Search Results: Titles starting with T from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

London: Taylor and Francis, 1873. Whole issue, xi, 443pp., 40 plates. Uncut & unopened; original printed wrappers, front wrapper top right corner bent, (230 x 290 mm). Very good+/-. Lockyer, J. Norman. Researches in the spectrum-analysis in connexion with the spectrum of the sun. -- No. I. By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. . . p. 253, 3 p.l.

Ottawa, 1980.

Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society, 1955. First edition. Whole Issue (15 August 1955). Finely Rebacked. Blue Wraps. Near Fine.

Paris, 1793. France. Conseil de Santé. Tableau des infirmités qui nécessitent la réforme, et doivent empêcher l'admission au service militaire [title on leaf 2]. Manuscript document addressed to the Minister of War, signed by nine members of the Conseil de Santé including Antoine-Auguste Parmentier (1737-1813), Antoine Dubois (1756-1837), Guillaume Daignan (1732-1812), Nicolas Heurteloup (1750-1812), Pierre Bayen (1725-98) and Vincent Jean Paul Biron (1758-1817). [4]ff. (2 bifolia), the last leaf blank, fastened along central fold with silk ties. Paris, 15 brumaire de l'an 2 de la République [5 November 1793]. 318 x 206 mm. Light soiling and spotting, first bifolium partially split along central fold, but very good. Elegantly written official document from the French revolutionary government's Conseil de Santé to the Minister of War (Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte, 1754-1840), calling for the need to reform the French army's medical regulations and providing a tabulated list of infirmities… Read More

paris: Didot, 1780. The Earliest Study of Influenza Saillant, Charles Jacques (1747-1804). Tableau historique et raisonne des epidemies catharrales, vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques & y compris celle de 1780, avec l'indication des traitemens curatifs & des moyens propres a s'en preserver. 12mo. [2], 131, [1]pp. Paris: Didot jeune . . . , 1780. 185 x 110 (uncut). Plain wrappers c. 1780, worn & faded. A few dampstains, title a bit soiled, but very good. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 5488. Apparently the earliest study of influenza. The author gives an account of influenza epidemics from 1557 to the time of writing, describes various forms of treatment, and ends with a brief section on how to protect against the disease. Saillant was a member of the Faculte de Medecine and practiced in Paris from 1804 until his death. Hirsch. .

Berlin: Louis Quien, 1808. Gilbert, Nicolas Pierre (1751-1814). Tableau historique des maladies internes de mauvais caractère qui ont affligé la Grande Armée dans la campagne de Prusse et de Pologne et notamment de celles qui ont été observés dans les hôpitaux militaires . . . viii, 134pp. Berlin: Louis Quien, 1808. 199 x 120 mm. Quarter morocco, marbled boards in antique style. Very good. First Edition. Gilbert was a military physician who served in various campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, becoming principal doctor for Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1813. In the present treatise Gilbert discussed the diseases that afflicted the Grande Armée during its Prussian and Polish campaigns in 1806-7, and compared the methods of treatment used by French and German doctors. .

Venice: Deuchinum, 1627. Casserio, Giulio (1561?-1616) Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIX . . . Daniel Bucretius [1600?-1631] . . . XX . . . addidit [by Francesco Valesio (1560-1648?) after Odoardo Fialetti (1572-1638)]. Folio. [3] 97ff. Engraved title-page, 97 full-page text engravings. Venice: apud Evangelistam Deuchinum, 1627. With: Spiegel, Adriaan van der (1578-1625). De humani corporis fabrica libri decem . . . Engraved title, [10], 328 (i.e., 330), [12]pp., plus final blank. Venice: apud Evangelistam Deuchinum, 1627. Bound with: Spiegel. De formato fœtu liber singularis æneis figuris exornatus . . . Padua: Apud Io. Bap. de Martinis, & Livium Pasquatum, [1626]. [8], 104pp. 9 engraved plates. Together 3 works in 1, folio. 383 x 265 mm. 18th century quarter calf gilt, vellum boards (vellum reused from an earlier binding), light wear, front cover a bit warped. Plate in De formato fœtu repaired, some marginal dampstaining on last several leaves, upper corners of first few leaves worn, but very good.… Read More

Vienna: Amandi Konig, 1752. Eisenmann, Georg Heinrich (1693-1768). Tabulae anatomicae quatuor uteri duplicis observationem rariorem sistentes. . . . Large folio. [7]ff. Four engraved plates by P. I Lutherberg after I. M. Weis. Strassburg: Ex officina libraria Amandi Konigii, 1752. 460 x 328 mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards. Margins of 6 leaves skillfully repaired, minor soiling and spotting, otherwise a very good copy. First Edition in Latin. Garrison-Morton 6018. Eisenmann's atlas of bipartite and double uterus. "A notable event in the [eighteenth] century was the publication of G. H. Eisenmann's Tabulae Anatomicae Quatuor Uteri in Strasbourg. His Atlas of the Uterus was an important advance in the history of gynecological anatomy" (O'Dowd and Philipp, History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, p. 64, misstating the publication date as 1725). The work was published in a French edition the same year. Eisenmann was a professor of medicine and pathology at Strassburg. Hirsch gives the Tabulae… Read More

London, 1616. Aelianus Tacticus (fl. 2nd century CE). The tacticks of Aelian or art of embattailing an army after ye Grecian manner . . . Translated and edited by John Bingham. [4], 159, [7]pp. Engraved title by Aegidius Gelius, 50 engraved plates (mostly folding). London: Laurence Lisle, 1616. 302 x 202 mm. Replica binding in full morocco gilt by Sean Richards. Two or three marginal tears, a few small tears in the plates but very good. First Edition in English of Aelian's Peri strategikon taxeon Hellenikon [On military arrangements of the Greeks], a handbook of military drill and tactics as practiced by Alexander the Great and his Hellenistic successors. The treatise, most often referred to as Aelian's Tactics or Tactica, is of particular value for its explanation of the operation of the Macedonian phalanx, an infantry formation developed by Alexander's father, Philip of Macedon, and used by Alexander to conquer much of the known world. Aelian's work remained influential long after his death: An… Read More

Bern: Haller, 1787.

San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 2001. Tarnished Idol is the first serious, scholarly biography of William T. G. Morton, the self-trained Boston dentist who is credited with demonstrating to the medical profession in 1846 the efficacy of sulfuric ether in allaying the pain of surgery. It is also the first detailed analysis of the "ether controversy," which grew out of Morton's association with the physician-chemist Charles T. Jackson, who claimed to have given Morton the vital clues that led to his success. The controversy arose after Morton patented the discovery and attempted, over Jackson's protestations, to reap a fortune from the controlled use of ether in surgery and dentistry. As a result, Morton spent much of the remainder of his life unsuccessfully trying to convince Congress that he was the discoverer of anesthesia, all in the expectation of receiving a large cash reward. Of the four book-length biographies of Morton previously published, two, by Benjamin Perley Poore (1856) and Nathan P.… Read More

1876. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80); Neil Arnott (1788-1874). Elements of physics, or, natural philosophy. Manuscript consisting of text pages, from an earlier edition, of the book's "Prefatory Note" and Part IV (Heat), sections 554 - approx. 643 and 699 - approx. 716, heavily amended in Taylor's hand, together with extensive autograph additions on separate sheets. Approx. 120ff. N.p., 1876. Accompanied by a cost sheet in a secretarial hand dated 3 October 1876, headed "Dr. Arnott's Physics 7th Edition," plus 3 receipts for expenses related to the book's production. Various sizes. Creased, some dust-soiling and fraying, but overall very good. Autograph manuscript of a large portion of Taylor's contribution to the posthumous seventh edition of Neil Arnott's Elements of Physics, co-edited by Taylor and Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain (1818-1903). The manuscript consists of text sheets of Section IV on "Heat," taken from an earlier edition and heavily revised in Taylor's hand, plus numerous… Read More

1895. Offprint from Monteral Medical Journal (1895). 14pp. Lacks wrappers. Good.

London: Telegraph Construction & Maintenance co. Ltd, 1950. Lawford, G. L. and L. R. Nicholson [ed.]. The Telcon story: 1850-1950. London: Telegraph Construction & Maintenance co. Ltd., 1950. 176pp. 220 x 130 mm. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Pages crisp and clean. Spine rather faded, corners a little bent. Bookplate to front paste-down. Good to Very good. First Edition. Published in 1950 by Telcon, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, to celebrate its 100th anniversary. 51049.

New York: Harper, 1976.

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. First edition. xii, 369pp. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dustjacket in plastic. (155 x 235 mm). Good++.

20pp. Original wrappers, library stamps to front and bottom. (100 x 195 mm).

New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press, 8211. RCA (Radio Corporation of America). Television: Collected addresses and papers on the future of the new art and its recent technical developments. 6 volumes. New York: RCA Institutes Technical Press, 1936-1950. Vols. 1 and 2 in original blue printed wrappers; Vols 3-6 in original cloth. 230 x 150 mm. (Vols. 1-2); 220 x 145 mm. (Vols. 3-6). Spines and edges faded, head of spine in Vol. 1 beginning to separate from the text block, first leaf of Vol. 1 starting, light toning. Very good. First Edition. RCA was a leading pioneer of commercial television. The company began developing TV technology in 1929 at the urging of Vladimir Zworykin, one the founders of modern television, who had patented a prototype television system a few years earlier. Despite the system's technical limitations, Zworykin was able to convince RCA's president, David Sarnoff, that a commercial version could be produced in a short time for $100,000—an overly optimistic claim, as RCA… Read More

London: Century Publishing, 1985. Wheen, Francis. Television: A history. Editorial consultant: Peter Fiddick. London: Century Publishing, 1985. 252 [4]pp. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. 260 x 190 mm. Dust-jacket. Near fine copy. First Edition. 51083.

London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. First Book on Television in English: Superb Copy Dinsdale, Alfred. Television: Seeing by wireless. 8vo. 62pp. London: W. S. Caines for Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 186 x 125 mm. Original printed paper boards, pictorial dust-jacket. Very fine copy. Boxed. First Edition of the first book in English on television. Dinsdale discusses the technical challenges faced by early experimenters (Jan van Szczepanik, Boris Rosing, Denoys von Kihaly and others), but focuses primarily on the work of the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion. In February 1924 Baird produced the first television image in outline, and in April 1925 he transmitted the first pictures between two televisions. By the following October Baird had succeeded in transmitting images with gradations of light and shade, and on January 27, 1926, he successfully transmitted recognizable human faces between two rooms by television. Of… Read More