen der Konstitution und der Phylogenese. Mit Unterstützung der Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der Universität Zürich. Aus dem Röntgeninstitut der Universität Zürich (Prof.Dr. H.R.Schinz). Mit einem Geleitwort von H.R.Schinz. [Radiographic Skeletal Studies of Human Twins and Multiples. A Contribution to the Problems of Constitution and Phylogeny. With the support of the Foundation for Scientific Research at the University of Zurich. From the X-ray Institute of the University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. H.R. Schinz). With a foreword by H.R. Schinz]
by Buschke, Franz
Leipzig: Georg Thieme Verlag, 1934. First edition. SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON SKELETAL RADIOLOGY OF MULTIPLE BIRTHS BY EMINENT UCSF RADIOLOGIST. 11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, handstamp of Anatomy Dept. Library, University of Cambridge, to endpapers and title page, 47 pp, [1], 50 radiographic plates each with facing descriptive text. Light wear to corners and spine ends, tip of bottom corner of last 3 leaves wrinkled/torn. A very good minus copy of this... Read More
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A Treatise on the Malformations, Injuries, and Diseases of the Rectum and Anus, Illustrated with Plates (text volume only; 9 plates provided in facsimile)
by Bushe, George
New York: French & Adlard, 1909. First edition. 1837 "THE ABLEST WORK ON THE SUBJECT IN ANY LANGUAGE"--COPY OF PROMINENT 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK SURGEON. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, early blindstamped green cloth binding, autograph paper label to spine, circular paper library label bottom spine, signature of Dr. Willard Parker top of free front endpaper, embossed stamp of Cincinnati Hospital Library top of title page, 299 pp, printer's device verso p 299 (James Van Norden, 43 Pine Street, New York).... Read More
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Pediatric X-Ray Diagnosis
by Caffey, John
Chicago: Year Book Publishers, 1945. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY. Ten inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, i-xxii, 838 pp. 710 figures in text. Light edgewear to covers, text unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. JOHN PATRICK CAFFEY (1895 – 1978) was an American pediatrician and radiologist who was one of the founders of pediatric radiology. He was the first to describe shaken baby syndrome, infantile cortical hyperostosis, and Kenny-Caffey... Read More
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NOBEL. The Photosynthesis of Carbon Compounds
by Calvin, M. and Bassham, J.A.
New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc., 1962. First printing. LANDMARK FIRST-HAND GUIDE TO THE ELUCIDATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS THAT LED TO THE NOBEL PRIZE IN 1961. 15.5x23.5 hardcover, green cloth binding, i-xii, 127 pp, illustrations. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. MELVIN CALVIN (1911 - 1997) earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1935, then became a researcher at the University of Manchester, England before joining the chemistry department at the University of California at Berkeley. As a professor at Berkeley,... Read More
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Chemical Evolution: Molecular Evolution Towards the Origin of Living Systems on the Earth and Elsewhere
by Calvin, Melvin
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First edition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF MELVIN CALVIN'S REVIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE BASED ON HIS NOBEL-WINNING DISCOVERY OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY. 9 inches tall softcover, color printed covers, errata slip laid in, inscribed and signed on title page, "For David Perlman/ David Calvin," i-ix, 278 pp, many illustrations. Light wear to covers, text unmarked, very good minus. MELVIN ELLIS CALVIN (1911 - 1997) was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle... Read More
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![Kaferbuch. Allgemeine und Specielle Naturgeschichte der Kafer Europa's nebft der Unweifung sie zu Sammeln und aufzubewahren, mit 1 schwartzen und 48 colorirten Tafeln [Beetle Book. General and special natural history of the beetles of Europe, together with instructions on how to collect and preserve them, with one black & white and 48 colored plates]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/353/922/1734922353.0.l.jpg)
Kaferbuch. Allgemeine und Specielle Naturgeschichte der Kafer Europa's nebft der Unweifung sie zu Sammeln und aufzubewahren, mit 1 schwartzen und 48 colorirten Tafeln [Beetle Book. General and special natural history of the beetles of Europe, together with instructions on how to collect and preserve them, with one black & white and 48 colored plates]
by Calwer, Carl Gustav
Stuttgart: Krais and Hoffmann, 1858. First edition. 48 FINE HAND COLORED ENGRAVED PLATES OF EUROPEAN BEETLES. 22 x 15x5 cm hardcover, leather spine with gilt black leather title label, gilt compartments, leather corners, and marbled blue paper covered boards, patterned endpapers, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier MD to front paste down, i-xxviii, 788 pp, 1 black & white plate and 48 hand colored engraved plates. Covers, corners, and spine edges rubbed, browning to page edges, scattered foxing to text with plates... Read More
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Pediatric Urology with a section on Bright's Disease in Infancy and Childhood by John D. Lyttle, with over 1350 illustrations on 610 figures and two colored plates
by Campbell, Meredith F.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1937. First edition, first printing. HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PEDIATRIC UROLOGY TEXT. Two hardcover volumes, 10 1/4 inches tall, original navy cloth bindings, gilt titles to spines, Vol. I, ink inscription front free endpaper: ""May 1942/ To Dr. A. Alfred Solomon--/ A Colleague, Friend and Gentleman/ From [8 signatories—most undecipherable]/ On the eve of his entry upon his new career," color frontispiece of common cystoscopic observations, with descriptive text on tissue guard, i-xi, [1], 576 pp,... Read More
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![Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages; sur le Beau qui Caracterise les Statues Antiques et les Pierres Gravees. Suivie de la Proposition d'Une Nouvelle Methode pour Dessiner Toutes Sortes de Tetes Humaines avec la Plus Grande Surete, Publie Apres le Deces de l'Auteur par Son Fils Adrien Gilles Camper, Traduite du Hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. [Physical Dissertation, on the Real Differences Presented in the Features of the Face in Men of Different Countries and Different Ages; on the beauty that characterizes ancient statues and engraved stones. Followed by the proposal of a new method of drawing all kinds of human heads with the greatest confidence. Published after the death of the author by his son Adrien Gilles Camper, translated from the Dutch by Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/041/776/1547776041.0.l.jpg)
Dissertation Physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les Differences Reelles que Presentent les Traits du Visage Chez les Hommes de Differents Pays et de Differents Ages; sur le Beau qui Caracterise les Statues Antiques et les Pierres Gravees. Suivie de la Proposition d'Une Nouvelle Methode pour Dessiner Toutes Sortes de Tetes Humaines avec la Plus Grande Surete, Publie Apres le Deces de l'Auteur par Son Fils Adrien Gilles Camper, Traduite du Hollandois par Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval. [Physical Dissertation, on the Real Differences Presented in the Features of the Face in Men of Different Countries and Different Ages; on the beauty that characterizes ancient statues and engraved stones. Followed by the proposal of a new method of drawing all kinds of human heads with the greatest confidence. Published after the death of the author by his son Adrien Gilles Camper, translated from the Dutch by Denis Bernard Quatremere d'Isjonval]
by Camper, Pierre
Utrecht: B. Wild & J. Altheer, 1791. First French edition. 1791 LANDMARK THEORY OF CRANIOMETRY BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN, LINKING SPECIES AND RACES, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE FOLDING ENGRAVINGS. 23x27 cm; quarto, original limp paper-covered boards, ink hand-lettered title to spine, 1x1.5 cm paper label bottom of spine. Decorative bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper, untrimmed edges. viii, 114, [2] pp., 9 folding copper plates, 1 folding diagram. Wear to cover edges,... Read More
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The Mechanical Factors of Digestion
by Cannon, Walter B.
London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First edition. THE INTRODUCTION OF RADIOLOGY TO GASTROENTEROLOGY. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Dr. N. S. R. Maluf to front paste-down, handstamp and signature of George J. Mohr MD, "Univ. of Chicago, 10-7-15, 44 Snell Hall," to front free endpaper, dedication to Professor Henry Pickering Bowditch, i-xi, 227 pp. Spine faded, corners worn, very good in custom archival mylar cover. GARRISON-MORTON No. 1029. Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He... Read More
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Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera
by Carpenter, William B.
London: Ray Society, 1862. First edition. 1862 FOLIO VOLUME WITH PLATES OF MICROSCOPIC MARINE ANIMALS NOW PREDICTING THE DISTURBING FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 13.5 inches tall hardcover folio volume, green buckram binding, i-xxii, 47 wood engravings in text, 319 pp, 22 full page lithographic plates by George West with facing descriptive text. Light browning to pages, unmarked, very good+ WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER (1813 - 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the... Read More
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NOBEL. The Treatment of Infected Wounds
by Carrel, Alexis and Dehelly, Georges
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1917. First edition. FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED PROCEDURE FOR SURGICAL WOUND CARE DEVELOPED BY BRILLIANT NOBELIST ALEXIS CARREL DURING WORLD WAR I. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, burgundy cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, i-viii, 238 pp, 97 figures in text, 6 black & white plates, 12 pp publisher's advertisements. Light wear to cover surfaces and corners, spine gilt dulled, light browning to pages, unmarked. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. ALEXIS CARREL (1873 –... Read More
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The Social Theories of L. T. Hobhouse
by Carter, Hugh
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First edition. BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING BRITISH PROPONENT OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS. 14.5x21.5 cm hardcover, maroon cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Al and Gill Collier: How pleasant to visit with people interested in Hobhouse! Many thanks for the ride home the other night./ Hugh Carter/ March 11- '75," i-viii, 137 pp. Light wear to cover edges and spine ends, light browning... Read More
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Popular British Entomology
by Catlow, Maria E.
London: Reeve and Co., 1852. Second edition. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF INSECTS WITH FINE COLOR PLATES. 16.5 x 13 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt decorative emblem to cover and spine, colored frontispied with tissue guard, i-x, 280 pp, 16 colored plates (including frontispiece). Light foxing to endpapers, light browning to page edges, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Illustrations by the sisters MARIA CATLOW (active ca. 1840-1874) and AGNES CATLOW (1806-1889) of plants, landscapes, insects, birds, and... Read More
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Atlas of Electroencephalography in the Developing Monkey, Macaca Mulatta
by Caveness, William Field
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., 1962. First printing. SERIAL ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAMS REVEAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IN MATURING MONKEYS--COPY OF EMINENT HARVARD NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, ink signature of Elwood Henneman to front free endpaper, frontispiece photograph of 1 day-old monkey, i-xi, 145 pp including over 100 plates, photo of 24 month-old monkey. Light wear to corners and spine ends, very good in custom archival mylar cover. WILLIAM FIELD CAVENESS (1908-1981) received his... Read More
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NOBEL. Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics
by Changeux, Jean-Pierre and Connes, Alain
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. First English Edition. PRESENTATION COPY OF LANDMARK STUDY BY LEADING NEUROSCIENTIST JP CHANGEUX TO NOBELIST FRANCIS CRICK--SIGNED BY HIM, OPPONENTS IN A 50-YEAR CONTROVERSY. Nine inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to spine. ink inscription front free endpaper, "To Francis Crick with warm regards, Jean Pierre Changeux," and signed below by Francis Crick. Inclusion in Crick's library is evidenced by a typed library card in pocket marked "Gift" on the front paste-down. i-xii, 260... Read More
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The Family Nurse
by Child, Lydia Maria
Boston: Charles J. Hendee, 1837. First edition. 1837 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF "COMPANION TO THE FRUGAL HOUSEWIFE" 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding with blindstamped decorative rulings to cover, gilt title to cover, 156 pp, wear to tips of corners and spine ends with a 1" abrasion to bottom spine, mild foxing, embossed seal to title page. A very good minus copy of this scarce first edition. LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, feminist, Native American rights activist,... Read More
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Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899
by Chun, Carl; Schulz, Franz Eilhard; Neumann, Gunther; Schurig, Walther; Strauss, Erich
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1905, 1906, 1909. First edition, first printing. 4 ORIGINAL MONOGRAPHS FROM THE VALDAVIA EXPEDITION OF 1898-1899 WITH FINE LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AND MAPS. The Valdivia Expedition, or Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition (German Deep Sea Expedition), was a scientific expedition organized and funded by the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II and was named after the ship which was bought and outfitted for the expedition, the SS Valdivia. It was led by the marine biologist Carl Chun and the expedition ran from 1898-1899... Read More
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The Diseases of Children
by Churchill, Fleetwood
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1850. First printing. PEDIATRIC TEXT BY BRITISH OBSTETRICIAN, COPY OF CONTEMPORARY PHYSICIAN AND PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATE. 18.5 x 12 x 4 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "Henry Behrend MRGJL, Liverpool, Sept 1850," and in same hand, "Lexi October 50, March 51" top of front paste-down. Bookplate of Charing Cross Medical School, small handstamp of library to endpapers and title page, i-xi, 656 pp, copious notes to pp 198-228 (chapter... Read More
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The Young Mother's Assistant, or a Practical Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of the Diseases of Infants and Children
by Clarke, Arthur
London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1822. Second edition. 1822 SCARCE MANUAL ON CHILDHOOD DISEASES BY IRISH PHYSICIAN FOR USE BY PARENTS. 7 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, red leather label wiht gilt title to spine, contemporary ink signature front paste-down, i-xvi, 176 pp, [8]. Corner tips worn, 1" abrasion top front joint, light foxing to endpapers, pages clean and unmarked. Good+ in custom archival mylar cover. CONCLUDING SENTENCE: "I have also endeavoured to impress on my readers this truth, that... Read More
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