‎Ingeniería‎

‎Treyden, Heinrich Trotta von.‎

‎Leichtfaßliche Anweisung zur Erkenntniß und Behandlung der Cholera, für die Bewohner des platten Landes. Königsberg, Bornträger, 1831.‎

‎8vo. 31 pp, (1). Paper spine. One US copy traced, at the University of Rochester. Not in Wellcome. Not in Billings.‎

‎Abicht, W.‎

‎Der Champagner-Arzt. Neueste Erfahrungen über die wohlthätigen diätetischen und arzneilichen Kräfte der Schaumweine. Nordhausen, Ernst Friedrich Fürst (Druck von C. Hoffmann in Stolberg a/H.), 1845.‎

‎12mo. 117, (3) pp. Publisher's original printed wrappers. Only edition; extremely rare. Entitled "The Champagne Physician", this pamphlet offers a light-spirited discussion of the medicinal and dietary benefits of champagne and sparkling wines, in particular of their excellent effects on stomach cramps, vomiting, anemia, menstrual disorders, etc. - Light browning; upper wrapper cover repaired. Provenance: from the collection of the French liqueur magnate Max Cointreau (1922-2016) with his bookplate to the inside cover. A single copy known in libraries internationally (British Library, Reference Collections). OCLC 751391874.‎

‎Einstein, Albert.‎

‎Collection of 10 first issue offprints from the "Sitzungsberichte der preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften". Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften / de Gruyter, 1922-1932.‎

‎I: Zur Theorie der Lichtfortpflanzung in dispergierenden Medien. 1922. [Weil 120. Seelig 162. Schilpp-Shields 145. Boni 132]. - II: Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Erste [und zweite] Mitteilung. 1927. [Weil 156. Seelig 212]. - III: Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechterhaltung des Begriffes des Fernparallelismus. 1928. [Weil 161. Seelig 161. Boni 174]. - IV: Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. 1928. [Weil 162. Seelig 218. Cf. PMM 416]. - V: Einheitliche Feldtheorie und Hamiltonsches Prinzip. 1929. [Weil 166. Seelig 227. Schilpp-Shields 227. Boni 184. Cf. PMM 416]. - VI: Die Kompatibilität der Feldgleichungen in der einheitlichen Feldtheorie. 1930. [Weil 169. Seelig 239]. - VII: Zum kosmologischen Problem der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 1931. [Weil 179. Seelig 249, Schilpp-Shields 249]. - VIII: Systematische Untersuchung über kompatible Feldgleichungen, welche in einem Riemannschen Raume mit Fernparallelismus gesetzt werden können. 1931. [Weil 180. Seelig 250. Schilpp-Shields 250]. - IX: Einstein & W. Mayer: Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. 1931. [Weil 182. Seelig 251. Hook/Norman 701]. - X: Einstein & W. Mayer: Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Zweite Abhandlung. 1932. [Weil 185]. 10 of a total of 36 "Sonderausgaben aus den Sitzungsberichten" published under Einstein's name between 1914 and 1932. Such offprints of the session reports of the Academy of Sciences (largely with independent pagination) were presented to the author by the publisher in a limited number as vouchers or dedication copies. - The present offprints date from Einstein's middle and late period at the Berlin Academy. They mainly treat the connection between gravity and electricity/electromagnetism. Einstein strove for a "unified field theory", as the General Theory of Relativity did not allow for properly integrating the electromagnetic field into the geometry of space-time. After a first attempt at a solution in 1925, Einstein tackled the problem again three years later, "only to find that Riemann's conception of space, on which the general theory was based, would not permit of a common explanation of electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena. In a series of papers devoted to the development of 'A Uniform Theory of Gravitation and Electricity' he outlined a new theory of space with a view to the unification of all forms of activity that fall within the sphere of physics, giving them a common explanation. All that would then remain to complete a scientific unison is the correlation of the organic and inorganic" (PMM 416). - The present offprints reach from the first publication after the Nobel Prize to the last but one before Einstein's leaving Germany. Three articles were published in collaboration with Einstein's assistant, Walter Mayer. - One issue with slight crease to front cover, otherwise very well preserved throughout.‎

‎Freud, Sigmund, Mediziner und Begründer der Psychoanalyse (1856-1939).‎

‎Portraitlithographie mit eigenh. Widmung und U. Wohl Wien, 1933/34.‎

‎600:445 mm (Plattenrand), Blattmaß 668:507 mm. Ferdinand Schmutzers ikonisches Freud-Portrait mit eh. Widmung und U. für "Herrn Dr. J. J. van der Leeuw zur freundlichen Erinnerung an | Sigm. Freud | 1933/34". - Über Schmutzers Portrait schrieb Freud 1926 in einem Brief an Marie Bonaparte: "Zum Geburtstag ist eine Radierung von Schmutzer fertig geworden, die mir ausgezeichnet scheint. Andere finden ihren Ausdruck zu streng, fast böse. Wahrscheinlich bin ich innerlich so" (10. V. 1926). - Der niederländische Theosoph und Autor Jacobus Johannes (J. J.) van der Leeuw war im Jahr 1933 mehrmals bei Freud in Behandlung gewesen. Für Freud war er der "Fliegende Holländer", da er 1933 den Flugschein erworben hatte und ein begeisterter Flieger war. Am 23. August 1934 fand Leeuws Begeisterung jedoch ein jähes Ende, als er am Rückflug von einer Konferenz in Johannesburg über Tansania abstürzte und ums Leben kam. - Provenienz: Aus dem Nachlass Ferdinand Schmutzers (so in Bleistift am rechten unteren Rand bezeichnet), später im Besitz des Psychoanalytikers und Bibliophilen Haskell Field Norman (1915-1996), zuletzt in belgischem Privatbesitz und von dort erworben. - Von unbedeutenden Kleinigkeiten am Plattenrand abgesehen ausgezeichnet erhalten. Vgl. Stanford 78 & 80. Norman 170 & 171 (andere Exemplare). Sigmund Freud, Briefe 1873-1939. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Ernst und Lucie Freud. 3. korr. Auflage (Frankfurt a. M., S. Fischer Verlag, 1980), S. 384.‎

‎Albmair, Teodoro.‎

‎I quattro elementi spiegati in venticinque discorsi [...]. Florence, all’insegna della Stella, 1668.‎

‎4to. 278 pp. 18th century half vellum with marbled covers. Edges sprinkled. First and only edition of this rare and exceedingly curious book of secrets and popular medicine, a fantastical collection of miracles and notes on disparate topics by the native Tyrolean Theodor Albmair, former secretary to Emperor Ferdinand III. - "In the twenty-five discourses or chapters of his book, the author has something to say about not only the elements but all the fruits of the earth, whilst the most important chapter of all is the twenty-sixth; it is called 'Discorso particolare', and it deals with man in health and in sickness. The fourteenth 'Discorso' deals with bread, the fifteenth with wine" (Simon). Other subjects include gems and precious stones, moss, ambra and balms, metals, herbs, rare flowers and how to cultivate them; various animals, including such as supposedly dwell in fire, etc. "Ein rares, seltenes Buch" (Grass, Verzeichniß einiger Büchermerkwürdigkeiten, 1790, p. 8). - Binding rubbed and bumped. Interior somewhat brownstained throughout; some insignificant worming to lower corner (not touching text). Without flyleaves or final blank leaf. - Provenance: title-page has 18th century manuscript ownership of Giovanni Modesto Canciani, who probably commissioned the binding; last page of text has his handwritten statement: "1770: 20 Xbris liber iste a me Joanne Modesto Canciani totaliter usque ad hanc diem est perlectus" (last word trimmed by binder and then supplied again by the same writer). Additional stamped ownership of the Collegio Universitario Antonianum in Padua ("Antonianum Coll. Univ. Bibl.") with their shelfmarks to title-page. Very rare: OCLC lists only four copies in libraries (Wellcome Library; Univ. of Chicago; Univ. of Michigan; Bibliothèque de Genève); a single copy in auction records (André L. Simon's copy, sold at Sotheby's in 1981). Simon 80. Wellcome II, 26. Sinkankas 60-A ("not seen"). Agassiz I, 111. Böhmer IV, 1, 281. Haym, p. 517, no. 9. Brückmann, Bibliotheca animalis continuatio (1747), p. 12. Cat. of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum (1891), p. 242. Cat. of the Library of the Museum of Practical Geology (1878), p. 9. OCLC 23632541. Not in Krivatsy, Rosenthal, Ferguson etc.‎

‎[Freud, Sigmund].‎

‎A collection of 82 works from the library of Sigmund Freud. Various places, 1908-1937.‎

‎76 volumes, mostly offprints or articles removed from journals, bound in private wrappers or in the original printed wrappers. Mostly 8vo but including a few specimens in small folio. An ensemble of 82 works from the library of Sigmund Freud, comprising roughly half of the known corpus now in private hands. In his census, the medical historian Gerhard Fichtner established the number of works from Freud's former library now in private ownership at only 166 works, or some 4 percent of his former collection of 3725 titles, the vast majority of which (more than 3,400 books) are today preserved by the Freud Museum in London and the Health Sciences Library in New York. Regarding the privately owned works, "it is noteworthy that Freud (during both the Viennese and London time) bestowed upon Eva Rosenfeld, a friend of Anna Freud, 25 important early items from his library. Amongst the privately owned volumes are also some that surfaced in recent years in the second-hand market. They are predominantly offprints, whose dedications show they once belonged to Freud's library and, as a rule, carry the partially erased stamp of the Psychoanalytic Ambulatorium Vienna. They must have arrived long before Freud's emigration in this library, which was seized and destroyed by the Nazis. Did the erasure of the stamp help to save these items, or did it disguise unauthorized possession? They come from the estate of a German analyst" (Davies/Fichtner, pp. 17f.). Indeed, the nature of some of these erasures - rather constituting overpastings with near-contemporary typed transcriptions of those parts of the text obscured by the stamp (as in David Baumgart's article on Spinoza's image in German and Jewish thought) - would strongly suggest the former reason: such an overpasting would arguably have sufficed to conceal the items' provenance from a cursory examination in 1938, but would not at all be helpful to a collector wishing to obscure a third party's title. - The present ensemble includes articles by 40 different authors from a range of disciplines, including Hugo Bergmann, Eugen Bleuler, Carl Clemen, Josef Friedjung, Heinrich Gomperz, Gustav Hans Graber, Jakob Kläsi, Otto Pötzl, and Isidor Sadger. Two specimens preserve the author's inscription to Freud (by Pötzl); others contain autograph corrections by the author (Sadger). Eighteen items show traces of a removed stamp or inscription. Paper often brittle; some wrappers a little rubbed or chipped, but on the whole very well preserved. Acquired from a Belgian private collection. Detailed list available on request. Cf. Davies/Fichtner (eds.), Freud's Library. A Comprehensive Catalogue (Tübingen/London, 2006).‎

‎Tissot, [Samuel Auguste André David].‎

‎L'inoculazione giustificata, ovvero Dissertazione pratica e apologetica su questo metodo. Venice, Domenico Pompeati, 1775.‎

‎8vo. XVI, 158, (2) pp., final blank leaf. Contemporary carta rustica binding. First Italian edition. This still-timely booklet by the vaccination pioneer Tissot (1728-97), which first appeared in Lausanne in 1754 and was reprinted with additions in 1774, examines the progress of inoculation throughout Europe and defends the method from the malicious criticism of its detractors. - Rough covers duststained. A large dampstain throughout with some browning. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy. Rare; only four copies recorded outside Italy (Lausanne, NLM, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of California Berkeley). Blake 453. ICCU RMLE\024231. OCLC 14863665. Not in Waller.‎

‎Freud, Sigmund.‎

‎Über den Bau der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs. Vienna, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1882.‎

‎8vo. 38 pp. Original wrappers. Stored in custom-made black half morocco case. First edition of this very rare pamphlet: Freud's only fifth own publication, offprint from vol. LXXXV, 3rd Dept., January issue. Inscribed and signed on the upper wrapper cover to his schoolfriend, the chemist Josef Herzig: "Seinem lieben Freunde Dr. Jozef Herzig | dVerf.". - "In this paper on the nerve cells of river crayfish, Freud was the first to demonstrate conclusively that the axes of nerve fibers are without exception fibrillary in structure [...] in this and his earlier researches Freud recognized that nerve cells and fibers were a single unit, thus paving the way for the neuron theory a number of years before Waldeyer-Hartz announced it in 1891. Freud had in fact stated as much in a lecture before the Psychiatric Society in 1882" (Norman). - Wrappers slightly duststained, otherwise a perfect, uncut copy from the collection of the psychoanalyst and bibliophile Haskell Field Norman (1915-96) with his bookplate to inside front cover; acquired from a Belgian private collection. Meyer-Palmedo/Fichtner 79. Grinstein 5. Stanford 5. Norman F5 (this copy).‎

‎Plenck, Joseph Jakob.‎

‎Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von F. von Wasserberg. Wien, Rudolph Gräffer, 1788.‎

‎314, (6) SS. Zeitgenöss. Pappband mit hs. Rückenschildchen. 8vo. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. - Joseph Jacob von Plen(c)k (1738-1807), der berühmte österreichische Mediziner und Botaniker, war Professor zu Basel, Ofen und Wien sowie an der Josephs-Akademie. “In seiner grossartigen literar. Thätigkeit, welche ihn zuletzt die Praxis ganz aufgeben liess, um sich jener ganz zu widmen, wurde er von Eyerl unterstützt, einem der gelehrtesten Aerzte seiner Zeit” (Hirsch). - Titel mit eigenh. Besitzvermerk des Ophthalmologen Francesco Buzzi (1751-1805), der im Jahre 1782 den gelben Fleck beschrieb und im Jahre 1788 die Irisablösung zur künstlichen Pupillenbildung einführte. Vorderer Innendeckel mit hs. Numerierung "1228", desgleichen am Vorderdeckel (zweifach) und Rücken (dort in einem montierten Schildchen). Vorderdeckel mit hs. Notiz von späterer Hand "Geschenk von Dr. Lemisch", wohl der Kärntner Arzt Josef Lemisch (1826-86). Engelmann 434. Vgl. Blake 356. Nicht bei Waller oder Osler.‎

‎Turing, Alan, English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and cryptanalyst (1912-1954).‎

‎School photograph. [Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset, England, [Summer, 1930].‎

‎235 x 286 mm. Mounted on cardboard. With an autograph letter signed by Victor Beuttell (see below). School photograph depicting the boys of Westcott House, Sherborne School, 1930, including Alan Turing (second row, second from right) and his friend Victor Beuttell (third row, far right), with the housemaster Geoffrey O'Hanlon seated centre with his dog. - Alan Turing attended Sherborne School from 1926 to 1931 and made an impression the moment he started his school career by cycling the 65 miles to the school from Southampton (where he had arrived from his parents' house in France during the General Strike), via an overnight stop at Blandford Forum, a feat that made the local paper. As his school reports reveal he showed "considerable promise" but his masters often complained that he failed to express himself adequately - his physics master Henry Shorland Gervis urged, "Cambridge will want sound knowledge rather than vague ideas". Other influential figures at Sherborne were his mathematics tutors Dr Edwin Davis and Donald Eperson, who instilled in the boys a love of problem solving and puzzles. Turing the schoolboy appears to have been an eccentric character but by no means the reclusive loner as he is sometimes portrayed: "At Sherborne he became the 'Mathematician-in-ordinary' who would help boys with their homework, and in his penultimate term at Sherborne his housemaster wrote in this school report that 'He takes a fatherly interest in his dormitory, and no doubt imparts his learning and curiosity to them" (Rachel Hassall, Vivat! Sherborne School magazine). This photograph was taken in July 1930 just six months after the sudden death of Turing's great friend Christopher Morcom - an event, it has been argued, that became the catalyst for his future achievements. - One of the boys he helped was Victor Beuttell, son of the British inventor Alfred William Beuttell, three years his junior, who mentions Turing three times in his letter home. Drawn together by a mutual sympathy (Turing was grieving for Christopher Morcom and Beuttell's mother was terminally ill), they were given special dispensation by the housemaster to spend time together. Victor was "also one who neither conformed, nor rebelled, but dodged the system" (Hodges, A., Alan Turing: The Enigma, 2014, p. 72), and they bonded over a love of codes and ciphers, inspired by the book 'Mathematical Recreations and Essays', which Turing had chosen as his Christopher Morcom Prize, awarded in 1930. He was obliged to leave the school in the same year as Turing after his father suffered financial losses and having failed the School Certificate, "telling Alan that it was because of too much time spent on chess and codes" (Hodges, p. 88) but they remained close. Victor was the one lasting friendship Turing retained from his time at Sherborne. Turing stayed with the family regularly and helped Victor's father Alfred with his work on lighting, with Victor in turn visiting Turing in Cambridge. Their last meeting was in 1943 when they met for lunch in London, but kept in touch for the remainder of Turing's life. Indeed, according to Victor's son, they spoke on the telephone just the night before he died in June 1954. - With an autograph letter from Victor Beuttell signed ("With heaps of love / Viccie") to his parents, reporting on his recent exam results and mentioning Turing several times ("On the additional maths [...] I think, and so does Turing that at the least I got passing marks. I didn't like the paper [...] Chemistry. According to Turing, got 70% an easy credit [...] Physics [...] By mistake did 6 questions instead of 5 [...] Even then I got a Pass according to Turing. Not so bad [...]"; 2 pages on 2 ff. on lined file paper, folio (325 x 210 mm), Westcott House, Sherborne, undated). - Provenance: Victor Beuttell (1915-93); and thence by descent.‎

‎Boscovich, Rugjer Josip.‎

‎Philosophiae naturalis theoria redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium. Vienna, Augustin Bernardi, 1759.‎

‎4to (176 x 217 mm). (2), 20, 322, (2), 16, (4) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With 4 folding plates. Contemporary Austrian full calf binding, covers ruled in blind, spine richly gilt, with two red leather labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. One of the fundamental books in the history of scientific thought, in which Boscovich developed his theory of "points" which are the first elements of all matter. Second edition, published a year after the first. - Concerning himself with the elementary constitution of matter, the nature and behaviour of physical forces, light, and atoms, Boscovich anticipated many of the features of the atomic and nuclear physics of our own times, and was the true creator of atomic physics as we understand it today. He predicted the penetrability of matter by high-speed particles and the possibility of states of matter of exceptionally high density. "The Theory of Natural Philosophy is now recognized as having exerted a fundamental influence on modern mathematical physics. As the title of his book implies, [Boscovich] considered that a single law was the basis of all natural phenomena and of the properties of matter; that the multiplicity of physical forces was only apparent and due to inadequate mathematical knowledge" (PMM). - Born at Dubrovnik in 1711, Boscovich became a Jesuit and spent most of his career in Italy as professor of mathematics at Rome and Pavia and as director of the observatory at Milan; he also taught in Vienna and Paris. Although then regarded as highly speculative, his "Theoria" enjoyed an immediate success in scientific circles across Europe, and its influence was felt and acknowledged for generations to come by such giants as Joseph Priestley, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, J. J. Thomson, and Niels Bohr. - This edition was released in 1759, to compete with the re-issue produced that same year by Kaliwoda, the Viennese printer of the first edition, and all three early Vienna editions are extremely rare. The earliest edition usually encountered is that printed in Venice in 1763, which is the one that J. M. Child reprinted and translated into English in 1922. - Includes the "Adnotanda et corrigenda" as well as the "Monitum" leaves, both frequently lacking. The 16-page "Epistola ad Carolum Scherffer" is bound after the "Finis". Occasional light brownstaining. Traces of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown. In all a very appealing copy. VD 18, 14408716-008. Cf. PMM 203. Poggendorff I, 246. Norman 277. Riccardi I, 1870, 53. De Backer/Sommervogel I, 1840. DSB II, 326.‎

‎[DNA structure]. Crick, Francis; Watson, James Dewey; and others.‎

‎The milestone papers on the structure of DNA in "Nature", vols. 171 and 172. London, Macmillan, 1953.‎

‎4to (180 x 256 mm). 5 issues, 222 pp. altogether. Extracts bound together in a single volume without original wrappers. Modern red cloth with giltstamped cover title. All the five issues of "Nature" in which, between February and October 1953, the crucial papers were published that revealed to the world the double-helix structure of DNA. Some of the various authors were collaborators, others competitors, and while the credit for the discovery is today almost entirely attached to the names of Crick and Watson, their breakthrough depended on experimental work done by all the other scientists whose relevant papers were published in the same journal and are also here included. - The papers comprise, individually: - a) Pauling, L. and Corey, R. B. Structure of the Nucleic Acids (Nature 171, No. 4347, 21 Feb. 1953, p. 346). - b) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (No. 4356, 25 April 1953; p. 737f.). - c) Wilkins, M. H. F., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (p. 738-740). - d) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. E. Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (p. 740f.). - e) Watson, J. D. and Crick, F. H. C. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (No. 4361, 30 May 1953, p. 964-967). - f) Franklin, R. E. and Gosling, R. G. Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate (Vol. 172, No. 4369, 25 July 1953, p. 156f.). - g) Wilkins, M. H. F., Seeds, W. E., Stokes, A. R. and Wilson, H. R. Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid (No. 4382, 24 Oct. 1953, p. 759-762). - Together these papers provide the single most important advance in biology since Darwin's theory. The first, by America's leading chemist of his age, Linus Pauling, ultimately contributed least because Pauling's theory erroneously suggested a triple-helix structure. "Instead, victory fell to an unlikely quartet of scientists in England who didn't work as a team, often weren't on speaking terms, and were for the most part novices in the field" (Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, p. 487f.). These were the American wunderkind James Watson and his older colleage Francis Crick at Cambridge; the brilliant but often overlooked Rosalind Franklin (with her student Raymond Gosling), working at King's College London; and the New Zealand-born Maurice Wilkins, also at King's but who communicated to the competition at Cambridge Franklin's key findings - particularly, an X-ray photograph showing the DNA molecule's basic shape and dimensions, which provided Watson and Crick with the crucial clue. It was by then known that "DNA had four chemical components - called adenine, guanine, cytosine and thiamine - and that these paired up in particular ways. By playing with pieces of cardboard cut into the shapes of molecules, Watson and Crick were able to work out how the pieces fit together. From this they made a Meccano-like model - perhaps the most famous in modern science - consisting of metal plates bolted together in a spiral, and invited Wilkins, Franklin and the rest of the world to have a look. Any informed person could see at once that they had solved the problem. It was without question a brilliant piece of detective work" (Bryson, p. 491f.). Less than two months later, their paper, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", appeared in "Nature". Franklin's own paper, in the same issue, shows the now-famous X-ray diffraction image of DNA fiber and pointedly concedes that "our general ideas are not inconsistent with the model proposed by Watson and Crick in the preceding communication" (vol. 171, p. 741). - For the discovery of the DNA double helix, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology. Franklin had passed away four year earlier at the age of 37, a victim of the X-rays to which she had over-exposed herself in her work. - Tightly bound and in excellent condition throughout.‎

‎Tornberg, Carl Johan.‎

‎Symbolae ad rem numariam Muhammedanorum (In: Nova acta regiae societatis scientiarum Upsaliensis. Seriei tertiae vol. II). Uppsala, Leffler, 1856-1858.‎

‎Small folio (230 x 288 mm). (10), 256, (3), XXVII, 257-406, (3), XXVII, 18 pp. With woodcut title vignette and 14 numbered lithographed plates. Contemporary blue wrappers with stamped volume number to spine. Academic periodical of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala, comprising papers in Latin and French by prominent Swedish scholars, including the orientalist Carl Johan Tornberg (1807-77). The plates show Islamic and pre-Islamic coins studied by Tornberg. - Near-contemporary handwritten ownership of B. E. Hovén to title-page, dated 4 December 1880. Slightly worn at extremities. A partly uncut copy.‎

‎[Mars].‎

‎A collection of views from the spacecrafts Mariner 6, 7, and 9. Washington, DC, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969-1972.‎

‎33 original black-and-white NASA photographs (gelatin silver prints), ca. 255 x 203 mm each, with extensive official captions and NASA logo printed on the back in purple ink. Stored within black cardboard binder, photographs in individual transparent sleeves. A collection of original gelatin silver prints showing the surface of the planet Mars, taken by the American robotic space probes Mariner 6, 7, and 9: five photographs taken by Mariner 6 and seven taken by Mariner 7 (1969); the remaining 21 taken by Mariner 9 in 1971-72. All are extensively annotated on the reverse with NASA's printed official photo captions. - Mariner 6 and 7 flew over Mars' equator and south polar regions, analysing the atmosphere and the surface with remote sensors and relaying to Earth hundreds of grayscale pictures. The mission goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars in close flybys, so as to establish the basis for future investigations and to demonstrate and develop technologies required for future Mars missions. Two years later, NASA launched Mariner 8 and 9 - the former crashing into the Atlantic immediately, leaving the single surviving orbiter to perform a mission designed for two. Upon its arrival, NASA scientists were further dismayed to find the planet obscured by thick dust storms. Nevertheless, the mission turned out a complete success: after the dust had settled, the probe managed to send back excellent pictures of the surface. After 349 days in orbit, Mariner 9 had transmitted no fewer than 7329 images, covering 85% of Mars' surface. The images revealed river beds, craters, massive extinct volcanoes (such as Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System), canyons, evidence of wind and water erosion and deposition, weather fronts, and fogs. Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, were also photographed. The findings from the mission underpinned the later Viking program. - The exploration of Mars continues: the summer 2020 launch window saw the United Arab Emirates send an orbiter on the Al Amal (Hope) Mars Mission. It arrived in February 2021 to study the Martian atmosphere and weather.‎

‎Schötz, Wolfgang, Swabian pharmacist (d. 1695).‎

‎Flora delicians, sive icones plantarum ex hortis, pratis et nemoribus nostratibus collectarum, artificisque penicillo exhibitarum studio Wolfgangi Schoetzij pharmacopaei Memmingensis. Memmingen, 1676.‎

‎Folio (208 x 310 mm). Latin ms. and illustrations on paper. 184 ff. with gilt-raised title-page and a total of 292 watercolour and gouache plant illustrations (1 double-page), captioned and numbered 1-290 by a contemporary hand (nos. 45 and 149 assigned twice). 19th century green half cloth over marbled boards. Stored in custom-made half morocco case. Unique, museum-quality manuscript herbal, previously unknown to research, compiled for the Memmingen pharmacist Wolfgang Schötz by an unidentified but obviously professionally trained artist. The nearly 300 watercolours and gouaches, all impressively accomplished, show the principal Central European medicinal, poisonous, spice and ornamental plants as they were to be found in the gardens, meadows and forests of the free imperial city of Memmingen: hollyhock, tarragon, snow pea, prunella, dandelion, spiked rampion (phyteuma spicatum), swallow-wort (asclepias vincetoxicum), echium, caper spurge (euphorbia lathyris), white bryony (wild hop, Bryonia alba), staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), poppy (papaver rhoeas), banewort (atropa belladonna), foxglove (digitalis), hemlock (Conium maculatum), as well as splendid tulips, irises and martagon lilies, Jacob's ladder (polemonium), rose, chrysanthemum, gentian, daffodil, barberry, etc. The shapes of the leaves and blossoms, often also of the roots and bulbs are rendered with extreme precision; occasionally, the illustration is enlivened with beetles, caterpillars and other insects, drawn with similarly meticulous realism. The Latin and German captions are apparently by two different writers; some of the Latin annotations may be in Schötz's own hand. The quality of the draughtsmanship and colouring approaches that of the roughly contemporaneous studies by Nicolas Robert, whose documentation of the plants in the French royal gardens, commissioned by the court of Versailles, were famous even then and remain so to this day. - The pharmacist Wolfgang Schötz (Schütz) also served as judge in the municipal court of his native Memmingen. Correspondence in his hand with the German physician and alchemist Johann Joachim Becker (1635-82) has survived in the latter scholar's posthumous papers in Rostock. Schötz was considered "the largest and strongest man" in town; when he died in 1695, ten men were needed to bear his mortal remains to the graveyard (cf. J. F. Unold, Geschichte der Stadt Memmingen [1826], p. 292). - Title-page somewhat duststained and rubbed. Leaves numbered 1-183 in pencil in the later 19th century, probably during rebinding; a few leaves transposed. A few edge flaws (some with early repairs); edges somewhat fingerstained and dampstained throughout with a larger dampstain near the end, but illustrations preserved in brilliant original colour. A masterpiece of botanical illustration.‎

‎Novella, Cosme.‎

‎Al rey nuestro señor. Memorial […] Contiene el hecho; en la causa de la preparacion de la colocynthida. [Zaragoza, 1613].‎

‎Small 4to (200 x 150 mm). (25) ff. With the woodcut arms of Philip III of Spain on title-page. Loosely inserted in contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. Very rare first and only edition of a "memorial" addressed to the king, Philip III of Spain. Cosme Novella was initially denied permission to practice the profession of pharmacist in the apothecary of his father-in-law who had recently passed away. During the inspections by the "Colegio de Boticarios" (College of apothecaries) they had found deficiencies in the operation of the apothecary, but Novella was finally admitted after intervention of a municipal jury. In 1601 he was appointed as inspector to the pharmacy of the Hospital Real y General, where he found serious deficiencies in their preparations of medicines. This angered the management of the hospital, who held a high position in the College of apothecaries. The College restarted their inspections of Novella's business and closed his store. The dispute then grew to a bigger scale, involving the royal chapter of pharmacists and physicians. In the present "memorial" Novella presents his case to the King. Ultimately, the royal decree would be in favour of Novella, and his pharmacy would be permitted to re-open. - With manuscript note on title-page. Some faint waterstains, two tiny tears in the fore-edge margins and the paste-downs detached from the boards, separating the bookblock from its binding. A good copy. Bibliographia medica Hispanica 537. Iberian books 41802. Palau 194700. Vicente Martínez Tejero, "Cosme Novella" in: Diccionario biográfico español (online). WorldCat (3 copies). Not in Krivatsy; Osler; Wellcome.‎

‎Darwin (Charles).‎

‎O vzniku druhu prirozenym vyberem cili zachovavanim vhodnych odrud v boji o zivot. Prague, I. L. Kobra, 1914.‎

‎8vo (162 x 232 mm). 387, (1) pp. With a folding lithographed plate. Publisher's original burgundy cloth. First Czech edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", called "the most important single work in science" (Dibner) and "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). "No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world works" (Wilson). - The Czech translation predates the Latvian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Slovenian versions by several years. The translator, Professor Fratisek Klapálek, was a prominent entomologist, a founding member and the first chairman of the Czech Entomological Society. - Covers very lightly warped, but finely preserved altogether. Freeman 641. OCLC 62034158. Cf. PMM 344.‎

‎Behrendt, Ernst.‎

‎Petroleum. Science Program. New York, Nelson Doubleday, 1966.‎

‎8vo. 63 pp., final blank page. With 4 pp. of the "Science Bulletin", not included in pagination. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations, 12 mounted photographic illustrations in colour, a plan of oil and gas fields in the U.S., and several charts and drawings. Orignal printed wrappers. Stapled. Accurate overview of gasoline production and oil exploration in the United States. Features historical images of California's first commercial oil well at Pico Canyon as well as of the Drake well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, which struck oil in 1859. In addition, the booklet discusses the general merits of petroleum, its transportation, the maintenance of pipelines and the operation of drilling rigs. - Prepared in cooperation with Science Service, Washington, D.C. - Spine somewhat rubbed. With publisher's original sticker to front cover. OCLC 663432314.‎

‎Darwin, Charles.‎

‎On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London, John Murray, 1859.‎

‎8vo. IX, (1), 502, 32 pp. With half title, folding lithographed diagram and publisher's adverts at end dated June 1859. Original green cloth covers bound in as pastedowns, cloth spine mounted on first free endpaper at the end. Modern blue morocco, gilt, marbled flyleaves. Stored in custom-made slipcase. First edition, first issue, of "the most important single work in science" (Dibner), and "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). "No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world works" (Wilson). - This first impression of the first edition can be distinguished from later impressions of the work through the presence of the misprint "speceies" on p. 20, which was corrected in the second impression. This copy handsomely rebound but still retaining the cloth binding of Freeman's variant b. Of the first edition of 1250 copies, fifty-eight were distributed for review and presentation, this being one of them: the slip of paper "with Mr Darwin's compliments", uncommonly in Darwin's own hand, tipped in at beginning. Small closed tear in the folded table, very light soiling and foxing at the beginning, but a good, clean and uncut copy. - Provenance: small ink stamp of Francis Darwin Swift (1864-1944), grandson of Charles Darwin's uncle Francis Sacheverel Darwin, showing a leaf-bearing stag and the name "F. Swift" in blackletter. PMM 344. Dibner Heralds (1980) 199. Eimas Heirs 1724. Freeman 373. Garrison/Morton (1991) 220. Grolier, Science 23b. Norman 593. Sparrow, Milestones 49. Waller 10786.‎

‎Nightingale, Florence.‎

‎Notes on Hospitals. London, Longman, Green, et al., 1863.‎

‎4to (200 x 264 mm). IX, (3), 187, (1) pp. With 13 folding engraved plans and maps, 3 folding tables. Publisher's original cloth with giltstamped spine title, bound by Edmonds & Remnants with their label to lower pastedown. Author's presentation copy of the third edition, inscribed on the day of publication to the influential London architect and journalist George Godwin (1813-88) on the title-page: "Geo. Godwin Esq. / in gratitude for the services he has / rendered to the cause of good / sanitary construction / Florence Nightingale / London, Dec. 14 1863". - When 'Notes on Hospitals' first appeared in 1859, in much briefer form than here, it was "immediately greeted by George Godwin as essential reading for architects, who were advised to 'obtain the volume and master it'" (Mark Bostridge, Florence Nightingale, p. 337f.). As editor of 'The Builder', Godwin expanded its scope to include sanitation, social issues, and other subjects. He wrote on slums and promoted the use of public baths, wash-houses, charitable housing trusts, and pavilion-styled hospitals. His architectural works, centred around Kensington and Chelsea, include The Boltons, Elm Park Gardens, and St. Luke's Kensington. The 1863 edition of "Notes on Hospitals" was "massively augmented and rewritten that it is effectively a new book" (McDonald). - Spine and joints professionally restored. Old paper label on spine. - Provenance: 1) George Godwin (presentation inscription); 2) front pastedown has bookplate of James O'Byrne (1835-97), the Liverpool-based architect whose library was dispersed at Christie's in 1987. Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform (2012), p. 79. Cf. Garrison/Morton 1611 (citing the 1859 first edition).‎

‎[Chiarugi, Vincenzo].‎

‎Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio. Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789.‎

‎4to. LXXVIII, (2), 416, (84) pp., including 27 letterpress tables. With engraved armorial title vignette and 9 (instead of 10) engraved folding plates. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards with giltstamped calf spine label. First edition of the pioneering regulations for two Florence hospitals, marking "the first appearance in print of [Chiarugi's] landmark reforms in the humane treatment of the mentally ill" (Garrison/M.). - In 1774 Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany (later Emperor Leopold II) promulgated Europe's first law concerning the hospitalization of persons recognized as being insane, and several years later he undertook to build a new hospital for the mentally ill. In 1875 the young physician Vincenzo Chiarugi, who had studied at the University of Pisa and then at the hospital of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, was given responsibility to plan the new hospital of San Bonifacio, which opened in 1788. The following year the regulations of the hospital were published, together with the statutes of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. The regulations reflect Chiarugi's pioneering attitude towards the treatment of the insane: "A detailed history was required for each patient admitted to the hospital. The hospital was built to meet high hygienic standards, men were separated from women, and the rooms and furniture offered full protection to the patients [...] under no circumstances could force be used on patients, and the only methods of restriction allowed were strait jackets and strips of reinforced cotton, in order to prevent impairment in the patient's circulation" (Mora). - The fine plates, carried out by G. Cecchi, G. Salvetti and others, include plans of the premises of both hospitals, images of the kitchen and heating system, and views of the facade, as well as an organisational chart for both hospitals combined. - Lacks the engraved frontispiece. Extremities and spine-label slightly rubbed; small defect to vellum at lower spine. Front view of the Bonifazio hospital with a larger tear; several plates show small tears, occasionally affecting image. Occasional light foxing throughout. A good copy of this landmark work. Garrison/M. 4920.2. Norman 474. G. Mora, "Vincenzo Chiarugi", in: Journal of the History of Medicine 14 (1959), p. 431.‎

‎Ehrlich, Paul.‎

‎Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheilserums und deren theoretische Grundlagen. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1897.‎

‎8vo. (2), 34 pp. Original printed wrappers. Offprint from the "Klinisches Jahrbuch", bearing Ehrlich's autograph inscription to the mayor of Frankfurt, Franz Adickes ("in vorzüglichster Hochachtung gewidmet") on the upper wrapper cover. - "This was the beginning of the concept of biological standardization. The first exposition of Ehrlich's side-chain theory appeared in this paper" (Garrison/M.). Ehrlich's famous paper describes how diphtheria toxin and antitoxin interact and the method of their measurement. "Not only did he postulate that immunological specificity was due to a unique stereochemical relationship between the active sites on antigen and antibody, he introduced also the concepts of affinity and of functional domains on the antibody molecule. This work provided the taproot from which the field of immunochemistry later grew; he would be famous for this contribution alone. But Ehrlich also appended to this study a theory of the basis for antibody formation, an inclusion that assured the report a unique position in the history of immunology" (Silverstein, A History of Immunology, p. 65). Paul Ehrlich shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1908 with Elie Metchnikoff "in recognition of their work on immunity". - Light fingerstains and dustsoiling; remains of a shalfmark label; stamp to verso of title-page. Garrison/Morton 5064.‎

‎Freud, Sigmund.‎

‎Die Traumdeutung. Leipzig & Vienna, Franz Deuticke, "1900" [but 1899].‎

‎8vo (154 x 223 mm). (4), 371, (5) pp. Modern full morocco binding with gilt cover rules, spine gilt, leading edges gilt, all edges gilt. First edition of Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams'. "Unquestionably Freud's greatest single work" (PMM). Here, Freud introduces the idea of the unconscious, and leaves an indelible mark on culture, advancing the idea that dreams have symbolic meaning to the dreamer beyond their literal content. - In perfect condition, preserved in a tasteful modern binding. Garrison/Morton 4980. PMM 389. Grinstein 277. Grolier/Horblitt 32. Grolier (Medicine) 87. Norman F33.‎

‎Cellarius, Andreas.‎

‎Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus. Amsterdam, J. Jansson, 1661.‎

‎Folio (340 x 520 mm). (14), 125, (1 blank), 218, (2) pp. With hand-coloured engraved title-page and 30 double-page hand-coloured engraved plates, each celestial charts or model Universes. Also with 4 engraved and 2 woodcut in-text diagrams, illustrated woodcut initials, headpieces, and tailpieces. Contemporary full vellum ruled in floriated gilt, decorated with gilt arabesques, stamped in gilt on spine, all edges gilt. First edition, second issue of the only celestial atlas published in the Golden Age of Dutch cartography, and perhaps the most important 17th century celestial atlas to be produced. - Unlike later celestial atlases, the Cellarius charts demonstrated various ancient and contemporary cosmological ideas, rather than merely the names and positions of the stars. The purpose of the book was to assess contemporary attempts to discover the underlying harmony of the universe. As such, the charts represent the highest levels of 17th century astronomical thought, with lavishly engraved and hand-coloured plates showing the three great theories on the nature of the universe: the Ptolemaic, the Copernican, and the Brahean. This was an era when the debate between these models was at the forefront of cosmological science, on par with the debate between Einsteinian Relativism and Quantum Theory today. - Featured in four plates, the Ptolemaic model was the oldest, formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy about 150 CE. Ptolemy's approach placed the Earth at the centre of the cosmos, but unlike other ancient models (for instance, Aristotle's) could explain the odd movement of the planets as observed from Earth: unlike the moon and Sun, most planets occasionally appear to travel in spirals in the night sky rather than tracking sedately East to West. This movement in rooted in the word planet itself, from the Greek "planetes" meaning "wandering one". Ptolemy was able finally to mathematically explain the wandering of the planets, though by way of a complex geometry of epicycles. - By the 16th century, this model was beginning to wear thin. In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) made detailed observations which led him to publish "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs"), which solved the worst geometrical complications of Ptolemy by placing the Sun at the centre of the universe and making orbits by and large circular. However, until Galileo, the Copernician theory lacked an underlying system of physics to explain this new movement. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) attempted to forge a middle path between the classic Ptolemaic model and the neater mathematics of the Copernican, allowing that most planets would orbit the sun, but that the Sun orbited the Earth, which remained at the centre of the cosmos. As early as the 12th century it was not uncommon to posit that one or two planets might orbit the Sun, which in turn orbited the Earth. However, in the mediaeval period, debate was held off due largely to the lack of technological ability to observe the sky with precision. It was simply impossible to prove whether the Sun or the Earth stood at the centre, and thus similar (though always geocentric) models existed side by side without too much controversy. When Cellarius placed these three models together it was in a world where this had changed: one of these models would emerge to portray what was, to contemporaries, an inimitable truth both scientific and deeply religious. The only question was who would win the day. - In this volume, Cellarius has delved into this debate in striking baroque style, bringing to bear all the power of the Dutch Golden Age of cartography on the heavens rather than the Earth. The four engravings of the Ptolemaic system depict the central Earth encased, as was traditional, in the four elements, including a large ring of fire. Above this are the orbits of the seven planets: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, bordered by the ecliptic, in which the fixed stars spin around the unmoving Earth once a day. Another Ptolemaic plate includes two smaller models as part of the marginal decoration, one of the Ptolemaic hypothesis, "in qua Terra totius Universi centrum", and one of the Brahean hypothesis, "in qua centrum Lunae et Firmamenti est Terra. reliquorum quinq. Planetarum Sol". In this way, Cellarius placed each model in direct dialogue with each other, not only in text but in image. Following the section on Ptolemy, Copernicus bursts onto the scene with a model dominated by a central sun, its rays stretching out to every corner of the universe. Around it are Mercury, Venus, and then Earth itself, around which orbits the Moon; next comes Mars and then Jupiter, now with four moons to itself, and finally Saturn. The four moons of Jupiter had only been discovered fifty years previously, near-simultaneously by Galileo and by Simon Marius; their presence remained innovative in Cellarius's time. The second illustrates in more detail the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and the rotation of Earth which must create night and day in the Copernican system. Finally, Brahe's compromise is introduced, mapped so beautifully that its inelegant fusion of theories appears somehow elegant in its own right. The Earth at the centre is orbited by the Moon, then by the Sun. Around the Sun, however, are Mercury and Venus in tight orbit, and then, more distantly, are Mars, Jupiter - again with its modern four moons - and Saturn. - Thus, in one volume, Cellarius has encapsulated the increasingly accurate celestial cartography, the increasingly uncertain laws of physics, and the endlessly fascinating 17th century multiverse in a moment on the cusp of the most momentous decision in the history of science. Strangely, Cellarius himself remains a somewhat mysterious figure, with little known other than that he was the rector of the Latin school of Hoorn and a gifted mathematician. In fact, it appears that "[t]he most elaborate and famous celestial atlas of the 17th century was issued by an author unknown to the history of astronomy" (Whitfield). This 1661 edition is a variant of the first edition of 1660, identical except for the change of date on the title. - Touch of exterior wear, a few plates with tape reinforcement where they have begun to separate from guards. Stunningly ornate, detailed, and well preserved. Koeman IV, Cel 2. Snyder, Oude Hemelkaarten p. 115f. Whitfield p. 101.‎

‎Jones, Joseph L.; Seiger, Bruce A.; Flynn, Anita M.‎

‎Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, Second Edition‎

‎Libro in ottime condizioni‎