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1900. 7 of these are sheets printed in blue ink on one side of the page, measuring about 6 x 9 inches. They include the following: Compound Galvanic Garadic and Lamp Controller Keystone Massey Current Controller Galvanic and Lamp Controller Keystone Portable Lamp Outfit Keystone Electro Therapeutic Wall Cabinet Keystone Electric Air Compressor. 4-page brochure about 3 x 5 inches on Voltamp Dry Cell Batteries 10-page fold out brochure about the same size on Chrloride of Silver Dry Cell Batteries containing Interchangeable Dry Cells. Condition is very good except for the 4-page brochure which is browned. .

Novato: Norman Publishing, 2023. The Kirtsos Library of Homoeopathic Medicine is an annotated bibliography of the world's finest private historical library on the history of homeopathy, containing detailed descriptions of over four thousand rare books, periodicals, letters, manuscripts, ephemera and artifacts dating from the 18th to the mid-20th century. The product of 45 years of dedicated collecting, the library is especially rich in materials relating to homeopathy's founder, Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843): It includes 166 Hahnemann listings, encompassing his first publications and all his classic homeopathic works and their translations, as well as numerous autograph letters, portraits and artifacts. In addition, the library contains a wide range of materials on the history and development of homeopathy, including classic works on homeopathic principles, philosophy, therapeutics, materia medica, surgery and veterinary medicine. Early works critical of Hahnemann and homeopathy are also represented.… Read More

Stuttgart & Tubingen: J. G. Cotta, 1853. Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859). Kleinere Schriften. Erster Band [all published]. Geognostische und physikalische Erinnerungen. Mit einem Atlas, enthaltend Umrisse von Vulkanen aus den Cordilleren von Quito und Mexico. Text volume and atlas. Text: [4], viii, 474, [2]pp., 6 folding tables. Atlas: 2 preliminary leaves, 12 engraved plates after drawings by Humboldt, contents leaf. Stuttgart and Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1853. 206 x 128 mm. (text); 208 x 313 mm. (atlas). Half morocco, boards ca. 1853 (text); original printed boards, cloth backstrip (atlas); light wear, front hinge of atlas a bit weak. Some foxing to text and plates, but very good. First Edition of this collection of geological memoirs (some previously published), including Humboldt's geognostic and physical study of the volcanoes near Quito in Ecuador. Humboldt had spent several years in South America at the turn of the nineteenth century, where he had the opportunity to explore more volcanoes… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Burndy Library, 1983. [1] 96 [1] pp. (273 x 205 mm). Original printed wrappers. "For Dr. Eugene Bliss from Bern Dibner" signed in black pen on the ffep. Fine. "Facsimile of the original book (ca. 1801), written by Masuda Tsuna (d. 1821), who describes himself as an employee of the Sumitomo clan of Osaka. Contains 22 full-page woodblock prints showing details of stages in the production of copper from the mine through smelting & de-silverization to casting of forms for the market, together with drawings of the various tools employed. Each illus. bears a short account of the operation depicted in it, written in Japanese using "hiragana" & Chinese characters. Then follow 12 pages of text in Chinese, which repeats with more detail the account of the operations, together with a short account of the Sumitomo family & its involvement in the copper industry. This edition is enhanced by an English translation by Zenryu Shiraikawa." (Dianepublishing.net. Acc. 19 Jan 2023). .

Lepizig & Vienna: Bibliographischen Instituts, 1904. Haeckel, Ernst (1834-1919). Kunstformen der Natur. 11 fascicles, fascicles I - X containing 10 chromolithographed or halftone plates each (some with printed overlays) together with index leaves and leaf of descriptive text for each plate, fascicles I and VI with general titles, fascicle I with 2pp. introductory text, the supplementary fascicle XI (Allgemeine Erlauterung und systematische Übersicht) with 51pp. text. 100 plates total. Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, [1899]-1904. Original printed wrappers, in the original publisher's board portfolios with covers reproducing the design of the wrappers. Wrappers of fasc. I separated at the spine but present, moderate wear to the remaining fascicle spines, small separation in lower corner of first portfolio, but a fine, bright copy. First Edition, rare in the Original Fascicles and Publisher's Book Form Boxes, of Haeckel's remarkable and hugely influential Art Forms in Nature, based on… Read More

Cleve: Tobias Silberling, 1655. [4], 210pp. 8vo. Vellum c. 1655. Very good copy.