The English language: its grammar, history and literature
Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1906. American edition revised, 8vo, pp. vi, 466; original green cloth; spine head chipped, St. Joseph's Church rubber stamp on ffep, else very good and sound. More
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Svensk-Rysk Ordbok / шведско-русский словарь. 63,500 ord
Moscow: Forlaget Sovjetensyklopedin, 1973. 8vo, pp. 760; text in double column; blue cloth; light soiling and wear to spine, text clean and sound, very good. More
Typhus Syncopalis, sinking typhus, or the spotted-fever of New-England, as it appeared in the epidemic of 1823 in Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown, (Conn.): printed for the author, 1825. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; removed from binding, title page toned, dampstain in corner, some aggressive trimming leading to loss of final testimonial signature on final leaf, internally very good and clean. "Based on symptom comparisons ... typhus syncopalis was likely meningococcemia caused..... More
Typhus Syncopalis, sinking typhus, or the spotted-fever of New-England, as it appeared in the epidemic of 1823 in Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown, (Conn.): printed for the author, 1825. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; stitched, as issued; toned and worn, top if title page with presumably a signature torn away, last leaf with a 4" tear (no loss of any text); good. American Imprints 21466; Cordasco 20-0416 (identifying the author as 'Milner');..... More
Perspectives de développement de la culture cotonnière au Viet Nam après trois années d'expérimentation
Paris: La Maison Rustique, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. 105, [3]; map, 2 plates showing 4 photographic illustrations, tables throughout; very good in later quarter green morocco, gilt lettering on spine. Development of the cotton crop in Vietnam. More
A cursory view of the history of chemical science, and some of its more important uses to the physician: being an introductory, to the course of lectures, for the session 1837-8
Lexington: Finnell & Zimmerman, 1837. 12mo, pp. 22, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; an ink stain on the back of the pamphlet has eaten through the gutter and caused loss of text on the last 6 leaves, pencil equations on blank leaf; fair. Mitchell was a zealous reformer of..... More
U.S. Navy: Vietnam
Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1969. First edition, large, square 4to, pp. [8], 247, [1]; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; boards a bit warped, jacket edges chipped and rubbed, jacket spine ends discretely tape-repaired; remains of paper label on front free endpaper..... More
Miscellaneous pieces of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Translated from the new edition of his works in quarto printed at Paris.
London: printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham, 1759. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 334, plus final blank; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine; extremities rubbed, top of spine slightly chipped and cracked, upper joint starting, but in all a good, sound copy, or..... More
Medical sketches: in two parts. The first American edition
Providence (R. Island): by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their book and stationery store opposite the market, 1794. 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 271, [1]; contemporary full calf, red leather label on spine; joints starting, text toned; good and sound. Alden 1368; Austin 1330; Evans 27344. More
An oration delivered in Person Hall, Chapel Hill on the 27th June, 1827, the day previous to the commencement, under the appointment of the Dialectic Society ... Second edition
Raleigh: printed by Weston R. Gales - Raleigh Register Office, 1843. 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; removed from binding and tipped into library binder with red buckram backstrip, sprinkled edges; title and final leaf toned else very good. Archibald DeBow Murphey was an ardent education reformer and compiler of North Carolina..... More
The development of grafted embryonic fragments of the chick
Edinburgh: Printed by Oliver and Boyd, 1925. 8vo, pp. 9-[34], [2] 1 photographic plate; original green printed wrappers; illuatrations throughout. Reprinted from the British Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. III, October 1925. More
Self-differentiation in the grafted limb-bud of the chick
Cambridge: Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy, 1925. 8vo, pp. [379]-384; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy, vol. LIX, Part IV, July 1925. More
An address on ardent spirit, read before the New-Hampshire Medical Society, at their annual meeting, June 5, 1827
Hanover: printed by Thomas Mann, 1828. First edition, 12mo, pp. 24; removed from binding; oil stain permeating most leaves, textblock otherwise clean and sound. An argument against the use of ardent spirits, or alcoholic drinks, as a medical treatment. Mussey was a member of the temperance movement and a founding..... More
Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society. MDCCCLVII, containing materials for the history of Minnesota.
Saint Paul: Goodrich and Somers, 1857. 8vo, pp. 186; original printed wrappers, spine perished but text remains sound, some nicks along fore-edge, text remains clean and bright; a near fine copy. These annals explain the origin of the name Minnesota and include Governor Alexander Ramsey's address that traces the history..... More
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Fort Snelling echoes [drop title]
[New York: c. 1889]. 8vo, pp. 18, green printed wrappers; wrappers soiled, old fold, light edgewear, several neat manuscript corrections throughout the text, good and sound. Derived from an address at Fort Snelling on March 15th, 1889 and previously published in the Magazine of Western History. Neill had a long..... More
History of Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul including the explorers and pioneers… by Rev. Edward D. Neill. And outlines of the history of Minnesota by J. Fletcher Williams.
Minneapolis: North Star Publishing, 1881. First edition, 4to, pp. vi, 650; map of the county; extremities a little rubbed, but overall a very good, sound copy in publisher's 1/2 morocco, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. More
History of Hennepin County and the city of Minneapolis, including the explorers and pioneers of Minnesota ... and outlines of the history of Minnesota, by J. Fletcher Williams.
Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Company, 1881. First edition, 4to, iv-[vi] & 713pp., 1 full-p. map; extremities rubbed and scuffed, covers worn and somewhat shabby else a very good, sound copy in 3/4 brown publisher's morocco, gilt-stamped upper cover. Minnesota from its organization as a territory, early newspapers, scenery, biographical info..... More
Early days of the Presbyterian branch of the Holy Catholic Church, in the state of Minnesota ... delivered, in substance, before the synod of Minnesota in First Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, September 26, 1873
Minneapolis: Johnson & Smith, Steam Printers, 1873. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii; a very good, well-preserved copy in the original printed paper wrappers. More
Interesting typography
An harmony of the Gospels: in which the original text is disposed after Le Clerc's general manner; with such various readings at the foot of the page as have Wetstein's sanction in his folio edition of the Greek Testament. Observations are subjoined tending to settle the time and place of every transaction, to establish the series of facts, and to reconcile seeming inconsistencies
Dublin: printed by Robert Marchbank, for William Hallhead, 1778. First edition, tall folio (18½ inches), pp. [4], x, 279, [1], 72 (Notes on the Harmony of the Gospels, Appendixes, Notes), [4] (tables); engraved map of the Holy Land with an inset of Jerusalem; text largely in 6 columns; text in..... More
![Report on the health of children in the Oneida community [wrapper title]. Theodore Richards...](/pictures/thumb/57438_1.jpg?v=1601499907)
Report on the health of children in the Oneida community [wrapper title]
Oneida, N.Y. 1878. 8vo, pp. 8; fine in original printed blue wrappers. Noyes (1841-1903) was the son of John Humphrey Noyes, the Utopian socialist and the founder of the Putney, Oneida and Wallingford communities. More
Claude Bernard, physiologist
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 272; 11 illustrations, black cloth with blind and gilt stamped title; pencil marks in margin, bookplate, book review pasted on endpaper, very good overall. More
Lexicon Hebraico-Chaldaico-Latino-Biblicum. In quo prima pars omnia vocabula, ordine alphabetico disposita, ad suas radices refert, & universas interpretationes cuique genuinas exhibet. Secunda radices ita ordinat … quaelibet interpretatio textu sacro in ea comprobatur : nomina autem propria ad calcem cujusque litterae pro literarum serie jacet: opus observationibus grammatico-criticis conflatum.
Avenione: Henricum-Josephum Joly, typographum & bibliopolam propè Collegium Sancti Martialis, 1765. First edition, 2 volumes, folio, pp. [4], viii, [2], 723; vii, [1], 852; fine engraved portrait of Cardinal D. Passionei under whose auspices the work was compiled; engraved vignette title-pp., engraved head-pieces and initials; text in Hebrew, Latin, and..... More
Flat-top. The story of an escort carrier
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., [1945]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 63, [1]; frontispiece portrair, 3 plates showing 10 illustrations on rectos and versos; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus..... More
South latitude
London; New York; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., [1938]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 308; original green cloth; gilt lettered spine; map endpapers; 16 photographic plates; light foxing; ink stain on spine tail; otherwise very good. Spence 873. More
Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler ... in honour of his seventieth birthday July 19, 1919 by his pupils and co-workers
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1919. Edition limited to 1600 copies (this, no. 580), 2 volumes, large 8vo, xix, [3], 649, [1]; [iii]-xi, [3], 651-1268; frontispiece portrait and 41 plates; hinges starting, else a very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines and upper covers. Laid in..... More
