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1861222517Paris: Delarue 1861. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards green vellum french tips spine gilt signed L. Pouillet. Near fine. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Rare first edition of Simon Blocquel's 1760-1863 history of tobacco and advice for its use. Sections include a discussion of its cultivation its introduction to Europe government control the advantages and disadvantages of its use and "Le Code du Cigare ou la politesse du fumeur." The Arents catalog identifies two issues of the first edition this being the issue without the folding plate but printed in the same year.<br/>Blocquel had no less than seven pseudonyms; he wrote on domestic economy for women gastronomy travel history white magic and literature. Arents 1696 Delarue unknown books
1892296808New York: COLTON G. W. and COLTON C. B. 1892. unbound. very good. Large folding map mounted on linen 29 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches in very good condition bound with 28 pp of text 10 blank pages. Manuscript notes in pencil. 8vo 3/4 polished calf. New York: G.W. Colton & C.B. Colton 1892. Scarce. Very good .<br/><br/> "Real estate speculators shippers and business interests could not agree on the best way to utilize the Harlem river debating whether public works should facilitate traffic across the river or shipping along the river. Coastal trade interests advocated for a Harlem River Canal but their opponents argued that transportation across the river was more important. This map of the river between the Hudson River top and the East River bottom accompanied an unsuccessful proposal to have the state legislature turn the Harlem into a subterranean river and connect Manhattan with the mainland between Third and Eighth Avenues section shaded red." Gotham Center for New York history. Small abrasions along folds. Includes notes for the proposed site for Columbia University.<br/><br/> COLTON, G. W. and COLTON, C. B. unknown books
1813254420Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1813. unbound. 1 page 12.75 x 16 inches Commonwealth of Pennsylvania April 26 1813. This partly printed document grants a license for a House of Entertainment with permission to serve: "Rum Brandy Beer Ale.and all other Spirituous Liquors.provided that the proprietor shall not at anytime.suffer drunkenness unlawful gaming or any other disorders." Boldly signed "Simon Snyder" on the hinge of the embossed State seal. Archivally affixed to a brown matte and placed in a simple wooden brown frame measuring 17.5 x 20.75 inches with plexus glass. Very good condition.<br/><br/> Third Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania serving three terms from 1808 to 1817.<br/><br/> unknown books
1811208194Harrisburg 1811. unbound. 13.5 x 16 inches partly printed Harrisburg August 3 1811. Document signed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- a military commission to Samuel Anderson appointing him Captain of the Light Infantry Company. Signed by Snyder in the upper left wide margin with a remnant of the wax seal. Natural folds; foxing and chipping. Good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
183616945London: William Pickering 1836. Full leather. Very Good . A very handsome example of the 1835 1st edition complete in 4 volumes. Each volume bound in a sumptuous contemporary-to-the-period full calf with lovely gilt-rule to the panels 5 raised bands to each spine and detailed gilt-tooling within the compartments. Each volume also includes offsetting leather spine labels. Vol. I alone states 1836 as the publication date on the title page suggesting a 2nd printing each of the other volumes states 1835 as year-of-publication. All 4 uniform octavos tight and very well-preserved with beautiful marbled endpapers pastedowns and edges. Small artistic bookplate at each pastedown otherwise no writing or markings to speak of internally. Each volume easily VG to Near Fine with the slightest hint of very light scuffing at several of the panels. The 1st fold-out plate at Vol. I loose but firmly nestled in. Keynes Pickering pg. 55; Keynes "Bibliography of Thomas Browne" pg. 203; the first publication of Browne's correspondences. <br/><br/> William Pickering hardcover books
186112486Paris: Hachette 1861. Third edn. 8vo pp. 414. Bound in morocco backed boards a fine copy. A study of woman workers. Simon 1814-1896 was a French moderate Republican statesman and philosopher the minister of eductation in Thiers' first cabinet. Hachette unknown books
18101219696Dublin: G. A. Proctor 1810. Reprint 1810/1749 Edition. Quarto; additional title added; x; 180pp; eight full page plates printed recto only; 8pp; 3 plates NOTE CONDITION; each of these three plates has a cut/slice of about two inches by one inch on the right side and each has been repaired with adhesive tape. contents foxed; binding of old 3/4 leather and cloth boards in tatters with spine lost and both boards detached; text appears complete as issued; originally printed in 1749. SOLD AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. Spine; old tattered leather. #424JPH. 1219696. JPH Numismatic Collection. G. A. Proctor unknown books
181037298Dublin: Printed for the Editors by G.A. Procter 1810. Second edition. Cloth. A very good copy faintly sunned spine spine ends rubbed small chip at corner of title page contemporary corrections to two parts of the initial advertisement scattered foxing and some offsetting on plates small bookseller's gold and black label on lower front pastedown. x 180 8 13 pp. Illus. with 12 b/w plates. 4to. Originally printed by S. Powell for the author in 1749. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20113. Printed for the Editors by G.A. Procter hardcover books
184531543London: Other. Very Good. 1845. Hardcover. Sydenham Society old half-leather bindings very good condition. . Other hardcover books
186838006Prag: Carl Reichenecker 1868. <p>Simon Gustav 1824-76. Mittheilungen aus der chirurgischen Klinik des Rostocker Krankenhauses während der Jahre 1861 - 1865. 2 parts in 1 8vo. Part 1 is an offprint from Deutschen Klinik 1866-67; Part 2 is an offprint from Prager Vierteljahrschrift f. prakt. Heilkunde 1866-67. xiv 200; xvii 1 3-320pp. 6 plates text illustrations. Prague: Carl Reichenecker 1868. 226 x 153mm. Original cloth stamped in gilt and blind rebacked preserving original spine corners worn. Light browning but very good. Library bookplate and withdrawal stamp library stamps on title and versos of plates.</p> <p>First Edition. Garrison-Morton 5749: first report of a procedure capable of preserving the cupid's bow in repair of the lip a critical procedure for the development of cheiloplasty.</p> <p> Simon was one of the foremost German surgeons of the nineteenth century. The above two-part work contains reports on surgical cases handled at the Rostock Hospital where Simon was professor of surgery over the five-year period between 1861 and 1865. The first part titled "Summarische Berichte . . . Chirurgische Mittheilungen mit Beschreibung interessanterer Krankheitsfälle" contains among other things Simon's report of the cure by incision and double puncture of two large abdominal tumors caused by the parasite Echinococcus. The second part devoted to plastic surgery contains reports on plastic operations of the mouth vagina and rectum including the lip operation cited above and an account of plastic operations on the vaginal wall between the rectum and genital canal. Patterson Index p. 496. Hirsch. </p> . Carl Reichenecker unknown books
187133702Erlangen: Ferdinand Enke 1871. <p>The Beginning of Modern Surgery on the Kidney</p> <p>Simon Gustav 1824-76. Chirurgie der Nieren. 2 vols. in 1 8vo. viii 89 1; x 314 2pp. 9 lithographed plates incl. 3 chromolithographs; wood-engraved text illustrations. Erlangen: Enke 1871 Vol. I; Stuttgart: Enke 1876 Vol. II. 234 x 152 mm. Modern half morocco marbled boards original printed wrappers bound in. Light foxing but fine.</p> <p> First Edition. Garrison-Morton 4214. The era of modern urological surgery began in 1869 when Gustav Simon performed the first carefully planned nephrectomy; his patient was a woman suffering from ureterovaginal fistula caused by a botched ovariotomy. After writing a brief two-page notice of the operation in 1870 see G-M 4213 Simon prepared a detailed illustrated account which he published as Volume I of his Chirurgie der Nieren. This volume contains two lithographed plates the first a schematic drawing of the patient's injury and the second an unusually artistic rendition probably from a photograph of the postoperative patient standing in front of a mirror displaying her surgical scars. </p> <p>The second volume of Chirurgie der Nieren issued five years after the first deals with the subject of kidney surgery in general discussing operations on both injured and diseased kidneys. This volume over three times as long as its predecessor contains seven plates three in color showing a gunshot injury to the kidney renal calculus and hypertrophy and pre- and post-operative pictures of a case of hydronephrosis successfully cured by surgery. Kiefer 520. Murphy History of Urology pp. 251-54. </p> . Ferdinand Enke unknown books
188820076London: Remington & Co. Very Good. 1888. Hardcover. Vol. 1/2/2003; Cloth 8vo two volumes. Wear to covers rubbed bumped. Some toning to pages. Frontis. . Remington & Co. hardcover books
182932712London: Published by R. B Seeley 1829. First edition. 8vo vi2errata and advertisement328pp. Cloth gilt spine table t.e.g. covers lightly rubber at extremities bookplate contemporary library stamp at fore-margin title and advert. contemporary manuscript notation inscription mildest occasional foxing. Rare. The "Advertisement" notes: " Since the publication of the prospectus of this work additional matter having been generously supplied by friends in England and America the publication of a second volume has been recommended." A revised and expanded version of the present work appeared in 1836 under the title " The Ten Tribes of Israel Historically Identified with the Aborigines of the Western Hemisphere." The notion that Israelite tribes colonized North American has a long history in European speculation; the Montesino Letter is mentioned in the appendix p.321f along with the work which is inspired Menasseh ben Israel the rabbi of the Portuguese Jewish congregation in Amsterdam to publish in 1650 "Esperanzo de Israel" the title of which our author has adapted to her defense of what now appears a curious doctrine. As noted at the verso of the Advertisement leaf our copy was presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by "Lieut. Colonel C. Doyle 15th of March 1834. Published by R. B Seeley hardcover books
18432305840New York: Harper & Brothers 1843. Second Edition. Second Edition. Good/No Jacket. Second edition much enlarged. Presentation copy inscribed without signature by author on front flyleaf 'Revd Dr. McConaughy with the respects of the author.'. Boards rubbed front and end matter foxed a few text pages faintly foxed. 1843 Full-Leather. xii 329 6 pp. An early work on psychology by the Lutheran theologian who played an important role in the founding of the General Synod and was also an activist for the cause of abolition. Schmucker discusses free will; the philosophical thought of Thomas Reid Dugald Stewart Brown the German psychologists and Upham; cognition and the senses; emotions; voluntary and spontaneous actions; etc. Harper & Brothers unknown books
18889015530London: Swan Sonnenschein Lowry & Co. 1888. 2nd . Hardcover. Very good condition. Translated from the French by Bayle St. John. <br/><br/> Swan Sonnenschein, Lowry & Co. hardcover books
183027370Paris: E. Fournier Jeune Libraire 1830. Probable first edition. Half-titles. 1 vols. 12mo. Four volumes bound in 2. Near contemporary English half blue calf by T. Armstrong with label spine gilt. Some light rubbing of binding some spotting of text else a very good copy of this novel from the library of Lord Northwick with his armorial bookplate. Probable first edition. Half-titles. 1 vols. 12mo. Binder's oval cream ticket reads: Bound by/ T. Armstrong/ Villiers St. Strand.¶ While there are several other works by the Baroness de Bawr listed in BMC and LOC this work does not appear there. E. Fournier Jeune, Libraire unknown books
1830WRCAM17586Arequipa Peru 1830. iv1581pp. Later cloth-backed plain wrappers. Worming slightly affecting text else very good. A rare Arequipa imprint. The author defends Simón BolÃÂvar's character and seems to be very conscious of the Liberator's place in history asserting that comparing him to such figures as Washington and Napoleon is impertinent: "In the future the prophets will dominate either inspirers or politicians.in such an order Bolivar cannot think of becoming King." Apparently this work was originally circulated in manuscript form at Chuquisaca 1828 before the present printed version appeared at Arequipa in 1830. "In Bolivia there does not exist a press that will print anything more than a broadside." PALAU 137802. hardcover books
1849252871Boston: Freemasons' Magazine 1849. First. paperback. very good. 14 pages. Slim 8vo original green printed. Boston: Printed at the Office of the Freemasons' Magazine 1849. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Freemasons' Magazine unknown books
189024955New York: Once a Week 1890. A double-page spread reproduced in the May 27 1890 issue of "Once a Week". Included is an article on Polo in America which accompanied the illustration. 1 vols. Image 13 x 19-1/2 inches plus margins. A double-page spread reproduced in the May 27 1890 issue of "Once a Week". Included is an article on Polo in America which accompanied the illustration. 1 vols. Image 13 x 19-1/2 inches plus margins. New Jersey Polo in 1890. A lively depiction of a game showing four players converging on the ball while others look on spectators in coaches and carriages in the background. An early and historic image: at the time polo had been played in America for less than 15 years. Once a Week unknown books
1816002325Milano: Tipografia Sonzogno e Comp. 1816. First Edition thus. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 18 by 11 cm. Five volumes. With 22 plates most hand-colored. This is the first Italian version of Pallas' travels to Russia. The costume plates are richly colored and lovely. The leaves have a nice rag content and are thus quite clean even uncommonly so compared to most Italian publications of the early nineteenth century. The work is complete as of itself; it is a part of a larger series of travel journals translated into Italian at the time. In this series this book constitutes Tomo XIII. This copy has the original wraps. These have creases and soiling. Still they can be regarded as well-preserved and of interest from the perspective of publishing practices of the era. <br/><br/> Tipografia Sonzogno e Comp. paperback books
18998839New York: Macmillan. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. ex-library edges bit chipped; otherwise sound tight Good ; 1st . Macmillan hardcover books
1803307354London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees T. Cadell and W. Davies and J. Murray and S. Highley 1803. First Edition. With 3 folding maps 25 plates most hand-colored some folding and 14 vignettes most in color in volume I; plus 26 of 27 plates most are hand-colored some folding 14 vignettes mostly hand-colored and 3 folding maps in volume II. xxiii 1 552; xxx 2 523 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Modern half black morocco and marbled boards. Lacking plate 4 in volume 2. First Edition. With 3 folding maps 25 plates most hand-colored some folding and 14 vignettes most in color in volume I; plus 26 of 27 plates most are hand-colored some folding 14 vignettes mostly hand-colored and 3 folding maps in volume II. xxiii 1 552; xxx 2 523 pp. 2 vols. Thick 4to. Abbey Travel 222; Cat. Rusica P59; Tooley 357; Cox Volume 1 p. 199 Printed by A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and J. Murray and S. Highley unknown books
181229945London: John Stockdale 1812. 2 volumes 4to pp. xxiii 1 552; iii-xxxii 525; complete with with 52 engraved plates 43 hand-colored 26 folding 29 in-text vignettes 23 hand-colored all by Geissler and three large folding maps; contemporary full calf with an octagonal panel central on all covers within double gilt rules rebacked ca. 1930 in brown calf gilt-decorated spines brown morocco labels lettered in gilt; extremities a bit worn and rubbed but the binding is sound and a few spots and some minor offsetting aside it's internally fine. Cox I p. 199: "Pallas was one of the savants chosen by the St. Petersburg Academy to carry on the work of examining the resources of the far distant parts of the Russian Empire. He left St. Petersburg in 1768 and spent a full six years investigating various districts of Siberia the Urals the Caspian Tobolsk Lake Baikal the Lower Volga etc. His reports on the geology fauna and flora are of great scientific value." His journey extended to the frontiers of China. "Few explorations have been as fruitful as this six years' journey" EB. The translator F. W. Blagdon. in addition to the narrative the natural history results of the expedition which were not included in the first German edition. Abbey Travel 222 for the first English edition of 1802-03; Tooley pp. 357-8. <br/><br/> John Stockdale unknown books
18941567Görlitz i. Schl.: Druck von Hoffmann & Reiber 1894. 8vo. 23 1 pp. <br><br>Unillustrated trade catalogue for cameras and lenses with two introductory leaves titled "Nur für Wiederverkäufer!" "Only for retailers! Good. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned and some page edges bumped. [Druck von Hoffmann & Reiber] unknown books
1825S9415Leipzig:: Joh. Ambrosius Barth 1825. 1825. Contained in: Annalen der Physik und Chemie Vol. 4. J. C. Poggendorff ed. pp. 79-83. 8vo. 12 476 pp. 4 folding charts 6 engraved plates 2 folding. Modern brown marbled boards printed paper spine label; extremities rubbed. Bookplate of Andras Gedeon institutional exlib stamps. Very good. FIRST EDITION. THE PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF OHM'S LAW; HIS FIRST PUBLICATION. This short article in Annalen der Physik und Chemie preceded Ohm's book Die Galvanische Kette Mathematische Bearbeitet 1827 and is his first published scientific paper May 1825. Ohm began publishing his electricity researches in 1825 with his Vorlaufige Anzeige des Gesetzes nach welchem Metalle die Contakteletricitat leiten a paper in which he sought to find a functional relationship between the decrease in the electromagnetic force exerted by a current-carrying wire and the length of the wire. Although this paper contained some fundamental errors it was remarkable for its direct foundation on experiment a characteristic of all Ohm's early papers. In February and April of the following year Ohm published two important papers dealing separately with the two major aspects of his theory of galvanic electricity which he would later unify in his landmark Die galvanische Kette. DSB. "From the zinc and copper poles of a voltaic pile he ran two wires A and B the free ends of which terminated in small mercury-filled cups M. and N; between M and another cup O he ran a third wire C. Together A B and C formed what he called the 'invariable conductor' to distinguish it from one of the seven wires of different lengths that when placed in the circuit between O and N constituted the 'variable conductor'. . . over wire C Ohm hung the magnetic needle of a Coulomb torsion balance which served to measure the electromagnetic force exerted when one of the variable conductors completed the circuit. . . Tabulating these values against the lengths of the wires he found that his data were well represented by the formula v = 0.41 log 1x where v is the loss in force and x is the length of the wire in feet." DSB. In modern application the formula is simplified to v = i r; voltage being equal to current and resistance. Reference: DSB Vol. X p. 187. Joh. Ambrosius Barth, 1825. hardcover books
