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A MANUAL OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE, DESCRIBING THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, AND TREATMENT OF THE MOST COMMON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL AFFECTIONS;
The Whole Intended as a Family Guide in all Cases of Accident and Emergency, and to give Directions as to the Proper Method of Proceeding in Those Cases Where the Surgeon’s Aid is Obtained After Difficulty and Much Delay.
London: Virtue and Co, 1867. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,204,10 (publisher’s adverts), red cloth wrappers with unlettered spine and front cover stamped in gilt and blind; crosses marked to margins, corners have been folded, marking to wrappers, with light wear to edges, darkening to cloth, a good copy.
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A STUDY OF INFLUENZA, AND THE LAWS OF ENGLAND CONCERNING INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A Paper Read Before the Society of Medical Officers of Health, January 18th, 1892. To which is appended a paper on the Spread of Influenza by Contagion, read before the Epidemiological Society, May 20, 1891. And an Abstract of a Paper On the Prevention of the Spread of Epidemic Influenza, read at the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, August 1891. Together with: Counsel’s Opinion on the Powers of Sanitary Authorities as to Influenza, and the Acts and Extracts from Acts relating to Infectious Diseases; the Provisional Memorandum on Epidemic Influenza, issued by the Local Government Board on January 25, 1892; and the Directions for Obtaining Ambulances for the Conveyance of Persons Suffering from Influenza, issued by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 8vo., pp.119, green cloth, gilt; ex Royal Veterinary College Library, with inkstamp to title and to two further pages, publisher’s blindstamp to title, o.w internally fine, rubbing to extremities, small label to spine, o/w a very good, bright copy.
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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (AACHEN) AS A HEALTH RESORT.
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1899. Second impression, 8vo., pp.viii,323, green cloth, gilt, decorative endpapers, ribbon bookmark, speckled edges; ex libris Dr. James Rutherford, Glasgow, with ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, further (other) ownership blindstamp to front free endpaper, toning to edges/margins, light sunning to inner margin of front board, a little rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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BACON'S SCIENCE OF MEMORY SIMPLIFIED AND EXPLAINED;
Or, a Rational System for Improving the Memory and Rapidly Acquiring Knowledge; with an application to Languages, History, Geography, Prose, Poetry, Etc. In Two Parts.
London: J.B. Bateman, 1862. 12mo., pp.(vi),108, textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board; light foxing/toning to prelims, slight sunning to spine, a very good, fresh copy.
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CONFRONTING NATURE.
The Sociology of Solar-Neutrino Detection.
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer), 1986. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,268, cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN AND ALI IBN AL-ABBAS AL-MAGUSI.
The Pategni and Related Texts.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. 8vo., pp.ix,364, red cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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COSMOS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ASTROLOGY AND COSMOLOGY.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Large 8vo., pp.xxvi,876, paperback, 21 colour plates, b/w illustrations; small mark to fore-margins pp.37-43, light crease to rear wrapper, a fresh and otherwise near-fine copy.
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DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,459, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins and endpapers, toned to head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, small stain to front upper margin, worn at corners, chipping to head and foot of spine with loss to head of spine slightly obscuring title, closed tears along front and rear edge, now in a protective dust-cover, overall very good.
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DISSECTION AND VIVISECTION IN THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. 8vo., pp.ix,289, purple hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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DR WILLIS IN JAPAN, 1862-1877.
British Medical Pioneer.
London/Dover, NH: The Athlone Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,273, olive green hardcover, gilt, 8 b/w plates, further b/w figures; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.
A Popular and Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Modern Life. [Volumes I and II:] Volume I. The History and Principles of Electrical Science; Volume II. Technology of Electricity, Section 1.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1911. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xi,828;vii,686, blue cloth, gilt, front boards lettered in black, b/w frontispiece, very numerous b/w illustrations throughout, including 11 folding plates to Volume II; contemporary ink ownership inscription (dated 1916) to front free endpaper of both volumes, toning to free endpapers, and foxing to prelims/end leaves of Volume II, with superficial paper-cracking to rear inner hinge, Volume I has a small area of loss to cloth and puncture mark near foot of spine, a small knock to lower spine of Volume II, rubbing and occasional slight wear to extremities, overall very good.
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ELECTRONS, OR THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF NEGATIVE ELECTRICITY.
London: George Bell and Sons. Second, revised edition, published March 1907, 8vo., pp.xv,230,(ii), red cloth, gilt, b/w figures; foxing to fore-edges, toning to endpapers, extremities rubbed, with some rubbing and light scratches to boards, else very good. No dust-jacket.
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ENDLESS AMUSEMENT; A COLLECTION OF 404 ENTERTAINING AND ASTONISHING EXPERIMENTS.
Among a Variety of Other Subjects are Amusements in Arithmetic, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Optics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetism, Combinations of Figures, Reflection and Refraction of Light, the Art of Making Fire Works, Diverting Experiments with the Magic Lantern and Camera Obscura, Wonders of the Air-Pump, All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c. &c. &c. The whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited capacity.
London: Published by Thorp and Burch, and printed by Gye and Balne, 1820. 12mo., pp.216, uncut, marbled paper-covered boards reinforced with green linen backstrip, folding copper-engraved frontispiece plate; foxing to frontispiece and edges, with some foxing throughout, occasional light pencil ‘x’ marks to margins, boards rubbed and lightly worn, partly recoloured with biro, with wear to edges of boards, a good copy of this extremely scarce volume.
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EXACT SOLUTIONS OF EINSTEIN'S FIELD EQUATIONS.
Cambridge University Press, 1980. 8vo., pp.425, blue cloth lettered in silver; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light tone to edges, a very good copy, in partly torn unclipped dust-jacket, which has tearing and area of loss to front of jacket, as well as chipping to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.
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FACES WE MEET AND HOW TO READ THEM.
With: HOW TO READ CHARACTER BY THE AID OF PATHOGNOMY; Or The Signs Which Are Manifested By The Human System In Motion: As By The Walk Or Gait, Tones Of The Voice, Form Of The Body, The Mode Of Shaking Hands, Temperamental Conditions, Dress, Etc.
London: H. Vickers, et al, 1881. Two volumes in one, small 8vo., pp.240, brown cloth, gilt, with decorative blindstamped borders to boards, b/w frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations throughout; some paper-splitting along inner hinges (joints remain firm),light foxing to prelims, rubbing and light wear to extremities, with 2cm split to cloth at head of upper joint, light partial sunning and slight marking to cloth, a near very good copy.
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GENERAL RELATIVITY.
Papers in Honour of J.L Synge.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1972. 8vo., pp.ix,277, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to extremities, with partial sunning, and paper reinforcement to reverse of headband.
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HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Reproduction of the 1667 Edition.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.xxxii,439,78, blue cloth, gilt, title inlay to spine, b/w frontispieces; light toning and foxing to endpapers, light foxing to edges, slightly affecting margins, otherwise internally clean, slight bruise to bottom right corner of front board, overall a very good copy, in a good price-clipped dust-jacket with chipping to head and tail band and mottling to spine and margins.
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INCREASING THE STRENGTH OF THE EYES AND OF THE EYE MUSCLES WITHOUT THE AID OF GLASSES.
Kansas City: The Eyesight and Health Association Publishers, 1928. Fourth impression (first published in 1925), 8vo., pp.199, textured black cloth, faded (gilt?) lettering to spine and to front board, b/w illustrations and two loose eye-test charts; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, ownership autograph also to the loose charts, rubbing to extremities, light marking to cloth, a good, internally clean copy.
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INTRODUCTION TO TENSORS, SPINORS, AND RELATIVISTIC WAVE-EQUATIONS.
London: Blackie & Son, 1953. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xii,221, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, chipping to head of spine and upper corners, with some loss, overall very good.
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INVESTIGATION OF THE MOTION OF HALLEY’S COMET FROM 1759 TO 1910.
Edinburgh: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Neill and Co., Limited, 1910. Folio, pp.84, cloth with printed paper title label to spine; crease and large closed tear to lower margin of final leaf, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy.
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