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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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. More
Frankfurt: Varentrapp und Wenner, 1806. Folio. vii, [1], 7, [1], II, 6 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 engraved plates (2 in outline). Modern paper covered boards. First edition of the author's principal work on the special sense organs which contains concise and accurate descriptions of the tongue and the male..... More
Frankfurt: Varrentrapp und Wenner, 1806. Folio (408 x 282 mm). x, 36 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 5 engraved plates (4 duplicates in outline) by G. Rücker and J. C. Eckardt after drawings by C. Köck. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. A fine uncut copy. First edition of a magnificent anatomical study..... More
Frankfurt: Varrentrapp und Wenner, 1797. 8vo. 52 pp. Original boards. A bookplate has been removed, but with the contemporary signature of Xaver Rusconi and a few pencil annotations on title. A commentary on three notable ophthalmologists' works concerning the responsibilities of helping preserve eyesight by Soemmerring (1755-1830), best remembered for..... More
London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassel & Company, Limited, 1886. 8vo. xxx, [ii], 412 pp. plus 8 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. With colored frontispiece plus 5 additional plates. Brown publisher’s cloth; front flyleaf nearly detached, otherwise a very nice copy, uncut. Bookplate of the Yale University Library of..... More
Halle: Johann Jacob Gebauer, 1800-1803. 5 vols. 8vo. xii, 688; vi, 714; viii, 632; x, 564; [2], viii, 678 pp. Engraved frontispiece in vos. I & II, frontispiece portraits of Harvey and Hoffman in vos. IV & V. Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spines. Second edition..... More
Vienna & Leipzig: Hugo Heller, 1911. 8vo. [ii], 97 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, rebacked with original spine laid down. First edition of an interesting series of lectures on the philosophy and history of medicine. The topics include the current state of medical knowledge relating to the role of..... More
Marseille: 1740. Folio. 335 x 220 mm. [vi], [2 bl] pp. Manuscript in brown ink on paper in one neat cursive hand, 26 lines to a full page. The four full sheets are folded into one quire and gathered by two green silk ties. Ownership inscription on the verso of..... More
Geneva: Gabriel de Tournes, 1723. 3 works in 1. [48], 840, [24]; [8], 88; [14], 170 pp. Each has separate title page, the first in red & black; frontispiece portrait of Sydenham, engraved vignettes, initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern full calf with old (original) backstrip laid down. An exceptionally clean..... More
Venice: Ex Typographia Hertziana, 1736. Folio (340 x 245 mm). [xxviii] (including half-title), 660, [34] pp. Title in red and black. With woodcut initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces. Vellum-backed marbled boards; leaves slightly browned due to paper stock. An excellent copy. Later edition of the author's collected works, first..... More
Kyoto: [n.p.], 1789-90. 3 vols. Approximately 300 double pages, including nearly 150 woodblock illustrations. Original wrappers with printed labels; interior with minor browning and occasional wormholes, otherwise a fine and complete copy preserved in a folding box. More
Philadelphia: [np], 1914. 8vo. 155 pp. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Purple cloth, silver lettering to upper cover and spine; top edges silver, others uncut. From the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this tribute to Weir Mitchell at a special meeting of the College of Physicians..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829. 4to. vii, [i], 112 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 29 hand-colored engraved plates, tissue guards present. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, rebacked; browning and spotting on endleaves and minor spotting on some text leaves, though the plates are quite clean and bright. Ownership..... More
Lausanne: Chez François Grasset, 1765; 1765; 1765; 1766. 4 works in one. 8vo. [ii], 144; [ii], 142; 122; [ii], 50 pp. Four volumes in one. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards. INOCULATIONS AND EPIDEMICS. Four of Tissot's famous letters detailing his observations on the existing medical practices of the day. These..... More
Vienna: I.D. Horlingianus, 1785. 8vo. [16], 390, [10] pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf, corners rubbed. Marginal worming on preliminary leaves, but an excellent copy with manuscript notes of an early owner on last blank. First edition of the earliest historical survey of diseases of the digestive system and its..... More
London: Longmans, Green, 1881. 8vo. xix, [i], 338 pp., plus 2 pages publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Original plum cloth, worn, hinges starting; other than some soiling to first few leaves, interior clean, uncut. First edition of this significant medical commentary on bacteriology, especially concerning surgical practices. Tyndall (1820-93) discusses the..... More
Padua: Nella stamperia del Seminario, 1710. Two works in one. 4to. [xvi], 51, [1]; [xii], 160 pp. FIRST EDITIONS. Each work with separate title. With 14 folding plates (10 in the first volume, 4 in the second volume). Contemporary vellum in fine condition; from the library of Antonio Pacchioni (1665-1726)..... More
Amsterdam: C.G. van der Post, 1859. 4to. [2], 77, [3] pp., including errata and contents. With 3 engraved plates. Original printed wrappers, taped (front becoming detached). Unopened. Ownership inscription dated 1859 on cover. An informative, illustrated study of the potto. The potto, also known as Bosman’s potto (after its discoverer)..... More
