Category: Science & Medicine

SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCES IN PLATO

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Eidos / Caravan Books : 1980

Seller ID: 6208

ISBN-13: 9780882063010

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Former scholar's name on ffep (David Furley) with his blindstamp to fep. Pencil marginalia by Furley on a few pages. ; Contents: Gregory Vlastos: The role of Observation in Plato's Conception of Astronomy; Alexander P. D. Mourelatos: Plato's "Real Astronomy" Republic VII. 527D-531D; Robert G. Turnbull: The Later Platonic Concept of Scientific Explanation; Ian Mueller: Ascending to Problems: Astronomy and Harmonics in Republic VII. ; 127 pages; Collective contribution of four essays to the restoration of Plato's place in the history of scientific thought.
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ARATUS: PHAENOMENA Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

By: Aratus; Douglas Kidd

Price: $235.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1997

Seller ID: 32260

ISBN-13: 9780521582308

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Minor foxing to top of textblock. From the Library of G. P. Goold. DJ has 2 small tears to lower edge. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 34; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 616 pages
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ARATUS: PHAENOMENA Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

By: Aratus; Douglas Kidd

Price: $235.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1997

Seller ID: 36333

ISBN-13: 9780521582308

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Light edgewear (minor chipping) to DJ. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 34; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 616 pages
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ARATI [ARATUS] PHAENOMENA Recensuit Et Fontium Testimoniorumque Notis Prolegomenis Indicibus Instruxit Ernestus Maass. Editio Secunda Lucis Ope Expressa

By: Aratus; Ernestus [Ernst] Maass (Ed. )

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung : 1955

Seller ID: 30945

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Some pages unopened. Crease through upper corners of pages. Tear to base of spine (~1cm) with crease. Very light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; Xxxvi + 99 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages
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ARATI [ARATUS] PHAENOMENA Recensuit Et Fontium Testimoniorumque Notis Prolegomenis Indicibus Instruxit Ernestus Maass. Editio Tertia Lucis Ope Expressa

By: Aratus; Ernst [Ernestus] Maass (Ed. )

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung / Apud Weidmannos : 1964

Seller ID: 9422

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine is slightly browned and rubbed (effacing some of the lettering). First few pages have creasing to top corners. ; Xxxvi + 101 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages
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ARISTOTE: LES PARTIES DES ANIMAUX. Texte Établi Et Traduit

By: Aristote (Aristotle) ; Pierre Louis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Société D'Édition `les Belles Lettres' : 1956

Seller ID: 28215

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Tears to spine cover now crudely repaired with cellotape. Some pencil marginalia and underlining. ; Parallel text in French and Greek. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 193 pages
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ARISTOTLE ON THE PARTS OF ANIMALS Translated, with an Introduction and Notes

By: Aristotle; W. Ogle

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, Garland Publishing : 1987

Seller ID: 21116

ISBN-13: 9780824069254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Reprint of the 1882 London ed. xxxiii, 263pp.; Greek & Roman Philosophy Volume 26; 263 pages
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THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Volume V: De Partibus Animalium by William Ogle; De Motu and De Incessu Animalium by A. S. L. Farquharson; De Generatione Animalium by Arthur Platt

By: Aristotle; William Ogle, A. S. L. Farquharson & Arthur Platt (Under General editorship Of J. A. Smith & W. D. Ross)

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford At the Clarendon Press : 1972

Seller ID: 31601

ISBN-13: 9780198242055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Pages tanned. DJ spine is slightly browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; Volume 5 ONLY. ; Vol. 5
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EPICURUS' SCIENTIFIC METHOD

By: Asmis, Elizabeth

Price: $315.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press : 1984

Seller ID: 19381

ISBN-13: 9780801414657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Light pencilling to a few pages. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has a couple of small tears and light chipping. DJ has a bit of creasing. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 400 pages
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MEDICAL CARE FOR THE ROMAN ARMY ON THE RHINE, DANUBE AND BRITISH FRONTIERS IN THE FIRST, SECOND AND EARLY THIRD CENTURIES AD

By: Baker, Patricia Anne

Price: $160.00

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports : 2004

Seller ID: 6630

ISBN-13: 9781841713786

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 1286; 204 pages; This detailed study of military medical practice on the western frontiers of the Roman army aims to discover whether legionary and auxilliary units were treated differently, whether local civilians were also treated by military doctors and if the soldier's location impacted on his medical treatment. At the heart of this wide-ranging study is an analysis of medical instruments discovered at frontier sites, such as Housesteads, Wallsend, Carnuntum, Caerleon, Xanten, Mainz and many others. Patricia Anne Baker examines the sc...
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GUÉRISONS DU CORPS ET DE L'ÂME Approches Pluridisciplinaires

By: Boulhol, Pascal & Francoise Gaide & Mireille Loubet (Eds. )

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Publications De L'Université De Provence : 2006

Seller ID: 25408

ISBN-13: 9782853996518

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Light shelfwear. Minor crease to upper corner of front wrap. ; Cette ouvrage regroupe les actes du colloque organisé en septembre 2004 à la Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l?homme (MMSH) d?Aix-en-Provence. Il regroupe des textes chercheurs français et étrangers aux approches pluridisciplinaires : médecine, philosophie, religion, littérature, arts, sociologie, anthropologie?; Textes Et Documents De La Méditerranée Antique Et Médiévale; 364 pages
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GALEN ON BLOODLETTING A Study of the Origins, Development and Validity of his Opinions, with a Translation of the Three Works

By: Brain, Peter

Price: $140.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1986

Seller ID: 6756

ISBN-13: 9780521320856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

202 pages; For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. After a brief summary of Galen's medical system, the author goes on to consider the origins of Galen's ideas and methods, with particular reference to the H...
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1964

Seller ID: 5473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Overall set is in Near Fine to Fine condition. Part One has slight scuffing to boards and very light foxing and slightly bowed boards. Parts 2 & 3 are in Fine Condition. ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1964

Seller ID: 6037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Overall set is in Fine condition. Very minor scuffing. ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1964

Seller ID: 28323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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ARCHEOZOÖLOGISCH ONDERZOEK LANGS DE MIDDEN-EUFRAAT Onderzoek Van Het Faunamateriaal Uit Zes Nederzettingen in Zuidoost-Turkije En Noord-Syrië Daterend Van Ca. 10.000 BP Tot 1400 AD.

By: Buitenhuis, H.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Groningen : 1988

Seller ID: 5504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor scuffing to back wrap else fine. ; 70 text-figures & 118 tables. Page count: 213, 22 & 26. Text is in Dutch. ; Proefschrift (Diss. )
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CREATION OF THE SACRED Tracks of Biology in Early Religions

By: Burkert, Walter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : 1998

Seller ID: 33572

ISBN-13: 9780674175709

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping and 1 small closed tears. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else Fine. ; 272 pages; Sacrifice--ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued--is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices? Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and concepts? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion--a religious sense and pract...
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PAPERS OF THE LANGFORD LATIN SEMINAR, FOURTEENTH VOLUME 2010 Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome. Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography

By: Cairns, Francis & Miriam Griffin (Eds. )

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications : 2010

Seller ID: 8410

ISBN-13: 9780905205533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 50; 393 pages; Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors. Galen in Context (Vivian Nutton, The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) Pliny and the Pathologies of Empire (Rebecca Flemming, Jesus College, Cambridge) Community Health: Metaphors i...
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CELSUS: DE MEDICINA III [On Medicine, Vol. 3]

By: Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Trans. )

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann : 1961

Seller ID: 19315

ISBN-13: 9780674993709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light bumping to top of spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Loeb Classical Library No. 336; Vol. 3; 368 pages; A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14?37 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (De Medicina). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible...
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MASONRY The Building Craft

By: Clarke, Somers & R. Engelbach

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford : 1930

Seller ID: 4207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Top corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and extremities. ; A scarce and important work on the problems of stone construction in Ancient Egypt. ; 242 pages
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NICHOLAS COPERNICUS COMPLETE WORKS I: THE MANUSCRIPT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS' ON THE REVOLUTIONS. FACSIMILE [De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - a Limited Facsimile Edition for the Five Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth]

By: Copernicus, Nicolaus & Pawel Czartoryski & Zygmunt Nierada & Erna Hilfstein

Price: $160.00

Publisher: MacMillan and Polish Scientific Publishers : 1982

Seller ID: 32029

ISBN-13: 9780333140345

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ has some browning especillay to spine with some rubbing. Small faint dampstain to DJ spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Faint foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; De Revolutionibus Orbius Coelestium. A limited edition of 1500 Copies; Polish Academy of Science; Folio 13" - 23" tall
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L'AVÈNEMENT DE LA SCIENCE PHYSIQUE Essai Sur La Physique D'Aristote

By: Couloubaritsis, Lambros

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Ousia : 1980

Seller ID: 6559

ISBN-13: 9782870600023

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Scholar's name on ffep (David Furley) with his blindstamp. Includes note on ffep: "Gift of the author". ; 338 pages
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LINGUE TECNICHE DEL LATINO

By: De Meo, Cesidio

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Pàtron Editore : 1986

Seller ID: 26791

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint soiling and creasing to wraps. Gift inscription to ffep to R. E. Fantham from author. ; Testi E Manuali Per L'Insegnamento Universitario Del Latino; 16; 343 pages
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"PATIENCE, MON COEUR" L'Essor De La Psychologie Dans La Littérature Grecque Classique

By: De Romilly, Jacqueline

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Société D'Édition- Les Belles Lettres : 1984

Seller ID: 15163

ISBN-13: 9782251326269

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Gift inscription to half-title in pen from author. Slight spine slant. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Collection D'Études Anciennes; 241 pages; Signed by Author
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"PATIENCE, MON COEUR" L'Essor De La Psychologie Dans La Littérature Grecque Classique

By: De Romilly, Jacqueline

Price: $67.00

Publisher: Société D'Édition- Les Belles Lettres : 1984

Seller ID: 15723

ISBN-13: 9782251326269

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has light chipping and a few small tears. ; Collection D'Études Anciennes; 241 pages
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1996

Seller ID: 33486

ISBN-13: 9780198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light shelfwear else fine. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as well as her research on the texts...
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1996

Seller ID: 36242

ISBN-13: 9780198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor creasing to wraps. Lower corner of half-title creased. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as...
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MALADIE ET MALADIES DANS LES TEXTES LATINS ANTIQUES ET MÉDIÉVAUX Actes Du Ve Colloque International "Textes Médicaux Latins" (Bruxelles, 4-6 Septembre 1995)

By: Deroux, Carl (Ed. )

Price: $170.00

Publisher: Latomus : 1998

Seller ID: 15629

ISBN-13: 9782870311820

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Pages unopened. Some minor creasing to front wrap and first few pages. Small chip to head of spine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 242; 458 pages
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MALADIE ET MALADIES DANS LES TEXTES LATINS ANTIQUES ET MÉDIÉVAUX Actes Du Ve Colloque International "Textes Médicaux Latins" (Bruxelles, 4-6 Septembre 1995)

By: Deroux, Carl (Ed. )

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Latomus : 1998

Seller ID: 15630

ISBN-13: 9782870311820

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very minor shelfwear. Else fine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 242; 458 pages
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ENTRE ORIENT ET OCCIDENT: LA PHILOSOPHIE ET LA SCIENCE GRÉCO-ROMAINES DANS LE MONDE ARABE. Huit Exposés Suivis De Discussions Par Adamson, Peter/ Hugonnard-Roche, Henri/ De Smet, Daniel, D'Ancona, Cristina/ Eichner, Heidrun/ Orthmann, Eva/ Rudolph, Ulrich/ Boudon-Millot, Véronique.

By: Derron, Pascale & Richard Goulet & Ulrich Rudolph & Christoph Riedweg (Eds.0

Price: $97.00

Publisher: Fondation Hardt : 2011

Seller ID: 28173

ISBN-13: 9782600007573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome LVII; 406 pages
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MÉDECINE ANTIQUE IVe Colloque International Hippocratique

By: Ducrey, Pierre, Berard, C., et al

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Lausanne, Musée Historique De L'Ancien-Evêché : 1981

Seller ID: 22060

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Glue stains to inner front hinge. Minor shelfwear. Faint stain to rear wrap. ; 166pp, illustrated.; Université De Lusanne, Faculté Des Lettres. Section Des Sciences De L'Antiquité; 166 pages
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DAS ANTLITZ DER BLINDHEIT IN DER ANTIKE Die Kulturellen Und Medizinhistorischen Ausstrahlungen Des Blindenproblems in Den Antiken Quellen.

By: Esser, Albert

Price: $38.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill : 1961

Seller ID: 25790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very faint shelfwear. ; Janus Supplements 4; 192 pages
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ANTIKE MEDIZIN

By: Flashar, Hellmut (Hrsg. )

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft : 1971

Seller ID: 17907

ISBN-13: 9783534045044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Wege Der Forschung 221 (CCXXI) ; 525 pages
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I POLYSPASTOS Note Di Tecnologia Meccanica Antica E Altri Mezzi Di Sollevamento

By: Frau, Benvenuto

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Gruppo Archeologico Romano : 1980

Seller ID: 5324

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name on front wrap. Spine lightly browned. ; Entire text written in Italian with illustrations. ; 84 pages
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ALADDIN'S LAMP How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

By: Freely, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : 2009

Seller ID: 16717

ISBN-13: 9780307265340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Aladdin?s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B. C. And, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, m...
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WOUNDING AND DEATH IN THE ILIAD Homeric Techniques of Description

By: Friedrich, Wolf-Harmut & (Trans. by Gabriele Wright & Peter Jones) & (Pref. by Peter Jones) & Appendix by K. B. Saunders

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Duckworth : 2003

Seller ID: 18776

ISBN-13: 9780715629833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Faint foxing to top of textblock else book is fine. Very light shelfwear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; W. H. Friedrich's "Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias", originally published in 1956, discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine. It also makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched. Peter Jones adds a preface briefly locating the work within the terms of oral ...
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THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World

By: Garland, Robert

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co : 1995

Seller ID: 35606

ISBN-13: 9780715626511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; 222 pages
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ELEVEN-DIGIT REGULAR SEXAGESIMALS AND THEIR RECIPROCALS

By: Gingerich, Owen

Price: $23.00

Publisher: The American Philosophical Society : 1965

Seller ID: 4226

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Previous owner's name on title-page. Minor creasing to corners of wraps and along spine. ; An extensive table of regular sexagesimals and their reciprocals printed as an aid to Babylonian mathematical cuneiform texts. ; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society New Series - Volume 55, Part 8; 38 pages
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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GALEN

By: Hankinson, R. J. (Ed. )

Price: $87.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 2008

Seller ID: 18018

ISBN-13: 9780521819541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light scuffing to boards with small pen mark to front board. ; Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequ...
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ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS. THE ANCIENT COPERNICUS A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus Together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon: a New Greek Text with Translation and Notes

By: Heath, Sir Thomas

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press : 1966

Seller ID: 32269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Very faint bumping to spine ends. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Dustjacket has a few tears (some repaired with tape) and chipping. DJ spine browned. ; 425 pages
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HERONIS ALEXANDRINI [HERON ALEXANDRINUS] OPERA QUAE SUPERSUNT OMNIA Vol. IV: Heronis Definitiones Cum Variis Collectionibus. Heronis Quae Feruntur Geometrica. Copiis Guilelmi Schmidt Usus. Edidit J. L. Heibert

By: Hero Of Alexandria / Heron Alexandrinus; Guilelmus [Wilhelm] Schmidt & J. L. Heiberg (Eds)

Price: $215.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1976

Seller ID: 31293

ISBN-13: 9783519014164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xxix, 450 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 4; 450 pages
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HERONIS ALEXANDRINI [HERON ALEXANDRINUS] OPERA QUAE SUPERSUNT OMNIA Vol. V: Heronis Quae Feruntur Stereometrica Et De Mensuris. Copiis Guilelmi Schmidt Usus. Edidit J. L. Heibert

By: Hero Of Alexandria / Heron Alexandrinus; Guilelmus [Wilhelm] Schmidt & J. L. Heiberg (Eds)

Price: $215.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1976

Seller ID: 31294

ISBN-13: 9783519014171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Very faint rubbing to front board. ; Cxxvi, 275 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 5; 275 pages
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HERONIS ALEXANDRINI [HERON ALEXANDRINUS] OPERA QUAE SUPERSUNT OMNIA Vol. III: Rationes Dimetiendi Et Commentatio Dioptrica. Recensuit Hermannus Schoene

By: Hero Of Alexandria / Heron Alexandrinus; Hermannus Schoene [Hermann Schöne] (Ed. )

Price: $215.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1976

Seller ID: 31292

ISBN-13: 9783519014157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xxi, 366 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 3; 366 pages
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HERONIS ALEXANDRINI [HERON ALEXANDRINUS] OPERA QUAE SUPERSUNT OMNIA Vol. II: Mechanica Et Catoptrica. Recenserunt L. Nix Et W. Schmidt

By: Hero Of Alexandria / Heron Alexandrinus; L. Nix & W. [Wilhelm] Schmidt (Eds)

Price: $215.00

Publisher: B. G. Teubner : 1976

Seller ID: 31291

ISBN-13: 9783519014140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xliv, 416 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 416 pages
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A GEOLOGICAL COMPANION TO GREECE AND THE AEGEAN

By: Higgins, Michael Denis & Reynold A. Higgins

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press : 1996

Seller ID: 31271

ISBN-13: 9780801433375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

DJ protected in plastic sleeve. ; 9.7 X 7.4 X 0.5 inches; 240 pages
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HIPPOCRATES Volume III: on Wounds in the Head, in the Surgery, Fractures, Joints, Mochlicon

By: Hippocrates; E. T. Withington

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Loeb Classical Library : 1968

Seller ID: 27217

ISBN-13: 9780674991651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Minor shelfwear. ; Loeb Classical Library, No. 149; Vol. 3; 496 pages
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HIPPOCRATES Volume VI

By: Hippocrates; Paul Potter

Price: $17.00

Publisher: William Heinemann & Harvard University Press : 1988

Seller ID: 27219

ISBN-13: 9780674995222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light edgewear to DJ with a few small tears. DJ spine sunned. ; Loeb Classical Library, No. 473; Vol. 6; 352 pages
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HOUNDS AND HUNTING IN ANCIENT GREECE

By: Hull, Denison Bingham

Price: $23.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1964

Seller ID: 33095

ISBN-13: 9780226360485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor staining to Dustjacket. Light shelfwear to DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). ; Contents: Equipment for Hunting; Breeds of hounds; care of hounds; Hare Hunting; Antlers and Horns; Other Game. Xenophon's Cynegeticus; Onomasticon of Julius Pollux; Arrian's Cynegeticus. Includes a catalogue of animals.
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