Search Results: Authors starting with J from Milestones of Science Books

Koenigsberg: Friedrich Nikolovius, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Paris: J.B. Baillie, 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Large folio (418 x 218 mm). 8 pp. of title and plate explanations, 18 engraved plates of which 17 hand-colored and 2 double page. Original cloth-backed printed boards. Boards soiled, spotted and scratched, light wear to spine and extremities. Title, text pages and final uncolored plate slightly foxed, some finger-soiling at outer margins of few plates, minor age toning, but generally bright and crisp internally. Provenance: Universite Catholique, Lille (stamp and "annule" stamp to title); medical library of James Tait Goodrich. Very good copy. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION of Jobert de Lamballe's treatise on plastic surgery (atlas only). Antoine-Joseph Jobert (1799-1867) was a French professor of anatomy and a gynecologist. He was personal surgeon of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III and is one of the pioneers of general anesthesia in France using ether. After having studied medicine in Paris,… Read More

Copenhagen: Bianco Luno, 1839. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in two volumes. Copenhagen: Bianco Luno, 1839. Text volume 4to (243 x 197 mm), atlas volume oblong 4to (234 x 328 mm). xxxiv, 192 pp. (text vol.), 1 leaf of title and 17 engraved plates (atlas vol.). Text vol. with frontispiece portrait of the author bound before half-title, bound in contemporary half cloth over marbled boards (extremities rubbed, text browned and foxed, some smaller marginal waterstains). Atlas volume in contemporary marbled boards (spine ends scuffed, minor edge chipping), plates browned, foxed and water stained at upper margin, plate XI cut down to plate border and laid down (at the time of binding). Provenance: Bertram Larsen, Taarnuhrfabrikant (blind stamp on titles); Giancarlo Beltrame Library. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SECOND DANISH EDITION, first published 1804 in Copenhagen. Urban Bruun Jürgensen (1776-1830) was a Danish watchmaker. His company lived on… Read More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in one volume. 8vo (264 x 190 mm). [4], 281 [1]; [4], 222 pp. 4 tables (1 folding), several diagrams and tables in text. Later plain cloth (little rubbed). Internally little age-toned only, title-pages somewhat browned and soiled, a few scattered pencil markings, few pages with light marginal foxing. Provenance: Dr. H. van der Hoeven Kliniek, -utrecht (ownership stamp and signature to title-pages, cropped on 2nd). Very good copy overall. ---- Grinstein 17331. RARE FIRST EDITIONS. Volume I with a foreword by Eugen Bleuler, works by C.G. Jung, Franz Riklin, K. Wehrlin and Bleuler. Volume II with works by Franz Riklin, C.G. Jung, Emma Fürst, Ludwig Binswanger and Hermann Nunberg. Offprint from "Journal of Psychology and Neurology", Vol. III-IV, complete with both volumes. In 1906 Jung sent Freud his work on Diagnostic Association studies,… Read More

Coburg: sumptibus ex typis Georgii Ottonis, typogr. Ducal. Priv, 1747. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (198 x 155 mm). [24] 183 [1] pp. Signatures: a-c4 A-Z4, 108 leaves. Errata on final page. Woodcut headpieces, woodcuts of three forms of tree growth on p. 169. Recent marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering piece, new endpapers. Text only little browned, very minor faint spotting. Provenance: library of Walter Pagel. A fine, clean and unmarked copy. ---- Dibner 23; Evans 82; Norman 1193; Pritzel 4524. - THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this collection, inluding Jungius, Doxoscopiae physicae minores (first edition 1662) and Isagogae phytoscopia, first printed in Praecipuae Opiniones Physicae (1679); and Giuseppe degli Aromatari's Epistola de generatione plantarum ex seminibus first printed in his Disputatio de rabie contagiosa (1625). This collection reprints Jungius' seminal works in the history of botany. Jungius gave botany much of its present… Read More

Paris & Geneva: J. J. Paschoud, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (201 x 124 mm). 360 (i.e., 362) pp., including half-title. Bound in contemporary half calfspine with gilt lettered red morocco label and gilt decoration, yellow-dyed edges. Text crisp and clean with just a little browning of final 2 gatherings and very minor occasional spotting. Provenance: bibliothèque du château de Barante (bookplate to front pastedown). Fine copy. ---- Wellcome III, 374; Bedford p.613-14 ("long cited as one of the classical works on the subject"). FIRST EDITION of the first work devoted to this subject. Louis Jurine (1751-1819) was a Geneva based Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist mainly interested in entomology. He studied surgery in Paris and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise in medicine and natural history beyond that which he had in Geneva. He taught courses in anatomy and surgery at the Société des Arts in Geneva and… Read More

Paris: Herissant und Barrois, 1789. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (203x125 mm). [24], lxxii, 498, [2] pp. Errata on final leaf. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine with 5 raised bands richly gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers (top of spine little chipped, light wear to extremities, boards bowed slightly outwards), marbled endpapers. Text little age-toned, very little occasional foxing. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. ---- Horblit 68b; Norman 1194; Hunt 703; Stafleu TL2 3468. See also Morton, History of Botanical Science, pp.311-3 and Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, pp.321-2. - FIRST EDITION OF A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF BOTANY. In this "revolutionary work" (Hunt) A. L. de Jussieu (1748--1836) set up a complete natural vegetable system, which superseded Linnaeus' classification and became the starting-point for all subsequent systematic improvements.