Davy Humphry, Signed (20 results)

1st edition. Author's presentation copy. Provenance: Birmingham Medical Institute (with accompanying bookplate and stamps). Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine binds and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 314 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., Front., (ports.) ; 23 cm. Includes index. Subjects; Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) 1836-1925 - Biography. Allbutt, Thomas Clifford Sir. Physicians - Biography - England - 19th century. Public health - Great Britain - History. Biography. 1 Kg.

1st edition in this form. Author's presentation copy. Very good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 17 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; Bibliography.Reprint from: the Irish Journal of Medical Science March 1925. Subjects; Petty, William 1623-1687.Barry, Edward 1698 -1776Relhan, Anthony 1715-1776. Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.Royal College of Physicians of London.Medical Royal Colleges. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 314 pages; Description: vii, 314 p. 2 port. (incl. Front. ) facsim. 23 cm. Signed and inscribed by author. Subjects: Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) , 1836-1925. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Author's presentation copy. Provenance: Birmingham Medical Institute (with accompanying bookplate and stamps). Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine binds and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 314 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., Front., (ports.) ; 23 cm. Includes index. Subjects; Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) 1836-1925 - Biography. Allbutt, Thomas Clifford Sir. Physicians - Biography - England - 19th century. Public health - Great Britain - History. Biography. 1 Kg.

1st edition in this form. Author's presentation copy. Very good paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 17 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; Bibliography.Reprint from: the Irish Journal of Medical Science March 1925. Subjects; Petty, William 1623-1687.Barry, Edward 1698 -1776Relhan, Anthony 1715-1776. Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.Royal College of Physicians of London.Medical Royal Colleges. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 314 pages; Description: vii, 314 p. 2 port. (incl. Front. ) facsim. 23 cm. Signed and inscribed by author. Subjects: Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) , 1836-1925. 1 Kg.

Full Leather (Hardcover). Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan leather to spine and boards. Gilt lettering on black label on spine. Gilt decoration to bandi ng on spine. Gilt line decoration to edges of boards. Light rubbing to extremities. Light spotting to boards.Marble decoration to all page edges. Browning to end papers, front and rear. Small newspaper clipping tipped onto reverse of front end paper regarding advertisement for book and identity of author as Sir Humphry Davy. Clean and tidy throughout, and tight. The book was originally issued with three plates featuring fishing flies, one of which being described as 'fold out'. In the course of re-binding this copy the edges of the original pages were trimmed and the fold out plate was reduced in size, with no loss to the featured content, and introduced into the book as a single plate. All three plates are present and remain in good order. In addition, the book contains many black and white illustrations within the text.Inscribed. in ink. at the top lof the first free page is 'From the Author'. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Bound off-print. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 8 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed by the author on p. 6: H. D. R. 'Reprinted from: the British Medical Journal, September 14th, 1912' - cover. Subjects; Dent, Clinton Thomas (1850-1912). Genre; Biography. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Bound off-print. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 8 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed by the author on p. 6: H. D. R. 'Reprinted from: the British Medical Journal, September 14th, 1912' - cover. Subjects; Dent, Clinton Thomas (1850-1912). Genre; Biography. 1 Kg.

2nd edition. Publisher's presentation copy with their un-inked, impressed stamp to the title page. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 811 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Liver Diseases. Gall Bladder. Bile Duct Disorders. Biliary Tract Disorders. Bile Ducts. Biliary Tract Diseases. Gallbladder Diseases. Bile Duct Diseases. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Faded green blindstamped with a floral pattern; lettered in gilt to spine which has one 3mm split at top and is frayed to a depth of 3mm at base. Four front corners gently rubbed. Internally bright yellow endpapers, the front ones just parted by a crack down the gutter, but holding firm. On rear of ffep is an inscription dated 1857. Illustrated by numerous wood engravings Fig 25 being a full page illustration of the arrangement of rocks and veins. xi. 287pp + index, 4pp ads. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

2nd edition. Publisher's presentation copy with their un-inked, impressed stamp to the title page. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xv, 811 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references and index. Subjects; Liver Diseases. Gall Bladder. Bile Duct Disorders. Biliary Tract Disorders. Bile Ducts. Biliary Tract Diseases. Gallbladder Diseases. Bile Duct Diseases. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth and blind boardered, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 4 p. l., 178 p. : ill. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed to Burnett Smith by Er. H. Thompson, March 29th, 1905. Bibliographical foot-notes. Subjects; Medicine. Abdomen - essays. Clinical Medicine. Abdomen. Lectures. Essays. Clinical Medicine. Medicine. 3 Kg.

See her husband's entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of mount on blank reverse of second leaf. Addressed to 'Dear Mr. Stirling' and signed 'Jane Davy'. She begins by asking him if he considers Jose Medina, the courier he had in Spain, 'intelligent, active, & willing'. She adds: 'I should now & then like my own way; will he allow me such an indulgence?' She also wants to know if Medina is 'fairly honest', by which she means 'that he will not allow others to cheat me. He asks me if my project for Spain is realized, Ten Pounds per month, & travelling expenses in Spain, when I have my own little Establishment, his food is to be in my Kitchen ones.' She will be grateful for any information, and appeals to his charity, 'as it would be a good deed to assist an old Lady Traveller. My projects are more uncertain than my inclinations, for I really pine to see Seville & other Cities in the Spain all Travellers love.' She will be there 'some weeks', but 'as early an answer as may be convenient' to him would be valuable. Docketed at foot of final page in a Victorian hand 'Wife of Sir Humphry Davy'. See Wikipedia entry: " was a rich widow who had travelled in Europe and she moved to Edinburgh where she established herself at the centre of Scottish literary society.[2] It was said that she had inspired the character of Corinne who was the protagonist in Anne Louise Germaine de Staël's 1807 novel. She had met Germaine de Staël but that influence is more reliably assigned to Diodata Saluzzo Roero.[3]She turned down a proposal to become the wife of the elder Professor John Playfair and instead accepted the proposal of the celebrity scientist Sir Humphry Davy.[2] The new couple travelled to Paris, Florence and then Rome accompanied by Michael Faraday. During the trip Davy received a medal from Napoleon and Davy and Faraday proved that diamonds were flammable. They returned to England when Napoleon escaped from Elba. They continued to travel in Europe, but increasingly they travelled separately as they had a difficult relationship. Nevertheless, Lady Davy travelled to Rome when she heard that her husband had been taken ill there, and she accompanied him to Geneva where he died in 1829.".

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth and blind boardered, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 4 p. l., 178 p. : ill. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed to Burnett Smith by Er. H. Thompson, March 29th, 1905. Bibliographical foot-notes. Subjects; Medicine. Abdomen - essays. Clinical Medicine. Abdomen. Lectures. Essays. Clinical Medicine. Medicine. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. x, [2], 96 p. 25 cm. Green leather with gilt impressing. All edges gilt. Binding signed by W. H. Dalton, Cockspur Street. Spine worn with tear at top. Moderate wear to edges. A few scratches in leather. Bookplate for Sir James French on front pastedown. Occasional foxing and pencil marks. Speeches by the Earl of Liverpool, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir James Mackintosh, the Right Hon. Mr. Secretary Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Wilberforce, and others. Names on the committee listed at rear include Right Hon. Geo. Canning, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Walter Scott, William Wilberforce, Richard Arkwright, Charles Babbage, Josiah Wedgwood, and James Watt, among others. Introduction by C. H. Turner, Chairman of the Committee. William Henry Dalton, 28 Cockspur Street, London, was at one time bookseller to the Queen.

10. Paris, Chez J.E.G. Du Four. et à Amsterdam chez le même libraire (imprimé à Bruxelles chez De Mailly), 1813-1816, 2 vols in-8°, xxxii + 644 pp + (2)nn pp + (2)(bl) + xii line-engraved plates ; (4)nn pp + lvi pp + 770 pp + (2)(table). Bound in uniform modern boards. Leather label on spines. French translation by Jean Baptiste van Mons (1765 - 1842) of Davy's '' Elements of Chemical Philosophy'' which appeared in one part only in 1812. Van Mons became at the restart in 1797 one of the editors of the '' Annales de Chimie'' together with Fourcroy , de Pelletier , de Vauquelin, Prieur a.o. In 1801 he started in Brussels a similar publication called ''Journal de Chimie et de Physique''. During the period 1780 - 1820, revolutionary advances were made in chemistry. He was at the forefront in collecting data to expand chemical knowledge and was in contact with most of the important European scientists; Brugnatelli, Buchholtz, Traumdorff , Oersted., also with Volta of whom he published the invention of the battery 2 years before the Royal Society of London. The original text of Davy is nearly doubled here with the commentaries of Van Mons. Volume II contains as introduction a very readable history of chemistry (56 pp) signed A.D.T. Rare, not in KUL library (where Van Mons was a professor).

framed. Condition: very good. Signature of British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy. Framed with an etched image of Davy. Circa 1803. Please inquire for more information. Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.

1 lettre autographe signée 2 pp. In-4 7 février [1824] Adresse au verso du second feuillet, cachet postaux et cachet de cire rouge (feuillet d'adresse un peu sali). Trace d'onglet au second feuillet. Déchirures aux pliures, sans manques. Belle lettre scientifique d'Humphry Davy, alors président de laRoyal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, adressée au chimiste Samuel Parkes. "I have received your paper which I have read with much pleasure itcontaining veryinteresting details on an important manufacture ;I would however be happy to communicate any paper of yours to the Royal Society which I think would not be ordered to be presented by the council : and it is not our (?)to present papers unless they contain some experimental research or actuel discovery. When your analysis of the (Renan ?) is finished I would be very glad to see it : as such an experimental esquiry would be well [.]. Permit me to returns yours, my thanks for your entertaining volume of Chemical essays [publié en 1815 en 5 volumes]. I would be glad to see you any Saturdays evenings [.]" Cachet de la collection d'autographes du Dr. Max Thorek, à Chicago. [Max Thorek (1880-1960), chirurgien américain d'origine hongroise, fonda le Collège international de chirurgie en 1935 et le Musée des sciences de la chirurgie, en 1954]. Physicien et chimiste britannique. Il isola le sodium, le potassium, le baryum, le strontium, le calcium et le magnésium grâce à l'électrolyse.

Condition: Very Good. FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS with good content by Humphry Davy to his close friend and patron Davies Gilbert. In one letter, written on the recto of one sheet with Gilbert's address on verso, Davy mentions a recent visit to William Herschel (". I have been very much delighted to see the activity & zeal with which Mr Herschell pursues Astronomy & the perfect state of his instruments."); in another letter (one sheet, both sides), Davy writes emotionally to Gilbert about his health and the Presidency of the Royal Society: ".I am very anxious to learn the state of your feelings with respect to the Presidency, if what I fear must be the case the state of my health obliges me to resign.". Gilbert would indeed succeed Davy as President of the Royal Society in 1827 after Davy resigned due to illness. In the third letter (one sheet, both sides), Davy writes to Davy while convalescing with Coleridge's friend Tom Poole (".Mr Poole my kind Host desires to be respectfully remembered to the Pres. RS."). In the final letter (half sheet, one side) Davy addresses a simple business matter. Each letter is signed "H. Davy". 1805-27. Folds and a few spots of early tape reinforcement. Remnants of wax seal on letter mentioning Herschel. Generally very good. Note: A custom cloth box is available for $250.