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The dying human.

Vries, Andre de, and Amnon Carmi, eds. · 1979

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Ramat Gan, Israel: Turtledove Publishing, 1979 (1st ed.); xviii+491pp., tables, endnotes per chapter, large 8vo, boards w. original dustwrapper. V. good copy, dustwrapper some wear and tear. Rare! ¶ l proceedings of the international symposium on 'The dying human' in Tel Aviv,...

Origins of psychometry: Johan Jacob de Jaager student of F.C. Donders on 'Reaction time and mental processes' (1865).

Jaager, Johan Jacob de. · 1970

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1970; 27(+13+)54+30pp., facsimile reproduction, bl-wh illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, 8vo, boards. V. good copy. Translated and edited by Josef Brozek and Maarten S. Sibinga. ¶ l with a complete facsimile of the original Dutch text and translati...

Boswell's clap and other essays. Medical analyses of literary men's afflictions.

Ober, William B. · 1979

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979; xviii+291pp., endnotes, 11 bl-wh illustrations, 8vo, cloth w. dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ l to take but one example of the blurb: \"Dr Ober diagnoses Swinburne's masochism and penchant for writing flagellatory...

Profili bio-bibliografici di medici e naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. Volume secundo.

Capparoni, Pietro. · 1928

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Roma: Istituto Naz. medico farmacologico 'Serono', 1928; 136(+2)pp., 30 bl-wh illustrations, bibliography per chapter. Good copy. ¶ l publication in Italian.

Vesalius.

Seebass, Adolf, en Jan Tschichold. · 1960

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Bazel: Basler Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1960; brochure 16pp., vierdelig vouwblad, 10 losse, 3 dubbele bladen m. zw-w en kleurenafbeeldingen. Losbladig in map; compleet. Omslagmap aan randen wat smoezelig, verder z. goed ex. ¶ l promotie-presentatie van farmaceutische firma Ho...

Medical travellers. Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Spillane, John D. · 1984

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984 (1st ed.); xi+236pp., index, endnotes per chapter, maps, 29 bl-wh illustrations, 8vo, cloth. V. good copy. ¶ l about voyages by: Edward Brown, John Bell, Alexander Hamilton, Tobias Smollett, John White, William Wittman, Henry Holland, Rich...

Articulating the Elephant Man. Joseph Merrick and his interpreters.

Graham, Peter W., and Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger. · 1992

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (1st ed.); ix+212pp., index, bibliography, end-notes, 8vo, grey cloth w. gilt lettering on spine, dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ l Joseph Merrick was the famous 'Elephant Man' of Victorian England who not only was a medi...

Les alcaloïdes de l'opium.

Held, Alfred. · 1894

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Paris: Rueff et Cie, 1894 (1st ed.); vi+238pp., small 8vo, top edge gilt, all leather w. gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Spine at top and bottom worn and at joints locally damaged, but in all still a good copy. Ex-library copy w. stamps on title-page. Rare. ¶ l volume...

Die spekulative Medizin der Romantik.

Leibbrand, Werner. · 1956

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Hamburg: Claasen, 1956; 324pp., index, endnotes, 8vo, cloth. First endpapers slightly damaged by something pasted in being torn out, but not affecting the book very much. ¶ l text in German.

Mad about the boy.

Alderson, Maggie. · 2002

€4.50 ($4.96 | £3.75 | ¥792)

2002, 383 pp., paperback. Fine. ¶ l `We were the perfect couple. Ha bloody ha.' When Antonia is left alone in Australia, because her husband is in love with a man, she knows they weren't.

Cents and Sensibility.

Alderson, Maggie. · 2006

€4.50 ($4.96 | £3.75 | ¥792)

2006, 430 pp., paperback.Very Good +. ¶ l `There is only one thing worse than having a boyfriend with no money... and that's having one with too much.'

Het uitdrukken der gemoedsaandoeningen bij den mensch en de dieren.

Darwin, Charles. · 1893

€38.00 ($41.88 | £31.70 | ¥6,688)

Arnhem-Nijmegen: Gebr. E. & M. Cohen, z.j. [1893-95]; vi+461(+1)pp., 21 gravures, 7 bladen m. fotografische afbeeldingen, voetnoten, 8vo, originele half linnen band m. gemarmerde platten en verstrekte hoeken, rugtitel verguld. Slijtage op sneden van de platten en lichte vochts...

Darwin. Sein Leben und Wirken.

Preyer, Wilhelm. · 1896

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Berlin: Ernst Hofmann, 1896 (3. Taus.); (3+)208(+4)pp., 1 bl-wh photograph, 1 facsimile handwriting, small 8vo, brown decorated cloth w. silver lettering. Excellent copy. W. a foreword by Ernst Haeckel. ¶ l German biography in Gothic scripture, a volume in the series Geisteshe...

Bio-politics. An essay in the physiology, pathology & politics of the social & somatic organism.

Roberts, Morley. · 1938

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London: Dent, 1938 (1st ed.); xv+240pp., index, bibliography, appendix, 8vo, green cloth w. gilt lettering on spine. V. good copy. Scarce. ¶ l based on the ancient and still popular analogy between physical bodies and social organisms, this book by the conservative anarchist R...

Die Welträthsel. Gemeinverständliche Studien über Monistische Philosophie.

Haeckel, Ernst. · 1899

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Leipzig: Alfred Kröner, n.d. (211-220. Taus.); 176pp., large 8vo, paper. Somewhat worn at the edges, but in all a good copy of the cheap Volks-Ausgabe. ¶ l immensly popular metaphysical tract (1899 1st ed.), but not Haeckel's best one. In four parts: (I) anthropology, (II) psy...

Aus dem Werdegang der Menschheit. Der Urmensch vor und während der Eiszeit in Europa.

Buttel-Reepen, H. von. · 1911

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1911; vi+139pp., index, endnotes, 108 illustrations, 3 tables, 8vo, rebound in half cloth w. original front cover pasted down. Some annotations in the first 25 pp., otherwise a good copy of this scarce title. ¶ l account (in German) of prehistoric man in ...

The Cambridge guide to prehistoric man.

Lambert, David. · 1989

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989 (repr.); 256pp., index, further reading, bl-wh drawings, 8vo, paper. V. good copy. ¶ l this is a \"concise, fully illustrated up-to-date survey of human biological and early cultural evolution. [...] [D]etailed answers to the questio...

Vom Sterbelager des Darwinismus.

Dennert, E. · 1905

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Stuttgart: Max Kielmann, 1905 (4.-6. Taus.); 120pp., footnotes, 8vo, darkred embossed cloth. Spine somewhat discoloured, otherwise v. good copy. ¶ l This often reprinted tract against Darwinism and Haeckelian monism is one of the milestones of christian opposition to the suppo...

Cézanne, le peintre solitaire.

Rivière, Georges. · 1933

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Paris: Floury, 1933; 179pp., 60 bl-wh & col. reprod., sm.8vo, paper.

Ernst Haeckel. Biographie in Briefen.

Uschmann, Georg, ed. · 1983

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Leipzig: Uriana-Verlag, 1983 (1. Aufl.); 328pp., index, glossary, 50 bl-wh and coloured illustrations, 8vo, cloth w. original dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ l Haeckel (1834-1919) was the very influential translator of Darwin's work into German and an atheistic interpretor of evo...