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Thompson, Henry Cremation The Treatment of the Body After Death
$200.00
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884. Third edition. Together with a paper entitled “Cremation or Burial” by Sir T. Spencer Wells, and the charge of Sir James Stephen recently delivered at Cardiff. SCARCE. Disbound but all present. Minor chipping and age toning to edges of half title page and advertisement page at rear. Pages slightly brittle. Text is clean and bright. Good candidate for rebinding. 70 pages.
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Rontgen Ray
Borden, W. C. THE USE OF THE RONTGEN RAY BY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN (1898)
$300.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Apparent 1st printing. 4to blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. 98pp. XXXIII plates plus 26 figures. Charts. Statistics. “Prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, United States Army. Borden was “Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.” Ink stamp of Dr. Oliver C. Melson on front paste down. Melson was a physician in Little Rock, Arkansas. Science Magazine, Sept. 9, 1927, reported that Melson, of the Mayo Clinic, was appointed Head of the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Arkansas. Title actually has the spelling, “röntgen. “Good plus copy with some edgewear and moderate fading to spine. Scarce.
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First edition of Fulton's canal-network plan
Fulton, Robert A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals. And boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts: including observations on the great importance of water communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood. Illustrated with seventeen plates
$1,774.00London: published by I. and J. Taylor, At the Architectural Library, High Holborn, 1796. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. First Printing, early issue (with verso of p. 143 blank; later issues carry the “Addition” on canals in mountainous areas) of Fulton’s ambitious scheme to create a network of inland waterways in the newly independent United States. Demy 4to (281 x 219mm): xvi,143,[3]pp, with seventeen plates (showing the narrow canal boat, inclined planes, and iron and wooden bridges), in addition to which Sabin mentions a portrait, but we have not been able to locate a copy bound with one. Original slate blue paper-covered boards neatly respined with buff paper, original paper title label printed in black laid down. Sabin 26201. Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica I, 8181. Skempton 517. Honeyman Coll. 1383. Ottley 174. Singer IV, p. 570 and figs. 313-315. Binding somewhat stained and slightly bumped, hinges neatly reinforced, pages occasionally spotted, but a tall, wide-margined copy, uncut and in the original boards. Near Fine+. As early as 1794, Fulton had patented (no. 1988) a machine to convey boats from one canal level to another, but this treatise, emphasizing the social advantages of waterway transport, first fully detailed his grand plan for a network of small canals and inclined planes (rather than locks) for raising and lowering small boats to accomodate changes in elevation. President George Washington was sent a copy and acknowledged its receipt in a letter to Fulton dated December 14, 1796. Fulton replied to Washington, on February 4, 1797, stressing the advantages of his proposed network of small waterways, rather than turnpike roads or river navigation, to “penetrate the Interior Country And bind the whole In the Bonds of social Intercourse.” Fulton’s ingenious inventions, including the world’s first commercially successful steamboat (the Clermont), knit the new nation’s disparate regions together. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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Signed by Nobel physicist Roger Penrose
Penrose, Roger The Road to Reality A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
$558.47 *
* estimated currency conversionJonathan Cape, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Roger Penrose to Random House book-plate affixed to fly-leaf. VG/VG 1st impression 1st ed 2004 Jonathan Cape hardback, unclipped DJ. Light creasing and minor pushing to jacket spine head, minor surface handling marks to boards and a little shelf-wear to base of spine board. Size: octavo. Elegantly produced high quality volume, more related books available.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 3kg. Category: Science & Technology; United Kingdom; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0224044478. ISBN/EAN: 9780224044479. 84cxrarebooks is the trading name of Cambridge-based bookseller Marino Guida, with 25 years experience in the trade. We guarantee the condition of all our books. Further images or a short video presentation of any book can be arranged on request. We send tax-free and tariff-free to EU, US/Canada and Australia/NZ with insurance included for peace of mind. Inventory No: 103439. Collectable – Very Good Condition / Very Good.
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Association copy inscribed by a Hopkins founder
Kelly, Howard A. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
$400.00Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1923. Third Edition Revised. Likely a Christmas gift to a close colleague with a full page inscription from Kelly. Howard Atwood Kelly was one of the four founding chairs (along with William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and William Welch) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and creators of the Hopkins legacy. Kelly was a clinical innovator, performing the first successful Cesarean section (C-section) in Philadelphia in 1888, and pioneered the use of radium in the treatment of gynecological cancer. The consummate clinician, his name is behind the Kelly clamp and he is the one identified with the test to find the ureter by stimulating its peristalsis by touching it with a forcep. His lasting legacy was the residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Hopkins and the generation of leaders he trained. The recipient is almost assuredly fellow physician James R. Rankin of Muncy, Pennsylvania. In 1905, Rankin accompanied Kelly and Osler to Great Britain, “sharing with them their meetings with eminent British surgeons, attending clinics and having the honor of speaking at a banquet in London’s famous Guild Hall tendered the distinguished Americans by the Royal College of Surgeons” (Rankin obituary). A very good copy, top edge gilt, deckle edges, two interior pages severely browned from inserted news clipping. Accompanied by the quite scarce dust wrapper, also very good, dust soiled, two small chips to spine, edge wear and a few edge tears.
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