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CATALOGUE 47

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ALLBUTT, Thomas Clifford. Diseases of the Arteries including Angina Pectoris. London: Macmillan and Co... 1915. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xi, 1 leaf, pp. 534, (2) adverts; vi, 559, 1 leaf (adverts). Half-titles. Original green cloth, uncut. Foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Lower part of library label on front pastedowns and residual mark at top of front covers £200 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2894: “Includes his suggestion of the aortic genesis of angina pectoris, and (vol. 2, p. 368) his mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.” “This work is written with wonderful eloquence and an amazing wealth of instances and references, so that although the correctness of the theory [of angina pectoris] has not been shown, yet it is worth reading for the sake of the extent of its learning, and perhaps some of the reflections may draw attention to some of the things that are obscure today” (East, The story of heart disease, p. 119).

ANSTED, David Thomas. Geology, introductory, descriptive, & practical. London: John van Voorst... 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 506; xiii, (ii), 572. Half-titles, numerous figures in the text. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) calf, double gilt fillet on sides, spines ruled in gilt and with two green morocco labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine set. £225 FIRST EDITION. Ansted was professor of geology at King’s College, London, and a fellow of the Geological Society and Royal Society.

ANSTED, David Thomas. Scenery, Science and Art; being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer. London: John Van Voorst... 1854. 8vo, pp. viii, 323, frontispiece and 3 tinted lithographed plates. Woodcuts in the text, Van Voorst’s 4-page catalogue dated January 1855 inserted at the end. Contemporary blue calf prize binding, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red morocco label, double gilt fillet on sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, school device in gilt on upper cover. A pretty copy. £250 FIRST EDITION. Ansted travelled throughout his life, visiting the continent in 1838, Germany and Bohemia in 1840, Belgium in 1842, North America in 1852–3, Algeria in 1853, Hungary and Transylvania in 1862, and the Ionian Islands in 1863. Much of this travelling was connected with his work as geological consultant to mining and other commercial companies. Other countries included in these accounts are France, Switzerland, Spain and Sardinia.

BAILEY, [William]. One Hundred and Six Copper Plates of Mechanical Machines, and Implements of Husbandry, approved and adapted by The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and contained in their repository, in the Adelphi Buildings in the Strand. Illustrated by a particular description of each instrument, and an account of the several discoveries and improvements in agriculture, manufactures, mechanics, chemistry, and the polite arts, which have been promoted and encouraged by the Society, in different parts of this kingdom, and in the colonies of America. Carefully corrected and revised, by Alexander Mabyn Bailey, Register to the Society. London: Printed for Benjamin White... 1782. 2 volumes in 1, folio, pp. xxvi [i.e. xx, pp. xviii–xx misnumbered], iii–iv, 239, and 55 engraved plates (1 folding); pp. (vii), 72, and 51 engraved and mezzotint plates (6 folding). A total of 106 plates. Contemporary speckled calf, nicely rebacked with flat spine gilt and original black morocco label, tips of corners repaired, sides a bit rubbed. Some light foxing and browning but a very good copy. £2400 continued... 1

The first original English atlas of machinery and mechanical devices, a reissue of the edition of 1776–1779 with new title-pages and a list of plates in place of the lists of subscribers. The text is otherwise not reset. In this issue the number of the plate and its page reference have been added to some of the plates. The plates are from drawings by William Bailey and his son, Alexander Mabyn Bailey. The first group of plates in volume 1 are concerned with various branches of agriculture, that being by far the largest industry in Britain at the time. The remaining plates in volume 1 are concerned with manufactures, and reflect Britain’s rise as the pre-eminent manufacturing nation. They include the stocking-frame, looms, cranes, a sawmill, a hole-borer, and many others. The plates in the second volume (which constituted a supplement in the first edition) follow the same arrangement, but are all printed by engraving or mezzotint, most unusual in any technological work. The whole project was overseen by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (today the Royal Society of Arts) which awarded medals for outstanding designs. The first volume, entitled The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, originally appeared in 1772, reissued as a new edition in 1776, and the second volume appeared first in 1779.

BAINES, Edward. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain: with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe; a description of the great mechanical inventions...and a view of the present state of the manufacture... London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, [n.d., 1835]. 8vo, pp. (xviii), (9)–544, frontispiece portrait of Richard Arkwright and 17 engraved plates (1 doublepage, 1 folding), text illustrations. Without the half-title. Contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red morocco label, gilt borders on sides, marbled edges and endpapers. A lovely copy. Armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt. £400 FIRST EDITION. An important book and the standard work on the history of the cotton industry. “The basic history of the Lancashire cotton industry with a tremendous amount of statistical data collected contemporaneously with the events described and with the writing of the book. Also contains first-hand descriptions of the great inventions of the beginning of the industrial revolution, those for spinning and weaving” (Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria, 61). In this work, Baines, who was MP for Leeds, surveys cotton manufacture from its origins to its ‘second birth’ in England, and focuses on the current state of machinery, trade and working conditions in all aspects of the business, and its outputs, including cloth, lace, stockings and cotton wool. This comprehensive work was important for its detailed analysis of a vital commercial activity, and remains so today for the historical information it contains. This issue has 17 plates and the preface is dated at Leeds January 28, 1835; another issue exists with 14 plates and the preface undated. An outline, as Baines calls it, of this work was included in his father’s four-volume History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster.

BANKS, John. A Treatise on Mills, in four parts. Part first, on circular motion. Part second, on the maximum of moving bodies, machines, engines, &c. Part third, on the velocity of effluent water. Part fourth, experiments on circular motion, water wheels, &c. Second edition. London: Printed for Longman,... 1815. 8vo, pp. vii, 172, (4), 3 folding engraved plates. Original brown paper-covered boards, uncut, John Weale’s adverts inserted on rear endpapers. Ink stain on front endpapers and library stamp in upper corner of title, but a fine copy. £280 Second edition, with the same number of pages as the first, which appeared in 1795. This book was based on Banks’s lectures, which he delivered in Manchester and the north of England for twenty years. “The book did not attempt to teach the mechanic how to perform the detailed engineering work, but examined the general principles of mechanics and hydrostatics... The Treatise on mills... continued... 2

did much to inform those who could ‘execute better than they can design’ by discussing engineering problems in a realistic manner” (Musson & Robinson, Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution, pp. 107–109).

BERGMAN, Torbern. An Essay on the Usefulness of Chemistry, and its application to the various occasions of life. Translated from the original... London: Printed for J. Murray... 1784. 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. 163, (1). Good modern half calf antique. Some spotting on a few leaves, otherwise a very good copy. £550 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue. “Bergman here discusses the great utility of chemistry to mankind, covering medicine, economics, industry, metallurgy, manufactures, pyrotechny, dyeing, salts, earths, gases, and other subjects. Duveen describes the second issue (London: J. Murray, 1784), identical to the first except for the reset title-page, which he found after searching diligently for twenty-five years, just in time to include in the addenda of his catalogue. The first issue is even rarer” (Neville). The translation was by Franz Xavier Schwediauer assisted by Jeremy Bentham. Cole 99 (first issue). Duveen p. 640, describing it as “very rare”. Neville I, pp. 123–124 (first issue).

BERKENHOUT, John. First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry. London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1788. [Bound with:]

[2] PRIESTLEY, Joseph. Heads of Lectures on a course of Experimental Chemistry, delivered at the New College, in Hackney. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1794. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo. 1: pp. xxiii, 434, 1 leaf (advertisement for other works by Berkenhout), 7 engraved plates (2 folding) of chemical symbols and apparatus, 1 folding letterpress table (pp. 37–38 are another folding table); 2: pp. xxiii, 180. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label (with a small chip in the corner). Signature of Dominick D’Arcy of Mitcham and the 18th Light Dragoons on front endpapers. £1200 1. SOLE EDITION. “Berkenhout (1730–1791), a British physician of Dutch origin who spent some time in America, had a deep knowledge of natural history, botany and chemistry. His extensive textbook of chemistry is not recorded among his writings in the D.N.B. [or in the new ODNB]. It is interesting to note that he is aware of the new discoveries of Priestley and Lavoisier, which had only recently been published. The last part of the book...is a dictionary of chemistry. A very scarce work...” (Neville). Cole 114. Neville I, p. 128. 2. FIRST EDITION. “Priestley prepared this précis of his course of thirty-six lectures on experimental philosophy for the use of his students. The lectures are chiefly on chemistry with the last seven covering heat and animal heat, light, magnetism and electricity. The chemistry topics include matter in general, gases, acids, alkalis, inflammable liquids, earths and metals” (Cole). Cole 1076. Neville II, p. 338–339. Crook S/477.

9. BERTHOLLET, [Claude Louis, Comte]. Recherches sur les Lois de l'Affinité. Paris: Baudouin,... An IX [1801]. 8vo, 2 leaves (half-title and title), 105 pages. Original pink wrappers (spine worn and chipped and upper wrapper almost detached), uncut. Mild foxing on the first and last leaves. £900 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, originally appearing in the Mémoires of the Institut National des Sciences et Arts, vol. III (1801). This is a very important and scarce work which marks the starting point of Berthollet’s complete new system of chemistry, later developed in his comprehensive, continued... 3

two volume Essai de Statique Chimique. The present work has as its origins a paper read before the Institute of Egypt in Cairo in the summer of 1799 while Berthollet accompanied Napoleon on his expedition to Egypt. “The work was an attempt to improve Bergman’s determinations of affinities by recognizing the influence of such factors as volatility, solubility and especially the relative quantities of substances present (chemical mass). The reversibility and incompleteness of reactions was recognized and that the conditions of reactions could yield compounds without fixed compositions. The ideas expressed were bolstered by accounts of experiments” (Cole). Cole 130. DSB, II, pp. 73–82. Neville I, p. 140. Partington, III, pp. 496–516 and IV, 576: “The idea of chemical equilibrium and its modification by the action of mass was first clearly stated by Berthollet.”

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BLAVIER, Édouard. Essai de statistique minéralogique et géologique du Département de La Mayenne. Paris: Carilliau-Goeury... [and] Le Mans: Deneau-Lagroie... 1837. 8vo, 196 pages, 1 large folding hand-coloured map and 1 folding plate, both from drawings by the author. Contemporary red boards, green morocco labels on spine. Some foxing throughout, especially on the early pages, otherwise a very good copy. Stamp of the engineers René Arrault on front free endpaper and Léon Dru on half-title. £300 SOLE EDITION. A scarce and informative work on the geology and mineralogy of the Département of La Mayenne in western France, including important statistics on the mines of the region. It is illustrated with a fine hand-coloured geological map. Blavier (1802–1887) was engineer-in-chief of the mines at Douay.

11. BORGNIS, Giuseppe Antonio. Traité Complet de Mécanique appliquée aux arts, contenant l’exposition méthodique des théories et des expériences les plus utiles pour diriger le choix, l’invention, la construction et l’emploi de toutes les espèces de machines. Paris: Bachelier... 1818 [–1820]. [And:] Théorie de la mécanique usuelle, ou introduction à l’étude de la mécanique appliquée aux arts. Paris: Bachelier... 1821. Together 9 volumes, 4to, with 244 plates + 5 plates in the Théorie de la mécanique usuelle. Contemporary flame calf by Cabasson of Paris with his ticket, gilt borders on sides, flat spines intricately gilt with red and green morocco labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Some very minor rubbing, short crack in foot of one lower joint, one spine with a few wormholes in the joints, but a beautiful set. £6750 FIRST EDITIONS. This comprehensive work on machinery and mechanical engineering of all kinds was probably the last work of its kind before the proliferation of machinery in the early nineteenth century made such a work impossible, and the subject matter became more specialised. The volumes are as follows: Volume 1. Composition des machines. Pp. xxxiii, 1 leaf (errata), pp. 428, (2) contents, (2) blank, 43 plates. Volume 2. Mouvemens des fardeaux. Pp. xii, 335, 20 plates. Volume 3. Des machines employées dans les constructions diverses. 2 leaves, pp. 4 (advertisement), xii, 319, 26 plates. Volume 4. Des machines hydrauliques. 4 leaves, pp. viii, 294, 27 plates. Volume 5. Des machines d'agriculture. 2 leaves, pp. viii, (ii) contents, 288, 28 plates. Volume 6. Des machines employées dans diverses fabrications. 2 leaves, pp. x, 270, 29 plates. Volume 7. Des machines qui servent à confectionner les étoffes. 2 leaves, pp. x, 332, 44 plates. Volume 8. Des machines imitatives et des machines théâtrales. 2 leaves, pp. viii, 2 leaves (contents and errata), pp. 298, (2) advertisement dated June 1820, 27 plates. Two companion or supplementary volumes were published later, Théorie de la mécanique usuelle (1821) (as here), and Dictionnaire de mécanique appliquée aux arts (1823), which are sometimes found with the main work. These have the same format and style, but do not have the series title. Although of Italian origin, Borgnis (1781–1863) was a French engineer (Joseph Antoine Borgnis). He was later professor of mechanics at the university in Pavia, and a member of the Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.

12. BOWMAN, Sir William. The Collected Papers. Edited for the Committee of the “Bowman Testimonial Fund” by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J.W. Hulke. London: Harrison and Sons, 1892. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxx, 288, frontispiece portrait and 6 engraved plates (1 partly coloured); xxx, 422, frontispiece portrait and 6 plates (including 5 hand-coloured lithographs of the larynx) all but one from drawings by Bowman. Original green pebbled cloth (not quite matching, a few small nicks in spine of vol. 1, spine of vol. 2 neatly repaired). Two bookplates in vol. 1 of the University of London, one a presentation label from Lady Bowman in 1893, also their blindstamp on the title and elsewhere; armorial bookplate in vol. 2 of Thomas H. Bickerton of Liverpool, a subscriber, bookplate in both volumes of Richard J. Bennett. £550 FIRST EDITION. Bowman's most substantial publication, reprinting his entire literary output, with some papers published here for the first time. Bowman himself took an active part in the production, revising the proofs and adding notes. It includes his classic paper On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney (G&M 1231), his papers on striated muscle (G&M 542), and his numerous and important papers on ophthalmology and ophthalmic surgery (see G&M 1505, etc.). When originally published, Bowman's papers were distributed over many different journals and books, and this is therefore a particularly valuable collection.

BRANDE, William Thomas. A Manual of Chemistry; containing the principal facts of the science, arranged in the order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. London: John Murray, AlbemarleStreet. 1819.

Item 13, Brande: "The best-equipped laboratory in Britain". continued... 5

8vo, pp. xlvii, 652, folding engraved frontispiece and 2 folding plates all by James Basire, woodcut illustrations in the text. Without the final 2 leaves of publisher’s advertisements. Nineteenth century red half morocco, marbled sides and edges. Frontispiece a little foxed and offset onto title, a little spotting on the last leaves, but a good copy. £900 FIRST EDITION of the principal text-book of chemistry of the day. “The Manual of Chemistry became a hugely successful and influential textbook and formed the model for many subsequent chemical textbooks by other authors” (ODNB). Michael Faraday was Brande’s assistant at the Royal Institution, where much of this work was written in the laboratory, described in the ODNB as “the best-equipped laboratory in Britain”. It is illustrated in the fine folding frontispiece. Cole 195. Duveen p. 99. Neville I, pp. 217–218. Partington IV, pp. 75–76.

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Pioneer Aural Surgery BUCHANAN, Thomas. An Engraved Representation of the Anatomy of the Human Ear, exhibiting in one view the external and internal parts of that organ in situ. Accompanied with a plate of outlines and references, with copious explanations. To which are added surgical remarks on introducing the probe and catheter into the Eustachian tube by the nostril... Hull: Printed by Thomas Topping... Sold by Longman... 1823. Large folio, 38 pages, 1 leaf (errata), double-page letterpress “Synoptic Table”, 1 engraved plate from a drawing by the author and 1 engraved outline plate. First plate bound as a frontispiece. Plates a bit spotted, title and errata leaf somewhat browned. Modern boards as the original with original printed label preserved on upper cover, uncut. Stamp of the British Medical Association on first 3 leaves; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. Loosely inserted is a single printed leaf announcing the publication of the book. £1250 FIRST EDITION. “This is an early illustration of the two most effective surgical interventions from the beginning of the nineteenth century: tympanocentesis, or incising the tympanic membrane; and Eustachian tube intubation. Buchanan includes a classification — nosology — of all ear diseases” (Ruben). Buchanan introduced catheterisation of the Eustachian tube in England, following the French school, as well as other innovations. Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 10. Politzer, History of otology (1981), pp. 219–220 and 275–276 (apparently unaware of the present book). Stevenson & Guthrie, p. 61.

15. BUNSEN, Robert. Gasometrische Methoden. Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. 1857. 8vo, pp. x, 305, 1 leaf. With the half-title, final leaf of errata, and 60 woodcuts in the text. Old library stamp on title, otherwise a very clean copy of a book that is often foxed. Contemporary German half calf, nicely rebacked and corners repaired, marbled paper sides, red edges. £550 FIRST EDITION of this classic work in gasometry by the inventor of the Bunsen burner. It describes the new methods of gas analysis devised by Bunsen using the straight-line eudiometer over mercury, and solid absorbents in the form of small spheres on the ends of platinum wires. This was his only book. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 33. Partington IV, p. 286.

First Chemical Dictionary to be Published After the Discoveries of Lavoisier 16. CADET DE GASSICOURT, Charles-Louis. Dictionnaire de Chimie, contenant la théorie et la pratique de cette science, son application a l’histoire naturelle et aux arts. A Paris: Imprimerie de Chaignieau ainé. An XI. — 1803. continued... 6

4 volumes, 8vo, pp. cc, 448, 1 folding engraved plate; 560, 3 folding plates; 726, 1 folding plate; 607, 1 folding plate. Half-titles. Original blue wrappers, uncut. Wrappers somewhat worn, a little dust soiling in the margins, dampstain on first few leaves and in fore-edge margin of last few leaves of vol. 3, but generally a clean, unpressed set. £1100 FIRST EDITION of the first chemical dictionary to be published after the discoveries of Lavoisier. “As a scientist Cadet is noteworthy for his part in the diffusion and popularization of the New Chemistry rather than for any specific discovery. His most important work, the four-volume Dictionnaire de Chimie, published in 1803 and dedicated to Fourcroy, replaced the old chemical dictionary of Macquer. Cadet’s Dictionnaire clearly elucidated the revolutionary changes that had occurred in chemistry and in chemical nomenclature” (DSB, III, p. 6). At the end is a large index and an extensive bibliography of works cited in the text. The plates depict chemical apparatus. This was the only French edition. Cole 227. Neville I, p. 233.

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First Steam-Powered Pump in Italy CAMBRAY DIGNY, Louis Guillaume de. Description d’une Machine a Feu construite pour les salines de Castiglione avec des détails sur les machines de cette espéce les plus connües, & sur quelques autres machines hydrauliques, suivi d’une mémoire sur la construction des salines & sur la qualité des sels &c. Imprimée à Parme [Parma:] par Philippe Carmignani. 1766. 4to, pp. (v), 105, (1) blank, (1), 106–180, 2 leaves (contents and errata), 6 folding letterpress tables and 10 folding engraved plates. Woodcut ornaments and initials. Old vellum, recased with later endpapers. A little foxing on the first three leaves and in the margins elsewhere. Bookplate of Giannalisa Feltrinelli. £2600 FIRST EDITION, first issue (see below). The first steam engine to be built in Italy. Cambray Digny built his steam engine, based on Thomas Savery’s, to pump salt water from the sea at Castiglione in Tuscany to the salt-works on the other side of the dunes which lay between. He took great care in the adjustment of its various parts and he added various ingenious methods for opening and shutting the valves so as to make the mechanism almost self-regulating. This book is a very detailed account of its construction, including his last-minute changes. The engraved plates show details of the engine, and four of them show engines built by Bélidor, Musschenbroek, and an unnamed English pump. The book includes (pp. 107–164) a memoir on salt and salt-works, and the folding tables are on the properties of salt from various sources. This issue has 180 pages, the final errata leaf, and the errata uncorrected. Another issue has 183 pages, the supplement dated 10th May 1766 (pp. 165 to the end) being reset. It contains details of the changes that Cambray Digny made to the engine while the book was being printed.

18. CARCANO LEONE, Giovanni Battista. Exenterationis Cadaveris illustrissimi Cardinalis Borrhomaei Mediolani Archiepiscopi... Mediolani [Milan]: Ex typographia Michaelis Tini. Ad instantiam Petri Tini. 1584. 4to, 8 unnumbered leaves (the last blank). Woodcut device on title. Title with a few small ink splashes, upper outer corners eroded with loss of part of one letter of the title and parts of one or two words on 8 pages. Unbound (but with a single tiny stitch-hole in the inner margins), and uncut, in a quarter red morocco slipcase. £1600 FIRST EDITION of Carcano’s report on his post-mortem of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, who became Archbishop of Milan in 1564 and was beatified in 1610. He died on 4th November 1584 at the age of 46 having fallen ill with a condition described vaguely as “intermittent fever and ague” during his annual retreat at Monte Varallo. His body was extremely emaciated. “The almost total absence continued... 7

of abdominal fat...was vivid confirmation of the severity of Borromeo’s fasts. Indeed, his austerity may have contributed to his premature death... But it is clear that Carcano Leone’s subsequent fame as the dissector of Carlo Borromeo served to enhance his academic status” (Siraisi, Medicine and the Italian universities 1250–1600). That Carcano was selected to perform the post-mortem in preference to other more highly placed anatomists shows the high regard in which he was held (see Scarpa, below, p. 62). Carcano studied anatomy under the guidance of his brother, who was a pupil of Vesalius. Later he was a pupil of Falloppio at Padua, and made such progress that Falloppio nominated him as his successor, but he became professor of anatomy at Pavia. He published a book on anatomy in 1574, a book on head wounds in 1584, and a short work on his public dissection in Pavia in 1585, an event which attracted an unprecedented throng of Milanese nobles and high Spanish officials. All his works are rare; for example the Wellcome catalogue lists only one and Durling none at all. EDIT16 locates 6 copies in Italy. With this copy is offered a copy of Antonio Scarpa’s Elogio storico di Giambatista Carcano Leone (Milan, 1813), 84 pages, in original wrappers.

19. CASTELLANI, Giovanni Maria. Filactirion della Flebotomia, et Arteriotomia, cioè instruttione, e regola per saper ben tagliare le vene, e l’arterie in tutte le parti del corpo humano, secondo l’opinione de’ medici antichi, e più famosi. Con l’aggiunta di un trattato, nel quale parimente s’insegna il vero modo d’applicar le ventose, ò coppo... Tradotta novamente in volgare da Dominico Piccinetti... In Viterbo: Nella stampa di Pietro, & Agostino Discepoli. 1619. 4to, 44 pages + 2 leaves with 3 full-page woodcuts each comprised of several figures (A–F4). Printed within ruled border throughout with printed marginal notes in the fore-edge margins (slightly shaved on 5 or 6 leaves). Ruled border at foot of last two leaves cropped. Twentieth-century vellum. £1500 FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Castellani’s treatise on phlebotomy and cupping, the second part occupying pp. 27 to the end. The woodcut plates at the end show the various shapes of cups and the method of holding the bleeding knife. The dedication, by the translator, is to the college of barbers in Rome. The first edition, in Latin, of the previous year appears to be extremely rare. Castellani was physician to Pope Gregory XV and professor of anatomy and surgery at Rome for practically his entire working life.

20. CAVALLO, Tiberius. A Complete Treatise of Electricity in theory and practice; with original experiments. The second edition, with considerable additions and alterations. London: Printed for C. Dilly...and J. Bowen... 1782. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 495, 4 leaves (index), and 4 folding engraved plates by Lodge from drawings by the author. Contemporary calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. Early signature on title of Henry Hamilton. £750 Second edition. This is Cavallo’s first and most important work. “An excellent compendium, the Treatise served the needs of both the neophyte and the initiate, who found in its appendixes, valuable details about medical electricity; about Beccaria’s obscure theories; and about Cavallo’s forte, the design and operation of electrostatic instruments” (DSB). Cavallo (1749–1809), the son of a Neapolitan physician, did all his scientific work in England. “The Treatise was well received, and it earned him a high reputation within the Royal Society of London, of which he was elected a fellow on 9 December 1779” (ODNB). Mottelay pp. 243–245.

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CHARCOT, Jean Martin. Lectures on Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys delivered at the School of Medicine of Paris... Translated with the permission of the author, by Henry B. Millard. (English edition) revised by the author. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox... New York: William Wood & Co. 1879. continued... 8

8vo, pp. x, 100, and 2 chromolithographed plates, errata slip. Original brown cloth, slight wear to top of spine and joints, otherwise a fine copy. Later inscription at top of title-page. £300 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION with revisions by the author, one year after the same translation appeared in New York. This is the second part of Charcot’s classic Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins (Paris, 1877), in which he defined scarlatinous nephritis and amyloid kidney as distinct pathological entities. See G&M 4216.2.

22. CLARK, D[aniel] K[innear]. The exhibited machinery of 1862: a cyclopædia of the machinery represented at the International Exhibition. London: Day & Son... [1864]. Large 8vo, pp. xxiv, 447, 39 plates on 37 sheets (mostly folding, plates XXIII and XXIV are on one sheet, also XXXV and XXXVI), folding table at p. 10. With 430 woodcuts in the text. First two leaves spotted, and some spotting elsewhere mainly in the margins. Original mauve blindstamped cloth (ends of spine neatly repaired, endpapers replaced), upper cover lettered in gilt with a circular gilt tablet, spine lettered in gilt (but the gilt a little faded and rubbed). Old withdrawn library stamp on title. £350 FIRST EDITION. The 1862 International Exhibition in London was the second to be held in London after that of 1851, and the third in the world after that of Paris in 1855. This work is a descriptive and critical analysis of the machinery exhibited. The author was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Superintendent of the Machinery Department of the exhibition, and although his descriptions are at times quite critical, they were written with the co-operation of the exhibitors. With 1,100 machines or portions of machines described in detail, this book constitutes an encyclopaedia of machinery of the time.

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23. CODRONCHI, [Giovanni] Battista. De Morbis Veneficis, ac Veneficiis libri quattuor, in quibus non solum certis rationibus veneficia dari demonstratur, sed eorum species, caussa, signa & effectus nova methodo aperiuntur... Mediolani [Milan]: Apud Jo. Bapt. Bidellium. 1618. 8vo, 16 leaves (the last a blank), 248 pages, 16 leaves (the last a blank). Title with ornate woodcut border. Contemporary limp vellum, upper cover with original rope-twist loops but lacking toggles on lower cover. Tiny (1 cm.) tear in upper margin of a2. A nice copy. £1100 Second edition. Codronchi is the author of the first important work on forensic medicine (G&M 1718) for which the present book on poisons and poisoners, originally published two years before it in 1595, had prepared the way. The treatise on forensic medicine forms part of a larger work, De vitiis vocis (G&M 3244), which is the first monograph on diseases of the larynx. This treatise too is foreshadowed in the present book, which contains a whole chapter on the voice (pp. 86–91). An extensive account of the present work is given by Thorndike who deals with its rôle in the history of witchcraft. Codronchi (1547–1628) was a physician from Imola, whose works according to Hirsch all show deep knowledge and originality. Nemec, Highlights in medico-legal relations, 190, including the present book in the note. Codronchi is not mentioned by Stevenson & Guthrie, History of oto-laryngology.

24. CUTHBERTSON, John. Practical Electricity and Galvanism, containing a series of experiments... London: Printed for J. Callow,... 1807. 8vo, pp. xx, 271, (5) adverts, 2 leaves, 9 folding engraved plates. Half-title. Contemporary half russia, marbled sides and edges, a lovely copy. £800 FIRST EDITION. Cuthbertson was an instrument-maker who moved to Holland in 1768 and became the leading manufacturer of scientific apparatus in that country. He built an electrostatic generator for Martin van Marum, which was probably the largest electrical machine built in the eighteenth century, and which is still in existence. Cuthbertson returned to London some time between 1793 and 1796 and set up as an instrument maker. In 1799 he invented an electrometer named after him and produced a simplified version of his plate electrical machine, which became the most popular type in England. The last two leaves of this book, which are not always present, are a catalogue of his instruments, some of which are illustrated in the fine plates. Ekelöf 633. Wheeler Gift 681.

Africa 25. DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, Biledulgerid, Negroslant, Guinea, Ethiopiën, Abyssinie... t’Amsterdam: By Jacob van Meurs... 1668. [Bound with:] Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Eylanden: als Madagaskar, of Sant Laurens, Sant Thomee, d’eilanden van Kanarien, Kaep de Verd, Malta, en andere... t’Amsterdam: By Jacob van Meurs... 1668. 2 parts in 1 volume, small folio, 4 leaves (including the engraved title), pp. 728, (18), 25 double-page engraved plates, and 7 double-page or folding maps; 1 leaf, pp. 120 [i.e. 128, pagination omitted in signature n], (4), 6 double-page engraved plates, and 3 double-page maps (a total of 43 plates and maps). First title printed in red and black and with an engraved vignette, 51 half-page engravings in the text of the first work and 5 in the second, woodcut headpieces and initials. A few leaves browned, small stain in upper corner of first few and last dozen leaves. Contemporary Dutch vellum, blind-stamped lozenge in centre of both covers, spine lettered in ink (very small crack at ends of upper joint, one lower corner worn, missing silk ties). £5500 FIRST EDITION. A monumental description of Africa, unsurpassed in detail, illustration, influence and popularity. It covers every imaginable aspect of the entire continent as it was known at the continued... 10

time. Most of the double-page plates are views, and the 56 half-page engravings show botanical and zoological subjects, events, customs, views, and much else. The account of the islands (including Malta) is usually regarded as a part of the main work, though it has a separate title-page, series of signatures and pagination. The work was translated into German, English and French but the text of all these is abbreviated to a greater or lesser extent.

Unrecorded Broadside By an Army Surgeon 26. DE RASSOU, — (Surgeon and Apothecary). Several Useful Observations and Experiments made by Mosn. De Rassou, on his Arquebusade Water, during his many years service, as surgeon and apothecary in the Duke of Marlborough’s army, and in many years practice since. [No place, printer or date; London: c. 1740?] Small folio (31 x 19 cm), printed on the recto only. Minor fraying to upper edge, single vertical and horizontal creases from folding, three small tears in the horizontal fold, upper left quarter slightly browned, but generally in a remarkably good state of preservation. £525 Broadside, describing the treatment used by De Rassou with his “Arquebusade Water”. He recommended its external use for gunshot wounds, fractures, cuts and dislocations, etc, and its internal use for haemorrhages, pains in the side, women in childbirth, ulceration of the bowels, etc. De Rassou is spoken of in the past tense, and the water was only available from his successor, Wentworth Ogle, apothecary in Wallbrook, London, each bottle being sealed with his arms, shown in a small woodcut in the lower corner. A very rare survivor, unrecorded by ESTC and COPAC, of this advertisement for the treatment used by a surgeon in the army of the Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722).

27. [DOSSIE, Robert.] The Elaboratory laid open, or, the secrets of modern chemistry and Pharmacy revealed... London: Printed for J. Nourse... 1758. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. xi, (iii), 375, (9). Contemporary speckled calf, double gilt fillet on sides, double gilt rules on spine, spine unlettered. Joints cracked but firmly held by the cords, foot of spine chipped, tips of corners slightly worn. Signature on front pastedown of G.C. Jenner 1790 (Rev. George Jenner, Edward Jenner’s nephew and an active participant in the vaccination debate). £800 FIRST EDITION. “A practical work on chemical preparations written in a clear and understandable manner. The Introduction contains descriptions of apparatus and operations. Parts II and III give the preparations, each of which is followed by a ‘Note’ commenting on details of the process, purity of product, etc... Part IV gives methods for the detection of substitutions and adulterations” (Cole). In this work Dossie paints a good picture of industrial chemistry in mid-eighteenth century England, and describes the manufacture of concentrated sulphuric acid on a commercial scale for the first time. Cole 379. Duveen p. 179. Neville I, p. 379. Partington II, pp. 761–762.

28. DOVE, Heinrich Wilhelm. Meteorologische Untersuchungen. Berlin: Verlag der Sander’schen Buchhandlung (C.W. Eichhoff.) 1837. 8vo, pp. viii, 344, 2 folding engraved plates. Old library stamp on title, a few small stains on 20 pages (252–272), otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary (original?) brown half cloth and marbled sides. £360 FIRST EDITION. Dove was one of the most important figures in the developing science of meteorology, and this book is the first of his most important writings (as listed by the DSB); in 1827, after careful study of the data of his teacher Brandes, Dove formulated his “Drehungsgesetz” (law continued... 11

of rotation), described on pp. 121–139 of this book. “It was Dove’s great contribution to meteorology to be the first to find a system in weather changes.” Shaw, Manual of Meteorology, I, p. 290 (etc.), describes Dove as “a meteorological king, ‘the founder of the entire superstructure of accurate climatological knowledge’.”

29. DUVERNEY, [Guichard Joseph]. Traité de l'Organe de l'Ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les parties de l'oreille. A Paris: chez Estienne Michallet,... 1683. 12mo, pp. (xxiv), 210, 3 leaves (blank), and 16 folding engraved plates with letterpress text on 17 sheets (the explanation to plate XI is on a separate sheet). Tear neatly repaired without loss in one plate, a few tiny holes in fold of another. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Tip of one corner worn, but a fine copy. £2750 FIRST EDITION. G&M 1545 and 3351. The first scientific account of the structure, function and diseases of the ear. “Duverney was the first to depict the arteries, veins, and nerve branches of the auricle, the first to demonstrate that the bony part of the external auditory meatus originates from the annulus tympanicum, and the first to describe and illustrate the communication between the tympanic cavity and the cells of the mastoid process. He corrected a long-standing error by stating that the Eustachian tube was not an organ of breathing or hearing...” (Norman). Duverney pointed out that sound is conducted by the bones of the skull, and first suggested the theory of hearing later developed by, and accredited to, Helmholtz. For a full account of this book’s content and importance, see Stevenson & Guthrie, pp. 38–39, and Politzer, History of Otology pp. 117–124: “...a milestone in the science of otology...” Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 22. Grolier Medicine, 36. Norman Catalogue 674.

30. DUVERNEY, [Guichard Joseph]. Traité de l'Organe de l'Ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les parties de l'oreille. Nouvelle edition. A Leide [Leiden]: Chez Joh. Arn. Langerak, 1731. 12mo, pp. (xxiv), 196, (7) Langerak’s catalogue, and 16 folding engraved plates. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary mottled calf (upper joint and head of spine neatly repaired), spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, a nice copy. Two small library stamps in the lower margin of text leaves; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £800 Second edition of the previous item.

31. DUVERNEY, [Guichard Joseph]. A Treatise of the Ear: containing an exact description of the several parts thereof, and their respective uses; with the diseases it is liable to; and their cure... Englished and improved by John Marshall, Surgeon. The second edition. London: Printed for John Whiston...and Samuel Baker... 1748. 12mo, pp. (xii), 145, (1) blank, (14), and 16 engraved plates (all but one folding). Contemporary speckled calf, ends of spine and joints neatly repaired, spine gilt in compartments (but the gilt now a little dull), red morocco label. Ownership note by C.P. dated May 1749; 18th century armorial bookplate of William Hanbury; stamp of Bradford Eye and Ear Hospital; signature of Nehemiah Asherson (bibliographer of Duverney); bookplate of Richard J. Bennett on front endpapers. £750 Third edition in English of the previous two items. Russell 294.

One of the First Geological Maps 32. ENGLEFIELD, Sir Henry C. A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phœnomena, of the Isle of Wight. With Additional Observations on the Strata of the Island, and their continuation in the adjacent parts of Dorsetshire. By Thomas Webster, Esq. Illustrated by maps and numerous engravings by W. and G. Cooke, from original drawings by Sir H. Englefield and T. Webster. London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co...for Payne and Foss... 1816. Folio, 3 leaves, pp. vi, 238, (4), vii–xxvii, and 50 engraved plates (including 9 double-page and one coloured, and 3 folding maps, one of which is hand-coloured and geological). Bound without the half-title. Some spotting on the front endpapers and first two leaves, some light foxing on the last few plates. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments, sides with gilt borders, gilt edges, blue endpapers. A magnificent and very large copy. Armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt. £1950 FIRST EDITION, including an important geological work and an early geological map. “Webster’s original geological work was entirely concerned with the stratigraphy of the uppermost Jurassic, the Cretaceous, and the Tertiary rocks of southern England. In his chief paper (1814) Webster recorded a highly important piece of research, perhaps the first of its kind (being detailed and thoroughly scientific) on the geology of a British region... Of even greater importance was his survey of the Isle of Wight (Cretaceous and Tertiary) and ‘Isle’ of Portland (mostly Jurassic and Cretaceous), with the production of one of the first geological maps of any part of Britain and one that was on a larger scale and more accurate than anything previously attempted. The geology of this classic region was almost completely unknown before Webster sketched, in words and pictures, the features of its structure...” (John Challinor in DSB). Webster’s contribution, in a series of twelve letters, occupies over half of this large and beautifully produced book, beginning on p. 117. Most of the folding plates are panoramas of cliff and rock formations. Challinor 80; also pp. 93–94: “...unsurpassed... The appearance of the map is a landmark in the history of the geological mapping of Britain.” Geikie, The founders of geology, p. 239. In this copy all the plates are bound at the end and are preceded by the letterpress explanations, normally bound as preliminaries.

33. EUSTACHI, Bartholomeo. Opuscula Anatomica: de renum structura, officio, utilitate & administratione. De auditus organis. Ossium examen. De capitis motu. De vena... et de dentibus. Editio tertia emendata... Accedit Leal Lealis...sive de partibus semen conscientibus in viro. Delphis [Delft]: apud Adrianum Beman, 1726. 3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. (xii), 302, (24), 327–358, (2) blank; (vi), 98, (11); (iv), 5–47, and 10 engraved plates (2 folding). Title printed in red and black, separate title-pages to the Tractatus de Dentibus and Lealis Lealis. Paper a bit browned in the extreme margins, short tear in fold of one plate. Contemporary vellum, minor damage to top of spine, a very good copy. £2200 Third edition, with the same collation as the second edition of 1707. The first edition appeared in 1563, and is a rare and valuable book. It is cited by G&M no less than six times: 801 (cardiology), 1093 (lymphatics, the first work cited), 1139 (anatomy of the glands), 1228 (urology, the first work cited on the kidney), 1538 (otology), and 3668 (dentistry). The Opuscula contains the first description of the adrenal glands, Eustachi’s work on the lymphatic system, and his description of the “Eustachian valve”, the valvula venae cavae in the right auricle of the heart. In otology he is credited with the discovery of the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube. Also included is Eustachi’s treatise on the kidney, illustrated here with eight of the plates. The Tractatus de Dentibus is the first modern book on dentistry — Eustachi was the first to study the teeth in any detail. The last tract is Leale Leali’s treatise on semen, with two plates, first published in 1686. There is short preface by Boerhaave, who is reported to be partly responsible for the salvage and publication in 1714 of Eustachi’s anatomical plates. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana, 537.

34. [FABBRONI, Giovanni Valentino Mattia.] Dell’ Antracite o Carbone di Cava detto volgarmente Carbon Fossile compilazione fatta per ordine del governo. In Firenze [Florence]: Per Gaetano Cambiagi... 1790. 8vo, pp. xxv, 358, (1) errata, 10 hand-coloured folding engraved plates, 1 folding hand-coloured engraved map, 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary cat’s paw sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, black morocco label. Slight browning in gathering o, but a lovely, fresh copy. Contemporary presentation inscription on front endpaper by the recipient, Bottus (?), from Alexandro Pontenani, probably Alessandro Pontenani, minister of finance to the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. £1950 FIRST EDITION. “Very scarce. The work is a compendium of information concerning coal, including chemical and mineralogical details. The analyses of Italian coals, by distillation, were by the author. Contains a bibliography of various works on coal, ‘Biblioteca antracologica’, on pages 347–358” (Schuh). As well as a detailed account of the mining of coal, the difficulties of mining it, the geology of the coal seams, the thickness of the seams, etc., this is also an important treatise on the economic value of coal to the region of Tuscany. The plates, which are beautifully hand-coloured in this copy, show geological formations, mines and equipment. Plate 9 shows the Boulton & Watt steam engine. Schuh, Mineralogy & crystallography, 1587. Cole 424. Hoover catalogue 290. Kress (Italian) 592. This was the only edition.

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35. FABRIZIO, Girolamo (Hieronymous Fabricius ab Aquapendente). De Locutione et eius Instrumentis Liber a Joanne Ursino editus M.DC.I. Patavii [Padua]: Ex Typographia Laurentii Pasquati, 1603. continued... 14

Folio, pp. (viii), 27. With 1 full-page engraving on p. 26, large woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and ornaments. Old dampstain in lower margin. 20th-century half calf. Bookplates of H.F. Norman MD and Richard J. Bennett. £2500 Second edition, but the first in folio. The De locutione examines the organs of speech, illustrated by a “cut-away” view of the human ear and throat. It is the earliest separate work on the physiology of human speech, and deals with the physiological elements of articulation and voice production. The first edition was published in 1601 as a quarto and is extremely rare. The format was enlarged to folio for this edition probably to comply with other works being published by Fabrizio as his monumental Totius animalis fabricae theatrum, which was never completed. The present work was issued with his De formato foetu (1604), De venarum osteolis (1603) and De brutorum loquela (1603), which were also issued separately as Fabrizio makes clear in the dedication to the De venarum osteolis. All of these works are finely printed folios with beautiful engraved plates. The same sheets were reissued, without title-pages but with one additional tract, in 1625. Norman catalogue 749 (this copy).

36. FABRIZIO, Girolamo (Hieronymous Fabricius ab Aquapendente). De Motu Locali Animalium secundum totum. Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam de Martinis. 1618. 4to, pp. 123, 32. Page 3 is misnumbered 1. Woodcut device on title, ornamental headpieces and initials. Twentieth century calf by Laurenchet. Some light spotting throughout but a very good copy. £3800 FIRST EDITION of what is perhaps the founding work of biomechanics, and one of the rarest and least known of Fabrizio’s works, published the year before his death. “Fabricius of Aquapendente was one of the anatomists who brought valuable contributions to the physiology of movement. His study of the musculature of the extremities, and of the various phases of walking, jumping, and so on, and of the effort exerted in overcoming resistance, anticipate, as De Renzi has noted, the more famous studies of Borelli” (Castiglioni, p. 432). The work is divided into six chapters, of which the first, on walking in general, is by far the longest; it is followed by chapters on walking in birds and quadrupeds, on flying, swimming and crawling. The last three chapters comprise the second sequence of pagination. Fabrizio was a pupil of Falloppio at Padua and a teacher of Harvey, who also wrote a study of animal locomotion with the same title as the present work in 1627, but it remained unpublished until 1959. Fabrizio’s book was reissued in 1625, after his death, with other previously published works, but both forms are extremely rare; for example neither issue is in Krivatsy or the Wellcome catalogues (although Krivatsy lists an imperfect 1625 issue without De motu). It is not in Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, the central interest of which was biomechanics.

37. FABRY, Wilhelm (Fabricius Hildanus). Observationum & Curationum Chirurgicarum Centuriae, nunc primum simul in unum opus congesta... Lugduni [Lyons]: Sumptibus Joan. Antonii Huguetan... 1641. 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. (xlviii), 568, (40); (xxxvi), 436, (34). Fine engraved portrait on verso of halftitle, first title-page printed in red and black, both title-pages with engraved allegorical vignette, numerous woodcuts in the text. 18th-century mottled calf (upper joint cracked, lower joint just cracking at foot, small hole at top of lower joint), spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red edges, marbled endpapers. Some minor foxing, but a nice copy. Early signature of Dr. F. Canet on titles; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £2600 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the most important work of Wilhelm Fabry (1560–1624), sometimes called ‘the father of German surgery’, although he was actually Swiss by birth. It constitutes the best collection of surgical case records of the seventeenth century, and of the most varied character, illustrated with many fine and curious woodcuts. continued... 15

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Fabry’s chief influence on surgery was through his correspondence with German physicians and surgeons, and for his urging surgeons to study anatomy. He was assisted in his work by his wife, an esteemed surgeon in her own right, who is credited with suggesting the use of a magnet to make the first extraction of an iron splinter from the eye. A good review of Fabry’s surgical work is Ellis Jones, “The life and works of Guilhelmus Fabricius Hildanus (1560–1634)” in Med Hist. 1960 Jul. 4(3): 196–209, who discusses Fabry’s work under the headings of general surgery including hernia and cancer, obstetrics and gynaecology, oto-rhino-laryngology, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, neurosurgery and genito-urinary surgery. See G&M 5570; this is in effect the first available edition, as Fabry’s six(?) Centuriae were published in different places over 35 years and are extremely rare — for instance, the Wellcome catalogue shows only two of them, Krivatsy four, and VD17 three. The present volume contains five Centuriae, but the sixth one is a mystery; according to Hirsch it was published in London in 1641, but no book by Fabry was published in London with this title or date; Jones gives it as Lyons, 1641, the date and place of the present volume.

38. FOUCHER, [Simon]. Traité des Hygrometres ou machines pour mesurer la secheresse et l’humidité de l’air. A Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet... 1686. 12mo, 195 pages [i.e. 166, pagination erratic towards the end], 1 leaf (contents), 1 folding engraved plate. With woodcuts in the text. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments. Early signature of Vauville on front endpaper, signature of La Ducquérie twice on title-page. £900 FIRST EDITION of a scarce book on hygrometers. Foucher describes in this work a method of indicating humidity by using cords of sheepskin and measuring their changes in length or their twisting and untwisting. He also describes “another hygrometer that seems to have been unique... Remembering the behaviour of drum heads, he stretched a piece of parchment over a box and measured the motion of the centre by means of a lever of large magnification. A small weight kept the parchment taut” (Middleton, Invention of the meteorological instruments, p. 95). There is also an account of a hygrometer invented by Robert Boyle on pages 72–73, with an illustration.

39. FRACASTORO, Girolamo. Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease. Written in Latin by Fracastorius. And now attempted in English by N. Tate. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson... 1686. 8vo, pp. (xx), 84. Imprimatur leaf before the title, title within double ruled border. Short (1 cm.) tear in upper margin of imprimatur, paper slightly browned (4 preliminary leaves a little more so), title slightly soiled, a few headlines and catchwords shaved. Near-contemporary half calf, rubbed, head of spine worn and joints cracked at top. Two items of printed ephemera pasted to front pastedown. £5500 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and the first complete translation into any language, of the most famous of all medical poems and the work which gave syphilis its present name. First published in 1530, it epitomised contemporary knowledge of the disease and recognised a venereal cause. Being a disease new to Europe at the end of the fifteenth century, this was an important publication. This is the first and best known translation of Syphilis into English, and English readers have learned to know the poem almost entirely through its very free rendering (the next separate edition in English was not published until 1884). The dedication is to Thomas Hobbs (1648–1698), surgeon to the royal household, and the publisher, Jacob Tonson, was the son of a London surgeon. The translator, Nahum Tate, was an Irish-born poet and playwright who later became poet laureate. As Tate was involved with John Dryden in several poetic projects, four later editions of Dryden’s Miscellany include this translation. This first English edition is very rare, much rarer than the first edition. ESTC records 16 copies worldwide, but no copy appears to have come up at auction since 1972, and only 4 copies since 1937. Wing F2049. See G&M 2364. Baumgartner & Fulton, A bibliography of the poem Syphilis, 72.

40. FREIND, John. Chymical Lectures: in which almost all the operations of Chymistry are reduced to their true principles, and the laws of nature. Read in the Museum at Oxford, 1704. Englished by J.M. To which is added, an appendix, containing an account given of this book in the Lipsick Acts... London: Printed by Philip Gwillim, for Jonah Bowyer... 1712. 8vo, pp. (xvi), 200. Title within double ruled border. Contemporary panelled sheep, spine with gilt centres and red morocco label (joints cracked but firm, head of spine worn). Pale stain in lower corner of front endpapers and (faintly) first two leaves, otherwise a very clean and crisp copy. Armorial bookplate of the earl of Macclesfield on front pastedown, and blindstamp on title. £950 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the first academic lectures on chemistry published in England. Freind was the first holder of the Readership in Chemistry established at Oxford in 1704, and he lectured in the Ashmolean Museum, emphasising the importance of accurate experimentation. George Wilson had earlier given chemistry lectures in London, on which his Compleat course of chymistry, 1698, was based. “In 1704 Freind was appointed professor of chemistry at Oxford, and delivered a series of lectures which were published in 1709 as Praelectiones chymicae. In these he attempted to explain chemical phenomena in terms of atoms and a Newtonian short-range force, following the work of John Keill... A second edition of Freind's Praelectiones chymicae was published in Amsterdam in 1710, leading to a critical review in the Leipzig Acta Eruditorum. Freind replied in a Latin letter in the Philosophical Transactions in 1711 in which he defended Newton’s theory of matter. The German criticism was part of the wider debate between partisans of Newton and Leibniz on the origins of the calculus. Freind’s defence of the Newtonian position undoubtedly paved the way for his election to the Royal Society in March 1712. In that year he issued an English translation of Praelectiones chymicae which included his reply” (ODNB). See Musson & Robinson, Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution, p. 32. Neville, I, p. 480, with a long note. Partington II, p. 480. This edition not in Cole or Duveen.

Freud's Rarest Book 41. FREUD, Sigmund. Zur Auffassung der Aphasien. Eine kritische Studie... Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1891. 8vo, 2 leaves, 107 pages, with 10 text figures. A few scattered marginal pencil (and one pen) marks, title and final blank page a little spotted. 20th-century brown cloth (slightly soiled) with printed panel from original upper wrapper laid on to upper cover. £3750 FIRST EDITION of Freud's first, and rarest, book. “Freud's treatise on aphasia, his first book, was little known or appreciated by contemporary neurologists, but Freud always regarded it as the most significant of his neurological writings. The work, subtitled ‘A critical study’, was the first to criticise the foundations of the Wernicke-Lichtheim theory of aphasia, which held that losses of function aphasia were caused by lesions to anatomically circumscribed centers corresponding to the various functions in language. Freud demonstrated that this concept led to localization schemes of labyrinthine complexity, and did not fit with specific case studies; it was thus necessary to assume that the cerebral areas involved in language were less circumscribed... Departing from the mechanical views of the Helmholtz school, Freud approached the development of speech and reading from a psychological standpoint” (Norman). G&M 4627.1. Of considerable rarity: of the 850 printed, only 257 were sold, and that over a period of nine years. The remainder were pulped. Norman Catalogue F15.

Lavoisier’s New Nomenclature in Sweden 42. GADOLIN, Johan. Inledning til Chemien. Åbo: Tryckt i Frenckellska Boktryckeriet, 1798. [Bound with:] continued... 18

2. SEGERSTEDT, Albrecht Julius. Inledning til Kunskapen om de Jordiske Kropparne, med affeende påderas kännemärken, egenskaper och nytta uti naturens hushällning samt det almänna lefvernet. Tryckt i Strengnäs, [no printer or publisher,] 1798. [and:] 3. [EKEBERG, Andreas Gustaf.] Försök till Svensk Nomenklatur för Chemien, lämpad efter de sednaste uptackterne. Stockholm & Upsala: på Silverstolpes förlag. [Colophon:] Upsala: Tryckt hos Johan Fred. Edman... 1795. 8vo, 1: pp. (iv), 150, 1 leaf (errata). 2: pp. (viii), 214, (2) errata and contents. 3: 31 pages. Contemporary half calf, speckled sides (slightly rubbed), flat spine with gilt rules, brown lettering-piece. Signature of Daniel Tegnander, Uppsala 1798, probably the first owner who bound these three works together. £1800 1. FIRST EDITION. “Based on Fourcroy’s Philosophie chimique this was the first textbook in Swedish to use the new chemistry. The author’s changes and additions prevented his calling the work a translation of Fourcroy. The nomenclature used was that of Ekeberg with some divergence from that work and the French nomenclature” (Cole 503). Neville I, p. 496. Gadolin was professor of chemistry at Åbo. His lectures always made use of the new chemistry, and he became the spokesman in Scandinavia for Lavoisier’s nomenclature. Gadolinite and gadolinium are named after him. The present book was “his most significant publication” (DSB). 2. FIRST EDITION. On the chemistry of earths and minerals. The physician and priest Albrecht Segerstedt (1763–1815) was appointed in 1795 as Assistant Professor in Natural History at the high school in Strängnäs. In connection with this he printed and published a large number of works, several of which he wrote or translated himself. 3. FIRST EDITION. “Overlooked by Duveen and Klickstein [in their bibliography of Lavoisier], this is the earliest Swedish nomenclature (1795) using the new terminology. It is arranged in three columns: the old name, the new French and the new Swedish. A number of long footnotes and an introduction are provided by the author. The work was dedicated to Afzelius (professor of chemistry), Gadolin and Hierta” (Cole 402). Not in Neville or Duveen.

Rare Provincial Anatomy 43. GELÉE, Théophile. L’Anatomie Francoise en forme d’abregé. Recueillie des meilleurs autheurs qui ont escrit de ceste science. Reveuë, corrigée, & de beaucoup augmentée en ceste derniere edition, par l’autheur. A Rouen: Chez Jean Berthelin, dans la court du Palais. 1639. 8vo, pp. (viii), 479, (9). Some minor foxing, and a small wormtrack in inner margin of the first 40 leaves. Contemporary limp vellum (slight damage to fore-edge of upper cover, no rear free endpaper), spine lettered in manuscript. Early owner’s inscription on title-page; later armorial bookplate of Le Proux on front pastedown. £550 A provincially published manual of anatomy that ran to at least seventeen editions in fifty years. The first edition of 1623 was the first book printed in Dieppe. Gelée was born in Dieppe, studied medicine at Montpellier, and returned to his home town to practise. This edition is extremely rare: it is not in the Catalogue Collectif de France which has a Paris edition for 1639, and not in any other collection catalogues generally referred to. WorldCat finds 2 copies, both in Italy.

44. GUEST, Richard. A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture; with a disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery. Manchester: Printed by Joseph Pratt, Chapel Walks, and sold by E. Thomson... 1823. Large 4to, 2 leaves, pp. (3)–70, (3), and 12 plates (3 lithographed and 9 engraved). Original drab boards (neatly rebacked, sides rubbed and corners a little worn), uncut. First two leaves and free endpaper somewhat browned, light foxing on the plates, some light browning towards the end. £850 continued... 19

FIRST EDITION of the earliest history of the cotton industry. Although it is heavily biased in favour of the claims of Kaye and Highs as the true inventors of Arkwright’s cotton machinery, the book is nevertheless a key source of information on both Arkwright and other contemporary figures, on the machinery itself, and on the social changes wrought by the huge growth in the industry brought about by mechanisation. The lithographed plates, which are early examples of lithography, show the old methods of weaving, and the engraved plates are a fine series of detailed views of the new machinery.

45. HALES, Rev. Stephen. Statica de’ Vegetabili, ed analisi dell’ aria. Tradotta dall’ Inglese con varie annotazioni. Napoli [Naples]: Nella Stamperia di Giuseppe Raimondi, 1756. 8vo, pp. (viii), 368, 20 engraved plates by G. Aloja. Contemporary Italian mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A few small wormholes in spines and short wormtracks on endpapers, some foxing, generally a very good copy. £550 FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Hales’ founding work on plant physiology. He studied the movement of sap in plants, and discovered what is now known as root pressure. He studied the amounts of water that plants used, and the influence of light and air on them. In that respect he discovered that plants take carbon dioxide from the air as an essential nutrient. “His work was so great an advance that it stands alone in its time, and deserves close attention” (Morton, History of Botanical Science, pp. 246–254). In the long chapter on the analysis of the air, Hales also recounts his experiments with a closedcircuit rebreathing apparatus, with which he tried with various filters to remove the “noxious vapours” (i.e. carbon dioxide) from the air. This work led to his invention of artificial ventilation, and facilitated the work and discoveries of Black, Lavoisier, and Priestley. The dedication is signed by the translator, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, who also translated Hales’s Haemataticks into Italian. See Printing and the Mind of Man 189(a); Dibner 26; Horblit 45a; and Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1727. Foster, Lectures on the history of physiology, pp. 231–232. Neville I, p. 580–581.

46. HEATH, Robert. A Natural and Historical Account of the Islands of Scilly: describing their situation, number, extent, soil, culture, produce, rarities, towns, fortifications, trade, manufacture, inhabitants. Their government, laws, customs, grants, records, and antiquities. The importance of those islands to the British trade and navigation... And, lastly, a general account of Cornwall. London: Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox... 1750. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. viii, xvi, xiii, (i), 456, 1 folding engraved chart, 1 folding engraved plate of Upnor Caste, 1 folding letterpress table. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt and double gilt fillet on sides (but gilt a bit rubbed), red morocco label, spine and corners neatly repaired. £650 FIRST EDITION of the first separate account of the Isles of Scilly, including a description of Cornwall and its principal industry at the time, tin mining. Heath was a mathematician and army officer, serving in the islands with his regiment. The chart of the islands was drawn by him from a new survey in 1744.

47. [HENRY, John (Admiral).] An Account of the means by which Admiral Henry, of Rolvenden in Kent, has cured the rheumatism, a tendency to gout, the tic douloureuse, the cramp, and other disorders; and by which a cataract in the eye was removed.... London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co... Sold by J. Callow... 1818. 8vo, 20 pages, 1 engraved plate with 8 figures of instruments. Plus Callow’s 16-page catalogue at the end. Disbound. £325 SOLE EDITION. Admiral Henry’s method of keeping the body fit and of preventing diseases involved striking or rubbing the body with various bone instruments.

48. HERMBSTAEDT, Sigismund Friedrich. Allgemeine Grundsätze der Bleichkunst oder theoretische und praktische Anleitung zum Bleichen des Flachses, der Baumwolle, Wolle und Seide, so wie der aus ihren gesponnenen Garne, und gewebten oder gewürkten Zeuge; nach den neusten Erfahrungen der Physik, Chemie und Technologie. Berlin: Im Verlage der Realschulbuchhandlung, 1804. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 432, 10 folded engraved plates of apparatus. Later yellow wrappers, uncut and unopened. £1250 FIRST EDITION of a very scarce book; it is “one of the important books in the history of bleaching and the first of several on this subject by Hermbstädt” (Neville). “Hermbstaedt’s greatest achievement lay in the field of technology... As a member of the Technical Industrial and Trade Commission, Hermbstaedt frequently met industrialists, including many from outside Prussia. Through the publication of his many textbooks, he performed a valuable service for Prussian industry” (DSB, XV, p. 206). Hermbstädt (1760–1833), the first chemist in Germany to adopt Lavoisier’s views, was professor of technological chemistry at the University of Berlin. Cole 639: “A complete textbook on the theory and practice of bleaching.” Neville I, p. 628. Partington, III, pp. 577–580. Poggendorff, I, 1082–1083. Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria, 517.

49. [HETON, Thomas.] Some Account of Mines, and the advantages of them to this kingdom. With an appendix relating to the mine-adventure in Wales. London: Printed by W. B. for John Wyat... 1707. 8vo, pp. (xxiv), 171, (5). Title within double-ruled border. Contemporary panelled calf (joints cracking, foot of spine worn), raised bands on spine, green morocco label. Short (2 cm.) wormtrack in last 5 leaves and endpapers touching one letter, but a fine copy. £1800 FIRST EDITION. “A work on the advantage to Great Britain of developing its mining industry... In the preface Heton traces the history of mining in Britain, indicating the valuable metals and minerals that have been found: e.g., gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, iron, alum, and copperas. There is a detailed list of mining and metallurgical works referred to by Heton, including authors from Agricola to Webster. Also listed are alchemical titles from Albertus Magnus to Trevisanus. Strongly chemical in content, the book covers the extraction and refining of metals, the supposed growth of metals in ores, and transmutation, and ends with six chapters on individual metals: gold, silver, copper, lead, tin and iron. The appendix (pp. 161–171) discusses the famous silver, copper and lead mines recently discovered by Sir Carberry Pryce (d. 1695) which were bought by Sir Humphrey Mackworth (1657– 1727), with their progress to date. Very rare” (Neville I, p. 634, illustrating the title-page). Hoover catalogue 419. Kress 5924. This was the only edition, although the remaining sheets were reissued in 1721.

50. HORNE, Henry. Tratado del Hierro, y Acero, con observaciones practicas, especialmente en punto de refinar las barras de acero por medio de la fusion para las obras mas delicadas... Se añade la quarta memoria de Mr. De Reaumur y el extracto de las demás del mismo autor, que componen el arte de convertir el hierro en acero: traducido por Don Antonio Smith. En Madrid: Por D. Pedro Marin. 1775. 8vo, 8 leaves (including the first blank), pp. 27, 99, 86, 1 leaf (blank), 3 folding engraved plates. Half-title, woodcut ornaments and initials. Contemporary red morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Minor abrasion on upper cover, but a lovely, fresh copy printed on superb paper. Bookplate of Dr. J. Rodriguez Chavez. £2800 FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, and the first Spanish book on making steel. This was an important book for the industry of Spain. In addition to a translation of Horne’s Essays concerning Iron and Steel (1773), this edition also contains Spanish versions of Réaumur’s fourth memoir on converting continued... 21

iron into steel, as well as other extracts from his L’Art de convertir le Fer Forgé en Acier (1722), illustrated with the three plates. Réaumur’s book was the first comprehensive book devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel, and laid the foundations of the steel industry in France. Horne’s book is an important account of crucible steel, and of its introduction by Benjamin Huntsman in Sheffield. His steel paved the way for all the modern steel casting and alloying processes, without which the developments of the nineteenth century would not have been possible. Friedrich Engels even attributed the development of England’s industrial might to Huntsman’s discovery, by virtue of the high quality tools and machinery that it created. The Huntsman method remained the only way of producing steel ingots until Bessemer's invention in 1856 enabled steel to be made in bulk.

51. HUGMAN, William Curtis. A Practical Treatise on Hip-Joint Disease, with reference especially to treatment, by mechanical means, for the relief of contraction and deformity of the affected limb. London: John Churchill... 1856. 8vo, pp. iv, 92, and 6 lithographed plates; plus Churchill’s 32-page catalogue dated November 1856 at the end. Original brown blind-stamped cloth by Edmonds & Remnants with their ticket, uncut. Old library stamp on title and remains of a small paper label at foot of spine. £300 FIRST EDITION, presumably a greatly expanded version of his 32-page The mechanical treatment of hip disease published in the same year, to which he makes vague reference in the preface.

52. HUMBER, William. A Practical Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridges and Girders, as applied to railway structures, and to buildings generally, with numerous examples... London: E. & F.N. Spon... 1857. Large 4to, pp. x, 1 leaf, pp. 106, 1 leaf (errata), fine tinted lithographed frontispiece and 58 lithographed plates numbered 1–57 plus 36a (including 35 folding or double-page) all from drawings by the author. Half-title. Spotting on front and back fly-leaves with minor offsetting, otherwise a fine copy. Contemporary half morocco and pebbled cloth sides. Bookseller’s ticket of B.T. Batsford, Architectural and Engineering Bookseller, London. £800 FIRST EDITION of this superbly illustrated “survey of the iron bridges erected in the wake of the Britannia Tubular Bridge exploiting the increased knowledge of the material and its behaviour resulting from that monumental structure. Humber’s book is made up of a series of plates, each fully described, illustrating examples of all kinds of structures including aqueducts, viaducts and road bridges. A lengthy section is devoted to the Crumlin Viaduct (prototype for many bridges erected overseas), newly opened and built with Warren & Kennard’s patent triangular girder. Other structures include Joseph Cubitt’s bridges on the Great Northern Railway, a splendid tubular girder bridge on the Midland Great Western Railway in Ireland designed by Hemans and constructed by Fairbairn & Sons, Rendel’s Sursuttee Bridge on the East India Railway, Thomas Page’s Chelsea Bridge, and a final section on iron girders used for fire-proof floors” (Elton, Catalogue 15, 52). William Humber (1821–1881) was a consulting civil engineer principally engaged in surveying for railway lines and projecting water and drainage works. Later in his career he made extensive use of wrought iron as a roofing material. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, p. 166.

53. HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan. A Smaller Atlas of Illustrations of Clinical Surgery... London: West, Newman & Co... 1895. 8vo, 4 preliminary leaves, 3 leaves of index at the end followed by 4 leaves of advertisements for Hutchinson’s larger atlas, and 136 lithographed plates with descriptive letterpress. An unusual original binding of red and blue buckram, gilt, t.e.g. Half-title and last page browned (offset continued... 22

from the endpaper), fore-edge of upper cover faded, otherwise a nice copy. Inscribed on the front pastedown: “John Terry. Presented by Jonathan Hutchinson LL.D., F.R.S. December 1895”; later signature on the free endpaper. £550 A continuation of Hutchinson’s large folio atlas Illustrations of Clinical Surgery, which was proving too expensive to produce in such a large format. The 136 plates originally appeared in his Archives of Surgery. Many of them are coloured, and depict a wide variety of conditions, including diseases of the skin in particular. See G&M 4098 and 4104: plates 13 and 14 show “Hilliard’s lupus”, which was an innovation in terminology by naming a condition after a patient rather than the physician; plate 9 shows angioma serpiginosum.

54. ITARD, Jean-Marie-Gaspard. Traité des Maladies de l’Oreille et de l’Audition. A Paris: chez Méquignon-Marvis... 1821. 2 volumes, 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. xvi, 396; 2 leaves, 522 pages, and 3 folding engraved plates. Halftitles. Foxing on the plates. Contemporary blue quarter roan and marbled sides (tops of joints rubbed). Some ink marks by an early owner, mostly short lines in the margin; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £600 FIRST EDITION of the first modern textbook on the diseases of the ear, an important work based on 172 case histories, which did much to establish otology on a sound basis. “What endows this book with special value is a rare honesty that deals openly with the shortcomings of the applied therapeutic methods. It was due primarily to Itard that the traditional methods were finally abandoned” (Politzer, p. 278, from a long account of this book). The text is preceded by a history of the anatomy of the ear, and in volume 2 is a long section on deafness and deaf-mutism, with which Itard was deeply involved. He devised tests for hearing, devised the psycho-acoustical phenomenon of ‘sound masking’, and developed an acumeter. G&M 3364. Politzer, History of otology, pp. 278–282. Stevenson & Guthrie p. 59. Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 55.

55. JACKSON, Robert. A Letter to the Commissioners of Military Enquiry; explaining the true constitution of a medical staff, the best form of economy for hospitals, &c. With a refutation of errors and misrepresentations contained in a letter by Dr. Bancroft, army physician, dated April 28, 1808. London: Printed for the author; and sold by J. Murray, [n.d., but c. 1808]. 8vo, 2 leaves, 88 pages. Half-title slightly soiled, foxing on the last page. Signature of J.A. Knipe (?) on half-title. Disbound. £250 SOLE EDITION. Jackson was a prominent army physician who made a lifelong study of fevers. This work addresses proposed changes in the army medical department, specifically in the distinctions between physician to the forces and regimental surgeon. The reference to Dr. Edward Bancroft is to his Letter to Commissioners of Military Enquiry: containing animadversions on some parts of their fifth report (1808), in which he stated his belief that the best army physicians could be drawn from civilian circles, not simply from the lower ranks of regimental surgeons. COPAC records 3 copies.

56. JAEGER, Eduard von. Ophthalmoskopischer Hand-Atlas. Wien: Druck und Verlag der K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1869. [Bound with:] [2] BÜRKNER, Kurd. Atlas von Beleuchtungsbildern des Trommelfells. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1886. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to. [1]: 2 leaves, pp. xviii, 236, and 29 chromolithographed plates by C. Heitzmann from drawings by Jaeger. A few pencilled marginal notes, the plates interleaved, continued... 23

with manuscript notes in English. [2]: x pages + 14 chromolithographed plates by A. von Giltsch from drawings by Bürkner with 14 leaves of explanation. Interleaved, with translations of the explanations into English, also some pencilled notes on a few plates. A little foxing in both works, but very good copies. Nineteenth century black half morocco. Signature of Leon Gillis on front pastedown, and his name in gilt at the foot of the upper cover. Bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £850 [1] FIRST EDITION. G&M 5904: “A fine atlas which was for many years unsurpassed. The illustrations were reproduced from Jaeger’s own paintings, each of which required from 20 to 50 sittings of from two to three hours each.” Becker catalogue 206. Albert, Norton & Hurtes 1170: “One of the most important ophthalmoscopic atlases of the nineteenth century, unsurpassed for many years due to the clear verbal and graphic descriptions.” [2] FIRST EDITION. An early atlas of the tympanic membrane and its pathology, preceded only by those of Politzer and Hinton.

57. JAMESON, Robert. A System of Mineralogy, in which minerals are arranged according to the natural history method. Third edition, enlarged and improved. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co... 1820. 3 volumes, 8vo, 3 leaves, pp. cxxxvi, 405; pp. xvi, 632; pp. xvi, 596, and 12 folding engraved plates. Half-titles. Some foxing. Original boards (neatly rebacked), uncut, corners a little worn. Old library label on front pastedowns, and several scattered blind stamps. £800 Third, last, and definitive edition of Jameson’s most important book. This edition “was completely revised and based on a different system of classification which owed much to F. Mohs” (DSB). Jameson (1774–1854) went to Freiberg to study under Werner. He founded the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh and was for fifty years Professor of Geology at Edinburgh University. His books were instrumental in introducing Wernerian geognostic doctrines and his classification of the rock strata into Britain.

58. JAMESON, Robert. Manual of Mineralogy: containing an account of simple minerals, and also a description and arrangement of mountain rocks. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co... 1821. 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. liv, 501 [a misprint for 491], 2 leaves (Constable’s advertisements). Original boards, neatly rebacked, uncut, old library label on front pastedown. Text slightly browned in places, otherwise a very good copy. £625 FIRST EDITION of Jameson’s last book, based on Mohs’s Die Charaktere der...naturhistorischen Mineralsystems (1820), published in English in the same year. It contains a long section entitled “Description and Arrangement of Mountain Rocks”; this includes some of the material found in his Elements of Geognosy (1808), which contained the first detailed account in English of Werner’s geognostic theories and his classification of the rock strata.

59. JENNER, Rev. G.C. The Evidence at Large, as laid before the Committee of the House of Commons, respecting Dr. Jenner’s discovery of Vaccine Inoculation; together with the debate which followed; and some observations on the contravening evidence, &c. London: Published by J. Murray...and W. Dwyer... 1805. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 213, 1 leaf (errata). Half-title. Original rose-coloured boards and green paper spine with printed paper label, uncut. Boards slightly soiled but a lovely, fresh copy. £2500 FIRST EDITION. Edited by Jenner’s nephew George, the Evidence is an important document in the history of vaccination. Jenner had petitioned Parliament on 17th March 1802 for recognition continued... 24

of his claim to the discovery of vaccination and for remuneration for the time he had spent on it. A special committee was appointed to consider the medical evidence, whose findings are reported in this book. Jenner was granted £10,000 in recognition of his expenses and achievements. “Addington, the Prime Minister, stated that the king recommended the petition, and it was referred to a committee which was to report on the usefulness of the discovery, Jenner’s right to be considered the discoverer, and the advantage he had derived from it. The committee took much evidence, the most important, after that of Jenner himself, being that of Dr. Matthew Baillie, who, after expressing his opinion as to the efficacy of vaccination, said: ‘If Dr. Jenner had not chosen openly and honourably to explain to the public all he knew upon the subject, he might have acquired a considerable fortune. In my opinion it is the most important discovery ever made in medicine’ ” (DNB). LeFanu 86 [69]. George Jenner, a qualified MD, was himself extremely active in vaccination, vaccinating 5000 people before 1805.

Indo-European Languages Printed in Calcutta 60. [JONES, Sir William. On the Hindus.] [In:] Asiatick Researches: or, Transactions of the Society, instituted at Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia, volume 1, pp. 415–431. Calcutta: Printed and sold by Manuel Cantopher... 1788. Large 4to, 1 leaf, pp. xvi, 465, (1), and 33 engraved plates. Modern half calf. Light spotting on pp. 423–431, otherwise a fine copy. The whole volume is offered, of which Jones’s paper occupies pp. 415–431. £2950 FIRST EDITION. “This slim paper, read to the Bengal Asiatic Society in 1786 and published in its Transactions, marks a turning-point in the history of linguistics and signalled the birth of comparative philology... “In 1786 Jones made his epoch-making discovery of the relationship between the Sanskrit, Gothic, Greek and Latin languages — to which he later, erroneously, thought he could add Egyptian. His clear understanding of the basic principles of scientific linguistics provided the foundation on which Rask, Bopp and Grimm built the imposing structure of comparative Indo-European studies” (PMM). Jones (1746–1794) had established his reputation as an orientalist by his Grammar of the Persian language (1771). In 1783 he was knighted and appointed a judge of the high court in Calcutta, the administrative seat of the East India Company, an office he held until his death. Here he indulged in his oriental studies, founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal, of which he was president, and edited its journal. The first paper in this, the first volume of its journal, is “A dissertation on the orthography of Asiatick words in Roman letters”, also by Jones, with 7 plates. Printing and the Mind of Man 235. The London reprint of this journal is common, but this original edition, printed in Calcutta, is much scarcer. Neither Jones’s name nor the title of his paper are given on its first page.

61. KENTISH, Edward. An Account of Baths, and of a Madeira-House, at Bristol: with a drawing and description of a Pulmometer... [Bristol: Printed by Brown, Bristol Mirror Office.] London: Published by Longman... [n.d., c. 1814]. 8vo, pp. x, 1 leaf, pp. 117, (1), 1 engraved plate. Pale stain in upper corner of title. Disbound. £360 SOLE EDITION. One of several works on baths and the use of vapour in diseases of the chest by Edward Kentish, who also published two important monographs on burns. A Madeira house was one in which the temperature in each room could be regulated, and rather above that of Madeira. Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, p. 786.

62. KÖNIG, Carl Hindrich. Inledning til Mecaniken och Bygnings-Konsten, sämte en beskrifning öfwer åtskillige af framledne commerce-rådet och commendeuren af...Hr. Polhem opfundne Machiner. Stockholm: tryckt af Peter Jöransson Nyström, 1752. Small 4to, pp. (viii), 183, and 30 folding engraved plates (numbered I–XXVIII plus XV* and a second plate numbered XVI). Large engraved vignette on title and another at the beginning of the second Book, some fine woodcut ornaments. Plate 14 misbound after plate 15 and plate 17 misbound after plate 26, gathering Y slightly browned as usual, plate 3 with small tear repaired and small stain in the outer margin. Contemporary speckled sheep, black-stamped spine with red morocco label (label faded), a fine and fresh copy. Old monogram stamp in upper corner of title. £3200 FIRST EDITION. This Introduction to the mechanics and the art of construction, including a description of several of the machines invented by the late...Mr. Polhem is a detailed treatise on the industrial work in Sweden in the first half of the eighteenth century. The last part, pp. 155 to the end, is an explanation of Christopher Polhem’s machines illustrated on 25 of the plates, and is one of the best accounts of Polhem’s work. (His own Patriotiska testamente, 1761, which gives the first description of rolling mills and other methods of iron-working, is not illustrated.) After a career as a mining engineer during which he devised water-powered machinery that mechanized operations at the great Falun copper mine, Polhem (1661–1751) built a factory for iron and other metal products at Stjaernsund in 1704 which was quite remarkable. It used division of labour, hoists, and conveyor belts to minimize manual labour, anticipating mass-production techniques later adopted in America and England. His ‘alphabet’ of machine components enabled him to build every conceivable machine and demonstrated the basic elements of mechanism used by later machine builders. His rolling mill was later adapted by Henry Cort to the production of wrought iron in England. “These new techniques of production exerted an important influence in Sweden and elsewhere. They represent the highest level of accomplishment of an iron industry based on charcoal and dependent for primary power on water-wheels and horse-driven gins” (Singer et al, A history of technology, III, pp. 342–343).

Item 62, König

First Description of Menière’s Disease 63. KRAMER, Wilhelm. Traité des Maladies de l’Oreille. Traduit de l’allemand, avec des notes et des additions nombreuses, par le docteur P. Menière. Paris: Germer Baillière,... 1848. 8vo, pp. xii, 532. Half-title. Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled sides, a little foxing, but a fine copy. Bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £650 See G&M 3366 (the original German edition), the best work of a pioneer German otologist, translated here by the great French otologist Prosper Menière. Menière enlarged the book still further by adding his own notes, one of which includes the first description of Menière’s disease, but without mentioning the vertigo. “Menière published his case in the Gazette Médicale de Paris of September 21st, 1861, p. 598 [G&M 3372], and it begins: ‘I have spoken elsewhere of a girl...’ The ‘elsewhere’ in the first sentence is important. Miles Atkinson recently...hunted this down and found it in Kramer’s Traité des Maladies de l’Oreille, Paris 1848, p. 397. Menière speaks of the girl and the necropsy, but does not mention the vertigo or the vomiting, although he does say that he found a ‘plastic, reddish lymph’ throughout the labyrinth (as in the later description). Did Menière thirteen years later unconsciously embroider fact to conform to theory, or did he through carelessness (for he had not the typical French precision) omit the description of vertigo in his first account?” (Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology, p. 58). Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 57.

The Earth is Flattened at the Poles 64. LA CONDAMINE, [Charles Marie] de. A Succinct Abridgement of a Voyage made within the Inland Parts of South-America; from the coasts of the South-Sea, to the coasts of Brazil and Guiana, down the river of Amazons: as it was read in the public assembly of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, April 28, 1745. To which is annexed, a map of the Maranon, or river of Amazons... London: Printed for E. Withers...and G. Woodfall... 1747. 8vo, pp. xii, 108, folding engraved map of the Amazon. Half-title. Contemporary half calf, nicely rebacked, corners a little worn, marbled sides and endpapers. Engraved bookplate by Brook of the Teston Library. £650 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the first account by La Condamine of the famous expedition to Peru which “had as its goal the verification of Newton’s hypothesis on the flattening of the terrestrial globe in the polar regions and, thereby, the resolution of the controversy regarding the form of the earth that was then dividing French scientists. Maupertuis, Clairaut, and Le Monnier went to Lapland to measure several degrees of meridian at the arctic circle, while Fodin, Bouguier, and La Condamine were sent to Peru...in order to make the same measurement in the vicinity of the equator” (DSB). After nine years of work the three scientists left for home, travelling separately. La Condamine chose the longest and most dangerous route, the Amazon, making scientific observations and collecting specimens on the way. His journey resulted in a new map of the entire course of the Amazon. See Safier, N. Measuring the New World (2008), pp. 1–81.

65. LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques... A Paris: Chez Maradan,... Seconde Année de la République [i.e., 1794]. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 375, 1 engraved plate; 2 leaves, pp. 412, 1 folding letterpress table. Half-titles. Pp. 401–402 misbound at the end, some light foxing and small stains, margins of first and last leaves in vol. 2 stained from binding. Contemporary cat’s paw calf, flat spines gilt with two green morocco labels (several small worm holes or tracks in the leather, glazed surface removed from a few patches). £1250 FIRST EDITION. Lamarck (1744–1829), the noted biologist and evolutionist, had pronounced chemical theories and they were an important part of his ideas about nature and evolution. He was an adversary of Lavoisier’s anti-phlogistic theory and proposed the four-element theory (earth, air, water, and fire). continued... 27

Lamarck believed that these four elements “have no attractive for one another but tend to separate unless constrained by force... He proposed a new ‘pyrotic theory’.” (Partington, III, p. 490). Lamarck attempted to account for a great number of chemical and physical phenomena such as sound, electricity, magnetism, colour, and vaporisation with his system. “In this work Lamarck sets forth his views on the immutability of species and attacks the theory of the spontaneous origin of life. The book is interesting in the history of chemistry, because Lamarck attacks Lavoisier’s antiphlogistic theory” (Duveen). Cole 739. Duveen, p. 334. Neville II, p. 4.

Foundation of Cardiac Pathology 66. LANCISI, Giovanni Maria. De Subitaneis Mortibus libri duo. Romae: Typis Jo: Francisci Buagni. 1707. 4to, pp. (xxiv), 243, (1). Including the first leaf (blank) and the half-title, fine engraved arms of Pope Clement XI on title, errata on last page, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. Very light browning on 2 or 3 leaves, tear in fore-edge margin of Aa1, but a fine, crisp copy. £2750 FIRST EDITION. The foundation of cardiac pathology. Physician to Pope Clement XI, Lancisi undertook the study of sudden deaths under a papal directive after an unusual number of cases had occurred in Rome the previous year. This was a remarkable initiative by the Pope, and must be the first epidemiological study of a non-communicable condition. Autopsies of the deceased persons showed that the deaths were often due to hypertrophy and dilation of the heart, and to various kinds of valve defects. Lancisi was the first to describe valvular vegetations, and his book includes an historical survey of the literature and a classification of the cardiac diseases then recognised. G&M 2731. Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 103. Leibowitz, History of coronary heart disease, 74–5. Willius & Dry 76–77. Long, History of pathology, 109–110. This copy has the title page in the state with engraved papal arms, rather than woodcut arms or skull-and-crossbones device. No priority has been assigned. See Kligfield, “Survey of variant title-page vignettes in Lancisi’s De Subitaneis Mortibus”, in J. Hist. Med., 38, 336-39 (1983).

Astronomical Instruments and Tables 67. LANSBERGE, Philip van. Tabulae Motuum Coelestium Perpetuae... Item novae & genuinae motuum coelestium theoricae. & astronomicarum observationum thesaurus. Middelburgi Zelandiae [Middelburg]: Apud Zachariam Roman. 1653 (–1652). [Bound with:] LANSBERGE, Philip van. In Quadrantem tum Astronomicum, tum Geometricum; nec non in Astrolabium Introductio... Middelburgi Zelandiae [Middelburg]: Apud Zachariam Roman... 1635.[And:] LANSBERGE, Philip van. Sphaera Plana, à Ptolomaeo Astrolabium dicta. Ex lingua Belgica in Romanam translata. Interprete Joanne Francio Sil. Middelburgi Zelandiae [Middelburg]: Apud Zachariam Roman... 1636. [And:] LANSBERGE, Jacques van. Apologia, pro commentationibus Philippi Lansbergii in motum terrae diurnum & annum: adversus Libertum Fromondum...& Joan. Baptistam Morinum... Middelburgi Zelandiae [Middelburg]: Apud Zachariam Romanum. 1633. 4 works (the first in 3 parts) in 1 volume, small folio and 4to. 1: 6 leaves, pp. 41, (1); 180, folding letterpress table; 181, (3). 2: pp. 28, (2), (2) blank, and 2 finely engraved folding plates. 3: pp. 25, (2), and 2 finely engraved folding plates. 4: 4to, pp. (xvi), 131, interleaved with folio leaves. Contemporary vellum. A fine and fresh copy. £12,000 A most remarkable and handsome collection of instrument books and astronomical tables by and about Philip van Lansberge (1561–1632), one of the most influential advocates of the Copernican doctrine in Protestant Europe and one of the two most important astronomers in the Low Countries during the first half of the 17th century. continued... 28

1. Second edition, comprising a reissue of the sheets of the original edition of 1632 with a new title-page. In it Lansberge propounds an epicyclic theory based on Brahe, as he could not accept Keplerâ€™s theory of elliptical orbits. He produced these rival tables, which were simpler and widely used by astronomers. Lansberge, contrary to Keplerâ€™s prediction, correctly predicted the transit of Venus in 1639. 2. A reissue of the sheets of the first Latin edition of 1633; a guide to the use of the quadrant and the astrolabe, with improvements in their design. A fine engraved vignette on the title-page shows two astronomers using the astrolabe.

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3. First edition in Latin (from the Dutch of 1628). On the construction and use of the astrolabe. 4. First edition, a vigorous defence by Philip’s brother Jacques of Philip’s espousal of the Copernican system against the attacks of Morin and Libert Froidmond. He defends the Copernican theory as being a correct description of the motion of the heavens and theologically acceptable.

Celestial Mechanics 68. LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de. Traité de Mécanique Céleste. Paris: J.B.M. Duprat [& others], An VII [1798]–1825 [i.e. 1823–1827]. 5 volumes, large 4to. Folding engraved plate in Vol. IV. Handsome antique blue morocco-backed marbled boards, flat spines nicely gilt. £14,000 FIRST EDITION, and a set complete with all the supplements. In this monumental and fundamental astronomical work, Laplace — the “Newton of France” — codified and developed the theories and achievements of Newton, Euler, d’Alembert, and Lagrange. “Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting, so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect... Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth — a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve... He also investigated the theory of the tides and calculated from them the mass of the moon” (Printing & the Mind of Man). A very nice set, with the first state of the titles of Vols. I and II and all the supplements. It lacks the title leaf for the first supplement in Vol. IV and the half-title and title leaf for the second supplement of the same volume (the number of these part-titles varies from copy to copy; see the note in the Norman catalogue). Printing & the Mind of Man 252. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 14. DSB, XV, pp. 273-403. En Français dans le Texte 201. Horblit 63. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 197–198. Norman catalogue 1277.

69. LE FÈVRE, Nicolas. A Compleat Body of Chymistry: wherein is contained whatsoever is necessary for the attaining to the curious knowledge of this art... Laid open in two Books, and dedicated to the use of all apothecaries, &c. Rendred into English, by P.D.C. Esq... With additions. London: Printed for O. Pulleyn Junior, and are to be sold by John Wright... 1670. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, pp. (xii), 286, (6); 1 leaf, pp. 3–36, 29–320, (8), and 6 folding engraved plates in the first part. Separate title-page to the second part, both title-pages with double-ruled borders, 2 full-page engravings (slightly shaved at the fore-edge) in the second part, woodcut ornaments. Contemporary mottled calf panelled in blind (lower joint cracked at top), red morocco label on spine, a fine and crisp copy. Small personal library stamp on verso of titles and on one or two other pages. £1800 Second edition in English, first issue. “A great landmark of chemical literature, which did much to popularize the science of chemistry in the seventeenth century. This book ‘achieved a wide and lasting reputation. For the next hundred years it ranked as a standard treatise on chemistry...’ The first English edition appeared in 1664. This second English edition is corrected and contains additions from the Paris edition of 1669. It is the more complete of the two English editions and is discussed by Read (Humour and humanism in chemistry, London, 1947) pp. 101–114 and Partington (III, pp. 18–24). One of the great classics of seventeenth century chemistry” (Neville, pp. 30–31). Wing L926. Neville II, pp. 30–31. Duveen p. 346. This first issue does not have “Fellow of the Royal Society” on the title-page.

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First Microscopic Illustrations of Asbestos Fine Coloured Plates 70. LEDERMÜLLER, Martin Frobenius. Amusement Microscopique tant pour l’esprit, que pour les yeux; contenant cinquante estampes dessinées d’après nature et enluminées, avec leurs explications... Se grave et se vend a Nuremberg, che’s Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt. Imprimé che’s de Lanoy. 1764 (–1766–1768–1775). 4 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. (viii), 126, (4); 138, (2); (viii), 118, (2), 23, (1); 16, engraved frontispiece and 158 plates (numbered 1–100, 1–50, 1–2, 1–6), all finely hand-coloured or, in a few cases, printed in colour. First title spotted, some light browning, and pale dampstain in upper margin of some leaves. Contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt fillet on sides, spine gilt in compartments and with brown morocco label, marbled endpapers and gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. £14,500 FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augenergötzungen by the Nüremberg amateur naturalist M.F. Ledermüller (1719–1769), whose works belong to the most beautifully illustrated microscopical books of the eighteenth century. The 158 plates illustrate in glorious colour all manner of natural objects, including seashells, salts, plants and flowers (including coffee), insects, human blood and urine, etc. etc. Several microscopes and their component parts are also illustrated. The supplement at the end of the third part includes a splendid illustration of a house-fly. This set has the Traité phisique et microscopique de l’asbeste (1775) which, according to Brunet, is often missing. It rarely appears with the other three volumes. It is a study of asbestos illustrated with six plates which are probably the first microscopic illustrations of asbestos, the structure of continued... 31

Item 70, LedermĂźller: Microscopic examination of the skin.

which was the subject of intense study in the twentieth century. “Ledermüller’s publication was a cutting-edge treatise, depicting each of the known types of fibers with detailed colored engravings” (Alleman & Mossman, “Asbestos revisited” in Scientific American, July 1997, p. 71). Schuh, Mineralogy and crystallography, an annotated biobibliography, 2928: “Very rare.” Clay & Court, The history of the microscope, pp. 154 and 182–183.

71. LEMERY, Nicolas. A Course of Chymistry. Containing the Easiest Manner of performing those Operations that are in Use in Physick. Illustrated with many Curious Remarks and Useful Discourses upon each Operation. Translated by Walter Harris, Doctor of Physick. London: Printed for W. Kettilby... 1677. 8vo, 16 leaves, 323 pages, 8 leaves (index), 2 leaves (publisher’s adverts). Title within double ruled border. Perforated library stamp in fore-edge margin of first 9 leaves (not touching the text), lower blank corner of G2 restored, paper a little browned and with some small marks. Twentieth century brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Early signature of W. Rainshawe on title. £1200 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated from the first French edition of 1675. The translator, Walter Harris (1647–1732), had lived and studied with Lemery. Later, Harris became physician to Charles II and William III and attended Queen Mary on her deathbed in 1694. Lemery (1645–1715), one of the most influential chemists of his time, gave lectures in Paris on the principles of chemistry which were known for being clear and simple. The present work is the textbook of his course of lectures. It enjoyed unprecedented success and went through many editions in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, etc. Lemery was instrumental in clearing “the ground for the science we now know as chemistry” (Farber, Great Chemists [1961], quoted by Neville). Wing L1038. Cole 804. Neville, II, pp. 43–44. DSB, VIII, pp. 172–175. Partington, III, pp. 28–41.

Artificial Refrigeration 72. LESLIE, John. A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, depending on the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture. Edinburgh: printed for William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne & Co... 1813. 8vo, pp. iv, 178, 1 leaf (description of the plate), 1 engraved plate with 10 figures of Leslie’s apparatus. Contemporary calf, flat spine gilt and with red morocco label. Armorial bookplate of William Brodie of Brodie. Plate a little foxed, bookplate offset onto front free endpaper, but a nice copy. £700 FIRST EDITION. This book embodies the continuation of Leslie’s important work on heat, and is “full of important and original work” (DNB). In it he describes how he successfully applied the absorbent powers of sulphuric acid to freeze water in an evacuated receiver. This is the first recorded achievement of artificial congelation, and in 1817 he developed a method for making artificial ice. The principle was exploited by Ferdinand Carré in 1860, who created the first laboratory ice machines. The way was then open for its commercial use for the long-term transportation and storage of foodstuffs, the preservation of cadavers, and numerous other applications, including, of course, cold beer.

73. LUISÇIUS, Abraham van Stipriaan. Beschrijving van een Zeepeiler, of Bathometer, waarmede men alle dieptens der zeeën zal kunnen afmeten. Alsmede een kort geölogisch overzicht van den aardkloot in zoverre zulks bij het voorgaande te pas komt. In Den Hage [The Hague]: Bij J. Immerzeel, Junior. 1805. Large 4to, 2 leaves, 45 pages, 1 leaf, and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary Dutch quarter calf, speckled sides, vellum tips, blue morocco label on spine, uncut and largely unopened. Cancelled stamp of the Dutch Royal Library at foot of title. A fine copy. £550 continued... 33

FIRST EDITION. A description of an early bathometer or device for sounding the depth of the sea, invented by Luisçius, which operated without a lead-line, and which was possibly the first such instrument. A similar device, but one which required a lead-line, had been developed in England by Edward Massey three years previously, and was eventually installed in every ship of the Royal Navy. The first part of the text is concerned with underwater topography, especially submarine mountains, and animal life. The last leaf is a list of prices. A French edition was published in the same year by the same publisher.

74. MACKENZIE, Morell. The Use of the Laryngoscope in diseases of the throat. With an appendix on rhinoscopy. London: Robert Hardwicke... 1865. 8vo, pp. (ii) blank, xiii, 154, (1) adverts. With 30 text illustrations. Original mauve cloth, uncut, spine a little faded and worn at foot, nick in head of spine, sewing a little loose and cocked, but a very good, clean copy. Light library stamp on title and a few other pages and old paper label on spine; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £450 FIRST EDITION. G&M 3334. Mackenzie was taught the use of the laryngoscope by Professor Johann Czermak in Pest in 1859. Returning to London in 1860 he determined to become a physician laryngologist; he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1864 and the following year published The Use of the Laryngoscope in Diseases of the Throat, which ran to three editions and was translated into French, German, and Italian. “It must never be forgotten that he was truly the father of British laryngology, the first English laryngologist, [and] the founder of the first hospital for diseases of the throat in the world” (ODNB). Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology, pp. 104–105.

75. MACQUER, [Pierre Joseph] and [Antoine] BAUMÉ. Plan d’un Cours de Chymie Expérimentale et Raisonnée, avec un discours historique sur la chymie. A Paris: Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant... 1757. 12mo, 2 leaves, pp. lxiii, 80. Interleaved throughout the main body of the text with annotations in pencil on the first leaf and on the verso of the front pastedown. Contemporary calf, flat spine gilt (but the gilt rubbed, spine slightly worn at head), red morocco label (chipped), marbled edges and endpapers. £850 FIRST EDITION, published in the year that Macquer and Baumé gave the first of sixteen annual winter courses of lectures on chemistry, in which they demonstrated some 2,000 experiments. The present work is an outline of the course, and includes, in the first 63 pages, their history of chemistry. Neville I, p. 123. Duveen p. 378. Cole 894. Partington III, p. 82, with a summary of the course.

First Modern Chemical Dictionary 76. MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. Dictionnaire de Chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science, son application à la physique, à l’histoire naturelle, à la médecine & à l’economie animale; avec l’explication détaillée de la vertu & de la maniere d'agir des médicamens chymiques. Et les principes fondamentaux des arts, manufactures & métiers dépendans de la chymie. A Paris: Chez Lacombe,... 1766. 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 616; 1 leaf, pp. (3)–688. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red edges (a few wormholes or short wormtracks in spines and lower covers, top of spine of vol. 2 chipped). A few gatherings printed on different paper and lightly browned, but a good set. £900 Second (first pirated) edition of the first modern chemical dictionary. Although technical dictionaries had appeared earlier, this was the first attempt to cover the whole field of chemistry, pure and applied, in an encyclopaedic manner. The 26-page introduction traces the progress of chemistry continued... 34

from its origins to the time of Stahl and Boerhaave. The book was an immediate success and it was several times reprinted and translated; it produced many imitators. There are substantial entries for glass and wine. Cole 864. DSB, VIII, pp. 618–624. Partington III, pp. 80–90. Neville pp. 112–113. This rare pirated edition appeared in the same year as the first; Cole examined 11 copies dated 1766 but none was of this edition. See Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1766.

77.

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph. Dictionnaire de Chymie, contenant la théorie et la pratique de cette science, son application à la physique, à l’histoire naturelle, à la médecine, & aux arts dépendans de la chymie. Seconde édition, revue & considérablement augmentée. A Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot jeune,... 1777 [i.e. 1778?]. 3 volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxxii, 747; 1 leaf, pp. (3)–660; 1 leaf, pp. (3)–510, (2) blank. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt in compartments, brown and green morocco labels, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Some wear to ends of spines and corners, fore-edge of upper cover of vol. 3 worn, otherwise a good set. £800 A pirated reprint of the authorised second edition of 1778 (see the previous item), which was expanded to nearly twice the size of the first edition with an up-to-date account of chemistry and much new material. Cole 867. Duveen p. 377. Neville pp. 113–114: “Published without the index and the account of the order in which the articles should be read but with Didot’s imprint on the title pages. The date is clearly incorrect, for the text is copied from the Didot octavo and carries a reference to Macquer’s observation of 17 March 1778...”

78. MAGALOTTI, Lorenzo. Lettere Scientifiche ed Erudite. In Venezia: A’ Spese della Compagnia, 1734. 4to, pp. xxiv, 294, (1). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Small stain in corner of lower board, but a fine copy. £320 Second edition. Magalotti was one of the first ten members of the Accademia del Cimento, and its secretary. The letters in this collection are on a variety of subjects, including light, snow, comets, Galileo, wine, and the circulation of the blood. Magalotti has the distinction of “having written the best scientific prose in Italian after that of Galileo” (DSB).

79. MAINGAULT, Charles. Maingault's Illustrations of the Different Amputations performed on the human body, represented by plates designed after nature, with alterations and practical observations by William Sands Cox F.R.S. Second edition. London: John Churchill... 1845. Folio, (30) pages and 8 lithographed plates. Original printed limp boards and cloth spine, the binding and endpapers a bit dust-soiled, but the text and plates quite clean. Presentation copy from the English editor, inscribed on the upper cover: “The Library of the Society of Apothecaries, London, from William Sands Cox”, and with the Society's bookplate on the inside front cover; also the bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £450 Second edition in English.

Printed in Madras 80. MALCOLMSON, John Grant. A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi. Madras: Printed by order of government. Vepery Mission Press. 1835. [Bound with, as issued:] Observations on some forms of Rheumatism prevailing in India. Madras: Printed by order of government. Vepery Mission Press. 1835. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. (ii), iv, (ii), 343, 1 hand-coloured lithographed plate; 1 leaf (blank), pp. (ii), 98. Original boards (new paper spine and label). Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Dr. Morehead from the Author”; and beneath: “Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh from Dr. Morehead, June 1870”, and the Society’s faint stamp on the title-page; bookplate of John Yudkin, professor of nutrition at the University of London. £1250 FIRST EDITIONS. G&M 3738. The first important monograph on beri-beri; “a classic account, in which the author brought together all that was known about the disease in his day” (G&M). Leaving aside the brief seventeenth century accounts by Bondt and Tulp (G&M 3736 and 3737 respectively), “Malcolmson’s is the only significant study of beri-beri during the major phase of European expansion. The essential scientific work on beri-beri did not take place until after 1885 when the Japanese Baron Takaki demonstrated the dietary origin of the disease. “Malcolmson was assistant surgeon of the Madras Medical Establishment at the time of writing, and submitted both the essay on beri-beri and that on rheumatism which accompanies it for a prize of 500 rupees in 1833. Rare, as most Indian imprints are” (Jeremy Norman, Catalogue 16, also with both works in one volume, also a presentation copy).

Seismology 81. MALLET, Robert. Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857. The First Principles of Observational Seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society of London of the expedition made by command of the Society into the interior of the kingdom of Naples to investigate the circumstances of the great earthquake of December 1857. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.

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2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 431, folding tinted lithographed frontispiece and 36 plates (2 folding); pp. viii, 399, frontispiece, 20 plates (2 folding), 3 folding maps, 2 maps in pockets on front and rear endpapers, errata slip. Plus Chapman & Hall’s 8-page adverts dated 24th September 1862 inserted at the end. Some of the plates have two or three illustrations, also numerous text illustrations. Original green pebbled blind-stamped cloth (slight fading and slight wear to head of spine to volume 2, traces of a small label removed from spines), uncut. Library label of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society tipped in on half-titles and their small stamp on title-pages and the margin or edge of each plate, minor dampstain in lower corner of first few leaves of volume 2. £1800 FIRST EDITION. The first book on seismology, a term coined by Mallet, who realised that among the “fractured walls and overthrown objects scattered in all directions” that resulted from an earthquake was “the most precious data for determining the velocities and directions of the shocks that produced them. The idea of applying number and measure to these never seems to have occurred to...[earlier reporters of earthquakes]. As this method of seismic observation, then, is novel, I trust to show that it has proved fruitful in result, in this its very first application to nature...” (pp. 8–9). Mallet persuaded the Royal Society to sponsor him to investigate on the spot the great Neapolitan earthquake of 16th December 1857. His report would have occupied an entire volume of the Philosophical Transactions so it was published as the present book. It is extraordinarily detailed and richly illustrated with tinted lithographed plates, woodcuts, maps and diagrams. Mallet (1810–1881), an engineer from Dublin, began his work on seismology in 1845. “His classic paper to the Royal Irish Academy in 1846 on earthquake dynamics is regarded as one of the foundations of modern seismology. He investigated the great Neapolitan earthquake of December 1857 and established the first principles of observational seismology” (ODNB).

82. MERCURIALIS, Hieronymus. De Compositione Medicamentorum Tractatus, tres libros complectens... Eiusdem de Oculorum, et Aurium affectibus praelectiones seorsim editae... Omnia primùm a Michaele Columbo...edita... Francofurdi [Frankfurt]: apud Joannem Wechelum, 1591. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. (viii), 312; 192. Separate title-page to the second part, woodcut device on both title-pages. Modern vellum over boards, paper label on spine, red edges. Title-page to the second part slightly soiled, but a very good copy. Bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £1250 Second edition. See G&M 3343 (first edition of 1590, the first work cited under otology and audiology). The treatise on the ear contained in the second part of this book represents the first “clinical” manual on diseases of the ear. It is combined with a treatise on the diseases of the eye, which is one of the earliest ophthalmological works written by a learned physician (as opposed to unlearned practitioners). The first part of the book is on pharmacology. Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-laryngology, p. 29: “...one of the first exponents of the practice of otology.” See Albert, Norton & Hurtes 1547 for the ophthalmological treatise.

83. MIDDLETON, Erasmus, et al. The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences; or, an universal system of useful knowledge. Containing A full explanation of every art and science, whether liberal or mechanical, human or divine... London: Printed, by authority, for the authors; and sold by Alex: Hogg... [n.d., c. 1778.] 2 volumes in 1, folio, (234) leaves, (244) leaves, engraved allegorical frontispiece and 80 engraved plates. Leaves 4K2 and 4L1 stained, narrow stain on plate 3, otherwise a very clean copy. Contemporary tree calf (upper joint very neatly repaired, small crack at foot of lower joint), spine with raised bands and gilt rules and red morocco label. A few small scuff marks but a handsome copy. Old stamp of John Beard on front free endpaper. £600 continued... 37

FIRST EDITION, undated issue. One of a small number of encyclopaedias of science, medicine and natural history published in the eighteenth century, all of which took their lead from Chambers’ ground-breaking Cyclopaedia of 1728. By 1778, however, Chambers’ encyclopaedia had grown to five volumes. Middleton’s collaborators as authors were William Turnbull, Thomas Ellis and John Davison (whose name is given as Davidson in the dated issue), among others. It was published in 80 numbered parts. This undated issue is not recorded by ESTC and no copy appears in COPAC. The title has small variations from the dated issue, and the imprint has Hogg’s name only, whereas the dated issue includes that of S. Leacroft.

84. MITCHELL, Joseph. Practical Suggestions for relieving the over-crowded thoroughfares of London; securing improved means of locomotion; diverting the sewage from the Thames, and appropriating it to agricultural use... London: Edward Stanford... 1857. 8vo, 26 pages, 4 tinted lithographed plates (2 folding) from drawings by the author, 1 large folding map. Two tears in folds of one plate neatly repaired. Original mauve cloth (partly faded to brown, a little rubbed, minor wear to head of spine), gilt edges, yellow endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed at the top of the title: “To William Paterson Esq with Mr Mitchell’s best regards” (William Paterson was an engineer and later Mitchell’s partner). £950 FIRST EDITION, dated issue (another issue is undated and has the title-page enclosed within a frame). “Joseph Mitchell, known primarily as a Highland road engineer, was, like so many of his contemporary engineers, possessed of a wide knowledge which enabled him to report authoritatively on matters outside his immediate expertise. This fine report comes in the wake of a series of parliamentary committees concerned to relieve the crowded London streets. “He proposes a single magnificent street running from Kensington Palace to the East End which would give easy access to all the railway termini. Parallel with it would be a railway running in cuttings or cut-and-cover tunnels...with a branch from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to Waterloo. This would cross the river on an iron superstructure erected above Rennie’s Waterloo Bridge rather than on a new and expensive bridge.

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“...an integral part of the scheme was a plan to overcome the pressing problem of sewage disposal. Mitchell proposes the entirely sound idea of an intercepting sewer, a concept similar to Bazalgette’s executed designs of the next decade, though Mitchell’s was to be constructed under his great street and adjacent railway. A rare work with some lovely illustrations” (Elton, Catalogue 10).

Mathematical Investigation into the Figure of the Earth 85. MURDOCH, Patrick. Mercator’s sailing, applied to the true figure of the earth. With an introduction, concerning the discovery and determination of that figure. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1741. 4to, pp. xxxii, 38, (2) adverts, and 3 folding engraved plates (one shaved at foot and with a clean tear at inner edge, no loss). Early nineteenth-century russia, neatly rebacked. A very good copy. £500 FIRST EDITION. In Mercator's sailing, Murdoch investigates the hypothesis that the earth is not homogeneous but has a central nucleus denser than its surroundings. This he demonstrates from complex mathematical formulae from which he deduces numerical results. See Isaac Todhunter, A history of the mathematical theories of attraction and the figure of the Earth, 1873, in which Todhunter discusses Murdoch’s treatise at some length. Patrick Murdoch (died 1774), Church of England clergyman and writer, was born in Dumfries and educated at the University of Edinburgh where he distinguished himself in mathematics and was the pupil and friend of Colin Maclaurin. In 1748 Murdoch prefixed a life of Maclaurin to that writer’s Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries which Murdoch saw through the press. In 1738 he was presented with the living of Stradishall, Suffolk, and he was elected F.R.S. in 1765. Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England, pp. 213–214. Copsey, Suffolk Writers I, p. 358. A French edition appeared in the following year.

86. MUSSCHENBROEK, Petrus van. Tentamina Experimentorum Naturalium captorum in Accademia del Cimento sub auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi Magni Etruriae Ducis, et ab ejus Academiae secretario conscriptorum: ex Italico in Latinum sermonem conversa. Quibus commentarios, nova experimenta, et orationem de methodo instituendi experimenta physica addidit Petrus van Musschenbroek... Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Joan. et Herm. Verbeek, Bibliop. 1731. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, pp. xvi, xlviii, (xii), 193; 1 leaf, pp. 3–192, (14), 32 folding engraved plates, 1 folding letterpress table. Title printed in red and black. Foxing on the first 4 leaves and on fore-edge margins on some other leaves. Contemporary calf, rebacked, part of lower cover stained darker. Large coat-of-arms in gilt on both covers of Sir George Savile of Rufford. £900 FIRST EDITION, incorporating the first edition in Latin of the Saggi di naturali esperienze (1667) of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, with substantial additions to each section by Musschenbroek. The work is prefixed by Musschenbroek’s Oratio de Methodo Instituendi Experimenta Physica, which sets out his experimental philosophy, inspired by Newton. The Accademia del Cimento [Academy of Experiment] was founded in Florence in 1657, before the formal foundation of either the Royal Society or the Académie des Sciences. Two of its founder members, Viviani and Torricelli, were disciples of Galileo; others included Borelli, Steno, Redi and Cassini. This text was written by Count Lorenzo Magalotti, and includes accounts of experiments on temperature and air pressure (including Torricelli’s invention of the barometer), the velocity of sound and light, phosphorescence, magnetism, amber and other electrical bodies, the freezing of water, etc. The many fine plates in this translation by Musschenbroek illustrate the Accademia’s work and his own later experiments, one of which includes the first description of the pyrometer (a term coined by him). Musschenbroek was one of the great physical experimenters and lecturers of the eighteenth century, and the teacher of Nollet. continued... 39

Wheeler Gift 276. For the Accademia del Cimento see Wheeler Gift 196 and Duveen p. 636: “... highly important experiments”; also Dibner 82 and Norman Catalogue 485 for the first edition of 1667. Wolf, History of science, I, pp. 55–59.

87. NECKAM, Alexander. De Naturis Rerum libri duo. With the poem of the same author, De Laudibus Divinæ Sapientiæ. Edited by Thomas Wright. Published by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. London: Longman,... 1863. 8vo, pp. 4, lxviii, (ii), 521, (1), (15)adverts. Original grey-green boards, maroon pebbled cloth spine, uncut (edges of boards rubbed, lower corners a little worn), a very good copy. Treasury presentation label on front endpaper. £260 FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest English works of science, written before those of Sacrobosco, Pecham, and Roger Bacon. Neckam (1157–1217) studied in St. Albans and Paris, and wrote his De naturis rerum before 1200. It was intended to be a manual of the scientific knowledge of the time, and as such is a monument to the history of science in western Europe, particularly in England, during the latter half of the twelfth century, but it is also enriched by a wealth of anecdotes and stories which illustrate the conditions and manners of the age. It contains the earliest description of the use of the magnet as a mariner’s compass, and of mirrors of glass. Wheeler Gift 1576.

The First English Book on the Germ Theory 88. N[EEDHAM], M[archamont]. Medela Medicinæ. A plea for the free profession, and a renovation of the art of physick... London: Printed for Richard Lownds... 1665. 8vo, pp. (xxiv), 516 (i.e. 524, page nos. 193–200 duplicated). With the initial licence leaf. Contemporary speckled sheep, rubbed, tips of corners worn, several small holes in spine, strip of leather torn from lower board, but aside from these small defects in the binding a lovely, fresh copy in original state. £2800 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2529: “Needham was one of the earliest — if not the first — Englishman to write on the germ theory. In his book he included an account of Kircher’s experiments with the microscope.” This is the fourth book on infection and immunology listed by G&M, the first modern book being that by Fracastoro who first promulgated the germ theory of infection. In Chapters III and IV Needham discusses infection, including Fracastoro’s theory, and in Chapter V Kircher’s Scrutinium (G&M 2528.1) and the use of the microscope, concluding that disease was spread by “such little invisible contagious bodies as these, carried through the air.” This rare book, published in the year that the plague struck in Britain, was written as an attack on the College of Physicians. In it Needham argued that Galenic principles of medicine were corrupt and useless, and that liberty should be permitted in the practice of physic in order rationally to develop new chemical remedies. It is not noticed in the histories of Bulloch, Nordenskiöld or Foster. Wing N397. This was apparently the only edition.

Population of Ireland 89. NEWENHAM, Thomas. A Statistical and Historical Inquiry into the progress and magnitude of the Population of Ireland. London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin... 1805. 8vo, pp. vi, xix, 360, 3 folding letterpress tables. Contemporary red half morocco, flat spine gilt (but the gilt dull), spine and sides a little rubbed, edges and corners worn. Bookplate of Caesar Litton Falkiner on front pastedown. £1200 FIRST EDITION. Elected member for Clonmel, co. Tipperary, in the Irish parliament of 1798, Newenham was one of the steadiest opponents of the Act of Union. After the union in 1800, he continued... 40

believed that the ignorance of Irish affairs by English politicians would lead to injustice, and he investigated the resources and capabilities of Ireland, in the hope that his published evidence would influence public opinion in England. He became one of the principal authorities on the Irish economy. Newenham, like several private individuals before him beginning with Sir William Petty, made an estimate of the population of Ireland. The first attempt at a census of Ireland was in 1813, only eight years after the present book, but it was abandoned, and the first full government census of Ireland was not taken until 1821.

90. NICHOLSON, William. The First Principles of Chemistry. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1790. 8vo, pp. xxvii, 532, (5), 1 folding engraved plate of apparatus. Without the final blank leaf. Contemporary half calf, green morocco label on spine (a few small scuff marks, lower joint cracked at head), a very good copy. £1250 FIRST EDITION. Nicholson (1753–1815), translator of Fourcroy and Chaptal, and editor of the first general scientific periodical in England published independently of the academies, was one of the important British figures in the new chemical movement. In his voluminous textbook on chemistry, dedicated to Cavendish, he explained both the phlogistic and antiphlogistic theories, as he considered them equally probable. “The text is divided into two books, I. General Chemistry includes heat, construction of thermometers, combustion, methods of making experiments with gases, an account of balances and elective attractions; II includes general principles of bodies, acids, metals, mineral combustibles, vegetable and animal products. The useful treatment in I. of thermometers and balances is not found in many texts” (Cole). Cole 976. Duveen 431 (without mention of the plate). Neville II, p. 228. Partington III, p. 490 and IV, p. 19.

District Nursing 91. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Organization of Nursing. An account of the Liverpool Nurses’ Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing. By a member of the committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale. Liverpool: A. Holden... London: Longman,... 1865. 8vo, pp. (viii), 9–103, lithographed frontispiece of the school, and 1 lithographed plan. Original limp blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, upper inner hinge neatly repaired, a very good copy. Loosely inserted is a printed letter from “The Compiler” requesting the recipient to accept this copy. £1200 FIRST EDITION. Liverpool was a pioneer city in the training of nurses, and the first district nurse began work there in 1860. “The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was founded by William Rathbone in 1862, after consultation with Miss Nightingale. This was the beginning of a long and fruitful association which was to result in the organization and development of district nursing and workhouse infirmary nursing, both of which were first tried out in Liverpool, and later extended to other parts of the country” (Bishop & Goldie). This scarce work is an account of the founding and operation of the School; it includes an introduction and numerous notes by Florence Nightingale, and is dedicated to her. Bishop & Goldie 14.

92. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Nursing: what it is, and what it is not. London: Harrison... [1860]. 8vo, 79 pages. Original black pebbled cloth, very fine copy. Armorial bookplate of Gilmour of Lundin and Montrare; small bookseller’s ticket of David Bryce, Glasgow. £450 continued... 41

FIRST EDITION, issue in the same year as the first, with front endpapers advertising Burke's Peerage for 1860, and rear endpapers with adverts beginning A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin (the most common issue). G&M 1612, the most famous book on nursing. Lilly, Notable Medical Books 215. Bishop & Goldie, Bio-bibliography, 4(i). Skretkowicz, “Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing” in The Library, v.15, no. 1, 24–46, 1993.

93. O’HALLORAN, [Sylvester]. A New Treatise on the different disorders arising from External Injuries of the Head; illustrated by eighty-five (selected from above fifteen hundred) practical cases. Dublin: Printed by Zachariah Jackson, for W. Gilbert... 1793. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 8, 37, 1 leaf, pp. 335, iv. One woodcut diagram on p. 70. Contemporary speckled calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. Foxing in gathering G (printed on different paper), foot of spine and one lower corner worn, cracks in ends of joints, some minor soiling. Early signature on title-page. £950 FIRST EDITION. O’Halloran’s book on the treatment of injuries of the head was among the earliest Irish books on surgery, but already the second on the subject of head wounds, published seventeen years after that of William Dease. As he says in the preface, the faction fights in Ireland afforded the most ample field for observation of the subject in the world. With Dease, he shared the view of less surgical intervention in such cases than did Pott, and he changed the management of head injuries (Flamm). O’Halloran was surgeon to the Limerick County Infirmary and a driving force in the establishment of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Flamm, From skulls to brains – 2500 years of neurosurgical progress, 43. The ESTC (giving an incorrect collation) records only 4 copies. There was only one edition.

The Fundamental Law of Electrical Circuits 94. OHM, Georg Simon. Die galvanische Kette mathematisch bearbeitet. Berlin: Bei T.H. Riemann, 1827. 8vo, pp. iv, 245, (1), 1 engraved plate (bound as a frontispiece). With the errata leaf R1, often lacking, but without the extremely rare advertisement leaf R2 which is almost always lacking (the Dibner, Horblit/Evans, Norman, Waller and Wellcome copies, and the copy described by Horblit in Grolier Science, all lack it). Black half morocco and marbled paper sides (modern binding in the style of a German binding of the period). Small ink mark on title, some very light foxing in signature B, otherwise a fine and clean copy. £14,500 FIRST EDITION of one of the most important books in electrical science. In the field of electrical measurement Ohm was the great pioneer. His major contribution wasto measure the rate of current flow and the effects of resistance on the current. “Ohm’s law”, that the resistance of a given conductor is a constant independent of the voltage applied or the current flowing, was arrived at theoretically by analogy with Fourier’s heat measurements in 18001814, and is the fundamental law of electrical circuits. The term ohm was adopted for the unit of electrical resistance in 1881. Die galvanische Kette contains the fully developed presentation of Ohm’s electrical theory. Printing and the Mind of Man 289. Horblit 81. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 63. Sparrow, Milestones of science, 154. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1827. Norman catalogue 1607. Wheeler Gift 835.

95. OSBORN, William. Essays on the Practice of Midwifery, in natural and difficult labours. London: Printed for Cadell...and Johnson... 1792. 8vo, 1 leaf (half-title), pp. xxv, 475, folding engraved frontispiece of forceps. Frontispiece rather foxed and offset onto the title-page, a few spots elsewhere but the text generally very clean. continued... 42

Original boards, new paper spine as the original, corners worn, endpapers replaced, uncut. Old library stamp in upper corner of title and on upper board. £400 FIRST EDITION, incorporating his earlier book An essay on laborious parturition. Osborn was vehemently against intervention in obstetrics, and in particular condemned Caesarean section, although he did use forceps. He was a pupil of Hunter and Levret, and, with Denman, ran an enormously successful private school of midwifery. He was the second licentiate in midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons. Radcliffe, Milestones in midwifery, pp. 50–51. Spencer, The history of British midwifery, pp. 117–123.

96. OWEN, Richard. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds. London: John van Voorst... 1846. 8vo, pp. xlvi, 1 leaf (errata), pp. 560, 1 folding table. With 237 woodcuts in the text. Lacking the half-title. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) calf, double gilt fillet on sides, spine ruled in gilt and with two green morocco labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. Early signature of John Wolley jnr. on front flyleaf. £600 FIRST EDITION. Owen’s palæontological works began in 1837 with the fossils that Charles Darwin brought back from South America, and extended over a period of fifty years. They were a source of remarkable scientific progress. His major Report of British fossils (1839–1841) was the framework on which he developed his exhaustive History of British fossil reptiles (1849–1884). In between he wrote the present work on fossil remains of extinct British zoology as part of a complete British zoology published by Van Voorst.

97. PEMBERTON, Oliver. Clinical Illustrations of Various Forms of Cancer, and of other diseases likely to be mistaken for them, with especial reference to their surgical treatment. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 1867. Large 4to, pp. (ix), 128, (2) blank, (8), and 12 plates (11 lithographed, one chromolithographed and finished by hand). With 27 woodcut illustrations in the text. Original maroon cloth (neatly rebacked preserving most of the original backstrip, endpapers replaced), covers ruled and decorated in blind, bevelled edges, upper cover lettered in gilt. Light foxing on some of the plates otherwise a fine and clean copy. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title “For Alfred J. Harrison M.D. with Oliver Pemberton’s best regards”; label of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, presented by Harrison, loosely inserted. £650 FIRST EDITION. Pemberton’s cases are taken from his practice as surgeon at the Royal Hospital in Birmingham. With the use of his case histories he explains the prognosis and cure (if any there were) of seventeen different cancers. He also explains some other growths and ulcers and gives advice on how to distinguish benign from malignant growths. The illustrations were made from drawings by S. Moreton under Pemberton’s supervision and from his own dissections in order to ensure accuracy, and they leave little to the imagination.

98. POLENI, Giovanni. De Castellis per quae derivantur fluviorum aquae habentibus latera convergentia liber. Quo etiam continentur nova experimenta ad aquas fluentes, & ad percussionis vires pertinentia. Patavii [Padua]: Typis Josephi Comini. 1718. 4to, 3 leaves, pp. 65, (1), 2 leaves (licence leaf and colophon with woodcut coat-of-arms), 1 stilted engraved plate. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Original carta rustica boards (tear in top of spine), uncut, spine overlayed at an early date with marbled paper now torn and with pieces missing. Engraved bookplate of W.C. Mylne (William Chadwell Mylne, 1781–1863, engineer and architect). £700 FIRST EDITION. Poleni’s second work on hydraulics, with “reports on experiments on water flow and on the force exerted by an impacting fluid” (DSB). Poleni was the most prominent Italian hydraulics engineer of the early eighteenth century. continued... 43

“As an engineer, Poleni was a consultant in matters of water supply and flood control and an arbitrator between rulers of neighbouring states. His principal contributions to hydraulics were threefold. In his De Castellis of 1718 he cited measurements indicating the coefficient of contraction for a sharp-edges orifice to be 0.62, a considerable improvement upon Newton’s value 1/√2. He also experimented with short tubes attached to the orifice and found that a maximum rate of eflux was obtained with an intermediate length of tube” (Rouse & Ince, History of hydraulics, p. 113).

99. POLITZER, Adam. The Membrana Tympani in health and disease... Translated by A. Mathewson M.D. and H.G. Newton M.D. New York: Wm. Wood & Co... 1869. 8vo, pp. (iii)-viii, 183, (1), 2 chromolithographed plates with 24 figures from originals by Politzer (one bound as a frontispiece). Original black cloth, lower joint and ends of spine neatly repaired, inner hinges strengthened, label removed from rear pastedown. Signature of Andrew Clark FRCS on front flyleaf, presentation stamp from him to the British Medical Association on back of frontispiece, library stamp in upper corner of title-page and a few other pages. £400 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. “These are the first color illustrations of the eardrum. Politzer describes the use of the concave mirror and the ear speculum to illuminate the tympanic membrane. The illustrations and the accompanying text allowed for a reproducible nosology — classification — of the disease processes, which in turn enabled objective and reproducible reporting of clinical studies — the cornerstone of medical research” (Ruben). See G&M 3378 (first edition in German of 1865). Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 64. Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology, pp. 113–4. See also “The role of Adam Politzer (1835–1920) in the history of otology” in Amer. J. Otol., v. 21, 2000, pp. 753–763, “...the first real atlas on otoscopy.”

Ecology 100. RAUCH, F[rançois] A[ntoine]. Régénération de La Nature Végétale, ou recherches sur les moyens de recréer, dans tous les climats, les anciennes températures et l’ordre primitif des saisons, par des plantations raisonnées, appuyées de quelques vues sur le ministère que la puissance végétale semble avoir a remplir dans l’harmonie des éléments. A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’Ainé... 1818. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxi, (i), 502 + 2 unnumbered leaves of “Tableau” bound before chapters II and III; 3 leaves, pp. (7)–398. Half-titles. Contemporary calf mottled in red and black, flat spines gilt with red morocco labels, gilt borders with leaf pattern, inner gilt dentelles, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. A very nice copy. £1100 Second and better edition, revised and expanded from the first edition of 1802, entitled Harmonie hydro-végétale et météorologique. One of the earliest works on ecology. Written by a French civil engineer from a viewpoint entirely in agreement with the modern ecology movement, the work argues that it is necessary to reverse the process of human destruction of the environment, particularly the worldwide destruction of forests, in order to return the planet to a state better able to support life. Rauch begins with a consideration of the relationship of forests to weather conditions, and surveys the effects of deforestation worldwide on climate and population (animal as well as human). He sets out in several chapters the steps to be taken: what sorts of vegetation should be planted and where, renewal of water sources, and the establishment of governmental departments in France and all over the globe to observe the environment and to take action. He urges the agencies, for example, to consider changes over short periods of time, and to attempt regulation of factory fuel sources. In his closing argument he urges the obligation “to conserve the noble economy,” and “to conserve that from which we benefit.” Régénération de la nature végétale should be considered one of the pioneering works in the field, perhaps the earliest to sound so many themes of importance today.

Provincial Printing 101. REID, Henry. An Essay on Ophthalmia: containing a history of that disease, as it appeared in the First Battalion of the 89th Regiment, with some observations on its causes and symptoms... Portsea: Printed and sold by J. Horsey... 1806. [Bound with:] VETCH, John. Remarks on the Difference between the Infectious Ophthalmia, and that produced by the artful application of irritating substances to the eyes. [Cranbrook: Waters, printer, n.d.] 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 34 pages; 4 pages. The first work is inscribed by the author at the foot of the title-page: “To W. Knipe from his friend Mr Reid”; the second work is inscribed (but cropped) to a Mr. Gilchrist. Disbound. £360 Reid was surgeon to the First Battalion of the 89th Regiment and a member of the PhysicoChirurgical Society of Dublin. COPAC records one copy and only this edition of his work, and no copies of the Vetch. Neither work is in the Becker catalogue.

102. ROBINS, Benjamin. Mathematical Tracts... In two volumes. Vol. I. Containing his new principles of gunnery... [Vol. II. Containing his discourse on the methods of fluxions, and of prime and ultimate ratios, and other miscellaneous pieces.] Published by James Wilson, M.D. London: Printed for J. Nourse... 1761. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xlvi, (ii), 341, (3) adverts, 2 engraved plates (1 folding); (viii), 7–380, 1 engraved plate. Half-titles. Contemporary speckled calf, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco labels. Joints rubbed, heads of spines slightly worn and crack at top of upper joint of vol. 2, but a very good and clean set. With the engraved armorial bookplates of Ramsey Abbey. £1200 FIRST EDITION of Robins’ collected works, including some published for the first time. The first volume is entirely concerned with gunnery; it includes Robins’ description of the ballistic pendulum, invented by him, studies on the pressures in a gun-barrel, rockets for signalling purposes, the resistance of fluid media to high-speed objects, etc. This last aspect applied Newtonian mechanics to artillery, and brought about “an epoch-making improvement in the accuracy of field guns” (Prof. Niall Ferguson, “Civilisation: is the West History?”). The second volume is mathematical, including his discourse on Newton’s fluxions, of whom Robins was a staunch supporter. The editor James Wilson, in the long appendix, appraised Newton’s Method of Fluxions, and first revealed Newton to be the author of the Account of the Book entitled Commercium Epistolicum, Newton’s fullest account of the development of his own mathematical ideas. Wallis 268.001. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp. 279–280.

James Watt on Steam Engines 103. ROBISON, John. A System of Mechanical Philosophy. With notes, by David Brewster. Edinburgh: Printed for John Murray, London. 1822. 4 volumes, 8vo, 3 leaves, pp. (v)-x, 713; 2 leaves, pp. (iii)–x, 708 [i.e. 712, page nos. 181-184 repeated]; 2 leaves, pp. 803; 2 leaves, pp. 684, and 50 folding engraved plates with numerous figures of machinery and instruments. Lacking a sub-title at the beginning of vol. 2 as in at least one other copy seen (NYPL). Paper of plates browned, occasional foxing (heavy in margins of some leaves of vol. 2). Contemporary half calf, spines ruled in gilt (but the gilt now dull), dark red morocco labels on spines, extremities rubbed. Small withdrawn library stamp on versos of titles. £650 FIRST EDITION. Robison, who died in 1805, was a principal contributor to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His articles included two on steam and steam engines, which were republished by James Watt, the famous engineer and inventor, in 1818, and constitute Watt’s only publication on his own inventions. The majority of Robison’s articles as well as some other material continued... 45

are here republished, and the editor Brewster prevailed on Watt to bring the two on steam engines up to date with notes and additions. Robison was himself acquainted with Watt; indeed it was he who first directed Watt’s attention to the steam engine, as Robison himself recounts in volume 2. The first volume is on dynamics, projectiles, corpuscular action (including Boscovich’s theory), and strength of materials (a term he was apparently the first to use). The second includes the articles on steam, and hydraulics; the third is on astronomy, the telescope and pneumatics; and the fourth is on electricity, magnetism, sound, music, watch-work, and seamanship (Robison represented the Board of Longitude in testing Harrison’s chronometer). Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, 280. Ekelöf 553. Wheeler Gift 791. Norman Catalogue 1839.

104. ROESSLIN, Eucharius. Des divers travaulx et enfanteme[n]s des femmes, & p[our] quel moyen lon doit survenir aux accidens qui peuvent escheoir devant & apres iceulx travaulx. Item quel lait & quelle nourrisse on doit eslire aux enfans: ensemble aucuns remedes concernens plusieurs maladies survena[n]tes ausd enfans nouveaux nez... Compose premierement en latin, par excellent medicin de Francfort, maistre Euchaire Rodion, & depuis tourne en langue francoyse, a lutilite de plusieurs personnes. On les vent a Paris: rue Sainct Iacques...en la boutique de Iehan Foucher. 1536. Small 8vo, ff. lxxxvii, (1). With 21 woodcuts in the text of the foetus in utero and the birthing stool. Text printed in lettre batarde, woodcut initials. Some minor pale staining, upper margin cut a little close. Early 17th-century calf, spine elaborately gilt (but the gilt somewhat rubbed), top of upper joint just cracking, head of spine and tips of corners restored. Early signature ‘Toupoint’ in lower corner of title-page and another crossed through; bookplate of Docteur François Moutier (1881–1961), a pioneering French gastro-enterologist whose library of several thousand volumes, including numerous incunables, was dispersed at his death. £7000 FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the first printed textbook for midwives, and one of the first printed books devoted to obstetrics, preceded only by the 13-page Büchlein of Ortolff von Bayrlant, and by the Secreta mulierum of Albertus Magnus. See G&M 6138 (first edition, in German, of 1513). Roesslin’s book had an enormous influence, running to over a hundred editions and translations. The striking woodcuts of the early editions not only mark it out as an outstanding medical book of the period, but revive in the printed book a tradition of obstetrical illustration begun in the manuscripts of antiquity. “Roesslin established the necessity for thorough instruction of midwives. In his versified preface he censured the wretched condition of obstetrics, and the ignorance, carelessness and superstition of the midwives, who brought about unnecessary deaths of numberless newborn. The infant mortality Roesslin bluntly labelled murder... In his book...he attempted to eliminate, or at least mitigate, these evils... From the practical obstetrical standpoint, the significance of the Rosengarten lies also in the fact that Roesslin again brought to the fore the knowledge of podalic version which had been almost forgotten since the time of Soranus and Mustio. He thus limited cephalic version, which has more theoretical merit but is less practical in execution” (Hellman). This first French edition is of particular rarity. It was not in the collection of Dr. Alfred Hellman, who possessed all three 1513 editions and the rare first English edition of 1540; his earliest French edition was 1539; see Hellman, A collection of early obstetrical books (New Haven, 1952). Klein, G. “Zur Bio- und Bibliographie Rösslins und seines Rosengartens” in Südhoffs Archiv, 1910, 3, 304– 334. Klein’s own copy was, as he says, “heavily defective”. Wellcome I, 5508 (imperfect); COPAC also finds copies at Glasgow and Manchester. It is not in Durling but is in the NLM catalogue. CCfr finds 5 copies in France.

105. ROSE, Heinrich. A Manual of Analytical Chemistry. Translated from the German by John Griffin. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg... 1831. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. xvi, 200, 454. Half-title, a few woodcuts in the text. Modern half calf. Minor stain from a pressed plant on pp. 148–149 of part 1, otherwise a very good copy. £280 continued... 46

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, published two years after the German original. The translator, John Griffin, says in the preface that he was in Germany when the Handbuch was published and “commenced the translation immediately.” Another English edition, translated from the French edition, appeared in 1848. Part 1 is on qualitative analysis and part 2 on quantitative analysis. It began as a modest work intended for beginners, but demand for it grew and over the years it became “more encyclopaedic and comprehensive, until for a time it stood as the standard reference work on the subject” (DSB). Partington IV, p. 185: “...an excellent book.” Neville II, p. 391. This edition not in Cole or Duveen.

First Book on Podiatry 106. ROUSSELOT, — . Memoire sur les Cors des Pieds. [No place or date; Paris:] De l’Imprimerie de Gissey. [1755.] 12mo, pp. 19, (1). Woodcut headpiece. One page numeral shaved otherwise in fine state. Modern marbled wrappers, vellum stitching. £3600 FIRST EDITION of the first book on podiatry or surgery of the foot as an independent speciality, and extraordinarily rare. G&M 9190: “Because of the non-standard title page without mention of place, publisher or date, the pamphlet seems to have been intended to have been given away by the author.” In his introductory remarks Rousselot argues for an independent surgical approach to diseases of the feet, which he says is an entirely neglected aspect of surgery currently in the hands of untrained women and maladroit charlatans. He argues for it to be raised to the status of dentists and hernia surgeons. Indeed he later wrote that he wanted his work to be seen as a supplement to Daniel Turner’s treatise on diseases of the skin. After this important and committed preface, Rousselot gives medical descriptions of the different corns and their surgical treatments. “He wrote three books, Mémoire sur les cors des pieds, 1755 (no copy of this book has ever been traced) and further books in 1762 [Nouvelles observations, ou méthode certaine sur le traitement des cors, 45 pages, G&M 4302.1] and 1769 [Toilette des Pieds]. His contribution was not a great one as he was too much influenced by Turner, but his remedies show common sense” (J.C. Dagnall, “The history of chiropodial literature”, in The Chiropodist, 1965). As J.C. Dagnall wrote in 1965, no copy of this book was then known, and he himself constantly sought for a copy, but in vain. Since then and with improved knowledge of library holdings three copies have come to light, at Harvard, Erfurt and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The present copy is the only one known to have appeared for sale.

First American Steamboats 107. RUMSEY, James. A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam, whereby is clearly shewn, from actual experiments, that steam may be applied to propel boats or vessels of any burthen against rapid currents with great velocity. Great Velocity. The same principles are also introduced with effect, by a machine of a simple and cheap construction, for the purpose of raising water sufficient for the working of grist or saw mills. And for watering meadows and other agricultural purposes. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James: Chesnut-Street, 1788. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 3–26. Small (2 cm.) hole in gutter, pp. 7–14 spotted. Modern quarter morocco. Bookplate (on the inside back cover) of Mario e Fiametta Witt, whose collection of unusual and interesting maritime books was sold in 1996. £2800 FIRST EDITION (but see below), first impression with uncorrected title, of this incunable of steam navigation. During the 1780s James Rumsey and John Fitch each invented a steam-powered boat, Rumsey’s propelled by jets of water through the stern and Fitch’s by paddles. Fitch obtained a privilege for the manufacture of steam vessels, but Rumsey claimed priority for his steamboat, patented in 1791. These two vessels were the first successful steamboats in America. Although continued... 47

neither was financially successful, Fitch went on to inaugurate the first commercial steamboat service, on the Delaware River in 1790, which was, however, rather short-lived. Rumsey and Fitch never put aside their differences, but through their bitter rivalry they helped to bring an end to the patchwork state patent system, which was replaced by the first federal patent act in 1790. The Short Treatise includes a chronology of events, an explanation of the technical operation of the vessel, and affidavits. According to the “Advertisement” on the verso of the title, Rumsey states that this paper is reprinted with corrections and additions from “a pamphlet published in Virginia”, of which “a few copies were then thought sufficient”. However, neither Sabin nor ESTC records that pamphlet. Norman, citing NUC, states that it was reprinted from Rumsey’s A plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn (Philadelphia, 1788), but that is not recorded by ESTC either. Rink suggests that an edition was printed at Richmond. Rink, Technical Americana, 2925. Norman Catalogue 185 (issue with corrected title). Not in ESTC; the present copy has “cheap” spelled correctly, and “...grist or saw mills. And for watering meadows and other agricultural purposes” at the end of the title, whereas ESTC 006431254, citing a single copy (NYPL) with the uncorrected title, has “chep” and “grist-mills, saw-mills, &c. and for watering meadows and other purposes of agriculture.”

108. SAISSY, Jean Antoine. An Essay on the Diseases of the Internal Ear... Translated from the French, by Nathan R. Smith...with a supplement on diseases of the external ear, by the translator. Baltimore: Published by Hatch & Dunning. 1829. 8vo, 228 [i.e. 227] pages, folding lithographed frontispiece (short tear in one fold). Half-title. Paper a little browned and foxed as usual. Contemporary sheep (a few scuff marks on upper cover, tips of corners worn), rebacked, red lettering-piece, endpapers replaced. Bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £375 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. See G&M 3365 (first edition, in French, of 1827): “Saissy described a Eustachian bougie; he was probably the first to use this instrument. Besides dealing with the labyrinth, his book discusses diseases of the tympanum and Eustachian tube.” “Saissy’s work on the diseases of the inner ear undoubtedly is the best of the period. Despite considerable shortcomings, it prepared the way for a more thorough knowledge of the pathology of the middle ear and the Eustachian tube” (Politzer, History of Otology, from a long discussion of Saissy’s book, pp. 282–284).

109. SAUNDERS, John Cunnigham. The Anatomy of the Human Ear, illustrated by a series of engravings, of the natural size; with a treatise on the diseases of that organ, the causes of deafness, and their proper treatment. London: Printed for Richard Phillips... 1806. Large folio, 2 leaves, 60 pages, and 4 engraved plates (three by Heath after Kirtland). First leaf and last leaf slightly browned and dust-soiled, foxing on the plates as usual and dampstain in the inner margins, first plate bound as a frontispiece creased in the corners and a little chipped in the fore-edge margin (fore-edge reinforced on the back at an early date). Modern green cloth. Early signature of J. Leighton M.D. on back of frontispiece; stamp of Bath Medical Library on back of frontispiece and a few text pages; bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £1100 FIRST EDITION. “This publication represents an achievement that should not be underestimated. It concentrates on the less well-known forms of infection, closely follows their course, and describes the stages of processes in greater detail than had been done previously” (Politzer, p. 274, from a long discussion of this book). Saunders was the first to advise a puncture of the eardrum — paracentesis of the tympanic membrane, or myringotomy — for infections of the middle ear. The year before the publication of this book Saunders had been instrumental in founding Moorfields Hospital, originally an eye and ear hospital. continued... 48

G&M 3362. Politzer, History of otology, pp. 272–274. Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 28. Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology, p. 47: “... illustrated by some beautiful engravings.”

110. SCHMIDT, Johann Christian Lebrecht. Theorie der Verschiebungen älterer Gänge mit Anwendung auf den Bergbau. Ein Beitrag zur allgemeinen Gangtheorie... Frankfurt am Main: Bei Johann Christian Hermann. 1810. 8vo, pp. xvi, 118, (2) blank, 3 folding and stilted engraved plates. Contemporary half sheep and marbled sides, green morocco label on spine, green edges. Ends of spine and corners worn, joints rubbed, but internally a fresh and clean copy. £575 FIRST EDITION. The study of the theory of the origin of ore deposits was greatly stimulated by A.G. Werner’s Neue Theorie von der Entstehung der Gänge (1791), which better enabled miners to predict where ore beds might occur. The present work is a notable but little-known elaboration of Werner’s theories. Schmidt, who was director of mines at Bieber, explains the shifting or dislocation of mineral veins within several strata and other phenomena relating to the paragenesis of minerals.

111. SMILES, Samuel. Lives of the Engineers. A new and revised edition. London: John Murray... 1874. 5 volumes, small 8vo, 5 portrait frontispieces, 4 other portrait plates, 9 plates in volume 3, and numerous other illustrations in the text. Some foxing in the margins of the portrait plates. Contemporary red half calf, spines gilt in compartments, green and brown labels, marbled edges and endpapers. A pretty set. £250 Third edition of this famous book, incorporating his Lives of Boulton and Watt (1865) and his Life of George Stephenson (1857), enlarged to include Robert Stephenson. The first three volumes cover early engineering, including Vermuyden, Myddelton, Perry, and James Brindley; volume 2 covers harbours, lighthouses, and bridges, including Smeaton and Rennie, and volume 3 covers the history of roads with Metcalfe and Telford. “Smiles developed this interest [in writing biographies] with Lives of the Engineers (3 vols., 1861–2), Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers (1863), and Lives of Boulton and Watt (1865). A life of Robert Stephenson was included in the 1868 edition of his father’s biography. This was a remarkable corpus. Smiles’s biographies were carefully compiled, partly from interviews. He sometimes protected his subjects and used evidence partially, but his biographical studies represented a marked historiographical advance (though today they must be used with caution). He almost invented the subject of business history. His aim was to write about engineers within the tradition of exemplary biography, but his ‘lives’ transcended that genre. These ‘lives’ were those of men already famous, and were intended to show what character and application could achieve” (ODNB).

112. SMITH, William. Geological Map of Sussex. London: Published by J. Cary,... January 1819. Engraved map printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1820, 52 x 60 cm across the plate mark, hand-coloured. Paper very slightly browned (more so in the right-hand margin), split in lower quarter of central fold and short (2cm) tear in lower margin both neatly repaired. £9,500 FIRST EDITION of William Smith’s geological map of Sussex, one of a number of county maps produced by Smith that were the first detailed geological maps of a specific area. Smith produced the first geological map of England and Wales in 1815, which contained “an amazing amount of correct detail” (DSB) and was the basis for all the geological maps that followed continued... 49

it. In 1819 he began the publication of a geological atlas of England and Wales. Published in parts over five years, it remained unfinished, containing 21 maps of English counties. “All the county maps published contain much more information than was shown on Smith’s large map of 1815, and indicate that during the intervening years he had done much to increase his knowledge. The maps are based on Cary’s county maps, and are headed ‘By W. Smith, Mineral Surveyor”. Each map measures 21.5 inches by 19.25 inches [across the ruled border]; the scale varies slightly but averages 3 miles to an inch” (Sheppard). The maps were sold separately in sheets or mounted to fold into a cover. The map of Sussex appeared in the first part (1819). The title above appears in the upper margin; another title is given in a circular tablet in the upper left corner: “A new map of Sussex, divided into hundreds, exhibiting its roads, rivers, parks, &c. By John Cary Engraver. 1819.” Sheppard, William Smith: his maps and his memoirs (1920), p. 155. Davis, “William Smith’s geological atlas and the later history of the plates,”, in J. Soc. Bib. of Nat. Hist., 2, 388–395. Eyles, “William Smith (1769–1839): a bibliography” in J. Soc. Bib. of Nat. Hist., 5, 87–109, 25 (but reading “Suffolk” instead of “Sussex”).

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113. [SMITH, William.] John PHILLIPS. Memoirs of William Smith, LL.D., author of the “Map of the Strata of England and Wales.” London: John Murray... 1844. 8vo,pp. viii, 1 leaf (list of illustrations), 150, 7, (1), stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Smith by T.A. Dean after Fourau and 4 other portrait plates. The last 8 pages are Murray’s advertisements dated January 1844, woodcuts in the text. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, yellow endpapers, uncut, fine copy. £2200 FIRST EDITION of the principal source of information on the life and work of the engineer, mineralogist and geologist William Smith, later dubbed “the father of English geology” by Adam Sedgwick. Phillips was his nephew, ward, pupil and assistant, and a distinguished geologist in his own right. His biography was printed in an edition of 500 copies, and there was only one edition until modern reprints appeared.

114. SOCIÉTÉ DES SCIENCES, BELLES-LETTRES ET ARTS, DE BORDEAUX. Choix des moyens propres a soulever les navires submergés dans les lieux sujets au flux et au reflux, recueillies dans les mémoires envoyés au concours ouvert par la Société des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts, de Bordeaux. A Bordeaux: chez Pinard... [n.d., c.1820]. 4to, 2 leaves (half-title and title), 53 pages, 1 leaf (blank), and 15 folding engraved plates containing 23 numbered figures. Minor foxing on the first two leaves. Original plain sugar-paper wrappers (slightly soiled and discoloured, spine worn), uncut. Inscribed on the upper wrapper “P[our] Mr. Oliveau.” £800 FIRST EDITION of the first French book on wreck salvage and raising objects from under water. The Société des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux proposed the question, “What is the most assured method of raising submerged objects from a given depth, whatever their weight, from a location affected by the ebb and flow of the tide?” As no single essay gave the complete answer, the present work was published incorporating the best of those answers submitted. It consists principally of an extract of the best essay, submitted by Georget (”Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et Chaussées”), an extract of the answer submitted by a former naval officer at Brest, Rolland, and a memoir by a member of the society, F. Thibaut, on raising a vessel in the port of Bordeaux loaded with 200 tons of rocks. There then follows an essay on the use of pontoons, and at the end is an account of the raising of the Spanish galleon Tojo, sunk in Vigo Bay in 1702 and raised in 1741 by Goubert (here called Gaubert). This account had been published in the Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique, présentés à l’Académie Royale des Sciences for 1755. The first three memoirs are illustrated by 15 detailed engraved plates, which show the method of placing warps round the sunken vessel and supporting it from the surface, some of the tools required, etc.

115. SPALLANZANI, [Lazzaro]. De’ Fenomeni della Circolazione osservata nel giro universale de’ vasi; de’ fenomeni della circolazione languente; de’ moti del sangue independenti dall’azione del cuore; e del pulsar delle arterie. Dissertazioni quatro... In Modena: Presso La Societa’ Tipografica, 1773. 8vo, pp. viii, 343, (1), 1 engraved plate. Mild spotting in a few gatherings. Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt, a fine and fresh copy. £900 FIRST EDITION; four memoirs on the dynamics of the circulatory system. “Through a chance discovery in 1771... Spallanzani first established the existence of arteriovenous anastomoses in a warm-blooded animal. He also studied the effects of growth (in the chick embryo and tadpole) upon circulatory mechanisms; the influence of gravity and the consequences of wounds on different parts of the vascular system; and changes in the languid or failing circulation in dying animals. Finally, Spallanzani demonstrated that the arterial pulse is due not to mere cardiac displacements but to lateral pressure upon an expansile wall from cardiac impulsions conveyed by the blood column. A total of 337 experiments were outlined and expounded in four dissertations...” (DSB). Prandi, Bibliografia, pp. 35–36. Willius & Dry, p. 89.

116. SPALLANZANI, [Lazzaro]. Opuscoli di Fisica Animale, e Vegetabile. In Modena: Presso La Societa’ Tipografica, 1776. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 304; (iv), 277, (1), (2) blank, 6 folding engraved plates. Half-title in vol. 1, but without the final errata leaf (printed on a single leaf and possibly added later) as in some other copies. Fore-edge margin of 4 plates shaved affecting ruled borders, one plate number and one figure number, mild browning in two gatherings of vol. 1 and one gathering of vol. 2. Contemporary vellum, spines lettered in gilt, a fine and fresh set. £950 FIRST EDITION. G&M 102. “Spallanzani’s next outstanding publication...contained five reports that displayed unexcelled experimental skill, remarkable powers of observation, and lucid literary talent. The first volume included the long-deferred treatise on infusoria... This work challenged Needham’s concept of a heat-labile vegetative force by comparing the growth-promoting qualities of various infusions preheated to different extents and left in loosely stoppered flasks... Spallanzani concluded that the vegetative force was imaginary... The main treatise in the second volume of the Opuscoli confirmed and extended Leeuwenhoek’s observations on spermatozoa (which began in 1677) and refuted Buffon’s erroneous concepts of their nature and origin... The remaining three tracts were of lesser significance. The first concerned the effects of stagnant air upon animals and vegetables,...[the second] concerned animalcules that ‘enjoy the advantages of real resurrection after death’,...[and the third was on mold]” (DSB, from a long account of this book). Prandi, Bibliografia, pp. 36–37. Cole, Early Theories of Sexual Generation, 23 and 113. Spallanzani was one of the earliest to examine and write about spermatozoa. His conclusions on infusoria were similar to those expressed by Pasteur nearly a century later.

117. SYLVESTER, Charles. Report on Rail-Roads and Locomotive Engines, addressed to the chairman of the committee of the Liverpool and Manchester projected rail-road. Liverpool: Printed by Thos. Kaye... 1825. 8vo, 39 pages, errata slip. Stitched as issued, uncut. Title slightly dust-soiled and with a tiny tear in the fore-edge repaired, last leaf a little creased, but a fine copy. £550 FIRST EDITION. Published early in 1825, this is one of the first books on railways. Sylvester’s Report was commissioned by the committee of the Liverpool & Manchester company, and pays close attention to the physical benefits of conveyance by rails rather than by canals, with power supplied by steam engines rather than by horses. It is a carefully calculated advocation for steam-powered railways. Skempton 1484.

118. TOYNBEE, Joseph. A Descriptive Catalogue of preparations illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear, in the museum of... London: John Churchill... 1857. 8vo, pp. xvi, 127, (1), ‘Postscript’ slip at end. Half-title. Two lightly inked library stamps at top of title and 5 other pages. Original brown cloth (rebacked preserving the original backstrip except for the top), endpapers replaced. Inscribed “From the Author” on the half-title. Bookplate of Richard J. Bennett. £400 FIRST EDITION. “This catalogue was the first systematic compilation and analysis of clinical symptoms and signs of ear disease. The contents of this ‘museum’ became the basis for rational care of ear disease. Many students, including Adam Politzer, went to London to study and learn from this unique — for its time — and invaluable resource” (Ruben). Toynbee collaborated in its compilation with James Hinton, his assistant and successor. On Toynbee's death the collection was given to the Hunterian Museum, but it was destroyed in the Second World War. Robert J. Ruben, Hear! Hear! Six centuries of otology (2002), 67.

One of Thirty Copies 119. VESALIUS, Andreas. Tabulae Anatomicae Sex. Six Anatomical Tables of Andreas Vesalius. London: Privately printed for Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1874. Large folio (660 x 505 mm.), 14 leaves (including the first and last blank, the other 12 printed on the rectos only). Four leaves printed in red and black. Contemporary roan-backed Continental marbled boards, tips of corners and ends of spine a little worn, a few scratches on the lower cover, but a nice copy. Bookplates of Piergiorgio Borio. £4500 A fine facsimile, chronologically the second edition, of Vesalius’s first anatomical book, printed in a very small edition: “Of this gorgeously printed volume, as Stirling-Maxwell states, 30 copies were struck off, one on vellum, one on parchment, and 28 on paper” (Cushing). It comprises five preliminary leaves, a portrait of Vesalius, and facsimiles of the six separate leaves of anatomical drawings originally published in 1538. The original edition is known in a tiny handful of copies (Cushing positively located only two copies). Cushing, Bio-bibliography, II.-2[B]. Cockx-Indestege, Andreas Vesalius. a Belgian census, 4 (records two copies, both presentation from Stirling-Maxwell, one in a similar binding to the present copy).

Discovery of Natural Gas 120. VOLTA, Alessandro. Lettere...sull’ Aria Infiammabile Nativa della Paludi al Padre Carlo Giuseppe Campi. [Colophon:] In Milano: da Giuseppe Marelli, [probably December 1776]. Small 8vo, 16 pages. Caption title. Twentieth century boards, cloth box. Traces of a former binding in inner edge of first leaf, otherwise in fine state. £9500 FIRST EDITION. The scientific discovery of methane. Prior to 1776, there was virtually no distinction between the various inflammable gases, and chemists were in confusion over them. The discovery and identification of natural gas (marsh-gas, or methane) by Volta was the first step in their clarification. “The collection of inflammable marsh gas is described by Volta in some letters to Carlo Giuseppe Campi...” (Partington). He collected it by stirring the mud with a stick and letting the bubbles pass into an inverted bottle filled with water. He distinguished it from hydrogen by its azure blue flame and slower combustion. “The testing of his new gas — new in source, flame, color and combustibility — led him into the faddish field of eudiometry” (DSB). Volta’s research led to his invention of an effective eudiometer, which provided the groundwork for one of the most important discoveries of the eighteenth century, the composition of water. This undated edition contains two letters from Volta to Campi, dated from Como the 14th and 21st November 1776. It is exceedingly rare, known in only a handful copies. Another edition, dated 1777 and containing five further letters, was published by Marelli a few weeks later. See Partington III, p. 814, Duveen 606, Neville p. 593, and Cole 1321, all describing the dated edition as the first, and presumably unaware of the present edition.

121. WATT, John James. Anatomico-Chirurgical Views of the Nose, Mouth, Larynx, & Fauces; with appropriate explanations, and references to the parts... London: Printed for the author,... 1809. Folio, 3 leaves, 34 pages, and 4 stipple-engraved hand-coloured plates by J. Hopwood from drawings by T. Baxter, with 4 lettered outline plates. Paper a little browned, decreasing hole in outer foreedge margin almost throughout restored with tissue, fore- and lower edges of one outline plate chipped and soiled and repaired from behind. Modern green cloth, original printed upper wrapper (dust-soiled and edges repaired on the back) bound in. £800 FIRST EDITION, and a coloured copy, the plates being the first coloured illustrations of the anatomy of the nose and throat to be published. The description of the plates occupies the first 14 pages, and continued... 53

the Description of the Mouth, Nose, Larynx and Pharynx, comprising pp. 15–34, was written by the distinguished anatomist and surgeon Sir William Lawrence. This fine atlas displays “an accurate anatomical description of the parts...” (Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology).

122. WHITE, Charles (Surgeon). Salivation Exploded; or, a Practical Essay on the Venereal Disease, fully demonstrating the inefficiency of salivation, and recommending an improved succedaneum... To which is added, a dissertation of gleets and weaknesses... The tenth edition. Lambeth: Printed by S. Tibson...for Axtell and Co...and Reynolds... 1804. 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. (5)–123, errata slip pasted to verso of title. Title-page dust-soiled. Disbound. £280 No copy of this edition in COPAC. Some of the previous nine editions are recorded by ESTC in a single copy only.

123. WHITE, Thomas. Euclides Physicus, sive de principiis naturæ Stoecheidea E. authore Thoma Anglo... Londini: Prostant apud Johannem Crook... 1657. 12mo, 5 leaves, pp. 175, (1). Without the first and last blank leaves. Title within double ruled border. Contemporary sheep (somewhat dry and rubbed), small hole in foot of upper joint and three tiny wormholes at top of spine. Old library stamp on title and rear endpaper. £450 FIRST EDITION. Thomas White (1593–1676), publishing here under the name of Thomas Anglus, was an English Catholic recusant who studied and taught at a number of English colleges on the Continent. He was a friend of Sir Kenelm Digby and Thomas Hobbes. A devoted follower of Aristotle, this is the first of his two treatises on Aristotle’s theory of causation, the second of which appeared the following year. “White’s extraordinary intellectual energy in later life is indicated also by his attention to other aspects of philosophy and theology. During the 1650s he enjoyed contacts with men who were to become founding fellows of the Royal Society. Centred on the puritan reformer John Hall, this group included John Wallis, Seth Ward, John Wilkins, Lord Brouncker, Ralph Bathurst, Isaac Barrow, and Pierre Fermat. White acted as a linkman to whom they professed themselves deeply indebted. Stimulated by such company, he published further scientific and mathematical works, including Euclides physicus (1657), claimed as an influence on Leibniz” (ODNB). Wing W1822. This was the only edition.

124. WHITE, Thomas. Euclides Metaphysicus, sive, de principiis sapientiæ, Stoecheidea E. authore Thoma Anglo... Londini: Typis J.M. Impensis J. Martin, Ja. Allestry, & Tho. Dicas... 1658. [Bound with:]

WHITE, Thomas. Exercitatio Geometrica. De geometria indivisibilium, & proportione spiralis ad circulum. Londini: [no printer,] 1658. 2 works in 1 volume, 12mo, 8 leaves (including the first, a blank), 198 pages, 1 leaf (blank); (32) pages, 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary mottled calf, sides panelled in gilt and with double gilt fillet, spine gilt and unlettered (calf somewhat rubbed and cracked, two small holes in the leather), marbled pastedowns. £650 FIRST EDITION. This is the second of White’s treatises in as many years in which he examined and amplified Aristotle’s theory of causation (DSB). The second work, in which White failed to square the circle, is not found with the first work in all copies. Wing W1821 and W1825. These were the only editions.

125. WHITE, Thomas. Sciri, sive sceptices & scepticorum à jure disputationis exclusio. Authore Thoma Anglo... Londini: [no printer,] 1663. 12mo, 1 leaf, pp. 137, (1) blank, 4 leaves, pp. 16, 1 leaf (errata), 2 leaves (blank). Woodcut ornament on title. Three very small wormholes in title-page, A9 and A10 with previous fold and short tear without loss, short tear in C4 without loss. Contemporary sheep, tip of one corner worn, upper edge and lower corner of lower cover worn together with lower corners of last 50 leaves. £475 FIRST EDITION. “By 1662 White was back in London [from Holland], where he published in 1663 a critique of Torricelli’s work on the vacuum, and entered a significant debate on scepticism with Joseph Glanvill. The younger man’s promotion (in his Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661) of the fashionable Pyrrhonian philosophy provoked White’s Sciri, sive, Scepticis (1663)...where he insisted on the possibility of humans attaining absolutely certain truth; their continuing debate highlighted essential incompatibilities between their respectively ‘modern’ and ‘ancient’ positions” (ODNB). Wing W1841. This was the only edition. White’s critique of Torricelli’s work on the vacuum occupies the last 24 pages and has a separate title-page and preface.

Pioneer of Modern Production Engineering 126. WHITWORTH, Joseph. Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects. London: Longman... 1858. 8vo, pp. viii, 183, (1), 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Plus Longman’s 24-page catalogue inserted at the end. Original red-brown blind-stamped cloth, uncut. Spine and part of lower cover faded to brown, otherwise a fine and fresh copy. Inscribed at the top of the title: “J A Turner Esq MP with the author’s compliments.” £700 FIRST EDITION, incorporating five papers each of which represents a major breakthrough in its field. The first paper, on the production of truly plane surfaces, “can hardly be overestimated, for it laid the foundation of an entirely new standard of accuracy in mechanical construction” (ODNB), and a natural sequel was the introduction of a system of measurement of ideal exactness. The second paper is the one for which he is probably best known, the introduction of a uniform system of screw threads, as until then every workshop had its own. In his presidential address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1856 Whitworth deplored the tendency to excessive size and weight in the moving parts of machines and the national loss by over-multiplication of sizes and patterns. In the fourth paper he proposed a system of standardisation of decimal measures, and the fifth paper is on rifled firearms. “Whitworth's rifle was not only far superior to any small arm then existing, but it also embodied the principles upon which subsequent improvements were based, namely, reduction of bore (to .45 inch calibre), an elongated projectile, more rapid twist, and extreme accuracy of manufacture” (ODNB). The appendix is Whitworth’s comprehensive report on the machinery exhibited at the New York Industrial Exhibition of 1853.

127. WOODVILLE, William. Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolæ Vaccinæ, or Cow-Pox; with remarks and observations on this disease, considered as a substitute for the small-pox. London: Printed and sold by James Phillips and Son... 1799. [Bound with:]

2. WOODVILLE, William. Observations on the Cow-Pox. London: Printed and sold by William Phillips... 1800. [And:]

3. PEARSON, George. An Examination of the Report of the committee of the House of Commons on the claims of remuneration for the Vaccine Pock Inoculation: containing a statement of the principal historical facts of the vaccina. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1802. [And:] continued... 55

4. PRUEN, Thomas. A Comparative Sketch of the effects of variolous and Vaccine Inoculation, being an enumeration of facts not generally known or considered... [Cheltenham:] Printed for Phillips, Crosby, Murray, Dwyer and other booksellers. 1807. [And:]

5. CHRISTIE, Thomas. An Account of the Ravages committed in Ceylon by Small-Pox, previously to the introduction of vaccination: with a statement of...vaccine inoculation in that island. Cheltenham: Printed for J. and J. Griffith... 1811. 5 works in 1 volume, 8vo, and with a folding leaf of doses of a medicine called “Human Life” with text in three columns in English, French and German bound between the third and fourth works. Contemporary tree sheep, gilt border on sides, spine gilt with green morocco label (beautifully, almost perfectly, rebacked), marbled edges and endpapers. £3800 1. FIRST EDITION, and one of the most important works on vaccination after Jenner’s Inquiry itself: the first large-scale clinical trial of vaccination. “News of Jenner’s discovery had aroused interest among medical men, but his source of vaccine had been lost and further experiments with the new procedure were therefore impossible. Woodville remedied this in January 1799, when he was told of an outbreak of cowpox in a London dairy. Having compared the lesions among the milkers with Jenner’s illustration, Woodville took some fluid for use as vaccine at the Smallpox Hospital. The results of this action, the first large-scale trial of vaccination, were published as the Report of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolae vaccinae or Cow Pox (1799). Its case histories of two hundred vaccinations, most of which were subsequently tested by inoculation, did much to prove the efficacy of the new practice” (ODNB). 2 leaves, 156 pages. 2. SOLE EDITION. “However, the Reports [see item 1 above] also cast the first doubts as to the merits of vaccination. Woodville noted that vaccination frequently produced smallpox-like eruptions which he believed might communicate smallpox. This undermined one of the principal advantages of the new practice over inoculation—patients did not have to be isolated. Woodville’s observation sparked off a dispute between Woodville and Jenner. Jenner blamed Woodville’s results on contaminated vaccine: Woodville responded with his Observations on Cow-Pox (1800) arguing that hybridization between cowpox and smallpox was impossible. Thereafter the dispute fizzled out, unresolved” (ODNB). 2 leaves, 43 pages. 3. SOLE EDITION. “It became clear that Pearson was intent on claiming undue credit for this historic step in preventive medicine. In December 1799, he opened, without informing Jenner of his intention, an institute for vaccination, which he was to head, at 5 Golden Square. Though Pearson shortly afterwards invited Jenner, in a rather offhand manner, to be a corresponding physician, the latter resolutely refused the offer. The ensuing quarrel culminated in 1802 with Pearson's intense opposition to Jenner's successful petition for government compensation for loss of earnings resulting from his preoccupation with promoting vaccination” (ODNB). 2 leaves, pp. 188, (8), 1 colour-printed frontispiece. 4. SOLE EDITION. Pruen was a close friend of Jenner, to the point that he expected to be invited to write his official biography, as he knew him better than Baron did. This book is a history of inoculation and vaccination against smallpox, and a testimony to its success. 1 leaf (blank), pp. vi, 102, vi (index). 5. SOLE EDITION, and rare. “The systematic introduction of vaccination into Ceylon in 1802 and the general substitution of vaccination for inoculation were effected by Christie...so that by 1806 small-pox only existed in one district, that of the pearl fishery, to which strangers continually reintroduced the disease. In the course of his labours Christie made the original observation that lepers are not exempt from small-pox, are protected by vaccination, and may be vaccinated without danger” (Wikisource). 2 leaves, ii pages, 1 leaf, 104 pages. Half-title dust soiled, and inscribed “Astley Cooper Esq. with the Author’s Respects [&] Compts” (Sir Astley Cooper, surgeon, 1768–1841).

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