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Condition: Very Good. 43 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Shropshire Archaeological; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Continental Copyright Edition. The first continental copyright edition and the earliest impression in this imprint. 2 volumes, small slim 12mo, Contemporary half, dark brown polished calf, spines gilt with contrasting morocco labels. Marbled boards, edges and end papers. Spines bit rubbed and mottled, fore edges boards slty rubbed. Title page to vol. 2 a bit soiled, With no series half titles present. Signature of M.M. Dundas on end papers. A VERY SCARCE imprint and a pleasing set and the first edition thus. A PHOTOGRAPH OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE PROMPTLY UPON REQUEST. 125.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. [184] pages. First edition. Title within double line border. Text in double columns. A4, B8-M8. In a modern Cambridge panel-style binding. Wing E5. Washed. Lower margin extended in a number of leaves, rarely affecting text. The book must have been in a fire, charring the lower part of the pages, but luckily not affecting the text. A stain, starting around I6, and getting worse toward the end, in the lower right-hand margin of the book. For all the faults described, still a very good copy.…

FULL BROWN LEATHER. Condition: GOOD+. 479 + 1 (ERRATA) PAGES. ACTUALLY 485 + 1 DUE TO DUPLICATE MISNUMBERING OF PAGES 290 - 295. RED LEATHER LABEL WITH GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE. VERY SLIGHT FOXING. NO INK, NO CREASES, NO LOSS OF LEATHER. A STRONG TIGHT ATTRACTIVE AND PRESENTABLE COPY. Size: OCTAVO. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A good plus hardcover with leather spine over marbled boards. Examples of the correct form of legal documents. The 1826 edition of a work first published in 1818, this copy bears the date 1830.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition (?). Small octavo, 91pp. A good copy only in the original boards with brown sheep spine, which is also certainly original. Boards show wear at the extremities, and there is a small piece missing at the base of the spine. While all the signatures are holding, some are a bit loosened. Paper evenly age-toned. A decent, unmarked copy that has never seen restoration. Contemporary owner's name (Joseph Mast / Metz?) on a front blank leaf. A manual for drafting legal documents of the kind one regularly encounters in collections of early 19th century Americana. Shaw/Early American Imprints 49395. …

Rilegato. Condition: quasi ottimo. prima edizione. Very rare first and only edition of this work in English by the British Doctor John Brown (1735-1788), which was anonymously published in 1787 at the expense of the author in Edinburgh. This is the first appearance in English of Brown's so-called Brunonian theory of medicine, which soon became overwhelmingly popular in many European countries, especially the German-speaking ones, despite its dangerous and controversial aspects. Indeed, among his advised therapies for several conditions, there was abundant use of opium and/or alcohol. The edition of this work stands out as a very elegant sample of fine printing on strong high-quality paper by the Apollo Press of Edinburgh, bound in contemporary full green morocco gilt (somewhat worn, but easily reparable). "Observations on the present system of spasm, as taught in the University of Edinburgh," (p. 1-141) is a refutation of the theories of William Cullen. OPIUM AND ALCOHOL WERE EXTENSIVELY USED IN MEDICINE AND IT IS SAID THAT SUCH TREATMENT RESULTED IN MORE DEATHS THAN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC WARS TOGETHER. "BY A GENTLEMAN CONVERSANT IN THE SUBJECT" [BROWN, John]. Observations on the Principles of the Old System of Physic: exhibiting a Compend of the New Doctrine. Edinburgh, From the Apollo Press, by Martin and M'Dowall, for the Author, 1787. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8vo, [2], ccxliii, [1]; 141 pages. Bound in contemporary full green morocco gilt, original marbled endpapers. Some light age toning to the t-p, else excellent internal condition; some scratches and abrasions to the binding, which is however very sound and sturdy. Very good. Very rare. Other titles: "Observations on the present system of spasm, as taught in the University of Edinburgh." The first appearance in English of the Brunonian theory of medicine. The Scottish physician John Brown (1735-1788) was the founder of the so-called brunonian theory of medicine. The Brunonian system, as it was known, understood disease to be the product of a disequilibrium in the amount of vital force, placing powerful intoxicants such as spirits and opium at the centre of his model through their identification as vital stimulants. Opium and alcohol were extensively used and it is said that such treatment resulted in more deaths than the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars together. Brown began to teach his own system of medicine in Edinburgh in opposition to that of the city's leading physician William Cullen, and, in 1780, he published his first work, in Latin, Elementa medicinae. Then, he published the present work anonymously in 1787. "Brown used contemporary ideas of irritability and sensibility as the basis for a dualist theory of disease and a radically simplified therapeutics . . . For Brown, health was an equilibrium between stimulus and excitability. Insufficient stimulation caused asthenic diseases, with a deficit of excitement and a surfeit of unused excitability. Treatment for these diseases . . . was by stimulation, notably by the ingestion of opium and alcohol" (ODNB). "The brunonian theory of medicine, a mixture of good and bad concepts, was developed by John Brown during his suffering and convalescence from an attack of gouty arthritis. The new doctrine enjoyed its peak of popularity in the latter part of the 18th century but was not rejected finally until long after Brown's death. Meanwhile, it had generated much controversy and had gained converts and equally vehement antagonists. The University of Göttingen was one of the last strongholds of the cult, the disappointing and delusive theory having been shown by von Helmholtz to be contrary to the natural laws of chemistry and physics." (JOHN BROWN (1735-1788) FOUNDER OF THE BRUNONIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. JAMA. 1965;192(6):569 570). ESTC T55485; Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 66; Osler 2152.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sage green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, gilt cameo to the front board, top edge gilt,others untrimmed. Royal quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains frontispiece, red and black printed title, (xii), 370 pp with 32 single sided full-page monochrome illustrations and archive photographs on loaded paper. This is the complete history of the Athenaeum, a Gentlemen's Club in London, written to honour its centenary. Contents: Part I: Introduction. I. Coffee Houses and the First Clubs. II. Our Founders and First Committees. III. In Temporary Premises. IV. Building of the Club House. V. 1830-1840. VI. 1840-1860. VII. 1860-1880. VIII. Finance After 1870. IX. 1880-1914. X. The Years of War. XI. The Library. Part II: Rule II Elections. Biographical Sketches from 1831 to 1925. Index. SIGNED and dated 'April 1926 by Frederic George Kenyon', Director of British Museum, President of British Academy etc. to the front free end paper. Spine sun darkened, rubbing across the spine caps and corners, else in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).…