Medicine from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Fine copy. In a near fine jacket with a small hole/crease on the lower front panel, owners name in ink on front free endpaper. A few pages with paper flaws from time of publication, not affecting text. 8vo. 248 pages.Illustrations in text. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, describing Jacobson's pioneering methods of… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Cooper's paper appears on page 1-12, 222-33. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. "Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2929). In this volume… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1840. Fine copy. 8vo. Burton's paper appears on page 63-79. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning - 'Burton's blue line' - an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, London" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2099). … Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1814. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Stevens's paper appears on page 422-34. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935). In this volume is one other important paper: BRODIE, Benjamin Collins (1783-1862). "Further observations on the diseases which… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Some foxing. 8vo. Travers's paper appears on pages 1-16. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2931.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Parkinson's paper appears on page 57-58. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First case of appendicitis reported in English, and the first in which perforation was recognized as the cause of death" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3560).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1819. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Bostock's paper appears on page 161-65. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Bostock's classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock's catarrh'. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The case… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1878. Minimal soiling, a generally fine copy. 8vo. Ord's paper appears on page 57-78. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Ord coined the term "myxedema" for the condition noted earlier by Curling and Gull." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3825).… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1883. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, a fine copy. 8vo. Barlow's paper appears on page 159-219. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Classic description of infantile scurvy ('Barlow's disease'), which includes the pathology of the condition" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3720).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Discreet library stamps on endpaper, minimal soiling. 8vo. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. Includes articles by some of the most significant physicians of the day, including Cooper, Travers, Roger, Brodie, and Charles Bell.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1842. Fine copy. 8vo. Curling's paper appears on page 260-81. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "'Curling's ulcer'. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3445).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1882. Minimal chipping and soiling, a generally fine copy. 8vo. The first part of Paget's paper appears on page 37-64 (second part is continued in Vol. 65, see below). Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Columbia University in the City of New York, College of Pharmacy Library (bookplate on pastedown).… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1839. Minimal chipping and soiling. 8vo. Stafford's paper appears on page 218-21. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4259). In this volume is one… Read more

N.p., 1668. Front hinge partly split, but sound. 12mo (130 x 74 mm). Engraved title. [24], 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. "By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most unusual of… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. A fine copy, fresh and bright with just a hint of wear at the extremities. 8vo. 234 pages, [4] pages ads at end, including for Henderson's first book and a 2-page list of "Useful Books for Women." Vignette illustrations in text. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, following… Read more

Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, 1803. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a "report on the administration of home help" and a "report on… Read more

[Paris], 1786. 4to (231 x 183 mm). 44pp. Three large folding engraved plates. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Intermittent foxing. Provenance: with contemporary ink annotations in French on the title identifying designers of other plans; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and plates, duplicate stamp); Louis Greenbaum (bookplate). [BOUND WITH:] Two copies of: Supplément au mémoire... Paris: Desenne, Bailly,… Read more

Stuttgart: Editions Medicina Rara Ltd, 1980. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 106pp. Plates. Original full leather by A. W. Lumsden; slipcase. Slipcase worn; volume in fine condition save a few small scuffs to spine. Facsimile of the 1794 first edition, one of 300 copies in full leather, this copy unnumbered.

Cincinnati: P. W. Garfield, 1891. Later edition. Inscriptions on pastedown, some rubbing/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original cloth. A surgical classic. Garrison-Morton-Norman (first edition 1863).

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. Spine reinforced with tape, library label and stamp on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Contemporary sheep.