Paris: Didot, 1803. 8vo (203x123 mm). 2 volumes, viii, 543 pp.; 555 [1] pp., including half titles. Old library stamps to half titles. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, spine gilt (hinges repaired), some browning and spotting to pages, marbled endpapers. ----
Norman 221 - FIRST EDITION. Trained as a...... More
London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo., xxviii, 408 pp.; vii, 453 pp., 9 engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary half cloth. -
Lawrie 55. Ron, Bib. Tinctoria, 101. Manning 10; Duveen, p.74 (for 1st) - Second Edition ("Although the pigments Berthollet considers were for the dyeing industry, some were also..... More
London: Robert Baldwin, 1814. An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy, by the Application of the Electro-Chemical Theory and Chemical Proportions. London: Robert Baldwin, 1814. 144 pp., including publisher's adverts at pp. [13]-144. [Bound with] WARDROP, James. On Blood-letting. An Account of the Curative Effects of the..... More
London: Freethought Publishing Co., 1881. 8vo (183 x 124 mm). 144 pp., 2 folding lithographed plates. Original publisher's blindstamped red cloth, upper board lettered in black, original yellow endpapers, folding plate in pocket (spine and inner upper hinge repaired, spine ends scuffed, boards soiled and spotted). Even light browning internally..... More
Königsberg: Nicolovius, 1810. 4to (225 x 180 mm). vi, 72 (i.e. 82), [2] pp., including errata leaf at end. Bound in 19th century marbled paper card, gilt-lettered paper spine label (paper chipped ant spine ends, extremities rubbed, corners scuffed). Printed on blue paper. Little age-toning, minor scattered foxing. Provenance: Georg..... More
Leipzig: Sumpt. Io. Ludovici Gleditschii & Maur. Georg. Weidmanni, 1714. 8vo (183 x 117 mm); [28], 258, [14] pp. 1 folding table. Signatures: a6, b8, A-R8. Contemporary carta rustica, ink lettered spine (soiling and spotting of covers, corners bumped). All pages uncut. Text heavily browned throughout. Provenance: P. Rocca(?), inscribed..... More
Amsterdam: For the Widow of Joannes van Someren, the Heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry Boom and Widow of Theodore Boom, 1685. Large Folio (587 x 355 mm). 68 unnumbered text leaves, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait by Abraham Bloteling after Gérard de Lairesse, 105 numbered engraved plates after..... More
Paris, London, Brussels: J. B. Baillière, 1828. Two volumes: text vol. 8vo (197 x 125 mm), atlas vol. 4to (342 x 265 mm). xv, 653 [1] pp; [5] 6-8 pp. Including half-title and errata in text volume; title, dedication and 10 plates in atlas volume, of which two in aquatint..... More
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1863. xx, 712 pp. 77 woodcut-engravings in text. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (corners bumped), inner front hinge broken but firm, minor browning to text. ----
Garrison-Morton 5608; Heirs of Hippocrates 1952; Norman 235. - FIRST EDITION. "Billroth, the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery, may..... More
Paris: Garnery, 1810. 4to (272 x 218 mm). [4], 268 pp., including half-title, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved folding plates at end. Original sprinkled paper-wrappers, printed paper-label to spine (paper-label and spine ends partially chipped, upper wrapper partially split towards foot, wrappers slightly creased and corners dog-eared). All pages..... More
London: A. Millar, 1744. 8vo (201 x 124 mm). [6], 458, [16] pp. Publisher's adverts leaf bound before title and another after final numbered page, 16 pp. index bound at the end. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label (hinges cracked but holding, spine ends chipped, little..... More
London: John Churchill & Sons, 1868. Original publishers cloth, spine gilt, library stamp to title. More
London: Taylor, Walton, and Marberly, 1852. 4to (285 x 225 mm). xxi, 251 [1] pp., lithograped frontispiece, text illustrations, pages uncut and mostly unopened. Original publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine, original yellow endpapers (spine sunned, boards little soiled, corners bumped, binding a bit weak) Provenance: Birr..... More
Amsterdam: Johannes van Someren, 1681. 4to (260x210 mm), [8] 1-494 [2] pp., engraved title by Jan Luyken, 5 engraved plates and 60 engraved full-page text illustrations, library stamps, contemporary ink notes to front endpapers, waterstaining to upper edge, title page ruled in red, browning and soiling, p.135 with tear to..... More
Göttingen: Apud Joann. Christ. Dieterich, 1790. 1790-1828. 7 parts bound in 1 volume. 4to (237 x 198 mm). pp. 30, pl. I-X; pp. 14 [1], pl. XI-XX; pp. 16, pl. XX1-XXX; pp. 16, pl. XXXI-XL; pp. 20, pl. XLI-L; pp. 19 [1], pl. LI-LX; pp. 11 [1], pl. LXI-LXV. Each..... More
St. Petersburg: Kayserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1789. 4to (295 x 220 mm). 63 [1]; 94 pp. Signatures: A-H4; A-L4 M-N2 (-N2, presumed blank), 79 of 80 leaves, lacking the engraved plate to Blumenbach's text. Text block untrimmed and partially unopened. Early 19th-century blue paper covered boards (old rebacking, head of..... More
London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1881. Original publishers cloth, 95 pp, 31 pp. of publishers ads. More
Berlin: Selbstverlag / chez l'auteur, 1801. Large Folio (428 x 260 mm). viii, 32, 96 pp. Text in two columns in German and French, list of subscribers fo the Uranographie on pp. vii-viii. Bound in contemporary full tree calf, double gilt fillet borders, spine richly gilt-decorated and with black morocco..... More
London: Johannem Noon, 1741. 4to. (254 x 202 mm). xi, [1], 164 pp. Title with engraved vignette, 54 folding engraved plates, light water stains and spotting,occasional annotations, library stamps, library cloth, lower cover with small dampstain. ---
Garrison-Morton 581; Norman 255 (both citing the original edition); Lindeboom 64 (this edition).Rare..... More
Leipzig: Thomam Fritsch, 1710. 4to (230x179 mm). [6], 672, [16] pp., full-page engraved frontispiece of the author facing title. Contemporary half calf, worn and bumped. Pages untrimmed, content somewhat browned and foxed (frontispiece and title heavier). Provenance: Ex library Birmingham Medical Institute, with old inscription and shelf marks to inner..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 1896-1898, 8vo (211 x 137 mm). viii, 204; x, 265 [1] pp., including half-titles, woodcut devices to titles, diagrams in text. Contemporary three-quarter roan over marbled paper, spines with 4 raised bands and gilt-lettered label (rubbing of leather and extremities, paper over lower board scratched)..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1854. [1854-1866]. 4 parts bound in 4 volumes. 4to (266 x 198 mm). Each volume with letterpress half-title, title and index of illustrations bound at end of vols. I-III, and a total 257 color lithographed plates on 254 sheets (7 folding) and interleaved with letterpress explanatory text..... More
Geneva: Sumptibus Leonardi Chovet & Socij, 1684. 1684-1686. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (350 x 219 mm). [10], 882 (i.e. 872), [22]; [10], 1021 (i.e. 1023) [1], [22] pp. Half title, 2 titles printed in red and black each with engraved vignette, text printed in double column, headpieces and..... More
Rome: Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680. De motu animalium. Opus posthumum. 2 volumes. Romae, Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò, 1680-81. 4to (22.2x15.4cm). Vol. I, 1680: (xii), 376, (12) pp., 14 folding plates; Vol. II, 1681: (iv), 520 pp., 4 folding plates. Woodcut device on titles. The 4 plates in vol. 2..... More
Rome: apud Mascardum, 1679. 12mo (141x75 mm). [12], 283 [5] pp., including separate half title to Archimedes' Opera, final blank and 8 folding engraved plates at end. Contemporary limp vellum, a few leaves a little browned. Provenance: Bibliotheca Podolin (ink inscription to title). Good copy of a rare work printed..... More
