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
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1857. 8vo. [vii], 110 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; interior somewhat foxed, heavier on the preliminary and last leaves. From the library of Louis A. Duhring. FROM DUHRING’S LIBRARY. First edition of Fournier's first printed treatise, the first of a number of important clinical works on..... More
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1865. 8vo. 17 pp. FIRST EDITION. Including half-title. With the original front printed wrapper. Cloth-backed marbled boards; from the library of Louis A. Duhring. FROM DUHRING’S LIBRARY. First edition of one of Fournier's early efforts to research the incubation of syphilis, probably the earliest detailed study of..... More
Avignon: Joannis Joesphi Chabrier, 1751. 8vo. [ii], 239, [1] pp. Ownership inscription on title; index in contemporary MS on final leaf. Contemporary calf. Second edition, first printed the prior year in Geneva. The author provides a complete discussion of some thirty external afflictions of the eyes, ears, nose and mouth..... More
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
