Literatura Medica Externa ... ab anno in de 1750 ....
by Sprengel, K
Leipzig: F A Brockhaus, 1829. First Edition.. Contemporary half leather.. Good; some wear to the joints; base of spine abraded; x - lib. copy with an old inst. stamp on the title.. 8vo, [6] pp. followed by 630 columns printed 2 columns per page. An excellent reference book. It lists all the medical books published in Germany between 1750 and 1820. It also contains an author index for quick reference.
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Public Sale of Mathematical Instruments ... of the Estate of B[enjamin] Stancliff ....
by Stancliff, Benjamin - AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS - MANUSCRIPT
[Philadelphia], 1834. Not bound.. Very good; some old folds.. Folio sheet folded as 4 pp.; last page is a blank. The estate inventory of Benjamin Stancliff who was a maker of optical, philosophical, and mathematical instruments in Philadelphia from the late 18th to early 19th century. The inventory lists the tools, supplies and instruments in his estate and what they sold for as well as an accounting for the total. Such inventories are exceptional and rare given the... Read More
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Über krankhafte Verschliessung grösserer Venen-Stämme des menschlichen Körpers
by Stannius, H - CARDIOLOGY - ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
Berlin: G Bethge, 1839. First Edition.. Contemporary paper boards... Generally good with some light spotting throughout and occasional marginal pencil notes.. 8vo, [4], 124 pp. A forgotten, prescient work. This is Stannius' second published book and first monograph on a specific ailment. He later made a major contribution to the understanding of the functioning of the heart (G-M #812). The book offered here is an explanation of the complex mechanisms of arteriosclerosis (see Jones, Broken Hearts, Part... Read More
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A Balloon Ascension!
by Steiner, J H - AMERICAN BALLOON ASCENT BROADSIDE
Lebanon, PA: Lebanon Courier, 1857. First Edition. As issued.. Near fine; some old folds; slight offsetting.. Broadside, measuring 26 3/4 x 41 inches. A broadside advertising an unrecorded ascent by the noted American aeronaut J H Steiner. This November ascent came after his ill-fated attempt to fly to Canada across Lake Erie. This ascent is unknown to Crouch and his encylcopaedic history of American ballooning published by the Smithsonian in 1983. Absent from OCLC.
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25 autochrome stereoviews of an English country house and garden ca.1920
by Autochrome Stereoviews
Very good; seals in tact; there is some marginal "splintering" to two of the views.. Oblong glass plates measuring appx. 60 x 130 mm. sandwiching the film based autochromes. Each is neatly sealed around the edges. Each photograph of a single stereoview measures appx. 58 x 63 mm. The color is very good throughout. These were not commercial products, but the work of an individual. A unique set of autochromes - unidentified - of an English country house... Read More
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Malaria and Malarial Diseases
by Sternberg, G M
New York: William Wood & Co., 1884. First Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy.. 8vo. Sternberg was one of this nation's most informed bacteriologists. During the last two decades of the 19th century he was responsible for completing important work on the cause of yellow fever and insghts into malarial ailments. An important work in early bacteriology. See G - M and Bloomfield for references.
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Effusions. Religious. Moral and Patriotic: in Prose and Verse
by Sterry, Abby
New - London: Prtd. for the Author, 1818. First Edition.. orig. prtd. blue paste paper bds... A good copy; frt. bd. detached; spine somewhat abraded; internally crisp and bright.. 8vo. A vanity or perhaps a gamble based on need. Whatever Ms Sterry is not the American Keats. The book, however, does earnestly force the reader to consider it. Stoddard/Whitesell, # 1210; Wegelin # 1156; S & S # 45797.
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Collection of eight autograph letters in a custom made album
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Full limp morocco with silk endleaves; a.e.g.. Very good; some wear to the joints of the binding. 4to, eight autograph letters mounted or inset, bound up with the engraved portrait of Stevenson by Paul Meredith. The assemblage of an anonymous collector prior to WWII. 1 - A 3 pp. ALs to Sidney Colvin from Edinburgh, Oct. 15, 1873 in which Stevenson, on the threshold of taking up the law and traveling to London for an examination of his... Read More
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The Effect of Stimulation on the Polarisation of Nerve
by Stewart, George
[London]: Journal of Physiology. OFFPRINT. Original publisher's printed paper wrapper.. Very good.. 8vo, [2], 27 - 38 pp. His work relates to the fundamental concept of a nerve's resting potential and how it changes during an action potential. In the context of Stewart's work, this involves the study of how an electrical stimulus affects the voltage difference across the nerve membrane, causing the membrane to change from a polarized state (negative inside, positive outside) to a depolarized state... Read More
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Versuch einer Einrichtung antiker Münz-Sammlungen zur Erläuterung der Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
by Stieglitz, C L - MUSEUMS
Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1809. First [only] Edition.. Contemporary three quarter leather.. Very good.. 8vo, xii, [2], 258 pp. The earliest text to call for the organization of museum collections on principles of art history rather than antiquarian ordering. The author is best known for his work in architectural history. As director of the Dresdener Antiken Galerie he had hundreds of items from his own collection of coins duplicated as sulphur casts for exhibition. The copy offered here was... Read More
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Thermionic Emission. A Survey of Existing Knowledge with Particular Reference to the Filaments of Radio Valves
by Stiles, W S - RADIO
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1932. First Edition. Original cloth backed printed boards.. Very good; backstrip somewhat stained.. 8vo, [4], [1] - 116 pp. (the bibliography is interleaved with blank pages for additional notations). "Thermionic Emission" (the discharge of electrons from hot bodies) raises fundamental questions concerning atomic structure and interaction. Stiles' report covers the burgeoning number of publications in this specific area up until 1930. Absent from the Bakken Catalog and Shiers.
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Epidemic Meningitis ....
by Stille, A
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1867. First Edition.. Publisher's original cloth.. Very good; small inst. blind stamp on a blank portion of the title.. 8vo. Bloomfield notes: A model of accurate, systematic study based on a large series of cases seen in the Philadelphia Hospital, and upon an exhaustive analysis of the literature' . Bloomfield, Internal Med., p. 169.
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Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King ....
by St.-John, H [Viscount Bolingbroke]
London: A Millar, 1749. First Authorized Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Very good.. 8vo, According to his biographer and the entry in the Rothschild Catalogue this work was originally written in 1738 for the Prince of Wales. It was then entrusted to Pope to be shown only to a few friends. Pope, however, had the work printed infuriating Bolingbroke who purchased the entire edition to have it burnt in 1744. Then in 1749 Bolingbroke dictated this revised edition with... Read More
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Torula Infection in Man ....
by Stoddard, J & Cutler, E C
New York: Monographs of the Rockefeller Inst. for Med. Res., 1916. OFFPRINT.. Original grey printed wrappers. Near fine.. 4to. There are text illus. throughout. This is a description of the Torula histolytica infection in man. G - M #5537.
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Resultats des Calculs Numeriques des Trajectoires des Corpuscules Electriques ....
by Stormer, C - ASTRONOMY
Kristiania: J Dybwad, 1914. First Edition. OFFPRINT.. Original printed wrappers,. Good; spine worn; small discard stamp on frt. wrapper and titlepage - but no other accessioning.. Large 8vo. There are 15 plates. An important paper in geophysics and electromagnetism. Stormer is best known for his studies of the polar aurora. The paper offered here is his mathematical analysis of the trajectories of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field. Stormer's analysis revealed that only 'some' trajectories were possible,... Read More
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Microscopic Botany. A Manual of the Microscope in Vegetable Histology
by Strasburger, E
Boston: S F Cassino, 1887. First English Edition.. Original publisher's cloth.. A good copy; frt. hinge cracked.. 8vo. There are text illus. throughout. The author was a botanist. He described cell mitosis and the attributes and functions of the cell nucleus during mitosis. An important book.
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Furniture store advertising booklet containing sewing needles
by Stinson & Strauss
Pottsville [PA]: Stinson & Strauss, [1908]. Edition unknown.. Original glazed paper boards.. Very good, as issued.. 12mo. There is a mounted packet of sewing needles. An advertising give-away for a furniture store in Pottsville, PA. Presented as a booklet with a packet of sewing needles mounted on the inside.
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The Father
by Strindberg, A
Chicago: C H Sergel, 1899. First English Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A very good copy; some dustiness.. 8vo. An uncommon book in trade; part of the modern play series by this publisher.
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Some Questions Relating to Virulence of Micro - Organisms, with Particular Reference to Their Immunizing Powers
by Strong, Richard P - IMMUNOLOGY
Manila: Philippines: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Gov't. Lab's., 1904. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. Very good.. 8vo, 38 pp. + 12 fldg. charts Strong's research was carried out under the direction of A Wassermann at the Inst. für Infketionskrankheiten whose director was R Koch. The research was on two distinct strains of cholera spirilla and the cause of their variant virulence. Strong provides an excellent treatment of the early literature in bacteriology and immunology as a... Read More
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Bei Jaffa
by Struck, Hermann
Frankfurt: [H Struck], 1903. First Edition. Not bound or framed.. Paper somewhat browned and dry with some cracks along a portion of the vertical plate margin of both sides; some spotting over the surface of the print that appears to result from the paper utilized.. Etching. The printed surface measures appx. 178 x 238 mm; sheet size 234 x 350 mm. Laid paper; watermarked at center. Signed in light pencil on the lower left and in the plate... Read More
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Chinese Materia Medica - Vegetable Kingdom ....
by Stuart, G A - CHINESE BOTANIC MEDICINE
Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1911. Second, revised edition.. Publisher's (?) cloth binding.. Very good.. 8vo, [2], ii, [2 - errata], [1] - 558, vi - errata, pp. An elaborate and erudite revision of F Porter Smith's original book. Successive volumes on the animal and mineral parts of the materia medica were never written.
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Über die goldene Ader für unerfahrne in der Arzneiwissenschaft
by Stunzer, Johann Kaspar
Vienna: M A Schmidt, 1783. First Edition. Modern parchment backed paper boards.. Good; two signatures torn out of title page.. 8vo, [8], [9] - 125 pp. Medication for the treatment of hemorrhoids. Blake p. 437 - later printing; Absent from Waring.
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Selected Monographs ...
by NEUROLOGY - STATISTICS - SURGERY
London: New Sydenham Society, 1861. First Edition in English.. Original publisher's cloth.. A very good copy; inst. stamp on title; small gum label on spine.. 8vo. There are 5 plates and numerous text illus.. A anthology of short papers and monographs including: Practical Uses of the Laryngoscope by Czermak; Thrombosis of the Cerebral Sinuses by Dusch; Atrophy of the Brain by Schroder van der Kolk; Uses of Cold in Surgical Practice by Esmarch. See G - M for... Read More
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Pocket Magazine Case of the Late Eighteenth Century
by Navigation - Surveying
London, ca1790. Very good.. Wooden case covered in shark skin containing eight instruments. What is commonly described as an "engineer's case" because of its large size. The kit contains a 6 inch boxwood Gunter's scale (logarithmic trigonometric scales), brass protractor laid out in single degrees 0 - 180, set of long joint brass and silver metal dividers, brass leg extension, brass bow compass, two pens, and pencil holder. See Hambly, Drawing Instruments.
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The Earthquake of Juan Fernandez, As it Occurred in the Year 1835. ....
by [Sutcliffe, T]
Manchester: Advertiser Office, 1839. First Edition.. Original printed wrappers.. Good; spine worn and wrappers chipped at extremities.. 8vo. There are 5 litho. plates (3 tinted) & map. A first account of a remote island off the coast of Chile, that was famous for its association with Robinson Crusoe and later written about at some length by Melville. The plates (not issued with all copies) are views of the island illustrating what appears to be a volcanic eruption in... Read More
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