Science from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good. Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Columbia University Press, 1905. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 110,[12] pp. Original wrappers, front and rear both printed recto and verso. Wrappers unevenly toned, lightly chipped at edges; last porton of text block light chipped at fore-edge; else very good. The first published work by Lynn Thorndike (1882-1965), best known for his exhaustive, eight-volume HISTORY OF… Saber más sobre este artículo

Plattsburgh [N.Y.]: Printed by F. P. Allen, 1833. 280 pp, including 3 wood-engraved figures in text. Original cloth-backed plain paper over boards, in modern cloth clamshell case. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernovsky in case. Binding worn, joints cracked, leaves wrinkled, mold stains in outer leaves, contents mildly foxed. Good. "To the medical bibliographer there are few more treasured Americana than… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.Pp. 523-532 plus 4 plates containing 11 images (4 color). Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Light rust marks near staples and light fading at wrappers' fold, else fine. Offprint from THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1959, providing a brief history of the discovery and study of viruses and recent developments in the understanding of what a virus is,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Orléans, France: L. P. Couret, 1794. Small quarto. Bifolium, 4 pp. 3/4-inch of loss at upper corner (with no loss to text). Soft early horizontal fold. Very minor foxing. Very good. The 1794 French Revolutionary decree transferring the former royal collections of scientific, technological, and artistic objects to newly designated state inventories, naming the commissioners of each to form the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Altenburg: Paul Emanuel Richters, 1753. Quarto. [8],xxviii,[4],104 pp. plus six folding plates. In German. Contemporary three-quarter leather and speckled paper over boards. 19th-century ex-dono inscription in title page and occasional 19th-century marginal notes in German. Spine and nearly all leather perished, joints cracked. 2 x 2 cm. square excision in front free endpaper. Very light occasional foxing, else near fine… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Fr. Horth-hemels, 1730. Hardcover. Very good. [10],246 pp. plus frontispiece and two folding tables. In Latin. Early three-quarter vellum and speckled paper over boards, raised bands, manuscript paper title and shelf labels. Early shelf number inscription in front free endpaper, light institutional inkstamp in title page. Lightly rubbed, extremities worn. Very good. George Ernest Stahl’s influential… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uppsala: Excudebant Regiae academiae typographi, 1824. Two volumes: 22;[1],[23]-38 pp. In Latin. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Small marginal tear in second leaf, very minor dust soiling in outer leaves, else fine. Medical dissertations submitted by Johan Immanuel Billberg and Johan Otto Lindströmer at Uppsala University on the topic of ipecacuanha. Johan Immanuel (or Emanuel) Billberg (1799-1845) received his PhD in… Saber más sobre este artículo