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Fox, George Henry
        Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases.
      - New York, E.B.Trat, No.757 Broadway, 1881, 4°, 102 pp., "Forthy-eight Plates from Life. Colored by Hand", Halbledereinband der Zeit. Very early edition - third edition or as it is elsewhere offered, first edition, third issue. - George Henry Fox (1846-1937) was professor of dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and consulting dermatologist to the Board of Health in the same city. As was customary in his day, he traveled as a young man to Europe for further training, and studied with Virchow in Berlin, Bazin, Hardy and Vidal in Paris, Tilbury Fox and Jonathan Hutchinson in London and notably with Hebra in Vienna. - He has made many contributions, particularly to symptomology, is one of the founders of the American Dermatological Association. This important atlas of skin diseases is his major work. His first atlas "Photographic illustration of skin diseases" ((1879)1880) has 48 plates. According to Dann this was the first dermatological work to make use of a duplicating technique known as heliography or photo-engraving which was invented in 1878. - He is known eponymously for "Fox-Fordyce diseases", describing a papular itchy eruption, confined to the axillae, nipples and pubes, and considered to be a disfunction of the apocrine gland. - See Garrison & Morton No.3996 (1880); Ehring, Skin Diseases, 224 (1880); Pusey, Hist. Dermatol., 147-148; Shelly-G., Classics in Clinical Dermatology, p.324. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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James Garfield
        A rare document signed by James Garfield as President, only five weeks before his shooting by Charles Guiteau, ordering Secretary James G. Blaine to affix the seal to the appointment of former Union General Stephen A. Hurlbut as U.S. Minister to Peru during the Pacific War against Chile
      "Partly-printed Document Signed, ""James A. Garfield,"" as President, 1 page, 8"" x 9.75"", Washington, May 27, 1881 authorizing the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to ""the envelope of my letter accrediting Stephen A. Hurlbut as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States."" Expected folds, discreet mounting remnants on verso, just a hint of toning at extreme margins, else fine condition. Stephen A. Hurlbut (1815-1882) served in the Union Army during the Civil, commanding a division at Shiloh, and later commanding a corps during Sherman's Meridian Expedition of 1864. Following the war, Hurlbut served as Minister Resident to Columbia from 1869 to 1872. After a brief stint in Congress, Garfield appointed him Ambassador to Peru in 1881. His short tenure in Lima (he died a year later) was not uneventful as Peru and Bolivia were fighting Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). During his time in Peru, Hurlbut suffered an embarrassing altercation with Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881), who Garfield had appointed United States Minister to Chile only two months prior. Both men (quite improperly) became partisans for the nations in which they resided and greatly complicated the peace negotiations between the two warring South American republics. "

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TEGNER,ESAIAS
        NATTVARDSBARNEN
      - (LARSSON,CARL)illus. NATTVARDSBARNEN af Esaias Tegner. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners (1881). 4to, white cloth elaborately stamped in black and gold, 25p., VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL PRINTED DUSTWRAPPER (dw chipped). Perhaps Larsson's first book, this is illustrated by Larsson with 17 smaller and 2 larger page engravings, not at all characteristic of his later style but not unexpectedly so since it preceded his famous Ett Hem of 1899 by nearly 20 years. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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VERNE Jules
        Voyages et Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras au pôle nord. (2 éléphants)
      Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de récréation. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie. 1881 - Les Anglais au pôle nord - Le Désert de glace. 150 vignettes par Riou. Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de récréation. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie. non daté (1881) - 467 pages. Catalogue AP pour l'année 1882. Relié par Lenègre, imprimé par Gauthier-Villars. Cartonnage Hetzel rouge aux 2 éléphants, 2eme type. Tranches dorées. Gouttières régulières. Pas de rousseur. Bon état. Format in-4°(28x18). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Grünfeld, Josef
        Die Endoskopie der Harnröhre und Blase.
      - Dtsch. Chir., Lfg.51. - Stuttgart, F.Enke, 1881, 8°, XVI, 240 pp., 22 Holzschnitte im Text und 108 fein kolorierte Abbildungen auf 3 ganzseitigen Tafeln, OBrosch.; unaufgeschn. ERSTE AUSGABE. - Der Begründer der URETHROSKOPIE ist der Wiener Hautarzt Joseph Grünfeld (1840-1910). Es ist die bedeutendste Leistung in der Zeit vor Nitze. Grünfeld faßt alle technischen Errungenschaften seit Bozzinis Lichtleiter in seinen Urethroskopen zusammen. Grünfeld ist auch der Erfinder des Harnröhrenspiegels. Grünfeld verwendete als Reflektor den 1841 von Friedrich Hofmann, Kreisphysikus in Burgsteinfurt, beschriebenen konkaven Hohlspiegel mit zentralem Sehloch und befestigt ihn mit einer Binde an der Stirn; er verschließt den offenen Harnröhrentubus am Schnabel mit einem schrägen Glasfenster und kann damit die untere und hintere Blasenwand sehen. Als erster entfernt er kleine Blasentumoren durch einen offenen Tubus unter Sicht. Er beschreibt den Unterschied von Harnsäure- und Phosphatsteinen etc. Auch sondiert er als erster das Ureterostium unter Kontaktendoskopie und in direkter Sicht (1876). Dabei drückt er das gerade Fenster bei der Frau gegen die Schleimhaut und macht sie so blutleer; das Ureterostium findet er als erster regelmäßig auf, mit einem Blickfeld von 8 mm Durchmesser und einem scheinbaren Abstand von 8-18 cm. Das Andrücken des Fensters an die Blasenwand ist notwendig, weil sonst "die Trübung des Harns hinderlich war". Er erprobt alle möglichen Arten der Beleuchtung, vor allem Gaslicht. Wenn irgend möglich, benutzt er aber helles Sonnenlicht oder Tageslicht, so daß seine Patienten immer auf dem Sprung waren, wenn in Wien die Sonne durch die Wolken brach. - First Edition. In 1876, Josef Grünfeld of Gyorke/Hungaria, a pioneer of cystoscopy, was the first to successfully catheterize the ureters under vision, using malleable catheters introduced into bladder alongside his glassended endoscope. He also was the first surgeon which observe a bladder tumor by cystoscope (1885). - Murphy, 183 & 351; Kiefer Cat. 251; Nicht bei Benjamin Collection. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Whitman, Walt
        Leaves Of Grass
      James R. Osgood And Company, 1881, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good Condition, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, 6th EditionOchre Cloth Boards With Gilt Spine Title And Design And Gilt Facsimile Of Whitman's Signature To Front Board. Head And Tail Of Spine Crushed. Three Ink Signatures To Early Prelims And Front Paste Down. Has 1881-82 On Title Page And 'Copyright 1881' To Verso Thus Indicating 2Nd State Of This Edition Which Was Famously Labelled Obscene And Ordered To Be Removed From Sale. Scarce Thus. Includes Tissue Protected Portrait Of The Author Between Pp28 And 29. A Historic And Much Discussed And Written About Edition. 2nd Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. 382 pages. Item Type: Book. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 021271.

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Steiner, Jacob.
        Jacob Steiner's Gesammelte Werke. Erster und zweiter Band., Herausgegeben von K. Weierstrass.
      G. Reimer, Berlin 1881/82. - 527 S. mit dem bildnisse Steiners und 44 Figurentafeln - 743 S. mit 23 Figurentafeln, Sprache: de Gewicht in Gramm: 2640 Groß 8°, marmoriertes Halbleder der Zeit mit vergoldeten Zierbünden und Rückentitel, Bibliotheks-Exemplare (ordnungsgemäß entwidmet) mit Papier-Rückenschild, Stempel auf Titel, Einbände leicht berieben und bestoßen, die Tafeln von Band 1 mit gaz kleinem Einriss (nicht in den bedruckten Bereich hineinreichend), insgesamt gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar, [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Wernicke, Carl
        Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten. 3 Bde.
      . Kassel, Berlin, Theodor Fischer, 1881/1883, 8°, (4), V, 1 Bl., 371 pp.; XXXV, 1 Bl., 215 pp., 2 Bl.; pp. 253-572; 96 Abb., 3 orig. Leinenbände; feines Exemplar.. Erste Ausgabe! - Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) studierte in Breslau, wo er 1870 promovierte, Assistenzarzt am Allerheilliegenhospital wurde und sich 1875 für Psychiatrie habilitierte (1876 in Berlin). Von 1876-78 arbeitete er als Assistent C. Westphals an der Psychiatrischen und Nervenklinik der Charite und wurde 1885 a.o. Professor, 1890 o.Professor für Psychiatrie und Neurologie in Breslau. 1904 folgte er einem Ruf in Halle. - Wernicke gehört zu den bedeutendsten Forschern auf dem Gebiet der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. In seiner ersten größeren, für sein weitere Studium grundlegenden Arbeit "Der aphasische Symptomencomplex" Breslau 1874, gelangte er zur Entdeckung der sensorischen Aphasie - Wernickesche Aphasie - und ihrer Lokalisation in der ersten linken Schläfenwindung, der sog. Wernickeschen Windung. Durch diese Entdeckung und durch seine Theorie des Sprachprozesses wurde er der Hauptbegründer der Aphasielehre. Er beschäftigte sich mit dem Faserverlauf im Gehirn und mit der Begründung einer Pathologie der Herderkrankungen. Es gelang ihm die Entdeckung der hemianopischen Pupillenreaktion - Wernicksches Phänomen, des Zentrum für die assoziierten Augenbewegungen im unteren Scheitellappen und des Krankheitsbildes der Polioencephalitis acuta haemorrhagica - Wernicksche Krankheit (Lehrb. d. Gehirnkrankheiten, 2.Bd., p.229); er klärte und fertigte schon bekannte Symptomenbilder, z.B. halbseitiger Lähmungen nach Blutungen und Erweichungen. Wernicke teilte die psychischen Vorgänge und Störungen nach einem Schema ein und erwarb sich durch die Bereicherung und Vertiefung der psychischen Symptomenlehre sehr große Verdienste. Seine Namen trägt auch noch der WERNICKE-MANNsche Lähmungstypus. - cf.Fischer, p.1669 - First Edition. "The three-volume 'Lehrbuch der Gehrinkrankheiten...' is an astounding accomplishment for so a young man (Wernicke was 33 when volume one appeared). It was the first comprehensive account of the achievements in cerebral localization up to that time. Particularly interesting was his postulation of the symptomatology, resulting from thrombosis of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, based on his anatomical investigations of the arterial supply of the medulla oblongata... In his 'Lehrbuch' (vol. 2, p.229), too, he brought to light the clinical syndrome of 'polio-encephalitis superior haemorrhagica', which has become 'Wernicke's encephalopathy'. Haymaker & Schiller, Founder of Neurology, p. 533. - Not in Osler, Waller, Cushing, Courville, Norman.

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BERTRAND (C. Eg.)
        Archives botaniques du Nord de la France. Revue botanique mensuelle.
      - Lille, Danel, 1881 - Paris, Doin, 1889. 4 volumes in-8°. Reliure demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs, cuir insollé, épidermures, coiffes émoussées. Très nombreux schémas in-texte. Contient : Tome 1 Première année avril 1881- mars 1882 - Definition des membres des plantes vasculaires par C. Eg. Bertrand. - Nomenclature de la graine. Germination. - Classification des Thallophytes. - Anatomie comparée des organes végétatifs et des téguments séminaux des cucurbitacées par M. H. Lotar. - Nomenclature de la tige, de la feuille et de la racine. - Remarque sur le diagramme de quelques renonculacées à fleurs régulières. - Notes sur les Sphénozamites par B. Renault. - Contribution à l'histoire des Usilaginées par M. Woronin. Tome 2 deuxième année avril 1882 - mars 1884 - Contribution à l'histoire des Usilaginées par M. Woronin. (suite) - Notice biographique sur J. Decaisne. - L'accroissement de la racine chez les phanérogames par Schwendener. - Recherche sur les Tmesiptéridées par C. Eg. Bertrand. - Aperçu systèmatique des Chytridiacées recueillies en Europe et dans l'Asie centrale par N. Sorokine. - Recherche sur les Tubercules de Jalap par A. Bouriez. Tome 3 troisième année avril 1884 - mars 1886 - Recherche sur les Tmesiptéridées par C. Eg. Bertrand. (suite) - Recherche sur les Jalap par A. Bouriez. - Phylloglossum par C. Eg. Bertrand. - Notice sur L. R. Tulasne et sur son oeuvre botanique par P. Duchateau. - Remarque sur les faisceaux foliaires des cycadées actuelles et sur la sigification morphologique des tissus des faisceaux unipolaires diploxylés par C. Eg. Bertrand et B. Renault. - Recherche sur les poroxylons, gymnospermes fossiles du terrain houiller supérieur par C. Eg. Bertrand et B. Renault. Tome 4 quatrième et cinquième année avril 1886 - juillet 1889 - Recherche sur les poroxylons, gymnospermes fossiles du terrain houiller supérieur par C. Eg. Bertrand et B. Renault. (suite) - Recherche sur l'anatomie comparée des calycanthées, des Mélastomacées et des myrtacées par O. Lignier. (nd) (pah6)

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Tuer, Andrew W.; Francesco Bartolozzi; Andrew White Tuer
        Bartolozzi and His Works, A Biographical and Descriptive Account of the Life and Career of Francesco Bartolozzi, R.A.; 2 Vols.
      Field & Tuer / Scribner & Welford, London / New York 1881 - Limited Printing. Two volumes, complete. Large quarto, full vellum with gilt titles, gilt top edge, clean unmarked texts, 211 + 152 pp., illustrated (including some plates on silk), Very Good set, some foxing/soil/discoloration to the outer edges of some pages, light soil to the covers, some wear to the tips and edges of the covers and to the spines of both volumes (some expert repair-work has been done to the lower portion of the spine of the first volume), two small bookplates to the front pastedowns of both volumes. No statement of limitation, but we assume 1/100 of this Limited Printing. Digital images sent upon request. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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TUER, Andrew W.
        BARTOLOZZI AND HIS WORKS
      Field & Tuer 0, London S/D (1881?) - 2 Vols de [16]-211-[13] / [12]-152-[14] pp. Encadernado em dois volumes em inteira de pergaminho. Com 13 Gravuras Tiradas das pranchas originais. Excelente monografia de Bartolozzi primorosamente impressa sobre papel encorpado. Bartolozzi (1728 - 1815) Nasceu em Itália (Florença), gravou em Veneza e foi para Inglaterra em 1762, tendo aberto aí gravuras de grande valor, onde encontrou fama e prosperidade. Em 1802 mudou-se para Portugal onde fundou uma aula de gravura e realizou gravuras com os retratos de D. João Vi, Wellington e outras gravuras de mérito. Ver. (Pamplona - Dicionário De Pintores), (Ernesto Soares - Hist. Da Gravura Artística Vol. I. pp101/120) Size: In-4º(292x230) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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BUNTLINE, NED
        BUFFALO BILL, THE KING OF BORDER MEN
      J. S. Ogilvie & Co., Publishers, 1881., 1881. First edition. 11 3/4" x 8 5/8" printed wrappers, double column, 64 pp. (including covers). Buffalo Bill Cody was fairly well known in the West as a buffalo hunter and scout when Buntline went west seeking new inspiration for his prolific imagination and was introduced to him at Fort McPherson, Nebraska. The encounter resulted in Buntline's story, "Buffalo Bill, The King of the Border Men." Spine reinforced with paper tape, tears and chips to the front page, an old water stain to top edge of a few pages, reinforced at a number of points with adhesive-backed paper tape, the entire rear cover is completely backed and reinforced. Overall a good copy with the entire contents legible.

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Trollope, Anthony
        Doctor Wortle's School
      London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in 3/4 blue leather with coordinated blue cloth, top edge of the closed page blocks gilded (some modest rubbing to the board corners and tiny rubs to the spine ends -- bound without the catalogue); Trollope's tale of the Rev. Mr. Peacocke, an Englishman, who, while teaching in St. Louis, befriended the deserted wife of Ferdinand Lefroy, a man of bad character. Upon later confirming that Lefroy had died, he married the widow. Lefroy then reappeared, made himself known to the newly-wed couple, and then disappeared again. Peacocke promptly returned to England with his bride where the couple took positions at Doctor Wortle's school and grew quite popular. Rumors of their past emerged and Peacocke confessed his unintentional bigamy to his employer. Lefroy's brother turned up intent on blackmail, found that Peacocke's secret had already been discovered, abandoned his blackmailing scheme and acknowledged that Ferdinand Lefroy had indeed died subsequent to the Peacocke's marriage. What then, was to be done respecting the Peacocke's bigamous marriage and their employment at the school? A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of a rather uncommon Trollope novel.

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MARKHAM, ALBERT H
        A Polar Reconnaissance Being The Voyage Of The "Isbforn" To Novaya Zemlya In 1879.
      London, C. Kegan & Paul, 1881.. Rebound First Edition; frontispiece, 9 b/w illustrations, 2 folding maps at rear, note on the fishes, index; rebound in modern half blue half calf marbled boards, raised bands, title on label on spine, new endpapers, a fine copy. Sir Albert Hastings Markham K.C.B. (11 November 1841 - 28 October 1918) was a British explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy.

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William Morris; South Kensington Museum; India Museum
        Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India.
      London: South Kensington Museum 1881 - 48 cm. Elephant folio. Yellow cloth. Scattered staining to front cover.1 preliminary leaf, only 84 Chromo-lithographic color plates. Tissue guards. Gorgeous plates throughout. Institutional stamps on plates. A rare volume. "A collection of plates on Indian textiles from the Victoria & Albert Museum which include many designs for turbans, garments, scarf and mats. The museum's Indian collections have their origins in the East India Company's Museum, or Oriental Repository, founded in 1791. In 1881, the year of publication of the present book, Caspar Purdon Clarke, who had arranged the new Indian section, was sent to India to expand the collections with instructions to collect objects in everyday production in order to encourage the 'native art manufactures' of India. It was also intended that these would provide models of design and ornamentation for British manufacturers and art students. Clarke's purchases included probably the museum's largest single acquisition of Indian textiles, in all more than a thousand examples of textiles and dress." - Christie's Sale 4826, Lot 194, 25 April 2012. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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RIDDELL (Mrs. J.H.)
        The senior partner
      A Novel. By Mrs. J.H. Riddell, Author of George Geith, The Mystery in Palace Gardens, etc. In three volumes. London: Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty the Queen, 1881. (All Rights reserved.) 3 Vols., sm.cr.8vo; final leaf in each volume a single inset; pp.[vi]+298; [vi]+309+[i (blank)]; [vi]+290; diagonally very-fine-ribbed apple-green cloth blocked very dark green on front cover and spine, lettered very dark green on front cover, gilt on spine; end-papers printed with flower-and-leaf design in grey-green. One or two very minor faults, but a very nice copy, near-fine. Scarce thus. Very scarce. Sadleir, 2066, listing the copy from the publishers file; Wolff lists only a later German reprint; Hubin, p.346. Includes a fair amount of detection, and the subject is financial swindling, but the story involves nothing that would have been criminous at the time. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.

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William Morris; South Kensington Museum; India Museum
        Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India
      London: South Kensington Museum, 1881-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 48 cm. Elephant folio. Yellow cloth. Scattered staining to front cover.1 preliminary leaf, only 84 Chromo-lithographic color plates. Tissue guards. Gorgeous plates throughout. Institutional stamps on plates. A rare volume. "A collection of plates on Indian textiles from the Victoria & Albert Museum which include many designs for turbans, garments, scarf and mats. The museum's Indian collections have their origins in the East India Company's Museum, or Oriental Repository, founded in 1791. In 1881, the year of publication of the present book, Caspar Purdon Clarke, who had arranged the new Indian section, was sent to India to expand the collections with instructions to collect objects in everyday production in order to encourage the 'native art manufactures' of India. It was also intended that these would provide models of design and ornamentation for British manufacturers and art students. Clarke's purchases included probably the museum's largest single acquisition of Indian textiles, in all more than a thousand examples of textiles and dress." - Christie's Sale 4826, Lot 194, 25 April 2012.

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SMITH, Hamilton
        ANNALS OF SCIENCE. 13 ISSUES
      1881 - SMITH, Hamilton. ANNALS OF SCIENCE, BEING A RECORD OF THE INVENTIONS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIED SCIENCE. Conducted by Hamilton L. Smith, A. M. Cleveland: Printed by Harris, Fairbanks & Co., 1852(-1853). Thirteen issues containing early articles and notices about photography. Most issues are 16 pp., except for Vol 2, No. 5, which is 32pp. Octavo, printed self-wrappers, edges untrimmed. Pencil ownership of George B. Emerson (1797-1881), educational leader and amateur naturalist, on six issues. Except for two issues (Vol. 1, No. 1 & Vol 2, No. 5) whose wrappers are heavily dust-soiled, most wrappers are lightly dust-soiled, with occasional creasing and/or nicks to some edges, and scattered light foxing within, though mostly clean. The articles: "New Process on Glass," by J. Pucher. P. 14. Vol. 1, No. 1. October 15, 1852. "New Photographic Paper," by M. Gustavus LeGray. P. 32. Vol. 1, No. 3. November 15, 1852. "Direct Positive Proofs Upon Glass," by M. Adolphe Martin. P. 59. Vol. 1, No. 5. December 15, 1852. "Photographic Landscapes on Paper," by John John Stewart. P. 89-90. Vol. 1, No. 8. February 1, 1853. "Heliography." P. 118-119. Vol. 1, No. 10. March 1, 1853. "Paper Photography." P. 119- 120. Vol. 1, No. 10. March 1, 1853. "Iodizing Paper," by Weld Taylor. P. 132. Vol. 1, No. 11. April 1, 1853. "Iodizing Paper," by Thos. L. Mansell. P. 166. Vol. 1, No. 14. May 15, 1853. "Representation of Microscopic Objects," by Joseph Delves. P. 174. Vol. 1, No. 15. June 15, 1853. "New Process on Glass," by H. L. Smith. P. 174. Vol. 1, No. 15. June 15, 1853. "Engraving on Steel," Part 2 only, by H. F. Talbot. P. 203. Vol. 1, No. 17. July 15, 1853. "The Wax Paper process," by William Crookes. P. 228-229. Vol. 1, No. 19. September 1, 1853. "Positive Photographic Impressions," by A. Martin. P. 254. Vol. 1, No. 21. October 1, 1853. "Photography and the Microscope," by H.C.K. P. 265-266. Vol. 1, No. 22. "Photographic Process," by Mr. C. J. Muller. P. 120-121. Vol. 2, No. 5. May, 1854. "The Practice of Photography," Part 1 only, by Philip H. Delamotte. P. 124-127. Vol. 2, No. 5. May, 1854. "The Photographic Society." P. 140. Vol. 2, No. 5. May, 1854. Eleven complete articles and 2 incomplete. Rare. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Clément-Just
        Album of theatrical photographs, prints, original art and clippings relating to the career of French stage actor Clément-Just
      [Paris], ca. 1860-1881 - The personal photo album and scrapbook of the celebrated 19th-century French stage actor Clément-Just, with striking vintage albumen and salted paper print photographs of the actor in costume, all signed by Clément- Just and many captioned with the name of the play and the theater where it was performed. Clément-Just specialized in historical costume dramas, plays with titles such as Mazarin, Henri II, La Prise de Pékin, La Chouanne, Jeanne D'Arc and Monte Cristo, and the photographs are noteworthy for their elaborate display of costume. Clément-Just is nearly unrecognizable from photograph to photograph as he undergoes extreme changes in costume, make-up and hair style. Laid-in to the album is a collection of contemporary French theater newspaper clippings concerning Clemént-Just's career, including an 1875 issue of Paris-Theatre which is adorned on its front page with a cliché print of the actor (THEATER) Oblong folio. 14 albumen and 3 salted paper prints (10-1/2 x 8 in.) mounted on album leaves, most of Clément-Just in costume, 5 cartes-de- visite and 3 cabinet cards of Clément-Just, all signed ("C. Just") and many captioned on the mount with title of play and date, with 3 original watercolor sketches and numerous prints. Album leaves worn, some separated at the gutter, photographs generally fine and unfaded, some imperfections in the developing processes or deteriorations to a few prints, album worn, covers detached. With binder's ticket of Deschamps, Paris on front pastedown [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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WERNER, Karl
        NILBILDER
      1881. WERNER, Karl. NILBILDER. Vier und zwanzig Facsimiles nach Aquarellen. Naturaufnahmen wahrend zweier Orientreisen 1862 und 1865 von Karl Werner. Erlauternde Texte von Dr. A(lfred) E. Brehm und Professor J(ohannes) Dumichen. Pantographie-Ausgabe Seitz Patent. Wandsbeck: Verlag und Druck der Artistischen Anstalt Gustav W. Seitz, 1881. 81 pp. text + [24] chromolithographic plates showing scenic views and daily life along the Nile, from Cairo to Nubia, after watercolors by the esteemed German artist Kar Werner (1808-1894), with a few text figures and a two-color line map as frontispiece. The views are mounted on heavy stock and have letterpress tissue guards. This is a small folio verion, 38 x 29 cm, of a larger folio version that was first published in the 1870S in parts. Publisher's decorated cloth binding (with binder's ticket: G. Fritzsche, Leipzig) printed in colors and stamped in gilt to spine and upper board in the style of an Islamic bookbinding. It is moderately soiled and worn, especially at fore-corners, and has been rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down and a new spine label. Three text leaves have closed tears, two of which are carefully mended on versos; and there is some occasional, light thumbing in margins of text leaves and mounts. The plates themselves are quite clean and lovely.

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BOOTH, E.R.
        Rough notes on the birds observed during twenty-five years' shooting and collecting in the British Islands.
      London, R.H. Porter, 1881-1887. 3 volumes. Large-folio (420 x 320mm). With 114 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 2 coloured maps. Later green half morocco, spines with gilt bird ornaments, topedges gilt. A well preserved copy of this beautiful and important work, which is based on years of birdwatching, especially in the highlands of Scotland, off the Scottish coasts, and in the western isles. The work is much in demand for its notes on these birds, as well as for its wonderful and impressive plates (after drawings by E. Neale), of which the ones showing birds of prey, are of outstanding quality and are reminescent of Gould. "Neale's most important assignment was given him by Edward T. Booth. This bird-watcher was a very wealthy man and could indulge himself fulltime in his hobby. With his gun in hand he stalked the marshes near Rye, then the Norfolk Broads, and finally went further afield to the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland, in search of birds' (Jackson p. 95). "The beautiful plates show the birds in different plumages" (Anker 51). //Nissen IVB, 121; Zimmer pp. 79/80: "A series of well written field notes accompanied by good plates"; Wood 249.

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        Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins.,
      Sbg./Wien/Innsbruck., Vlg. d. Deutschen u. Oesterr. Alpenvereins 1881ff. - Red. v. Th. Trautwein. Bd. 12 (1881) - Bd. 34 (1903), Bd. 39 (1908) - Bd. 44 (1913). Zus. 28 Bde. 8° (ab 1895 in-4°). Mit zahlr. Illustr., meist gefalt. Karten u. Panoramen HLn. d. Zt. (1881-83) u. OLn.-Bde. Bis 1894 mit prächtiger Gold- u. Silberpräg. Zustand überwiegend sehr gut. Von 1881-1903 durchgehende Folge. Es fehlen in: Bd. 15 (1884) Übersichtskarte d. Tennengebirges, Kalkkögel, Kartenskizze Brentagruppe, Panorama v. Habicht in Stubai; - Bde. 16-18 (1885-87) jeweils "Karte d. Berchtesgadener Alpen"; - Bd. 21 (1890) Specialkarte Großglockner; - Bd. 22 (1891) Übersichtskarte Ostalpen u. Specialkarte Ortlergruppe; - Bd. 23 (1892) Karte d. Sonnenblickgebietes; - Bd. 24 (1893) Karte d. Oetztahler u. Stubaiergruppe; - Bde. 26-28 (1895-97) jeweils Karte v. Oetzthal u. Stubai; - Bd. 31 (1900) Übersichtskarte Ostalpen westl. Bl.; - Bd. 32 (1901) Übersichtskarte d. Ostalpen östl. Bl. - Bd. 33 (1902) Touristenwanderkarte Dolomiten, Bl. 2; - Bd. 39 (1908) Karte d. Brentagruppe. - Zahlreiche Einzelbände sind lagernd und können auf Wunsch angeboten werden. Gewicht in Gramm: 28000 Sonderangebot: Antiquariat Burgverlag bietet AbeBooks-Kunden einen exklusiven Rabatt von 50% auf sämtliche Preise. Alter Preis: 2400,00 EUR [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Billroth, Theodor: = Wölfler, Anton
        Ueber die von Herrn Professor Billroth ausgeführten Resectionen des Carcinomatösen Pylorus.
      . Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1881, 8°, (6), 53, (3) pp., 3 lith. Taf.; 42pp. Verlagsverzeichnis, feienr Halbledereinband; St.a.Tit.. ERSTE ERFOLGREICHE MAGENRESEKTION - BILLROTH I - - Erste und einzige Auflage der sehr seltenen ersten Monographie der Magenchirurgie! - - Im August des Jahres 1877 schloss Professor Billroth seinen Aufsatz über eine erfolgreiche Gasteroraphie mit folgenden Worten : "Es ist von dieser Operation zur Resection eines Stückes carcinomatös degenerirten Magens nur noch ein kleiner Schritt zu machen, wie ihn jüngst Czerny von der Oesophagotomie zur Resection eines carcinomatös degenerirten Stückes Oesophagus mit glücklichem Erfolge gemacht hat." - Zwei Jahre später gab Herrn Prof. Billroth, ein Fall von gelungener Enteroraphie von Neuem Gelegenheit, sich über die Frage der Magenresection in folgender Weise auszusprechen: "Nachdem früher von mir gezeigt wurde, dass man Magenwunden ebenso wie den Darm vernähen kann, ohne fürchten zu müssen, dass der 'Verdauungssaft die Heilung per primam hindert, so steht nun anatomisch, physiologisch und technisch der partiellen Resection des Magens beim Menschen (z. B. wegen Carcinom) nichts mehr im Wege. Es muss gelingen!" - Und wiederum zwei Jahre später ist es Billroth gelungen, am 29. Jänner 1881 bei einer 43 jährigen Frau den carcinomatösen Pylorus mit Glück zu reseciren! - Es ist, soweit mir die Literatur bekannt ist, der dritte Fall von Pylorus-Resection, die am lebenden Menschen überhaupt versucht und ausgeführt wurde, der erste, welcher in Genesung endigte. .." - Als Billroth nach seiner ersten und gelungenen Resection des carcinomatösen Pylorus in einem Briefe an Herrn Dr. Wittelshofer eine vorläufige Mitteilung darüber machte, kam uns nachträglich die Nachricht zu, das Rydygier in Culm bereits am 16.November 1880 bei einem 64jährigen Manne einen carcinomatösen Pylorus resecirt hatte; die zweite Pylorus-Extirpation , welche am lebenden Menschen unternommen worden war. Seitdem hat Rydygier seine Operationsmethode, auf die wir später noch einmal des Genaueren zurückkommen müssen, eingehend auseinandergesetzt, Rydygier's Kranker starb zwölf Stunden nach der Operation." Wölfler, Einleitung (26.April 1881) - - First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.

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GODMAN, F. DU CANE & SALVIN, O.
        Biologia Centrali-Americana, or contribution to the knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America: COLEOPTERA by H.W. Bates, D. Sharp and others.
      London 1881-1911. 7 volumes bound in 18. 4to (305 x 245mm). pp. x, 316; xv, 824; xii, 717; xii, 432; xv, 690; xii, 372; xxxiv, 572; x, 494; vi, 354; vii, 750; vii, 513; (6), 396; vi, 221; xii, 525; xx, 625; (4), 374; xii, 276; x, 249, with 350 lithographed plates of which 304 finely hand-coloured. Contemporary half leather, spines have been a bit crudely rebacked and 3 volumes in later cloth. The rare coloured issue of the complete coleoptera section of this highly important work on the fauna and flora of Central America. 'The best example of an entomologist who devoted his main efforts to the study of exotic faunas was H.W. Bates (1825-1892). In his early career he spent more than ten years in South America, partly in company with the famous A.R. Wallace; he was a great general biologist, the first to discover the form of mimicry in butterflies that afterwards was named after him. He worked on different insect groups, with his first paper published in 1843. After 1870 he almost exclusively turned to Coleoptera and may be termed the father of coleopterology not only for tropical America, as manifested by his volumes on Carabidae, Longicornia, and Lamellicornia in Godman & Salvin's 'Biologia Centrali-Americana' (Smith, R.T., History of Entomology p. 145)./The whole work was published in 215 parts in 63 volumes from 1875-1915. It was 'the most thorough study of the animals, plants, and human beings of Central America ever attempted' (Nature in the New World p. 187). The zoological section described 38,637 animals, approximately half as new species and half as new genera. Japanese stamp of Mr. Kikumaro Okano on titles.//B.M. (Nat. Hist) VI, p. 380.

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Marey, Etienne Jules
        La circulation du sang. A l'etat physiologie et dans les maladies.
      . Paris, Mason, 1881, 4°, (8), 747 pp., mit 358 Holzstichen, Halbledereinband der Zeit mit 5 Bünden und Rückenvergoldung; Rücken erneuert, feines Exemplar.. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CIRCULATION - First Edition! - "This work based on Etienne Jules Marey's (1830-1904) earlier "Physiologie medicale de la circulation du sang" has the added benefit of nearly twenty years experience, study and research. Marey again presents a comprehensive study of the circulatory system's physiology and pathology, and in addition, he places special emphasis on the clinical sings of cardiac healt and diseases as well as the instrumentation necessary". -cf. Heirs of Hippocrates, No.1048; Garrison & Morton No. 783

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ZOLA Emile
        Le Naturalisme au théâtre. Les Théories et les Exemples.
      Paris, G. Charpentier 1881 - EDITION ORIGINALE tirée à 10 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Hollande. Celui-ci N°8. (Contrôlé) Paris, G. Charpentier 1881 - 408 pages. Fausse mention de deuxième édition sur la couverture. Ex-libris. Reliure demi veau vert olive à la bradel. Dos lisse avec titre, auteur et date en pied dorés. Dos insolé. Non rogné, témoins conservés. Couverture jaune conservée. Pas de rousseur. Bon état. Format in-12°(19x13). 1ère Edition [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Verne, Jules
        The Giant Raft. (Part I.) EIGHT HUNDRED LEAGUES ON THE AMAZON
      1881 - Translated by W. J. Gordon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. 16 pp undated ads. Original chocolate brown cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled. First American Hardbound Edition of the first part of Verne's South American adventure THE GIANT RAFT (the second part, THE CRYPTOGRAM, was published later). Published in French in 1881 as LA JANGADA (a Brazilian term for a large river raft), the first American edition of Part I was Munro's wrappered Seaside Library version, in July of that year. Sampson Low's illustrated hardbound London edition came out in November 1881, followed by this American edition in December; the American second part did not come out until September 1882.~This copy is in chocolate brown cloth (one of several colors used, without priority); other than very slight wear at the spine ends it is a fine, bright copy. Taves & Michaluk V022. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Lacroix, M. Louis
        Iles de la Grèce
      Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris 1881 - L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 32 gravures h.t. 21,9x13,6 cm. --- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud [.]" --- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Light wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and 30 engravings in very good condition, without foxing. GOOD+ [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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HARRIS, Joel Chandler
        Uncle Remus. His Songs and Sayings
      New York: D. Appleton and Company,, 1881. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in gold and black, patterned endpapers. Frontispiece, vignette title, 7 plates, and engravings throughout. Lightly rubbed, contents toned. An excellent copy. First edition, first printing, first issue with "presumptive" at page 9, last line, and no mention of this title among the advertisements on page [233].

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