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104 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Wolverine. Plate 26. Hand-colored lithographed plate from the folio edition of Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds, Philadelphia: Bowen, 1843. Framed and matted. 28 x 22 inches. $2,000-4,000
105* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Blue Grosbeak, Fringilla Corulea. Plate CXXII, No. 25. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1838, on J. Whatman paper, watermark 1831. 37 3/4 x 25 inches. Property from the Collection of George W. Blossom III, Lake Forest, Illinois $2,000-4,000
106* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Canada Warbler, Sylvia Pardalina. Plate CIII, No. 21, 1829. With Connecticut Warbler, Sylvia Agilis. Plate CXXXVIII, No. 28, 1833. Engravings with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1838, on J. Whatman paper. Size of largest: 38 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of George W. Blossom III, Lake Forest, Illinois $2,000-4,000
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107* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Zenaida Dove, Columba Zenaida. Plate CLXII, No. 33. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1838, on J. Whatman paper, watermark 1833. 37 3/4 x 25 Property from the Collection of George W. Blossom III, Lake Forest, Illinois $4,000-6,000
108* (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Boat Tailed Grackle, Quiscalus Major. Plate CLXXXVII, No. 38. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1838, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper, watermark 1833. 39 x 26 inches. Property from the Collection of George W. Blossom III, Lake Forest, Illinois $4,000-6,000
109 (AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, after) HAVELL, ROBERT Bird of Washington, Falco washingtoniensis. Plate XI, No. 3. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring, circa 1830, on J. Whatman paper, watermark 1832. Variant 2 without the title on the rock. $3,000-5,000
110 ALPHERAKY, SERGIUS The Geese of Europe and Asia. London: Rowland Ward, 1905.
Folio, green cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g. First edition in English. With frontispiece and 24 chromolithograph plates by Dr. P. P. Shushkin. Light soiling to boards; spine ends and corners bumped; ex-library copy with stamp to front and rear pastedowns; ghosting from plates; otherwise fine. $200-400
111* BECK, LEWIS C. Botany of the Northern and Middle States. Albany : Printed by Webster and Skinners, 1833.
8vo, full contemporary calf. Rebound with brown tape; ex-library with call number to spine; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; card holder tipped to rear pastedown; dampstaining to upper half of some leaves; foxing. $100-200 112* (CORAL) ELLIS, JOHN Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon Zoophytes. London: Benjamin White and Son, 1786.
Folio, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered leather spine label. First edition of this important early monograph on corals, including many discovered on Cook’s voyages, with 63 engraved plates of different species. Boards detached and worn; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $800-1,200
113 CURTIS, WILLIAM Lectures on Botany. London: William Phillips, 1804.
2 vols. 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, portrait frontispiece in vol. 1. With 109 (of 119) engraved plates by F. Sansom. Boards rubbed at extremities; intermittent foxing; offsetting from plates; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns. $400-600
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114 DESMAREST, ANSELME-GAETAN Histoire naturelle des crustaces fossiles... Paris: F.-G. Levrault, 1822.
4to, full red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With 13 lithograph plates. Boards bumped and lightly soiled; joints cracked with some fraying to cloth; endpapers darkened; intermittent foxing; stamps to title page and versos of 12/13 plates, some affecting images; dampstaining to top edge of pp. 9-24 and bottom right corners and edges of plates; 2-inch repaired tears to pp. 2-3 “Trilobites.” $400-600
115 (DIDEROT, D. & J.) Suite du recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication. Geneva: Pellet, 1779.
Vol. 3 only. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. With 131 engraved plates, many fold-out. Boards scuffed and soiled; joints cracked; scattered brownspotting; chipping to edges of some leaves. $100-200 116 FREAR, MARY D. AND OLIN G. MCLEAN Flowers of Hawaii. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938.
4to, original turquoise linen with gilt-lettered label to upper board and giltlettered spine. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Olin G. McLean to Keith and Katherine Merrill. Illustrated throughout with colorful tipped in illustrations of the flowers of Hawaii. Foxing to some pages; some plates slightly detached. $200-400
117* GRANGER, WILLIAM The New Wonderful Museum and Extraordinary Magazines: Being a Complete Repository of All the Wonders, Curiosities, and Rarities of Nature and art... London: Printed by J. Haddon... for [Alex] Hogg, [1802]-1808.
6 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in gilt-stamped calf, red and green giltlettered spine labels, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins. Profusely illustrated with over 100 engraved plates, including frontispieces. Front board vol. VI detached and boards starting on vol. II; light edgewear; minor offsetting from some plates and some brownspotting; otherwise fine. Very rare in such condition. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $500-700
118* HOUGH, ROMEYN B. The American Woods, Exhibited by Actual Specimens. Lowville, NY: 1894-1917.
12 (of 13) parts. 8vo, text books and mounts loose as issued in blind-stamped folders and gilt-lettered calf slipcases with metal clasps. Mixed editions: Parts 1 and 11 (1910), 2 (1917), 3 (1900), 4-5 (1894), 6, (1895), 7 (1897), 8 (1899), 10 (1904), 12 (1911), 13 (1913). With 253 (of 325) mounts, each displays three specimens from a species of tree in transverse, radial and tangential sections. Part 1 lacking slipcase; some scuffing to slipcase spines; some samples cracked with chipping and portions missing from a few. Property from the Collection of John B. Van Orman, Grandville, Michigan $1,000-2,000
119 JONSTON, JOHN Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus; De Avibus; De Piscibus et Cetis; De Exanguibus Aquaticis; De Avibus; De Insectis; [and] De Serpentibus. Amsteldomai: Ioannem Iacobi Gil. Schipper, 1657.
6 works bound in one. Folio, contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With 245 (of 250) engraved plates and four engraved title pages. Some light dampstaining; a few small tears and first few and last few leaves curled slightly; lacking blank preliminaries. $3,000-5,000
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120 MARTYN, THOMAS Thirty-Eight Plates, with Explanations; Intended to Illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, and Particularly Adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, 1817.
8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, marbled edges. New edition, with 38 hand-colored plates. Boards rubbed; intermittent foxing; hinges starting; renewed endpapers. $200-400
121* SMITH, JAMES EDWARD, SIR Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
2 vols. 8vo, plain boards rebacked with archival tape. Call numbers to spines; boards detached from backstrips; some soiling to leaves; bookplates and library card holders tipped to pastedowns. Property from the Collection of the Galter Health Sciences Library, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois $100-200
122 MACGILLIVRAY, WILLIAM, editor The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences. Edinburgh, Glasgow: October, 1835 - August, 1838. [Issued with:] The Animal Kingdom. [By George L. C. F. D., Baron Cuvier].
Folio, quarter calf over cloth. With 75 (of 110) hand-colored engraved plates. Wear to boards; manuscript ex-libris to half-title; two plates with 4-inch tears and one text page torn across. $800-1,200 123 MARTINET, J[OHANNES] F[LORENTIUS] Katechismus der natuur. Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1782-1789.
4 vols. 8vo, contemporary half calf over pebbled boards, spines giltruled and lettered, spine label. Fifth expanded edition with 24 engraved plates, 11 of which are fold-out and two in color. In this work, written for the general public, Martinet sought to demonstrate the wonders of modern, post-Newtonian science, which he (an adherent of the so-called “physico-theological school”) believed did not conflict with traditional Christian beliefs. Wear to boards; joints cracked on some vols.; scattered brownspotting; previous owner’s manuscript notations to f.f.e.p. vol. 1. $100-200
124 SOWERBY, JOHN EDWARD English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. Edited by John T. Boswell Syme. Illustrated by John Edward Sowerby. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1902.
13 vols., including supplement. 4to, 3/4 red morocco over matching cloth, gilt-lined, gilt-lettered spines, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Third edition. With 1,937 engraved plates, nearly all hand-colored. Front board detached on four vols., with some loss to spine; text block and f.f.e.p. detached to vol. 1; boards rubbed with some loss at corners to most vols.; some foxing to preliminaries; otherwise plates are in very fine condition. $1,000-2,000
125* GALENUS, (CLAUDIUS) Opera ex nona Juntarum editione. Venice: Iunta, 1625.
2 vols., comprising parts 1 and 4 (of 13) only. Folio, rebound in decorative vellum with renewed endpapers, engraved title page and head-pieces. Some light wormholing; bookplate tipped in front pastedowns; soiling to vellum. Property from the Collection of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois $200-400
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126 GILBERT, WILLIAM Tractatus sive physiologia nove de magnete. Stettin: Gotzianis, 1774.
4to, stamped calf. Third edition, with engraved title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials, woodcuts in text and 11 (of 12) plates. Front board detached and worn; previous owner’s ex-libris stamp to title page; browning to some pages; one plate detached but laid in. $800-1,200
127 GRAVESANDE, WILLEM JACOB Elemens de physique demontrez mathematiquement, et confirmez par des experiences; ou, introduction a la philosophie Newtonienne. Leiden: Chez Jean Arn. Langerak, Jean et Herman Verbeek, 1746.
2 vols. Folio, contemporary worn red cloth over marbled boards, manuscript title labels to spines, uncut. First French edition. With engraved title page vignettes and 116 of 127 folding plates illustrating many of the new instruments employed by Gravesande and invented by his contemporary, Jan van Musschenbroek. Wear to boards with some loss; spine labels chipped; bookplates and manuscript exlibris to front pastedowns; a manuscript marginalia; some light toning; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000 128 HELMUTH, TOD A System of Surgery. New York: Carle & Grener, 1873.
8vo, rebound in black cloth-backed boards, giltlettered spine. First edition with 571 woodcut illustrations. One of the only books in the nineteenthcentury protected by a private copyright bill, passed by Congress in June of 1874. Light rubbing to boards at edges. $200-400
129 MATTIOLI, PIETRO ANDREA Les commentaires de M. P. Andre Matthiolus, medecin Senois, sur les six livres de pediacius dioscoride. Lyon: Claude Prost, 1655.
Folio, full mottled calf, gilt-decorated and lettered spine, leather spine label. Hinges reinforced; small burn hole to half title; previous owner’s manuscript notations to title; chipping to edges of some leaves. $600-800
130* (NEWTON, ISAAC) ALGAROTTI, FRANCESCO Sir Isaac Newton’s Theory of Light and Colours, and his Principle of Attraction, Made familiar to the Ladies in several Entertainments. Translated by Signor Algarotti. London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1742.
2 vols. 8vo, contemporary tree calf ruled in gilt, giltlettered red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Bookplate Harry Lancelot Lee tipped in front pastedown; some rubbing to boards; leather dry and flaking slightly. Property from the Collection of John Lebolt, President of Lebolt & Company, Chicago, Illinois $200-400
131* WATERSTON AND CUNNINGHAM Edinburgh University Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy. New York: Imperial Publishing, n.d. (c. 1905)
2 (of 5) vols. only. 8vo, contents loose as issued in red cloth-backed folding boxes. With 102 stereograms, each mounted on card with descriptive text. Soiling to slipcases; side flaps of slipcase detached from two sides, vol. III; light soiling to plates. Property from the Collection of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois $100-200
132 (SCIENCE) A group of three books pertaining to invention and science.
Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce with the Premiums offered in the Year 1799. Volume 16 only. Published by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. London: W. C. Spilsbury, 1799. First edition. The Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure July through December 1752. Volume 11 only. Edited by John Hinton. London, 1752. 8vo, contemporary leather boards. Memories of Old Friends: Being Extracts from the Journals and Letters of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick Cornwall from 1835 to 1871. Edited by Caroline Fox. London: Smith Elder, 1882. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo, untrimmed, publisher’s green cloth. $100-200
133* (MEDICINE) A group of 12 books, mainly nineteenth-century, pertaining to surgery.
Operative Surgery. By Warren Stone Bickham. Volume 7 only. Philadelphia, (1933). A Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery. By George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle. Philadelphia, 1903. The Dissector; or Practical and Surgical Anatomy. By Erasmus Wilson. Philadelphia, 1844. Clinical Lectures on Medicine and Surgery. By Various Authors. London, 1894. The Practice of Surgery. By James Miller. Philadelphia, 1846. Practical Surgery. By Robert Liston. Philadelphia, 1842. A System of Practical Surgery. By William Fergusson. Philadelphia, 1843. The Institutes and Practice of Surgery. By William Gibson. Philadelphia, 1838. Elements of Surgery: For the Use of Students. By John Syng Dorsey. Philadelphia, 1823. Volume 2 only. Third edition. A System of Surgery. By J. M. Chelius. Philadelphia, 1847. Vols. 1 and 2 (of 3) only. A System of Surgery. By William Tod Helmuth. Philadelphia, 1887. Fifth edition. (12) Property from the Collection of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois $100-200
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Comprising duplicate works from the Department of Special Collections authorized for deaccession.
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134* ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED Historia musculorum hominis. Leiden: Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium, 1734.
4to, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine. First edition of Albinus’ detailed descriptions of all of the muscles of the human body. With engraved title page vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and eight engraved plates, four of which are in outline, by Jan Wandelaar. Bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; typed library description tipped to f.f.e.p.; light soiling to vellum; library stamp to title page; intermittent foxing. $400-600
135* ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED Historia musculorum hominis. Leiden: Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium, 1734.
4to, full contemporary calf, marbled endpapers. First edition of Albinus’ detailed descriptions of all of the muscles of the human body. With engraved title page vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, and seven (of eight) engraved plates, four of which are in outline, by Jan Wandelaar. Light edgewear to boards; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; brown stain to plate three; lacking one plate; otherwise fine in nice contemporary binding. $200-400 136* ALGHISI, TOMMASO Litotomia ouvero del cavar la pietra. Florence: Giuseppe Manni, 1707.
Thin 4to, full vellum. First edition of Alghisi’s demonstration of techniques for the removal of stones through the bladder, with engraved title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces and 16 engraved plates of procedures and instruments. Bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; typed description tipped to f.f.e.p.; light intermittent foxing; some soiling to boards. $1,000-2,000
137* (ANESTHESIA) BARKER, GEORGE Instructions in the Preparation, Administration, and Properties of Nitrous Oxide, Protoxide of Nitrogen, or Laughing Gas. Philadelphia: Rubencame and Stockton, 1866.
Thin 8vo, original cloth stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. First edition, with seven wood engravings. Disbound with boards and spine detached; library stamp to title page; bookplate and library card holder tipped in pastedowns. $100-200 138* (ANESTHESIA) JACKSON, CHARLES THOMAS Report to the House of Representatives of the United States of America, Vindicating the Rights of Charles T. Jackson to the Discovery of the Anaesthetic Effects of Ether Vapor, and Disproving the Claims of W. T. G. Morton to that Discovery. Washington: Printed by the Authority of the Minority Committee, (1852).
57 pp. Thin 8vo, original wrappers pasted to boards, cloth-backed spine. First edition, first printing with “Congressional Report of Hon. Edward Stanly, of North Carolina, and Hon. Alexander Evans, of Maryland, on the Ether Discovery, Thirty- Second Congress, First Session, 1852,” to front board. Light dampstaining; library card holder to rear board; f.f.e.p. detached. $100-200
139* (ANESTHESIA) KEYS, THOMAS E. History of Surgical Anesthesia. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.
Together with: James McManus, Notes on the History of Anesthesia. Hartford: Clark & Smith, 1896. Laurence Turnbull, Advantages and Accidents of Artificial Anesthesia. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1878. Gaston Labat, Regional Anesthesia. Its Technic and Clinical Application. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders, 1922. 2 vols. Statements, Supported by Evidence, of Wm. T. G. Morton on his Claim to the Discovery of the Anaesthetic Properties of Ether. Washington, 1853. (6) $100-200
12mo, original cloth, publisher’s 4-page catalogue dated October 1, 1847, tipped in f.f.e.p. First edition. “This work contains Warren’s account of Morton’s first public demonstration of anesthetization.” (Howell, 327) Inscribed: “To President Everett with the Author’s best regards.” Bookplate Edward Everett to front pastedown and John C. Warren to first advertisement. Upper board detached and worn; library stamp to title page; f.f.e.p. starting; library call number to upper board. $600-800
141* ARCEO, FRANCISCO De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione. Amsterdam: Petri vanden Berge, 1658.
12mo, full vellum. With engraved title page featuring a dental operation with a midwife scene in the background, engraved title page vignette, tailpieces, and initials. Backstrip starting to detach; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; light dampstaining; soiling to vellum. $200-400 142* ASELLI, GASPARD De lactibus, sive lacteis venis, quarto vasorum masaraicorum genere. Leiden: Johannis Maire, 1640.
Thin 8vo, rebound in plain archival boards. Third edition, with four engraved plates and title page vignette. Leaves soiled; closed tear to title page; some plates trimmed slightly; bookplate and library card holder tipped into pastedowns; otherwise the interior is in good condition. $800-1,200
143* ASTRUC, JEAN De Morbis Venereis. Venice: Thomam Bettinelli, 1760. Together with 13 others. (14) $100-200
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147 144* BEAUMONT, WILLIAM Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice. Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833.
8vo, plain boards. With three in-text wood engravings. Boards worn and detached along with f.f.e.p.; dampstained; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. Together with another copy of the same. $100-200
145* BELL, BENJAMIN Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers. Edinburgh: Charles Elliot, 1787.
8vo, contemporary calf. Fourth edition. Together with System of Surgery. Vol. 3 only. Edinburgh: Charles Elliott, 1785-88. $100-200
146* BELL, CHARLES, SIR Engravings of the Arteries. London: Longman and Rees, 1801.
Thin 4to, plain boards. With 10 engraved plates in colors. Boards and spine detached and worn; library stamp to title page. $100-200
147* BARTHOLIN, THOMAS Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria I et II. The Hague: Adriani Vlacq, 1654.
12mo, full calf, gilt tooling to spine, marbled edges and endpapers. With engraved title page, portrait, nine copper engraved plates and in-text engravings. Centuries I and II only (of six) but complete in itself. Spine label detached; edgewear to boards; bookplate and library card holder to pastedowns; some plates closely trimmed. $200-400
148* BROWNE, THOMAS, SIR Pseudodoxia epidemica; or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenets, and Commonly Presumed Truths ... Whereunto are now added Two Discourses The one of Urn-Burial ... The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or Network Plantations of the Ancients. London: Edward Dod, 1669.
4to, contemporary calf rebacked, renewed endpapers. Fifth edition, with engraved frontispiece portrait, head- and tail-pieces, and two engraved plates. Wear to boards and spine; front board starting; library sticker to spine; a few tears; portrait trimmed slightly; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $200-400
149* (BRUNET, JACQUES CHARLES) Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres, contenant. Berlin: Fraenkel, 1921. 6 vols.
Together with: Walter Arthur Copinger, Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum. London: H. Sotheran, 1926. 2 vols. in one. Jacques Charles Brunet, Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres, supplement. Paris: Firmin Didot, n.d. Ludwig Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum, in quo libri. Stuttgartiae: J. G. Cotta, 1925. (10) $100-200
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150* CAVALLO, TIBERIUS Complete Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice. London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1786.
2 vols. 8vo, both in contemporary calf. Third edition, with five engraved fold-out plates. Inner hinge reinforced vol. 1; boards detached vol. 2; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $200-400
151* CHARLETON, WALTER Oeconomia animalis. London: R. Daniel & J. Redman, [Amsterdam, L. & D. Elzevir], 1659.
12mo, full calf, spine rebacked. First edition with intext engravings. Bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; library stamp to half-title; manuscript ex-libris to verso title page; hinges starting; some loss to spine. $100-200
152* DALBY, JOSEPH The Virtues of Cinnabar and Musk against the Bite of a Mad Dog. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1764.
4to, rebound in 3/4 blue calf, gilt-lettered spine, renewed endpaper. First edition of one of only two medical works published by Baskerville. Second state of the title page, dated 1764 (first state incorrectly dated 1762). Some underlining; pages toned; a few tape repairs; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $300-500 153* (DENTISTRY, AMERICAN) HARBERT, SAMUEL Practical Treatise on the Operations of Surgical and Medical Dentistry. Philadelphia: Barrett & Jones, 1847.
8vo, original cloth. First edition of this important early American imprint on dentistry, with four engraved plates. Spine rebacked; fading to boards. Together with A Treatise on the Use of Foil. By Robert Arthur. Philadelphia: Jones, White & McCurdy, 1857. Practical and Mechanical Dentistry. By Joseph Richardson. Second edition. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1869. And 13 other works pertaining to American dentistry. (16) $100-200
154* (DENTISTRY, FRENCH) DIONIS, PIERRE Course of Chirurgical Operations Demonstrated in the Royal Garden at Paris. London: Printed for J. Tonson, et al., 1733.
8vo, rebound in 3/4 green morocco over matching boards. Second edition, with 10 full-page engravings and 52 in-text woodcuts of surgical instruments. Hinges cracked; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; renewed endpapers; some pages dampstained; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. and title page; library stamp to title page. $200-400 155* (DENTISTRY, FRENCH) MAGITOT, E. Traite de la carie dentaire. Paris: J. B. Bailliere et Fils, 1872.
4to, rebound in recent cloth, original wrappers bound in. Together with Etudes sur la chirurgie dentaire. By Paul Simon. (Paris): a la librairie du Petit Journal, 1867. La dentiste du foyer conseils aux meres de famille sur les deux dentitions. By Gilbert-Duchesne. Saint Etienne: Ve. Theolier Aine, 1865. And 15 other works pertaining to French dentistry. (18) $100-200
156* (DENTISTRY) GARIOT, JEAN BAPTISTE Traite des maladies de la bouche. Paris: DupratDuverger, 1805.
8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, with half-title, engraved frontispiece and 13 engraved plates. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown; rubbing to boards; manuscript notation to title page. $200-400
157* (DENTISTRY) HEIDER, M. Atlas zue pathologie der Zahne [Atlas of the Pathology of the Teeth]. Leipzig: Arthur Felix, 1869.
4 parts in one. Atlas, maroon cloth, original wraps for each part bound in. Complete with 16 lithographed plates, some in color. Top portion of spine detached; some toning to pages; a few small tears; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; spine reinforced. $200-400
162 158* (DENTISTRY) HUNTER, JOHN The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining Their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth and Diseases. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1771.
4to, recent library buckram. First edition, with 16 copper engraved plates. Rebound; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; intermittent foxing and some brownspotting to plates; otherwise interior is in very good condition. $1,000-2,000
159* (DENTISTRY) MILLER, WILLIAM DAYTON Micro-Organisms of the Human Mouth. Philadelphia: White Dental, 1890.
8vo, in recent blue library buckram, renewed endpapers. With three plates (one chromolithograph, two reproducing photomicrographs). Plates 1 and 2 defective and laid down; a few tears to pages; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. $100-200
160* (DENTISTRY) RUSSELL, RICHARD De tabe glandulari. Oxoniae, 1750. Together with seven others. (8) $100-200
161* DIONIS, PIERRE L’Anatomie de l’homme. Paris: Laurent d’Houry, 1698.
8vo, full calf, gilt-tooling to spine. Third edition. With extra-engraved title page featuring the Amphitheatres des Ecoles, engraved portrait and 21 engraved plates. Fold-out dentistry plate torn; some very light edgewear to boards and wear to spine ends; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; library card holder to rear pastedown. $100-200
162* DIOSCORIDES, (P.) De medica materia libri vi Marcello Vergilio interprete... Venice: Ex Officina D. Bernardini, 1538 [1537]
16mo, full contemporary vellum. Uncommon pocket edition of this classical work on medicine and pharmacology with a large section pertaining to wine. Woodcut device to title page repeated on subtitle (A1r). Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; ex-library stamp to verso title page; vellum soiled and backstrip starting; library slip rear free endpaper. $400-600
163* EUSTACHIUS, BARTOLOMMEO Opuscula anatomica: de renum structura, officio, utilitate et administratione. De auditus organis. Ossium examen. De capitis motu. De vena ... et de Dentibus. Delphis: Adrianum Beman, 1726.
3 parts in one. 8vo, full blind-stamped contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, each part with separate title page. With 10 engraved plates, two of which are fold-out, and laid in contemporary engraved ruler. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; light soiling to boards; sticker to spine. $300-500
164* FOOT, JESSE Essay on the Bite of a Mad Dog; with observation on John Hunter’s treatment of the case of Master R _. And also a recital of the successful treatment of two cases. London: Printed for T. Becket, et al., 1788.
86pp. Thin 8vo, rebound in linen-backed boards, renewed endpapers, manuscript title to upper board. First edition of this important series of case studies. Title page soiled; ex-library stamp to title and dedication; intermittent foxing; bookplate and library card holder to pastedowns. $100-200
165* FRANK, JOHANN PETER De curandis hominum morbis. Mannhem: Apud C. F. Schwan et C. G. Goetz, 1792-1793.
5 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, red gilt-lettered spine labels. Light rubbing to boards; some brownspotting; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $100-200 166* FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN Experiments and Observations on Electricity. London: Printed for David Henry, 1769.
[2], iv, [2] 496 [i.e. 508], [16]. 4to, contemporary calf. First complete edition of “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America.” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 199), in which Franklin proved that lightening is electrical. Advertisement and errata leaf inserted following title. Illustrated with seven copper-engraved plates, three of which are fold-out. Boards detached but present with edgewear; pen mark to p. 73; pages toned with brownspotting throughout; some pages with faint creases; chipping to top edge of first fold-out plate; manuscript marginalia to p. 349; 1-inch tear to p. 387/388; front and rear blanks detached and rear blank with tape repair; last 4 pp. of index detached with rear blank; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and library card holder to rear pastedown. $2,000-4,000
167* FREIND, JOHN History of Physick: From the Time of Galen, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1725.
2 vols. 8vo, bound in matching 2/3 green morocco over cloth. Second edition. Front board vol. 1 detached with first few pp.; rubbing to boards; hinges tender; bookplates and library card holders tipped to pastedowns. Together with Emmenologia. London: Printed for T. Cox, 1729. First English edition. $200-400
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168* FULLER, FRANCIS Medicina gymnastica. London: Printed (by John Matthews) for Robert Knaplock, 1705.
8vo, contemporary blind-stamped calf. Second edition. Hinges starting; f.f.e.p. detached; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $100-200
169* FYFE, ANDREW Compendium of the Anatomy of the Human Body. Edinburgh: J. Pillans & Sons, 1800.
3 vols. Folio, quarter calf over marbled boards. First edition, with 168 (of 171) plates, many in color and tinted. Boards and preliminaries detached on all vols.; spines worn and starting to detached from backstrip; intermittent foxing and browning to plates; a few tears. $200-400 170* GRAAF, REGNIER DE De virorum organis generationi inservientibus. Leiden and Rotterdam: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1668.
12mo, full vellum, manuscript title to spine. First edition, with engraved title page and 11 fold-out engraved plates. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; library card holder to rear pastedown; ex-library stamp to f.f.e.p., title page and rear endpaper. $400-600
171* GRAAF, REGNIER DE De virorum organis generationi inservientibus. Leiden and Rotterdam: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1668.
12mo, contemporary calf. First edition, with engraved title page, portrait and ten (of 11) fold-out engraved plates. Bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; library stamp to endpapers; wear to edges of some pages; 1 plate only partially extant; tears to all plates; light rubbing to boards. $200-400
172* (GYNECOLOGY) DEVENTER, HENDRIK VAN Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens. Paris: Chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1734.
2 parts in one. 4to, full contemporary calf. Second edition, with 40 figures on 37 plates, illustrating all of the different position a fetus could be in prior to birth; abnormal and deformed pelvises and their affect on the course of labor; second part illustrating the hand movements of a midwife to shift the fetus. Lacking front blanks; 4-inch tear to plate 4; blue marks to p. 360; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; rubbing to boards. $400-600
173* (GYNECOLOGY) A group of 16 volumes pertaining to gynecological studies and midwifery, including Treatise on the Diseases of Females. By Wm. P. Dewees. Philadelphia, 1826; Essay on Laborious Parturition. By William Osborn. London: T. Cadell, 1783 and 14 volumes of the series Gynecological and Obstetrical Monographs, New York and London, c. 1920. $200-400 174* HARVEY, WILLIAM Anatomical Exercitations, Concerning the Generation of Living Creatures. London: Printed by James Young, 1653.
12mo, contemporary calf, housed in custom cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered leather spine label. First edition in English. Front board and spine detached; boards worn; manuscript ex-libris to title page; lacking first blank; bookplate and library card holder to pastedowns; lacking pp. 467-482, 487-492 (11 pp. total) and errata. $400-600
175* HARVEY, WILLIAM Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Ed. novissima a mendis repurgata. Amsterdam: Joannem Ravesteyn, 1662.
16mo, full calf. Sixth edition. With allegorical engraved title page of Zeus surrounded by worldly creatures. Spine rebacked with modern calf; hinges cracked; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; renewed endpapers; library card holder to rear pastedown; previous owner’s manuscript notations to f.f.e.p. $200-400
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176* HUNTER, JOHN A Treatise on the Venereal Disease. London: s.p., 1786.
4to, 3/4 morocco over cloth, decorative endpapers. First edition, with seven engraved plates. Intermittent foxing and toning to pages; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; hinges reinforced; library stamp to dedication; brown stains to 272-273; staining to plates. $600-800
177* HUNTER, JOHN Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al., 1786.
4to, plain boards. First edition, with 18 engraved plates. Boards worn, detached, spine detached; intermittent foxing; some pages detached or starting; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. Together with The Works. Atlas of plates only. London, 1837. Library cloth. With frontispiece portrait and 60 engraved plates; The Natural History of Human Teeth. London, 1803. Third edition. With 16 engraved plates; A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds. Philadelphia, 1817. With eight engraved plates. $600-800 178* HUTCHINSON, BENJAMIN Biographia medica. London: J. Johnson, 1799. 2 vols. First edition. Together with 16 others. (18) $100-200
179* LE CLERC, DANIEL History of Physick; or, An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Art, and the Several Discoveries therein from Age to Age. London: Printed for D. Brown, 1699.
8vo, full calf, renewed endpapers. First edition in English, with three folding engraved portraits. Two of three portraits torn; toning to pages; chipping to edges of some pages; front board detached and rear starting; spine cracked; portion of front board torn. $100-200
180* LE FEVRE, NICOLAS Compleat Body of Chymistry. London: Printed for O. Pulleyn, Junior, 1670.
2 parts in one. 4to, full contemporary calf, marbled edges. First edition in English, with six engraved folding plates (including one table of chemical characters), and two full-page in-text engravings. Boards worn with hinges starting and spine split; f.f.e.p. and pp. 25-30 (Part II) detached; a few scattered brown stains, including to title page; manuscript ex-libris to title page; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $500-700
181* LIND, JAMES An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy. London: D. Wilson, 1762.
8vo, housed in archival slip. Second edition. Lind was the first to discover the effects of citrus as a cure for scurvy. Lacking boards; first and last few pages starting; ex-library stamp to dedication. $400-600
182* MARTINEZ, MARTIN Anatomia completa del hombre con todos los hallazgos, nuevas doctrinas y observaciones...para la Cirurgia. Madrid: Por los Herederos de Don Miguel Francisco Rodriguez, 1752.
Small 4to, full mottled tree calf, gilt-lettered spine label, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece by F. Mathias Irala of an anatomy class, engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, portrait, and 23 engraved plates. Small tears to a few plates; last leaf defective; intermittent dampstaining. $300-500 183* MEAD, RICHARD A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays. London: Printed by J. R. for Ralph south, 1702.
8vo, full calf. First edition, with fold-out engraved plate. Boards detached; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; library stamp to dedication; toning and light dampstaining. $100-200 184* MORGAGNI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA Adversaria anatomica omnia. Padua: Josephus Cominus, 1717-1719.
6 parts in one, each part with individual title page and colophon. [2], xxvii, (8), 54, [2], (6), 104, (4), 116, (16), 92, (8), 124, (8) 138, (2), [2]. 4to, full contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine, half-title, 1-page publisher’s advertisement at end. Third edition of part 1; first editions of parts 2-6. With engraved head- and tail-pieces, title page vignettes, initials and 11 engraved plates. Soiling to boards; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; ex-library stamp to endpapers; clipped typed description tipped to verso half-title; ex-libris initials to title page flanking vignette; light dampstaining; intermittent foxing. $600-800
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185* MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM De arthritide symptomatica dissertatio. Exoniae: Typis Farleianis, 1703.
8vo, full blind-stamped calf, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Manuscript ex-libris to title page and f.f.e.p.; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and library card holder to rear pastedown; front inner hinge reinforced with tape; some light soiling and wormholing to pages; light dampstain along top edge. $200-400
186* NUCK, ANTON Sialographia. Leiden: Samuelem Lucthmans, 1723.
2 vols. 12mo, full contemporary mottled calf, gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers. Third edition of Nuck’s study of the use of x-ray to study salivary glands, with two additional engraved title pages and 18 folding engraved plates. Rubbing to boards with some loss to spines; bookplates and library card holders tipped to pastedowns; some intermittent soiling and spotting; library stamps. $100-200
187* (ONCOLOGY) EHRLICH, PAUL Die experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1910.
8vo, maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition describing the discovery of Salvarsan, which marked the beginning of chemotherapy. (Norman 686). With five photo plates and three printed tables. Lacks two advertising leaves; ex-library stamp to title page; dampstaining; f.f.e.p. detached. $200-400 188* (ONCOLOGY) PETIT, JEAN-LOUIS Treatise of the Diseases of the Bones. London: T. Woodward, 1726.
8vo, full calf, pastedown presentation label to upper board from the Brighton and Sussex MedicoChirurgical Society. First English edition, with numerous woodcut illustrations in-text throughout of dressings, instruments and machines. Bookplate and typed “regulation of the library” to the front endpapers; library card holder to rear pastedown; portion of front endpaper cut; very faint ex-library stamps to title page; some browning to leaves; hinges cracked. $600-800
189* (OPTOMETRY) KRONFELD, PETER CLEMENS Human Eye in Anatomical Transparencies. Rochester, N.Y.: Bausch & Lomb Press, (1943). 2 vols. Together with 12 others. (14) $100-200
190* (OSTEOLOGY) BELL, JOHN Engravings Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints. Edinburgh: John Paterson, 1794.
4to, plain wraps, manuscript title to upper cover. First edition, with 30 (of 32) engraved plates and two engraved in-text vignettes. Executed by Bell himself, the drawings, especially of the muscles, represent a more realistic, if not morbid, style of anatomical illustration, with severed heads and flayed figures set upon operating tables and hung on hooks. Manuscript presentation inscription from previous owner to title page; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; some light soiling to leaves. $800-1,200
191* (OSTEOLOGY) KIRKLAND, THOMAS Observations Upon Mr. Pott’s General Remarks on Fractures. London: Printed for T. Becket, 1770.
Together with five others pertaining to orthopaedic medicine: August G. Richter, Medicinische und chirurgische, 1793-1813. William Falconer, An Account of the Efficacy of the Aqua, 1789. Edward Ford, Observations on the Disease of the Hip Joint, 1794. P.J. Desault, Treatise on Fractures, Luxations and Other Affectations of the Bones, 1805. (7) $100-200
192* (OSTEOLOGY) MULLER, GOTTFRIED WILHELM XXIV Kupfer-Tafeln, welche die Knochen des ganzen menschlichen Korpers vorstellen. Frankfurt am Mayn: Franz Varrentrapp, 1749. [bound with:] XII Kupfertafeln, welche die meisten kleinern und zarten Mauslein an dem menschlichen Korper vorstellen. Frankfurt und Leipzig: Johann Bernhard Eichenberg, 1755.
2 works in one. 4to, rebound in decorative boards, renewed endpapers. 36 engraved plates (24 to first work; 12 to second work). Manuscript ex-libris to title page; ex-library stamp to dedication; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedown; rubbing to boards; some curling to fore edge and creases to some plates and pages; minor soiling to interior. $200-400
193* PARE, AMBROISE Oeuvres completes d’Ambroise Pare. Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1840.
3 vols. 4to, bound in recent library buckram, gilt titles and call numbers to spines, renewed endpapers, original printed wraps bound in. Bookplate and library card holder tipped in to pastedowns; toning to wraps with some soiling and wear to edges of pages; a few small tears. $100-200 194* PASTEUR, LOUIS Etudes sur la maladie des vers a soie. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1870.
2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 black calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. First edition, illustrated throughout with numerous plates, many in color, and illustrations in-text. First few pp. vol. 1 detached; ink stain to fore edge vol. 1; hinges starting on both vols. and wear to boards; library stamp to dedication both vols.; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $300-500
195* PERCIVAL, THOMAS A group of four volumes, comprising Essays Medical and Experimental. London, 1772; another edition of the same dated 1772; Philosophical, Medical, and Experimental Essays. London, 1776; Moral and Literary Dissertations. Warrington, 1784. All 8vo, contemporary full calf, boards detached and worn. $100-200
196* (PERCUSSION) AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD Experimentum nascens de remedio specifico sub signo specifico in mania virorum. Vienna: Kurzbok, 1776.
8vo, contemporary calf. First edition containing case studies reporting on the diagnostic value of chest percussion, with engraved title page vignette and head-pieces. Portion of calf detached; hinges cracked; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. Together with two other works on chest percussion, comprising, Systema chirurgiae hodiernae. By Henrich Calliesen. Hafniae: F. Brummer, 1815. Diathermy. By Stafford Lennox Osborne. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1950. First edition. $100-200 197* (PSYCHOLOGY ) HASLAM, JOHN Observations on Madness and Melancholy. London: Printed for J. Callow, 1809. Second edition. Together with seven others: (8) $100-200
198* (PSYCHOLOGY) TUKE, SAMUEL Description of the Retreat, an Institute Near York, for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends. York: Printed for W. Alexander, et al., 1813.
8vo, plain boards. First edition, with doublepage frontispiece engraving of “The Retreat” and two engraved plans. Boards detached and worn; offsetting from plate; contents largely disbound; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. and title page; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $400-600
199* (PSYCHOLOGY) WHYTE, ROBERT Observations on the Nature, Causes and Cure of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous, Hypochondriac, or Hysteric. Edinburgh: Printed for T. Becket, et al., 1765.
8vo, full calf, gilt-lettered spine label. Second edition. Hinges rubbed and starting; wear to spine ends and edges; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; library card holder rear pastedown; library stamp to margins of title page. $100-200
200* REDI, FRANCESCO Opusculorum pars prior, sive experimenta circa generationem insectorum ad illustrem virum Carolum Dati. Accedit J. Frid Lachmund de Ave Diomeda Dissertatio. Amsterdam: Henricum Wetstenium, 1686.
2 parts in one. 12mo, full calf, gilt tooling to spine. With engraved title page and 45 engraved plates of insects and birds, many folding. Wear to ends of spine; lacking f.f.e.p.; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; library card holder to rear pastedown. $400-600 201* RIOLAN, JEAN Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum. Lugduni Batavorum: Adriani Wyngaerden, 1649.
12mo, full contemporary leather, manuscript title to spine. With extra-engraved title page featuring an anatomy class, title page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and 24 fold-out engraved plates. Some separation at gutter of rear pages and plates; foxing to upper margin of some plates; light wear and soiling to boards; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. Literature: Brunet, IV, 1312 $800-1,200
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202* RORARIO, NICCOLO Contradictiones, dubia, et paradoxa, in libros Hippocratis, Celsi, Galeni, Aetii, Aeginetae, Avicennae. Venice: Franciscum, Gasparem Bindonum & Fratres, 1572.
12mo, quarter vellum over marbled boards, manuscript title to spine, woodcut printer’s device to title page and end. Manuscript ex-libris to title page; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; last few pages dampstained; light wormholing to first few pages. $200-400
203* (SURGERY) DELAROCHE, DANIEL Recueil des planches du dictionnaire de chirurgie. Paris: Chez H. Agasse, An VII de la Republique (1798-1799).
4to, quarter morocco, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers. With 112 (of 113) engraved plates on 111 sheets illustrating surgical instruments and procedures. Ex-library stamp to title page and final plate; light intermittent foxing; rubbing to boards; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and library card holder to rear pastedown.
Together with Recherches sur la nature et le traitement de la fievre puerperale... Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1783. 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, engraved head-piece. Exlibrary stamp to title page; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; library card holder to rear pastedown; some light rubbing to boards. $400-600
204* (SURGERY) GARENGEOT, (R. J. C. de) Abhandlung von denen nutzlichsten und gebrauchlichsten Instrumenten der Chirurgie. Berlin und Potsdam: Joh. Andr. Rudiger, 1792.
2 parts in one. 12mo, rebound in recent blue cloth with gilt titles and call-number to spine, renewed endpapers. First German edition, with 60 engraved plates of surgical (including dental) instruments. Some light toning to pages; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p.; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and library card slip holder to rear pastedown; no title page to part 2; otherwise interior is in fine condition. $800-1,200
205* (SURGERY) HEISTER, LORENZ General System of Surgery. London: Printed for W. Innys, et al., 1748.
2 parts in one. Folio, contemporary calf, renewed endpapers. With 38 engraved folding plates. Text block split in multiple sections; front board detached and rear starting; boards and spine worn; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; a few preliminary pages starting to detach; light manuscript marginalia. $200-400
206* (SURGERY) TRIOEN, CORNELIUS Observationum medico chirurgicarum fasciculus. Leiden: Petrum van der Eyk et Jacobum van der Kluis, 1743.
4to, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine, title in red and black, woodcut title page vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces. Latin edition of a larger collection of medical case studies published by Trioen, with 13 engraved plates by J. van der Spyk after F. van Mieris, some folding. Bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; library stamp to half-title; some light intermittent foxing; minor rubbing to boards. $200-400
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207* (SURGERY) WISEMAN, RICHARD Eight Chrirugical Treatises on These Following Heads... London: Printed for B. T. and L. M. and Sold by W. Keplewhite and J. Jones, 1697.
Folio, contemporary calf. The chief work of the celebrated British surgeon, Richard Wiseman, first published in 1676 and reprinted numerous times, which includes a treatise on gunshot wounds based on his practice in battlefields and hundreds of case studies of individual patients in the field of anatomy, diagnosis, and surgery. Boards worn and detached; first five leaves detached; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; library stamp to dedication; light dampstaining; text block split in two parts. $100-200
208* (SURGERY) COLBATCH, JOHN, SIR Four Treatises of Physick and Chirurgery. London: Printed by J. D. for Daniel Brown, 1698. Together with 12 others. (13) $100-200 209* SWAMMERDAM, JAN Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus, de respiratione usuque pulmonum. Leiden: Danielem, Abraham & Adrian a Gaasbeeck, 1667.
Thin 12mo, full vellum, manuscript marginalia to title page. First edition of Swammerdam’s medical thesis setting forth his mechanical theory of respiration, with additional engraved title by G.W. and seven woodcut illustrations in-text. “In it he recorded his discovery that the lungs of newborn infants will float on water if respiration has taken place, an important medico-legal point.” (Garrison-Morton, 1724) Some light dampstaining along bottom edge; chipping to edges of some pages with some loss to engraved title page; ex-library stamp to f.f.e.p; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $600-800
210* TEN RHIJNE, WILLEM Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica, de acupunctural et orationes tres, I. de chymiae ac botaniae antiquitate & dignitate: II. de physiognomia: III. de monstris. London: R. Chiswell, 1683.
12mo, rebound in 3/4 calf over cloth, gilt-lined, giltlettered red leather spine label, renewed endpapers. First edition of Ten Rhijne’s treatise, which provided the western world with its first detailed description of Japanese and Chinese medicine. With four (of six) engraved plates and portrait frontispiece. Hinges cracked; plate 2 bound in; library stamp to f.f.e.p.; light soiling, concentrated at preliminaries; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns. $1,000-2,000 211* (UROLOGY) CHOPART, FRANCOIS Traite des maladies des voies urinaires. Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1792.
Together with Everard Home, Practical Observation on the Treatment of Strictures in the Urethra, and in the Oesophagus. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1797. Second edition. Walter Weldon, Observations on the Different Modes of Puncturing the Bladder. Southampton: s.n., 1793. William Henry Judd, Practical Treatise on Urethritis and Syphilis... London: Highley, 1836. (4) $100-200
212* (UROLOGY) DARAN, JACQUES Observations chirurgicales sur les maladies de l’urethre. Paris: Chez Debure l’Aine, 1748.
12mo, full contemporary mottled calf, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., with upper and lower boards stamped with the motto “Urbi et Orbi Salus” and three swans, possibly indicating the Medical Faculty of the University of Paris. Spine rebacked; bookplate tipped in front pastedown and typed description to f.f.e.p.; library card holder to rear pastedown; repaired tears to first two pages. $200-400
213* WARNER, FERDINANDO Full and Plain Account of the Gout. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1768.
8vo, quarter morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, marbled endpapers. Second edition. Boards rubbed; bookplates tipped in front pastedown. Together with another copy of the same. $100-200
214* WINSLOW, JACQUES BENINGUS An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. Translated from the French by G. Douglas. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, et al., 1734.
2 vols. in one. 4to, full contemporary calf, title pages in red and black. Reissue of the 1733 edition with a cancel title page to vol. 1 dated 1734. With four foldout engraved plates. Ex-library stamp to title page; manuscript ex-libris clipped from f.f.e.p.; bookplate and library card holder tipped to pastedowns; boards detached and worn; some offsetting from plates. $200-400 215* (MEDICINE, AMERICAN) RUSH, BENJAMIN The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1948. Together with 22 others. (23) $200-400
216* (MEDICINE, FRENCH) LEVRET, A. (ANDRE) L’Art des accouchemens. Paris: P. F. Didot le jeune, 1766. Third edition. Five folding plates, engraved frontispiece.
Together with six others. Association francaise pour l’etude du cancer, Atlas du cancer, 1922. Maurice Chiray, Confrontations radio-anatomo-cliniques, 1947. 2 vols. G.-B. Duchenne, Physiologie des mouvements, 1949. F. J. V. Broussais, Histoire des phlegmasies ou inflammations chroniques, 1816. 2 vols. $100-200
217* (MEDICINE, GERMAN) A group of eight books. $100-200 218* (MEDICAL) A collection of 16 medical books, including Michel le Long, Le regime de sante de l’escole de Salerne. Paris: Nicolas et Jean de la Coste, 1649. Fourth edition. Peter Shaw, The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. London: W. Innys and R. Manby, 1738. 3 vols.; The Diseases of the Ear. By Joseph Toynbee. London: John Churchill, 1860. First edition. $400-600
218A* (MEDICAL) A group of 21 medical books. $100-200
218B* (MEDICAL) A group of 17 medical books. $100-200
