Paris: Delahaye, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. A group of works on mother and child health and nutrition bound up together - some with just a few copies in OCLC. First signature loose, notes to endpapers, otherwise very good or better. Cloth backed marbeld boards.200pp; 142pp; 268pp; 88pp, 70pp. 1870, 1868..... More

Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. The First American edition from the Second London. Original marbled boards respined in red morocco. 3 parts bound as one with 28 numbered plates and 4 additional "outline" plates. 108pp, 123pp, with 3 separate title pages and the second and third parts paginated..... More

Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1497. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Attractively rebound in a ca. 15th century parchment manuscript leaf. The first part, complete unto itself, of a two part incunabula first published in 1497. The second part, not present, is a political tract entitled De optimo statu et principe. The Declamatio..... More

Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1771. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sheep, worn at corners, hinges cracked but held by cords, old repair to front inner hinge. Some age toning, lacking rear endpaper and final text page stained, generally clean and unmarked. Styled the 24th edition of this popular and much..... More

1952. Softcover. Typescript in plain boards of an apparently unpublished work inscribed by Deckman. Little enough philosophy here, generally confined to the pages introducing different sections of recipes. 94 leaves printed one page per side, recipes on most pages. A collection of mostly mid century modern middle American type recipes..... More

Roma: Societa Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Card covers, light wear, light crease to rear cover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 046941. More

Berne: Societé Typographique, 1801. Later Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary boards, spine worn front hinge cracked, but still sound overall. Some foxing and browning, generally very clean internally. 540, CLIV, (4)pp. Herrenschwand was the court physician to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1..... More

Florence: Giunta, 1533. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in modern half vellum, small hole on title page touching first text page, new endpapers - a few scattered bits of foxing, a few faint dampstains, generally very clean. Contemporary notes, manicules and marks throughout, slightly trimmed in spots. (8), 43, (1) leaves.First..... More

The Hague: Isaac Van Der Kloot, 1729. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, spine gilt, wear at corners, hinges cracked but binding sound. Foxed and browned internally, scattered marginal marks mostly in pencil. stamp to title page; two letters on rear endpapers and an entry pass to a 1903..... More

Alcala de Henares: Joan de Brocar, 1542. Second Edition. Disbound. Disbound, part 1 only (of 3), comprising only the Banquete de Cavalleros presumably disbound from Remedio de cuerpos humanos and Libro de pestilencia with which it was issued. Lacking title and first invocatory leaf as well as leaves 87 and..... More

London: Peter Lillicrap, 1664. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in modern leather, trimmed slightly close in spots on the top, scattered minor browning. Lacking the list of medicines on the final leaf (facsimile laid in), last present page with a tear on the top right touching some letters but..... More

Leiden: Elzevir, 1626. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum worn and darkened but intact, with engraved title and 9 plates but lacking the author portrait frontis. Modest browning, heavier in spots, light dampstain in bottom corner of first 35 or so pages and the plates in that section, just about..... More

Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1788. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary acid calf, worn at edges, old library label to spine and title page, stain to last few pages not obscuring text. Translated from the French edition published in 1778r. Details a major outbreak of rinderpest, cattle plague, in 1775..... More