Opera omnia anatomica et medica. Nunc simul collecta, & diligenter rec. per T. de Diemerbroeck by DIEMERBROECK, Isbrand van - 1685

Rome: Rochus Bernabo at the expense of Laurentii & Thomae Pagliarini, 1728. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (47 full-page numbered but with pl 35 & 37 replaced in good facsimile) + nice large plate of public dissection on TP + 50 large woodcut initials with country & hunting scenes etc.. Folio (378x251mm) newer calf with 5 raised bands, spine compartments gilt, gilt rules, black label with gilt titling. Titlepage in red & black XXVIII +79pp +[x] index & publisher's catalogue + 47 leaves of plates ex collation but numbered in the plate 1-47 (a4 mistakenly bound after b4). Bookplate of Dr.F.A. Sondervorst on marbled endpapers. A clean wide margined copy, no tears, very unobtrusive pale foxing to a few pages, some pages rehinged at gutter, a few with marginal dusting/damp marks but not affecting printed area except in index. Pl.20 minor offsetting from facing text page. As usual without the unnumbered page meant to be cut out and used to rule the scale. Fine thick quality paper, impressions clear &… Read More

Rosedale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 1998.. Edition of 100 . 10 x 10"closed, extends to 30 x 30"; 16 pages. Hinged pages unfolding in four directions to reveal quilt-like patterns, colors, and shapes. Intaglio and letterpress printing. In black cloth boards with inset illustrated title label. Designed, printed, and bound by Maureen Cummins. Signed and numbered. Califia Books: "A collection of excerpts from narratives written by women imprisoned for madness. Descriptions span from the Civil War period to the present and feature unknown women as well as such celebrated figures as Kate Millet and Frances Farmer. These extraordinary tales are related with keen intelligence, rage, and mordant humor. Silkscreen and letterpress printed on squares of white coverweight Folio. Each page is a patch work of black alternating with rich color blocks (over seventy-five in the edition); text is in the form of stitch-like handwriting. Hinged pages unfold in four directions to reveal… Read More

Lisboa [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 154, vi p., 50 leaves of lithographed plates containing 196 illustrations; 26 cm. Rebacked retaining most of contemporary quarter calf with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration; marbled paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Includes list of subscribers. The extremely scarce Portugese edition of Atlas der Geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, the important work of obstetrical plates by Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch, first published the previous year. This was the first such obstetrical work published in Portuguese. In Very Good Condition: corners of boards are rubbed; reback, as described; browning and foxing to both text and plates, heavy at times; otherwise clean and tight.

Torino: Nella stamperia reale, 1758. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (26 cm); [4] leaves, 166 pages, and two engraved folding plates. Engraved vignette on title pages (illustrating the event narrated in the text), engraved portrait of Carlo Emmanuele, two engraved initials with figures of cherubs. In contemporary vellum over boards, red leather label on spine. Pages lightly toned, with some rather negligible stains. Good margins. Bima, Catalogo ragionato, in "La Stampa Reale di Torino" (2003), p. 91; Wellcome V, 148; Blake NLM 426.. This work, which describes the experiences of two sisters, their brother's wife, and her five-year-old child trapped in a ruined stable by an avalanche for 37 days, is now considered a pioneering study in post-traumatic stress disorder. It is the first scientific study of the effects of survival through a period of privation. Somis (1718-93), professor of medicine at the University of Torino, describes the tragic avalanche that destroyed the village of… Read More

Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1813. New edition. 1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, "THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY." 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing Medicine and Art by Girodet (after Alexandre Briceau), engraved by Robert De Launay, 35 copper plate engravings of the human brain (8 folding), 4 plates of comparative anatomy each containing multiple images. Covers soiled, light browning to page edges, scattered light foxing, fine plate impressions, very good. FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR (1748-1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Paris and became a renowned and brilliant animal and human anatomist and… Read More

Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, 1770. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition in Italian. Two volumes. xx, 447pp; 400pp. There are several misnumbered pages. Recent half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispiece, twenty copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume one; title vignette, eighteen copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume two. A massive treaty that covers every aspect of surgery, from tending to wounds to performing complex procedures. Garrison and Morton states: "Heister is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany... This was the most popular surgical text of the 18th century; it underwent numerous editions and translations". The plates show numerous surgical instruments and their application. Old dampstains affecting the edges, scattered foxing throughout. Short tears (not affecting text) to four of the leaves, some old mends to five of the… Read More

Lugduni: Gulielmum Rouillium, 1542. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf, with gilt fillets on spine and corners tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. 32mo. [2] 3-158 p.p. plus colophon. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Very light scratches to boards. Sporadic staining to leaves and endpapers, noticeably to blank leaf preceeding title page, and to verso of leaf after colophon. Early marginalia and underlined passages throughout. "In memoriam C.D. Wood 24. Ap. 1920...W.S. Dawson" pasted to front free endpaper. Else a near fine copy. Claudius Galenus [129 AD to c.210 AD) was an influential surgeon during the Roman Empire, whose early medical writings were required reading for medieval medical students in university up until the 16th century. Niccolo Leoniceno [1428-1524] was an Italian humanist scholar and physician who is credited for publishing the paper on syphilis. He produced many important translations of Galen and Hippocrates. The first chapter of this work begins with the question, what is… Read More

BASILEAE: EX OFFICINA PERNEA PER CONRAD. VVALDKIRCH, 1584. Bella edizione del 1584 di questa raccolta di tre opere del medico e filosofo italiano Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) celebre per aver teorizzato l'uso della ginnastica su base medica. All'interno del volume sono presenti tre opere: la prima "De morbis puerorum" una pietra miliare per la pediatria moderna. Mercuriale parla di morbillo, vaiolo, sifilide congenita, disturbi di nutrizione, balbuzia e dedica tutta una parte ai vermi intestinali. Il secondo il suo celebre trattato di tossicologia "De venenis et morbis venenosis". Il terzo "Censura de Hippocratis operibus" una critica e revisione delle opere e pensiero di Ippocrate. Belle lettere iniziali decorate. Qualche antica nota manoscritta a margine di appunti e commenti. Rara edizione. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Laccetti di chiusura mancanti .… Read More

Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, some foxing, boards . worn, fore-edges of some pages chipped.. Hardcover. Leatherbound sammelband of the writings of Dr. Edward O. Otis (1848-1933) , a Massachusetts tuberculosis researcher, medical professor, and one of the founders of the National Association of the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, later renamed the American Lung Association. Dr. Otis' personal copy as indicated by penciled note on front free endpaper and with many letters and other items laid in. Dr. Otis was a proponent of climate therapy and fresh-air sanataria to treat TB patients. Three-quarter leather binding with maroon pebbled cloth boards. Five spine compartments with titling stamped in gilt in two of them. Most items bound in, but a few letters and clippings are laid in. A total of 55 items, including medical journal reprints, letters, cabinet card, book reviews, newspaper clippings, and other material. Full list of items upon request. ;… Read More

Very good complete copy of this last great English medical botany of the 19th century.With 306 fine hand-coloured botanical plates, several double-page, some finished with gum arabic, drawn from nature and lithographed by David Blair. Each dynamic plate filled to the edge with details of the plant's stalk, leaf, fruit, seed, branch and flower.Each plate with several pages of text including description, habitat, collection and commerce, general character and composition, medical properties and uses.Robert Bentley (1821-1893) was an English botanist and pharmacologist. He was professor in botany at King's College from 1859, and became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1874. Henry Trimen (1843-1896) was a London-born botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon (Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) from 1879-95. He also published The Flora of Ceylon (1893) David Blair (1820-1899?), was a botanical artist and lithographer who also worked on Transactions of the… Read More