THOMSON, Thomas

A System of Chemistry

1802. THOMSON, Thomas. A SYSTEM OF CHEMISTRY in Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1802. FGirst edition. Four 8vo. volumes. Volumes I-III have one plate each. Thomson was Professor of Chemistry first at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Glasgow. He invented the saccharometer, and edited the Supplement to the third edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The System of Chemistry went into more than six editions in Britain and America. Library markings. Text leaves clean but for some occasional light foxing; plates foxed. Bound in early tree calf, rubbed and worn at extremities, with small losses to spine ends and two hinges starting. Rare. .

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TRAVERS, Benjamin

Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the

1835. TRAVERS, Benjamin. A FURTHER INQUIRY CONCERNING CONSTITUTIONAL IRRITATION, AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835. 444 pp. [4] B8 - 2F6. 8vo. original boards, backstrip mostly chipped away, front board detached. Publisher's catalogue (1839) tipped in at front flyleaf, which is detached and laid in. Ink ownership to front flyleaf and title page. Block sound. Occasional ink marginalia. A classic, elegantly written work. As is. .

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TRAVERS, Benjamin

The Physiology of Inflammation, and the Healing Process

1844. TRAVERS, Benjamin. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION, AND THE HEALING PROCESS. London: Samuel Highley, 1844. Small 8vo. 226pp. + 8pp. advertisements at front and 2pp at rear. Ex-library, bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to title page. Brown cloth, blindstamped front, back and spine and stamped in gilt to spine. Hinges cracked. Spine chipped, missing about 1 1/2" from the crown. Light foxing throughout. Good. .

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TRUSEN, J. P.

Die Sitten, Gebrauche Und Krankheiten Der Alten Hebraer, Nach Der

1853. TRUSEN, J. P. DIE SITTEN, GEBRAUCHE UND KRANKHEITEN DER ALTEN HEBRAER, NACH DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT HISTORISCH UND KRITISCH DARGESTELLT. Breslau: Wilh. Gottl. Korn, 1853. xiv + 288 + [1] pp. 8vo. half dark brown morocco stamped in blind and gilt, marbled paper covered boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Pencil ownership to verso of front flyleaf. Occasional light foxing; about half the text is marked in colored pencil. As is. .

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TURING, Alan

The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis

1952. ALAN TURING'S MOST CITED WORK TURING, Alan. "THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF MORPHOGENESIS." A fine first-edition offprint from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Biological Sciences, No. 641, Vol. 137, pp. 37-72, 14 August 1952. Published for the Royal Society by the Cambridge University Press, London. Publisher's 1952 offprint, with "Price Eight Shillings" on cover. Many mathematical equations and two figures in text. Quarto, 30 x 23.5 cm, publisher's brick wrappers, title information to upper wrap and spine. Fine. In this, Alan Turing's most heavily-cited work, the pre-eminent mathematician, computer scientist, and hero of WW II turned his brilliant mind towards the biological sciences, proposing a model of pattern-formation that proved seminal in not only biology but also across many scientific fields. In what would be his only published work in the field, Turing addressed a fundamental problem: morphogenesis, the process by which a single cell develops into the complex, asymmetrical organisms found in nature. Turing designed a simple family of models in which stable initial distributions of change-creating chemicals called morphogens (this work introduced the term to the scientific lexicon) become unstable in the presence of any diffusion process, such as the mixing of fluids found in living tissue. Using this elegant diffusion-reaction system, understandable with college-level mathematics, Turing explains the asymmetric pattern-formation of living organisms starting from a simple early state, providing a mathematical justification for everything from the dappling of fur and seashells, the tentacle-like appendages of Hydra organisms, to the separation of the nervous system during embryonic development (gastrulation). This ground-breaking work has formed the basis for a broad array of advances in biology, from models of tumor growth, epidemic spread, and evolutionary biology, to the shapes of neuronal dendrites and neuronal polarization. Outside of the biological sciences, this paper has inspired advances in areas as diverse as the behavior of sensor networks, image processing, economic geography, spatial ecology, and machine learning models for computer vision. The universality of this pattern formation model is perhaps unsurprising given Turing's polymathy, and no less magnificent. .

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TURNER, L.M. & NELSON, Edward W.

Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska

1886. .

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TURNER, Daniel

A Discourse Concerning Fevers in Two Letters to a Young Physician

1739. TURNER, Daniel. A DISCOURSE CONCERNING FEVERS IN TWO LETTERS TO A YOUNG PHYSICIAN .. London: Printed for John Clarke, 1739. 3rd edition, revis'd and improv'd. x + 2 pp. advertisement + 364 pp. 8vo. gilt ruled leather, raised bands. Ex-library with no external markings. Spine labels mostly missing, front board detached, rear board nearly detached. Leather worn, powdery. Ink inscription in Latin on (detached) front flyleaf, presenting the book to a friend; ink ownership to title page. Moderate foxing throughout, occasional dampstaining. As is. .

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TYTLER, James

A Treatise on the Plague and Yellow Fever

1799. TYTLER, James. A TREATISE ON THE PLAGUE AND YELLOW FEVER. Salem: Joshua Cushing for B. B. MacAnulty, 1799. First edition. [4], 568, [1] pp. 8vo. old mottled calf with red gilt morocco spine label. Boards worn and detached, with front board scraped. Spine has two spots of loss, one at the heel and another about an inch above, and the label is loose/chipped. Front free endpaper and fly leaf are detached and laid-in. Signature excised on contents page and p. 1, with slight loss to text on p. 2. Bookblock tight but with occasional nicks to page edges. Folding plate somewhat foxed. Offered as is. Part I deals with the plague, the second part with yellow fever, and with an appendix comprised of extracts from Thucydides through Aiken and Jebb. (Austin 1940; Miner 377.). .

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ULTZMANN, R.

Atlas Der Physiologischen Und Pathologischen Harnsedimente

1872. ULTZMANN, R. & K. B. HOFMANN. ATLAS DER PHYSIOLOGISCHEN UND PATHOLOGISCHEN HARNSEDIMENTE. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumuller, 1871 (cover says 1872). x + [6] + 44 plates, each with facing text page. Quarter brown cloth stamped in gilt, yellow paper covered boards. Spine chipped, detached; front board through p. vi detached, block splitting in several places. Bookplate to front pastedown, obscuring the publisher's advertisements. Illustrations of microscope views: Urinary sediment pathology. As is. .

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UPSON, Henry S.

Insomnia and Nerve Strain

1908. UPSON, Henry S. INSOMNIA AND NERVE STRAIN. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. 142 pp. + 17 halftone illustrations. 12mo. brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Ex-library with usual markings, including title page inkstamp. Small closed tear to title page at bottom edge, not affecting text. Text clean. Case studies. Skiagraphic illustrations (resembling x-rays) of impacted molars and dental stress. .

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URE, Andrew

Dictionary of Chemistry, on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's

1821. URE, Andrew. A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY, ON THE BASIS OF MR. NICHOLSON'S; IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE ARE INVESTIGATED ANEW, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE, MEDICINE, MINERALOGY, AGRICULTURE, AND MANUFACTURES, DETAILED. With an introductory dissertation; containing instructions for converting the alphabetical arrangement into a systematic order of study. London: Printed for Thomas & George Underwood, et al. 1821. First edition. Fifteen engraved plates (numbered 1-14), some folding, showing apparatus and chemical tables. Octavo, untrimmed. xix,[1],[752] pp. Text printed in double columns. Disbound: original paper boards are present but lacking the backstrip; and, the bookblock is split in several places. Ex-library; nineteenth-century bookplate on front pastedown and a small blind-stamped seal on the t.p. and no other marks. Very light dust-soiling to a couple of pages, and scant foxing to frontisp. and t.p. else very clean within. A scarce title, it is offered as is. Andrew Ure (b. Scotland, 1878; d. England, 1857), was a pioneer in teaching chemistry to artisans. His interest in the application of science to the arts and industry bore fruit in his Dictionary of Science. The work was originally undertaken at the request of the publishers as a revision of William Nicholson's Dictionary of Chemistry, but Ure said that so much of the latter was obsolete that the work had to be rewritten. (D.S.B. v. XIII, p.547). .

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VAUQUELIN, Louis Nicolas

Dictionary of Chemistry... With Its Applications to the Arts, Manufac

1830. VAUQUELIN, [Louis Nicolas], & Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln, trans. DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES AND MODERN THEORIES, WITH ITS APPLICATIONS TO THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MEDICINE. For the use of Seminaries of Learning and Private Students. Translated from Le Dictionnaire de chimie, approuve par Vauquelin .. With Additions and Notes, by Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln .. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830. First edition. Engraved frontispiece, xxviii, [29]-531 pp. Errata list printed on verso of p. 531. 19 x 12 cm. (7 1/2 by 4 5/8 in.). 12mo. contemporary binding: dun paper boards/brown linen spine with remnants of a printed paper label, edges untrimmed. Early (possibly contemporary) ink ownership on ffep. and again on p. xix, and book label of Samuel A. D. Sheppard, the first president of the Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association (1882), on front pastedown. Ex library, having only two ink stamps (on the front pastedown over the book label and again on title-page) and a shelf label on spine. Binding is spotted, worn at spine and along edges, but sound. Pastedowns are heavily foxed. Text leaves are lightly foxed. Like her older sister Emma Hart Willard, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (American, 1793-1884) was a pioneering teacher. She helped to broaden the education of American women with her popularization of the sciences as fit subjects for girls and was the author of a series of popular textbooks that were used in both boys and girls schools. In her preface to this book (pp. vii-x), written while she was vice principal at the Troy Female Seminary, she explains a bit more about her role as translator and editor of this dictionary: "The compilers of the original work are MM. Brismontier, Le Coq, and Boisduval .. their work having been submitted to the great chemist, Vauquelin, appeared under the sanction of his illustrious name. The translator has made additions from Ure, Webster, Green, Journal of science, Silliman's chemistry, and some of the latest French writers." (DAB, 7; NAW, 3; Amer. Women Writers abr.ed. 2; Siegel & Finley, Women in the Scientific Search, p. 141). Scarce. .

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VIARDEL, Cosme

Observations Sur la Pratique Des Accouchements

1748. VIARDEL, Cosme. OBSERVATIONS SUR LA PRATIQUE DES ACCOUCHEMENTS, Naturels, contre nature, & Monstrueux. Paris, d'Houry Pere, 1748. Octavo. [iv]344[12]pp. + [17]ff. Contains 17 etched plates. Three, a folding portrait frontispiece and two folding obstetrical illustrations, were in the original edition of 1671. Viardel, Royal Surgeon to Queen Marie-Therese, was unusual in presenting methods which, he says, eliminate the need for instruments in childbirth, and adds a chapter on female ailments. This edition is updated with notes. Extremely rare. Folding plates have inconspicuous archival repairs; one later plate shows light stains; faint foxing to a few pages, but on the whole internally fine. Bound in an attractive contemporary mottled calf with spine label. Light wear to extremities and small nicks to spine ends. (Walleriana 9946, 1st edition.). .

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VOGT, Paul

Nerven-Dehnung Als Operation Der Chirurgischen Praxis

1877. VOGT, Paul. DIE NERVEN-DEHNUNG ALS OPERATION DER CHIRURGISCHEN PRAXIS, eine experimentelle und klinische studie. Leipzig: Verlag von F. C. W. Vogel, 1877. First edition. Illustrated with one double-page color lithograph and ten wood-engraved text illustrations. Octavo. [vi],80,[2] pp. Contemporary binding of green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, with a paper spine label. Ex-library; remnants of a shelf label on spine and several ink stamps within. Boards are lightly dust-soiled and scuffed; but the book is clean within and very good overall. Vogt, who was professor of surgery at the University of Greifswald, applied von Nussbaum's nerve-stretching to the trigeminal branches, but with only temporary relief. (Walker, p. 313). .

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VOLKMANN, Alfred Wilhelm

Neue Beitrage Zur Physiologie Des Gesichtssinnes

1836. VOLKMANN, A[lfred]. W[ilhelm]. NEUE BEITRAGE ZUR PHYSIOLOGIE DES GESICHTSSINNES. Leipzig: Breitkopf un Hartel, 1836. First edition. Three engraved plates at end, of which two foldout. Octavo. [4],206,[2] pp. In a worn contemporary binding: green morocco back with gilt-stamped title, marbled boards, brown endpapers, and all edges marbled. Ex library; only a cancelled bookplate on front pastedown and a shelf label at heel - no other marks. Binding is rubbed along edges and joints, with an irregular patch of marbled paper lifted from the top board. Text leaves and plates are lightly foxed. A sound copy, about very good overall. Volkmann (1801-1877) was one of the foremost physiologists and distinguished teachers of his time. In 1842, he and Friedrich Heinrich Bidder (1810-1894) showed the sympathetic nervous system to consist largely of small, medullated fibres originating from the sympathetic and spinal ganglia. .

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