Late 19th century educational tool for teaching children the four basic rules of arithmetic, devised by Father Charier, former student of the École Supérieure et Industrielle de la ville de Metz, formed as two octagonal stiff cardboard disks joined at the center, the top disk divided into four sections, one..... More
Large handcolored lithographed star map in the style of a planisphere, designed by Frank and drawn by Joseph Kaiser, depicting constellations from the North Pole to the 40th latitude, with overlaid volvelle-type component to rotate in order to match up the month, day, and time shown in concentric circles around..... More
Turin, 1745. Eighteenth-century Italian perpetual calendar, constructed of manuscript and engraving on paper affixed to wood, with wood and board volvelles, featuring numerous concentric circles for displaying or calculating the Dominical Letter system, the Epacts and phases of the moon, saints’ days and holy days, and the Golden Numbers, together..... More
A complete set in nine portfolio-type fascicules of the impressive assembled group of 231 species of hepatica, or liverworts, on 231 leaves, some contained within mounted paper envelopes, each dried specimen numbered and accompanied by a mounted and printed label containing the Latin name and classification of each species, where..... More
Paris: L'Imprimerie de P. Fr. Gueffier, Libraire-Imprimeur, rue de la Harpe, 1774. 12mo (13.6 × 7.8 cm). Later green marbled boards with gilt-tooled leather spine; 110, [1] pp., illustrated with 6 folding tables of calendrical data (hors-texte) and three volvelles, affixed to leaf of card stock following p. 92. Followed..... More
103 pp. report on the tattoos found amound the resident convicts at the penal colony of Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, with brief preface by Cesare Lombroso, highlighting various types of tattoos found within the population, including religious tattoos, revenge tattoos, political tattoos, erotic and obscene tattoos, tattoos dedicated..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 16 pp. Unopened and uncut. Very good. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian civil war, which followed the Bolshevik Revolution (1918-1923). A massive public education campaign..... More
Moscow: Izdanie narodnogo komissariata zdravookhraneniia, 1920. Octavo (22 × 19 cm). Publisher's staple-stitched printed self-wrappers; 54 pp. Tables and graphs throughout. Slight moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; crease to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Else uncut and unopened; about very good. Second edition (first published in..... More
Sofia: Pechatnitsa "Doverie", 1932. Octavo (20 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (by the author?); 132 pp. Largely uncut and unopened copy; text toned; small repair to lower right corner; a few nicks to rear wrapper; overall about very good. First work by Rusev (1902-?), a Bulgarian psychologist who was..... More
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Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Znanie", 1956. Octavo (21.5 × 14 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; [2], 20, [2] pp. About very good; a fragile publication, with spine extremities beginning to split; tiny nick to lower right corner of front wrapper. One of the very first Soviet publications to openly and fairly discuss the..... More
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Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1920. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Printed self-wrappers; 32 pp. Some moisture damage to bottom right corner and wrapper edge; partially unopened and uncut, good or better. Third edition. A public health and hygiene pamphlet published during the Typhus epidemic unleashed by the privations of the Russian..... More
Kaluga: Tipografiia S. A. Semenova (self-published), 1914. Octavo (25.5 × 17.5 cm). Original tan printed wrappers; 16 pp. Two pp. of illustrations. Complete list of the author's publications on pp. 2-3 of wrappers. Light wear to wrappers; trace of moisture stains to wrapper edges, paper label remnant to upper left..... More
Unpaginated (54 typed leaves printed recto only) original typed research report by Williams, a veterinarian, and Stone, a chemist, documenting their attempts to effectively perform saliva and urine tests on thoroughbred racing horses to detect the existence of performance-enhancing drugs and stimulants, including information on the collection of fluids, a...... More