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ABÉCÉDAIRE FRANÇAIS. Méthode A. Désir. Premier [ - dixième] tableau. Se vend chez l’auteur, 39 rue Jacob, Bourges, Imp. Ve Tardy-Pigelet et fils. [n.d. but ca.
Bibliography: See Butsch, Une éducatrice d’avant-garde, Adeline Désir 1819-1875, 1956; OCLC locates only a set of the first six boards at the BnF, and which have a variant imprint of "Paris imp. A. Dutemple" as opposed to "Bourges, Imp. Ve Tardy-Pigelet and son".
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ATTRACTIVE FRENCH CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT EXERCISE BOOK, ‘OEUVRES DIVERSES’, Par Eugène Chëne, élève de M. Deschamps, Instituteur à Campeaux.
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EXTENSIVE AND MOST ATTRACTIVE MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK ‘CAHIER L’ARITHMÉTIQUE’ appartient a moi, Théophile Joly. [title repeated on final leaf Cahier, d’arithmétique, appartenant à Théophile Joly ? & [sic] with imprint on inside rear cover Fait a Lonzac, le premier Avril Dix Huit Cent Cinquante Un].
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ZODIACUS MEDICO-GALLICUS, Sive miscellaneorum medico physicorum Gallicorum, Titulo recens in re medica exploratorum, unoquoque mense Parisiis Latinè prodentium Annus primus [- Annus Quintus]. Accessere ejusdem tractatus duo utilissimi, prior de herniis, posterior observationes circa luem veneream continens. Genevæ, Sumptibus Leonarid Chouët.
Bibliography: See Kronick, “Devant le Deluge” and other essas on Early Modern Scientific Communication, ff. 1; see also Nicholls, ‘Nicolas de Blegny and the First Medical Periodical’ in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 1934, ff. 198; Wellcome II, p. 180; Krivatsy 1376; collated complete against both the BL copy (although that does include one additional half-title for part IV excluded in this copy), and the copy at Glasgow - although plates not bound in varying orders in each copy; further complete sets located at the Huntington, Harvard, Texas and McGill and the Wellcome.
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PHILIPP HAINHOFER UND DER KUNSTSCHRANK GUSTAV ADOLFS IN UPSALA I - [IV]. [Übersetzung von Dr. Ernst A. Meyer Stockholm. Gedruckt in 200 Numerierten exeplaren in der Hofbuchdruckerei idun in Stockholm...Heliogravüren, Klischees und pläne ausgeführt in der Lithographischen anstalt des generalstabs]. Stockholm: Verlag der Lithographischen Anstalt des Generalstabs.
Bibliography: See Hans-Olof Boström, ‘Philip Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolphus’s Kunstschank in Uppsala’, Chapter 11 in The Origins of Museums, edited by Oliver Impey and Arthur MacGregor.
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DIE OBERSCHENKELVENE DES MENSCHEN in Anatomischer und Klinischer beziehung. Mit sechs tafeln in farbendruck. Leipzig, verlag von Veit & Comp.
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies at Cambridge, Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons, Chicago, Michigan, Columbia, NYAM and Cleveland.
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ANNO REGNI GEORGII II. REGIS... VICESIMO SEXTO. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the tenth day of November, Anno Dom. 1747, in the Twenty first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and from thence continued several prorogations to the eleventh day of January, 1753, being the sixth session of this present Parliament. London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty: and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1754. [with abridgement:] [DROP-HEAD TITLE:] Anno vicesimo septimo Georgii II. regis. An act for making perpetual several laws for punishment of persons destroying turnpikes, locks, or other works erected by authority of parliament;... and to impower a certain number of the Trustees of the British Museum to do certain acts... [n.p. but London, n.p. n.d. but
Bibliography: ESTC; T116418; for further discussions on Hans Sloane and the formation of the British Museum see James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (2017); Marjorie Caygill, The Story of the British Museum (2009); and David M. Wilson, The British Museum: A History (2002).
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PRÉCIS DE L'ART DES ACCOUCHEMENS en faveur des Sages-Femmes. A Angers, de l’Imprimerie de C. P. Mame, Imprimeur de Monsieur... et se trouve à Paris, Chez P. F. Didot, jeune, Imprimeur de Monsieur... Avec Approvation et Privilege du Roi.
Bibliography: R.C.O.G. 15; Wellcome II, p. 338 (1826 Paris edition); OCLC cites further copies at the NLM, Yale, Chicago, Pennsylvania, the Huntington, the BnF.
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GALERIE MÉDICALE dessineé et lithographiée Par Vigneron avec des Notices biographiques et littéraires par G. T. Doin, Docteur en médecine de la Faculté de Paris &a. 1e Livraison. Publiée par G. Engelmann, Editeur, Imprimeur Lithographe, rue Louis-le-grand No. 27. A Paris. [n.d. but 1825-1829].
Bibliography: Brunet II-789 (edition de 1825-1826); Pauly, Bibliographie des sciences medicales, I, p. 59 noting that only parts 1-8 published: OCLC locates copies at the New York Academy of Medicine, Syraceuse, Yale, the NLM and the Wellcome.
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LE CABINET DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-GENEVIÈVE. Divisé en deux parties. Contenant les antiquitez de la religion des Chrétiens, des Egyptiens, & des Romains; des Tombeaux, des Poids & des Medailles; des Monnoyes, des Pierres antiques gravées, & des Minéraux; des Talismans, des Lampes antiques, des Animaux les plus rares et les plus singuliers, des Coquilles les plus considérables, des Fruits étrangers, & quelques plantes exquises. A Paris, Chez Antoine Dezallier, ruë Saint Jacques. à la Couronne d’or. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Bibliography: Besterman, p.33; Cobres I p 200 n 6; Grinke 7; Hofer Baroque Book Illustration 61; Lipsius, Bibliotheca Numaria, 1801, p. 264; Murray, Museums, their history and their use, 1 218 and 3 80; Nissen 2861; Sinkankas 1803 (not seen, but noting that the ‘collection is very rich in abraxas and gnostic gems’); see MacGregor, ‘Tradescant's Rarities’ pp 83-4; see Antoine Schnapper, ‘Le Géant, la licorne et la tulipe. Les cabinets de curiosités en France au XVIIe siècle’, p. 282.
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MÉDECINE NOUVELLE PLAQUES DYNAMO-DERMIQUES Epithème Vitaliste. Brevetées S.G.D.G. Paris, 19 Rue de Lisbonne. n.d. but ca.
Bibliography: See https://phare-rochecorbon.org/2013/08/28/le-sanatorium-vitaliste-de-rochecorbon/
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A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON STEAM ENGINE BOILERS, as now used in the manufacturing district around Manchester: Containing a new method of calculating their power, with instructions respecting their general construction and management; Including observations on railway locomotive engines - incrustations, explosions, etc. With four plates. Manchester, Printed and Published by J. & J. Thomson, Market Street; J. Weale, High Holborn; and M. Taylor, Wellington St, Strand. London. [Entered at Stationers’ Hall].
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies at Toronto, Michigan, the British Library and Manchester.
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CONGRÈS DE LA HOUILLE BLANCHE Grenoble - Annecy - Chamonix. 7 - 13 Septembre 1902. Compte Rendu des Travaux du Congrès, des visites industrielles et des excursions. Premier [-Deuxième] Volume. Syndicat des Propriétaires et Industrielles possédant ou exploitant des Forces Motrices Hydrauliques. Grenoble, Siège Socia: Place du Lycée, 2.
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[DROP HEAD TITLE.] LOI RELATIVE À LA PEINE DE MORT, et au mode d’exécution qui sera suivi à l’avenir. Donnée à Paris, le 25 mars 1792. [A Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale
Bibliography: See https://www.cairn.info/revue-du-nord-2001-4-page-777.htm for information about Descamps.
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LES LETTRES EN ACTION un petit alphabet Mnemonique accompagné d’un syllabaire complet avec fables et conte et de plusieurs séries de caractéres et de chiffres propres a assembler les mots et les nombres qui s’y trouvent. [n.p. but presumably Paris, n.d. but
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LES FEMMES DU TEMPS PASSÉ Paris, Morizon, Libraire-Éditeur...
Bibliography: Vicaire, IV, 194.
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REGOLAMENTO PEI BAGNI DELLA PORRETTA Bologna Tipographia Governatia Cassi,
1827. 8vo, pp. 18, [2] blanks; with small appealing woodcut title-page vignette; some light creasing, otherwise clean and crisp; stitched as issued in the original plain wrappers, with small paper label on upper cover with the number ‘24’ in ink, covers a little soiled, evidence of previous folds; an appealing copy. Scarce printed tariff and regulations for the noted thermal baths of Porretta in the Province of Bologna, famed for their sulphurous waters and in particular for the treatment of respiratory diseases.
The tail of p. 16 is dated ‘Bologna li 15. Giugno 1827, G. Card. Albani’, identified on ICCU as Giuseppe Albani (1750-1834), who was legate of Bologna.Bibliography: Not on OCLC; one copy on ICCU in Bologna.
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SCHOENBRUNN Au Docteur Hegglin et aux habitants de Schoenbrunn. Souvenir d’un retapé. 1880-1885. [n.p., n.d. but ca. 1890s-1900].
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CENT TABLEAUX DE SCIENCE PITTORESQUE Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie...
Bibliography: OCLC locates only a small number of copies in the US at Alabama, the Burndy Library, the Huntington, the Smithsonian, Harvard and the British Library.
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COMPENDIUM OF THE LIGAMENTS; Illustrated by woodcuts. With the articular cartilages, interarticular or moveable fibro-cartilages, synovial membranes, and bursæ mucosæ of the joints; The mode of union, and the bones entering into the formation of each; and an outline of the dislocations, fractures, physiology, and pathology. London: Published by Henry Renshaw, Medical bookseller, 356, Strand, near King’s College. 1835.
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies at the British Library, Cambridge, Oxford, Aberdeen, the NLM and the College of Physicians.
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