HALLEY, Edmond

Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley Preceded by an Unpublished

1937. HALLEY, Edmond, ed. Eugene Fairfield MACPIKE. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF EDMOND HALLEY PRECEDED BY AN UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE BY ONE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND THE 'ELOGE' BY D'ORTOUS DE MAIRAN. London: Taylor and Francis (1937). History of Science Society Publications: New Series II. 300 pp. 8vo. blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Spine and corners gently bumped. Light rubbing and minor sunning to cloth. Offset tanning to front free endpaper. Reissue of Oxford University Press edition of 1932. Interior clean and tight. Halftone plates, some folding, fine. Figures in the text. .

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HAMILTON, James

Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines

1809. HAMILTON, James. OBSERVATIONS ON THE UTILITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF PURGATIVE MEDICINES IN SEVERAL DISEASES. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson, and Collins and Perkins, New York, 1809. First American, from the second Edinburgh edition. 274p. 12mo. Contemporary full leather binding with gilt lettered spine label. The binding is scuffed and soiled, and the joints are cracked. A good copy. (Shaw & Shoemaker 17701). .

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HANNAN, William I.

Textile Fibres of Commerce. A Handbook on the Occurence, Distribution

1902. HANNAN, William I. THE TEXTILE FIBRES OF COMMERCE. A HANDBOOK ON THE OCCURENCE, DISTRIBUTION, PREPARATION, AND USES OF ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, AND MINERAL FIBRES USED IN COTTON, WOOLLEN, PAPER, SILK, BRUSH AND HAT MANUFACTURES. London: Charles Griffin and Co. Ltd. 1902. x + 236 pp. 8vo. dark red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Some shelfwear to heel, crown, and corners; front hinge starting. Owner's inkstamp to title page. B/w photo reproductions and illustrations. Very good overall. .

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HARVEY, William

Some Recently Discovered Letters of William Harvey

1912. [HARVEY, William] MITCHELL, S. Weir. SOME RECENTLY DISCOVERED LETTERS OF WILLIAM HARVEY WITH OTHER MISCELLANEA. WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HARVEY'S WORKS by Charles Perry Fisher. Philadelphia: Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1912. 59 pp. 8vo. stiff blue wraps with paper cover label. Owner's ink signature on ffep. Letters of the 17th century physician. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. .

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HASKELL, Benjamin

Essays on the Physiology of the Nervous System, with an Appendix on Hy

1856. HASKELL, Benjamin. ESSAYS ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, WITH AN APPENDIX ON HYDROPHOBIA. Gloucester: John S. E. Rogers, Printer, 1856. Inscribed to "Dr. Martyn Laine from the Author" on the front wrapper. Lacks the plate. Octavo. 87,[1] pp. Original blue paper wrappers with title information printed on the front and hand-written on the spine. Ex-library; only an ink stamp crossed out on copyright page and no other marks. Front cover detached and a bit edgeworn, some loss at spine, else a clean and very good copy. "He (Haskell) confuted the theories of Sir Charles Bell and Marshall Hall as to the sensory and motor functions of the spinal nerves, believing that physiologists overlooked the existence of a spiritual principle within the body and that 'the real cause of the production of a given phenomenon, is mental instead of physical." [Kelly & Burrage]. .

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HEAD, Henry

Aphasia: An Historical Review (the Hughlings Jackson Lecture for 1920)

1920. HEAD, Henry. APHASIA: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW (THE HUGHLINGS JACKSON LECTURE FOR 1920). London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd. 1920. Reprinted from "Brain," Vol. 43, 1920, pp. 390-450. 4to. printed blue wrappers. Spine starting. Minor toning, light edgewear and faint soil to cover. Precedes Head's "Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech," 2 vols. 1926, which is considered "the most important work on the subject in the English language" (GM 4633). Includes a discussion on Aphasia, the Proceedings of the Section of Neurology of the Royal Society of Medicine. With case studies and halftone photo illustrations. .

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HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernst

Anthropologia Forensis Sistens Medici Circa Rempublicam

1753. HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernst. ANTHROPOLOGIA FORENSIS sistens Medici circa Rempublicam Causasque dicendas Officium cum Rerum Anatomicarum ac Physicarum quae illud attinent expositionibus. Leipzig, Haeredes Lankisiani, 1753. Octavo. [xxxii]632[30]pp. +IIIff. Second edition. Contains three out of four folding copper plates, showing birth defects. Treats of public health, poisons and violent death, the definition of humanity, and any medical issues which might come before the court. Hebenstreit (1702-57) studied at Jena and taught at Leipzig. His other fields were mineralogy, pharmacology, and paleontology. Binding barely together; text essentially fine and complete, except for missing plate. (4cc. in OCLC). .

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HENRY, William

An Epitome of Experimental Chemistry, in Three Parts

1810. HENRY, William. AN EPITOME OF EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY, IN THREE PARTS. Boston: William Andrews, 1810. Second American edition from the Fifth English edition. 8vo. 432 pp. + i-lxxvii. Frontis. + 8 engraved plates. Full calf with red leather title label lettered and stamped in gilt to spine. Ex- library with remnant of spine label, stamp to front pastedown and small bookplate to rear pastedown. Boards are well rubbed. Head and tail of spine chipped. Front board split but still attached. Notes in ink to rear endpaper and a few pages are soiled. .

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HENRY, Thomas

Experiments and Observations

1773. HENRY, Thomas. EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS on the Following Subjects: 1. On the Preparation, calcination, and medicinal uses of Magnesia Alba; 2. On the Solvent Qualities of Calcined Magnesia; 3. On the variety in the Solvent Powers of Quick-Lime; On various Absorbents, as promoting or retarding putrefaction; 5. On the antiseptic powers of Vegetable Infusions prepared with Lime; 6. On the Sweetening Properties of Fixed Air. London, Joseph Johnson, 1773. Octavo. xvi,142pp. +[2]pp. ads. Bound together with AN ACCOUNT OF THE MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF MAGNESIA ALBA, more particularly of Calcined Magnesia. London, J. Johnson, 1775. 29[3]pp. Errata slip pasted to verso of title page. Thomas Henry, of Manchester, created "Henry's Magnesia," a popular antacid, and thus became known as "Magnesia Henry." He was a pioneer in making soda water with infusions of "fixed air." Leather, worn, with boards off; water stains across top and side margins; library stamps. Scarce. As is. .

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HERMANN, Paul

Cynosura Materiae Medicae

1710. HERMANN, Paul. CYNOSURA MATERIAE MEDICAE seu Brevis et Succincta Methodus Notitiam Simplicium Medicamentorum Comparandi.. etc. etc. [Guide to medicinal substances, organized by categories, and to their uses] Edited by Johann Sigismund Henninger. Strasburg: Widow of Johann Friedrich Spoor, 1710. First Edition. Quarto. Roan-backed marbled boards, very rubbed. Front flyleaf missing. A revision of the Pharmacopoea matritensis. Internally spotted and toned, with light waterstain pp. 331-end. Early ownership signatures and marginalia. (Wellcome III, 253). .

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HERTZ, Heinrich

Uber Strahlen Elektrischer Kraft

1888. HERTZ, H[einrich]. UBER STRAHLEN ELEKTRISCHER KRAFT. (Berlin: Gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei, 1888.) Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1888, No. 50, pp. 1297 - 1307. The text of a lecture on electric waves delivered 13 December 1888, it relates qualitative experiments undertaken by Hertz, at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic, on the analogy between electric and light waves. Passing electric waves through huge prisms of hard pitch, he showed that they refract exactly as light waves do. He polarized electric waves by directing them through a grating of parallel wires, and he diffracted them by interrupting them with a screen with a hole in it. He reflected them from the walls of the room, obtaining interference between the original and the reflected waves. He focused them with huge concave mirrors, casting electric shadows with conducting obstacles. This is the first print appearance, preceding its appearance in Annalen der Physik (36, p. 769) because, at this point in his career, Hertz was sending his papers to Hermann von Helmholtz to communicate to the Berlin Academy for quick publication before sending them to Annalen der Physik. It was later collected with Hertz's other experimental and theoretical works on electricity in Untersuchungen uber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft (Leipzig, 1892), which expanded and clarified the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by the British Physicist James Maxwell in 1884. Hertz's experiments with electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and the radio. (D.S.B.) 11 pp. Octavo, orange paper wrappers, with title information printed to front. Ink ownership stamp of physicist and noted socialist Leo Arons ("Dr. LEO ARONS | Strassburg i. E."), whose scientific work was primarily focused on the empirical research of electrical phenomena that governed Maxwell's theory. Pamphlet is creased vertically. Covers are nicked along edges and show general light dust-soiling. Front cover is detached and has a couple of light pencil markings. Hertz offprints are rare. .

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VON HEVESY, Georg

Lehrbuch Der Radioaktivitat

1. VON HEVESY, Georg and Fritz PANETH. LEHRBUCH DER RADIOAKTIVITAT. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1931. 2nd edition. 287 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue. 8vo. yellow cloth with brown lettering. Very good, spine darkened, light soiling to rear board. Interior fine. Radioactive elements. Von Hevesy was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1943 for his work with radioactive tracers in chemical processes. .

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HIPPOCRATES

Hippocratis Magni Coacae Praenotiones

1588. HIPPOCRATES. HIPPOCRATIS MAGNI COACAE PRAENOTIONES. Opus admirabile, in tres libros tributum. Interprete & enarratore Ludovico Dureto, Segusiano .. Cum rerum commemorabilium indice amplissimo. Parisiis: Apud Jacobum Du-Puys, via Iacobae, 1588. Colophon: Parisiis: Excudebat Dionysius Duvallius, mense Iulio, 1588. First of this edition of Hippocrates' Prognostics edited and translated by Louis Duret and, completed posthumously, by his son Jean Duret. Text in Greek and Latin, with an index at the end. Folio. 33 cm. [12], 578, [58] pp. Large printer's mark on t.p.; woodcut initials and headpieces. Old panelled calf, rebacked, with corners somewhat worn. Still a handsome and very good copy overall. Ink ownerships of the British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) on front pastedown and one of his ancestor's, T. Thackeray (probably Thomas Thackeray, 1736-1806, a surgeon at Cambridge), at head of title-page. (Adams H-611). .

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HOLLISTER, John Hamilcar

Memories of Eighty Years: Autosketches, Random Notes and Reminiscences

1912. HOLLISTER, John Hamilcar. MEMORIES OF EIGHTY YEARS: AUTOSKETCHES, RANDOM NOTES AND REMINISCENCES. Chicago: [Privately printed] 1912. 240 pp. 8vo. quarter brown cloth stamped in gilt over grey paper covered boards stamped in black. Shelfworn with nicked spine at heel and crown, spine shaken, hinges starting. Light soil to boards. Frontispiece through first few signatures pulling loose. Presentation leaf signed by Isabella Hollister Martin, with another pencil inscription from "Cousin Belle Martin" on front flyleaf. A life in medicine. Sections on the Chicago Fire, African slavery, family genealogy. .

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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science

1862. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEDICAL CLASS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 1861. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. Presentation copy inscribed to former owner "from the Author" in pencil on first blank recto. 80 pp. 8vo. brown pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth sunned and stained, light to moderate foxing in the text. A slip of paper with a contemporary-looking list of ink names is laid in. Binding tight. Very good. .

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