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London: John Nourse, 1775. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Fine. 485 [30, Inded & Errata]. 21.5 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece, An English politician and grammarian, fond of the Greek and Roman classics. Samuel Johnson found Harris uncongenial, saying he was "a sound, solid scholar," but "a… Read more about this item

London: John & James Rivington, 1792. First edition. leather_bound. Full straight-grained red morocco. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. in one. 90 & 79 pages. 21 x 23.5 cm. Errata leaf, published posthumously. LOWNDES 1846. "An excellent work, full of profound and abstruse learning." This copy with the leather Johnsonian bookplate of R. B. Adam. Binding attributed to Roger… Read more about this item

London: J. Nourse, 1759. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border fillets. Very good. 396 pages. 21 x 13 1/2. Born in Scotland, Flemyng arrived London 1751 to teach physiology to nascent medical students who had not been to the Universities. This work contains the substance of his London lectures. The author was abreast of… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Office of the Engineer General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Orig. buff, stapled stiff wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols.. 81 and 205 pages. 27 1/2 x 36 cm. Geology prepared by Geological Surveys Branch Intelligence Division Office of the Engineer, and Engineering prepared by Design Branch Engineering and Operations Division. Vol. I with two… Read more about this item

London: T. Cox, 1729. First edition. Boards. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt cover fillets, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine.. 216 pages. [A8-O8,P7]. 20 x 13 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts following text [A4]. Engraved title page vignette. One of the most influential medical men of his age, physician to the Hanoverian… Read more about this item

Paris: Claude Jombert, 1722. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 119 pages [*7,A8-O8]. 13 1/2 x 9 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Italian physiologist, physician and professor, Santorio initiated his medical practice in Venice, 1599, where he became part of a learned circle that included Galileo. He invented a device he called the "pulsilogium" for measuring the pulse which… Read more about this item

London: S. Austin printed for the Editor, 1738. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border panels, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 243 pages, Preface (12), Index (6), and four pages of publisher adverts [A8-Q8, R7]. 20 x 13 cm. Five copper engraved fold-out plates, plate four in photocopy. Errata list.… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson, 1804. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. 3 vols. 567, 528 & 534 pages. 26 page index., errata for each volume. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. First published 1796. Forty-seven engraved copper-plates in total -- 22 (Vol, I), 10 (Vol.II), 15 (Vol.III). A divine and man of letters, the… Read more about this item

London: J. Johnson, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards rebacked, brown calf with black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good/Near fine. 650, 756 pages. 27 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven copper engraved plates, and a host of diagrams and tables in the text. Volume I, 1796 probably a later issue -- copies noting 1795… Read more about this item

Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1792. Second edition. Hardcover. Vols. I-II contemporary marbled boards rebacked in brown calf with leather spine labels; Vol. III in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, corners worn, boards rubbed, spine foot worn. 3 vols. Very good. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14… Read more about this item

Oxford: S. Parker and D. Prince et al., 1762. First edition. leather_bound. Early reback in contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 281 pages. 26 1/2 x 22 cm. Three copper-engraved plates, two are fold-outs. "Jones of Nayland" was one of the prominent churchmen of his day. He represented the school more numerous than is commonly supposed, which formed… Read more about this item

London: W. and J. Newton et al., 1720. Second edition. leather_bound. Modern quarter brown calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. and marbled boards. Fine.. 344 pages, Index (9) AND Preface (6), 116 pages re MEDICO-PHYSICAL ESSAYS containing a separate title page. 20 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece and folding plate. A medical writer apprenticed to… Read more about this item

London: Samuel Harding, 1744. Mixed edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 2 vols. 29 x 13 xm. Two volumes in four parts with six title pages as follows: Preface (1743), Part I (1744), Part II (1737), Part III (1743), Part IV (1742-1743). With the continuation leaf for Part III of the second section, errata, and an… Read more about this item

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, with eleven plates. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Orig. blue linen cloth. Fine in worn original acetate wrapper.