[Discovery of Dark Matter] "Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions" and "Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii, from NGC 4605 (R = 4 kpc) to UGC 2885 (R = 122 kpc)" by Rubin, Vera and Ford, Kent W - 1970, 1980

Bruxelles, Belgium: Librairie Europeenne C. Muquardt, 1894. Beautifully rebound in 3/4 light blue cloth with 1/4 deep blue leather at spine and tips, gilt titles, gorgeous marbled endpages, each front pastedown bearing the period bookplate "Ex Libris The Chemists Club N.Y." Chemists Club blindstamp all 3 vols, small amount of informed pencil notes verso title page Vol. 1. Occasional foxing to endpages, page edges uniformly browning. Overall a quite lovely and SCARCE set of Stas' Complete Works. J.S. Stas proved that atomic weights for elements were not all multiples of 1, the atomic weight of hydrogen, disproving the theory of English physicist William Prout that all the atomic weights were multiples of that of hydrogen. He was also responsible for one of the world's first toxicology findings. He was a member of the Royal Society of London and winner of the Davy Medal, from the Royal Society, for his researches into atomic weights. . First Edition. Buckram Spine and 3/4 Cloth. Near… Read More

London : Printed by John Darby for Richard Chiswell, and Robert Clavell, 1669 A very good copy of the 1st edition of Johann Shroder's work in English, translated by William Rowland. An extremely scarce work. Johann Shroder (1600-1664) was a German physician and pharmacologist and is credited as the first person to recognise arsenic as an element - producing it by heating its oxide in 1649. This work was published in Latin in 1662. This copy has been recently rebound in half leather with marbled boards. The spine has gilt lined raised bands and titles. New endpapers have been added. Contents: title page with ink signature of Wm Goodwin ('bought of Mrs Field') and John Hurnon; Dedication by William Rowland 3pp; Book I - Introduction pp 1-49; blank; Book 2 'Of the Shop' pp 51-147; blank; Book 3 'called Macrocosmology - treating of the Great World, or Mineralogy, Treating of Minerals' pp 149-283; blank; Book 4 'Phytologia' pp 385-505; Book 5 'Zoology' pp… Read More

IV, 152 pages, woodcut text-illustrations, one table, 16 plates with 50 numbered illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt stamped title to spine and front cover with gilt stamped hexagonal turning pattern. 4to (260 x 200 mm). Covers lightly soiled. First edition. "The whole of the patterns illustrating this work, were turned by the author, some on box-wood, and others on metal; and every pattern bound up with this copy, has been printed with his own hands, by means of one of Mr. Cowper's parlour printing presses" (foreword page 2). Some leaves with small waterstain in upper blank margin. Four leaves heavily browned.

1822 1ed Childbirth Demonstrations Maygrier Medicine Pregnancy Anatomy PLATES
Jacques-Pierre Maygrier's 'Childbirth Demonstrations' is a rare 19th-century medical treatise focusing on all aspects of pregnancy, midwifery, and childbirth. While numerous works on childbirth exist from this era, this particular work is of the utmost desirability – it contains incredible full-page and double-page engravings each depicting male and female anatomy, various stages of pregnancy, and infant deformities and maladies.
Item number: #19498
Price: $1950
MAYGRIER, Jacques-Pierre
Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemens : avec des planches en taille-douce, accompagnées d'un texte raisonné, propre à en faciliter l'explication
Paris : Béchet, 1822. First edition.

Details:
· Collation:
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x, [2], 80, [2]
Wanting p.9-24
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66 engravings (of 80)
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~16.5in X 11.5in (42cm x 29cm)
· Extremely rare and desirable with… Read More

1810 Neurology 1ed Brain Anatomy Spurzheim & Gall Physiognomy Phrenology FOLIO

Johann Spurzheim was a notable Germany physician who was one of the most prestigious 19th-century doctors, along with Franz Gall, to endorse phrenology as a science. Gall and Spurzheim
"invented and advanced the 'science' of phrenology, a concept holding that the moral, sexual, and intellectual traits of an individual are linked to corresponding protuberances of the brain which in turn manifest themselves as lumps on the skull." (HoH 792)
Spurzheim, a native German speaker, produced several works on phrenology and physiognomical systems, in which he explored his theories on the human brain.

This enormous folio of "Anatomy of the Nervous System" is illustrated with 17 engravings of human anatomy and views of the brain and nervous system.

Item number: #22506
Price: $1500

SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar

Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général et du cerveau en particulier

Paris : Chez F. Schoell, 1810. First… Read More

No place (but Champaign, Illinois?): Privately Printed, 1991. Very scarce (said to be limited to only 6 copies). Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.75" thick. Posthumously printed memoirs of Ralph Early Grim (1902-1989), geologist and Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana. The February 2009 newsletter of THE CLAY MINERALS SOCIETY (photocopy laid-in) contains a tribute to Grim from the University of New Mexico's Dewey Moore. In it Moore writes: "The contrast between his rather humble origins and his lofty reputation as a scientist and world traveler was perhaps the stimulant for him to write his memoirs. After his death, his wife, Frances E. Grim, had them transcribed and a few… Read More

Paris: Durand, Pissot, 1752. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page continued: "Un Mémoire sur la Maniere de faire le Saffre; Le Secret des Vraies Porcelaines de Chine & de Saxe. Ouvrages ou l'on trouvera la maniere de faire le Verre & le Crystal, d'y porter des Couleurs, d'imiter les Pierres Prétieuses, de préparer & colorer les Emaux, de faire la Potasse, de Peindre sur le Verre, de préparer des Vernis, de composer des Couvertes pour les Fayances & Poteries, d'extraire la Couleur Pourpre de l'Or, de contrefaire les Rubis, de faire le Saffre, de faire & peindre les Porcelaines, &c. Traduits de l'allemand, par M. D***." [4], lv, [1], 629, [3] p., 16 leaves of copperplate engravings, including the frontispiece (most folded); 26 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Orange leather spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; gilt-tooled decoration in other… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Very Good. [6] p., 1 leaf of an engraved plate; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. Read before the Society on Jan. 14, 1835. The plate was drawn by S. Rufus Mason and engraved by J. Yeager. Joseph Henry (1797-1878), one of the founding fathers of electrical technology, was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In this paper he describes his construction in 1833 and 1834 of a large galvanic battery for the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound from a larger volume; last leaf is detached from remainder; shadow from plate onto first page of text; otherwise, clean and bright.

Urbana & London: University of Illinois Press, 1966. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature in blue ink to the front free endpaper. An excellent, fresh copy in the lightly rubbed jacket that is tanned, particularly along the spine panel, and has some nicks and short splits at the edges. First edition of this important work on self-reproduction in machines and life forms, scare in the dust jacket. Von Neumann became interested in the abilities of computers to self-reproduce during his work on the Institute for Advanced Studies computer project - noting that, since a Turing machine can make exact copies of any readable sequence, it can copy itself. He hoped to formulate a theory of self-reproduction that would be general enough to explain and predict self-reproduction in both machines and living things. "Using the same method of logical substitution by which a Turing machine can be instructed to interpret… Read More

London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.