Medicine from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
New Arrivals
Bandage for First Aid in Accident (Linen Sling/ Bandage/ Tourniquet)
by Beatson, George T.; St. Andrews Ambulance Association; St. Andrew's First Aid
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Published
- 1897
- Binding
- Ephemera
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$692.64
Show Details
Description:
Glasgow Scotland: St Andrew's Ambulance Association, 1897. Ephemera. Very good condition. Large triangular and rare linen bandage illustrating its uses for emergency medicine. St. Andrews Ambulance Association was the first ambulance service in Scotland. The 34 images printed on the linen are based on illustrations from Dr. George Beaston's Ambulance Hand-book, published in 1891. Emergency uses such as… Read more about this item Item Price
A$692.64
Principles of Medical Jurisprudence, With So Much of Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology and the Practice of Medicine and Surgery. As Are Essential to be Known by Lawyers, Coroners, Magistrates, Officers of the Army and Navy, Etc.
by Guy, William A.; C. A. Lee (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Edition
- First American edition
- Published
- 1845
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$192.40
Show Details
Description:
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. First American edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. Twenty eight chapters dedicated to Forensic Medicine and its applications to the field of medicine and law. Chapter headings include: Medical evidence, Personal identity, Age, Sex, Impotence, Rape, Pregnancy, Infanticide, Unsoundness of Mind, Persons Found Dead, Death by..., Wounds, Opium, Poisons and more.
William… Read more about this item Item Price
A$192.40
Colorado Sanitarium, a Well Regulated Institution for the Treatment of All Chronic Diseases. Trade Card
by [Medicine; Private Hospital; Boulder, Colorado]
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Published
- 1900
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$100.05
Show Details
Description:
1900. Very good condition. Located at the foot of the Flat Irons, this institution offered capacity for one hundred guests, massage, aseptic operating rooms, a "labratory of hygiene", medicated air for lung troubles, five physicians, trained nurses of both sexes, treatment of diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, nervous system, stomach and digestive system and diseases peculiar… Read more about this item Item Price
A$100.05
Charity Hospital City of New York Medical diploma for R.N. Giles 1884
by [Medicine; New York City Hospitals]
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Published
- 1884
- Binding
- Ephemera
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$692.64
Show Details
Description:
New York, 1884. Ephemera. Very good condition. Large diploma printed on vellum with title and view of the hospital at the top.
Charity Hospital (also known as Island Hospital or City Hospital) was an historic hospital on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan in New York City. It began in 1832 as Penitentiary Hospital, after a fire and rebuild… Read more about this item Item Price
A$692.64
The Queen v. Beaney. Extraordinary Charge of Murder against a Medical Man, in Consequence of a Diseased Womb Being Ruptured After Death, with Medical Notes and Observations
by Reeves, C.E. M.D.
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1866
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$115.44
Show Details
Description:
Melbourne: W.B. Stephens, 1866. Hardcover. Good + overall. A book in defense of James George Beaney [1828 - 1891] who was an English born surgeon, politician and philanthropist in Australia.
8vo, xi, 244pp, [1], blue card covers with red cloth spine, title in black on front. Covers dusty, cloth spine split at top edge, internally clean.… Read more about this item Item Price
A$115.44
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
by Hofer, Theresia (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780295993591
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$500.24
Show Details
Description:
University of Washington Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship between the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and the visual arts." [Google books] Small folio, fine in fine dj, still in the publishers plastic wrap. Item Price
A$500.24
Boston Journal of Chemistry. Devoted to the Science of Home Life, the Arts, Agriculture and Medicine, 5 issues
by Nichols, James R. (ed)
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1874
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$184.70
Show Details
Description:
Boston, 1874. Good + overall. An incomplete run of the Boston Journal of Chemistry dating January, March, May, June, July of 1874, (Volume VIII No. 7, 9, 11,12; VIX No. 1).
A sampling of articles: Chemical Examination of Urine; Why Teeth Decay; Effect of Electricity on Plants; Peat Bogs; Milk Adulteration; Pork Packing; Nitrogen in Soil; Medical… Read more about this item Item Price
A$184.70
An Inaugural Address, delivered before the New-York Academy of Medicine, February 6, 1850. to which is prefixed a Valedictory Address, by Valentine Mott M.D.
by [Medicine; New York] Wood, Isaac
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First printing
- Published
- 1850
- Binding
- Pamphlet
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$192.40
Show Details
Description:
New York: H. Ludwig & Co., 1850. First printing. Pamphlet. Fine. This address was delivered upon Valentine Mott's [1785 - 1865] departure as President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Mott was a well known American surgeon, working on the staff of Columbia College as Professor of Surgery. He went on to be one of the founders… Read more about this item Item Price
A$192.40
More Photos
High-Grade Hospital Furniture and Appliances: Catalogue of Department V. Comprising Operating Tables, Cabinets, Stands, Beds, Sterilizers, Gauze, Cotton and Surgical Supplies: Manufactured by Max Wocher & Son
by [Medical Instruments] Max Wocher & Son
- Condition
- Used - Otherwise very good condition
- Edition
- 8th edition
- Published
- 1906
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$423.28
Show Details
Description:
Cincinnati, Ohio: Max Wocher & Son, 1906. 8th edition. Paperback. Otherwise very good condition. Electrical batteries, static machines, X-ray coils, transformers, rheostats and supplies : catalogue of Department V. Full of b&w illustrations throughout. 8vo, 688pp, brown paper covers, with cloth spine, black title on front and spine. Covers and spine dusty, internally clean.
This edition not… Read more about this item Item Price
A$423.28
Comstock & Brother, druggists of New York advertising with "Fountain in Galata" print
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1853
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$115.44
Show Details
Description:
New York: Milton Emerson & Co, 1853. Good + overall. Handsome steel engraving on verso of a William Bartlett view from one of his Pictorial Publications.
A New York company, dealers in drugs, medicines, perfumery, printed in a variety of type faces within an ornate decorative border.
Printed on the verso is a Bartlett view… Read more about this item Item Price
A$115.44
More Photos
Leprosy in Hong Kong
by Cantlie, James, M.A. M.B., F.R.C.S.
- Condition
- Used - Otherwise very good condition
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1890
- Binding
- Cardboard Covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$1,154.40
Show Details
Description:
Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh Ltd., 1890. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Otherwise very good condition. A bound monograph paper describing the disease in Hong Kong, with case studies and illustrations.
James Cantlie [1851 - 1926] was a Scottish physician, pioneer of first aid, and co-founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (at the… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,154.40
More Photos
The Traveller; or a Prospect of Society a Poem
by Goldsmith, Oliver
- Condition
- Used - Good condition
- Edition
- Irish pirated edition
- Published
- 1784
- Binding
- Pamphlet
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$423.28
Show Details
Description:
Dublin: Messrs Price, Sleator, Watson et al., 1784. Irish pirated edition. Pamphlet. Good condition. An early Ulster County NY association of a pirated Irish edition of Goldsmith's work. The previous owner signatures add a wonderful provenance. The names include Miss Maria Graham, New Hurley; Chichester Brown (his book March 14th ---; Miss Jemima Graham Bruyn, Shawangunk. Chichester Brown… Read more about this item Item Price
A$423.28
Surgery Diploma for early Eye Surgeon
by [Medicine; Surgery] Tyrrell, Frederick
- Condition
- Used - Very good overall
- Published
- 1830
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$1,154.40
Show Details
Description:
London: Hardy & Son, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1830. Very good overall. Two elegantly engraved certificates made out to Mr. Marmaduke Thompson, for attendance at two courses of lectures on the "Principles and Practice of Surgery", in May of 1830, signed by Frederick Tyrrell, one of the private medical school's founders, and the second for attending Lectures on… Read more about this item Item Price
A$1,154.40
More Photos
The Nurse; or, Hints on the Care of the Sick Including Mothers and Infants and a Digest of Domestic Medicine. Presentation copy
by Harris, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1879
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$615.68
Show Details
Description:
Chicago: Duncan, 1879. Hardcover. Good + overall. Early American work on nursing in the period when formal training for nurses had just begun: the first American nursing school was the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, founded in New York City in 1873. The author makes a direct request in the preface for a "benevolent minded lady" to establish… Read more about this item Item Price
A$615.68
More Photos
The Effigies of Hippocrates of Coos, the Prince of Physicians. Woodblock portrait
by Pare, Ambroise; Thomas Johnson
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Published
- 1600
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$192.40
Show Details
Description:
London: Printed by Th: Cotes and R. Young, 1600. Very good condition. Striking portrait of the famous physician of ancient Greece, Hippocrates (460-377 BC) the first to establish medicine as a science.
Showing a waste up view of the bearded Hippocrates at a table resting his forearm on a human skull as he dissects the head of… Read more about this item Item Price
A$192.40
More Photos
Itinerary of the "Denver Special" to the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association at Denver, Colorado, June 7th - 10th 1898
by Wabash Railroad; Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
- Condition
- Used - Very good + condition
- Published
- 1898
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$269.36
Show Details
Description:
American Medical Association, 1898. Wraps. Very good + condition. Unrecorded guide to the railway trip (and preliminary program) for the 1898 American Medical Association meeting in Denver by way of the Wabash Railroad (St. Louis to Kansas City), and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway (Kansas City to Denver).
The guide includes description of the train… Read more about this item Item Price
A$269.36
A description of a Dakotan Calendar with a Few Ethnographical and Other Notes on the Dakotas, or Sioux Indians, and Their Territory
by Morgan, Alfred
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Published
- 1879
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$115.44
Show Details
Description:
London: Longmans Green, 1879. Hardcover. Very good condition. In Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. Vol XXXIII. Complete with color folding diagram of the calendar of the Dakota nation (pp 233 - 253).
Also an article by Nevins, on Keeling Islands; as well as Marrat on shells from the Keeling and Maldive Islands.… Read more about this item Item Price
A$115.44
More Photos
The Principles and Practice of Obstetrics
by Hodge, Hugh L.
- Condition
- Used - Good -
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1864
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$423.28
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Good -. The best American midwifery text book in the Civil War era, unusual for the early use of lithographs based on photography in some of the illustrations. This is the time in which delivering babies evolved away from being a field dominated by female practitioners and became a medical… Read more about this item Item Price
A$423.28
More Photos
A memorial of Constantine Hering, born January 1, 1800, died July 23, 1880
by [Hering, Constantine]
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1880
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$423.28
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: Globe Printing House, 1880. Hardcover. Good + overall. Tribute to Constantine Hering (1800 - 1880), considered to be one of the founders of homeopathy in America. A pioneer in the expansion of homeopathic studies and observations of the healing process known as "Hering's Law of Cure"; Hering also used nitroglycerine to treat heart conditions 30 years before… Read more about this item Item Price
A$423.28
More Photos
De l`Electricite du corps humain dans l`etat de sante et de maladie : Ouvrage couronne par l`Académie de Lyon, dans lequel on traite de l`Electricite de l`Atmosphere, de son influence et de ses effets sur l`économie animale....
by Bertholon de St. Lazare, L'abbe Pierre
- Condition
- Used - Good + overall
- Published
- 1780
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Garrison, New York, USA
- Item Price
-
A$423.28
Show Details
Description:
Lyon: Bernuset, 1780. Wraps. Good + overall. Treatise on the effects of electricity on human health, by Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare, French physicist noted for his experiments with electricity, and his friendship with Benjamin Franklin.
Bertholon (1741 - 1800), was a French physician and member of the royal society of Lyon. He taught physics at Monpelier… Read more about this item Item Price
A$423.28
