Ciba Symposia
Summit, NJ: Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, 1939-1951. 7 volumes. 8vo. Later buckram, title and date in gilt on spine, the original wrappers for each number bound in. An excellent set with many illustrations. More
Medicine
Visions: A study of false sight. (Pseudopia). With an introduction and memorial sketch by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. 8vo. xxii, 315 pp. plus frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. Original rust-coloured publisher’s cloth with brown end-papers; a fine copy. First edition of Clarke’s (1820-77) final work, a study of hallucinations and visions, and their causes. It contains an interesting study of the effects of drugs..... More
Etat de la medecine ancienne et moderne avec un plan pour perfectionner celle-ci...
Paris: Quillau, 1742. 8vo. [viii], xx, 298 pp. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, and 2 folding tables. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, marbled endpapers, spine chipped at foot, top hinge weak; interior excellent. Contemporary signature on title page..... More
Anatomie de l'homme...
Paris: Lasteyre, Paris, 1821-28. 4 vols. Folio (500 x 336 mm). [ii], 158; [ii], 159-322; [ii], 325-504; [ii], 505-656 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 258 lithographs by Lasteyrie after drawings by Feillet and Haincelin (22 folding, some coloured). Contemporary full calf, gilt border on upper and lower covers, gilt spines; some..... More
An attempt to ascertain the cause of the extensive inflammation, which attacks wounded cavities and their contents.
Philadelphia: Jane Aitken, 1804. 8vo. Disbound. Cocke (1783-1856) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania (by way of this thesis). He served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1767 to 1768 and again from 1772 to 1773. More
Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis.
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1792. 8vo. xix, [i], 254, [2] pp., including an advertisement for the manufacturers of troy weights, glass measures, and laudanum phials, a. Contemporary tree calf, joints worn and cracked; waterstain to top corner of first quire. From the library of Nicholas I. Quackenbos with his small..... More
The doctor looks at biography; Psychological studies of life and letters.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. Two parts in one. 8vo. 344 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 12 tipped-in plates. Original red cloth, with small publisher’s logo in blind; a very nice uncut copy with a beautiful woodcut bookplate of Hester Parks. First..... More
Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: with means of correcting a bad constitution.
Philadelphia: Reprinted for the Rev. M.L. Weems, by Parry Hall, 1793. 12mo. 156 PP. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Contemporary calf, worn around edges and spine, spine label; interior mildly toned but overall a very good copy. More
Sure and certain methods of attaining a long and healthful life: with means of correcting a bad constitution, &c.
London: Tho. Leigh and Dan. Midwinter, 1704. 12mo. [xxxvi], 108 pp. SECOND EDITION. Contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, blue paste-downs and endpapers. A fine copy with the engraved bookplate of F.A. Blaydes with the motto Pro Deo et Patria. More
Consecratio medici and other papers.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1928. 8vo. [vi], 276 pp. First edition containing fourteen of Cushing's best-known essays. More
Harvey Cushing's Seventieth Birthday Party, April 8, 1939
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas for the Harvey Cushing Society, 1939. vii, [3], 146, [1] pp. Trade edition, on slightly thinner paper. Blue cloth, dustjacket (chipped, spine with waterstains). More
A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing, prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939.
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomasm, 1939-40. 8vo. xv, [1], 108, [2] pp. Green cloth, dust jacket; spine darkened, a few light chips to extremities, else very good. One of 500 copies designed by Carl Purlington Rollins. More
Harvey Cushing, a biography.
Springfield, Ill. Charles. C. Thomas, 1946. 8vo. xii, 754, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations plus photographic plates. Cloth, faded spine; some waterstains. More
Harvey Cushing, surgeon, author, artist. Foreword by John F. Fulton.
New York: Neale Watson Academic Publishers, 1981. 8vo. xviii, 347 pp. Second edition. Blue cloth, dustjacket (lightly soiled, small tears). More
Harvey Cushing, surgeon, author, artist. Foreword by John F. Fulton.
New York: Henry Schuman, 1950. 8vo. xviii, 347 pp. First (?). With frontispiece portrait and 6 photographic plates. Red cloth. Inscribed by the author to Dr. Mauer "after a perfect evening, 19 Aug. 1954" More
On the action of...the Digitalis. In: Jl. of Experimental Medicine.
New York: [n.p.], 1897. 8vo. [1], 234-299 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 8 full page plates. Original wrappers bearing Cushny's manuscript presentation in German as well as the eminent neurophysiologist R. Magnus's manuscript exlibris. A small section off the spine and library stamp on front cover. First edition. The present rare..... More
Demonstratio immmortalitatis animae...
Frankfurt: [B.C. Wust], 1664. 2 parts in 1. 8vo. [154], 610; 246 pp. With allegorical frontispiece, several historiated headpieces and text diagrams. Contemporary vellum, overlapping fore-edges. Third Latin edition, translated by John Leyburn. Digby's famous book on the nature of bodies and the nature of man's soul, which first appeared..... More
Introduction a l'etude de la prothese fixe.
Paris: Editions Semaine Dentaire, 1927. 8vo.`. 161, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Numerous text illustrations. Morocco-backed green marbled boards, spine faded, marbled endpaper, extremely clean interior. First edition of this study of the fixed dental prosthesis. This work was part of a series of eight dental treatises from the same publisher..... More
Ferments et maladies.
Paris: G. Masson, 1882. 8vo. [iv], 284 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. With 12 plates and numerous text illustrations. Uncut in the original front wrapper, chipped, wrapper and first few leaves nearly detached; preliminary leaves somewhat spotted. First edition of the author's most important book. The work is divided into..... More
Alcaloides. Histoire, proprietes chimiques et physiques, extraction. . .
Paris: G. Rongier, 1889. Two volumes. 8vo. vi, [i], 6-648; [iv], 775 pp. Contemporary morocco-backed mottled boards, rubbed. Second edition of Volume I, first edition of Volume II of Dupuy’s foundational work on alkaloids, a group of naturally-occurring chemical compounds that mostly contain basic nitrogen atoms. The treatise examines the..... More
Les monstres par defaut et les monstres. Offprint from Ann. de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique.
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1895. 8vo. 44 pp. With text illustrations. Original wrappers (spine reinforced). Presentation copy, signed by the author. An interesting work on teratology based on fertilization anomalies. More
Frozen sections of a child
New York: William Wood & Company, 1881. 4to. 66 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 15 full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. Cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Annotations on plate I and remnants of glue on the inner margin plate III. Ownership signature of Dr. James H. Meldee (?) on..... More
Panegyring medicam indicit.
Lipsiæ: Rothianis, 1723. 8vo. [xii] pp. ORIGINAL DISSERTATION. With 1 folding engraved plate. In wrappers as issued. Notation in early (contemporary?) hand on front wrapper. This original dissertation for a medical degree on the subject of pancreatic tumours is by Michael Ernst Ettmuller (1673-1732), the son of the great Leipzig..... More
Geschichte der geburtshulfe
Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1906. 8vo. xvi, 1028 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary quarter calf over cloth. An excellent copy from the library of Edgar Frank Mauer. First edition of this valuable work on midwifery, considered by Garrison an “extraordinary, exhaustive and accurate work, with full bibliographic data” (History of..... More