McIntosh, A.B. and Heal, T.J. (Editors).

MATERIALS FOR NUCLEAR ENGINEERS. Foreword by L. Rotherham.

Temple Press Limited, 1960. 1st Ed. [x] + 373pp. + [i]. Numerous figures, charts, diagrams, photos. etc. throughout. Good in lightly soiled d/w. browned and very sl. chipped to spine.

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Book number: 288322

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Monro, Donald.

A TREATISE ON MINERAL WATERS.

Sold by D. Wilson and G. Nicol, in the Strand and T. Durham ..., 1770. 1st Ed. xxiv + 475pp. Ex.-Birmingham Medical Institute with faint ink stamp to title page, light browning, in maroon institute lib. cloth, gilt lettered spine chipped with sl. loss.
¶ ESTC T58862 ‘ A variant issue bears the imprint: Sold by D. Wilson and G. Nichol, and T. Durham, and other booksellers in town.’ as in our copy. Donald Monro (1728–1802), military physician.

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Moore, Francis.

VOX STELLARUM: Or, a Loyal Almanack for the Year of Human Redemption 1793. Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. In which are contained All Things fitting for such a Work; as A Table of Terms and their Returns, the Full, Changes, and Quarters of the Moon; the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Seven Stars, and other Fixed Stars of Note; the Moon’s Age and a Tide Table ... With farther Observations on the Weather, Rain &c. and on the new-discovered Planet.

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers ..., 1793. 1st Ed. 12mo. 48pp. Rubric t.p. with ink stamp, 4 figures. Interleaved with blanks, new e.ps., rebound in modern plastic covered boards.

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Morgagni, John Baptist.

THE SEATS AND CAUSES OF DISEASES INVESTIGATED BY ANATOMY. Containing a Great Variety of Dissections, with Remarks, to which are added very accurate and copious indexes of the Principal things and Names therein contained. Translated from the Latin of ... With a Preface, Introduction and a new Translation of five letters by Paul Klemperer.

Hafner Publishing Co. N.Y., 1960. Facsimile of the London 1769 Ed. 5 books in 3 vols. Sm. 4to. Port. frontis. Half leather with marbled boards, gilt ruling and gilt lettered labels to lightly faded spines.
¶ Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771). G & M 2276 (Italian Edition) ‘By this great work, one of the most important in the history of medicine, Morgagni was the true founder of modern pathological anatomy. The work was completed in Morgagni’s 79th year and consists of 70 letters reporting about 700 cases and necropsies. As best he could, he correlated the clinical record with the postmortem finding. Morgagni gave the first description of several pathological conditions. He was Professor of Anatomy at Padua ...’ Heirs of Hippocrates 501 (Italian Edition) ‘... Vast in scope it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine ...’ First English translation in 1769.

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Morton, Thomas.

THE SURGICAL ANATOMY OF INGUINAL HERNIÆ, and Testis and Its Coverings.

Taylor and Walton ..., 1841. [iv] + pp.(209-330). 11 figures, 5 chromolitho. plates including 4 folding. Some light browning, rebound in modern buckram.
¶ Volume III of Morton's Surgical Anatomy of the Principal Regions of the Human Body (1838-1850).

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Munby, G.

CATALOGUS PLANTARUM IN ALGERIA Sponte Nascentium.

London Apud Taylor et Francis, 1866. Thin 8vo. iv + 42pp. French text. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, blue wrapps., sl. discoloured in part, with the ink stamp of Dr Louis Planchon.
¶ Louis Planchon (1858-1915) doctor of medicine, a graduate in natural sciences, a pharmacologist and a specialist in medical herbal medicine.

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Book number: 287235

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(Mushet). Osborn, Fred M.

THE STORY OF THE MUSHETS. Preface by Sir Samuel Osborn.

Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1952. 1st Ed. xii + 191pp. + [i]. 32 ills., 2 folding tables on 1 sheet at rear. Good in chipped d/w.

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(Nasmyth). Smiles, Samuel. (Editor).

JAMES NASMYTH Engineer. An Autobiography.

John Murray, 1885. New Ed. [xxii] + 450pp. + 8pp. adverts. Engraved port. frontis. by Charles Roberts, profusely illus. throughout. Some very light marginal browning, sporadic spotting, original gilt lettered burgundy cloth with black ruled edge to upper board, gilt device to upper board, bevelled edges, some minor soiling, 2 very sm. holes to cloth of upper board, spine faded and sl. bumped at head and tail.

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Book number: 285908

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Newton, Isaac.

THE CORRESPONDENCE. Volume VII [only]: 1718-1727. Edited by A. Rupert Hall and Laura Tilling.

CUP for the Royal Society, 1977. 1st Ed. 4to. xlv + 522pp. Port. frontis., 2 plates. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley, good in lightly soiled and sl. spotted d/w.

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Book number: 282422

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Newton, Isaac.

THE CORRESPONDENCE. Volume IV [only]: 1694-1709. Edited by J.F. Scott.

CUP for the Royal Society, 1967. 1st Ed. 4to. xxxii + 578pp. Tipped in colour frontis., 6 plates. Some sporadic light spotting, from the library of Ann Savours Shirley, good in lightly soiled and sl. rubbed price-clipped d/w.

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Book number: 282423

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Newton, Isaac.

THE CORRESPONDENCE. Volume VI [only]: 1713-1718. Edited by A. Rupert Hall & Laura Tilling.

CUP for the Royal Society, 1976. 1st Ed. xxxviii + 499pp. + [iii]. 5 plates. From the library of Ann Savours Shirley, original gilt lettered cloth lightly waterstained to tail of spine and onto boards, in sl. soiled d/w.

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Book number: 282427

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Osler, Sir William.

BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA. A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected, Arranged and Annotated By .. and Bequeathed to McGill University.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1929. 1st Ed. 4to. xxxv + 786pp. Light browning, modern e.ps., rebound in modern half morocco with buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Edited by W.W. Francis, E.H. Hill and Archibald Malloch.

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Book number: 275133

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Osler, Sir William.

BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA. A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected, Arranged and Annotated By .. and Bequethed to McGill University.

McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press Montreal and London, 1969. Reprint. 4to. xli + 792pp. Half morocco with buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Edited by W.W. Francis, E.H. Hill and Archibald Malloch.

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Book number: 275134

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(Osler). Abbott, Maude E. (Editor).

CLASSIFIED AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR WILLIAM OSLER’S PUBLICATIONS. (Based on the Chronological Bibliography by Minnie Wright Blogg).

Montreal Canada Medical Museum McGill Univ., 1939. 2nd Ed Revised and Indexed. xiii + [ii] + 163pp. Port. frontis. Marbled e.ps., rebound by Bayntun-Riviere in gilt lettered crushed black morocco, a.e.g.

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Book number: 276228

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Percy, John.

METALLURGY: The Art of Extracting Metals From their Ores. Introduction, Refractory Materials and Fuel.

John Murray, 1875. Revised and Greatly Enlarged Ed. Thick 8vo. xii + 596pp. + 20pp. publishers list. 9 folding plates, 111 figures. Ownership inscriptions to t.p. and half title, paper split to hinges, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, some wear and discolouring,
¶ John Percy (1817–1889), metallurgist. ODNB ‘... His results constituted the first serious attempt at a survey of iron ore deposits in Britain ...’

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