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OMINIUM HUMANI Corporis Partium Descriptio M. Gualtheri Ryff. MDXLI. Together with Die Zehn anatomischen Tafeln des Walter Herman Ryff, Strasburg. Textliche Beilage von Dr. Arnold Pfister, Basel.
Basel: Sandoz A. G, 1954. Hardcover, with text book loosely laid in as issued. Tissue wrapper; slipcase. One of an edition of 1500 copies. A fine copy.
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PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY ESSAYS. Ne Introduction and Bibliography by James Fieser. 2 volumes. Volume 3. James Gregory and Alexander Crombie. Letters from Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh, in Defence of his Essay on the Difference of the Relation between Motive and Action and that of Cause and Effect in Physics: with Replies by the Rev. Alex. Crombie.
Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2001. Three volumes. Cloth. No dust-wrappers as issued. First volume removed from shrink-wrap for cataloguing, the remaining two still in shrink-wrap. Like new. Philosophical and Literary Essays was first published in 1792, the Letters in 1819.
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SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AND ESSAYS.
London.Macmillan and Co. 1885. [viii], [3], 4-336pp. Original full calf, gilt with marbled endpapers and fore-edges. Octavo. Ownership names to front free endpaper and half-title; else a handsome copy
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SCIENTIFIC TRACTS, for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Boston.Lights & Stearns, 1836. Engraved frontispiece; (3), 4, 9-308pp. Original quarter black roan gilt over marbled boards. Small octavo. Some light wear to binding, but a very good copy.A compilation of 12 essays, including History of Telegraphs by J. R. Parker.
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THE ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN BODY abridg'd: or, A short and full View of all the Parts of the Body. Together with Their several Uses, drawn from their Compositions and Structures. The Seventh Edition, Corrected.
London: John Clarke, 1723. [12], 369, [3booklist] pages. Contemporary full speckled calf gilt; panels decorated in blind; red gilt label. 12mo. Slight splitting to lower spine joint at head and heel; but a lovely fresh copy. This work was first published in 1698.
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THE COMPLETE MODERN FARRIER: A Manual of Veterinary Science; comprising instructions for the cure of all diseases incidental to Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs. New Edition, with Plates coloured by Archibald Hodder.
Edinburgh. John Grant, 1896. Hardback. [4], 732 pages. Illustrated with 14 fine full-page chromolithograph plates. Original cloth, gilt. Octavo. Light foxing to the endpapers; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN, a popular scientific study. Volume 1: Embryology or Ontology, Volume 11: The Evolution of the Species of Phylology. Translated from the Fifth (enlarged ) Edition by Joseph McCabe. [Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited.]
London.Watts & Co. 1910. Volume 1 i-xx1-354pp. 16 black& white plates plus 244 figures within text. Volume 11 i-xiv, 355-774pp. 14 black & white plates plus 219 figures within text. Original red cloth, gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. First Edition. Bookplates and some light browning to endpapers. A handsome set.
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THE EVOLUTION OF WORLDS. Illustrated.
New York.The MacMillan Company. 1909. xiii, 262pp. plus 2pp. adverts to rear. 12 black & white plates including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout text with photographs, diagrams and drawings. Original publisher's cloth gilt. t.e.g. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate, and remains of earlier plate to front paste-down endpaper. Spine a trifle worn to head and heel and top edge, with some very slight wear to board corners; front inner joint ctacked but firm; else an handsome copy.
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THE LABORATORY, or School of Arts: In which Are faithfully Exhibited and fully Explain'd, I. A Variety of curious and valuable Experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of Gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice Secrets for Jewellers in the management of Gold.
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THE LIFE, LETTERS AND LABOURS OF FRANCIS GALTON. Volume I and II.
Cambridge: University Press, 1914, 1924. Hardcovers. No dust-wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Volume I complete with the five pedigree charts in a pocket at the rear. Original black buckram gilt. First editions. A handsome pair of the first two volumes only. These volumes are heavy, please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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THE MODEL ENGINEER And Electrician. A Journal of Practical Mechanics and Electricity.
London.Percival Marshall & Co. 1919. Volume XL. Being all the weekly parts issued between January 2nd and June 26th 1919. Bound in cloth-backed boards. Contents very good, but binding is plain, without lettering and is a little rubbed at extremities.
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THE OLD TELEGRAPHS.
London and Chester: Phillimore, 1976. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Slight wear to the extremities of the dust-wrapper; else an excellent copy without inscriptions.
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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF COMMON LIFE. In two Volumes.
Edinburgh. William Blackwood and Sons. 1859/60. ix, 455 pages. viii, 485 pages. Bound in contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards. Octavos. First editions. Some foxing, particularly at start and end of each volume; binding a little rubbed and worn, with some small loss of the marbled paper at the edge of the boards on one of the volumes; else good, sound copies.
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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. Nature Series. With numerous illustrations.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1874. 99, [1 blank], [2 ad's] pages [ ad's on endpapers also]. Illustrated. Original pictorial semi-stiff cloth covers, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine a little worn; else a very good copy.
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TRAITE DES MALADIES DES ENFAN, Par M. Underwood, D. M. Membre du Collège Royal des Médecins de Londres; Auquel on a joint les Observations-pratiques de M. Armstrong, D. M. premier Médecin de l'Hôpital des pauvres enfans de Londres, & celles de plusieurs autres Médecins. Traduit de l'Anglois.
Paris. Théophile Barrois, 1786. xvi, 485, [3] pages. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; red label to spine. Octavo. First French edition. Small area of loss at head of spine; else a very good copy. Undewood's A treatise on the Diseases of Children, first published in 1784, is considerd to be the most advanced work on the subject written in the 18th century.
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TRATTATO DEL CARBONE a Antrace Negli Animali. Del Prof. Chabert. Directtore e Ispettore generale delle Sculo Veterinarie di Francia, Corrispondente della Società di Medicina &c. Tradotto E Corredato di annotazions Dal Dott. L. D. Riminese.
Rimino: Giacomo Marsoner, 1804. X, 132, [1 Avviso] pages. Original plain blue, untitled wrappers. Octavo. First edition. Spine worn with some loss of paper; book almost entirely unopened; stitching broken at a couple of signatures; else a very good copy of this treatise on anthrax. Rare: WorldCat records one copy only at the Wellcome Library.
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WATER ITS ORIGIN AND USE. Illustrations of Mountains and Glacier Scenery from the original pictures of Mrs Aubrey le Blond (Mrs Main).
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd, 1908. xxi, 483, [4 ad’s] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original prospectus and order form tipped-in at rear. Original green cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate of the Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men, and inscribed by the author to the Association on the half-title: ‘Presented to the Assn. of the Men of Kent by W. Coles-Finch.’ A fine copy.
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WILLIAM OSLER'S COLLECTED PAPERS ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Edited with an introduction by W. Bruce Fye, M.D.
Birmingham, Alabama. The Classics of Cardiology Library, 1985. A limited edition bound in full calf, gilt. All edges gilt. A near mint copy.
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YOUR BODY IN FLIGHT. T.O. No. 30-105-1, 30th September 1944, a reissue of T.O. No. 00-25-13 dated 20th July 1943. Restricted.
Dayton, Ohio.By Authority of the Commanding General, Army Air Forces. The Otterbein Press. October 1944. ii, 74pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white drawings throughout. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Magazine format. Ownership inscriptions to front cover. Covers very lightly soiled with small crease to corner of upper rear and some minor page turning; ring-punched in blank margin for filing; else a near fine copy. Scarce.
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