Search Results: Medicine from Bibiliophilia Books

Carlsruhe: Chr. Fr. Muller, 1825. First edition . Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Title continues: " . zur Geschichte der Lehre von der Beckenaxen". - Square 8vo. - x,(2),126 pp. - Original plain grey wrappers, armorial bookplate in red, gold and black: "Recte faciendo / Neminem Timeas / van der Hoeven". - Slight darkening of one narrow edge of the plates and some pages, else fine. - With 3 full-page plates, a "Zusatz zu Seite 51 Note 1)" (Page 125), and a 2/3-page "Druckfehler"(Page 126). - Garrison-Morton 6256. - First edition. - Naegele's classic morphological study of the pelvis, clearly documenting that, contrary to the commonly accepted view, the axis of the pelvis is not affected by changes in the position of the body. - Shelf No.: P 333.

Berlin: Hirschwald 1863-1867, 1863. First edition . Hardcover. Good. The original owner of this set was the celebrated American physician Ernst Philip Boas (1891- 1955), son of the German scientist Frans Boas, regarded by many as the father of modern anthropology. Ernst Boas served as medical director of several leading hospitals of New York City, including Mt. Sinai, and was Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University. 8vo. - Erster Band: frontispiece plate,xii,543 pp., plus 33,(1) pp. of publisher's catalogue; Zweiter Band: (2),x,756 pp.; Dritter Band, Erste Halfte: frontispiece plate,(2),496 pp. - ALL PUBLISHED. - With altogether 243 woodcut text illustrations. - Partially unopened. - 3/4 leather, spine with 5 bands and title in gilt. (Minor chipping, some covers are detached, else fine; interior very fine.) - All volumes with engraved bookplate of Ernst P. Boas. - The most ambitious and most famous work (Garrison-Morton 2617) of Virchow (1821-1902); though not completed as initionally… Read More

s.l. (Halle?): s.n., 1741. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Title continues: " . Oder ein deutlicher Unterricht, von der Gesundheit und deren Erhaltung: auch von denen Ursachen, Kennzeichen und Nahmen der Krankheiten, und bewahrten Mitteln gegen dieselben, damit ein jeder, auch Ungelehrter, bey Ermangelung eines Medici, sonderlich dur XI, sichere, hierzu hinlanglich erfundene, und zu einer bequemen, Haus- Reise- und Feld- Apothecken seligirten Medicamenta und Gebrauch dieses Tractats, vermoge bisheriger reichen Erfahrung, die gewohnlichen, und schweren Kranckheiten, sicher und mit gutem Success curiren konne". - Small 12mo. - (12),32,(4),1232,(112) pp. - Contemporary full leather, spine with 5 raised bands (corners and edges somewhat worn). - Contemporary ownership signature: "Antonj Hartl" (twice), and another signature (illegible); all in old ink. - An enormously popular medical work of the early 18th century, first published in Halle, in 1708. - Quite rare: OCLC records 6… Read More

Venezia: Andrea Poletti, 1750. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Title continues: "Dove con nuovo metodo Si descrivono in Compendio tutti gli Organi suoi , e i loro principali uffizj , per istruire a bene intendere secondo il nuovo sistema, la Teorica, e Pratica Medicinale." - Poletti, Venezia, 1750. - Small 8vo. (10),255,52 pp. - With engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, head-pieces, initials, end-piece, and 134 anatomical illustrations on 20 plates. Title-page in red and black. - "Description of all the human organs and their functions through a new method". - The second piece, a treatise on human muscles, is dedicated to Pascoli. - With engraved armorial bookplate of Adrian Walton Zorgniotti M.D. - Contemporary full vellum, very good; interior and plates fine.

Napoli: Vincenzo Manfredi (both) 1775 and 1776, 1775. Hardcover. Good. Small 12mo. - xv,(5),108;75,(1) pp. - Early 1/2-leather (black), title in gilt on spine with 6 gilt bands, marbled boards, corners somewhat worn, else fine. - Interior has some light water spots on last 9 leaves, else fine. - With an armorial bookplate, and a label "Ex-libris Marini". - Zeviani (1725-1808) was an eminent physician in Verona, and the author of many noted medical books.