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WOOD, William (1774-1857)

A Series of Twenty-Eight Panoramic Views of Calcutta, extending from Chandpaul Ghaut to the end of Chowringhee Road, together with the Hospital, the Two Bridges, and the Fort. London: William Wood, 1833.

DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species . London: John Murray, 1860.

BROWNE, General Sir Samuel James VC GCB KCSI (1824-1901, compiler)

' Papers on Frontier Politics. Russia and Kabul. 1877. 1878 ' [manuscript title on upper cover]. [Simla: Government Central Branch Press and Lahore: Government Civil Secretariat Press, 1877-1885.]

DOVES PRESS

The English Bible, containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James the First . Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1903-1905.

PLANCK, Max (1858-1947)

‘Das Prinzip der Relativität und die Grundgleichungen der Mechanik’. Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft , No. 8. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1906.

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

‘Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung.’ Offprint from: Annalen der Physik , 4th series, vol. 19, no. 2, pp.371-381. Leipzig: Barth, 1906

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

A group of 11 offprints, including: ‘Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Trägheit der Energie.’ Offprint from: Annalen der Physik . 4th Series, vol. 20. Leipzig: Barth, 1906. [ And :] – ‘Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons.’ Offprint from: Annalen der Physik . 4th Series, vol. 21. Leipzig: Barth, 1906. [ And :] – ‘Lichtgeschwindigkeit und Statik des Gravitationsfeldes.’ Offprint from: Annalen der Physik . 4th Series, vol. 38. Leipzig: Barth, 1912. [ And with :] – and Marcel GROSSMANN (1878-1936). ‘Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. I. Physikalischer Teil … II. Mathematischer Teil.' Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik. Vol. 62. Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913.

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie . Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.

BOHR, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962)

The Danish Nobel laureate's own collection of his offprints.

WHITE, John Claude (1853-1919)

Tibet and Lhasa. Photographs by J. C. White, Esq. C.I.E. Calcutta: Johnston and Hoffmann, [1908].

TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973)

[Lord of the Rings Trilogy]. Comprising: - The Fellowship of the Ring . London: Allen & Unwin, 1954. [ With: ] - The Two Towers . London: Allen & Unwin, 1954. [ And: ] - The Return of the King . London: Allen & Unwin, 1955.

MESUE, Johannes, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?)

Opera medicinalia . - Petrus de ABANO. Additiones ad practicam . [Padua: Laurentius Canozius de Lendenaria], 9 June 1471.

MESUE, Johannes de, the younger (ps.? MASAWAIH-al-MARDINI, fl. 10th century?)

PETRUS de ABANO (1250-?1315)

De physiognomia . Padua: Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, 1474. [ Bound with :] MICHAEL SCOTUS (d. c1236). Liber physiognomiae . [Venice: Jacobus de Fivizzano, Lunensis], 1477.

MANFREDIS, Hieronymus de (d.1493)

Liber de homine , in Italian: Libro del perchè . Bologna: Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, 1 July 1474.

SIMON GENUENSIS (fl. 1288-1303)

Synonyma medicinae sive Clavis sanationis . Padua: Petrus Maufer de Maliferis, 20 April 1474.

CELSUS, A. Cornelius (c.25 B.C.-c. A.D. 50)

De medicina . Edited by Bartholomaeus Fontius (1445-1513). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 1478.

MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326)

Anatomia. Edited by Petrus Andreas Morsianus. Bologna: Johannes de Nördlingen and Henricus de Harlem, 20 January 1482.

MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326)

Anatomia . Edited by Martinus Polichius de Mellerstadt. Leipzig: Martin Landsberg, [c. 1493].

MUNDINUS (Mondino de Luzzi, c. 1270-1326)

De omnibus humani corporis interioribus menbris Anathomia [edited by Joannes Adelphus]. Strassburg: M. Flach, 1513.

BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS (fl. 1230–1250)

De proprietatibus rerum . Strasbourg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 14 February 1485.

FALCUTIUS, Nicolaus (d. c.1412)

Sermones medicinales septem . Venice: Bernardinus Stagninus, de Tridino, 24 December 1490 – 8 October 1491.

LEONICENUS, Nicolaus (1428-1524)

De morbo Gallico : Libellus de Epidemia, quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant . Venice: Aldus Manutius, June 1497.

PINTOR, Petrus (1423-1503)

Aggregator sententiarum de pestilentia . Rome: Eucharius Silber, 20 February 1499.

BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus, (c.1450-c.1512)

Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus. Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 8 May 1500.

VALLA, Giorgio (1447-1500)

De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus. Venice: Aldus Manutius for Giampietro Valla, December 1501.

ZERBIS, Gabriele de (1445–1505), and others

A sammelband of nine rare medical and scientific works, printed in Italy in the early 16 th -century.

HORTUS SANITATIS

Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus . Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511.

RÖSSLIN, Eucharius (1470-1526)

Der swangern Frawen und Hebammen Roszgarten. [Hagenau]: Heinrich Gran [device], [c. 1515].

KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-1470)

Fasciculus medicine . – PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO. Consilium pro peste evitanda . - MUNDINUS. Anatomia . - RHASIS. De aegritudinibus puerorum . Venice: Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1513.

BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus (c.1450-c.1512)

Das Buch zu Destilliren die zusamen gethonen Ding . Strasburg: Johann Grüninger, 1519.

[GALENUS, Claudius (129-c. 216)]

Methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis. Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete. [Edited by Gulielmus Budaeus] . [Paris]: D. Maheu [for G. Hittorp], 1519.

BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460-1530)

Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in anatomiam humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 15 July 1523 .

HALY ABBAS ('Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, d.994)

Liber totius medicine necessaria.. . Lyon: Jacobi Myt, 1523.

HIPPOCRATES (c.460–c.370 B.C.)

[Opera] Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumina, quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua, Graeci vero, Arabes, & prisci nostri medici nunc tandem per M. Fabium Calvum … latinitate donata. Rome: Francesco Minitio Calvo, 1525.

PAULUS AEGINETA (c.625-c.690).

Medici optimi, Libri septem, in Greek . Venice: heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Asulanus, August, 1528.

BRUNFELS, Otto (c. 1489-1534)

Herbarum vivae eiconeb [sic] ad naturae imitationem... – Novi Herbarii tomus II. – Tomus herbaria III . Strasbourg: 1530-1532-1536.

EDWARDES [or EDGUARD], David (c.1502-c.1542)

De indiciis et praecognitionibus . [London: Robert Redman, 1532].

AETIUS AMIDENUS (fl. mid-5th - mid-6th century)

Librorum medicinalium tomus primus [all published], in Greek . Venice: heirs of Aldo Manuzio and heirs of Andrea Asulanus, September, 1534.

FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)

Apologia . Hagenau: Peter Braubach, 1534.

FUCHS, Leonhard (1501-1566)

New Kreuterbuch . Basel: Mic New Kreuterbuch . Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543.

VIGO, Joannes de (fl. 1500)

The most excellent workes of chirurgerye, made and set forth by maister John Vigon, heed chirurgie[n] of our tyme in Italie, translated into English. Whereunto is added an exposition of straunge termes [and] vnknowen symples, belongyng to the arte. London: E. Whitchurch, 1543.

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem . Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543.

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

Epistola rationem modumque propinandi radicis Chynae decocti, quo nuper inuictissimus Carolus V. Imperator usus est, pertractans . Basel: Johannes Oporinus, October 1546.

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-1564)

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem . Basel: Johannes Oporinus, August 1555.

VESALIUS, Andreas (1514-64)

De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome . Paris: André Wechel, 1560.

RĀZĪ, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā (c.854-925)

Ob usum experientiamque multiplicem, et ob certissimas ex demonstrationibus logicis indicationes, ad omnes practer naturam affectus, atque etiam propter remediorum uberrimam materiam, summi medici opera exquisitiora . Translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona (c.1114-1187) and Giorgio Valla. - Andreas VESALIUS (1514-1564). Paraphrasis in nonum librum Rhazac ... ad regem Almansorem . Edited by Alban Thorer (1489-1550). Basel: Heinrich Petri, March 1544.