Collana di studi su medicina e morale. VII.
by ANGELINI, Fiorenzo.
n. p.:: Orizzonte Medico, 1974., 1974. 210 x 145 mm. 8vo. 199 pp. 15 figs. Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Wissenschaftliche Photographie; eine Einfuhrung in Theorie und Praxis.
by ANGERER, Ernst von, 1881-1951.
Leipzig:: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1931., 1931. 24 cm. viii, 185 pp. 99 illus., 1 plate, index; inner corner damaged. Brown cloth stamped in brown. With Carnegie Mount Wilson Observatory blind-stamp.
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On the Pathology and Operative Treatment of "Hip" Disease.
by ANNANDALE, Thomas, F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S.E. (1838/9-1907/8).
Edinburgh:: Oliver and Boyd, 1876., 1876. 8vo. 50 pp. 39 figures. Original black-stamped brick-red cloth. Ex-library rubber-stamps on title; AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION "With the Author's Kind Regards; ownership signature of G.H. Simpson, M.D.[or: Sir Alexander R Simpson (1835-1916)']. Choice copy. Thomas Annandale, F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S.E. (1838/9-1907/8), Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery. He worked with James Syme at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He also wrote, The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and... Read More
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Annuaire Scientifique, publie par . . .annee.
by [Annuaire Scientifique.] DEHERAIN, Pierre Paul (1830-1902).
Paris:: Charpentier, 1863., 1863. At head of title: Les progres des sciences . . . 6 volumes. 12mo. Approx. 400 pp. each. Figs. Original yellow printed wrappers; lightly worn edges, dust-soiling to covers. Very good. RARE. Includes a paper on the 1862 comet. Deherain was the doctoral advisor of the Nobel Prize winner Henri Moissan (1906 for Chemistry). This scientific journal offers contributions on astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, zoology, mechanics, applied chemistry & physics, and agriculture. Among the... Read More
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ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA. Supplementum III. "Rontgendiagnostische probleme bei intrkraniellen geschwulsten. Bericht Uber die siebente jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Neurochirurgie. Bad Ischl, 6. bis 11. September 1954 und Elektroencephalograhie und corticographie bei cerebralen krampfleiden. Bericht Uber die erste tagung der Osterreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft fUr Elektroencephalographie. Bad Ischl, 10. und 11. September 1954."
by [Anon.]
Vienna:: Springer, 1955., 1955. 8vo. vi, 374 pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Uncut. Very good.
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What Spiritualism is and What it Teaches. A Symposium.
by [Spiritualism (anonymous)].
[no place],: [no date].. [4] pp. Lists 30 points (referring to war, suggesting when it might have been printed). Brown printed wrappers; top corner stained. Very good. Rare.
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Physical Geography.
by ANSTED, David Thomas (1814-1880).
London:: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1871., 1871. Fifth edition. Small 8vo. xlviii, 509, 37, [3] pp. 6 maps: map frontis., world map of volcanos, hydrographic map of the world, world Land map, map showing the Principle Phenomena of Land, map showing the distribution of plants, ads; foxing. Original blind-stamped maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; covers soiled, spine heavily mended with kozo, applied to the spine. Prize awarded to a student: Science and Art Department of the Committee of... Read More
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In Eves' Circles.
by ANTHONY, Joby Milo (ed.).
Washington, DC:: Mathematical Association of America, (1994)., 1994. Series: MAA Notes no. 34. 4to. xxvii, 209 pp. Illus. figs. diag.; owner's ink inscription ffep, 2 minor ink marginal notes (p. xxv), Printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 0883850885 / 0-88385-088-5
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Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future.
by APPLEYARD, Bryan (b. 1951).
New York:: Viking, 1998., 1998. 8vo. x, 198 pp. Index. Quarter slate cloth, gray boards, dust jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0670869899 "In a less-than-subtle anti-science polemic, London Times columnist Appleyard (Understanding the Present) addresses some of the myriad ramifications of our expanding knowledge of genetics. ""Concealed within the knowledge we are now acquiring are insights that may be profoundly socially divisive and which could overthrow the basis on which the wealth and stability of Western democracies are constructed,""... Read More
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Women, Health, and Medicine in America; a historical handbook.
by APPLE, Rima D. (1944-).
New York:: Garland, 1990., 1990. Series: Garland reference library of social science, vol. 483. 8vo. xxii, 580 pp. Figs., index. Quarter blue cloth over beige. Very good. ISBN: 0824084470 "This collection is the best synthesis of recent scholarship on the history of women, health, and medicine. The volume consists of twenty review essays, each of which surveys the historiography of some aspect of women's health or women's roles in the health-care professions.. ." – ISIS, Volume 84, Number... Read More
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Les Mille et une nuits Contes Arabes.
by [Arabian Nights ; Les Nuits d'Arabie].
[France?]: ca.1890-1910., 1890. 4to. [approx. 11.5 x 8.75 inches. 21, [1] pp. 5 chromolithographic plates, figures. Cover with original chromolithographic image; some wear to extremities, creasing. Very good. VERY RARE. Publisher is not stated, though there is a serial number on the supper cover "19 33.B." Beautifully produced chromolithographic plates. The drawings for this edition are unique. The front cover depicts Sinbad on his ship with sixteen imps attacking and or creating a nuisance. My favorite is probably... Read More
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Arago1786-1853, La Jeunesse de la Science.
by [Arago, Francois 1786–1853] DAUMAS, Maurice.
Paris:: Belin, (1987)., 1987. Series: Un Savant, Un Epoque. 8vo. 303 pp. Illus., index. Black printed wrappers. Fine. RARE. Dominique Francois Jean Arago, known simply as Francois Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician. "Arago's earliest physical researches were on the pressure of steam at different temperatures, and the velocity of sound, 1818 to 1822. His magnetic observations mostly took place from 1823 to 1826. He discovered rotatory magnetism, what... Read More
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(9 offprints). Includes: ARAKI. "Production and Capture of Pseudoscalar Mesons."
by ARAKI, Gentaro.
Tokyo:: The Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research, Komagome, Hongo, Oct. 1941., 1941. Reprinted from Scientific Papers of the Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research, no. 1050, vol. 39, pp. 14-27. 8vo. Printed wrappers. Fine. Araki was a noted Japanese nuclear physicist who specialized in the study of Mesons, and was associated with the Dept. of Industrial Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with printed clause on front cover. WITH: ARAKI. Magnetic Moment and Virtual Dissociation... Read More
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Wiederherstellungschirurgie und Traumatologie. Reconstruction surgery and traumatology. . . Jahrbuch. . .
by ARAUJO, A. de et al, editors.
Basel & New York:: S. Karger, 1953, 1954, 1956., 1953. Three volumes. 247 x 177 mm. 8vo. [viii], 262; [iv], 244; [iv], 181, [ads, 3] pp. Text in German, English and French, numerous figs. (including 1 color plate). Red- and gilt-stamped beige cloth; covers lightly soiled. Very good.
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Wiederherstellungschirurgie und Traumatologie. Reconstruction surgery and traumatology. . . Jahrbuch. . .
by ARAUJO, A. de et al, editors.
Basel & New York:: S. Karger, 1953., 1953. 247 x 177 mm. 8vo. [viii], 262 pp. Text in German, English and French, numerous figs. (including 1 color plate). Red- and gilt-stamped beige cloth; covers lightly soiled. Very good.
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"Pitfalls in spinal x-ray diagnosis."
by ARCHER, Vincent W.
Offprint from:: Official Journal of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, Vol. I, No. 4, April, 1947., 1947. 268 x 198 mm. 4to. 274-280 pp. 16 figs. Printed wrappers; folded in half, faded, bumped. AS IS.
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Evolucion de las Ciencias en la Republica Argentina 1923-1972. I: Matematica. II: Fisica. III: Cibernetica. IV: Genetica. V: Meterologia, Oceanografia y Radiopropagacion. VI: Botanica. VII: Astronomia. VIII: Geofisica y Geodesia. IX: Quimica.
by [Argentinean Science] SANTALO, Luis A.; Jose Federico WESTERKAMP; Maximo VALENTINUZZI; Osvaldo SKLIAR; Luis B. MAZOTI; Juan H. HUNZIKER; Jose Angel ALVAREZ; Angel L. CABRERA; Simon GERSHANIK; Luis A. MILONE; Otto SCHNEIDER; Noemi G. ABIUSSO [eds.].
[Buenos Aires]:: Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, 1972-81., 1972. Complete set of 9 volumes. 8vo. ix, 243; [x], 220; x, 35; [x], 242; [x], 102; [viii], 107; [x], 224; ix, 518; ix, 326 pp. Printed wrappers; some covers slightly smudged. Burndy Library bookplates. Very good. Contains: Evolution of the Sciences in the Argentine Republic 1923-1972. I: Mathematics. II: Physics. III: Cybernetics. IV: Genetics. V: Meteorology, Oceanography and Radio-propagation. VI: Botany. VII: Astronomy. VIII: Geophysics and Geodesy. IX: Chemistry.
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"The stellar photometer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory."
by ARGYLE, P. E.
Offprint from: Publications of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., Vol. X, No. 14. Ottawa:: Edmond Cloutier, 1957., 1957. 4to. 305-321 pp. 2 plates, 9 figs., 2 tables. Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Alfred of Sareshel's commentary on the Metheora of Aristotle. A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, University of Southern California. May 1969.
by [ARISTOTLE] OTTE, James Karl.
Ann Arbor, MI:: University Microfilms, 1972., 1972. 8vo. ii, 154 pp. Paper wrappers, printed paper label. Fine. University Microfilms reprint. "In the long process of assimilation into Latin of the Greek and Arabic corpus of natural philosophy, there was a constant tendency for earlier material to be incorporated into later and thus lose its identity. But the earlier works often persisted, even though in disguised form, and constituted a permanent element of our intellectual heritage. Sometimes modern scholarship... Read More
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On Aristotle's Metaphysics 1. Translated by William E. Dooley.
by [Aristotle] Alexander of Aphrodisias.
Ithaca, NY:: Cornell University Press, (1989)., 1989. Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. 8vo. 240 pp. Navy cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Ink ownership signature on ffep. Fine. Translation of Alexander of Aphrodisias' Hypommnema eis to meizon . . . "In Alexander's metaphysical writings, including his commentaries, we find some of the major points of ancient discussion concerning the core, not so much of metaphysics, but of Aristotelian metaphysics. At times, Alexander seems most focused on criticizing contemporaries... Read More
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Aristotle's System of the Physical World; A Comparison with His Predecessors.
by [ARISTOTLE] Friedrich SOLMSEN.
Ithaca & New York:: Cornell University Press, (1960)., 1960. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, vol. XXXIII. 8vo. xiv, 468 pp. Index. Red cloth. Ownership ink signature of David C. Lindberg. Very good +. Scarce. Friedrich W. Solmsen (1904-1989) was a philologist and professor of classical studies, producing some 150 books, articles, and reviews. He was influential in classical studies, including Greek tragedy, Aeschylus, Greek philosophy, Plato and Aristotle. For a long-time he was the Moses Slaughter Professor... Read More
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Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors D-F.
by [ARISTOTLE] Charles H. LOHR (1925-2015).
New York:: The Renaissance Society of America, 1976., 1976. Offprint. Series: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4. 8vo. 714-46 pp. Stapled printed wrappers; front cover slightly scuffed. Very good. Lohr "became one of the world's foremost authorities on Medieval Western Aristotelianism." "In an incredible academic accomplishment, he catalogued nearly all the Latin commentaries on the works of Aristotle from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. "It was a great intellectual project and became an incredible work of reference,"... Read More
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Aristotelis De Poetica liber Graece et Latine ex recensione et cum animadversionibus Theoph. Christoph Harles. Accedunt notae Frider. Sylburgii.
by ARISTOTLE (384-322 BCE); Gottlieb Cristoph HARLESS (1738-1815); Friedrich SYLBURG (1536-1596).
Leipzig:: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii, 1780., 1780. 8vo. xliv, 256, [12] pp. Index; light scattered foxing throughout, especially at free end-papers and first and last few pages, lacks free front end-paper. Original mottled paper-backed boards; heavily worn, hinges starting. Library label remnant to spine, rubber stamp verso title-page, Hartford Theological Seminary blind-stamp to both the first and last 3 leaves. Good. SCARCE. First edition of this work edited by Harless (originally Harles) who was a German classical scholar and... Read More
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Aristotle. Revised edition.
by [ARISTOTLE] A.E. TAYLOR.
New York:: Dover, (1955)., 1955. Sm. 8vo. 118 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Ownership signature of Roger Hahn. Very good. Alfred Edward Taylor, "usually cited as A. E. Taylor, was a British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1911) and president of the Aristotelian Society from 1928 to... Read More
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The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem.
by [ARMSTRONG, John (1709-1779)].
London:: A. Millar, 1744., 1744. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. 134 pp. Endsheets missing, considerable contemporary marginalia, loss of a few words on penultimate leaf. Original marbled boards; spine replaced with kozo. As is. By profession a physician, Armstrong also was a popular and witty author of considerable merit, whose writings reflect his age and his contemporaries. He was a close friend of another physician/author, Tobias Smollett, and was with him during his final illness. This was Armstrong's first... Read More
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