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Plate: 168x118 mm. Margin: 230x149 mm. A few tiny holes in bottom margin, small chip and slight tearing in top margin, soiling, faint foxing.

Padua: Laurentio Pasquati, 1603. Discovery of the Valves in the Veins De venarum ostiolis. Folio. [2], 23, [1]pp. Last leaf (Tabula VIII) in facsimile. 8 full-page engraved plates in the text (Tabula VIII in facsimile as noted). Patavia [Padua]: Ex typographia Laurentii Pasquati, 1603. 423 x 280 mm. Quarter morocco in antique style. Minor marginal worming, a few early repairs, some fraying at edges, some offsetting from plates but on the whole very good. Very Rare first Edition. In De venarum osteolis Fabrici first described the structure, distribution and position of the valves and noted that they opposed the backflow of the blood; however, he believed erroneously that the valves did not completely close, and that their function was to slow blood flow and maintain an even distribution of blood in the body. It was left to Fabrici's pupil William Harvey to grasp the true significance of the valves and to elucidate this discovery in De motu cordis (1627), illustrated with a drastically reduced copy… Read More

Print: 80x47 mm. Mount: 125x100 mm. Print is mounted on paper. Light soiling, edges trimmed.

Margin: 146x97 mm. Small tear in right margin, remnants of former mounting on reverse of print.

Paris, 1830.

London: Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, Hugh (1808-65). Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer, A.M., M.D. . . . Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. Vol. I: lvi, 590pp. 34 plates, text illustrations. Vol. II: xiii, [77], 675pp. 38 plates, text illustrations. 215 140 mm. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1868. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards. Library stamps on verso of title pages of both volumes, and small stamp on the title of Vol. II. Marginal repairs to frontispiece and first 7 leaves of Vol. I, a few pencil marks in the margins, light toning, but very good. First Edition of the collected paleontological works, both published and previously unpublished, of the Scottish geologist and botanist Hugh Falconer, whose extensive studies of India's fossil mammals earned him and his colleague Proby Cautley the London Geological Society's prestigious Wollaston Medal. Falconer became interested in paleontology while stationed in India as an employee of the British… Read More

Plate: 205x145 mm. Print: 230x170 mm. Mount: 236x180 mm. Mounted oncardstock. Faint crease in upper margin, small tears in upper margin, foxing.

London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Margin: 300x228 mm. Some light marginal discoloration, remnants of former mounting on reverse of print.

London: Richard Taylor, 1833. Faraday, Michael (1791-1867). Experimental researches in electricity (fourth series). 9. On a new law of electric conduction. 10. On conducting power generally. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions (1833). [2], 507-522pp. London: Printed by Richard Taylor, 1833. 280 x 215 mm. Modern wrappers. Vertically creased, occasional spotting, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the title in Faraday's hand: "St. Georges Med[ical] & Sur[gical] Society from the author." St. George's Hospital library stamps on the title and last page. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In the section titled "On conducting power generally" Faraday presented the first documented observation of what we now call a semiconductor, i.e., a substance with an electrical conductivity value falling between conductors (such as copper) and insulators (such as glass). Contrary to metals, a semiconductor's electrical conductivity increases with increasing temperature, and its conductivity can be altered… Read More

Oxford: U P., 1993. [8], 172pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, dsut-jacket. Fine.

Paris: Germer Bailliere, 1847. Favrot, Alexis (1819-69). Études sur les maladies des femmes qu'on observe le plus fréquemment dans la pratique. viii, 423pp. Paris: Germer Baillière, 1847. 209 x 133 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine worn, front hinge splitting. Occasional light foxing but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Ricord on the half-title: "A mon bon maître le Dr. Ricord témoinage de gratitude et d'amitié Al. Favrot." Stamp of the Hôpital Cochin on the half-title, title and p. 5. First Edition. A compilation of information on what was then known about certain diseases of the female reproductive organs. .

Wurzburg, 1860. Feigel, Johann Theodor Anton (1804-48). Anatomische Abbildungen oder Erlauterungstafeln zu dem Handbuche der Anatomie. Atlas only; lacking accompanying text. Folio. Elaborate lithographed title, 55 full-page lithographed plates numbered I-LV, 9 folding or double-page plates numbered I-IX, after drawings by the author, many hand-colored. (64 plates in all). [Wurzburg: n.p., 1837?] 490 x 347 mm. Modern dark blue morocco-backed boards. Minor soiling and foxing, but a very good, sound copy. Ownership signature on title. First Edition of the atlas to Feigel's Vollstandiges Handbuch der Anatomie (1837), with handsome large lithographed plates after the author's drawings; the veins and arteries are hand-colored in blue and red. Feigel, a professor at the University of Wurzburg, was a highly talented artist who illustrated all three of the medical works he published during his short life. .

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1960. Feliciano, Felice (1433-79). Alphabetum romanum. Edited by Giovanni Mardersteig. 137, [3]pp. 5 plates; hand-colored text illustrations. Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1960. 228 x 150 mm. Original quarter morocco, boards (slightly discolored at spine), in the original slipcase. Fine. No. 355 of 400 copies printed in English. Prospectus and order form laid in. Bookplate. Feliciano's Alphabetorum romanum was "the first treatise on the construction of classic roman inscription letters and also represents the first attempt to construct them within a circle and square" (prospectus). The present limited edition reproduces Feliciano's 25 elegant capital letters from the 1463 Alphabetorum (now in the Vatican Library), hand-painted in two colors as in the original manuscript.

1900. Together 2 patents. 3pp., 3 fold. diagrams (19,675); 11pp., 5 fold. diagrams (13,094). 1900-1904. Disbound, some leaves loose. The firm of Felt and Tarrant was founded in 1886 by Dorr Eugene Felt (1862-1930), who invented what he claimed was the first practical key-driven mechanical calculator. The prototype for Felt's machine was his famous "macaroni box" model, completed in 1885, in which Felt worked out the essential design elements of his calculator using a wooden macaroni box for the body, meat skewers for the keys, and rubber bands for the springs. In 1887 Felt patented his machine and began producing and selling it from his manufacturing facility in Chicago, which he financed with capital supplied by his partner, Robert Tarrant. Felt and Tarrant's main product was the Comptometer, introduced in 1890; this was a nonlisting (i.e., nonprinting) machine whose chief advantages were its speed, versatility, and ease of use. The Comptometer rivaled the Burroughs calculators in popularity during… Read More

W. Bent, 1785. Plate: 179x115 mm. Margin: 203x131 mm. Small pinhole in upper margin, three small pinholes in right margin, light soiling, faint foxing, edges trimmed.

Print: 164x103 mm. Mount: 241x161 mm. Mounted on paper. Print shows very small spot, very faint soiling, edges trimmed.

Margin: 151x97 mm. Slight marginal discoloration, small damp stain in upper left corner, light soiling, faint foxing, remnants of former mounting on reverse of print.

London: J. F. and C. Rivington, 1790.

Vernor & Hood, 1799. Plate: 165x113 mm. Margin: 235x146 mm. Marginal discoloration, light foxing.

1931. Fermi, Enrico (1901-54) et al. Archive of scientific correspondence to Bruno Rossi (1905-93) plus related materials; calendar of archive available on request. 68 items total. 1930-36. Various sizes. Rust-stains from paper clips on some items, a few minor chips and marginal tears, but very good. An extraordinary archive of scientific correspondence, written to Italian experimental physicist Bruno Rossi, one of the founders of the study of cosmic rays and a major contributor to particle physics. In addition to four letters from Fermi, the archive includes correspondence from Nobel laureates Hans Bethe, Patrick Blackett, John D. Cockcroft, and Emilio Segrè, as well as letters from Lise Meitner, Hans Geiger, Homi J. Bhabha, Yoshio Nichina, and Rossi's student Giuseppe Occhialini. The materials in the archive date from the period 1930 to 1936, the time when Rossi did some of his most important and fruitful work on cosmic radiation. As a young physics professor at the University of Florence, Rossi… Read More