BECCHETTI, Filippo

Teoria Generale della Terra. Esposta all'Accademia Volsca di Velletri.

Roma, Per Paolo Giunchi. No date [1782 ]. [see approbation on page 408]. 8vo. W. etched front. ['F. Piani Inv. P. Macchiavelli Sculp.'], 1 engr. vignette & 13 woodc. head-pieces. Contemp. hlf. vellum, over blue paste paper brds., vellum corners, edges of covers some rubb. [A12 - R12, X1]. ((1-7), 8-410 [p. 410 errata list] pp.). (A few quires some yellowing; text occasional light foxing.). (All edges marbled red and blue.). Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, vol. I, columns 100-101: 'È opera più erudita che scientifica, e prescindendo da quanto vi riguarda la fisica terrestre, tratta delle opinioni degli antichi e dei moderni sulla figura e sulla grandezza della terra.': Ward & Carozzi, item 154, mentions an 'illustrated half title' "Teoria della Terra", which is in fact the etched frontispiece present in our copy: Discusses the origin of the world in lecture form, incorporating the opinions of the ancient philosophers on the origin and 'soul' of the earth, the modernist views up to date, the physical properties of the earth, the flooding of the earth etc. Literary references / citations at the end of each chapter.

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Book number: 9222

Keywords: 18th c geology science mathematics circumference Italian Virec

BECKER, O. [H.E.]

Zur Anatomie der gesunden und kranken Linse. Unter Mitwirkung von J.R. da Gama Pinto und H. Schäfer.

Wiesbaden, J.F. Bergmann, 1883. 4to. W. 14 lith. pls. Contemp. half cloth, over black paste paper brds., clf. spine label (rubb.). (Edges and corners rubbed.). (VII, 220 columns.). (Presentation in ink on upper wrapper). (Upper wr. preserved, soiled along outer edges.). Hirsch I, p. 414: Becker (1828 - 1890) was professor of ophthalmology at Heidelberg. 'Er war einer der hervorragendsten Pathologen der von Greafe'schen Ära.': Neuburger-Pagel III, p. 546: See Münchow, p. 662: Gorin, p. 163: Hirschberg, para 1188, (1189, 1190): Albert e.a, Source Book, item 170: '... taught by and later becoming private assistant to Arlt. In 1868 he became professor of ophthalmology at Heidelberg, succeeding Knapp. He developed "Becker's test" for astigmatism and discovered "Becker's sign", the spontaneous pulsation of the retinal arteries.': See biogr. note at Becker Coll. item 36: 'Becker made several important contributions to ophthalmic literature.' This book completed his classic work on the "Krankheiten der Linse" in Graefe-Saemisch. W. publisher's presentation in ink on upper wrapper to prof. Dr. W. Ebstein.

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Book number: 999

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BECKETT, Will.

A collection of chirurgical tracts. I. Of Wounds of the Head and Brain. II. New Discoveries relating to the cure of Cancers. III. Chirurgical remarks on several crurious cases. IV. The History and Antiquity of the Venereal Disease. V. A New Method of curing Consumption by Specific Medicines. Written and collected by William Beckett,

London, Printed for E.Curll, In Rose Street, Covent Garden and sold by C.Rivington in St Paul's Church-Yard, ... J.Hodges on London Bridge, 1740. 8vo. Contemp. full clf., spine w. red titleshield, giltlett. (Upper outer hinge weakening / splitting; corners and edges rubb.). [n2, a4, b4, c4, d2, B-D4, B-O4 [-H4]. (XXXII, 23, I (blank), 1-48, 57-104 pp.). (Some spots and light even yellowing.). (Ex libris on upper paste down 'S. Waight'.). (Sign. in ink on title.). Due to a binder's mistake in the 'New Discoveries relating to the cure of Cancers' quire H [4 lvs., pp. 49-56] was never bound in. Priced accordingly.

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Book number: 7767

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BECQUEREL, (A.) H.

Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière. Activité radiante spontanée ou radioactivité de la matière.

Paris, Firmin-Didot [The Academies printers]. [Published by Gauthiers-Villars], 1903. 4to. W. 13 pls. Original blue green printed wrappers. (360, IV pp.). (Uncut., unopened).(Mémoire Acad. Royale des Sciences de l'Inst. de France, vol. 46). (First and last leaf folllowing and preceding covers a light browning due to the paper used for the printed covers.). DSB vol. I, pp. 558 - 561: 'In 1903 the Nobel Prize for physics was divided between H. Becquerel and P. and M. Curie. It was an appropriate division. Becquerel's pioneer investigations had opened the way to the Curies'discoveries, and their discoveries had validated and shown the importance of his.': Dibner, Heralds, 163: Glasser, Science of Radiology, i.l.c.: P.M.M., 393: 'Becquerel also discovered that the residue of pitchblende, a natural uranium oxide, after the uranium had been extracted from it was about four times as radioactive as uranium itself. He therefor suggested to the Curies (394) the importance of further investigation of the ore, with the result that they discovered radium ... his definitive work, containing a chronological narrative of his investigations, his mature conclusions and a bibliography of 214 treatises on radioactivity, dating from his own first paper in 1896.':

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Book number: 8205

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BEDNAR, A.,

Die Krankheiten der Neugebornen und Säuglinge vom clinischen und pathologisch-anatomischen Standpunkte.

Wien, C. Gerold, 1850. -1853. 4 vols. in 2. Brds. (Spine ends and edges badly rubb.). G&M 6335: 'Bednar was a famous Viennese paediatrician. His description of aphtae of the palate in the newborn ('Bednar's aphtae') is in vol. I, p. 104 of this book.': Fischer, Eigennamen, p. 19: Abt-Garrison, p. 92: '... one of the most original paediatrists of Europe.': Grulee, 823: Lesky, 166: Peiper, i.l.c.

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Book number: 36

Keywords: anatomy paediatrics pathology Doos33 Euro

BEEKHOVEN DE WIND, J. van [Transl.].- [SAVIARD, B.]

Nieuwe Verzaemeling van heelkundige waerneemingen. Gedaan door den Heere Saviard, ... Met eenige byzondere hulpmiddelen, daer hy zig van bediend heeft in 't behandelen der gebreken door hem beschreven. Uit het Fransch vertaal[d] door J. van Beekhoven de Wind.

Haerlem, By J.Bosch, Boek- en Papierverkooper, 1756. 8vo. W. small woodc. vignet on printed title. Very nice contemp. mottl. clf., spine elaborately gilttooled, w. red title shield. [Some acidification of the covers, nothing serious; upper outer hinge some chips and rubb.). [*8, **1, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, Aa-Bb8, Cc2]. (XVIII, 403, I (blank) pp.). (All edges red.). (Bookplate on upper paste down 'Van der Hoeven'; with their signatures in ink on the recto side of the first blank free endp.). (Nice original comb marbled endp.). First Dutch translation of Barthél. Saviard's 'Nouveau Recueil d'observations chirurgicales'[1702]. Containing 128 observations and added descriptions of the preparations for 8 ointments and / or remedies.: Van der Aa VII, p. 94: DMB, 2184: BMN vol. I, p. 298: Johannes van Beekhoven de Wind [Middelburg 1710 - Haarlem 1770], general practice. An elder brother of the famous Paulus de Wind, gynaecologist / obstetrician, author of 't Geklemd Hoofd gered' [1751]: Baas, p. 514: '[Saviard] ... maitre-chirurgien of the Hotel Dieu, who, among other things, determined the seat of strangulation to be in the neck of the hernial sack, was also eminent as a lithomist and herniotemist.':

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Book number: 8380

Keywords: observationes lithomie medicine heelkonst heelkunde steensnijden hernia surgery materia medica compounds W33

BEER, A.

Einleitung in die höhere Optik.

Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1853. W. numerous woodc. ills. and 2 fold. tables. Original publ. cloth. (XVI, 430 pp.). (Edges marbled; some foxing.).

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Book number: 363

Keywords: law of optics light physics Toon W58

BELIDOR,(B.F.DE)

Architecture hydraulique ou l'art de conduire,d'éléver et de ménager les eaux pour les dif.

Paris, Ch.-A.Jombert, 1737. -1753. 4to. 2 vols. in 4. (Vol. 4 not uniformly bound, but a similar design, clf. somewhat lighter in shade.). Contemp. full clf., spines gilt. (Top of spine vol. II some dam.). DSB I,581/2: Roberts/Trent p. 29/31: Brunet vol. I, p. 740: Darmstaedter, 180: Graesse vol. I, 324: Honeyman coll. item 269: Ornamantstichsammlung Berlin, , 3555: Poggendorff, vol. I, p. 138:

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Book number: 763

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BÉLIDOR, (B.F. DE).,

Nouveau cours de mathémathique, à l'usage de l'artillerie et du genie....

Paris, Ch.- A. Jombert, 1725. 4 to. W. 34 pls. (fold.) Contemp. mottl. clf., back gilt. (2 corners rubb.) .( XII, 560 , XXXII pp.). DSB I, 581/2: 'The book that made his reputation as was ..., a text for artillery cadets and engineers...rather than introducing mathematics into practical construction, he brought the problems of engineering to mechanics.' : Jähns 1628 : Cat. Legermuseum XVIIb, p. XIV. : First edition.

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Book number: 2344

Keywords: krijgskunde military books

BELL, Charles

Engravings of the Brain and Nerves... Including facsimiles of the First editions of The Anatomy of the Brain [1802] A Series of engravings explaining the Course of the Nerves [1803], On the Nerves of the Face [1829].

Birmingham, The Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library [The John D.Lucas Printing Company], 1983. 4to. W. 12, 9 & 2 pls., about half in colour, and a number of the plates folding. In original full blue gilttooled clf. Marbled endp. especially commissioned design of Richard J.Wolfe. Includes a textbooklet (42 pp.). A quite luxurious facsimile edition, printed in 1000 copies, of which this is copy nr. 478, for 'Alfred Mürrle, MD' [bookplate on upper paste down. A small textbooklet laid in w. contributions by Lawrence McHenry jr. [introduction] & Eugene Corson ['Sir Charles Bell: The Man and His Work']. Privately printed by the John D.Lucas Company, the paper especially made for this edition, the volume bound in 'genuine top-grain cowhide by the Tapley-Rutter Cpompany, Bookbinders'. 'Edges are gilded and covers brass-die stamped in 22-Karat gold. Cover stampings and design of the edition by Daniel B.Bianchi and Selma Ordewer.'

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Book number: 9469

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BELL, B.

Verhandeling over de waterbreuk, over de vleeschbreuk of kanker en andere gebreken aan de ballen. Uit het Engelsch... door J. de Vries Hofman. B.u.w. 2) SANDIFORT, E., Beschrijving en afbeelding van eene aangebooren liesbreuk. 3) KRAGTINGH, J., Verhandeling over het juiste tijdstip der breuksnijding,.... 4) IMBERT DELONNES, A.B., Kunstbewerking van een vleeschbreuk, gedaan....aan Ch.Delacroix.

Leiden, Leiden, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, L. Herdingh, P. v.d.Eyk & D. Vygh, , J.B. Elwe, W. Holtrop, 1795. 1781, 1795, 1798. 8vo. 4 parts in 1 vol. W. 4 single page engr. pls. in vil. 1 ['P. de Mare sc'] and 4 fold. engr. pls. in vol. 2 [Plate 1 signed 'A.Delfos omnes delineavit R.Muys omnes fecit'] (extremities some foxing.). Contemp.hlf.clf., over speckled marbled brds., spine giltruled. Spine ends a bit ruffled, spine w. original red titleshield. Board edges and corners rubbed. [n2, *8, A - k8, L5; n2, *4, A - C8, D2; n2, A - D8, C3; n1, A - B8]. (XVI, 165, I, IV pp.). (XII, 50, II pp.). (IV, 70 pp.). (32 pp.). 1) de Vries Hofman, see DMB 2102/3: BMNI 299: 2) Lindeboom, does not mention this title: 4) Hirsch III, 370.

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Book number: 6032

Keywords: medicine fractures behandelen vleesbreuk W53

BELLINGERI, C.F.

Experimenta Physiologica in Medullam Spinalem ...

Augustae Taurinorum (Turin), Ex Typographia Regia, 1825. In 4to. Original blank paper covers, spine stab sewn. [n1, 1-3 in 4s, X1]. (II (Blank upper cover), (1-2), 3-23, I (blank), II (Blank lower cover) pp.). (Wonderful large paper copy, uncut;). Rare Bellingeri item. Extended research and experiments involving the 'Medulla Spinali' published 2 years earlier. Here in the rare dissertation / offprint form with independent pagination. Also in the proceedings of the Turin Academy of Science, vol. XXX, from page 293 onwards: Large paper copy [page meas. appr. 27 x 22 cm], wide blank margins up to 6-7 cm. Hirsch vol. I, p. 445: Brazier, 19th c.: Castiglioni, Hist. of medicine.: p. 557 & 602: '...Carlo Francesco Bellingeri (1789 - 1848), professeur à Turin, fondateur de la théorie de l'antagonisme nerveux.': Garrison / McHenry, p. 414 - 415: 'Details of the brain stem were dlineated in the late 19th c. ... Prior to this, early gross anatomical studies had been carried out by Bell (1802), Bellingeri (1823), Mayo (1827), Schroeder van der Kolk (1859), Luys (1873) and others.'

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Book number: 8536

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BELLINGERI, C.F.

Experimenta in Nervorum Antagonismum

Augustae Taurinorum (Turin), Ex Typographia Regia, 1824. In 4to. Original blank paper covers, spine stab sewn in 2 places. [n1, *6, X1]. (II (Blank upper cover), (1-2), 3-12, I (blank), II (Blank lower cover) pp.). (Wonderful large paper copy, uncut;). Rare Bellingeri item. Here in the rare dissertation / offprint form with independent pagination. Also in the Turin Academy of Science proceedings, vol. XXX, from page 35 onwards: Large paper copy [page meas. appr. 27 x 22 cm], wide blank margins up to 6-7 cm. Hirsch vol. I, p. 445: Brazier, 19th c.: Castiglioni, Hist. of medicine.: pp. 557 & 602: 'Carlo Francesco Bellingeri (1789-1848), professeur à Turin, fondateur de la théorie de l'antagonisme nerveux.': Garrison / McHanry, pp. 414 - 415: 'Deatails of the structure of the brain stem were delineated in the late 19th c. ... Prior to this, early gross anatomical studies had been carried out by Bell (1802), Bellingeri (1823), Mayo (1827), Schroeder van der Kolk (1859), Luys (1873) and others.':

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Book number: 8537

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BELLINI, L.

Opuscula aliquot, ad Archibaldum Pitcarnium professorem Lugduno-Batavu.

Pistoja, St. Gatti, 1695. 4to. W. 3 fold. pls. Vellum, w. spine label. (XX, 215, IV (last p. errata) pp.). (Stamps removed from titlepage, no loss of text.). Contents: De motu cordis intra & extra uterum; Digresso de ovo, ovi aere & respiratione in genere; Doctrina pressionum obliquarum; De motu bilis & liquidorum omnium per corpera animalium. De fermentis & glandulis; De missione anguinis; De contractione naturali & villo contractili.- DSB vol. I, pp. 592- 94: Bellini (1634 - 1704) was professor of anatomy at Pisa. 'The "Opuscula" developed Bellini's earlier iatromechanical themes most fully.''... Boerhaave studied w. Pitcairne at Leyden, and absorbed his enthusiasm for Bellini's medical science.': Comp. Heirs of Hippocrates, 427 (1696 ed.).: 'He applied his mechanistic theories to the action of the heart and respiration, the biliary system, the digestive process, and function of the glands.': Osler, 2003: Wellcome vol. II, p. 140: Krivatsy, 1075. First edition.

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Book number: 39

Keywords: cardiology Leiden surgery medicine general W36

BELLY, F.

Percement de l'isthme de Panama par le canal de Nicaragua. Exposé de la question.

Paris, Aux bureaux de la direction du canal, 1858. W. 2 fold.col.maps. Original pr.wr. (Spine ends some imperf.). (177, II pp.). (Uncut copy). Sabin 4578: '....Résumé d'un travail plus complèt dont la publication est retardée par des causes materielles.': First edition:

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Book number: 2451

Keywords: railways roads railroads canals Doos14 behandelen bdrb2