Die grünen Armpolypen, die geschwänzten und ungeschwänzten zackigen Wasserflöhe, und eine besondere Art kleiner Wasseraale.... Zweyte Auflage
by SCHÄFFER, Jacob Christian
Regensberg: J.L. Montag, 1763. With 3 engraved hand-coloured plates by B.G. Fridrich. An uncut and partially unopened copy, disbound. Small stamp on tile; an excellent copy. Second edition of this valuable study on insects, based on the author's microscopic observations. He here illustrates the life cycles of several types of insects that live in water, and gives a detailed description of each insect depicted. Schäffer (1718-90), an early entomologist, wrote numerous scientific treatises, especially on vertebrate zoology. This... Read More
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Corpus iuris medicinalis in tres libros divisum, quo medicus naturæ accusantis, et morbi accusati
by SCHIFFMANN, Joseph
Venice: Antonio Bosio, 1679. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary binder’s boards, manuscript spine title. In excellent condition, preserved in a folding clamshell box. Only edition of this pathological treatise on mental illness masquerading as a law book. The text describes the history, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of epilepsy, paralysis, apoplexy, lethargy, phrenitis, melancholy, and mania. The final chapter briefly covers lycanthropy, or werewolf delusion. Each chapter includes pharmaceutical recipes and instructions for administration. The author intended to... Read More
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De vogels van Nederlandsch Indie. (with) Les oiseaux des Indes Neerlandaises
by SCHLEGEL, H.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1866. FIRST EDITION. With 50 hand-colored lithographic plates by P.W.M. Trap, some signed by Joseph Smit. Publisher’s green blind-stamped cloth, a bit worn, title and author in gilt on front cover; text in generally excellent condition with only minor spotting. First edition of this standard work on the birds in the former Dutch Indies. The three parts include Pittas, King-Fishers and Hawks. The beautiful ornithological plates are from watercolors by Trap. Someone (a previous owner perhaps)... Read More
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Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre
by SCHLICK, Moritz
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-backed marbled boards; contemporary signature of Correa Morlan Wall (?) on the front flyleaf. First edition of the author's most important work in which he presents his general philosophy of science, a comprehensive and valuable treatment of a general theory of knowledge. Schlick (1882-1936) was one of the founders of modern analytical philosophy and "a guiding spirit of the Vienna circle of logical positivists." The present work drew attention to Schlick and was... Read More
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Le Tabac, sa culture au point de vue du meilleur rendement
by SCHLOESING, Jean Jacques Théophile
Paris, 1868. FIRST EDITION. 6 folding tables, typographic tables in the text. Original yellow printed wrappers. An excellent copy in original condition. First edition of this economic and chemical analysis of tobacco based on years of growing and marketing experience. The text is divided into two parts. The first describes twelve types of tobacco and how to make their leaves into cigarettes. The author breaks down how each species burns, what chemical additives should be included, and proper materials... Read More
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The life and times of Alexander Hamilton
by SCHMUCKER, Samuel M.
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton, tissue guard present. Publisher’s decorated cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; interior very clean, 1 quire a bit loose, but overall an excellent copy. First edition of this in-depth biography. Though the author does write a bit about Hamilton’s personal life, including his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler and his affair with Maria Reynolds, the focus is more toward Hamilton’s involvement in the economy, politics... Read More
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Sonderbarer Bericht von dem beym Anfange des vorigen Seculi im Böhmer-Walde, und zwar in einem Bären-Bau zufälliger Weise gefundenen Wunder-Knaben, dem in der Heil. Tauffe die Namen Ignatius Augustinus Samson beygeleget ..
by SCHNABEL, Johann Gottfried
Erfurt: Jungnicol, 1748. Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, woodcut chapter headings and initials. Contemporary paste-boards; a fine copy. Second edition, first published the prior year, of the story of a “wonderboy” which, according to the author, is derived from an honest historian honestly communicating to the public from authentic old manuscripts. Apparently the hero, Ignatius augustinus Samson (the name given to him at his baptism), was found, by chance, in a bear’s den in the Bohemian Forest.... Read More
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Reglamento de la Facultad de Medicina de Montevideo
by MONTEVIDEO MEDICAL SCHOOL
Montevideo: Imprenta a vapor de La Tribuna, 1877. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. First printing. On May 15, 1877, this first publication of the regulations of the medical school appeared in Montevideo establishing a five-year curriculum, which included a course on hygiene in the second year and legal medicine and toxicology in the fourth. The professors who taught these courses were medical doctors of great renown. OCLC locates nocopies in America, just a single copy at the... Read More
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Les Excentricités médicales
by SCHWAEBLÉ, René
Paris: Jules Roussset, 1914. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Paracelsus, engraved illustration in the text. Original blue printed wrappers. An excellent copy. Only edition, an historical compendium of medical oddities in popular culture. The text addresses the Paracelsian homunculus, possession, hysteria, clairvoyance, animal magnetism, and occult healing, with case studies and bibliographic references. While the author employs no scientific method to prove or disprove the veracity of these cases, he invites the reader to consider medical advances... Read More
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Histoire de l’Acadmie Royale des Sciences
by ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Paris: de L’Imprimerie Royale, 1740. Complete with errata’s and original blank leaves, two of three finely engraved frontispieces, chapter vignettes, ornamental head and tail pieces and 82 folding plates. Full mottled calf, rebacked, the corners a bit worn. Interior is lightly toned with some browning on the preliminaries and last leaves. Generally, this is an excellent set. First editions of these three volumes from a series published by the Academy of Sciences. It is a summary of the activities... Read More
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Biographical Memoirs
by NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
FIRST EDITIONS. Publisher’s cloth, many covered in protective brown paper. From the library of Robert S. Mullikan (1896-1986), winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for chemistry. He was primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. His signature appears in Volumes 29-39. First printings. The biographical memoirs include a photograph and short biography of recently-deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. Columbia University Press printed the Memoirs on behalf of... Read More
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The book of antelopes
by SCLATER, Philip Lutley & THOMAS, Oldfield
London: R.H. Porter, 1900. FIRST EDITION. Complete with all contents, lists of illustrations and index. With 100 hand-colored lithographs after J. Smit and J. Wolf and 121 text illustrations; Contemporary brown gilt-ruled cloth with gilt lettering, gilt vignette of antelope on top cover; despite the light rubbing on edges and repair to one text page in Volume I, a very good copy with clean plates from the Library of Dr. James H. Dolan with his faint blind-stamp on the title... Read More
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On certain species of deer now or lately living in the Society’s menagerie
by SCLATER, P.L.
London: Printed by the Society, 1871. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. With 12 full-page hand-colored plates by J. Smit and 8 text illustrations. Bound into cloth-covered boards; other than very minor spotting on a couple of the plates, a very good copy from the library of James M. Dolan, Jr., with his bookplate on the paste-down. Also includes a number of original photographs of deer taken in 1985. First separate printing. Apparently a newly-erected deer house was placed in the Gardens... Read More
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The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds
by SCLATER, P.L.
London: Printed by the Society, 1881. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. With 30 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. Smit. Half-morocco and marbled boards, recent endpapers; with the exception of very minor discoloration to the half-title, an absolutely exquisite copy with bright and clean plates. First separate printing. The complete ornithological report, with excellent illustrations, on the nearly 900 specimens collected by the expedition. “The collection [of birds] was formed under the superintendence of Mr. John Murray, one of the naturalists of... Read More
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The mammals of South Africa
by SCLATER, W.L.
London: R.H. Porter, 1900. FIRST EDITION. With the title page of the series before the title to Volume I, folding map and 150 text illustrations, bibliography in Volume I. Green cloth, spine labels; an excellent copy from the Library of Dr. James M. Dolan with his stamp on the first title. First edition of the most comprehensive account of the mammals in the geographical area between the Cunene and Zambesi Rivers. The two volumes are part of a six-volume... Read More
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A Practical Treatise on Vaccina or Cowpock
by SCOFIELD, Samuel
New York: Southwick and Pelsue, 1810. FIRST EDITION. With 1 hand-coloured plate. Contemporary calf, rebacked; sporadic foxing. First and only edition. In this work Scofield examines the origin and proper administration of the cow-pock vaccine. Along with many of his own observations, he offers encouragement to those who were experimenting in order to improve upon the original precepts laid down by Jenner, and he hopes “[to] stimulate every vaccinator to investigate.” Scofield (fl. 1810), first resident surgeon of... Read More
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Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott
by SCOTT, Sir Walter
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1894. FIRST EDITION. Each volume with half-title and engraved vignette title. Volume I with frontispiece portrait and large folding colour map. Half-calf and marbled boards with morocco spine labels, spines and corners lightly rubbed. First edition of this set, which contains much of Sir Walter Scott's correspondence with his family and friends.
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The story of a cavalry regiment. The career of the fourth Iowa veteran volunteers. From Kansas to Georgia. 1861-1865. (offered with) SCOTT, William Forse. Roster of the fourth Iowa cavalry. Veteran volunteers. 1861-1865. An appendix to "The story of a cavalry regiment.
by SCOTT, William Forse
New York & London; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; J.J. Little & Co., 1902. FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME I.. Volume 1: Half-pebbled cloth, worn. Special bookplate signed by Winslow and the author on paste-down, presented to Major William W. Woods, a member of the regiment and mentioned at least half a dozen times in the text. Volume 2: Two-tone cloth. Ex-library copy in excellent condition. Lists all members, and includes numerous photographic illustrations. First edition of this scarce history... Read More
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Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D. Written by Himself
by SCOTT, Winfield
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1864. FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth with blindstamped boards, boards bumped, head of spines chipped; internally clean and sound. First edition. During a career than spanned over five decades, Scott (1786-1866) had more influence on the U.S. Army than any other person. Known as Old Fuss and Feathers because of his attention to detail and a penchant for gaudy uniforms, Scott fought in the War of 1812, the Blackhawk War, the Seminole Wars, the Mexican-American... Read More
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Another roadside attraction
by [SCREENPLAY] ROBBINS, Tom
TIMOTHY LEARY’S COPY of the screenplay for Tom Robbins’ first novel (published in 1971) and written by Michael Dare, Patsy Hilbert Grant and Richard Sullivan. The copy of Timothy Leary. A note, in pencil, to Leary is written by Dare on the title asking for Leary’s opinion as well as his possible participation in the production. Dare includes a quote from Robbins: “The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”.
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M. Val. Martialis nova editio. Ex museo Petri Scriverii. (with) P. Scriverii animadversiones in Martialem
by SCRIVERIUS, Petrus; MARTIAL
Leyden: Joannem Maire, 1619. Half-vellum over marbled boards; interior lightly browned with minor stains and a few tears. An unknown annotator (T8v) refers to Claudius Salmasius's Plinanae exercitationes of 1629 or 1689. From the library of the noted and distinguished French classicist and Greek scholar Jean François Boissande de Fontarabie (1774-1857). His image is pictured in Sandys' A History of Classical Scholarship, Cambridge, 1908, III, p. 248. He is best known for his work as an editor of Greek... Read More
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Fisiologia nervoy sistemy [in Russian]
by SECHENOV, Ivan
St. Petersburg: A. Golovachov Press, 1866. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding engraved plate and numerous text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers, spine slightly torn; interior occasional spotting, still a very good copy preserved in a folding clamshell box. First edition. Sechenov's theory of cerebral behaviour mechanisms was the basis for the development of neurophysiology and objective psychology in Russia, as well as the investigations of Pavlov and Bekhterev. This work contains Sechenov's discoveries that higher brain function is a... Read More
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Letters from abroad to kindred at home
by [SEDGWICK, Catherine Maria]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. FIRST EDITION. With 29 pages of publisher’s advertisements in Volume I and 2 pages of publisher’s advertisements in Volume II. Without the half-titles. Cloth over hard boards, gilt design on front covers and red spine labels; new endpapers, very light foxing, tear to Volume II title page mended with tape. From the library of the noted Biblical scholar J[ames] Glentworth Butler (1821-1916) with a presentation label to the Long Island Historical Society pasted... Read More
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The geographical distribution of the family charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies
by SEEBOHM, Henry
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1888. FIRST EDITION. Complete with index, title vignette and 12 hand-colored plates after J.K. Keulemans (including the frontispiece), plus engraved text illustrations. Original green morocco, covers ruled in black with gilt lettering; despite some wear to the edges, a very beautiful copy from the library of Walter Henry James and Walter John James with their armorial bookplates on the paste-down. First edition, first issue (with the Slender-billed Dotterel frontispiece) of this milestone treatise on the... Read More
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The birds of Siberia
by SEEBOHM, Henry
London: John Murray, 1901. FIRST EDITION. Folding map and woodcut illustrations. Original pictorial brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover, cloth starting along front hinge; some browning and minor foxing to preliminary leaves, otherwise a very clean copy from the Library of James M. Dolan Jr., former head curator and director of collections at the Zoological Society of San Diego and with the contemporary ownership signature of W.R. Allen on the fly-leaf. First edition of the account... Read More
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