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Liverpool / London: The University Press / Constable & Company LTD, 1913. First English edition. 8vo. xii, 266 pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine and cover titled in gilt; spine lightly faded, ffep removed, book-plate Richet won the Novel Prize in 1913 for his work on anaphylaxis.

Bruxelles [Brussels]: J.-B. Tircher, 1838. First edition, Brussels issue. 8vo. [4], 808 pp. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled paper boards; spine chipped and worn, joints cracked The Haskell Norman copy of the first edition of Ricord's important work on venereal disease, published simultaneously in Paris and Brussels."Includes the description of 'Ricord’s chancre,' the initial lesion in syphilis. Ricord re-demonstrated the specific character of syphilis and divided it into the three stages, primary, secondary, and tertiary. Repeating Hunter’s experiment, Ricord proved that syphilis and gonorrhoea were separate diseases. After Hunter, he was the greatest authority on venereal disease" (Garrison-Morton)PROVENANCE: inscription of Dr. Portry, Malmedy, 1838, on ffep and his notes in German on the rear endpapers; Haskell F. Norman (book-plate)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2381 & 5202; Heirs of Hippocrates 1621; Norman 1831; Waller 7974

New York: C.M. Saxton, n.d. [ca. 1848]. Folio. 24 tinted lithographs by Jones & Newman and 24 engraved plates. Modern half calf over marbled boards; final plate with quarter-page loss, foxed, occasional chips and tears throughout. Innovative for its time, this folio-sized home pattern book presents elevations (in tinted lithograph), plans and details of construction and cost for 12 single-family dwellings. Ritch's work went through several iterations beginning with monthly parts issues in 1847 followed by various collected issues through 1864. This copy conforms partially to Hitchcock nos. 1014 & 1015 and was issued circa 1848, before the publisher changed address from 121 Fulton St to 123 Fulton Street in 1850.PROVENANCE: Thomas Stone, carpenter, East Brookfield, Mass, 1879 (ownership inscription on verso of title); William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: see Hitchcock 1014 & 1015

Paris, Gavarnie, Mont-Cenis, Grenoble, Fontainebleau ..., 1838-1871. 8vo. 355 pp. Holopgrah manuscript in ink in French. Contemporary half gray cloth and marbled boards. Ex-libris manuscript of "Doctor Roussel" on ffep and small book ticket ("Henry D.") on front pastedown. Some scuffing to cloth spine “Le 7 juillet 1838, à 7 heures 20 minutes du soir, je parti de Paris …”A lengthy, nearly career-spanning record of Roussel’s botanical and geological observations and studies made in his travels throughout France. The unpublished manuscript, written in a small, neat hand, documents eighteen separate trips made from July of 1838 to September of 1871. Most of the voyages originate from Paris, with destinations including Mont-Cenis, Gavarnie, Grenoble, Fontainebleau and environs, Melun, Toulouse, Auxerre, Nantes, Le Creusot and Cherbourg. The manuscript includes Roussel’s identification of plant species and his abundant and minute observations on the geological and topographic details of the French… Read More

London: R. Ackermann, 1822. First edition in book form. Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo. 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson. [iv], 267 , [1] pp. Near contemporary remainder binding of orange cloth gilt, t.e.g., by Remnant & Edmonds (binder's ticket on rear pastedown); spine ends worn with some loss, offsetting from plates REFERENCE: Abbey Life 268; Tooley 413

Oxford: D. Prince and J. Cooke, 1789. First edition. 4to. vi, 62 pp., without blank 1. Later half cloth and marbled boards; light foxing to title-page, occasional faint dampstain to lower corner, small piece from lower corner of D3 First edition of the posthumous publication of Thomas Russell's sonnets, an important influence on the early Romantics. Southey called him "the best English sonnet writer." "In his short lifetime of twenty-six years, Russell established himself as one of the masters of the English sonnet-form" (Hayward). Russell was a friend of the poet Thomas Warton and studied under his older brother Joseph, to whom this work is dedicated by the editor.REFERENCE: ESTC T49513; Hayward 199