- Sl. foxed. Lacks ties. Fine copy.
= Two works by two of the most famous physicians of ancient Greece. Durling 257; Adams A1548; Wellcome 394; cf. Norman 62 (ed. Venice, 1552)
- Owner's entry in 19th cent. hand in blank margin frontisp.; two contemp. owner's entries on letterpress title ("De Bats Chirurg" and "E.A. Pader mr. Ch. 1755"); inner margin of 2 lvs. stained; waterstained in outer margin throughout; new endpapers.
= Very rare handbook on the binding of medical bandages. BMN 2011f. Only 2 copies in STCN. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Partly mostly vaguely waterstained in margin(s). Vellum duststained.
= Lindeboom p.83 (under Carel Baten); BMN I, p.288; Hirsch-H. I, p.326f; Pettegree 3266. Rare work by the Belgian doctor Carel Baten (Ghent, 1540 - Amsterdam, 1617), who was the first to translate some of the major medical works into Dutch in order to improve accessability to medical knowledge for the layman. No copy traced in the JAP 1990-2018. Rare, in any edition. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Occas. trifle browned/ foxed. Otherwise a fine copy.
= The rare third edition of the first separate treatise on head injuries and their neurosurgical treatment (1st ed. 1518). The work originated in a dispute between Berengario and some other physicians over he treatment of Lorenzo de Medici, who had suffered a skull fracture in battle. Krivatsky 1105; Wellcome 708; Bibl. Walleriana 913. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Trifle foxed; bookplate of C. Julliard on upper pastedown. Joints splitting.
= Norman 206: "Intended as the prologue to a multi-volume work on the principles of experimental medicine (which was never published), Bernard's masterly justification and exposition of the use of the experimental method in studying life phenomena has remained a classic of both scientific and philosophical literature"; PMM 353; Bibl. Walleriana 951.
- Fine uncut copy.
= This work is based on the texts of Bernard's course on the nervous system given at the College de France, where he was professor of experimental physiology. Bibl. Walleriana 957; DSB II, p.27f.
Horsley, V. The structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord. Being the Fullerian Lectures from 1891. London, C. Griffin, 1892, VI,(2),223,(1),67 (advert)p., num. woodengr. ills., modern hcl. - AND 1 other.
- Ad 1: Lacks engraved title and p.205-220 (quire O, containing 3 full-p. ills.); erroneously paginated (p.284-295). Waterstained; bookblock loose; first and final few quires loose(ning). Vellum darkened and stained. Sold w.a.f.
= Ad 1: Krivatsky 1199; BMN p.290; Lindeboom, DMB p.130. Ad 2: Krivatsky 9103; cf. BMN p.87 (ed. 1630).
- (Vaguely) waterst. in upper inner margin almost throughout; occas. sl. dampstained and fingersoiled; 2nd work sl. wormholed in lower inner margin. Binding professionally restored.
= Ad 2: BMN p.242. Very rare separate first editions of these works, the second dealing with scurvey. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Upper pastedown detached; a few lvs. w. waterstain in lower margin.
= Krivatsy 1188; Hirsch-H. I, p.441; cf. BMN I, p.159; Lindeboom p.130; Wellcome II, p.159; Baumann p.71-79.
- Heavily annotated copy in contemp. hand w. owner's entries on first and final prelim. lvs. Lacks the portrait and the 2 plates. Sold w.a.f.
= Thijssen-Schoute 276-317; Thorndyke VIII, 360; Sprengel IV, 392/3; Bierens de Haan 469; BMN p.60; Hirsch I, 626. With at the end of part 2: "Tractaat van het excellenste kruyd thee, coffi en chocolate, 't welk vertoond het regte gebruyk, en de groote kragten van 't selve in gesondheyd en siekten (...)". Partington II, 738, "Bontekoe, famous artesian, recommended the use of opium, the incessant smoking of tobacco, and the continual drinking of tea, chocolate, or sometimes coffee, for health and prolonging life. He supported Sylvius theory of acid and alkali".
- Occas. sl. waterstained in outer (mostly blank) margins. New endpapers.
= BMN III, p.210 (dating 1722, from the printed approbation, Antwerp, 1722); Wellcome II, 298 (ed. 1723); Van der Aa III, p.56; Vandewiele, Gesch. van de farmacie in België p.185. Engelbertus Capueel (1642-1733), was a (non-registered) doctor from Zeeland, who lived in Mechelen for the greater part of his life. He wrote a number of medical works as member of the Societas Jesu in Mechelen. The second part of the present work is entitled "Eenige remedien die aengaen de chirurgie of uytwendige gebreken des lichaems" and the third part "Clarius et majus lumen pharmacopaeorum. Dat is: klaerder en meerder licht der apothekers."
- Lacks 2 plates; hinges nearly broken; a few plates/ textlvs. loose(ning); first/ final few lvs. (sl.) browned. Lacks backstrip. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare. Cf. Proksch I, p.69 (first ed. Paris, 1866).
Jeannel, J. De la prostitution dans les grands villes au dix-neuvième siècle et de l'extinction des maladies vénériennes. Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1868, 1st ed., X,416,(3)p., contemp. hcalf.
- Hinges broken. Spine worn/ dam. = Proksch I, p.431.
- Wrapper splitting. = Separate printing from XIII Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1929, Hollandia.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Cushing, Bibliography 22; Norman 557. Same year as first edition but Norman calls for Boston imprint.
The Harvey Cushing Society. (Baltimore and Springfield), C.C. Thomas, 1939, 1st ed., XV,(1),108,(2)p., photogr. frontisp., orig. giltlettered green cl.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown and library stamps of Medical Library of Maryland on a few prelim. lvs.; newspaper clippings on Cushing's death tipped in on lower pastedown.
= Norman 560.
AND 3 others on H. Cushing, i.a. The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts (New York, 1943, orig. giltlettered cl., 4to).
- Upper corner p.3-6 discolored. Backstrip sunned.
= Cushing, Bibliography 16; Norman 555 (calls for a blue cloth binding). Cushing, throughout his surgical career, kept a thoroughly complete set of statistics on his tumor cases, always with the intent to improve the figures each year with lower morbidity and mortality. At the close of his academic career he sat down and compiled a lifetime of work.
= Cushing, Bibliography 6; Norman 552: "The definitive biography of William Osler". Harvey Cushing won the Pullitzer Prize for this work.
- Trifle foxed. Frontcover partly sunned.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by H. Cushing on first free endpaper. Cushing, Bibliography 274.
AND another edition of the same work.
= Cushing, Bibliography 20: "This volume contains Dr. Cushing's four principal contributions on pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationships"; Norman 556.
- Bookblock sl. shaken.
= The first edition, second issue of this monograph on the pituitary of which 1000 copies were printed. Norman 549: "The first clinical monograph on the pituitary. Based upon a detailed study of fifty cases, Cushing described the clinical manifestations of pituitary disorder (...)"; Cushing, Bibliography 2: "The pituitary body and its disorders is the first clinical monograph on the hypophysis and it stands as one of the landmarks of modern endocrinology".
- Upper outer corner title re-attached; bookplate of W.A.R. Chapin on upper pastedown. Otherwise very fine.
= Cushing, Bibliography 5. Extremely rare, only 250 copies printed, in two variant bindings, one in printed wrappers and one in red clothbacked boards (our copy).