La science experimentale
by BERNARD, Claude
Paris: Bailliere, 1878. Text figures. Original cloth-backed boards; other than minor spotting, a very good copy. First edition of a series of Bernard’s essays, published posthumously. These essays were “chiefly devoted to the restatement of his views on determinism, with, however, and increasing emphasis, as time passed, on the autonomy of physiology as the science of the phenomen of life” (Olmsted). Essays include Bernard’s discussions on advances in the physiological sciences, on the definition of life, on animal heat,... 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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De la suggestion et des applications a la thérapeutique
by BERNHEIM, Hippolyte
Paris: Octave Doin, 1886. FIRST EDITION. Wood engravings throughout. Original red and black printed wrappers preserved in a glassine sleeve (spine strip worn away). Partially unopened. First edition of this manual of suggestive therapy. The first section was originally published in 1884 but appears here with an entirely new part on therapeutic applications of hypnosis. The author, called the Father of Modern Psychotherapy, addresses the treatment of hysteria and mental illness through hypnotic suggestion. He includes warnings about the... Read More
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Automatisme et suggestion
by BERNHEIM, Hippolyte
Paris: Alcan, 1917. FIRST EDITION. Original printed blue wrappers preserved in a glassine sleeve, unopened. A good copy in original condition. First edition of this rational treatment of hypnotism by the “father of psychotherapy.” Reflecting on 25 years of clinical research, here Bernheim considers the role of automatism in human behavior as well as the ethics and methodology of hypnotism, induced somnambulism, and psychoanalysis. This book represents an attempt to consolidate and elucidate the complicated notions about... Read More
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De la suggestion dans l’état hypnotique et dans l’état de veille
by BERNHEIM, Hippolyte
Paris: Octave Doin, 1884. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. An excellent copy. First edition, the foundational work of the Nancy school of hypnotism. Bernheim (1837-1919), a professor in the Faculté de Médécine at Nancy, began studying hypnotism, suggestion and hysteria after observing Liebault’s method of treatment by induced sleep. Like Liébeault, Bernheim studied the scientific applications of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenomena as being the result of suggestion. “After... Read More
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Elements of the art of dying; with a description of the art of bleaching by oxymuriatic acid
by BERTHOLLET
London: Thomas Tegg, Simpkin & Marshall, Griffin & Co., and J. Cumming, 1824. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 9 engravings (4 folding) signed J. Shury. Quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; other than some minor foxing to plates, a beautiful, clean copy. Bookplates the Essex Institute and Arnold Thackray. First edition of Ure’s translation (second complete edition in English). The Berthollets’ work is considered the first modern book on dying techniques and principles, an attempt to... Read More
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Three offprints on sports medicine
by BEST, Charles, et al.
1929. FIRST EDITION. Three separate offprints from Proceedings of the Royal Society, London. Excellent copies in their original printed wrappers. First editions of these valuable studies from the Department of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Toronto.
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Le Symbole des apostres
by BEUVELET, Matthieu
Paris: Georges Josse, 1668. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red; cancelled ex-libris inscription on the title. In good condition. First edition, the third copy known. A French-language explication of the Apostles’ Creed, a 12-line Latin assertion of faith used in liturgical rites, particularly in baptism and the taking of the Eucharist. Written in a series of 32 homilies, the author goes line-by-line through the creed and expounds upon the meaning and symbolism of the words,... Read More
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The holy Bible, conteyning the old testament, and the new: newly translated out of the originall tongues
by [BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION]
London: Robert Barker, 1611. (A3 bound backwards). Title page, the 2 leaves of the engraved map, and the final 2 leaves in excellent facsimile. Additional title page from a later edition bound in behind the facsimile. Gothic and Roman types, text double column with 59 lines per column and printed within woodcut rule-border, calendar and almanac printed in red and black. General title-page within engraved border by Christian Boel and section title for the New Testament dated 1611 within... Read More
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General Anatomy, applied to physiology and medicine
by BICHAT, Marie François Xavier; HAYWORD, George, tr
Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recased. A fine set. First English edition of this text that “revolutionized descriptive anatomy [and that] … marks the beginning of modern histology” (G-M). Relying on verbal descriptions rather than illustrations, Bichat addresses individual tissues within the organs, while his contemporaries typically wrote on whole organs alone. He worked mostly without microscope technology but was able to isolate 21 different types of tissues. Bichat... Read More
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“Ether and chloroform; their discovery and physiological effects.” From The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and the Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. I.
by BIGELOW, Henry
Boston: David Clapp, 1848. FIRST EDITION TOGETHER. Complete the general title page (Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers, and discovery). Original blue printed wrappers. An excellent copy. First edition together of the most significant early American papers on anaesthesia. The first part, “Ether and chloroform,” was first printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal six months prior to this printing; the second part, “Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition and physiological effects,” was... Read More
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The Campaign of Chancellorsville. A Strategic and Tactical Study
by BIGELOW, John
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. FIRST EDITION. With numerous maps. Maroon cloth, light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, tips bumped; ex-libris, gutters torn. First edition, No. 3 of 1000 numbered copies. An in-depth study of a single campaign of the Civil War.
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Traite d’Optique Physique
by BILLET, M. F.
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. FIRST EDITION. With 14 folding plates. Contemporary marbled boards backed in pebbled calf; some foxing, especially in the text toward the end of each volume, otherwise a very good copy with the stamp of the Bibliotheque de Sichel with its motto, “Nihil sine opera.”. First edition of Billet’s fundamental textbook of optics, with emphasis on polarization, refracting and interference. He opens with basic theories and constants of optics, vibratory movements, diffraction, polarized and unpolarized light, and... Read More
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Correspondence sur le magnetisme vital...
by BILLOT, G.P.; [DELEUZE, Joseph]
Paris: Albanel et Martin, 1839. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers for each volume bound together into contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. Slight wear to extremities, very occasional spotting, otherwise an attractive copy. First edition of this rare treatise, written in the form of a series of letters between Billot (1768-1841) and Joseph Phillippe François Deleuze (1753-1835), librarian at the French Natural History Society. The letters describe phenomena such as seances during which supposed visions and communications with spirits were experienced.... Read More
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Annales ecclesiastici poeticis numberis illigati. A christo nato ad nos usque traducti. Tomus primus
by [BINDING]. JOSSET, Pietro
Poitiers: J. Thoreau & A. Mesnier, 1638. FIRST EDITION. Complete with approbation, Privilege du Roi, and index with errata on verso. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary original binding of richly gilt morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands. Presumably decorated with the arms of the family of the Des Cervon, Baron des Arsis, mentioned in the contemporary handwritten inscription in the first blank leaf that reveals that the book... Read More
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L’etude experimentale de l’intelligence
by BINET, Alfred
Paris: C. Reinwald, 1903. FIRST EDITION. An amazing copy in the original printed wrappers, uncut, with the author’s presentation inscription on the half-title to the French artist Louis Prat. First edition. “The present work is one of his valuable studies on children's intelligence which played a role in his development of an intelligence test. Binet investigated the mental characteristics of his two daughters by analyzing their solutions to simple problems. He described his observations and experiments which ultimately led... Read More
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Précis élémentaire de physique expérimentale
by BIOT, Jean-Baptiste
Paris: Deterville, 1821. SECOND EDITION. Contemporary green marbled paper boards, gilt title labels, old library shelf mark. Illustrated with eighteen folding etched plates of instruments, projections, a map, optometric explanations, laboratory apparati, and animal dissection. Internally fresh and in excellent condition. Second edition, greatly expanded from the first, of this landmark treatise on physics. The text covers bodily movement and use of energy, acoustics, electricity, magnetism, light and color theory, microscopy, and optometry. A comprehensive table at the end... Read More
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On the genus Boswellia, with descriptions and figures of three new species." From Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol XXVII
by BIRDWOOD, George
London: Taylor and Francis, 1870. FIRST EDITION. Presentation slip from the author to Rivett-Carnac with his best regards pasted onto the title page. With 4 full page drawings on heavier paper of each of the new species treated. Half-morocco over linen, boards faded; interior clean but with a crease. From the library of J.H. Rivett-Carnac with his bookplate, and a small printed plate of Jerry Stannard. First edition. Boswellia is a genus of trees known for their fragrant resin... Read More
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Letters from Illinois
by BIRKBECK, Morris
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. Original boards, rebacked; interior excellent. Ownership signature of Ralph R. Ritzman on the fly-leaf. Second English edition. Birkbeck’s Letters from Illinois was a follow-up to his wildly popular Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois (1817) in which he describes his journey from England to America and his settlement on the 16,000 acres of land he purchase in Illinois. Following the success... Read More
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A monograph of the cranes
by BLAAUW, F.E.
Leiden and London: Brill & Porter, 1897. FIRST EDITION. With 22 chromo-lithographed plates. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth, title in gilt to spine and top cover, with patterned end-papers; edges stained green. Label pasted on to the front paste-down indicating that this copy is No. 26 of 170 copies of this edition, with the stamp of the Librairie et Imprimerie ci-divant E.J. Brill with a signature. First edition of this beautifully illustrated work, which includes not only adult birds... Read More
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“The premature infant. A study of the effects of atmospheric conditions on growth and on development.” Reprinted from the American Journal of Diseases of Children, November 1933, Vol. 46, Part II, pp. 1175-1236
by BLACKFAN, Kenneth D. & YAHLOU, Constantin P.
Boston, 1933. Offprint. Numerous graphs in the text. Blue Cloth, authors and title in gilt on front board. Presentation copy from Blackfan and ownership signature of David D. Rutstein on the fly-leaf. Offprint of this groundbreaking article. This study was developed following the installation of a complete central air-conditioning system was installed in nurseries for premature infants whereby the temperature, humidity, and ventilation could be maintained at any desired level. From 1926-29 observations were made on three groups based... Read More
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Essays upon several subjects
by BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, Kt., M.D.
London: E. Curll & J. Pemberton, 1716. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. An excellent copy in period-style full calf. First edition. Published by “the unspeakable Curll.” The compositions include Blackmore’s essays on epic poetry, wit, false virtue, immortality of the soul, laws of nature, and origin of civil power. Blackmore (1650-1729) was a prolific writer in verse and prose. Though he authored medical treatises and theological works, he was probably one of the most unjustly ridiculed... Read More
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Europe, a prophecy
by BLAKE, William
London: Published by the Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1969. With 17 colour plates reproduced from the original edition of 1794, each watermarked with Blake’s initials. Illustrated with water-colour washes added to partial colour printing. Original quarter brown morocco over marbled boards in the original marbled slipcase. The illuminated pages were reproduced in Paris on rag paper specially manufactured to match the paper used by Blake. A fine copy of a beautiful facsimile. Limited edition number 71... Read More
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The writings of William Blake. (together with) The life of William Blake -- Limited Printings
by BLAKE, William
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited editions. I. The writings of William Blake in 3 volumes, with 60 colotype plates of the author's drawings and paintings. II. With 24 illustrations in colotype. Both works bound in quarter-white parchment with marbled boards. Printed at the Chiswick Press on mould-made paper. The first set limited to 1500 copies, the second limited to 1480 copies.
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