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By: ADELON, ALARD, Barbier ALIBERT, et al.
Price: $7,500.00
Publisher: Paris:, Crapart & C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1812-22.: 1812
Seller ID: M12282
Complete set of 60 volumes. 127 engraved plates, list of subscribers in the index volume, 10 folding charts; occasional foxing, ink and water-stains. Modern quarter green spines over original marbled boards, gilt-stamped black leather spine labels; re-backed. Ex-lib bookplates and ink stamps of the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society, early ownership inscription of Hudson Gurney. Fine. FIRST EDITION. [19th Century French Medical Encyclopedia] Possibly one of the most important encyclopedia/dictionaries of medicine ever assembled, and certainly the earliest. As Diderot's encyclopedia... View more info
By: ALBERTI DI VILLANOVA, Francesco (1737-1801).
Price: $135.00
Publisher: Lucca, Italy:, Domenico Marescandoli, 1797.: 1797
Seller ID: LV1859
Three vols. ONLY. 4to. xlvii, [1], 392; 417, [1]; 428 pp. Engraved title-page vignettes; Vol. II p. 11 lower right corner torn (not affecting text). Contemporary tree calf, spines re-backed in polished calf with original spine fragments laid down; extremities worn. Hartford Seminary Foundation/Case Memorial Library bookplates, Theological Institute of Connecticut blind-stamps to first and last few pages. RARE. Very good. FIRST EDITION of the first 3 volumes of Villanova's encyclopedia of the Italian language. The five volumes Alberti compiled were published from 1797-1800. He "was seized ... View more info
By: CAPLAT, G. (editor); Isabelle Havelange; Francoise Huguet; Bernadette Lebedeff.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Paris:, Institut National de Recherche Pedagogique, Editions du CNRS, 1986.: 1986
Seller ID: BL3810
ISBN: 2222037689
Series: Collection Histoire Biographique de l'Enseignement. At head of title: Service d'histoire de l'education, Institut national de recherche pedagogique. 8vo. 700 pp. Pictorial printed wrappers. Very good. ISBN: 2222037689 View more info
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: Lipsae & Francofurti,, Sumptibus Johannis Fritzschii, 1680.: 1680
Seller ID: LV1777
Folio in 6s. [xvi] pp., 1479; 2036 double-columns, [5], [2 blank], [80] pp. Large copperplate engraved frontispiece by Christian Romstet (1640-1721), index. Title with the ownership signature of L.L. Hinsch. Original full blind-stamped vellum; joints repaired, recent front endleaves. Very good copy. Early edition of this massive lexicon, first published in 1571, which is Faber's best known work. It contains an exhaustive array of citations given in Latin with some German references. In this regard it followed the innovation of Estienne who introduced vernacular French to his Latin lexicon in ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Santa Fe:, Ed. Castellvi, (1958).: 1958
Seller ID: M9282
8vo. 116 pp. Index. Printed wrappers; spine base worn. Very good. On the origins of medical terminology. View more info
By: KENRICK, William (c. 1725-1799).
Price: $750.00
Publisher: London:, John and Francis Rivington, William Johnston, Thomas Longman, and Thomas Cadell, 1773.: 1773
Seller ID: LV2104
4to. [8], viii, 57, [1 blank], [724] pp. Errata - dictionary text printed in double columns; title-page with small upper margin tear and related gutter staining, outer edges to leaves somewhat browned. Later quarter brown cloth over contemporary calf, gilt-stamped black leather spine label, 5 raised bands; leather worn, later end-papers. Library paper spine label. Title-page signature of Andrew Law. Title-page and last few pages blind-stamp of Hartford Theological Seminary. Good. FIRST edition of Kenrick's dictionary, "the first to indicate pronunciation with diacritical marks and to divi... View more info
By: NEWMAN, James Roy (editor).
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C.:, Harper & Row, 1963.: 1963
Seller ID: BL3852
4 volumes. 4to. 1379 pp. Profusely illustrated [2500] (250+ in color), index. Red gilt-stamped cloth. Slip-case (some wear). Very heavy and large set – extra postage required. Complete. Very good. Newman (1907-1966), American mathematician and mathematical historian, is credited for coining and first describing the mathematical concept "googol" in his book (co-authored by Edward Kasner) Mathematics and The Imagination. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Paris:, Les usuels du Robert, 1985.: 1985
Seller ID: BL4229
ISBN: 2850360139
Thin 8vo. xii, 827 pp. Cloth; top edge soiled. Very good. ISBN: 2850360139 View more info
By: REY, Alain; Sophie CHANTREAU.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Paris:, Les usuels du Robert, 1986.: 1986
Seller ID: BL4242
ISBN: 2850360678
Thin 8vo. xiii, 1035 pp. Cloth; top edge soiled, rear board dinged at top edge. Good. ISBN: 2850360678 / 2-85036-067-8 View more info
By: VULLERS, Johann August (1803-1880).
Price: $900.00
Publisher: Bonnae ad Rhenum:, Impensis Adolphi Marci, 1855-1864.: 1855
Seller ID: LV1878
2 volumes. 4to. 965, [3]; x, [2], 1566 pp. Double columns, includes appendix and addenda & corrigenda. Early half-calf, marbled boards; neatly re-backed preserving original spines, rubbed, new endpapers. Very good. First and only edition; this is the most comprehensive study of Persian languages with translation into Latin. Beautifully printed with the Persian words and letters printed in the Tauchnitz-type, as well as Sanskrit and Zend in Lichtenberger-type. This is an exhaustive work – a culmination of many years devoted to the study of Persian languages. This Lexicon is one of the m... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: London:, Adam & Charles Black, 1969.: 1969
Seller ID: BL4266
8vo. xi, 592 pp. Dark green cloth, dust-jacket; jacket worn. Very good book in poor d.j. View more info
By: [DARWIN, C.] R.B. FREEMAN.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: (Folkstone, UK):, Dawson, (1978).:
Seller ID: S11557
8vo. 309 pp. Text figs. Green cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket. Burndy bookplate. Fine. Dust jacket present. View more info
