New Haven, Connecticut: [The Winthrop Press], [1949]. 8vo. [xxxi] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original stiff printed wrappers; first half uncut, with gray-blue stained edges. First edition of this collection of poems based on psychiatric concepts and problems experienced by some of the author’s patients. Titles include Hallucination; Eclipse of the Ego;.....
Leipzig/Wien/Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1923. 8vo. [viii], 256, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrapper torn, interior uncut and unopened. First edition. This is the second of Reik's work on the psychology of religion, and the psychoanalytic problems that give rise to the social and moral effects arising from religion.
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1936. 8vo. 260 pp. FIRST EDITION. Two half-titles, notes and index. Original cloth; inscription on paste-down. First edition. An in-depth study on criminals and the future of justice.
Berlin: Reimer, 1838. 4to. vi, 41, [1] pp. Complete with errata and 2 full-page engraved plates. FIRST EDITION. Quarter-morocco on marbled boards; occasional interior spotting, lower blank fore-edge sporadically browned, otherwise an excellent copy. First edition. In this famous monograph, Remak describes his findings on the histological structure of the...
Paris: Chez Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1807. 2 vols. 8vo. xviii, 493, [1]; [4], 523, [1] pp. Calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine. Fourth edition.The author's popular physiological treatise, first published in 1801 and subsequently translated into many languages and editions. Based on the author's public lectures, this work established a....
Patavia: Paul Frambotti, 1639. 4to. [xxxii], 197, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf; minor spotting throughout. Inscribed by the author on title. First edition of Rode's acclaimed study on the nature of the fibula and other forms of surgical sutures used by the ancients. This...
Wurzburg: K. Hof, 1895-96. 8vo. 10, [2], including final blank; 9 pp., plus 3 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITIONS. Original printed wrappers. First edition (fourth issue of the first paper, with the two additional pages; see Klickstein) of the first published reports on the sensational discovery of X-rays -- a....
Wurzburg: K. Hof, 1895-96. 8vo. 10, [2], including final blank; 9 pp., plus 3 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITIONS. Original printed wrappers, with the ownership signature of Dr. H. Michaelis (?) on front wrapper. Preserved in a folding clamshell box. PMM, 380. First edition of the first published reports on...
Liverpool: J.McCreery for Cadell and Davis, 1798. 4to. 14, 67, [1], 12 pp. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH FROM THE ITALIAN. Engraved folding frontispiece portrait of Lorenzo de Medici. A fine copy in recent boards. First edition of Roscoe's translation. Roscoe (1753-1831), a charismatic figure, was a pioneer in the study...
Leiden: Theodor Haak, 1764. 8vo. [8], 338, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut decorations throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine; interior with light browning. First edition of this outstanding treatise devoted to diseases incident to mariners. Rouppe (1729-80), naval physician and surgeon, describes the conditions, environmental and otherwise, in which mariners...
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. 8vo. xiv, 403, [1] pp., plus 2 pages publisher's advertisements and 16-page publisher's catalogue dated February, 1855. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, covers somewhat soiled, hinges loose; very minor foxing. First edition of Royle's valuable work on the fibrous plants of India, especially his...
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Matthew Carey, Hopkins & Earle, et al. 1809. 4 volumes. [ii],iv, 456; 453; [iv], 443; iv, 427, [19]. 3rd edition. Full calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, browned throughout, some dampstaining on the prelims of volume IV. Third edition of the author’s collection of articles and pamphlets originally...
Basel und Genf: H. Georg’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1864. Seven volumes (6 facsicles and text volume). 4to. viii, 63, [12] pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 82 unbound double-plate lithographs loose in the 6 facsicles. Text and facsicles in original printed wrappers, all contained in the original publisher's printed slipcase. Apart from...
Paris: Chez Barthelemy Girin, 1702. 8vo. [xlviii], 708, [4] pp. Third edition. With 6 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments. Bookplate of S. Kramer. Third edition (first printed in 1680) of a valuable illustrated treatise on anatomy and disease. This comprehensive work depicts the human body, detailing...
[Paris]: [Henri Plon], [n.d.]. 8vo. [ii], 31, [1] pp. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With an engraved frontispiece representing the instrument invented by Dr. Sales-Girons and constructed by Charriere (repeated in the text). Bound in boards, morocco backstrip. A fine copy. First and only edition of the original detailed instruction manual...
Arrow Rock, [MO]: Published by the author, 1844. 12mo. xviii, [2], 216pp. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers; scattered browning, minor repairs on a few leaves. First edition. This work is not scarce, but it has a most interesting provenance and history, recorded in manuscript on the front flyleaf. The book apparently belonged...
Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1908. 8vo. 96, viii pp., including half-title and index. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s red cloth. An excellent, uncut and partially unopened presentation copy. First edition of the Lumleian lectures given at the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1908 by James Sawyer (1844-1919). Sawyer was in...
Paris: Chez Gabon, 1812. Folio. 15, [1] pp. First edition in French, atlas only. With 11 engraved plates and ten outline plates. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Scattered foxing and browning, paper repairs to first four leaves, mainly to inner margin. From the library of Richard Goolden, with his armorial bookplate...
St. Petersburg: A. Golovachov Press, 1866. 8vo. vi, [2], 503, [1], xii pp. FIRST EDITION. With 1 folding engraved plate and numerous text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers, spine slightly torn; interior occasional spotting, still a very good copy preserved in a folding clamshell box. First edition. Sechenov's theory of...
Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1863. 8vo. [iv], 51 pp. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers; a fine copy in folding case. First edition of this extraordinarily rare treatise on the reflexes of the brain, a pioneer work on cerebral reflex activity. According to Sechenov, higher brain function, including any so-called voluntary act, was basically...
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1905. 8vo. [viii], 604 pp. FIRST EDITION. In the original printed wrappers, an uncut and unopened copy in the finest condition complete with frontispiece portrait of author. First edition of the collected writings of Semmelweis, one of the most important figures of nineteenth century medicine. "His discovery...
London: William and John Innys, 1727. 8vo. [xii], 281, [3] pp., including a listing of names of the Fellows of the College and a lengthy index. SECOND EDITION. With the publisher’s advertisements, but lacking both blank leaves. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked; interior excellent. From the library of N. Bruce, with...
Erlangen & Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1871 & 1876. Two volumes in one 8vo. viii, 89, [1]; x, 314, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 9 lithographed plates (2 chromolithographs); wood engraved text illustrations. Half morocco over marbled boards; front blank leaf lacking, large library label on first paste-down, paper is brittle...
Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; London: Samuel Highley, 1847. 8vo. 24 pp. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, SECOND EDITION (POSTMARKED A FEW DAYS LATER THAN THE FIRST. Unbound as issued. Title and last 4 leaves detached with trace of thread remaining. Upper blank corner of last leaf torn away and occasional slight soiling. Presentation...
New York: Greenberg, [1932]. 8vo. xiv, 253 pp. Translated from the German. Publisher’s green cloth. An excellent copy. First English translation from the German.
