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The Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private...

(Cookery - 19th Century - Culinary History - William Kitchiner)

The Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families; Also the Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, Stove Sauces, and Flavouring Essences...

London, England: Printed for Robert Cadell, et al, 1831. A New Edition. Leather. xxiii + 514 + (1) page double-column poem,"Farewell to the Reader" + (8) pages of Caddell's publisher's announcements. With the half title & a useful index; the author's Preface to the seventh edition adds the line-title &.....

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hermanni Boerhaave Opera Omnia Medica, Quorum Series Post Praefationem Subjicitur. Science -...

(Science - Medicine - 18th Century - Hermann Boerhaave)

Hermanni Boerhaave Opera Omnia Medica, Quorum Series Post Praefationem Subjicitur

Venetiis: Laurentium Basilium, 1757. First Edtion Thus. Leather. (22) + 536; 591-621 (pagination mis-numbered, content consecutive) + (1) pages Catalogus Laurentium Basilium. Frontispiece portrait illustration of the author; woodcut title, chapter & tailpiece ornaments. Latin text, with occasional Greek. The works of Hermann Boerhaave (1668 - 1738), Dutch physician, associated.....

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Collection of 19 Pamphlets by Various Authors, Bound in One Volume; Concerning the Papacy;...

(France - 19th Century - Separation of Church & State - Caribbean History)

Collection of 19 Pamphlets by Various Authors, Bound in One Volume; Concerning the Papacy; Separation of Church & State; Political Liberties; Education and Caribbean History.

Paris France: Various Publishers, 1859. First Edition. Leather. French text; details below on publisher and pagination. Including: Le Pape et le Congres. Paris. E. Dentu & Didot Freres 1859. 46 pages; no author noted; OCLC credits Arthur Vicomte de Dubreuil-Helion La Gueronniere. Les Jesuites en 1860 par Charles Habeneck. Paris.....

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Revolutions De La Mer Deluges Periodiques (Texte et Planches). J. Adhemar

Adhemar, J.

Revolutions De La Mer Deluges Periodiques (Texte et Planches)

Paris France: Lacroix-Comon, Hachette et Cie, Dalmont et Dunod, 1860. Deuxieme Edition. Leather. Two volumes, bound in one; the text and plate sections. vii + 358 + (1) + vii + (13) folding double-page plates, all on their own guards, promoting easy unfolding & flat viewing; the text volume preceded.....

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1894 Invitation to the Members of the Historical Associations and Patriotic Hereditary Societies...

(Americana - 19th Century - History of Publishing - The Historical Register Publishing Co.)

1894 Invitation to the Members of the Historical Associations and Patriotic Hereditary Societies of the United States Stock Offering Circular from The Historical Register Publishing Co.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Historical Register Publishing Co., 1894. Ephemera. Not Bound. Single-sided printed sheet, promoting stock membership for the publications of this company; a single stock was $ 5.00. The impetus was to offer this stock membership to the historical societies & patriotic groups of the time as an exclusive.....

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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Published Monthly. Edited By I. Minis Hays Vol....

(Americana - 19th Century - History of Medicine)

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Published Monthly. Edited By I. Minis Hays Vol. XCV., No. 6 June, 1888 No. 194

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea Brothers & Co., 1888. Periodical. Soft Cover. 4 + ii + (549 - 658) + (8) pages of advertisements. Several of the articles with illustrations; contents include sections on original communications, reviews, therapeutics, medicine, surgery, dermatology, obstetrics and gynecology; this issue largely devoted to findings in acute.....

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Land at Last. A Novel in Three Books. Library of Select Novels No. 273. Edmund Yates

Yates, Edmund

Land at Last. A Novel in Three Books. Library of Select Novels No. 273

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. Later Edition. Soft Cover. 147 + (4) pages of publishers announcements at back; printed double-column. Novel by Edinburgh-born writer & journalist Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831 - 1894) who "...achieved popular, and some critical success with nineteen novels published between 1864 and 1875...".....

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Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Suffolk for the Year 1881. Americana -...

(Americana - 19th Century - New York - Suffolk County)

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Suffolk for the Year 1881

Babylon, N.Y. "The Budget" Print, 1882. First Edition. Soft Cover. 103 pages; useful index to subjects at back. "Compliments of John Wood Supervisor" sticker on front cover. Contents with all the business and proceedings of the Suffolk County, L.I. government of the time: bills audited, elections, various communications from the.....

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Annual Report of the National Board of Health. 1883. Americana - 19th Century - History of Medicine

(Americana - 19th Century - History of Medicine)

Annual Report of the National Board of Health. 1883

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. 226 pages. The material in the reports and papers includes updates from: Ship Island, the country's first quarantine station; the Sapelo refuge station; a report on the origin of the yellow fever epidemic in Pensacola, Florida in 1882, which is.....

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