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Milan: Alessandro Minuziano, 1517. Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (ca. 56 - ca. 120 C.E.). P. Cornelii Taciti libri quinque noviter in venti atque cum reliquis eius operibus editi. Small 4to. [20], 233, [3]ff. Signatures H-K bound in reverse order in this copy. [Milan:] Ex officina Minutiana, 1517. 192 x 127 mm. Full morocco tooled in gilt and blind in antique style. Occasional faint dampstaining, but a fine copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of Count D[mitri] Petrovich Boutourlin (1790-1849). First Minuziano Edition, and the First Example of a Challenge to a Copyright. In 1508 Pope Leo X (formerly Cardinal Giovanni de'Medici) purchased the only surviving manuscript of the "lost" first six books of Tacitus's Annals, which had earlier been stolen from the monastery of Corvey in Westphalia. Six year later Leo granted the Vatican librarian, humanist Filippo Beroaldo the younger, the exclusive right or privilegio to issue a printed edition the complete works of Tacitus, including the previously unpublished… Leer más

Plate: 174x108 mm. Margin: 190x114 mm. Some very faint creasing, very faint soiling. Ownership stamp on reverse of print.

1984. Booth, Andrew Donald and Booth, Ian J. PET revisited, a 40 year overview. Offprint from Physics in Canada 40 (March 1984). Unbound, stapled. Inscribed on p. 57: "With the compliments of IJB." 57-60pp. Text diagrams. 280 x 217 mm. Provenance: From Andrew D. Booth. Written jointly with Booth's son. The Booths used a Commodore PET computer, a machine with a MOSTEC 6502 microprocessor and 32 KB memory, to re-evaluate the data in the senior Booth's 1944 doctoral thesis on the crystal structure of pentaerythryol tetranitrate. "The results . . . show clearly the revolution which the electronic digital computer has produced in the calculation of crystal structures" (p. 60). Origins of Cyberspace 501. .

London: Hardwicke, 1868. Falconer, Hugh (1808-65). Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer, A.M., M.D. . . . Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison, M.D., F.R.S. 2 vols. Vol. I: lvi, 590pp. 34 plates, text illustrations. Vol. II: xiii, [77], 675pp. 38 plates, text illustrations. 215 140 mm. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1868. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards. Library stamps on verso of title pages of both volumes, and small stamp on the title of Vol. II. Marginal repairs to frontispiece and first 7 leaves of Vol. I, a few pencil marks in the margins, light toning, but very good. First Edition of the collected paleontological works, both published and previously unpublished, of the Scottish geologist and botanist Hugh Falconer, whose extensive studies of India's fossil mammals earned him and his colleague Proby Cautley the London Geological Society's prestigious Wollaston Medal. Falconer became interested in paleontology while stationed in India as an employee of the British… Leer más

Heidelberg: Springer, 2008. First edition. 1186pp., profusely illustrated. Original printed boards, small split in front hinge.

London: John and Arthur Arch, 1799. With the Very Rare Prospectus Bound In Fry, Edmund (1754-1835). Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter . . . xxxvi, 320pp., plus 11-page prospectus (dated August 1798) and single-sheet publisher's note (January 1799) bound at the back. London: Cooper and Wilson for John and Arthur Arch . . . ; John White . . . ; John Edwards . . . ; and John Debrett, 1799. 255 x 161 mm. (uncut). 19th-century quarter morocco, cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Fore-edges a bit frayed, otherwise very good to fine. First Edition. Fry, one of the most learned English typefounders of his day, spent sixteen years researching this book, which contains more than 200 specimens of ancient and modern alphabets from Abyssinian to Welsh together with phonological transcriptions in roman characters from various indigenous languages lacking written alphabets. The… Leer más

Chicago, 1946. Revised edition.

Rome: Tipografia del Senato, 1930. IN: Memorie della classe di scienze fisiche...Vol. 1. Original printed wrappers, wrappers, foxed. Spine splitting, tear on the upper half. Uncut and unopened.

Parts I & II. London: J. Nichols, for Lockyer Davis, 1778. Whole volume, viii, 1099pp., 18 pll. Paper with deckled edges, uncut and unopened. Cardboard and paper boards with paper spine and spine label featuring volume and year. Plates 1-7 missing (has plates 8-18 + 4 folding tables), pp. 389-418 missing. A good copy. Three notable papers in this volume are as follows: (1) Ingenhousz, John. XLVI. A ready way of lighting a candle, by a very moderate electric spark, pp. 1022-1026. (2) " " XLVIII. Electrical experiments, to explain how far the phenomena of the electrophorous may be accounted for by Dr. Franklin's theory of positive and negative electricity; being the annual lecture instituted by the will of Henry Baker, Esq., F.R.S., pp. 1027-1048. (3) Henly, William. XLIX. Observations and experiments tending to confirm Dr. Ingenhousz's theory of the electrophorus; and to shew the impermeability of glass to electric fluid, pp. 1049-1055. Jan (or John) Ingenhousz (1730-1799) was a Dutch-born British… Leer más

London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1932. Cushing, Harvey (1879-1939). Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus and parasympathetic nervous system. vii, 234pp. Two color plates, text illustrations. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1932. 252 x 168 mm. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, blind-stamped front cover, some soiling and edgewear, small paper label on front cover, a bit shaken. Minor finger-soiling, but a good copy. Stamp and withdrawal stamp of the British Medical Association Library. First Edition, British issue with cancel title. Contains Cushing's four major contributions on pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationships: 1) his Lister lecture on "Neurohypophysial mechanisms from a clinical standpoint"; 2) his series of eight notes on "Posterior pituitary hormomes and the parasympathetic nervous system"; 3) a reprint of Cushing's original description of "Cushing's syndrome"; and 4) his Balfour lecture on "Peptic ulcer and the interbrain," in which he suggested that the… Leer más

1951. Heisenberg, Werner (1901-76). Paradoxien des Zeitbegriffs in der Theorie der Elementarteilchen. Offprint from Festschrift zur Feier des zweihundertjährigen Bestehens der Akademie der Wissenschaft in Göttingen 1 (Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse) (1951). 50-64pp. 248 x 166mm. Without wrappers as issued. Very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. On time paradoxes in the theory of elementary particles. Cassidy & Baker, Werner Heisenberg: A Bibliography of his Writings, 1951c. .

London: Oxford, 1949.

Paris: A. Delahaye, 1866. Guéniot, Alexandre (1832-1935). Parallèle entre céphalotripsie et l'opération césarienne. Thèse présentée au concours pour l'agrégation . . . 84pp. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1866. 216 x 138 mm. Modern wrappers. Title-leaf creased, minor scattered foxing, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the title: "Monsieur le Docteur Duchoveny [?], professeur agrégé, hommage de l'auteur Guéniot." First Edition. Guéniot, who lived to the age of 102, presented his agrégation thesis before the Faculté de Médecine de Paris on 6 June 1866, taking as his topic the parallels between cephalotripsy (the act of crushing a fetus's skull in the uterus to effect delivery) and cesarean section. Guéniot served as chief surgeon of the Paris Maternité and was a founding member of the Société obstetricale de France; he also published several works on obstetrics and gynecology. .

Paris: Labé, 1860. Whole volume, 800pp. 140 x 220mm. End papers a bit toned. Contemporary boards with a paper spine and handwritten label, moderately worn, otherwise a good copy. First description of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis ("Duchenne's paralysis"). Garrison-Morton.com No. 4736.

1894. Offprint from University Medical Magazine (1894). 5pp. Original printed wrappers, detached, chipped. Fair.

1894. Offprint from University Medical Magazine (1894). 5pp. Original printed wrappers. Marginal tears and chipping. Fair.

1894. Offprint from University Medical Magazine. 5pp. Lacks wrappers. Good+.

1909. 1st edition. Offprint from Journal of experimental medicine.

1909. Partial, progressive and complete occlusion of the aorta and other large arteries...Offprint from Journal of Experimental Medicine 11 (1909) 373-91. First edition. Garrison-Morton 2969. "Halsted introduced a metal band in place of a ligature for the occlusion of arteries.