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- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- ANATOMY: خريطه وجود بشر [Harita-i Vücud-i Beşer / Map of the Human Body].
- 450.00€
- Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- ASTRONOMY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قوزموغرافيا ياخود علم احوال سما [Kozmografya yahud İlm-i Ahvâl-i Sema / Cosmography or Knowledge of Situation of the Sky. Second Edition]
- 620.00€
- An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882). 8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…
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- Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- AYURVEDIC MEDICINE / VARANASI IMPRINT: अथभाषाटीकासहिता अनुपानमंजरी
- 850.00€
- [Ajirņamamiñjari also Ajirna Manjari / Indigestion with Explanation and Commentary] A rare book in Sanskrit, printed in Varanasi, India, and describing remedies for indigestion, based on the Ayurvedic medicine Large 8°, title page, 25 pp., contemporary dark red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover, contemporary patterned endpapers (little age-toned, tiny tears in margins, binding and endpapers…
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- Chemistry in the Ottoman Empire: Kemmî ve Keyfî Kimya-i Tahlili / Kimya-i Ziraî. Chimie Agricole
- 1,200.00€
- Two seemingly unrecorded Ottoman texts on Chemistry 2 titles in 5 parts, bound together, large 8°. Mimeographed text in two colours with illustrations and hand written additions, 136 pp., 107 pp. (two parts of one title). 351 pp., 148 pp., 28 pp. (three parts of one title). Contemporary green cloth binding, contemporary pink endpapers (minor age-toning and staining,…
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- Cholera – Hygiene – Istanbul: L’Hygiène publique à Constantinople.
- 450.00€
- A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).
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- Edital. / O Principe Regente nosso senhor por Sua Real resolução de 27 de julho do corrente anno em consulta do Tribunal da Real Junta do Commercio, Agricultura, Fabricas, e Navegação deste Estado do Brazil, e Dominios Ultramarinos: Foi servido authorizer o mesmo Tribunal, assim para estabelecer premios, pelas sobras do seu cofre, ás pessoas que fizerem climatizar em qualquer lugar dos seus Estados, e Dominios, arvores de especiaria fina da India, e que introduzirem a Cultura de outros vegetaes, ou indigenos, ou forasteiros, que são preciosos pelos usos que tem na Pharmacia, Tinturaria, e mais Artes…
- 1,800.00€
- Extremely rare – 1 of only 3 known examples – an ‘Edital’ (Notice) broadside issued by the exiled Portuguese royal court in Brazil that encourages the cultivation of plants that have pharmacological and industrial uses, part of Brazil’s revolutionary economic liberalization programme overseen by the ‘Real Junta do Commercio’, published in Rio de Janeiro by the Impressão Regia, Brazil’s…
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- EPIDEMIOLOGY – MEXICO – CHOLERA / MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Nueva doctrina sobre el cólera, ó sea, Los fenómenos del cólera asiático, estudiados a la luz de la nueva teoría del principio vital, que el profesor Isidoro Olvera escribió y publicó en 1846, bajo el título de “La electricidad aplicada a la esplicación de los fenómenos de la vida”.
- 1,600.00€
- Isidoro OLVERA Crespo (1815 - 1859). Mexico City: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1851. 8° (21.5 x 13.5 cm): [4], 119, [3] pp., plus, errata leaf, bound in modern quarter calf over cloth with gilt title to spine (Very Good, overall clean and crisp, just some areas of very light toning) (#70664). Very Rare – a fascinating and unusual treatise…
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- Family Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: رهب صحت [Rehber-i Sıhhat / Guide to Health].
- 180.00€
- 8°: 156 pp. with black and white images, dark green illustrated wrappers (good overall, small tears, small folds and chips to corners, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained, tiny tears and loss of paper to spine, corner of front cover repaired).
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- FIRST AUTOPSY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: مقالات طبيه [Makalat-ı Tıbbiye / Medical Reports].
- 1,800.00€
- A thesis on the first autopsy ever conducted in the Ottoman Empire, performed by Karl Ambros Bernard in 1841, at the Austrian Hospital in Istanbul, written by Hayrullah Efendi, a future Ottoman diplomat and prolific author 8°: [4 pp., index], 149 pp., 6 folding charts, contemporary marbled boards, restored calf spine, old paste down tile to cover bearing…
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- First Ottoman Book on Darwinism: داروينيزم [Darvinizm / Darwinism]
- 1,800.00€
- A rare first Ottoman Book on Darwinism, printed in Bitola. 8°. 200 pp. with three interleaved images, [4 pp.], contemporary brown embossed covers, red label with gilt lettering in Ottoman on the spine, endpapers with art nouveau pattern (little age-toned and stained, binding slightly rubbed on corners, but otherwise in a good conditon).
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- FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON MODERN PHYSICS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. اصول حكمت طبيعيه [Usûl-i Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Principals of Natural Science]
- 1,400.00€
- 8°. [8] pp. index, [3 pp.] introduction, 454 pp. letterpress, 24 lithographed folding plated with 337 images, contemporary dark brown morocco with gold tooling and title on the spine, contemporary marbled endpapers, marbled edges (binding slightly scuffed and rubbed with small loss of material on the spine, cracks along the hinges, small scribbles to the rear of the front loose…
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- GEOGRAPHY / PERSIA / DAR UL-FUNUN, TEHRAN: فایت الجغرافیا [Principles of Geography]
- 1,600.00€
- A rare illustrated Persian book on geography, written by the leading Tehran-based astronomer and geographer Abdul Ghaffar Najm al-Mulk and published by Dar ul-Funun. 12°. 290 pp. lithographed text with illustrations and a map, folding map, contemporary half reddish-brown goat with black linen boards (binding hardly noticeable rubbed and stained, small old signature in black ink on the inner…
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- HISTORY OF VACCINATION: Պատմութիւն մարդկային պատուաստման.
- 3,200.00€
- [Patmutʻiwn mardkayin patuastman / History of Human Vaccination]. An exceedingly rare, detailed book on the history and importance of vaccines written by a prominent Ottoman Armenian doctor Dikran Paşa Peştemalciyan, published on the eve of the Sublime Porte’s decree on the mandatory application of the smallpox vaccine. 4°: [2 pp.], portrait, [16pp.], 237 pp., with interleaved plates…
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- Hygiene in the Ottoman Empire: Préceptes religieux des Musulmans au point de vue de l’hygiene.
- 220.00€
- A work by a Muslim Ottoman medical doctor on issues of hygiene and health, as seen from a religious point of view. 8°: 72 pp., original blue printed wrappers, stapled (internally in a good, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with tiny tears, spine repaired, minor foxing, staples rusty).
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- KAZAN IMPRINT / PLAGUE / MEDICINE: ‎طاعون یا که چوما یعنی چوما طاعون سرخاونی بلو هم دوالانو حقنده تو زلگان رساله
- 350.00€
- Nikolai Ivanovich KOTOVSCHIKOV (KOTOVSHCHIKOV, 1846-1905) [Title on Rear Wrapper:] Ординарный профессоръ Императорскаго Казанскаго Университета. Н. И. Котовщиковъ. Признаки распознаванія и лѣченія чумы. Переводъ съ русскаго. Изданіе Гайнуль Гибадъ Хасанова. Kazan: Типо-литографія Императорскаго Университета [Typo-Lithography of the Imperial University] 1911. [Ordinary professor at the Imperial Kazan University. N. I. Kotovshchikov. Signs of Recognition and Treatment of Plague. Translation from Russian. Published…
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- Last Ottoman Book on Darwinism: داروين [Darvin / Darwin]
- 450.00€
- 8°. 15 pp. with illustrated cover (tiny loss of paper on the spine, light water-staining in the lower corner, lower margin of the cover cut into the low part of the printing, without loss of text, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Marifetname: ﻣﻌﺮﻓﺘﻨﺎمه
- 2,400.00€
- Marifetname or Book of Gnosis - a majestic encyclopedic work in Ottoman language, printed by the Bulaq press in Cairo. Large 4°: 23 pp., 564 pp. letterpress with lithographed illustrations, original brown goat with a flap and blind tooling, title in thick blue colour on the lower edge (Sporadic markings of text in apricot water colour, annotations in pencil…
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- Mathematics: جبر درسلرى [Cebir Dersleri / Algebra Lessons]. جبر [Cebir / Algebra]
- 1,600.00€
- A finely bound pair of algebra books in Ottoman language
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- Medicinal Chemistry: كمياى عضوى طبى Chimie Organique Medicale [Kimya-i Uzvî-i Tıbbî / Medical Organic Chemistry]
- 1,400.00€
- Small 4°, 421 pp. hectographed text, contemporary brown boards with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering (minor age-toning and foxing, minor wear and discoloration to the binding, with a small repaired tear in the upper part of the spine).
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- MEDICINE / ANTIDOTES: بانزهرنامه [Panzehirnâme / On Antidotes]
- 680.00€
- Mirliva Mustafa Hâmi Pasha. Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1271 [1855]. 12°, 4 pp. index, 83 pp. lithographed text, lithographed imprint un unnumbered page, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (bookseller’s stamp on blank page, margins with tiny folds, tears and light staining, wrappers little stained with tiny losses on the corners, pin size holes on inner side from binding) (#70613). First Ottoman…
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- Medicine / Botany: علم نباتات طبى دفترى
- 1,600.00€
- [İlm-i Nebatât-ı Tıbbiye Defteri / Notebook on the Knowledge on Medical Botany] A rare, seemingly unrecorded hectographed Ottoman book on medical botany, accompanied with charming illustrations and titles and based on the lectures by a veterinarian Mehmed Ali Bey the Imperial Medical School, and edited by Esat Şerefeddin Köprülü, later a famous botanist and professor Small 4°,…
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- MEDICINE / GYNECOLOGY: طوغوم وقادين خسته لقلر ينة داير. .. Sujets libres sur la gynécologie et l’obstétrique
- 680.00€
- A rare book on gynecology in Ottoman script by a medical doctor, active in Adana, Diyarbakır and Baghdad was only published in 20 examples. With contemporary annotations. 8°. [2 pp.] introduction, 109 pp., [80 pp.] blank paper with three pages with notes in Ottoman and French in black ink. 110-151 pp. with first 7 pp. in Latin characters in…
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- Medicine / Modern Medicine in the Ottoman Empire: Précis de percussion et d’auscultation à l’usage de ses leçons, imprimerie de l’indicateur Byzantine
- 1,800.00€
- A rare pioneering work on the modern medicine in the Ottoman Empire was written in French by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard in Istanbul. 8°, [4 pp.], 90 pp. with an introduction in French and Ottoman, original green boards with lettering and illustrations , brown calf spine (binding slightly scuffed on the edges, minor staining, light…
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- MEDICINE / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: علم تشيرح توصفي Anatomie Descriptive.
- 880.00€
- [İlm-i Teşrih-i Tavsifi / Descriptive Anatomy] [2 pp.] illustrated title page and introduction, 282 pp., . hectograph with illustrations in text, later wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, outer margens cut uneven with tiny loss to the text on the first three pages, page 22 marked twice, missing page numbers 46-48, but complete),
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- Medicine / Ottoman Empire: مبحت الاحشا. Splachnologie
- 1,200.00€
- [Mehbas Ahşe-i / Splanchnology. Second Year] Small 4°, 368 pp. hectograph with illustrations in text, later wrappers (light age-toning and staining, sporadic old annotations in pencil, small losses of paper without loss of text, title page with partly repaired loss of paper in white margins).
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- MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 3,800.00€
- The first printed pharmacopeia in the Ottoman Empire with an original text by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard, was published by Henri Cayol, the first lithographer in Istanbul. A uncut example with original wrappers. 4°, [4 pp.] titles, IV, 161 pp., [2 pp.] errata, original blue wrappers with lettering, book-seller’s stamp in Ottoman on p. 1 (good, uncut…
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- Medicine in the Ottoman Empire / Fevers: حماى راجعه يه قارشى اتخاذ اولونه جق تدابير تحفظيه و مانعه استيلائه يه دار تعليماتنامه
- 420.00€
- [Humma-yı Raciaya Karşı İttihaz Olunacak Tedâbir-i Tahaffuziyye ve Mania-i İstilâyeye Dair Talimâtnâme / Instruction for Unionized Precautionary Measures and Prevention of Spreading of the Fever]. A pamphlet in Ottoman language, printed on attractive pink paper, summarizing the latest western discoveries on the various types of fevers and giving instructions for prevention of their spreading. Large 12°: 24…
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- MEDICINE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet [also] Nevsâl-i Afiyet.. Third Year]
- 680.00€
- 8°, contemporary brown binding with calf spine with embossed decoration and gold lettering, cloth boards, contemporary endpapers with floral pattern (light staining, mostly to the first and last pages, minor scuffing to the spine, a small loss of paper in the corner of rear lose endpaper, otherwise in a good, used condition).
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- Modern Astronomy and Calculation of Time in the Islamic World: رياض المختار. مرآة الميقات والادوار
- 4,500.00€
- A fine example of the first edition of a magnificent, illustrated work on time and astronomy by one of the greatest Ottoman military leaders Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Paşa, printed in Cairo by the Bulaq Press.
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- Modern Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire: عوالم فلكيه [Avâlim-i Felekiyye / Cosmic Worlds]
- 750.00€
- An Ottoman book on modern western astronomical discoveries, edited by Selih Zeki, the director of the Imperial Observatory 8°. [4 pp.] introduction, folding plate, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [2 pp.] blank, 19 interleaved photographs with irregular numeration, one double-page celestial chart, original broen cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the…
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- Modern Physics in the Ottoman Empire / Electricity: حكمت طبيعيه [Hikmet-i Tabiiye / Wisdom of Nature]
- 950.00€
- 4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire. 4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…
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- Ottoman French Medical Encyclopedia: قاموس طبى / Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Medical Francais-Turc.
- 450.00€
- [Kamus-ı Tıbbî / Medical Dictionary]. An encyclopedic Ottoman work on medicine, written in Cairo by the physician and public intellectual Şerefeddin Mağmûmî, an invaluable resource for the study of the Ottoman language regarding the field of medicine. 2 volumes-in-1, 8°: vii, 1064 pp., continuous pagination, with title page for the second volume after the page 600, original…
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- Ottoman Imperial Institute of Vaccination: The Guest Book of the Imperial Smallpox Vaccine Laboratory
- 1,200.00€
- A unique, original manuscript guest book of the Ottoman Imperial Vaccine Laboratory, with entries by various prominent local and international guests, praising the innovative techniques and modernity of the institution. 8°: [56 pp.] with 27 pp. in manuscript in black and blue ink and pencil by various hands and 29 pp. blank, original three quarter dark red linen…
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- OTTOMAN POP-UP BOOK ON ANATOMY: مرات وجود بشر و اعضاء داخليه و خارجيه لرى و آنلرك وظيفه لرى
- 950.00€
- [Mir'at-ı Vücud-ı Beşer ve Aza-ı Dahiliye ve Hariciyeleri ve Onların Vazifeleri / View of the Human Body and Internal Organs and Extremities and Their Functions]. Small 4°: 4 pp. in French and Ottoman, composition of chromolithographed moving pieces, joined in 1 colour chromolithographed folding image mounted on the inner side of the front wrappers, original debossed boards with…
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- Ottoman Science Magazine: كونش [Güneş / The Sun]
- 1,200.00€
- A series of a literary and science magazine The Sun (Güneş) with a rare to find original cover, representing the Sun, Saturn, Moon and Comets 8°: Nos. 2-12 (missing no. 1), 586 pp. running numeration, contemporary green cloth binding, old paper label on the spine (front endpapers with small tears in the gutter, light staining and recent inscripts,…
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- Radiology – Ephemera – Ottoman Empire: [Radiological Card Sleeve].
- 220.00€
- Card and paper sleeve with printed lettering, 19.5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.2 inches) (slightly stained, soft folds, repaired old tear).
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- Radiology and Contemporary Medicine / Ottoman Empire: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet. 4]
- 980.00€
- 8°: [4 pp. titles], 736 pp., with3 interleaved plates, [2 pp.] blank, with original illustrated cover, contemporary three-quarter calf with yellow paper boards with debossed decoration, spine decorated with mounted paper elements, original green endpapers (good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, one page with a small tear, loose endpapers missing, binding with light scratches, tiny worm holes…
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- The Rabies Vaccine: M. Pasteur et ses découvertes et spécialement de la méthode préventive contre le rage. Conférence faite d’abord, à Stamboul, à l’Ecole Impériale de Médicine le 7 mars et ensuite à Péra, au Syllogue Littéraire Grec le 22 mars 1887.
- 480.00€
- [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887]. 8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…
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- Theory of Relativity in the Ottoman Empire: آينشتايز نظريه سى. مكان، زمان، و كتله مفهوملرينن تبدلى
- 1,200.00€
- A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916. Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…
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- TRADITIONAL BUDDHIST MEDICINE / SRI LANKA: ගුණපාඨය
- 960.00€
- [Gunapatha also Guna Patha] 8°, title, 41 pp., originally bound with a string (old manuscript annotations in pencil on the cover, little age-toned and stained, sporadic pages with strong age-toning, small tears andtiny loss of paper in margins, mostly in first and last pages) (#70500).
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- TROPICAL MEDICINE – HAITI (SAINT-DOMINGUE) / YELLOW FEVER: Traité des fièvres de l’isle de S. Domingue.
- 2,200.00€
- The very rare first edition of the seminal work on yellow fever in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and one of the most influential French tropical medicine books of the late Enlightenment, featuring perhaps the era’s most detailed and perceptive description of the symptoms of the disease, backed by twelve valuable case studies, by Antoine Poissonnier-Desperrières, a physician who was one of France’s…
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- Books, Madagscar, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Science
- TROPICAL MEDICINE – THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / MADAGASCAR: Essai de géographie médicale de l’Ile Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine
- 460.00€
- 8°, 300 pp. with charts, interleaved colour folding map, contemporary black calf spine with gilt lettering and decoration with black cloth boards (two pages with tiny loss of paper in white margins, old library stamps on the title page, minor staining and foxing, small holes in the binding).
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- علم طبقات ارضيه [İlm-i Tabakâtü’l-arz also İlm-i tabakat-i arz / Stratigraphy]
- 1,800.00€
- A rare first printed Ottoman book on Geology 8°: 9 pp., [6 pp.], 146 pp., colour folding plate, contemporary yellow and black card binding with gilt debossed decoration (rear cover scratched, stained and with small loss of material, minor staining, plate with soft folds, binding scratched on the edges, text pages clean).
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