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 . Adams, George (–). statement defending vivisection and the French school founded by An essay on vision, briefly explaining the fabric of the Magendie. Addison is best known as the author of On the Constitu-  eye, and the nature of vision. . tional and Local Effects of the Supra-renal Capsules ( ), which . . vo. vi []  [], pp. included his classic description of “Addison’s disease” and “Addiso- nian anemia”; see G-M .  Folding plate. London: R. Hindmarsh for the author, First Automatic Computer .  ×  mm. Modern half maroon morocco in . [Aiken, Howard H. (–).] period style. Light foxing & A manual of operation for the automatic sequence browning, fore-edge of plate a controlled little frayed, but very good. calculator by the $ staff of the First Edition. Adams, a world-famous scientific instrument [Harvard maker and optician to the Royal Court, became especially re- University] nowned for his spectacles and microscope lenses. The present work, Computation written for the lay public, describes the anatomy of the eye, the Laboratory. nature of vision and how best to preserve it; it also gives guidelines for choosing the proper spectacles. A comprehensive -page [Annals of the priced catalogue of Adams’ scientific instruments follows the text. Computation Becker . Albert, Norton & Huertes .  Laboratory of Harvard Univer- . Adams, William (–). sity. Volume I.] to. [], , []pp. Plates & text On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren’s and illustrations. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, . congenital contractions) and on “hammer-toe.” . . .  ×  mm. Original cloth, a little worn & vo. xx,  []pp.  lithographed plates, with expla- spotted. Light browning, but very good. Library nation leaves. London: J. & A. Churchill, .  × stamp on front endpaper. $  mm. Original cloth, a little worn & shaken, spine First Edition. The operating manual for the Mark I com- faded. Light browning, but very good. Presentation puter, the first automatic computer, developed by Howard H. Aiken and IBM. Many computer pioneers learned on it; its manual copy, inscribed by Adams on the half-title: “With the fi Author’s Compts. / W. A.” $ includes the rst extended analysis of computer programming since Babbage, and some of the earliest examples of digital com- Second and Best Edition, with additional material on the puter programs. “This machine [the Mark I], which was electro- repair of hammer-toe (a subject not covered in the  first mechanical in nature, contained  counters for storing numbers, edition) and a review of advances in the treatment of Dupuytren’s each of which was made up of  digits plus a sign. In addition there contracture in the ten years following the first edition’s appear- were  registers controlled by manually set switches in which ance. “William Adams should have his name coupled with the op- constants could be stored. . . . The machine was controlled by eration of subcutaneous fasciotomy for Dupuytren’s contracture. means of a paper tape which contained the instructions or orders His surgery in this and other areas was the best of its day; it was for the machine arranged in serial order. In each instruction there built on a solid foundation of anatomy and pathology” (Boyes, On were three parts: one which stated where the data to be operated the Shoulders of Giants, p. ; see also pp. –). Adams designed on were to be found; another which stated where the result was to a fasciotome and described proper surgical techniques for dividing be stored; and the third which stated what operation was to be the contracted band; he also developed a method for relieving performed” (Goldstine, pp. –). Goldstine, The Computer from depressed scars. Peltier, Orthopedics, pp. –.  Pascal to Von Neumann, pp. ff. Shurkin, p. .  . Addison, Thomas (–) & Morgan,      . Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried ( – ). John ( – ). Historia musculorum hominis. to. pp.  plates of An essay on the operation of poisonous agents upon the hand, each with outline, drawn & engraved by Jan the living body. vo. viii, , []pp. Text illustrations. Wandelaar. Leiden: Haak & Mulhovius, .  × London: Longman. . . , .  ×  mm. Modern    mm. Panelled calf, richly gilt spine, c. , wrappers. Some foxing, but very good. $ hinges weak, extremities & corners worn. Some First Edition. G-M . The first book in English on the foxing & browning, but still very good. $ action of poisons on the living body. The preface contains a brief

 First Edition. Very de- game-box inside tailed descriptions of all the the back cover muscles of the human body, containing with excellent illustrations de- money chips and picting the muscles of the hand; it also includes the earliest de- playing cards. tailed description of the palmar London & fascia, involved in Dupuytren’s Toronto: J. M. contracture. The hand is shown Dent & Sons, life-size with all the muscles, .  ×  tendons, ligaments, and bones; mm. Original cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front according to Punt, these were fi cover, extremities a little worn, one hinge in game- the rst plates in which Wande- box split but sound. Light browning but very good. laar “applied the ‘architectonic’ $ procedure of ‘projective’ trans- Revised and enlarged edition of Angell’s educational game (first position of the objects to paper with the aid of a pair of compasses  and a ruler” (Punt, Albinus, p. ; also see pp. –). Boyes, On the published in ) designed to instruct its players in the principles Shoulders of Giants, pp. –, noting that Albinus’s anatomical of banking, currency and other elementary economic issues. The game consists of an instruction book containing rules and explana- studies are still quoted, especially in regard to the intrinsic muscles. Choulant / Frank . Norman . Roberts & Tomlinson, Fabric of tions (in the guise of an adventure story) and chapters on using the the Body, p. . Stack, The Palmar Fascia, pp. , ,–.  game as a teaching tool, together with game materials comprising two sets of playing cards and four sets of money chips. The playing 6. André, George G[uillaume]. cards represent various industries—sawmill, iron foundry, coal mine, pottery, harvester, etc.—with insurance and purchase-by- The draughtsman’s handbook of plan and map draw-  bank cards added in; the money cards are in denominations of one, ing. to. xii, four, ten and fifty pounds. The game enjoyed its greatest popular- pp.,  pp. ity in the s, in both England and America. Of obvious rarity, publisher’s complete with all its chips and cards. Angell received the Nobel adverts.  Peace Prize in  for his continuing examination of the eco- lithographed nomic disadvantages of war, and of the possibility of preventing fl  plates, incl.  in con ict between nations. DNB. color. London: E. . Annandale, Thomas (–). & F. N. Spon, The malformations, diseases, and injuries of the .  ×  fingers and toes and their surgical treatment. vo. xvi, mm. Original cloth, repaired. Lightly browned, but pp.  lith. plates by Lens Aldous, lithographed by very good. Ownership signature & stamp. Harrison. Philadelphia: Lippincott, . Orig. cloth, $ worn at extremities. Light browning and foxing, but First Edition. A manual of topographical drawing (i.e., the   detailed depiction of the surface features of a particular area) for very good. th cent. ownership signature. $ surveyors, mapmakers, architects, engineers and related profes- First American Edition of one of the very earliest treatises sions, profusely illustrated with examples of the draftsman’s art. on hand surgery, a re-issue of the original British sheets with a new The books is divided into two sections: the first deals with the title. The work is an expansion of Annandale’s Jacksonian Prize  principles and practices of topographical drawing, and the second dissertation, published in Edinburgh in . The original disserta- ff fl shows how these are applied. Included are instructions for me- tion was divided into sections on congenital a ections, in amma- chanically enlarging or reducing drawings, using the Pantograph tory diseases, tumors, injuries, non-congenital contractions and or Eidograph machines.  distortions; in the published edition, Annadale added two sections on excision of the joints and bones, and amputations of the fingers and toes. The plates illustrate various pathological conditions of the The Money Game fingers and toes, including tumors, caries of bone, contractions, . Angell, [Ralph] Norman (–). necrosis, ankylosis, congenital defects and gunshot wounds. The money game: How to play it. A new instrument Annandale was house-surgeon and assistant to James Syme and learned antiseptic technique from Lister, whom he succeeded in of economic education. vo. viii, [], pp., plus a the chair of clinical surgery at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

 Annandale was the first to perform a deliberately planned opera- essay by Henry E. Sigerist (–). vo.  [] tion for relief of internal derangement of the knee-joint; see G-M pp. Frontispiece. New York: Schuman’s, .  ×     . & LeVay, p. .  mm. Original cloth, gilt-stamped front cover & spine. Fine copy, one of  printed at the press of A. The Northwest Passage Colish. $ . [Arctic Exploration] First Edition in English of G-M .. Written ca.   Collection of  A.Ls.s. from British Arctic explorers, and published in , Arnald of Villanova’s book discusses the including Sir value of wine in the diet and as a medication. A facsimile of the original  edition is included. Scarce. Gabler, p. .  George Back (–), Sir John Franklin (–), Sir William Edward Association Copy Parry (–), John Rae (–), Sir John . Aston, Francis W. (–). Richardson (–;  letters), Sir James Isotopes. vo. viii, pp.  plates. London: Edward Clark Ross (–) and William Scoresby Arnold, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, sl. (–;  letters).  April – August shaken, extremities a little worn. Very good copy, . Various sizes. pp. total (not including ad- from the library of American physical chemist dresses). Creased where previously folded, a few small William Draper Harkins (–), with his tears and tiny pin-holes, lacunae in the Ross and Back signature and stamp on the front endpaper and his letters affecting some words, but on the whole very notes on pp. – and –.$ good. $ First Edition. PMM . Aston’s invention of the first mass Between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the middle of the spectrograph, an instrument giving a concentrated and extremely th century, the British government financed several naval expe- detailed breakdown of the constituents of analyzed material, en- ditions to the Arctic in order to discover and chart the Northwest abled him to discover that the elements are composed of atoms of Passage. Capt. John Ross commanded the first expedition in ; varying mass, and that the atomic weight of an element is an this was followed by expeditions led by William Edward Parry, average of the atoms comprising it. Aston used the word “isotopes” George Back, John Franklin, John Rae and others. The most fa- to describe atoms of differing weights within the same element, a mous of these voyages was the tragic final expedition led by term first coined by Frederick Soddy. Aston’s achievement, and his Franklin, which sailed into Lancaster Sound in  and was never subsequent investigations, provided important insight into the na- seen again. The shock of Franklin’s disappearance inspired a - ture of the atom and the evolution of the elements. Aston re- year search of the Arctic coast, which led to the discovery of the ceived the Nobel Prize for chemistry in  primarily for his Northwest Passage and to a far greater geographical knowledge discovery of isotopes in non-radioactive elements. Robert L. We- of the region. ber, in his Pioneers of Science, lists Aston among the Nobel Laureates We are offering here nine autograph letters written by these in chemistry who did outstanding work in physics. intrepid explorers, along with one by Franklin’s wife Jane (– This copy is from the library of American physical chemist ), who accompanied her husband on several of his voyages William Draper Harkins, one of the first Americans to perform and personally funded some of the rescue expeditions sent out research on the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. Aston after his disappearance. Five of the letters refer directly to Arctic made use of Harker’s concept of “packing,” proposed on theoreti- exploration or to Franklin’s disappearance. Two of the letters, in- cal grounds in , to explain hydrogen’s seeming violation of the cluding Franklin’s, are to John Richardson, the noted naturalist “whole number rule” of atomic mass; see the references to Harker who accompanied Franklin on two Arctic voyages, during which in the index to Isotopes. DSB. James, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, he explored over  miles of coast from the Mackenzie to the pp. –. Norman .  Coppermine River. After Franklin’s disappearance, Richardson and John Rae conducted the first official search expedition in –. Babbage’s Most Important Mathematical Work Another letter is from James Clark Ross, nephew of John Ross, who during an – Arctic expedition discovered the position . Babbage, Charles (–). of magnetic North on the Boothian Peninsula. A full list of the An essay towards the calculus of functions. In: Phil.  letters in this collection is available on request. DNB. EB. Trans. , part  (), pp. –. With: An essay    towards the calculus of functions. Part II. In: Phil. . Arnald of Villanova ( ?– ). Trans. , part  (), pp. –. Together two The earliest printed book on wine . . . now for the         fi numbers, to. [ ], [ ]– [ ]; iv, – pp. rst time rendered into English and with an historical plates,  fold. tables. London: W. Bulmer, –.

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While undergraduates at Cambridge   earliest part of his scientific career, Babbage occupied himself pri- ( – ), Babbage, Herschel and Peacock formed the Analytical marily with mathematics: while still an undergraduate at Cam- Society for the reform of mathematics; their translation of Lacroix’s bridge, he founded with Herschel and Peacock the Analytical Soci- work “permanently altered the teaching of mathematics in En- ff ety for the reform of mathematics (see following item), and dur- gland, [with] di erential and integral calculus soon replac[ing] ing the period just following his graduation became more and Newton’s ‘Calculus of Fluxions’” (Van Sinderen). The translation of more interested in the principles of mathematical symbolism and Lacroix’s work, and the supplement he prepared for it, marks fi    notation. The above two papers on the calculus of functions, his Babbage’s rst book publication. Van Sinderen . Hyman – .  most important mathematical work, grew out of his preoccupa- tion with this subject: Babbage’ major mathematical work, the calculus of functions Geosynclines which attempted to systematize an approach to the solution of . Babbage. a wide range of problems, became possible only by means of a The ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A fragment. vo. vii carefully defined notation. . . . Babbage believed that his new [], xxii, []–pp., adverts. Text illustrations. scheme would serve as a generalized calculus to include all    problems capable of analytical formulation, and it is possible to London: Murray, . × mm. Original see here a hint of the inspiration for his concept of the Analyti- cloth, rebacked, endpapers renewed. A little light cal Engine. While the work on the engines and his other scien- foxing, some contemporary annotations in ink. Very tific, social and political activities caused him virtually to aban- good copy. $ don mathematical research at the age of thirty, the calculus of Second edition, revised and enlarged. Concerned that the functions was the area he often yearned to continue. In fact the Bridgewater series on natural theology gave the impression that calculus of functions was not taken up by other workers, and it science was unfavorable to religion, Babbage wrote an unofficial is the aspect of Babbage’s mathematical work that modern ninth treatise, in which he used data gathered by his new Analytical mathematicians find the most fascinating (Dubbey, Works of Engine, the first computer in the modern sense, to reconcile math- Charles Babbage, I, pp. –). ematics with divinity. This was his first account in English of his new engine; it also presented the novel thought (although not in so Publication of these papers ensured Babbage’s election to the Royal Society, which took place on March , . Hyman notes many words) that God might be viewed as the ultimate program- mer; and Creation, an infinite set of programs, in which even that it is “probable that Babbage would have gone on to make more miracles could be mathematically accounted for. The Ninth important contributions to the theory of functions, as well as to Bridgewater Treatise also took into account questions of earth history, other branches of pure mathematics, had his interest not been fi concentrated on the calculating engines” (Charles Babbage, pp. – which were central to the debate on natural theology. In the rst edition Babbage described his method of tree-ring dating, the first ). Van Sinderen .  scientific method proposed for this type of archeological dating; . Babbage. and in the second edition he introduced his theory of geosynclines, a revolutionary concept that soon became fundamental to geologi- Examples of the solutions of functional equations. [],    cal thinking. Hyman – . Heizer, Man’s Discovery of his Past pp. Engraved plate. Bound () –. Marvin, Continental Drift () –. Van Sinderen after: Herschel, John F. W. .  (–). A collection of examples of the application of Presentation Copy the calculus of finite differences. . Babbage. [],  []pp. Together  Observations on the Temple of Serapis. . . . vo. works in , vo. Cambridge: J. pp., adverts.  lithographed plates ( partly hand- Deighton [etc.], .  × colored) & text illustrations. Privately printed, .  mm. (uncut). Original  ×  mm. Original cloth, with gilt motif of

 temple on front duce completely error-free cover, extremi- mathematical tables. Babbage ties of spine a later invented the Analytical little chipped, Engine, a universal calculator capable of any type of math- gummed paper ematical calculation; its design, label on spine, discussed in chapter VIII of the front hinge splitting. Light browning and foxing, but Passages, embodied “almost all very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Babbage on the important functions of the the verso front endpaper: “To the Jews & General modern digital computer” Literary & Scientific Institution, from the Author.” (Campbell-Kelly, p. ). The frontispiece shows a portion of Library bookplates of the above-mentioned institu- fi ff tion. $ Babbage’s rst Di erence En- gine, and the final four pages First Edition. Babbage presented his observations on Serapis contain Babbage’s own bibliog- to the Geological Society in , and an abstract of the paper raphy of his published works. Campbell-Kelly, “Introduction” to appeared in the Proceedings of the Society the same year. How- Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (), pp. –. ever, Babbage did not allow a full publication of his paper until  , when he had it privately printed with some additions. fi Babbage’s paper on Serapis marks the rst full presentation of his    celebrated theory of the movement of isothermal surfaces within . Balme, Claude Delonne ( – ?). the earth. Babbage’s attempt to prove that large tracts of the Recherches diététiques du médecin patriote. . . . earth’s surface subside over time while other portions rise irregu- mo.  []pp. Le Puy: Imprimerie de la Société larly was important for Charles Lyell, who used the figure of the Typographique, .  ×  mm. Half sheep c. Temple of Serapis for the frontispiece to his Principles of Geology; , rubbed, corners worn, small worm-holes in and for John Herschel, who came up with the revolutionary theory upper spine. Occasional fox-marks, otherwise fine. of geosynclines, for which he and Babbage are often given credit  Bookplate of nutrition writer and collector John together (see Marvin ). As the key image for a certain kind of Yudkin. $ geological movement, the Temple of Serapis was later analyzed in First Edition. A treatise on the habits, diet and diseases of great detail by Suess in his development of global tectonics. Babbage seminarians, students and workers in lace, with additional sections made his observations of Serapis on a volcano-viewing expedition, on the treatment of smallpox and on the proper diet for invalids during which he also came up with the idea of using geothermal and convalescents. Of particular interest is the chapter on lace- energy in industry. Hyman –. Zittel –, singling out workers—most of the women of Le Puy spent at least some of Babbage’s from among all other items on the Temple of Serapis as their time practicing this trade, and Balme had ample opportunity “a reference work of permanent value.” Greene, Geology in the to observe their working conditions. He blamed the diseases Nineteenth Century ()  ff.,  ff. Van Sinderen .  suffered by lace-workers on poverty, overcrowding (most lace- makers lived and worked in communal dwellings of up to  Principal Source of Knowledge of Babbage’s inhabitants), poor ventilation, overheating, eyestrain, lack of ex- Calculating Engines ercise and the wearing of corsets. Blake, p. . This is an unusually  rare work on occupational health printed in a relatively obscure . Babbage. location.  Passages from the life of a philosopher. vo. xii, pp. Frontispiece wood-engraving of Babbage’s . Barlow, Thomas (–). Difference Engine no. , drawn by B. H. Babbage. On cases described as “acute rickets” which are London: Longman [etc.], .  ×  mm. Half probably a combination of scurvy and rickets. . . . calf, marbled boards c. , a little rubbed. Occa- Offprint from Med.-Chir. Trans.  (). []  []pp. sional faint foxing, but very good. Former owner’s Chromolithographed plate. London: J. E. Adelard, name on flyleaf. $ .  ×  mm. Original plain wrappers, a little First Edition. The principal source, along with Babbage’s Cal- soiled. Occasional foxing, but very good. $ ff culating Engines, of our knowledge of Babbage’s Di erence and First Separate Edition. G-M . The classic description Analytical Engines. It includes Babbage’s only published account of infantile scurvy (“Barlow’s disease”), including the pathology of ff (chapter V) of his Di erence Engine, the autonomous printing the disease and a detailed list of cases. Up until the latter half of the ff mechanical calculator that used the method of di erences to pro- th century, infantile scurvy had been confused with rickets; “the

 isolation of scurvy from rickets as a definite and separate dis- Mixed edition of Barré’s exhaus- ease—although often concomitant in the same child—was a tri- tive illustrated catalogue of paintings, umph of deductive reasoning” (DNB). Barlow recommended fresh bronzes, mosaics and other artworks foods as a cure for the disease. Abt-Garrison, p. . Nichols et al., uncovered by the excavations at History of Pediatrics –, p. .  Herculaneum and Pompeii. This set consists of the second edition of vol- Early Medical Lithography by Senefelder umes – (–) and a later edi-    fl  tion ( ) of volume , the “Musée . Barré, A. P. ( . ) & Letellier, Jean secret,” devoted to erotic art and (un- Baptiste Louis (fl. ). derstandably) often not present.  Graphotomie humaine: Recueil lithographique représentant l’anatomie de l’homme. . . . Large    to. Lithographed title . Bartholin, Thomas ( – ). and avant-propos,  Anatomia, ex Caspari Bartholini parentis institutionibus . . . reformata. . . . vo. [], hand-colored litho-    graphed plates by Alois [ ]pp. fold. engraved Senefelder (– plates and numerous engraved ), most with “Imp. text illustrations, including a de Senefelder” stamped in portrait of Bartholin. The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, . the lower right corner.    Paris: Crévot . . . Chez × mm. th cent. les Auteurs, .  × quarter sheep, gilt spine, a bit  mm. Boards ca. rubbed. Light browning, , worn, rebacked. Light foxing & browning, occasional foxing, ownership   signature crossed out on title. otherwise very good. $ ,  Extremely Rare First Edition, with no copies listed in NUC, Very good copy. $ and only two copies (Columbia & U. Minn.) cited in OCLC & RLIN (U. Early edition of Thomas Bartholin’s revision of his father’s clas-  fl Iowa also has a copy). One of the first anatomical atlases illustrated sic Anatomicae institutiones ( ). Bartholin began his in uential  by lithography, and certainly one of the earliest—if not the first— series of revisions in , bringing his father’s text up to date in medical work issued from the lithographic press of Alois Senefelder, view of the discoveries of Harvey and other contemporaries, and fi fi who invented lithography in . The first extensive use of li- presenting his own important anatomical ndings. The rst edition  fi thography for medical illustration was in Paris, where Cloquet’s of included the earliest depiction of the ssure of Sylvius, and monumental Anatomie de l’homme was issued between  and the present edition includes Bartholin’s discovery of the thoracic  ; Barré and Letellier’s anatomical atlas was published roughly duct (G-M ) and his analysis of the lymphatic system (G-M  fi     halfway between these dates, and may have been conceived as a ), rst published in – . Krivatsy . smaller and less expensive alternative to Cloquet’s work. Eimas speculates that “the beautifully executed set of forty lithographed The Controversial Dedication Copy of the First plates . . . must have been privately issued in small quantity by the authors, who simply describe themselves as ‘docteurs en American Book on Radioactivity, Inscribed to médecine’.” Heirs of Hippocrates (rd ed.) .  Rutherford    . Barré, Louis (–). . Baskerville, Charles ( – ). Radium and radio-active substances. . . . vo. [] Herculanum et Pompéi: Receuil général des peintures,  bronzes, mosaïques, etc.  vols., profusely illustrated pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia: Williams, Brown & Earle, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, with copperplate engravings by Henri Roux ainé.   Paris: Firmin Didot, –.  ×  mm. worn at extremities & corners. or light spots on Marbled boards c. , hinges worn, some chipping; title, but very good. Dedication copy, with Baskerville’s Vol. VIII in later half morocco, spine faded. Light presentation inscription on the front endpaper: “To foxing, but very good. $

 Prof. Ernest First Edition of the first Rutherford / atlas of dermatology. G-M  & . Bateman continued the with the compli- fi ments of / Chas. pioneering classi cation of skin diseases begun by his teacher Baskerville / fi  Willan and left un nished at .” Beneath Willan’s death in . In the Baskerville’s first and only published volume inscription, in a different hand, is inscribed: “Ex libris of his On Cutaneous Diseases E. R. / W. V. Maynard / .” $ (), Willan had delineated First Edition. The first American book on radioactivity, dedi- only four orders of dermato- cated to Ernest Rutherford, “whose investigations on radio-activ- logical disease out of a projected ity are worthier of a higher tribute.” This modest opinion was eight, and it was left to Bateman shared by others, notably Rutherford’s friend and colleague to complete the remaining four, Bertram Boltwood, who in his review of Baskerville’s book for which he did in his Synopsis of Diseases According to the Arrangement the J. Am. Chem. Soc. took it to task for being “unorganized, unclear of Dr.Willan () and in the present Delineations. “In  Bateman and ambiguous in places” (Badash, p. ). Boltwood’s private opin- acquired the copyright to the engravings in the Willan treatise. He ion of the book, as expressed in letters to Rutherford, was even arranged to have the plates refurbished ‘by the able hands of Mr. stronger: in his letter of  September , he stated that “I am Stewart,’ replaced a few, added to them a completely new set of having a terrible time in deciding how much I shall damn engravings depicting the later Genera, which had never before [Baskerville]. I can indorse only a single statement in [Baskerville’s] been illustrated, and published the collection of  plates . . . under book, and that is the dedication. . . . I wonder whether you have the title Delineations of Cutaneous Diseases (). . . . Among the already discovered that he has simply cribbed page after page of new plates, most of which are noticeably superior to the Willan your book [Radio-Activity ()].” In his reply of  September, originals, was the first illustration of molluscum contagiosum” Rutherford wrote that “I have not yet seen [Baskerville’s] book (Crissey & Parish, p. ). Among the other original contributions but I presume he will send me a copy sometime. From B’s re- by Bateman were his important descriptions of herpes iris marks on radioactivity at various times I did not anticipate a par- (erythema iris), and of the eczema due to external irritation. ticularly accurate account of this because I know he has not the The plates were published in twelve fascicles of six plates each, faintest idea of the disintegration theory or rather had not. . . . The the first printings of which were issued quarterly between – time has arrived that these plagiarists should be jumped on” (Badash, . According to information in the publisher’s ledgers (now held pp. –). Baskerville did send Rutherford a copy of his book, at the University of Reading), the parts were reprinted as stock which we are offering here. Baskerville’s knowledge of radioac- declined up until circa , with between  and  copies of tivity may have been faulty, but he made several notable contribu- each part being printed. The paper in the present copy bears wa- tions in other fields of chemistry, discovering the elements termarks dated between  and , probably indicating early carolinium and berzelium, inventing processes for refining and issue. The parts were never published in book form, but the pub- hydrogenation of oils, investigating the chemistry of anesthetics, lishers did supply complete sets in boards to order. Crissey & and helping to develop the oil-shale industry. Badash, Rutherford Parish, Dermatology & Syphilology of the th Century, pp. –. and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity, pp. –. Debus and DAB Norman .  for Baskerville.  . Bateson, William (–). First Atlas of Dermatology Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity. vo. xv [], pp. . Bateman, Thomas (–). Text illustrations. London: Macmillan, .  × Delineations of cutaneous diseases exhibiting the  mm. Original cloth (nd issue binding), lower characteristic appearances of the principal genera and corners a little bumped. Light foxing, but a fine copy. species comprised in the classification of the late Dr. $ Willan. . . . to. viii, ii,  hand-colored stipple- First Edition. G-M . Bateson’s major work before his engraved plates, each with explanation leaf (one rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of heredity. Like many other scien- supplied from another copy). London: Longman [etc.], tists during the last decades of the th century, Bateson rejected .  ×  mm. th cent. cloth, a little worn, the orthodox Darwinian doctrine of natural selection, which taught title in gilt on spine. A few scattered fox-marks, but that evolutionary change was the result of gradual and continuous very good. $ accretion of seemingly insignificant variations. Bateson empha- sized the importance of major or discontinuous variation as the

 source of evolutionary change, studying plant hybrids in an effort light soiling. Very good to determine how discontinuous variations are inherited, and sum- copy apart from some marizing his discoveries in the Materials. This copy is bound in minor foxing. $ smooth green cloth, with “Macmillan & Co.” printed on the spine First Edition. PMM . in capital letters of the same height, a binding variant indicative of fi   Becquerel’s de nitive memoir later issue. Norman . on his investigations into radio-  activity. Becquerel had discov- . Baudouin, M. & Matheiu, R. ered this new property of mat- Exposition internationale de Chicago en . Rap- ter in early , while con- ports . . . Comité . Médecine et chirurgie. vo. [] ducting a series of experiments pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, on induced phosphorescence by .  ×  mm. (uncut & unopened). Original X-ray, sunlight, etc.; he found printed wrappers, spine repaired. Light browning, that uranium was able to “phos- some fore-edges a little frayed, but very good. phoresce” and fog photographic plates without previous exposure to sunlight. Shortly afterwards, Becquerel “discarded phosphores- $  cence completely and declared that the emanations [from ura- In , in connection with the Chicago International Exposi- nium] constituted an entirely new and unsuspected property of tion, the French government sent several committees to the United matter, which . . . he named radioactivité” (PMM). After publishing States to report on various aspects of American commerce, educa-  several papers on the subject, Becquerel wrote the present mem- tion and culture. Comité , represented by Drs. Baudouin and oir describing all of his researches and conclusions to that point, Mathieu, prepared the present report on American hospitals and and containing an extensive bibliography of works on radioactiv- medical schools. Many of the institutions noticed here, such as ity. It was published the same year that he and the Curies received those in San Francisco, Colorado and other locations in the Far the Nobel Prize in physics for their researches into radioactive West, had never before been described by a French medical au-  phenomena. thor. Becqerel’s memoir appeared in two forms: as Volume  of the    Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France, with title- . Becquerel, Henri ( – ). page reading “Mémoires . . . Tome quarante-sixième,” and as a    Sur la radio-activité de la matière. vo. pp. plates separate publication with title reading “Recherches sur une containing  figures. [London: William Clowes & propriété nouvelle de la matière.” The journal article is further Sons, ].  ×  mm. Unbound, wire-stitched distinguished from the separate publication by the presence of “T. (as issued?). First leaf soiled & spotted, light wear to XLVI” in addition to the signature number on the first leaf of each    spine, a little spotting in upper margin, but very signature. Dibner . En français dans le texte . Norman .  good. $ First Edition of Becquerel’s lecture delivered before the  Royal Institution of Great Britain on March , , reviewing the . Becquerel. α rapid progress of radioactivity research since Becquerel’s discov- Sur quelques propriétés des rayons emis par le ery of the phenomenon six years before. Besides his own investi- radium. . . . Offprint from Arch. Sciences phys. et nat.  gations, Becquerel discussed in detail the work of the Curies (with (). vo.  []pp. Text illustrations. Geneva: Bureau whom he shared the  Nobel Prize for physics), along with that des Archives, .  ×  mm. Original printed of Rutherford, J. J. Thomson, Crookes, Giesel and others. The wrappers, a little chipped, cancel slip with printed work is profusely illustrated with photographs of apparatus and title pasted onto front wrapper, gummed paper label. radioactive phenomena. This is one of what must be only a very Light browning, but very good. $ few scientific talks that Becquerel gave in England. Copies of the First Separate Edition. Becquerel’s experiments with al- lecture are extremely rare—OCLC and RLIN cite no North Ameri- pha rays emitted by radium and by bodies irradiated with radium can copies, and NUC cites only the copy at Ohio University.  emanation (radon) confirmed Rutherford’s recent finding that al-  pha rays decrease in speed when passed through extremely thin . Becquerel. metal foils. DSB.  Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière . . . In: Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de . Becquerel, Louis Alfred (–) &       France ( ). Whole number, to. [ ], , [ ]pp. Rodier, Marie Jean Alexandre.  fi  photographic gures on plates. Paris: Firmin- Recherches sur la composition du sang dans l’état de    Didot, . × mm. (uncut & unopened). santé et dans l’état de maladie. vo.  []pp. Paris: Original printed boards, spine foxed & a little worn,

 Fortin, Masson et Cie., .  ×  mm. (uncut endpapers renewed. Very good copy apart from some & unopened). Original printed wrappers, a little light browning & soiling. $ chipped. Very good apart from a few scattered fox- First Edition. Bell’s skill in drawing and writing, combined marks. Presentation copy, inscribed to biologist René J. with his anatomical and physiological knowledge, served to make H. Dutrochet (–) on the front wrapper: the Essays a tour de force of science, art history, and philosophy. “A M. Dutrochet hommage des auteurs.” $ Although the expression of emotions had often been treated by artists, it had rarely been studied by a first-rate artist who was also First Edition. The physician Louis Becquerel was the oldest a first-rate scientist, and never as completely as in Bell’s work. His son of physicist Antoine-Cesar Becquerel (–) and exposition of the anatomical and physiological basis of facial ex- the uncle of Henri Becquerel (–), discoverer of ra- pression for artists struck Charles Darwin, who wrote of it in his dioactivity. Well grounded in the principles of chemistry and phys- own Expression of the Emotions (; p. ), as laying “the founda- ics, Becquerel drew upon his knowledge of these subjects in his tions of the subject as a branch of science.” DSB. Gordon-Taylor . numerous works on pathology, physiology, therapeutics, etc., in- Wellcome III, p. . Osler  (nd. edition). Cushing B . cluding the present work on the composition of blood in health and  disease. Dutrochet, the recipient of this copy, was the first to de- scribe the process of osmosis; see G-M . Hirsch. Waller .    . Bell. Wellcome II, p. . The hand, its mechanism and vital endowments as     . Bell, Sir Charles (–). evincing design. vo. xv [ ], pp. -page publisher’s catalogue at front. Text illustrations after the author’s A series of engravings, explaining the course of the       drawings. London: Pickering, . ×  mm. nerves. to. [ ], , [ ]pp.    plates engraved after Original cloth, paper spine label (worn), or small  chips in spine. Light scattered foxing, but fine other- Bell’s drawings ( folding,  pl.  misbound after pl. wise. Modern armorial bookplate. $ First Edition of one of the great classics on the hand, touch- ). London: Longman. .    ing on the hand’s anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, compara- . , . × mm. tive anatomy, sense of touch, kinesthetics, adaptive importance, Old half calf, gilt, a little etc. “In this work, Bell compared the upper extremity of man to rubbed. Browning & that of the animals, and he graphically described and illustrated the soiling, light dampstain principles of anatomy as related to function. [The book] is beauti- in outer margin of last few leaves. Signature of L. N. fully written and well worth being used as an introductory book  for young residents in reconstructive surgery” (Boyes, On the Shoul- Rees, R. N., dated , on title; recent owner’s     signature on flyleaf; a few pencil notes. $ ders of Giants, p. ; also – ). Gordon-Taylor, Charles Bell, . DSB. First Edition. One of the most beautiful works in neu- roanatomy, “unrivaled for facility of expression, elegance of style,  and accuracy of description” (Choulant/Frank ). Out of these th Century Archive of Plastic & early anatomical studies of the nervous system grew Bell’s great Maxillo-Facial Surgery contribution on the function of the nerves. Gordon-Taylor .  . Bérard, Auguste (–). First Scientific Study of Expression of Emotions Surgical archive containing autograph notes, observa- tions, case histories, . Bell.  drawings, etc., mostly by Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting. to. Bérard but some by [iii]-xii, pp., lacking  Auguste Nélaton rare half-title. plates & (–).  pp. plus  text illustrations after pencil drawings. C. s drawings by the author. - early s. Some London: Longman. . . , marginal fraying to a few .  ×  mm.  leaves, light foxing and th cent. half morocco, soiling, but very good. marbled boards, rebacked $ & recornered in calf,

 Auguste Bérard received his medical degree in Paris in , Sciences. Membership in the Académie is limited to , with va- and held surgical posts in several Parisian hospitals before succeed- cancies arising only upon the death of a member. Bernard himself ing Sanson as professor of clinical surgery at the Faculté de had been elected to the Académie in , after two unsuccessful Médecine in . During his tragically brief medical career (he attempts in  and ; the “Exposés” in this collection all date died of stomach cancer at the age of ), Bérard performed an from roughly the time of his election. Among the applicants rep- impressive number of original researches in operative medicine, resented here are the pathologist Cruveilhier; the neurologist which he published in over two dozen papers, monographs, etc. Brown-Séquard; Piorry, pioneer of mediate percussion; His Maladies de la glande parotide et de la region parotidienne (; Leroy-d’Etiolles, author of an important study on asphyxia; and G-M ) was the first important work on parotid tumors, and Longet, author of the first published physiological study of the his name is also associated with a type of arteriovenous aneurysm effects of sulfuric ether. Interestingly, it is said that Longet, who in the tissues outside of an injured vein. had applied for admission to the Académie the same year as Ber- The present archive, which is devoted almost entirely to nard, withdrew from the competition after learning that Bernard maxillo-facial surgery and plastic repair, may have been compiled was one of the candidates (Longet regained his courage two years while Bérard was preparing the first eight fascicles of his and later, submitting in  the “Notice sur les travaux scientifiques” Denonvilliers’ Compendium de chirurgie pratique (), or writing included in the present collection). Olmsted & Olmsted, Claude one of his many anatomical or surgical articles for the -volume Bernard, p. .  medical Dictionnaire published by the Société Anatomique. Of the archive’s  pages,  ⁄ are devoted to surgery and repair of the . [Bernard]. upper and lower jaws, while another  deal with cheiloplasty, () Halmagrand [Charles N. G.] (b. ). De  diseases of the mouth and gums, etc. pages are devoted to the l’administration de la quinite dans les fièvres d’accès, maxillary sinus,  to nasal polyps,  to rhinoplasty, and  to erectile    ⁄ comme succédané du sulfate de quinine. [ ]pp. tumors. The remaining pages include miscellaneous surgical   notes and a report of a fractured clavicle. Also included in the Paris: Baillière, . ( ) Drouet, Arsène. Du archive are two expertly rendered pencil drawings dated , collodion riciné appliqué en badigeon sur toute la showing a young woman with a deformity of her lower lip which, surface du ventre considéré comme agent de according to accompanying notes, was repaired using the Italian calorification générale. . . . pp. Paris: Baillière, method of cheiloplasty. This is the first manuscript collection on . Presentation inscription to Claude Bernard on the plastic surgery that we have handled during our three decades of title (trimmed, affecting first line and  other words). trading. () Burq, Victor (–). Choléra. De Two manuscripts in the archive, entitled “Mâchoire inférieure” l’immunité aquise par les ouvriers en cuivre. . . . [] and “Rhinoplastie,” are from the library of Bérard’s contemporary, pp. Paris: Baillière, . Presentation inscription to the celebrated French surgeon Auguste Nélaton (–). They Bernard on half-title (trimmed, affecting a few words). bear the characteristic note “Mélanges” in blue pencil, and appear  to be at least partly in Nélaton’s hand. Nélaton’s classic Elémens de ( ) Duhalde [Charles Oreste] & Halmagrand pathologie chirurgicale (–; G-M ) contains chapters on [Charles N. G.] (b. ). De l’administration du plastic surgery (see Zeis ); the Zeis bibliography also cites five cyano-ferrure de sodium et de salicine dans les fièvres other works by Nélaton on various types of plastic repair. Rutkow, d’accès, comme succédané du sulfate de quinine.    Surgery: An Illustrated History, pp. – . Hirsch. pp. Paris: Baillière, . () Deleau, Léon. De l’emploi des douches d’air et du cathétérisme de la From Claude Bernard’s Library trompe d’eustache dans le traitement des maladies de . Bernard, Claude (–). l’oreille.  []pp. Fold. plate. Paris: Rignoux, . Collection of  papers from his library, bound Together  items in  volume, vo. From the library of together in a single to volume. Various sizes. V.p., Claude Bernard, bound for him in quarter morocco, –. Quarter calf, marbled boards c. , a bit marbled boards (a little rubbed) with his name in gilt rubbed, with Bernard’s name tooled in gilt on the on the front cover and the title “Mélanges” on the front cover and his ms. index of the contents bound in spine; Bernard’s manuscript table of contents to this the back. “Notices scientifiques” inscribed in Bernard’s volume bound in the back. Lightly browned, but very hand on title of first paper. Light dampstaining, foxing good. $ & browning. Very good. $ First Editions of these five medical / surgical treatises from A collection consisting almost entirely of “Exposés des titres the renowned French physiologist’s library, all of which were pre- scientifiques,” or annotated bibliographies of their own works sub- sumably sent by their authors to him; two of the works bear pre-   mitted by candidates applying for admission to the Academie des sentation inscriptions to him. Two of the treatises (nos. [ ] and [ ])

 discuss substitutes for quinine in the treatment of fevers; no. () is as either electronegative or electropositive (an ancestor of th on the use of topically applied castor-oil in the treatment of chol- century electron theories of bonding), developer of new and im- era, typhoid, epilepsy, etc.; no. () discusses the use of copper as a portant methods of chemical synthesis and analysis, and author of prophylaxis against cholera; and no. () describes Deleau’s method Lärbok i kemien (–), the most influential chemical textbook of treating ear infections by introducing a catheter into the Eusta- of its day. In the first decade of the th century Berzelius and his chian tube.  associate Hisinger performed important research on the effects of electricity on various salts, finding that all were decomposed by . Berthollet, Claude Louis (–). electric current. Humphry Davy had been performing similar Essai de statique chimique.  vols., vo. viii,  []; research in England (isolating several metals in the process), and viii,  [, errata]pp. Paris: Firmin Didot, .  the two men became interested in each other’s work. Davy’s findings reinforced Berzelius’s conviction of “the significance of ×  mm. Tree sheep, gilt spines, French royal arms electricity in binding chemical elements together and also strength- in gilt on front covers. Occasional scattered foxing, fi  ened his conviction, gained from reading Lavoisier, that oxygen but ne otherwise. $ was an essential constituent not only of all acids, but also of bases as First edition. Berthollet attempted to provide chemistry well” (DSB). with an adequate theoretical foundation so that its experimental In  Berzelius traveled to England to meet all the impor- fi results could be analyzed on the basis of theoretical rst principles. tant British chemists, including Davy; it was during this trip that fi He gave a thorough critique of the contemporary oversimpli ed Berzelius wrote the present letter, probably to Manchester chem- ffi concept of the law of chemical a nity, which had not yet been ist William Henry. The letter discusses Berzelius’s disagreement properly examined; Berthollet’s main contribution to the devel- with Davy over the elemental nature of chlorine (formerly called ffi opment of this concept was his proof that chemical a nity was “oxymuratic acid”), and Davy’s discovery that muriatic acid (our relative, varying with the physical conditions—quantity, tempera- hydrochloric acid) contains no oxygen—a blow to Lavoisier’s oxy- ture, solubility, pressure, physical state—accompanying a chemi- gen theory of acids. Berzelius took the conservative view: cal experiment. He introduced the highly important concept of You observe very justly that no experiment can be invented “chemical mass”—relative affinity combined with the mass of re- for proving or for refuting the new theory that our friend actants in a chemical combination—to give the total force with Davy just gave on oxymuratic acid. It seems however that in which a given quantity of a substance reacted with another. He was the present state of science some arguments can be admitted probably the first chemist to perform an exhaustive investigation and that the calculations founded on the principles of the doc- of how physical conditions affect chemical reactions, creating a trine of definite proportions have to count for something in this molecular model of matter to explain the effects of temperature question. Now these calculations prove that the new theory has and density on chemical reactions. DSB. Norman . Duveen, p. never been necessary in order to better explain the phenom- . Smeaton, “Berthollet’s Essai de statique chimique and its trans- ena and it proves still that Davy, totally while looking to estab- lations,” Ambix  (), pp. –; “Berthollet’s Essai de lish the doctrine of definite proportions, not once perceived statique chimique: A supplementary note,” Ambix  (), pp. for himself the extent of this doctrine. What is in the hypoth- –.  esis of Davy but the submuriates, the combination of oxymuriatic See color frontispiece, fig.  gas with the oxide gas of carbon? What is finally the double    muriate of ammoniac and of lead? This hypothesis will say to us: . Berzelius, Jöns Jacob ( – ). the first are combinations of leaden p. en. and oxide of lead. The A.L.s. in French to an unidentified recipient (probably second is an acid sui generis, with one radical and two oxygens or William two bodies that play the part of them; instead of as in the old Henry [– hypothesis this acid has to be a combination of muriatic acid and ]), dated carbonic acid, in such a proportion that they contain an equal from London,  quantity of oxygen, or according to [John] Dalton, com- posed of an atom of each one. There is in this chlorine explana- Oct. . –/    tion a certain consequence in the manner of augmentation, but pp. × it seems that only a glance over all of it is necessary to find that mm. Creased where previously folded, light browning the application of this hypothesis will force us to absurdities in & soiling, a few tiny pin-holes, but very good. Bio- the explanation of bodies [that are] more complex and that graphical notice of Berzelius tipped to first page. contain muriatic acid.  English translation provided. $ Berzelius did not accept the elementary nature of chlorine until fi Excellent scienti c letter from the Swedish chemist Berzelius, . inventor of the current system of chemical symbols, originator of Berzelius’s letter was for a long time preserved in an album ffi the duality theory of chemical a nity classing chemical elements containing several letters written to William Henry, and it is rea-

 sonable to assume, given its date and subject matter, that this letter . Blagden, Charles (–). was also. Earlier in the letter Berzelius refers to a memoir by his A.L.s. to William Henry (–), dated from fi correspondent on electrolysis; Henry was one of the rst chemists London, Oct. , . –/pp. plus integral address to experiment with this technique. DSB.  leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previously folded, address leaf a little soiled, a few tiny pin-holes, but . Bichat, [Marie François] Xavier (–). very good. $ Traité d’anatomie descriptive.  vols., vo. Paris:     Blagden, a physician and chemist, was a close friend of Henry Gabon et Cie.; Brosson, – . × mm. Calf    Cavendish, serving as his assistant from to . He was c. , gilt spines, rubbed, some hinges cracking, also intimate with French chemist Claude Berthollet, and with head of Vol. V spine chipped. Occasional foxing & Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, whose influ- soiling, stains in inner margins of first and last few ence was responsible for Blagden’s being elected secretary of that leaves in most vols., corner of one leaf in Vol. IV torn body in May . Blagden is best known for his work on the with loss of a few letters, but a very good, crisp copy. effects of dissolved substances on the freezing point of water; th cent. engraved bookplate of Dr. Macreight. “Blagden’s Law,” that salt lowers the freezing temperature of wa- $ ter in inverse ratio to the proportion of water in the solution, is named for him. In the present letter, written to fellow chemist First Edition. G-M ; . Bichat was the founder of William Henry, Blagden introduces a Mr. Widmer, “a gentleman descriptive anatomy. “[Bichat’s] five-volume Anatomie descriptive strongly recommended to me by M. Berthollet of Paris, with (–) and his work on general anatomy applied to physiology whose high reputation as a chemist you are well acquainted.” DNB. and medicine () opened out an entirely new field for anato- DSB.  mists, that of a detailed description of the parts and tissues of the body in health and disease. . . . Bichat was a forerunner of Henle and the histologists, dividing the tissues into  (non-microscopic) Inscribed by Bohr varieties, which he treated as indivisible parts, like the elements in . Bohr, Niels (–). chemistry, each tissue having its own particular kind of sensibility ff and contractibility” (Garrison, Hist. Med., pp. –). The Anatomie Atomernes bygning og sto ernes fysiske og kemiske ff descriptive was Bichat’s last exposition of his pathological system; he egenskaber. O print from: died in  at the age of , having completed only the first three Fysisk Tidsskrift  []. vo. volumes. The remaining volumes were completed by François [], pp. Copenhagen: Jul. Buisson and Philibert-Joseph Roux. Vol. III includes the section Gjellerups Forlag, .  × “Nerfs de la vie organique,” in which Bichat introduced the terms  mm. (partly unopened). “animal” and “vegetative” system. Maulitz, Morbid Appearances, pp. Original printed wrappers, –. Waller .  slightly worn, margins a little . Black, G[reene] V[ardiman] (–). darkened, small spot on front A work on operative dentistry. . . .  vols., vo. xi [], cover. Fine copy. With Bohr’s  []; xvi,  [] pp. Frontispiece &  plates. presentation inscription in Danish Chicago: Medico-Dental Publishing Co., .  × on title: “Th. Docent. M.  mm. Cloth c. , a little shaken, one corner Ljéstróm / med venlig Uilsen /fra Ferfetteren.”  $ worn. Very good copy. $  First Edition. G-M .. Black established a system of First Separate Edition. In Bohr began to reconsider cavity preparation on which modern techniques are based; “his the issue of the periodic table, abandoning his earlier speculations on the structure of complex atoms, and developing new ideas in a demand of ‘extension for prevention’ continues today to be im- ff series of lectures and papers delivered and published between pressed on every dental student of the world as an axiom” (Ho man   Axthelm, Hist. Dentistry, p. ). Black’s support of the use of and (he never published a book on the subject). It was at amalgam instead of gold in fillings effectively ended the “amalgam this time that he forsook his concept of electrons moving in circu- lar orbits in favor of what he called the central field model: “No wars” that had divided America’s dentists in the th century. To test commercially available amalgams, he invented the more restrictions to circular orbits, nor preferences for a special “gnathodynamometer” with which to measure the pressure ex- angular momentum value. . . . Every electron in a complex atom erted on the human tooth and its filling material. Through experi- is assigned its own principal quantum number n and auxiliary quan- tum number k, corresponding to its motion in a central field of mentation he discovered the ideal metal mixture for amalgam, fi and his results led to standardization of the alloys.  force. . . . An atomic species is fully characterized by a speci c set of occupation numbers, the set being called a configuration. . . . The

 bulk of the gospel according to Bohr consists in the determination version, with reference to both authors together as “Mm. les of the configuration for each element” (Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times, p. docteurs” rather than to Bonamy alone or each author separately. ). The present lecture, on how this revised atomic theory could Broca was active in the Anatomical Society of Paris, of which be used to understand the periodic table, was originally delivered Cruveilhier was president until . DSB. Heirs of Hippocrates before the Physical Society of Copenhagen on October , ; .  it was later incorporated into a collection of three seminal papers by Bohr translated and published in book form in German, French . Booth, David (–). and English in —a collection which, according to Holton and The art of wine-making, in all its branches. vo. [] Sopka, epitomizes par excellence the “peculiar charm” of the old  []pp. Text quantum theory. (The English edition of this collection, translated wood-engrav- by Bohr’s student A. D. Udden, is entitled The Theory of Spectra and ings. London: F. Atomic Constitution.) Holton & Sopka, Great Books of Science in the  th Century: Physics (), pp. –. Pais, Niels Bohr’s Times, pp. J. Mason, .   –.  × mm. Later half calf, a With over  Colored Plates little rubbed.   Light browning . Bonamy, Constantin (b. ); Broca, Paul fi     & foxing, but ne otherwise. $ ( – ); & Beau, Emile (b. ).   First Edition, and scarce, with only copies in North America Atlas d’anatomie descriptive du corps humain. to. (UC Davis, Sonoma County Lib., North Bay Library Cooperative  figures, mostly hand-colored, on  sheets, both [Santa Rosa], Harvard, Lib. Congress) cited in OCLC, RLIN and lithographed & engraved with some chromolitho- NUC. Booth invented the brewer’s saccharometer, which is de- graphs, with explanations. Paris: Masson, –.  scribed in the present work. His book on winemaking is divided fi vols. in .  ×  mm. Half morocco, gilt, t.e.g. into two parts: the rst is devoted to wine-making techniques c. , a little rubbed & spotted. Light foxing, a few suitable for warm countries, such as France and Italy; the second plates loosening, but a very good set. $ describes methods of making wine in cold countries—such as En- gland—from fruits such as cherries, raspberries, gooseberries, First Edition, from parts. This outstanding colored atlas is elderberries, etc., as well as from other ingredients such as honey highly regarded for the technical perfection of its illustrations (see or malt. An appendix gives methods for brewing apple cider and Hahn & Dumaitre ). It was, we believe, intended to comple- perry, a fermented drink made from pears. DNB. Simon, Bib. ment Jean Cruveilhier’s Anatomie descriptive, first published in four Vinaria, p. . Gabler, Wine intoWords, p. .  volumes in –, with a second edition beginning in . Cruveilhier’s text “played a major role in the progress of anatomi- . Born, Max (–). cal studies at the Ecole de Médecine at Paris” (DSB); it had no   illustrations, however. The Bonamy / Broca atlas, with over two Problems of atomic dynamics. vo. xiv, pp. Text hundred colored lithographed and engraved plates after drawings diagrams. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of by Emile Beau, one of the foremost anatomical illustrators of the Technology, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, nineteenth century, began to be issued in the early s (our slightly worn at extremities. Very good. $ references do not agree on the precise date). The French titles do First Edition. Two series of lectures on the structure of the not reflect any association with Cruveilhier; however, an English atom and the lattice theory of rigid bodies, delivered by Born at translation of the first volume of the Bonamy atlas was published in MIT during the winter of –. “My lectures . . . contained in  in London by Baillière, and the title page of this English the first part an outline of crystal structure dynamics, and in the edition clearly associates the atlas with Cruveilhier’s anatomy, stating second the elements of quantum mechanics [order reversed in the that the anatomy is by Cruveilhier, the plate explanations by published version]. This was the first systematic presentation of this Bonamy, and the illustrations after Beau. new field [emphasis ours]. When I began the lectures, the paper by Bonamy is not noticed in Hirsch; the atlas title page describes Jordan and myself, in which matrix calculus was introduced, was him as professor of anatomy at Toulouse. He issued the explana- still in press; the big three-man paper by Heisenberg, Jordan and tions for the first two parts of the anatomy, on the bones and myself appeared just at the end of the lecture course” (Born, My muscles, the heart and vessels; Paul Broca, most famous for his Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate, p. ). Born’s fundamental contributions to cerebral anatomy (G-M ) and anthropology contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly his statistical in- (G-M ), provided the explanatory text for the last volume, in terpretation of the wavefunction, earned him a share in the  two parts, on the digestive, genito-urinary and respiratory sys- Nobel Prize for physics. Mehra & Rechenberg, Hist. Dev. Quan- tems. These were published in  and , when the atlas was tum Theory, I, p. .  finally completed. Our set reflects the title pages of the completed

 . Borst, Maximilian (–). foxing and dampstaining, Die Lehre von den Geschwülsten.  vols., vo. xxxiii general title-leaf of first [],  []; [] volume partly detached, –pp.  but a fine set. $ chromolitho- First Edition of the larg- graphed plates est th-century color plate at- with explanation las of surgical operations, one leaves. Wies- of the most beautiful atlases of    surgical operations and instru- baden: J. F. Bergmann, . × mm. Original ments ever published. As the cloth, inner hinges cracking. Light browning, but very general titles to the two vol- good. Presentation copy, with Borst’s autograph inscrip- umes indicate, they form Vols. tion on Vol. I half-title: “Herrn Professor Hofmeier, VI-VII of Bourgery’s monu- vereh-rungsvoll uberreicht vom Verfasser.” Bookplate mental Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme comprenant la médecine of Herbert McLean Evans (–), the opératoire (–); however, they apparently were also issued  discoverer of Vitamin E; see G-M .$ separately: NUC NSB records such a two-volume set,  and an Italian edition of the two surgical volumes was published in First Edition. G-M . “With this book the microscopical     epoch in the evolution of the knowledge of cancer may be said to – . The surgical volumes contain of the incompa- have been brought to a close. It is an admirable presentation of the rable hand-colored folio-sized lithographs in the Traité, nearly all of facts concerning the natural history and the pathology of the dis- which are in the very realistic style of Nicolas Jacob (a pupil of David); they depict in considerable detail virtually all major opera- ease which were available at the end of the nineteenth century”  (Haagensen ).  tions performed in the mid– th century. Roberts and Tomlinson, in their recent Fabric of the Body, a study of the history of European  46. Bouillaud, Jean Baptiste (1796–1881). anatomical illustration, devote pages (including illustrations) to Bourgery’s work, calling it a “fine summary of anatomical knowl- Traité clinique du rhumatisme articulaire. vo. xxx,     edge and ideas current in Paris during the middle of the nine- pp. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, . × mm. teenth century” (p. ; see also p.  and –). Hahn & (uncut, partially unopened). Original boards, a little Dumaitre, Histoire de la médecine et du livre médical, p. . Benezit. worn esp. at corners. Minor foxing & browning, but Waller  (first ed., with supplement dated ).  very good. $ First Edition. G-M . An extension of Bouillaud’s work . Bowlby, Anthony (–). on the coincidence of acute rheumatism and heart disease. Bouillaud Injuries and diseases of nerves and their surgical was the first to give a comprehensive account of the relationship treatment. vo. between the two, so that “rheumatic carditis could no longer be xii, pp., considered merely as an interesting complication of [rheumatism] publisher’s but as its most important manifestation. . . . On Bouillaud’s work catalogue.  rests our modern conception of rheumatic fever and rheumatic   carditis” (Copeman, A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatic plates ( color). London: J. & A. Churchill, . Diseases, pp. –). Acierno, Hist. Cardiology, pp. –. Waller Orig. cloth, a little worn & shaken. Good copy, from .  the library of neurologist Henry Head (–), with his signature on the half-title. $ With  Magnificent Hand-Colored Surgical First Edition. Bowlby is best known for his contributions to military surgery made during World War I, when he served as Lithographs advisory consulting surgeon to the British forces in France, and . Bourgery, Jean-Baptiste Marc (–). revolutionized the practice of army surgery by insisting that most Iconographie d’anatomie chirurgicale et de médecine operations be performed close to the front, rather than at base hospitals. His treatise on nerve injuries primarily illustrates inju- opératoire.  vols., folio. [], pp. plus atlas of     ries to the nerves of the hand. This copy bears the signature of plates with explanation leaves; [ ] , lii [ ]pp. plus Henry Head, best known for his experiments on the division of atlas of  plates with explanation leaves. Total of  the nerves (conducted on himself), which led to a reclassification hand-colored lithographed plates by Nicolas Henri of the sensory pathways (see G-M ). For Bowlby, see DNB. Jacob (–). Paris: C. A. Delaunay, –.  Quarter morocco c. , a little scuffed. Occasional

 First “Spot-Test” Analysis the tract appears to be one of the first in which this method of teaching was employed in an ophthalmological treatise” (Fulton, . Boyle, Robert (–). pp. –). The ophthalmological case histories, of which there Short memoirs for the natural experimental history are fourteen, include a description of the progressive loss of first of mineral waters. vo. [] color, then black and white vision following trauma; also included  []pp. London: Samuel is a case of exophthalmic opthalmoplegia that exactly parallels the classic account of this condition given by Naumann in . Fulton Smith, /.  ×  A. Wing B A.  mm. Sheep c. , rubbed, extremities and corners worn, . Bramer, Benjamin (–). tear in inner margin of rear Beschreybung eines sehr leichten Perspectiv: und free endpaper. Light browning grundreissenden Instru- & foxing, fore-edge of title a ments auff einem Stande. bit frayed, but very good. . . . to.  []pp.  fold.  $ engraved plates. Cassel:   First Edition. Pages – of Johan Wessel, .  Boyle’s Mineral Waters contain what is ×  mm. Modern probably the first account of the tech- nique of spot-test analysis in chemistry. Boyle used these tests to quarter calf, marbled determine the presence of dissolved copper or iron in mineral boards, in period style. waters, infusing papers with reactive dyes and observing their Somewhat browned, but fine otherwise. $ changes in color when stained with various waters. “It is apparent First Edition. “The problem of central perspective obtained that Boyle employed a technique of spot test analysis for detecting by means of instruments, which had been taken up by Leone Battista the presence of metallic ions in solution not markedly different Alberti in  and for which instruments had been designed by from that used at the present time. This furnishes still further Albrecht Dürer in  and by [Joost] Bürgi in , was further evidence that Boyle may be regarded as one of the pioneers in the developed by Bramer in  by means of a device that enabled development of qualitative inorganic chemical analysis” (R. G. one to draw accurate geometrical perspectives true to nature” Neville, in Isis  [], pp. –). Fulton, Boyle, . Partington, (DSB). Bramer’s device is described in the Beschreybung, which also Hist. Chemistry, pp. –.  contains two illustrations of the instrument. Bramer, a mathemati- cian and architect, was master-builder of the court in Marburg and . Boyle. treasurer of the Hessian fortress of Ziegenhain. His Beschreybung is  A disquisition about the final causes of natural things. . rare, with no copies recorded in NUC, OCLC or RLIN. . . To which are subjoyn’d . . . some uncommon    observations about vitiated sight. vo. []  []pp. . Brande, William Thomas ( – ). A.L.s. to William Henry (–), dated from London: H. C. for John Taylor, .  ×  mm.  fl  Arlington Street [London], October  [no year given, Calf c. , rebacked. Small paper aws in title and    or  other leaves, but fine otherwise. th cent. but ca. ]. pp. plus integral address leaf. ×   mm. Lightly creased, small hole where seal was armorial bookplate. $ ff First Edition, issue with Boyle’s name in full on the title. broken (not a ecting ms.), a few tiny pin-holes, but Written in Boyle’s maturity, the Disquisition can be taken as his very good. Biographical notice of Brande tipped to confession of faith as a biologist. Recognizing the limitations of first page. $ experiment (although he had benefited greatly from it in his scien- Brande, a chemist and physician, succeeded Humphry Davy tific career), Boyle made a plea for a teleological interpretation of as professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, and was for natural phenomena. “The volume is replete with allusions indicat- many years an associate of Michael Faraday, with whom he ing [Boyle’s] powers of observation as a naturalist and there are edited the Royal Institutions’s Quarterly Journal of Science, Litera- many references to physiology; perhaps the most interesting is ture and the Arts. He is best known for the investigations for which the record of a conversation with William Harvey on how he he was awarded the Copley medal in , in which he showed discovered the circulation of the blood. . . . Appended to the Dis- that alcohol was present as such in fermented as well as distilled quisition is a brief tract on disturbances of vision; Boyle describes liquors, and determined the alcohol content in many wines. Brande cataract, and was aware of the location of the opacity. A variety of refers to these investigations in the present letter, in which he case histories are recorded, drawn from his own experience, and

 “take[s] the liberty of sending you the account of some experi- provement to one of his observation instruments, and recom- ments which I have lately made, to ascertain the quantity of alco- mends that he publish an account of the improvement in the Phil. hol in wines.” DNB. DSB.  Trans. He concludes by referring to an article on icebergs pub- lished in the Edinburgh Journal of Science by Scoresby’s former . Brewster, David (–). ship’s surgeon. At the time this letter was written, Scoresby had A.L.s. to [John] Bostock (–), dated from just completed a highly profitable whaling voyage on the Baffin, Edinburgh, February , . –/pp. plus integral from which he returned “with the largest cargo that had ever been brought in from Greenland” (DNB); it was doubtless from this address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previ- cargo that he supplied Brewster with the shark’s eye. DNB. DSB. ously folded, light wear & soiling along creases, a few  tiny pin-holes, but very good. $ From the noted Scots optical physicist, performer of important . Brunner, Johann Conrad (–). researches on light polarization, inventor of the kaleidoscope and Experimenta nova circa pancreas. . . . vo. []  defender of Newton’s emission theory of light, to John Bostock, []pp. Engraved title and  physician, chemical researcher and author of An Account of the His-  tory and Present State of Galvinism [sic] (). Bostock contributed plates ( fold.). Amsterdam: several articles on chemical and other scientific subjects to the Henr. Wetstenius, .  × Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, edited by Brewster; the present letter  mm. Panelled calf c. , a deals with these contributions: little rubbed, rebacked. Minor . . . . I have sent in a mail parcel the separate copies of [Bostock’s browning, edge of one folding article on] Galvanism. Some time ago I sent one of them to plate a little frayed, but very Monsr. Biot [i.e., physicist Jean Baptiste Biot (–)] good. th cent. bookplate of at Paris. He is very much pleased with it; but he thinks that the ffi John Hort of Dublin. discoveries of Volta do not form a su ciently prominent fea- $ ture in the article. First Edition. G-M . Bostock wrote several other scientific works, including a classic Brunner performed pioneering ex- account of hay fever (see G-M ). DSB. DNB.  periments on the pancreas in dogs, extracting the pancreatic juices and extirpating portions of the organ in living animals. Although he . Brewster. denied the importance of the pancreas’s role in digestion, he did A.L.s. to William Scoresby Jr. (–), dated record that some of his experimental animals experienced ex- from Edinburgh, Sept. , . –/ pp., with treme thirst and polyuria after extirpation, thus coming close to discovering pancreatic diabetes. Krivatsy . Norman .  integral address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previously folded, small tear where seal was broken . Budan de Boislaurent, Ferdinand F. D. (fl. (not affecting text), a few tiny pin-holes, but very –). good. $ Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations Excellent scientific letter to whaler and Arctic explorer Will- numeriques d’un degré quelconque. . . . to. []  [, iam Scoresby, thanking him for the receipt of an eye from the    Greenland shark, and referring to one of Scoresby’s instruments incl. errata]pp. Paris: Courcier, . × mm. for observing Arctic phenomena. Brewster devoted most of his Half morocco in period style. Some foxing & soiling, career to researches in optics, an interest that extended to the a few edges frayed, but very good. th cent. stamp of physiology of vision; in the present letter he exhibits an intense Stonyhurst College on half-title. $ interest in the anatomy of the shark’s eye which Scoresby had sent First Edition. Announces Budan’s independent discovery of him: what is now known as the rule of Budan and Fourier, which gives I have examined the vermicular appendage with great care, necessary conditions for a polynomial equation to have n real roots and have got beautiful drawings of it made by Mr. Lizars, which, between two given real numbers. “The need for such a rule as his with your permission, I should publish either in the Edinb. Trans. was suggested to Budan by Lagrange’s Traité de la résolution des or the next No. of our Journal. If you approve of this you could équations numériques (). . . . Budan’s goal was to solve Lagrange’s perhaps let me have a sight of the other eye which I would problem—between which real numbers do real roots lie?—purely return with great care. by means of elementary arithmetic. Accordingly, the chief con- fi cern of Budan’s Nouvelle méthode was to give the reader a mechani- There follows a series of ve detailed anatomical queries to cal process for calculating the coefficients of the transformed equa- Scoresby re the shark’s eye, illustrated by Brewster’s schematic tion in (x – p). He did not appeal to the theory of finite differences drawing of it. Brewster then congratulates Scoresby for an im-

 or to the calculus for these coefficients, preferring to give them An impressive and unique collection of letters to Nobel Laure- ‘by means of simple additions and subtractions.’ . . . Budan’s rule ate Melvin Calvin, written to commemorate his retirement from remains the most convenient for computation” (DSB).  the University of California at Berkeley in April . Calvin, who was awarded the Nobel chemistry prize in  for his inves- . Bunnell, Sterling (–). tigations of the biochemical pathways of photosynthesis, was a Surgery of the hand. vo. xvii [], pp.  illustra- creative, gifted and inspiring teacher who won the affection of tions (some in color). Philadelphia: Lippincott, . nearly all his students and associates, many of whom remained Original cloth, a bit worn & shaken, in pictorial dust- friends with him long after leaving his laboratory. The letters col- lected here, from correspondents all over the world, testify to jacket (a little soiled, torn & chipped). Very good copy.  Calvin’s extraordinary and infectious intellectual energy, as well Medical bookplate. $ as to the great personal kindness that he showed to all his students.   Fourth impression of G-M . . Bunnell originated hand Among the many correspondents represented here are Andrew surgery as a specialty, applying principles of orthopedics, plastic Benson and James A. Bassham, co-discoverers of the reductive surgery and neurosurgery to the upper extremity. Boyes, On the photosynthetic carbon cycle (Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle), the    Shoulders of Giants, pp. – . complex cycle of intermediary chemical reactions that make up the photosynthetic carbon pathway. Many of the letters have de- Early Scientific Notebooks of a Nobel Laureate tailed scientific content and recount significant events in Calvin’s    and the correspondents’ careers. James, Nobel Laureates in Chemis- . Calvin, Melvin ( – [?]). try, pp. –.   clothbound laboratory notebooks containing auto- graph notes, . Campbell, Willis C. (–). numeric data, Operative orthopedics. vo. xix [], pp.  color diagrams, etc. plates, numerous text illustrations. St. Louis: C. V. relating to Mosby, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, a little Calvin’s early shaken & worn. Very good copy. $ scientific work. First Edition. G-M .. The most influential American Approx. pp. orthopedics textbook of the th century, which remains in print  c. .  ×  mm. Light browning, but very nearly years after its publication. It contains the best exposition good. With Calvin’s initialled autograph note dated of Campbell’s technique of arthroplasty, the purpose of which, he Jan. ,  on the inside front cover of one note- emphasized, was to restore function to damaged joints. Le Vay, Hist. Orthopaedics, pp. –.  book: “This looks like one of my first notebooks in Berkeley—the dates are probably . MC.” Calvin “Camper’s Chiasm”—An Unusual also printed his name in ink on the covers of both volumes. $ Hand-Colored Copy Calvin’s early laboratory notebooks recording experiments . Camper, Peter (–). performed shortly after he joined the faculty of the University of . Demonstrationum anatomico-pathologicarum liber California, prior to the landmark investigations of the biochemical primus, continens brachii humani fabricam et morbos. pathways of photosynthesis for which he received the Nobel Prize  [], , []pp.  plates ( finely hand-colored,  outline) for chemistry in . The laboratory records of experimental   scientists are the most significant records of their actual scientific engraved by Jacob van der Schley ( – ) after work. They very rarely appear on the market. In the back of one Camper. Amsterdam: Schreuder & Mortier, . . notebook we see diagrams of carbon molecules showing Calvin’s Demonstrationum anatomico-pathologicarum liber early interest in the subject of his eventual important achieve- secundus. Continens pelvis humanae fabricam et ments. James, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, pp. –.  morbos. [], , []pp.  plates ( outline) engraved by Schley after Camper. Ibid., . Together in  vol., . Calvin.    folio. × mm. Half antique calf, gilt. First few Collection of ca. letters to Calvin from former text leaves of . skillfully washed, repairs to margins students, collaborators and associates, written to fi   of a few leaves, but ne copies. $ commemorate Calvin’s th birthday and retirement First Editions. This set is very unusual and distinctive on from teaching. V.p., . Various sizes, bound to- account of the two plates of the arm with fine contemporary hand- gether in a single volume. Melvin Calvin’s name coloring. Camper’s nearly life-size studies of the arm and pelvis stamped on upper cover. Fine. $

 are his most important contributions to practical anatomy, being Philosophical Institute at the University of Vienna on designed for the use of surgeons. . includes the description of the front wrapper. Printed presentation slip laid in. fi Camper’s chiasm, “that decussation of the super cialis tendon be- $ hind the profundus of the finger”(Boyes, On the Shoulders of Giants,    First Separate Edition. Carnap was a founder of logical p. ; also pp. – , reproducing title & plate). positivism, and made important contributions to logic, semantics Most of Camper’s illustrated books were published after his and the philosophy of science. His  paper on the antinomies death (e.g., his Verhandeling over het naturlijk verschil der wezenstrekken and the incompleteness of mathematics was reviewed in  by in menschen, , the foundation of craniometry, cited in its Ger-   Gödel, who stated that “[Carnap] derives the consequences that man translation [ ] as G-M ). His youthful training included result from the construction of formally undecidable propositions both art and medicine, and he tried his hand at all forms of plastic for the problem of antinomies of the second kind. . . . The logical and graphic arts, from marble sculpting to oil painting to drawing flaw in these antinomies lies not in the self-referential character of and engraving. In addition to professorships of anatomy and sur- certain notions and propositions occurring in them . . . but rather in gery, he taught art and artistic anatomy, and wrote on art theory, the use of the notion ‘true.’ . . . A second part of the work deals especially the aesthetics of the human form. He made many ana- with the paradox of countable models of set theory and makes the tomical drawings, including contributions to William Smellie’s Sett  usual resolution of this apparent paradox more precise” (Gödel, of Anatomical Tables ( ); his drawings are noted for their bold Collected Works I, p. ; see also p. ). Columbia Encyclopedia. and graceful style. During his life, his most important published  work with plates after his own drawings was the two-part Demonstrationum above. These were also the largest plates he ever      . Carrel, Alexis ( – ) & Lindbergh, designed for his books. Choulant/Frank, pp. – . Roberts &     Charles A. ( – ). Tomlinson, Fabric of the Body, pp. – , illustrating a plate from     the Demonstrationum, and stating that Camper’s plates “are in the The culture of organs. vo. xix, [ ], , [ ]pp. forefront of mid-eighteenth century anatomical illustration.” DSB. Illustrations. New York: Paul Hoeber, .  ×  See Benezit & World Encyclopedia of Art indexing to Camper. Heirs mm. Original cloth, slightly worn. Very good.$ of Hippocrates . Cushing C–. Blake . Wellcome II . First Edition. See G-M .. Describes the experimental Waller , . only.  program for the cultivation of whole organs devised by Carrel and the celebrated aviator. Lindbergh developed a perfusion pump See color frontispiece,fig.  that maintained a sterile, pulsating circulation of fluid through ex-    cised organs; this enabled Carrel to keep organs such as the thy- . Carbonelli, Giovanni ( – ). roid and kidney alive and functioning. Lindbergh’s pump was the Bibliographia medica typographica pedemontana forerunner of apparatus now in use in heart surgery, etc. Carrel saeculorum XV. et XVI. Large was awarded the  Nobel Prize for his work on preserving to. []  []pp. Folding tissues.  plate, numerous text illustra- tions (some in red and black). . Chagall, Marc (–). Rome: Fieramosca Centenari, The lithographs of . . . . Introduction by Marc  [–].  ×  mm. Chagall, notes and catalogue by Fernand Mourlot.  Original printed wrappers, vols., to. Profusely illustrated with both color and worn & spotted, small split in black & white plates. Monte Carlo & New York: front hinge. Internally very André Sauret; George Braziller, –.  ×  good. $ mm. Original cloth, pictorial dust-jackets after First Edition of this handsomely Chagall. Fine set. $ printed and illustrated bibliography of th and th century Ital- First Edition of this splendid catalogue raisonée of Chagall’s ian medical books.  lithographic work, prepared under the direction of Julien Cain, who also supplied a historical introduction.  . Carnap, Rudolf (–). Die Antinomien und die Unvollständigkeit der . Chang, Min Chueh (- ). Mathematik. Offprint from Monatsheften f. Math. und Fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa deposited into the Phys.  (). vo. –pp.  ×  mm. fallopian tubes. In: Nature  (), pp. –. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. Very good Whole number, vo. cclxiv-cclxx, []–, cclxxi- copy, with Carnap’s signed presentation inscription to the cclxxviii pp. Text illustrations. [London: Macmillan, ].  ×  mm. Original printed wrappers,

 small stain on upper portion of front wrapper, library the Wellcome Library copy). Hahn & Dumaitre, pp. , . stamp. Very good. $ Weber, Hist. Lithography, pp. ff. Blocker (UTMB) p.  (col.   First Edition. G-M .. Chang was the first to note that plates). Wellcome II, p. (col. plates). Cushing C– . Heirs of   maturation of the sperm in the mammalian female tract is a neces- Hippocrates (incomplete). sary step in fertilization. This process was named “capacitation” by C. R. Austin, who discovered it independently the same year. . Condillac, Étienne Bonnot (–). O’Dowd & Philipp, Hist. Ob. & Gyn., p. .  Traité des sensations, à Madame la Comtesse de Vassé.  vols., mo. [] vi,  []; . Chang, Min Chueh (- ). [],  []pp. London & Paris: Fertilization of rabbit ova in vitro. In: Nature , de Bure, .  ×  mm. supplement no.  (), pp. –. Whole number, Mottled calf c. , gilt vo. viii, –, ix-xii pp. Text illustrations. spines, worn at corners & [London: Macmillan, ].  ×  mm. Original extremities. Occasional fox- printed wrappers. Fine. $ marks, early pencil annota- First Edition. G-M .: “The birth of normal rabbits from tions in some margins and on in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer was the first proof that  blank endleaves, otherwise births resulting from this procedure are normal.” fine. $ First Edition. Condillac’s phi- Rare Version with Hand-Colored Plates losophy of sensationalism—that all knowledge is based on the senses— . Cloquet, Jules (–). refuted Berkeley’s idealism and an- Manuel d’anatomie descriptive du corps humain,   ticipated the positivism of Comte. In the Traité des sensations, his représentée en planches lithographiées. to. text most comprehensive work, Condillac demonstrated his doctrine vols. plus  vols. atlas.  []; pp. (text); atlas of sensationalism by imagining a humanoid statue, “organized in- contains  text leaves and  hand-colored anatomical ternally like us, and animated with an intellect devoid of ideas of plates lithographed by Feillet, Langlumé, Frey, etc. any sort,” whose marble exterior prevented the use of any of its Paris: Bechet jeune, –.  ×  mm. Quar- senses. By unlocking the statue’s senses one by one, Condillac ter sheep c. , gilt spines rebacked, a little rubbed. showed how its mind would be generated by the constant addition Text vols. somewhat browned and foxed, atlas slightly of more and more sense-experience. He devised a highly original theory of language as the analyst of experience, which “united browned with occasional scattered foxing, but a very philosophical empiricism with the account of behavior (later called good copy with the hand-coloring fresh and bright. utilitarian) that explained it by the preference for pleasure over $ pain” (DSB).  First Quarto Edition of the Anatomie de l’homme (–; see G-M ), the first anatomical atlas illustrated by lithography. . [Conolly, John (–)]. fi fi  The rst edition, a ve-volume folio atlas with lithographs, The evidence taken on the inquiry into the manage- was produced in collaboration with Lasteyrie, the pioneer of French ment of the Fishponds private lunatic asylum. vo. [] lithography; it was probably the most elaborate of the lithographic × [],  [], xxx pp.  plates, consisting of facsimiles incunabula to issue from Lasteyrie’s press. However, Cloquet re-  of leaves from the Fishponds’ medical records. Bristol: alized as early as that the size and expense of his folio atlas    limited its practical use, and at the request of his colleagues and Joseph Leech, . × mm. Original printed students he decided to produce a smaller-format version of his boards, cloth backstrip, slightly worn. Occasional work, with plates and descriptions bound separately for easier foxing, but very good. $ reference. The artist Feillet, who had worked on the folio version, First Edition. An inquiry into the alleged mistreatment of prepared many of the lithographs for the quarto. Corrections were patients at the Fishponds Asylum, a private mental hospital in made to the original images, and new plates were added to repre- Hanwell headed by Dr. Joseph C. Bompas. One of the witnesses sent the anatomy of the tissues, microscopic anatomy and the me- for the inquiry was John Conolly, superintendent of the Hanwell chanics of muscle and bone; thus this quarto version of Cloquet’s Asylum, whose adoption and enthusiastic support of Gardiner Hill’s work is more accurate and complete than the folio version. This non-restraint system at Hanwell revolutionized the treatment of copy is especially desirable for having the plates hand-colored, a the insane in Britain. Conolly’s testimony occupies pp. – in rare variation noted in only two of the library catalogues we rou- the present work; much of it is devoted to his opinion on the need tinely consult (the only copy with colored plates listed in OCLC is for restraint in certain specific cases. DNB. 

 Rare Danish Dentistry Treatise original grant and commission, an account of the hospital’s con- struction, lists of staff and directors, hospital revenues, etc. The . Conradi, Johann Gottfried (–). large folding frontispiece illustrates the hospital’s handsome wa- Kurze Abhandlung von den Krankheiten der Zähne, terfront buildings, designed in part by the celebrated British archi-   und deren Kur. . . . vo. [] tect Inigo Jones. DNB. Blake, p. . pp. Copenhagen: L. H. . Cooper, Astley (–). Lillie, [].  ×  mm.  A treatise on dislocations, and on fractures of the Sheep c. , small crack in   spine binding but sound. joints. to. [ ] viii [], pp. Browned, but very good. Early  ownership signatures on front engraved endpapers. $ plates by J. C. First Edition, and rare, with only Canton, each the NLM copy cited in OCLC and with explanation RLIN; not in NUC. A treatise on the leaf. London: for teeth and their diseases by the dentist the author by to Frederick V, King of Denmark and Norway. The first chapter of Longman [etc.], fl Conradi’s work brie y describes the structure, development and .  ×  mm. Modern buckram. Light function of the teeth; this is followed by a long section on diseases browning & foxing, but very good. th century of the teeth, containing directions for preparing numerous rem- ownership signature dated  on flyleaf. $ edies against toothache, caries, gum disease, etc. The third and final Second edition, enlarged, of G-M ., the most famous chapter deals with substances harmful to the teeth and with means work on fractures and dislocations ever published. Cooper’s work, of protecting against them. Dentistry books printed in Scandinavia first published in , became the standard work in its era for are rare. Not in Hoffmann-Axthelm or in any of our dental bibliog- British, American and even Continental surgeons. “Many later clini- raphies. Blake, p. . Not in Waller.  cal modifications were developed from Cooper’s original meth- ods” (Bick, Classics of Orthopedics, p. ). In the spirit of his teacher John Hunter, Cooper discussed not only anatomical and clinical problems with fractures, but also the results of some animal ex- periments on fracture healing. The second edition includes an ap- pendix containing several additional case histories. Peltier, Frac- tures, pp. –. 

. Cooper. A.L.s. to the Revd. W. C. Neligan, dated from    Conduit Street, March , . to. One sheet,  × . [Cooke, John ( – ) & Maule, John]  An historical account of the Royal Hospital for mm., plus integral address leaf. Creased where   folded, some soiling, small tears where wax seal Seamen at Greenwich. to. viii, pp. Large folding  engraved frontispiece and  plates by James Newton. (present) was broken. Very good. $ London: sold for the authors by G. Nicol [etc.], . Medical advice to an Irish clergyman from the eminent British surgeon: “I should advice[!] you to give up your Pills for a fortnight  ×   mm. Tree calf c. , rubbed, front cover and then take them again regularly. As to the matrimonial state slightly warped. Light browning, title and frontispiece you may suit your own convenience.” For Cooper’s many contri- a bit soiled, frontispiece caption touched by the butions to surgery see G-M.  binder’s knife, but on the whole very good. th cent. bookplate of J. Watts de Peyster. $ Baroque Anatomy First Edition. The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich    was established in  by the British monarchs William and Mary, . Cowper, William ( – ). who decreed that Charles II’s unfinished palace in East Green- The anatomy of humane bodies. . . . Folio. []ff. wich, on the banks of the Thames, was to be converted into “an including mezzotint portrait by Smith after Hospital, for the Relief of Seamen, their Widows and Children.” Closterman, allegorical engraved title attributed to Cooke and Maule’s history of the hospital includes copies of the Abraham Bloteling (–) with pasted-on

 English title in cartouche a new, darker expression to the significance of the act of dissection. as usual, second engraved Dumaitre, Gérard de Lairesse (). Hofer . Enc. World Art IV      title with vignette by , V , VII . Russell . Sturt.  plates ( . Craanen, Theodorus (–). folding),  designed by Tractatus physico-medicus de homine. . . . to. [], Gérard de Lairesse , []pp. Fine large folding portrait engraved by (–) & probably A[braham] Blooteling (–) after I[Jacob, engraved by Bloteling,  often called Jason] Toornvliet (c.  or – mostly drawn & en- ),  of  plates (pl.  is lacking). Leiden: graved by M. van der vander Aa, .  ×  mm. Vellum c. , Gucht. London: Sam. spine a little rubbed. A little light foxing & browning, Smith & Benj. Walford, but overall fine condition. Contemporary signature on  [printed at the title. $ Sheldonian Theater,    First Edition. Craanen applied Cartesian principles to pa- Oxford]. × mm. Panelled calf c. , thology and therapy. His illustrations are sometimes ingenious and rebacked, a little rubbed, endpapers renewed. Por- dramatic. There are a number of plates of the heart, and of the trait, which is often missing, silked and trimmed & brain and nerves, including what must be an early microscopic mounted as always, small repair in last leaf, light depiction of nerve fibers. Although this copy lacks one plate (fe- foxing & spotting as in virtually all copies due to male organs of generation), it does have the quite fine portrait, mineral deposits in the paper. Very good copy. which is often lacking. Lindeboom, Dutch Medical Biography. Benezit $, re the artists, both of whom were highly accomplished in their respective fields of painting and engraving. Wellcome II , not First Edition in English of the original plates designed for  Govard Bidloo by Gérard de Lairesse, a painter who rivaled indicating presence of portrait.  Rembrandt in popularity in his time. G-M cites the original    issue of the plates with Latin text by Bidloo in . Bidloo’s text, . Crookes, William ( – ). however, was widely criticized, and because of this Cowper ar- On the repulsion resulting from radiation. Parts III- ranged to supply an entirely new text in English to accompany a IV. Offprint from reissue of the original engravings. This reissue was limited to  Phil. Trans.  copies. The new English text was clearly superior, and the basis for (). []– later Latin editions. Cowper, however, did not acknowledge Bidloo, pp.  plates, text illustrations. With: The Bakerian even going so far as to paste over Bidloo’s name with his own in the lecture. On the illumination of lines of molecular cartouche on the engraved allegorical title. This action resulted in pressure and the trajectory of molecules. Offprint a bitter plagiarism dispute between the two, one of the most      famous in medical history. In  Bidloo went so far as to publish from Phil. Trans. ( ). [ ] – pp. Chromo- his Gulielmus Cowper, criminalis literari citatus, coram tribunali at- lithographed plate, text diagrams. With: Contribu- tacking Cowper in considerable detail. tions to molecular physics in high vacua. Offprint “Elegantly done and artistically perfect” (Choulant / Frank ), from Phil. Trans.  (). [] –pp. Text the atlas is considered the finest of the Baroque period, and one of diagrams. Crookes’ presentation inscription to John Fletcher the greatest artistic anatomies of all time. Despite imperfections fl Moulton on fragment of front wrapper. With: On the from the point of view of dissection, the anatomical studies re ect viscosity of gases and high exhaustions. With a note on much that is good, including early depictions of skin and hair from the reduction of Mr. Crookes’s experiments . . . by observation with a microscope. ff Considered as an artistic meditation on anatomy, Lairesse’s Professor G[eorge] G[abriel] Stokes. O print       designs are a total departure from the idealistic tradition inaugu- from Phil. Trans. ( ). [ ] – pp. plates ( rated by Vesalius. Lairesse displayed his figures with every-day fold.), text diagrams. Crookes’ presentation inscription to realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the Moulton on fragment of front wrapper. Together  body with the full, soft surfaces of undissected flesh surrounding offprints, to, bound in a single volume with two fl fi them; placing ayed, bound gures in ordinary nightclothes or  ×  fl other works (see below). mm. Half mo- bedding; setting objects such as a book, a jar, a crawling y in the rocco c. , rubbed, corners & extremities worn. same space as a dissected limb or torso. He thus brought the quali- Slight marginal browning, but fine. From the library ties of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave of John Fletcher Moulton (–), with his bookplate. $  First Editions. The first of the offprints listed above deals occasional foxing. with Crookes’ earlier discovery of what he originally believed to With Marie Curie’s be “light pressure” within a vacuum balance, as predicted by the autograph presen- corpuscular theory of light and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. tation inscription This phenomenon led him to invent the familiar four-vaned “light- fl mill” or radiometer; however, it was later found (by Johnstone to M. and Mme. [Albert] Bazille on front yleaf, reading Stoney) that the action of the radiometer was caused not by light “A Mr. et Mme. Bazille / Avec mes meilleurs amitiés   pressure but by the internal movements of the molecules in the / M. Curie.” Very good copy. Boxed. $ , residual gas. Crookes had apparently not yet accepted Stoney’s First Edition. PMM . Horblit . Dibner . Published explanation when he wrote “On the repulsion resulting from ra- in a very small edition for private distribution (Klickstein, in his diation,” since in paragraph  he speculates that the action of the bio-bibliographical study, suggests that only about  copies of the radiometer is due to the absorption and radiation of heat. work were printed), Mme. Curie’s dissertation is one of the most The remaining three offprints are from the series of research celebrated scientific rarities of the th century. Her thesis offers papers that Crookes began in , investigating the possibility a detailed critical presentation of her researches during her most that the dark space coating the cathode in low-pressure electrical creative period, –, in which she discovered and devel- discharges (later named “Crookes’ dark space”) was somehow re- oped the chemical aspects of radioactivity. During this period she lated to the layer of molecular pressure causing movement in the made the first measurement of radioactive radiation, demonstrated radiometer. “By attempting to determine the actual paths of ‘lines the radioactive properties of thorium, discovered polonium and of molecular pressure’ on the analogy of Faraday’s lines of mag- radium, enunciated the atomic nature of radioactivity, prepared netic force, Crookes came to work on the cathode rays, which pure radium chloride and accurately determined the atomic weight until then had been the exclusive province of German experimen- of radium, observed “induced radioactivity,” characterized alpha- talists. An electric radiometer whose vanes acted as a cathode rays, demonstrated the negative charge of beta rays, and devel- showed that the dark space separating the cathode from the cath- oped the chemical aspects of radioactivity. Although Mme. Curie ode glow extended farther from the blackened side of the vane, had published papers on various aspects of her research during this and that only when the pressure was reduced to a point at which fruitful time, her thesis represents the first integrated and correlated the dark space touched the sides of the radiometer tube did rota- discussion of all her investigations on radioactivity to , and marks tion occur. . . . With his thorough grounding in the experimentally the summit of her creative activity. The thesis includes a consider- difficult art of vacuum physics, Crookes laid the foundation for the able amount of original material published for the first time, along fuller investigation by J. J. Thomson of the behavior of radiant with her evaluation of pertinent writings by other researchers, matter in the discharge tube, showing, for example, that it in- much of which stemmed from her own discoveries. It is a personal duced phosphorescence in minerals like the diamond; that it caused document, written in the first person, and unparalleled in the his- the glass of the discharge tube to phosphoresce; that its stream tory of science. could be deflected by a magnet; and, most important of all, that The first edition of Mme. Curie’s thesis was published in either since it cast a shadow of an opaque object . . . it traveled in straight late May or early June . The thesis was seen and approved for lines and was corpuscular in nature” (DSB). Twenty years later printing on May  (as stated on the last printed page), and was Thomson demonstrated that this radiant matter consisted of elec- printed before June , the date that Mme. Curie presented her trons. thesis before the Faculté des Sciences de Paris—the space for the These four offprints by Crookes are from the library of John date was left blank on the title-page, and has been filled in by hand Fletcher Moulton, an eminent barrister, judge and amateur scien- in a number of copies. The first edition was given the designation tist whose electrical researches had won him a fellowship in the “Serie A, No. , No. d’ordre ” (upper left corner of title), Royal Society. Moulton bound the offprints, two of which bear and numbered with the publisher’s printing number of  at Crookes’ presentation inscriptions to him, together with two other the foot of the last page. The second edition of Curie’s thesis scientific works, one of which he co-authored. DSB. DNB for appeared in three installments in the Annales de chimie et de phy- Moulton.  sique, th series, Vol.  (). A second issue of the second edition was made as a combined offprint following the completion of the Celebrated Rarity of Modern Physics—Inscribed printing of the installments in the Annales; it can be easily distin- guished from the first edition by the different publisher’s number to Her Husband’s First Tutor () at the foot of the last page. The officially designated “sec- ond edition” was issued by the publisher in . . Curie, Marie Sklodowska (–).   This copy of Mme. Curie’s Recherches was presented to Pierre Recherches sur les substances radioactives. vo. [ ], Curie’s first tutor, Albert Bazille, who played a crucial role in , []pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, Pierre’s education and growth as a scientist. Pierre Curie had .  ×  mm. Quarter sheep, limp marbled been taught at home by his parents and older brother, Jacques, boards c. , a little worn. 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 mathematics, was engaged. According to Jacques Curie, Bazille . Dalton, John (–). “understood and appreciated [Pierre] as he deserved to be, be- A.N. with portion of cover addressed to Mr. John came strongly attached to him and pushed him to develop himself. Grey. Undated (“Tuesday Evening”).  ×  mm. It seems certain that it was through these lessons that the mind of Lightly creased & browned, biographical notice of Pierre Curie was opened up and developed and it is due to the Dalton tipped to front margin, but very good. remarkable teaching of M. Bazille that he owes his intellectual  transformation, the deepening of his faculties and the birth of his $ scientific abilities” (quoted in Quinn, Marie Curie, p. ). Pierre’s “Mr. Dalton’s respects to Mr. J. Grey, & may inform him he  fondness for Bazille was obviously shared by Marie, who pre- shall be from home about weeks untill the middle of July.” Dalton sented this copy of her thesis to Bazille and his wife “with my best discovered the law of gaseous partial pressures, and devised the fi regards.” Klickstein, Curie, . Norman / Grolier Medical Hun- rst workable atomic theory of the elements, published in his New   dred, b.  System of Chemical Philosophy ( – ). Autographs of Dalton are scarce.  . Cushing, Harvey (–). Photograph of Cushing, William S. Halsted (– Dalton’s Law ), Joseph C.   . Dalton. Bloodgood ( – () Experimental essays on the constitution of mixed ), John M. T.    gases. . . . Extract from Mem. Lit. Phil. Soc. Manchester Finney ( – ) and (), pp. –. Fold. plate. () Experiments and Hugh Hampton   observations to determine whether the quantity of Young ( – ) rain and dew is equal to the quantity of water carried performing an operation off by the rivers. . . . Extract from ibid., pp. –. at Johns Hopkins. N.p.,    Hand-colored map. ( ) Experiments and observations n.d. (ca. ). × on the power of fluids to conduct heat. . . . Extract  mm., on mount      from ibid., pp. – . ( ) Experiments and observa- measuring × tions on the heat and cold produced by the mechanical mm. Mount a little condensation and rarefaction of air. Extract from ibid., chipped & worn,  or     fl pp. – . ( ) Meteorological observations. Extract almost invisible aws in from ibid., pp. –. () Henry, William (– photograph, but very good. From the collection of    ). A review of some experiments, which have Herbert M. Evans ( – ), who numbered the been supposed to disprove the materiality of heat. participants in pencil in the photograph and inscribed Extract from ibid., pp. –. Together  extracts, their names in the upper left corner. $ vo. London: Cadell & Davies, .  ×  mm. An excellent photographic record of five Johns Hopkins “greats” (uncut). Later quarter calf, marbled boards, a little in action: William S. Halsted, the university’s first professor of rubbed. Minor foxing & browning, but very good. surgery, whose methods, emphasizing pathology and physiology,  set the tone for the development of scientific surgery in th century $ America; Harvey Cushing, who established neurosurgery as a sepa- First Editions. Dalton’s four-part Experimental Essays con- rate discipline; Joseph C. Bloodgood, director of the surgical pa- tains the first formal statement of Dalton’s Law; i.e., that in a thology laboratory at Johns Hopkins and one of the first to stress mixture of gases every gas acts as an independent entity. Dalton the importance of early detection and treatment of cancer; John had first stated this idea in his Meteorological Observations (), M. T. Finney, best known for his contributions to gastric surgery; but in a tentative and undeveloped fashion which elicited no im- and Hugh Hampton Young, the founder of modern urological sur- mediate reaction, despite the fact that it contradicted the then- gery in the United States. All the medical personnel in the photo- established concept of vaporization as a chemical process whereby graph are wearing rubber gloves, the use of which in surgery gases were “dissolved” in air. By , Dalton had gained such Halsted was responsible for establishing. Cushing, Bloodgood, confidence in his theory that he decided to publish it, first in a Finney and Young had all studied under Halsted and served as his rough sketch submitted to Nicholson’s Journal of Natural Philoso- surgical assistants; see Rutkow, American Surgery: An Illustrated His- phy, Chemistry and the Arts, and then in more formal and definitive tory, pp. –, showing a series of photographs taken in  of fashion in the Experimental Essays, read before the Manchester a surgical operation at Johns Hopkins in which all five men were Literary and Philosophical Society in October . The Essays members of the operating team. Our photograph once belonged to “included the first clear statement that ‘When two elastic fluids, the noted scientific bibliophile Herbert M. Evans, the discoverer of denoted by A and B, are mixed together, there is no mutual repul- Vitamin E (see G-M ), who had studied under Cushing.  sion amongst their particles; that is, the particles of A do not repel

 those of B, as they do one another. Consequently, the pressure or elastic fluids constituting the atmosphere” (no. []) read on No- whole weight upon any one particle arises solely from those of its vember , ; and “The absorption of gases by water and other own kind.’ . . . Besides this first formal enunciation of the law of liquids” (no. []) read in October . In the latter paper Dalton gaseous partial pressures, the [Essays] also contained important addressed the problem of why different gases were absorbed by information on evaporation and steam pressure, as well as Dalton’s water in different proportions, proposing that fl independent statement of Charles’s law that ‘all elastic uids ex- [this] depends upon the weight and number of the ultimate pand the same quantity by heat’” (DSB). Dalton illustrated his particles of the several gases; those whose particles are lightest theory of mixed gases in a plate which was dismissed by Berthollet and single being least absorbable and the others more accord- as “un tableau d’imagination”; such criticisms galvanized Dalton ing as they increase in weight and complexity. . . . An enquiry into obtaining convincing experimental proof of his beliefs—“the into the relative weights of the ultimate particles is a subject, as ffi e cient cause of the chemical atomic theory” (DSB). far as I know, entirely new; I have lately been prosecuting this Also included in this volume of extracts are four other papers enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be en-   by Dalton, read before the Manchester society in , and tered upon in this paper, but I shall just subjoin the results, as far  fi  . The rst (no. [ ] above) on the balance between rain, dew, as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments (p. ). water run-off and evaporation, contains the earliest definition of the dew point; the next two (nos. [] and []) deal with the caloric On the following page Dalton provided a “Table of the Relative theory of heat; and the final extract (no. []) is devoted to meteo- Weights of the Ultimate Particles of Gaseous and Other Bod- fi rological observations. Also in the volume is the first paper read ies”—the rst printed list of what we now call atomic weights.       before the Manchester society by Dalton’s friend William Henry DSB. PMM (note). Smyth , , , . (no. []); it rebuts Davy’s arguments against the materiality of    heat. Smyth , , , , .  . Doolittle, Thomas ( – ). A serious enquiry for a suitable return, for continued First Table of Atomic Weights life, in and after a time of great mortality, by a wasting plague. . . . vo. []  []pp. London: R. I.  . Dalton. for J. Johnson . . . , .  ×  mm. Panelled calf  ( ) On the absorption of gases by water and other c. , rubbed, rebacked & corners repaired. Light liquids. Extract from Mem. Lit. browning,  or  small tears affecting headlines, but   Phil. Soc. Manchester ( nd very good. $    series), pp. – . eng. First Edition. Doolittle, a nonconformist minister, was so plates. () Experimental eager to preach after the devastation of London by the great inquiry into the proportion of plague and fire of – that he set up his church, against the the several gases or elastic law, over the ruins of churches destroyed in the conflagration. His fluids, constituting the atmo- exhortations on the moral and theological lessons to be learned sphere. Extract from ibid., pp. from these disastrous events were published in the present work. DNB. Wellcome II, p. . Wing D–.  –. () On the tendency of elastic fluids to diffusion through each other. Extract First Medical Work on Ontario Province— from ibid., pp. –. () Dedication Copy Remarks on Mr. Gough’s two essays on the doctrine of . Douglas, John (–). mixed gases. . . . Extract from ibid., pp. –.       ff  Medical topography of upper Canada. vo. [ ], [ , Together extracts, vo. London: R. Bickersta , . adverts.]pp. Later quarter calf, marbled boards, a little rubbed. London: Burgess Title-leaf a little stained and with small marginal & Hill, .  ×  mm. Gilt-bordered calf c. chip, some offsetting from plates, light browning, but   , rebacked, light wear to corners. Endpapers and very good. $ title lightly foxed, but fine otherwise. The dedication First Editions. In order to obtain convincing proof of his copy, with “From the Author” inscribed on the front heavily criticized theory of mixed gases, Dalton began an experi- mental inquiry into the proportions of the various gases in the endpaper and the signature of dedicatee Sir James atmosphere. This led him to look into the question of the solubility McGrigor of gases in water, an investigation that produced two papers: “Ex- (–) on perimental inquiry into the proportion of the several gases or the front

 pastedown. Stamps and withdrawal stamps of the . Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume B. Royal Army Medical College Library. $ (–). First Edition. G-M .. The first medical book on the De l’électrisation localisée. . . . vo. xii, pp.  province of Ontario, Canada, the only book on the War of  by text wood-engravings. Paris: Baillière, a British or Canadian surgeon, and, together with the American     . × mm. Cloth c. Mann’s Medical Sketches ( ), one of only two books on medicine , rebacked in morocco. Occa- in the War of . Rare on the market—this is only the second copy we have handled in nearly three decades of bookselling. It is a sional foxing, small dampstain in particularly desirable one, presented by the author to the dedica- lower corner of last few leaves. Very tee Sir James McGrigor, the noted military surgeon who served good copy. $ as Wellington’s chief of medical staff during the Peninsular Wars, First Edition. G-M  & . and headed the British Army Medical Department from  to Classification of the electrophysiology of the . entire muscular system, and foundation for Douglas was assistant surgeon to a foot regiment that saw ac- electrotherapy. (Duchenne applied faradic tion in some of the most critical battles of the war, and he appears current as early as  to treat patients). to have been fully involved himself in several of them. He was The original edition was published as text usually in favor of immediate rather than delayed amputation on only and is complete in itself (the famous the field, and described intemperance and pneumonia as prevalent. excessively rare atlas of photographs was pub- For the latter he used warm baths, antimonials, blisters, purgatives lished after the second edition of the text and digitalis. Roland, “Introduction,” in Douglas, John, Medical To- which appeared in ).  pography of Upper Canada ( reprint ed.). DNB (McGrigor). Not in Wellcome.  . Duchenne de Boulogne. ().  A.Ls.s. on his embossed stationery to the publisher . Drapeau, Stanislas (–). Baillière, dated Histoire des institutions de charité de bienfaisance et  and  August d’education de Canada . . . Ier . pp. plus volume.—hopitaux [all pub- integral blank lished]. vo. lx, pp.  wood- ( August) & – engraved plates printed in  /pp. ( August). Together –/pp.  ×  colors. Ottawa: Imprimerie du mm. &  ×  mm. Creased where previously Foyer Domestique, .  × folded, edges of first letter chipped, light dust-soiling  mm. Quarter calf c. , to second letter, but very good. Both letters docketed worn, spine rubbed and chipped. and annotated by recipient. With: (). Motet, Internally fine. Library stamp A[uguste] (- ). Duchenne (de Boulogne) et son on title. $ oeuvre. Éloge. . . . Offprint from Ann. méd.-psych., th First Edition. Scarce, with only series,  (). vo.  []pp. Paris: Masson et Cie., fi  ve copies (U. Minn. [ ], N.Y.P.L., .  ×  mm. Original wrappers, tear in Harvard & Canadian Centre for Architecture) cited in NUC &  fi front wrapper. With: ( ). Brissaud [Edouard] RLIN; micro che copy only cited in OCLC. Drapeau, a promi-   fi nent French Canadian newspaperman and civil servant, conceived ( – ). L’oeuvre scienti que de Duchenne de the ambitious plan of publishing a five-volume history of Canada’s Boulogne. Extract from Arch. d’électricité médicale exp. et charitable institutions, offered in a limited edition of  copies to clin.  (). vo. []–pp.  ×  mm. subscribers only. The first and only published volume of the Histoire, Disbound, several leaves loose, light foxing. on hospitals and lazarettos, focuses primarily on the Hôtel-Dieu de $ Quebec and the Hôtel-Dieu de Montreal; included are numerous Two letters from the founder of modern neurology in France, statistical tables documenting rates of admission, numbers of male best known for his electrophysiological studies of the nerves and and female patients, etc. Drapeau designed the Histoire as an art muscles; see G-M , , , , etc. In his first letter, book, printing it in several colors; “it was an inspired display of Duchenne notifies his publisher that he will be returning several graphic, typographic and chromolithographic ingenuity, with a ba- books lent to him by the Baillières for the purpose of compiling an roque and romantic exuberance of style reminiscent of Gustave unnamed work—possibly the collection of articles published in Doré’s work” (Dict. Can. Biog.). Sales of the first volume were the early s under the title Contributions à l’étude du système disappointing, however, and Drapeau was forced to abandon the nerveux et du système musculaire. Among the books Duchenne bor- project. 

 rowed were a -volume work by Jaccoud (possibly his Traité de la lettre envoyée a M. le pathologie interne, –); a work by Holmes on the diseases of Docteur Dutertre. . .” bound children (possibly Timothy Holmes’ Surgical Treatment of the Dis-    between pp. [ ]-[ ]. Engraved eases of Infancy and Childhood, ); Vol. III of François Longet’s frontispiece and  plates. Traité de physiologie (rd ed., –); and Leuret and Gratiolet’s   Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, Anatomie comparée du systeme nerveux ( – ). In the second let-    ter Duchenne reminds the Baillières that the Jaccoud work men- . × mm. Modern tioned in his previous letter had been sent to him in error, and that quarter morocco, marbled the Baillières had billed him twice for the Leuret-Gratiolet set. boards, in period style. Some Accompanying these letters are two articles on Duchenne’s life minor dampstaining, but very and scientific work.  good. $ First Edition of the first separate . Dugès, Antoine (–). illustrated treatise on the orthopedic Recherches sur les maladies les plus importantes et les treatment of hand injuries and deformi- moins connues des enfans nouveau-nés. . . . to. pp. ties. Prior to the work of William Folding lithographed plate by Du Tertre. Paris: Adams on Dupuytren’s contracture  Baillière, .  ×  mm. Modern wrappers, ( ) few, if any, orthopedic surgeons uncut. Foxing but very good. $ operated substantially within the hand itself. Instead, like Dutertre, they First Edition, commercial issue, of the M.D. thesis on dis- treated injured and deformed hands eases of newborns, by Dugès, the nephew and editor of the cel- externally with braces, splints, etc. In ebrated midwife, Marie Louise Lachapelle (G-M , Pratique this remarkable but little-known book des accouchemens,  vols., Paris, –). This is one of the earliest Dutertre describes braces and splints scientific monographs on its subject. Dugès is also known for hav- of his own invention, which are illus- ing performed (with Boivin) the first amputation of the cervix, trated in the plates. Many of his pa- and for having been the first to record a case of cancer of the tients had suffered serious burns to their hands; in such cases, female urethra; see G-M .  Dutertre would incise the crippling scar tissue, but he appears not   to have performed any more complicated surgical operations. Ac- . Dupau, Jean Amédée (b. ). cording to Dutertre’s obviously self-serving dedication to the King Lettres physiologiques et morales sur le magnétisme of France, all of the operations described in his Chirurgie were animal. . . . vo. xii [], pp. Paris: Gabon [etc.], successful. Dutertre is not noticed in our surgical or orthopedic .  ×  mm. th cent. quarter sheep, references, nor does he appear in Hirsch. Waller . NUC ND marbled boards, a little rubbed. Some foxing through-  (DNLM, NcD-Mc, MB, PPC, NNC, CtY).  out, occasional pencil notes in margin, but very good.    Former owner’s name in pencil on half-title. . Earle, James ( – ).  ff $ ( ) An essay on the means of lessening the e ects of First Edition. An attack on animal magnetism by the physi- fire on the cian J. A. Dupau, written in response to recently published works human body. [] by Georget and Rostan defending the theories of Mesmer and  []pp. En- Puységur. Dupau denied the existence of a physical magnetic fluid, graved plate. ff stating that the e ects of animal magnetism and magnetic som- London: C. nambulism were caused by the imagination and the power of sug- Clarke, . gestion. He admitted that magnetic cures did take place, but only  in cases where the disease was caused by the imagination. Crabtree With: ( ) . Gauld, pp. –.  Observations on the cure of the curved spine, in which the effect of First Illustrated Treatise on Orthopedic Treatment mechanical assistance is considered. []  []pp.    of Hands engraved plates. London: C. Clarke, . Together works in , vo.  ×  mm. (uncut). Original . Dutertre, P[ierre] (b. ). boards, rebacked in sheep, light wear, one corner Chirurgie. Traité d’opérations nouvelles, et inventions creased. Light browning, some offsetting from plates, de mécaniques, servant de moyens secondaires pour en assurer le succès. vo.  []pp., plus -page “Copie de

 plate from () misbound in (), a few ink underlinings, Ehrlich.” Welch’s handwritten index to Ehrlich’s work first two leaves loose, but overall very good. on verso half-title, and note to this effect on the front $ wrapper. Boxed. $ First Editions. Earle, surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, First Edition. This collection of papers includes Ehrlich’s re- was the son-in-law of Percivall Pott; his son was Henry Earle, port on the use of fluorescein to observe the streaming of optic inventor of the prize-winning Earle bed for fracture cases. In his humors (), three papers describing his work with methylene work on burns, Earle discarded current remedies in favor of the blue as a selective vital stain (–). and his two-part constant application of ice or cold water; he also discussed the “Experimentelle Untersuchungen über Immunität” (), in which prevention of deformities arising from burns, and included an he showed that female mice immunized against certain toxic plant account of a plastic operation performed on a six-year-old boy proteins passed on these specific immunities to their offspring. who had suffered severe burns to the neck and lower part of the Ehrlich shared the  Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine face. The plate illustrating this operation, showing the patient be- with Elie Metchnikoff for their fundamental contributions to im- fore and after surgery, may be the earliest such illustration in an munology. The recipient of this copy, the eminent American pa- English surgical work. In (), Earle described his own improve- thologist William Welch, discovered the gas gangrene bacillus named ments to Pott’s treatment of curvature of the spine. These two for him (see G-M ), as well as the wound-infecting Staph. works were intended to be published together, as indicated by the epidermidis albus (see G-M ). Norman .  notice on leaf A of (); this also states that Earle believed his work on burns to be particularly timely “on account of the prevailing The Magic Bullet fashion in female dress” (the Empire gown, made of light, thin, flammable cotton muslin, was then in vogue). DNB. Blake, p. . . Ehrlich & Hata, Sahachiro (–). Not in Zeis.  Die experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen. vo. viii, pp., adverts.  ff  92. Edwards, Robert Geo rey ( - ); plates,  fold. printed tables. Bavister, B. V. & Steptoe, Patrick C. (1913–88). Berlin: Springer, .  × Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes  mm. Original cloth,     matured in vitro. In: Nature ( ), pp. – . slightly worn at extremities.    Whole number, vo. xviii, [ ]– , xxxi-xlviii pp. Slight marginal browning,   Text illustrations. [London: Macmillan, ]. × small crease in title-leaf, but  mm. Original printed wrappers, a little worn. fine otherwise. Ownership  Very good. $ signature of Charles D.   fi First Edition. G-M . . The rst successful in vitro fertili- Freeman, dated October , zation of human egg cells, an event that led nine years later to the fi on front free endpaper and rst successful live human birth after in vitro fertilization and em-  bryo transfer. O’Dowd & Philipp, p. .  title. $ First Edition. PMM . G-M . Ehrlich’s crowning achievement was his discovery of Salvarsan, the “magic bullet” that Inscribed to William Welch marks the beginning of chemotherapy. Early in his career, Ehrlich ff . Ehrlich, Paul (–). had performed an intensive series of experiments on the di eren- Constitution, Vertheilung und Wirkung chemischer tial staining of bacteria, which would take up aniline dyes while surrounding tissues remained unaffected. It was from the results of Koerper. Aeltere und neuere   these experiments that Ehrlich conceived his idea of a magic bul- Arbeiten. vo. pp. Leipzig: let; i.e., a drug that could seek out and destroy invading micro- Georg Thieme, .  × organisms without harming healthy tissue. Ehrlich’s subsequent  mm. Original printed discovery of the syphilis-specific Salvarsan was rooted in two im- wrappers, repaired. Light portant events: In  Schaudinn and Hoffmann discovered the browning, a few marginal spirochete of syphilis, and Thomas and Breinl discovered that atoxyl, tears & chips due to poor an arsenic derivative, was capable of curing rodents infected with quality paper. Presentation copy, Trypanosoma equinum, a micro-organism that caused diseases simi- lar to spirochetal infections in humans. Acting upon these discover- inscribed by Ehrlich on the front  ies, Ehrlich and his assistant Hata began synthesizing and testing wrapper to William Welch ( – hundreds of derivative compounds in the search for one that would ): “H. Prof. Dr. Welch / freudschaftlich / P. kill the maximum number of spirochetes without damaging the organism. In  Ehrlich and Hata finally achieved success with

 the th experimental compound, patented under the name bution to libraries, universities and scientific societies. Eiffel was “Salvarsan” and later known as arsphenamine; in modified form, particularly anxious at this time to drum up support for his tower, the drug remained the mainstay of syphilis treatment until the since by , eleven years after its completion, the tower had discovery of penicillin. During the time Ehrlich was working on ceased to be a novelty, and there was a growing movement afoot his magic bullet, he and Metchnikoff received the Nobel Prize for to tear it down. La tour Eiffel gives an account of the tower’s con- physiology or medicine for their fundamental contributions to struction and emphasizes its importance to science, citing the large immunology; after Ehrlich’s discovery of Salvarsan, he was nomi- number of optical, meteorological, aerodynamic and physiological nated for both the  and  Nobel Prizes for his chemo- experiments conducted there over the previous years. This copy therapy work. DSB. Magill, The Nobel Prize Winners: Physiology or of La tour Eiffel may have been issued to Eiffel in advance of publi- Medicine, pp. –. Norman . Norman / Grolier Medical cation, since the date of his inscription to his daughter—Decem- Hundred .  ber , —predates that of the imprint. Loyrette, Gustave Eiffel, pp. –.  . Ehrlich & Hata. The experimental chemotherapy of spirilloses (syphi- . Einstein, Albert (–). lis, relapsing fever, spirillosis of fowls, framboesia). In commemoration of the seventieth birthday of Trans. A. Newbold, & revised by Robert W. Felkin. xv Albert Einstein. . . . (half-title). In: Reviews of Modern [],  []pp.; -page publisher’s catalogue.  plates, Physics, , no.  (July ). Whole number, to. []  fold. tables. New York: Rebman, [].  ×  –pp. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Lancaster mm. Original cloth. Fine copy. $ & New York: American Physical Society, .  × First American Edition of the above.   mm. Original printed wrappers, spine a little worn. From the library of Theodore von Karman Presented to his Daughter (–). $   ff   First Edition. With papers by some of the foremost physi- .Eiel, Gustave ( – ). cists of the th century, including Heisenberg, Pauli, Laue, Tolman, La tour Eiffel en . to. viii,  []pp.  plates, Chandrasekhar, Dirac, Wigner, Feynman, Pais, Gödel, Born, and incl. frontispiece portrait Otto Stern. Among the contributors was the Hungarian physicist of Eiffel and a large Theodore von Karman, founder of modern aviation and space folding chromolitho- travel, whose copy of this issue we are offering here. Karman and graphed map of Paris. his co-author C. C. Lin submitted the paper “On the concept of similarity in the theory of isotropic turbulence.” Karman first met Paris: Masson et Cie.,     Einstein in Göttingen in , and the two furthered their ac- . × mm. quaintance in –, when Einstein was a visiting professor at Original cloth, gilt- the California Institute of Technology; see Karman, TheWind and lettered front cover and Beyond, pp. –.  spine, slight wear to corners and extremities, . Elliott, Henry. one corner banged. Plates The clock-maker’s assistant: Or, a treatise concerning lightly foxed, otherwise a the calculation of all manner of very good to fine copy, with Eiffel’s autograph presen- numbers belonging to all sorts tation inscription of clocks. mo.  []pp. to his daughter London: for the author at the on the half-title: Leg and Dial, .  ×  “A ma chère fille mm. Calf c. , rebacked, Marie Louise en extremities & corners worn. témoinage de Light foxing, but very good. mes plus tendres sentiments d’affection, G. Eiffel. Le Annotated throughout prob-  Décembre .” $ ably by an th-century clock- First Edition. This was Eiffel’s first book on his famous tower maker, either “J. Richardson” to be offered for sale to the public: his two previous books, La tour or “Jos. Walker Brad,” both of   fi de mètres ( ) and Travaux scienti ques exécutés à la Tour de whose signatures, followed by trois cent mètres () had been printed in small editions for distri-

 the date “,” appear on the front free endpaper. Fourth edition, Brad’s initials “J.W.B.,” dated , are on the title. revised and expanded, Leaf with ms. in either Richardson’s or Brad’s hand, of Esmarch’s monu- mental military sur- containing instructions for a “Bradford Piece Hall fi    gery manual, rst Clock,” inserted between pp. – . th cent.   published in , in bookplate of William Leatham. $ which he stressed not First Edition, and extraordinarily rare, with no copies recorded only immediate treat- in ESTC, NUC, OCLC or RLIN. Elliott, a London clockmaker ment but secondary treatment and plastic surgery as well. fi with fty years’ experience, wrote this treatise for the instruction Esmarch’s best-known contributions to surgery include G-M , of his fellow-tradesmen; it contains instructions for calculating the his introduction of the first-aid bandage on the battlefield, and G-M correct size and proportion of gears, springs, pendulums, etc. for , his technique of artificial bloodlessness during surgery, which various types of clocks, as well as a section on chimes containing a revolutionized surgery of the extremities.  woodcut illustration of the different types of musical notes (whole, half, quarter, etc.). Neither Elliott nor his treatise is cited in either . Esquirol, Jean Étienne Dominique (– Baillie’s Clocks andWatches or The Clockmakers’ Library, and we have ). not been able to identify either of the former owners whose  Mental maladies. A treatise on insanity. vo. pp. Phila- signatures appear on the front endpaper. Unrecorded th-cen-    tury titles such as this one are extremely unusual; we do not recall delphia: Lea & Blanchard, . × mm. ever handling one in our  years of business.  Publisher’s sheep, a little worn, hinges cracked. Some foxing, several marginal notes in pencil by an early . Elliotson, John (–). owner, but very good. $ The Harveian oration, delivered before the Royal First Edition in English of the first modern textbook of College of Physicians . . . with an English version and psychiatry; see G-M . Esquirol, together with his teacher      Pinel, is regarded as the founder of the French school of psychia- notes. vo. [ ] pp. London: H. Baillière, . × fi  mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit soiled, try. He was among the rst to apply statistical methods to clinical studies of insanity, and his Maladies mentales, based on  years of small chip at top of spine. Light browning, but fine  observation and treatment of mental illness, remained a basic psy- otherwise. In cloth slipcase. $ chiatric text for over half a century. Esquirol was the first to distin- fi First Edition. Elliotson was one of the rst in England to guish between hallucinations and illusions, and between dementia perform surgery on mesmerized patients, and he joined with both and idiocy; he also provided the classic description of paresis, coined Braid and Esdaile in promoting the use of mesmeric anesthesia the term “monomania” and distinguished certain depressive states during surgical operations. Despite his numerous successes, Elliotson from other psychoses. Norman . Hunter & Macalpine, pp. – was accused of charlatanism by the conservative British medical . Zilboorg & Henry, pp. –.  establishment, and was eventually forced to resign his various pro- ffi  fessional o ces. In , when Elliotson was chosen to deliver the . Estienne, Henri [Stephanus, Henricus] annual Harveian oration before the Royal College of Physicians, (?–). he was savagely attacked by his detractors, particularly Thomas Wakley, editor of the Lancet and a staunch opponent of mesmer- A world of wonders: Or an introduction to a treatise ism. Undaunted, Elliotson made mesmerism the subject of his touching the conformitie of lecture and took the unusual step of providing an English transla- ancient and moderne wonders: tion (the Harveian oration was customarily delivered in Latin) in Or a preparative treatise to order to inform the public that he had openly supported mesmer- the apologie for Herodotus. . . ism before the Royal College of Physicians. Norman . Crabtree .  parts in , folio. []    . []; [] –pp. Edinburgh: Andrew Hart & Richard . Esmarch, Johann Friedrich (–). Lawson, .  ×  mm. Handbuch der kriegschirurgischen Technik.  vols., Modern calf in period style. vo. xii, ; xi [],  []pp. Text illustrations. Kiel Title-leaf a little stained, light & Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, .  ×  mm. browning, occasional foxing, Original cloth, spines faded, front hinge of Vol. II split. but very good. A few marginal Light browning but very good. Presentation copy, annotations in contemporary hand. $ inscribed by Esmarch in both volumes: “Herrn Professor Dr. Braun / hochachtungsvoll / der Verf.” $

 First Edition in English, second issue of Estienne’s Traité (many folding); numer- préparatif à l’apologie pour Hérodote (), with Edinburgh im- ous text woodcuts.  print dated . The printer Henri Estienne was one of the great- Leiden: ver Kerckhem, est classical Greek scholars of the Renaissance, with a particular . (). Opera love for the Greek historians. “He was prolific in publishing texts, amongst them seventy-four Greek texts of which no fewer than chirugica. Quorum pars eighteen were first editions. . . . His most popular work was his prior pentateuchum Traité préparatif à l’apologie pour Hérodote (), a volume of  chirurgicum, posterior closely printed pages, which passed through fourteen editions in operationes chirurgicas his lifetime. It is an amusing collection of short stories and anec- continet. . . . []pp., dotes. . . .” (Pfeiffer, Hist. Classical Scholarship, pp. –). STC , a–q, –     . Sandys, Hist. Classical Scholarship, II, pp. – .  cols., []pp.  copperplates. Leiden: ex Masterpiece of Victorian Color Printing officina Boutesteniana,   . Euclid. . Together vols., fi folio.  ×  mm. The rst six books of the elements of Euclid in which  coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of Bound as a set in mottled calf c. , gilt spines, letters for the greater ease of learners. By Oliver spines a bit rubbed, front hinges tender. Some foxing   & browning, but a very good set. Early ownership Byrne. . . . to. [iii]-viii, pp. Geometrical diagrams  printed in color throughout. London: William Pickering, inscriptions on titles; library stamps on titles and or      other places. $ . × mm. Blind-stamped cloth c.  fi (binder’s ticket of Seton of Edinburgh), rebacked ( ). Probably the nest of the collected editions of Fabricius’s celebrated anatomical and physiological works, describing the valves preserving original spine. Light foxing, light colored fi in the veins, the embryonic development of the chick and other dampstains on a few pages, but ne. Gift / ownership animals, as well as his studies on the anatomy of the eye, ear and  inscriptions on front endpaper. Boxed. $ throat, the physiology of muscle, etc. See G-M –, . This First Edition. One of the most visually striking scientific edition was part of a series of classic medical texts, including the books ever printed, and one of the most attractive examples of works of Vesalius, Eustachius and Harvey, edited by the celebrated color printing issued by noted Victorian publisher William anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (see G-M ). Pickering. Byrne’s edition of Euclid’s Elements, in which brightly (). Fabrizio’s collected surgical works, first published in Latin colored diagrams in red, yellow, blue and black are used in place of in an unillustrated small-format edition in . The plates illus- the customary letters and symbols, “is a very curious work in which trating this th-century edition Caslon’s old-face pica is associated with Chiswick Press initials and first appeared in the  folio ornaments and with diagrams and symbols printed in brilliant col- Latin edition issued by Bolzetta; ors, these being ‘used instead of letters for the greater ease of these were reproduced in later learners.’ Youthful learners would certainly be vastly amused, but editions and translations. probably rather bewildered, by the chromatic display of the hand- Included here is Fabrizio’s some quarto pages. Pickering may, however, be credited with Pentateuchos cheirurgicum (first having fathered a gallant, if unsuccessful, experiment in education” ed. ) and the Operationes (Keynes, Pickering, p. ; see also p. ). Byrne’s colored diagrams, chirurgicae, originally published whatever their drawbacks as a teaching aid, may be appreciated by in . “The five books of the modern viewers as highly reminiscent of the geometrical paint- Pentateuchos are primarily de- ings of Piet Mondrian.  voted to the description of tu- fi See color illustration on back cover mors, wounds, ulcers and stulas, fractures, and dislocations; to . Fabrizio, Girolamo [Fabricius ab these the Operationes adds a de- Aquapendente]. (ca. –). scription of surgical instruments (some of which are illustrated) (). Opera omnia anatomica et physiologica. . . . and classic surgical techniques, including a discussion of particular technical expedients devised by Fabricius himself and emphasizing Cum praefatione Bernardi Siegfried Albini ff       some di erences between Fabrizio’s technique and that of others” ( – ). Folio. [ ], , [ ]pp. copperplates (DSB). Of particular interest is Fabrizio’s extensive discussion of

 dentistry and oral surgery, in which he describes techniques for . Ferrier, Sir David (–). various operations such as tartar removal, treatment of dental The functions of the brain. vo. xv, [], , [] (last  fi caries, the ling and extraction of teeth, tooth replacement, and adverts.). Text wood-engrav- the treatment of lockjaw and jaw dislocations. “One noteworthy fi ings. London: Smith, Elder, item, which must be regarded as progress, is that we do not nd a    single word in [Fabrizio’s] work about loosening teeth through . × mm. Original cauterizing agents, the treatment which was so highly cultivated cloth, uncut & unopened, in a by the Arabs and so eagerly incorporated in the West” (Hoffmann- cloth box. Very slight foxing, Axthelm, Hist. Dentistry, p. ; also pp.  & ). Fabrizio de- but fine. $ scribed several dental instruments, such as the “pelican” for tooth First Edition. G-M . The extraction, the crow’s bill forceps for removing roots, the stork’s foundation of knowledge of localiza- bill forceps for removing incisors, the “dog’s bite” forceps, a drill, a tion of cerebral function. Using electrical stimulation and cortical rasper, etc. These are not shown here, but were illustrated by ablation, Ferrier showed conclusively that various neurologic func- Scultetus, pupil of Fabrizio’s successor Spigelius, in his Armamen- tions were controlled by separate parts of the cerebrum and that tarium chirurgicum ( and numerous later eds.). Also of interest damage or loss of that part created an irrevocable and particular is the suit of orthopedic armor designed by Fabrizio and illustrated deficit. He showed that these areas were much more discrete as in the first two plates; this device “was in the shape of a man, [and] one ascended the phylogenetic scale and accordingly effects of designed to combine in one apparatus the principles for all existing brain damage in rabbits, dogs and cats etc. could not be compared devices for the correction of orthopedic injuries and deformities” to those in monkeys, apes and human beings. Norman / Grolier (DSB). Heirs of Hippocrates –.  Club,  Books Famous in Medicine, .   . Feigel, Johann Theodor Anton (–). . Ferrier. Anatomische Abbildungen oder Erläuterungstafeln zu The same, but second edition, rewritten and enlarged.    dem Handbuche der Anatomie. Atlas only; lacking vo. xxiii [ ], pp. Text illustrations. London:    accompanying text. Folio. Lith. title,  full-page plates Smith, Elder, . × mm. Original cloth, numbered I–LV,  folding or double-page plates worn at spine. Light browning & foxing, but very numbered I–IX, after drawings by the author. Some good. Ownership signature on title. Bookplate.  hand-coloring. [Würzburg: n.p., ?]  ×  $ mm. Orig. cloth, worn (esp. at spine). Minor soiling and foxing, but a very good, sound copy. Ownership Moving the Obelisk signature on title. $ . Fontana, Domenico (–). First Edition of the atlas to Feigel’s Vollständiges Handbuch  Della transportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano. . . . Folio. der Anatomie ( ), with handsome large lithographed plates af- [], , [] ff.  engraved ter the author’s drawings; the veins and arteries are hand-colored titles, both signed by in blue and red. Feigel, a professor at the University of Würzburg, Natal Bonifacio (b. ); was a highly talented artist who illustrated all three of the medical   works he published during his short life. Hirsch.  full-page and double-page engravings. See color frontispiece, fig.  Without the blank . Fermi, Enrico (–). conjugate to the first Thermodynamics. vo. x, pp. Text diagrams. New engraved title, as in  York: Prentice-Hall, .  ×  mm. Original almost all copies. × cloth, slightly shaken, front cover a little spotted. Very  mm. Rome: good copy. Former owner’s signature and occasional Domenico Basa, . annotations; Library of Congress withdrawal stamp. Modern full morocco gilt $ in a remarkable repro- First Edition. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Co- duction of period style, lumbia University. Fermi received the  Nobel Prize for phys- text expertly washed. First engraved title expertly ics for his discovery of new radioactive elements produced by remargined with a tiny portion of the border in one neutron irradiation, and for the discovery of nuclear reactions corner in pen-facsimile, minor marginal repairs to the induced by slow neutrons. DSB. Fermi, Collected Papers, ed. Segrè      following or leaves, but on the whole a very good et al., p. xiv. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. – . and attractive copy. $,

 First Edition. One of the greatest engineering feats of the .  ×  mm. (uncut). Original printed Renaissance was the removal of the Vatican obelisk from its old wrappers, edges a bit frayed. Very good. $ location behind the sacristy of St. Peter’s, where it had been since First Edition. Franck, a close friend and colleague of Born at the reign of Caligula, to its present one in the center of the Piazza Göttingen, shared the  Nobel Prize for physics with Gustav of St. Peter. The problem of transporting this heavy and fragile Hertz for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an stone tower had occupied Italian engineers for many years, so that electron on an atom. “Problems of energy transfer in collisions had when Pope Sixtus V appointed a council to consider ways and means occupied Franck since he started research, and in  his only  of moving the obelisk, nearly men came to submit their plans. publication in book form appeared; written with P. Jordan, it con- ffi The honor went to Domenico Fontana, the pope’s o cial archi- tains the basic ideas of most of his work to that date” (DSB). Mehra tect, who proved to the council the feasibility of his proposal by & Rechenberg, Hist. Dev. Quantum Mechanics, III, p. . Weber, making a scale model in lead. “Fontana’s plan was to erect a framed Pioneers of Science, pp. –.  tower of timbers surrounding the obelisk and then by means of ropes attached to the tower to raise the obelisk from its pedestal . Franklin, John (–). and afterward lower it so that it should rest on a wooden platform. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea, This platform he proposed to draw on rollers to the new site, in the years , , , and . to. xvi, pp., - where the tower would be re-erected and the great stone raised   from its horizontal position on the platform to the vertical and set page publisher’s catalogue. engraved plates (  on the new base” (Parsons, Engineers and Engineering in the Renais- hand-colored), fold. maps. London: John Murray, sance, p. , col. ). Fontana left a detailed account of the opera- .  ×  mm. (uncut). Original boards, tion in his Della transportatione dell’obeliscoVaticano , “a record that rebacked in cloth, some wear & spotting. Light in format, type and engravings, makes one of the handsomest and marginal browning, occasional fox-marks, but very most complete records of any engineering problem” (Dibner, good. th cent. owner’s name (“Thomas Levett”) on  Moving the Obelisks, p. ). The plates also illustrate many of the front cover. $ buildings and designs that Fontana executed for Pope Sixtus V; they First Edition of this classic travel narrative, which went constitute the only record of his work that Fontana left behind through four editions in two years. It tells the story of Franklin’s him. Dibner ; Moving the Obelisks, pp. –. Fowler . first Arctic expedition, the purpose of which was to gain a better Mortimer, Italian Sixteenth-Century Books, . Norman . Par- knowledge of the geography of the northern coast of North sons, pp. –.  America (particularly the region extending eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River) and to search for the Northwest . Fort, J[oseph] A[uguste] (- ). ff Passage. 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 First Edition. The culmination of Frege’s work in mathemati- plates, which may be an error). Waller  (copy with pp. & cal logic, the modern version of which he had founded in   plates). Hirsch.  with the publication of his Begriffschrift. Frege’s goal in writing the Grundgesetze was to establish the logical foundation of arithmetic; . Galilei, Galileo (–). however, while the second volume of the work was at the printer’s, Opere de Galileo Galilei. . . .  vols., to. Variously Bertrand Russell wrote to Frege to tell him that his system in- paginated. Engraved volved a fatal contradiction, now known as “Russell’s paradox” (a frontispiece by Stefano problem that still continues to occupy modern logicians). Frege   responded by inserting an appendix into the second volume pro- Della Bella ( – ), posing a way out of the paradox; however, Russell had shown that signed with his mono- Frege’s fundamental assumption was in error, and Frege published gram, engraved portrait no important logical works after the Grundgesetze. DSB. Van by F. Villamoena, folding Heijenoort, From Frege to Gödel, pp. –.  plate, text illustrations. Bologna: HH. del Dozza, Hand-Colored Plates  (Vol. II with title    . Galès, Jean-Chrysanthe (–). dated ). × mm. Limp vellum ca. Mémoire et rapports sur les fumigations sulfureuses  appliquées au traitement , a little worn, front ff hinge of Vol. I weak. Uneven browning, occasional des a ections cutanées et  de plusieurs autres foxing, lacuna in Vol. I title repaired and leaf + maladies. vo. []  [], remargined, Vol. II title remargined. Very good copy.  []pp.  hand-colored Signature in Vol. II of Italian physician and philosopher  Giambattista Capponi (d. ), and occasional and uncolored en-  graved plates, on blue marginalia in his hand. $ paper. Paris: de First Collected Edition of the works of Galileo, edited by Carlo Manolessi, with an allegorical frontispiece prepared espe- l’Imprimerie Royale;   cially for this edition by the noted Italian etcher Stefano Della chez l’auteur, . Bella. The frontispiece shows Galileo kneeling before the allegori- ×  mm. Straight- cal figures of Astronomy, Optics and Mathematics; with his right grain morocco c. , hand he gives them a telescope, and with his left hand he gestures a.e.g., rubbed at hinges, toward the sun, which is covered with sunspots and surrounded by corners & extremities, spine a little faded. Some six planets arranged somewhat like the six globes in the Medici foxing, but very good. $ arms (the Medicis were Della Bella’s patrons). In the background First Edition, First Issue, Variant with Hand-Colored are a sailing ship, a cannon and an astronomical drawing. This copy Plates not noted in Ehring. Galès developed a method of was once in the library of Giambattista Capponi, a professor of treating scabies and other generalized skin disorders by means of medicine and philosophy at the University of Bologna and author fumigation with sulfur vapors. Galès is best remembered for his of several works on medical, historical and literary subjects; see  NBG. Cinti . Carli & Favaro . De Vesme, Stefano Della infamous “rediscovery” of the scabies mite in ; the supposed   acarus, which he claimed to have found in the scabies vesicle (an Bella, ed. Massar, . incorrect location), was actually a common cheese mite, artfully    placed in the vesicle by Galès himself (see Crissey & Parish, pp. . Galton, Sir Francis ( – ). –). There appear to be two versions of the first edition of the Finger prints. vo. xvi, pp.  plates. London: Mémoire recorded in OCLC, RLIN, NUC and the printed sources: Macmillan, .  × one with  pages and either  or  plates illustrating various  mm.(partially cases; and one with  additional pages and  plates, the additional unopened). Original plates showing the fumigating apparatus. Ehring makes no men- cloth, uncut, spine faded. tion of copies with colored plates and uses a black-and-white en- Slight browning. Very graving from the second edition of  to illustrate his commen- good copy. $ tary on Galès’s work. Given Ehring’s focus on illustrations of skin  diseases, it is virtually certain that Ehring would have cited and First Edition. G-M . PMM . One of the earliest illustrated the colored-plate variant had he known of it. Ehring, fi Skin Diseases, pp. – (describing a copy with pp. and  systems of physical identi cation of individuals, especially criminals. Galton’s work presented a par-

 ticularly well-defined system of classifcation, and was recom- . Gesellius, Franz. mended for use by the British police forces. He showed that the Capillar-Blut—undefibrinirtes—zur Transfusion. odds of two individuals having identical prints were astronomical, Einer neuer Apparat zur described the method for taking clear prints, and classed prints by   fi Transfusion. . . . vo. [ ], whorl, loop and arch patterns. He also amassed the rst data on the  influence of heredity on fingerprint patterns, showing that pattern iv, pp. Text wood- types were transmitted through inheritance. Norman .  engravings. St. Peters- burg: A. Münx, . First Modern Textbook of Oral Surgery  ×  mm. Paste     paper boards c. , . Garretson, James Edward ( – ). spine defective. Light browning, but very good. th A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, cent. stamp of Herm. Schwartz; stamp & bookplate of jaws and associate parts. the Boston Med. Lib. $ vo.  [, adverts.]pp. fi  fi  First Edition. Gesellius opposed the use of de brinated blood plates (the rst in transfusions, believing that defibrination robbed blood of essen- included in the pagina- tial elements. He “sought to introduce the use of what he called tion), text wood-engrav- ‘capillary blood,’ obtained by means of an ingenious apparatus which ings. Philadelphia: punctured the skin of the donor’s back in many places at once. Lippincott, .  × Blood was then sucked from the punctured surface and allowed to  run into a receptacle from which is was transferred to the recipient’s mm. Full calf in  antique style. Light vein” (Keynes, Blood Transfusion, p. ). Gesellius’s transfusion ap- ff paratus is illustrated in the present work. Gesellius also supported browning, some o setting from plates, small animal-to-human transfusions, maintaining this erroneous (and dampstain in upper margins of some leaves, but very dangerous) belief well into the s. Malus, pp. –.  good. $ First Edition. G-M .. The first modern textbook of . Gibbs, J. Willard (–). oral surgery, by the man who helped establish the practice as a Elementary principles in statistical mechanics. xviii, separate specialty. “It was proved very quickly that men such as  [] pp. New York: Scribner’s; London: Arnold, [Samuel P] Hullihen [d. ] and Garretson, who were skillful .  ×  mm. Orig. cloth, slightly worn, dentists and physicians, had obtained operative results completely ff minor foxing on endpapers and fore-edges. Fine copy. di erent from those of the general surgeons. Their familiarity  with intraoral work and their knowledge of dental technique made $ it possible for them to construct the auxiliary apparatuses neces- First Edition. Gibbs’ work marked a major advance in statis- sary for surgical procedures on the jaw” (Hoffmann-Axthelm, Hist. tical mechanics, a discipline that replaces a purely mechanical view Dentistry, p. ). Included in Garretson’s work is a chapter on of natural phenomena with one combining mechanics with prob- fi general anesthesia, along with chapters on rhinoplasty, cheiloplasty ability. Statistical mechanics had rst been used by Clausius in the  fi and other facial plastic repairs. Garretson was the first to be offi- s, and had been re ned and improved by Maxwell and cially appointed to a hospital as an “oral surgeon”; his textbook, Boltzmann; however, Gibbs’ comprehensive formulation was the fi later retitled A System of Oral Surgery, went through six editions. rst to bear “the imprint of creative genius. . . . In the history of Rutkow GS.. Patterson Index, p. .  statistical mechanics Gibbs occupies such a dominant position that almost all of the later investigations in statistical physics are related  . Gérin, Octave-Jacques & Espinadel, C. at least partially or indirectly to his standard work” (Haas, pp. ;   La publicité suggestive, théorie et technique. vo. xxiii – ). DSB. Haas, “Gibbs and the statistical conception of phys-    ics,” Commentary on the Scientific Writings of Willard Gibbs, II, pp. [ ], [ ]pp. Double-page folding plate, text illustra-      – (outlining Gibbs’ contributions to statistical mechanics). tions. Paris: Dunod & Pinat, . × mm. Segrè, Falling Bodies to RadioWaves , pp. –.  Original cloth, hinges weak. Very good. Library stamp on title. $ . Gilbreth, Frank Bunker (–). fi First Edition of what appears to be the rst book on the use Field system of . . . [cover title]. 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 . Graham, Thomas (–). logue, pp. –. Nissen, Vogelbücher, . Ripley & Scribner, A.N.s. to Dr. Grey, dated from the Royal Mint Ornith. Books in theYale U. Library, p. .  [London],  December .  page.  ×  mm. See color illustration on front cover Lightly creased, a few tiny pin-holes, but very good.    $ . Grimaud de Caux, Gabriel ( -c. ) & From British chemist Thomas Graham, discoverer of “Graham’s Martin Saint-Ange, Gaspard Joseph (–). Law” of gaseous diffusion, author of the widely used textbook Ele- Physiologie de l’espèce, histoire de la génération de ments of Chemistry (), and founder of colloid chemistry. In l’homme. . . . Text &  he succeeded John Herschel as Master of the Mint; in the atlas in one to volume. present note he sends Grey “a few of the Nova Scotia [illegible] xiv,  []; [] xv []pp. bronzes on which I hope you will be able to recognize the epigram  plates, consisting of  Repens.” DSB. DNB.  lithographed outlines,   engraved uncolored Hand-Colored Ornithological Plates plates printed on proof . Gray, George Robert (–). paper and mounted, and The genera of birds. . . .  vols., imperial to.   engraved hand-colored lithographed plates ( plates, all after Martin hand-colored) printed by Saint-Ange. Paris: H. Hullmandel & Walton Cousin, .  ×  after David William mm. (large paper). Quarter calf c. , rebacked, Mitchell and other corners a little rubbed. Light foxing, but very good. artists, including Joseph $ Wolf (–) and First Edition, Large Paper Copy, no.  of  copies Edward Lear (–). printed in this format. An early, beautifully illustrated study of London: Longman, Brown, human sexuality and reproduction, with plates and comparative anatomical material supplied by the physiologist Martin St. Ange, Green & Longmans, .   and sections on hygiene, sexuality and law supplied by the medical × mm. Half writer Grimaud de Caux. The ideas on sexuality expressed in the  morocco c. , re- Physiologie owe much to those of the th-century physician S. A. backed, a little rubbed. D. Tissot, who believed that unrestrained sexual activity (particu- Lightly browned, a bit of offsetting from plates, but larly the non-procreative varieties) was the cause of a host of ills, fine otherwise. Early th cent. bookplate. including consumption, impotence, sterility, and even madness (not $, an unreasonable assumption, given the prevalence of syphilis in   First Edition, from  parts issued between –; beau- th- and th-century Europe, and contemporary physicians’ im- tifully illustrated with  large lithographed plates, over half of perfect understanding of the stages of that disease). The beauti- which are brilliantly hand-colored. Gray was curator of the British fully drawn plates illustrate the reproductive apparatus of mol- Museum’s ornithological collections from  until his death over lusks, snakes, birds, marsupials and humans. NBG. Hirsch. Wellcome      years later. He contributed to the English edition of Cuvier’s III, p. . Bullough, Science in the Bedroom, pp. – . Règne animal and to Agassiz’s Nomenclator zoologicus, and published    several ornithological works of his own, the most valuable of which . Haas, Arthur Erich ( – ). was his Genera of Birds, which “brought the number of recorded Wave mechanics and the new quantum theory. vo. species of birds up to date, and was a starting point for much xviii,  [, adverts.]pp. London: Constable & Co., subsequent progress in ornithology” (DNB). Many of the plates in .  ×  mm. Original cloth, a bit worn. Fine the later parts are the work of the noted German-British animal copy, from the library of Nobel laureate George painter Josef Wolf, who took over the task of completing the Paget Thomson (–), with his signature on illustrations for the Genera when David Mitchell became Secre- the front endpaper. $ tary of the Zoological Society. Nissen notes that two of the Genera’s First Edition in English. An introductory treatise to the plates are by Edward Lear, author of the classic Book of Nonsense, new quantum mechanics, based on lectures delivered at the Uni- who first achieved prominence as a painter of birds and landscapes. versity of Vienna in –; the English edition incorporates “as A comparable set of this work sold for £, at far as possible” the advances in wave and quantum mechanics made Sotheby’s, London, December , . DNB. Ayer Cata-

 after the publication of the German edition in February . use; and I have every reason to believe that a good many sud- Haas is remembered primarily for being the first to apply a quan- den deaths could be averted in this way. tum formula to the clarification of atomic structure, anticipating Haldane is best known for his discovery (made with J. G. Bohr’s atomic theory. This copy of Haas’s Wave Mechanics is from Priestley) that pulmonary ventilation is regulated by the partial the library of Nobel laureate George Paget Thomson (son of J. J. pressure of CO gas in arterial blood; for his landmark paper Thomson), who shared the physics prize with C. J. Davisson for  describing the mechanics of carbon monoxide poisoning; and for their experimental discovery of interference phenomena in crys- his studies of the effects of stressful conditions, such as high altitude tals irradiated by electrons, which provided proof for Broglie’s or deep sea diving, on normal human physiology. DSB.  matter-wave theory. Thomson’s investigations are mentioned on pp. – of Haas’s work. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. – (Thomson).  “I Cannot Say that the Country Improves Much on Acquaintance” Oxygen Therapy . Hall, Basil (–). . Haldane, John Scott (–).  A.Ls.s. to William Rathbone (–), plus A.L.s. to Capt. Means, dated from Cherwell, Oxford, postscript added to a October , letter to Mrs. Rathbone []. pp., on written by his wife  sheets of Margaret. Various places, Haldane’s  March  -  embossed March . –/pp. total. All letters with integral stationery.  ×  mm. Creased where previously address leaves.  ×  mm. Creased where folded, minor spotting, otherwise fine. previously folded, a few tears along folds, small $ lacunae where seals were removed (minimally affect- Haldane, one of the founders of modern respiratory physiol- ing text), but very good. $  ogy, introduced oxygen therapy in a paper entitled “The thera- A series of letters from the noted travel writer Basil Hall and  peutic administration of oxygen” (see G-M ). In the present his wife Margaret to Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone letter, written the following year, Haldane discussed at length the and his wife, written just before, during, and shortly after the uses of oxygen therapy in wartime (World War I was then in its Halls’ – travels in North America. After returning to Brit- fi nal year) and some of the challenges posed by wartime condi- ain Hall published his three-volume Travels in North America in the tions: Years  and  (), containing a highly critical account of There has been much difficulty over the supply of oxygen American customs that provoked much outrage in the United apparatus owing to material being held up under war regula- States. Hall’s unflattering opinion of the United States is hinted at tions, & the shortage of labour; but many hundreds have been in the last two letters to Rathbone, written while he was working supplied to the British & American armies in France for gas on his book—“I wished to make my observations without bias, & cases. At present, Liebe Gorman & Co. are making a new form now that I have done so, I mean to publish in the same spirit. . . . All as rapidly as possible for the War Office. . . . They are made so the views I had when I last saw you, on this subject, are gone to the that they can be used with a new light form of cylinder, suitable winds—what has been substituted you may possibly one day see” for stretcher cases, but they fit any cylinder, and are very suit- (letter of  Sept. ). Margaret Hall’s letter, written in Wash- able for an ordinary hospital ward. ington D.C. on Jan. , , contains a much franker expression of the Halls’ dislike of the United States: “I cannot say that the You will find the fullest information about oxygen administra- country improves much upon acquaintance. I never had much tion (including improvised methods) in a pamphlet just issued fancy for it I confess, but you may remember how favorably dis- by the Chemical Warfare Medical Committee. . . . This pam- posed towards them Captain Hall was—ask him his opinion now! phlet was mainly drafted by me. It is mainly concerned with But don’t betray us in the meantime if you please, for it is needless gas poisoning, but the problem there is essentially the same as to bring a nest of hornets about our ears . . . things get so distorted in the bad (cyanosed) cases of pneumonia, and all my own expe- and exaggerated by repetition more especially in this most jealous rience shows that in these cases oxygen is of very great ser- country of the remarks of foreigners, that one feels almost as vice. In the sudden accesses of dyspnoea which sometimes oc- much afraid of having one’s remarks overheard, as in the most cur in (or after) influenza oxygen seems usually to produce despotic empire in Europe.” Hall added a postscript to this letter relief at once, & only need by given for about a minute. A light echoing his wife’s request for discretion: “I am a little nervous cylinder with a plain tube, so that a nurse can simply blow some about sending a letter written with so much freedom, but I shall be oxygen in the patient’s open mouth, seems the best thing to

 quite easy upon the subject if you not let a wisper [sic] of the browning, occasional foxing, but very good. Owner- contents go beyond Mr. Rathbone. . . .” ship signature of Geo. Roddam on half-title and first The remainder of Mrs. Hall’s letter contains some fascinating   page of text. Modern bookplate. $ details about their American visit—they met the -year-old Second and best edition in English of G-M , Haller’s classic Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Dec- textbook of physiology. This edition includes the first English trans- laration of Independence; attended sessions of the House and Sen- fi lation of the notes and illustrations prepared by Heinrich Au- ate, where they were “more amused than edi ed by the debates”; gust Wrisberg (–) for his  edition of Haller’s work. and were struck by the election fever then sweeping the nation— Lundsgaard-Hansen-von Fischer .  “everything tends at present towards the Presidential question, which agitates the country everywhere that we have been. Mr. . Hamilton, William Rowan (–). [John Quincy] Adams and General [Andrew] Jackson are the     two watchwords. . . .” DNB.  Lectures on quaternions. vo. [ ] ( ), [ix]-lxxii, []pp. Text diagrams. Author’s Copy, with Annotations Dublin: Hodges & Smith, .  ×  mm. . Hall, Charles Radclyffe (–). Original cloth, a little On the rise, progress and mysteries of mesmerism in worn & shaken, spine all ages and countries. Extract from Lancet (). to. faded, rear hinge crack-  numbered articles, variously paginated. N.p., n.d. ing. Very good copy.  ×  mm. Articles bound together in th-cent. Former owner’s name- pictorial cloth, black backstrip, a little darkened. stamp on title. Some browning, foxing and dampstaining throughout. $ Hall’s own copy, with his signature on the flyleaf: “C. R. First Edition. PMM . Hall / Derwent House (crossed out) / Torquay.” Pencil Hamilton discovered quater- nion algebra in an intuitive flash annotations in what is presumably Hall’s hand at the   foot of p. ; blank sheets pasted over portions of the on October , , after hav- ing spent years searching for a extracts not containing Hall’s article. Stamp of the  means of writing hypercomplex numbers that would give a “natu- Lancet on several pages. $ ral” algebraic representation of three-dimensional space indepen- First Edition. Hall was a strong opponent of the doctrine of dent of coordinate systems. His revolutionary insight was that it animal magnetism, exposing what he believed to be its contradic- was possible to sacrifice the commutative law of multiplication fi tions, absurdities and scienti c weaknesses in the present series of (i.e., ab = ba) and still maintain a consistent and meaningful alge- articles. Based on his investigations, Hall concluded that animal bra. Hamilton’s quaternions were adopted by James Clerk Max- magnetism was a phenomenon of the imagination and had no basis well, who used them in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in physical laws. The articles were published in the Lancet, whose (), and they were significant in the development of later reformist editor, Thomas Wakley, shared Hall’s antimesmerist noncommutative algebras such as matrices and vector analysis. views. DSB. Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, pp. ff We are o ering the author’s copy, bound for him from extracts –. Norman .  from the Lancet, and annotated presumably by him in two places on p. . No separate English edition of Hall’s work appears to  ff . Hardy, Thomas. have been published, either in book or o print form, but an Ameri- The vineyards and wine cellars of California. An essay can book-form edition, reprinted from the Lancet articles, was published the same year that the articles appeared. Not in Crabtree. on early California winemaking . . . edited and with DNB (Wakley).  an introduction by Thomas Pinney and a foreword by Robert Mondavi. to. xxiii [],  []pp.  duotone & . Haller, Albrecht von (–).  color illustrations. San Francisco: Book Club of First lines of physiology . . . translated from the California, . One of  copies printed at the correct Latin edition printed under the inspection of Yolla Bolly Press. Original quarter cloth, printed William Cullen . . . .  vols. in , vo. ; pp. paper boards, slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Near-mint. Edinburgh: Charles Elliot; G. G. J. & J. Robinson, $ fi .  ×  mm. Marbled boards, vellum corners Handsome limited-edition reprint of the rst book about Cali- c. , rebacked in calf, some wear & fading. Light fornia wine, written by the Australian Thomas Hardy, who had pioneered grape growing and winemaking in South Australia. The

 first edition, published in , is extraordinarily rare, with no . [Henderson, Alexander (–)]. copies cited in the United States. This new edition features a su- The history of ancient and modern wines. to. xvi, [] perb introduction by the noted authority on California wine his- pp. Wood- tory, Professor Thomas Pinney, and a foreword by winemaker engraved vi- Robert Mondavi. It is illustrated with photographs from the pe- riod and full-color reproductions of wine-related trade cards and gnettes and labels.  initials, including tipped-in vignette . Hassall, Arthur Hill (–). on title. Folding Food and its adulterations; comprising the reports of table. London: the analytical sanitary Baldwin, Cradock commission of “The & Joy, .  ×  mm. Half calf, marbled boards Lancet” for the years c. , rubbed, leather spine label (chipped). Lightly  to  inclusive. . browned, but very good. th cent. ms. monogram . . vo. [] xlviii,  on front pastedown. $ []pp., publishers’ First Edition. One of the first books in English to describe in adverts.  text wood- detail the “modern” wines familiar to us today. “Henderson devotes engravings. London: fourteen chapters and  pages to modern wines and many of his Longman [etc.], . observations are as valid now as then. [His book] is a large, well- printed text, tastefully illustrated with thirty-two vignettes and  ×  mm. (partially unopened). Original cloth, initial engravings portraying various mythological Bacchian expe- somewhat shaken, worn & spotted. Light browning &   riences” (Gabler, Wine intoWords, p. ). Henderson’s intelligent foxing, but very good. $ discussion of the difficulties of describing wine flavors and smells fi First Edition. The rst half of the nineteenth century saw deserves to be remembered by all those tempted to lapse into the fl agrant and widespread food adulteration practiced by British mer- “purple prose” school of wine writing—“to tell us that [a flavor] is fl chants, who routinely used such substances as alum, potato our, penetrant, volatile, transient, and so forth, is nothing to the pur- chicory and even poisonous mineral salts to extend, bleach and pose: and the only satisfactory and intelligible way in which the  color their products. Public concern had been aroused in description can be given . . . is by a comparison with some other with the publication of Accum’s Treatise on the Adulteration of Food known sensation of taste, respecting which all men are agreed.” ff and Culinary Poisons, but this had little lasting e ect, and food mer- DNB. Simon, Vinaria, . Bitting . Unzelman, p. .  chants continued to adulterate their products until another public  scare in prompted the editor of the Lancet to appoint an . Henry, Thomas (–). Analytical and Sanitary Commission, consisting of Hassall and Dr. A.L.s. to bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson W. Letheby, to investigate and report on the quality of foods con- (–). Undated.  page plus integral address sumed by all classes of the British public. Hassall performed chemi-   cal analyses of suspect foodstuffs, using methods superior to any leaf. × mm. Creased where previously folded, previously employed, and was the first to demonstrate the value small tears along some folds, corners a little chipped, of the microscope in detecting adulterants. His revelations, first light browning & soiling, but very good. $ published in a series of articles in the Lancet from –, Letter from chemist Thomas Henry to his publisher Johnson, inspired the appointment of a select Parliamentary Commission introducing Henry’s oldest son (also Thomas), who was visiting on food adulteration and led to the passage of the first Food and London from Manchester. The elder Henry was nicknamed “Mag- Drug Act in . Drummond & Wilbraham, pp. –. Norman nesia” for his highly lucrative manufacture of calcined magnesia .  for medicinal purposes, which provided a good income for the Henry family until ; a postscript to Henry’s letter reads “You . Hata, Sahachiro (–). forgot to say how you would have the Magnesia sent.” Henry also Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan. translated some of Lavoisier’s chemical works and published a Offprint from Münchener med. Wochenschr., no.  number of memoirs on scientific subjects, including a biography of  (). vo.  []pp. Text diagrams.  ×  mm. Albrecht von Haller. DNB. DSB. Original printed wrappers, slightly browned. Very  . Henry, William (–). good copy. $   First Separate Edition. G-M . Hata, co-discoverer with A.L.s. to [William] Rathbone ( – ), dated Ehrlich of the “magic bullet” Salvarsan (see above under Ehrlich), from Manchester, Dec. , . –/pp.  ×  was the first to use it in the treatment of rat-bite fever. Extremely mm. Creased where previously folded, wear along rare.

 some folds, light soiling, a few pin-holes, but very led to Anderson’s discovery of the positron and Powell’s discovery good. Biographical notice of Henry tipped to first of the pi-meson. The present paper gives a brief history of the page. $ events leading to Hess’s discovery, as well as an account of the current status of cosmic-ray research. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. From the noted British chemist William Henry, son of Thomas    Henry (see above), friend of John Dalton, enunciator of “Henry’s – . Law” of the solubility of gases, and author of Elements of Experimen-    tal Chemistry ( &  subsequent eds.), the most popular and . Hood, Wharton P[eter] ( – ). successful English-language chemistry textbook of its day. His cor- On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the respondent was the Liverpudlian philanthropist William Rathbone, treatment of who had sent Henry a bust of historian William Roscoe (– joints crippled by ), author of popular biographies of Lorenzo de’Medici and injury, rheuma-  Leo X. DNB for Rathbone & Roscoe. DSB. tism, inflamma- tion, &c. &c. . Hershey, Alfred (- ) & Chase, Martha    vo. ix, [ ], ( - ). pp., pp. Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid publisher’s in growth of bacteriophage. In: J. Gen. Physiol.        catalogue. full- ( ), pp. – . Whole number, vo. pp. Text page text illustrations. London & New York: illustrations. Baltimore: Rockefeller Institute for       Macmillan, . × mm. Quarter morocco, Medical Research, . × mm. Original marbled boards in period style. Lightly browned, one printed wrappers, worn, front hinge splitting, library or two marginal tears, but very good. $ stamps on front cover. Light browning, corners a First Edition. G-M .. The first book on manipulation little frayed, but on the whole a good to very good written by a physician. The art of bone-setting, which evolved into copy. $ modern-day osteopathy and chiropractic, was practiced for thou- First Edition of Hershey and Chase’s classic  paper de- sands of years; in England, its methods remained in the hands of a scribing their famous “Waring Blender” experiment that showed few families, who jealously guarded their secrets from publica- DNA to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduc- tion. However, in  Richard Hutton, a well-known bonesetter, tion. G-M . This marked a major turning point in the develop- was treated without charge by Peter Hood, a London physician; ment of molecular biology, comparable to that occasioned by the the grateful Hutton then taught his secrets to Hood’s son Wharton Watson / Crick model of DNA structure. Hershey shared the Peter on the condition that the methods remain unpublished dur-  Nobel Prize for physiology / medicine for his investigations ing Hutton’s lifetime. “The essence of these teachings was that into viral genetic structure and replication mechanisms. Brock, The every damaged joint . . . was ‘put out’ and must be ‘put in’ again by Emergence of Bacterial Genetics, pp. –.  jerky passive manipulation” (Le Vay ; also –). Hood’s book represents a rare truce between trained physician and medically . Hess, Victor Franz (–). unqualified bonesetter; the two groups were more often bitter The discovery of cosmic radiation. Offprint from rivals for the same patients.  Thought: Fordham University Presentation Copy Quarterly  . Howard, John (?–). (). vo. An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with –pp. various papers ×  mm. relative to the Original printed plague: Together wrappers, a bit worn & faded, creased horizontally. with further Light browning, but very good. Inscribed by the author observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; on the first page: “Dr. E. Froeschels / with cordial and additional remarks on the present state of those in greetings / and the expression of / his sincere grati- Great Britain and Ireland. to. [v-vii] viii,  [] pp. tude / from the /author.” $  engraved plates, fold. eng. table. Lacking half-title First Separate Edition. Hess received a share of the  Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery of cosmic radiation, which and (possibly) initial blank, as in most presentation

 copies. Warrington: William Eyres for T. Cadell, J. spine. Light dust-soiling to edges, but very good. Johnson, C. Dilly, and J. Taylor, .  ×  mm. Library bookplate; bookseller’s ticket. $ Half calf, gilt spine, rubbed. Light browning & foxing, First Edition. A greatly expanded reworking of G-M , but very good. Presentation copy, with blank leaf Hutchinson’s classic description of the peculiar notched incisors (“Hutchinson’s teeth”) in congenital syphilis. The present memoir (possibly original initial blank) bound after the title, fi bearing Howard’s inscription: “Mr. Howard requests contains the rst complete account of “Hutchinson’s triad” (malfor- mations of the teeth, interstitial keratitis and nerve deafness) now Mr. Baron Perryn, will be kind enough to accept this regarded as diagnostic of the disease. Crissey & Parish, p. . book from him, as a small mark of his respect.”  Perryn’s engraved bookplate on front pastedown. $ . Jameson, Robert (–). First Edition. G-M . Although best known as a prison A.L.s. to William Henry (–), dated from reformer (on the strength of his famous State of the Prisons in Edinburgh, July , . –/pp. plus integral England and Wales []), the English philanthropist John Howard address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previ- was also concerned with the improvement of sanitary conditions ously folded, some soiling to address leaf, a few tiny in other public institutions. His work in this area represents an  important link in the development of the public health move- pin-holes, but very good. $ ment. The present work, an investigation of the conditions of En- From the eminent Scottish geologist Jameson, Regius profes- glish and European hospitals (including mental hospitals and quar- sor of natural history at Edinburgh University, author of System of   antine detention houses) contains both plans and notes on manage- Mineralogy ( – ), founder (with David Brewster) of the ment and personnel; it also includes notes of Howard’s latest in- Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, and the leading advocate of spections of Irish, Scottish and English prisons. Arnold M. Muirhead, Wernerian geology in Great Britain. Jameson’s letter, to noted in his preface to Baumgartner’s John Howard, notes that presenta- Manchester chemist William Henry, introduces Count Breünner tion copies of Howard’s State of the Prisons usually have the half- and Professor Friedrich Mohs, Werner’s successor at the title removed and a separate leaf with Howard’s inscription in- Freiburg Bergakademie and inventor of the Mohs hardness scale  serted; Howard also followed this custom with the Lazarettos. for minerals. DNB. DSB. Baumgartner . Norman .  First Computer to Perform at Superhuman Speed    . [Hunter, John ( – )].    Colyer, J[ames] F[rank] (–). John . Jevons, William Stanley ( – ). Hunter and odontology. to. vi [], pp. Frontis- On the mechanical performance of logical inference. In: Phil. Trans.  (), pp. –.  piece portrait, text illustrations. London: Claudius    Ash, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, a.e.g., a plates. Whole number, to. [ ] – pp.  lithographed plates. London: little worn & shaken. Good to very good copy.    $ Taylor & Francis, . × mm. First Edition of Colyer’s monograph on Hunter’s pioneer- (uncut & unopened). Original printed ing researches on the structure, function and diseases of the teeth, wrappers, split at spine but intact. Fine which placed dentistry on a scientific basis (see G-M  & , copy. Boxed. $ Hunter’s Natural History of the Human Teeth [] and Practical First Edition of Jevons’ first published descrip- Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth []). Colyer’s work is based on tion of his logic machine, called a “logical piano” on a study of Hunter’s anatomical preparations of both human and account of its resemblance to that instrument. Con- animal teeth, and is illustrated with numerous photographs of these. sidered to be an early computer, the “piano” was the  first such machine with enough power to solve com- plicated problems with superhuman speed (Babbage’s First Complete Account of “Hutchinson’s Triad” Analytical Engine, which in theory could have an- ticipated Jevons’ machine in this, was never con- . Hutchinson, Jonathan (–). structed in its entirety), and some of the features of A clinical memoir on certain diseases of the eye and the logical piano can still be found in modern com-   puter design. First demonstrated before the Royal ear, consequent on inherited syphilis. vo. xii,  []pp.  chromolithographed plates with supplemental Society in , the logical piano is still on display in the Oxford Museum of the History of Science. The internal struc-   ×  hand-coloring. London: Churchill, . ture of the machine is illustrated in the three accompanying plates, mm. Original cloth, rebacked preserving original which provide a reasonable guide to its construction. Jevons was a

 pioneer of symbolic logic, and his paper includes a detailed expla- Extremely Rare First Edition of Joseph’s last paper on nation of his system of equational logic, which derived from (and rhinoplasty, with only the Columbia University and U. of Chicago in some important ways improved) the symbolic logic devised by copies cited in NUC, and no copies cited in either RLIN or OCLC. Boole over two decades earlier. DSB. Gardner, Logic Machines and Although printed with multi-lingual text for international distri- Diagrams, pp. –. Schabas, AWorld Ruled by Number, pp. ff. bution, and issued as one in a series of similar papers, it was appar- Lee, Computer Pioneers, pp. –. Randell, The Origins of Digital ently unknown to Patterson and does not appear in the Zeis/ Computers, p. .  Patterson index. The patient had a nose which was abnormally short due to an accident in early youth; the nose was also a hump- . Johnson, Joseph (–). nose. Joseph performed two operations three weeks apart to cor- A.L.s. to William Henry (–), dated from rect the deformity. This appears to be the only paper Joseph wrote London, Nov. , . –/pp., plus integral exclusively on an operation involving elongation of an abnormally short nose. The thirty-two plates show the patient before and after address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previ- in photographs, and the stages of the operation after artist’s draw- ously folded, small tear where seal was broken (not ff ings. After this paper, Joseph’s only other contribution on rhino- a ecting ms.), light browning & soiling, but very plasty was his monumental Nasenplastik (, G-M .).  good. $ Natvig, Jacques Joseph, Surgical Sculptor, pp. –, entry ; see From bookseller Joseph Johnson, publisher of chemist William also Natvig’s illustrations, one of which shows the present work in Henry’s Epitome of Chemistry ( & ten subsequent editions), the its original portfolio-style binding. Not mentioned in McDowell, most popular and successful English-language chemistry textbook “History of Rhinoplasty,” Creation of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, ed. of its day. At the time of Johnson’s letter Henry was working on González-Ulloa.  the sixth edition, the first to be published under its more familiar title of Elements of Experimental Chemistry. Johnson was also Kanavel’s Classic on Hand Surgery Humphry Davy’s publisher, a fact he refers to in the present letter: . Kanavel, Allen B. (–). You will be pleased to hear that Mr. [Humphry] Davy is about Infections of the hand. Set of editions – and – publishing a popular work in three volumes [probably a refer- ( reprint of the th ence to Davy’s Elements of Chemistry (), only the first vol-  fi edition). vo. Text illustrations. ume of which was published] about the size of your rst edi- Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, tion, and we expect the first will be ready soon after Christ-    ×  mas. – . mm. Original cloth, a little worn &  DNB. DSB for Henry. shaken, hinges in rd ed. cracked, edition numbers Joseph’s Last Paper on Rhinoplasty written on spine in white . Joseph, Jacques (–). chalk. Light browning, owner- Eine Nasenplastik ausgeführt in Lokalanaesthesie. vo. ship signatures and annotations []pp.  plates. in a few volumes, but good to very good. $ Berlin: Georg fi   fi Stilke, .  Six of the rst seven editions of G-M . , the rst com-  prehensive treatise on hand surgery. Kanavel developed the method × mm. of forcible injection of radio-opaque material into tendon sheaths Original printed and fascial spaces of the hand; this enabled him to find a definite and boards (from constant pattern in the way that infectious material spread from orig. portfolio- sheath to space, and to drain infected areas without damage to style binding), important structures. Kanavel’s classic work “did more to awaken later cloth the surgical conscience to the anatomic intricacies of hand surgery backstrip, a few small stains, a little worn at spine. than did almost any other single contribution” (Bick). Each succes- Lightly browned, fore-margin of title leaf trimmed sive edition of Kanavel’s work bears substantial revisions; together these first six editions show the evolution of hand surgery over the and a little creased, otherwise very good. Stamp of first third of the th century. Boyes, On the Shoulders of Giants, pp. the Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Bibliothek, –.  Tübingen on title and front and back endpapers. $

 . Kanavel; Koch, Sumner; & Mason, Michael First Editions. G-M .; .; (n). Many of the (–). bacteriological studies for which Koch became famous were pub- Collection of  offprints, pamphlets, etc. on infec- lished in the Mittheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte, a tions and orthopedic disabili- “house organ” of the Imperial Department of Health where Koch had been appointed government advisor (Regierungsrat) in . ties of the hand, with typed The first volume of the Mittheilungen is particularly rich in Koch index and obituary notice of material: it contains no fewer than five papers written or co-writ- Kanavel. Various sizes, bound ten by Koch, including his landmark “Zur Untersuchung von in one to volume. V.p., – pathogenen Organismen,” in which he described his development . Buckram, somewhat soiled of the plate technique for cultivating—the first consistent method & worn;  offprints with for obtaining pure cultures of virtually any species of bacteria. The original printed wrappers remaining papers include Koch’s “Ueber Desinfection,” in which bound in. A few leaves frayed, he demonstrated mercuric chloride’s superiority to carbolic acid as a disinfectant, as well as his “Zur Aetiologie des Milzbrandes,” a but a very good set, from the continuation of his anthrax studies, and two papers co-written with library of Edward Delos Wolffhügel, Gaffky and Loeffler on disinfection with hot air and Churchill (–; see G-M .), with his steam. bookplate. $ Vol. II of the Mittheilungen opens with Koch’s “Die Aetiologie A group of papers on the hand by Kanavel and his successors der Tuberculose,” an expanded account of his epochal discovery Sumner Koch and Michael Mason, who together were largely that tuberculosis is caused by a specific bacterium (Bacillus tubercu- responsible for the development of hand surgery as a separate losis); this followed two years after Koch’s preliminary announce- discipline. Included here is Mason and Clarence Shearon’s impor- ment of the discovery in a paper of the same title, published in the tant paper, “The process of tendon repair: An experimental study Berliner klinischeWochenschrift  (). The  paper records of tendon suture and tendon graft” (Arch. Surg.  []), de- Koch’s success in producing experimental tuberculosis in animals scribed by Boyes as “one of the classics of the literature of experi- after cultivating the bacillus, and also announces what became known mental tendon repair” (On the Shoulders of Giants, p. ). The as “Koch’s postulates” for isolating and testing a disease-causing remaining papers deal with treatment of clinical infections, con- organism. It was this paper, rather than the  preliminary an- genital malformations, compound injuries, carcinoma, tendon rup- nouncement, that was selected by the Grolier Club to represent ture, human bite infections, etc.  Koch’s achievement in its exhibit and catalogue of  Books Fa- mous in Medicine. This volume of the Mittheilungen also contains . [Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim (–)] “Experimentelle Studien über die künstliche Abschwächung der The kosher code of the orthodox Jew. Translated by S. Milzbrandbacillen und Milzbrandinfection durch Fütterung,” a pa-   per on artificial attenuation of the anthrax bacillus co-written by I. Levin and Edward A. Boyden. vo. xx, pp. Text ff ffl illustrations. Minneapolis: U. of Minn. Press, []. Koch, Ga ky and Loe er. Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in , in a large part for his work on tuberculosis. DSB. Grolier  ×   mm. Original cloth. Fine copy. $ Club,  Books Famous in Medicine,  (Tuberculose). Horblit  First Edition in English of those parts of the Talmud deal- (Pathogenen Organismen).  ing with the anatomical deficiencies that render animals unfit for food, together with discussion of Talmudic knowledge of anatomy See color frontispiece, fig.  “in the light of the science of its day and of the present time.”  . Kraepelin, Emil (–). Einführung in die psychiatrische Klinik. vo. viii, . Koch, Robert (–). pp. Leipzig: J. A. Barth, . Original cloth, spine Zur Untersuchungen von pathogenen Organismen. In: faded. Light browning, occasional marginal notes. Mittheil. kais. Gesundheitsamte  (): –. With: Very good copy. $ Ueber Desinfection. In: ibid.: –. With: Die First Edition. G-M . Kraepelin was among the most     influential proponents of the organic or physical concept of mental Aetiologie der Tuberkulose. In: ibid. ( ): – . fi Together  vols., to. [],  []; [],  []pp.  plates illness. He devised a new classi cation of insanity, in which mental diseases were divided into two broad categories: dementia prae- ( chromolithographed,  double-page). Berlin: A.     cox (a term he coined), characterized by an inexorable downward Hirschwald, – . × mm. Original course into mental derangement, and manic-depressive or epi- boards, cloth backstrips, rebacked retaining original sodic psychoses. He also separated mental illnesses caused by ex- spines, a little worn & chipped. Library stamps on ternal factors (such as fever), which were curable, from those titles, light browning, but very good. Boxed. $

 caused by internal factors (such as metabolic imbalance), which at First Edition. The proceedings of the first international Solvay the time were not. This “diagnosis by prognosis” was one of the Conference on physics, devoted to radiation theory and the quanta. most original features of Kraepelin’s psychiatry. Kraepelin’s sys- The purpose of the conference was twofold: “first, there was the tem represented the culmination of the purely scientific—as op- need to examine whether classical theories (molecular-kinetic posed to philosophical—approach to mental disease, in which the theory and electrodynamics) could, in some undiscovered ways, emphasis is on the “natural laws” governing mental disease rather provide an explanation of the problem of black-body radiation and than on the individual personalities of the sufferers. Norman . of the specific heat of polyatomic substances at low temperatures;  secondly, to consider phenomena in which the theory of quanta could be successfully used” (Mehra, The Solvay Conferences on Phys- Revival of Plastic Surgery in the West ics, p. ; see also pp. –, containing summaries of all the papers delivered). Among the participants were Max Planck, who gave . B. L. an exposition of the arguments that had led him to the discovery of [Article on Hindu rhinoplasty.] In: The Gentleman’s the quantum of action; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who re- Magazine LXIV, pt. , no. ported on the discovery of superconductivity of certain metals at  (October, ) – extremely low temperatures; Arnold Sommerfeld, who dis- ,  plate (at p. ). cussed the production of x-rays by high speed electrons; and Albert Einstein, who summarized many aspects of the quantum con- vo. [], []–,   cept, particularly in regard to his explanation of the anomalies of [ ]pp. (containing specific heats at low temperatures.  nos., July-December,  & supplement).  . Lardner, Dionysius (–). plates (of ). [London]: Popular lectures on science and art.  vols., vo. ; Nichols, .  ×   [, adverts.]pp. mm. Calf c. , a little Striking wood-engraved rubbed.. Slight foxing & frontispiece of the soiling but very good. moon’s surface, text th century signature illustrations. New York: and bookplate of Richard Kneeshaw; library bookplate Greeley & McElrath, and stamp. $ .  ×  mm. First Edition. The first report published in Europe of the Original cloth, a little fl Indian forehead- ap method of rhinoplasty. “B. L.’s” report in The worn. Light foxing & Gentleman’s Magazine of the curious operation of making a nose browning, but very good. from a forehead flap, accompanied by an engraving of the patient Library bookplate and stamp. $ Cowasjee with restored nose and showing the stages of the opera- Second edition of Lardner’s popular scientific lectures deliv- tion, sparked Western interest in plastic operations. This interest ered during a lecturing tour of the United States and Cuba, from culminated in Carpue’s successes with the Indian method in – which Lardner reportedly earned £,. One of the th  (G-M ) which were the turning point in the develop- century’s foremost popularizers of science, Lardner wrote or ed- ment of modern plastic surgery. Gnudi & Webster – & fig. ited an enormous number of works on its various branches, par-  reproducing the famous Cowasjee plate. McDowell –, ticularly mathematics, astronomy and physics. DNB.  reproducing plate. Zeis / Patterson , also noting a later article on p.  calling attention to European rhinoplasty and Tagliacozzi.  . [Larrey, Dominique Jean (–)] Triaire, Paul (–). Napoléon et Larrey: The First Solvay Conference Récits inédits de la revolution et de l’empire. Large vo. xv [],  []pp.  wood-engraved plates    . Langevin, Paul ( – ) & Broglie, (several hand-colored), with printed tissue   Maurice de ( – ), editors. guards. Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et fils, .  La théories du rayonnement et les quanta. Rapports et ×  mm. Original elaborately gilt-stamped cloth     discussions. . . . vo. [ ] [ ]pp. Paris: Gauthier- with portraits of Larrey and Napoleon on front cover,    Villars, . × mm. (uncut & unopened). t.e.g., a little worn & shaken. First & last leaves Original printed wrappers, spine chipped with some browned, but very good. $ loss. Light browning but very good. $

 First Edition. Hand- advocate of temperance, and often wrote about the evil conse- somely bound and illustrated quences of overindulgence in alcohol, particularly hard liquor. history based on unpublished Abraham, Lettsom, pp. , .  correspondence, memoirs and campaign notes by Larrey, sur- . Lipschitz, Rudolf (–). geon-in-chief of Napoleon’s Group of  papers on mathematics. Various sizes. V.p., Grande Armée and arguably –.  offprints disbound,  with front wrappers the greatest military surgeon in   present. Some foxing. Complete list available on history; see G-M and .  Some of the plates are hand- request. $ colored, which is highly unusual First Separate Editions. Lipschitz is best known for the for books of this period.  “Lipschitz condition” attached to the Cauchy-Lipschitz existence theorem, and for his important series of papers on n-dimensional differential forms, the calculus of variations, geometry and me- chanics, which he began publishing in journals in . In these papers (several of which are included here), he drew on and ex- Presentation Copy tended the work of Riemann, who in his famous lecture of  ff .Léotard, Joseph. had formulated the principal problems of di erential geometry in De la rhinoplastie. vo. [] viii, []– []pp. Litho- higher-dimension manifolds. Lipschitz’s work was continued by G. Ricci, whose absolute differential calculus Einstein began using in graphed plate, folding table. . Lipschitz was also the author of Grundlagen der Analysis, Montpellier: Jean Martel dealing with the fundamental questions of mathematical research l’aîné, .  ×  mm. and mathematical instruction; it was the first book of its kind ever (uncut & partially unopened). published in German. DSB. Klein, Mathematical Thought, pp. ; Original printed wrappers, .  small splits in spine. Fine copy. Author’s presentation inscription Antisepsis on front wrapper: “A l’ami . Lister, Joseph (–). Marcellin [ lines, illegible] J On a new method of treating compound fracture, Léotard D. M.”; Augustin abscess, etc., with observations on the conditions of Marcellin was one of the more suppuration. In: Lancet  (): –, –, than two dozen people to whom Léotard dedicated his –, –;  (): –. With: On the thesis. Boxed. $ antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery. In: First Edition, and rare, with only the Blocker Library copy Lancet  (): –, –. Together  volumes cited in OCLC; not in NUC or RLIN. Léotard’s thesis includes an  ffi early history of rhinoplasty from ancient times to the mid-nine- of Lancet, to. London: George Fall, at the o ce of teenth century, as well as a discussion of the different methods used “The Lancet,” .  ×  mm. Half calf c. , (Indian, Italian, German, French) and a resumé of the rules to be rebacked, a little rubbed. Very good copy. $ observed in performing rhinoplastic operations. Zeis .  First Edition. G-M , . PMM c. Two of the most epoch-making contributions to surgery: Lister’s papers on the an- . Lettsom, John Coakley (–). tiseptic principle in surgery, and on the antiseptic prevention of Some remarks on the effects of lignum quassiae amarae. wound infection. As head of the surgical wards at Glasgow’s Royal fi  In: Mem. Med. Soc. London  (), pp. –. In rmary, Lister was appalled at the % mortality rate among Engraved plate. Whole volume, vo. xxvii [],  post-surgical patients, most of it caused by post-operative infec- tions such as gangrene, erysipelas, septicemia, etc. After studying []pp.  plates. London: Fry & Couchman for Charles     the problem he came to believe that wound suppuration was a Dilly, . × mm. Tree calf c. , gilt form of putrefaction, a belief confirmed by the writings of Pas- spine, a little rubbed at hinges & corners. Fine copy teur, who had recently proved that putrefaction was a fermenta- apart from some minor foxing and marginal pencil tive process caused by living mirco-organisms. Lister believed marks. th cent. engraved bookplate. $ that it was necessary to kill the micro-organisms already present in First Edition. G-M . Lettsom’s paper includes the first wounds and to prevent their re-entry by the use of bandages description of alcoholism, the physical and psychological effects of soaked in an antiseptic substance. He adopted carbolic acid as an which are outlined vividly here. Lettsom, a Quaker, was a lifelong antiseptic after learning of its efficacy in sewage treatment, and

 used it in  cases of compound fracture,  of which recovered— buckram. Title a little soiled, but very good. Lister’s a hitherto unheard-of achievement. Lister described his remark- presentation inscription (slightly touched by the binder’s fi able cures in a classic series of reports, which constitute his rst knife) on title: “With the Author’s kind regards.” Laid published work on the antiseptic principle in surgery. In his second in is Lister’s “Remarks on some points in the history paper, published in the second volume of the Lancet, Lister evolved of antiseptic surgery,” extracted from the June , the idea of the antiseptic prevention of wound infection, giving   full credit to Pasteur, whose work on fermentation had revealed issue of the Lancet.$ to Lister both the cause of wound sepsis and the key to its elimina- First Separate Edition. The principle underlying Lister’s  tion from hospitals. Norman , ; Norman / Grolier Club improved surgical dressings appears on page : “An antiseptic to .  exclude putrefaction, with a protective to exclude the antiseptic, will by their joint action keep the wound free from abnormal . Lister. stimulus.” Lister recognized that there was no such thing as a “heal- Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic ing ointment,” and that injured tissues, once protected by antisep- tic, needed only to be left alone. Lister’s Remarks first appeared in system. In: Lancet  (), pp. –. Whole      Vol. I of the Lancet ( ). Lister’s “Remarks on some points in the volume, to. [ ], [ ]– pp. Text illustrations. history of antiseptic surgery,” laid into this copy, prints the text of London: John James Croft, .  ×  mm. an unfinished letter to Sir Hector Cameron written in . Fisher, Modern quarter cloth, original leather spine label Lister, pp. –. Norman .  preserved. Very good copy. $ First Edition. G-M . Lister’s carbolized catgut ligature . [Lister]. was better than any other previously produced, as it was both Medical diploma issued on  August  by Edinburgh antiseptic and could be absorbed by the body. Lister was thus able University to to cut the ends of his ligatures short and leave them within the William closed wound, contrary to previous surgical practice, in which the Stirling (– ends of a non-absorbent ligature were cut long and left to pro-    ×  trude from the wound for later removal. Lister’s catgut ligature ), signed by Lister and others. mm. thus eliminated a major source of postoperative infection.  Lithographed, with seal of Edinburgh University. Traces of previous mounting, light dust-soiling, but . Lister. very good. $ Effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the The diploma issued to physiologist William Stirling, one of the   great teachers of the subject, and author of Some Apostles of Physi- salubrity of a surgical hospital. In: Lancet ( ), pp.    –; –. Whole volume, to. [] pp. Text ology ( ; G-M ); see also G-M for his prize-winning thesis on electrical stimulation of the skin. The diploma is signed by illustrations. London: John James Croft, .  ×  Joseph Lister as Professor of Clinical Surgery. Among the other mm. Modern quarter cloth. Light soiling to verso notable signers are physician John Hughes Bennett (– title, but very good. $ ), author of the first definite description of leukemia (see G-M First Edition. G-M . Lister’s first attempt to summarize ); toxicologist Robert Christison (–; see G-M his experiences with the antiseptic system at the Glasgow Royal ); physicists Peter Guthrie Tait (–) and Fleeming Infirmary. His results were exemplary—six deaths in the forty Jenkin (–); chemist Alexander Crum Brown (– amputations performed between  and , as opposed to ); astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth (–); ocean- sixteen deaths in the thirty-five amputations performed in the ographer Charles Wyville Thomson (–); and geologist previous two-year period—despite the fact that two wards of the Archibald Geikie (–). All but the first two of these Infirmary were situated over a mass graveyard filled with the are noticed in the DSB.  coffins of cholera victims. Lister’s paper was also issued as a sepa- rate publication the same year. Norman  (separate publica- . Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (–).    tion). Fisher, Joseph Lister, pp. – . Lectures on theoretical physics.  vols., vo. ix [],       Inscribed by Lister ; xii, [ ]; xi [ ], [ ]pp. Text diagrams. London: Macmillan, –.  ×  mm. .Lister. Original cloth, a little worn, one or two small stains. Remarks on a case of compound dislocation of the Light browning, but a very good copy, from the ankle with other injuries; illustrating the antiseptic library of George Weil (b. ), with his signature, system of treatment. vo.  []pp. Edinburgh: dated Feb. , on the front endpaper of each vol- Edmonston & Douglas, .  ×  mm. Modern ume. $

 First Edition in English of four series of lectures delivered possible that they come from the library of the mathematician, A. at the University of Leiden, on “Thermodynamics,” “Entropy and Mayer, who was related to Korselt. Clearly the offprints belonged probability,” “The theory of radiation,” and “The theory of quanta”; to a colleague of Löwenheim’s who shared his interests closely. plus two additional lectures on “Maxwell’s theory” and “The prin- Most of the offprints have been heavily annotated in shorthand, ciple of relativity for uniform translations.” Lorentz shared the with problems worked out in the margins; in one paper,  Nobel Prize for physics with Pieter Zeeman for their inves- Löwenheim’s address has been corrected in the same hand, con- tigations on the influence of magnetism on the phenomena of firming that the owner of the papers knew Löwenheim person- radiation; and his equation describing how mass varies with veloc- ally. It is hard to overemphasize the rarity of these items, the ity was adopted by Einstein in his Special Theory of Relativity (). exceptionally esoteric nature of which would have greatly limited The original owner of this copy, George Weil, was Fermi’s assis- the circle of people who received them from Löwenheim. A com- tant at the University of Chicago; he operated the cadmium con- plete listing of the items in the collection is available on request. trol rods in Fermi’s atomic pile during the staging of the world’s DSB (citing  of the papers in our collection). Van Heijenoort, pp. first controlled nuclear chain reaction in December . DSB. –.  Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. –. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, pp. –.  . Loewi, Otto (–). Die chemische Übertragung der Nervenwirkung. vo. First Theorem of Modern Logic pp. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner, .  × .Löwenheim, Leopold (–).  mm. Original printed Group of  offprints/extracts on mathematical logic wrappers, a little soiled. Loewi’s and related subjects. vo presentation inscription to (various sizes). V.p., –. physiologist / medical bibliogra- Half morocco, gilt. Some pher John F. Fulton (–) browning & soiling, but on the on the front wrapper: “J. F. whole very good. Heavily Fulton with kindest regards, annotated with shorthand O. Loewi.” Fulton’s stamp on pencil notes, calculations, etc., front wrapper. With: Three probably in the hand of offprints by Loewi, two of them inscribed by Loewi to mathematician Alwin Korselt. Fulton; see below for titles. vo (various sizes). V.p., Complete listing available on –. Original printed wrappers. With: Fulton, request. $ John Farquhar (–). The Nobel Prize in First / First Separate Editions of these virtually unobtain- fi medicine : Dale and Loewi and the previous able papers on mathematical logic by Löwenheim, one of the eld’s ff pioneers. All the papers date from Löwenheim’s most fruitful Nobel Prize men in physiology and medicine. O print period, the years between  and , when he published “his from New England J. Med.  (). vo.  []pp.  most important papers on the algebra of logic, continuing and ×  mm. Original printed wrappers. Together  adding to the work of C. S. Peirce, Schröder, and Alfred North items. Very good. $ Whitehead” (DSB). The collection includes Löwenheim’s classic First / First Separate Editions. Loewi’s Nobel lecture on “Über Möglichkeiten im Relativkalkül” (), containing the first the chemical transmission of nerve action, delivered after his re- appearance of what is now known as the Löwenheim-Skolem theo- ceipt of a share of the  Nobel Prize for physiology or medi- rem, the first theorem of modern logic, anticipating Gödel’s com- cine for his demonstration that cardiac nerves respond to chemical pleteness theorem of . A summary and English translation of rather than electrical stimulus. Offered with offprints of three this paper are included in van Heijenoort’s From Frege to Gödel papers by Loewi—“Pharmakologie und Klinik (); “The Ferrier (). The collection also includes Löwenheim’s papers of  lecture on problems connected with the principle of humoral trans- and  in which he “analyzed and improved upon the customary mission of nervous impulses” (); and “Inhibition of choliesterase methods for solving equations . . . and proved what is now known activity of nervous tissues by eserine in vivo” (). Like the as Löwenheim’s general development theorem for functions of Nobel lecture, the first two of these bear Loewi’s presentation functions” (DSB). inscriptions to physiologist / medical bibliographer J. F. Fulton. According to the mathematician from whom we bought these Also included here is Fulton’s paper briefly outlining Loewi’s papers, they are probably from the library of mathematician Alwin achievement, pointing out that the Nobel committee had “for the Korselt, whom Löwenheim cited in “Über Möglichkeiten im first time recognized pure pharmacology in its awards.” Magill, Relativkalkül,” presenting Korselt’s result that not every formula Nobel PrizeWinners: Physiology or Medicine, pp. –.  is condensable (see van Heijenoort, pp.  and ). It is also

 . Macewen, William (–). describes the journal version as the “original edition”). DSB. Merrill, Pyogenic infective diseases of the brain and spinal Contributions to the History of American Geology, pp. –.     cord. vo. xxiv, pp. plates & text illustrations.    Glasgow: Maclehose, .  ×  mm. Panelled . MacMichael, William ( – ).  fi Journey from Moscow to Constantinople, in the years calf c. , slightly rubbed. A little foxing, but a ne      copy. $ , . to. viii, pp. aquatint plates, incl. First Edition. G-M . Cushing considered Macewen the frontispiece, after the author’s drawings. London: John “chief pioneer in craniocerebral surgery.” His experience with Murray, .  ×  mm. Later half sheep, meningitis, abscess of the brain and infective sinus thrombosis was marbled boards, hinges repaired. Light foxing & summarized in his great work of , which gave sixty-five de- offsetting, but very good. Bookplate of medical tailed cases.  historian Ralph Major (–); see numerous G-M entries. Library bookplate. $ Best Edition of Maclure’s First Edition. Account of a trip through Russia and the Middle Geology of the United States East by the author of The Gold-Headed Cane. MacMichael left Mos- cow (then rebuilding after Napoleon’s failed invasion) and trav- . Maclure, William (–). elled to Constantinople with Thomas Legh, who continued to Syria Observations on the geology of the United States of on his own; an account of Legh’s journey is found at the end of the   North America; volume. DNB. Abbey, Travel, (hand-colored plates). . . . applied to . Maingault, Charles (d. ). the different Operative surgery. Maingault’s illustrations of the states of the different amputations Union, agreeably performed on the human to the accompa- body, represented by nying geological plates designed after map. In: Trans. Am. Nature, with alterations Phil. Soc., new and practical observa- series,  (), pp. –.  hand-colored engraved tions, by William Sands maps. Whole volume, to. xxiv,  [, incl. errata]pp. Cox (–). Folio.  engraved plates. Philadelphia: A. Small, .  []–pp. (lacking half- ×  mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards title).  lithographed in period style. Light browning, foxing & dampstaining, plates, each with explana- small tears in geological map, but a very good copy. tion leaf. London: Bookplate and discard stamp of the Loganian Library,   Longman [etc.], . Library Company of Philadelphia. $   fi × mm. Half Second and Best Edition of “the rst connected account  originally written in English on the geology of the United States” morocco c. , gilt-lettered leather label on front (DSB), which included the first geological map of the U.S.A. cover, light rubbing & wear to corners & extremities. Maclure’s account and accompanying map were first published in Fine copy apart from some light foxing. Presentation  in the Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (Vol. VI); this first version was quite copy, inscribed by Cox to his patron Lord Bradford on short ( pages) and its map contrived from a portion of a much the front endpaper, and with Cox’s autograph signed larger map printed for another purpose. Maclure was dissatisfied presentation letter to Bradford, dated October th, with the  version and spent the next eight years preparing a   , bound in. Library bookplate engraved with revision. His greatly expanded text of pages and improved map Bradford’s arms. $ were published in the Transactions in , although the final pub- First Edition in English of Maingault’s Médecine opératoire lished volume, bound up from the original fascicules, bears the (), substantially revised by Cox. The handsome life-size plates date . The map and memoir also appeared in a separate book- illustrate the different types of amputation performed on the ex- form edition published for Maclure with the imprint date of ; tremities, from removal of a finger or toe joint to amputation of this book-form edition has a revised title and map. We suspect that the hip; they are preceded by a statement of the general rules of the journal version appeared first, since it was the one chosen for amputation—how performed, when required, etc. Cox was a reproduction by Stechert-Hafner for its  facsimile (which founder of the Birmingham School of Medicine (est. ), one of

 whose patrons was Lord Bradford, to whom Cox presented this . Mead, Peter B. copy of Operative Surgery. Cox’s inscription to Bradford reads: “Lord An elementary treatise on American grape culture and Bradford, an early patron & friend of the School of Medicine, with      wine making. vo. [ ], [ ]– every sentiment of respect, from W. S. C.” Hirsch. DNB. []pp. Nearly  text wood- engravings by Henry Holton. . Malgaigne, Joseph (–). New York: Harper & Bros., A treatise on fractures. . . . Translated from the .  ×  French, with notes and additions, by John mm. Original H. Packard, M.D. vo. [], – []pp.  cloth, slightly shaken, spine wood-engraved plates, each with printed and front cover stamped with explanation leaf. Philadelphia: Lippincott, title and viticultural motifs in gilt. Fine copy apart from .  ×  mm. Modern quarter some light offsetting from calf, marbled boards in period style. Light illustrations. $ foxing & browning, but very good. First Edition. “Although not as popular as other viticultural $ fi books of its time, this is a handsome volume with an ornate, gilt- First Edition in English of the rst volume of decorated spine, nearly two hundred illustrations by Henry Holton, Malgaigne’s classic Traité des fractures et des luxations    and paper and typography of a quality uncommon in trade publica- ( – ; see G-M ); the second volume, on tions of the time. luxations, has not been translated. Includes the classic “While offering precise descriptions of native [American] description of “Malgaigne’s fracture,” bilateral verti- grapes, he recommends only a few as useful for wine making (the cal fracture of the pelvis. Malgaigne was the first to fi iona, delaware, diana, Allen’s hybrid and catawba) and rejects the devise and apply a practical method of external xation; he also rest, especially the then ubiquitous concord. ‘A recently produced proved the existence of incomplete and longitudinal fractures, and bottle of the pure Concord is before us as we write. We shall not promoted traction treatment of fractures. Cordasco –. Le      undertake the impossible task of describing it, further than saying, Vay, pp. – . Peltier, Fractures, pp. – . that this, at least, resembles anything but wine. We can not drink it;  neither can our friends.’ . . . Other interesting features of this book . Mauduyt de la Varenne, Pierre Jean are a chapter on ‘taste’ with respect to discernment of quality, and Etienne (?–). a discussion of Pasteur’s then recent studies on fermentation and Avis et questions proposés par la Société Royale de the stabilization of bottled wine by heat treatment (pasteuriza- Médecine sur l’électricité tion)” (Gabler, Wine intoWords, pp. –).  médicale. . . . vo. pp.    [Paris: Imprimerie Royale, . [Mead, Richard ( – )]   (colop.)]  ×  mm. ( ) A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious Loose in marbled wrappers, collection of prints and draw-  ms. label on front wrapper. ings. . . . pp. [London:  Very good copy. $ Langford, ?]. Bound First Edition. In the latter half with: () Museum Meadianum, of the th century there was a re- sive catalogus nummorum. . . . vival of interest in electrical treatment pp. Engraved frontispiece. in France, and Mauduyt gave several London: A. Langford & S. reports on the subject before the Baker, []. And: () A Société Royale de Médecine during this period. The present pam- catalogue of the genuine and phlet reports the Société’s reactions to Mauduyt’s “Mémoire sur les différentes manières d’administrer l’électricité,” which had entire collection of valuable appeared in the fourth volume of the Société’s journal. Rowbottom gems, bronzes, marble and & Susskind, Electricity and Medicine, p. . Not in the Bakken cata- other busts and antiquities. . . . logue, which lists  other works by Mauduyt on medical electric-  []pp. [London: Langford, ]. And: () A ity; not in OCLC or RLIN, and only the Princeton University catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, land- library copy cited in NUC.  scapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers. . . . xv []pp. London: n.p., . Together  works in , vo.  ×  mm. Calf gilt c. , rebacked, a little rubbed.

 Light browning & foxing, but very good, with prices nature of somnambulism and its rela- realized in contemporary ms. in the margins. th tionship to animal magnetism, which  he had first developed in the Mémoire cent. engraved armorial bookplate. $  First Editions. The eminent British physician Richard Mead of . . . . His intention is to remove (of Gold-Headed Cane fame) was also a notable collector of books any superstitious or religious elements and objets d’art. After his death his collections were sold at several in the explanation of somnambulism and to explain it in terms of his mecha- separate auctions, including four devoted to Mead’s pictures, prints fl and drawings, coins and medals, and antiquities. These were sold in nistic theory of animal-magnetic uid”      (Crabtree). Neither OCLC nor RLIN the early part of , fetching £ , . s. Fletcher, pp. – fi . Norman – (nos.  &  only).  records any copies of either the rst or the second edition, and NUC cites . [Mesmer, Franz Anton (–)]. only the copy of the second edition held at the University of Iowa. Norman Lettre d’un médecin de Paris, à un médecin de M. See Crabtree  and Tischner .  Province. vo. pp. N.p., n.d. [Paris, ].  ×  mm. Modern quarter sheep, marbled boards. . [Mesmerism] Light foxing and marginal browning, but very good. Le système de la rose magnétique. vo. pp.  fold.  $ eng. plates. N.p., n.d. First Edition. Includes Mesmer’s letter to a member of the [?]  ×  mm. royal commission appointed to investigate animal magnetism, com- Disbound. Light brown- plaining that his former disciple Charles d’Eslon had violated the terms of an agreement that limited d’Eslon’s right to practice ing and staining, last leaf animal magnetism and barred him from teaching its methods. The and second folding plate terms of the agreement are included. Crabtree . Norman M. nearly detached, but very  good. $ First Edition of this . Mesmer. anonymous pamphlet describ- Lettres de M. Mesmer, a messieurs les auteurs du ing and illustrating the mystical Journal de Paris, et a M. Franklin. vo. pp. N.p., “magnetic rose,” constructed according to mesmeric principles for    the application of animal magnetism. The second of the two strik- n.d. [ ?] × mm. Modern boards. Light   ing plates was drawn by “le Sr. Michel, architecte.” Crabtree . browning, but very good. $  Second edition (?), preceded by an earlier edition of only  pages that does not include the present edition’s “Lettre de M. l’Abbé P*** . . . .” Reacting to the negative opinions of mesmerism Outstanding Presentation Copy published in the Journal de Paris and in the reports of the two royal . Mitchell, Silas Weir (–). commissions appointed to investigate animal magnetism, Mesmer Injuries of nerves and their consequences. vo.  complains here that the commissions had examined the type of  animal magnetism practiced by his former disciple d’Eslon, whose [ ]pp. Philadel- work Mesmer had rejected. Scarce—this edition not in NUC, and phia: Lippincott, RLIN and OCLC cite only  copies in North American libraries .  ×  (NLM, Bakken, Columbia). Norman M.  mm. Original cloth, rebacked, . Mesmer. small bumps in Allgemeine Erläuterung über den Magnetismus und upper edges. den Somnambulismus. vo. pp. Carlsruhe: n.p., Light browning, but very good. Presentation copy,    . × mm. (uncut). Original plain wrap- inscribed on flyleaf: “Dr. Wm. Thomson with the pers, stained, worn at spine. Moderate browning and regards of S. W. M. April , .” Gilt leather  foxing, tear in one leaf repaired. $ booklabel. $ Second and Only Obtainable Edition of this extremely First Edition. G-M . Mitchell’s definitive monograph rare collection of articles by Mesmer, originally published in the on nerve injuries, based on his Civil War experiences, was still  Askläpion in and issued in a separate pamphlet the same year. consulted as late as World War II. Mitchell’s work includes the first “Here Mesmer makes his second attempt to tackle the issue of the

 description of ascending neuritis, and the treatment of neuritis by cold and splint rests. Mitchell introduced the term “phantom limb” to describe the curious “ghost” limbs felt by amputees; his work in this area influenced that of Hughlings Jackson. Mitchell presented this copy to his colleague William Thomson (–), a protégé of Mitchell’s father who had served as a Civil War sur- geon and hospital director. Thomson was a pioneer in the use of photography in the study of wounds, and his interest in photogra- phy led to work in optics and ophthalmology, for which he is best known (see G-M ). Mitchell wrote the biographical article on Thomson in Kelly & Burrage. DSB. Haymaker & Schiller, Founders of Neurology, p. . Norman . Spillane, The Doctrine of the Nerves, pp. –. 

. Mitchell. Another copy, without presentation inscription. - () Last edition published in Morgagni’s lifetime. The Adversaria,   which appeared in parts early in the century (first collected edition page publisher’s catalogue at end. × mm.  Original cloth, a little worn & shaken, spine faded. ), earned Morgagni international fame as an anatomist. “The Adversaria anatomia prima is a series of researches on fine anatomy Light browning, but very good. th cent. bookplate;  conducted according to the tradition established by Malpighi, al- ownership signature. $ though Morgagni showed greater caution in the use of the micro- scope and in making anatomical preparations. Morgagni’s pro-  . [Montjoye, Christophe F. L. V. T Galart de foundly inquiring intellect is apparent in even this early work. (–)?] Despite the modesty of its title—“Notes on Anatomy”— Suite de l’Essai sur la découverte du magnétisme Morgagni’s book actually records a whole succession of discover- animal. Supplement to No.  of the Journal de Paris ies regarding minute organic mechanisms, including the glands of ( February ). to. –pp. Paris: Quillau, the trachea, of the male urethra, and of the female genitals. These represent new contributions to the mechanical interpretation of .  ×  mm. (uncut). Unbound as issued. the structure of the organism, as do the descriptions contained in Browned, some spotting, lightly creased horizontally, fi  Morgagni’s ve subsequent Adversaria” (DSB). Heirs of Hippocrates but very good. $ . First Edition. The follow-up to an article entitled “Essai sur la () Second edition, first published in . A detailed review of découverte du magnétisme animal,” published in the Journal de the anatomy and physiology of the liver, incorporating many of   Paris on February . Both pieces may have been written by Morgagni’s own original observations. Heirs of Hippocrates . Montjoye, an advocate of mesmerism who had announced his in- () First Venice Edition. A collection of some of Morgagni’s tention of revealing Mesmer’s secret methods in the previous lesser writings, including “tracts on gallstones, certain medico-le- day’s issue of the Journal. Mesmerism was such a hot topic in pre- gal matters, letters to Lancisi on the manner of Cleopatra’s death,   Revolutionary France that between and more litera- and Morgagni’s biography of his teacher Valsalva” (Heirs of ture was generated on mesmerism than on any other single sub- Hippocrates ). A Naples edition was published in the same year. ject, with the year  representing the height of the mesmeric  craze. See Norman M, which includes this supplement. 

. Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (–). The Atomic Table () Adversaria anatomica omnia. [], xvi, pp. . Moseley, Henry G. J. (–). Engraved portrait frontispiece and  plates. Venice: The high-frequency spectra of the elements. In: Phil. Remondini, . Bound with: () Epistolae Mag.  (): –;  (): –.  plate. anatomicae duae. . . . viii, pp. Bound with: () The complete nos.  & , vo. London: Taylor & Opuscula miscellanea . . . tres in partes divisa. vi, Francis, –.  ×  mm. (no.  uncut & ;  []; pp. Venice: Remondini, . Together  unopened). Original printed wrappers, a little soiled works in  vol., folio.  ×  mm. Paste paper & chipped; preserved in a cloth drop-back box. boards c. , rebacked and recornered in calf, endpa- Lightly browned, but very good. $ pers renewed. Light foxing, a few faint dampstains, small First Edition. PMM . In  Moseley, a member of chip in lower corner of () title, but very good. th Rutherford’s Manchester Institute, set out to test the doctrine of cent. engraved bookplate. $

 atomic number by mapping the characteristic K and L spectra of the plates illustrate the tourniquet designed by Mott’s son the elements. Using a modification of the x-ray spectroscopy tech- Alexander, which Mott recommended over all others. Rutkow, niques developed by the Braggs, Moseley “obtained the principal Am. Surg., pp. –. lines of the x-ray spectra of most elements by registering their ionization and photographic images. In November of that year he Extremely Rare on the Market reported his results to Bohr as confirming the new theory of atomic constitutions and being ‘extremely simple.’ . . . He also succeeded . National Physical Laboratory. in correcting the sequence of transition elements to be Fe-Co-Ni Automatic digital computation. Proceedings of a according to increasing ‘atomic number’ Z (rather than to their symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory. . atomic weight A). That is, the neutral nickel atom possessed a . . to. vi, pp. Mimeographed. Text illustrations, higher nuclear charge and one electron more than the neutral including several full-page half-tones of early comput- cobalt atom, despite the fact that it had a smaller atomic weight”   ers. London: H. M. Stationery Office, .  × (Twentieth Century Physics I, pp. – ). Moseley’s formulas, which  allowed elements to be arranged in series according to the nuclear mm. Original printed wrappers, cloth backstrip, charge of each, made it possible to base the periodic table on a firm a little worn & faded, backstrip reinforced with clear foundation; they also “seemed to lift the veil guarding the atom’s tape, library shelfmark. Stamp & withdrawal stamp of innermost recesses” (DSB) by confirming several of Bohr’s hy- the Oak Ridge Laboratories. Very good copy. potheses, particularly the principle of quantization of the angular $ fi momentum. Moseley’s scienti c career ended two years later First Edition of the proceedings of the third British confer- with his death at the battle of Gallipoli, but the experimental study ence on automatic digital computers, which was held on March of x-ray spectra was carried on by others, including Maurice de –, . The conference was organized into sections on Brit-  Broglie, Manne Siegbahn and Ernst Wagner. ish machines, programming, design, utilization of computing ma- chines, circuitry and hardware, servicing and maintenance, and Presentation Copy medium-size digital computing machines. Among the machines    discussed were the pilot ACE, Cambridge University’s EDSAC, J. . Mott, Valentine ( – ). Lyons & Co.’s LEO (described as “the first high-speed automati- Sanitary Commission. R. On hemorrhage from cally sequenced machine to be built primarily for commercial and wounds, and the best means of clerical work”), and Manchester University’s MADAM. Partici- arresting it. vo. pp.  pants included Maurice Wilkes, director of the Cambridge wood-engraved plates, partly Computer Laboratory and inventor of macros and microprogram- ming; J. H. Wilkinson, who worked with Alan Turing on the hand-colored. New York: fi Anson D. F. Randolph, . design of the rst ACE computer and developed backward error   analysis into a useful tool; F. C. Williams, developer of the Will- × mm. Original iams cathode-ray tube memory storage system for the computers printed wrappers, detached, built at the University of Manchester; and Stanley Gill, who chipped. Lightly browned,  or with Wilkes and David Wheeler developed the concepts of sub-  leaves creased at corners, but routines and subroutine libraries. Conferences such as this one very good. Presentation copy, were the primary means of disseminating information on digital with Mott’s signed inscription on computing during the early stages of its development. Lee, Com-  title: “Dr. Alfred Carroll with the esteem of his friend puter Pioneers, passim. V. Mott.” Boxed. $ . Nicholson, William (–). First Edition. Mott was among the most prominent of early  American surgeons; his teacher, the British surgeon Astley Coo- A.L.s. to the Revd. Mr. Horner. page plus integral per, said of Mott that “he has performed more of the great opera- address leaf. Undated (ca. ).  ×  mm. tions than any man living” (quoted in Rutkow, p. ). He was Creased where previously folded, small lacuna where particularly skilled at vascular surgery, performing the first liga- seal was broken (not affecting ms.), a few tiny pin- tion of the innominate artery (G-M ) and the first successful holes, but very good. Biographical notice of Nicholson  ligature of the common iliac artery in the U.S. (G-M ). At the tipped to letter. $ end of his long life, Mott was asked to write an essay on hemor- Nicholson founded the highly successful Journal of Natural Phi- rhage by the U. S. Sanitary Commission, a civilian group formed losophy, Chemistry and the Arts; wrote, edited or translated numer- to assist the Union Army during the Civil War. The first part of fi fl ous works on chemistry and other scienti c subjects; invented Mott’s pamphlet brie y describes and illustrates the locations of several useful scientific instruments; and performed important the major arteries in the body; the second part contains instruc- original research in chemistry, including his sensational electroly- tions on the use of the tourniquet to arrest hemorrhage. Two of

 sis of water. His many and varied activities “were of considerable dividing them into significance within the rapidly developing and changing scientific three classes: Lumi- world of his day” (DSB). In the present letter, written at the end of nosae (brightest; indi- his life, he rejoices over his correspondent’s impending move to vidual stars in the Scotland and refers to George Cuitt’s Etchings of Ancient Buildings nebula visible with in the City of Chester, Castles in North Wales and other Miscellaneous naked eye), Nebulosae (resolvable into individual stars with the aid Subjects (), which was then appearing in parts. DNB. DSB. of a telescope), and Occultae (faintest, individual stars not visible  even with a telescope). He hypothesized, based on Galileo’s obser- vations of the Milky Way, that all nebulae could ultimately be Extraordinarily Rare First Book on Nebulae resolved into stars.    Odierna’s most daring cosmological conceptions appear in the . Odierna, Giovanni Battista ( – ). fourth section of his book, which “is devoted to a cosmological De systemate orbis cometici deque admirandis coeli discussion about the construction of the starry sky, central to which characteribus, opuscula is what Odierna calls an ‘irrefutable axiom’: ‘The stars created duo. . . . to. []  [, with this world, which shine similarly to the Sun in their immense blank]; []  [, incl. distances, were not located all at the same distance from the Earth final blank]pp.  white- but they were distributed by the almighty Creator in various and multiple intervals of the sensible world, in the same way that the on-black woodcuts in ff  planets were set in motion around the sun along di erent orbits.’ text, including full- As a consequence of this axiom stars can appear of different magni- page. Palermo: Nicolai tudes both because of their intrinsic differences and because of Bua, .  ×  their different distances” (Serio et al., pp. –). This axiom led mm. Modern full calf gilt Odierna to further speculate that the apparent disorderly arrange- in period style. Upper ment of stars in the heavens was due to our marginal vantage point corner of title repaired, as observers: some foxing, dampstaining Could it be, perhaps, that with our eye outside of their [the & offsetting from wood- stars’] series, our mind cannot perceive their order? Or could ff cuts, otherwise a fine, crisp copy. $, it be that the series of Divine order are very di erent from First Edition. The extraordinarily rare first book on nebulae, human order, so that the stars in the immense sky are not on the same surface of a sphere centered on us, but are rather at unrecorded in NUC, OCLC and RLIN; the only other copy of ff fi which we can find record is the one in the Palermo Observatory di erent depths in the aether, where the series of xed stars appears to be disordered, although perhaps they are ordered Library, Sicily. Its author, Giovanni Battista Odierna (or Hodierna), ff was a Sicilian priest and disciple of Galileo, whose Sidereus nuncius around a center of the universe di erent from Earth, in the  same way that the planets, which are ordered around the Sun, ( ) inspired Odierna to begin his own systematic investigation  of nebular objects. In doing so, Odierna opened up an entirely new appear very disordered to us (quoted in Serio et al., p. ). field of investigation, one that had been overlooked by his contem- “At a time when the mere removal of the center of the Universe poraries for various reasons—among them the emphasis on cata- from the Earth to the Sun had caused so much damage to scientific loguing fixed stars and the inadequacy of early telescopes for view- thought in Italy, it is certainly astonishing that a churchman in ing objects of lower surface brightness, but most importantly be- Sicily, where the Inquisition was particularly influential, could dare cause the “systematic observations of nebulae would have inevita- to doubt, even in this hypothetical way, that the real center of the bly called for a cosmological theory on ‘the construction of the Universe was not the Earth, nor even the Sun” (Serio et al., p. ). heavens,’ a theory with which the seventeenth century, still labori- Although Odierna corresponded with Riccioli, Huygens, Schott ously digesting the Copernican revolution intensified by the debate and other noted scientists of his day, his own astronomical re- on the teachings of Galileo, could hardly cope” (Serio et al., p. ). searches had no influence on his contemporaries, probably because Using a telescope of moderate focal length, presented to him as a resident of Sicily (one of Italy’s most backward provinces) he by Galileo, Odierna found forty-three nebulous objects, of which remained isolated from Italy’s important centers of scientific ac- nineteen have been shown to be true nebulae. Of these nineteen, tivity. His books, most or all of which were published in Palermo, at least eleven and possibly as many as fifteen were original discov- were little studied by scholars until the publication of Serio, Indorato eries—“a truly remarkable total, especially when one considers and Nastasi’s “G. B. Hodierna’s observations of nebulae and his that in this same half-century following the invention of the tele- cosmology” (J. Hist. Astron.  [], pp. –). This article is cited scope, the rest of the astronomical community discovered pre- several times above; it includes a bibliography of Odierna’s pub- cisely one new object” (Jones, p. ). Odierna recorded his observa- lished works. See also Jones, “Some notes on Hodierna’s nebulae,” tions of nebulae in the second part of his De systemate orbis cometici, J. Hist. Astron.  (), pp. –. 

 . Osler, William (–). First Edition in Book Form The principles and practice of medicine. vo. xvi, [], of Osler’s first work on angina pecto-  []pp., adverts. Text ris, made up from lectures originally published in the NewYork Medical Jour- illustrations. New York: D.     nal in . Osler took a particular Appleton, . × interest, both scientific and historical, mm. Modern full morocco. in angina pectoris and other related Light browning, but very forms of coronary artery disease, pub- good. $ lishing two collections of lectures on First Edition, First State with the subject (the second in ) and “Georgias” (misspelling of “Gorgias”) continuing to revise the section on on verso of third leaf. G-M . The angina pectoris in the later editions of best English work on medicine of its his classic Principles and Practice of Medi- time, and probably the most influential cine. Osler’s fascination with the disease was due in no small part to general textbook of medicine ever its peculiar affinity for physicians—in his  work on angina, he published. For example, the Chinese-language edition was the named the disease “morbus medicorum,” mentioned some of its first complete Western textbook of medicine available in Chinese. most prominent physician-victims (including John Hunter), and “The outstanding chapters were those on the communicable dis- noted that in his own clinical experience he had seen more physi- eases (in particular typhoid and malarial infections, cholera Asiatica, cians suffering from angina than all other professions put together. the pneumonias, syphilis, and tuberculosis) and the diseases of the In the present work Osler reviewed the literature of angina pec- circulatory system in which Osler’s unique knowledge of the pa- toris, going back as far as the Roman author Seneca, and described thology of cardiac affections and aneurysms was utilized in a most the clinical manifestations of various forms of the disease (Leibowitz effective way” (Golden & Roland p.  & entry ). Norman / notes Osler’s reluctance to abandon the old term “angina pectoris” Grolier Medical Hundred, .  to describe such disease entities as myocardial infarction and coro- nary thrombosis, even though these more precise terms were . Osler. already in current use). Golden & Roland . Leibowitz, Hist. On chorea and choreiform affections. vo. x,  Coronary Heart Disease, pp. , , , .  []pp. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, slightly worn at extremities. Light Banting’s Copy browning, otherwise fine. Laid in is a printed medical  ff . Osler. record card for a patient su ering from chorea, The old humanities and the new science. Introduction completed in manuscript in an unknown hand, with by Harvey Osler’s name listed as the attending doctor.  Cushing $ (–). First Edition. Osler’s summary work on chorea, his second   neurological monograph. Osler helped establish the association vo. xxii, pp. between heart disease and chorea. “His work on chorea is still Frontispiece considered an excellent clinical epidemiological study and his in- portrait with troductory historical comments are still worth reading” (Roach & tissue guard. Ashwal, “Sir William Osler,” Founders of Child Neurology [], p. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, .  × ). Golden & Roland .   mm. Orig. boards, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, slightly worn at extremities. Fine copy, from Presentation Copy the library of insulin discoverer Frederick G. Banting (–), with his stamped bookplate . Osler. and signature (dated Jan. ). $ Lectures on angina pectoris and allied states. vo. [] First American Edition of Osler’s last important public  [, adverts.]pp. New York: D. Appleton, .   address, delivered before the Classical Association at Oxford two × mm. Original cloth, extremities and corners a months before his seventieth (and last) birthday. “Probably no other little worn, rear hinge repaired. Light browning, but living man would have ventured to deal with this topic in Oxford very good. Osler’s presentation inscription on title: “Dr. of all places, and before a national body of classical scholars—nor G[illegible] / from W. O.” Occasional marginal notes, could many other men have succeeded in steering an equally safe probably in recipient’s hand. $ course through the narrows of his subject” (Cushing, Life, pp. – ). This copy is from the library of Osler’s fellow Canadian

 Frederick G. Banting, who received a share of the  Nobel Best Illustrated American Surgery Prize for physiology or medicine for his part in the discovery and isolation of insulin; see G-M –. Golden & Roland . . Pancoast, Joseph (–).  A treatise on operative surgery. . . . to. Adverts., pp., prospectus for Virchow’s Copy of the Finest Early Anatomy of Moreau’s Midwifery with the Bones specimen plate, adverts.  lith. plates, including    . Paaw, Pieter ( – ). frontispiece. Philadelphia: Primitiae anatomicae. De humani corporis ossibus. Carey & Hart, .      to. [ ] pp. folding ×  mm. Original engraved plates & cloth, rebacked preserv- engraved text illustra- ing original spine. tions, thought to be by Lightly browned, other- Jacob de Gheyn and / or wise a fine copy with his pupils; engraved minimal foxing. th vignette on title. cent. bookplate and discard note of the N. Y. Acad. Amsterdam: Henricum Med. $   Laurentii, . × First Edition. G-M . The most spectacularly illustrated  mm. Full vellum c. American surgical treatise of the th century, with  plates , front free endpaper comprising  separate illustrations. The work includes one of lacking. Light foxing & the most important and extensive sections on plastic surgery pub- browning, tears in  of the plates, but very good. From lished in America during the period. Professor of anatomy and ff the library of Rudolf Virchow (–), founder of surgery at Je erson Medical College, Pancoast developed a num- ber of new operations, including the first successful plastic opera- cellular pathology, with memorial bookplate. Owner-    tion for exstrophy of the bladder (G-M ), the “plow and groove” ship inscription dated on title. $ suture for rhinoplasty, and the neurosurgical procedure of section- fi Second edition of the nest early work on the anatomy of the ing the second and third branches of the fifth pair of nerves as they bones, with exceptional plates and numerous text engravings. The emerge from the base of the brain (G-M ). His Treatise also fi  fi rst plate (used as the frontispiece in the rst edition) shows includes one of the earliest accounts of a free skin graft, used in this the author dissecting in the anatomical theater at Leiden, which case in the reconstruction of an earlobe. Kelly & Burrage. Rutkow  fi was built in at his request, and was the rst in the Nether- GS. Waller . Zeis , .  lands. This illustration is one of the finest on the theme of the anatomy lesson, in the tradition of the Vesalian dissection, but adapted . Paré, Ambroise (–). for the Netherlands, with lively Dutch burghers looking on. The Bronze bust by Emile Picault (fl. –), remaining plates illustrate two full skeletons (one fetal) and two showing Paré above a surgical saw and open book skull views; the engraved text plates emphasize the anatomy of   the head, and include separate studies of the teeth. The vignette on reading “ à . Je le pansay Dieu le guerit.” N. the title page is a striking emblem with a skeleton drummer and d. (not after ). Signed in the statue by Picault. others blowing horns.  mm. high, including marble base. Brass plaque on “Pauw continued and refined the work of Dryander and Vesalius; the base reads “Ambroise Paré par E. Picault / his work leads on to that of Douglas, Monroe-Sue, and Cheselden” Medaille d’or.” Inside the sculpture is another brass  (Roberts & Tomlinson, p. ). A student and friend of Fabrici, plaque reading “En souvenir de Mademoiselle Cheva- Paaw dissected sixty human subjects in his anatomy theater at lier. Témoinage de sa reconnaissance au Dr. Leiden; he issued an edition of Vesalius’s Epitome, and was the teacher    Chédevergne. Août .” Marble base a bit chipped, of Tulp and Beverwijck. Hahn & Dumaitre, pp. – , repro- fi   ducing fronts. which they call “magnificent.” Enc. World Art V, pp. otherwise a ne example. $ ,  ,  re de Gheyn. Lindeboom, Dutch Medical Biography – Beautifully executed prize-winning statue of the th-century . Heirs of Hippocrates , speculating that De humani corporis French surgeon, embellished with his famous motto, “I tended his ossibus is the first Dutch work in osteology. Krivatsy . Roberts wound; God cured him.” The inscription on the plaque inside the & Tomlinson, The Fabric of the Body, pp. –; –; –. statue can be translated as follows: “In memory of Miss Chevalier.  In gratitude to Dr. Chédevergne. August .” “Dr. Chédevergne”

 may refer to Samuel Chédevergne, associate of the famous French the Pelorosaurus: An undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile. . .”; surgeon Auguste Nélaton (see Wangensteen & Wangensteen, pp. “On a dorsal dermal spine of the Hylaeosaurus. . .”; and “Supple- –); the wording of the inscription suggests that Chédevernge mentary observations on the structure of the Belemnite and may have commissioned the statue. Benezit for Picault, stating Belemnoteuthis.” Mantell is best known for his discovery, in , that he was a Parisian sculptor and medalist who exhibited at the of the iguanodon, the first dinosaur ever to be described properly. Salon between  and .  DSB.  See color illustration on front cover . [Pechlin, Johannes Nicolaas (–).] First Illustration of Spiral Nebulae Jani Leoniceni Veronensis metamorphosis Aesculapii & Apollini pancreatici. vo. [], , []pp. (last leaf    .Parsons, William, rd Earl of Rosse ( – blank). Leiden: Bonus, .  ×  mm. Vellum c. ). . A little browning & foxing. Very good copy. () Observations on the nebulae. In: Phil. Trans.  th century signature of Franciscus Sermens on title. (), pp. – th century signature of A. J. & M. Atwood on ;  plates endpaper. A few pencil marginalia. $ (nos. XXXV- First Edition, second issue. Extremely rare satirical work on XXXVIII). With: contemporary research relating to the pancreatic juice, attributed () Waller, to Pechlin who discovered the so-called “Peyer’s patches,” the lym-  Augustus phoid follicles in the small intestine, prior to Peyer (see G-M , fi  (–). note). The satire appeared rst in , eight years after de Graaf’s account of his experiments on pancreatic secretion (G-M ). Experiments on NUC shows only two locations each for the  and  issues. the section of the A Latin note, “liber rarissimus,” on the flyleaf, probably in the hand glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, of Sermens who signed the title page, indicates that the book was and observations of the alterations produced thereby considered extremely rare at an early date.  in the structure of their primitive fibres. In: Ibid., pp. –. Whole vol., to. vii [], []–, pp.  plates. London: Richard & John E. Taylor, .  ×  mm. (uncut & unopened). Original printed wrappers, spine repaired. A few fox-marks on plates, but fine otherwise, in a cloth case. $ () First Edition. Parsons was a pioneer in the design and construction of large telescopes, completing the first -inch tele- scope in ; with a focal length of  feet and a tube nearly seven feet in diameter, the instrument was known as the “Levia- than of Parsonstown.” With this telescope Parsons and his assistants “were able to see hitherto unsuspected detail in many hundreds of nebulae, and to resolve many of these nebulae into stars. They abolished some of the existing distinctions (annular / planetary, for example) and added some new classes. Rosse himself was the first to detect the spiral nature of some nebulae, of which he published a number of fine drawings that clearly demonstrated the value of a large reflector of high optical quality” (DSB). The First Separate Book on Ophthalmic Surgery   ( ) First Edition. G-M . “The ‘law of Wallerian degen- . Pellier de Quengsy, Guillaume (/– eration.’ The experiments recorded in [Waller’s] paper were the  starting-point of the neuron theory. Waller showed that if glos- ). sopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves are severed, the outer seg- Précis ou cours d’opérations sur la chirurgie des yeux. ment, containing the axis-cylinders cut off from the cells, under- . . .  vols. in , vo. xxxiv (includes engraved por- goes degeneration, the central stump remaining intact for a long trait), [], , [], [], blank; xiii, [],  [i.e., ], period. From this he inferred that nerve-cells nourish nerve-fi- –pp.  folding engraved plates. Paris: Didot .   bres.” Haymaker & Schiller, pp. – . . . , –.  ×  mm. Pastepaper boards c. This volume of the Phil. Trans. also contains three paleontologi- , vellum corners, calf spine, a little rubbed, small cal papers by Gideon Algernon Mantell (–): “On

 spot on front cover. Light foxing & dampstaining. Very book depicts computers as a wonderful tool for human beings good set, in a half morocco box. $ but a dreadful role model. In o ther words, if you don’t want to First Edition. G-M .. The exceptionally rare first sepa- be replaced by a machine, don’t act like one. rate book on surgery of the eye; this is only the second copy we Magill, The Nobel PrizeWinners: Physics, pp. –.  have handled in our  years in the rare book business. Pellier de Quengsy developed a method of cataract extraction which made . Percival, Thomas (–). him famous throughout France. He gave lectures on eye surgery A.L.s. to an unidentified recipient, dated from in many cities, from which his textbook with approximately three     ×  hundred figures of instruments developed. Manchester, Oct. , . page. mm. The first volume deals at length with cataract operations, in- Creased where previously folded, a few tiny pin-holes, cluding Pellier de Quengsy’s own method. The second volume but very good. Biographical notice of Percival tipped deals with diseases of the vitreous, the retina, optic nerve, lid and to lower margin. $ lacrimal sac. “Especially noteworthy for its description of the ear- From the author of Medical Ethics (; see G-M ). Percival liest attempt to treat scarred corneas surgically. Pellier de Quengsy’s was a close friend and scientific associate of the chemist Thomas method consisted of making an artificial cornea out of glass . . . the Henry (–; see item ), known as “Magnesia” for his crystal was supported by a silver ring and then sewn by direct highly lucrative manufacture of calcined magnesia for medicinal suturing onto the patient’s eye. . .” (Becker ). purposes, which provided a good income for the Henry family “Pellier is a good observer who recognizes the value of facts, a until . The present letter was written on behalf of Henry’s son skillful and decisive surgeon who even in difficult situations will Thomas, who was leaving Manchester for Liverpool in order to find the appropriate procedure and perform it” (Hirschberg/Blodi study with a Dr. Lyon. The elder Henry was also father of the III ).  chemist William Henry. DNB. DSB. 

. Penzias, Arno (- ). . [Perrault, Claude (–)] Autograph manuscript signed, dated // in pencil Memoir’s for a natural history of animals . . . Englished (Penzias’s signature dated by Alexander Pitfeild. . . . /). –/pp., on  Folio. [], –, [], sheets lined paper [], pp. Engraved title (written on rectos only). (dated ) &  plates.  ×  mm. Creased London: Streater [for] where previously folded, Bassett . . , .  × sheets stapled together at  mm. Half antique upper left corner. Very calf. Browning, margin good. $ of engraved title re- Heavily revised manuscript paired, but a very good draft of a speech or presenta- copy. Faint stamp in tion about Penzias’s work at Bell  lower margin of printed Laboratories since , the year following his receipt of a share title & verso of engraved of the Nobel Prize for physics for making the first accurate obser-  vations of the cosmic microwave background radiation remaining title. $ First Edition in English of the founding work of modern from the birth of the universe. Penzias had been with Bell Labora- comparative anatomy—“no such detailed and exact descriptions tories since , performing his prize-winning work there with Robert Wilson in the mid–s. He describes here how his ca- and illustrations had been published before” (DSB). Perrault was reer as a scientist was permanently affected by the breakup of the leader of a team of comparative anatomists that included Duverney, Pecquet and de la Hire; they were often called the AT&T in , an event that led to him being appointed Bell “Parisians” because of their membership in the French Royal Acad- Laboratory’s Vice President of Research: emy of Sciences. Their investigations in comparative anatomy be- Except for two or three minor “cleanups” of old topics, my gan with dissections of a thresher shark and lion from the royal tenure as Bell Lab’s Vice President of Research brought my menagerie, and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate spe- research in astrophysics to a complete end. In its place I have cies. See G-M . Cole, History . Wing M . Cole I , developed an interest in the principles which underlie the cre-  ff stating some copies were dated , but this issue does not ap- ation and e ective use of technology in our society, and eventuallu pear in Wing.  found time to write a book on the subject [Ideas and Informa- tion: Managing in a High-Tech World ()]. . . .In essence the

 . Pinel, Pierre (–). cal theories of mechanics and electrodynamics (including relativ- Traité médico-philosophique sur l’aliénation mentale. ity theory), turned into one of the most revolutionary fields of vo. [] xxxii, pp.  printed folding tables,  physics in the early twentieth century” (Mehra & Rechenberg, Hist. Development of Quantum Physics, I, p. ). Horblit a. Dibner engraved plates. Paris: J. Ant. Brosson, .  × . Norman .   mm. Later th cent. quarter calf, marbled boards, spine faded. Light foxing, but fine. $     . Poland, John ( – ). Second edition of G-M , Pinel’s classic treatise on the Skiagraphic atlas showing the development of the humane treatment of the insane, which inspired a fundamental bones of the wrist and hand. vo. [] pp.  plates. change in psychiatric thought. Pinel’s work formed the basis for    the English non-restraint system of the next century, and did much London: Smith, Elder, . × mm. Original to establish psychiatry as a scientifically-based branch of medicine. cloth, shaken, hinges weak, signature starting. Some Norman .  foxing. Good copy. $ First Edition. Separate publication of the series of x-rays Quantum Physics included in Poland’s Traumatic Separation of the Epiphyses (G-M .), representing one of the first osteological atlases to be .Planck, Max (–). illustrated in this manner. Peltier, Fractures, p. .  Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspectrum. In: Verh. Kármán’s Copies, Including Three with deutschen phys. Gesell.  Presentation Inscriptions (), pp. –. Whole volume, vo. vi, . Pólányi, Mihaly (–). pp. Text illustrations. Group of  offprints on crystallography, physics of Leipzig: J. A. Barth, metals, etc. Various sizes.   .  ×  mm. V.p., – . Original Early th cent. cloth, wrappers, or without leather spine labels (a bit wrappers as issued; some worn). Light browning, browning, creasing & but very good. chipping. From the $ library of Theodore First Edition of Planck’s von Kármán (– epochal paper on quantum ), with his charac- theory, which marks the dividing line between classical and mod- teristic docketing and   ern physics. PMM a. Around Planck became interested in catalogue stamp;  solving one of the outstanding difficulties in classical physics: the ff fi o prints with presentation lack of agreement between observed speci c heats of molecules inscriptions from Pólányi and those predicted by the Maxwell-Boltzmann theorem on the to Kármán, another with a presentation stamp. Boxed. equipartition of energy among the degrees of freedom of mo-  lecular systems. “[Planck] applied Boltzmann’s equation from the Complete listing available on request. $  theory of gases (relating entropy and probability) to a set of reso- First Separate Editions. In , Pólányi was one of three ff nators, the energy of which, he hypothesized, occurred only in scientists (the others being Geo rey Taylor and Egon Orowan) to discrete multiples of e. From Wien’s displacement law he reasoned independently come up with the concept of dislocations (line de- that the entropy was a function of E/v (energy/frequency). He fects) in crystals, which are now known to be the vectors of plastic was then led to the famous relation between a quantum of energy deformation. This concept of dislocations, which provided a test- and the frequency, and to the introduction of the constant named able explanation for the mechanical behavior of metals and alloys, fi after him: E = hv” (Weber, Pioneers of Science, p. 58). Planck’s radia- did much to transform metallurgy into a rigorous scienti c disci- fi tion law agreed with all the experimental data, and played a deci- pline. Pólányi was one of the rst to perform serious research in fi  sive role in Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect (), this eld: in he joined the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physi- as well as his derivation of a more satisfactory theory of specific cal Chemistry to research the plasticity of solids, and it was there heats (). “This new application of the quantum theory was that he, together with Erich Schmid and Hermann Mark, per- fi soon followed by others. As a result, quantum theory, a theory formed the rst study of the mechanical behavior of metallic single which exhibited features clearly distinct from the previous classi- crystals. Prior to his appointment at the Institute, Pólányi was a

 researcher at the K. Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry, where du magnétisme animal. vo. [] iv, []– []pp. he became the first to apply and interpret X-ray diffraction in Londres [n.p.] . Speckled calf c. , a little fi structure investigations of bers. He applied quantum theory to rubbed. A few scattered fox-marks, but fine other- the problem of chemical binding in atoms and molecules, and, with wise. $ K. Weissenberg, improved Broglie’s rotating crystal method of X- Second edition, the first to include Puységur’s Suite des mémoires ray analysis, which became an extremely important tool in crystal- pour servir à l’histoire et à l’établissement du magnétisme animal (first lography. Later in his career Pólányi gave up physical chemistry to published separately in ). In this work Puységur announced become a philosopher of science. his discovery of mesmeric “somnambulism” (a forerunner of mod- The present collection of offprints, all from the early part of ern hypnosis), and described the psychic phenomena associated Pólányi’s scientific career, is representative of his work at the with this state, including the remarkable alteration of conscious- time, covering crystallography (including X-ray analysis) and the ness experienced by those under its influence. The discovery of physics of metals. The offprints are from the library of the Hun- mesmeric somnambulism began a new trend in the practice of garian physicist Theodore von Kármán, co-author (with Max Born) animal magnetism, in which the emphasis moved from Mesmer’s of the theory of crystal lattices, and the main force behind the physically-based system to a more psychologically-based one. Nei- development of modern aviation and space travel. DSB (supple- ther Crabtree nor Dureau note this  edition. Norman M. ment). Twentieth Century Physics III, pp. , –.  See Crabtree  & .     .Priestley, Joseph ( – ). . Ray, John (–). The nature, method & origin of human redemption Francisci Willughbeii . . . ornithologiae libri tres, in set forth from Ephes. I.  quibus aves omnes th. Manuscript in hactenus cognitae in shorthand with headings methodum naturis suis and a few other words in convenientem redactae longhand, probably in the  accurate describuntur. . . hand of an amanuensis. . Folio. []  []pp.  leaves, stitched. A few engraved plates,  fold. corners creased, light tables. London: J. soiling, but very good. Martyn, .  ×  $ mm. Old speckled calf, The text of a sermon preached by Priestley in Bir- spine and corners almost mingham on October ,  invisibly repaired. Light and January ,  (informa- dampstaining in inner tion taken from the last page of margins, tiny rust-holes the ms.). Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, was educated for in  or  leaves, other- the nonconformist ministry and for most of his adult life was em- wise a fine, crisp copy. Engraved armorial bookplate ployed as either a teacher or preacher; his bibliography of theo- of Sir Edward Winnington. $ logical and religious writings substantially exceeds that of his scientific fi   First Edition. Ray and Willughby were the rst ornitholo- works. During the s and s Priestley became the chief gists to discard the Aristotelian principles of classification by func- spokesman for Unitarian beliefs in England, questioning the virgin tion, replacing them with a morphological system based on beak birth and infallibility of Christ, and developing “in various histori- form, foot structure and body size that reflected the true relation- cal and polemical works . . . a rationalist theology that suggests, in ships even better than Linnaeus’s “natural system” of sixty years some measure, the ideas of textual and ‘higher’ criticism of the later. The credit for this system almost certainly belongs to Ray, New Testament” (DSB). The present sermon, which appears not to who prepared the final version of the Ornithologia from notes left have been published, was probably preached at the New Meeting at Willughby’s death, and who had done the major part of the in Birmingham, where Priestley had been elected junior minister observations and records during their years of partnership. In an in . DSB. DNB. See Crook, A Bibliography of Joseph Priestley   attempt to bring order out of the chaos of tradition, Ray collated ( ). his and Willughby’s observations against those recorded by all pre-  vious writers, eliminating duplicate species, species vaguely de- . [Puységur, Armand Marie Jacques de scribed or reported on hearsay, and species that were clearly fabu- Chastenet, Marquis de (–)] lous. An English version, which Ray also prepared, was published in Mémoires pour servir a l’histoire et a l’établissement . Keynes, Ray, . Raven, John Ray, ch. . Wing W–. 

 Superb Collection of Dermatological Manu- communications either to or about Rayer and his dermatological / pathological work. This group of materials includes letters from scripts & Drawings G-M authors Louis Calmeil (G-M ) and Alphonse  . Rayer, Pierre François Olive (–). Chevallier (G-M ), as well as two letters with ms. additions   by Rayer. Crissey, Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Collection of autograph manuscripts and Century, pp. –. Goldschmid, pp. –. Hirsch.  letters to or about Rayer (approx.  ms. leaves in all), plus  watercolor drawings of dermatological . Reissner, Ernst (–). subjects,  with annotations by Rayer,  signed by T. G. De auris internae formatione. Dissertatio inauguralis. Prêtre, the artist who illustrated Rayer’s classic . . . to. []  []pp. Théorie théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau Hand-colored litho- (–; G-M ). Various sizes. –. graphed plate. Dorpat: Some creasing, light soiling and fraying as might be H. Laakmann, .  expected, but on the whole very good. Preserved in a ×  mm. Marbled quarter morocco slipcase. Sold boards, leather spine c. Superb collection of autograph dermato-pathological manu- , worn, gummed scripts and drawings from the library of French dermatologist paper label with author’s Pierre Rayer, author of the classic Théorie théorique et pratique des name in ms. on front maladies de la peau (–; G-M ), the first modern trea- tise on skin diseases. The materials in this collection can be divided cover. Some occasional into four groups: (A) dermatological watercolors; (B) case histo- foxing, but very good. ries; (C) working materials (including drafts of articles); and (D) $ letters to or about Rayer. The bulk of the materials in this collec- First Edition, and rare, with only the NLM copy and two tion dates from the late s through the s, a period falling European copies (both at the French Museum of Natural History) in the first half of Rayer’s career. Many of the manuscripts and at cited in OCLC and NUC; not in RLIN. G-M . Reissner’s least two of the paintings record observations made at La Charité, medical dissertation includes his classic description of the vestibu- the hospital with which Rayer was associated for many years, and lar membrane of the ear, also known as “Reissner’s membrane.” at which he collected the clinical material for his Traité. Reissner succeeded his teacher Reichert in the chair of anatomy at The dermatological watercolors in this remarkable collection the University of Dorpat; in addition to his otological works, he are all exquisitely rendered in lifelike colors, and most have anno- also published works on neurology and a comparative study of hair tations in Rayer’s hand. A comparison with the atlas of the first in humans and other mammals. Hirsch.  edition of Rayer’s Traité shows that none of these drawings was used there; however, one of them, a magnificent illustration of Presented to his Wife hemorrhagic spotted scarlatina, may have been intended to illus- trate the manuscript entitled “La peau” (the skin) included in this . Retzius, Gustaf (–). collection. Rayer presumably had numerous such dermatological Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere. Folio. xi, [], , paintings made for his own use. The case histories, which form the []; viii, pp.  plates, second group, describe diseases that manifest themselves on the with explanations, skin, such as purpura, eczema, smallpox, syphilis, shingles, etc. mostly lithographed after Many of these case histories are written on pre-printed hospital forms known as “Feuilles médicales.” the author’s drawings. The working materials in the third group deal primarily with Stockholm: Samson &    scabies, and include Rayer’s -page autograph manuscript on the Wallin, – . vols. transmission of animal scabies or mange to humans. Rayer became  ×  mm. Original something of an expert on animal-to-human transmission of dis- half vellum, gilt morocco ease; it was during this period of his life that he wrote his classic spine labels. A little wear memoir on glanders and farcy (both diseases of horses) in man (see fi  ff but a ne set, presented by Retzius to his wife Anna, with G-M ). This group of materials also contains Rayer’s . in- his inscription on the front free endpaper of Vol. I: dex to his notebooks (cahiers) of the late s – early s, in “Till Anna med innerligaste tacksamlet för råd och which he recorded his observations of diseases such as lupus, dis-  eases of the chest, skin tumors, smallpox, etc.; this index gives an dåd från hennes Gustaf.” $  excellent idea of the broad range of Rayer’s dermatological and First Edition. G-M . The largest, most comprehensive, pathological interests. The fourth group consists of letters and other and most beautiful atlas of the comparative anatomy of the verte-

 brate ear ever published. Retzius “made outstanding contributions both England and the United States were copied from these two to the knowledge of the sensory organs, nerve terminations, and translations” (Klickstein, p. ). the supporting tissues and ependyma of the central nervous sys- This volume of Nature includes, as might be expected, numer- tem” (Haymaker & Schiller ). “Retzius bodies” in the labyrinth ous papers on Röntgen rays by other scientists, including Henri are named for him. Poincaré, Thomas Edison, Oliver Lodge, Sylvanus P. Thompson, Retzius was meticulous and lavish in his publications, choosing and future Nobel Laureates Jean Perrin, C. T. R. Wilson and J. J. expensive large folio formats which would allow the finest and Thomson. Other scientific writers of interest represented in this most accurate reproduction of his carefully executed drawings. In volume are Nobel Laureates Pieter Zeeman ( papers, on electri- producing these lavish publications in very limited editions he was cal waves, and on the refractive index of glowing platinum), Wil- able to make use of the printing and publishing facilities owned by liam Ramsay ( papers, including  on argon and helium), and his wife’s family, wealthy newspaper publishers in Stockholm. The Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ( papers, on temperature variation in seventy-four plates illustrating the vertebrate ear are the greatest bismuth, and on hydrogen-liquifying apparatus). Klickstein, Will- in his extensive series of fine monographs. Scarce, and not in the iam Conrad Roentgen, p. .  great Swedish collection formed by Waller. DSB. Hirsch. Cole II . Wood .  . Rossellius, Cosmas (d. ). Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae. . . . to. [] –    . Robinson, Nicholas ( ?– ). [], – []ff. Text on ff. A new theory of physick and diseases, founded on the dv, dr, dv and dr not   principles of the Newtonian philosophy. vo. [ ], xiv, present due to printer’s error.     [ ]pp. London: C. Rivington [etc.], . × Folding woodcut dia-   mm. Gilt-ruled calf ca. , a little rubbed, gram, numerous text corners worn. Light browning & dampstaining, but woodcuts. Venice: apud  very good. $ Antonium Paduanium, First Edition. Robinson’s book, published when Newton was    fl . × mm. still alive, “shows the powerful in uence of the Newtonian philoso- Old limp vellum, soiled, phy in practically every field of science. . . . Robinson’s ideas on diet were quite ahead of his times” (Babson ). DNB. Blake, p. . remains of leather ties.  Worming in upper margin affecting the first The X-Ray third of the book, light browning & dampstaining, first few leaves frayed at . Röntgen, Wilhelm Konrad (–). edges. th century ownership inscription on title: “Ex On a new kind of rays. In: Nature  (), pp. – libris mei Joannis Thome de la Ralde de Baltan . Whole volume, vo. xl, , cciv pp. Text illustra- Valentini Salmantie anno  [From my library, John tions. London: Macmillan, –.  ×  mm. Thomas de la Ralde de Baltan of Valencia (living in) Modern calf, gilt spine. Light browning, half-title Salamanca (as of) ].” Copious marginal notes in chipped & repaired, perforated stamp of the John de la Ralde de Baltan’s elegant hand on ff. – and on Crerar Library on title. Very good copy. $ some of the full-page woodcuts (some notes cropped First Edition in English of Röntgen’s original communica- with generally minor loss of text); -page manuscript tion of the discovery of the X-ray. See Dibner , Horblit ,    copy or summary of book (“De memoria hic PMM . Originally published at the end of in the obscure asserit”) of the Margarita Philosophica on blank verso of Sitz. Würz. phys.-med. Gesell., Röntgen’s paper was in immediate fi f.  and recto of leaf following. Stamps of the demand throughout the scienti c world. Within a few months it  had been translated into English, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish and Surgeon-General’s library on title. $ Russian; in some cases, a number of different translations in the First Edition. From antiquity through the Renaissance, the same language were made at the same time. This was the case in faculty of memory was valued above all other psychological quali- England, where two separate translations were published within a ties as being essential not only to learning but also to the formation day of each other: the present version, by Arthur Stanton, which of a man’s moral, religious and civic character. Authors from Cicero appeared in Nature on January , ; and a second version, to Giordano Bruno wrote treatises on training the memory using entitled “On a new form of radiation,” which appeared in The Elec- various mnemonic systems, the purpose of which was “to ‘divide’ trician on the th. “The majority of subsequent contemporary the material to be remembered into pieces short enough to be printings of the English rendering of the first communication in recalled in single units and to key these into some sort of rigid,

 easily reconstructable order. front cover representing a cross-section of the Atlantic This provides one with a ‘ran- cable, a.e.g., a little worn & faded, recased preserving dom-access’ memory system, original spine, gilt numerals stamped at foot of spine. by means of which one can im- Lightly browned, but very good. $ mediately and securely find a First Edition. A lavish and beautifully illustrated Victorian particular bit of information” “gift book” commemorating the successful laying of the Atlantic (Carruthers, The Book of Memory, cable in . It contains what may be the earliest history of the p. ). Indeed, such mnemonic Atlantic cable project, describing its inception in the mind of Cyrus systems can be considered an Field in the mid–s, the first Atlantic cable of – (which early form of artificial intelli- failed  weeks after its completion) and the eventual triumph, gence. after many setbacks, of Field’s venture. Several of Day’s plates Rossellius, a Dominican show the Great Eastern (formerly the Leviathan), then the largest priest, was one of the th steamship in the world, which Field engaged to lay the second century’s most influential writ- Atlantic cable; other plates illustrate the laying of the first Atlantic ers on the art of memory. The cable, the geographic sites of the cable’s endpoints, recovery of Dominicans were particularly lost cables, etc. This is one of the most significant illustrated works active in creating and transmitting mnemonic systems, and on a specialized aspect of the history of mid–th century technol- Rossellius’s treatise, like that of his predecessor Johannes ogy. Wheeler Gift  (“the illustrations are of much interest”). Romberch, was “apparently intended to make the Dominican art DAB for Field (citing Russell’s work as a source for Field’s life). of memory generally known. . . . The Dantesque type [of mne-  monic system] is given great prominence. Rossellius divides Hell into eleven places, as illustrated in his diagram of Hell as a memory See color frontispiece, fig.  place system. . . . Rossellius also envisages the constellations as memory place systems. . . . A feature of Rossellius’s book are the “The Absorption of Radium Radiations in Air” mnemonic verses given to help memorize orders of places,    whether orders of places in Hell, or the order of signs of the . Rutherford, Ernest ( – ). zodiac” (Yates, The Art of Memory, pp. , ). The second part of A.L.s. to Dr. Davis, dated Montreal, April , . Rossellius’s book is illustrated with several full-page woodcuts show- pp., on  sheets ing mnemonic systems, including a “visual alphabet” (one in which of McGill the letters are represented by objects resembling them), a manual University fi fi alphabet, and human gures with various parts labelled. The nal letterhead.  × woodcut shows the human brain with separate locations for the  mm. Creased where previously folded, a few faculties of memory, rational thought, dreaming and imagination, small tears in folds repaired, otherwise fine. sensation, etc.  This copy of Rossellius’s Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae was ob- $ fi viously very carefully read by its th-century Spanish owner, A letter with excellent scienti c content, referring to whose copious notes summarize and highlight various portions of Rutherford’s landmark investigations into the nature of radioac- the text. On some of the full-page woodcuts he has noted that they tivity that laid the groundwork for the later development of nuclear  are printed out of order, and on two blank leaves at the end is his physics and led to his receipt of the Nobel Prize for chemis- handwritten copy or summary of the chapter on memory from try. Rutherford served as professor of physics at Montreal’s McGill   Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophica (). Adams R–. University between and ; it was during this time that he  and Soddy advanced the revolutionary transmutation theory of radioactivity, which states that “radioactivity is at once an atomic phenomenon and the accompaniment of a chemical change in which Superbly Illustrated Early History new kinds of matter are produced.” This was also the period that of the Atlantic Cable saw the publication of the first and second editions of Rutherford’s       classic Radio-Activity ( ; revised nd ed. ), as well as his . Russell, William Henry ( – ). Radioactive Transformations (), derived from the series of The Atlantic telegraph. to. v [],  []pp., pp. Silliman lectures Rutherford had delivered on this topic at Yale in pubs. ads. Chromolithographed title and  tinted March . plates by Robert Dudley. London: Day & Son, [ca. The present letter, written presumably to a physicist at Co- ].  ×  mm. Original cloth, elaborately lumbia University (we have not been able to identify him), was gilt-stamped on front cover and spine, paper onlay on penned a month after Rutherford’s trip toYale to give the lectures on radioactive transformations noted above. It reads as follows:

 I meant to write to you from New Haven in regard to the wrappers, a little stained, chipped and browned, spine questions you asked me about the absorption of Radium radia- repaired. Light browning, but very good. $ tions in air, but it slipped my memory. First Separate Edition. Rutherford’s investigations of the The results given in my book [Radio-Activity] were for a thick scattering of alpha particles by matter provided strong experi- layer of radiferous barium. From the point of view developed mental evidence for his nuclear theory of the atom, which he had by Bragg in the Phil Mag, it is to be expected that the coeffi- first announced in . They also provided a key to the atomic cient of absorption of the Ra rays for a thin layer, such as you structure of particular elements, as stated in the conclusion of the use in your experiments, will be quite different for those from present paper: “[Our experiments] on the scattering of simple a thick layer. The latter include rays of all degrees of penetra- gases indicate that the hydrogen atom has the simplest possible tion & the absorption gives the average. In a thin layer, all the structure of a nucleus with one unit charge, and helium comes α particles are shot out with considerable velocity and the next with a nucleus of two unit charges. This simple structure for value of R (if the exponential law holds even approximately) hydrogen and helium atoms has been assumed by Bohr in a recent should, in consequence, be different. I doubt if it is safe to interesting paper on the constitution of atoms [i.e., Bohr’s cel- assume an exponential law unless experiments agree with it. ebrated -part  paper “On the constitution of atoms and mol- I regret I was unable to find time to call at Columbia on my way ecules”] and has been shown by him to yield very promising re-    back. sults” (p. ). DSB. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester, p. . “Bragg” here refers to William Henry Bragg (–), who shared the  Nobel Prize for physics with his son for their Extraordinarily Rare Bolivian Mining Laws studies of crystal structure by means of x-rays. Bragg, a lifelong . Santa Cruz, Andres de (–). friend and collaborator of Rutherford, had begun his own radioac- Código mineral Santa-Cruz. to. [] , vii [, incl. tivity investigations in , making the important discovery that the energies of alpha-particles differed according to the nature of errata]pp. Chuquisaca their source; this “soon became an invaluable tool in identifying [Charcas], Bolivia: radioactive substances” (DSB). Bragg reported these results in his Manuel Venancio del paper “On the absorption of x-rays, and on the classification of the Castillo, .  ×  x-rays of radium” (Phil. Mag., th series,  [Dec. ], pp. – mm. Morocco gilt ca. ); it is doubtless to this paper that Rutherford refers in his letter. , a little rubbed,   Wilson, Rutherford: Simple Genius, chs. & . Badash, ed., Ruther- possibly lacking front and    ford and Boltwood: Letters on Radioactivity, pp. – . back free endpapers. Fragments of paper tape . Rutherford & Richardson, H. on verso title and rear Analysis of the γ rays from radium D and radium E. pastedown, otherwise Offprint from Phil. Mag. , series VI,  (). vo. fine. $ []–pp. Text diagrams. N.p., n.d.  ×  mm. First Edition, and extraor- Original printed wrappers, partly split at spine, a dinarily rare, with no copies little dampstained. Light browning, but very good. cited in NUC, RLIN or OCLC. A set of laws regulating mining, Rutherford’s presentation inscription on front wrapper: mineral rights, prospecting, etc., issued during the administration “With the author’s compliments.” Ownership stamp (–) of Bolivian president Andres de Santa Cruz. The laws on front wrapper. $ may have applied to Peru as well: in , the year that the Código First Separate Edition. Rutherford and Richardson found was published, Santa Cruz succeeded in conquering that neighbor- that radium D emits two types of gamma radiation, while radium ing country, establishing a short-lived Peruvian-Bolivian confed- E emits only very weak gamma radiation. Rutherford was awarded eration that was overturned by Chilean forces in . The rich the Nobel Prize for chemistry in  for his investigations into mineral deposits (particularly silver) in both Bolivia and Peru made the radioactive disintegration of elements. DSB. Birks, Rutherford these two countries the wealthiest and most highly developed in at Manchester, p. .  South America. EB. Not in Sabin. 

. Rutherford & Nuttall, J[ohn]. M. (– . Sauerbruch, Ferdinand (–). ). Die willkürlich bewegbare künstliche Hand.  vols. in Scattering of α particles by gases. Offprint from Phil. , vo. vi,  []; iv,  []pp. Text illustrations Mag., series VI,  (). vo. []–pp. Text (some in color). Berlin: Julius Springer, –. Half  diagrams. N.p., n.d.  ×  mm. Original printed cloth c. , worn, shaken, front hinge splitting.

 Light browning, a few pencil marks. Good copy. dred pages [in the CUP version] he covered the fundamentals of Ownership stamps on titles. $ the subject with an insight and clarity that have never been equaled. First Edition of Sauerbruch’s treatise on movable artificial The book is a distillation of his many years of creative work in the fi  arms and hands, operated by the patient’s remaining muscles; and eld” (Moore, Schrödinger: Life and Thought, p. ). Schrödinger  on the preparation of the amputation stump for their use. See shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Dirac for their dis- Peltier, Orthopedics, p.  for his turn-up plasty procedure in ex- covery of new and productive forms of atomic theory, in particu- cision of the femur.  lar Schrödinger’s wave mechanics. Weber, Pioneers of Science, pp. –. DSB.  . Schenck, Johann Georg (d. ca. ), ed. . Schrödinger. De formandis medicinae studiis et schola medica  constituenda enchyridion selectum. mo.  []pp. What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell. vo.    viii,  []pp.  plates on  leaves. Cambridge: Strassburg: Conrad Scher, . × mm.  Vellum c. , a little rubbed, title in ms. on spine. Cambridge U. P., . Original cloth, dust-jacket Some foxing and browning, but very good. Early (worn & soiled at spine, one corner torn). Very good  copy. Ownership inscription on front endpaper. ownership inscription on title. $  First Strassburg Edition, published simultaneously with an $ edition issued in Basel. A collection of works by Mercuriale, First Edition. Schrödinger’s “naive physicist’s” approach to Castellanus, Plancodomus, Sylvius and Memius on medical educa- the problems of heredity and variation constitutes a major contri- tion and the formation of a medical curriculum. It was compiled by bution to biological thought, as it was here that he introduced Johann Georg Schenck, author of the first bibliography of gyne- “what was to become one of the most fundamental concepts in the cology (see G-M .) and son of Johann Schenck of Grafenburg new science of molecular biology: the chromosome is a message writ- (–), the greatest medical compiler of his day. Rare—not in ten in code. . . . this was the birth of the concept of a ‘genetic code’”  NUC, and OCLC and RLIN cite only one copy (NLM) in North (Moore, Schrödinger: Life and Thought, p. ). James Watson, Francis  American libraries. Hirsch.  Crick and Maurice Wilkins—recipients of the Nobel Prize in physiology / medicine for their discovery of the structure of    DNA—all testified to the major role Schrödinger’s book played in . Schrödinger, Erwin ( – ). fi Statistical thermodynamics. Course of seminar their choice of scienti c career. Watson stated that “from the mo- ment I read Schrödinger’s What is Life? [in ] I became polar- lectures delivered in fi  ized toward nding out the secret of the gene” (quoted in Moore, January-March at p. ); Crick was impressed by the fact that “fundamental biologi- the School of Theoretical cal problems could be thought about in precise terms, using the Physics. Hectographed concepts of physics and chemistry” (Olby, “Francis Crick, DNA and typescript. to. [] ff. the Central Dogma,” in Holton, ed., The Twentieth Century Sciences, Dublin: Dublin Institute p. ); and Wilkins reported that “Schrödinger’s book had a very fl fi for Advanced Studies, positive in uence on me and got me, for the rst time, interested in biological problems” (quoted in Moore, p. ).  .  ×  mm. Original stiff wrappers, cloth spine, worn, lightly Earthquakes creased. Very good copy. . Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (ca.  B.C. - A.D. Former owner’s signa- ).  ture on title. $ [Opera philosophica]. Folio. [] cxlvii, LXV ff. [Venice: First Edition, and scarce, with NUC and OCLC citing only Bernardinus de Cremona & Simon de Luere,  Oct. five copies in North American libraries (U. Colorado, U. Wiscon-  (colop.)].  ×  mm. Old vellum, upper sin, Lib. Congress, U. Mich., Bryn Mawr); not in RLIN. Between   third of front hinge repaired. Light dampstaining on and , Schrödinger was senior professor at the Dublin fi  Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Theoretical Physics, which rst ca. leaves, tiny wormholes in lower margin during his tenure there became famous as a gathering-place for (not affecting text), otherwise fine. From the library discussion of current problems in physics. “From January to March, of medical historian and bibliographer Walter Pagel , Schrödinger had returned to one of his first loves in science (–), with his signature on the front in a course of lectures on Statistical Thermodynamics at D.A.I.S. pastedown. $ They were published in a small hectographed edition and later Third edition. Toward the end of his life the Roman philoso-  ( ) by the Cambridge University Press. In less than one hun- pher Seneca wrote a treatise entitled Naturales quaestiones (Natu-

 ral questions), dealing with weather phenomena, earthquakes, riv- beginning of the Information Age. Goldstine, The Computer from ers, comets and other related topics grouped by the ancients un- Pascal to von Neumann, pp. -. Lee, Computer Pioneers.  der the heading of meteorology; this work occupies ff. lxxxviii-cx in the present edition of the Opera philosophica. Although not all of . Shockley, William (–). the Naturales quaestiones has survived, the extant portion repre- Electrons and holes in semiconductors. With applica- sents the longest ancient treatise on the subject since Aristotle’s tion to transistor electronics. vo. xxiii [], pp. Meteorologica, and is the main source for the history of classical Frontispiece and text illustrations. New York: Van meteorology after Aristotle. Of particular interest is Seneca’s dis- Nostrand, [].  ×  mm. Original cloth, cussion of earthquakes, which includes an account of the Campania  earthquake of A.D. ; this is the earliest detailed description of an covers stained. Very good copy. $ fi earthquake to come down to us. Seneca incorporated eyewitness First Edition. The rst book on transistor electronics, which accounts of the damage done by the Campania earthquake; distin- inaugurated a new era in technology, especially in computers. With guished between earthquakes’ up-and-down, oscillatory and vi- the invention of the transistor by Shockley, Brattan and Bardeen in  brational movements; and cited various seismological theories pro- , computers that had once occupied whole warehouses could posed by ancient philosophers, himself favoring the view that earth- be reduced to the size of small rooms (this trend toward miniatur- quakes are caused by the movement of subterranean winds. DSB. ization continued with the development of the silicon chip, which Geike, Founders of Geology, pp. –. Goff S–. BMC V, pp. – allowed upwards of one million transistors to be compressed to .  the size of a thumbnail and made possible the invention of the small personal computer). Shockley, Brattan and Bardeen shared   . Shannon, Claude E. (- ) & McCarthy, the Nobel Prize in physics for their achievement. John (- ), eds. Automata studies. vo. viii, [],  []pp. Printed Earliest Formal Treatment of from typescript except Any Data Processing Practice for front and back    matter. Text diagrams. . Simpson, Thomas ( – ). Princeton: Princeton U. On the advantage of taking the mean of a number of observations, in practical astronomy. In: Phil. Trans.  P. , .  ×  mm. (), pp. –. Whole number, to. [], pp. Original printed wrap- Fold. plates, text illustrations. London: L. Davis & C. pers, a bit worn & Reymers, .  ×  chipped at spine. Owner- mm. Quarter morocco, ship signature on front marbled boards in period style, original endpapers retained. Some dust-soiling and fraying to edges, but wrapper. Very good copy.  $ very good. $ First Edition. Simpson was the first to attempt to prove First Edition. A significant mathematically that the mean result of several observations is group of papers on automata nearer to the truth than any single observation (the law of large theory, a branch of mathematical logic based on the hypothetical numbers). A key feature of his paper was that Simpson chose to “logic machines” of Post and Turing, and particularly on Turing’s focus “not on the observations themselves . . . but on the errors finding that “there is a universal automaton [i.e., one with an un- made in the observations, on the differences between the recorded limited number of states] in the sense that it can calculate any observations and the actual position of the body being observed. . sequence that any special automaton can, provided only that it . . [This] was the critical step that was to open the door to an receives the appropriate set of input orders” (Goldstine, p. ). applicable quantification of uncertainty” (Stigler, Hist. Statistics, Automata theory was of enormous interest to John von pp. –; see also pp. –). “Simpson was the first to character- Neumann, whose important investigations into self-reproducing ize the errors in observations as independent events, taking posi- automata and automata formed from unreliable parts were cut tive and negative values with equal probabilities, and the first to short by his premature death in ; his “Probabilistic logics and provide a mathematical expression for the probability that the the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components,” error in the mean result will lie between assigned limits” (Todhunter, in the present collection, was one of his last papers on the subject. Hist. Probability, p. ). Simpson’s paper, which he revised in  Other contributors to this collection include Marvin L. Minsky in response to criticism by Thomas Bayes, is considered a mile- and John McCarthy, who together established the basic con- stone in statistical inference, as well as the earliest formal treat- cepts of artificial intelligence; Ross Ashby, author of the influential ment of any data-processing practice. DSB.  “Design for a brain” (); and Claude Shannon, whose bi- nary-based mathematical theory of communication signaled the

 . Singer, Charles (–), ed. . Smith, William (–). Studies in the history and method of science.  vols., Engraved portrait by T. A. Dean (fl. ) after the vo. xiv, ; painting by Hugues Fourau (–), signed in the xxii, pp.  plate by Smith. London: Ackermann & Co., .  plates (some in ×  mm. (image size), on India proof paper mounted color), text to heavier stock (sheet measures  ×  mm.). illustrations. Minor soiling & foxing, but very good. Matted.$ Oxford: Clarendon Press, –.  ×  mm. The best of the portraits of geologist William Smith, showing Original cloth, worn, hinges cracking. Presentation copy, him in his th year. The original of the portrait was presented by inscribed by Singer on the front endpaper: “L. R. Smith’s grandson to the Geological Society of London. Smith is Farnell / Presented by the Editor / July .” In recognized as the founder of stratigraphical geology; his work and methods had a significant influence in the development of a geo- quarter morocco slipcases (a little rubbed), with  logic chronology, and his linking of geology with paleontology bookplate of Thomas A. McGraw, M.D. $ provided evidence for later evolutionary theories. DNB. Benezit  First Edition. G-M . A collection of essays by various for artists.  authorities, edited by the noted historian of science Charles Singer, and with a preface by William Osler. Golden & Roland . 

. Smith, Robert William (–). A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of joints, and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations. vo. x, [], pp., publisher’s catalogue. Text wood-engravings. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, .  ×  mm. Original gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked in morocco, some wear to corners. Light browning, some fore-edges a bit frayed, but very good. Presentation copy, Heavily Annotated & Revised Author’s Copy inscribed on the front endpaper: . Soddy, Frederick (–). “To the Editor of the Medical (). The interpretation of the atom. vo. xviii [], Gazette with the Author’s Compliments.” Library pp. Pp. – lacking.  plates (of ), fold. table, bookplate and withdrawal stamp. $ text illustrations. Original folding tables at the back First Edition. G-M .. The first important work on frac- replaced with a revised “Periodic Table of the Chemi- fi tures by an Irish author. In the rst chapter, Smith corrected cal Elements.” London: John Murray, .  ×  Cooper’s error regarding the relative amount of shortening ac- mm. Heavily annotated by the author, with numerous companying intra- and extracapsular fractures of the neck of the manuscript and tipped-in typescript additions / revisions femur, showing that extracapsular fractures were initially shorter.   “Because modern physicians’ knowledge of these fractures is based dating from – , as described below. Original primarily on radiographic characteristics, Smith’s detailed reports cloth, shaken, spine faded; extremely worn dust-jacket of their pathological appearance as demonstrated by extensive (in  pieces) laid in, inscribed by Soddy: “Spare in dissection can still be read with profit” (Peltier, Fractures, p. ). In addition to the  copies” and “Author’s copy for a later chapter Smith corrected Colles’s original description of the correction. A few leaves loose. Boxed. With: (). The fracture of the wrist now named for him, placing the location of story of atomic energy. to. viii, pp. Text illustra- the break more distally; it was Smith who was responsible for tions. London: Nova Atlantis, .  ×  mm. establishing the eponym “Colles’s fracture.” “Smith’s fracture” of the wrist is described in the same chapter.  Original cloth, one corner bumped. Fine copy, with Soddy’s presentation inscription to Muriel Howorth on front

 endpaper: “Mrs. half of the th century, from Rutherford and Soddy’s revolution- Muriel Howorth ary disintegration theory of radioactivity (–) to the develop-  / With the ment of the atomic bomb in the s. Soddy presented this copy Author’s Com- of his work to his friend Muriel Howorth, to whom he gave all of his papers and bequeathed the copyrights of his published works. pliments / fi  Howorth edited the rst (and only published) volume of Soddy’s Jamuary st memoirs, and also wrote Pioneer Research on the Atom: Rutherford   . / Frederick Soddy.” Together items. and Soddy in a Glorious Chapter of Science (), which includes a $ biography of Soddy. DSB. James, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, pp. (). First Edition, British issue. Soddy collaborated with Ru- –.  therford in the crucial alpha-ray experiments that led to their revolutionary disintegration theory of radioactivity (–). He . Steindler, Arthur (–). was the first to recognize that the chemically identical atoms of The traumatic deformities and disabilities of the upper ff di erent atomic weights discovered by radioactivity researchers extremity. vo. xxi [], pp. Springfield: Charles C were all varieties of the same chemical element, and introduced Thomas, .  ×  mm. Original cloth, a bit the term “isotope” to describe this phenomenon. He was awarded  shaken, a few marks on front cover. Very good copy. the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his investigations into the  origin and nature of isotopes, which paralleled Bohr’s physical in- Ownership signature on front endpaper. $ vestigations in providing crucial evidence for the nuclear origins First Edition. “For surgery of the upper extremity, of alpha- and beta-decay. [Steindler’s] book by that title broke new ground. Although we Soddy’s Interpretation of the Atom, which superseded his classic remember him for the one operation of the proximal shift of the fl fl   Interpretation of Radium (; th ed. ), deals with develop- exor origins to gain ability to ex the elbow [see G-M . ], he fl ments in radioactivity and atomic chemistry from the turn of the in uenced our ideas on all types of tendon and muscle transfers century to the time of writing. Only one edition of The Interpreta- because of his ability to develop the principle of operative proce-   tion of the Atom ever appeared in print. However, the heavily dures” (Boyes, On the Shoulders of Giants, p. ; see also pp. –   revised author’s copy we are offering here shows that Soddy at one ). time intended to publish an updated edition covering advances in the field up to , with an appendix touching on the events The Principia of Acoustics leading up to the detonation of the atomic bomb in . Evi- dently, Soddy abandoned his plan to publish a revised Interpretation Presentation Copy with A.L.s. of the Atom, thus leaving unpublished the thousands of words of . Strutt, John William (–), third revisions and additions recorded in this volume. Later he incorpo- Baron Rayleigh. rated the gist of his revisions into his Story of Atomic Energy (;       The theory of sound. vols., vo. xi [ ], [ , ads]; x, see below), which, according to its preface, replaces both the    and  works. [ ]pp., -page Although we have from time to time seen single copies of publisher’s cata- books marked up by their authors in preparation for a new edition, logue. Text illus- we have rarely seen a copy as extensively annotated as this one. trations. London:  of its  text leaves, including all the preliminary leaves, bear Macmillan, – Soddy’s annotations and copy-editing marks, made either in manu- .  ×  mm.; Vol. II unopened. Original cloth, ff script (in several di erent colors of ink and pencil) or on added Vol. I rebacked preserving original spine. Lightly typewritten slips. Numerous cross-outs and “stets” show where browned, occasional fox-marks, but very good. Soddy had changed his mind about a particular passage. All but Presentation copy, with Strutt’s -page A.L.s. (signed seven of the plates were removed by Soddy, and the heavily   marked-up preliminary leaves are all “cancelled” with diagonal “Rayleigh”) dated April , tipped into Vol. I; the slashes in ink and pencil. There is an added frontispiece illustration letter presents this copy to an unidentified museum. (of John Dalton), as well as an added table in the back and type- $ written “Instructions to the Printer” tipped in at the front. Accord- First Edition. The Theory of Sound, Strutt’s first book, established ing to notes in this copy, Soddy also prepared a typescript contain- its author as a leading authority on acoustics; in its updated versions ing rewritten versions of several sections in The Interpretation of the it “is still a vade mecum in every acoustical research laboratory” Atom, including chapters XII through XV. These typescripts are not (DSB). “The publication of Lord Rayleigh’s Theory of Sound in  present here. marks in a sense both the end of what may be called the classical (). First Edition. Soddy’s final treatise on radioactivity and era in acoustics and the beginning of the modern age of sound. . . . atomic physics, covering all the major developments of the first [The work] has long stood as a monument of physical literature,

 with a tremendous influence on the subsequent development of Offprint from Monatsheften f. Math. u. Phys.  (). the science of acoustics, particularly on the analytical side” (Lind- vo. –pp. Original wrappers, creased vertically, say, “The story of acoustics,” in Lindsay, ed., Acoustics: Historical and a bit faded. Very good. $ Philosophical Development, p. ). The work is divided into two fi First Separate Edition. “Tarski disovered interconnections parts, the rst dealing with mechanical-vibrational phenomena of between such diverse areas of mathematics as logic, algebra, set all types, and the second with the propagation of sound through theory and measure theory. He brought clarity and precision to fluid media. Strutt developed several mathematical techniques for ffi the semantics of mathematical logic. . . . Collectively, his work can dealing with di cult vibrational problems, including the basis for been regarded as an immensely fruitful interplay among algebra, what is now known as the Ritz-Rayleigh method; this “has had wide set theory and logic” (DSB). Tarski’s work has also profoundly influ- modern applications, not merely in studying the vibrations of solid enced the field of theoretical computer science, which considers structures, but also in quantum mechanics” (Lindsay, p. ). Strutt fi what problems can or cannot be solved (either practically or in did not con ne himself to acoustics, but made important contribu- principle) by computers. Tarski was the first to consider the rule of tions to many branches of physics, including optics, hydrodynam- “infinite induction,” now called the w-rule, which “allows the infer- ics, electromagnetic theory, radiation theory and thermodynam-  ence of (x)A(x) for any formula A for which A(z) has been proved ics. In he received the Nobel Prize in physics for his investi- for each numeral z” (Gödel, CollectedWorks I, p. ; see also pp.  gations of the density of gases, which led to his discovery (with W. and ). He first stated this rule in the present paper, a response Ramsay) of argon. to Gödel’s “On formally undecidable propositions of Principa Strutt presented this copy of his Theory of Sound to an unidenti-  fi  mathematica and related systems I” ( ). Lee, Computer Pioneers, ed museum in . His presentation letter, tipped into Vol. I, pp.  .  reads: “I understand that the Museum is rearranging & extending its library. I take the opportunity to present a copy of my work on . Tennant, Smithson (–). sound, only regretting that, on account of its technical character, it fi  fi A.L.s. to an unidenti ed recipient. Undated (c. ). is not likely to nd many readers.” Miller, Anecdotal History of the   Science of Sound, pp. –, describing The Theory of Sound as “the × mm. Creased where previously folded, Principia of Acoustics” (p. ).  integral address leaf removed, scattered foxing, a few pin-holes, but very good. $ . Swan, Joseph (–). Tennant, professor of chemistry at Cambridge, discovered the A demonstration of the nerves of the human body. metals iridium and osmium (), and was the first to recognize    the chemical identity of charcoal and diamonds (). He also to. [ ], iv, , lxxxii,  []pp. (last adverts.).  discovered in that lime from many parts of England contains magnesia, a substance extremely harmful to vegetation. DNB. plates engraved by DSB.  Finden after West. London: Longman. . . , . Thomas, Hugh Owen (–).    . × mm. Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints, with their Original cloth, uncut, deformities, treated by a repaired. Some brown- new and efficient method. ff ing, foxing & o setting, vo. [], vii [], pp.   but very good. th lithographed plates, each century signature of Geo. with explanation leaf.  Fox on endpaper. $ Liverpool: T. Dobbs &   First Edition in to. Initially issued in imperial folio in , Co., .  ×  Swan’s was the largest and most splendidly produced atlas of neu- mm. Original cloth, a roanatomy ever published in English; however, on account of the great expense of the work, it was necessary to re-issue it in quarto little worn, spotted & to reach a larger audience. The plates were re-engraved by Finden, shaken. Ownership one of the original engravers for the folio. The illustrations are in inscription on front some respects still unsurpassed for beauty and accuracy. Garrison/ endpaper. Very good McHenry , citing quarto edition.  copy. $ Second edition, first issue of . Tarski, Alfred (–). this landmark work in orthope- Einige Betrachtungen über die Begriffe der ω- dics. There are two different Widerspruchsfreiheit und der ω-Vollständigkeit. versions of the second edition:

 the present undated one containing  pages and  plates, and a Modern half morocco, dated version identical to the  third edition. gilt-ruled spine. Light Thomas was the leading proponent in England of immobiliza- browning & soiling, but tion in the treatment of diseased joints. He also described the very good. Presentation adverse effects of forcing contracted joints, and stressed the neces- sity for stimulating the circulation within the immobilized limb copy, inscribed on the during the healing period. The present work also contains a de- title: “Dr. C. J. Martin F. scription of the Thomas splint, a single splint designed to keep the R. S. with kind regards spine, hip and knee in rigid alignment, which, with some modifica- from J. A. T.” $ tions, is still in use today. First Editions. Thompson Thomas was persuaded to write Hip, Knee and Ankle by the was president of the New South Liverpool surgeon Rushton Parker, who had had been extremely Wales Board of Health, which impressed with the ingenuity of Thomas’s splints after a chance issued these epidemiological re- encounter with one of Thomas’s patients. “Hip, Knee and Ankle, ports during the outbreak of published at Parker’s insistence in , led to enquiries from plague in Sydney during the leading surgeons the world over. A second edition followed in first years of the th century; , and a third, with an introduction by Parker, two years later” this outbreak was part of the last plague pandemic, which lasted (Le Vay, Hugh Owen Thomas, p. ; see also pp. –). An eccentric from  to . During the early part of this pandemic the who valued the content of his ideas far more than the printed form plague bacillus was discovered by Yersin (see G-M  & ), in which they appeared, Thomas had his books privately printed in and its mode of transmission via rat and flea ascertained by Ogata small editions and refused to advertise them, giving away, in all and Simond (see G-M  & .). Thompson’s plague reports probability, more copies than he sold, and destroying all undistrib- confirm these earlier discoveries, providing further evidence of uted copies. Copies of the early editions of his works are there- the parts played by the plague rat and the flea; they also examine fore quite scarce. NLM NT . Norman . Le Vay, Hist. the question of whether plague can be transmitted directly from Orthopaedics, pp. –. Peltier, Orthopedics, pp. –.  one human subject to another. The many large folding maps show locations of plague outbreaks, and also where plague-bearing rats . Thompson, Benjamin, Count Rumford had been found entering the city. The fourth report contains an (–). early reference to the Haffkine anti-plague vaccine, an account of fi which was published in  (G-M ). Spink, Infectious Diseases, A.L.s. in French to an unidenti ed recipient, dated   from Auteuil [France],  p. . March .  page plus .    Thomson, Thomas ( – ). integral blank leaf. × Travels in Sweden during the autumn of . to. xii,  mm. Creased where previously folded, slight      [ ]pp. Frontis., plates, maps (some hand- soiling, but very good. $ colored). London: Robert Baldwin, . Modern half From the American-born physicist Benjamin Thompson, cre- ff  calf. Occasional light foxing & o setting, but very ated Count Rumford by the elector of Bavaria in , famous for  his studies of heat, his numerous technological innovations (includ- good. $ ing the first kitchen range) and his establishment of Britain’s Royal First Edition. By the noted Scottish chemist Thomson, au-  Institution. A British loyalist during the Revolution, Rumford served thor of the best-selling System of Chemistry ( ), ardent sup- fi in both the British and Bavarian armies before retiring to France, porter of Dalton’s atomic theory, and founder of the rst chemical where he married the widow of French chemist Antoine Lavoisier. teaching laboratory in Great Britain. His book includes much in- In the present letter, Rumford instructs his correspondent to pay formation on the geology and mineralogy of Sweden: “The miner- the sum of  francs  centimes to a M. Everat, and to arrange alogy of Sweden had not been touched upon, except by one or two the best time for the sale of some unspecified items. DSB.  German travellers; and as I saw a good deal more of the country than either Haussman or Von Buch, many of my mineralogical fl  . Thompson, John Ashburton (b. ). observations will, I atter myself, be found new” (preface). The aetiology of plague deduced from its epidemiol- . Thomson, Thomas (–). ogy, observed at Sydney during the years –. A.L.s. to William Henry (–), dated from Folio.  reports in  vol., variously paginated.  Glasgow,  October . –/pp. plus integral lithographed maps ( folding),  plates, fold. table. address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased where previ- Sydney: William Applegate Gullick,  [reports ously folded, small lacuna where seal was cut out, have separate titles dated –].  ×  mm.

 affecting the last  letters of Thomson’s signature, . Ulam, Stanislaw M. (b. ). light soiling, but very good. $ The Scottish book. to. [iii] ff. [Los Alamos, ]. To fellow chemist William Henry, soliciting Henry’s assistance  ×  mm. Loose-leaf mimeographed sheets, in finding a job for his friend Mr. Yule, who is looking for a position fastened with brads, in original wrappers, front  as superintendent in a chemical factory. DSB. wrapper with mimeographed title. Light browning & soiling, front wrapper chipped, but very good. Inscribed to Sir William Ellis Presentation copy, inscribed by Ulam to mathematician . Tuke, Samuel (–). and physicist Fritz John (b. ) on front wrapper: A sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of “To Fritz John / from Stan Ulam / Los Alamos, Dec. the Retreat, an institu- , .” Boxed. $ tion near York. . . . vo. First Edition of this famous mathematical work, prepared pp.  folding engraved by the Polish mathematician and physicist best known for his work plates. York: W. Alexander on the Manhattan Project and for the part he played in the cre- ation of the hydrogen bomb in the early s. As a young math- & Son, .  ×  ematician in Lwów, Poland during the s, Ulam would often mm. Modern full calf in meet with like-minded friends to discuss mathematical issues. One period style. Light of their meeting places was Lwów’s Scottish Café, where be- browning & foxing, some tween  and  a large notebook (the “Scottish Book”) was offsetting from plates, kept for the purpose of recording new problems and solutions. but very good. Presenta- Among those who contributed to the notebook were the physicist tion copy, inscribed by Leopold Infeld (one of Einstein’s collaborators), and Ulam’s life- Tuke on the title: “W. C. long friend John von Neumann. Both the notebook and its reputa- Ellis M.D. [i.e., Sir tion survived the war, and Ulam received many requests for cop- ies. In  Hugo Steinhaus, one of the original Polish participants William Charles Ellis   in the Scottish Book, sent Ulam a typewritten copy, from which he ( – )] from his friend Saml. Tuke.” prepared the present English translation for private distribution to $ mathematical friends and acquaintances—including the mathema- First Edition, and scarce, with no copies cited in NUC and tician and physicist Fritz John, the original recipient of the present only three copies in North American libraries (NLM [] & Temple) copy. John, a professor of mathematics at New York University, listed in OCLC and RLIN. The Retreat, a Quaker asylum for the was a member of the Courant Institute, and collaborated with insane situated in the English city ofYork, was founded as a “noble Courant on the textbook Introduction to Calculus and Analysis (). experiment” by Tuke’s grandfather William in , in response to As a mathematician, Ulam performed research in set theory, the suspicious death of a Quaker girl a few weeks after her admis- the foundations of mathematics, group theory, and probability sion to theYork Asylum. At the Retreat the insane were accorded theory; his “Monte Carlo” method for deriving a reasonable math- the dignity and status of sick human beings, and their treatment ematical model of nuclear reactions has found application in many was based on “how far [they] might be influenced through the different fields. He also helped to develop methods of computer medium of the understanding and the affections, and how far they research during the early days of electronic computing. Ulam, may be beneficially admitted to the liberty, comfort and general Adventures of a Mathematician, pp. –. Lee, Computer Pioneers, habits of the sane” (quoted in Hunter & Macalpine, p. ; see also pp. –. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, pp. –; pp. –). The success of the Retreat’s humanitarian methods –. Debus.  was praised throughout England and Europe, and the publication in  of Tuke’s Description of the Retreat attracted even more favor- . Uster, Paul (–). able attention and inspired widespread reforms. The present work Specimen bibliothecae criticae magnetismi sic dicti updates Tuke’s previous report with current information about animalis. vo. pp. Göttingen: J. C. Dieterich, . the Retreat’s finances, cases, officers and staff, etc. Tuke presented  ×  mm. Later marbled boards, paper spine this copy to his friend Sir William Charles Ellis, medical superin- label with title in ms., a little worn. Light foxing & tendent of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and author of A Treatise on  the Nature, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of Insanity, with Practi- browning, but very good. Bookplate. $ cal Observations on Lunatic Asylums, and the Description of the Pauper First Edition. Uster’s medical dissertation is probably the Lunatic Asylum for the county of Middlesex at Hanwell ().  first published bibliography of works on animal magnetism; we can find no earlier such work listed in Crabtree. Uster’s bibliography includes periodical articles and reviews of books on the subject. Crabtree . 

 . Valier, Max (–). was edited by Morgagni, the founder of modern pathological Raketenfahrt. viii, pp. Text illustrations. Munich & anatomy (see G-M ), who had been Valsalva’s pupil. DSB.  Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, .  ×  mm. Modern buckram, original pictorial front wrapper bound in. A few fox-marks on first and last leaves, but a very good Probably the Most Elaborate of all copy, from the library of Frederick I. Ordway III (- ), Phrenological Books with his bookplate. $  . Vimont, Joseph (–). Second and Best Edition, originally published in under  the title DerVorstoss in denWeltenraum (Advance into interplanetary Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée. . . . space). “From  to  this book went through five printings vols., to, plus folio without important changes; in  a revised and greatly enlarged atlas. [],  [], vi []; edition was published under the title Raketenfahrt” (Ley, p. ). viii, , vi [];  Valier, a writer of popular science books, was one of the first []pp. Folding table. Atlas  champions of Oberth’s work in rocketry and space flight; his consists of title-leaf and book and its subsequent printings / editions were “enormously  lithographed plates successful in popularizing Oberth’s ideas” (Winter, Founders of Space- flight Theory, p. ). Valier went on to design his own spacecraft and after drawings by the rocket cars, one of which is pictured on the cover of Raketenfahrt; author, plus lithographed in  he was killed when one of his rocket engines exploded. explanation leaf for plate This copy of Valier’s book is from the library of Frederick Ordway XCIII. Paris: Baillière, –.  ×  mm. III, rocket scientist and writer of numerous books on the subject. (text);  ×  mm. (atlas). Calf panelled in gilt Ley, Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel, pp. , . Ordway, Blue- and blind, gilt spines, ca. , some rubbing. Light -.  print for Space, pp. foxing & browning, but very good. Signed by the author on the title to Vol. II and the “Avis” to Vol. III, to . Valsalva, Antonio Maria (–). prevent piracy. $ Opera. Edited by Giovanni Battista Morgagni    First Edition. Phrenology, the physiognomical system based ( – ). to. Initial on Franz Joseph Gall’s theory of the localization of brain function, blank, [], , [], has long been dismissed as pseudoscience, but recent scholarship , []; pp. Portrait has shown it to be “one of the most significant, if curious, social and engraved by Francesco intellectual manifestations of the last century . . . having impinged Zucchi &  folding on virtually every aspect of life, thought and belief . . . [and] engraved plates. Venice: regarded as having contributed instrumentally to developments in Francesco Pitteri, .  anthropology, criminology, medicine, psychiatry, and education”   (Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles, p. vii). Phrenology was intro- vols. × mm. duced to France by Gall and Spurzheim in the early part of the Original boards, uncut, th century, but did not really catch on there until , when rebacked in cloth at an King Louis Philippe’s interest in the subject paved the way for its early date, endpapers acceptance among the French medical establishment. One of the more recently renewed, many French works on the subject published during this period sewing a little loose. was Joseph Vimont’s Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée, an Light staining in margin unusual work presenting a phrenological analysis not only of indi- of some leaves but overall fine. th century signature vidual human brains and skulls but those of dozens of animal speci- mens, ranging from monkeys to fish. Vimont was a founding mem- of Francesco Casati on titles. Recent owner’s signa-   ber of the Société phrénologique de Paris (established ), which ture on endpaper. $ also numbered among its members the eminent French physician First Edition, comprised of the fourth edition of Tractatus de Broussais, the mesmerist John Elliotson, the Combe brothers and  aure humana (G-M ), and the First Editions of Dissertationes the publisher J.-B. Baillière, described by Lanteri-Laura as “le grand anatomicae, epistolas duodeviginti and Morgagni’s life of Valsalva. éditeur des phrénologistes” (p. ). Lanteri-Laura, Histoire de la  G-M cites the Opera for Valsalva’s description of the aortic phrénologie, pp. –.  “sinus of Valsalva.” Valsalva was an outstanding anatomist. In his work on the ear he depicted its most minute muscles and nerves, and divided the ear into external, middle and internal. His Opera

 . Virey, Julien Joseph (–). First Editions (nos. [] & []); First Collected Edition Examen impartial de la médecine magnétique, de sa & First Edition in Book Form (no. []). Von Neumann’s in-  doctrine, de ses procèdes, et de ses cures. vo. [],  vention of continuous geometry in stemmed from his work on algebras consisting of (bounded) operators in a given separable []pp. Paris: Panckoucke, .  ×  mm. Hilbert space, which are now known as Von Neumann algebras. Von (uncut). Original plain wrappers, spotted, split at Neumann’s previous work on rings of operators in Hilbert space spine. Foxed and browned throughout, but very good had led to the discovery of a new mathematical structure which otherwise. $ possessed a dimension function. “Intrigued by this geometric in- First Edition. A major article on animal magnetism origi- terpretation of his results, von Neumann developed it in a series of nally published in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales, by the well- papers on “continuous geometries” and their algebraic satellites, known pharmacologist and natural historian Virey, who had read the “regular rings” (which are to continuous geometries as rings of widely in both the French and German literature on the subject, matrices are to vector spaces). This classification . . . required great and had observed and talked with many practitioners. “[Virey] technical skill in the handling of the spectral theory of operators” offended magnetists by the use of terms such as folly, charlatanry, (DSB). Von Neumann gave two series of lectures on continuous credulity, etc., and by implying, for instance, that a rather high geometry at the Institute for Advanced Study, the first (part I) in proportion of magnetizers were handsome and virile men, and a – and the second (parts II-III) in –. “The notes were rather high proportion of their best subjects susceptible young prepared, while the lectures were in progress, by L. Roy Wilcox, women. . . . But his account of magnetic procedures is quite fair, and multigraphed copies were distributed. . . . The supply was soon and he does not deny the phenomena: he does not even deny the exhausted, and the notes have not been reproduced until now” cures. He simply attributes them to ordinary causes” (Gauld, p. (Halperin, “Foreword” to no. [], p. v). Item () was mimeographed ). Virey denied the existence of a magnetic fluid, but his ac- on the rectos only in a very small edition for private distribution knowledgment that mesmerism presented some phenomena worth by the Institute for Advanced Study, and is exceptionally investigating benefitted the cause of animal magnetism. Crabtree scarce. Item () was “Planographed” from typewriter type and .  manuscript in presumably a slightly larger edition. It is very much expanded from the first text. The permanent value of these con- . Von Neumann, John (–). tributions is confirmed by their republication in book form by () Continuous geometry. Mimeographed typescript. Oxford University Press  years after the original printings.  to. [] ff.,  ff. errata (numbered i-ii) bound in after The Van der Waals Equation f. . [Princeton] Institute for . Waals, Johannes Diderik van der (– Advanced Study, .  × ).  mm. Original plain Over de continuiteit van den gas- en vloeistoftoestand. wrappers, cloth spine, worn at vo. viii,  []pp. Fold. plate. extremities, corners a little Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, . creased. () Lectures . . . on  ×  mm. Original continuous geometry – blind-stamped and embossed . “Planographed” type- cloth, a little worn, spine script. to. [] , pp. faded, recased. Very good copy [Princeton] Institute for in a cloth case. Former owner’s Advanced Study, .  × bookplate on half-title.  mm. Original printed $ wrappers, cloth backstrip, a First Edition of van der Waals’s bit faded, back cover creased.    classic dissertation on the conti- ( ) Continuous geometry. vo. nuity of gaseous and liquid states. xi [], pp. Princeton: Scarce, with only six copies in North Princeton U. P., .  × American libraries (Purdue, U. Illinois, U. Penn., Columbia,  mm. Original cloth, faint Harvard, Yale) recorded in NUC, OCLC and RLIN. “Van der signs of tape removal at lower Waals’ idea of continuity was that there is no essential difference spine. Together  items. Very good copies. Former between gaseous and liquid states of matter, although one must owner’s name on front wrapper of (); library stamps consider other factors in addition to motion of the molecules in the determination of pressure. The important factors are the attrac- and bookplate in (). $

 tion between particles and their proper volume. . . . From these endpaper. considerations van der Waals arrived at the equation: Offered with: (  Syndesmology, p + a/v ) (v-b) = RT or a description where a expresses the mutual attraction of the molecules, and b is of the ligaments their volume. . . . Other experimenters have suggested different of the human models and equations of state, but van der Walls’s model is prob- body. Trans. ably the most useful because it emphasizes the essential features of Emanuel B. Kaplan. to. xiii [],  []pp. Text molecules that determine liquidity, without introducing too many illustrations. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, . Orig. ‘realistic’ complications. . . . An important practical application of cloth. Fine. $ the theory is the prediction of conditions necessary for the lique- First Edition. G-M .. “Weitbrecht is known for faction of a gas; this was an important guide in the liquefaction of ‘Weitbrecht’s ligament’ (of the elbow), ‘Weitbrecht’s foramen  the ‘permanent’ gases” (Weber, Pioneers of Science, p. ; see also p. ovale’ (gap in the capsule of the shoulder joint between the glenal-  ). Van der Waals was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in humeral ligaments), and ‘Weitbrecht’s fibres’ (retinacular fibres of  for his work on the equation of state of gases and liquids. The the neck of the femur)” (G-M). Invited to St. Petersburg in , son of a carpenter, van der Waals began his career as a primary Weitbrecht made a catalogue of the famous collection of anatomi- school teacher, advancing after additional training to the second- cal preparations purchased by Peter the Great from Frederick ary school level where he became a headmaster. He received his Ruysch. His exhaustive and fundamental Syndesmologia (Study of  doctorate at Leiden at the age of with one of the most famous the joints) was immediately recognized and translated into Ger- dissertations in the history of physics, and became professor of man and French in the th century, and into English in . The  physics at the University of Amsterdam in . Remarkably, he English translation is very rare, however (NUC NW  wrote very little after his dissertation—a few articles and a book cites only one copy [NNC-M] in North America), which perhaps  on thermodynamics co-authored in . His Nobel Prize was explains why discussion of Weitbrecht’s work is missing from stan- fi awarded for the discovery rst published in his dissertation. DSB. dard English references such as Le Vay, Keith, Bick, Copeman or  Boyes. A modern English translation, by E. B. Kaplan, was pub- lished in ; a copy of this translation is included here. Heirs of    . Warren, John Collins ( – ). Hippocrates . Waller . Blake . Not in Osler or Cushing. Etherization, with surgical remarks. mo. [], v [],   [, adverts.]pp. -page publisher’s catalogue bound in front. Boston: Ticknor & Co., .  × . Wiener, Norbert (–).  mm. Original blind-stamped cloth, extremities of Fourier series and integrals. to. iii, ff., mimeo- spine a little chipped, front hinge weak. Browned, but graphed on rectos only. Cambridge: MIT, –. very good. Bookplate; library stamp on verso title.  ×  mm. Library buckram, slight wear to $ extremities & corners. Endpapers a little spotted, but First Edition. Warren was the surgeon who performed the very good. Ownership signature on front endpaper. operation at the first public demonstration of ether as a surgical $ anesthetic, which took place at Massachusetts General Hospital on First Edition. Notes of Wiener’s lectures on Fourier series October , , with W. T. G. Morton as anesthetist. Just over a and integrals given at MIT during the academic year –, year after this momentous event, Warren published his own ac- compiled by several of his students, including the distinguished count of it in the present work, which also included a “dispassionate mathematician W. T. Martin. Wiener did important work on Fou- judgment” of ether’s value as an anesthetic, and practical surgical rier series during the s, “prov[ing] new theorems pertaining observations on the effects of ether in various operations and dis- to Fourier transforms in the complex plane” (Heims, John von eases, based on over  case histories. Fulton & Stanton VII.. Neumann & NorbertWiener, p. ). DSB.  Norman .  . Wigner, Eugene (–); Langmuir,    . Weitbrecht, Josias ( – ). Irving (–); Alvarez, Luis (–); Syndesmologia sive historia ligamentorum corporis Debye, Paul (–), et al.     humani. . . . to. [ ], pp. folding engraved Group of  mimeographed press releases, including    plates. St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences, . by the Nobel laureates listed above. Washington, DC:   × mm. Full sheep c. , rubbed. Some foxing & National Academy of Sciences, November –, browning, but very good. Ownership signature on .  ×  mm. Unbound, wire-stitched (as

 issued?). Light marginal browning, but very good. . Willis, Thomas (–). From the library of Theodore von Karman (– De anima brutorum. vo. vo [], , []pp.  ), founder of modern aviation and space travel. engraved plates (mostly folding). Signatures R & S $ transposed; pl. VIII bound in upside-down. London: E. This group of postwar press releases from the National Acad- F. [for] Ric. Davis, .  ×  mm. Full modern emy of Sciences most probably represents the first publications of calf, gilt spine, th century style. Light browning, discoveries prior to any printed version. They include Wigner’s slight soiling. Very good copy, in a handsome period- statement on “Relativistic wave equations,” Langmuir’s on “Growth style binding. Faint th century signature on impri- of particles in smokes and clouds and the production of snow from  matur leaf; recent owner’s signature on title.$ super-cooled clouds,” Alvarez’s on “Initial performance of a  MEV proton linear accelerator” (with eight associates), and Debye’s First vo Edition, published shortly after the initial quarto ff and with copperplates identical to the quarto version. G-M , on “Viscosity, sedimentation and di usion of polymers in solution”   ff (with Arthur M. Bueche). Wigner and Alvarez received the Nobel & . Willis recognized the di erence between the symp- Prize for physics in  and  respectively, Wigner for his toms of gross brain disease and those of mental illness. Because he contributions to the theory of atomic nuclei elementary particles postulated a disturbance of the brain and nerves in terms of disor- dered “animal spirits” in the absence of pathological findings, he is and Alvarez for his contributions to elementary particle physics. fi Langmuir and Debye were awarded the Nobel Prize for chemis- often considered the rst to have equated mind disease with brain try ( and ), Langmuir for his contributions to surface disease. Also includes probably the earliest description of general paralysis, and the paracusis of Willis. Hunter & Macalpine, pp. chemistry and Debye for his contributions to knowledge of mo-     lecular structure. Both men also did outstanding work in physics, – . Wing W . and are cited in Weber’s list of “Chemistry laureates prominent in    physics” (see Weber, Pioneers of Science, p. ). Weber, Pioneers of . Winslow, Jacques Benigne ( – ). Science, pp. –; –. James, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, (). An anatomical exposition of the structure of the pp. –; –.  human body. . . . Trans- lated from the French . Wilkes, Maurice W. (- ); Wheeler, original, by G. Douglas. David J. (- ); & Gill, Stanley.  vols., to. c. pp. The preparation of programs for an electronic digital (complex pagination by computer. vo. [, incl. frontispieces], , []pp. sections).  fold. copper- Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley, [].  ×  plates. London: N. mm. Original cloth. Fine copy. $ Prevost, . Bound First Edition of the first textbook on computer program- with: (). Rutty, ming and software. Wilkes designed and built Cambridge   fi William ( – ). University’s EDSAC—the rst stored-program computer—and, A treatise of the urinary with the assistance of Wheeler and Gill, invented for it a program- passages. . . . to.  ming system based on subroutines. “EDSAC holds a prime place in   the history of the world’s first computers, not only because it was [ ]pp. copperplates. the first full-scale operational electronic digital computer, but be- London: Tho. Worrall, cause its ability to construct programs from relocatable subrou- . Together  works in  vols.  ×  mm. tines, and to link them together at load time, provided a model for Panelled calf c. , rebacked, corners repaired. almost all others to follow. The model was well explained by one of Minor browning & dampstaining, library stamps on a fl the most in uential textbooks of this early era, The Preparation of few leaves, but very good. Portrait engraving of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. . . . The form of con- Winslow by Garand tipped to front endpaper of first structing programs and how they should be linked together to volume. Early ownership signatures on titles. Library form a load module, as described in this book, reappears many  times for different computers being constructed in different coun- bookplates. $  tries. It provided the basic ideas as to how one should go about ( ). First Edition in English, First Issue, with imprint    fl creating a computing system” (Williams, Hist. Computing Technol- dated . See G-M ; . The most in uential general trea- ogy, p. ; see also pp. –). Lee, Computer Pioneers, pp. – tise on anatomy between the work of Vesalius and Bichat, and the fi .  rst book on descriptive anatomy to discard physiological details and hypothetical explanations foreign to the subject. Winslow did much to condense and systematize what was known, especially in regard to such matters as the origin and insertion, and nomencla-

 ture of the different muscles. the foramen between the greater does not mention it, and the only citation we have been able to find and lesser sacs of the peritoneum (described on pp. –) is is, again, in the Waller catalogue. The creator(s) of the  plate, named for him. In neurology, Winslow designated the ganglion while certainly familiar with Wirsung’s discovery, may never have chain “the grand sympathetic nerve,” and the smaller branches, seen Wirsung’s plate, as the  and  plates are quite differ- “the lesser sympathetic”—terms which remain in use today. At ent: Wirsung’s plate (illustrated in the Waller catalogue) focuses on the end of the book, Winslow reprinted Steno’s famous Discours the ductus pancreatatis, and is fairly simple and schematic; whereas sur l’anatomie du cerveau () as the model and inspiration for his the Amsterdam plate shows the pancreas in its entirety, and is own work; its appearance here in this translation probably repre- much more artistic in its rendition. The explanatory text in the sents its first edition in English. McHenry, Garrison’s Hist. Neur., p. two plates also differs. Choulant / Frank, pp. –. Waller . . Cushing W. Waller . Russell . Hirsch.  (). First Edition. Rutty’s treatise on the structure and dis- eases of the kidneys “contain[s] a clear statement of the existing . Wolfart, Karl Christian (–). knowledge of the subject, and relate[s] two interesting cases, not Erläuterungen zum Mesmerismus. vo. xvi, pp.  fi to be found elsewhere: one . . . of calci ed concretions in the fold. eng. plates ( hand-colored). Berlin: Nikolaischen caecum giving rise to symptoms resembling renal colic, and the Buchhandlung, .  ×  mm. Marbled paper other of double renal calculus” (DNB). Russell .  wrappers c. , a little worn. Light browning & foxing, but fine otherwise. $ First Edition. Wolfart, a member of a special commission appointed by the state chancellor of Prussia to investigate animal magnetism, visited Mesmer in  and ended up an enthusiastic convert to his teachings; his friendship with Mesmer ended only with the latter’s death in . Wolfart was responsible for editing and translating the manuscript of Mesmer’s last work on mesmer- ism (Mesmerismus oder System der Wechselwirkungen []), which summed up the physical, medical and moral aspects of Mesmer’s teachings. Wolfart’s Erläuterung is a commentary on the above- mentioned treatise; it is dedicated to Mesmer and contains a short biography of him. (Incidentally, it was Wolfart who was respon- sible for incorrectly giving Mesmer’s first name as “Friedrich,” an error that has persisted.) Crabtree . Norman M.  Extremely Rare Ephemeral Plate of Wirsung’s Duct . Wollaston, William Hyde (–).     A.L.s. to William Henry ( – ), dated from . Wirsung, Johann Georg (d. ). Fitzroy Square [London],  December .  pp. Pancreatis, novique in eo ductus seu vasis a Io. plus integral address leaf.  ×  mm. Creased Georgio Wirsung observati. . . . Engraved plate.    where previously folded, light soiling, small lacuna Amsterdam, . × mm., mounted on sheet where seal was cut out (not affecting ms.), but very measuring  ×  mm. Minor foxing, traces of fi  good. Biographical notice of Wollaston tipped to rst former mounting on verso, but very good. $ page of letter. $ Wirsung, assistant to the celebrated German anatomist Johann From the eminent British chemist Wollaston, discoverer of the Vesling, discovered the excretory duct of the pancreas (now named fi  metals palladium and rhodium and inventor of the rst successful for him) in . To announce his discovery, he chose the ex- method of producing malleable platinum, to his fellow chemist tremely unusual method of publishing a single-sheet engraving William Henry of Manchester, for whom “Henry’s Law” of the with explanatory notes; this ephemeral plate, issued in Padua in solubility of gases is named. Wollaston refuses Henry’s request, , survives now in only a very few copies (Choulant, writing in  made on behalf of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical So- the th century, knew of only two examples besides his own, one ciety, that Wollaston sit for a portrait—“along with the many gen- of which was in Blumenbach’s library; at present, the only record eral reasons, which I need not enumerate, for declining that odi- of a copy we have been able to locate is in the Waller catalogue).   ous occupation of sitting for a portrait, there is in the present case On August , , a year after publishing his plate, Wirsung was one objection which I have always considered decisive, that I am assassinated by a doctor from Dalmatia.  wholly unknown to the artist named: a most fatal source of failure The present plate, published in Amsterdam in , is itself even with the first of Artists.” DSB.  very rare, with no copies cited in NUC, OCLC or RLIN; Choulant

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