A Monograph of the birds of prey (Order Accipitres)
by SWANN, H.K.
London: Wheldon Wesley, 1945. FIRST EDITION. With 40 color plates from drawings by Henrik Grönvold (1 is a duplicate) and 17 sepia photogravures. Later green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. An excellent and very clean copy of this beautiful book from the library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr., director of collections for the San Diego Zoological Society, with his blind-stamp. First edition of this preeminent work, limited to 412 copies, the only publication to document completely the diurnal birds of prey.... Read More
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On the intercourse between the soul and the body
by SWEDENBORG, Emanuel
Boston: Otis Clapp, 1848. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Original yellow printed wrappers. The publisher’s English translation of Swedenborg’s popular cosmological treatise. In it, the author claims that there are two worlds—the natural and the spiritual, each with its own sun. The sun of the natural world is fire and thus all beings that live in its presence are dead, and the sun of the spiritual world is only a manifestation of God’s love. Man may ascend from the natural... Read More
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“On a theory of the syzygetic relations of two rational integral functions, comprising an application ot the theory of Sturm’s functions, and that of the greatest algebraical common measure.” Offprint from Philosophical transactions, Vol. 143, Part III
by SYLVESTER, James Joseph
London: Taylor and Francis, 1853. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. Original blue cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover and spine, yellow paste-downs. From the Haskell Norman library with his bookplate. First separate printing. “Sylvester is best known for his extensive work in the field of invariants, especially that performed in conjunction with Arthur Caley, but he also left important theorems in connection with Sturm’s functions, canonical forms, and determinants. In the present paper, he applied Sturm’s process of... Read More
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Opera medica, hoc est, disputationum medicarum decas. . .
by [SYLVIUS] LE BOË, Francisco de
Venice: Ex Typographia Hertziana, 1736. Title in red and black. With woodcut initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces. Vellum-backed marbled boards; leaves slightly browned due to paper stock. An excellent copy. Later edition of the author's collected works, first printed in 1679. This Opera contains his complete writings, including transcripts of his lectures. Le Boe, or Sylvius was a follower of the iatrochemical school, a system based on the elements of chemistry and the new knowledge of circulation. He... Read More
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Recherches sur les hallucinations au point de vue de la psychologie, de l’histoire et de la médicine légale
by SZAFKOWSKI, Louis Rufin
Montpellier: L. Castel, 1859. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt purple sheep-backed marbled boards. Lightly toned, otherwise in good condition. First edition of this medico-legal analysis of hallucinations. The text first describes the psychological reasons for delusional thoughts, including mental illness, drug and alcohol use, and disease, then addresses the legal implications of hallucinations, including historical references like witchcraft trials. The author distinguishes between hallucinations of reason and those of madness and supplies case studies of each. OCLC records 3... Read More
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History of English literature
by TAINE, H.A.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Translated from the French by H. Van Laun. Half brown morocco and marbled boards, slight wear at the joints, but generally and excellent set. From the library of Louis E. Goodman. Taine (1828-93) "is best known for his theory is a product of ‘le race, le milieu et le moment", a proposition that places him squarely in the positivist camp of Auguste Comte and other nineteenth century French thinkers" (see O'Rourke, French Theory and... Read More
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Étude medico-légale sur l’infanticide
by TARDIEU, Ambroise
Paris: Bailliere, 1868. With 2 full-page and 1 folding stipple engraved plates, 2 completed in fine contemporary hand-color. Contemporary half gilt green sheep over marbled boards, old manuscript shelf labels, bookbinder ticket affixed to the front pastedown, stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In good condition. First edition of this forensic analysis of infanticide. The text describes ways of determining if a newborn was born alive, different forms of infanticide (suffocation, head injury, strangulation, drowning, discarding... Read More
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Etude medico-legale sur les attentats aux moeurs. [Bound with :] Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement
by TARDIEU, Ambroise
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1857. SECOND AND FIRST EDITIONS. Later sheep-backed boards, spine gilt. Somewhat foxed, but otherwise very good. Typographic tables in the text. Two foundational texts in the forensic history of sex crimes. The first, offered here in its second edition, explores the medical and legal natures of flashing, rape, sexual assault, pederasty, and sodomy. The study defines the terms of sex crime vocabulary to establish consistency in related cases, with lengthy entries for deflowering, debauchery,... Read More
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Journal du traitement magnétique de Madame B..... Pour servir de suite au journal du traitement magnétique de la D.lle N.... & de preuve à la théorie de l'essai
by T[ARDY] D[E] M[OINTRAVEL, Jean-Francois-Damien]
Strasbourg: La Librairie Académique, 1787. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine label; backstrip repaired but still worn, interior excellent. Small bookplate of Dr. Chaptal on the paste-down. First edition. This work reports the results of the follow-up of the author’s attempts to formalize the existence of the mysterious fluid which would explain the phenomena of magnetism. In 1785, Miss N., who was given only a few weeks to live, was admitted to the... Read More
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The prints of Robert Motherwell. Catalogue raisonné , 1943-1990
by TERENZIO, Stephanie; BELKNAP, Dorothy C.
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991. THIRD EDITION. With 431 color plates and 30 additional color plates of unpublished works and posters. Publisher’s cloth, original dust jacket; in excellent condition, like it was never opened. Third edition, expanded from a publication originally released in 1980 and then revised in 1984. The monograph by Terenzio and Motherwell’s catalogue raisonné provides a definitive study of the artist’s work as a print-maker. It brings Motherwell’s work up to date, covering more than... Read More
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Christopher Columbus; his Life, His Work, His Remains. as Revealed by Original Printed and Manuscript Records together with an Essay on Peter Martyr of Anghera and Bartholome' de la Casas, the First Historians of America
by THACHER, John Boyd. COLUMBUS, Christopher
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1903. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated. Green cloth titled in gilt on spines, gray end-papers, top edge gilt. Ex-libris with usual markings, spines sunned, extremities rubbed, otherwise very good. Though these were originally published by Putnam this set has an Arthur H. Clark label affixed over the original imprint.
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A discourse delivered at Boston, before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 10th, 1800
by THACHER, Thomas
Boston: John and Thomas Fleet, 1800. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers with title label on front; uncut, interior excellent with an inscription of D. Greenleaf on the half-title. First edition of one of Reverend Thacher’s sermons delivered in Boston. Thacher (1756–1812) was a prominent preacher in Massachusetts, and many of his sermons were printed during his career. This sermon begins with a verse from Luke Ch. 12 and proceeds to discuss the themes of philanthropy and charity. The sermon fits with... Read More
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The Boston book, being specimens of metropolitan literature
by THATCHER, B[enjamin] B[usey] (ed.)
Boston: Light & Stearns, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Engraved title and additional printed title. Original publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, title and date in gilt on spine, binding in exquisite condition; some browning and spotting. First edition of the second of four anthologies under this title (the others being published in 1836, 1841 and 1850). Thatcher (1809-1840), although a lawyer like his father (who was also a representative to Congress from Massachusetts), devoted himself to literature, contributing several articles to journals critiquing... Read More
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A letter to Henry Cline, Esq., on imperfect developments of the faculties, mental and moral, as well as constitutional and organic; and on the treatment of impediments of speech
by THELWALL, John
London: Richard Taylor, 1810. FIRST EDITION. Plain boards rebacked in dark calf, spine in compartments with morocco spine label; new endpapers, half-title glued to the verso of the fly-leaf in the gutter with small tear to upper left corner. A fine uncut copy. First edition of one of the earliest works on mental deficiency and one of Thelwall’s scarcest titles. “Thelwall recognized that sensory deprivation could be a cause of apparent mental defect through his work with handicapped children.... Read More
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Musée d’anatomie pathologique [et] Bibliothèque de medicine et de chirurgie pratiques, (with) Anatomie pathologique avec modèles en relief
by THIBERT, Félix
Paris: the Author, 1844. FIRST EDITIONS. Double-page lithographed plate. Original printed wrappers bound into modern boards, unopened. Presentation inscription from the author to a Doctor Roser on the front wrapper. Somewhat foxed, otherwise very good. [With:] Anatomie pathologique avec modèles en relief. Paris: the Author 1839. 8vo. xi, 123, [1] pp. Contemporary brown sheep-backed marbled boards. Bound with an incomplete copy of the first title listed. First editions of two texts establishing and cataloging... Read More
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The Life of WIlliam Thomson Lord Kelvin of Largs
by THOMPSON, S. P.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Compete with half-title and frontispiece in both volumes and 14 additional plates. Red cloth, gilt spine, top edges gilt, corners slightly bumped; text is generally clean and bright throughout. An excellent copy. First edition of the most extensive and complete biography of Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), widely considered to be the founder of British physics. He was a foremost figure in the world of nineteenth-century science, particularly as a scientist involved with the... Read More
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Atlas of Delineations of Cutaneous Eruptions; Illustrative of the Descriptions in the Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases of Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S.
by THOMSON, Anthony Todd
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. FIRST EDITION. With 29 hand-colored engraved plates (numbered 1-18 18a, 18b, 19-27). Contemporary cloth, rebacked; boards worn and sunned, interior clean and bright. First edition. Seeing that Thomas Bateman’s classic dermatology work Delineations of cutaneous diseases (1817) was too expensive for most students, Thomson published this Atlas of delineations of cutaneous eruptions which reproduced many of the illustrations from Bateman’s work on a smaller scale. Bateman’s atlas was notable for the... Read More
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Popular Lectures and Addresses
by THOMSON, W.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. FIRST EDITION OF VOLS. II & III; SECOND EDITION OF VOL. I.. With errata leaf in Volume I and errata slips tipped into Volumes II and III. Original publisher’s cloth; overall in excellent condition. Signature of T. Cope dated 8 November 1923 in each volume. First edition of Volumes II and III, second edition of Volume I. The first part contains lectures on the constitution of matter, including electrical units of measurement, elasticity viewed... Read More
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A tour of England and Scotland in 1785
by [THOMSON, William]
London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788. FIRST EDITION. With 6 plates. Contemporary tree-calf, scuffed, front joint loose, minor damage to spine; interior very clean. Ownership inscriptions on the half title. First edition. A charming travelogue that describes both familiar and off the beaten path locales in Scotland and England, organized according to the author’s original itinerary, which is printed as part of the contents. Includes 6 lovely plates of towns, countryside, and sights. Thomson (1746-1817)... Read More
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British birds
by THORBURN, Archibald
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. Mixed edition. Titles in red and black, 82 colored plates after Thorburn. Contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering, top edge gilt; despite some fading on the binding, plates are very clean. A nice and crisp copy from the Library of James Dolan Jr., curator of the San Diego Zoological Society. First edition of Volume IV, second edition of Volume III, and third edition of Volumes I and II. This work is known to contain... Read More
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The funeral oration of Pericles. Translated by E. H. Blakeney
by THUCYDIDES
London: Dropmore Press, 1948. Frontispiece and initials by John O’Connor. Set by hand in Baskerville and printed by hand on an Albion press. Bound in publishers half vellum, covers slightly sunned, else a fine copy. One of 300 copies this being number 155.
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The compendium of logic used in Dublin College
by THYNNE, William
Dublin: D.F. Gardiner, 1827. FIRST EDITION. With the introduction in both English and Latin, and a tipped-in errata at the end. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; occasional very light soiling and minor browning. Bookplate of Norwich University Library on paste-down stamped “discarded” and small blind-stamp on title. Presentation from the library of R.S. Howard and Malcolm Douglas with their signatures on the first blank dated 1872, and another signature dated 1842. First edition of this charming treatise on the... Read More
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Cura medica animae, sive de mao, malique causis et remediis, opusculum aureum
by TILKOWSKY, Adalberto
Tyrnavia: Typis Academicis So. Jesu, 1752. Title in red and black, beautiful woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary tree calf, sprinkled edges; interior fine, small stamp on verso of title. Bound with a short theological treatise. A rare and important treatise on causes of and remedies for some of the more important personal problems of the time. After a short tract dealing with one's inner weaknesses in general, Tilkowski proceeds to detail specific maladies such as hypocrisy, ingratitude, avarice... Read More
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Kaart van het Westelyk Gedeelte van Nieuw Mexico en van California Volgens de Laatste Ontdekkingen der Jesuiten en Anderen
by TIRION, Isaac
Amsterdam, 1765. Engraved hand-colored map, matted and framed. A beautiful hand-colored map of the American southwest focusing on the Southern California, Baja California, the Gulf of California and Arizona (notwithstanding the title, there is no portion of New Mexico depicted). Tirion names San Diego, the Santa Catalina Islands, Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas on the coast, plus Casa Grande on the River Gila, which, though marked as a mission, was a large site of a Native American ruin. He... Read More
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Three essays: first, on the disorders of people of fashion. Second, on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons, with proper rules for preventing their fatal consequences, and insstructions for the cure. Third, on onanism: or, a treatise upon the disorders produced by masturbation: or, the effects of secret and excessive venery
by TISSOT, S.A.
Dublin: James Williams, 1772. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Half-calf and marbled boards, spine label; an excellent copy. First collected edition, each essay previously published separately. The first two works are on the diseases of men of letters and of rich people, actually a fascinating insight into the (medical) challenges of the wealthy who do not do much more than sit around and ... be wealthy. The third work is a comprehensive medical treatise on masturbation. The original edition was printed... Read More
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