Medicina e salute

Intermarriage or The Mode in Which, And The Causes Why, Beauty Health and Intellect Result From Certain Unions, And Deformity Disease and Insanity From Others, etc. etc.

Walker, Alexander · 1842 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

New York J. & H.G. Langley First American edition pp. xviii, 432. 12mo. Bound in full new light brown 3/4 leather over marbled paper boards, new endpapers; gilt rules and lettering to spine. Many black and white illustrations which seek to demonstrate the theories being put fo...

A Short Treatise Upon Arts and Sciences in French and English, by Question and Answer; 'Enlarged with an infinite Number of Things both Curious and Instructive. Revised and Carefully corrected by M. du Mitand.'

Palairet, John · 1787 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

London Printed for C. Nourse 8th Edition pp. 120. 12mo. Recent beautiful re-bind in full dark brown leather. The spine is in compartments with title, author, and date of publication stamped in gilt. Gorgeous fresh marbled endpapers. Small circular stamp of St. Paul's College t...

The Theory of Money

Barker, D.A. [Dalgairns Arundel] · 1913 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Cambridge Cambridge University Press | Printed by Turnbull & Spears (Edinburgh) First Edition pp. vii, 141. 16mo., measuring 5" x 6.5". Salmon-pink cloth over boards, black lettering and illustration to the spine and front board. Single library stamp to the front pastedown els...

Penicillin: Its Practical Application

Fleming, Alexander · 0 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London Butterworth & Co. (Publishers), LTD. First edition pp. 379. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Many black and white photographs, figures, tables and illustrations. Slightly shaken, lightest shelfwear, ink name and bookplate to ffep otherwise...

Civilization and the Cripple

Watson, Frederick · 1930 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd. First edition pp. xi, 120. 8vo. Full red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Dedicated to Sir Robert Jones with a black and white photographic frontispiece of him. Black and white photographs, illustrations, tables and charts e...

Tumours Innocent and Malignant; Their Clinical Features and Appropriate Treatment, New Edition With Over Three Hundred Engravings

Bland-Sutton, J. [John] · 1901 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

London Cassell and Company, Limited New Edition pp. xvi, 566. Royal 8vo. Over three hundred black and white anatomical engravings and illustrations depicting various tumours and maladies. Bound in full dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light rubbing to boards, sli...

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Gleick, James · 2011 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York Pantheon First Edition pp. 526. Royal 8vo. Red, black boards, with gilt lettering to the spine. Untrimmed page edges. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

Heating the Home

Hutcheson, N.B.; G.O. Handegord; W.H. Ball · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

[Regina, Saskatchewan] Housing Research Committee, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan First Edition, First Printing pp. 50. 12mo., measuring 5" x 7". Illustrated card covers bearing an image in black-and-white, and colour of three Western-Canadian Provinces, na...

Abortion and Contraception

Morgentaler, Dr. Henry · 1982 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Don Mills, Ontario General Publishing and Printed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons First edition pp. xvi, 201. 8vo. Brown cloth boards; gilt lettering to spine. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good lightly rubbed...

Fundamentals of Radio and Television: "Radio Course" | R.T.C. Radio Service and Engineering Courses "Famous Everywhere". (Complete in Six Volumes)

[Compiled and Published by Radio Training Center, Winnipeg - Canada] · 194050 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$235.00 (€213.21 | £177.85 | ¥37,531)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Radio Training Center First Edition, First Printing Unpaginated. 4to's., measuring 8.25" x 10.75". Uniformly bound in bright red card covers, and held with black utilitarian cloth backstrips. Replete with a variety of illustrations, schematics, drawi...

National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky

[National Audubon Society] · 2000 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

New York Alfred A. Knopf pp. 714. Small 8vo. Light blue leatherette covers, white lettering to the spine. Replete with many hundreds of black-and-white, and colour photographs, illustrations; fine and housed in fine dustjacket.

Saskatchewan Cement Company Ltd.: On Making Concrete

[Saskatchewan Cement Company Ltd.] · 1950 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Regina, Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Cement Company Ltd. First Edition, First Printing Large fold-out pamphlet divided into three panels measuring 14 cm by 21 cm when folded, and 21 cm by 43 cm when unfolded. Features instructional illustrations, and advertisements for "Buffalo C...

The Virtue of Sex

de Vinck, José · 1967 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York Hawthorn Books Second Printing pp. 255. Small 8vo. Half green cloth over beige paper boards. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine and housed in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, very good. Sensual pleasure in the game of lov...

The Psychology of Sleep

Hall, Bolton (1854-1938); Edward Moffat Weyer (Intro.) · 1916 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$345.00 (€313.01 | £261.09 | ¥55,099)

New York Moffat, Yard and Company | Printed by The Quinn & Boden Co. Press First Edition, First Printing pp. xiv, 305. Royal 8vo. 3/4 leather over gray cloth boards with gilt lettering, and rules to the spine. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of the author. Light scuf...

Matka A Diet'A [Mother and Baby]

Soukup, Anthony M. · 1915 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

Chicago, Illinois Dr. Ant. M. Soukup First Edition, First Printing pp. 203. Slim 8vo. Dark green utilitarian buckram over boards with gilt lettering, and blind-stamped motif to the centre of the front board. Replete with wonderful anatomical engravings, and illustrations of th...

Poisons: Their Isolation and Identification with 23 Illustrations

Bamford, Frank; Sydney Smith (Foreword) · 1951 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

London J. & A. Churchill Ltd. Third Revised Edition pp. viii, 316. 8vo. Green cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Negligible shelfwear, ink name and date to corner of ffep else text-block clean and clear of any ma...

White Ribbon Bulletin [by the] World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union

[World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union] · 1947 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

[Ripley, England] World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union | Printed by G.C. Brittain & Sons, Ltd., "News" Office, Ripley, Derbyshire First Edition, First Printing pp. 4. 8vo., measuring 21cm tall. Comprises of articles for W.W.C.T.U. Convention City due to be held in Asbury...

What a Man of Forty-Five Ought to Know

Stall, Sylvanus · 1901 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.08 | ¥7,826)

Philadelphia, PA, London, U.K. & Toronto, Ontario, Canada The Vir Publishing Company Purity and Truth, Self and Sex Series pp. 284 + 23 pages of puslishers' advertisements; 12mo., measuring 4.5" x 7". Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped titl...

Les Fleurs Expliquées: Introduction à la Botanique par l'etude sommaire de 100 Plantes trés communes partout

Coupin, Henri (1868-1937) · 1926 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

Paris Librairie Vuibert Duxieme Edition pp. 164. Royal 8vo., measuring 9.5" x 6.5". Quarter brown leather over lovely marbled boards with gilt lettering and floral decoration to spine. Five raised bands to spine, six compartments. Marbled endpapers. Replete with many black-and...

Star Maps for Beginners

Levitt, I.M.; Roy K. Marshall · 1952 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

Philadelphia Privately Printed by the Authors at the Franklin Institute Early Printing pp. 32. 4to., measuing 8.5" x 11". Fine textured terracotta stapled card covers. Twelve lovely maps (all collated and accounted for) of the constellations at different months and times throu...