79 1975 Medicine Le Rebours M A A

- Upper joint split; backstrip loosening and spine-ends chipped.

= Rare work promoting the breastfeeding of children by their mothers.

79 1977 Medicine Memoires de l'Académie royale de chirurgie

79 1977 Medicine Memoires de l'Académie royale de chirurgie

- First vol. partly w. (vague) waterstain in upper part; trifle foxed.

79 1978 Medicine Millot J A

- Uncut copy. Vol.1 foxed almost throughout; vol.2 occas. trifle foxed. Backstrips worn/ dam.

= Hirsch/ H. IV, p.212.

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

79 1979 Medicine Paré A

- Lacks entire index (45p.); title lacks upper and lower margin (incl. publ. year) and is doubled; final leaf doubled; p.945 doubled (over p.946); several 19th cent. owner's entries on first few lvs. (incl. one mounted leaf w. 19th cent. ms. dedication to Paré); yellowed; two bookplates on upper pastedown ("Dr Octave Pasteau" and the The John Crerar Library of Chicago (w. cancellation stamp)); occas. markings in blue pencil. Library stamp in lower left corner of frontcover; joints starting at top of spine.

= The extremely rare first edition of Ambroise Paré's collected works. Only two complete copies recorded at auction in the past 30 years (e.g. Sothebys, May 18, 2010). "Paré, of humble Huguenot beginnings and poorly educated, became the sixteenth century's outstanding surgeon and the greatest military surgeon before his fellow countryman, Larrey, more than two hundred years later. He began his studies as a barber-surgeon and at age nineteen, while working as a surgical dresser and assistant in a Paris hospital, he began to acquire the fund of practical knowledge for which he became a legend in his own time. Probably his best known innovations were his discarding the use of boiling oil in gunshot wounds and the reintroduction of simple ligature instead of red hot cautery after amputation. He invented many surgical and dental instruments and was especially adept at devising ingenious artificial limbs" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Durling 3530; Bibl. Walleriana 7171; Wellcome I, 4819. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.

79/1980 Medicine Pest Beschreibung und Infections Ordnung Welche vormahls in besondern Tractaten heraus gegeben nunmehro aber in ein Werck zusammen gezogen Samt Der Anno 1713 zu Wienn in Oester

79/1980 Medicine Pest Beschreibung und Infections Ordnung Welche vormahls in besondern Tractaten heraus gegeben nunmehro aber in ein Werck zusammen gezogen Samt Der Anno 1713 zu Wienn in Oester

- Contemp. owner's entry on title-p. ("Ladisl. Wayer 1738"); (sl) yellowed copy; corners (sl.) worn.

= Blake 345; cf. Wellcome IV, p.44 (under Mannagetta). Rare work on the two epidemics of the plague in Vienna, the first in 1675 (causing around 76.000 deaths) and the second in 1713. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.

79 1982 Medicine Richter Th

79 1982 Medicine Richter Th

- Contents partly loose(ning); occas. annots. in pencil on the plates; a few textleaves waterstained in upper margin; a few fold. plates sl. frayed and duststained in fold. part of upper margin; hinges weak/ broken. Backstrip of vol.2 dam.; covers of both vols. worn/ rubbed.

= Rare copy with 145 finely HANDCOLOURED plates (most handcol. copies that we traced had 96 plates). Bibl. Med. Neerl. 86; not in Choulant, Frank, Waller. Fine plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.

79 1983 Medicine Roonhuyze H van

79 1983 Medicine Roonhuyze H van

- Bookblock loose, occas. sl. waterstained; bookblock sl. warped and partly rubbed along fore-edge.

= Krivatsy 9929 and 9931. On the first part: Bibliotheca Walleriana 8163; on the second part (first ed. 1663): Proksch III, p.447; Garrison & Morton 6015: "Roonhuyze's book is regarded as the first work on operative gynaecology in the modern sense. He successfully performed caesarean section several times, and he used retractors for the repair of vesico-vaginal fistulae." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.

79 1984 Medicine Solingen C

- Occas. (sl.) foxed/ duststained; engr. title-p. cut sl. short in upper margin; first 10 fold. plates creased and w. closed tears/ strengthening on folds; lacks first free endpaper. Upper joint starting; top of spine and corners sl. worn.

= BMN I, p.59; Waller 9068; Fasbender p.198 ("C. Solingen wird als ein gewalttätiger Mann geschildert und hierfür könnte sehr wohl die Art seiner Operativen Geburtshülfe sprechen"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.

79 1985 Medicine Tulp N

79 1985 Medicine Tulp N

- New endpapers; first 3 lvs. w. sm. wormhole (incl. title). Otherwise fine.

= Provenance: the collection of H.F. Norman w. his bookplate on upper pastedown and the collection of B. Mohr (ms. entry on title). Bibl. Walleriana 9716; Lindeboom, DMB p.2006; Garrison/ Morton 3737: "One of the earliest accounts of beri-beri. Tulp, notable as the demonstrator in Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson", was among the first, in the same book, to describe the ileo-caecal valve ("Tulp's valve")." Also contains some remarkable plates, i.a. of Siamese twins, a narwal and one of the earliest plates of the chimpanzee (here named erroneously "Orang-outang"); Krivatsky 12008; Norman 2115: Norman sale no.831 (2nd vol. only); Wellcome V,p.306; BNM I, p.184.

79 1986 Medicine Tulp N

79 1986 Medicine Tulp N

- Sl. browned. = Wellcome II, p.319.

79 1987 Medicine Tulp N

- Upper blank margin title cut out; contemp. owner's entry on first free endpaper.

= Provenance: the collection of H.F. Norman w. his bookplate on upper pastedown. Bibl. Walleriana 9716; Lindeboom, DMB p.2006; Garrison/ Morton 3737; Krivatsky 12008; Norman 2115: Norman sale no.831 (1st vol. only); Wellcome V,p.306; BNM I, p.184. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

79 1988 Medicine Vosmaer J

- Title-p. sl. yellowed. Spine-ends dam.

79 1989 Medicine Willis T

79 1989 Medicine Willis T

79 1989 Medicine Willis T

- Somewhat browned and damp-/ waterstained (mainly in blank margins); one plate reattached and lacks portion; all plates on rather fragile paper w. occas. tear in folds. Vellum sl. soiled.

= The very rare 2nd edition of Willis' Opera omnia (1st ed. 1676) with the addition of a seventh part. I. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae quarum prior agit de fermentatione (...). Altera de febribus (...). II. Cerebri anatome, nervorum que descriptio & usus. III. Pathologiae cerebri & nervosi generis specimen. IV. Affectionum que dicuntur hystericae & hypochondriacae pathologia spasmodica vindicata. V. De anima brutorum; que hominis vitalis a sensitiva est, exercitationes duae, quarum prior physiologica est, altera pathologica morbos (...). VI. Pharmaceutices rationalis (...). VII. Pharmaceutices rationalis (...) pars secunda. Krivatsky 13000; DSB XIV, pp.404-409; this edition not in Bibl. Walleriana. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIX.

79 1990 Medicine Wirsung C

79 1990 Medicine Wirsung C

- Bookblock loose; waterstained throughout; sm. brown stain on engr. title.

= The most extensive Dutch edition of this popular work on medicine (first published Heidelberg, 1568). It covers all parts of the human body and several illnesses and cures, mainly by means of herbs. Illustrations of severe gunshots and projectile wounds and burns were added, as well as of wounds caused by hot oil, water, red-hot iron, gunpowder and lightning. The work also includes one of the earliest Dutch cookery books. Krivatsy 13070; BMN I, p.71. Cf. Wellcome I, 6753, Hirsch-H. 6, p.303; Bibl. Walleriana 10361. On the cookery book: Ferro 839; Bibl. Gastrononica 315; Landwehr 7: "Dit eerste in Noord-Nederland verschenen kookboek is uitgegeven als supplement bij Christopher Wirsung Med'cyn Boec, waarvan het titelblad het kookboek vermeldt. Battus noemt o.a. confituren, doch heeft er geen recepten van opgenomen." It is the third printed Dutch-language cookery book known and the first published in the Netherlands. It contains some 300 recipes for all sorts of food and drinks.

79 1991 Medicine Zacchia P

- Second half (vaguely) waterstained in upper outer corner (increasing towards the end); a few leaves restored in lower blank outer corner. Backcover browned and wrinkled; overlapping edges creased; lacks ties.

= Wellcome V, p.484.

79 1993 Meteorology Duyn N

- Two libr. stamps (1x cancel stamp) on title-p.; 2 bookplates on upper pastedown (i.a. of H. Boekenoogen). Fine, complete copy.

79 1994 Microscopy Baker H

79 1994 Microscopy Baker H

- Trifle yellowed/ foxed.

= Poggendorff I, p.91; Bierens de Haan 2163; DSB I, p.410ff: "(...) he is especially noted for his popularization of the use of the microscope and for his contribution to the study of chrystals. (...) The first edition of The microscope made easy appeared in 1742; it ran to five editions in Baker's lifetime and was translated into several foreign languages. (...) Henry Baker was in many respects a typical natural philosopher of the eighteenth century. His interest ranged widely, and his skills were equally various: he was by no means dedicated to one branch of study, nor did he do research in modern sense. Yet he deserved the title "a philosopher in little things"; and he had the rare gift of communicating his knowledge of, and above all his enthusiasm for, the microscope to others. (...) He regarded the microscope with reverence, as a means to the deeper appreciation of the wonders of God's world."