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Principes d'hygiène, extraits du Code de santé et de longue vie de Sir John Sinclair
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Principes d'hygiène, extraits du Code de santé et de longue vie de Sir John Sinclair

by ODIER, Louis

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Paris: J. J. Paschoud, 1810. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (204 x 120 mm). viii, 576 pp. Including half-title, woodcut head and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, spine with gilt-lettered label and gilt ruling, yellow-dyed edges. Crisp and clean internally. Provenance: bibliothèque du château de Barante, presented to him with his inscription and signature on half-title "Offert à M. de Barante comme un léger souvenir du respect, de la reconnaissance et du dévouement de l'éditeur L. Odier." A fine copy. ---- SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Louis Odier was an active physician, translator, and editor from Geneva, and was a major figure in European medicine at the end of the eighteenth century. - Visit our website to see more images!
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[Flora Danica]. Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniae et Norwegiae, in ducatibus...
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[Flora Danica]. Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniae et Norwegiae, in ducatibus Slesvici et Holsatiae, et in comitatibus Oldenburgi et Delmenhorstiae - Volumen primum (-Volumen septimum decimum) + Supplementum

by OEDER, Georg Christian; MÜLLER, Otto Friedrich; VAHL, Martin Hendriksen; HORNEMANN, Jens Wilken; LIEBMANN, Fredrik Michael; LANGE, Johan Martin Christian

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Copenhagen: N. Möller and others, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1761-1883. 18 volumes, folio (368 x 239 mm) including Liebmann & Lange's supplement (1874), plus 1 volume (Lange's Index) 4to (260 x 205 mm). Each folio volume in 3 fascicles (together 54) and each fascicle with 60 plates. Altogether 3240 hand-colored engraved and etched plates, all except supplement with consecutive Roman numbering, and c. 366 leaves of text (including fascicle- and volume title-pages). Each plate bears the inscription Flora Danica except for the supplement vol. which is inscribed Supplementum Florae Danicae). The first 2360 plates with the Latin plant names added in neat manuscript. The general titles of the first 10 vols are printed in red and black. Variant title pages for vols. 7-12 present. The set is uniformly bound in contemporary full calf (vols. 1-6) and matching 19th-century three-quarter calf over marbled boards (the remainder of the set); each vol. with gilt-lettered red… Read More
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Experimenta circa effectum conflictus elecrici in acum magneticam. In: Journal für Chemie und...
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Experimenta circa effectum conflictus elecrici in acum magneticam. In: Journal für Chemie und Physik (Schweigger's Journal), vol. 29, pp. 275-281

by OERSTED, Hans Christian

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Nürnberg: In der Schrag'schen Buchhandlung, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (199 x 118 mm). Entire volume: viii, 1-50, [4], 55-96, [4]; 101-204; 245-256, [4]; 261-384, [4]; 389-520, [4] pp., folding table facing p. 50 and 2 folding engraved plates; pp. 205-44 are skipped (pagination error). Contemporary sprinkled half calf over marbled boards, spine with some gilt tooling and gilt-lettered paper label, red-dyed edges (rebacked, corners slightly bumped, minor rubbing). Text with even light browning, occasional minor spotting. Provenance: Act. Ges. f. Anilin-Fabrikation* (ink stamps to front and rear pastedowns, title and a few text pages). A very good copy, collated and complete. ---- VERY RARE FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION of the announcement of the electromagnetic effect, preceeded ony by a half-sheet of text privately printed on behalf of the author the same year in a very small number and which is of utmost rarity. Also included in this volume is "Neuere… Read More
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Experimenta circa effectum, etc. Expériences sur l'effet du conflict électrique...
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Experimenta circa effectum, etc. Expériences sur l'effet du conflict électrique sur l'aiguille aimantée, pp. 417-425

by OERSTED, Hans Christian

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Paris: Crochard, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾"" tall" "In: Annales de chimie et de physique, par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago. 8vo (210x135 mm). Whole volume 14 bound with vol. 13, 448 pp. and 3 plates. Contemporary half leather with gilt spine and two labels, somewhat rubbed. Small Jesuit rubber stamp to title pages. A fine copy. ---- PMM 282, Dibner 61, Sparrow 152, Norman 1606 (all citing private print); DSB X, 185. First French edition of Oersted's Latin paper. ""The 'Experimenta...' opened a new epoch in the history of physics. From it followed the creation of electrodynamics by Ampère and Faraday's 'Experimental Researches in Electricity'"" (DSB)."
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Nachweisung eines Ueberganges von dem Gesetze der Elektricitätsverbreitung zu dem der Spannung,...
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Nachweisung eines Ueberganges von dem Gesetze der Elektricitätsverbreitung zu dem der Spannung, part 1, pp. 1-25. Ergänzender Nachtrag . . ., part 4, pp. 452-461

by OHM, Georg Simon

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Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, 1829. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In: Archiv für die gesammte Naturlehre in Verbindung mit mehreren Gelehrten, herausgegeben von K. W. G. Kastner. Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag, 1829. Entire parts 1 and 4 of volume XVII. 8vo (205 x 123 mm). xii, 144; 385-500 pp., folding engraved plate (plate partially detached and a little frayed). Original green printed wrappers (spine paper gone, wrappers dust-soiled, second part lacking lower wrapper). Text quite clean and crisp with only little age-toning and minor occasional spotting. Provenance: Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. ---- FIRST EDITION of two papers by Ohm in which he provides a physical explanation for the difference between electrical force and tension, based on his empirically derived law of the galvanic circuit. - Visit our website to see more images!
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Abhandlung über die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen aus einigen...
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Abhandlung über die leichteste und bequemste Methode die Bahn eines Cometen aus einigen Beobachtungen zu berechnen

by OLBERS, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias

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Weimar: Verlag des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1797. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (193 x 114 mm). xxxii, 106 (i.e. 96), 80 pp. Engraved folding plate bound at end, numerous letterpress tables. 20th century half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt and with gilt-lettered label (light rubbing of extremities, corners bumped). Text very fresh and crisp with only very minor spotting in places, plate with light soiling probably due to printers ink. Provenance: Augustiner Convent, Münnerstadt (two small stamps and shelf-numbers to title-page). Nice copy. ---- Houzeau-L. 11965; Poggendorff II, p.320; DSB X, p.198. - RARE FIRST EDITION. Olbers developed a new method for calculating a comet's parabolic orbit. "In a letter to F.X. von Zach (1754-1832), director of the newly founded observatory on the Seeberg, near Gotha, Olbers asked weather his treatise on this method should be printed, and if so, how this… Read More
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Praecepta medicinae practicae in usum academicum digesta

Praecepta medicinae practicae in usum academicum digesta

by OOSTERDYK, Nicolaas George

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Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, 1783. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (222 x 137 mm). [8], 293 [1] pp., including woodcut title vignette and headpieces, blanks cut down to stubs. Pages untrimmed. Contemporary marbled wrappers (corners and spine ends chipped, hinges rubbed). Text little soiled towards margins, otherwise crisp and unmarked. ---- NLM/Blake, p.332; Wellcome IV, p.265. RARE FIRST EDITION of a compilation of short descriptions of a variety of diseases by Nicolaas George Oosterdyk, a professor of practical and theoretical medicine at Leyden University.
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Elémes de Chimie Médicale. Two volumes
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Elémes de Chimie Médicale. Two volumes

by ORFILA, Mathieu Joseph

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Paris: chez Crochard, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (193 x 121 mm). xxviii, 610 pp. and 12 engraved plates; xvi, 575 [1] pp. and 2 engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf, spines decorated in gilt and with gilt-lettered labels (boards rubbed, corners bumped, worming to boards and spine), marbled endpapers. Little age-toned internally, very minor occasional spotting. Fine set. ---- Duveen, p.440; Bolton I, 707. - FIRST EDITION of Orfila's textbook of medical chemistry which went through eight French editions and was translated into several languages. Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (1787-1853) was a Minorcan-born French toxicologist and chemist, and the founder of the science of toxicology. He was appoined Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris in 1819.
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Theatrum orbis terrarum
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Theatrum orbis terrarum

by ORTELIUS, Abraham

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Antwerp: Gillis van den Rade, 1575. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (428 x 295 mm). 10 unnumbered leaves, including engraved, hand-coloured and gold-heightened architectural title; the Catalogus Auctorum with 106 names; 91 maps on 70 hand-colored double-page plates mounted on guards, 48 text leaves of index. Signatures: A6 B4, a-h6. 17th-century mottled calf, spine with 7 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered label, original marbled endpapers (minor rubbing of spine and extremities, corners bumped). Paper somewhat browned throughout, very little occasional spotting, loss to lower blank corner of text leaf e4, foot of world map with short split along center fold, 14 maps with old paper repairs of tear along folds (without loss), small hole near center fold of plates 7 and 35, two small patches with abrasion to image of plate 14. Provenance: Conti Lamberti (armorial bookplate with the motto "Cosa fare capo ha" to first flyleaf). ----… Read More
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Ganka yakusetsu [Summary of Ophthalmology]
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Ganka yakusetsu [Summary of Ophthalmology]

by OSANAI, Gen'yo

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Tokyo, 1878. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 3 Volumes. Tokio, Meiji 11 (1878). (227 x 148 mm). 22 finely hand-colored full-page woodcuts on 13 folding plates. 35; 39, 30 folding leaves. Xylographically printed and stack-folded double leaves in Japanese stitched binding. Grey original wrappers with xylographic title tag (little soiled and rubbed, stitching partly defect). Internally crisp with only very little paper browning. Final leaf of each volume with red ownership seal. ---- Second edition in Japanese, first published in 1872 (Meiji 5), of this collection of translations from a variety of Western ophthalmological texts. The hand-colored plates depict a range of diseases, ophthalmological instruments and surgical procedures. According to NLM the author is Paul Silex (1858-1929), but this is certainly wrong. The present work was probably mistaken for his "Compendium der Augenheilkunde" (Berlin 1891). See G. E.… Read More
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The Life of Richard Owen
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The Life of Richard Owen

by OWEN, Richard, Rev

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London: John Murray, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes. 8vo (201 x 134 mm). 14, [2], 409 [1], [2]; 7 [1], 393 [1] pp., including portrait frontispiece to each vol., 4 plates, several illustrations in text, and advertisment leaf at end of vol. I. Original publisher's cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt (little rubbed). Text little age-toned, minor foxing to a few pages. Provenance: George Fleming (armorial bookplate to front patedown of vol. II); Dr. K. J. Fleming (bookplate to front pastedown of each vol.). Good copy.
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On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia, Being the Lecture on Sir...
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On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia, Being the Lecture on Sir Robert Reade's Foundation, Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, in the Senate-House May 10, 1859

by OWEN, Richard

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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (222 x 142 mm). [4], 103 [1], [4] pp., some woodcut illustrations in text, 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, upper board lettered in gilt (spine cracked and chipped at ends, corners bumped, extremities rubbed), pages untrimmed. Internally little age-toned only. Provenance: Henry William Poor (banker, stockbroker and book collector), his armorial bookplate to front pastedown. ---- FIRST EDITION. The volume also includes the appendix "On the Gorilla" and "On the Extinction and Transmutation of Species" Richard Owen, English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist, who in 1842 coined the word 'dinosaur', published this book in the same year of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. "He reviews ancient and recent studies of mammals in Western science… Read More
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