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La Litotomia delle donne perfezionata by MASOTTI, Domenico

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Title: La Litotomia delle donne perfezionata
Author: MASOTTI, Domenico
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faenza, Presso l'Archi, 1763. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (20 x 13 cm), 88 pp., [2] ff., 2 folding engraved plates at end, 4 engraved plates in text (of calculi, facing pp. 42, 54, 58 and 68), title page printed in red & black. Bound in stiff vellum with raised bands, spine label missing, covers somewhat soiled. Three old ownership stamps in margin of title, ownership tag on pastedown; overall a clean, fresh copy. Scarce second edition, second issue of a work on extracting stones from the female bladder: Masotti's work is considered a precursor to laparoscopy. He comments on the methods and instruments of earlier lithotomists, describes four procedures he performed, and describes, with 2 illustrations, an instrument he designed to remove stones without surgery: "Masotti fitted his forceps with a blade which could be projected as far as the size of the stone warranted" (Murphy). The drainage canals of Masotti's instrument overcame a problem common in lithotomy, the clogging of the trocar (the instrument used for draining the bladder). The text is expanded from Masotti's Lettera sopra gl'instromenti necessari per la litotomia nelle donne, Florence, 1756. An extra leaf following p. 82 reprints the minutes of the Royal Academy in Paris of November 15, 1764 (describing Masotti's instrument as "tres-bien imaginé"): this issue therefore probably dates to late 1764. The dedication leaf (p. 3) reads "Accademie di Boven" (corrected in a later issue to "Rouen") and "Inspettor Generale" (in an earlier issue, "Generale"). The first folding plate is signed by Gio. Batta. Iacopucci as artist and Car. Gregori as engraver, the other plates by Joseph Menabuoni as artist and Joseph Ballanti as engraver. Masotti (1698-1779) was professor of surgery and lithotomy at the Royal Hospital of Sta. Maria Nuova in Florence. * Murphy, History of Urology p. 14; Hirsch IV, 111; Blake p. 291; Benjamin 434; Kiefer 395; Wellcom IV, 75; De Renzi, Storia della Medicina Italiana V, 862.

Atlas Shrugged by Rand, Ayn

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Title: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Rand, Ayn
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Random House, 1957. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Large Octavo. Twenty-sixth printing. Bound in black cloth spine over black boards. Salter dust jacket, with price of $26.50 on front flap. Quite a handsome copy, with little or no wear showing on book or dust jacket.

Engraved Portrait by Hollar, 1643 by Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester

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Title: Engraved Portrait by Hollar, 1643
Author: Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Margins: 120x68 mm. Right margin trimmed, slightly affecting image. faint soiling. Somewhat faint impression.

ENGLISH MUSIC by Ackroyd, Peter.

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Title: ENGLISH MUSIC
Author: Ackroyd, Peter.
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780140169423
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Knopf, 1992. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) for the first US edition. Illustrated wraps. One of an unspecified number signed by Ackroyd on the front free endpaper. Enclosed in a soft illustrated box as issued. Unread copy in Fine condition in soft box with corner and edgewear. Signed by Author. First Edition. The image is of the book described and not a stock photo.

HOMENAJE A ANNA MACCAGNO: I SIMPOSIO SOBRE LA ESCULTURA PERUANA DEL SIGLO XX -- HOMENAJE A ANNA MACCAGNO: EXPOSICIÓN DE ESCULTURAS; Marta Cisneros... et al (Ed)

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Title: HOMENAJE A ANNA MACCAGNO: I SIMPOSIO SOBRE LA ESCULTURA PERUANA DEL SIGLO XX -- HOMENAJE A ANNA MACCAGNO: EXPOSICIÓN DE ESCULTURAS; Marta Cisneros... et al (Ed)
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Facultad de Arte, PUCP-FA, Fondo Editorial, 2003. b/w plates, bio/chron., ports., bio/chron., cat., bibliographical references, duo tone pict. fldg. wrps. OCLC: 1195765636. Vol. 1 includes the articles written for the Symposium. Vol. 2 is the catalog of the sculpture exhibition held in coordination with the Symposium. This 2 volume set in homage to abstract sculptor Maccagno (b. Italy 1918, immigrated to Peru in 1946 - d. 2001). First volume is a remembrance of the life and extraordinary artistic legacy as remembered by her many students and includes the conference papers presented during the first symposium of 20th century Peruvian sculpture celebrated in her honor. A second volume is the catalogue of the exhibition on her first death anniversary, by bringing together works by those sculptors that were once or are now professors of the Art Faculty of the university, a teaching space were she dedicated a large part of her academic life. Artists presented along Maccagno's work include: Lyde Zavaleta, Martin Salazar, George Clarke, Catherine Schiller, Johanna Hamann, Marta Cisneros and others. Exhibition curated by: Jorge Villacorta.

Native Tongue by Elgin, Suzette Haden

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Title: Native Tongue
Author: Elgin, Suzette Haden
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780879979454
Condition: Good
Description: New York: DAW Books, Inc, 1984. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/8". 301pp. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by Jill Bauman. Creasing to corners and to spine. Slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name to first page. Pages are gently age-toned, else clean and unmarked. Published in 1984, while Margaret Atwood was in the middle of writing The Handmaid's Tale, Native Tongue is the first in a dystopian trilogy that imagines a future America where women no longer have legal rights and the earth's financial wellbeing depends on a line of linguists who breed women to birth and to become ideal translators of alien languages before they send them to "Barren Houses." The women of the linguist lines, however, have for generations been secretly crafting a language of their own, a language of revolution. Professor of linguistics Patricia Anne Wilkins (1936-2015) began writing science fiction under the pen name Suzette Haden Elgin as a widowed single mother trying to put herself through college in the 1960s. The language developed in Native Tongue is the constructed language Láadan which Elgin engineered and of which there are a handful of speakers in the world today. A presentable early printing, with the original cover art by Jill Bauman, of this classic of feminist science fiction, recently brought back to print by the Feminist Press at CUNY. "This angry feminist text is also an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction, deftly and implacably pursuing both a scientific hypothesis and an ideological hypothesis through all their social, moral, and emotional implications." -Ursula K. Le Guin.

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