Freud's Neurosenlehre.
Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1911. 8vo. iv, 156 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrapper, torn and ragged edges, lacking spine so signatures disbound; interior excellent. First edition. More
Medicine
Border lines of knowledge.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. 8vo. [4], 80 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original blindstamped cloth. A nice copy, edges slightly rubbed. First edition of this delightful lecture to the medical class at Harvard University by Holmes (1809-94), professor of anatomy and physiology. More
Currents and counter currents in medical science with other addresses and essays. . . .
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. 8vo. ix, [i], 406, [2] pp., plus 16 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original brown pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Bookplate of Alfred Sutro. An exquisite copy with a note from Sutro laid in. First edition, first issue. The first collection of Holmes’..... More
A dissertation on acute pericarditis.
Boston: The Welch Bibliophilic Society, 1937. 18mo. 39 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Title in red and black. Original cream-coloured paper boards; an uncut copy with a letter on Welch Bibliophilic Society letterhead tipped onto front paste-down. First edition, first printing of Holmes’ medical school dissertation, taken from the original..... More
Homeopathy and its kindred delusions; two lectures delivered before the Boston society for the diffusion of useful knowledge.
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. 12mo. v, [iii], 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed tan boards, title printed on spine, stained, joints cracked; very light scattered foxing. Preserved in a half-morocco slip-case. More
Homeopathy and its kindred delusions; two lectures delivered before the Boston society for the diffusion of useful knowledge.
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. 12mo. v, [iii], 72 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original calf-backed tan boards, title printed on spine, stained, joints cracked; very light scattered foxing. Preserved in a half-morocco slip-case. More
An introductory lecture, delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 3, 1847.
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, spine chipped, top wrapper detached. Ink stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society to top wrapper and title. Presentation inscription from Usher Parsons on wrapper. First edition, second or third state of wrapper, with the..... More
MORTON, Thomas G. “Memoir of William Hunt, M.D. With unpublished letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes and D. Hayes Agnew. Read before the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia, February 3, 1897.” Offprint from the International Medical Magazine, April, 1897.
Philadelphia: [N.P.], [1897]. 8vo. 14 pp. Frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, detached. This pamphlet contains a previously unpublished letter from Holmes to Dr. Hunt (1825-96). Hunt was a demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a surgeon at the Wills, Episcopal, Orthopedic and Pennsylvania Hospitals. He was..... More
When the medical profession of New York paid homage to “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” April 12th, 1883. Supplement to Notes and Abstracts, Vol. XI, No. 3, March, 1927.
New Brunswick: Johnson & Johnson, [1927]. 8vo. pp. [iii], 114-134. FIRST EDITION. Original glossy printed wrappers. Complete with errata slip. First edition. Contains over portraits of the attendees of the public dinner given in honor of Holmes by the medical profession of the city of New York. C&T, p. 588..... More
When the medical profession of New York paid homage to “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” April 12th, 1883. Supplement to Notes and Abstracts, Vol. XI, No. 3, March, 1927.
New Brunswick: Johnson & Johnson, [1927]. 8vo. pp. [iii], 114-134. FIRST EDITION. Original glossy printed wrappers. Complete with errata slip. First edition. Contains over portraits of the attendees of the public dinner given in honor of Holmes by the medical profession of the city of New York. C&T, p. 588..... More
Constitution and by-laws of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement; with a list of members.
Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1853. 8vo. 20 pp. Original printed wrappers, browned and slightly soiled, wrappers torn at extremities of spine. With the ownership stamp of the New Hampshire State Library. Lists Holmes as a member and former secretary. More
THE COMPLETE SEVEN PARTS - Philosophical collections, containing an account of the physical; anatomical, chymical, mechanical, astronomical, optical, or other mathematical and philosophical experiments and observations as have lately come to the publisher hands. . . .
London: [John Martyn], Moses Pitt, and Richard Chiswell, 1679-82. Seven parts (all published). 4to. 44; [ii], 48, [2]; 43-210 pp. (continuous pagination, last 5 parts). FIRST EDITION. With 7 engraved plates (6 folding). Bound together in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked; some top margins trimmed closely with occasional loss of page..... More
Observations on the peripneumonia typhodes, now prevailing in several districts of the United States.
New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1813. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Disbound, some staining and soiling; uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION. Austin, 973. More
A clinical memoir on certain diseases of the eye and ear, consequent on inherited syphilis...
London: John Churchill, 1863. 8vo. xii, 259, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 5 text woodcuts. Original cloth, covers lightly worn, insignificant crack at spine. Generally an excellent copy, but lacking the 2 plates. Inscribed by the author to the German surgeon Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch (1823-1908). First edition. The..... More
"On a hitherto undescribed structure in the human hair sheath." In London Medical Gazette, Vol. 36
London: [n.p.], 1845. 8vo. 2 leaves. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Unbound, in a protective wrapper. First and only edition of this very scarce article by Huxley, in which he identifies "Huxley's layer" and "membrane" of the root sheath of hair follicles. G&M, 412. More
Report to the House of Representatives vindicating the rights of Charles T. Jackson to the discovery of the anaesthetic effects of ether vapor....
Boston: The minority of the Committee, 1852. 8vo. 57 pp. 1st ed. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Furthering the controversy surrounding the discovery of surgical anaesthesia: "In January 1849, [William Thomas Green] Morton visited Washington and -- supported by a resolution passed in his favour by the Governors of the..... More
Letters to a young physician just entering upon practice.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1855. 12mo. iv, 344 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata slip tipped-in after title. Original brown publisher’s cloth, decorated in blind, title in gilt to spine, some light wear to extremities of spine; endpapers browned and spotted. First edition of this glimpse into nineteenty-century medical..... More
Descriptio itineris plantarum....
London: William Pamplin, 1849. 4to. 48 pp. Two title pages (1 edited by T.S. Ralph, 1849, and 1 facsimile of the original Tho. Cotes, 1632). With 1 leaf of plates. Contemporary half-vellum over marbled boards; an excellent copy from the library of Jerry Stannard. This special Latin edition is here..... More
Idea universae medicinae practicae, libris XII. Editio praeter Venetam tertia.
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1652. 12mo. [xxx], 752 pp. Third edition. Complete with the two title pages (one the famous engraved frontispiece). Early pigskin; a superb copy. More
Conspectus physiologiae medicae et hygieines...; Conspectus formularum medicarum....
Halle: Orphanotrophei, 1735; 1723. 2 vols. in 1. 4to. [vi], 534, [54]; [iv], 112 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. Titles in red and black with oval vignettes; a few decorative head- and tailpieces. Contemporary (?) pasteboards, interior paper lightly stained. From the library of Fr. Xav. de Hieber with his dated (1773)..... More
Psychologische Typen
Zurich: Rascher & Cie, 1921. 8vo. 708 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed gray wrappers; an excellent uncut copy. First edition of Jung's most important work. "His list of psychological types is one of the most ambitious that has been proposed . . . The psychological types, in which he expounds..... More
Für Aerzte und Kranke bestimmte Abhandlung von einer neuen Methode, die hartnacktigsten Krankheiten, die ihren Sitz im Unterleibe haben....
Dessau and Leipzig: [n.p.], 1784. 8vo. 506 (ie., 496) pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding engraved plate, woodcut vignette head- and tailpieces. Original speckled boards; minor scuffing to extremities, otherwise an excellent copy with contemporary ownership inscription of V. Stein on title, and small library stamp of Joachim W. Voigt..... More
Compendioses....
Konisberg & Leipzig: Hartung; Martini, 1748-1752. 3 works bound together. 8vo. [iv], 145, [15]; [vi], 356, [16], 283, [21] pp. Separate titles in red and black, each with engraved allegorical frontispiece. Modern half-morocco over marbled boards, browning throughout. Sammelband of three highly regarded works by Keil, professor of medicine and..... More
North American Mallophaga.
Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896. Two works in one. 8vo. [iv], [31]-168; [431]-552 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 14 plates in the first work and 14 plates in the second, each containing numerous figures. Original publisher’s cloth; excellent condition. More
Essays on physiognomy, designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind.
London: John Murray, 1789; 1792; 1810. 3 vols in 5. Large 4to. [iv], iv, [xxviii], 281; xii, 238; [vi], [239]-444; xii, 252; [vi]-253-437, [13] pp. (some mispagination in Volume I). First English edition of Vols. I and II, re-issue of Vol. III, including the 3 plates by William Blake. Complete..... More