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Mémoire sur la Galvano-Caustique. Inscribed by the author. 1879 * Sachs. Untersuchungen
am Zitteraal Gymnotus Electricus. 8 plates. Binding broken. 1881 * Arthuis. Électricité
Statique. Manuel Pratique de ses Applications Médicales. Half-title inscribed: “A Monsieur
Alexandre Dumas fils Hommage affectueux Arthuis[?].” 1884 * Burdon-Sanderson, editor.
Translations of Foreign Biological Memoirs. I. Memoirs on the Physiology of Nerve, of Muscle,
and of the Electrical Organ. 1887 * Snow. A Manual of Electro-Static Modes of Application,
Therapeutics, Radiography, and Radiotherapy. Second Edition. (1903.)
256
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(MEDICAL REFERENCE WORKS, etc.)
Group of 7 volumes.
4to, original
cloth; contents immaculate; Norman mint in publisher’s board slipcase, shrink-wrapped as
issued.
FIRST EDITIONS
.
Vp, 1967-95
[200/300]
Durling. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of
Medicine. 1967 * Henrey. British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800. 3 vol-
umes. 1975 * Blake. A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the
National Library of Medicine. 1979 * Krivatsy. A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed
Books in the National Library of Medicine. 1989 * Norman. One Hundred Books Famous
in Medicine. One of 1500. 1995.
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NAPIER, JOHN.
Logarithmorum canonis descriptio
[with
Tabula canonis
logarithmorum
and
Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio
]. [8], 56; [92]; 62,
[2] pages. 3 volumes in one. 8vo, later 19th-century
1
/
4
vellum; contents heavily browned
with occasional marginal dampstaining and minor worming in blank upper outer corners
toward end.
Lyon: Barthélemy Vincent, 1620
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST LYON EDITION
of Napier’s 1614 description and canon of logarithms and posthumous
1619 treatise on their construction; second issue, with first title dated 1620 instead of 1619.
Honeyman Sale 2292 (this edition); Grolier/Horblit 77a-b; Printing and the Mind of Man
116 (original editions).
258
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NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir.
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
To which is prefix’d, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in
Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
3 folding engraved
plates. xiv, [2], 376 pages. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, few surface imperfections on
covers, joints starting at top and bottom, lettering piece chipped; contents toned with scat-
tered foxing, opening leaves dampstained, plates offset. Armorial bookplate of Drayton
Burrill.
London: J. Tonson et al., 1728
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
of Newton’s attempt to employ astronomical principles to verify the chronology
of ancient history. Babson 214; DSB X, 82; Wallis 309.
259
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NEWTON, ISAAC, Sir.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and
the Apocalypse of St. John.
vi, [2], 323 pages. 4to, 256x202 mm, modern
1
/
2
morocco,
spine ends rubbed; light marginal soiling on title, infrequent marginal foxing, few ink blots
in corner of E3.
WIDE
-
MARGINED COPY
.
London: J. Darby and T. Browne for J. Roberts et al., 1733
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of Newton’s principal work of scriptural exegesis. Babson 224; DSB X, 81;
Wallis 328.
260
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NORMAN, HASKELL F.
The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science &
Medicine. [By] Diana H. Hook & Jeremy M. Norman.
2 volumes. Folio, original
cloth; contents immaculate.
FIRST EDITION
.
ONE OF
500
SETS
.
San Francisco, 1991
[400/600]
