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189741520Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière 1897. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened uncut copy. 15 pp. Sm. 4to. Revue Mensuelle de L'École d'Anthropologie de Paris Publièe par les Professeurs. Septiéme année XII. 15 décembre 1897. Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière unknown books
1888S6892Bologna:: Bamberini et Parmegolani 1888. 1888. 8vo. 26 pp. Original printed wrappers; dis-bound extremities chipped. Ex library rubber stamp and ms. notations on top cover. Good. Bamberini et Parmegolani, 1888. unknown books
185010335New York: McSpedon & Baker 1850. 8vo. 797850 pp. <br><br>Document no. 53. Includes the "Proceedings &c. respecting Major John Andre Adjutant General of the British Army" on pp. 807850. Scarce item: OCLC lists only 3 holdings. Sewn; disbound. Light stains in bottom margins throughout. Several pages with rubber-stamps of the New Jersey Historical Society. McSpedon & Baker unknown books
1890RH1434Paris:: Gauthier-Villars 1890. 1890. 8vo. 230 pp. pages 15-16 torn without loss. Original green printed wrappers; covers off good working copy. Signature of Roger Hahn. Rare. Cited in Roger Hahn's classic The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution; The Paris Academy of Science 1666-1803 1971 p. 409. Gauthier-Villars, [1890]. unknown books
1876402106Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea 1876. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamp on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. 607 pp. Original flexible cloth. Includes: MORTON Thomas George 1835-1903. "A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation". Pp. 37-45. First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia "Morton's disease". Garrison-Morton-Norman 4341. See Cordasco 70-2526. WARREN Jonathan Mason 1811-1867. "Operations for fissure of the hard and soft palate palatoplastie". Pp. 538-47. Warren devised the first operation for closure of complete clefts of the palate. Garrison-Morton-Norman 5745. <br/><br/> Henry C. Lea hardcover books
1898006693New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1898. Authorized Edition 1898. Near Fine in Half-Leather over marbled boards leather a few small rubs most pages yet uncut. A quite handsome copy. . Later Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover books
189016764Paris: Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire 1890. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 79 pages. 4to. Original marbled boards with leather spine and gilt titling. Rubbing to the extremities. Occasional soiling internally generally bright and clean. Boards. Roughly translated title: "Collection Of Memoirs Reports And Documents Relating To The Observation Of The Passage Of Venus On The Sun: Annex Gauthier-Villars / Imprimeur-Libraire unknown books
1886402112Philadelphia: Lea Brothers 1886. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape library label and stamps on endleaves/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner M.D. 8vo. Contemporary half leather. Contains: Charles FINLAY. "Yellow fever: its transmission by means of the Culex mosquito." Pp. 395-409. <br/><br/> Lea Brothers hardcover books
1894006961Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co. 1894. SCARCE in such lovely collectible condition. Near Fine tiny rubs to cloth at corners gilt bright contents are clean tight and unmarked. 302 pp. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The F. A. Davis Co. Hardcover books
1899005593Paris: Charles Carrington 1899. pp. xx 422. Title page printed in red and black. Out of a sequence of 1000 unnumbered copies. Very Good rebound in dark blue cloth gilt. Slight weakness to joints prior owner blind stamp title page slight browning. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Carrington Hardcover books
1899005846Englewood NJ: The Macmillan Co 1899. SCARCE as a single issue Very Good wrappers worn at spine rear wrapper stained internally clean and unmarked. 4 pp. ads paginated 143-173 3 pp. ads. . First Edition. Magazine. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Macmillan Co, Paperback books
1898005273Paris: Librairie de Medecine Folklore et Anthropologie 1898. #374 of 1000 copies published for England and America. Bound in publisher's original black cloth marbled end pages. Very Good both volumes gilt lettering mostly rubbed away hinges starting cloth a bit soiled contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Librairie de Medecine, Folklore et Anthropologie Hardcover books
1861008331Boston: Crosby Nichols Lee and Company 1861. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page - "To Hon. Simon Brown with the regards of The Author". Simon Brown was the 21st Lt. Governor of Massachusetts serving from 1855-56. He was also a printer and publisher including of the New England Farmer. Simon Brown's signature in pencil at top edge title page. Very Good Plus title at spine faded and not quite legible. 164 pp. in publisher's pebbled cloth with rules in blind. Quite sturdily bound in line with its intended audience. SCARCE SIGNED and with a nice Association. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Association Copy. Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company Hardcover books
1896008479Chicago: J. S. Ziegler & Co. 1896. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt lettering marbled page edges flower and leaf patterned end papers. The title continues -"containing Full Information on All the Marvelous and Complex Matters Pertaining to Women including Creative Science; Bearing Nursing and Rearing Children; Hereditary Descent; Hints on Courtship and Marriage; Promoting Health and Beauty Vigor of Mind and Body etc. etc. together with Diseases Peculiar to the Female Sex Their Causes Symptoms and Treatment the whole forming a Complete Medical Guide for Women". Embellished with many superb colored plates phototype and wood engravings. Near Fine light soiling to boards light toning to end papers. A quite lovely copy and SCARCE thus. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. J. S. Ziegler & Co. Hardcover books
1815005245London: Thomas Underwood 1815. Translated from the French by G.J.M. De Lys M.D. 512 pages with Index. Handsomely rebound in light blue cloth gilt titles at spine. Very Good Plus binding is Fine contents have light foxing and staining 2 prior owner names title page. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Thomas Underwood Hardcover books
1893008934New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1893. vii 566 pages with 219 illustrations in text. Dated 1884 copyright page 1893 title page. SCARCE in any edition in current commerce. Near Fine in original brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations top edge gilt from the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt noted North Carolina geologist conservationist and state and local civic leader and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division the first to break the Hindenburg Line. His ownership signature and name stamp front end page. Slight wear at spine ends light soiling at end pages. . Revised American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
1885008533London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1885. SCARCE in the First Edition. Bound in contemporary full polished calf by Bickers & Son marbled end papers and edges back gilt. From the collection of noted thoracic surgeon Edward Delos Churchill his bookplate front paste down. Very Good joints showing wear yet still holding gilt at back rubbed spine label missing rubs at edges and corners. . First Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. Hardcover books
1850006440Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston 1850. Translated by Robert P. Thomas M.D. xxiv 765 2 ads. Very Good leather rubbed prior owners name front end page some pencil notations rear end pages foxing and toning to end pages and some foxing throughout. Most internal pages clean and unfoxed. Excellent frontispiece lithograph illustration of a female infant with internal organs in color. Illustrated throughout in black and white. . First American Edition. Full Tan Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lindsay and Blakiston Hardcover books
1836006552Philadelphia: T. Wardle 1836. SCARCE in the First American from the Thirteenth English Edition Corrected. In two volumes apparently rebound in late 1800s green cloth binding about Very Good leather spine labels rubbed and illegible small prior owner name stamp front end pages both volumes end pages foxed period prior owner name in ink volume one only moderate internal foxing and toning hinges starting but holding well. The first edition was published in 1621. First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. T. Wardle Hardcover books
1887001567Cambridge MA: Harvard College 1887. Contains 4 Bulletins of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College- Vol. XII No. 6 The Eyes in Scorpions with 4 Color Plates Dec. 1887; Vol.XX No. 1 The Histology and Development of the Eye in the Lobster with 4 Color Plates May 1890; Vol. XX No.5 The Eyes in Blind Crayfishes with 1 Color Plate November 1890; and Vol. XXI No. 2 The Compound Eyes in Crustaceans with 10 Color Plates May 1891. The 1st 2nd and 4th of these Bulletins are SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on each first page of text by the author to Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann . G.H. Parker was Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard. Dr Carl Eigenmann was a noted Professor of Zoology at Indiana University who along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann described many of the fishes of North and South America for the first time. Eigenmann Hall on the Indiana University campus is named for him. Buckram spine and corners with gilt lettering on spine and "Eigenmann" stamped at base of spine. 3/4 red cloth boards. The leather is worn and rubbed although the lettering is still legible. Back bords have a 2 dark stains each abouit 1" dia. Front hinge starting to separate; contents clean and bright notably so for their age. This book is rare and especially to have this wonderful association between two eminent scientists. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Buckram Spine and 3/4 Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Harvard College hardcover books
1887004764Chicago: W.t. Keener 1887. Very Good in the original green cloth gilt lettering spine and front board boards are rubbed and solied lacking the rear endpage. Presentation book plate front paste down -"Presented to the Physio-Medical College of Indiana By Melville C. Keith M.D. Christmas 1888". Errata slip tipped in at final page of text. Edwin Hartley Pratt was the founder of the Chicago-based Orificial Surgery Society in 1887. Orificial surgery sought to cure many of the physical and psychological ills of the body by surgical corrections to the various orifices mainly those below the waist. This movement in mainstream American medicine flourished until the 1920s and the numbers of those subjected to orificial surgery during its brief heyday are estimated to be in the tens of thousands. It is remembered mainly today for its advocacy of circumcision in both males and females. RARE in the 1887 First Edition a wonderful curiosity for any medical book collection !. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W.t. Keener Hardcover books
1900008172London / New York : S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram gilt lettering at spines top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover books
1837007672London: John Van Voorst 1837. First Edition 1837 in signed Tout Binder half red morocco over marbled boards lined in gilt five raised bands gilt lined gilt lettering and tail date end pages marbled top edge gilt ribbon marker numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Armorial bookplate front paste down of Captain James Stewart Alltyrodyn a noted collector. Also laid in the card of noted 20th century American collector Lewis Vogler. Near Fine slight toning to end pages small rubs to two of the raised bands. A quite handsome copy with excellent provenance of this classic work. . First Edition. Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Van Voorst Hardcover books
1899246396Washington: The Academy. Very Good. 1899-1911. Complete in 13 volumes 1899-1911 some with several parts ; most in original wrappers with vols 4 5 6 & 7 bound in maroon cloth. In 1911 the name was changed to "Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences" with a new vol. 1 no. 1 issued on July 19 1911. . The Academy hardcover books
1900007889Jena: Gustav Fischer 1900. 549 pp. 2 maps in text fold-out map at rear Near Fine small edge tears at folds 6 chromolithographs 8 heliogravures 32 full page plates and 390 plates in text. Bound in quarter black cloth over paper covered boards hand-written label at spine period handwriting title page small stamp "Konigl. Seminar Lobau" title page. Very Good a quite well-bound book and SCARCE in the 1900 First Edition. Carl Chun 1852-1914 was a German marine biologist a specialist on cephalopods and plankton. Chun's expedition on the "Valdivia" in 1898-99 was the first large-scale German expedition to explore the deep sea. First Edition. Quarter Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gustav Fischer Hardcover books
