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1839ref. 50287London: Longman Orme Brown Green & Longmans 1839. Whole volume 979pp. 135 x 210mm. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards featuring a Shell pattern. Boards are rubbed spine missing. Bookplate tipped to front paste-down. Some minor toning along the margins otherwise a good copy. "Horner's syndrome" due to lesion of the cervical sympathetic. The same syndrome was evoked in animals by Parfour du Petit in 1727 see No. 1313. It is a proof that the sympathetic governs the pupillary vasomotor sudomotor and pilomotor functions. It was also described by Claude Bernard Leçons sur la physiologie et la pathologie du système nerveux 1858 2 473-74 and less impressively by E.S. Hare Lond. med. Gaz. 1838-9 1 16-18 featured here. Garrison-Morton.com No. 5903. Hare was the first to describe this syndrome yet he died at the age of 26 from typhus - just one day before this paper was published. He has no claim to priority over Horner since he was not aware that the ocular symptoms in the case which he described were due to paralysis of the sympathetic. Fulton J.F. Proc R Soc Med. 1929; 232: 152-157. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans unknown books
ref. 68-1570London UK: E. Sanger 1712. 12mo. Light Marbled Boards. 84 pp. Very Good edge wear to some pages somewhat bowed. Letterpress on laid paper. Rebound by artisan bookbinder Sasha Mosalov. London, UK: E. Sanger, 1712. hardcover
1840ref. 76247Philadelphia: J. G. Auner 1840 1843. Fourth Edition with Amendments and Additions. stated. Hardcover. Fair. Also a Letter on the Berzelian Nomenclature with the Reply of Berzelius; with some Subsequent Remarks and Suggestions by the Author Approximately 30 pages. And an Effort to Refute the Arguments advanced in favor of the Existence of Compound Radicals like Cyanogen in the Amphide Salts approximately 60 pages; with a subjoined Statement of those Arguments as advanced in Kane's Elements approximately. Part I 370 pagesPart II vi 371-605 1 xx pages 8 pages. Bound with is A Brief Exposition of the Science of Mechanical Electricity or Electricity Proper" subsidiary to the Course of Chemical Instruction in the University of Pennsylvania with Engravings and descriptions oft the Apparatus employed. The first edition was published in 1828. Covers especially corners are worn. Spine chipped. Some page discoloration. Some pages have top edge staining. Some foxing. Some pages have small pieces missing. Illustrations. Index. Some marks and writing on pages noted. Robert Hare January 17 1781 - May 15 1858 was an early American chemist. Hare was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on January 17 1781. He developed and experimented with the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe with Edward Daniel Clarke of Oxford shortly after 1800. He was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania between 1810 and 1812 and between 1818 and 1847. By the 1820s Hare had developed the "galvanic deflagrator" a type of voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1824. J. G. Auner hardcover
1840ref. 12572Various Places 1840. Octavo modern black cloth binding recent endpapers title page and contents page presentation inscription from Maggs Bros booksellers 1996. Includes: An Attempt to Refute the Reasoning of Liebig in Favor of the Salt Radical Theory. New Haven: B.L. Hamlen 1846. 18 pp. Extracted from the American Journal of Science; A Review of Certain Doctrines Advanced by the Celebrated Liebig and Sanctioned by Gregory and Kane. N.P. N.D. 10 pp; An Effort to Refute te Arguents Advanced in Favor of the Existence in the Amphide Salts of Radicals Consisting Like Cyanogen of More Than One Element. Philadelphia: John C. Clark 1842. 23 pp; Objections to the Nomenclature of the Celebrated Berzelius with Suggestions Respecting a Substitute in a Letter to Professor Silliman. Philadelphia: John C. Clark 1840. 23 pp. Some toning to pages trimming to upper margin affecting page numbers only. hardcover
1852ref. 08792Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson and Co. Law Booksellers No. 197 Chestnut Street. Printed by Kite and Walton 1852. Fourth American Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. LAW. John William Smith 1809-1845 Henry Singer Keating 1804-1888 James Shaw Willes 1814-1872 John Innes Clark Hare 1816-1905 Horace Binney Wallace 1817-1852. "A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes. Volumes I-II. From the Third English Edition Fourth American Edition with Additional Notes and References to American Decisions." Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson and Co. Law Booksellers No. 197 Chestnut Street. Printed by Kite and Walton 1852. Fourth American edition. Two volumes. English language. Hardcover in paneled full calf with spines in five compartments with raised bands red and black gilt-lettered titling labels in second and fourth compartments. Nonfiction legal text across two volumes and seventy-five cases with two prefaces advertisement list of cases case index other indices. 8vo. Bindings: 9 1/4 x 6 inches. Paper: 9 x 5 1/2 inches. 84 oz. Volume I: xxxii 33-840 pp. Volume II: xvi 17-628 pp. Boards ginger. Cracked along spine but attached. Boards with blindstamp signatures. Ownership stamp of Phillip B. Stewart on inside front boards. Minor book worming to a few leaves. Bottom edge of one volume's text block rounded. Contemporary ink manuscript ownership signature to second title. Minor dampstaining. Text clean. Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 1547926016. "'Perhaps the best known English textbook after Blackstone.' The first edition of Smith's Leading Cases was published in 1837. The author lived to complete a second edition. The third and fourth editions such as is offered here were edited by the Right Hon. Sir James Shaw Willes who died in 1872 and the Right Hon. Sir Henry Singer Keating who died in 1888. The fith and sixth editions were edited by the late Frederick Philip Maude and Thomas Edward Chitty; and the seventh eighth and ninth by the Right Hon. Lord Collins who died in 1911 in conjunction with the late Robert George Arbuthnot who died in 1890. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson and Co., Law Booksellers, No. 197 Chestnut Street. Printed by Kite and Walton hardcover
1862ref. 65870BostonMA: Printed by Prentiss & Deland No. 40 Congess Street 1862. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Plain green paperwraps with inscription on front wrapper "Joseph G. Waters from Dr. F. A. Winsor." American Imprints 48988. Printed by Prentiss & Deland, No. 40 Congess Street unknown books
1838ref. 25808London: Taylor and Walton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1838. Full Leather. Very Good full leather editions both volumes have some rubbing to the spines. Both volumes have spotting to the page block fore edge. No previous owner's name or marks. Bindings are tight and pages are clean. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Taylor and Walton hardcover
1899ref. 948P21London: Leonard Smithers & Co 1899. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 11.5". Tony Ludovici. The first edition of this scarce satirical poem by Lord Alfred Douglas complete with colourful plates. The first edition of this scarce work.A nonsense poem about the Duke of Berwick an uptight Duke a comical and entertaining satire on Victorian society and the landed gentry. Illustrated with a colour title and ten colour plates by Tony Ludovici. Collated complete.By Lord Alfred Douglas an English poet and journalist who is better known for being the lover of Oscar Wilde. Douglas' father the 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly accused Wilde of being homosexual leading to a trial and Wilde's imprisonment. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally generally smart with light marks and rubbing to the boards. Marks are heavier to the rear board. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Hinges are tender. Front endpaper and half-title are detached but present. Bookseller's stamp to the recto of the front endpaper. Tape marks to the paste downs. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good Leonard Smithers & Co hardcover
1809ref. 188314London: J. Mawman 1809. Hardback No Dust Wrapper. Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head tail and corners of the binding of all four volumes chips to the head of the spines and the leather now very dry is starting at the joins. Private book plate to the pastedown of each. A little age-toning to the edges of the text blocks. Pages lightly age-tanned and slightly rippled throughout the set with many pages uncut; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.1kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . Within the UK I will request £15.00 to send it along ParcelForce. ### Hardback. Quarter Leather on Marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9¼ x 5¾ 3.1 kg; 2nd edition first published 1801. Four volumes: Volume 1 2 ix 1 433pp 1; Volume 2 4 452pp; Volume 3 4 446pp; Volume 4 8 592pp; The book is on the shelf ready to be appropriately packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John Bath by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188314 London: J. Mawman hardcover
ref. Bloomsbury-9780275938901Praeger. Hardback. New. 200 pages Praeger hardcover
ref. Bloomsbury-9780275938901Praeger. Hardback. New. 200 pages Praeger hardcover
ref. ria9781138234949_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The book first published in 1988 examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest rationalise the unrealism hardcover
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1999ref. DADAX0804731780Stanford University Press 1999-06-01. 1. hardcover. New. 5.00x1.20x8.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Stanford University Press hardcover
1887ref. 11224Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1887 ; in-12, broché ; (1) f., (6), VI, 307, (5) pp., 7 gravures hors-texte dont 3 dépliantes et 1 carte dépliante en couleur, couverture imprimée.
2021ref. x-036772443XRoutledge 2021. Hardcover. New. 274 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.79 inches. Routledge hardcover
1999ref. x-0804731780Stanford Univ Pr 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 322 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. Stanford Univ Pr hardcover
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2003ref. 190797Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland 2003. First edition signed by all four members of the family of artists - Mark Boyle Joan Hills and their children Sebastian and Georgia Boyle. The Boyle family members collaborate on their artwork. This work was issued to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh exploring the family's beginnings from the 1960s to the present day. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Fine. unknown
1999ref. 217113California: Stanford University Press 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages. Stanford University Press hardcover
2014ref. x-3034808151Birkhauser 2014. Hardcover. New. 2014 edition. 373 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Birkhauser hardcover
