Birmingham: Univ. of Birmingham, 1994. [Unpaged]. Obl. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. "The exhibition to be held in the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, from April 11 to June 30, 1994." A fine copy. More
London: Antiquarian Booksellers Association, 1977. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Exhibition of books by members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, 15-18 August 1977. A fine copy. More
Madrid: Impr. y Estereot. de M. Rivadeneyra, 1865. xix, 1015, [2] pp. 4to. Later black cloth. First edition. The standard bibliography on Spanish agriculture. Provenance: Bookplate of the Bibliographical Library of William P. Wreden. A very good rebound copy, endpapers foxed else contents near fine. Palau 13253. Spain & Spanish..... More
Milano: Feltrinelli Editore, 1964. xvi, 864 pp. Illus. with b/w photos & drawings. 8vo. Cloth. Prima edizone italiana (First Italian edition). Traduzione dall'americano di Rit. Vol. 1: Terra, Atmosfera, Universo; Vol. 2: Cellule. Micro-organismi, Corpo umano. Italian translation of Asimov's 1961 work. Top corner clipped front free front endpaper otherwise..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. ix, 340 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Cloth. First printing (first edition). Illus. by Anthony Ravielli. Includes 4 panel publisher's brochure and order form for this volume. Excellent drawings by Ravielli. First printings are a bit scarce. Slight roll to spine else very good+ crisp..... More
Paris: Académie Nationale de Médecine, 1983. 32 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. More
Boston: American Medical Association, 1921. 42 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Seventy-Second Annual Session of the AMA. Wrappers chipped and torn, contents very good. More
Santo Domingo: Santo Domingo, República Dominicana : Academia Dominicana de la Historia, 2001. vii, 213 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. 8vo. Illustrated paper wrappers. Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Fondo para la historia de la República Dominicana; ser. B, v. II. Series: Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Fondo..... More
Paris: Payot, 1931. 447 pp. Illus. with 88 in-text figures. 8vo. Three quarter navy blue morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. First edition. Near fine copy with very minor scuffing on backstrip, leaves just browning. A beautiful binding. More
Chicago: Chicago Public Library, 1978. [Unpaged]. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Books from the Collections of the John Crerar Library. 95 items listed. A fine copy. More
London: Heinemann, 1907. xi, 321 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First English edition. Chittenden was the first to isolate glycocoll and glycogen in living tissue, and researched and wrote about the biochemistry of digestion and nutrition. A very good+ copy with slight roll to spine. More
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1832. 13 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Cover title: Mr. Greenwood's fast discourse. American awaited the 1832 Cholera outbreak as reports from Europe arrived. Unlike many others, Greenwood did not see the epidemic as a cleansing purge by God, to punish the wicked. "Let..... More
Zurich: n.p., 1938. 29 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Dissertation at the medical Faculty at the University of Zurich under the direction of H. W. Maier. Only two copies listed, one at the Niedersachsische Staats-und Univ and one at the CRL. Chrzanowski (1913-2000) was part of the slave labor..... More
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[Washington D.C]: 1862-1863. [10] pp. on 5 sheets. 8 x 12.5 inches. Single stitch along top margin. Retained record (copy 3) of a series of letters with commentary, penned by Alonzo M.F. Eisenlord, Surgeon for the 7th Regiment of the New York Volunteers, making the case for his payment for..... More
Moskva: Nauka, 1967-1971. Illus. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles in shades of gray, cream, and blue. First edition. The complete run of the publications of the 7th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in Moscow in 1964. Contributions in Russian, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. Hard to..... More
St. Petersburg: Key Books, 1991. Unpaged [40 pp]. Illus. with in-text b/w reproductions. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. 437 items listed. A very good copy with a little soiling on the wrappers. More
Hanover [NH]: Justin Hinds, 1811. 165 pp. 24mo. Full calf, red morocco spine label. Second American edition. First published in Boston in 1808. Provenance: Dr. James Sawyer, Thetford [Vermont]. A very good copy, small tear at spine head, boards rubbed, endpapers creased, front endpaper reattached, owner's name on front endpapers..... More
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library, 1968. 164 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Wrappers lightly soiled else very good. More
Glasgow: James Hedderwick & Sons, Printers, n.d.(1885). 79 pp. 16mo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Quite uncommon, the book, not the topic. OCLC shows only two copies: Cambridge and Nat. Lib. Scotland. Also at the British Library. Removed from a larger volume, spine and rear wrapper lacking, front wrapper scuffed..... More
New Bedford: Printed by Benjamin T. Congdon, 1832. 20 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Orville Dewey (1794-1882), an American Unitarian minister, thinks the scourge will bring people back to god, and that, in his opinion, is good: "The Cholera, I am firmly persuaded, will prevent more suffering than it will..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2000. vii, 47 pp. Illus. with color photos and b/w drawings. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Debner Library Lecture, May 2, 2000. Text of lecture given with footnotes. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope illustrate the lecture as well as images from text held..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1932. xiii, 241 pp. Illus. with 38 b/w plates and 130 in-text drawings. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Dinsdale, renowned British television engineer, was the author of the earliest book on television: "Television. Seeing by Wireless" (1926) and the first editor of 'Television' magazine. This, his second..... More
México: Tip y Lit. "La Europea", de J. Aguilar Vera y Compañia, 1902. 67 pp. + [13] leaves of plates. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Pelvic abnormalities in Mexico. OCLC locates only one copy, Univ. Texas at Austin. Wrappers and spine soiled and..... More
Cleveland: Cleveland Health Sciences Library, 1983. 44 pp. Illus. with b/w reproductions. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. Series: Occasional contributions to the history of the health sciences from the Historical Division of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library: no. 2. A fine copy. More
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, (1907). 776 pp.+Adv.[16 pp.]. Illus. with 15 color & 467 b/w photos and drawings. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Small tears to head and heel of spine else a very good tight clean copy with minor wear at extremities. More