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185149884Paris Bachelier 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 33 No 14. Pp. 361- 392 entire issue offered. The paper: pp. 370-374. <br/><br/><em>First printing of a pioneer research in the physiology of the nerves. The authors describes here for the first time the cilio-spinal centre controlling the dilatation of the pupil.Garrison & Morton No 1267. </em> unknown
1851604221851. Notiz. Geb. Nat. Heilk. 4 413415. - Anatomie und Physiologie 1.Bd. No. 4344. - Frorieps Tagsberichte. - Weimar November 1851 8° pp.321-336 2 Rückenbroschuren. First Edition of the comprehensive report partly published before! Ludwig Julius Budge 1811-1888 is known for his anatomical and physiological investigations of the autonomic nervous system discovering that sympathetic nerve stimulation brings about pupillary dilatation and that oculomotor nerve stimulus produces constriction. With neurophysiologist Augustus Volney Waller he was awarded the Prix Montyon by the French Académie des Sciences for research in identifying the segments of spinal cord that control operation of the ciliary muscles. unknown
1852604181852. Notiz. Geb. Nat. Heilk. 4 441445. - Anatomie und Physiologie 1.Bd. No. 4546. - Frorieps Tagsberichte. - Weimar Januar 1852 8° pp.321-336 2 Rückenbroschuren. Erstdruck! "1852 zeigen der deutsche Physiologe Julius Ludwig Budge 1811-1888 und der englische Neurophysiologe Augustus Volney Waller 1816-1870 dass die für die Pupille bestimmten Fasern des Sympathikus ihren Ursprung im Rückenmark haben. Wenn man die vorderen Wurzeln der Nervenpaare durchschneidet die aus dem Centrum ciliospinale hervortreten - also aus der Wurzel der zwei oder drei ersten dorsalen Spinalnervenpaare - so sieht man an der Pupille sogleich die für die durchtrennung des Halssympathikusstrangs charakteristische Verengung." Albert Mudry : Johann Friedrich Horner 1831-1886 und das okulopupilläre Syndrom. Schweiz Med Forum 2014;1434: pp.605-607 "In 1851 Waller abandoned his practice to devote himself entirely to research and moved to Bonn Germany. During his 5 years in Bonn Waller turned to his second major focus in neurophysiology the autonomic nervous system. In collaboration with Julius Ludwig Budge Waller studied the pupillary action and nerve supply to the iris. Their important observations were reported in 1851 and 1852 in the Comptes Rendus published by the French Academy of Sciences. With carefully executed experiments Budge and Waller showed the influence of the cervical portion of the sympathetic nerve in dilatation of the pupil. Using the Wallerian method to trace the dilator fibers they followed the fibers in the sectioned sympathetic trunk to the first and second thoracic segments of the cord. If this region was stimulated in an intact animal there was pupillary dilatation; if the cervical sympathetic nerve was sectioned pupillary dilatation was abolished. Budge and Waller named the area controlling the dilatation of the pupils the ''ciliospinal center.'' Their work on the ciliospinal center won Budge and Waller the 1852 Monthyon Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. They went on to demonstrate the action of the cervical sympathetic nerves on vasoconstriction." Venita Jay: Augustus Volney Waller. Arch Pathol Lab Med 126/9 2002: pp: 1018-1019. unknown
1804002794EELondon: J. Johnson 1804. First Edition. Very good. A very good and tight copy. First English Edition Translated From the French of C. F. Volney. Listed in Howes USiana V-141 and Sabin 100693. 504pp. 3/4 leather in original boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along spine folds corners rubbed. Top edge gold gilt. Two fold out maps and two fold out plates as called for. One of the plates has edge wear and split which has been repaired. Maps are in very good condition with the larger map having a couple of tears to fold. Some foxing to preliminaries. View all Seven Photo's. J. Johnson unknown
18461875Firmin Didot Freres Libraires Editerurs 1846. Hardcover. Firmin Didot Freres, Libraires Editerurs hardcover
18221013N40Paris: Bossange Frères 1822. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 5.5" by 3.5". Various. The eleventh edition of an intriguing work arguing against revolutions written during the Reign of Terror by French public intellectual C.F. Volney. The eleventh edition of Les Ruines ou les Méditations sur les Révolutions des Empires The Ruins or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires also included with La Loi Naturelle The Law of Nature written by French historian philosopher and public intellectual Constantin François De Chasseboeuf Comte De. Volney. Published in 1822 two years following his death first published in 1791 and 1796 respectively. In full calf with a frontispiece of Volney one engraved plate and two folding plates to the rear. First achieving fame with his Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte Travels in Syria and Egypt his seminal work Les Ruines explored the origins of civil society and argued that revolutions were an abandonment of natural law of which he discsuses further in his treatise La Loi Naturelle adjoined to the rear. Published during Robespierre's Reign of Terror Volney fled to America. There he formed a friendship to Thomas Jefferson who later translated the work to English. In full calf. Externally mostly smart with minor rubbing to joints and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A couple of minor rubbing marks to spine and boards. Marble end papers are mostly bright and clean with minor fading. Internally firmly bound with minor wear to hinges between blank and half-title and blank and final index leaf. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot to leaf extremities. Very Good Indeed Bossange Frères hardcover
18211907190050Paris : Bossange freres 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 volume set. Bound in contemporary tree calf. Handsome bindings. Gilt ruled spines with double red morocco spine labels. Very good bindings. Marbled end sheets. 8vo 22 cm. Half-titles 14 plates including frontispiece in vol.1 8 folding maps 15 folding tables. Lacks portrait. <br> Engraved armorial book plates of William Fullerton Lindsay Carnegie. Carnegie 1788-1860 lived at Kinblethmont House Inverkeilor Angus Scotland. <br> Contents: I. Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de Volney. Les Ruines. La Loi naturelle. Lettre de Volney au docteur Priestley. Discours sur l'etude philosophique des langues. ; II. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T.I. : Etat physique de l'Egypte etat politique de l'Egypte etat physique de la Syrie etat politique de la Syrie. ; III. Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie. T. II : Etat politique de la Syrie ; Etat du commerce du Levant en 1784 ; Considerations sur la guerre des Turks en 1788. ; IV. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne. T.I : Examen de l'histoire des juifs jusqu'e la captivite de Babylone ; Chronologie des rois Lydiens ; Chronologie d'Herodote. ; V. Recherches nouvelles sur l'histoire ancienne : Suite de la chronologie d'Herodote ; Chronologie des Babyloniens ; Chronologie des Egyptiens. ; VI. Leçons d'histoire prononcees e l'Ecole normale en l'an III de la Republique française 1795. Histoire de Samuel inventeur du sacre des rois. Etat physique de la Corse. 1re et 2nde lettre e M. le comte Lanjuinais sur l'antiquite de l'alphabet phenicien. Lettre au directeur de la Revue sur une nouvelle traduction d'Herodote. Questions de statistique e l'usage des voyageurs. ; VII. Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis. Eclaircissemens sur divers articles. ; VIII. L'Alfabet europeen applique aux langues asiatiques. Simplification des langues orientales ou Methode nouvelle et facile d'apprendre les langues arabe persane et turke avec des caracteres europeens : grammaire de la langue arabe l'hebreu simplifie par la methode alfabetique. Vues nouvelles sur l'enseignement des langues orientales. Paris : Bossange freres hardcover
18032510010043Courcier imprimeur-libraire quai des Augustins no. 71 ; Dentu imprimeur-libraire Palais du Tribunat Galleries-de-Bois no. 240 Paris an XII--1803 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. xvi 534 pages: 2 folded leaves of plates 2 folded maps of North America and the United States. 21 cm. Includes the vocabulary of the Miami Indians. Includes American geology and natural science as well as observations on Indians. <br> Volney was a philosopher abolitionist orientalist and extensive traveler. He came to America to avoid imprisonment by the French government during the Reign of Terror. A friend of Jefferson he was expelled in 1798 by President John Adams under the Alien and Sedition Act due to the fear he was acting as a French agent to allow for the reoccupation of the Louisiana territory. He visited the United States from 1795-1798 and this book was the result Jefferson translated most of the work but it was ultimately completed by John Barlow. Refs: Sabin 100692 Howes 10675; Clark II:69; Pilling 4061; Monaghan 1472; Buck 49. Courcier, imprimeur-libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 71 ; Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galleries-de-Bois, no. hardcover
185020511Cincinnati:: John D. Thorpe 1850. First edition. disbound. Vey nice. 8vo. John D. Thorpe, unknown
1895111026282NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Clean pages with general mild cover soil and some small stains. Secure binding with nice pages. Beautifully illustrated. 11 x 9-1/4 with 78 pages. Rare!. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY Hardcover
1852WRCAM48878Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 13pp. Folded signature. Fine. Untrimmed and unopened. Congressman Howard commits about half of the present work to the question of the border between Texas and New Mexico and also discusses how such boundaries will effect a railroad to the Pacific Ocean and subsequent westerly steamship routes from California to China and beyond. OCLC locates only ten institutional copies. <br> <br> THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS outlines Howard's experience in Texas as follows: <br> <br> "In 1840 he was defeated for election to the House of the Twenty-seventh Congress in Mississippi. Shortly afterwards he moved to New Orleans where he practiced law until December 1844 when he moved to San Antonio Texas. He was a delegate to the Convention of 1845 and represented Bexar County in the House of the First Legislature. On February 27 1846 Governor James Pinckney Henderson appointed Howard attorney general of Texas but he declined the appointment. Howard was a representative from Texas in the House of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second congresses but was defeated for reelection in 1852 by Peter Hansborough Bell." SABIN 33281. OCLC 5081497. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office unknown books
1805965F7London: G. Robinson; T. Davison 1805 . Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The third English language translation of comte de Volney's detailed and charmingly illustrated account of his late eighteenth century travels in Syria and Egypt. The third edition in the English language of this work complete in two volumes.Volney a French philosopher and historian travelled extensively through the Levant documenting his observations on the geography climate agriculture society and political conditions of the regions he visited.Volney combines empirical observation with critical analysis of Islamic societies and ancient ruins studying the decline of the once-prosperous civilisation.Illustrated with a folding frontispiece two folding maps to volume I and with two folding plates to volume II.Collated complete.With the bookplate of G. A. F. H. Bridgeman to front pastedowns and Weston Library bookplates to rear pastedowns. Rebacked in calf retaining original calf boards. Endpapers renewed. Significant rubbing to board perimeters otherwise externally excellent. Armorial bookplates to front pastedowns library bookplates to rear pastedowns. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd spot. Significant spotting to plates. Very Good G. Robinson; T. Davison hardcover
1880995H35London: Farrah c1880. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4". None Stated. A later English edition of Volney"s landmark meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations including The Law of Nature illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. In the publisher"s original green cloth.Illustrated with two fold-out plates and a frontispiece. Collated complete. This edition includes The Law of Nature Volney"s exposition of secular ethics and political philosophy a text that proved especially influential among radical and freethinking audiences in Britain and America.A later English edition of Volney"s celebrated philosophical and historical meditation on the rise and fall of civilisations first published in France in 1791 and shaped by the intellectual and political aftermath of the French Revolution.Constantin François de Volney 1757-1820 was a French philosopher historian and committed Enlightenment rationalist closely associated with the ideals and reformist spirit of the French Revolution. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very minor blistering to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if characteristically age toned with one or two light spots. Slight cockling to pages. Very Good Indeed Farrah hardcover
187920963San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp in publisher's dark red pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed otherwise a very nice copy unmarked and sound. Contains "brief descriptions of over five hundred species of plants known to grow in the region bounded on the west by the coast line from Monterey Bay to Mendocino County and on the east by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada." It is indexed but alas not illustrated. Uncommon in the first edition. A.L. Bancroft hardcover books
187920963San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 106 pp in publisher's dark red pebbled cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed otherwise a very nice copy unmarked and sound. Contains "brief descriptions of over five hundred species of plants known to grow in the region bounded on the west by the coast line from Monterey Bay to Mendocino County and on the east by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada." It is indexed but alas not illustrated. Uncommon in the first edition. A.L. Bancroft hardcover
1895060387Boston: D.C. Heath & Co. 1895. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy in green cloth of the 1895 first edition. Owner's name embossure at the bottom corner of the title page. The binding is sound the text is clean/unmarked and not ex-library. <br/> <br/> D.C. Heath & Co. hardcover
18940800078New York: Volwalt Publishing Company. 1894. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 7th Edition / 1st Printing. Paperback. Good. Seventh Edition / First Printing actually Fourth Revised edition with type re-set. Very good in good dust jacket. Book : slight bumping at bottom of spine. Jacket : slight spotting & over-all darking to covers. 15 x 23cm. soft cover. Approx. 100pp. B1406 Volwalt Publishing Company paperback
18942938New York: Volwalt Publishing Company 1894. second edition. softcover in wraps. Book VG-: age toning to wraps spine sunned mild scuffs/chips at corners and spine ends. 8vo unpaginated. second edition June 1894. What Makes a Friend Definitions and Opinions from Various Sources Collected and Compiled by Volney Streamer. collection of quotations from across classic and modern literature on friendship. scarce copy. #03003. Volwalt Publishing Company unknown
18940789452New York: Volwalt Publishing Company. 1894. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Second edition / 1st Printing Collectible. Paperback. Very Good. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. Second Edition / First Printing. Very Good copy in the scarce foldover jacket slight spotting to covers. 15 x 23cm. soft cover. Approx. 100pp. Volwalt Publishing Company paperback
1804lib000185J. Johnson 1804. Hardcover. Very Good. nicely rebound fold-outs pages and fold outs are all very good J. Johnson hardcover
1846100107037B. Renault 1846. couverture fortement défraîchie dos abîmés tranche fanée ternie rousseurs à l'intérieur document dépliant in-fine. in8. 1846. Broché. B. Renault unknown
1825175624Paris: Parmantier 1825. Broché. Etat satisfaisant. in-8. Demi reliure 3 planches Parmantier unknown
1826VT - LA - HAY120821826. Paris Baudouin Frères Libraires. relié demi-cuir à coins vert. Plats et coins un peu frottés avec petit manque de carton en bas du dernier plat ; la première page de contreplat est absente ainsi que le frontispice ; quelques faibles rousseurs bon état d'ensemble. forma : 13/85 cm. dos orné de filets et titres en lettres dorées. unknown
1804WN475154Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804. Contemporary full calf with gilt rules and lettering on spine. Gilt stamp at bottom of spine says: "Mississippi State Univ. Jackson." This is only library indicia found in or on the book. Ghost of label at top of spine. Calf is somewhat scuffed and rubbed. Wear on edges spine ends and joints and upper joint starting at top. Text is foxed and browned throughout. 2 fold out maps and 2 fold out charts present as called for. Niagara chart facing p. 81 has been reinforced on one fold. A little damp staining on lower edges not affecting text and a couple of page edge tears but overall a very decent copy complete with Supplements Vocabulary of the Miami language and Additional Notes at rear. . First American Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. J. Conrad & Co. Hardcover books
18112222177<p>Fifth edition. 16mo. Frontispiece pictorial title page with secondary title "The Ruins or A Surrey of the Revolutions of Empires." Later full gilt stamped green leather. Folding map; folding astrological chart at end. Very good. 232 pages.</p><p>Printed by Plummer and Brewis Love-Lane Little Eastcheap.</p><p>Bookplate of poet and critic Vivian De Sola Pinto 1895-1969.</p> Printed for Thomas Tegg hardcover books