Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1811. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI + 588pp. Original full leather over 5 raised bands. 7 b/w engravings, including 1 fold out. Fascinating work on facilitating birth in the early 19th century. Front and back boards detached, but present. Heavy abrasion on binding. Spine edges chipped and..... More
Baltimore: William & Joseph Neal, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. XXIII, [1], 341, [1]pp. Half black cloth over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Books on poisons, first aid and antidotes were popular at the beginning of the 19th century. Popular books on poisons and antidotes were aimed..... More
Bruxelles: Ed. Culture & Civilisation, 1970. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Folio. Full leather binding with gilt lettering on black label of spine. This is the 1970 facsimile of the original 1544 edition published in Paris by Petrus Galterius. Illustrated throughout with striking b/w diagrams of the human body and anatomy. Text..... More
San Francisco: Reid Brothers Incorporated, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 368pp. Beige cloth boards with debossed blue lettering on the front cover and spine. The book is a profusely illustrated and detailed sales catalog of over 8,000 items of medical and surgical instruments manufactured by the Reid Brothers company. The..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv, 194pp., 90 plates, Original brown cloth with blind-stamped ruling on covers, gilt-stamped lettering and ruling on spine. Yellow endpapers. Translated and edited by Alfred C. Girard. First American, from the manuscript of the second German edition, with..... More
Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. [10], 568, [14], [2], 192, [8]pp. Original leatherette with gold lettering on spines. This work is the 1966 facsimile of the 1695 edition published by Henricum a Kroovveld. Two frontispieces, one displaying a b/w steel engraved portrait of the author and the..... More
London: Harrison and Sons, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XXX, 288, XXX, 422pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spines. Frontispiece portrait of William Bowman in each volume. 2-vol. set compilation of Bowman's researches in physiological anatomy (Volume I) and his miscellaneous, surgical, and ophtalmological papers (volume II.) Both..... More
Basel: Carl Sallmann, Verlagshandlung für Medicin und Naturwissenschaften, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 307, [3]pp. Original gold-stamped green cloth. Marbled edges. Decorative endpapers. Authoritative late 19th century work by Theodor Kocher on fractures of the humerus (arm bone) and femur (thigh bone). Kocher was a professor at the "chirurgischen Klinik"..... More
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, (1854). First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. iv, 116, 22, 32pp. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Authoritative work by American obstetrician Charles Delucena Meigs on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the Cervix Uteri. In the early and mid 19th century Meigs..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Seventh Revision. Hardcover. 8vo. lix. 602pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and worn. Age wearing throughout. Scuffing to covers. Backside of spine detached, front still holding. Hinges starting. Some pencilling to endpapers. A book on..... More
Munchen: J.F. Lehmann's Verlag, 1908. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. 336-692(24)pp. Embossed green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Slight rubbing to corners. Red top page edge. Heavy chipping and tearing to dj. Three-inches of upper part on spine of dj missing..... More
Bruxellensis: Culture et Civilisation, 1965. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Original wrappers resting in original full leather portfolio as issued. With original publisher's protective cardboard fold. 29 unpaginated pp. displaying captivating b/w anatomical diagrams and sketches accompanied by text. 1965 facsimile of the Cologne and Augsburg editions which were printed in 1539..... More
Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1984. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. XXIV, 596pp (Text), 8 leaves of plates. Original gilt-stamped green leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Publisher's booklet laid in. Exquisite edition of this Ancient Egyptian medical text which is also the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition for this translation. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 273, [1]pp. Original gilt decorated blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Fabre d'Olivet. In this remarkable work Fabre d'Olivet is shown as a humanitarian..... More
Leominster: Printed by Salmon Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, 1806. Second American Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 108pp. Contemporary calf with modern gilt decorated spine. Authoritative work by Thomas Denman dedicated to Dr. Thomas Savage,"... on preternatural labours-on labours attended with hemorrhage-and with convulsions." Usual age wearing throughout binding. Wear to corners. Two..... More
New York: De Witt & Davenport, (1866). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,170,[1],pp. Blind-stamped decorated brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. Head and tail of spine chipped. Corners rubbed. Abrasions to endpapers. Illustrated with 5 chromolithographs by T. Sinclair and in-text woodcut..... More
Londini: Joannem Brindley, 1749. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, [3], 108pp. Finely tooled original calf. Lacking back cover, first two leaves & last leaf detached but present. Decorative head and tailpieces. In his famous work Mead argues that pagan ideas regarding demons had entered Christianity. Mead understood those afflicted by..... More
Los Angeles: NP, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 18 pp. Bound in blue leather with gold lettering on front cover. Book is filled from cover to cover with original color photographs of the awards ceremony and its guests. Photography by Pat Willits. Title page with original color photograph protected by..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 298pp. Brown cloth with red lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece. Thesis on pharmacy and medicine by Ancient Greek physician, Pedanius Dioscorides. His 5-volume encyclopedia "De Materia Medica" about herbal medicine was written in the first..... More
St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. xv, 514pp. xii, 408pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and publisher's logo on spine in original illustrated dust jackets. Late 1940's work on the history of dentistry from its origins through the eighteenth century. Professor Weinberger..... More
London: H. K. Lewis, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 251, [1]pp. Original cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped decoration on covers. 19th century work on tapeworms, their sources, nature, and treatment. This study is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w in-text figs. Minor shelf wear and soiling on..... More
Wien: NP, 1803. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. iv.410pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Upper half of backstrip missing. Raised bands on lower half. Corners bumped and worn. Scuffing and discoloration to boards. Red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Welling and some sporadic foxing to pages..... More
Paris: Decourchant, imp. ND (ca 1850). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 107, [1]pp. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold tooling and lettering on spine. Frontispiece. A concise study of phrenology as professed by prominent French physician François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (1772-1838). Heavy rubbing on spine and along edges. Head..... More
Berlin: Louis Marcus Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909. 41. -60. Tausend. Siebente bis neunte, um einen Anhang vermehrte Stereotyp-Auflage. Hardcover. 8vo. ix (2). 850pp. xix (3)pp. Beige paper covered boards with red lettering. Illustrated title page. Maroon endpapers. Extensive work on sexuality, with focus on psychology, sexual transmitted diseases and homosexuality. With alphabetic..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxiv, Volume 1 (Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary). 596pp. of text followed by eight full-page annotated plates. Half brown cloth over light brown linen. Gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Minor shelf wear. Corners rubbed. Minor staining to..... More