Cataleptpoid reflexes in the monkey. Offprint
by Sherrington, Charles Scott
1897. Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1857-1952). Cataleptpod reflexes in the monkey. Offprint from The Lancet, pp. 1-4. (1120 x 190 mm). Without wrappers as issued. A little soiled. Good. Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was an eminent English neurophysiologist.
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On the anatomical constitution of nerves of skeletal muscles; with remarks on recurrent fibres in the ventral spinal nerve-root. Offprint
by Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott
1894. Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1857-1952). Offprint from the Journal of Physiology 17 (3-4): 211-258. 3 plates (nos. 5-7). (230 x 160 mm). Front wrapper detached, missing bottom wrapper. Uncut and unopened. Ex-library stamp on the front wrapper. Author's name written in blue pencil on the front wrapper. Half-title torn about 1 in. at the top. Very good. .
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Die herkulanesnsischen Handschriften in England
by Sickler, Friedrich Karl Ludwig
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1819. Sickler, Friedrich (1773-1836). Die herculanensischen Handschriften in England und meine, nach erhaltenem Ruf und nach Auftrag der englischen Regierung, im Jahre 1817 zu ihrer Entwickelung gemachten. iv, 115, [1]pp. Folding plate. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1819. 203 x 116 mm. 19th-century half cloth, marbled boards, remains of paper label on spine, light edgewear. Minor foxing but a very good, crisp copy. First Edition. In 1816 the King of the Two Sicilies presented twelve heavily charred... Read More
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Electron spectroscopy and molecular structure. Mimeograph typescript
by Siegbahn, Kai
Uppsala: Uppsala University Institute of Physics, 1975. [2], 70ff. Includes illustrations and diagrams. 300 x 214 mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip. Fine. Siegbahn won a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy. The present paper is "a survey presented at XVIIIth Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale at Grenoble, France, September 15-19, 1975." From the library of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè (physics, 1959).
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Electron spectroscopy for solids, surfaces, liquids and free molecules. Offset typescript
by Siegbahn, Kai
Uppsala: Uppsala University Institute of Physics, 1976. [1], 104ff. Includes illustrations and diagrams. 300 x 214 mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip. Fine apart from small tears in front wrapper. Siegbahn won a share of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy. In the present paper Siegbahn presented a review of electron microscopy illustrated by spectra excited in different modes. From the library of Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè (physics,... Read More
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Letter signed to Charles T. Bright and Latimer Clark
by Siemens, Charles William
1861. Very Good. [Siemens, Charles William (1823-83).] L.s. to Charles Tilston Bright and Latimer Clark, signed "Siemens & Halske." London, January 4, 1861. 1 page. 252 x 200 mm. Remains of mounting present, small holes punched in left margin. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Siemens, one of the most successful inventors and entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century, was a younger brother of Ernst Werner Siemens, discoverer of the gutta-percha method of insulating telegraph cables, who in 1847 had cofounded the... Read More
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Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
by Siemens, Charles William
1875. Very Good. Siemens, Charles William (1823-83). Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark. London, April 6, 1875. 1- pp. 203 x 125 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Siemens, one of the most successful inventors and entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century, was a younger brother of Ernst Werner Siemens, discoverer of the gutta-percha method of insulating telegraph cables, who in 1847 had cofounded the German telegraph firm of Siemens and Halske. William Siemens (he never used... Read More
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Del processo operative impiegato nell'eseguire la estirpazione totale della mascella inferiore + 2 others
by Signoroni, Bartolomeo
Padua: Tipografia Crescini, 1844. Signoroni, Bartolomeo (1796-1844). (1) Del processo operative impiegato nell' eseguire la estirpazione totale della mascella inferiore. 43, [1]pp. 2 folding lithographed plates. Milan: Presso la Societe degli Editori degli Annali Universali delle Scienze e dell'Industria, 1844. (2) Speccio dei risultamenti avute dall'uso del fuoco dai Prof. Kern, Vopli e Rust. Offprint from Annali Universali di Medicina (March 1829). 24pp. (3) Memoria chirurgica . . . [Fly-title: Della demolizione sotto-cutanea della mascella inferiore e delle cesoje... Read More
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Autograph letter signed to N. O. Round
by Silliman, Benjamin
New Haven, 1852. Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864). Autograph letter signed ("B. Silliman Senior") to N. O. Round [?]. Bifolium (4pp.). New Haven, 14 September 1852. 206 x 134 mm. Small tears along folds, light soiling but very good.
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A history of immunology. Garrison-Morton.com 2581.14
by Silverstein, Arthur M.
San Diego [etc.]: Academic Press, Inc, 1989. xxi, 422pp. Text illustrations. 228 x 151 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Very good.
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Les enfants anormaux
by Binet & Simon
Paris: Armand Colin, 1907.
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Valedictory address to the Medico-chirurgical Society of Edinburgh
by Simpson, Alexander Russell
Edinburgh, 1891. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal, December 1891. 15pp. Without wrappers. Simpson, the nephew of James Young Simpson, succeeded his uncle in the chair of midwifery at Edinburgh University, holding the post until his retirement in 1905.
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Fossils and the history of life. Melvin Calvin's copy with his stamp
by Simpson, George Gaylord
New York: Scientific American Library, 1983. [10], 239pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Very good. From the library of Melvin Calvin, recipient of the 1961 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of the Calvin cycle.
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Answers to the various objections against acupressure... Pres. copy
by Simpson, James Young
1865. Simpson, James Young (1811-70). (1) Answers to the various objections against acupressure of the temporary metallic compression of arteries . . . 34pp. N.p., n.d. [1865]. 209 x 135 mm. Disbound. Minor dust-soiling, first and last leaves coming loose. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Simpson on the first leaf: "With the Author's compliments." (2) Simpson. Comparison of the ligature and acupressure as haemostatic agents: Tabulated contrast between them. Bifolium. 4pp. N.p., n.d. [1864]. Disbound. 209 x 135 mm. Some... Read More
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Anaesthesia, Hospitalism. . . . edited by W. G. Simpson. Bookplate of Arno B. Luckhardt
by Simpson, James Young
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1871.
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Portrait photograph by Ross & Thomson (97 x 55 mm.)
by Simpson, James Young
Edinburgh, 1856. Simpson, James Young (1811-70). Carte-de-visite portrait photograph by Ross & Thomson. Edinburgh, ca. 1856-58. 97 x 55 mm. (mount measures 102 x 64 mm.). Fine. An excellent photograph of Simpson in his mid-forties, showing him seated at a small table holding what appears to be a pen and paper. Simpson introduced the use of ether anesthesia in childbirth in 1847, and in the same year became the first to demonstrate the anesthetic properties of chloroform on... Read More
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Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage... Pres. copy with ALs laid in
by Simpson, James Young
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1864. Simpson, James Young (1811-70). (1) Autograph letter signed to Dr. McGavin. 4pp. on 2 sheets (probably originally a bifolium). Edinburgh, 24 December 1864. 184 x 115 mm. Small tears along folds, a few small chips. (2) Simpson. Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds. xiv, 580pp. Text illustrations. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1864. 217x 141 mm. Original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, light wear,... Read More
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On the advantage of taking the mean of a number of observations
by Simpson, Thomas
London: Davis & Reymers, 1756. Simpson, Thomas (1710-61). A letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society, on the advantage of taking the mean of a number of observations, in practical astronomy. In Philosophical Transactions 49 (1755): 82-93. Whole volume, 4to. [16], 444pp. Folding plates, text illustrations. London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1756. 217 x 171 mm. Gilt-ruled calf ca. 1756, rebacked, corners repaired, light rubbing. Margins of one plate soiled and... Read More
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De re medica, dissertationes quatuor . . . His adnectuntur, De asthmate infantum spasmodico . . . auctore Jacobo Simson . .
by Simson, Thomas
Edinburgh: Adam Neill & Co, 1809. 327pp. 225 x 142 mm. (uncut). Modern quarter cloth, boards, one corner bumped. First and last leaves a bit soiled. Very good.
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Fine bird books 1700-1900
by Sitwell,Buchanan & Fisher
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.
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Logisch-kombinatorische Untersuchungen über die Erfüllbarkeit oder Bewesibarkeit mathematischer Sätze nebst einem Theoreme über dichte Mengen. Offprint
by Skolem, Thoralf
1920. Skolem, Thoralf (1887-1963). Logisch-kombinatorische Untersuchungen über der Erfüllbarkeit und Beweisbarkeit mathematischen Sätze nebst einem Theoreme über dichte Mengen. Offprint from Skrifter utgit av Videnskabsselskapet i Kristiania, I. Matematisk-naturvidenskabelig klasse, 4 (1920). 36pp. 274 x 182 mm. Later wrappers, but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. "Many logicians would agree that Skolem and Gödel are the two greatest logicians of the [20th] century" (Wang, p. 119). In the present paper, Skolem "proved the theorem which is now known... Read More
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Collection of 26 offprints on mathematics and mathematical logic, from the library of Martin Davis
by Skolem, Thoralf
1930. 1. Einige Bemerkungen zu der Abhandlung von E. Zermelo: "Über die Definitheit in der Axiomatik." Offprint from Fundamenta mathematicae 15 (1930). 337-341pp. Original printed wrappers. 2. Über die symmetrisch allgemein Lösungen im Klassenkalkul. Offprint from Fundamenta mathematicae 18 (1931). 61-76pp. Original printed wrappers. 3. Ein kombinatorischer Satz mit Anwendung auf ein logisches Entscheidungsproblem. Offprint from Fundamenta mathematicae 20 (1933). 254-261pp. Original printed wrappers. 4. Über die Nicht-charakterisierbarkeit der Zahlenreihe mittels endlich oder abzählbar unendlich vieler... Read More
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Microwave transmission
by Slater, J. C.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1942. First edition. Slater, John C. (1900-1976). Microwave transmission. x, 309pp. Text diagrams. New York & London: McGraw-Hill, 1942. 229 x 153 mm. Original cloth, slight edgewear. Fine. First Edition of the first book on microwave transmission. Slater, one of the first American physicists to contribute to quantum theory, "did more than any other person to provide the understanding requisite to progress in the microwave field" (Morse, p. 305). Microwave communication was first used... Read More
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Manuscript medical ledger
by Slingluff, Joseph
Dover, OH, 1847. [Slingluff, Joseph(?)]. Manuscript medical ledger. Ca. 450pp., the first 137 with manuscript page numbers. Dover, Ohio, September 1847 - August 1854. 385 x 160 mm. Original reverse calf stamped in black, worn and rubbed. One leaf (pp. 46-47) torn out, light soiling and toning, upper portion of front flyleaf cut away but a very good example. Several manuscript sheets with text and figures laid in. The manuscript ledger of an extremely active physician and landowner in... Read More
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Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. Extract from Phil. Trans
by Smeathman, Henry
London, 1781. Smeathman, Henry (1742-86). Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. Extract from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 71 (1781): 139-192, [2]pp. 4 folding engraved plates. 235 x 182 mm. Disbound, some leaves loose. Fore-edges of last 2 plates dust-soiled and frayed, some offsetting, old stamp of the Royal Physical Society on all plates. Good copy. First Edition. Smeathman spent four years in West Africa collecting insects and studying... Read More
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