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Practical Observations on the Preservation of Health, and the Prevention of Diseases; Comprising...

(History of Science - 19th Century - Sir Anthony Carlisle)

Practical Observations on the Preservation of Health, and the Prevention of Diseases; Comprising the Author's Experience on the Disorders of Childhood and Old Age, on Scrofula, and on the Efficacy of Cathartic Medicines

London, England: John Churchill, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. xlvii + 154 pages; title page printed in red & black. Including the Expositions: Medical Topography of London; On Scrofula; On the Preservation of the Health of Children; On the Disorders of Old Age; and On the Efficacy of Cathartic Medicines.....

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Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life....

(History of Science - 19th Century - Climate - Charles Daubeny)

Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life. Comprising the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the Natural History Society, at the Museum, Torquay in February 1863. By C. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S.

Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1863. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 144 + 3 pages of corrections and additions + (1) author publications list + 16 pages of publishers' announcements at back. Illustrated with a tinted folding plate of the Caribbean, specifically of the Hurricane of.....

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Our Artist in Peru. (Fifty Drawings on Wood) Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Traveller. During...

(Travel - Exploration - 19th Century - Peru)

Our Artist in Peru. (Fifty Drawings on Wood) Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Traveller. During the Winter of 1865-6 By Geo. W. Carleton

New York, NY: Carleton, Publisher, 1866. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii + the 50 pages of the cartoon-like drawings, accompanied by humorous commentary: "...these things, and many, many more, does the pocket note-book of Our Artist retain little sketchy impressions of - and essaying only to convey a ray of.....

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Description d'Un Nouvel Instrument De Physique, Par Le Comte De Rumford. History of Science -...

(History of Science - 19th Century - Climate - Count Rumford)

Description d'Un Nouvel Instrument De Physique, Par Le Comte De Rumford

France: L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, 1806. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (71 -134) pages; extracted from the Memoires de l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts; French text. Set out in six 'memoires'; with a folding plate; Rumford's researches regarding experiments in heat. Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in.....

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On the Ice Formed, Under Peculiar Circumstances, at the Bottom of Running Water. By the Rev....

(History of Science - 19th Century - Climate - James Farquharson)

On the Ice Formed, Under Peculiar Circumstances, at the Bottom of Running Water. By the Rev. James Farquharson, of Alford, F.R.S. Received March 17, - Read April 2, 1835

United Kingdom: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1835. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (329 - 343) pages; extracted from the Royal Society Transactions. James Farquharson (1781 - 1843) British writer on science, among his several scientific interests here "...explained the formation of ice at the bottom of.....

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On the Transformation of Gravity. By James Croll, LL.D, F.R.S. History of Science - 19th Century...

(History of Science - 19th Century - Gravity - James Croll)

On the Transformation of Gravity. By James Croll, LL.D, F.R.S.

United Kingdom: Philosophical Magazine, 1876. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. 14 pages. Read before the British Association, September 1876 and published in the Philosophical Magazine for October 1876, this is the separately printed and paginated offprint of that presentation, regarding the conversion of gravity into other forms of energy. James Croll.....

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Fact Not Fiction: Or, the Remarkable History of Mrs. Louisa Liscum. With an Appendix. Rev. S. P....

Gammage, Rev. S.P.

Fact Not Fiction: Or, the Remarkable History of Mrs. Louisa Liscum. With an Appendix

New York, N.Y. Wm. C. Martin, Print. 1840. First Edition. Hard Cover. 71 + (1) errata pages; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait engraving of the author Smith P. Gammage by A. Sealey & V. Balch. The Christian biography of Mrs. Louisa Liscum (1808 - 1834) of Patchogue, Long Island, NY; her husband.....

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Memoires Sur Les Grandes Gelees et Leurs Effets; Ou L'on Essaie De Determiner Ce Qu'il Faut...

(History of Science - 18th Century - Climate Change)

Memoires Sur Les Grandes Gelees et Leurs Effets; Ou L'on Essaie De Determiner Ce Qu'il Faut Croire De Leurs Retours Periodiques, & De La Gradation En Plus Ou Moins Du Froid De Notre Globe. Par Mr. L'Abbe Mann with a Manuscript Note Sheet Bound-in

A Gand: Chez P.F. De Goesin, Imprimeur De Sa Majeste, Pour Le Comte De Flandre, 1792. First Edition. Hard Cover. (2) + (1) blank + (2) + 161 + (1) pages. With two folding charts, of temperature measurements and of the length of time of previous ice ages. Text in.....

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A Woman In the Case. A Story. Miss Bessie Turner

Turner, Miss Bessie

A Woman In the Case. A Story

New York, N.Y. G.W. Carleton & Co., 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. 288 pages; portrait frontispiece of Bessie A. Turner, accomplished on a waxy-surfaced paper stock and identified as being an Albertype by E. Bierstadt, N.Y. Title page with the faint previous owner stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D......

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1892 Three Descriptive Pamphlets of Pharmaceutical Specialties of the Farbenfabriken vorm Friedr....

(Americana - 19th Century - Business History - Pharmaceuticals - Bayer)

1892 Three Descriptive Pamphlets of Pharmaceutical Specialties of the Farbenfabriken vorm Friedr. Bayer & Co. Supplied By W.H. Schieffelin & Co. New York Sole Agents: Europhen; Salophen; Phenacetine-Bayer Sulfonal-Bayer

New York, N.Y. Friedr. Bayer & Co. - W.H. Schieffelin & Co. U.S. Agents, 1892. First Edition. Soft Cover. Three informational pamphlets for these Bayer pharmaceutical products, all three 24 pages in length; with descriptive notes on the products, usage, dose information, testimonials, case reports, physical, chemical properties, modes of.....

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1874 - 1887 Collection of Addresses and Chapter Membership Lists of the Ancient Chapter, No. 1,...

(Americana - 19th Century - Fraternal Societies - Royal Arch Masonry - Ancient Chapter No. 1)

1874 - 1887 Collection of Addresses and Chapter Membership Lists of the Ancient Chapter, No. 1, R.A.M. New York City

New York, NY: Royal Arch Masons Ancient Chapter No. 1, 1874. First Edition. Soft Cover. Royal Arch Mason ephemera, including: Addresses of M.E. William Fowler, H.P., to the members...on the Evening for Election of Officers...1874, 1875, 1876; these three addresses are bound in one: 9 + 12 + 7 pages.....

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The Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, for the United...

(Americana - 19th Century - Fraternal Societies - Mystic Shrine)

The Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, for the United States of America. Eighth Annual Proceedings, June 7, 1882

New York, NY: Grand Orient, 1883. First Edition. Soft Cover. 70 pages, with a useful index at back. Contents with information on the present state of the organization, elections, committees, annual sessions, grievance in Connecticut, dues, a directory of the Imperial Council, several obituaries of notable members; foreign correspondence; legislation.....

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A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers, on the Geology of the Virginias. By the Late...

(Americana - 19th Century - Virginia - West Virginia - Geology)

A Reprint of Annual Reports and Other Papers, on the Geology of the Virginias. By the Late William Barton Rogers, LL.D., Etc.

New York, N.Y. D. Appleton and Company, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. xv + 832 + (4) pages of publisher's announcements; a useful index at back. With illustrations in the text as well as plates in pockets at front and back; all collated complete; also included in the pocket contents.....

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An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of...

(Americana - Pennsylvania - History)

An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America...with a Map of Both Countries. By Gabriel Thomas, Who Resided There About Fifteen Years.

New York: Lithographed for Henry Austin Brady, Esquire, 1848. Hard Cover. The two titles, lithographed and reproduced, bound in one; (8) + 55 + (12) + 34 pages; both of these originally printed in 1698; illustrated with a small folding map as well. Previous owner name on front endpaper. Approx.....

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New Castle Historical and Picturesque. John Albee

Albee, John

New Castle Historical and Picturesque

Boston, Massachusetts: Copyright George F. Thompson - Press of Rand Avery Supply Company, 1884. Abbott F. Graves. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii + 155 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout, line-drawings by Abbott F. Graves; also with a folding 3-panel birds'-eye-view of "The Wentworth." by the Albertype Forbes Co.....

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The New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. Edited By Samuel Forry, M.D....

(Americana - History of Medicine - Science - 19th century)

The New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. Edited By Samuel Forry, M.D.

New York, N.Y. J. & H.G. Langley, 1843. First Edition. Leather. 431 pages; with a frontispiece plate illustrating a "Cot for the Treatment of Fractures at Sea. by J. M. Foltz Esq. Surgeon U.S.N." - Dr. Foltz also has contributed the extensive first article within, on the topic of "...The.....

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A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles, By Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi (Commonly...

(Science - Medicine - History - 19th Century - Disease)

A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles, By Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi (Commonly Called Rhazes). Translated from the Original Arabic By William Alexander Greenhill, M.D.

London, England: Printed for The Sydenham Society, 1848. Second Printing. Leather. vii + (1) Contents + 212 pages + 40 page List of the Officers and Members of the Sydenham Society at back. Text with an English as well as an Arabic index. The ancient treatise on disease by Rhazes.....

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A Visit to Ceylon By Ernst Haeckel Translated By Clara Bell. Travel - 19th Century - Asia - Ceylon

(Travel - 19th Century - Asia - Ceylon)

A Visit to Ceylon By Ernst Haeckel Translated By Clara Bell

Boston, Massachusetts: S.E. Cassino and Company, 1883. Second American Edition. Hard Cover. viii + 337 + 24 pages of publishers' announcements at back. The text with the author's impressions as a naturalist visiting India & Ceylon: botanical gardens, the hill country, his zoological laboratory and its arrangements and difficulties of.....

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Fiske Fund Prize Essay on the Morbid Effects of the Retention in the Blood of the Elements of the...

Morland, William Wallace

Fiske Fund Prize Essay on the Morbid Effects of the Retention in the Blood of the Elements of the Urinary Secretion

Philadelphia, PA: Blachard and Lea, 1861. First Edition. Soft Cover. 83 pages; with a couple of small black and white illustrations. Inscribed at the top of the cover, "J.D. Miller, M.D. USN, with the regards of W.W.M." By William Wallace Morland (1818 - 1876) a Boston Mass. specialist in urologic.....

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The Irish Question I.- History of an Idea II.- Lessons of the Election. W. E. Gladstone

Gladstone, W.E.

The Irish Question I.- History of an Idea II.- Lessons of the Election

New York, N.Y. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American Edition. Soft Cover. 57 + (1) blank + (6) pages of publisher's announcements. By William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898) British prime minister and author; "...In 1869 he played the chief part in drawing up the Irish Church Bill, a measure.....

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Opinions on Cremation. Americana - 19th Century - Death Customs - Cremation

(Americana - 19th Century - Death Customs - Cremation)

Opinions on Cremation

New York, N.Y. Collected and Published By the United States Cremation Company (Limited.) The New York Cremation Society, 1889. First Edition. Soft Cover. 55 + (1) blank + (3) page index to letters. The Cremation Society sent a circular letter to solicit these "opinions"; this letter is printed before the.....

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Memoranda Concerning Government Bonds for the Information of Investors: Corrected to January 1st,...

(Americana - 19th Century - Economics - Banking - Investment - New York Financial Market)

Memoranda Concerning Government Bonds for the Information of Investors: Corrected to January 1st, 1881. Also, Directions for Buying and Selling Securities in the New York Market...Gold and Silver Statistics. By Fisk & Hatch (with) Supplement to Memoranda

New York, N.Y. Fisk & Hatch, 1881. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover. 103 + (1) blank + iv page index + (4) pages promoting the various investment services of Fisk & Hatch. Illustrated with a folding color "Map Showing the Movement of the Centre of Population Westward. (From the U.S. Census).....

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Dawson's Map of the Dominion of Canada. Canadiana - 19th Century - Cartography

(Canadiana - 19th Century - Cartography)

Dawson's Map of the Dominion of Canada

Montreal, Canada: Dawson Brothers, 1885. First Edition. Hard Cover. Color map, sectioned on linen; with insets showing the continuation of the map to the Pacific, showing British Columbia & Manitoba; Manitoba & connecting territory; Environs of Montreal and an inset of Newfoundland. Front endpaper and a (blank) back panel of.....

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Anatomography or Graphic Anatomy. By William Darling, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng., Professor of Anatomy...

(Americana - 19th Century - History of Medicine - Anatomy)

Anatomography or Graphic Anatomy. By William Darling, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng., Professor of Anatomy in the University of New York

London, England: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1869. First Edition. Soft Cover. With 7 pages of material, printed red and black on one side per leaf. This is a pocket guide to motor nerves of the intrinsic muscles of the upper extremity; the motor nerves of the intrinsic muscles of the.....

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The Chronicles of the St. Lawrence. J. M. LeMoine

LeMoine, J.M.

The Chronicles of the St. Lawrence

Montreal, Quebec & Rouses Point, N.Y. Dawson Bros. - Dawson & Co. - John W. Lovell, 1878. First Edition. Hard Cover. 380 pages; with a folding map at front, depicting the Saguenay River and (below) Map of that part of the Riv. St. Lawrence traversed by the Saguenay Boats. The.....

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