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
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
Chicago: Alfred L. Sewell, 1868. 8vo. 432 pp. FIRST EDITION. Green publisher’s cloth, seal of the Sanitary Commission in gilt to front cover. Aside from some light age toning, a very good copy. First edition. A complete, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative about the Sanitary Commission, a society which had four..... More
New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1813. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Disbound, some staining and soiling; uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION. Austin, 973. More
