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[SUEZ CANAL.]
Vade-mecum des porteurs de Suez. Extrait du numéro du 4 mars 1882 du Courrier des Tirages financiers. Propriété...
. Paris, [1882].
Scarce pamphlet, signed ‘J. R.’, advising investors in the Suez Canal – referred to as ‘capitalistes intelligents’ – on the likely return on their investments over the coming 10 years.
£50
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CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.
Bekanntmachung in Betreff der Asiatischen Cholera.
Stuttgart: [n.p.], 20 September 1831 [offprint from Schwäbischer Merkur, 26 September 1831].
As both advice and rumours about the so-called ‘Asian’ cholera epidemic circulated in Prussia in 1831, this pamphlet was issued to counteract harmful and erroneous information with sensible advice. It was issued and distributed by Königliches Medicinal Collegium on behalf of the state of Baden-Württemberg,...
£275
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[CHOLERA.]
Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den Gottesdiensten in das Schluβ-Gebet aufzunehmen ist.
[Württemberg: s.n., 11 October 1831].
Cholera, the ‘plague’ of the nineteenth century, affected large parts of populations across Eurasia and can be counted as one of the most devastating types of epidemics until today. The second pandemic of c. 1826 to 1841 swept from Mecca via Egypt to Europe, and reached Central Europe, and thence...
£175
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DUNDAS, Charles Cecil Farquharson.
Kilimanjaro and Its People. A History of the Wachagga, Their Laws, Customs and Legends, Together...
London: Northumberland Press for H.F. & G. Witherby, 1924.
First edition. Charles Dundas (1884-1956), son of the 6th Viscount Melville of Melville, was an influential figure in the British East African territories in the early twentieth century: he held the office of District Commissioner of British East African Protectorate (1908-1915), was then Political Officer...
£350
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HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.
Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres dites malignes, putrides, bilieuses, muqueuses, jaune,...
Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.
First edition by the physiologist and pathologist Hernandez (1769–1835). In Essai sur le typhus he rejects traditional book learning (especially humoral theories) and proposes an empirical approach for investigating the origin, epidemiology, contagion patterns and treatment of inflammatory...
£550
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[NORTH, Roger].
A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds ... Done by a Person of Honour.
London: E. Curll, 1713.
First edition. Written by the polymathematical lawyer, politician, and writer Roger North (1653-1734), A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds was based on the author’s own experience, gained at his estate in Rougham, Norfolk. North had a very practical disposition, was a skilled mathematician and friend...
£500
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HEDIN, Sven Anders.
Öfver Land till Indien. Genom Persien, Seistan och Belutjistan.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1910.
First edition, first to fourth thousand copies. Hedin’s account of his 1905-1906 journey across the northern Persian deserts from Teheran to India; as he explains in the preface, ‘Den egentliga resan börjar först från Teheran, och utanför Teherans portar börjar också öknen. Sedan är det intet...
£575
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UNSWORTH, Walt.
Everest.
London: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd for Allen Lane, 1981.
First edition. ‘This is the story of Man’s attempts to climb a very special mountain’ begins Unsworth’s book, which was very well reviewed when first published in 1981, thanks to his depth of knowledge of his subject, and his original contributions to the historical retrospective of the adventures...
£500
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SMYTHE, Francis Sydney.
The Kangchenjunga Adventure.
London: The Camelot Press Ltd. for Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930.
First edition. Francis (‘Frank’) Smythe (1900-1949), was an English mountaineer, photographer, and botanist, and one of three British members of the Professor G. Dyrenfurth’s 1930 Kangchenjunga expedition. The expedition was unsuccessful, and tragically resulted in the deaths of three climbers;...
£750
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HUNT, John.
Typed letter signed (‘John Hunt’) to Paul J. Hill (‘Dear Mr. Hill’).
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Westminster, London, 2 November 1962.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Boys was established by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in 1956, and Sir John (later Baron) Hunt, the leader of the 1953 Everest expedition, was appointed Director. By 1959 the Award had become a charitable trust; by 1960, 35,000 boys and 7,000 girls were participating in...
£200
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CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.
Verhaltungs Maβregeln für das Publikum in Beziehung auf die Asiatische Brechruhr.
Stuttgart: Buckdruckerei des Schwabischen Merkurs, 10 November 1836 [offprint from Schwäbischer Merkur].
By 1836 the propagation of health advice concerning the ‘Asian’ cholera epidemic (which had spread to Prussia from Russia five years previously) had become a genre of medical publishing, and this text was prepared by the Königliches Medicinal Collegium, and then published both in the regional Stuttgart...
£300
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CUVIGLIA, Ambrogio.
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Naples, 27 June 1837.
A fascinating letter reporting on the disastrous impact of cholera in Naples and the surrounding countryside in 1837, during the second global cholera pandemic (1829-51), and warning of the possible spread of the disease from one port to another. The letter was written from Naples by the consul general...
£150
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PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.
A Little Tour in India.
London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham Press for Edward Arnold, 1913.
First edition. Palmer was the son of the politician and colonial administrator William Palmer, Earl of Selborne, and was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford, where he took First Classes in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores, obtained distinction in the examination...
£50
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[TURKEY.]
Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe with latest divisions and railways 1876.
Edinburgh and London, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1876.
Showing the Balkans. A handsome map published by the firm established in 1826 by the Scottish geographers William (1802-88) and (Alexander) Keith Johnston (1804-71). ‘The Johnston partnership – which also encompassed William’s and Keith’s younger brother, Thomas Brumby (d. 1897); Thomas’s sons...
£100
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HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].
'Baktiaris Persans'.
[Iran, c. 1905-1911].
An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari tribe – revolutionaries in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 – here posing in strength with their weapons. Their leader, Sardar As’ad Bakhtiari (1856-1917), was a key figure in the Iranian revolution; under his command (and with German...
£1500
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WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of.
Three autograph letters signed to Lady Emily Ponsonby née Bathurst regarding her son’s...
April – November 1842.
Wellington does not object to her son switching to the Grenadier Guards ‘if any officer of the same rank can be found to exchange with him’.
£750
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BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.
First edition, ‘Author’s Autograph Edition’, no. 348 of 1,000 copies signed by Byrd and the publishers, printed on Ragleaf All Rag Paper. Little America was the leader’s account of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928 to 1930, which was the first American Antarctic expedition. It was undertaken...
£400
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis.
Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.
First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at the city’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances generally used in the preparation of medicines, with synonyms and notes to aid the user in distinguishing...
£1800
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii Ticinensis anno MDCCXC.
Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].
Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia for use at the Ospedale Grande di San Matteo, also known as the Pietà, in Pavia, one of the foremost medical schools in Europe at the time of this publication. Founded in 1449, the Ospedale remained the centre of healthcare in the city for almost...
£750
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[ANATOMY.]
‘Breve compendio anatomico’.
[Italy, c. 1720.]
A handsome set of apparently unpublished notes on orthopaedics by an anonymous medical student, compiled in Italy in the early eighteenth century, covering bones, cartilage, ligaments and muscles. The manuscript opens with a detailed analysis of the human skeleton, its bones and articulation,...
£1750