1821-1866. Topographies Médicales. Collection of 45 medical theses on medical topography; contact us for complete listing. 3 volumes. 1803-66. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, slight edgewear. Minor foxing and toning but very good. Manuscript tables of contents in a 19th-century hand in each volume. Interesting and unusual collection of medical..... More
Bonn: Henry & Cohen, 1847-1862. Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie für praktische Aerzte. 4 parts in 1. Lithographed title-pages for the 4 parts, 257 lithographed plates (93 hand-colored); plate II/15, supplied from another copy, laid in loosely. Bonn: Henry & Cohen, 1847-1842-1846-1862. 487 x 325 mm. Later half morocco, marbled boards..... More
London: D. Wilson, 1750. [Arthenay, Guillaume Marie de.] Fordyce, William (translator and editor). Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius . . . 8vo. 4, 68pp. London: Printed for D. Wilson, 1750. 196 x 118 mm. Quarter morocco, marbled boards in period style..... More
1720. Astruc, Jean (1684-1766). Tractatus de febrium natura & differentiis. Authore D. D. J. Astruc in alma Monspelliensiu[m] medicinae facultate professore regio dignissimo. Manuscript document. 4to. 76pp. N.p., 1720. Together with another medical ms. in the same hand (Brevis chirurgiae exegesis. Seu synopsis, per summaria capita . . .), 81pp..... More
1873. Japan's Telegraphic System Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. Tokyo, March 2, n.y. [between 1873 and 1878]. 7pp. 155 x 101 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Ayrton, a pupil of Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), was a noted physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, and technical educator; his wife..... More
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1903. Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908). Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière . . . In: Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France 46 (1903). Whole number, 4to. [4], 360, [4]pp. 71 photographic figures on 13 plates. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1903. 283 x 229 mm. Original..... More
1855. Bell, Thomas (1792-1880). Cabinet-size photographic portrait by Maull and Polyblank, mounted on heavy paper printed with gilt borders. [London, 1855.] 198 x 146 mm. (image); 303 x 253 mm. (mount). Traces of mounting on verso, but fine otherwise. Excellent portrait of British zoologist Thomas Bell, who described the reptile..... More
Paris: Réchet jeune, 1836. La Berge, Louis de (1807-39); Edouard Monneret (1810-68); and Louis Fleury (1815-72). Compendium de médecine pratique ou exposé analytique et raisonné des travaux contenus dans les principaux traités de pathologie interne. 8 vols. Paris: Béchet jeune, 1836-46. 260 x 169 mm. Bound for Philippe Ricord in..... More
1848. Berzelius, Jöns Jacob (1779-1848). Jacobus Berzelius. Medal in bronze showing a right-facing bust of Berzelius on the obverse with his birth and death dates in roman numerals; the reverse with a standing winged figure and the seated figure of Hygeia along with text in Latin. Signed “P. H. Lundgren..... More
Amsterdam: Schipper, 1672. BEVERWYCK, Jan van (1594-1647). Wercken der genees-konste, bestaende in den schat der gesontheyt, schat der ongesontheyt, heelkonste. . . . 4to. [16), 252; [8), 127, [11; 328, 48; [8], 278, [12]pp. Engraved title & many fine plates in text. 245 x 185 mm. Contemporary Dutch tooled vellum..... More
Paris: Chez Labe. Blandin, Philippe-Frédéric (1798-1849). De l’usage des inhalations d’éther dans les opérations chirurgicales. Offprint from L’Union médicale (March 1847). 15pp. Paris: Labé, 1847. 205 x 135 mm. Later marbled wrappers. Fine copy. First Edition, Offprint Issue, very rare. Blandin, the noted French surgeon and professor at the Faculté..... More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1867. Boinet, Alphonse-Alexandre (1807-86). Traité pratique des maladies des ovaires et de leur traitement, précédé d’un aperçu anatomique et physiologique de ces organes, ovariotomie. [4], 455pp. Paris: Victor Masson et fils, 1867. 213 x 129 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, slight wear. Minor foxing but very..... More
Paris: Deflorenne Neveu, 1846. Bonnardot, Alfred (1808-84). Essai sur la restauration des anciennes estampes et des livres rares . . . [4], 80pp. [Paris:] Chez Deflorenne neveu . . . et chez Vignères, 1846. With: Supplément a l’Essai sur la restauration des vielles estampes, etc. . . . contenant des..... More
Paris: Bailliere, 1826. 1st edition. Calmeil, Louis Florentin (1798-1895). De la paralysie consideree chez les alienes, recherches faites dans le service de feu M. Royer-Collard et de M. Esquirol. 8vo. [4] ii, 446pp. Paris and London: J.-B. Bailliere, 1826. 198 x 122 mm. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards in period..... More
1896. Cooper Medical College. Gelatin silver print photograph of the faculty of Cooper Medical College. N.p., 14 September 1896. 234 x 296 mm. Light rubbing at the margins where previously framed, a few other unobtrusive worn spots but very good. An extremely rare photograph of an historic event in California..... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1937. Davidoff, Leo M. (1898-1975) and Cornelius G. Dyke (1900-1943). The normal encephalogram. 224pp. Text illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1937. 236 x 150 mm. Original cloth, slight wear. Very good. Signed by Davidoff on the front free endpaper. Ownership signature. First Edition. Davidoff and Dyke..... More
Camden Town: 1848. De Morgan, Augustus (1806-71). (1). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent. Camden Town, Jan. 27, 1848. 1 page plus integral blank. 180 x 114 mm. (2) Autograph letter signed to Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857). Camden Town, October 7, 1857. 2-1/2pp. 183 x 114 mm. Some..... More
Paris: 1872. Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume B. A. (1806-75). (1). 2 A.Ls.s. on his embossed stationery to the publisher Bailliere, dated 22 and 29 August 1872. 2pp. plus integral blank (22 August) & 2-1/2pp. (29 August). Together 4-1/2pp. 216 x 135 mm. & 210 x 135 mm. Creased where previously..... More
Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1798. Exposition publique des produits de l’industrie française. Catalogue des produits industriels qui ont été exposés au Champ-de-Mars pendant les trois derniers jours complémentaires de l’an VI . . . 25pp. Paris: Imprimerie de la République, Vendémiaire an VII [1798]. 199 x 129 mm. Original..... More
London: John and Arthur Arch, 1799. With the Very Rare Prospectus Bound In Fry, Edmund (1754-1835). Pantographia; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world; together with an English explanation of the peculiar force or power of each letter . . . xxxvi, 320pp., plus 11-page prospectus..... More
Paris: l'Auteur, 1822. Second edition. Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828) & Spurzheim, Johann Caspar (1776-1832). Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties. . . . 8vo. Multi-vol. text, each vol. with own title. Paris: l'Auteur. . . , 1822-25. 6 vols. 214 x 135 mm..... More
Leipzig: Hirschfeld, 1886. His, Wilhelm, Jr. (1863-1934). Ueber das Stoffwechselproduct des Pyridins (Arbeiten aus dem Laboratorium für experimentelle Pharmakologie zu Strassburg). 8pp. Leipzig: J. B. Hirschfeld, 1886. 235 x 157 mm. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically, a little darkened at edges. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by His to Carl..... More
Glasgow: 1828. Hooker, William Jackson (1785-1865). Autograph letter signed to Richard Taylor (1781-1858). 1p. plus address leaf. Glasgow, Dec. 26, 1828. 206 x 128 mm. Some soiling, a few small marginal tears, but good to very good. From botanist William J. Hooker, the first full-time director of the Royal Botanic..... More
Paris: 1842. Robert, Alphonse (1801-62). Des anévrysmes de la region sus-claviculaire. Thèse . . . 133, [3]pp. Folding plate. Paris: Germer Baillière, 1842. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Ricord on the title: “à M. Ricord souvenir affectueux de son collègue.” [Bound with:] Jalade-Lafond, Guillaume. Memoir on a new kind of medicated..... More
1916. Kanavel, Allen B. (1874-1938); Koch, Sumner; & Mason, Michael (1895-1963). Collection of 18 offprints, pamphlets, etc. on infections and orthopedic disabilities of the hand, with typed index and obituary notice of Kanavel. Various sizes, bound in one 4to volume. V.p., 1916-33. Buckram, somewhat soiled & worn; 11 offprints with..... More