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Das Musikalische System der Griechen in Seiner Urgestalt.
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Fortlage
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Hartel, 1847.Aus den Tonleitern des Alypius zum ersten male entwickelt von Dr. C. Fortlage, Ausserordentlichem Professor der Philosophie in Jena. Mit II Tabellen. [The Musical System of the Greeks in its Original Form. Developed for the first time from the scales of Alypius]. This copy with the stamp of musician Immanuel Gotthold Reimann (1859-1932), founder of the Adelaide College of Music.
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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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Sermons, by John Pitcairn, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Kelso
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Pitcairn
Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co., 1829.Sermons from the gifted preacher of the Scottish Presbytery of Relief published shortly after his death. Unrecorded in UK libraries, only 2 copies in OCLC, both in the United States.
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The Enigmatical Repository; or Museum of Entertainment,
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. Dawson
Norwich: J. Dawson, No date.Containing Enigmas, Charades, Rebuses, Anagrams, Transpositions, Queries, Logogriphs, Acrostics, &c. Including A Selection of Harmless and Pleasing Experiments in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Magnetism, &c. Also a variety of Miscellaneous Receipts In the various Departments of Art and Science. A collection of word puzzles and simple chemistry experiments designed for youth amusement. Not in Toole Stott. This copy inscribed by the publisher J. Dawson and from the collection of magician Ricky Jay.
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Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Badcock
London: T. Hughes, No date.A Collection of Entertaining & Surprising Experiments in Mechanics, Arithmetic, Optics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Electricity, Chemistry, Magnetisism, & Pyrotechny, Or Art of Making, Fire Works, together with the wonders of the Air Pump, Magic Lanthorn, Camera Obscura, &c. &c. &c. and a variety of Tricks with Cards. (circa 1828). TOOLE STOTT 77.
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Chemical Amusement, Comprising a Series of Curious and Instructive Experiments in Chemistry,
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartFredrick Accum
London: Thomas Boys, 1817.Which are Easily Performed, and Unattended by Danger. 103 chemistry experiments with magical application for the conjuring chemist. The rare first edition with the 60 page, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Apparatus & Instruments Employed in Experimental and Operative Chemistry, in Analytical Mineralogy, and in the Pursuits of the Recent Discoveries of Voltaic Electricity, Manufactured and Sold by the author, at the rear, the separate title on the verso of pp. 191. Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) was a German chemist who lived in London from 1793 to 1821. He played a key role in the establishment of gas lighting in London and wrote a number of popular chemistry works, most notably campaigning against the unscrupulous use of chemical additives in food in his 1820 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons. HALL 1, TOOLE STOTT 1. This copy in a Zaehnsdorf half leather binding with the author’s calling card laid in and the bookplates of magicians Roland Winder and Ricky Jay.
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A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England,
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles David Badham
London: Reeve Brothers, 1847.Containing an Account of their Classical History, Uses, Characters, Development, Structure, Nutritious properties, Modes of Cooking and Preserving, &c.,.
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Humane Policy; or Justice to the Aborigines of New Settlements
AU$1,200 Read MoreAdd to cartS. Bannister
London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1830.Saxe Bannister (1790-1877) was the first Attorney-General of New South Wales, though short-lived in the position due to constant clashing with other figures of the new colony, including over the mistreatment of the Aborigines. Though failing to find content in his work he is noted as being philanthropic and humane in his disposition with “a devotion to the welfare of children, convicts, and coloured inhabitants of the Empire” (ADB). Upon returning to England he authored numerous pamphlets on behalf of indigenous people in the colonies, and this, his longest work on the subject, largely devoted to South Africa, though with numerous references from his time in New South Wales. This copy with the armorial bookplate of Fairclough and the Aborigines Protection Society in manuscript at the crown of the title page.
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An Essay on Average; and on Other Subjects Connected with the Contract of Marine Insurance
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Stevens, of Lloyd’s
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1822.Together with an Essay on Arbitration. Dedicated to the Committee for Manage the Affairs of Lloyd’s
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Die Nutzlichen und Schadlichen Schwamme, nebst einem Anhange uber die islandische Flechte
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartHarald Othmar Lenz
Gotha: Beckersche Buchhandlung, 1840.The useful and harmful mushrooms, with an appendix on the Icelandic lichen. The second edition enlarged with descriptions of German fungi. The elegantly coloured plates showing a total of 46 illustrations drawn by J. C. Ausfeld. VOLBRACHT 1165.2.
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation [AND] Explanations: A Sequel to (2 Volumes)
AU$2,000 Read MoreAdd to cart[Robert Chambers]
London: John Churchill, 1846-1860.Vestiges, published anonymously, had an enormous influence on Charles Darwin, first published in 1844 and here greatly enlarged. This edition (the second to be illustrated) was published just following the publication of Darwin’s Origin and is Chambers; final revision of the text. A twelfth edition, published in 1884 following Chambers’ death, reprints this text and acknowledges his authorship. // Chambers had planned to respond to criticisms of his work by publishing a series of letters to the ‘Times’ followed by a pamphlet of a hundred or so pages, however Churchill convinced the anonymous author (through his friend Alexander Ireland) that it should be issued in book form, printed and bound similarly to the original. Explanations was duly issued in 1845, and was followed by this slightly altered version in 1846. By then the fifth edition of ‘Vestiges’ was ready and the two works were often reviewed together, the publisher going so far as to suggest a combined volume, however his anonymous author pointed out that the arguments were already incorporated in the new edition.
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Histoire d’une Luxation de la Tete du Femur sur la Branche Ascendante de l’Ischion, vers son Union avec la Portion Descendante du Pubis,
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. D’Amblard
Paris and Bourges: Gaon and Bouguet, 1821.History of a Dislocation of the Head of the Femur on the Ascending Branch of the Ischium, towards its Union with the Descending Portion of the Pubis, and Description of a New Method for Proceeding to the Reduction of this Kind of Displacement, followed by a slight overview of the state of Churugia among the ancients and up to the present day. Scarce French medical pamphlet with a folding plate illustrating repositioning of the femur.
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A Translation of the Corrected Edition of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Published in July 1815. with Notes
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartA London Physician
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, and S. Highley and Son, 1815.Translation from Latin into English of the Royal College of Physicians’ Pharmacopoeia, providing a list of plants and their parts for use in medicines and other preparations, and recipes for mixing and compounding. The unnamed translator makes an appeal to Lord Stanhope to look into the Royal College of Physicians, which he accuses of quackery, and bring it before the Legislature for ‘reformation and redress’.
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Practical Observations on Insanity
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph Mason Cox
London: R. Baldwin and Thomas Underwood, 1813.“In which some Suggestions are offered towards an improved Mode of treating Diseases of the Mind, and Some Rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more Humane and successful Method of Cure: to which are subjoined, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates to Diseased Intellect.” The third and final revised edition of the major work by English physician Joseph Mason Cox (1763-1818). Cox was one of the first medical graduates to specialise in the treatment of the insane. Throughout his career he advocated for more humane treatment of lunatics and maniacs. In this work he introduces his swinging technique, based on a design by Erasmus Darwin, of spinning a patient’s body round a vertical axis in a specially designed chair which would produce nausea, vomiting, and convulsions, but would ultimately lead to a restful slumber, which he believed to be a positive outcome for the maniacal. This copy warmly inscribed by Cox.
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Memoria Chirurgica sui Piedi Torti Congeniti dei Fanciulli, e Sulla Maniera di Correggere Questa Deformita
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAntonio Scarpa
Pavia: P. Bizzoni, 1817.Surgical Memoir on Congenital Twisted Feet of Children, and How to Correct This Deformity. The third edition of the first pathologic description of clubfoot. This copy bound in 19th century wrappers with remnants of other books and manuscripts.
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De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.