HALLER, Albrecht von

Deux Memoires Sur la Formation Des Os, Fonde Sur Des Experiences

1758. HALLER, Albrecht von. DEUX MEMOIRES SUR LA FORMATION DES OS, FONDES SUR DES EXPERIENCES. Lausanne: Chez Bouquet, 1758. First edition. (A Latin version was included in von Haller's Opera Minora, printed at Lausanne, 1763-68.) 12mo. [vi]267 pp. + a folding table of bone development of baby chicks in the egg. Green cloth back, with gilt-stamped title to spine, and marbled paper boards. Ex library, with all the usual markings (label on spine, bookplate at front pastedown, ink stamp on verso of t.p. etc.). Binding is slightly rubbed along edges, but sound. Text leaves are mostly clean but for some foxing to opening leaves and intermittent, faint and shallow, dampstaining in top-edge margin. Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), the illustrious Swiss polymath and poet, began and finished his life in Berne. He studied in Tubingen, and then in Leyden under Boerhaave and Albinus. After practicing medicine in Berne, he occupied the chair of Anatomy, Botany, and Surgery at the University of Gottingen from 1736 to 1753. There he wrote prodigiously, established an anatomical theater and a botanic garden, and published "the first great treatise on physiology" (Osleriana). For his last twenty-five years he returned to Berne, where he produced his monumental Bibliotheca Medica and three philosophical romances. In this work Haller first affirmed that bones form from cartilaginous anlage and not from the periosteum. (Heirs to Hippocrates 887; Wellcome III, p. 199). A scarce primary source. .

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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Correspondence and Papers of Edmond Halley Preceded by an Unpublished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 CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF EDMOND HALLEY PRECEDED BY AN UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE BY ONE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES, AND THE 'ELOGE' BY D'ORTOUS DE MAIRAN.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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