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Cambridge: MIT, 1972.

Milan: Alessandro Minuziano, 1517. Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (ca. 56 - ca. 120 C.E.). P. Cornelii Taciti libri quinque noviter in venti atque cum reliquis eius operibus editi. Small 4to. [20], 233, [3]ff. Signatures H-K bound in reverse order in this copy. [Milan:] Ex officina Minutiana, 1517. 192 x 127 mm. Full morocco tooled in gilt and blind in antique style. Occasional faint dampstaining, but a fine copy. Engraved armorial bookplate of Count D[mitri] Petrovich Boutourlin (1790-1849). First Minuziano Edition, and the First Example of a Challenge to a Copyright. In 1508 Pope Leo X (formerly Cardinal Giovanni de'Medici) purchased the only surviving manuscript of the "lost" first six books of Tacitus's Annals, which had earlier been stolen from the monastery of Corvey in Westphalia. Six year later Leo granted the Vatican librarian, humanist Filippo Beroaldo the younger, the exclusive right or privilegio to issue a printed edition the complete works of Tacitus, including the previously unpublished… Read More

Berlin: Adolf Eckstein, 1910. 46.5x30cm.. Includes biographical cover page. Very good condition.

Berlin: G. Reimer, 1831. Tagliacozzi, Gaspare (1545-99). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem. Revised and edited with preface by Maximilian Troschel. 8vo. xvi, 436pp. 6 folding lithographed plates adapted from the 22 original woodcuts. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1831. 205 x 120 mm. Quarter calf gilt c. 1831, spine rubbed,skillfully rebacked.. Lightly browned throughout, but very good. Fourth and last edition, dedicated to Dieffenbach, and inspired by the revival of interest in rhinoplastic procedures that Dieffenbach and von Graefe stimulated in Germany. Gnudi & Webster, p. 194. Zeis 179. Waller 9453. .

Birmingham: Journal" printing works, 1888. Tait, Robert Lawson (1845-99). Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele. 107pp. 3 plates; text illustrations. Birmingham: "Journal" Printing Works, 1888. 242 x 152 mm. Original gilt-lettered cloth, a bit faded, some splits in the spine. Light toning but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed "With the Author's Compliments" on the title. 19th-century library bookplate. First Edition. Tait, a pioneer in pelvic and abdominal surgery, introduced salpingectomy (surgical removal of a fallopian tube) for the treatment for ectopic pregnancy in 1883; see Garrison-Morton.com 6196. In the present work he also discussed the treatment of pelvic hematocele, a sometimes life-threatening type of hematoma that can be caused by ectopic pregnancy. Garrison-Morton.com 6199. .

1868. Very Good. Tait, Peter Guthrie (1831-1901). Autograph letter signed to [Josiah] Latimer Clark (1822-98). Edinburgh, July 27, 1868. 2 pp. 178 x 114 mm. Remains of mounting on blank verso of last page. Very good. From mathematician and physicist Peter Guthrie Tait, professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh and co-author (with William Thomson) of the classic Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867), a work that helped to define the modern discipline of physics. Tait's correspondent, Latimer Clark, was an electrical engineer and pioneer in submarine telegraphy; he worked on the Atlantic cable and in 1868 founded the company of Clark, Forde and Taylor, one of the leading submarine cable-laying firms of the nineteenth century. Clark was also an enthusiastic bibliophile, amassing an impressive library of nearly six thousand works on electricity and magnetism documented in the Catalogue of the Wheeler Gift (1909) . Tait's letter, regarding the ordering of some mechanical apparatus from Clark, reads in… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. General History of Astronomy, Vol. 2. xiii, 281pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Fine.

Berlin: Hirschwald, 1881. (235 x 159 mm). 116 pp. "Tauber, E. 1881." written in pen at the top of the title page. Library stamp on title-page. Very good.

1865. City of London Truss Society. Archive of 65 documents, including autograph letters signed (mostly to John Colley Taunton [d. 1858]), printed reports and other ephemera. 1822-65. Some documents soiled or dampstained, a few with tears, but overall good to very good. Calendar of the archive included. The City of London Truss Society, a highly successful British charitable organization, began operating in 1807 and continued well into the twentieth century (Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the well-known surgeon and bibliographer, served on the Society's medical staff in the 1930s). A notice published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1813 describes the genesis of the Society: "From the great number of persons among the laboring poor who were afflicted with hernia, and for whose relief no adequate provision existed, on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire, Dr. Herdman, John Taunton, the Rev. H. G. Watkins, James Horton, Michael Bartlett, Joseph Atkinson, John Middleton, John Gardner and John Whitford, met at… Read More

1877. 102 x 62 mm. A bit faded.

1876. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80); Neil Arnott (1788-1874). Elements of physics, or, natural philosophy. Manuscript consisting of text pages, from an earlier edition, of the book's "Prefatory Note" and Part IV (Heat), sections 554 - approx. 643 and 699 - approx. 716, heavily amended in Taylor's hand, together with extensive autograph additions on separate sheets. Approx. 120ff. N.p., 1876. Accompanied by a cost sheet in a secretarial hand dated 3 October 1876, headed "Dr. Arnott's Physics 7th Edition," plus 3 receipts for expenses related to the book's production. Various sizes. Creased, some dust-soiling and fraying, but overall very good. Autograph manuscript of a large portion of Taylor's contribution to the posthumous seventh edition of Neil Arnott's Elements of Physics, co-edited by Taylor and Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain (1818-1903). The manuscript consists of text sheets of Section IV on "Heat," taken from an earlier edition and heavily revised in Taylor's hand, plus numerous… Read More

1876. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Archive of material relating to the famous Charles Bravo poisoning case, consisting of (1) Autograph letter signed to Taylor from Harry Bodkin Poland (1829-1928). Bifolium. 3pp. Temple [London], 29 May 1876. 205 x 127 mm. (2) 3 autograph letters signed to Taylor from Augustus K. Stephenson (1827-1904). 15pp. total. [London], 3 June 1876 (2 bifolia, 8pp.); 5 June 1876 (bifolium, 4pp.); and 22 July 1876 (bifolium, 3pp.). 184 x 114 mm. (3) [Taylor.] The Balham mystery. Galley proof, corrected in Taylor's hand, of the first portion of an unsigned article in The British Medical Journal (20 May 1876): 631-633. 578 x 148 mm. Together 4 letters and one printed proof. Some rodent damage to Stephenson's letters affecting several words, mended in several places with clear tape. Small lacuna along one fold in the galley proof affecting a few words. Minor dampstaining but good to very good. From the library of Alfred Swaine Taylor, founder of forensic toxicology, an archive… Read More

London, 1847. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Experiments on Professor Liebig's new test for prussic acid, with remarks on its application in medical jurisprudence. Galley proofs, with autograph corrections, of Taylor's article published in The London Medical Gazette, n.s., 4 (1847): 765-770. [London, 1847.] Single broadsheet, printed on recto only. 448 x 567 mm. Some rodent damage along central fold affecting a few lines of text, but very good. Docketed. Taylor was the founder of forensic toxicology and the leading medical jurist in England in the mid-nineteenth century. He held the professorship post of medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital from 1831 until 1877 and was the author of several other works on forensic medicine, including Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836; Garrison-Morton.com 1738) and On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine (1848; Garrison-Morton 10729). He appeared as an expert witness in several famous criminal trials—including that of William Palmer,… Read More

1855. 214 x 167 mm. Mounted. Edges frayed, glue residue in upper corners.

London, 1878. [Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80).] Post mortem examinations for accident insurance companies [and] Found drowned. Galley proof, with autograph corrections, of two unsigned articles published in the British Medical Journal (Jan.-June 1878): 25-26 and 96-97. [London, 1878.] 1 sheet. 635 x 150 mm. Creased but very good. From the archive of Alfred Swaine Taylor, founder of forensic toxicology and the leading medical jurist in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Taylor held the professorship post of medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital from 1831 until 1877 and was the author of several books on forensic medicine, including Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836; Garrison-Morton.com 1738). He also served as chief editor of the Medical Times and Gazette from 1844 to 1851. The first article in this galley proof criticizes insurance companies for improper practices in their use of post-mortem examinations; the second condemns the results of a coroner's inquest which had returned a… Read More

London, 1865. 97 x 62 mm.

London, 1850. 102 x 62 mm.

London, 1858. [Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80).] The Englesham [sic] poisoning case. Galley proofs, with pencil notes and corrections, of an unsigned article published in the Medical Times and Gazette, n.s., 16 (1858): 36-38. [London, 1858.] 2 sheets printed on rectos only, the longer measuring 570 x 156 mm. A few marginal tears (mended with clear tape) affecting one or two lines of text, some creasing, but on the whole very good. Docketed in Taylor's hand. From the archive of Alfred Swaine Taylor, founder of forensic toxicology and the leading medical jurist in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Taylor held the professorship post of medical jurisprudence at Guy's Hospital from 1831 until 1877 and was the author of several books on forensic medicine, including Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836; Garrison-Morton.com 1738). He also served as chief editor of the Medical Times and Gazette from 1844 to 1851. "The Englesham poisoning case" discusses the chemical forensic evidence used in the… Read More

Chicago: Newberry Library, 1957.

1861. Verso inscribed "A. S. Taylor 1861." 102 x 65 mm.