JAMES Robert

A Dissertation on Fevers and Inflammatory Distempers. Wherein an expeditious Method is proposed of curing those dangerous Disorders. The Second Edition. BRIGHT COPY IN MODERN BOARDS

Printed for J. Newbery at the Bible and Sun,, 1749. 8vo., Second Edition, WANTING LEAF C2 (pp.13/14); newly bound in boards, backstrip with printed paper label, a clean, crisp copy.

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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY.

The Journal of Industrial Archaeology. Volumes 1-3. [later] Industrial Archaeology. The Journal of the History of Industry and Technology. THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES

Lambarde Press [later] David & Charles in association with The Newcomen Society,, 1964-66. 3 vols., in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and illustrations throughout; strongly bound in navy buckram, gilt backs, a fine run.

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KAYE George William Clarkson

High Vacua. REMARKABLY BRIGHT COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1927. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 8 plates on 3 and very numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Kaye's classic text has its origin in a course of Cantor Lectures delivered before the RSA in 1926. Kaye was then Superintendent of the Physics Department at the National Physical Laboratory. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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KEYNES Geoffrey

The Life of William Harvey. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1966. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; maroon tweed cloth, gilt back, red top, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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KOENIGSBERGER Leo

Hermann von Helmholtz. Erster Band [with] Zweiter Band. THESE TWO VOLUMES ONLY [OF 3]. FIRST TWO VOLUMES IN FINE STATE

Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig,, 1902-1903. 2 vols. [of 3], First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispieces in photogravure and 3 plates (all original captioned tissue guards present); handsomely bound in half leather, marbled boards, backstrips tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, green silk markers, both fine copies.

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Book number: 32508

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LAMB Horace

Statics. Including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

University Press, Cambridge,, 1924. 8vo., Second Edition, with diagrams throughout, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 47383

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LANDIS Casparus

De Melancholia ex Mente. Dissertatio inauguralis medica quam consensu illustris medicorum ordinis pro obtinendis summis in Medicina et Chirurgica honoribus. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF RARE TRACT ON MELANCHOLY

H.M. Grape, Goettingen,, 1788. 8vo., newly bound in full calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, remarkably crisp copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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LIPSCOMB Commander F.W.

The Wise Men of the Wires. The History of Faraday House. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36337

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LISTON Robert

Elements of Surgery. FIRST US EDITION?

Carey & Hart, Philadelphia,, 1837. 8vo., [First US Edition?], free endpapers lightly spotted, some mild age-staining to text; mid-nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back with four raised bands ruled and tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, crisp, firm copy. Liston's classic text was first published in three parts (1831-32), here combined in a single volume. It is his first published work, later augmented by 'Practical Surgery' (1837). 'In his day [Robert] Liston was the most dexterous [sic] and resourceful surgeon in the British Isles. He was the first in the country to remove the scapula and the first - on 21 December 1846 - to perform a major operation with the aid of an anaesthetic' (Garrison & Morton 4777). A remarkably well-preserved copy of an important and influential treatise.

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LOOMES Brian

Westmorland Clocks and Clockmakers. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

David & Charles, Newton Abbot,, [1974]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.

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Book number: 33311

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MacKINNEY Loren C.

Early Medieval Medicine with Special Reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

John Hopkins Press, Baltimore,, 1937. 8vo., FIrst Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 9 plates, top faintly spotted; maroon cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a near fine copy. Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Third Series Volume III. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 37983

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MARIE Pierre

Lectures on Diseases of the Spinal Cord. Translated by Montagu Lubbock.

New Sydenham Society,, 1895. 8vo., First English Edition, with 244 woodcut illustrations in the text; original cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, red edges, upper hinge cracked (but binding wholly sound) an unusually bright, clean copy. Dedicated to Marie's fellow practitioner and researcher Charcot, this important work is based on lectures delivered at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris (where Marie was Deputy Professor) in the summer of 1891. New Sydenham Society, no. CLII. Heirs of Hippocrates 2153; Meynell II 138. Scarce

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MAXWELL W. H.

Current Waterworks Practice. A Practical Treatise on the Provision of Water Supplies for Urban and Rural Communities.

Batsford,, [1946]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 19 plates and numerous diagrams in the text; original red cloth gilt, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 15546

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McDONALD Donald

A History of Platinum. From the Earliest Times to the Eighteen-Eighties. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Johnson Matthey & Co.,, 1960. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 37866

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MOORE Patrick

Guide to the Stars. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY WITH POSTCARD SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Eyre & Spottiswoode,, [1961]. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH T.PC.s MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The postcard is printed with Moore's home address in Selsey, West Sussex. Published a year after the first edition.

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Book number: 48595

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