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Abernethy, John.
MEMOIRS of ... With a View of His Lectures, Writings and Character by George Macilwain.
Hurst and Blackett ..., 1854. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. xvi + 346pp. + [i] + 378pp. Light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half calf with cloth boards, corners sl. rubbed, dec. gilt raised bands with gilt lettered labels to spines.
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Book number: 275894
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Accum, Frederick.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING COAL GAS, For the Lighting of Streets Houses, and Public Buildings, with Elevations, Sections, and Plans of the Most Improved Sorts of Apparatus Now Employed at the Gas Works in London, and the Principal Provincial Towns of Great Britain; Accompanied with comparative Estimates, exhibiting the most Economical Mode of procuring this species of Light.
London, Printed for Thomas Boys, 1820. 2nd Ed. xv + [i] + 334pp. + [ii]. 7 plates comprising 6 folding hand coloured aquatint plates (frontis. reinforced and with fold split) and hand coloured aquatint to title page. Some browning, later e.ps., original patterned boards, loss to edges, upper leading corner creased, rebacked with much of original spine laid down.
¶ Friedrich Christian Accum or Frederick Accum (1769–1838) German chemist, whose most important achievements included advances in the field of gas lighting, efforts to keep processed foods free from dangerous additives, and the promotion of interest in the science of chemistry to the general populace. Originally published as Practical Treatise on Gas-Light, London 1815, going through four English editions to 1818, rewritten as the above and first published in 1819.
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Addison, Thomas.
ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LOCAL EFFECTS OF DISEASE OF THE SUPRA-RENAL CAPSULES.
Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968. Facsimile of 1855 Ed. Tall thin 4to. viii + 43pp. 11 colour plates. Bound in calf backed cloth boards, gilt lettering to lightly sunned spine.
¶ Garrison and Morton 3118 (1st Ed). Addison included a classical description of pernicious (Addisonian) anaemia in his paper on the condition later known as "Addison’s disease". Although preceded by Combe, his account was more important in bringing the disease to the notice of the medical profession.
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Book number: 276222
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Agricola, Georgius.
DE RE METALLICA. Translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy & Mining Law from the earliest times to the 16th Century. Translated by Herbert Clark Hoover & Lou Henry Hoover.
Dover Publications, 1950. Reprint. Royal 8vo. [xxxii] + 638pp. 4 facsimile pages from the Latin original, 289 ills. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, e.ps. lightly browned, good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine.
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Book number: 287211
GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 41 US$ 43.88 | JP¥ 6881]
Keywords: MEDICINE; MINING AND MINERALOGY

 
Albucasis.
ON SURGERY AND INSTRUMENTS. A Definitive Edition of the Arabic Text With English Translation and Commentary by M.S. Spink and G.L. Lewis.
Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. 1st Ed. 4to. [xvi] + 850pp. 196 figures. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, good in very sl. chipped d/w. lightly faded to spine.
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Book number: 286978
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Allan, Thomas.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF THE CHALK STRATA, and on the Structure of the Belemnité. (Read 2n April 1821).
..., 1821. Slim 4to. ([393]-418)pp. 2 engraved plates (plate nos. 25 & 26) by Lizars showing 11 examples of flints containing belemnites. Unopened in parts, disbound, loosely inserted in modern paper wrapps. with paper title label and booksellers ink stamp to upper wrapp.
¶ From the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume IX. Thomas Allen (1777-1833) mineralogist and collector of minerals. His paper includes consideration of the current theories about the formation of flint given by various authorities from Daubuisson to Hutton, Parkinson to Werner and then adds his own thoughts on the subject.
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Book number: 256897
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(Arbuthnot). Aitken, George A.
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN ARBUTHNOT.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. [xxii] + 516pp. + 8pp. adverts. Portrait frontis., folding pedigree. Light marginal browning, prelims. lightly spotted, original gilt lettered khaki cloth, some minor soiling, corners sl. rubbed, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped at head and tail.
¶ Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed - ‘The Rev. W.B. and Mrs. Salmon, with love from, G.A. Author.’
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Ball, Martin J.; Perkins, Michael R.; Müller, Nicole and Howard, Sara. (Editors).
THE HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL LINGUISTICS.
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxxiv + 674pp. 25 figures. Upper leading corner of upper board bumped, good in d/w.
¶ Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.
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Book number: 286203
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Ball, Martin J.; Perkins, Michael R.; Müller, Nicole and Howard, Sara. (Editors).
THE HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL LINGUISTICS.
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxxiv + 674pp. 25 figures. Good in d/w.
¶ Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics.
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Book number: 286206
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Bartholomaeus Anglicus.
ON THE PROPERTIES OF THINGS. John Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum. A Critical Text.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975-1988. 3 vols., complete. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, good in price clipped d/ws. lightly faded to spines.
¶ Bartholomaeus Anglicus (before 1203–1272). Author of the compendium De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things), dated c.1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia and a widely cited book in the Middle Ages.
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Book number: 286888
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Bates, A.W.
EMBLEMATIC MONSTERS. Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe.
Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam & New York, 2005. 1st Ed. [vi] + 334pp. 16 ills. Author’s Compliments slip loosely inserted, very good in original white lettered coloured pictorial laminated boards.
¶ The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine - Clio Medica 77.
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Book number: 285995
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Baynes, Ken and Pugh, Francis.
THE ART OF THE ENGINEER.
Lutterworth Press, 1981. 1st Ed. Tall 4to. 240pp. 228 drawings, including 40 in colour. Good in d/w.
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Benivieni, Antonio.
DE ABDITIS NONNULLIS AC MIRANDIS MORBORUM ET SANATIONUM CAUSIS. Translation by Charles Singer. With a Biographical Appreciation by Esmond R. Long.
Charles C. Thomas Illinois, 1954. Facsimile Reprint. xlvi + 217pp. Frontis., ills. Half calf with buckram boards.
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Book number: 275113
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Bhatnagar, Arvind and Livingston, William.
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOLAR ASTRONOMY.
World Scientific, Singapore, 2005. [xx] + 445pp. + [iii]. Numerous figures with many from photos. Good in white lettered original coloured pictorial boards.
¶ World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Vol. 6.
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Book number: 281156
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Black, William George.
FOLK-MEDICINE; A Chapter in the History of Culture.
Folk-Lore Society, 1883. 1st Ed. [viii] + 228pp. Dec. initial letters. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, some sporadic spotting, f.e.ps. browned, original gilt lettered terracotta cloth with black line dec. to boards and gilt device to upper boards, some minor soiling and rubbing, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
¶ The Folk-Lore Society XII. Garrison and Morton 6452. ‘The authorative English work on medical folk-lore.’
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Book number: 286748
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