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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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DAS LEBEN DES MENSCHEN Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. Band 1 - [Band V]. Stuttgart, Kosmos, Gesellschaft der Naturfreunde, Geschäftstelle: Franckh’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1922, [1924, 1926, 1929,
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FACTOREN UND PRIMZAHLENTAFEL von 1 bis 100000 neuberechnet und zweckmässig eingerichtet nebst einer Gebrauchsanleitung und Abhandlung der Lehre von Factoren und Primzahlen. Für Mathematiker, Rchenlehrer und Kaufleute. Jena und Leipzig bei Christian Ernst Gabler.
Bibliography: Scarce: Seemingly no copies in the US, with KVK locating copies in Berlin, Coburg, Augsburg and University College, London: a number of digital copies listed in Germany.
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A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE ENGINE made use of for sawing off under water, the Piles which help’d to support the centers, for turning the arches of Westminster Bridge. Most humbly inscrib’d to the Right Honble &c. The Commissioners for building the said Bridge, by the Inventor [in manuscript Willm Etheridge, Carpenter]. Cars: Labelye Delint, P. Fourdrinier Scultp, Published, [in manuscript May 1st] 1745.
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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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VERZEICHNISS DER DOUBLETTEN DES ZOOLOGISCHEN MUSEUMS der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen. Mit 1 terminologischen kupfertafel. Berlin, In commission bei T. Trautwein.
Bibliography: See the S2A£ Biographical Database of Southern African Science http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1681
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ABREGE HISTORIQUE DES SCIENCES ET DES BEAUX-ARTS Pour servir de suite à l’Encyclopédie enfantine de Mlle. Los-Rios. A Dresde, chez les Freres Walther.
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies of this edition at the Royal Danish Library only; Yale holds a copy of a 1789 Lausanne reprint which they note as being a translation of Abbé Dufour’s work of 1781.
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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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DESCRIPTION DES MOEURS, USAGES ET COUTUMES DE TOUS LES PEUPLES DU MONDE, contenant une foule d'Anecdotes sur les Sauvages d'Afrique, d'Amérique, les Anthropophages, hommes de Cuivre, Hottentots, Caraïbes, Patagons, habitans des Terres de Feu, Samoïédes et autres; sur les animaux monstrueux, amphibies, et autres prodiges de l'univers. Seconde Édition, entièrement refondue, augmentée de divers extraits de Voyages, et adaptée a l’usage de la jeunesse; accompagnée de douze jolies gravures en couleur. Tome premier [-Tome Second.] A Paris, Chez Salmon, Libraire...
Bibliography: Not in Gumunchian.
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‘LIVRET POUR LES MATELOTS’ title taken from upper wrapper. n.p. but France, [n.d. but ca.
Bibliography: See Cormack, Revolution and Political Conflict in the French Navy, 1789-1794, p. 23.
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MENU CARD IN THE SHAPE OF A SKULL FOR THE ‘SECOND ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER, Alpha Mu Pi Omega, Medical Fraternity’, at the Art Club in Phildelphia on May 3,
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PRAELECTIONES PISANAE In Epidemicas Hippocratis Historias, non minus ad theoricam, atque practicam medicinam utiles, quàm ab eruditionem iucundae. Nec non tractatus [brace] Primò, De hominis generatione. Secondò, de balneis Pisanis. Tertiò, De vino & aqua [end of bracketed section]. Cum Indice copioso eaorum que in his operibus continentur. Venice: apud Iuntas,
Bibliography: Adams M133; Bruni Celli 2952; Heirs of Hippocrates 360; Wellcome 4249; Durling 3107.
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LES MÉDECINS À LA CENSURE ou entretiens sur la medecine. A Paris, Chez Louis Gontier, Libraire Juré, sur le Quay des Augustins, à l’image S. Barbe, proche l’Hostel de Luynes.
Bibliography: Guibert Bibliographie des Oeuvres de Molière, II. p. 810, n. 76;Wellcome II, p. 161; Krivatsy 1227; Waller 1023; Cioranescu 12057.
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INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON LYING-IN INSTITUTIONS. Together with a proposal for organising an Institution for Training Midwives and midwifery nurses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Bibliography: Bishop & Goldie, Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale, 102.
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THE ILLUSTRATED COLLEGE HERBAL. Plants from the Pharmacopoea Londinensis of 1618. www.oakeleybooks. com. May
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ESSAI ET OBSERVATIONS SUR LA MANIÈRE DE RÉDUIRE LES LUXATIONS spontanées ou symptomatiques de l’articulation ilio-fémorale; méthode applicable aux luxations congénitales et aux luxations anciennes par cause externe. Bar-Le-Duc: Chez F. Gigault D’Olincourt... [&] Paris: Chez J.B. Baillière...
Bibliography: OCLC locates copies at Harvard, NLM, Minnesota, Rochester, Pennsylvania, Chicago, the British Library.
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AN ILLUSTRATION OF OSBOURNE'S PICTORIAL ALPHABET Entered at Stationer’s Hall. London: Published by C. Osbourne, Sen., and sold by all the Booksellers in the Kingdom. Price Ten shillings and sixpence. [added in mss- In Boards 13/6].
Bibliography: Muir, Children’s Books of Yesterday, item 24, p. 11 for a set of the boxed cards; OCLC notes only the V & A for this 1847 edition; all copies of the cards now rare, with OCLC noting copies at the V&A, the BL, British Columbia and at the Osbourne Collection at Toronto (three of which appear to be incomplete).
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VON DER BERGKRANKHEITEN DREY BÜCHER, [in]. FÜNFFER THEIL DER BÜCHER UND SCHRIFFTEN des Edlen Hochgelehrten und Bewehrten Philosophi und Medici, Philippi Theophrasti Bombast von Hohenheim Paracelsi genannt: Jetzt auffs neue auß den originialien und Theophrasti eigner handschrifft... durch Johannem Huserum Brisgoium. Getruckt zu Basel durch Conrad Waldkirch.
Bibliography: Sudhoff 220 and 222a; VD16 ZV12161; Durling 3476 for the first edition, and 3514 for the collected edition (incomplete); Heirs 212; Waller 7124; Wellcome 4762; Garrison--Morton 2118.1 (1567); see Walter Pagel, Paracelsus. An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance (2nd edition, Basle etc, 1982), pp. 26 and 102, n. 268; for a long and detailed account of the book and its importance, George Rosen, The History of Miners' Diseases (New York, 1943), pp. 64--8; Koelsch, Paracelsus Von der Bergsucht, (1925).
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LE JARDIN DES PLANTES Description et moeurs des mamifères de la ménagerie et du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle... précède d’une introduction historique, descriptive et pittoresque par M. J. Janin. Paris, J. J. Dubochet et Ce Éditeurs, rue de Seine, 55.
Bibliography: Brivois, Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrés du XIXème, p. 213; Carteret III, Le Trésor du bibliophile, p. 97; Nissen ZBI 454; Vicaire I, Manuel de l'mateur de livres du XIXème, 837.
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NOUVELLE DESCRIPTION DE CE QU’IL Y A DE REMARQUABLE A LA MÉNAGERIE et au Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle du Jardin du Roi. Contenant la vie et les habitudes des Animaux féroces qui sont renfermés tant à la Ménagerie que dans la Vallée-Suisse. Suivie des curiosités qui se trouvent au Cabinet d’Histoire Naturelle. 1 Franc. Lagny, Imprimerie d’a le Boyer et Compagnie.
Bibliography: See Paula Young Lee ‘The Curious Affair of Monsieur Martin the bear’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 33 (no. 4) 2010.
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