1707 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS BY SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. 8 inches tall hardcover (octavo) [28]-746-[23] pages, 11 copper plate engravings (portrait frontispiece & 10 plates, including anatomy theater engraved by J. B. Scotin), 52 woodcuts in the text (numbered in sequence with copper plates, including un-numbered woodcut page 163 depicting stones from the kidneys of Pope Innocent XI in 1689. The remaining woodcuts and plates depict surgical instruments used in operations ranging from ophthalmic surgery to abdominal, obstetric, urologic, and orthopedic ... View More...
1891 FIRST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS EVOLUTIONARY GENETIC DRIFT. 8 1/2 inches tall paper extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1891, pages 269-336 (68 pages) in archival mylar binder. Read December 15, 1887. from the Journal of Zoology of the Linnean Society, September 1888, Vol. XX, pp. 189-274. JOHN THOMAS GULICK (1832 - 1923) was an American missionary and naturalist from Hawaii. He performed some of the first modern evolutionary studies, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. In 1872, Gulick was the first to propose the theory that ... View More...
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London, T. Basset, M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman : 1693
Seller ID: 1146
THREE VOLUMES IN CONTEMPORARY FULL LEATHER BINDINGS--SUPERB 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS THAT HAS ENDURED OVER 300 YEARS. Three hardcover volumes, octavo, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt red and green leather labels. Vol. II is of the second edition. This edition does not contain the letter from the Marquis of Halifax mentioned on the title page. It was probably canceled as a more correct version was inserted in the second edition of vol. 1. Second edition of this translation; originally published in 1685-6. The Person of Hono... View More...
MAGNIFICENT FOLIO ATLASES OF EASTERN AND WESTERN BIRDS OF AMERICA SIGNED BY ROGER TORY PETERSON. Two 11 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches folio hardcover volumes, publisher's blue cloth binding in color printed pictorial dust jackets in mylar cover, gilt title to spines, Eastern Birds 336 pp, Western Birds 356 pp, each volume signed by Roger Tory Peterson in red ink on title page. Fine in fine dust jackets. FROM DUST JACKET FLAP: In the early 1930s, Roger Tory Peterson was a Young arust and teacher who was possessed of a passion for birds and an uncanny talent for field identification. William Vogt, the fi... View More...
