Recent Arrivals from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

Paris,: J.B. Ballière,, 1845.. 4 parts in 2 volumes: [i[-xvi, 380; [iv], [381]787, [i, blank] ; [iv[, [i]-346, [3447]-735, [i, blank] pp. Small 8vo (12 x 18,5 cm.). Neatly bound in half grained black morocco, spines with 4 raised bands, gilt lettered and numbered, marbled boards and end-papers. ¶ Very good and complete copy of this homeopathic classic. Copy… Read more about this item

Viennae (Wien),: Typis Joan. Thomae nob. de Trattern,, 1767.. [iv], xix, [xx], 580, [44] pp. Small 8vo (12,8 x 20,2 cm.). Comtemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments richly gilt tooled with floral motives; gilt lettered on a brown morocco label; red washed edges. Soulsby , 315; Hulth, 25; Stafleu/Cowan, 3844. A straightforward reprint… Read more about this item

Paris,: Hachette et Cie,, 1883-1884.. 2 volumes: [iv], [1]-720; [iv], 721-1499, [1500, err.] pp. Large 8vo (16 x23,5 cm.). Contemporary half red morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt lettered, tooled with floral decorations marbled boards and end-papers. Richly iilustrated with 3487 wood-engraved figures of plants. ¶ Barnard I: 106; Stafleu/Cowan I: 257; Blunt 284; BM I:… Read more about this item

Paris,: J.-B. Baillière,, 1879.. 60, [iii] pp. 8vo (16,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With one plate drawn and engraved by P, Galland, printed by A. Wulliam of Lyon. ¶ Thesis> Laboratoire de Médecine de la Faculté de Médeciine de Lyon. --(name cut from title-page).

Madrid,: Imprenta de D. Ignacio Boix,, (1844).. 416, [xvi] pp. 8vo (14x21 cm.). Unbound and entirely uncut and unopened (à la barbe, thus in folded quires held together by a thread) ¶ The rare, second Spanish translation, after the 5th. Geman edition of the Organon, which was published only one year after the dead of its author.--(Bibioteca Médica… Read more about this item

Paris,: J.-B. Baillière & Fils,, 1912.. [ii, blank], x, 362, ]iv], 30, [ii, blank] pp. 12mo (10,5 x 15 cm.). Contemporary half green morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered (discoloured and/or faded; outer edges of sides partly worn). With several wood engraved illustrations. ¶ Rozet A 676 (who don't mention the "Prix-Courant illustré"). Rare, the WorldCat lists only… Read more about this item

4 parts in two volumes: xx, 396; [iv], [397]-816 (pp 805-816 bound at the end of part 4); [iv], 396; [iv], [397]-812 pp. Royal 12mo (12,6 x 18,2 cm). Original publisher's binding in half green shagreen, spine with 4 raised bands, in compartments gilt lettered and decorated; blind tooled green buckram boards (demi chagrin vert, dos à nerfs… Read more about this item

A Paris,: Chez Cavelier ,, 1771.. [iv, blank],191, [i], [iv, blank]. pp. 8vo (in-8, 13 x 20 cm.). Contemporary marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments richly gilt tooled with floral decoration, gilt lettered, edges red.-- [ Reliure plein veau d'époque, tranches rouges, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, reliure et intérieur à l'état… Read more about this item

Paris,: La Phosphatine Falière,, (1904).. [ii, blank], ][ii], 14 [plates], [ii], [iv, blank] pp. 4to (21,5 x 31 cm.). Original printed decorated Art Nouveau wrappers (spine worn; some scattered lightly staining; wrapper's rear side has traces of 2 (small) rodents bites. ¶ A charmingly illustrated illustrated album in Art Nouveau decoration.

Paris,: Mahler et Cie, Librarie Scientifique,, 1827.. [iv], xii, 380 pp. 12mo (11 x 18 cm.). Original printed publisher's boards (partly slightly worn and scattered staining), uncut. ¶ In 1828 Thomson became the first professor of materia medica and therapeutics at London University (now University College London), but was already known as the author of 'the London Dispensatory' (first… Read more about this item

Bordeaux,: Chez Gassiot [& Paris, Bechet],, 1832.. [ii, blank], 118, [ii, blank] pp. 8vo (13,7 x 21,7 cm.). Original printed wrappers (small spiece gone from front and rear side; spine strip browed & worn / dos abimé & bruni), entirely uncut / non rogné. ¶ Mabit, pathologist and intimate friend of Laennec. He "was among of the earliest… Read more about this item

(London),: The Holland Press,, 1977.. xxviii,289pp. 8vo (15 x 23 cm.). Original cloth. With a frontispiece and 25 plates. ¶ First published by Quaritch in 1891. This work is the only bibliography in English relating to falconry. Books in over 20 languages are catalogued (378 references), all with extensive and illuminating notes. This is a photomechanical reprint of 1977,… Read more about this item

Paris,: Soc. des Publ. Médicales & Dentaires,, 1961.. [i], iv, 150, [ii] pp. Small 4to (18 x 24 cm.). Original printd wrappers. With 23 plates in the text. ¶ Fouchard, the "father of modern dentistry" will be best remebered for his "Le chirurgien dentiste" (1728), the first complete scientific description of dentistry.

Rotterdam,: Van Senus,, 1906.. 312 pp. + 156 unnumbered leaves. Small folio (23,5 x 30,5) cm. Original half cloth publisher's binding (partly dust soiled & worn; corners slightly bumped, joints partly weak). Very richly illustrated with over 1200 engravings in the text. ¶ A huge illustrated trade catalogue of cameras, lenses, chemistry and other appliances for the professional photographer.… Read more about this item

Paris,: Masson,, 1966.. vii, [i, blank], 258, [ii] pp. Roy. 8vo (16,3 X 24,2 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With 65 figures. ¶ Florkin, the 'Fouding father of comparative biochemistry' was a pupil of Léon Fredericq. He wrote over 800 scientific papers, and contributed greately to the history of life sciences. An interesting association copy (dated 1 dec.… Read more about this item

Leipzig,: bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich,, 1785.. [xxii], 248, [ii] pp. Small 8vo (11 x 17,5 cm.). Contemporary 3/4 calf, spine with 5 raised bands, spine gilt lettered on morocco label. Gilt supralibros (19th century?) on both sides. mardbled end-papers. With three folded engraved plates, one signed J.G. Schmidt. ¶ Very rare, only a few copies known. A… Read more about this item

(Paris),: Editions L.H.M., 1939.. 23, [i] pp. 8vo (13,4 x 21 cm.). Original green printed wrappers. ith several woodcut figures in the text. ¶ A charming example of Homeopathic publicity. The Laboratoires Homéopathiques Modernes eventually, after a merge with the Soc. Rhodanienne, became Lab. Boiron in 1967.

Montreal & London,: McGill-Queen's University Press,, 1969.. xli, 792 pp. Thick 4to (23,5 x 29 cm.). Original red buckram (very slightly soiled). Title printed in red and black ¶ A facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1929, with important new 6 page prologue by L.G. Stevenson, and 6 pages of addenda and corrigenda. Garrison & Morton, 6772: "This… Read more about this item

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden),: Henricum Teering,, 1730.. [vi], 46, [iv] pp. Small 4to (18,7 x 25 cm.). Marbled wrappers (reliure d'attente / temporary binding). Uncut. ¶ Third edition of Boerhaave’s ‘iatromechanical credo’. Boerhaave's early disputations and orations are rarely offered for sale today, the first editions of these are almost unobtainable at the antiquarian bookmarket. Lindeboom, 21. "With… Read more about this item

Leipzig,: Leopoald Voss,, 1841.. xxi, [i0, 434 pp. Small 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Original black buckram. ¶ Good copy of the reprint edition, München, 1926. All published. Garrisonn & Morton, 6753: "This is one of the best check list of the printed works of the older medical writers..."The first edition appeared in 1828.