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. More about The Aldred Lectures 1923-24
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 about Italia Medica: an exhibition of rare books and manuscripts from the Reynolds Historical Library...
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 about Landmarks in Science 1473-1900
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. More about Diccionario de Bibliografia Agronomica y de toda clase de escritos relacionados con la...
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 about Guida alla scienza per l'uomo moderno. 2 Vol. (The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
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 about The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation
[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... More about Steam Road Rolling. Aveling & Porter, Patentees and Manufacturers of Steam Road Rollers
Paris: Académie Nationale de Médecine, 1983. 32 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. More about Histoire de la Circulation Cérébrale
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 about Exhibit of Early Medical Texts Illustrating Practice in fevers, Plague, &c
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 about Le Problème de l'Évolution. Le fait de l'Évolution s'impose; seul son mécanisme demeure...
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. More about Order Out of Chaos. John Shaw Billings and America's Coming of Age
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 about Science through the Ages
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 about The Nutrition of Man
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 about Prayer for the Sick. A Sermon Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, on Thursday, August 9, 1832,...
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 about Beitrage zur Alkoholfrage (an Hand von kasuistischem Material der Psychiatrischen Klinik und der...
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 about VIIme Congres international des sciences anthropologiques et ethnologiques, Moscou (3 aout-10...
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 about Science and the Atomic Bomb. Key Books Catalogue 12. 1991
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 about A Treatise on the Diseases of the Joints; being the Observations for Which the Prize for 1806 was...
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Library, 1968. 164 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Wrappers lightly soiled else very good. More about Science & Medicine to 1870: Pamphlets in the American Philosophical Society Library
[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. More about Disease and Imperialism Before the Nineteenth Century
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 about How I Cured my Craving for Drink, by One who Twice Suffered from Delirium Tremens
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. More about On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and On the Perpetuation of Varieties & Species...
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. More about An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery
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 about A Sermon on the Moral Uses of the Pestilence, denominated Asiatic Cholera. Delivered on Fast-Day,...
[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 about Extraterrestrial Life and our World View at the Turn of the Millennium. Dibner Library Lecture...