London: T. Woodward, C. Davis, 1740. Whole volume, [5], 873, [12, index]pp., 8pll. 165 x 220mm. Paneled calf, gilt lettering on spine. Minor rubbing on spine and lower board. Raised bands. Some foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Probably the earliest description of myositis ossificans progressiva. Freke was a friend..... More
Berlin: Veit et Comp, 1836. [no. 1] Schwann, Theodore. Ueber das Wesen des Verdauung processes, 90-138. [no. 2] Remak, Robert (1815-1865). Vorläufige Mittheilungen microscopischer Beobachtungen über den inner Bau der Cerebrospinalnerven und über die Entwickelung ihrer Formelemente, 145-61, pll.[4]. [no. 3] Müller, Johannes Peter (1801-1858) and Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882). Versuche..... More
Berlin: Veit et Comp, 1839. Whole volume, ccxxii, 430pp., 17 pll., (12 folding). 140 x 210mm. Library stamp on the title page. Top board is detached, no bottom board. Half-calf with mottled paper sides. A very good copy. The discovery of a fungus as the cause of favus (Achorion schönleinii)..... More
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1879. Whole volume, xiv, [1], 815pp. 1 pll. in color. 140 x 220mm. Light green contemporary cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good copy. Original description of angiokeratoma ("Mibelli's disease" - so named from the latter's description of it in 1891; see No. 4105)..... More
Paris: Labé, 1860. Whole volume, 800pp. 140 x 220mm. End papers a bit toned. Contemporary boards with a paper spine and handwritten label, moderately worn, otherwise a good copy. First description of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis ("Duchenne's paralysis"). Garrison-Morton.com No. 4736. More
Paris: Bechet, 1823. Whole volume, 648pp., 16 pll. +A-L. 130 x 200mm. Library stamp on the half-title. Quarter morocco with mottled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is rather rubbed, a bit worn, otherwise a good copy. Flourens removed the cerebrum and cerebellum in pigeons, showing maintenance of reflexes with..... More
Paris: Bechet, 1827. Whole volume, 640pp.130 x 200mm. Library stamp on the half-title page. Quarter morocco with mottled boards and gilt lettering on spine. Spine is rather rubbed. Some edgewear. Pages are a bit toned, otherwise a good copy. Bouillaud identified the anterior lobes as the speech center. Refuting Gall..... More
London: Lockyer Davis, 1773. Folding plate no. [19] illustrates the male and female torpedo fish. Whole volume, 507pp., 20 copper plls.. 180 x 230mm. Red contemporary cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Spine is a bit rubbed. From the library of Sir W.M. J. Pope with his bookplate..... More
London: The Lancet, 1898. Whole volume, 848pp., 1 pll., 6 figs. 200 x 260mm. Contemporary green cloth boards. Light edgewear. Library bookplate on the front end paper. Library card pocket tipped to rear end paper. A fine copy. Ross provided the last link in the chain demonstrating the complete life-cycle..... More
Paris: G. Masson, 1893. Whole number in 4 parts, 8vo., original printed wrappers. First Printing. Wrappers slightly soiled, with a few chips and tears, else a fine set. The wrappers to parts 1 and 2 have "Tome Quatrième" misprinted for "Tome Cinquième." A classic paper on the adrenal glands, in..... More
Leipzig: Veit et Comp, 1859. Whole volume, [4, contents], 853pp. 20pll. (all are folding, except no. 15, p.552, nos. 1 & 18 are colorized). 130 x 210 mm. Very dark green, diaper-grain cloth with blind tooling on front & rear panels, title on spine is gilt with gold tooling detail..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. Whole volume, xvi, 496pp. 1 pll. 130 x 215 mm. Quarter-calf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Paper boards feature Spine is slightly faded. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a good copy. Operation in May 1824 - the first staphylorraphy (cleft-palate..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1829. (1) Babington, Benjamin Guy (1794-1866). [Description of the glottiscope.], 555. (2) Hodgkin, Thomas (1798-1866). On the retroversion of the valves of the aorta, 433-43. Whole volume, 871pp. 140 x 220mm. Contemporary green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Edgewear. Some minor foxing..... More
Berlin: Veit et Comp. 1844. (1) Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882). Versuche um auszumitteln, ob die Galle im Organismus eine für das Leben wesentliche Rolle spielt, 127-59. G.-M. 993. (1) Remak, Robert (1815-1865). Neurologische Erlauterungen, 463-72, pll.[12]. G.-M. 806. Whole volume, 526pp. 16 pll. (14 folding). 125 x 210mm. Contemporary half calf..... More
Berlin: 1845. (1) Retzius, Anders Adolf (1796-1860). Ueber die Schädelformen der Nordbewohner, 84-129. (2) Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von (1819-1892). Anatomische Untersuchungen über die sogenannten leuchtenden Augen bei den Wirbelthieren, 387-406. Whole volume, 535pp., 15 pll. 125 x 200mm. Quarter mottled morocco, missing spine, boards detached. Minor foxing and toning, but..... More
Paris: P. Asselin, 1868. Whole volume, 768pp. 215 x 130mm. Contemporary paper boards with gilt lettering on spine. A good copy. "Duchenne muscular dystrophy". English translation of first portion in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 72-75. Garrison-Morton.com No. 4739. More
Leipzig: Veit et Comp, 1868. Whole volume, 762pp., 18 pll. (most are folding). 130 x 200mm. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine very rubbed. Half morocco with mottled paper sides. Library stamp on the title page. Minor toning, boards detached, otherwise a good copy. Bookplate of Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840-1911) on..... More
Paris: Labé, 1856. Whole volume, 768pp.135 x 210mm. Library stamp on the title page. Quarter morrocco with mottled paper sides. Gilt lettering on spine, spine is rubbed. Minor toning, otherwise a very good copy. Experimental epilepsy (section of sciatic nerve). Brown-Séquard contributed largely to our knowledge of the blood and..... More
Paris: Bechet, 1825. Whole volume, 636pp. 200 x 125mm. Contemporary green cloth with mottled paper sides. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. Library stamp on title page and ffep. Minor foxing and toning, otherwise a very good copy. Jean Baptiste Bouillaud was a French physician who was an early advocate of..... More
Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1875. Whole volume, 904pp., 34 pll. (12 pll. in color). 230 x 145mm. Contemporary half-calf with gilt lettering on spine. Fine. First description of acute superior hemmorrhagic polioenchephalitis. Called also "Wernicke's encephalopathy," following the latter's description in his Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten, Kassel, 2, 229-42. Garrison-Morton.com..... More
Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1870. Whole volume, 656pp., 20 pll. 230 x 145mm. Contemporary half-calf, gilt lettering on spine. Fine. Experimental epilepsy (section of sciatic nerve). Brown-Séquard contributed largely to our knowledge of the blood and animal heat, as well as the nervous system. He was the first scientist..... More
Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1868. Whole volume, 770, [3]pp., 17 pll. 230 x 145mm. Contemporary half-calf with gilt lettering on spine. Fine copy. Jean Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on hypnosis and hysteria, and is known as "the founder of modern..... More
1953. Wilkes, Maurice V. (1913- ). Can machines think? Offprint from Proceedings I.R E. 41 (October 1953). Unbound as issued. [1230]-1234 [3]pp. 281 x 217 mm. Provenance: Maurice Wilkes. First edition, offprint issue. Includes discussions of the principles of computer programming, programming a computer to "learn" by modifying stored information..... More
Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. Rives, Gustave. Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique. Grand Palais, Paris, Decembre 1908. 91, [5], [4, adverts.]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. 285 x 230 mm. (partly unopened). Original printed wrappers, extremities of spine a little worn, light spotting. Very..... More
1869. Darwin, Charles (1809-82). Portrait photograph of Darwin at age 59, by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). [1869]. Albumen print. 340 x 250 mm. Archivally framed. Excellent unfaded condition. One of two portraits of Darwin taken by the noted Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron in 1869, when Darwin and his family..... More