ABERCROMBII, DAVIDIS [ABERCROMBY, DAVID]

Opuscula Medica Hactenus Edita... [Bound with] Nova Medicinae Tum Practicae Tum Speculativae Clavis. Sive Ars Explorandi Medicas Plantarum, Ac Corporum Quorumcumque Facultates Ex Solo Sapore

London: Samuelis Smith [Samuel Smith], 1687. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 160mm x 90mm (6" x 4"). 79pp, vii, 16pp, x, 54pp, vii, 36pp, iv. '... I. De luis venereae absq; salivatione mercuriali, curatione. II. De modo curandi bubonis venerei & tutiore salivationis methodo. [nunc primum editum.] III. De varietate, ac variatione pulsus. IV. De dignoscendis medicis plantarum, ac corporum quorumcumque virtutibus ex solo sapore. In Latin. Second work shown with separate title page published in 1685. Includes the Mercury cure of Syphilis.. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed with edge-wear. Slight foxing.

Barter BooksProfessional seller

Book number: e5831

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: Medicine Sexual Disorders 1650 - 1750 Antiquarian

ABERCROMBY, Patrick.

The Martial Achievements of the Scots Nation: being an account of the lives, characters, and memorable actions of such Scotsman as have signalized themselves by the sword at home and abroad; and a survey of all the military transactions wherein the Scots nation has ever been remarkably concerned from the foundation of monarchy in Scotland, being 330 years before the birth of our saviour (4 Volumes in 2).

Edinburgh: printed by Gil. Martin and Jo. Wotherspoon, 1762. 8vo. Various paginations, additional engraved title-page, 24 copper-engraved portrait plates, folding genealogy. Recent paper boards quarter-style, printed paper spine labels. General text age-browning, occasional soiling and spotting, closed tear to upper margin of leaf 3/4.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 24036

Keywords: Scotland Military History Illustrated

Abercromby, Patrick

The Martial Atchievements of the Scots Nation. Being an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Actions of Such Scotsmen Who Have Signaliz'd Themselves by the Sword at Home and Abroad. And a Survey of the Military Transactions Wherein Scotland or Scotsmen Have Been Remarkably Concern'd, from the First Establishment of the Scots Monarchy to This Present Time. First Editions

Edinburgh : Printed by Mr. Robert Freebairn, and to be sold at his shop in the Parliament-Closs. MDCCXI-M. DCC. XV. [1711-1715]. 2 vols. folio: 39 x 26 cm. (not uniform), Contemporary calf covers with gilt and blind decorations, incl. crowns; gilt spine with 6 raised bands . Bindings similar but not the same. Later matching calf spines. Upper corners with loss of leather [16]-641-[5], [2]-v-vi-vi-545-[7] pp. (soiling, min. fox. min. browning, some marg. dam. with min. hole, pencil marg. note). OCLC 921218694.. Notes: With a list of subscribers in each volume. V. 2 omits p. 28-31 and repeats p. 37-40. Subtitles and imprints of each volume vary slightly. Subtitle of v. 2: Being a full, complete and genuine history of Scotland, from the year of God 1329, to the year 1514; with a clear and demonstrative confutation of the errors of former writers, whether domestick or foreign: and a survey of the military transactions wherein Scotland or Scotsmen were remarkably concerned during that period of time.. Imprint in v. 2 reads: Printed by Mr. Robert Freebairn, printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and sold at his shop in the Parliament Closs. With some printer's ornaments and marginal noted throughout. Includes index at end of each volume. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 16-4039

Catalogue: Books

Abercromby, James.

PORTRAIT James Abercromby. (1776 in Tullibody, Schottland - 1858, schottischer Jurist u. Politiker). Schulterstück im Dreiviertelprofil. Stahlstich.

[Ca 1845]. 4 x 4 cm. (Blattgrösse 5 x 4,5 cm). Feinkartonpassepartout.
¶ Miniatur-Porträt. - James Abercromby, 1. Baron Dunfermline, kam 1807 für Midhurst ins Unterhaus, wo er sich den Whigs anschloss. 1834 wurde er Münzmeister (Master of the Mint) u. Mitglied des ersten Ministeriums Melbourne; 1835 wurde er als Nachfolger von Charles Manners-Sutton Sprecher (Speaker) des Unterhauses. Nach der Niederlegung dieses Amtes im Mai 1839 wurde er zum Baron Dunfermline ernannt u. trat ins Oberhaus ein.

Antiquariat Reinhold PabelProfessional seller

Book number: 61024

Catalogue: Graphiken: Portraits

Keywords: Frühaufklärung; Geisteswissenschaften; Graphik - Graphiken; Great Britain; Grossbritannien; Holland; Mann - Männer; Miniaturportrait - Miniature Portrait; Niederlande; Philosophie; Portrait - Porträt - Portraits; Theologie; Vereinigtes Königreich

Abercromby, John.

A trip through the eastern Caucasus. With a chapter on the languages of the country. [First edition].

London, Edward-Stanford, 1889. XVI,376 pp. B./w. frontispiece, 3 maps (2 fold. b./w. maps & 1 col. map), 6 single-page b./w. plts & 15 b./w. text-ills (incl. 3 on 1 fold. plate). Re-bound in modern attractive three quarter red morocco binding, gilt lettered spine with embossed decorations, raised in compartments. 8vo. - One fold map reinforced at verso with a brown strip of paper.Rare first edition. - - Interesting general report of the author's visit to the eastern part of the Caucasus in which the countryside and its inhabitants are described. The author had a particular interest in local dialects, which are described in the last chapter.

Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.(NVvA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 303778

Keywords: Asia Armenia Etnografie / Azië(Azarbeidzjan) Caucasus Europe Azië Armenië Etnografie / Azië(Azarbeidzjan) Kaukasus Europa

ABERCROMBY, Dav. & VIGANI, J.Fr.

Tuta, ac Efficax Luis Venereae, Saepe absque Mercurio, Ac semper absque Salivatione Mercuriali, Curandae Methodus. B.u.w. 2) VIGANI, Joh. Franc., Medulla Cymiae, Variis Experimentis aucta, multisq; Figuris illustrata.

Londini; Londini, Impensis Samuelis Smith, ad Insigne Principis in Coemiterio Divi Pauli; ad 2) Impensis Henrici Faithorne, & Joannis Kersey ad insigne Roase in Caemeterio D. Pauli, 1684. - 1685. 12mo. 2 vols. in 1. The Vigani w. 3 engr. fold. pls. of furnaces and distillation apparatus. 19th c. half black pebbled cloth over pebbled paper brds., spine gilttooled and giltlett. [A8 [-A1, probably a half title], B-F8, G4 [G3 signed H3]. [A-E8 [-minus quire B]. (XIV, 79, I (blank), VII (Index Capitum), I (blank) pp.). ( X, 1-6, 23 - 70 pp.). (last 3 lvs. a small tear in upper margin, into the text, but skillfully closed and quite unobtrusive.). (Some annots. in ink; text and pls. quires D and E [pp. 39 to end] throughout even light browning.). (All edges vein marbled.). ad 1) G&M 2375: 'Abercromby advanced the idea that syphilis was caused by a parasite.': Hirsch vol. I, p. 6: '... verschieden Schriften über das Wesen der Syphilis, die Aufsehen machten ... In ihnen erweist sich Abercrombie als, odificirter Antimercurialist, indem er zwar einige Quecksilberverbindungen ... als zweckmässig bei Syphilis empfiehlt, die gewönliche Quecksilberanwendung dagegen aus phantastischen Gründen verwirft.': Translated into French and Dutch ['De Spaanse Pok-meester ...] Wing STC A88: Not in Osler, Waller: Wellcome vol. II, p. 3: Krivatsy, item 14 [also w. 7 lvs prelims.; The Krivatsy copy has an 8 pp book catalogue at the end, not in our copy]: ad 2) Third edition, Second London edition. [Dantzig 1682, London 1683, London 1685, here offered.; furthermore Leyden 1693 and Nuremburg 1718].: DNB (1899), p. 305: Hoefer (1843), II, 244, idem (1869), II, p. 235: Partington vol. II, p. 686: 'The book contains fairly long extracts from several chemical authors. It quotes van Helmont's 'Daegeraad'... and Mayow's 'Tractatus Quinque'... He mentions the preparation of ammonium sulphate, describes tobacco, the distillation of vipers and human skull, and describes and illustrates a portable furnace. Vigani is commended by Stahl for his experiments on the preparation of aqua fortis and spirit of salt; Stahl says Vigani worked more with his hands than his head, and criticised some of his theoretical conclusions.': Ferguson, Bibl. Chemica, vol. II, p. 510: 'John Francis Vigani of Verona travelled and studied pharmacy, mining and metallurgy. He came to England between 1670 and 1680, ... died about 1714. ...The book is not a systematic treatise, but only an exposition of some methods which he had found best for the making of certain drugs.': Schelenz, p. 485: Not in Krivatsy: The reason for the absence of quire B in Vigani's 'Medulla Chymiae' is unclear.

Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 7976

Keywords: before 1850 chemistry distilling apparaten Latin medicine mercury VD venereal diseases illustrated books 17th century kwikzilver Z3

Hon. Ralph Abercromby

Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Limited, 1907. Cloth. A smart copy of this detailed study on the changes of weather from the International Science Series. Sixth impression. The International Science Series. A detailed and comprehensive study of weather and its changes, with chapters on weather prognostics, clouds, isobars, wind, heat and cold, thunderstorms, whirlwinds, tornadoes, local weather variations, annual and secular variations, forecasting, and much more. Written by Ralph Abercromby, a Scottish meteorologist. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 914T54

Catalogue: Natural Sciences

Keywords: Weather Nature Changes Abercromby Nature None

BOERHAAVE Herman ; ABERCROMBY David

Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum. - BOUND WITH : Davidis Abercromby : Nova medicinae tum speculativae, tum practicae, clavis : sive ars explorandi medicas plantarum, ac corporum quorumcumque, facultates ex solo sapore

Paris, Cavelier, 1740. Editio B. Boudon. Paris, Cavelier, 1740. In-12° ; 2 works in1 volume: Tractatus de viribus medicamentorum, … title, lxx 564 pp., Nova medicinae…, title, 43 pp. Bound in period sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, red edges. Strong bound book in good condition . Vol.: 1 volume , 470 g.

biblibPrivate seller

Book number: 200513

HEMMO, Kaarlo (Kaarlo Herman Tiihonen), John Abercromby.

Kynäelmiä. Runosommitelmia. III. (Association Copy)

Pori, Kustantaja Gust. Ronelius, 1890. Original red cloth, gilt lettered, floral design to endpapers, 144pp. Spine, corners and upper fore-edge darkened, but a good tight copy. Volume III only. Presentation copy. Used; Very Good Not dated. Interesting association copy. Ink MS dedication on title page in Finnish to John Abercromby (author of " The Pre- And Proto-Historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western, with the Magic Songs of the West Finns" and "A Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus: With a Chapter on the Languages of the Country"). The dedication is not signed and possibly by the author Kaarlo Hemmo (Kaarlo Herman Tiihonen). Hardcover.

Marijana Dworski BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 27339

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Magic Songs of the West Finns|John Abercromby|Finnish Magic|Finnish Poetry|Finnish Folk Tales|Uralic|Finno Ugrian|Finland|a Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus: With a Chapter on the Languages of the Country a Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus: With a Chapt

ABERCROMBY JOHN

A Study of the Bronze Age Pottery of Great Britain and Ireland and Its Associates Grave Goods 2 Volumes

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Hardcover. 2 volume set. 161pp, 128pp, plus With 1611 illustrations of pottery on 101 sepia plates, 155 examples of grave-goods, and 10 plates showing ornamentation, bound in original red cloth , volume 1 has 2 spots on base front cover, and sl rubbed top/base and sl sunned spine. ; Large Quarto. Very Good .

Castle Hill BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 050529

Keywords: Archaeology Ancient History