Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Author's own offprint of this interesting article on detecting blood 'for the purposes of pathology and legal medicine', in which he publishes, for the first time, a description of the spectroscopic process developed by the eminent microscopist and geologist Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), written by Sorby at Taylor's request.

Dubbed the father of British forensic medicine, Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880) inspired Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charles Dickens. His published output was pioneering and outstanding, from his Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (1836) and Manual of Medical Jurisprudence (1844) to Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine (1848) and Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence (1865). His contributions to the field won him prizes, honorary degrees, and an international reputation. As a leading medical jurist and toxicologist, Taylor was consulted on hundreds of medico-legal cases and appeared as an expert… Read More

8vo, pp. [xxxvi], 216; woodcut headpieces and initials; some spotting and browning in places, but largely fresh; with 17th century engraved bookplate of Antonius Biderman on verso of title (leading to small hole on title, not affecting text); in later marbled boards with floral paper spine, handwritten label at head of spine; later endpapers; some rubbing and wear to extremities.
First edition, second issue (with the imprint R. Daniel, rather than R. Danielis) of this collection of the philosophical, political, and theological writings of Bacon, including numerous essays previously unpublished, and the first appearance of William Rawley's biographical sketch of the philosopher. Rawley, Bacon's literary executor, collects together eleven essays, some original and some appearing for the first time in Latin, including 'Historia densi et rari', 'Inquisitio de magnetate', 'Topica inquisitionis de luce et lumine', 'Confessio Fidei', and 'Inquisitio de versionibus, transmutationubus, multiplicationibus, et… Read More

First edition of Newton's collected works, edited and introduced by the Pisa alumnus Giovanni Salvemini da Castiglione. The edition contained twenty-six works which, while having appeared previously, were not easily accessible, from Newton's mathematical works and optical lectures, which were greatly influential and laid the foundations of modern science, to his philological essays on history and theology. It thus became a major tool in the dissemination of Newton's science and a major publication in the history of science.
The first volume, mathematical papers, contains De analysi (1711), Methodis fluxionum (1736), De quadratura (1704), Enumeratio curvarum (1704), Methodus differentialis (1711), and excerpts from Newton's correspondence with John Collins, John Wallis, Henry Oldenburg, and Abbe Conti. The second volume, philosophical papers, includes De mundi systemate (1731), Lectiones opticae (1729), De natura acidorum (1736), Scala graduum caloris (1701), and his papers from the Philosophical… Read More