London: S. Austin printed for the Editor, 1738. First edition. leather_bound. 243 pages, Preface (12), Index (6), and four pages of publisher adverts [A8-Q8, R7]. 20 x 13 cm. Five copper engraved fold-out plates, plate four in photocopy. Errata list. Cotes, an English mathematician who edited the second edition of..... More
London: J. Nourse, 1759. First edition. leather_bound. 396 pages. 21 x 13 1/2. Born in Scotland, Flemyng arrived London 1751 to teach physiology to nascent medical students who had not been to the Universities. This work contains the substance of his London lectures. The author was abreast of the best..... More
London: T. Cox, 1729. First edition. Boards. 216 pages. [A8-O8,P7]. 20 x 13 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts following text [A4]. Engraved title page vignette. One of the most influential medical men of his age, physician to the Hanoverian Court, imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies, he exerted a significant..... More
London: J. Johnson, 1804. Third edition. leather_bound. 567, 528 & 534 pages. 26 page index., errata for each volume. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. First published 1796. Forty-seven engraved copper-plates in total -- 22 (Vol, I), 10 (Vol.II), 15 (Vol.III). A divine and man of letters, the author studied at..... More
London: John Nourse, 1775. First edition. leather_bound. 485 [30, Inded & Errata]. 21.5 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece, An English politician and grammarian, fond of the Greek and Roman classics. Samuel Johnson found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a prig" and "a coxcomb" who "did..... More
London: J. Johnson, 1796, 1795. First edition. Hardcover. 650, 756 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven copper engraved plates, and a host of diagrams and tables in the text. Volume I, 1796 probably a later issue -- copies noting 1795 and 1796 on title page are found. In 1773 he..... More
Oxford: S. Parker and D. Prince et al, 1762. First edition. leather_bound. 281 pages. 26 1/2 x 22 cm. Three copper-engraved plates, two are fold-outs. "Jones of Nayland" was one of the prominent churchmen of his day. He represented the school more numerous than is commonly supposed, which formed the..... More
London: W. Johnson et al, 1759. First English edition. leather_bound. 586 pages, Index (38 pp) [A4,a4-Zzz4,4A-4K]. Pharmacist and Theologian. and tutor of the hereditary princes of Duke Ernst the Pious, his observation on mortality rates in Breslau were sent to Leibnitz who informed the Royal Society of Neumann's work. This..... More
Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two foldout..... More
London: John & James Rivington, 1790 & 1792. First edition. leather_bound. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger Payne..... More
London: W. and J. Newton et al, 1720. Second edition. leather_bound. 344 pages, Index (9) AND Preface (6), 116 pages re MEDICO-PHYSICAL ESSAYS containing a separate title page. 20 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece and folding plate. A medical writer apprenticed to an apothecary he practiced medicine in London, eventually..... More
London: Samuel Harding, 1737-1744. Mixed edition. leather_bound. 29 x 13 xm. Two volumes in four parts with six title pages as follows: Preface (1743), Part I (1744), Part II (1737), Part III (1743), Part IV (1742-1743). With the continuation leaf for Part III of the second section, errata, and an..... More
Paris: Claude Jombert, 1722. leather_bound. 119 pages [*7,A8-O8]. 13 1/2 x 9 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Italian physiologist, physician and professor, Santorio initiated his medical practice in Venice, 1599, where he became part of a learned circle that included Galileo. He invented a device he called the "pulsilogium" for measuring the..... More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. More
Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1787-1792. Second edition. Hardcover. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Illustrated with eight plates, five fold-outs, one plain and two in color. First published 1776 in two volumes (titled A BOTANICAL ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH..... More