W.B. Saunders Company, 1953. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with gilt titles blocked in dark blue on the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with fading to spine and light wear to cloth at extremities..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. First edition. 39 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly soiled and scuffed wraps, faint corner crease to front wrap, a few small reading smudges. Rare in commerce. The anonymously-written autopsy report of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1950. First edition. 262 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine stamping. A little offsetting and foxing to endpapers, else Fine in a dust jacket that is corner-clipped but has price intact ($3.00), generally bright and attractive, with some wear spots to front..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy signed by Clara Barton on the front free endpaper with a lengthy and warm inscription, "Will Mrs. Wersfall [?] accept this little volume as a sometimes reminder if the days we passed together and which to..... More
Geneva: Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. First edition of this early annual report of the International Red Cross. A presentation copy, signed by Clara Barton and warmly inscribed "To Senator Preston U. Plumb of Kansas, from a friend who honors him, Clara Barton, President of the American National Red..... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1915. First edition. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down..... More
Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836. First American edition, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spines. Very Good. Cloth faded and lightly worn at the spine ends. Pages heavily foxed, marginal tear to pp. 195..... More
Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third edition. [vi], 77 [Democritus to the Reader], [6], 1-79, 78-96 [hand corrected], 97, 98 [hand corrected], 99 [hand corrected], 100, 101 [hand corrected], 102-208, [4] 209-300, 303, 304, 301, 302, 305-359, "359" but actually 360, 361, [362 skipped], 363-374, [2], 375-584, 583, 584, 585-646, [8..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First edition. Signed by Walter Cannon on the front free endpaper, "With cordial regards." xiii, 311 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with darkened spine lettering, worn tips, diagonal crease to ffep, lacking dust jacket. Quite rare..... More
New York: [No Publisher], 1926. Notecard signed by French surgeon and biologist Dr. Alexis Carel inscribed "to a small [?] boy" in New York, dated June 5, 1926, mounted to cardboard underneath an article about him winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1912 with a photograph. Cardboard..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First US edition. xxiv, 175 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with spine panel darkened and edge-wear heaviest at head and tail. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. A rare double work of nonfiction by..... More
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Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Physical Society, 1913. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould and signed. xv, 240 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in..... More
London, Paris, & Leipzig: Hippolyte Balliere, J.B. Balliere, & T.O. Wiegel; Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1843-1856. Complete run of the publication in 13 volumes. Various cloth bindings: vols. 7 & 11 are original, the others are in 20th century institutional cloth. A Fair+ ex-library set deaccessioned from the John..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. First American edition. (Follows the British, the same year. Morton 3rd edition 1409.) Copy of contemporary female physician Elmira Y. Howard with her signature at front and date of 1877, her numerous underlines and brackets throughout in pencil, which is easily erasable with patience..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot, light wear. A philosophical whodunit in 19th century France..... More
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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. xxxii, 750 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in twentieth-century quarter morocco; bound without ads. Sunning to spine, rubbing or light scuffing to rear cover. Contents toned, with occasional and discrete markings from previous owner and several leaves repaired. The very first publication..... More
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Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1859. First American edition. xxxii, 754 pp. Bound in recent full calf with a black label on the spine lettered in gilt. About Very Good with light rubbing to leather, some dampstaining to edges, intruding lightly to margins with some associated wrinkling and wave, heavier at..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Signed by Anthony Hallam and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "To Steve With best wishes to a courageous friend and ardent hopes for full recovery [signed] Tony." x, 182 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine original..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. First edition, first printing, first issue. Title pages dated 1890, the word "Psy-chology" hyphenated on ads pages facing title pages; definitive errors present on p. 10 of Vol. 1 ("the seat of intellectual power") and p. 101 in Vol. 2, "object of some..... More
London: Trubner and Company, 1877. First edition. xiv, [2], 493 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamping, spine label, black coated endpapers. Very Good+ with small tear at head, a little wear along title label, hinges cracked but holding. Contents bright. An ambitious book of amateur physiology, biology..... More
New York: J.N. Jaros, 1890. First edition. Complimentary copy inscribed to Elmira Y. Howard, female physician, with the compliments of the author (probably in the hand of someone who worked for the publisher); she is also named in the endorsements in the rear of the volume as one of the..... More
New York: American Technical Book Company, 1896. First edition. 196, errata, [4] pp. with frontispiece and figures 54-91 at rear (90 not included as is explained in note on p. 160). A Good+ copy with label from The Wells Book Store Readers' Library mounted to rear board and front paste..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Signed by Dr. Thomas Noguchi on front free endpaper in ink. 253 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip lettered in pale brown. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, subtle lean to spine, a few pages' bottom corners creased..... More