Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. 233 pp. Illus. 8vo. First printing. Ten lectures on all aspects of engineering by ten guest lecturers. Near fine in a good- but edgeworn stripped glassine dust wrapper.
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.
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.
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 America I, 32. Foulche-Barrau 945. Jones 19.
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...
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...
[Rochester, Kent]: 1884. [76], [4] pp. Illus. with 1 woodcut frontispiece & 1 in-text engraving. Sm. 4to. Maroon cloth, gilt titles. Penultimate leaf removed, most likely an order form, [based on the 1881 edition]. Annotations concerning price and operating expenses penciled to verso of rear free endpaper. Aveling and Porter...
Paris: Académie Nationale de Médecine, 1983. 32 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy.
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.
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.
Boston: Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1994. xvi, 417 pp. Illus. with 36 b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Gift inscription on free front endpaper to scholar Maury Bromsen else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library, 1968. 164 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Wrappers lightly soiled else very good.
[Minneapolis]: The Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, 1990. 16 pp. Sm. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. James Ford Bell Lectures, No. 28. About fine.
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...
Bloomington, IL: Scarlet Ibis Press, 1975. 47 pp. Illus. with 8 duotone drawings. 8vo. Quarter cloth over decorated paper covered boards. First edition thus. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate. Faint mark on rear board, small bookplate, else a fine copy.
Brattleborough: William Fessenden, 1807. xxxii, 441, 14 pp. 8vo. Full calf. Amer. Imprints 12429. Austin 651. Spine ends with large chips, backstrip and boards scuffed and dry, front board and free front endpaper detached, owner's name and stamp on title, owner's name and notations on free front endpaper, occasional pen underlining and marginalia. Good only.
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...
[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...
