New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1912. 8vo. xii, 338 pp., including half-title. Second edition. With 44 black and white photographs on 24 plates. Original publisher’s blue cloth, title and illustration in gilt on front cover, fraying at head and foot of spine; uncut. First published the prior year, the..... More
Leiden: J. & H. Verbeek, 1754; 1756; 1758; 1761; 1764. Six volumes in two. 4to. 104 [ie 102], [1]; 114; 120; 119, [1]; 150, [2]; 166, [1] pp., including separate titles, indexes, errata, and instructions to t. FIRST EDITION. With 34 finely engraved plates. First volume (containing books 1-2) bound..... More
Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1825. 2 vols. 8vo. [4], lxxv, 372; [4], 472 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 9 engraved plates. Contemporary calf-backed boards, joints weakened, corners strengthened; some browning and foxing. FIRST EDITION of the author's only work in psychology, and an early attempt to classify mental disorders. More
London: Macmillan, 1915. 8vo. 2 vols. xiii, [1],534, [4]; vi,559, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth; spines chipped, interior uncut. FIRST EDITION of an important series of lectures on the visceral neuroses. "most important contribution to the study of the heart since Harvey's discovery and proof of blood circulation.” G&M..... More
London: Macmillan, 1905. 8vo. xvi, 125, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. An address delivered at the St. Louis Congress in 1904. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Manuscript inscription on front paste-down: "From Sydney, Christmas 1909" FIRST EDITION. An address delivered at the Saint Louis Congress in 1904. More
London: Macmillan, 1923. 8vo. xiii, [i], 192 pp. Third edition. Green cloth. Third edition. More
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son, & Co., 1884. 8vo. viii, 103 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original maroon pebbled cloth. First American edition of an important series of lectures on visceral disorders. Allbutt treats, among other subjects, dyspepsia, neuralgia of the stomach, abdomen and kidney, and notes his treatments based upon a...... More
London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1901. 8vo. 116 pp. With errata leaf. Brown buckram; some light pencilling, but only in marginal lining. This is one of six titles noted by Garrison and Morton as providing significant discussions on religion and philosophy. G&M 6644. More
London: Various, Various. Titles and descriptions are as follows: 1. "On the effect of exercise upon the bodily temperature." From The Alpine Journal, May, 1871. [London: Spottiswood & Co.] 8vo. 7 pp., plus 1 chart. Unbound. Presentation copy, with the author's kind regards. 2. Palissy, Bacon, and the revival of natural science..... More
London: Macmillan, 1929. 8vo. vii, [1], 314, [2] pp. With frontispiece portrait of Allbutt. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. First edition of the biography of the life of this eminent physician and scholar. More
Paris: Gulielmi Pele, 1646. Two works in one. 4to. [xii], 150, [25]; 39, [1] ff. Title in red and black, decorative woodcut on dedication, 3 full-page plates and 2 text illustrations. Nineteenth century boards, re-backed; interior is lightly toned throughout, with occasional spots and a small tear in the lower..... More
Leipzig: Hirzel, 1892. 8vo. xvi, 318, [1] pp., including half-title. Later edition. Engraved title vignette. Original green publisher’s cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; a.e.g.; some chipping to head and foot of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, and some light browning due to paper stock, otherwise good. Laid in is..... More
ca. 1700. 1. Frontal skeleton, signed, 71 x 26 inches 2. Frontal skeleton, unsigned, 73 x 28 inches 3. Rear view skeleton, signed, 69 x 26 inches 4. Rear view skeleton, unsigned, 71 x 28 inches. It is assumed that these scrolls were used to teach anatomy. It was not uncommon to use..... More
Paris: Gabon, 1829-37. 5 vols. 8vo. Approximately 3000 pp. Half-calf over boards. Preliminary and last leaves are soiled and foxed, the blank leaves are loose, but text is in good condition. From the library of the Liverpool Medical Institution with bookplates on front paste downs. Second edition, revised, corrected and..... More
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. 8vo. [iv], 150, [1] pp., including half-title and leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Later edition. With 4 engraved plates by Stothard. Contemporary calf, marbled endpapers; minor browning on plates, otherwise a nice copy with a contemporary ownership inscription on title. Later edition of..... More
Paris: P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1759. 2 vols. 12mo. xvii, [iii], 478; [iv], 454 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary mottled calf, spine and labels gilt, red edges (some damage to spines and hinges, but bindings are sound). Old library plates and stamps of McGill University and Boston Medical Library (withdrawn). Contemporary ownership..... More
London: W. Owen, 1770. 8vo. xxv, [3], 490, [10] pp. Contemporary full calf. Joints weak, spine rubbed. Second edition, much expanded from Chapman's 1755 translation of Astruc's De morbis veneris, Books II-IV. Astruc (1685-1766), a professor of anatomy in Paris, was an eminent historian of syphilis who utilized pathological anatomy..... More
Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. 4to. xxii, 271, [3] pp. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its..... More
Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. 4to. [viii], 40, [2] pp. FIRST EDITION. With half-title, corrigenda, and 1 full-page hand-coloured engraved plate. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; a fine copy on bright white paper from the library of Tho. Wainwright, with his armorial book plate. More
Utrecht: G. Paddenburg & G. Croon, 1723. 4to. [16], 679, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Originally published as a series of dialogues under the title Historia medicinae (1710), this collection of medico-historical essays deals with practices of and attitudes towards medicine in antiquity through the middle ages..... More
Carcassonne: P. Polere, An VI (1798). 4to. [ii], xv, 246, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. A lovely copy partially printed on blue-tinged paper, interior with wide margins, occasional browning and spotting due to paper stock. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt I compartments, red moroco label, triple gilt fillets, gilt turn-ins, marbled..... More
Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1856. 8vo. xii, 626 pp. With 1 woodcut plate of Dr. Spittal's apparatus. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened, foxing throughout as usual, ink ownership inscription on title. The present volume contains the author's famous researches on the physiology of the heart and lungs, many of which..... More
Plattsburgh: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to. 280 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original boards; a very good copy with the contemporary signatures of William Wallace, Chas. E. Williams, C. E. Williams, Jr. and A. G. Harrison. Preserved in a clamshell case. First edition of Beaumont's brilliant clinical investigation into..... More
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. 8vo. 303, [1] pp. VERY SCARCE SECOND EDITION IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION. With 3 wood engravings. Original cloth in blind, recased; an exceptionally clean copy. More
London: Pickering, 1833. 8vo. xvi, 314 pp. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Without the half-title. Text illustrations after drawings by the author. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Small book-label of E.L. Kepner on verso of fly-leaf and contemporary ownership signatures on title and above "Notice." First edition, second issue. In this..... More
