Keelung: The SueiChan Press, 2005. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xx, 284; parallel text in Traditional Chinese and English; color photoreproductive illustrations throughout; stiff illustrated paper wrappers; fine in fine slipcase. More
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1802. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], xxxii, 310, engraved vignette portrait on title page, 11 folding plates; original marbled paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; binding and label rubbed, but a good, sound copy, unrestored; contained in a brown leather slipcase. "Chladni (1756-1827), professor of physics..... More
New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 1205, [1]; text illustrations, 5 color plates; olive cloth with gilt title on spine; spine scuffed, hinges split, bookplate on pastedown, textblock clean and bright. Part of the Modern Clinical Medicine series. More
Strasbourg: de l'imprimerie de Levrault, 1811. 4to, pp. [4], 24; original drab wrappers bearing a presentation from the author to a Dr. Jerney; very good copy. More
Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters, [2005]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xli, [1], 262; illustrated throughout, some in color; publisher's pictorial laminate boards; generally fine throughout. Per Wikipedia: "Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific..... More
New York: printed for the author by J. Seymour, 1820. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], [9]-71; 7 diagrams in the text; original printed wrappers; mild dampstaining, moderate foxing; very good. With the early ownership signature of "Mary Lord / Dorchester Seminary / June 25th 1822." While both the cover..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols.; frontispiece; original maroon cloth, t.e.g., owner's inscription on front paste-down of each; near fine. More
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. First edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 369; near fine in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, slightly scuffed. More
London: T. Payne, 1758. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 204; tables, formulas and equations throughout the text; late 19th century half blue morocco over marbled boards by Blackwell, gilt-decorated spine, gilt-lettered direct, t.e.g.; joints and extremities scuffed and rubbed; textblock about fine. More
London: printed by A. Cobbett, 1838. 8vo, pp.[4], 338, 2; folding plan of the kitchen garden, a few illus. in the text; orig. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine worn; one signature loosening, mild foxing, good. Cobbett (1762-1835) enjoyed a considerable reputation in America in the late 18th century..... More
London: Macmillan, 1949. Reprint edition (originally published 1944), 8vo, pp. viii, 524; illustrations throughout text (many full-page); fine in slightly rubbed dustjacket with a few small nicks to spine panel ends. See G-M 358 (first edition of 1944). More
[Baltimore]: [Waverly Press, the Williams & Wilkins Company], 1922. 8vo, pp. 569-572 (2 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, May 20, 1922, Vol. iv, No. 5. More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1925. 8vo, pp. 581-586 (3 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, May 20, 1925, Vol. vii, No. 5. More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc, 1932. 8vo, pp. 611-620 (6 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, July 20, 1932, Vol. 15, No. 6. More
[Baltimore]: [Waverly Press, the Williams & Wilkins Company], 1926. 8vo, pp. 503-511, [1] (5 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, March 20, 1926, Vol. ix, No. 4. More
[Baltimore]: [Waverly Press, the Williams & Wilkins Company], 1926. 8vo, pp. 503-511, [1] (5 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, March 20, 1926, Vol. ix, No. 4. More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc, 1931. 8vo, pp. 119-124 (4 leaves); original green printed wrappers; reprinted from the Journal of General Physiology, November 20, 1931, Vol. 15, No. 2. More
New York: Fowler & Wells, 1848. 8vo, pp. xii, 320; 4 text illustrations; original green cloth, gilt title on spine; occasional foxing, very good and sound. With the ownership signature of Manchester MA newspaperman W. H. Gilmore on flyleaf. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. Stereotype edition, 12mo, pp. 291; original red cloth backed printed paper-covered boards; a good, sound copy with some staining to boards, ink stamp on front free endpaper, name in ink on title, moderate foxing throughout. Harper's Family Library No. LXXI. Skin, muscles, bones, respiration..... More
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. 12mo, pp. xii, [13]-313; orig. green muslin; printed yellow paper label on spine; spine a little discolored, the label with small chip out at the bottom affecting the printed border, otherwise very good and sound. An early Ticknor imprint. He began as a publisher in..... More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 664; engraved frontispiece, illustrations in the text throughout; a second plate called for on the instructions to the binder leaf is not present; original brown cloth; some wear but generally a very good, sound copy. More
Edinburgh: printed by Neill and Co., 1847. First edition, 8vo, pp. 38; removed from binding; good. Inscribed to the American physician and phrenologist, "Andrew Boardman with the kind regards of William Combe." Andrew Combe (1797-1847) was a Scottish physician and phrenologist who asisted his brother William in establishing the Phrenological..... More
[Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company], 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 244; frontispiece portrait, 16 illustrations on 11 plates, one graph, and a charming folding map of Tanager Hill in rear pocket; a fine, bright copy in original red cloth. A diary documenting bird-banding activities from 1923 to 1930..... More
Bruxelles: 1885. 4to, pp. [18]; folding plate of Sweden's telephone grid, with Stockholm telephone lines radiating out 80-odd kilometers into the countryside, with neat contemporary annotations in red ink; original gray printed wrappers, lower corners creased. Essentially a prospectus for the uniformity of the telephone line in Belgium, with the..... More
[Verona]: Tipografia Moroni, n.d., [ca. 1812]. First edition, small thin folio in 4s, pp. 50; engraved portrait of Frascatoro; contemporary and probably original cream paper-covered boards (a little soiled), original paper label lettered in gilt on spine; about fine throughout. A handsomely printed eulogy of the Italian doctor in the..... More
