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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.
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Darwin, Charles.
A fajok eredete a természeti kiválás útján vagyis az elönyös válfajok fenmaradása a létérti küzdelemben. Budapest, Kiadja a természettudományi Társulat, 1873-1874.
8vo (160 x 228 mm). 2 vols. XVI, (2), 303, (1) pp. VII, 361, (3) pp. With a double-page plate in vol. 1 and a portrait frontispiece in vol. 2. Publisher's original green cloth. All edges gilt. First Hungarian 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). - Translated by László Dapsy, revised by Tivadar Margó. Bindings a little rubbed, extremeties worn, interior quite clean. Original publishers' binding by Lajos Bóka of Pest signed with his blindstamp to the white lacquer endpapers. Freeman 703. OCLC 978009347. Természettudományi társulat vállalata II-III. Cf. PMM 344.
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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.
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Demarteau, Amédée.
Malerisch-technischer Atlas der k. k. Staatseisenbahn-Strecke von Mürzzuschlag bis Gratz in Steiermark [...]. Vienna, H. F. Müller, [1844].
4to. 24 pp. With 2 tables, one of which folding, a lithographed folding plan depicting 14 train stations, a large folding panoramic view of the railway track with 14 smaller marginal views, and a folding view of architectural monuments, mainly railway bridges. With lithographed plans of Vienna and Graz to pastedowns. Original printed boards. Illustrated description of the newly established railway between Mürzzuschlag and Graz, which opened on 21 October 1844. Prepared by the Paris-born railway engineer Demarteau, this work reflects the importance of the Südbahn - a railway project that promised economic prosperity to southern Austria and, upon its completion in 1854, resulted in a continuous railway track from Vienna to Ljubljana. The "Atlas" is particularly remarkable for its fine lithographs, prepared by August Grube in Vienna, some after designs by Rudolf von Alt and F. Weiss. The large folding panorama of the track, including an elevational and longitudinal profile, is decorated with charming views of the towns of Semmering, Krieglach, Langenwang, Kindberg, Kapfenberg, Bruck, Peggau, Judendorf-Straßengel and Graz. Views of prominent railway bridges and station buildings, as well as plans of the 14 stations along the route from Mürzzuschlag to Graz, complete the picture. In addition, the work gives an introduction to the history of Styria and the construction of the track. - The 24-page introduction and the two tables are included in French in a separate booklet at the end of the volume. The French title is given on the lower board. - Binding very slightly duststained, still a fine copy of an uncommon work. Schlossar 100. Nebehay/Wagner 140. Metzeltin 884. Neuner 961.
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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.
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Witsen, Nicolaes.
Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheeps-Bouw en Bestier [...]. Amsterdam, Caspar Commelijn, 1671.
Folio (200 x 323 mm). 2 parts in one vol., with appendix. (14), 516, 40, (4) pp. Title-page printed in red and black. With engraved title by R. Hooghe and 111 (instead of 114) engraved plates after Witsen (1 folded). Contemporary full calf over wooden boards with giltstamped borders, spine, and spine-title. First edition. The standard work on shipbuilding by a Dutch author - the leading nation in naval architecture in the early modern period. This seminal work contains detailed descriptions and illustrations as well as an account on the history of navigation and ship building since antiquity, discussing construction techniques, different types of ships, and naval architecture from across the world as observed by the author during his travels. - Nicolas Witsen (ca. 1640-1717) was mayor of Amsterdam 13 times between 1682 and 1706. In 1693 he became administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). In his free time he was a cartographer and maritime writer, as well as an expert on Russian affairs. - Binding somewhat rubbed; front hinges broken. Title-page waterstained; upper portion of the gutter waterstained in entire first half of the volume; occasional marginal tears, browning and light fingerstaining. Still a good working copy of the classic that in 1697 inspired Tsar Peter the Great to a four-month training period at the Dutch East India Company shipyards organised by Witsen. Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe 16. NNBW IV, 1473. Cf. Poggendorff II, 1344 (Latin title).
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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.
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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 [but: Jan. 1860].
8vo. IX, (1), 502, 32 pp. With half title, folding lithographed diagram and publisher's adverts at end dated June 1859. 20th century blue half morocco binding with cloth covers, gilt rules, marbled flyleaves. Top edge gilt. Almost unobtainly rare revised issue of the first edition, or rather the intermediary stage to the first issue of the second edition, called by Darwin himself "only a reprint [with] a few important corrections". Published in January 1860, this is the only known copy to retain the year "1859" on the title-page, the original two quotations opposite (while the second edition is usually marked by having three), and the 32 pages of ads at the end, dated "June 1859" (usually lacking in the second edition). Alterations between the first and second editions are minor, though it is notable that Darwin corrected the misprint "speceies" on page 20 and shortened the "whale-bear" story on page 184. - Immediately recognized as revolutionary and controversial, the "Origin's" small first edition of only 1250 copies sold out on the first day, and by the late autumn of 1859 the publisher Murray was asking Darwin to begin revising at once for a new edition. This was to become the second edition (never so called on the title-page), of which a few copies were printed that retain the date "1859". Freeman knows of only two, at Yale and the University of Southern California, LA, both of which, however, already have three instead of two quotations opposite the title: "The existence of such copies has long been known to the trade, although, from their extreme rarity, few booksellers can ever have seen one" (p. 77). Freeman clarifies that while there is "only one issue of the first edition" of the "Origin of Species", "the text being identical in all copies" (p. 75), it was "customary, for many years, for anyone offering a copy of the first edition to describe it as 'first edition, first issue'", and he admits that "the book-sellers were, in a purist sense, right; the new printing was from standing type of the first edition, although with a considerable number of resettings" (p. 77). By this standard, the present specimen is clearly one of the second edition. Yet Freeman, from his evidence, considered "the presence of two quotations only, from Whewell and Bacon, on the verso of the half-title leaf", to be "diagnostic" of the first edition. Unknown to Darwin's bibliographer, the present revised version sits between the first edition and the first issue of the second, exhibiting characteristic features of both. Only a tiny number of copies of this proto-first issue of the second edition can have been produced: it appears a unique variant of what has always been considered the "rara avis" of Darwin bibliography. - Lower and right edges untrimmed, a very short tear in the diagram's first fold; an old repaired tear to the gutter of the following leaf and some very light foxing to the margin of the preceding one. Otherwise an impeccable copy, bound in the mid-20th century for the American petroleum geologist Dr. Edgar Wesley Owen (1896-1981) with a posthumous exlibris ticket loosely inserted. PMM 344. Dibner Heralds (1980) 199. Eimas Heirs 1724. Garrison/Morton (1991) 220. Grolier/Horblit, Science, 23b. Grolier, Medicine, 70B. Norman 593. Sparrow, Milestones 49. Waller 10786. Freeman p. 77 and cf. nos. 373 & 375.
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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).
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[Pharmacology].
Formulaire pharmaceutique, a l'usage des hôpitaux militaires [...]. Paris, Méquignon, 1804.
8vo. XVI, 111 pp., final blank page. Contemporary marbled boards. Second edition. - Scarce pharmaceutical compendium for military hospitals. This pharmacopeia encourages physicians to harmonise prescriptions to make treatments more efficient and reliable and promotes the use of domestic remedies. First published thus in 1793, this work appears to be an expanded translation of Jean François Coste's 1780 "Compendium pharmaceuticum". - The booklet comprises medicines for internal and external use, including medicinal wines, potions, herbal juices, powders, pills, poultices, gargles, lotions, liniments, injections and enemas. In addition, it includes a table of weights and measures, as well as observations on the importance of clean air in hospital rooms, a proposition of pharmacy subdivisions equipped with first-aid medication following the ambulances, and a model patient form to be filled out by a physician on his ward rounds. - Pencil note on the title-page marking the copy as a duplicate. Extremities slightly rubbed; small flaws to marbled paper along spine. Interior somewhat brownstained throughout. OCLC 17407037.
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[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.
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Böckmann, Carl Wilhelm.
Leitfaden zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen über die Naturlehre. Karlsruhe, C. F. Macklots Hofbuchhandlung, 1813.
4to. (IX)-XIV, (1)-147, (3) SS. (inkl. Titel, davon 4 leer) in 8vo. Durchschossen mit zusammen ca. 94 SS. Manuskript in Tinte auf 78 Bll., mit über 150 kleinen Textillustrationen meist in Blei, meist 4to. Marmorierter Papiereinband mit Rückenschild. Zweite Auflage des erprobten Lehrwerks für Physik und Chemie: hier als durchschossenes Handexemplar eines zeitgenössischen Hochschullehrers für seine Vorlesungstätigkeit, versehen mit umfangreichen handschriftlichen Ergänzungen sowie zahlreichen kleinen Handskizzen zur Erläuterung des Stoffs und zu Versuchsaufbauten, die einen unmittelbaren Blick auf die Weise vermittelt, in der Böckmanns Handbuch im Hörsaal vorgetragen wurde: "ad § 1. Das Wort Natur hat hier zweierley Bedeutung. I) formale, wenn ich alle die wesentlichen u. notwendigen Merkmale eines einzelnen Dinges darunter verstehe. 2) materielle, wenn ich die ganze Sinnenwelt, in so fern sie Gegenstand der sinnl. Erfahrung ist [...]". - Böckmann wirkte eine Zeit lang als Prinzenerzieher und wurde 1803 in der Nachfolge seines Vaters Professor der Physik und Mathematik am Gymnasium in Karlsruhe und Aufseher des physikalischen Kabinetts. Die vorliegende Arbeit ist der Großherzogin von Baden gewidmet, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Napoleons Adoptivtochter. Die erste Auflage war bereits 1805 unter dem Titel "Entwurf eines Leitfadens zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen über die Naturlehre" erschienen. - Einband stärker berieben und bestoßen mit kleinen Notizen in Tinte. Das Einbandpapier an den Gelenken angeplatzt, das Rückenschildchen kaum noch lesbar. Der Druck durchwegs mit hs. Korrekturen und Anmerkungen, zumeist in Tinte; wenige Bll. leicht tintenfleckig. Das Manuskript leicht braunfleckig bzw. stellenweise leicht tintenfleckig. Interessantes Dokument der deutschen Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Geschichte der Wissenschaftsvermittlung. Poggendorf I, 220. Kayser I, 299. OCLC 180612232.
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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.
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Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich.
Sposob uviersit'sia v izchezanii bezkonechnykh strok i priblizhat'sia k znacheniiu funktsii ot ves'ma bol'shikh chisel [A method for ascertaining the convergence of infinite series and for obtaining approximate values of functions of a large number of variables]. Kazan, Universitetskaia tip., 1835.
8vo. 134 pp., final blank leaf. Original printed wrappers with printed title enclosed in decorative border. First separate printing: exceptionally rare offprint of this important essay on the foundations of calculus and real analysis by the first inventor of non-Euclidean geometry. "As early as 1835, Lobachevsky showed in [this] memoir the necessity of distinguishing between continuity and differentiability" (Cajori). - Lobachevsky's works in other areas of mathematics were either directly relevant to his geometry (as his calculations on definite integrals and probable errors of observation) or results of his studies of foundations of mathematics (as his works on the theory of finites and the theory of trigonometric series). "The mathematicians of the 18th century did not touch the question of the relation between continuity and differentiability, presuming silently that every continuous function is eo ipso a function having a derivative. Ampère tried to prove this position, but his proof lacked cogency. The question about the relation between continuity and differentiability awoke general attention between 1870 and 1880, when Weierstrass gave an example of a function continuous within a certain interval and at the same time having no definite derivative within this interval (non-differentiable). Meanwhile, Lobachevski already in the thirties showed the necessity of distinguishing the 'changing gradually' (in our terminology: continuity) of a function and its 'unbrokenness' (now: differentiability). With especial precision did he formulate this difference in his Russian Memoir of 1835: 'A method for ascertaining the convergence, etc.'. A function changes gradually when its increment diminishes to zero together with the increment of the independent variable. A function is unbroken if the ratio of these two increments, as they diminish, goes over insensibly into a new function, which consequently will be a differential-coefficient. Integrals must always be so divided into intervals that the elements under each integral sign always change gradually and remain unbroken" (Halsted, p. 242). This work includes an extensive discussion of infinite series, including a new convergence criterion, now known as "Lobachevsky's test". Much space is also devoted in this memoir to definite integrals, prompted by the computation of areas and volumes in Lobachevskian geometry. One year later, Lobachevsky devoted a whole memoir to this subject. - Wrappers wrinkled; some damage to border on lower cover; spine and corners professionally restored with like paper. Chipped corners of title-page remargined; interior shows creasing with occasional light waterstains to margins. Exceptionally rare, as are all of Lobachevsky 's Kazan publications, even in Russian collections: OCLC lists the Harvard copy only. Cajori, History of Mathematics, S. 421. Halsted, "Biology and Mathematics", 12th Annual Report of the Ohio State Academy of Science (1903), S. 239-247. OCLC 84296869.
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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.
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Euler, Johann Albert.
Meditationes de motu vertiginis planetarum ac praecipue Veneris. In quaestionem: motus diurnos planetarum circum axes proprios [...] definire, ab Academia Imperiali Scientiarum Petropolitana in annum 1757. Pro praemio propositam, ad eadem Academia d. VI. Septembris 1760. in conventu publico praemio affectae. St Petersburg, typis Academiae Scientarum Petropoli, 1760.
4to. (2), 48 pp. With 2 folding plates. Contemporary wrappers. Prize-winning essay on the movements of the planets, published in the journal of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg and as an offprint (as here). Johann Albrecht Euler (1734-1800) was the son of the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
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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.
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MATURI, R.
GALATEO DEL MEDICO.
Napoli, Androsio, 1873. In 16° piccolo, pp. 151 n. Dall’indice: le vesti, l’urbanità, la morale, deve il medico occuparsi di politica?, cultura letteraria, grecismi, libri, filosofia, osservazione ed esperienza, materialisti e idealisti, visite e consulti, diagnosi pronostico e cura, onorario del medico, la medicina è arte o scienza?, la vita e la morte, la malattia, il metodo per la diagnosi, etc. etc. Bella legatura moderna in mezza pelle e punte. Conservate le brossure originali. Ex libris.
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CARREL, Alexis.
MEDICINA UFFICIALE E MEDICINE ERETICHE.
Milano, Bompiani, 1950. In 8° piccolo, pp. 425 n. Brossura originale. trad. dal francese Federico Federici. Medicina Umorale - Omeopatia - Naturista - Agopuntura - Psicologia - Guarigioni razionalmente inspiegabili. Coll. Avv. del Pensiero n°73.
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FRANK, Franc.
CONSIDERAZIONI DEL DOTTORE F. F. SULLE RIFLESSIONI DEL SIG. GAETANO STRAMBIO SUL LIBRO INTITOLATO: “JOANNIS BRUNONIS … ELEMENTA MEDICINAE”. Opera postuma.
In Napoli, presso i fratelli Marotta, 1796. In 16° gr., pp. 67 n. Piena pergamena coeva.
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DEL ZIO, Giocondino A.
SONNAMBULISMO GUARITO CON LA SOTTRAZIONE DI VERMI DA SOTTO ALLA CUTE DEL CAPO. OSSERVAZIONE DEL DOTTORE A. G. D. Z. LETTA ALL’ACCADEMIA PONTANIANA DI NAPOLI IL DI 12 NOVEMBRE 1842.
Potenza, Santanello, 1843. In 16° gr., pp. 16 n. Bella legatura moderna in piena tela.
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DESCURET Jean Baptiste Felix.
LA MEDICINA DELLE PASSIONI. OVVERO LE PASSIONI CONSIDERATE RELATIVAMENTE ALLE MALATTIE, ALLE LEGGI E ALLA RELIGIONE SECONDA EDIZIONE NAPOLITANA CON NUOVE NOTE.
Napoli, Rondinella, 1857. In 16° gr., pp. XL + 606 n. Bella legatura coeva in mezza pelle con ricchissimi fregi in oro e titoli al dorso.
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HEISER, V.
L'ODISSEA DI UN DOTTORE AMERICANO. Traduzione dall' inglese, prefazione e note di Piero Monaci. Odissea vera e propria che si svolge su un'ampia trama di tempo - spazio che involge 40 anni e 45 paesi.
In 8° pp. VI, (2), 514, (2). Firma di appartenenza. Buono stato di conservazione. Bross. orig.
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PLESCH, Janos.
STORIA DI UN MEDICO.
Milano, Rizzoli, 1951. In 8°, pp. 363 n. Dedica manoscritta. Brossura originale.
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L'ONANISMO. OVVERO DISSERTAZIONE SOPRA LE MALATTIE CAGIONATE DALLE POLLUZIONI VOLONTARIE.
Napoli, Francesco Saverio Del Vecchio, 1822. Prima edizione napoletana corretta, ed accresciuta di molte note. In 8°, PP 192n. Legatura in mezza pelle con punte e titoli, decori, fili in oro al dorso. Testo brunito. Raro.
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AA.VV.
REGIMEN SANITATIS.: Flos medicinae scholae Salerni.
Milano, Ugo Mursia, 1987. In 8° grande, PP CIII+627n. Brossura originale con cofanetto. Traduzione e note di Andrea Sinno, presentazione di S. Visco. Intonso.
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ANTONACCI, Pietro.
MANUALE OSSIA COMPENDIO PRATICO DI MEDICINA CHIRURGIA E FARMACIA. 2 voll. Parte prima: Malattie mediche; Parte seconda: Malattie chirurgiche.
Roma, Tipi della S.C De Propagansa Fide, 1852. Quarta edizione. In 8°, PP XV+294n (vol. 1); PP 263n (vol. 2). Legature in pergamena, leggermente differenti, con titoli in oro ai tasselli.
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BERGMANN, G.V
MALATTIE DEL SISTEMA NERVOSO. 2 voll.
Milano, Società Editrice Libraria, 1929 (vol. 1) - 1930 (vol. 2). In 8°, PP IX+891n (vol. 1); PP VIII+ da 894 a 1663n (vol. 2). Legature mezza tela con punte e titoli in oro ai dorsi. 291 figure nere e a colori nel primo vol., 252 nel secondo.
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DELLA SETA, Eschilo.
CUORE SANO E CUORE INFERMO.: Consigli di un medico.
Roma, Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, 1938. Prima edizione di 25.000 copie. In 8°, PP 212n. Brossura originale. Testo lievemente brunito dal tempo. Antica firma al frontespizio.
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LATRONICO, Nicola (a cura di).
MEDICI NEL LORO TEMPO.
Casatenovo, VISTER, 1954. In 4°, PP 60 circa. Brossura originale. Opera ricca di tavole intercalate nel testo e fuori dal testo.
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SCURI, Decio.
ANATOMIA- FISIOLOGIA- IGIENE E FONIATRIA.
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GUACCI NOBILE, Giuseppina.
STORIA DEL CHOLERA IN NAPOLI.: o di alcuni de’ Costumi Napoletani del 1837.
Napoli, Luigi Regina, 1978. In 8°, PP VIII+109n. Brossura originale.
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COMPARATO ROMANO, Sebastiano.
RESOCONTO CLINICO DELLE MALATTIE MENTALI ED INCIDENTI.: curate nella succursale del manicomio di Palermo da Luglio 1873 a Luglio 1874.
Palermo, LAO, 1874. In 8°, PP 35n. Brosura.
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ROBBE, Baldassarre.
STORIA DI UN FUNGO MIDOLLARE.
Potenza, V. Santanello, 1852. In 8°, PP VIII+16n. Legatura tutta tela con titoli in oro al tassello sul piatto anteriore.
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MASSE.
TYPUS ET FIEVRE TYPHOIDE.
Paris, G. Masson, 1878. In 8°, PP 225n. Legatura mezza tela con titoli in oro al dorso, lievemente sicupato.
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Giacosa Piero.
Magistri Salernitani.
(Medicina). Giacosa Piero. Magistri Salernitani. Nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di Storia della Medicina aperta a Torino nel 1898. Atlante. 40 tavole in fototipia con indice particolareggiato. Torino, Bocca, 1901. In-folio, cop. cart. con tit. (sbiadito) al p.; pp. 28+40 tavole f.t.
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enriquez e.-sicard j.-a.
Les Oxidations de l'Organisme. (Oxydases).
(Medicina) enriquez e.-sicard j.-a. Les Oxidations de l'Organisme. (Oxydases). Paris, 1902. 8°, cart. edit.; pp. 85-(2)+ 18.
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(Ferrari).
Conferma ed apologia delle riflessioni sopra un giudizio relativo ad un caso chirurgico.
(Medicina) (Ferrari). Conferma ed apologia delle riflessioni sopra un giudizio relativo ad un caso chirurgico. Venezia, Canziani, 1786. In-8°, cart. coevo; pp. 54. Il “Caso” è riferito ad una lunga controversia per una diagnosi, ritenuta errata, di distorsione all’articolazione della mano.
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Follin E.-duplay S.
Trattato elementare di patologia esterna.
(Medicina) Follin E.-duplay S. Trattato elementare di patologia esterna. Prima trad. italiana... Napoli, 1890. In-8° gr., 7 grossi voll., leg. coeva in m. pelle (diff.) con titt. e fregi oro al d.; pp. IV-880; 832; 784; 753; 728; 658; 1024 con numerose ill. Infiammazioni; tumori; ferite; malattie virulente; malattie dei tessuti; etc.
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FRANK Giuseppe.
Manuale di tossicologia ossia di Dottrina de' veleni e contravveleni.
(Veleni- Medicina) FRANK Giuseppe. Manuale di tossicologia ossia di Dottrina de' veleni e contravveleni. Traduzione dell'ultima edizione tedesca di G. Matthey. Napoli, Sangiacomo, 1805. In-8°, leg. coeva piena perg.; pp. XIV- 258-(6). Raro. Edizione napoletana di questo noto saggio dedicato ai veleni e agli avvelenamenti. Vengono trattate sostanze quali arsenico, mercurio, antimonio, rame, piombo ma anche gli effetti dell’ingerimento di calce, gesso, vetro ecc. Per quanto riguarda i vegetali: cicuta, ranuncolo, elleboro, oppio, loglio, i funghi, ecc. Esaminando il mondo animale sono trattate ostriche, le conchiglie, i pesci velenosi, serpenti, vermi ecc.
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Memoria sulla natura diversa degli ulceri cutanei cancerigni e del cancro glandolare.
(Medicina) Grassi Giuseppe. Memoria sulla natura diversa degli ulceri cutanei cancerigni e del cancro glandolare. Napoli, 1832. In-8°, bross.; pp. 32.
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Jacob C.
Atlante dei metodi di indagine clinica. Con un compendio di Diagnostica medica e di Patologia e Terapia speciale delle malattie interne.
(Medicina) Jacob C. Atlante dei metodi di indagine clinica. Con un compendio di Diagnostica medica e di Patologia e Terapia speciale delle malattie interne. Milano, 1904. 8°, leg. coeva t.t.; pp. XX-242 con numerose ill. in nero e 68 litografie a colori f.t. accompagnate da una dettagliata scheda descrittiva.
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OLIVIERI A
Antica Medicina.
(Medicina) OLIVIERI A. Antica Medicina. Napoli, 1927. In-8°, da p. 235 a 254.
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PAGANO Giovanni.
Trattato sulla Febbre saporosa-convulsiva, o torcicollo.
(Medicina) PAGANO Giovanni. Trattato sulla Febbre saporosa-convulsiva, o torcicollo. Sec. ediz. Napoli, all'ins.del Diogene, 1842. In-8°p., leg. coeva m. tela con tit. in oro al d.; pp. 192. Raro.
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Rubino A.
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(Farmacia) Rubino A. Formulario terapeutico. Milano, (1908). In-8°, leg. t. tela (stanca) con tit. al d.; pp. XII-822.
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Biblioteca vaccinica.
Per far seguito agli Opuscoli ed al Giornale di vaccinazione.
(Medicina). Biblioteca vaccinica. Per far seguito agli Opuscoli ed al Giornale di vaccinazione... I fascicolo bimestrale. Napoli, 1817. 8°, bross. origg.; pp. XVI-56 e grande tavv. f.t. “Prospetto delle Vaccinazioni eseguite nel Regno di Napoli...”
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Laffecteur.
Exposé Complet de la Méthode Végétale Dépurative (Proprietaire du véritable Rob anti-syphilitique).
(Medicina) Laffecteur. , jusqu'à nos jours... Paris, Laffecteur, s.d. (1840). In-8°, bross. orig.; pp. XVI-388 con una lettera al Redattore Capo della Gazzetta degli Ospedali ripieg. in antip. Timbri al frontespizio.
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AA.VV.
Memorie storiche e documenti sulla Citta' e sull'antico Principato di Carpi. Studi e indagini della Commissione Municipale di Storia Patria e Belle Arti di detta citta'. Vol. XI Parte I. Parte II.
2 volumi, cm. 24, br. edit., pag. 238 (2) più 4 tavv. fot. f.t.; 45 (3) più 1 tav. fot. f.t.. R. bacchelli, L'ultimo signore di Carpi; A. Morselli, Notizie e documenti sulla vita di A. Pio; Nel I° Centenario della morte di Ciro Menotti: T. Federici Zuccolini, Per l'inaugurazione di una lapide; A. Morselli, La rivoluzione a Carpi dal 3 al 6 febbraio 1831. Il secondo fascicolo è dedicato interamente al celebre medico Jacopo Berengario.
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Geri - Ann Galanti
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures
6 x 9 Paperback Like New Book. Ship form publishers. pls. allow 4 - 6 weeks for del ivery as this is just a new released book. Are you culturally r esponsive to a diverse population? What happens when a Cherokee p atient summons a medicine man to the hospital, or when an Anglo n urse refuses to take orders from a Japanese doctor? Why do Asian patients rarely ask for pain medication, while Mediterrenean pat ients seem to ask relief for even the slightest discomfort?
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Pina Ragionieri
Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth
6 x 9 Paperback Like New Book. Ship form publishers. pls. allow 8 - 10 weeks for de livery as this is just to be released in August 2008. new release d book. No longer represented only by Hollywood and the commerica l fashion industry, Los Angeles in recent years has received inte rnational media attention as one of the world's new art centers.
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