ALCUIN BOOKS~ Scholarly and Rare

~ALCUIN BOOKS~
Scholarly and Rare Books

Search or Browse Appraisals Shipping About Alcuin Books alcuinx@msn.com Home

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Bernard, Cl [Claude] and Huette, Ch. [Charles]. ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF OPERATIVE SURGERY and Surgical Anatomy.. New York; (1851): H. Hailliere, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo. 513pp.,edited with notes and additions, and adapted to the use of the American Medical Student by W.H. Van Buren and C.E. Isaacs, illustrated with 107 steel engravings from drawings after nature by M.J. Leveille, designed to serve as a Companion to the ordinary text books of surgery. Bound in contemporary 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, scattered foxing throughout. An exceedingly rare and important copy of this work, which was among one of the works most consulted by Surgeon General Clement Alexander Finley during the Civil War. A very good copy.

[014774] $2500

Collins, Dr. F.W.; LeGrange. The Naturopathic Method of Reducing Dislocations After the Great French Physician Le Grange. Newark, NJ: United States School of Naturopathy, 1924. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Good 112p. Using the celebrated method of Le Grange, Dr. Collins shows how dislocations and other items can be treated using manipulation and chiropractic. There are forty-seven full page photographs.

[014027] $75

Digby, William, F.R.S.S.. Natural Law in Terrestrial Phenomena; A Study in the Causation of Earthqueaks, Volcanic Eruptions, Wind-Storms, Temperature; Rainfall with a Record of Evidence. London: Wm. Hutchinson, 1902. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Fair a nice tight binding with wear along outer joints, and at top of spine with bumped corners but a clean copy (one page has some darkening from a pasted down newspaper clipping of a solar eclipse)--this work has become scarce--title on spine adds: Newton's Delineation of the Tangential "Pull" of the Moon.

[014026] $85

Harley, H.L. 1 ALS, LETTER REGARDING OPHTHALMOSCOPE. A nice twenty-two line letter by Dr.H.L. Harley whose articles on medicine appeared in JAMA (1919) on gifted children but was well know for his medical service in World War I and his book collection. Harley, himself a bibliomaniac, writes regarding Casey Wood's book on the fundi of birds, that while it is a beautifully prepared book considering the restrictions in World War I )because of material shortages) that it was obviously a little dated even in 1917. He then lauds the importance of the ophthalmoscope. A nice item probably written in early 1920's. Was stamped by previous owner December 5, 1952.

[014550] $125

SAGGI DI ASTRONOMIA POPLARE. Torino: San Giuseppe Delgi Artigianelli, 1911, Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The rare bound journals [1911-1917] in two bound volumes found only in the Torino Library in Europe. These contain articles by such leading astronomers as Boccardini, Mascart and wonderful photographs of the solar eclipse of Aug 21, 1914, Halley's Comet and the various telescopes and observatories of the era.

[008276] $550

Tesla, Nikola; John T. Ratzlaff. Dr. Nikola Tesla, Complete Patents. Millbrae, CA: Tesla Book Company, 1983. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. Fine Originally published in two volumes in 1979, the Tesla Company decided to publish this extensive work in one volume with a stronger binding. His complete patents are found in this one large volume. His contributions in electromagnetism allowed quick advances in the understanding and application of modern understandings AC systems and electrical distribution. His genius also included theories not understood by the professional scientific community though some of those rejected ideas are now being seen in the realm of contemporary science research.

[014076] $175

Member of Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America

Purchasing individual rare books as well as entire libraries.