only one other known copy
[BOOK OF SECRETS].
900 Secrets, Recettes, Procédés, et Remèdies utiles, nouveaux et éprouvés. Trésor de la santé, de la propreté, de la toilette et d'économie domestique, rurale et industrielle.
Avignon, Pierre Chaillot Jeune, 1834.
Rare. We can trace just once copy in institutional collections worldwide, at the Bibliothèque National de France.
16mo (15 x 9 cm); engraved frontispiece, text in French in four sections, each with its own Table de Matières, torn with small loss to fore-edge margin pp81-82 just into text-block, minor spotting; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, loss to spine ends and corners rubbed, but boards are firmly attached; vi (including frontis), 7-390pp.
Stock code 116955
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900 Secrets, Recettes, Procédés, et Remèdies
[Manhattan Project]. Manhattan Engineer District.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [and] Photographs of the Atomic Bombings
[June 29, 1946].
First edition, the complete set with both text and photo volumes, of this important, early scientific report on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by representatives f the Manhattan Project.
£5,700.00
BELL, Charles.
A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves.
1803.
First edition of this early work by the prominent surgeon and anatomical illustrator Charles Bell, A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves, published in 1803.
£1,250.00
SNAPE, Andrew.
The Anatomy of an Horse.
1683.
The first edition of one of the earliest works on horse anatomy in the English language, The Anatomy of an Horse by Andrew Snape, published in 1683
£7,500.00
