New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1814. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). 471, [1]pp, 46pp (Appendix and Index). Original full-calf boards. Rebacked. Gold lettering to spine. Illustrated with six full-page wood- and copper engravings, as well as a folded plan of Jerusalem, this work..... More
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. XXXVIII, 437, [1]pp (text), 8pp (plates). Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile of the 1821 first British edition of Laennec's "Treatise on the Diseases of..... More
Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1588. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo (7 x 4 3/4"). [8], 528, [32] leaves. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Publisher's title vignette. Decorative headpieces and initials. Originally published in 1575, this first French language edition of the works of Philo, a first-century Alexandrian philosopher known..... More