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Berlin: Slowa, 1922. 51, [5]pp. Original printed wrappers, faded, front hinge weak, tears at spine. First edition in Russian of Weil 111; see Weil 111e.

Krakow: Akademia Umiejetnosci, 1910. ukasiewicz, Jan (1878-1956). O zasadzie sprzeczno ci u Arystotelesa. Studyum krytyczne. [4], 210, [2]pp. Krakow: Akademia Umiejetno ci, 1910. 199 x 140 mm. Half cloth, paste paper boards ca. 1913, number stamped on spine, label and deaccessioning stamp of the University of Lodz's Biblioteka Instytutu Filosofii. Library stamps / markings on title, verso title and one other leaf, but very good. First Edition, and very scarce on the market, with no copies in auction records. ukasiewicz's first book, on the principle of contradiction in Aristotle's writings, marks his earliest attempt to "open up on logic vistas comparable to those opened in geometry by the introduction of non-Euclidian systems" (McCall, Polish Logic, 1920-1938, p. 2). ukasiewicz, a Polish logician and philosopher, introduced mathematical logic into Poland and was one of the principal founders, architects and teachers of the Warsaw school of logic. "His most famous achievement was to give the… Read More

London: A. Millar & D. Wilson; T. Payne, 1752. Pringle, John (1707-82). Observations on the diseases of the army, in camp and garrison. xxiii, 431pp. London: A. Millar and D. Wilson; T. Payne, 1752. 207 x 129 mm. Calf gilt ca. 1752, rebacked preserving original spine, corners a bit worn. Scattered faint foxing, but very good. The Haskell F. Norman copy, with his bookplate; 19th-century bookplate of E. G. Graham Little. First Edition. Pringle, Physician-General to the British Army from 1744 to 1752, was the founder of modern military medicine. His Observations "laid down the true principles of military sanitation and the ventilation of hospital wards. Pringle was one of the pioneers of the antiseptic idea, showed that jail fever and hospital fever are one and the same, did much for the better ventilation of ships, barracks, jails and mines, correlated the different forms of dysentery and gave the name influenza to that dread disease. This work [was] the source-book of all subsequent writers"… Read More

London, 1791. Herschel, William (1738-1822). On nebulous stars, properly so called. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 81, part 1 (1791): 71-88. With: Home, Everard (1756-1832). Observations on certain horny excrescences of the human body. In ibid.: 95-105. Whole volume, 4to. vi, [2], 127, [1], 26, iv, 129-438, [2, incl. errata]pp. 10 engraved plates. 275 x 215 mm. Calf gilt ca. 1791, spine rubbed, hinges cracked, corners worn. Very good, clean copy. Engraved bookplate of John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury (1721-1807). First Editions, journal issues. Herschel's paper records his observation in 1790 of the planetary nebula now known as NGC 1514, which caused him to reconsider his hypothesis that all nebulae were in fact star clusters disguised by distance. NGC 1514 "is so close to Earth that William was able to see the central star that in fact is always present in a planetary nebula. Accordingly, William classified the object as a nebulous star. Marveling at what he saw, he… Read More

Amsterdam: Le Grand, 1665. 12mo. 12mo.212pp.(misprinted 112), 2 blanks. 1 folding plate. 128 x 71mm. Contemporary limp vellum, soiled, sewing a little loose. Some soiling and frayed edges in text, a little light foxing, but very good. FIRST 12MO. EDITION, published the year after the original Padua octavo edition. Garrison-Morton 5572, citing the Amsterdam edition. Marchetti was professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua. He had an excellent knowledge of anatomy, and made important contributions to liver surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery and the treatment of gunshot wounds. His fifty-three "observationes" "have a permanent historical value" (Leonardo, History 169).

London: T. Cadel [etc.], 1769. Very good. [4], iii, iv, iii, [1], 207pp. 204 x 121 mm. Recent half calf, boards, spine a bit faded, occasional foxing. Very good. "Includes Millar's original description of laryngismus stridulus ('Millar's asthma')" (Garrison-Morton.com).

Venice: apud Jo. Baptistam Recurti, 1724. Heavily Annotated by an 18th-Century Medical Scholar Santorini, Giovanni Domenico (1681-1737). Observationes anatomicae. 4to. [12], 250 [i.e., 252]pp. 3 folding engraved plates, the second plate signed by the artist Marcus Galli and the engraver Carlo Orsolini (ca. 1710-ca. 1780). Venice: Giovanni Battista Recurti, 1724. 286 x 208 mm. (uncut). Original carta rustica boards, spine repaired, slight wear. Minor dampstain in upper margins of plates and last approx. 15 leaves, otherwise very good to fine. Extensive scholarly annotations in a legible and attractive 18th-century hand in the margins of several leaves; note on Santorini's death in the same hand on the front pastedown. First Edition. "Santorini was generally acknowledged as the outstanding anatomist of his time, carefully dissecting and delineating many difficult and complex gross features of the human body, such as facial muscles involved in emotional expression, accessory pancreatic ducts, and… Read More

1892. Rudaux, Lucien (1874-1947). (1) Observations de Mars. Illustrated autograph document signed, in French. 3-1/2pp. on three sheets. Donville, ca. August 1892. (2) Autograph letter signed, in French, most likely to G. Secretan, manufacturer of scientific instruments; includes sheet with drawings of Mars. 4pp. on 3 sheets. Donville, 9 October 1892. "De la part de M. Secretan" inscribed in pencil on the first sheet in another hand. Together 2 items, 6 sheets total. Approx. 300 x 202 mm. Edges a bit frayed, small tears along some folds. Very good. Excellent illustrated manuscript and letter by Lucien Rudaux, one of the founders of modern space art, who was the first to create accurate images of our moon and Mars. The Rudaux crater on Mars, and the Lucien Rudaux Memorial Award honoring masters of space art, are both named for him. He was the author of Sur les autres mondes (1937), a classic work containing over 400 illustrations of our solar system's planets and moons. "Never before had readers seen… Read More

London, 1835. Herschel, John Frederick William (1792-1871) & South, James (1785-1867). Observations of the apparent distances and positions of 380 double and triple stars, made in the years 1821, 1822, and 1823. . . . In: Phil. Trans., part III (1824). 4to. [2] 412 [12]pp. 4 eng. plates. London: W. Nichol, 1825. 296 x 235 mm. (uncut & unopened). Orig. wrappers, sl. chipped. Minor dust-soiling to edges, plates a little foxed and browned, but a fine copy. First Edition. Herschel and South, friends since student days and co-founders of the Royal Astronomical Society (1820), collaborated on double-star research between 1821-23, publishing this catalogue of double (binary) stars in 1824 which earned them the Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society over such competitors as Bessel, Struve and Pond. Herschel would eventually prepare a catalogue of 10,300 double stars, devise important computational methods in relation to double stars, and generally establish double-star astronomy in England. Buttman, Shadow… Read More

1909. Offprint from Journal of the American Medical Association 52 (1909). 23pp. 215 x 142 mm. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining. Very good.

1899. Offprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin (1899). 12pp. 235 x 150 mm. Original printed wrappers, toned, a few chips. Good+.

Baltimore: Hopkins, 1909.

Leipzig: Johann Gottfried Mueller, 1793. Treutler, Friedrich August (1766-1819). Observationes pathologico-anatomicae auctarium ad helminthologiam humani corporis continentes. 4to. [8], 43pp. 4 hand-colored engraved plates. Leipzig: Sumptibus Ioannis Godofredi Mueller, 1793. 225 x 186 mm. Half sheep, boards ca. 1793, a little rubbed and spotted. Outer margin of first plate trimmed affecting the plate number only, otherwise a very good, crisp copy. Inscription in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. First Edition, a desirable example with hand-colored plates, which are not present in all copies. Treutler obtained his licentiate in medicine from the University of Leipzig with this thesis on parasitic worms, in which he identified some hitherto undescribed species (Tenia albopunctata, Hamularia lymphatica and Hexathyridio pinguicula) and discussed the diseases they cause in their human hosts. The hand-colored illustrations include a transverse section of a human brain infected with Tenia in… Read More

1899. First edition. Observations upon the origin of gall-bladder infections and upon the experimental formation of gall-stones. Offprint from Johns Hopkins Bulletin 10 (1899). 12pp. 237 x 151 mm. Original printed wrappers, edges a little browned. Stamp of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Library on front wrapper. Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing 33.

London, 1772. Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804). Observations on different kinds of air. In: Philosophical Transactions 62 (1772): 147-264, 1 folding copperplate. Whole volume, 4to. xiv, 494, [2, including errata]pp. 12 (of 14) folding copperplates, lacking Plates III and IV* (not affecting the Priestley paper). London: Davis, 1772. 222 x 171 mm. Modern quarter calf, marbled boards in period style. Light foxing and toning, a few small tears in plates repaired, occasional offsetting from plates, but very good. Faint embossed library stamp on title and last few leaves. First Edition. The first of Priestley's remarkable papers on pneumatic chemistry. "In this essay Priestley showed that in air collected after the processes of combustion, respiration or putrefaction, one-fifth of the volume disappeared. He had also observed that mint grew vigorously in air tainted by animal respiration and that evidently plants reversed the process of polluting the air as respiration did. In this paper he also announced two… Read More

1909. Offprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin 20 (1909). 19pp. 6 plates. 234 x 151 mm. Original printed front wraper, back wrapper lackign. Johns Hopkins Hospital library stamp on front wrapper. Good.

London: G. C. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. xii, 227pp. 215 x 133 mm. Half calf, marbled boards ca. 1793, front hinge split (inner hinge reinforced with cloth tape), light wear. Good+.

Manchester, 1865. Radford, Thomas (1793-1881). Observations on the caesarean section and on other obstetric operations. With an appendix of cases. [4], 68, xlviii pp. 6 plates, 2 folding tables (pp. 65-68). Manchester: N.p., 1865. 216 x 137 mm. Original cloth over limp boards, stamped in gilt and blind, skillfully rebacked, light edgewear. Lower corner of title-leaf chipped, occasional foxing but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the title: "For the Library of the Sheffield General Infirmary Presented by the Author." First Edition. Radford, an obstetrician associated with St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester, wrote the present work to promote the use of cesarean section—at that time a highly risky operation with an extremely high mortality rate—in cases where the woman's pelvis was too narrow or deformed for vaginal delivery. Radford's arguments were based on moral as well as medical grounds: He abhorred the then-standard practice of craniotomy (puncturing or crushing the fetal head) to… Read More

London: John Murray, 1856. Babbage, Charles (1791-1871). Observations addressed, at the last anniversary, to the president and fel- lows of the Royal Society, after the delivery of the med- als. 10, [2]pp. London: John Murray, 1856. 213 x 127 mm. Disbound.Tiny stab-holes in left margin, small chip in last leaf but very good. Ownership stamp of Dr. A. Nardecchia on title. First Edition. In 1853 the Swedish engineers Georg and Edvard Scheutz constructed their first successful working Difference Engine, a calculating and printing machine based on Babbage's designs and research. Babbage applauded the Scheutzes' efforts and did his best to publicize their machine, as he did in this address to the Royal Society in which he gave a brief summary of the Scheutz machine's construction, noted that it had won a gold medal at the Paris Exposition, and chided the Royal Society for failing to honor the Scheutzes in similar fashion. "Sweden has thus secured for herself the glory of having been the first nation… Read More

London: Richard Taylor, 1833. Brown, Robert (1773-1858). Observations on the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ. Offprint from Transactions of the Linnean Society. [2], 685-745pp. 3 engraved plates. London: Richard Taylor, 1833. 282 x 221 mm. Modern quarter morocco, cloth boards, original front wrapper (repaired) bound in. Minor staining and foxing on the plates, inner margins of plates and first three leaves repaired, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed, probably by the recipient, on the verso of the front wrapper: "dedit auctor illustrissimus, amicissimus, d. 15 Septbris. 1835 Dr. Shaeper[?]" [the most illustrious and dear author gave (this) on 15th September 1835]. Stamps of the Rostock University Library on the front wrapper, title and a few other leaves. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Discovery of the cell nucleus. Brown originally published his discovery in a pamphlet printed for private distribution, titled "Observations on the Organs and Mode of Fecundation… Read More