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U. S. Navy Aircraft 1921-1941; U. S. Marine Corps Aircraft 1914-1959: Two Classics in One Volume

Hardcover, reddish brown cloth boldly lettered in black, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 391 and 203 pages respectively. Index included at the end of each title, with the first U.S. Navy Aircraft reprinting all the original appendices. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. The first edition of this omnibus reissue of Larkins’ two major works on the planes associated with U.S. naval power during the first half of the 20th-century. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, and unmarked copy in a very nicely preserved dust-jacket. Very good+ in fine dust-jacket.


Nieuport: A Biography of Edouard Nieuport 1875-1911

Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in lighter blue, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 216 pages. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Translated from the French by Rebecca Howell Balinski. First American edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. A biography of Edouard Nieuport, a talented and prolific aviation engineer working in early 20th-century France, by his grandson. No previous ownership marks. A pristine and unread copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.


The Fokker Triplane

Hardcover, small quarto (10″”x7 3/4″) in bright blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s pictorial, non price-clipped, dust-jacket. 128 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. First British edition. “This diligently researched volume offers much new visual and textual data and will delight enthusiasts, historians, veterans, preservationists and modellers.” (publisher’s). No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.


On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body (2 Volumes – Complete)

Hardcovers, two volumes in genuine reddish (Carnelian?) leather bindings with raised spines lettered in 22kt gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. 802 pages. Bibliography, Index. Translated from the Greek, with an introduction and commentary, by Margret Tallmadge May. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1968, published by Cornell University Press. This collector’s edition of Galen’s work on anatomy and physiology makes available to both student and scholar one of the few English translations available. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.


Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases

Hardcover, bound in genuine forest green top-grain cowhide with raised spine stamped in gold and cover stampings and design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. 483 pages. All edges gilt. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker and specially commissioned marbled end-papers by Richard J. Wolfe. Special limited facsimile edition published for The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, of the first English edition originally published in 1802, courtesy of the Yale Medical Library. Personalized publisher’s book-plate affixed to second blank front end-paper indicating this is copy 921. A quality limited edition facsimile of this early treatise on diseases by a fellow of the Royal Society and the Paris Royal Society of Medicine. No other previous ownership marks but for book-plate. A clean, fresh unmarked and like new copy. Fine.


Aequanimitas With other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine

Hardcover, genuine pastel blue top-grain cowhide binding with raised spine lettered in gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. Includes bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. 389 pages. Special limited edition, prepared from the original first edition of 1904. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. A pristine and like new copy. As new.


Specimen Days

Hardcover, small folio sized volume [12″ tall] bound in blue denim colored cloth boldly lettered in gold, with large pictorial paste-down on upper cover. 197 pages. Illustrated with 133 black and white photographs. First, limited edition thus. One of a total edition of 6,250 copies, this being one of 5,000 of which 2,500 were bound as hardcover and 2,500 hundred as softcover. The entire text of the 1882 edition is here presented, augmented by many hitherto unpublished contemporary photographs. Dust-jacket shows mild age toning. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual coast as possible.


Memoirs for the Natural History of Humane Blood, Especially the Spirit of That Liquor

Hardcover, genuine maroon top-grain cowhide binding with raised spine lettered in gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. 289 pages. 16mo. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1683/4.. Publisher’s unused original subscriber’s personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921, printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library. Bolye, a contemporary and friend of Isaac Newton, was a Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. His interests and work the span spectrum from theology to alchemy, albeit his most important contribution to science lay in his application of the scientific method. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.


On Chloroform And Other Anaesthetics: Their Action and Administration

Hardcover, genuine blue top-grain cowhide binding with raised spine lettered in gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer in 22kt gold. 443 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first English edition of 1858.. Publisher’s unused original subscriber’s personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921, printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library. Also included in a two page letter from the editor (folded), giving a brief synopsis of Snow’s life and work as it relates to the present title. Snow was a seminal figure in the fields of epidemiology and anesthesia. His work with chloroform and ether in the present title revolutionized modern surgical practices. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.


The Red Cross

Hardcover, genuine leather binding with raised spine lettered in gilt stamped 22kt gold and cover design and stamping by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. 684 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1898, courtesy of the Yale Medical Historical Library.. Publisher’s unused original subscriber’s personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921, printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library. “A History of this Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity” . [half-title]. Further publisher’s blurb on title-page reads: “A vivid and authoritative Account of Relief from Suffering by War, Pestilence, Famine, Flood, Fires, and other National Calamities.” No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.


The History of Miners’ Diseases: A Medical and Social Interpretation

Hardcover, genuine deep blue leather binding with raised spine lettered in 22kt gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer.. 490 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Introduction by Henry E. Sigerist. Illustrated. Special limited edition, first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1943.. Dr. Rosen correlates the development of miners’ diseases through the ages with the advances in the basic medical sciences and with the varying social and economic conditions that have contributed to the rise of occupational diseases in the industry. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.


Neurological Fragments

Hardcover, genuine maroon leather binding with raised spine lettered in 22kt gold and gilt stamped cover design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. 227 pages. Additional refinements include bound in silk ribbon marker, specially commissioned marbled end-papers designed by Richard J. Wolfe and all edges gilt. Special limited edition , first edition thus prepared from the first edition of 1868, courtesy of the Yale Medical Library. Publisher supplied unused original subscriber’s personalized book-plate laid-in loose, indicating that this is copy 921, printed for members of The Classics of Medicine Library. “This volume constitutes an adequate memoir of J. Hughlings Jackson. It contains a number of short articles published in the Lancet at various intervals, an address to the Hunterian Society, a biography, and two essays concerning Dr. Jackson by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and Dr. Mercier.” [abstract, JAMA Network]. A pristine, unread and like new copy. As new.