Worlds Without End: a Reflection on Planets, Life and Time.
New York: Macmillan, 1964. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Macmillan, (1964). Very good. More
New York: Macmillan, 1964. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Macmillan, (1964). Very good. More
Cologne: Taschen, 2005. Profusely illustrated throughout with color plates. 714 pages with text in English, French & German. Thick elephant folio, pale cloth with pictorial cover and spine. Koln: Taschen, (2005). Cloth is just a bit dusty, still about a near fine copy of this impressive book. A landmark of anatomical study and illustration. Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery's magnum opus, with illustrations by Nicolas Henri Jacob, which took 20 years to complete (originally published in 8 volumes from 1831 to 1854)..... More
Tunis: Sud Edition, 1978. Profusely illustrated with color photographs by Chevalier. Oblong 4to, brown cloth with pictorial label, matching slipcase. Tunis: Sud Edition, (1978). Fine. Text in English, French & Egyptian. More
Paris: Chez Agasse, 1795. 389pp., 4pp. of advertisments, 8vo, untrimmed, rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards (spine neatly repaired). Paris: Chez Agasse, L'An III, (1795). Second Edition. Very good (+). Printing and the Mind of Man 246; Robinet 382. Considered to be Condorcet's most original and most important work. Considered to be Condorcet's most original and most important work. In it he divided history into ten epochs, the first nine dealing with history upto the time in which he himself lived..... More
New York: Hafner, 1962. Translated from the French, with Notes, by Jacob Gates. Introduction by Dickinson W. Richards. 344pp. Small 8vo, brown cloth. New York: Hafner Publishing, 1962. Facsimile Edition. Fine. The History of Medicine Series: No. 16. More
Birmingham: Classics of Cardiology, 1988. Together with: Auenbrugger, Leopold. On Percussion of the Chest. 2 volumes. in one. 8vo, full gilt-decorated leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Cardiology Library, 1988. A Fine Copy. "Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was the first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort. His translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion resulted in the universal adoption of..... More
New Delhi: Indian Central Sugarcane Committee, 1956. Their Morphological Descriptions and Agricultural Characteristics. Profusely illustrated, 136pp., 4to, green cloth; (light wear, staining to cover, corners bumped). New Delhi: The Indian Central Sugarcane Committee, 1956. Second Edition. More
Hoboken: Wiley, 2006. Illustrated with diagrams throughout. xx, 651 pages. 8vo, red glossy pictorial boards. NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc., (2006). A near fine copy with a clean interior and a small bump on the front cover. From the Frank J. Fabozzi Series. More
New York: Martin, 1847. 2 volumes. Extra illustrated title pages and 52 additional steel engraved plates, 50 with delicate hand coloring and featuring Grandville's delightful anthropomorphized plants, each protected with tissue. (4), iv, 3-278; 281-385, (4), 152, 8pp. Short 4to, handsomely bound in contemporary full red morocco with a floral gilt border on covers (spines a bit darkened with leather crackled; well-rubbed at joints and corners, but sound and attractive). New York: R. Martin, 1847. A very good copy, internally..... More
illus. 8vo, cloth. London, (1936). More
Journal of Physiology. pp. 269-291. 8vo, salmon wrappers, n.p., n.d. (ca. 1882). Very good (+). Reprinted from the Journal of Physiology, Vol. III, No. 3. Langley was principally known for contributing "...much to the knowledge of this system, renamed it the autonomic nervous system, placing, because of their functional relationships, the thoraco-lumbar group under the ancient name sympathetic, and the cranial and sacral groups in a new category-parasympathetic." Castiglioni, pp. 946-7. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. 303 pages plus ads. Small 8vo, blue cloth (small crayon mark on fly leaf) . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First Edition. A very good(+) copy. More
New York: Abrams, 1978. 1020 illustrations, including 266 plates in full color. Very thick tall 4to, brown cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, 1978. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. A selected bibliography and exhaustive index add to the value of this superb volume. More
Paris: Le Prieur, 1811. 16 finely engraved copper-plates. Thick 12mo, contemporary calf, quite rubbed. Paris: Le Prieur, 1811. Very good. More
23 pages. Tall slim 8vo, modern wrappers; uncut & unopened. Newark, 1891. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 357 pages, tall 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1990). First Edition. Fine. More
Topsfield: Salem, 1986. Foreword by The Viscount Cowdray. Many illustrations in color and in black & white. 4to, green cloth, d.w. Topsfield, Mass. Salem House, (1986). First Edition. Splendidly illustrated survey of the game, by the polo correspondent of Country Life and The Times. More
London: Virtue. 2 volumes. 120 steel engravings, lacks frontispiece portrait. 4to, 1/2 maroon calf, ornately gilt spines, slightly rubbed and occasional light foxing. London: George Virtue, n.d. ca, 1842. Very good (+). More
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