Ars anatomica. A medical fantasia
by BASKIN, Leonard
New York: Medicina Raa at the Curwen Press, 1972. With 13 fine illustrations (some on colored backgrounds) in fascicles, and laid into a slipcase. An excellent copy. Number 30 of a limited edition and signed by the artist with his initials.
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La Flore jardinière
by BASTIEN, Jean-François
Paris: the Author, 1809. FIRST EDITION. With 9 folding engraved plates (plate I detached). Contemporary gilt blue sheep-backed marbled boards. Some light dampstaining and toning. First edition of this privately printed chronological guide to gardening. The first section advises the reader month-by-month what work should be done and what should be planted in the garden. The next part is an exhaustive alphabetical catalog of all the plants that can be grown in France, with notes about the specimen’s ideal... Read More
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Health, a poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and resotre it. To which is annexed, the doctor’s decade
by BAYNARD, Edward
London: J. Roberts, 1750. Sixth edition. All blanks present. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, some wear to spine and corners; interior excellent. Stated sixth edition, originally published in 1719. With a preface combining poetry and text railing against excessive drinking, Baynard’s work is a poetic call for the public’s awareness of common healthy practices such as cold baths, eating well and positive attitude. That combined with interesting and somewhat obscure points such as “He may go bare-foot as a goose,... Read More
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Dissertations moral and critical
by BEATTIE, James
London: W. Strahan, 1783. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary sheep rebacked with cloth, spine label, boards rubbed, corners worn; interior very good. First edition of this collection of dissertations from Beattie, a distinguished member of the Scottish school of philosophy. Titles include “On Memory and Imagination”; “On Dreaming”; “The Theory of Language”; “On Fable and Romance”; “On the Attachments of Kindred”; and “Illustrations of Sublimity”. The poet and philosopher Beattie (1735-1803) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. One... Read More
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Traite experimental et clinique d'auscultation
by BEAU, J.H.S.
Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1856. With 1 woodcut plate of Dr. Spittal's apparatus. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, foxing throughout as usual, ink ownership inscription on title. The present volume contains the author's famous researches on the physiology of the heart and lungs, many of which appeared in the Archives générales de médecine between 1834 and 1853. Beau (1806-65), a physician and professor of medicine at Paris, made original studies of the sounds originating in the organs of respiration... Read More
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Experiments & observations on the gastric juice
by BEAUMONT
Plattsburgh: F.P. Allen, 1833. FIRST EDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original boards, rebacked in cloth, spine label; a very good copy with only minor browning. Preserved in a clamshell case. First edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into the physiology of digestion. Beaumont (1785-1853), a United States Army surgeon, was the first to study the digestion and actions of the stomach in a living person. The patient received a near mortal gunshot wound to his abdomen and chest. He... Read More
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Experiments & observations on the gastric juice
by BEAUMONT, William
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. VERY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original cloth in blind, recased; an exceptionally clean copy. Second edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into the physiology of digestion. Beaumont (1785-1853), a United States Army surgeon, was the first to study the digestion and actions of the stomach in a living person. The patient received a near mortal gunshot wound to his abdomen and chest. He recuperated over a period of many... Read More
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The poems posthumous and collected
by BEDDOES, Thomas Lovell
London: William Pickering, 1851. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth, front cover detached and spine unglued on Volume I. From the library of John Farquhar Fulton, with his book-label in both books. First edition. According to Osler, the second volume is made up of unsold sheets of The Bride’s Tragedy and Death’s Jest-Book, which Pickering first issued separately, but as it did not sell well it was included in this collected edition. However, the latter was apparently missing from both Osler’s... Read More
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A monograph of the pheasants
by BEEBE, William
London: Witherby, 1922. FIRST EDITION. With 90 colored plates of birds by Thorburn, Lodge, Gronvold and others, 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery and 20 distribution maps. All tissue guards present. Original cloth, title in gilt on cover and spine; an excellent set. First edition of one of the earliest definitive studies of pheasants in their natural habitats. Only 600 copies were printed of this splendid book on birds, our copy being number 555. “The material for this... Read More
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Einleitung in die Hohere Optik
by BEER, A.
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1853. First Edition. Illustrated with 212 white-line wood engravings in the text and two folding engraved plates. Contemporary gilt sheep-backed buckram, marbled edges (damage to the crown of spine, edges rubbed). Old ownership inscription of H. Kobole. A little foxed and some quires coming away from the spine, but a good and complete copy. First Edition of this landmark treatise on optics that contains the first appearance of Beer's law, a standard of spectroscopy.... Read More
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A Christmas garland
by BEERBOHM, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1912. FIRST EDITION. Bound in bright blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, without the dust jacket; a very nice copy with a gift presentation on the flyleaf dated Christmas, 1910. First edition, first issue. A collection of Christmas-themed parodies of famous authors, including Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and H.G. Wells. Beerbohm skillfully captures the style and voice of each of his targets, to widespread critical acclaim. Henry James was delighted by Beerbohm’s parody of his... Read More
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A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers: With a Dissertation of White Swellings of the Joints. To Which is Prefixed, an Essay on the Chirurgical Treament of Inflammation and its Consequences
by BELL, Benjamin
Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Engraved frontispiece of a joint abscess and surgical tools to deal with it. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked; some browning and spotting due to paper stock. Bookplate of Alfred M. Hellman, signature and stamp of Amory Gale (1800-1873), an allopathic physician from the Northeast who ultimately turned to homeopathy, with manuscript dates of 1794 and 1827. First American edition, originally published in 1778. Considered one of the classics of... Read More
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A Treatise on Gonorrhoea Virulenta and Lues Venerea
by BELL, Benjamin
Albany: E. and E. Hosford for E.F. Backus, 1814. FIRST ALBANY EDITION. Contemporary brown calf (worn but sound), gilt red morocco title label. Internally somewhat browned. The illustrations show progressed levels of venereal disease in human genitals and medical instruments for treating them. First Albany edition of the “first [text] to differentiate between gonorrhea and syphilis” (Garrison-Morton 5200, 2378). Although first published in Edinburgh in 1793, an advertisement to the present edition indicates that this imprint leaves the original... Read More
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The hand
by BELL, Charles
London: William Pickering, 1834. THIRD EDITION. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. An excellent copy with the bookplate of the United Service Club and a printed sticker reflecting the presentation to Joint Services Staff College from the Library of the United Service Club, London. Third edition. In this classic work on the hand, written as Treatise IV of the Bridgewater Treatise series, Bell discusses the anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics of the hand, its... Read More
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The hand
by BELL, Charles
London: William Pickering, 1834. SECOND EDITION. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-sheep over pebbled cloth, worn, spine stained; small marginal stain toward the back of the book, otherwise interior fine. Ownership inscription of Ediom Himt, dated 1864 on front flyleaf. Second edition. In this classic work on the hand, written as part of the Bridgewater Treatise series and first published the prior year, Bell discusses the anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics of the hand, its utility and... Read More
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The hand
by BELL, Charles
London: Pickering, 1833. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Without the half-title. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Small book-label of E.L. Kepner on verso of fly-leaf and contemporary ownership signatures on title and above "Notice." First edition, second issue. In this classic work on the hand, written as part of the Bridgewater Treatise series, Bell discusses the anatomy, physiology, and bio-mechanics of the hand, its utility and adaptive importance. Substitution of other organs for... Read More
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La Physionomie raisonnee ou secret curieux
by BELLIERE, C. de la
Lyon: Mathieu Liberal, 1681. Contemporary mottled calf (scuffed, tail of spine chipped), spine and label gilt, edges sprinkled red. Old pen trials on the pastedowns and flyleaves. Minor dampstaining and some lower corners gnawed. A genuine copy. Second edition of this handbook of physiognomy. Written over a century before Lavater’s landmark book on the subject, this little-known text purports to identify vices, virtues, and intellect based on such features as hair color, finger length, and nose proportions. Couched in... Read More
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The treasury of human inheritance. Volume IV. Nervous diseases and muscular dystrophies
by BELL, Julia; FISHER, R.A.; PENROSE, L.S.
Cambridge: University Press, 1934. FIRST EDITION. With 61 plates (1 folding), 14 photographs, and numerous text illustrations. Last volume contains the contents and index, other sections include lengthy bibliographies. Original printed wrappers, small chips lower edges of spine, but generally a very good set. First edition in the original parts of a work by a noteworthy geneticist, published by the leading genetic research laboratory of the twentieth-century. The six sections form Part IV of the Treasury of Human Inheritance... Read More
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Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the new world
by BELLOY, Marquis de
London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1878. Second edition. With 51 drawings on wood and 6 etchings by Léopold Flameng. Original publishers decorated cloth, rebacked and recornered in morocco, a.e.g.; interior excellent. First edition published in England; it appears the first edition in English was printed in Philadelphia the prior year, all from the original French of 1864. An excellent biography of Columbus, with details on his various trips to the new world, including lovely illustrations. Written for all ages,... Read More
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Recueil des planches du dictionnaire encyclopedique de l’art aratoire et du jardinage
by BENARD, Robert
Paris: H. Agasse, 1802. Title + 54 engraved plates (2 are double-page), all signed G. [Robert] Benard. Contemporary binder’s boards (spine worn), paper label on spine. Pastedowns made from partially completed Promesse d’Inscription forms. Complete and uncut. First edition of this compendium of illustrations of garden tools, hatcheries, irrigation systems, farming equipment, barns, grain stores, and planting apparatuses, showing the latest technology and innovation in agriculture. It was created to accompany the 62nd volume of the Encyclopédie méthodique, Art... Read More
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Theatrum tabidorum: or, the nature and cure of consumptions
by BENNET, Christopher
London: W. and J. Innys, 1720. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Wooduct initials, head- and tailpieces, 1 folding plate. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked; slight foxing on preliminary leaves, overall a fine copy. First English edition. Originally published in Latin in 1654, this was an important contribution to the subject of pulmonary tuberculosis. Bennet includes his observations on a number of his cases and dissections. “Its most valuable feature is the constant reference to causes observed and to dissection, not to... Read More
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Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience
by BERGSON, Henri
Paris: Alcan, 1889. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Contemporary green cloth-backed boards. Pencil notes throughout. In good condition. First edition, second issue, of Bergson’s doctoral thesis on time and free will. Here the French philosopher attempted to redefine the relationship between free will and causality and refute Kant’s understanding of time as a spatial model. This text introduces Bergson’s theory of duration, a highly influential position adopted by most 20th-century philosophers. Bergson (1859-1941) is known for his arguments... Read More
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Lucian Freud
by BERNARD, Bruce & BIRDSALL, Derek
New York: Random House, 1996. FIRST EDITION. With 290 plates, 4 photographic illustrations and a reproduction of a Francis Bacon painting. Publisher’s black cloth, preserved in the publisher’s slipcase with a paper color illustration pasted onto the back. Like brand new, never opened. First edition. Freud (1922-2011) was a German-born English painter who specialized in figurative art. The grandson of Sigmund Freud, he was known for his portraits and nudes, often portrayed in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. His... Read More
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Lecons sur le diabete, et la glycogenese animale
by BERNARD, Claude
Paris: Bailliere, 1877. FIRST EDITION. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards; marbled paste-down and fly-leaves, some underlining, an excellent copy. First edition. “Bernard showed that in diabetes there is primarily glycemia followed by glycosuria” (G&M). He here first revealed that one of the primary signs of diabetes is an excess of sugar in the blood and usually in the urine.
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Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses
by BERNARD, Claude
Paris: J B Baillière et Fils, 1857. FIRST EDITION. With 32 text illustrations. Contemporary blue quarter roan and marbled boards, rubbed; interior excellent. First edition of a series of lectures on the effects of toxins and their use as medical agents, more specifically carbon monoxide and curare. “Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Lecons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to... Read More
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