A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire De L'Academie Royale De Medecine, 1837. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 424 pages; with the half-title. French text, the author's theories, especially those considering the influence of climate conditions on human development, medicine & the forms illness may take in varying temperature conditions; also.....
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere Libraire De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine, 1856. First Edition. Leather. xx + 770 pages; useful index. Black and white illustrations within the text and folding tables, French text; marine medical researches & recommendations by the reforming French naval doctor Jean- Baptiste Fonssagrives (1823-1884). Small bookseller's.....
Apparently a scrap or memory album put together by the participants in this international program for the benefit and memory, a heart-felt tribute for the efforts of their teacher Martha Leighton, who was the guiding force for these people in the IFYE program, which was the pioneering international 4-H effort-she.....
Paris, France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. A photograph album, composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves, each titled with a French hospital, with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts, printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors.....
Paris, France: Au Pont Des Arts, 1952. F. 55 text pages + xxviii + 40 plates, fifteen in color, others black & white; each with its own titled and numbered tissue-guard and depicting the innovative ceramic work of the Huguenot craftsman potter Bernard Palissy (c. 1510 - 1589). Beautifully printed.....
Paris & Pise: Antonin L. Neurdein and Étienne Neurdein, 1900. F. A good, large-sized image of some of the buildings of this expo along the river, with tour boats in the foreground and crowds of visitors along the opposite avenue; albumen process photograph mounted on pale ivory gilt-edged cardstock; with.....
Paris: Editions De Documents d'Histoire Paul Catin, Adminstrateur, 1912. F. Three related volumes, bound in one, all Publie par Eugene Griselle (1861 - 1923) French ecclesiastic & author; 'Docteur es Lettres, Laureat de l'Academie francais (Prix Juteau-Duvigneau, 1902; Prix Saintour, 1911)'; 1) Etat de la Maison: viii + 408 +.....
Original artwork by this New Yorker cartoon artist, pen & ink humorous cartoon of a fussy Queen Cleopatra, servant walking offstage complaining "What a day! Now she wants and asp!"; signed at bottom right F. Modell and "For Jean" circled; no date, circa 1950s; 9" x 11 1/2" framed size;.....
Long Island New York: Frederick Cowan & Co., 1950. 5 three-ring binders worth of materials from this Long Island industrial engineering firm; they had been located at several places on the Island, including Plainview, Bohemia, Riverhead and Syosset; evidently the company had much work with heating sensory equipment, including hand-drawn.....
Le Pecq, France: J. Charvet, Charvet Du Donjon, 1879. F. vii + 139 pages, 34 leaves of plates & a preliminary plate showing the Sepulture Gallo-Romaine Decouverte a Beauvais. All of the plates are colored or tinted lithographs by Lemercier et Cie & Hangard-Mauge, Paris. The catalog of this magnificent.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. 207 pages + 7 + (1) pages of publishers' advertisements at back. With a useful alphabetically-organized "Index of Authorities" with page number citations at back. John Gamgee (1831-1894) presents his theories on epidemic disease and specifically Yellow Fever.....
O.D. Case Hartford & John W. Fuller Utica, 1857. 178 pages; containing eight hand-colored maps, three double-page; including: The World or Hemispheres (dbl); North America; United States and Mexico (dbl); South America; Europe (dbl); Asia; Africa; Oceanica; double-page map size approximately 6 1/2" x 8", single maps half the width;.....
London & Edinburgh: W. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1774. vii + 434 + 1) page errata at back; Alexander Gerard (1728-1795) philosophical writer and professor of natural history and divinity in Scotland and of some reputation for this book as well as his.....
Berlin, Germany: Wertheim, Zeidler, Roloff, Strom & Walter, Conrad, Wilhelm Stein, Globus, Jandorf, Gulzer, Wenzel, Bohme, Appel, Fuchs et al, 1880. F. Group includes (7) cabinet cards and (60) cartes-de-visite. Portraits are mostly of young men and young women, with a few older adults & children; one cdv of a......
Steglitz Berlin Germany: Neue Photographische Gesellschaft NPG, 1906. F. A group of 42 images of this ancient town in southern Germany, in the Franconia region of Bavaria, known for its medieval old town. Photographs of exterior, interior views of town buildings, including: Portal im Rathaushof; Portal I am Kgl. Gymnasium;.....
Stuttgart Germany: Wilhelm Nitzschke, 1866. F. (16) pages; the 'pages' are a heavy cardstock, with numerous identified hand-colored illustrations on each. Nature, historical events, war, the seasons, modern transportation and other subjects are depicted. German text throughout; the final leaves offer the alphabet in both the German Gothic and more.....
New York: Gessford Photography, 1910. F. A large-format mounted black and white photograph of 29 young women and their (presumed) teacher or maestro, the only male in the image; an entirely stringed instrument orchestra, with 22 violins, 2 bass viols, 3 cellos and a large standing harp; the laides all.....
New York - London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. xx + 322 pages; index; with an original artwork landscape scene in color on the front endpaper by William Hamilton Gibson (1850-1896) American illustrator, author and naturalist, done in his characteristic highly detailed style in watercolor and ink; in the background can.....
Landau Germany: Verlag Ed. Kaussler's Buchhandlung, 1925. F. 36 pages; Limited edition No. 45 of 200, signed by all three illustrators; with 14 plate pages, lithographs in black and white, the artwork accompanying the text of this folktale; approx. 10" x 13 1/2" size; bound in the original buff-gray illustrated.....
Cold Spring Harbor Long Island New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 86 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white. The author, a textile historian and weaving instructor "...documents a significant aspect of Long Island's material culture heritage, the double-woven coverlets made.....
USA: Not Published, 1947. F. Typed letter signed, dated November 20, 1947 on 4, Essex Court, Temple, E.C. 4 imprinted letterhead, 1.5 pages, single-spaced; written to Cipe Pineles (1908 - 1991) award-winning Austrian-American graphic designer, the first woman director for many influential publications including Mademoiselle, Seventeen and Charm, on the.....
London, UK: Orient Steam Navigation Company, 1895. F. Photograph of this steamship at anchor; identified on the bow as the Ophir and also below the image, on the window-matte surround, written in a decorative calligraphic hand in ink as 'RMS Ophir.' The image approx. 5 1/2" x 10 1/4" (sight);.....
Delhi, India: Swadesh Prashad Singhal for Sundeep Prakashan, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover in Dustjacket. iv + 269 pages + (20) pages of diagrams at back; with a useful index. Contents with chapters on the origin and main elements of magical beliefs and superstitions, in the world & India; a general.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans, 1696. F. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; (20) + 772 + (26) + 928 + (30) pages Index Rerum et Verborum + (1) page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii, Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae...;.....
London, England: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 76 text pages + 16 chromolithographic color plates of these flowers of Switzerland, collated complete; each large color plate is accompanied by a line-drawn tissue identification illustration, which gives the scientific & common name for.....
