Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1826

Major GORDON-LAING
        Voyage dans le Timanni, le Kouranko et le Soulimana, contrées de l'Afrique Occidentale fait en 1822
      Delaforest - Arthus Bertrand 1826 In-8, lxv-432 pages, demi-basane marron, dos à faux nerfs orné, tranches mouchetées. Précédé d'un essai sur les progrès de la géographie de l'intérieur de l'Afrique et sur les principaux voyages qui s'y rattachent par M. de Larenaudière. Première édition française. Traduit de l'anglais par Eyriès et Larenaudière. Ouvrage orné d'un carte dépliante et de 7 planches gravées (sur 8 annoncées). Coiffes légèrement frottées, coins légèrement émoussés. 5 petis trous de vers au dos (0,5mm). Très bon état.

      [Bookseller: Librairie Aubry]

Marchand de Breuil, Charles Francois
        Journees Memorables de la Revolution Francaise [Six Volumes]
      Et Audin, Libraire 1826 - Paris, 1826. Six volumes. 32mo, sprinkled leather leather, gilt decorative spines, marbled edges of pages. The scarce first edition of Marchand du Breuil's memoirs of the revolution. 44 parts in six volumes, each of about 64 pp. Each chapter deals with events in a specific day. Very good condition, come occasional small chips to leather at tops of spines and intermittent foxing. A few small marginal tears. Worldcat only locates five publicly held first edition sets. Scarce. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Auger Down Books]

Joseph Philippe François Deleuze
        Une lettre manuscrite de Deleuze sur le magnétisme animal adressée au Journal des Débats MANUSCRIT
      Trois pages manuscrites 70 lignes manuscrites circa. Il s'agit d'une lettre très importante dans l'histoire des débats suscités par le magnétisme. Deleuze commence à s'interroger sur l'inexactitude flagrante de deux articles parus le 2 et 7 mai 1826 dans le Journal des Débats et qui le vise personnellement. On y dit qu'il se trompe depuis 40 ans et que le magnétisme constitue un danger pour les bonnes meurs. Ce à quoi Deleuze réponds qu'il est difficile pour un homme de magnétiser une femme ! Il renvoie ensuite à un livre paru l'année précédente - et qui avait fait l'objet d'un compte rendu dans le Journal des Débats - ou il proscrivait de magnétiser une personne du sexe opposé sauf s'il s'agit du père ou du mari ! (curieux miroir inversé de la doctrine freudienne). Il continue ensuite - toujours à rebours de la psychanalyse - à se plaindre de la fausseté de l'article en finit par ces assertions "il n'est pas vrai que le magnétisme est plus facile entre personnes de sexe opposées", "il n'est pas vrai que le magnétisme agisse plus souvent et mieux avec des jeunes personnes qu'avec des personnes agées .", "il n'est pas vrai que le somnambulisme se montre plus souvent chez les femmes que chez les hommes", °°°°° - - - Joseph Philippe François Deleuze est un naturaliste français, né en 1753 à Sisteron et mort le 31 octobre 1835 à Paris. Il étudie à Paris et devient naturaliste-assistant au Muséum national d'histoire naturelle en 1795. Il collabore avec Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). Aide-naturaliste, puis bibliothécaire du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, il est surtout connu pour être un partisan de la théorie du magnétisme animal et suggère que l'Académie des sciences l'étudie Très bon couverture souple Edition originale Signé par l'auteur

      [Bookseller: Librairie Dejolibelle]

TURNER, J.M.W.
        PICTURESQUE VIEWS ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ENGLAND From Drawings made principally by J.M.W. Turner, RA., and engraved by W.B. Cooke, George Cooke and other Eminent Engravers
      London, John and Arthur Arch 1826. FIRST EDITION Two Volumes bound as One, complete. 4to Dark green full morocco, spine panelled and gilt, gilt lines to outer edges of boards and covers, Binding signed by Colnaghi, Cockspur Street. :a.e.g., pale yellow endpapers. 84 engraved plates and vignettes. Previous owner's name in ink to ffep. Front inner hinge just starting. Light, occasional foxing, generall not affecting image area of plates. Covers slightly rubbed at spine edges but overall A VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 9)

      [Bookseller: Chaucer Bookshop]

BONOLI Paolo
        STORIA DI FORLÌ, SCRITTA DA PAOLO BONOLI, DISTINTA IN DODICI LIBRI, CORRETTA ED ARRICCHITA DI NUOVE ADDIZIONI. SECONDA EDIZIONE DISTRIBUITA IN DUE VOLUMI.
      FORLÍ, LUIGI BORDANDINI, 1826 - Legatura originale in mezza pergamena con angoli e carta marmorizzata con angoli. Al dorso, 5 scomparti delimitati da triplice filettatura in oro, tassello in pelle marrone contenente autore e titolo, numero di volume, impressi in oro. 437, (3); 481, (69) pagine numerate. Seconda edizione di molto accresciuta di questa ampia monografia dedicata alla città di Forlì, la prima apparve nel 1661. Della presente edizione si evidenzia l'utile indice alfabetico degli argomenti trattati in fine al volume. Esemplare in buone condizioni conservative, sporadiche fioriture, una piccola macchia al bordo inferiore alle ultime pagine del primo volume, alcune pagine con un lieve alone alla parte superiore del secondo volume. 0 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Il Cartiglio]

Hoffman, David
        A Lecture, Being The Third Of A Series Of Lectures Introductory .
      1826 - Hoffman, David [1784-1854]. A Lecture, Being The Third Of A Series Of Lectures, Introductory To A Course Of Lectures Now Delivering in the University of Maryland. Published At The Request Of The Faculty Of Law. Baltimore: Printed by J.D. Toy, April 1826. 62 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers, blank upper margin and spine expertly restored. Some edgewear, faint vertical crease through center. Moderate toning and dampspotting to text, internally clean. * One of a series of (at least) nine "introductory" lectures, four of which, including this, were published separately. They were reprinted collectively, with other material, in Hoffman's Introductory lectures .(1837). This one is devoted to moot courts, an extensive model of which (pp. 50-61) is preceded by a discussion of general issues including pleading, evidence, actions, and especially the value of debating. Hoffman was a pioneer in American legal education. In 1817 Hoffman published his classic Course of legal study, and in 1823 began to lecture at the University of Maryland, having been appointed professor of law there in 1816. OCLC locates 15 copies, 5 in law libraries (Columbia, Duke, Harvard, University of Maryland, US Supreme Court). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 8631, 8625. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB]

Denham, Major Dixon; Clapperton, Major Hugh
        Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empi
      London: John Murray, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Very Good. Two volumes in one. lxvii, 335; 269 pp, complete with 38 engraved plates (1 colored) and maps (1 folding), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label, date erroneously printed as 1836 at foot. Occasional minor foxing and offsetting, one closed tear to map.In hopes of tracing the course of the Niger River, Denham's expedition crossed the desert along the long-established Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu (later Nigeria), a route littered with the skeletons of thousands of slaves abandoned there over the centuries. They sighted Lake Chad and reached the capital of Bornu, where they were welcomed by a spectacular array of some five thousand horsemen sent by the Muslim prophet who ruled Bornu in the king's name. Though delighted to meet them, he refused to let them continue their explorations, lest they meet some misadventure for which he would be blamed. Ultimately, the expedition returned to England having failed to find the Niger, but having opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge. Written in a lively style, and embellished with engravings of Denham's own sketches, this account became one of the classics of its genre (DNB). Denham was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone, where he died of the African fever in 1828.

      [Bookseller: Walkabout Books, ABAA]

Félix Voisin
        Des causes morales et physiques des maladies mentales et de quelques autres affections nerveuses telles que l'hystérie, la nymphomanie et le satyriasis
      Paris, J.-B. Baillière 1826 Grand in-8° broché, XVI-418 [2] pages. Couvertures imprimées originales. Manques très minimes aux coiffes. Il est peu fréquent de trouver cet ouvrage dans son brochage d'origine. Rare première édition de cet ouvrage fondamental. F. Voisin, élève d'Esquirol, combat ici l'idée des "folies sympathiques". Il fonda à Vanves, avec Falret, une maison de santé pour aliénés. Norman N° 2163 : "A student of Esquirol and partner of the French psychiatrist Jean Falret (with whom he founded an insane asylum), Voisin was one of the earliest psychiatrists to note the significant role that puberty plays in the causation of neuroses and psychoses, an observation made nearly a century before Freud's work made this concept a commonplace of psychopathology" ---- Semelaigne I pp. 180/183 - Postel & Quetel pp. 728/729 - Zilboorg pp. 480/481 - Hunter & Macalpine pp. 732, 783 - Ellenberger p. 761 Très bon couverture souple Edition originale

      [Bookseller: Librairie Dejolibelle]

Samuel Young Griffith
        Griffith's New Historical Description of Cheltenham and its Vicinity
      First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition One of only fifty large paper copies with proof plates on India paper, published at £10 10s. (Hyett & Bazeley 58). Roy. 4to. pages measuring 12.5" x 10". xiv, 289 pp; eng. title; 3 eng. maps/plans inc. 1 folding; 52 eng. plates (lacking View of Montpellier Baths as usual but with 3 extra plates at pp 283); 22 of the attractive trade plates/ads. at rear. Original printed boards with recent burgundy morocco spine and board fore-edges; recent red cloth hinges to pink eps.; edges untrimmed. Occ. spotting and to title; ticks in pencil to List of Plates. A vg, clean, tight copy of this scarce volume which is more common in its small paper format.

      [Bookseller: Bath and West Books]

Berggren, Jacob (1790-1868):
        RESOR I EUROPA OCH ÖSTERLÄNDERNA 1-3 + BIHANG.
      Tryckt i Stockholm: Sam. Rumstedt, 1826-28. Graverat titelblad, (2) sidor Förord, (20) sidor Prenumerantförteckning, 375, (1) s + graverad utvikbar "Charta öfver Syrien"; Graverat titelblad, 558, (2) s + Bihang (2), 70 s + graverad utvikbar "Plan af Jerusalem" (med 2 revor) + graverad utvikbar "Karta öfver Bosporen"; Graverat titelblad, 140, (2) s + Bihang 112 s + 6 utvikbara "Inskrifter". 3 delar inbundna i ett enklare äldre halvklotband med några mindre och lätta skador. Inlagorna i förvånansvärt gott skick. Med 2 äldre gåvotillskrifter på det fria försättsbladet, en odaterad äldre och en modernare daterad 1958, båda med anknytning till familjen Beck-Friis

      [Bookseller: Ryös Antikvariat]

GAY-LUSSAC ; ARAGO ; POISSON ; Félix SAVART ; BECQUEREL ; VAUQUELIN ; BALARD ; HUMBOLDT ; Collectif
        Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 1826 - Volume 2 : Tome Trente-Deuxième [ Tome 32 - tome XXXII ] : Note concernant les phénomènes magnétiques auxquels le mouvement donne naissance (Arago) - Mémoire sur la théorie du Magnétisme en mouvement (Poisson) - Du Pouvoir conducteur de l'Electricité dans les métaux, et de l'intensité de la force électro-dynamique en un point quelconque d'un fil métallique qui joint les deux extrémités d'une pile (Becquerel) ; Mémoire sur la Voix des Oiseaux (Savart) ; De l'emploi des corps gras comme hydrofuge dans la peinture sur pierre et sur plâtre, dans l'assainissement des lieux bas et humides (D'Arcet et Thénard) ; Quatrième mémoire sur les Canaux de navigation, considérés sous le rapport de la chute et de la distribution de leurs écluses (Girard) ; Analyse des cendres de l'Etna (Vauquelin) ; Sur le gisement du Platine (Humboldt) ; Analyse de monnaies d'argent romaines trouvées à Famars (Feneulle) ; Sur une substance particulière contenue dans l'eau de la mer (Balard) ; etc...
      Crochard 1826 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1826, 448 pp. avec 4 planches dont 3 dépliantes et 1 tableau dépliant. Contient notamment : Note concernant les phénomènes magnétiques auxquels le mouvement donne naissance (Arago) - Mémoire sur la théorie du Magnétisme en mouvement (Poisson) - Du Pouvoir conducteur de l'Electricité dans les métaux, et de l'intensité de la force électro-dynamique en un point quelconque d'un fil métallique qui joint les deux extrémités d'une pile (Becquerel) ; Mémoire sur la Voix des Oiseaux (Savart) ; De l'emploi des corps gras comme hydrofuge dans la peinture sur pierre et sur plâtre, dans l'assainissement des lieux bas et humides (D'Arcet et Thénard) ; Quatrième mémoire sur les Canaux de navigation, considérés sous le rapport de la chute et de la distribution de leurs écluses (Girard) ; Analyse des cendres de l'Etna (Vauquelin) ; Sur le gisement du Platine (Humboldt) ; Analyse de monnaies d'argent romaines trouvées à Famars (Feneulle) ; Sur une substance particulière contenue dans l'eau de la mer (Balard) Rare exemplaire du tome 32 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" contenant notamment l'important article de Balard évoquant sa découverte d'un nouvel élément, la Bromine (le Brôme, pp.337-384, cf DSB, I, 417). Etat très satisfaisant (cartonnage lég. frotté, petit mouill. en queue sur une planche, une petite tache d'encre sur 3 ff. en marge, bon état intérieur) Français

      [Bookseller: Librairie Du Cardinal]

Collectif ; LALLEMAND ; ROEMHILD
        Tableau comparatif des principales montagnes, des principaux fleuves et cataractes de la Terre. D'après les observations des plus Savants Voyageurs.
      Bulla 1826 Estampe polychrome au format 80 x 56 cm, Chez Bulla Editeur, Marchand d'Estampes, et chez Picquet, Paris, s.d. (circa 1826), la lettre et la géographie gravées par Lallemand, l'aquatinte gravée par Roemhild Belle estampe aquarellée (une très petite mouill. en queue, estampe pliée en 4, détachée d'un ouvrage avec renfort au verso en pliure centrale). Français

      [Bookseller: Librairie Du Cardinal]

Lantier Etienne-Francois de
        Viaggi d'Antenore nella Grecia e nell'Asia.
      VENEZIA : DAI TIPI DI GIUSEPPE ANTONELLI LIBRAJO-CALCOGRAFO, 1826-1827 1826 Venezia : dai tipi di Giuseppe Antonelli librajo-calcografo, 1826-1827 In-12 7 v. (1) c. (ritratto di Antenore) 285 (3); (1) c.(di tav. vignetta incisa con descrizione) 271; (1) c. (antiporta) 264; (1) c. (antiporta) 280; (1) c. (antiporta) 278; (1) c. (antiporta)288; (1) c. (antiporta) 279 (1). Le incisioni ad ogni singolo volume sono in antiporta. Mezzapelle, tassello in pelle rossa caratteri e fregi in oro; piatti in carta marmorizzata marrone. Cuffie segnate dai fori di tarlo, al terzo, al sesto e al settimo volume. Tutti i volumi sono in ottime condizioni. Il nome dell'autore si ricava da: Querard "La France litteraire". Ispirato al racconto "Il viaggio del giovane Anacarsi in Grecia dell"Abate Barthelemy". Traduzione italiana di Spiridione Blandi. Le tavole in antiporta rappresentano rispettivamente: ritratto di Antenore "Il Viaggiatore" C. Rizzardini dis. G. Dala inc., "i determinai a portarla sulle mie spalle e con questo carco giunsi a Mileto, spossato dalla fatica" C. Rizzardini inv. A. Viviani inc., "Deifile si getta gemebonda ai piedi dell'infelice Nicia" C. Rizzardini inv. e dis. Gius. Dala inc., "Aristide. Suo soggiorno in una caverna" C. Rizzardini inv. e dis. G. Dala inc., "Lastenia accoglie nella sua casa di campagna il filosofo Anassagora" C. Rizzardini inv. e dis. G. Dala inc., "Naide ricupera la ragione e riconoscie Trasibulo" C. Rizzardini inv. e dis. G. Dala inc., "Strage della peste di Atene" C. Rizzardini inv. e dis. G. Dala inc.. Edizione rara da trovarsi completa di tutti i volumi e di tutte le tavole in antiporta. Viviani, Antonio . Rizzardini, Cecilio . Dala, Giuseppe .

      [Bookseller: Libreria Emiliana]

MAUND, B.
        The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations.
      Vol. I-VIII (all published !). London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1826-1836. 8 volumes. Royal-8vo (225 x 175mm). With 768 handcoloured engraved plates. Later green half morocco, spines with gilt flower ornaments in 6 compartments. The 'SPECIAL CROWN ISSUE' of this well-known and beloved flower-book. Only a few copies have been produced of this 'de luxe' edition. It is of utmost rarity and is not mentioned in any of the standard bibliographies. The illustrations are the same as in the corresponding volumes of the ordinary edition, but instead of being grouped in fours, only one is illustrated to a plate. Each one is handcoloured with much greater care than in the ordinary issue. All plates are surrounded by uniform and finely engraved borders, which are surmounted by a crown. The first volume has an inserted leaf with the following text: "To her most gracious Majesty the Queen. In grateful acknowledgement of her Condescension and Patronage, this volume is most respectfully dedicated. By her Majesty's most obliged and devoted servant Benjamin Maund". A fine copy.

      [Bookseller: Antiquariaat Junk B.V.]

NOEHDEN George H.
        SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT COINS of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Selected from the Cabinet of the Right Hon. the Lord Nortwick: drawn by Del Frate, a distinguished pupil of Antonio Canova, and engraved by Henry Moses. The text by... of British Museum...
      Prowed 1826 in folio, pp. (6), V, 63, leg. carta leggera bianca di attesa. Con 20 finissime tavv. inc. in rame raff. le monete in oro e argento qui studiate. Belliss. ritr. in antip. di Marduke Trattle. [379]

      [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Scriptorium]

CAPPARONI Giuseppe.
        Raccolta degli ordini religiosi che esistono nella città di Roma disegnati ed incisi all'acquaforte da Giuseppe Capparoni.
      Roma, presso Giacomo Antonelli al Corso alle convertite n. 179 B, 1826, in-4 piccolo, leg. della fine dell'Ottocento in piena pergamena (erosione di circa 2 cm al dorso), frontespizio inciso + 54 tavv. calcografiche, tutto accuratamente acquerellato a mano d'epoca. Le tavole sono in perfetto stato di conservazione. Si tratta di un'album cui poteva venire unito un testo bilingue in italiano e francese (che qui non è presente), ma che era venduto spesso separatamente.

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Gozzini]

GAY-LUSSAC ; ARAGO ; BERZELIUS ; Gustave ROSE ; DUMAS ; CHLADNI ; Félix SAVART ; BECQUEREL ; SOMMERVILLE ; Marcel de SERRES ; Collectif
        Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 1826 - Volume 1 : Tome Trente-Unième [ Tome 31 - Tome XXXI ] : Des changements dans le système de Mineralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la propriété que possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies (Berzélius) ; Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes (Gustave Rose) ; Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore, et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène (Dumas) ; Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil, de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien, près de Montpellier (Hérault), adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres ; Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer; de poussières ou de substances molles, sèches ou humides, suivant l'ordre chronologique (E. F. F. Chladni) ; Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires (Félix Savart) ; Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de température (Becquerel) ; Sur le Pouvoir magnétisant des rayons solaires les plus réfrangibles (M. Somerville) ; Note sur quelques Composés nouveaux, extraite d'une Lettre de M. Dumas à M. Arago ; etc...
      Crochard 1826 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1826, 448 pp. avec 3 planches dépliantes hors texte. Contient notamment : Des changements dans le système de Mineralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la propriété que possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies (Berzélius) ; Sur les Minéraux cristallisés qui se trouvent dans les aerolithes (Gustave Rose) ; Mémoire sur les Combinaisons du Phosphore, et particulièrement sur celles de ce corps avec l'hydrogène (Dumas) ; Seconde Lettre sur les Cavernes à ossemens de Lunel-Vieil, de Saint-Antoine et de Saint-Julien, près de Montpellier (Hérault), adressés à M. Gay-Lussac par M. Marcel de Serres ; Nouveau Catalogue des cgutes de pierres ou de fer; de poussières ou de substances molles, sèches ou humides, suivant l'ordre chronologique (E. F. F. Chladni) ; Note sur la Communication des mouvements vibratoires (Félix Savart) ; Recherches sur les Effets électriques de contact produits dans les changemens de température (Becquerel) ; Sur le Pouvoir magnétisant des rayons solaires les plus réfrangibles (M. Somerville) ; Note sur quelques Composés nouveaux, extraite d'une Lettre de M. Dumas à M. Arago ; etc... Rare exemplaire du tome 31 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" contenant notamment l'important article de Berzelius proposant une classification des éléments (pp. 5-36). Etat satisfaisant (cartonnage frotté avec accroc avec manque au dos en tête, bon état intérieur) Français

      [Bookseller: Librairie Du Cardinal]

GAY-LUSSAC ; ARAGO ; DAVY ; BAUMGARTNER ; BERTHIER ; COLLADON ; BREWSTER ; DUMAS ; Collectif
        Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 1826 - Volume 3 : Tome Trente-Troisième [ Tome 33 - Tome XXXIII ] : Sur les relations qui existent entre les actions électriques et les actions chimiques (Davy) - Sur l'aimantation de l'acier par la lumière blanche directe du soleil (Baumgartner) ; Sur la Préparation du Nickel (Berthier) ; Déviation de l'Aiguille aimantée par le courant d'une machine électrique ordinaire, et par l'électricité des nuages (Colladon) ; De la Température des différentes parties de la zone torride au niveau des mers (Humboldt) ; Expériences électro-métriques du Dr. Stefano Marianini, proefesseur de physique et de mathématiques appliquées au Lycée de Venise ; Sur le Brôme (Liebig) ; Sur les pouvoirs réfringens de deux nouveaux fluides contenus dans les cavités de certains minéraux (Brewster) ; Mémoire sur quelques points de la théorie atomistique (Dumas) ; etc...
      Crochard 1826 1 vol. in-8 cartonnage marbré de l'époque, Chez Crochard, Paris, 1826, 448 pp. Contient notamment : Sur les relations qui existent entre les actions électriques et les actions chimiques (Davy) - Sur l'aimantation de l'acier par la lumière blanche directe du soleil (Baumgartner) ; Sur la Préparation du Nickel (Berthier) ; Déviation de l'Aiguille aimantée par le courant d'une machine électrique ordinaire, et par l'électricité des nuages (Colladon) ; De la Température des différentes parties de la zone torride au niveau des mers (Humboldt) ; Expériences électro-métriques du Dr. Stefano Marianini, proefesseur de physique et de mathématiques appliquées au Lycée de Venise ; Sur le Brôme (Liebig) ; Sur les pouvoirs réfringens de deux nouveaux fluides contenus dans les cavités de certains minéraux (Brewster) ; Mémoire sur quelques points de la théorie atomistique (Dumas) ; etc... Rare exemplaire du tome 33 des "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Bon état (cartonnage lég. frotté) Français

      [Bookseller: Librairie Du Cardinal]

[COOPER, James Fennimore.]
        THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS; a narrative of 1757. By the author of The Spy, The Pilot, The Pioneers, etc. In three volumes.
      Three volumes. Bound in contemporary blue paper-covered boards; gilt banding and titling to spines. Octavos. First Paris edition in English. Half-titles present in all volumes. Uncut. Some very light scattered foxing at front and rear of all volumes; the occasional corner crease; two small rubs to the spine of volume I; else an excellent set. More difficult to find than the London printing of the same year.

      [Bookseller: David Miles]

Tiedemann, Frederic; Bennett, William [trans.]
        The Anatomy of the Foetal Brain; With a Comparative Exposition of its Structure in Animals
      London John Carfrae & Son/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green 1826. G-: in Good condition minus without dust jacket. External spine mostly missing. Boards still firmly attached. Contents good. Ex-library from the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, with minimal markings First Edition Blue paper-covered boards ads + xv, 324pp :: 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5") :: To which are added some late observations on the influence of the sanguineous system over the developement of the nervous system in general

      [Bookseller: Barter Books]

LEOPARDI Giacomo
        VERSI.
      Stamperia delle Muse 1826 In-16 (mm. 176x110), mz. pelle coeva, decoraz. e tit. oro su due tasselli al dorso (restaurato), pp. 87. "Edizione originale". Cfr. Cat. Fondo Leopardiano (Comune di Milano, 1958), 83: ?Insieme con altri versi già editi sono qui per la prima volta pubblicate due "Elegie" ispirate dall?amore per la cugina, la contessa Geltrude Cassi-Lazzari (l?"Elegia I" ebbe poi sempre il titolo di "Il primo amore"), cinque sonetti ("Sonetti in persona di Ser Pecora fiorentino beccaio" o sonetti alla mattaccina) e l?"Epistola al Conte Carlo Pepoli".? Con le edizioni di Bologna del ?24, di Firenze del ?31 e di Napoli del ?35, forma il complesso delle edizioni originali che contengono le poesie del Leopardi. - Mazzatinti,661: ?Questa edizione fu certamente fatta a spese del Brighenti, col quale il Leopardi, apppunto nel 1826, stava sempre insieme a Bologna?. Esemplare con barbe, ben conservato.

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BERGGREN, Jacob.
        Resor i Europa och Österländerna.
      1-3. Stockholm, Sam. Rumstedt, 1826-28. 8:o. Grav. titelblad,+ (22),+ 375,+ (1) s.+ grav. utvikbar karta; grav. titelblad,+ 558,+ (3),+ (blank),+ 70 s.+ 2 grav. utvikbara planscher; grav. titelblad,+ 140,+ (2),+ 112 s.+ (1),+ 5 tryckta utvikbara bilagor med inskriptioner. Lagerfläckiga och med enstaka småfläckar. Samtida hfrbd, guld- och blindpräglade ryggar med alrotsmarmorerade pärmpapper och gula snitt. Tre volymer. Ur Gustaf Berendtssons bibliotek, med hans exlibris. Tre volymer. Fint exemplar. Första upplagan. Viktig svensk resa av legationspredikanten vid svenska beskickningen i Konstantinopel Jacob Berggren genom Egypten, Syrien och Palestina åren 1820-22. Den utkom i en tysk översättning 1828-34. Kartan i del ett är av C. P. Hällström. Bihanget i del två innehåller "Växtförteckning" och är gjord i samarbete med botanikern Göran Wahlenberg, bihanget i del tre innehåller "Marchrutor för Syrien och Palestina" (på franska), "Förteckning på städer och byar samt märkvärdiga ålderdoms-lemningar i Syrien och Palestina" samt brev av Carl Vidua m. fl. till Berggren. Tredje delen innehåller desutom en genomgång av alla svenskar som besökt Heliga landet

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GREGORY, Olinthus
        A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive. Plates
      Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker and others London: Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, (and others). 1826. Fourth edition, corrected and Improved. Issued in three volumes: two of text and one of plates this is the PLATE VOLUME ONLY. Full contemporary red crushed calf, ruled and titled in gilt. 63 plates, mostly folding. Darkening to the boards, considerable rubbing to the joints, foxing, mostly to the margins of the plates, still a sound, good copy. Mathematician Joseph Ray's copy, with his ownership signature: "Joseph Ray, M.D. Woodward High School, Cincinnati, (date indecipherable). 2 volumes & plates, $15.25." Ray was a professor of mathematics and wrote several books on the subject, beginning in 1834 with An Introduction to Ray's Eclectic Arithmetic, the first of a series of six textbooks which became the most popular and widely used American mathematics textbooks of the Nineteenth Century. They also formed the basis for Ray's Mathematical Series of textbooks. As late as 1913, annual sales exceeded a quarter of a million copies a year, and total sales of the arithmetic books alone are estimated at 120 million copies. The success of Ray's Arithmetic series prompted his publisher to seek an author for a set of readers. They chose William Holmes McGuffey, who joined Ray on the faculty of Woodward College, and where he wrote the McGuffey Readers which surpassed even Ray's Arithmetics to become the most popular textbooks ever written. .

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Calmeil, Louis Florentin
        De la paralysie consideree chez les alienes
      Bailliere Paris: Bailliere, 1826. 1st edition. Calmeil, Louis Florentin (1798-1895). De la paralysie consideree chez les alienes, recherches faites dans le service de feu M. Royer-Collard et de M. Esquirol. 8vo. [4] ii, 446pp. Paris and London: J.-B. Bailliere, 1826. 198 x 122 mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards in period style. Light browning, but very good. One signature misbound. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 4797. Calmeil was a pupil of the French psychiatrist Esquirol. His treatise contains the classic description of general paralysis of the insane, along with an attempt to correlate the pathology of the disease with its clinical manifestations. However, Calmeil did not recognize that general paralysis was a separate disease entity (syphilis) and not simply a complication of mental illness. Norman 389. Zilboorg & Henry, p. 529. 305

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Polwhele, R. (Richard), 1760-1838.
        Traditions and Recollections: Domestic, Clerical, and Literary; In Which are Included Letters of Charles II, Cromwell...
      London, John Nichols and Sons, 1826. 8vo. Two vols.: viii, 360; iii, 361-820 p., 6 plates (4 fold.), incl. port. front., 22.5 cm. Polwhele, best remembered now, especially by feminists, for a poem against female authors, was part of the antiquarian movement. He gathered together traditions and documents relating to Cornwall, and to a lesser degree, Devon. In some ways he shares the Romantic interest in the rural and wild places of England. OB 456. Slight foxing. Bound in full leather by Dragonfly Bindery, George and Pat Sargent.

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Maitland, Captain F. L.
        Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte and of his Residennce on Board H.M.S. Bellerophon; with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship, between the 24th of may and the 8th of august, 1815.
      First Edition. With beautiful fold-out frontispiece map. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt rules on the front and back covers. Spine stamped in gilt with five raised bands and red and black leather labels stamped in gilt. Four pages of ads from the publisher bound in the rear. Also bound in are at the end are eight pages (numbered pp. 209 - 224) of Warden's Conversation with Buonaparte. Book condition: Fine condition

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White, Henry. Ibbitt, William.[1804-1869]:
        East View of the Town of Sheffield in the County of York Drawn by William Ibbitt and engraved by Henry White 1826
      Sheffield: Henry White, 12 Market Street. 1826.. Original proof copy, Copper Engraving by Henry White after the painting by William Ibbitt almost 30 years before the artists better known South East View. Exhibit 21 in the 1929 Mappin Exhibition Catalogue. Scarce

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(LEOPARDI Giacomo)
        MARTIRIO DE? SANTI PADRI DEL MONTE SINAI E DELL?EREMO DI RAITU COMPOSTO DA AMMONIO MONACO. Volgarizzamento fatto nel buon secolo della nostra lingua non mai stampato.
      presso Ant. Fort. Stella 1826 In-8 p. (mm. 225x145), bross. orig., pp. 55. Rara "prima edizione". Cfr. Cappelletti, p. 17: ?E? questa un?operetta composta dal Leopardi il quale seppe si propriamente imitare le forme dei trecentisti, che per iscrittura di quell?età fu da alcuni reputata. Il filologo Francesco Zambrini mette in dubbio che il padre Cesari la prendesse per roba del Trecento ?perchè egli dice, uomini assai da meno del Cesari, conobbero a prima giunta la piacevole burla di quel grande letterato. Se non ci fosse altro, l?arte vi è manifesta?? - Mazzatinti,662 - Gamba,1114 - Cat. Fondo Leopardiano (Comune di Milano,1958), n. 81: ?Non contraffazione leopardiana di uno scritto del ?300, ma in realtà veramente traduzione da Francesco Combefis "Illustrium Christi martyrum lecti Triumphi vetustis Graecorum monumentis consignati" (Parigi, 1660), opera citata da Leopardi nella prefazione al libro?. Solo qualche lieviss. fiorit., altrim. esempl. con barbe, ben conservato.

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Wall, W.G
        Hudson
      Henry I. Megarey New York:: Henry I. Megarey,. 1826.. A large aquatint engraving from the rare and handsome "Hudson River Portfolio".The town of Hudson New York is seen from the east side of the Hudson River, with fishermen pulling in their nets. The town has a considerable number of buildings, especially along the water front.21 1/2 x 16" plus margins, original coloring. In an early Hogarth style frame by Arthur Ackermann Gallery, New York. Mat somewhat discolored, leaving a light border around print margin, otherwise in very good condition.

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SOUTH (James); FOSTER (Henry):
        SOUTH (James) Observations of the Apparent Distances and Positions of 458 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1823, 1824, and 1825;
      together with a Re-Examination of 36 Stars of the Same Description, the Distances and Positions of Which Were Communicated in a Former Memoir, 391pp., WITH: A Synoptical View of the Results afforded by the Observations.., i-xviii,(2 errata)pp. BOUND WITH: FOSTER (Henry) Account of Experiments made with an Invariable Pendulum at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and at port Bowen on the eastern side of Prince Regent's Inlet, p.1-71 AND: eight further papers by Henry Foster on similar subjects, being Parts I and IV of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the Year 1826, "Printed at the Expence of the Board of Longitude", 230pp., with folding tables, quarto, late 19thC morocco backed library cloth with a neat unlinked library name stamp on general title, foot of last leaves and occasionally elsewhere, with an additional inked library stamp occasionally repeated, a very good copy, London, Nicol, printers to the Royal Society,1826. * Sir James South (1785 -1867) British astronomer, founder of the Astronomical Society of London, later the Royal Astronomical Society. South and John Herschel jointly produced a catalogue of 380 double stars in 1824, reobserving many of the double stars that had been discovered by William Herschel. South then continued and observed another 458 double stars over the following year and it is this massive catalogue that is here presented. He won the Copley Medal in 1826 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in that same year. He was knighted in 1831. Craters on Mars and the Moon are named in his honour. Starting around 1826, James South made plans for a new, larger telescope, an equatorially mounted achromatic refractor (a telescope with a lens) in a new observatory. He bought a 12-inch aperture lens from Cauchoix in Paris for about £1000, large enough to be the biggest achromatic object lens in the world at the time.

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[Cooper, James Fenimore]
        The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. Three volume set
      G : in good condition without dust jackets. Boards rubbed. Leather scuffed along spines and corners with some wear. Inner hinges starting. Ink inscription to feps. Some foxing to end pages of volume II First UK Edition Half-leather cover on marbled boards 237pp; 276pp; 295pp :: 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5") :: A lovely first English edition of Cooper's classic work in original binding

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Bleuland, Jan
        Descripto Musei Anatomici. Icon Hepatis Foetus Octimestris Quam Impletis Vasculis Arteriosis, Naturali Colore Expressam. Icones Anatomico-Physiologicae Partium Corporis Humani et Animalium. Bound as one volume
      G- : in Good condition minus without dust jacket. Crack to leather at foot of spine. Boards rubbed, especially at edges. Scuffs to leather in places Upper gutter cracked. Some loss from lower edge of spine. Section excised from prelim. Ex-library from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland [First Edition] Brown half-leather cover over marbled boards xviii, 415, 8, vii, 55pp + plates :: With thirteen hand-coloured engraved plates :: 270mm x 230mm (11" x 9") :: Icon Hepatis Foetus Octimestris Quam Impletis Vasculis Arteriosis, Naturali Colore Expressam - 1789

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Van Meerten, A. B.
        Penelope of Maandwerk aan het Vrouwelijk Geslacht Toegewijd (Volume IV only)
      Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover Boards rubbed and worn, pages supple, some of the illustrations separating along folds, most fine. VERY GOOD. ; Publisher's printed blue boards, black lettering and decoration on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle. This is the only edition of this rare handicrafts magazine for Dutch housewives, containing engraved plates, most of which are hand-coloured. The magazine, originally issued monthly, was published from 1821 until 1835, and includes instructions and diagrams for embroidery, decorated pillows and curtains, decorative fire screens, paper flowers, handbags, cushions, keepsakes, baskets, drawings and paintings. The illustrations provide guidance for the successful completion of projects and suggest colour schemes and decorative patterns for various applied arts, commonly found in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Dutch homes. Each monthly edition contained two hand-coloured plates. This volume, comprising the issues for 1826, contains 24 such plates, most fold-out. IN DUTCH.; Penelope of Maandwerk; Vol. 4; Van Meerten, A. B.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196, 338 pages

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Byron, George Anson / Graham, Maria
        Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825.
      4°. XI S., 260 S. Mit 2 (1 gefalteten) Karten, 1 gefalteten Aquatinta-Ansicht als Frontispiz, 11 Aquatinta-Tafeln und 1 Holzstich-Tafel. Marmorierter Kalblederband der Zeit mit rotem goldgeprägtem Rückenschild, Deckelfiletierung mit Blättermotiven, Rücken- und Stehkantenvergoldung. Borba de Moraes I:139. - Sabin 100816. - Hill 231. - Erste Ausgabe. - Von Maria Graham, der späteren Maria Callcott, aus den Bordbüchern von Byron, den Aufzeichnungen des Kaplans Rowland Bloxham und den naturwissenschaftlichen Unterlagen von Andrew Bloxham zusammengestellter Reisebericht nach Hawaii. - Anlass der Reise war der tragische Tod des hawaiianischen Königs Kamehameha II und seiner Frau Kamamal, die während eines Staatsbesuches in London an Masern erkrankten und, ohne Abwehrkräfte, kurze Zeit darauf verstarben. Auf Geheiss der englischen Regierung wurden die sterblichen Überreste nach Hawaii überführt. Gleichzeitig erteilte die Regierung den Auftrag für einen wissenschaftlichen Bericht über das, seit der Entdeckung durch James Cook und nach dessen Tode 1779, nur wenig beschriebene, von Cook als Sandwich-Inseln bezeichnetes Archipel. John Murray beauftragte Maria Graham, eine bereits mit mehreren Büchern erfolgreiche Reiseautorin. Maria Graham legte eine kurze Geschichte der Hawaiischen Inseln vor, beschrieb die tragischen Ereignisse in London sowie, im umfangreichsten Teil des Werkes, die verschiedenen Inseln, ihre Bevölkerung, aber auch die geologischen und vulkanologischen Besonderheiten. - Das gefaltete Frontispiz zeigt den Krater des Vulkans Peli, die Tafeln verschiedene Orte Hawaiis. - Titelblatt mit getilgtem Stempel. - Fleckenloses, breitrandiges Exemplar in gutem Einband der Zeit. - First edition. Account of an expedition compiled by Maria Graham, later called Maria Callcott, from Byron's logbooks, the chaplain Rowland Bloxham's descriptions and the scientific documents of Andrew Bloxham. The reason of this expedition was the tragic deaths of the Hawaiian King Kamehameha II and of his wife Kamamal, who fell ill with mumps during an official stay in London and died shortly after. At the behest of the English government, the remains of both were to be taken back to Hawaii. At the same time, the government commissioned a scientific report of the archipelago James Cook called Sandwich Islands and which had little been described since James Cook's discovery and death in 1779. Maria Graham, an already well-known writer of travels, was mandated by John Murray. Maria Graham wrote a short history of the Hawaiian Islands, described the tragic event in London and depicted, in the most important part of her book, the different islands, their population as well as their geological and vulcanologic particularities. The fold out frontispiece shows the crater of the great volcano of Peli, and the plates show different places in Hawaii. Title-page with effaced stamp. Immaculate copy with large margins with nice contemporary binding. [7 Warenabbildungen bei antiquariat.de]

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(Dörflinger, Wilhelm)
        Abschilderung u. Abschrift aller der Figuren, Wappen u. Gemälde nebst Aufschriften welche in der Schlacht-Capelle bey Sempach gemalt zu sehen; sowie selbe, nach den alten Urbildern im Jahr 1756 erneuert worden.
      4°. 1 n.n. Bl., 65 (recte 67) S. zusätzlich lithographiertem Titel und 5 (2 gefalteten) Tafeln, ca. 150 heraldischen Illustrationen und einigen Textillustrationen, alle lithographiert. Illustrierter Originalpappband mit je einer lithographierten Vignette auf Vorder- und Hinterdeckel. Barth 751. - Erste Ausgabe. (Wurde 1843 nochmals aufgelegt). - Vollständig lithographiertes Buch zur Schlachtkapelle bei Sempach. Mit einer Ansicht der Kapelle, einem Schlachtgemälde und 3 Tafeln mit Details aus den Fresken der Kapelle. Die 150 heraldischen Darstellungen mit den Wappen der erbeuteten habsburgischen Flaggen. - Stellenweise etwas stockfleckig. - Selten.

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Humboldt, Alexander von
        Essai politique sur l'ile du Cuba par Alexandre de Humboldt et un supplément qui renferme des considérations sur la population, la richesse territoriale et le commerce de l'archipel des Antilles et de Colombia.
      8°. XLVI S., 364 S.; 408 S. Mit einer mehrfach gefalteten gestochenen Karte. Neue geflammte Ganzlederbände im Stil der Zeit. 2 Bände. Sabin 33719. - Graesse 3, 389. - Erste Ausgabe. - Von Humboldt auf der Basis der 'Reisen in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinentes' erweiterte und ergänzte Monographie über Kuba und im Supplement (Band 2: S. 93 ff) über Venezuela und Kolumbien. - Humboldt wurde für seine Darstellung der Geschichte, für seine Analyse der ökonomischen und sozialen Zustände Kubas von der kubanischen Oberschicht scharf angegriffen. Seine Kritik an der Sklavenhaltung, am Grossgrundbesitz und am Ausbau der Monokultur des Zuckerrohranbaus ist bis heute ein exemplarischer Text einer politisch-oekonomischen Analyse. - Sehr breitrandiges, unbeschnittenes und fleckenloses Exemplar. - Eines der seltensten Titel des "zweiten Entdeckers Amerikas". - First edition. Enlarged and completed monograph by Humbold on Cuba on the basis of his 'Reisen in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinentes' with a supplement (volume 2: p. 93 and following) on Venezuela and Colombia. - Humboldt was harshly attacked by the Cuban upper class for his description of the history and for his analysis of the economic and social circumstances of Cuba. His criticism of the slavery, the large-scale landed property and the development of the sugar cane monoculture is still considered today as an example of a political-economic analysis. Immaculate, large-margins and uncut copy. One of the rarest titles of the second discoverer of America. [2 Warenabbildungen bei antiquariat.de]

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Laennec, R(ené) T(heophile) H(iacynthe)
        Traité de l'auscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. Seconde édition entierement refondue.
      Gross-8°. XXXVI S., 728 S.; 2 n.n. Bl., 790 S., 1 S. Erratum Mit 4 gestochenen doppelblattgrossen Tafeln von Ambroise Tardieu. Halblederbände der Zeit mit 2 schwarzen goldgeprägten Rückenschildern und reicher Rückenvergoldung. 2 Bände. Waller 5493, - Welcome III,429. - Garrison-M. 2673. - Zweite, gegenüber der ersten von 1819 erschienenen Auflage, wesentlich erweitert und überarbeitet. "The second edition is even more important, since it gives not only the various physical signs elicited in the chest, but adds the pathological anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of each disease encountered"- (Garrison). Von Laennec wenige Wochen vor seinem frühen Tode (1781 - 1826) herausgegeben. Garrison nennt ihn "Perhaps the greatest clinician of his time". - Wie immer stellenweise etwas stockfleckig. Buchblock leicht gewellt. Dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar. In der wichtigen 2. Ausgabe fast seltener als die erste.

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Bleuland, Jan
        Descripto Musei Anatomici. Icon Hepatis Foetus Octimestris Quam Impletis Vasculis Arteriosis, Naturali Colore Expressam. Icones Anatomico-Physiologicae Partium Corporis Humani et Animalium. Bound as one volume
      Belgium: Joh. Altheer. Academiea Rheno-Trajectinae, 1826.. [First Edition]. Brown half-leather cover over marbled boards. G- : in Good condition minus without dust jacket. Crack to leather at foot of spine. Boards rubbed, especially at edges. Scuffs to leather in places Upper gutter cracked. Some loss from lower edge of spine. Section excised from prelim. Ex-library from the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. xviii, 415, 8, vii, 55pp + plates :: With thirteen hand-coloured engraved plates :: 270mm x 230mm (11" x 9") :: Icon Hepatis Foetus Octimestris Quam Impletis Vasculis Arteriosis, Naturali Colore Expressam - 1789

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[Cooper, James Fenimore]
        The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. Three volume set
      London: John Miller, 1826.. First UK Edition. Half-leather cover on marbled boards. G : in good condition without dust jackets. Boards rubbed. Leather scuffed along spines and corners with some wear. Inner hinges starting. Ink inscription to feps. Some foxing to end pages of volume II. 237pp; 276pp; 295pp :: 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5") :: A lovely first English edition of Cooper's classic work in original binding

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Bache, Franklin
        Cases illustrative of the remedial effects of acupuncturation
      Philadelphia, 1826. One of the First American Scientific Efforts to Alleviate Pain: the First American Study of Acupuncture, Together with First English Translation of Ten Rhyne's "De acupunctura"(1) Bache, Franklin (1792-1864). Cases illustrative of the remedial effects of acupucturation. In North American Medical and Surgical Journal 1 (1826): 311-321. (2) [Ten Rhyne, Wilhelm (1648-1700).] Wilhelmi Ten Rhyne M.D. Transisalano. Daventriensis, Dissertatio de arthritide: Mantissa schematica: De acupunctura, et orationes tres . . . In ibid.: 198-204. (3) Hewson, Thomas. Case of ecthyma cachecticum, with observations. In ibid.: 89-94; 2 hand-colored plates. Whole volume, 8vo. viii, [2], 495, [3, incl. adverts.]pp. 3 plates. 212 x 133 mm. 19th century half calf, marbled boards, leather spine label. Minor foxing and toning, but very good. From the Svenska Läkaresällskapets Bibliotek, with the library's 19th century stamp on the title and front cover and library label inside front cover.(1) First Edition of the first original study of acupuncture published in North America, and one of the earliest American publications on the alleviation of pain. Franklin Bache, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was the first American to perform original research on acupuncture. In 1825 Bache had issued his translation of J. Morand's Mémoire sur l'acupuncture (1825) under the title Memoir on Acupuncturation; this was the first book on acupuncture to be published in America (see Garrison-Morton 6374.15). The same year, Bache conducted his own experimental study of acupuncture, which he recorded in the present paper."As assistant physician at the state penitentiary in Philadelphia, Bache determined in 1825 to test acupuncture on the prisoners whom he was called upon to serve. With the aid of a colleague, he used the needles to treat 12 different prisoners who were suffering from highly painful afflictions: three with muscular rheumatism, four with 'chronic pains,' three with neuralgia, and two with ophthalmia. He also used acupuncture among the prisoners in relieving several lesser pains, including a headache accompanying bilious fever, the head pain of an epileptic, an elastic tumor near the elbow joint, and a dull pain caused by pulmonic inflammation."Bache reported varying successes. In summarizing 17 subsequent cases, some of which were not among the prisoners, he noted that seven "were completely cured, seven considerably relieved, and in the remaining three cases, the remedy produced no effect." "Over all, Bache was convinced that the measure offered great promise for "removing and mitigating pain." He concluded that it could well be 'a proper remedy in almost all diseases, whose prominent symptom is pain'" (Cassedy, pp. 894-895).Bache was one of the very few American physicians in the early nineteenth century to adopt acupuncture as a method of pain relief, despite the fact that the practice was enjoying a considerable vogue in Europe at the time. This volume of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal includes several brief abstracts from European journals on the uses of acupuncture; see pp. 225-227 and 448-449.(2) First English Translation of Ten Rhyne's aphorisms on acupuncture, originally included in his Dissertatio de arthritide (1683; see Garrison-Morton 6374.10). Ten Rhyne's "De acupuntura" represents the first detailed description of acupuncture published in the West. The anonymous translators added a brief historical introduction and a copy of Ten Rhyne's illustration of an acupuncture needle and hammer.(3) Hewson's article on ecthyma (a skin infection similar to impetigo) is remarkable for its hand-colored plates, which are among the earliest to appear in an American medical periodical. Volume 1 of the North American Medical and Surgical Journal is very rare on the market. This is the first copy we have handled in 40 years of trading. Nor have we ever heard of an offprint of Bache's paper. Cassedy, "Early uses of acupuncture in the United States, with an addendum (1826) by Franklin Bache, M.D.," Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 50 (1974): 892-906. "Wilhelm Ten Rhyne's De acupunctura: An 1826 translation," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 34 (1979): 81-92. Lu & Needham, Celestial Lancets, p. 299. 40833

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Butler, Samuel
        A General Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography
      London & Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826. Copyright date of 1826 but with "Corrected to 1832" printed below in a bolder typeface; volume about 8 1/2" x 11" size, maps slightly smaller, printed one to a page, on one side only; Containing 43 colored maps and two indexes, for the sections; Samuel Butler (1774-1839) Headmaster of Shrewsbury then Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, classical scholar and educator: maps hand-colored in outline; bound in original marbled paper covered boards, red leather spine and tips, gilt ruled and titled; remains of cover title-label; some edge, tips wear to binding, top board detached, warped a bit; world hemisphere map (double page) split, worn and darkened; most other maps fairly clean, evenly toned; with the original publisher's list label on inner front endpaper; no other endpaper; a good example of a geographical learning tool of the time.. Corrected to 1832. Leather. Good. Illus. by .

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(CHIEWITZ, ELIS)
        Svenska teater-galleriet.
      Sthlm, C. Deleen, 1826. 4:o. (2),47,(1) s. & 24 handkolorerade grav. plr. Fint blått svampmålat pappbd med benvit titeletikett (Johanna Röjgård). Nära nog oskuren med endast putsade snitt. Inlagan tryckt på blåtonat papper och med en del lager- och småfläckar samt smärre lagningar. Bra ex.. Elis Chiewitz (1784-1839) gav ut flera fina planschverk. I detta får vi en intressant bild av den samtida svenska repertoaren och scenkostymerna vid denna tid samt de viktigaste skådespelarna. De skådespel och operor som presenteras är: "Don Juan", "Trollflöjten", "Richard Lejonhjerta", "Preciosa", "Snöfallet, eller den nya Eginhard", "Fanchon, eller lyrspelerskan", "Slåtter-ölet, eller: kronfogdarne", "Collin och Babet", "Tillfället gör tjufven", "Intrigen i fönstret", "Den föregifna skatten, eller: vakta er at lyss vid dörren", "Den förmente prinsen", "Juden", "Charlatanerne", "Crispin medicus", "Bröderne Philibert", "Bildhuggaren, eller den sällsynta hustrun", "Kapten Puff, eller storprataren" och "Diedrich Menshenschreck, eller den narrande juden". Ett av de charmigaste av de äldre svenska planschverken

      [Bookseller: Mats Rehnström]

(Malton printing) WRANGHAM, Francis. Only Seventy Copies - Unpublished
        THE ENGLISH PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF THE VEN. FRANCIS WRANGHAM; ARCHDEACON OF CLEVELAND. 'Only Seventy Copies - Unpublished.'
      Malton: Printed by R. Smitherson ... in Yorkersgate, 1826. . 8vo in 4s, (222x140mm), [10],646p. 2 wood-engravings in the text (attributed by Hugo to Thomas Bewick). A handsome, untrimmed and partly unopened copy with some very slight spotting; a later engraving of Hunmanby Church laid down on the verso of the front free endleaf. Bound in 20th century canvas retaining the earlier leather lettering piece on the backstrip and the earlier marbled paper endleaves. A pencilled note on the front free verso states 'Original boards, recovered.' (Sadleir 63) Extremely rare. 'Wrangham was not a rich man. Yet he contrived to indulge his passion for books, to secure what he wanted, and to revel in its possession. This he did by going after his own taste, and only following the taste of the day when it happened to coincide with his own. The result was that he rescued hundreds of interesting books from oblivion - many at very low cost - and, by studying and cataloguing them, registered their interest for always. No greater service than this can be rendered by a collector to his age and to posterity ... Wrangham's collecting-methods may have seemed trivial and whimsical at the time, but the spirit of the future was in him.' (Michael Sadleir, Archdeacon Francis Wrangham p49) The catalogue is more than a mere listing of his collection. It is extensively annotated by him with what are often quite lengthy comments on the contents of his books, their value as works of scholarship, and other points of interest to, and opinions of, Wrangham. It is indeed an insight into the man, the breadth of his learning, and his opinions.

      [Bookseller: Barry McKay Rare Books]

NACCARI Fortunato Luigi
        FLORA VENETA O DESCRIZIONE DELLE PIANTE CHE NASCONO NELLA PROVINCIA DI VENEZIA. Disposta secondo il sistema linneano e colla indicazione al metodo di Jussieu modificato dal De-Candolle.
      Bonvecchiato In-8 gr. (mm. 275 x 185), 6 voll. in 2 tomi, tela mod., tit. oro al dorso, pp. 127; 135; 170,(2); 150,(2); 142,(2); 133,(3). "Manca" la tav. inc. in rame. E' questo il più completo dei trattati fino ad allora pubblicati, a partire dal primo del Donati apparso nel 1631. Il Naccari, oltre ad aggiungere nella sua opera piante mai prima menzionate, vi ha inserito principi di botanica applicata indicando le proprietà mediche o economiche di ciascuna pianta. Cfr. Pritzel,6593 - Cicogna,5584 - Brunet,VI,5107. Qualche fiorit. solo sulle prime 8 carte di ciasc. vol. altrimenti esemplare ben conservato.

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Malavasi]

Cary, J.
        Cary's New Plan of London and its Vicinity 1826.
      London: Cary, 1826. . Cary's New Plan of London and its Vicinity 1826, Published by G and J Cary, London 1826. On folding linen in 20 sections, size 84 by 66 cm. Scale approximately four and a quarter inches to the mile. Covers an area from Kentish Town to Hackney Marshes in the north and from Battersea to Greenwich in the south. Hand-coloured. Folds into marbled endpapers. VG condition in VG slipcase, though there is no index as suggested on the slipcase, which is labelled Cary's New Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, and the adjacent villages; showing the London and East and West India Docks, and all the additions and improvements to the present time: accompanied with an Index of the streets, squares and public buildings, with reference to the situation where they may be found on the map. This edition of the map not listed in Howgego. Images available.

      [Bookseller: Arthur Hook]

ELLIS, William
        NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, OR OWHYHEE; WITH REMARKS ON THE
      1826. ELLIS, William. NARRATIVE OF A TOUR THROUGH HAWAII, OR OWHYHEE; WITH REMARKS ON THE HISTORY, TRADITIONS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND LANGUAGE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. London: H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1826. [8] + 442 pp. 8vo., 3/4 green leather with gilt red morroco spine label and marbled paper covered boards. Folding frontispiece engraving (map of Hawaii) engr. by J. Tyrer. Ex-library with no external markings (bookplate only). Moderate rubbing and shelfwear to boards, spine lightened, a few scrapes to raised bands. Slight offset tanning to endpapers.B/w engraved plates, minor foxing to edges, and occasional light foxing in the text. A solidly pleasing copy.

      [Bookseller: Boston Book Company ]

BABBAGE, Charles.
        On a Method of Expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery.London: W. Nicol, 1826. First edition.
      The very rare pre-publication offprint issue of "Babbage's first publication of his system of mechanical notation that enabled him to describe the logic and operation of his machines on paper as they would be fabricated in metal." (Norman). <br/><br/> "Babbage later stated that 'Without the aid of this language I could not have invented the Analytical Engine; nor do I believe that any machinery of equal complexity can ever be contrived without the assistance of that or some other equivalent language. The Difference Engine No. 2 ... is entirely described by its aid' (Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, p.104) <br/><br/> "Babbage considered his mechanical notation system to be one of his finest inventions, and thought it should be widely implemented. It was a source of frustration to him that no other machine designer adopted it (probably because no other engineer during Babbage's time attempted to build machines as logically and mechanically complex as Babbage's). More than one hundred years later, in the 1930s, when developments in logic were applied to switching systems in the earliest efforts to develop electromechanical calculators, Claude Shannon demonstrated that Boolean algebra could be applied to the same types of problems for which Babbage had designed his mechanical notation system." (Norman).<br/><br/> "While making designs for the Difference Engine, Babbage found great difficulty in ascertaining from ordinary drawings - plans and elevations - the state of rest or motion of individual parts as computation proceeded: that is to say the following in detail succeeding stages of a machine's action. This led him to develop a mechanical notation which provided a systematic method for labeling parts of a machine, classifying each part as fixed or moveable; a formal method for indicating the relative motions of the several parts which was easy to follow; and means for relating notations and drawings so that they might illustrate and explain each other. As the calculating engines developed the notation became a powerful but complex formal tool. Although its scope was much wider than logical systems, the mechanical notation was the most powerful formal method for describing switching systems until Boolean algebra was applied to the problem in the middle of the twentieth century. In its mature form the mechanical notation was to comprise three main components; a systematic method for preparing and labeling complex mechanical drawings; timing diagrams; and logic diagrams, which show the general flow of control." (Hyman). <br/><br/> Hook & Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, no. 37 (ordinary journal issue, i.e., not the offprint as here); Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer, p.58.. Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions, vol. 116, pt. 3, 1826, pp. 250-65. Large 4to (300 x 230 mm), contemporary plain blue wrappers, uncut, pp [ii] [1] 2-16 and 4 engraved plates (one folding and mounted on cloth). Small faint rubberstamp of the Detroit Library dated 1892 to title page and final text page, very light damp stain to lower right corner of first few leaves, in all a very fine copy of this rarity

      [Bookseller: Sophia Rare Books]

HISINGER, Wilhelm:
        W. Hisinger´s Versuch einer mineralogischen Geographie von Schweden. Aus der Handschrift übersetzt von F. Wöhler.
      Leipzig, Johann Ambrousius Barth, 1826. VI + 250 s. Samtida halvskinnband med stänkta snitt. Exlibris (Janne Kempe). Namnteckning. Namnteckning även på titelsidan

      [Bookseller: Antikvariat Röda Rummet AB]