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ADAMS, William. Club-Foot: its causes, pathology, and treatment. Being the essay to which the Jacksonian Prize for 1864, given by the Royal College of Surgeons, was awarded. Second edition. London: J. & A. Churchill,... 1873. 8vo, pp. xviii, 1 leaf, pp. 464, and 6 lithographed plates (1 coloured) by Adams, D’Alton and G.H. Ford with 6 leaves of explanation. Half-title, 105 figures in the text. Original red-brown cloth, bookplate. Spine rubbed and with traces of a small label removed, covers with a dark stain near the fore-edge, internally a fine and tight copy.

£250

Second edition, enlarged from the first published in 1866. This work includes an extension to his classic book On the Reparative Process in Human Tendons (1860). See Keith, Menders of the maimed, pp. 73–74: “His descriptions of the conditions of the parts to be seen in the dissections of deformed feet are still the best to be found in our libraries.” Adams was the most important orthopaedic surgeon who worked with, and followed after, Little.

[AEROSTATION.] Notice Aërostatique, ou continuation de la dix-huitième suite de la Notice de l’Almanach Sous-Verre des Associés, rue Saint Jacques, a Paris, pour l’année ...[1785]: concernant les descouvertes, inventions... &c. &c. [No place or printer; Paris, 1785?] 4to, 10 leaves, and engraved frontispiece (dated 1786) of the Montgolfier balloon which was used by Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes for the first manned flight in 1783. Text printed in double columns numbered [321]–360, drop-head title. Old marbled wrappers, contained in a fine quality chemise of marbled boards with a calf spine lettered in gilt and matching slipcase. In fine condition.

£700

FIRST EDITION. This supplementary issue of the Notices des Almanacs Sous-Verre contains an account of the inventions and experiments with hot-air balloons of the Montgolfier brothers and their immediate followers. It gives technical details of the Montgolfier balloons, materials used, information on the people involved in their construction, etc. All the balloon flights from 1783 to 1785 are briefly described, and there is also a list of 41 names of “hardis navigateurs aériens, qui, les premiers, ont osé se laisser enlever par la Machine Aérostatique.” All this information and much more is presented in 188 numbered paragraphs and at the end there is an index of names. Not in Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique. Maggs Cat. 387, no. 230. Not in the Bibliothèque nationale or CCfr.

Item 2, Aerostation.

AIKIN, John. Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain from the revival of literature to the time of Harvey. London: Printed for Joseph Johnson,... 1780. 8vo, pp. xi, (i), 338, (11), 1 leaf (adverts). Contemporary panelled calf with floral patterns in panels, spine gilt in compartments (but the gilt a little rubbed), spine and tips of corners very neatly repaired, marbled endpapers, old bookseller’s slip on rear pastedown. Signature of Eliza A. Shirley, Islington 1848, on front binder’s leaf.

£600

FIRST EDITION. G&M 6705: “The first collection of British medical biographies.”

ALPINI, Prosper. The Presages of Life and Death in Diseases. In seven books. In which the whole Hippocratic method of predicting the various terminations and events of diseases, is in a new and accurate manner illustrated and confirm’d... Translated from the last Leyden edition, revised and published by Gaubius, at the request of Dr. Boerhaave, by R. James, M.D. London: Printed for G. Strahan and J. Clarke... S. Birt...D. Browne...and J. Hodges... 1746. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xi, (xxiv), 386; (iv), (xxxii), 359, 2 leaves. Fore-edge of first title-page damaged and professionally restored without loss, margins of first and last leaves slightly browned. Good modern half calf antique, spines ruled in gilt, red and green morocco labels. Signature of James Lumsden Shireff at tops of titles; bookplate of St. Augustine College, Canterbury on versos of preliminary leaves; single withdrawn stamp of the Wellcome Library.

£550

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic work on prognosis. See G&M 2194 (first edition of 1601). Alpinus classifies the morbid phenomena into genera and discusses their prognostic value. The last two leaves of volume 2 in this copy are not present in the Wellcome copy, nor are they in the only copy in COPAC which gives a collation. They are a 2-page index to the second volume, but as the volume has a 32-page index at the beginning, these two leaves were probably intended to be cancelled and are therefore a rare survival.

BAILEY, William. The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; or, descriptions of the useful machines and models contained in the repository of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: illustrated by designs on fifty-five copper-plates. Together with an account of the improvements promoted by the Society, in agriculture, manufactures, mechanics, chemistry, and the polite arts; also in the British colonies in America. London: Printed by William Adlard, printer to the Society... 1772. 4to, pp. viii, (ix), x–xxxii, 400, and 55 folding engraved plates of machinery. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands and gilt rules, red morocco label (head of spine chipped, joints just cracking but perfectly strong). A subscriber’s copy, with the signature of Thomas Broadley at top of title; stamp of Rothamsted Experimental Station on front endpaper.

£3500

FIRST EDITION of the first original English atlas of machinery and mechanical devices. The plates are from drawings by William Bailey and his son, Alexander Mabyn Bailey. The first group of plates are concerned with various branches of agriculture, that being by far the largest industry in Britain at the time. The remaining plates are concerned with manufactures, and reflect Britain’s rise as the pre-eminent manufacturing nation. They include the stocking-frame, looms, cranes, a sawmill, a hole-borer, and many others. The whole project was overseen by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (today the Royal Society of Arts). The Society was established in 1754 and was concerned with technology and manufactures in a way that the Royal Society was not. It awarded medals and financial premiums for outstanding designs. Apart from the brief annual abstracts of the premiums offered, this book is the first treatise on the technology with which it was concerned continued... 2

and the first original English work of its kind. This first edition was reissued as a new edition in folio in 1776, which was enlarged with a second volume in 1779.

Arkwright Family Copy BAINES, Edward. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain: with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe; a description of the great mechanical inventions...and a view of the present state of the manufacture... London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson, [n.d., 1835]. 8vo, pp. (xx), (9)–544, frontispiece portrait of Richard Arkwright and 14 plates (1 double-page, 1 folding), text illustrations; adverts at the end dated 1838. Half-title. Original (?) blue cloth, uncut. Foxing on the plates, and cloth a bit stained, otherwise a good copy. Armorial bookplate of Arkwright of Willersley, incorporating the family crest and motto.

£300

FIRST EDITION. An important history of cotton manufacture. “The basic history of the Lancashire cotton industry with a tremendous amount of statistical data collected contemporaneously with the events described and with the writing of the book. Also contains first-hand descriptions of the great inventions of the beginning of the industrial revolution, those for spinning and weaving” (Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria, 61). In this work, Baines, who was MP for Leeds, surveys cotton manufacture from its origins to its ‘second birth’ in England, and focuses on the current state of machinery, trade and working conditions in all aspects of the business, and its outputs, including cloth, lace, stockings and cotton wool. This comprehensive work was important for its detailed analysis of a vital commercial activity, and remains so today for the historical information it contains. This issue has 14 plates and the preface is undated; another issue exists with 17 plates and the preface dated. An outline, as Baines calls it, of this work was included in his father’s four-volume History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster.

BARBA, Alvaro Alonso. The Art of Metals, in which is declared the manner of their generation, and the concomitants of them. In two Books. Written in Spanish by Albaro Alonso Barba...in the year, 1640. Translated in the year, 1669. By the R.H. Edward Earl of Sandwich. London: Printed for S. Mearne... 1674. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. (iv), 156; 1 leaf, pp. 91, 1 engraved plate. Without the final blank leaf. Both titles within ruled border. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, gilt centres and new red morocco label on spine. Short (2 cm.) tear touching two letters without loss at bottom of I5, some small marks and stains, but a very good copy. Early signatures of George Bullock of Yeovil on p. 1, George Stoddon on last blank page, and of W. Parish on front pastedown.

£3200

Second edition in English of the first two Books of this celebrated treatise on mining and metallurgy, the first significant work on the subject in Spanish, and the first work on mining in the Americas. The first Book deals with the generation of metals and things accompanying them, and the second with the extraction of silver by mercury. It also includes the earliest special chapter on petroleum products (Book I, ch. 9) in Peru and elsewhere. The methods of extraction that Barba himself discovered were in large part responsible for the vast wealth that Spain gained from Peru. The book was kept secret in Spain, but when the Earl of Sandwich was Ambassador to Spain, he obtained a copy and translated two of the five books and had them published by Samuel Mearne, the royal bookbinder and publisher. Wing B678 and 682. Another issue (or possibly edition) of the first Book has the title The First Book of the Art of Mettals. Duveen p. 42; Neville I, p. 70 (both with the alternate title). Hoover catalogue 83. Sabin 3254. Norman catalogue 115. No complete English edition of all five Books was done until 1923.

Founding Work of Ophthalmology Remarkable for its Illustrations

BARTISCH, Georg. Ophthalmoduleia [Greek type]. Das ist, Augendienst. Newer und wolgegründter Bericht von ursachen und erkentnüs aller Gebrechen, Schäden und Mängel der Augen und des Gesichtes... Mit schönen, herrlichen Contrafectischen Figuren... [Colophon:] Gedruckt zu Dresden: durch Matthes Stöckel, 1583. Folio, ff. (xxviii), 274, (8). Title in red and black within ornamental woodcut border (repeated on C1r), woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut portrait of the author aged 48, and 88 full-page woodcuts in the text (including several repeated and 2 of the anatomy of the brain and eye with 5 and 6 overlay flaps respectively). Contemporary limp vellum, doeskin ties replaced. Purchase note of Andreas Lautmarr dated 1585 on front pastedown; also of Lundsgaard in Copenhagen, 1921; two old, small and faint library stamps on the title-page. Some inherent stains from the binding on the endpapers, paper a little browned as is usual with this book, but a really nice copy.

£44,500

FIRST EDITION. The first modern work on eye surgery, and one of the most remarkable illustrated books in early medical literature. It was also the first work to establish a subspeciality within the domain of surgery, establishing the term “ophthalmology”. “The book’s text, in twelve parts, and its woodcut illustrations combine to give a comprehensive view of Renaissance eye surgery. The woodcuts constitute one of the most remarkable features of the publication: they total ninety-one, including some repetitions, and they are believed to have been executed by Hans Hewamaul after Bartisch’s own drawings. Two of the illustrations are presented with overlays showing anatomical parts lying successively one under the other; Bartisch was the first to illustrate the brain and the eye in this manner. The book was printed at Bartisch’s own expense and was widely used for the next century” (Daniel M. Albert and Eugene Flamm in the Grolier One Hundred). These striking illustrations show the anatomy and diseases of the eye, surgical operations, instruments, distilling apparatus, etc. They are crowded with detail, and form a comprehensive picture book of practical methods of treatment. Bartisch was court oculist to the Elector of of Dresden and the founder of modern ophthalmology. He was a skilful operator, and developed many instruments. He was renowned for his cataract operations, and was the first to practise the extirpation of the bulbus in cancer of the eye. G&M 5817. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 22. Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 49. Hirschberg II, pp. 323–342. Norman catalogue 125.

[BECCHETTI, Filippo.] Teoria Generale della Terra esposta all’ Accademia Volsca di Velletri. In Roma: Per Paolo Giunchi. 1782. 12mo, 3 leaves (including the engraved title), pp. (7)–410. Title within typographical border, engraved vignette at the head of the dedication, woodcut headpieces and typographical tailpieces at the beginning and end of each chapter. Contemporary Italian half sheep, spine gilt, marbled sides, red edges. One gathering slightly browned, but a nice, fresh copy.

£380

FIRST EDITION. Riccardi, Biblioteca Matematica Italiana, I, 100–101: “È opera più erudita che scientifica, e prescindendo da quanto vi riguarda la fisica terrestre, tratta delle opinioni degli antichi e dei moderni sulla figura e sulla grandezza della terra.” Linda Hall Library, Theories of the Earth 1644–1830, 55.

With the Fourth Volume 10. BECKMANN, Johann. A History of Inventions and Discoveries. Translated from the German, by William Johnston. London: Printed for J. Bell... 1797 (volume 4: Printed for J. Walker and Co...and J. Bell. 1814). continued... 4

Item 8, Bartisch

4 volumes, 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. ii (contents), (v)–xii, 488; 2 leaves, pp. 443; 2 leaves, pp. 491; pp. iv, 682. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and blue morocco labels, sides panelled in gilt, blue edges, marbled endpapers (joints of volumes 1 and 4 very carefully repaired, upper joint of volumes 2 and 3 just cracking). Armorial bookplate of Thomas Munro on front pastedowns. Dampstain at the bottom of a dozen leaves in volume 1, otherwise a very good set.

£1600

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with the large fourth volume, of the first reliable history of inventions and discoveries. It was not designed as a complete history of technology (a term coined by Beckmann), but rather as a collection of historical descriptions of individual inventions. The text, written in a very readable style, is supplied with numerous full and accurate references in the footnotes, which has ensured the book’s historical value to the present day. The first edition in English of 1797 was published before the author had finished the German original, and so the fourth volume, published for the first time in English with the second edition, is not normally found with sets of the first edition. The contemporary binding of the fourth volume is a very close match to the other three.

11. BIGELOW, Henry Jacob. Insensibility during Surgical Operations produced by Inhalation.] [In:] The Lancet, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 2, 1847), pp. 5–8 and 16–17 (editorial). London: Printed for the Editor, and Published by George Churchill..., [1847]. Large 4to, 702 pages. Contemporary green half cloth.

£1100

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, and the first publication on this side of the Atlantic, of the first account of ether anaesthesia. See G&M 5651, the appearance of this paper in the Boston Medical & Surgical Journal some six weeks previously. This was thus the first account published in Europe of an operation performed with the aid of ether anaesthesia. “The original title [as given in the Boston. Med. & Surg. J.] was not given. Jacob Bigelow, the father of H.J. Bigelow, wrote on 28 November to Francis Boott of London telling him of Morton’s discovery and enclosing the text of his son’s communication as it had appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser. Boott forwarded Jacob Bigelow’s letter and H. J. Bigelow’s paper to The Lancet which published them both in their number for 2 January 1847. Appended to the reprint was a letter from Robert Liston to Dr. Boott dated 21 December 1846 saying that on that day he had successfully used ether during an amputation at the knee, thus recording the first operation under ether anaesthesia in Europe. Liston had learned of Bigelow’s letter to Boott on Saturday, the 19th, and carried out his first operation on Monday, the 21st!” (Fulton & Stanton). The first reference to ether in the British press is a short paragraph in the London Medical Gazette for 18 December 1846, and the second is in The Lancet for 26 December. The two are evidently based on the same source, and are statements only (reprinted by Fulton & Stanton), rather than full accounts. In The Lancet for 9 January 1847, further correspondence (pp. 49–51) on Bigelow’s patent is included, and in the issue for 16 January “a long and well written editorial appears excoriating both Jackson and Morton for attempting the patent” (Fulton & Stanton), and pp. 77–80 give accounts of operations under anaesthesia, including an illustration of “Mr. Hooper’s Ether Inhalator, constructed according to Dr. Boott and Mr. Robinson’s Instructions”. The second volume for the year, in a matching binding, is also present, containing numerous papers, correspondence and references to ether anaesthesia, by physicians including Snow, Liston and Marcy. Fulton & Stanton IV.5.

12. [BLANCHARD, Jean-Pierre (attributed to).] Description de deux machines propres à la navigation aérienne, avec figures; par M. B...... [No place, printer or date, after September 1783.] 8vo, 8 pages, 1 folding engraved plate with two figures. Additional and later plate of busts of the Montgolfier brothers bound in at the beginning, drop-head title. Modern mottled sheep, spine gilt with red morocco label and balloon ornaments, marbled endpapers, a fine copy.

£900

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FIRST EDITION. The fine and large plate plate shows Blanchard’s two proposed flying machines, the “Globe volant” in which the vessel is suspended from a sphere of gas, and the second one in which the gas is contained inside the vessel. Maggs Cat. 307, 60. Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique, p. 14. This is very probably the Naudet copy, lot 408 in the catalogue.

Boyle’s Law 13. BOYLE, Robert. New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, (made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine)... Oxford: Printed by H. Hall...for Tho. Robinson. 1662. 3 parts in 1 volume, 4to, pp. (xvi), 207; (xii), 122, (2) blank; (viii), 86, 85–98, (2) blank, 2 engraved plates (1 folding). Without the blank leaf m4 in part 3. Half-title, separate title-page to each part. Tear without loss in folding plate, two small wormtracks in extreme upper corner of second part diminishing to a single wormhole, otherwise a very nice copy. Contemporary calf, rebacked, red edges, fore-edges of front endpapers a little ragged.

£22,000

Second edition but the first announcement of Boyle’s law, relating to the inverse proportion of the volume and pressure of a gas, which was Boyle’s most important achievement in physics and one of the greatest contributions to physical science. Not only does Boyle here enunciate a fundamental law, but he supports it with the evidence of verifiable experiments. It exemplifies perfectly the methodology of what is now known as the experimental method of science: hypothesis tested by experimental proof, which Boyle was among the first to adopt. To this second edition Boyle added a defence of his views against attacks by Hobbes and Franciscus Linus, among others. “This second edition (here cited) is particularly important for what Boyle called an ‘hypothesis’ but what we know as ‘Boyle’s Law’: that the volume of air in a confined space varies inversely as the pressure. He demonstrated this by much experimental detail: with experiments on rarefaction performed by others, including Hooke, and on compression performed by himself” (PMM). Printing and the Mind of Man 143. Evans, Epochal Achievements, 28. Dibner 142. Horblit 15. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1662. G&M 666. Wing B3999. Fulton 14.

Boyle Responds to Pascal

14.

BOYLE, Robert. Hydrostatical Paradoxes, made out by new experiments, (for the most part physical and easie.) Oxford: Printed by William Hall, for Richard Davis, 1666. 8vo, 18 leaves, 247 pages, 3 folding and stilted engraved plates. Title printed in red and black within double ruled border. Contemporary sheep, spine unlettered and with later gilt rules (neat repairs to ends of spine), no free endpapers. Title a little dust-soiled especially in the upper margin. Early signature of J. Briggs, Trinity College, Cambridge, in upper corner of title.

£2400

FIRST EDITION. “Like many of Boyle’s researches the Hydrostatical Paradoxes resulted from the perusal of a recently published book. ‘Monsieur Paschall’ had written a ‘small French book’, the treatise of the ‘Aequilibrium of Liquids’, and Boyle had been asked by the Royal Society to read and report upon it. He deals rather shortly with his author and the proceeds to describe at length the experiments which convinced him of the fallacies of his French contemporary. Boyle points out, among other things, that since pressure in a liquid is transmitted equally in all directions, divers need not fear the greatest depths... The celebrated experiments ‘that water may be made as well to depress a Body lighter then it self, as to buoy it ip’ are recorded in Paradox 8, pp. 160 et seq. The observation is still made in much the same fashion by every student in his ‘practical’ courses in physics” (Fulton). Wing B3985. Phillips, Diving, p. 229. Fulton 52. This was the only English edition.

15. [BUDAN, — Père, de l’Oratoire.] Lettre au rédacteur du procès verbal de l’expérience Aérostatique faite à Nantes le 14 Juin 1784. [Colophon:] Nantes: De l’imprimerie de Brun, aîné... 21 June 1784. [Bound with:] [LOUVRIER, J.] Réponse du redacteur du procès-verbal de l’Expérience Aérostatique du 14 Juin 1784, au P. Budan... [Colophon:] Nantes: De l’imprimerie de Brun, aîné... 21 June 1784. [And:] [BUDAN, — .] Seconde et Derniere Lettre au Rédacteur du Procès-Verbal de l’Expérience Aérostatique, faite à Nantes, le 14 Juin 1784, en replique à la Réponse. [No place, printer or date, probably Nantes, Brun, 1784.] [And:] LOUVRIER, J. Réponse de M Louvrier, Apothicaire, Rédacteur du Procès-Verbal...à la deuxieme & derniere Lettre du P. Budan... [Colophon:] Nantes: De l’imprimerie de Brun, l’aîné... 3 July 1784. 4 works in 1 volume, 4to, 4 pages; 4 pages; 4 pages; 7 pages. Drop-head titles. Modern marbled boards, calf spine richly gilt, vellum corners, red morocco label on upper cover. A fine copy in a high quality modern binding.

£600

Budan was professor of philosophy at the Oratory College in Nantes. He and others constructed and flew a balloon at Nantes on 14th June 1784. The exchange of letters here documents a complicated row between Budan and Louvrier, editor of Affiches de la Province de Bretagne, which published an account of Budan’s flight. Budan complained that Louvrier’s account of the flight was inaccurate in many respects. Bound in at the end is a leaf extracted from the Affiches de la Province de Bretagne, no. 25, which contains the “Procès verbal de l’expérience Aérostatique faite à Nantes le 14 Juin 1784”. Very rare; Worldcat locates only the Bibliothèque nationale’s copies of these pamphlets. Not in Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique.

16. BUNON, [Robert]. Essay sur les Maladies des Dents, ou l’on propose les moyens de leur procurer une bonne conformation dès la plus tendre enfance, & d’en assurer la conservation pendant tout le cours de la vie. Avec une lettre où l’on discute quelques opinions particulieres de l’auteur de l’orthopedie. A Paris: Chez Briasson...Chaubert...et de Hansy... 1743. 12mo, pp. xii, 237, (3). Contemporary calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. Small repair to head of spine, front free endpaper a little stained, a few other small marks, but a very good copy.

£2500

FIRST EDITION. G&M 3672.1. The first book to incorporate specialised ondontological research, and one of the first books devoted to children’s teeth, the first, by Hurlock, having been published only the year before. Bunon was an outstanding dentist of his time, and his books were a major contribution to the rise of French dental literature that began with Fauchard. However, dissatisfied with the incomplete coverage of dental problems that he found in the works of Fauchard and Geraudly, Bunon addressed such issues as dental erosion, development of the teeth, and the genesis of enamel hypoplasia. The Essay was the first of his important books on dentistry. Three years later he published his Expériences et demonstrations, in which he proved the assertions set out in the Essay, through a series of dental researches conducted on patients at the Salpêtrière and at the hospital of St. Côme—the first such ever performed. Guerini pp. 301–302. Hoffmann-Axthelm pp. 207–209 (illustrating the title-page). Weinberger p. 313.

17. CARRA, [Jean-Louis]. Essai sur la Nautique Aérienne, contenant l’art de diriger les ballons aérostatiques à volonté, & d’accélérer leur course dans les plaines de l’air; avec le précis de deux expériences particulieres de météorologie à faire. Lu à l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris, le 14 Janvier 1784. A Paris: Chez Eugène Onfroy... 1784. continued... 8

8vo, pp. 23, (1), engraved frontispiece by Beaublé. Extra illustrated with an engraved portrait of Carra by Destouche after Bonneville. Modern mottled sheep, spine gilt with red morocco label and balloon ornaments, marbled endpapers, free endpapers with Montgolfier & Canson watermark. Some light foxing, tiny hole in last leaf repaired with loss of two letters, otherwise a fine copy.

£800

FIRST EDITION. This work describes Carra’s very complicated design for steering a balloon which is shown in the frontispiece. Another detail shows how electricity might be obtained from the air for guidance of the balloon. Naudet Collection 315 (this copy). Maggs Cat. 387, 83. Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique, p. 16.

18.

CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude. Élémens de Chimie. A Montpellier: De l’imprimerie de Jean-François Picot... 1790. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. cx, 259; 443; 460. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, yellow edges (bindings rubbed, heads and one tail of spines a bit worn, a few scuff marks on sides), internally a very good, clean copy.

£1500

FIRST EDITION, and surprisingly rare, of one of the most important textbooks of chemistry of the period; it was written for the course of chemistry which Chaptal gave at Montpellier where he was appointed to the new chair of chemistry in 1780. In this work, Chaptal “develops the general principles, pointing out their consequences and their applications. He adopts Lavoisier’s oxygen theory which he found of great benefit in both theoretical and practical chemistry. In this work he proposes that the name azote be changed to nitrogene” (Cole). Cole 255. DSB III, pp. 198–203. Duveen, p. 129. Neville I, p. 261: “The first edition is rare...” Partington, III, pp. 557–560.

19. CHAUVIN, Étienne. Lexicon Rationale sive Thesaurus Philosophicus ordine alphabetico digestus... Rotterodami: Apud Petrum vander Slaart... 1692. Folio, (378) leaves including the blank leaf 3Zzz2, engraved allegorical title, fine engraved portrait of Chauvin at the age of 50, and 30 folding engraved plates. Text printed in double columns without pagination. Contemporary panelled calf, nicely rebacked and tips of corners repaired. Some minor foxing, and dust-soiling in upper margins, but a nice copy. Very small monogram ownership stamp at foot of title.

£1400

FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest scientific encyclopaedias, which was notable for two features in

Item 19, Chauvin

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particular: firstly its alphabetical arrangement (as noted in the title), and secondly its absence of interest in magic, astrology and other similar pseudo-scientific matters and its emphasis on experimental science. Chauvin (1640–1725) was a philosopher whose philosophy and physics were thoroughly Cartesian. He was the successor as professor in Rotterdam to Bayle, whose own Dictionnaire historique (1695) may well have been inspired by the present work. The fine engraved title shows Descartes, who denied the existence of a vacuum, resting his hand on a set of Magdeburg spheres, Galileo, who is examining the heavens through a telescope, and scientific figures from earlier periods examining instruments of the time. Phillips, Diving and Underwater Technology, pp. 402–403.

The Pulmonary Circulation

20. COLOMBO, Realdo. De Re Anatomica libri XV. Venetiis [Venice:] Ex Typographia Nicolai Beuilacquae, 1559. Small folio, pp. (viii), 169 [a misprint for 269], (3). Woodcut title-page, woodcut initials, printer’s woodcut device on last page. Seventeenth century vellum (short tear to upper cover, slight wear to foot of spine). Minor pale dampstain in fore-edge margin of 5 leaves, pale dampstain in gutter of last 30 leaves and paper slightly browned, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Early inscription of M. de Campa and shelfmarks at foot of title-page and old library stamp on verso.

£12,500

First edition, issue with the dedication to Pope Pius IV, of Colombo’s only work, containing his discovery of pulmonary circulation. “This historic breakthrough in his demonstration of the lesser circulation through the lungs secures his place of importance in the line culminating in Harvey’s demonstration of the circulation of the blood sixty-nine years later ” (Heirs of Hippocrates 304). Colombo’s work is a treatise on general anatomy, but he “is best known for his discovery of the pulmonary or lesser circulation, i.e. the passage of the blood from the right cardiac ventricle to the left via the lungs. Although this discovery was first published in the Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (1556) by Colombo’s friend and former pupil Valverde de Hamusco, the evidence in both Valverde’s and Colombo’s accounts indicates the the discovery was Colombo’s, made through his vivisectional observations of the heart and pulmonary vessels. Colombo’s account of the pulmonary circuit was preceded by that in Michael Servetus’s Christianismi restitutio, and by the thirteenth century account of the Arab ibn al-Nafis. However, these prior descriptions went undiscovered until the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, respectively; and there is no evidence that either was available to Colombo at the time. Colombo’s observations of the heart also enabled him to gain a more correct understanding of the phases of the heartbeat, generally confused by his predecessors, who erroneously likened the heart’s action to the expansive action of a bellows. Although overshadowed by his discovery of the pulmonary circulation, Colombo’s observations of the heartbeat apparently directly inspired Harvey’s vivisectional studies on the heart, which in turn led to his discovery of the greater circulation” (Norman catalogue). The fifteen Books are on the bones, ligaments, muscles, liver, heart, brain and nerves, the foetus, etc. Book 14 is on vivisection. According to tradition, the book was to have been illustrated by Michelangelo, but the finished book was unillustrated except for the fine woodcut title, which was clearly inspired by the Fabrica of Vesalius, Colombo’s teacher. Both Colombo and his original dedicatee, Pope Paul IV, died while the book was in production, and the dedication was therefore changed during the printing. G&M 378.1. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1559. Norman catalogue 501 (with the same dedication).

21. COOPER, Sir Astley [Paston]. The Lectures...on the Principles and Practice of Surgery; with additional notes and cases, by Frederick Tyrrell. London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood,... 1824 [–1825–1827]. continued... 10

Item 20, Colombo

3 volumes, 8vo, pp. v, 1 leaf, pp. 352, + errata slip; iv, (ii), 457, 4 lithographed plates (2 handcoloured); (iv), 538, 2 lithographed plates on 1 folding sheet. The uncoloured plates a bit foxed, small hole in T8 of vol. 2 with loss of 10 letters, last leaf of vol. 3 a bit stained. Contemporary half calf, rebacked and corners repaired. Library labels on front pastedowns and two stamps on titlepages and in the margin of about a dozen leaves in each volume, otherwise a good clean set.

£600

FIRST EDITION. The first publication of Astley Cooper’s complete course of lectures, which he gave for over thirty years, attracting unprecedented numbers of students. See Brock, The life and work of Astley Cooper, chapter XII, “Lecturer and Teacher”. Zeis Index 515, 1311, 1622.

Cyclosis

22. CORTI, Bonaventura. Osservazioni microscopiche sulla tremella e sulla circulazione del fluido in una pianta acquajuola. In Lucca: appresso Giuseppe Rocchi, 1774. 8vo, pp. 207, (1), 3 folding copperplates. Original paper boards, uncut. A little foxing or browning, but a fine copy.

£2200

FIRST EDITION. The discovery of cyclosis. Corti was professor of physics in the college of Reggio. There he won the esteem of the Duchess Teresa Cybo d’Este who presented him with two excellent microscopes manufactured by Dollond, which enabled him to undertake valuable research. He published his results in the present book, which contains Corti’s sensational discovery of protoplasmic movements in plant cells. “The continuous streaming motion which we now term ‘cyclosis’ was discovered as far back as 1774 by the Abbé Corti in the cells of water plants, such as Chara and Nitella. His observations were overlooked, and the phenomenon was rediscovered by L.C. Treviranus in the early years of the 19th century (1811)” (Hughes, A history of cytology, p. 41). Sachs, History of botany, p. 545.

23. CRAIK, K[enneth] J[ohn] W[illiam]. Visual Adaptation. [Cambridge: 2nd May 1940.] 4to, (iv, including one blank) + 213 leaves of carbon copy double-spaced typescript on the rectos only + 1 additional leaf of text (dated in ink 24.1.43) inserted after f. 109 and text on 3 following leaves lightly crossed through + 16 unfoliated leaves with 20 (mostly photographic) mounted illustrations + slip of addenda to the bibliography inserted at f. 223. Black cloth (slight wear on corners), lettered in gilt on spine. Signed by Craik at the foot of the preface (this leaf is mounted on a stub and dated 2/5/40) and with many small manuscript corrections throughout. Loosely inserted is an offprint of Craik’s paper “Origin of Visual Images” from Nature, vol. 145, p. 512, March 30, 1940.

£2750

Craik’s unpublished doctoral thesis on adaptation from a psychological point of view and its biological significance, submitted to Cambridge University in May 1940. One of the founders of the field now known as cognitive science, Craik’s thesis is marked by a lively recognition of the interrelation of physical, physiological and psychological problems and situations. He spent the war years studying psychological problems about the role of the human operator in the manipulation of certain instruments of war, and designing those instruments accordingly. In 1943 he published his only book, The Nature of Explanation, in which he drew parallels between the operations performed by minds and machines and suggested that perception and performance are based on mental models of the environment. At this point calculating machines came to the fore as centrally important models for psychological processes and Craik proceeded, speculatively, to explore their possible bearing on perception. In 1948 his two-part paper “Theory of Human Operators in Control Systems”, published posthumously in the British Journal of Psychology, introduced the concept of intermittent control in the context of human control systems, important ideas which are all present or foreshadowed in the present thesis. Later that year Norbert Wiener named this new communication and control theory ‘cybernetics’. continued... 12

As with his wartime contemporary at Cambridge Alan Turing, Craik’s work remained largely inaccessible, much of it being officially restricted. His designs included aircraft cockpits for diminishing mental and physical fatigue, windscreens with superior visibility, and instrument lighting. He died in 1945, aged 31, after being involved in an accident on his bicycle. This is an early version of Craik’s thesis, at least one later version being known, and is extremely rare, being unpublished. See Bartlett, F.C., ”Kenneth J.W. Craik, 1914–1945 [obituary]” in The Eagle, March 1946, 454–465. ODNB.

24. [DICKSON, Adam.] A Treatise of Agriculture. Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid for the Author, and A. Donaldson... 1762. 8vo, pp. xvi, 427, and 2 folding engraved plates on the design of ploughs. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label (joints cracked at head, but firm). With the Minto bookplate on front pastedown; withdrawn library stamp on verso of title, small and unobtrusive stamps to lower corner of several pages and the plates, faint traces of a shelfmark on foot of spine.

£350

FIRST EDITION. “Decidedly the best work on tillage which has appeared in the English language” (J.C. Loudon, quoted by Fussell). Dickson had observed that all existing farming literature was based upon conditions in England and therefore not suitable for application to Scottish farming practice, which the present work set out to rectify. The text is divided into four parts, on vegetation, tillage, manures, and soil. This was author's first book, and one of the most important Scottish agricultural treatises of the eighteenth century. It was, according to Loudon, held in high esteem by generations of the practical farmers of Scotland. Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, p. 56.

25. [DOSSIE, Robert.] Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy: comprehending a complete dispensatory for the use of surgeons... London: Printed for J. Nourse... 1761. 8vo, pp. xviii, (vi), 485, (3). Paper a little browned or foxed. Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving the original red morocco label, sides a bit marked, endpapers replaced.

£280

FIRST EDITION. The first part, on theory, gives the effects of various generic and specific medicines and simples on particular parts of the body. The second part, on practice, gives their method of use. Dossie was an apothecary and consulting chemist in Sheffield. When he moved to London in 1757 he quickly established a reputation by his publications, which were principally of a chemical nature. Cole 384.

26. DOUGLAS, James. Myographiae Comparatae Specimen: or, a comparative description of all the muscles in a man and in a quadruped. Shewing their discoverer, origin, progress, insertion, use and difference. To which is added, an account of the muscles peculiar to a woman... London: Printed by W.B. for George Strahan, 1707. 12mo, pp. xxxvi, 216, 16 (appendix). Title within rules. Contemporary speckled calf, unlettered. Paper rather browned in places, and stain on rear endpapers, but a nice copy. Bookplate of the Earl of Macclesfield, and armorial blindstamp on the first two leaves.

£800

FIRST EDITION of Douglas’s first book, which became a standard work for a large part of the eighteenth century. “He was throughout his life a laborious student of everything relating to his profession, but was most distinguished as an anatomist” (DNB). He practised midwifery, hence, presumably, the special section on the muscles of women. Russell 266. A variant exists with ‘for G. Strachan’ rather than ‘for George Strahan’ in the imprint.

27. DUVILLARD DE DURAND, Emmanuel Étienne. Analyse et Tableaux de l’Influence de la Petite Vérole sur la mortalité à chaque age, et de celle qu’un préservatif tel que la vaccine peut avoir sur la population et la longévité. Paris: De l’Imprimerie Impériale, 1806. 4to, 2 leaves (half-title and title) + 210 pages. Library stamp on title and inscription at top, some mild foxing. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (neatly restored), boards a bit rubbed, and worn along the fore-edges. Bound in at the end of this copy are 8 leaves of printed notices on Duvillard and his works dated between 1790 and 1814.

£1800

SOLE EDITION. G&M 1695. By 1806 the universal benefit of vaccination was widely known and acknowledged, but only in general terms. Duvillard showed statistically not only the extent of smallpox among the population, but also among various classes of the population, and, most importantly, the effect of smallpox vaccination on the mortality rate and on life expectancy. This was the first important statistical study of the result of preventive measures on a particular disease (although Jurin in 1723 had shown statistically the difference in mortality rates between natural and inoculated smallpox). Duvillard was head of the statistical department of population in the French Ministry of the Interior, and had good information from which to work. “It was not his principal aim to calculate a life-table but only to obtain means for a comparison of the effects of vaccination, and in this respect it would probably serve fairly well. Unfortunately, several authors who afterwards criticised Duvillard have only had this table in view, without thinking of the problem under discussion. As stated his book is, on the whole, very little known, and only very few copies seem to be preserved” (Westergaard, Contributions to the history of statistics, 94–95). Invention of the Modern Hospital Bed

28. EARLE, Henry. Practical Observations in Surgery. London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood... 1823. 8vo, pp. x, 2 leaves, pp. 229, (1), 3 engraved plates (2 folding). Large but quite faint library stamp on title and several other pages, some small marks and pencil marks, short wormtrack in the lower margin of the last plate and endpaper and inside of back cover, paper slightly browned. Contemporary half calf, joints neatly repaired.

£750

FIRST EDITION. One of the six essays which make up this volume is a description of the hospital bed invented by Earle for cases of fracture of the leg, and which became the modern hospital bed. It is illustrated in one of the plates, and Earle was awarded the gold medal of the Society of Arts for it. Of the other papers, “two are reprints of his papers in the Philosophical Transactions on an injury to the urethra and on the mechanism of the spine; the others are on injuries near the shoulder, on fracture of the funny-bone, and on certain fractures of the thigh-bone” (DNB). Earle was Percivall Pott’s grandson. Norman catalogue 675.

29. FARR, William. Vital Statistics: a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings... Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Noel A. Humphreys. London: Offices of the Sanitary Institute... 1885. 8vo, 2 leaves (the first blank), pp. xxiv, 2 leaves, pp. 563, (1), photographic frontispiece portrait. Original blue cloth with bevelled edges by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London, red edges, black endpapers. Cloth a little rubbed at the extremities and with a tiny hole at foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy. Stamp of the Metropolitan Life Assurance Society on title and first blank leaf.

£300

FIRST EDITION. G&M 1704: “Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.” Farr (1807–1883) first published his Vital statistics in 1837 and considerably expanded it in 1839, a work which ranks with Graunt’s continued... 14

Observations as an original contribution to medical statistics. This volume is a celebration of the work of one of the most important statisticians who developed and popularized methods which have become standard tools in epidemiology, demonstrating the waste of human life caused by preventable conditions.

30. FONTANA, Gregorio. Disquisitiones Physico-Mathematicae, nunc primum editae. Papiae [Pavia]: in Typographeo Monast. S. Salvatoris... 1780. 4to, pp. (xii), xi, (i), 384, and 3 folding engraved plates. Engraved vignettes. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges. Two small repairs to spine, a few small wormholes in front endpapers, otherwise a fine copy.

£950

FIRST EDITION of this beautifully produced book, an assembly of fifteen papers and dissertations in mathematics, astronomy, and physics, including the motion of comets, percussion and the strength of materials, various mathematical problems, etc. For a full list of the contents, see Riccardi I, 470– 471 (“Bella ediz.”). Fontana succeeded Boscovich in the chair of mathematics at Pavia. This book is a fine example of elegant book production. Printed on superb paper at the monastery of San Salvador, it has several engraved vignettes on the title and preliminary leaves, and a different engraved vignette at the end of each chapter. The three engraved plates are each numbered on an ornamental tablet within the plate.

31. FOURCROY, [Antoine François]. Système des Connaissances Chimiques, et de leurs applications aux phénomènes de la nature et de l’art. Paris: Baudouin,... Brumaire An IX [–X, 1800–1802]. 6 volumes in 5 (the sixth volume, containing the index, is bound at the end of vol. 5), 4to. Early 19th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Several patches of worm damage (affecting surface of the leather only) on covers and foot of one spine, three patches of worm damage on covers of three volumes with small areas of leather missing. Apart from this surface damage, a fine copy.

£2600

FIRST EDITION, quarto issue, of Fourcroy’s magnum opus, the most complete textbook on chemistry that had yet appeared. “This great treatise contained more information than any previously published, and was not intended for beginners, but for those who wished to make a thorough study of chemistry” (Smeaton). It was planned in four parts, theory, history, practice, and the application of chemistry to the explanation of natural phenomena and to the arts, or practical science. “It is particularly interesting to note that Fourcroy regarded the history of chemistry as an integral part of the subject, without which recent developments could not be properly appreciated” (Smeaton). The work was issued simultaneously in quarto format as here, in which the index volume (Table alphabétique et analytique) was issued in 1802 as the sixth volume, and in octavo format in eleven volumes. Cole 481. Duveen p. 226. Neville I, pp. 472–473. Partington III, p. 538, III. Smeaton, Fourcroy, pp. 76–77; bibliography nos. 65 and 67. There were no other French editions. The Most Celebrated Herbal

32.

FUCHS, Leonhard. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes... Basileae [Basel]: In Officina Isingriniana, 1542. Folio, pp. (xxviii), 896, (4). Printer’s device on title and last leaf, woodcut portrait of Fuchs on verso of title, woodcut portraits of the artists on penultimate leaf, and 509 full-page woodcuts in the text. Seventeenth century French calf, panelled in gilt with double gilt fillet, spine gilt in compartments (spine and corners expertly restored, sides somewhat marked and rubbed). Some very minor foxing and finger soiling in the fore-edge margins, but a fine copy. Purchase note on front pastedown of Dr. Louis Morin in Paris on 12th June 1672.

£38,000

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Item 32, Fuchs

FIRST EDITION of Fuchs’s celebrated herbal. This work effected a revolution in the natural sciences comparable to that of Copernicus in astronomy and Vesalius in anatomy, both of which were published the following year, 1543. It was part of the pioneering efforts of Fuchs, Brunfels and Bock that earned them the title of the “German fathers of botany”. All three partook of a reforming zeal, partially religious in origin, to correct botanical knowledge, which had mostly been in the hands of itinerant and illiterate herbalists. To effect this reform accurate illustration and identification was the first requirement and it was to this task that Fuchs addressed himself. Fuchs employed the best artists then available in Basel: Albrecht Meyer did the drawings, Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred them to the woodblocks, and they were cut by Veit Rudolph Speckle. All three are depicted in the book, the first time that book illustrators are themselves portrayed and named. These illustrations set a new standard for botanical depiction and were some of the most influential in botanical history, being copied for innumerable works well into the 18th century. Some forty species are illustrated for the first time, including several American plants such as maize and the pumpkin. The herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs “have rightly been ascribed importance in the history of botany, and for two reasons. In the first place they established the requisites of botanical illustration — verisimilitude in form and habit, and accuracy of significant detail... Secondly they provided a corpus of plant species which were identifiable with a considerable degree of certainty by any reasonably careful observer, no matter by what classical or vernacular names they were called” (Morton, History of Botanical Science). Printing and the Mind of Man 69. Dibner 19. Horblit 33b. Hunt 48. Norman catalogue 846. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, p. 37. Stillwell 640. Sparrow, Milestones, 72.

Iron and Steel Production in Sweden

33. GARNEY, [Johan Carl]. Garney’s Hanledning uti Svenska Masmästeriet. Omarbetad af Carl Johan Lidbeck. Stockholm: Tryckt hos Fr. Cederborgh & Comp. 1816. 2 volumes 8vo (text) and oblong folio (atlas), pp. (ix), 3 leaves (contents), pp. 36, (39)–256, 1 leaf (errata), + the engraved title-page; 4 leaves, pp. 571, 1 leaf (errata), + the engraved title-page; letterpress titlepage and 19 engraved plates with numerous detailed figures. Half-title with volume numbers in each text volume, vignette on the engraved title-pages, blank leaf (pp. 37–38) excised from volume 1. Original blue wrappers (slight damage to the spine of volume 2, paper missing from the spine of the atlas volume and upper wrapper lightly stained), text volumes uncut and largely unopened, a fine and fresh set.

£900

Item 33, Garney

Second edition, revised and enlarged by Carl Johan Lidbeck, of Garney’s comprehensive work on steel production in Sweden, the best book on the subject (and one of very few) until the middle of the nineteenth century. The detailed plates show continued...

the construction of the blast furnace and the tools and implements necessary for its use. The last three plates are new in this edition. The Swedish metallurgist J.C. Garney (1740–1808) was a pupil of Sven Rinman and his successor as the principal ironmaster in Sweden. Rinman (1720–1792) was the “father of the Swedish iron industry”. The percentage of iron in Swedish ore is extremely high, and in the 17th and 18th centuries Sweden produced a significant proportion of the world’s iron. This copy is accompanied by the index compiled by Franz von Scheele, Register till Garneys omarbetade Masmästeri (Fahlun: O.U. Arborelius et Comp. 1821, 36 pages, uncut, stitched as issued), which for obvious reasons is rarely found with the main book.

34. GILLES DE CORBEIL (Aegidius Corboliensis). Carmina de urinarum indiciis. [Colophon:] Venetiis [Venice]: i[m]pressus p[er] Benardinum [de Vitalibus] Venetum expensis d. Jeronymi Duranti. die. 16. mensis februarii 1494. 4to, 77 leaves (of 78, lacking the final blank). With the initial blank leaf, Gothic letter, 43 lines, initial spaces with guide letters. Careful restorations in some upper corners or margins affecting text only on S4 but without loss, a few small stains in lower margin, faint trace of an old library stamp removed from last page. Modern dark red calf, inner gilt dentelles.

£5200

FIRST COMBINED EDITION of the author’s De urinis and De pulsibus, both of which had been published separately once before (in 1483 and 1484 respectively). This edition was edited by Venantius Mutius, with a commentary by Gentilis de Fuligneo. The twelfth century French physician Gilles de Corbeil transplanted Salernitan medicine to Paris and gave expression to its most important achievements in attractive form. He was a pupil at the medical schools of Salerno and Montpellier, and later went to Paris where he was physician to Philippe Auguste of France (1165–1213). He wrote two works in verse form on the two principal diagnostic tools available to physicians of the time, the pulse and the urine. The Liber de urinis constitutes a compendium of uroscopy mainly on the lines of the Regula urinarum of Maurus. It remained the authoritative textbook on uroscopy until the sixteenth century. Klebs 466.1. Goff A94. Osler 7403. Murphy, The history of urology, p. 38. For a study of Gilles de Corbeil, see Ann. Med. Hist., VII (1925), p. 362. Item 34, Giles de Corbeil

35. GODFREY [-HANCKWITZ], Ambrose. An Account of the New Method of Extinguishing Fires by Explosion and Suffocation. Introduced by Ambrose Godfrey of Covent-Garden, Chymist. Wherein a description is given of the several machines and their uses... A method easily practicable, certain in its effects, and so universally useful...that his Majesty has been moved to authorize...this happy discovery...by... letters patents. To which is added, a short narrative of Mr. Povey’s behaviour in relation to this useful invention... [London:] Printed in the year 1724. 8vo, pp. xvi, 40. Title within double-ruled border, woodcut headpiece incorporating a portrait of “Guttemberg”, engraved headpiece of a house on fire with Godfrey’s machines, woodcut tailpieces and initials, a fine copy. 20th-century quarter brown morocco and brown cloth sides.

£1300

FIRST EDITION. This work is an exposition of the method invented by Godfrey to extinguish fires by exploding gunpowder inside a barrel of water “impregnated with a certain preparation, an enemy to fire”, and not simply water alone. This method of extinguishing fires by suffocation is currently used to great effect on burning oil-wells and similar fires. A description of the device itself is followed by directions for its application. On pp. 4–6 Godfrey reports on two highly successful fullsized demonstrations of his invention in 1723, at the first of which several members of the Royal Society were present. The last section consists of accusations against Charles Povey of Hempstead whose design of a “watch engine” was purportedly stolen from Godfrey. This section was omitted from the second edition, published in 1743. Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz (1660–1741), originally from Germany, was for many years employed as operator in the laboratory of Robert Boyle. In 1729 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He later set up his own laboratory where he made and sold the white phosphorous for which he became famous. In the introduction to the present book he expresses his indebtedness to Boyle “for the first hints of the matter whence it was made.” Apart from a paper on phosphorous in the Phil. Trans., this work was Godfrey’s only publication, and is extremely rare. Neville I, p. 537. Partington II, p. 543. Not in Cole.

36. GOODWYN, Edmund. The Connexion of Life with Respiration; or, an experimental inquiry into the fffects[!] of submersion, strangulation, and several kinds of noxious airs, on living animals... London: Printed by T. Spilsbury...for J. Johnson... 1788. 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. xvi, 126, 2 engraved plates. Title page guarded on verso, ink stain on p. 118. Modern calf-backed boards, spine gilt, marbled sides, vellum tips, uncut.

£550

FIRST EDITION, being “an expansion of his dissertation [in Latin] of 1786 for which he received the gold medal of the Humane Society. A pioneering, very important work”, in which Goodwyn applied the new chemical knowledge to resuscitation, recommending not only that the bodies of drowned persons should be warmed, but also suggesting the introduction of oxygen into the lungs. He was an early experimenter with respiration and he devised experiments to measure the quantity of air taken into the lungs following complete expiration. G&M 2028.53. Huston, Resuscitation, 50. American Society of Anesthesiologists exhibition, 58.

First French Book on Ophthalmology

37. GUILLEMEAU, Jacques. Traité des Maladies de l’Oeil, qui sont en nombre de cent treize, ausquelles il est suiect... A Monsieur Paré, Conseiller du Roy, & son premier Chirurgien. A Paris: Chez Charles Massé... 1585. Small 8vo, (xviii), 101 [i.e. 99], (1) leaves. Massé’s woodcut device on the title. Old vellum. A fine copy.

£14,500

FIRST EDITION. G&M 5818. The first French book on ophthalmology. Regarded by Garrison as the best of the Renaissance books on ophthalmology, this book was one of a tiny handful of works on ophthalmology that existed at that time. The Büchlin and the Alle Kranckheyt der Augen continued... 19

by Leonhart Fuchs had appeared in 1539, and Bartisch’s great Ophthalmoduleia just before Guillemeau’s book in 1583. These were just about the only monographs on the diseases of the eye, any other works, Rungius (1578) for example, being on optics and the theory of vision. Guillemeau’s book is addressed and dedicated to his father-in-law and teacher, Ambroise Paré, who contributed an introductory sonnet. The work comprises nine sections, the first of which is an anatomical description of the eye, and the others are concerned with the diseases and disorders of the eye, the eyelids, and the optic nerve. It is provided with a large index. More substantial than Fuchs, not as ponderous as Bartisch, it was the obvious choice for translation into other languages, and was the first monograph on ophthalmology to achieve an international readership; an English edition appeared only two years later, and a Dutch translation followed. Of the original French there were only two separate editions (the second in 1610), and both are extremely rare. Albert, Norton & Hurtes 941. Becker catalogue 168. Doe, A bibliography of...Paré, 26.

Item 37, Guillemeau

38. HAMMOND, W[illiam Alexander]. Traité des Maladies du Système Nerveux... Traduction française augmentée de notes et d’un appendice par le Dr. F. LabadieLagrave. Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils... 1879. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 1278, (2) adverts, + 12 leaves of adverts inserted at the end. Half-title, figures in the text. Original green cloth, uncut and largely unopened, fine copy.

£120

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the first American treatise of neurology. See G&M 4542 and Norman catalogue 986 (first edition of 1871).

The Standard Work on Paediatrics

39.

HARRIS, Walter. De Morbis Acutis Infantum. Londini: impensis Samuelis Smith, 1689. 8vo, pp. (xv), 146, (2). With the imprimatur leaf before the title and the final leaf of advertisements, title within rules. Contemporary calf, very rubbed, upper joint cracked and held by the cords, ends of spine worn. Some leaves very slightly browned, but internally a very fresh and clean copy, in a half morocco solander box. Contemporary signature of Thomas Willoughby (FRS) with his purchase price in upper margin of title; bookplate of Harry Friedenwald, historian of Jewish medicine, and presentation inscription on front endpapers.

£3500

FIRST EDITION of this famous book on paediatrics, which served for nearly a century as the standard work until finally superseded by Underwood’s Treatise on the diseases of children. Harris anticipated the modern treatment of tetany by using calcium salts in infantile convulsions. For a study of the book see Ann. med. Hist., 1919, 2, 228-240. Harris was physician to William and Mary. G&M 6321. There were at least eighteen editions in various languages, including three different English translations, but this first edition remains extremely rare. Wing H880. Norman Catalogue 994. Still pp. 291–300. Ruhräh pp. 350–364.

Item 39, Harris

Crystal Structure

40. HAÜY, l'Abbé [René Just]. Essai d'une Théorie sur la Structure des Crystaux, appliquée a plusieurs genres de substances crystallisées... A Paris: Chez Gogué & Née de La Rochelle... 1784. 8vo, 3 leaves, 236 pages, and 8 folding engraved plates. Lacking the half-title. Nineteenth century pink half calf, spine gilt with black morocco label. Prelims a little foxed, but a good copy. Signature of J. Robison, 1787, in upper corner of title, i.e. John Robison (1739–1805), natural philosopher, inventor, and collaborator with James Watt and Joseph Black, whom he succeeded as lecturer on chemistry at Glasgow.

£4800

FIRST EDITION of the book which “laid the foundation of the mathematical theory of crystal structure” (DSB, VI, p. 178). It was due to this work that Haüy was able to properly classify minerals. Haüy held that the characteristic form of the constituent molecule of a compound is due to the forms, the definite proportions, and the definite arrangement of the constituent elementary particles. That is, before Proust, Haüy proposed a priori the chemical law of fixed proportions. These concepts enabled Haüy to unite in one species minerals hitherto considered different, such as beryl and emerald, and to divide groups that had been considered varieties of the same species, such as zeolites. Dibner, Heralds of Science 92. En Français dans le Texte 176. Horblit 47. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 94. Neville I, p. 602.

First Formal Treatise on Scientific Gemology

41. HAÜY, l'Abbé [René Just]. Traité des Caractères Physiques des Pierres Précieuses, pour servir a leur détermination lorsqu’elles ont été taillées. Paris: Mme Ve Courcier,... 1817. 8vo, pp. xvi, xxii, 253, 16 (inserted adverts dated 12 April 1855), 3 folding engraved plates by Cloquet. Half-title. Pink wrappers from printer’s waste dated 1861, lettered on spine in manuscript, uncut. Paper slightly browned or foxed, wrappers a little dust-soiled.

£1600

FIRST EDITION of “the first determinative gemology worthy of that name” (Sinkankas). Haüy is considered the founder of the science of crystallography. In this book, which was principally intended for collectors of precious stones, he gives a survey of the physical characteristics of cut gems, followed by tables showing the properties of the different precious stones. An important section (pp. 113–185) deals with pyro-electricity — Haüy was the first to relate crystal structures to electrical properties. “In brief, what Haüy accomplished here was to provide the first handbook for the practical determination of gemstone species by observing and/or measuring properties... A work of fundamental importance in the science of gemology and marking the transition from a purely descriptive method to accurate determination of properties and applying them to identification” (Sinkankas 2811, from a long descriptive note on the book).

42. HEISTER, Lorenz. A General System of Surgery, in three parts. Containing the doctrine and management I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds. II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body. III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders... The sixth edition, translated from the author’s last edition, greatly improved. London: Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson... and C. Reymers, 1757. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, pp. xvi, 456, 404, (10), (2)adverts, 40 folding engraved plates. Library stamp on recto and verso of title and a few elsewhere, tear in last plate neatly repaired, three plates creased and slightly damaged in the margin, some foxing and slight soiling, but generally a good copy. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt.

£700

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Sixth edition in English. See G&M 5576 (first edition, in German, of 1718). The most popular surgical text of the eighteenth century, and one of the best illustrated. It was translated into seven languages, including Japanese. Heister was the first truly scientific surgeon in Germany. He introduced the term “tracheotomy”, and a spinal brace.

43. HENNEN, John. Principles of Military Surgery, comprising observations on the arrangement, police, and practice of hospitals, and on the history, treatment, and anomalies of variola and syphilis... Second edition, with numerous additions. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 8vo, pp. xii, 1 leaf, pp. 580, (4) adverts, 6 engraved plates. Contemporary half russia, spine neatly repaired, a good clean copy.

£425

Second edition. See G&M 2162 (first edition of 1818). Garrison remarked that this book is “a valuable surgical record of the Napoleonic period.” Hennen, an Irishman never without a cigar in his mouth, served in the Peninsular and in Flanders, after which he was appointed deputy inspector of hospitals, and later principal medical officer in the Mediterranean.

44. HENRY, Thomas. Experiments and Observations on the Following Subjects; 1. On the preparation, calcination, and medicinal uses of magnesia alba. 2. On the solvent qualities of calcined magnesia. 3. On the variety in the solvent powers of quick-lime, when used in different quantities. 4. On various absorbents, as promoting or retarding putrefaction. 5. On the comparative antiseptic powers of vegetable infusions prepared with lime, &c. 6. On the sweetening properties of fixed air. London: Printed for Joseph Johnson... 1773. 8vo, pp. xv, (i), 142, (2) advertisements. A corrected errata slip is pasted over the errata on the last preliminary page (as in the Duveen copy). Some light foxing (but heavier on the last few leaves). Modern quarter calf, marbled sides, vellum tips.

£550

FIRST EDITION. Henry’s process of preparing calcined magnesia was the subject of a patent he took out, which became a lucrative property. “Henry’s magnesia” was for a long time a favourite domestic remedy and a source of income for the family for more than a century. In the previous year Henry published an improved process for preparing magnesia, which is reprinted in the present work. There are references to Priestley and an analysis of the work of Black. “The book is an important eighteenth-century landmark in the chemistry of carbon dioxide, magnesium, and calcium compounds” (Neville). Cole 620. Duveen p. 289 (with incorrect collation). Neville I, p. 620. Partington III, pp. 690–691. Waring, Bibliotheca Therapeutica, p. 552. This was Henry’s principal publication.

45. HILTON, John. On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain. A course of lectures, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862. London: Bell and Daldy,... 1863. 8vo, pp. xii, 499. Half-title, illustrations in the text. Original green cloth, uncut, a little rubbed, spine neatly repaired, a very clean copy. Bookplate and newspaper cutting announcing Hilton’s death on the front pastedown.

£450

FIRST EDITION. G&M 5609: Hilton “advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. His book is a surgical classic, still in demand among students (sixth edition, 1950). Second and later editions are entitled On rest and pain.” Keith, Menders of the Maimed, devotes chapter 2 (pp. 18–34) to Hilton: “Of all the means which surgeons could command to assist continued... 23

the tissues to overcome disease and effect repair, he believed rest to be the most valuable.” Billings (p. 89) called this book “one of the most valuable contributions of the century to surgical literature.” Lilly Exhibition Catalogue 170.

46. HOME, Everard. An Account of Mr. Hunter’s Method of Performing the Operation for the Cure of the Popliteal Aneurism. [In:] Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, vol.1, pp.138–181. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1793. 8vo, pp. (iv), 343, (9), 11 engraved plates (some folding), 2 folding tables. Contemporary half sheep, red morocco label on spine. Old library stamp on title and inscription at top, bookplate (cancelled) on front pastedown, and blind stamp on upper cover. A few small marks but a very good copy. The whole volume is offered.

£200

Second appearance of this famous paper, which was first published in the London Medical Journal of 1786. See G&M 2925 (the first work cited on ligation of arteries): “First description of John Hunter’s method of treating popliteal aneurysm. This consisted in a single ligature at a distance high in the healthy tissues. Recorded by his brother-in-law. See also Trans. Soc. Improve. med. Knowl., 1793, 1, 138 [the present work]. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 449–457.” See also Zimmerman & Veith, Great Ideas in the History of Surgery, pp. 348–350. Of the eighteen papers in this volume, five are by John Hunter, four by Matthew Baillie, and three by Everard Home. There is also one by Edward Jenner on the preparation of pure emetic tartar by re-crystallization (LeFanu 4).

First Book on Agricultural Chemistry

47. HOME, Francis. The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation. Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour. 1757. 8vo, pp. viii, 179. Contemporary calf, sides with gilt double-ruled border, spine ruled in gilt (label missing), marbled endpapers, a nice copy.

£650

FIRST EDITION, second issue, of a milestone in the history of chemical and agricultural literature, being “the first book devoted exclusively to explaining the principles underlying agriculture from a chemical standpoint” (Neville). Home insisted that a knowledge of chemistry was essential for understanding the principles of agriculture, and was the first person to attempt to establish a rational system of agriculture and plant nutrition. He thus “laid the foundation on which modern agricultural science is based” (Fussell). Home was a Scottish physician whose interests extended beyond medicine (he also published an important book on bleaching). This issue consists of the sheets of the first issue of 1756 with a new title-page (ESTC records only three copies of the 1756 issue). Neville I, p. 654 (1757 issue). Fussell, Old English Farming Books, pp. 28 and 36. Singer, History of Technology, IV, p. 39. Browne, A Source Book of Agricultural Chemistry, pp. 117–126: “The editio princeps of all subsequent works on agricultural chemistry.”

Names for the Clouds Presentation Copy from the Editor

48. HOWARD, Luke. Essay on the Modifications of Clouds. (First published 1803.) Third edition. London: John Churchill & Sons... 1865. 4to, pp. xvi, 37, 1 leaf (imprint), frontispiece and 5 lithographed plates of clouds. Original mauve cloth (very slight wear to top of spine). Light foxing on the plates, and on verso of half-title offset from frontispiece, otherwise a fine and fresh copy. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title “W D Crewdson Jr Esq from W.D. Howard” [W. Dillworth Howard, Luke Howard’s grandson, and with continued... 24

Item 48, Howard J. Eliot Howard, another grandson, co-editor of this edition]. William Crewdson, like Howard, was a Quaker and both joined the Plymouth Brethren in 1837.

£1400

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Howard’s classification of clouds was the basis for the present international system. It was the first meteorological work of one of the founders of the science of meteorology. All but one of the illustrations are from drawings by the author, who died the year before publication of this edition. “Using the Latin terminology stratus, cumulus, cirrus, and nimbus, Howard defined three groups: simple modifications (cirrus, cumulus, stratus); intermediate modifications (cirro-cumulus, cirro-stratus); and compound modifications (cumulo-stratus, cumulo-cirro-stratus vel nimbus). The system gave evidence of his keen observational powers in differentiating the fundamental cloud forms of heaped (cumulus), layered (stratus), and fibrous (cirrus), even though his knowledge of their mode of formation was rudimentary” (ODNB). Shaw, Manual of meteorology, pp. 133–134 and 208. Hamblyn, The invention of clouds (2001): “Howard was catapulted to fame in December 1802 when he named the clouds, a defining point in natural history and meteorology. His poetic names and groundbreaking work made him internationally famous. He became a cult figure for Romantics like Shelley and Goethe. His work is still the basis of modern meteorology.”

49. HOWARD, Luke. The Climate of London, deduced from meteorological observations, made in the metropolis, and at various places around it. A second, much enlarged and improved edition, in which the observations are continued to the year MDCCCXXX. London: Harvey and Darton... 1833. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. v, (iii), lxxii, 348, and 7 plates (including 2 double-page and partly coloured); 2 leaves, 407 pages, and 1 woodcut plate; 2 leaves, 383 pages, and 2 plates (1 partly coloured). Original brown cloth (neatly rebacked preserving the original backstrips, yellow endpapers replaced). A very clean and partly unopened copy. With the bookplates of Paul and Lucia Waterhouse.

£900

Second edition, enlarged by an entire volume. This was the first book in English on urban climatology, and it introduced new thinking on atmospheric electricity and the causes of rain. It includes Howard’s detailed observations and analysis of meteorology over a period of 26 years, and the text of the first edition of his Essay on the Modifications of Clouds (1803), in which he gave clouds their present names — stratus, cumulus, cirrus, and nimbus. This is an important work in the history of meteorology, and Howard (1772–1864) was one of the founders of that science. This is probably a presentation copy but it is not inscribed. The owner of this copy, Paul Waterhouse (1861–1924), was the son of the architect Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905), who was one of Howard’s closest friends. See the next item for a copy of a book inscribed by Howard to him.

50. HOWARD, Luke. Papers on Meteorology, relating especially to the climate of Britain, and to the variations of the barometer. Being Part I. [–Part II.] of the appendix to Barometrographia. London: Taylor and Francis... 1854 [–1850]. 2 volumes, 4to, 2 leaves, 76 pages, and 6 plates; 3 leaves, pp. 71, (1), 2 plates, 1 folding table as pp. 61– 62. Original blue-green cloth, spine of part 1 a little worn at ends and with a few tears, backstrip of part 2 mostly missing, foxing on one or two plates, otherwise very clean copies. Presentation copies, inscribed on the title-pages “The author to his friend Alfred Waterhouse, Ackworth 26/ix-1854”, and with the small bookplate of Paul Waterhouse dated 1920. Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) was a highly successful architect and, like Howard, a Quaker. His son Paul Waterhouse (1861–1924) was also an architect.

£450

FIRST EDITIONS. Howard, probably the most important English meteorologist of the nineteenth century, published these papers as an appendix to his Barometrographia (1847), a large folio of some magnificence with large diagrams representing the barometer’s changes. The publication of the Papers was announced in the Barometrographia. They include in the first part the remaining text of the Barometrographia, giving an account by E.W. Brayley of Howard’s work through half a century of meteorological observation, in particular of the barometer. The second part contains Howard’s papers communicated to the Royal Society. Loosely inserted in this copy is a printed sheet headed “Notes, Historical and Illustrative” (large folio, folded) containing meteorological observations made in London for use by readers of the present work who are not in possession of his Climate of London.

51. HUNTER, John. A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds. To which is prefixed, a short account of the author’s life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home. London: Printed by John Richardson, for George Nicol,... 1794. 4to, pp. lxvii, 575, engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and 9 plates. Some spotting in gatherings R and S (as usual), title slightly browned, minor creases in upper corner of first few leaves. Bound in the 19th century in half calf for Holland House (joints and ends of spine neatly repaired), spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Holland House on front pastedown, also cut bookseller’s slip for this copy; inscription (slightly erased) at top of title from Holland to Dr. Aglietti.

£3800

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FIRST EDITION. John Hunter, one of the greatest surgeons of all time, collected the material for this “epoch-making book” (G&M) while serving with the army at Belle Isle during the Seven Years’ War. Published posthumously, it is easily the largest work by a British surgeon to date. His studies on inflammation in particular are fundamental for pathology, as there was little understanding of the subject before his time. He classified inflammation into three types, and was the first to assess and describe three essential factors of wound pathology: first, that an external agent in the air, and not the air itself, is a factor in wound inflammation; second, that a good blood supply is essential in maintaining the natural defences of the body; and third, that the presence of mortified tissue in a deep wound prevents healing and promotes the onset of sepsis. He was outstanding in importance to orthopaedic surgery among eighteenth century surgeons, and made epoch-making studies of the surgical diseases of the vascular system. He was acknowledged by Virchow as the founder of experimental and surgical pathology, and his collection of pathological specimens was at one time the finest in the world. G&M 2283. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 52. Lilly, Classical Works, 112. Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, pp. 263–275, reproducing Hunter’s description of his own fatal illness, angina pectoris. Bick, Classics of Orthopaedics, 4. Long, History of Pathology, pp. 148–153. LeFanu, John Hunter, A List, p. 15.

52. [HUSSON, Henri Marie.] Report of the Experiments on Animal Magnetism, made by a committee of the medical section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences: read at the meetings of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831, translated, and now for the first time published; with an historical and explanatory introduction, and an appendix. By J.C. Colquhoun. Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell... 1833. 8vo, pp. xii, 252. Half-title. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label (worn) on spine, uncut. Boards somewhat soiled and a little worn at corners, slight wear to ends of spine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper “With the Author’s Compliments”; signature of W.P. Alison on half-title (William Pulteney Alison, 1790–1859, social reformer and professor of medicine at Edinburgh; small stamp of Edinburgh University Library on title and shelf label at foot of spine.

£360

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and the first generally published edition of the findings of the commission set up by the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris to look into animal magnetism. “The report was favourable, describing experiences of healing through animal magnetism and instances of paranormal phenomena connected with somnambulism... The translation is preceded by a long introduction by Colquhoun, who was one of animal magnetism’s staunchest supporters in England. Colquhoun states in the title that the report is ‘now for the first time published’ because the original French edition by Husson was very rare and never broadly distributed publicly” (Crabtree, Animal magnetism,... an annotated bibliography, 354). Norman Catalogue M96 has the 1836 translation published in Boston.

53. JOSEPH, Jacques. Nasenplastik und sonstige Gesichtsplastik nebst einem Anhang über Mammaplastik und einige weitere Operationen aus dem Gebiete der äusseren Körperplastik. Ein Atlas und Lehrbuch. Leipzig: Verlag von Curt Kabitzsch, 1931. 8vo, pp. xxxi, 842, (2) errata and imprint, (2) adverts, including 1718 text illustrations (some with colour and many from photographs). Publisher's quarter morocco, gilt spine (slightly faded), extreme tips of pp. 1–80 worn (gnawed?) away, but a fine and fresh copy. Bookplate of Dr. Koch von Langentreu.

£1800

FIRST EDITION. G&M 5763.01: “A masterpiece of 20th century plastic surgery, and Joseph’s most comprehensive work.” The numerous illustrations include some of the earliest explicit pre- and postoperative photographs in the literature. “The clinical work of Jacques Joseph of Berlin and his magnificent treatise on operative technics for rhinoplasty and other plastic procedures, published in 1931, may be mentioned as a great modern outgrowth of the seeds sown by Gaspare Tagliacozzi” (Gnudi & Webster). Very scarce.

54. KATO, Genichi. The Theory of Decrementless Conduction in Narcotised Region of Nerve. Tokyo: Nankodo, March 1924. [And:] The Further Studies on Decrementless Conduction. Tokyo: Nankodo, February 1926. 2 volumes, 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 3, 166, 6 plates (3 folding); 1 leaf, pp. 2, 4, 1 leaf, pp. 163, 6 plates (5 folding). Text illustrations. Original cloth, the first volume with d.w. (some tears). Presentation copies, “With Compliments of the Author” slip pasted to both front free endpapers; bookplate of Dr. T. Otsuka in first volume; inscribed by him in German to his colleague Dr. Scheminsky.

£250

FIRST EDITIONS. G&M 1306: “Kato made valuable investigations on nerve conduction.”

55. KIRKLAND, Thomas. An Inquiry into the Present State of Medical Surgery; including the analogy betwixt external and internal disorders; and the inseparability of these branches of the same profession. London: Printed. Sold by J. Dodsley...and William Dawson,... 1783 [–1786]. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. (ii), iv, ii, (iv), 500; iv, (iv), 576, (2) errata, 1 engraved plate. Engraved coatof-arms on the first page of dedication. Early library inscription on both title-pages, some light browning. Modern speckled calf, a good set. The two volumes are not quite uniform (vol. 2 slightly taller), but neither was the only other set that I have had (a presentation copy).

£650

FIRST EDITION, but the two volumes include Kirkland’s earlier works, “now formed into regular essays” (Preface). They include essays on the brain and nerves (three), inflammation (including gout and ophthalmia), abcesses, gangrenes, and amputation. The second volume begins with a defence of the doctrines presented in the first part of the first volume.

The Revival of Plastic Surgery in the West

56. L., B. [A Letter on Rhinoplasty.] [In:] The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. LXIV, part 2, pp. 891–892 and 1 engraved plate at p. 881. London: Printed by John Nichols... 1794. 8vo, pp. (ii), 537–1212, (16), plates. Contemporary half calf, red morocco label on the spine (spine rubbed at foot). The whole volume is offered, in which the article on rhinoplasty is on pp. 891–892 and the plate.

£650

FIRST EDITION. G&M 5735.1. “The event which again brought rhinoplasty to the attention of European surgeons and initiated the revival of the practice that was to lead to its full modern development was the publication in 1794 of the description of a rhinoplastic operation on the bullock-driver Cowasjee, together with an engraving showing various details of the procedure... that appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine of October 1794” (Gnudi & Webster). Joseph Carpue is supposed to have based his method on this article. A further correspondent, T.J. on p. 1093 of this volume, makes reference to Tagliacozzi and Read. Zeis Index 438.

57. LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. Hydrogéologie ou recherches sur l’influence qu’ont les eaux sur la surface du globe terrestre; sur les causes de l’existence du bassin des mers, de son déplacement et de son transport successif sur les différens points de la surface de ce globe; enfin sur les changemens que les corps vivans exercent sur la nature et l’état de cette surface. A Paris: Chez l’Auteur...Agasse...[&] Maillard... An X (1802). 8vo, 268 pages. Later quarter vellum and green marbled boards, fine copy.

£2800

FIRST EDITION of Lamarck’s single contribution to geology. Lamarck saw water as the principal agent of geological change, with the oceans in a constant slow progression round the globe under the moon’s gravitational force. The progressive disintegration of organic remains resulted in continued... 28

the production of minerals, upon which water acted to produce geological formations such as mountains. “Lamarck’s uniformitarianism and great geological time scale have led some to say that he was his own Lyell. Some historians have thought that Lamarck’s perception of a slowly changing environment and the resulting necessity of organisms to change or become extinct (a possiblity he could not accept) led him to his theory of evolution” (DSB). Professor Albert V. Carozzi described this book as “a bibliographical rarity which has been, and still is, virtually unknown to geologists or historians of science” (Isis, 55 (1964), pp. 293–307), but that “a critical study reveals the modern character of so many of his fundamental concepts that his scientific rehabilitation as a geologist seems imperative for a correct understanding of the history of geology” (the preface to Hydrogeology, trans. Carozzi, 1964). In this book Lamarck also coined the term “biology” in its modern sense of life in general (it was first coined by Burdach two years earlier with reference only to human beings). The volume concludes with two further essays, one on fire in chemical analysis and the other on sound. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1802. Norman catalogue 1263. Ward & Carozzi 1312. Davies & Orme, Two Centuries of Earth Science, p. 45. Adams, The Birth...of the Geological Sciences, p. 268: “...admirable little volume”.

58. LARCOMB, Thomas A., & Sir Richard GRIFFITH. A General Map of Ireland to accompany the Report of the Railway Commissioners shewing the physical features and geological structures of the country. Constructed in 1836 & engraved 1837–8. Published & sold by Hodges & Smith, Dublin and James Gardner, London with whom copies geologically coloured are deposited, price twenty shillings plain. [1839.] Large engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, 71 x 58 inches (180 x 147 cm) across the engraved area, dissected and mounted on 6 folding linen sheets edged in red cloth. Signed by Larcombe and Griffith (see below). In its original plain linen wrap and contained in its original leather case with flap and tongue, lettered in gilt on spine. The case inscribed “Major Hodge, 4th Dragoon Guards.” The case rubbed and a little worn at the corners, the map in fine condition.

£1200

FIRST EDITION, first issue of the second published geological map and railway map of Ireland. Griffith’s first geological map of Ireland, on a scale of 1 inch to 10 miles, was published in July 1838 to accompany the second report of the Irish Railway Commission. The publication of the present much larger map, on a scale of 1 inch to 4 miles, was delayed but it finally appeared in March 1839. The present copy is uncoloured geologically, but it appears that coloured copies are very rare and were only coloured to order. “It was remarkably detailed...” (DSB). The first railway map of Ireland was contained in the same second Report of the Irish Railway Commission (the first Report does not appear to have included a map), and in the same way was succeeded by the present map. “Title, left-hand top corner. Legend with 26 tablets in left-hand margin. Signed: ‘Dublin, March 28th, 1839 Richard Griffith.’ References, authorities and scales in lower margin. Below these is the MS. signature of Thos. A. Larcomb, Lieut. R.Eng. (in charge of the Trigonometrical Survey of Ireland at this time and responsible for the engraved basis of the present map and plate)... Coloured examples of this map have not been seen, but an uncoloured copy is in the Library of the Geological Survey, London” (Davis). A.G. Davis, “Notes on Griffith’s geological maps of Ireland” in J. Soc. Bibl. of Natural History, 2, 6 (Oct. 1950), pp. 209–211. For particulars of Griffith’s life and work, particularly the progress of his geological survey of Ireland, see M. H. Close, “Anniversary address to the Royal Geological Society of Ireland” in J. Roy. Geol. Soc. Ireland, 15 (NS. 5, 1880): 132–148. See also Joan M. Eyles in DSB, 5, 537–539. The First Helicopters

59. LAUNOY, — , & — BIENVENU. Instruction sur la nouvelle Machine inventée par MM. Launoy, naturaliste, & Bienvenu, machiniste-physicien, qui a été annoncée dans le Journal de Paris, le 19 avril, 1784. Avec laquelle un corps, contre sa propre tendance, continued... 29

monte dans l’atmosphere avec une vitesse qui égale le vol d’oiseau, & est susceptible de pouvoir être dirigée à la volonté de l’homme... [No place, printer or date; Paris, 1784.] 8vo, 15 pages. Drop-head title. First leaf a little soiled and upper and lower outer corners neatly restored. Contemporary blue wrappers. Contained in a calf-backed chemise lettered in gilt on spine and matching slipcase.

£3500

FIRST EDITION. Description of the first prototype for a helicopter, an airscrew model demonstrated before the Académie des Sciences in Paris in April 1784. It consisted of two two-blade rotors contrarotating on the ends of a short pole, worked by a simple bow-string mechanism. This is in essence the principle of the helicopter and was to lead to all subsequent helicopter development. It was studied by Sir George Cayley who made a model of the Frenchmen’s design in 1796 and later improved it. Purchase of this pamphlet served as an admission ticket to view the three helicopter models then on display at Bienvenu’s house in the Rue de Rohan, Paris. The first machine was the one demonstrated at the Académie des Sciences; the second a larger machine three times the size of the original; and the third a model of a proposed machine,“réservée essentiellement à l’examen du Public” (p. 2). Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique, p. 26. Hodgson, p. 394. Gibbs-Smith, Sir George Cayley’s aeronautics, pp. 1–3. Rare; OCLC lists three copies, one in the Bibliotheque nationale and two in Germany.

60. LE PILEUR D’APLIGNY, — . Traité des Couleurs Matérielles, et de la maniere de colorer, relativement aux différens arts et métiers. A Paris: Chez Saugrain & Lamy... Et Barrois aîné... 1779. 12mo, pp. xii, 342, (4). Contemporary mottled sheep, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red edges, marbled endpapers. Bookplate carelessly removed from front endpaper, and a small hole in the leather on the upper cover, otherwise a nice copy.

£900

FIRST EDITION. “An important work on the chemical and physical processes of coloring, dealing with the preparations and compounding of various natural dyestuffs and inorganic pigments and their application to many different substances (e.g. cloth fabrics, wood, marble, stone, enamel, glass, and porcelain). There are long sections on the preparation of varnishes; the technique of gilding; oil, fresco, and encaustic painting; etc. Rare... Not in Edelstein, Lawrie, or the usual chemical bibliographies” (Neville). Le Pileur d’Apligny also published two books on dyeing in 1770 and 1776. Neville II, p. 56. This was the only edition, and as Neville notes, it is quite rare.

61. LISTER, Joseph, Baron. Contributions to Physiology and Pathology. From the Philosophical Transactions.—Part II. for 1858. London: Printed by Taylor and Francis... 1859. Large 4to, 1 leaf, pp. 607–702, 2 lithographed plates (1 chromolithographed) from drawings by Lister. Original buff wrappers (slight wear to ends of spine, upper wrapper detached).

£950

OFFPRINT. G&M 2298, the third paper, On the early stages of inflammation, one of Lister’s most valuable researches. “This offprint contains three closely related papers on inflammation — ‘An inquiry regarding the parts of the nervous system which regulate the contractions of the arteries’, ‘On the cutaneous pigmentary system of the frog’, and ‘On the early stages of inflammation’ — the fruit of a year’s intensive research undertaken to determine whether inflammation was an active or passive process... The third and most important of these papers records the earliest stages produced in a frog’s web by such irritants as hot water and chloroform; the remaining two papers contain original observations on nervous control of artery diameter and on the relationship between inflammation continued... 30

and pigmentation changes in the frog. Lister’s results led him to conclude that inflammation was an active principle... Lister always believed — mistakenly but sincerely — that these three papers on inflammation were his most important work, eclipsing even his introduction of antiseptic techniques into surgical practice” (Norman). Norman catalogue 1363.

62. LOCKERT, Louis. Petroleum Motor-Cars. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company... 1898. 8vo, pp. xv (including the first leaf, blank), 218, (6) adverts. With 92 figures in the text. Original green cloth. Gathering G browned, front endpaper and rear inner hinge slightly loose, but a nice copy.

£750

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the early English works on the motor car, the first of which had been published only two years earlier. This book first appeared in French as the third of Lockert’s 4-volume work on road vehicles. Although the title refers only to petroleum motor cars, it includes bicycles, tricycles, and a discussion of acetylene as a fuel.

One of the Most Important Texts in the History of Physiology

63. LOWER, Richard. Tractatus de Corde. Item de motu & colore sanguinis et chyli in eum transitu. Londini: Typis Jo. Redmayne impensis Jacobi Allestry... 1669. 8vo, 8 leaves, pp. 220, (20), 7 folding engraved plates. Complete with the initial blank A1. Contemporary French speckled calf, gilt arms on sides (see below), very neatly rebacked preserving the original spine.

£18,500

FIRST EDITION, second issue (see below) of “the most important contribution to circulatory physiology after William Harvey’s De motu cordis, published three years before Lower’s birth. Nobel Laureate André Cournand considered Lower’s book to be one of the most important texts in the history of physiology because of the nature of its observations, the rigor of its experimental design and demonstrations, and its simple and convincing form of presentation... “Lower entered medical practice in London in 1666 and continued experiments he had begun in Oxford on the motion and color of the blood and on transfusion. His observations on these subjects were summarized in Tractatus de corde. “Lower made important observations on the structure of cardiac muscle, the quantity of blood in the vascular system, the velocity of blood flow, and the effects of aeration of blood as it passed through the lungs. He was impressed by the complex arrangement of muscular fibers in the heart and felt their unique arrangement was responsible for the contraction of the ventricular cavities in systole that propelled blood into the vascular system. In a series of experiments performed with Robert Hooke, Lower showed that the red color of arterial blood was due to its contact with ‘fresh air’ in the lungs. His book also contained observations on the technique and safety of blood transfusion, a technique he pioneered” (W. Bruce Fye in Grolier One Hundred (Medicine). There are two issues: in the second issue, the original leaf A6 has been replaced by a cancellans in order (according to John F. Fulton) to “modify (very slightly) a scurrilous remark... concerning the Irishman O’Meara” (ibid). Provenance: arms on the covers of Daniel Huet (1630–1720), Bishop of Avranches and celebrated anti-Cartesian; engraved bookplate with his arms commemorating his living donation of his library in 1692 to the Jesuit order in Paris on front pastedown; donation inscription confirming the same on the title; manuscript and printed shelfmarks. Huet was a celebrated scholar and author, whose library of books and manuscripts was later purchased by the King for the Royal Library. Wing L3310. G&M 761. Printing and the Mind of Man 149. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine) 34. Fulton, Two Oxford Physiologists, 4.

Extra-Illustrated

64. [MACMICHAEL, William.] The Gold-Headed Cane. London: John Murray, AlbemarleStreet. 1827. 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. 179, (1). With woodcuts in the text. Extra-illustrated with 98 engraved plates (1 folding). Later full blue calf by Arthur S. Colley (neat repair to upper joint), spine gilt in compartments with gilt centres and two red morocco labels, sides panelled in gilt with gilt centrepiece of the goldheaded cane, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A very attractive copy.

£900

FIRST EDITION. G&M 6709: “This charming ‘autobiography’ tells of the adventures of the famous gold-headed cane, successively in the possession of Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, William and David Pitcairn, and Baillie, and then retired to a glass case in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Besides good biographies of the several owners of the cane, the book gives interesting information on the condition of medicine in England in the eighteenth century.” A most unusual and particularly richly extra-illustrated copy, with nearly one hundred additional illustrations, mostly portraits and views, including some of London buildings, and Hogarth’s “Consultation of Physicians”. Improved Edition

65. MACQUER, [Pierre Joseph]. Dictionnaire de Chymie, contenant la théorie et la pratique de cette science, son application à la physique, à l’histoire naturelle, à la médecine, & aux arts dépendans de la chymie. Seconde edition, revue & considérablement augmentée. A Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot jeune,... 1778. 4 volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxxvii, (iii), 568; 2 leaves, pp. 655; 2 leaves, pp. 520; 1 leaf, pp. 776. Without the errata leaves in vols. 2, 3 and 4, and the inserted leaf paginated *335–*336 in vol. 4. Nineteenth century quarter green morocco and marbled sides. Upper margin trimmed a little close in places, but a very good set.

£900

Second edition. “It is the genuine second edition as written by Macquer, whose name now appears on the title and whose reputation had by this time greatly increased. An important addition is the 168-page article on gas, a topic that was almost entirely new and had not been mentioned in the first edition... While the number of articles remains almost the same, the work is nearly twice as long owing to the inclusion of an up-to-date account of chemistry and much new material...” (Neville). Macquer also added a large index to this edition. Cole 868, noting that other copies seen also lack errata leaves. DSB, VIII, pp. 618–624. Neville p. 113. See Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1766. Although designated the (genuine) second edition on the title-page, this is actually the fifth appearance in French of this important and influential dictionary.

66. MACQUER, [Pierre Joseph]. Dictionnaire de Chymie, contenant la théorie et la pratique de cette science, son application à la physique, à l’histoire naturelle, à la médecine, & aux arts dépendans de la chymie. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée. En Suisse: Chez Les Libraires Associés. 1779 [–1780]. 4 volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxviii, 580; 1 leaf, pp. 655; 1 leaf, pp. 520, (4) bank; 2 leaves, pp. 776. Contemporary restoration to lower blank corner of a3 in vol. 1. Contemporary vellum, brown morocco labels on spines, red edges, a fine set. Bookplates of G.P.C., and of Fratelli Salimboni.

£800

Second Swiss edition, an unchanged reprint of the expanded and improved second edition of 1778 by Les Libraires Associés, the imprint used by the Sociétés Typographiques of Berne, Lausanne, and Neuchâtel in the years 1779–82 for books that they issued in co-operation. The fourth volume of this edition appeared a year after the others as the original fourth volume did not appear until 1780, although dated 1778. Cole 872. DSB, VIII, pp. 618–624. Neville p. 115.

67. [MADHOUSES.] Anno Nono Georgii IV. Regis. Cap. XL. An Act to amend the Laws for the Erection and Regulation of County Lunatic Asylums, and more effectually to provide for the Care and Maintenance of Pauper and Criminal Lunatics, in England. [And:] Cap. XLI. An Act to regulate the Care and Treatment of Insane Persons in England. [15th July 1828.] [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan... 1828.] Folio, pp. 365–395 and 397–416. Some 19th century notes and underlining in ink and two marginal tears in the first Act. Disbound.

£120

FIRST EDITIONS. The most important Acts of Parliament for the regulation of lunatic asylums since the first of 1774, replacing the Commissioners of the College of Physicians with fifteen Metropolitan Commissioners. “The Act of 1828 (9 Geo. IV, c. 41) empowered the Commissioners to visit private asylums in the metropolitan area four times a year...and to meet quarterly to grant licences which they could revoke or refuse. Unlike the College of Physicians Commissioners to whom the job had become irksome, they pursued their task with zeal and...effected many long overdue improvements. So successful was their vigilance and devotion that in 1842 it was moved in the House [of Commons] that they be empowered to inspect all asylums public and private throughout the country” (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 923). Proof of the Shape of the Earth With the Separate Map

68. MAIRE, Christopher, & Roger Joseph BOSCOVICH. De Litteraria Expeditione per Pontificam ditionem ad dimetiendos duos meridiani gradus et corrigendam mappam geographicam jussu, et auspiciis Benedicti XIV... Romae: In typographo Palladis, excudebant Nicolaus, et Marcus Palearini, 1755. 4to, pp. xxi, (i), 516, (3) errata, and 4 folding and stilted engraved plates. Extra-illustrated with the map on three large folding engraved plates (see below). Half-title, title-page in red and black with woodcut ornament, some fine woodcut headpieces and initials. Some minor foxing on the first and last leaves, cut in lower margin of first leaf of dedication neatly repaired, cut in lower margin of Eee4, a few small wormholes in the endpapers just encroaching on title and margin of final map sheet. Contemporary vellum (short tear at top of lower joint, a few small wormholes in spine), spine lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges.

£2500

FIRST EDITION. The first measurements of the shape of the earth to prove Newton’s theory that it was ellipsoid and flattened at the poles were taken by French expeditions to Peru in 1735, and to Lapland in 1736. Interest was aroused and Pope Benedict XIV commissioned two learned Jesuits, Christopher Maire, who was English, and Roger Joseph Boscovich, from Dubrovnik, to measure an arc of the meridian between Rome and Rimini and to prepare a new map of the Papal States. “The onerous work took three years. its results confirmed...the geodetic consequences of unevenness in the earth’s strata, the possibility of determining surface irregularities by such measurements, as well as the deviation of meridians and parallels from a properly spherical shape” (DSB). The result appeared in this fine volume divided into five parts of which the first, fourth and fifth are the work of Boscovich. “Part One describes past studies on the shape of the earth and gives a vivid account of the history of the journey... Part Three corrects the existing geographical map. Part Four is one of the few treatises of that time on practical astronomy. Part Five is devoted to the theories of geodesy...” (Whyte, Boscovich, p. 45). The map, which was issued separately and is rarely found with the book, as here, shows the Papal States. It has a large explanatory tablet on the first sheet and a fine title cartouche on the third. First Major Study of Earthquakes Presentation Copy

69. MALLET, Robert, & John William MALLET. The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association, with the discussion, curves, and maps, etc. (From the Transactions continued... 33

of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1852 to 1858.) Being the Third and Fourth Reports. London: Printed by Taylor and Francis... 1858. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 176, (117)–212, 326, 136, and 15 plates (including 11 folding, 2 coloured, and 8 graphs) numbered I–XV + X bis (V and VI are on one sheet). Contemporary green half calf, marbled sides, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine faded to brown). Presentation copy, inscribed by Mallett at the top of the title-page: “The Earl of Enniskillen with the author’s respects.” Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Enniskillen on front pastedown.

£1200

OFFPRINT, consisting of four separate parts, compiled from the sheets from four different volumes (for 1852, 1853, 1854 and 1858) of the Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, separately published with an added title-page. These four parts comprise Mallet’s Third and Fourth Reports to the British Association (the First and Second Reports are on the history of earthquakes and do not form part of the Catalogue). The first large-scale historical study of earthquakes, which includes in the two reports between 6000 and 7000 separate recorded earthquakes from every known part of the world. “Between them, they contain an extensive catalogue—which he prepared and debated with his son John W. Mallet—of 6,831 earthquakes reported between 1606 B.C. and A.D. 1858 and his seismic map of the world” (DSB). The Fourth Report includes a bibliography of earthquakes. The Reports of the British Association are not uncommon, but The Earthquake Catalogue, being a separately published compilation, is very rarely found.

70. MANNE, [Mathieu Laurent Michel]. Traité Élémentaire des Maladies des Os. A Toulon: De l’Imprimerie de Mallard,... 1789. 8vo, pp. viii, 424, (4). Original limp paper boards, uncut. Spine a little darkened, marks from adhesive tape in the outer corners of the title and last page, otherwise a fine, largely unopened copy.

£280

SOLE EDITION. Manne was a naval surgeon at Toulon, and after seeing action in America was appointed the principal naval surgeon for the port of Toulon on his return to France. This was his only book.

First Fatal Air Crash

71. [MARAT, Jean-Paul.] Lettres de l’Observateur Bons-Sens, a M. de ***, sur la fatale catastrophe des infortunés Pilatre de Rosier & Romain, les Aéronautes & l’Aérostation. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Méquignon l’Aîné... 1785. 8vo, 39 pages, engraved frontispiece (bound after the title) and 1 engraved plate. Extra-illustrated at the beginning with a double-page portrait of Marat (browned), and five later woodcuts of a portrait of Pilatre de Rozier, the balloon, the crash, etc. Modern tree sheep, spine gilt with red morocco label and balloon ornaments, marbled endpapers, uncut, a fine copy. Blind stamp on the front free endpaper of William Malpas.

£1600

FIRST EDITION. An account of the first victims of aerostation. Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier (1754–1785) was one of the pioneers of aviation. He and his friend the Marquis d’Arlandes made the first free balloon flight in November 1783. However, Pilatre de Rozier and his friend Pierre Romain died on 15th June 1785 when their balloon crashed near Calais while they were attempting the first flight across the Channel, thus becoming the first known victims of a fatal air crash. This rare pamphlet by Marat, physician, scientist and revolutionary, gives a description of their balloon, an account of the crash and the possible reasons for it. Marat also considers the dangers of flying. The plates illustrate the balloon before and after the crash. Not in Tissandier. Maggs Cat. 387, 191 (with only 1 plate).

72.

MAXWELL, Robert. Select Transactions of the Honourable the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland. Directing the husbandry of the different soils for the most profitable purposes... Together with an account of the Society’s endeavours to promote our manufactures. Prepared for the press by Robert Maxwell... Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran. Sold by Mess. Paton... and Drummond. 1743. 8vo, 1 leaf (imprimatur), pp. xxx, 457, (1), and 1 folding engraved plate. Signed by Maxwell on the verso of the title-page to prevent piracy. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt and with gilt centres, red morocco label (ends of spine neatly repaired). Spine darkened, but a very good copy.

£800

FIRST EDITION. The Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland, formed in 1723, was the first agricultural society in Europe. Its aim was to introduce new agricultural methods, and much of this information is contained in the Select Transactions. “A large portion of this work stemmed from Maxwell himself, and it contained many suggestions which were then new to Scotland, such as the efficacy and the mode of burning clay or subsoil, the method of cutting seed potatoes and of planting them, and the rotation of crops and root crops, in addition to information on the agriculture and manufactures of Scotland... [It also] contained detailed correspondence with Jethro Tull, as well as agricultural advice on cultivation, the growing of grass and sainfoin, drainage, and fencing, and other responses to members’ queries” (ODNB). Maxwell was one of the earliest and most active members of the Society, and its secretary. In 1756 he gave the first series of lectures on agriculture in Britain. Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, p. 20.

73. MAYOW, John. Opera Omnia Medico-Physica, tractatibus quinque comprehensa... Editio novissima, figuris æneis adornata. Hagae-Comitum [The Hague]: Apud Arnoldum Leers, 1681. 12mo, 4 leaves, 416 pages, 12 leaves, and 6 engraved plates (plate 6 is double-page). Including the engraved portrait on *4 verso, and the final leaf of instructions to the binder. Title printed in red and black. Eighteenth century half mottled sheep, red morocco label on spine, corners worn. Some very minor foxing, but a good copy. Initials B.D.L. in gilt on spine.

£1600

FIRST EDITION of the Opera Omnia, which is in effect a second edition of his classic Tractatus Quinque (1674), as it contains only that work, consisting of the following five tracts: De Sal-nitro, De Respiratione, De Respiratione Foetus in Utero et Ovo, De Motu Musculari, and De Rachitide. See G&M 578 (physiology) and 2726.2 (cardiology, confusingly giving the date of the first edition with a note referring to the second): “In the second edition of the Tractatus quinque Mayow recorded a case of mitral stenosis, probably the first description.” See also East, The story of heart disease, pp. 128–129 (giving the impression that the description is in the first edition). Duveen p. 397. Neville p. 158. Fulton, Two Oxford Physiologists, 109. Best Incunable Edition The Basis of Modern Pharmacy

74. MESUE, Johannes (Maswijah al-Mardini). [Opera Medicinalia.] [Colophon:] Impressa Venetiis [Venice:] per Bonetum Locatellum...impensis...Octaviani Scoti... 1495. Folio (318 x 217 mm.), 332 unnumbered leaves. Gothic type, printed in double columns, 66 lines, floriated woodcut white-on-black initials, numerous initials supplied in red or blue, headings underlined in red, large publisher’s woodcut device at end. Contemporary blind-tooled half pigskin over beech boards, lettered in manuscript on upper cover. Upper joint just cracking, one upper corner chipped, old and almost imperceptible repair to fore-edge of upper board, clasps missing, wormtrack in lower inner blank corner of first dozen leaves then diminishing, otherwise a fine copy in a very well preserved contemporary binding. Old armorial bookplate on upper cover, two later bookplates on front pastedown.

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Item 74, Mesue

Penultimate and most complete of the incunable editions, and the first to include (as listed on the title-page) the commentary of St. John de Armand on the Antidotarium of Nicolas of Salerno, together with his text, one of the most widely recogniszed pharmacopoeias of the Middle Ages. Also included is the Complementum practicae of Francescus Pedemontanus; a commentary on the Canones of Mesuë by Mundinus, Expositio super canones universales; the Expositio super Antidotarium Mesue by Christophorus de Honestis; the Additiones ad practicam of Petrus de Abano on tumours of the breast and diseases of the stomach and liver; and the Compendium aromatariorum of Saladinus of Ascoli, generally considered the first really modern pharmacopoeia. “The Grabadin [here called the Antidotarium] of Mesuë junior was for centuries the authority on the composition of medicaments. The book was not only in use in practically every European pharmacy but in addition became the basis of the later official pharmacopoeias. The Grabadin is, as Sudhof calls it, ‘the pharmacological quintessence of Arabian therapeutics’ and contains the entire armamentarium of compounded medicines which we owe to the Arabians. The arrangement is like that of the later pharmacopoeias. The compounded medicines are divided into groups according to their forms — confections, juleps, syrups, etc. — the monographs containing directions for the preparation of the respective products and also notes on their medicinal uses” (Kremers & Urdang, History of Pharmacy, pp. 21–22). Klebs 680.14. BMC V, 444. See Garrison, p. 133. Hagelin, Old and Rare Books on Materia Medica, p. 18 (later edition).

75. [MORELLY, — .] Code de la Nature, ou le véritable esprit de ses loix, de tout tems négligé ou méconnu. Par-Tout: Chez le Vrai Sage. 1755. Small 8vo, pp. 236, (4). Title printed in red and black with an engraved vignette. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red sprinkled edges, a very fine and clean copy.

£2800

FIRST EDITION of this proposal for the ideal state, which included unity of funds, public use of tools and products, equal education, communal self-sufficiency and the abolition of financial remuneration. See the long account of this book in the Nouvelle Biographie Générale: “It is remarkable that these ideas, which were the most extreme of the socialist policies of the period, appeared at a time when political economy was being established on the principles of the wealth of nations. Morelly had a definite talent for rhetoric, and he laid emphasis on ideas of public prosperity; his philosophy was very attractive before its practicalities demonstrated its dangers; even Morelly did not appreciate its full significance. His Code de la Nature is both the last of the inert Utopias which, from Plato’s Republic to the Télèphe of Pechmeja, proposed a state of ideal well-being with no practicability, and the first of the more alarming Utopias produced by the French proletariat with the idea of immediate application” (in translation). Goldsmiths 9074. Kress 5457. Higgs 1107. Hartig & Soboul, Pour une histoire de l’Utopie en France au 18è siècle, p. 55.

76. MORTON, Thomas, and William CADGE. The Surgical Anatomy of the Principal Regions of the Human Body. London: Taylor, Walton, & Maberly,... 1850. 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. 371, (5)–24, 25 hand-coloured lithographed plates (18 folding or double page), other text illustrations. Walton & Maberly’s adverts dated August 1856 bound in at end. Original blind-stamped cloth, uncut. Endpapers replaced, slight spotting on a few plates, otherwise a fine and fresh copy.

£700

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, comprising the four works The surgical anatomy of the perinaeum, ...of the groin, ...of inguinal herniae, and ...of the head and neck, axilla, bend of the elbow, and wrist, which were issued separately between 1838 and 1845. Entirely the work of Morton except for one part of the text by Cadge, this collected edition was issued after Morton’s death. “All these works continued... 37

are remarkable, because they are illustrated by his brother Andrew Morton, and mark the revival of an artistic representation of anatomical details” (D’Arcy Power in DNB). The striking plates were drawn and boldly signed by Andrew Morton, a leading London portrait painter, and were lithographed by William Fairland.

77. [NEEDHAM, John Turbeville.] New Microscopical Discoveries; containing observations, I. On the calamary... II. On the Farina foecandans of plants... III. On the pistil, uterus and stamina of several flowers... IV. On the supposed Embryo Sole found on the bodies of shrimps... V. On Eels or Worms... VI. On several other curious particulars relating to the natural history of animals, plants, &c. London: Printed for F. Needham,... 1745. 8vo, pp. viii, 126, (2) adverts, 6 fine folding stipple-engraved plates by Henry Roberts. The title is a cancel. Plates 5 and 6 are transposed. Contemporary unlettered calf, a bit rubbed and spine slightly worn at head, upper joint just beginning to crack, but an excellent copy.

£1500

FIRST EDITION. Needham’s first book, containing some important biological discoveries. “His valuable discoveries have been somewhat overshadowed by the spontaneous generation controversy. In fact he made admirable contributions to the physiology, sexual and general, of cephalopods and cirripedes, he studied pollen grains as analogues of spermatozoa and was the first to see Brownian motion in them, and he described the horned eggs of elasmobranch fishes” (Needham, History of embryology). Cole Library 1491 (indicating that this issue, with the altered title and cancel title leaf, is the later of two which appeared in 1745).

78. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Hospitals: being two papers read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Liverpool, in October 1858. With evidence given to the Royal Commissioners of the state of the army in 1857. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. 8vo, pp. (vii), 108, + 8 pages of advertisements at the end, folding letterpress table and 4 folding plates of hospital plans. With the half-title and the final advertisements. Old library stamp on title and a few other pages and the backs of the plates, paper very slightly browned in the margins. Original dark brown cloth (spine and corners neatly repaired), a very good copy.

£2800

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. “Based on Nightingale’s extensive knowledge of English and Continental hospitals, the work was the most exhaustive study to date of hospital planning and administration. She blamed the majority of hospital deaths on overcrowding, lack of light and ventilation, and the collection of large numbers of the sick under one roof” (Norman). “The little book, revolutionary in character, set the seal on Miss Nightingale’s authority on the subject of hospitals, and gave a new direction to their construction” (Bishop & Goldie). It was made up of two papers read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science and three articles reprinted from The Builder. G&M 1611. Bishop & Goldie, Bio-bibliography, 100 (iii). Norman catalogue 1599.

79. [NORDEN, John.] The Surveyors Dialogue. Divided into five Bookes: very profitable for all men to peruse, that have to do with the revenues of land, or the manurance, use, or occupation thereof, both lords and tenants: as also and especially for such as indevor to be seene in the faculty of surveying of mannors, lands, tenements, &c. By I.N. London: Printed for Hugh Astley... 1607. 4to (in 8s), pp. (xvi), 244. With the first leaf (blank but for the signature A), but without the final two blank leaves. Contemporary panelled calf, black spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco label. Dampstain on the first 8 leaves and some leaves towards the end, wormtrack in lower margin of some leaves, a few headlines just shaved, otherwise a very clean and pretty copy. Armorial bookplate of N. Cholmley, early signature of N. Boothe on front endpaper.

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FIRST EDITION of the first English book on surveying of the seventeenth century, and a text remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. “Norden’s fame came from his cartography, but surveying was always the mainstay of his career... In 1600 he was...appointed surveyor of crown woods and forests in southern England, and in 1605 he added the surveyorship of the duchy of Cornwall... It was from this position of eminence that in 1607 Norden published The Surveyor's Dialogue as a text to educate the landowner and tenant in the usefulness and trustworthiness of his profession. Surveyors were often considered the landowner's creature and were accordingly distrusted by tenants. A popular work, the Dialogue shows Norden as a compassionate man, in sympathy with the respectable and hard-working of every class; the book ran to three editions in his lifetime” (ODNB). In addition to containing much detail of the legal technicalities concerning the court of survey, the work also describes for the first time in English the difference between a theodolite and a circumferentur. STC 18639. Richeson, English Land Measuring to 1800, pp. 92–94. Taylor (Tudor & Stuart), 113. Kress 279. This is a particularly nice copy (most of the copies that are offered for sale are imperfect or in poor condition). There were three editions between 1607 and 1618.

80. ORIBASIUS. Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem: quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continentur: Joanne Baptista Rasario...interprete. [Colophon:] Venetiis [Venice]: apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium, 1554. Small 8vo, 216 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title, text printed in italics throughout. Title and last page a bit soiled and stained, some very minor foxing in the text. Eighteenth century Italian marbled boards and sheep spine, ruled in gilt, red morocco label (head of spine slightly worn, short crack at top of lower joint), red edges. From the library of the Royal Society of Medicine, with their stamp on title and front endpaper; large bookplate of John Fletcher on pastedown and a note on Rasario tipped in.

£900

FIRST EDITION. Derived from his larger work Collectorum medicinalium, Oribasius produced this abridged edition or synopsis for his son Eustathius. “In following the medical studies of his son, [Oribasius] had come to realise the necessity for a short text-book...which purposely contained only the essentials of the art of healing and conveyed in concise form the mature experience and independently acquired judgment of the author... The attractive accounts of gymnastics, diet at various ages, education and diseases of children are of especial interest” (Neuburger, p. 303). The Collectorum was the most extensive surviving work of the fourth century Greek physician Oribasius, and comprised excerpts of the more important writings of the Greek physicians. “For the historian of medicine Oribasius is especially important for his role in preserving earlier, more important medical authors, whom we know about, in part, only through his excerpts” (DSB). Choulant, Handbuch, p. 124: “Rare.”

81. PARACELSUS. Chirurgia Magna, in duos tomos digesta... Nunc recens a Josquino Dalhemio...donata. Argentorati [i.e. Basel]: [Peter Perna], 1573. [Bound with, as issued:] Chirurgia Minor, quam alias Bertheoneam intitulavit. Cui etiam sequentes tractatus accesserunt, eiusdem authoris. De apostematibus, syronibus, & nodis. De cutis apertionibus. De vulnerum & ulcerum curis. De vermibus, serpentibus, &c. ac maculis à nativitate ortis. Ex versione Gerardi Dorn. [Basel: Peter Perna?], 1573. 2 works in 1 volume (the first in 2 parts), small folio, 6 leaves, pp. 223, (1) blank), (27); 1 leaf, pp. 250, (36); 1 leaf, pp. 263, (5). Separate title-pages to the second part and second work, woodcut initials. Some foxing (mostly light but worse in signature L) and paper a little browned, first title dust-soiled and with two creases. Eighteenth century English calf, rebacked and corners repaired. Armorial bookplate of Clement Archer on front pastedown; small old library stamp on title and one preliminary page.

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FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of the Grosse Wundartzney, Paracelsus’ most important medical work, published together a reprint of Gerard Dorn’s Latin editions of the Chirurgia Minor and Chirurgia Vulnerum. This is an important edition, as it was through this Latin edition, and not the earlier vernacular editions, that Paracelsus’ medical writings were disseminated throughout Europe. The Grosse Wundartzney was one of the few, and easily the most important, of Paracelsus’ writings to be published in his lifetime. “Among Paracelsus’ practical achievements was his management of wounds and chronic ulcers. These conditions were overtreated at the time, and Paracelsus’ success lay in his conservative, noninterventionist approach, which was based upon his belief in natural healing power and mumia, an active principle in tissues. He thus continued the tradition of Theodoric Borgognoni of Lucca and his pupil Henry of Mondeville, both of whom had advocated, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, aseptic and pus-preventing treatment, the method of rara vulnerum medicatio (as Cesare Magati named it in 1616). Chemical therapy had been used chiefly externally by the ancients, but Paracelsus recognised the superiority of chemicals taken internally over the traditional, mostly herbal, internal medicines. He imposed strict controls on their use, however, holding that chemicals must be given only in moderate doses (in contrast to the toxic doses of mercury then used in treating syphilis) and only in detoxified form... Paracelsus also knew of the diuretic action of mercury in the treatment of dropsy and of the narcotic and sedative properties of ether-like preparations that he obtained from the interaction of alcohol and sulfur” (DSB). Sudhoff 146–147 and 148. Durling 3496 and 3497. See G&M 5561 for the first edition of 1536. Zimmerman & Veith, Great Ideas in the History of Surgery, pp. 171–178.

82. PASTA, Andrea. Epistolae ad Alethopilum duae, altera de motu sanguinis post mortem, altera de cordis polypo in dubium revocato. Bergomi [Bergamo:] Ex Typographia Joannis Santini, 1737. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 3–82, 3 leaves, 1 engraved copperplate. Contemporary half mottled sheep, red edges. Some minor foxing, but a nice, crisp copy.

£280

SOLE EDITION of a rare book. Pasta (1706–1782), a pupil and friend of Morgagni, was a wellknown physician of Bergamo. The first treatise in this book is concerned with the circulation of the blood after death, and the second is on the anatomical status of a polyp in the heart discussed by Kerckring on p. 145 of his Spicilegium anatomicum (1670), and whether it is to be regarded as invasive or, in select cases, normal. Both letters contain numerous references to other writers on pathology, including Morgagni, Malpighi, Bonet, etc.

83. PASTEUR, L[ouis]. Études sur La Bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: Gauthier-Villars,... 1876. 8vo, pp. viii, 387, 4 (adverts), 12 plates, figures in the text. Half-title. Modern quarter black morocco, marbled sides. Small library stamp on preliminary leaves, versos of plates and occasionally elsewhere; early signature of John Bidgood at top of title; some neat pencilled annotations (cropped) in the margins.

£400

FIRST EDITION. G&M 2485: “Pasteur resumed his studies on fermentation in 1876, and in this book takes into account the developments in this field since his previous publications on the subject. He described a new and perfect method of preparing pure yeast and acknowledged that a limited quantity of oxygen was important for brewing.” Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 158. Norman catalogue 1658. Neville II, p. 272: “...contains discoveries of fundamental importance in the sciences of biochemistry and bacteriology.”

First Design for a Helicopter

84. PAUCTON, [Alexis Jean-Pierre]. Théorie de la Vis d’Archimede, de laquelle on déduit celle des moulins conçus d’une nouvelle maniere. On y joint la construction d’un nouveau lock ou sillometre, & celle d’une sorte de rames très-commodes, &c... A Paris: Chez Butard... Desventes de la Doué... La Garde... 1768. Small 8vo, pp. (xii), xx, 214, (10), and 7 folding engraved plates. Half-title. Two leaves of the preface torn across and neatly repaired with a few lost letters carefully inked in, otherwise a nice copy. Slightly later green boards, unlettered, yellow edges, contained in a fine solander box by Ateliers Laurenchet, morocco spine decorated and lettered in gilt.

£900

FIRST EDITION. The first suggestion of the screw propeller and design for a helicopter. In this technical work on the Archimedes screw the mathematician Alexis Jean-Pierre Paucton (1732– 1798) proposed for the first time the screw as a method of propelling ships, although it would be another seventy years before the first steam ship driven by a screwpropeller, the SS Archimedes, was built. In a section entitled “Du Ptérophore ou nouveau volant” (pp. 181–214) Paucton investigates the aerodynamic possibilities of the screw and describes the principle of the helicopter. Paucton’s work was carefully studied by later aviation theorists. Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique, p. 9: “Ce mémoire renferme une curieuse description d’un hélicoptère destiné à élever un homme.” This copy was no. 207 in the L’Art Ancien catalogue ‘Flight’ (c. 1978).

First Neurology Book in English

85. [PEMELL, Robert.] De Morbis Capitis; or, of the chief internall diseases of the head. With their causes, signes, prognosticks, and cures, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. By R.P. London: Printed for Philemon Stephens... 1650. 12mo, pp. (xiv), 141. Without the first leaf, blank, and final leaf K8 (blank?) not called in any other collation found. Title within typographical rope-twist border (neatly restored in the inner margin with a small part of the border supplied in pen facsimile). Title-page closely trimmed at foot, also errata affecting final word, small piece torn from upper corner of B3 affecting part of page numeral, paper a little browned. Contemporary sheep (small repair to head of spine).

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FIRST EDITION of the first neurology book in English, published fourteen years before Thomas Willis’s first neurological book, Cerebri anatome. It gives medicines for a variety of neurological diseases, the chapter on epilepsy being the longest. It includes one or two less neurological conditions such as catarrh and nightmares. Pemell (d. 1653) gives a bibliography of earlier works to which he refers. His other published works include the second treatise in English on paediatrics. Wing P1131. Although not especially rare in absolute terms, this book is very seldom seen on the market (2 copies traced in over 70 years).

First Book on Toxicology

86. PIETRO D’ABANO. Tractatus de Venenis. [Colophon:] Rome: [no printer,] 1490. 4to, 18 unnumbered leaves. Gothic letter, 33 lines. Modern dark unlettered sheep, a fine copy.

£6500

Eighth printing, but the fifth separate edition. The first printed book on toxicology, treating of poisons and their antidotes. “The topics considered in its six main chapters are: the classification of poisons, how they act upon the body, how to guard against them, the effects and cures of a long list of particular poisons, and finally the problem of a panacea or bezoar against all poisons” (Thorndike). The poisons considered are wide ranging, and include arsenic and hemlock, narcotics, and animal poisons. The author makes reference to the loadstone as a poison if taken internally, and to two kinds of magnet (see Mottelay, p. 501, referring to this edition). continued... 41

Pietro d’Abano was born near Padua in 1250, and wrote De venenis in about 1316. First printed with his Conciliator at Mantua in 1472, the same year as Bagellardo’s book on paediatrics, it was one of the first books on a specific medical speciality to be printed. Klebs 774.8. BMC IV, 91. For a full account of this book, and of Pietro d’Abano’s life and other works, see Thorndike, II, pp. 874–947, and for the more bizarre aspects of his life (and death), see the Biographie Générale.

Item 86, Pietro d'Abano

First Unmanned Flight

87. PINGERON, [Jean-Claude]. L’Art de faire soi-même les Ballons Aérostatiques, conformes a ceux de M. de Montgolfier. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Hardouin... [1783]. 8vo, 1 leaf, 42 pages, 1 engraved plate bound as a frontispiece. Modern tree sheep, spine gilt with red morocco label and balloon ornaments, marbled endpapers, a fine copy. Small red morocco bookplate of Roger Budin, Genève, on front pastedown.

£700

FIRST EDITION. This work, in the form of a letter dated 22nd September 1783 from Pingeron to the Marquise de Brantes at Avignon, describes in great detail the first unmanned flight, a balloon flight organised by Montgolfier that had taken place three days earlier at Versailles in the presence of the royal family. This flight was the first to carry a living creature; the balloon carried a sheep, which was presumed to have a physiology similar to that of a human, a duck, which was expected to be unharmed, and a cockerel, which, although a bird, does not fly at high altitudes. The flight lasted about eight minutes, covered two miles, and landed safely. Pingeron goes on to describe briefly the work of scientists experimenting with gases, including Volta, Priestley, Charles and Cavendish. The first manned flight took place two months later. Tissandier, Bibliographie aéronautique, p. 32.

88. PORTAL, Paul. La Pratique des Accouchemens soutenue d’un grand nombre d’observations. A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Gabriel Martin, et se vend chez l’Auteur, ruë Saint Martin... 1685. 8vo, pp. (xx), 368, fine engraved frontispiece portrait of the author holding a copy of his book, and 8 engraved plates. Small ink smudge in upper margin of title and upper inner margin torn away, 4 cm paper flaw in C1 and C4 without loss, paper lightly browned and plates more heavily so. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (but dull), upper joint repaired. Fine engraved bookplate of the sugeon Delafaye (possibly Georges Delafaye, 1699–1781), and with his signature on the title; also of Rubion.

£1200

FIRST EDITION. G&M 6148. Portal was the first to appreciate the situation in placenta praevia, and had a clear insight into the actual findings and management of that entity, which is probably his most important contribution to the science of midwifery. He also demonstrated that version could be done with one foot, and taught that face presentation usually ran a normal course. Portal was a pupil of Mauriceau, and worked with him in the Hôtel Dieu. This important and eminently practical treatise was based on his personal experiences and observations. The plates depict abnormal and monstrous foetuses. See Cutter & Viets pp. 81–83.

89. POTT, Johann Heinrich. Chymische Untersuchungen welche fürnehmlich von der Lithogeognosia oder Erkäntniss und Bearbeitung der gemeinen einfacheren Steine und Erden ingleichen von Feuer und Licht handeln. Potsdamm: Bey Christian Friedrich Voss, 1746. [Bound with:] Fortsetzung derer Chymischen Untersuchungen, welche von der Lithogeognosie, oder Erkäntniss und Bearbeitung derer Steine und Erden specieller handeln. Berlin und Potsdam: Bey Christian Friedrich Voss. 1751. [And:] Zweyte Fortsetzung derer Untersuchungen welche von der Lithogeognosie oder Erkäntniss und Bearbeitung derer Steine und Erden in Anwendung derselben zur Bereiting feuerfester Gefässe und Tiegel specieller handeln nebst Tabellen über all drey Theile. Berlin: Bey Christian Friedrich Voss. 1754. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to, pp. (viii), 88; (viii), 120; (xiv), 148, 1 engraved plate of the furnace, 1 double-page letterpress table at the end. Contemporary vellum over boards, red morocco label on spine, a very nice copy. Old library stamp on title, and the fine engraved bookplate of the Count of Stolberg on front pastedown.

£2200

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FIRST EDITIONS, and a complete set with both supplements. Pott (1692–1777), a disciple of Stahl, succeeded Neumann as professor of practical chemistry and director of the royal pharmacy at Berlin. “Pott’s principal contribution to chemistry was in the systematic examination of mineral substances. He extended knowledge of several metals, at a time when the traditional notion of a fixed number of metals was changing... He described bismuth fully and added to knowledge of its compounds and those of borax, alkalis, and alkaline earths” (DSB, XI, p. 109). These three works are concerned with Pott’s commission from Frederick the Great to discover the secret of making the porcelain manufactured at Meissen; they became a vade mecum of the ceramists and the most popular treatment of the fundamentals of the subject. Pott made over 30,000 experiments with all kinds of materials subjected to heat in an improved furnace of his own design (described in the second supplement). His elaborate tables of reactions recorded here are a notable contribution to chemical analysis “in the dry way” and greatly advanced chemical theory. Ferguson, II, pp. 221–222. Neville, II, pp. 329–330. Partington, II, pp. 717–722. Sinkankas 5227. The second supplement is rare and often not found with the other two (e.g., the Wellcome and Young collection copies).

90.

POTT, Percivall. [1] A Treatise on the Hydrocele, or, Watry Rupture, and other diseases of the testicle, it’s coats and vessels; (illustrated with cases.) The third edition. Improved with very considerable additions. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins,... 1773. [Bound with:] [2] An Account of the Method of Obtaining a Perfect or Radical Cure of the Hydrocele, or Watry Rupture, by means of a Seton. The second edition. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins,... 1772. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. vii, 2 leaves, pp. 327, 2 engraved plates; 2 leaves, 43 pages, 1 plate. Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked and corners repaired.

£650

[1] Exceptionally rare third edition of Pott’s “classic description of hydrocele”. See G&M 4164 (the first edition, with the title Practical remarks on the hydrocele). This edition collates as for the second edition of 1767. [2] Second edition of Pott’s supplement to his Treatise on the hydrocele, which expands his account of his use of the seton by which he “considerably and materially improved the operation” (p.4). He also clarifies several points in the former treatise which were the subject of “troublesome correspondence on the subject” (ibid). This work is also very scarce; ESTC gives 4 locations, but with no mention of the plate.

91. POTT, Percivall. [1] Observations on the Nature and Consequences of those Injuries to which the Head is liable from External Violence. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins,... 1768. [Bound with, as issued:] [2] Some Few General Remarks on Fractures and Dislocations. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1768. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 3 leaves, pp. 276, 3 engraved plates; 2 leaves, pp. 126, 2 engraved plates. Some mild browning. Good modern panelled calf antique, red and green morocco labels. Signature of Benjamin Colles, 1768, on front free endpaper, later signature of Charles C. Smith on pastedown; bookplates of George Parker M.D., James Mackenzie Davidson, and H.F. Norman M.D.

£1950

[1] FIRST EDITION. “This is one of the classical writings of English surgery. It abounds in interesting cases well recorded, and some of the conclusions are still regarded as axioms in practice” (D’Arcy Power in DNB). This work is an altered and greatly expanded version of Pott’s ...Wounds and Contusions of the Head, 1760 (G&M 4850.5), in which he first described “Pott’s puffy tumour”. In the second edition of his Treatise on hydrocele, 1767, is an advertisement for “a new edition with large additions” of the 1760 book, but when it finally appeared in 1768, the title had been changed. [2] FIRST EDITION. G&M 4408 (incorrectly citing a date of 1767): “The methods outlined by Pott in his classical work on fractures and dislocations were eventually adopted all over the world. He described (pp. 57–64) ‘Pott’s fracture’ in this book, and he stressed the necessity for the immediate setting of fractures and the need for relaxation of the muscles in order that the setting should be continued... 44

carried out successfully” (see Zimmerman and Veith, pp. 330–331, illustrating both plates). “This, on the whole, is the most important contribution by Pott to the surgical practice of the last [i.e. 18th] century...” (DNB). Bick, Classics of Orthopaedics, 6. Not all copies of these two works appear together, but they were evidently issued together as the additional half-title (present here but not in all copies) before the first title testifies. Norman catalogue 1736 and 1734 (these copies) Earliest Monograph on Brain Diseases

92. PRATENSIS, Jason. De Cerebri Morbis: hoc est, omnibus fermè (quoniam à cerebro male affecto omnes ferè qui corpus humanum infestant, morbi oriuntur) curandis liber... Basileae [Basel]: per Henrichum Petri, [1549]. 8vo, 16 leaves, 540 pages, 2 leaves (colophon and woodcut printer’s device). Complete with the preliminary blank leaf †8. Some faint marginal dampstains on a few leaves towards the end, but a fine and very clean copy. Recent blind-tooled calf in contemporary style by Aquarius, red morocco label on spine. A few marginal notes in an early hand; small later library stamp effaced from titlepage; the Haskell F. Norman copy, with his bookplate.

£4500

FIRST EDITION. The first book devoted entirely to brain disorders, including tremor, tetanus, vertigo, apoplexy, epilepsy and hemicrania. “In 1549, [Pratensis] published his last book, De cerebri morbis, ‘On the Diseases of the Brain’, a volume of 540 pages divided into 33 chapters and covering every cerebral disorder and disease from headache to dimwittedness, from loss of memory, epilepsy, drunkenness, tremors, and convulsions to frenzy, lethargy, catalepsy, mania, melancholy and love... This book was probably the first fulllength consideration of all the topics that would later fall within the domain of neurology, as well as much else besides” (Midefort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany, p. 152). This substantial but very rare book has escaped the attention of most of the historians of psychiatry, neurology, and of specific disorders such as Temkin (The Falling Sickness) despite a 30-page chapter on epilepsy, Still (History of Paediatrics) and a similar chapter on infants, etc. etc. There is also a substantial chapter on apoplexy. Jason Pratensis, or à Pratis (1486–1558), the son of a doctor, studied in Louvain and in Antwerp. He later became a court physician and a town official, living his whole life on the island of Walcheren, practising in the small town of Zyriksee where he was born. He was a friend of Tycho Brahe. G&M 4511.02. Norman catalogue 1740.

93. RAMAZZINI, Bernardino. A Treatise of the Diseases of Tradesmen, shewing the various influence of particular trades upon the state of health; with the best methods to avoid or correct it, and useful hints proper to be minded in regulating the cure of all diseases incident to tradesmen. London: Printed for Andrew Bell...and Jeff. Wale, 1705. 8vo, pp. (xii), 274 [i.e. 264, page nos. 145–154 omitted]. Title within double ruled border. Paper rather browned and foxed (as in the only other two copies that I have had). Contemporary panelled calf, nicely rebacked and tips of corners repaired, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, no free endpapers. Early signature of Edward Hendrick on title and of Gaspar Delahoyde, surgeon, 1746, on front pastedown.

£3500

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the first book on industrial medicine. See G&M 2121: “Ramazzini wrote the first comprehensive and systematic treatise on occupational diseases. It deals with pneumoconiosis and other diseases of miners, with lead poisoning in potters, with silicosis in stonemasons, diseases among metal workers, and even a chapter devoted to the ‘diseases of learned men’.” See also Printing and the Mind of Man 170: the book earned Ramazzini the title of “the father of industrial hygiene.” This first English edition is very rare.

94. RANDALL, [Joseph]. The Semi-Virgilian Husbandry, deduced from various experiments. Or, an essay towards a new course of national farming, formed from the defects, losses, and disappointments, of the old and new husbandry, and put on the true biass of nature, in the production of vegetables, and in the power of every ploughman, with his own ploughs, &c. to execute... London: Printed for B. Law... Thomas Field...and John Wilkie... 1764. 8vo, pp. lxiii, (i), 356, (11), (1), and 3 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary calf, spine neatly repaired, new red morocco label. Armorial bookplate of Penry Williams, and his signature on the title-page.

£650

FIRST EDITION. “The book not only described the best common practice of the day, but pointed out the advantages of the Tullian system, especially when it was carried out with the aid of the implements designed by Mr. Randall... Donaldson, nearly a century later, estimated the work as valuable as it embraced widely the new system of pulverization, or the drill cultivation, and applied it in very tolerable perfection, and I, too, feel that it played an important part in spreading the drill husbandry gospel, whatever faults of style the author may have had” (Fussell). The plates show Randall’s spiky roller and several types of plough. Fussell, More Old English Farming Books, pp. 58–61.

95. RECKLINGHAUSEN, Friedrich von. Untersuchungen Osteomalacie. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1910.

über

Rachitis

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2 volumes (text and atlas), 8vo, pp. x, 574; viii, and 41 plates (including 33 double-page and 14 coloured) each with a leaf of text. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled sides, a very good set.

£2400

FIRST EDITION of this superbly illustrated monograph on rickets and osteomalacia. “Recklinghausen was a masterly investigator of bone pathology, his studies including fibrous or deforming osteitis, osteomalacia, rickets, the stimulation of bone growth by certain carcinomas, the periostitis of congenital syphilis, and numerous less well known bone diseases, between many of which he detected a relationship” (Long, History of Pathology, p. 216). It includes a large bibliography. In an earlier article (1891), Recklinghausen gave an important description of generalised ostieitis fibrosa, “von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone” (see G&M 4358). The illustrations are particularly striking. The first 20 pates are double-page collotypes and show the internal pathology of bones from actual cases. The remainder, most of which are chromolithographs, show the microscopic pathology of bone.

96. RÉGEMORTES, [Louis] de. Description du Nouveau Pont de Pierre, construit sur la rivière d’Allier a Moulins; avec l’exposé des motifs qui ont déterminé son emplacement, et les dessins et détails relatifs à sa construction. [Colophon:] A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Lottin l’aîné,... 1771. Large folio (550 x 385 mm.), engraved title leaf + 47 pages of text, and 16 engraved plates (11 folding, including one extending to 175 cm across the engraved area). Contemporary sheep-backed boards, spine gilt with red morocco label, small repairs to ends of spine. Text and some of the plates a bit browned, lower margin of title backed and with small piece (4 cm.) missing, but generally a very good copy.

£2800

SOLE EDITION. A landmark book of bridge engineering, and a fine example of French eighteenth century technical illustration. Before Régemortes undertook the task of constructing the Allier bridge, which he completed in ten years, four bridges had been built on the same site in less than fifty years. Since its publication this book has been recognised as being of great importance to engineers charged with the construction of similar bridges. “An extraordinarily handsome volume which documents the construction of a bridge across the Allier River at Moulins. Composed of thirteen ovoid arches, it is considered one of the most continued... 46

beautiful bridges in France... His explanation for the failure of these earlier bridges, was, quite simply, that any foundations sunk in the sandy bed of the river were undercut by the strong slow erosion of the water. Régemortes’ solution was to set the main support for the bridge on the two banks of the river...” (Roberts & Trent). The suite of plates shows the construction of the bridges in its successive stages. Various new machines were used in the work: plates 6 and 7 illustrate the dredging machine used, plate 8 shows the sinking of the pilings, and plate 9 shows how the bed of the river was levelled. Roberts & Trent pp. 274–275, with a long account of the book. See also Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Universelle, 41, p. 837. The First Book in English on Neuroanatomy

97. RIDLEY, H[umphrey]. The Anatomy of the Brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections... London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benjamin Walford, Printers to the Royal Society,... 1695. 8vo, pp. (xvi), 200, (24), 5 folding engraved plates. Imprimatur leaf before the title, title within double ruled border. Short tear in folded corner of 2 plates, figure 4 trimmed close on one edge as usual, occasional light browning and spotting. Well bound in 1952 in full brown morocco, sides panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Later presentation inscription on front endpaper.

£11,000

FIRST EDITION. G&M 1379.1. The first book in English on neuroanatomy. “Ridley gave one of the first descriptions of the restiform body, the intracavernous venous sinuses, which he injected, and the venous drainage of the corpus striatum” (McHenry pp. 64–67). He also gave the first account of the circular venous sinus, the first English account of a pineal tumour, excellent descriptions of the dura mater and the deep cerebral nuclei, and the first detailed description of the arachnoid membrane. The beautiful copper plates were engraved by Van der Gucht from drawings by the great anatomist and surgeon William COWPER. The first plate is a superb depiction of the anastomotic channels of vessels at the base of the brain (the “circle of Willis”), better than Willis's own. Wing R1449. Russell, British Anatomy, 699: “This is an excellent book...” This first edition is very rare, considerably more so than the books of Willis and Vieussens, who, with Ridley, laid the foundations of neuroanatomy in the seventeenth century.

98. RIDLEY, Humphrey. Anatomia Cerebri, mechanicam hujus atque physiologiam comprehendens... [In:] Ephemeridum Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae naturae curiosorum. Appendix ad annum IX & X, decuriae III, pp. 76–164 and 6 plates. Norimbergae [Nuremberg]: Literis Christiani Sigismundi Frobergii, 1706. 4to, pp. (iv), 164, and 6 engraved plates (3 folding). Some light browning, small wormhole in upper margin of first 6 leaves. Modern vellum. The whole appendix volume is offered, of which Ridley’s book occupies pp. 76–164 and the 6 plates.

£1200

FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of Ridley’s The Anatomy of the Brain (1695), the first book in English on neuroanatomy (see the previous item). This Latin translation of Ridley’s work, which appears to have been overlooked by the standard sources on neurology and by K.F. Russell in his British Anatomy, was prepared by Michael Ernst Ettmüller (1673–1732), professor of medicine at Leipzig University. It is preceded here by Ridley’s memoir on the motion of the dura mater, “Experimentum anatomicum ad veram durae matris motus causam detegendam institutum,” originally published in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 23 (1702–3).

99. ROHAULT, Jacques. Rohault’s System of Natural Philosophy, illustrated with Dr. Samuel Clarke’s notes taken mostly out of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy. With additions. Done into English by John Clarke. London: Printed for James Knapton,... 1723. continued... 47

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. (xxxvi), 285, (3); 292, (24), 27 folding plates. With the final advert leaf in vol. 1. Titles printed in red and black within rules. Contemporary panelled calf, spines unlettered except for volume numbers in gilt. A few small holes in the leather on the covers, minor crack at top of lower joint, very pale dampstain on plates of volume 2, otherwise a fine copy. Signature of William Sandys, 1758, on front free endpapers.

£1500

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Rohault’s Traité de physique, “one of the main channels through which Cartesian physics were disseminated and maintained throughout Europe from the 1670s to well into the eighteenth century” (Gjertsen). This edition is important for its commentary of Newton in the extensive footnotes, and the translator’s notes exposing fallacies in the Cartesian system. It was the textbook of physics at Cambridge for a long period and introduced the Newtonian system there, unseating the Cartesian system. Wallis 143 (calling for 28 plates in error). Babson 103.

“A Book Worth Having”

100. SAVIARD, [Barthélemy]. Observations in Surgery...wherein not only the method of practice in difficult labours, but other distempers incident to the female sex are copiously enlarged on: among others, that of the descent of the womb...by J[ohn] S[parrow]. London: Printed for J. Hodges,... 1740. 8vo, pp. (xvi), 289, (7). Contemporary calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, the label chipped, spine worn and wormed at the foot, slight damage to the leather on the sides, but a nice, fresh copy. Fine contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown.

£650

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. “This is a valuable collection of cases, containing a description of the tourniquet (using that name) as applied at the Hôtel Dieu in 1688 in a case of successful ligation of the femoral [artery?] for a wound of that vessel. He refers to the pernicious atmosphere of the Hôtel Dieu and its effects on wounds, gives an interesting note on Frère Jacques, describes a case of dermoid cyst of the ovary and one of congenital absence of the penis, and gives details of some remarkable cases of lithotomy. It is a book worth having” (Billings, History and Literature of Surgery, p. 59). This was the only English edition and is scarce.

101. SCHEELE, Carl Wilhelm. The Chemical Essays... Translated from the Transactions of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm [by F.X. SCHWEDIAUR]. With additions [by Thomas BEDDOES]. London: Printed for J. Murray,... 1786. 8vo, pp. xiii, ii, 405, (2)blank. Contemporary marbled boards, blue paper spine with MS label. Spine and lower edges worn, otherwise an excellent uncut copy.

£1800

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. This important and rare book, edited by Thomas Beddoes, contains the writings in English of Scheele other than the Chemical Observations...on Air and Fire, and includes his many discoveries in organic and inorganic chemistry, which are “astonishing both in number and importance” (Partington). Scheele isolated tartaric, gallic, oxalic, citric, malic, and other acids, including uric acid (see G&M 668, the Swedish original). In inorganic chemistry, he isolated hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrogen sulphide. He discovered chlorine, and copper arsenite ( “Scheele’s green”). He was the first to demonstrate the presence of calcium phosphate in bone; he obtained molybdic acid from molybdenite, which he was the first to distinguish from graphite; he proved that the acidity of sour milk is due to what was later called lactic acid; he obtained tungstic acid from what is now called scheelite (calcium tungstate); he experimented with ether; and he investigated the properties of glycerine and prussic acid. “Scheele’s contributions to inorganic chemistry should not overshadow his research in organic chemistry, which may be considered more imposing, since he had no precedent... When this work continued... 48

is added to his research in protein and fat, it is clear that Partington’s judgment that Scheele’s influence in organic chemistry was fundamental was fully justified” (DSB). Cole 1167. Duveen 533. Partington III, pp. 205–234. Chloroform as an Anæsthetic

102. SIMPSON, J[ames] Y[oung]. Account of a New Anæsthetic Agent, as a substitute for Sulphuric Ether in surgery and midwifery. Communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, at their meeting on 10th November 1847. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox... London: Samuel Highley..., 1847. 8vo, 23 pages. Title slightly browned and with an early signature in the upper corner. Modern quarter calf and marbled sides.

£7000

Second edition, published three days after the first (see below). This paper announced the discovery of chloroform as an anaesthetic. While seeking a less harsh substitute for ether, Simpson discovered the effectiveness of chloroform as an anaesthetic on November 4th 1847 (see Fulton & Stanton pp. 72-73 for the hilarious account of how he and two colleagues made the discovery in the dining room of his house). Four days later Simpson first used chloroform in an obstetric case with complete success, which he reported to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh at their meeting on 10th November. The first printed announcement of the discovery bears a postscript dated November 12, and has the title Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent; it has 22 pages, and only the Edinburgh publisher Sutherland & Knox in the imprint. The present second edition, sometimes called a second issue but the text was actually reset, has a postscript dated three days later (November 15th); it has 23 pages and the London publisher Samuel Highley included in the imprint. It has textual changes, including an additional paragraph at the end stating that Simpson had successfully used chloroform in fifty cases to date. The title was changed to Account..., giving a less ephemeral air to the publication. Lilly, Notable medical books, 201. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1847. Thoms, Classical contributions to obstetrics and gynecology, 29-34. G&M 5657 refers to the 3-page article by Simpson in the London Medical Gazette which appeared about a week after this paper. Fulton & Stanton VI.1. Osler 1480. Norman Catalogue 1945. Neither Fulton & Stanton nor the Norman Catalogue list the Notice (but Osler 1479 does); both editions are extremely rare in commerce.

103. SIMPSON, James Y. Remarks on the Superinduction of Anaesthesia in Natural and Morbid Parturition: with cases illustrative of the use and effects of chloroform in obstetric practice. With an Appendix. Boston: Published by William B. Little & Co..., 1848. 8vo, 48 pages. Later brown half morocco, original upper printed wrapper bound in. Presentation copy from the publisher, with a (cropped) inscription at the top of the wrapper.

£1100

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The important appendix, first printed in this edition, starts with a long letter by J.C. Warren on the chemical nature and synthesis of chloroform, and is followed by several letters by C.T. Jackson and other Boston surgeons contrasting chloroform with ether. Their reception of chloroform was at first enthusiastic. Fulton & Stanton VI.6. Invention of the Barometer

104. TORRICELLI, Evangelista. Lezioni Accademiche. In Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamp. di S.A.R. per Jacopo Guiducci, e Santi Franchi. 1715. Large 4to, pp. xlix, (1), 1 leaf (imprimatur), pp. 96, fine engraved portrait. Half-title, engraved vignette on title, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut ornaments. Contemporary quarter vellum over carta rustica boards, minor pale dampstain in upper margin of a few leaves but a fine copy. Signature of D. Francesco Canal, 1729, on front free endpaper.

£4600

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FIRST EDITION. Torricelli (1608–1647), Galileo’s most promising pupil, succeeded him as professor of mathematics at Florence. The present volume, published nearly seventy years after his death, contains the lectures he gave to the Accademia Crusca, and on other occasions. They deal with problems of mechanics, physics, meteorology, and military architecture, including also an oration in praise of mathematics. From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. In the lecture on wind Torricelli advanced the modern theory that winds are products of differences of air temperature (cf. Wolf, History of Science, I, p. 316). The 50-page introduction by the editor, Tommaso Bonaventura, is important for Torricelli’s life and works. It includes the two letters by Torricelli to Michelangelo Ricci of June 11th and 28th 1644, in which he described his invention of the mercury barometer, one of the most important discoveries in the whole history of physics, with a woodcut showing Torricelli’s barometer. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 149. Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 190. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1643. D.S.B., XIII, pp. 437–439. Cinti 169, reproducing the title-page. Norman catalogue 2088.

105. TUBBY, A[lfred] H[erbert]. Deformities. A treatise on orthopædic surgery intended for practitioners and advanced students. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd... 1896. 8vo, pp. xxii, 598, (2) adverts, 16 plates (numbered to 15, plate 2 has two figures), with 302 figures in the text. Original blue quarter morocco and cloth sides (morocco spine renewed), t.e.g., two modern bookplates. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: “C.E. Beevor, with the author’s kind regards. August 1896.”

£280

FIRST EDITION. G&M 4366. “An excellent text-book” (Keith, Menders of the maimed), which includes a valuable discussion of congenital anomalies of the bones and joints from the orthopaedic point of view. The second edition of 1912 was expanded to two volumes. Charles Edward Beevor was physician to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London.

The Invention of the Seed-Drill and Horse-Hoe The Beginning of a Revolution in Agriculture

106. [TULL, Jethro.] The New Horse-Houghing Husbandry: or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation. Wherein is shewn, a method of introducing a sort of VineyardCulture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product, and diminish the common expence, by the use of instruments lately invented. Dublin: Printed by Aaron Rhames, 1731. 8vo, pp. xvi, 17–88. Woodcut vignette on title and on last page. Title and last page slightly dustsoiled. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt.

£9000

FIRST IRISH EDITION of Tull’s revolutionary work on agricultural practice, and one of the earliest works on agriculture published in Ireland. Tull invented a seed drill in 1701, by which larger yields were produced from a greatly reduced quantity of seed. After a journey through France and Italy in 1711–1714 he invented his horse-hoe (actually drawn by oxen) and his four-coultered plough. “By contour ploughing, drilling his seed at wide intervals, and using his horse-hoe to destroy weeds, Tull was able to grow wheat on the same fields for thirteen years continuously without manuring” (ODNB). The practices of drill-sowing and frequent hoeing are “the greatest improvements which have been introduced into the modern practice of tillage” (McDonald). The first edition of Tull’s book was a specimen of selected chapters, the full work appearing in 1733. This first appearance was immediately taken up by the printer to the newly-formed Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society), Aaron Rhames, who issued the present anonymous edition as their first publication. It was a fitting and important work for an economy that was based continued... 50

entirely on agriculture. It was one of the earliest works on agriculture to be published in Ireland (the first was probably John Mortimer’s Whole Art of Husbandry of 1721). It appeared a few months after, and in the same year as, the London original, and both are extremely rare. See Printing and the Mind of Man 188 (the London edition). McDonald, Agricultural Writers, pp. 186–190. Fussell, More old English farming books, pp. 1–6. Wolf, History of science...in the XVIIIth century, pp. 502–505. Kress 3963 (not listing the London edition).

The First Anatomical Engravings

107. VESALIUS, Andreas. Les Portraicts Anatomiques de toutes les Parties du Corps Humain, gravez en taille douce, par le commandement de feu Henry huictiesme, Roy d’Angleterre. Ensemble l’abregé d’André Vesal, & l’explication d’iceux, accompagnee d’une declaration anatomique. Par Jaques Grevin... A Paris: chez André Wechel. 1569. Folio, pp. (viii), 106, (2), and 40 engraved anatomical plates (1 folding). Printer’s woodcut device on title, repeated on verso of last leaf (otherwise blank), woodcut headpieces and initials, ruled in red throughout. Two very neat restorations in margins of the title and faint traces of two inscriptions erased, folding Adam & Eve plate backed and with two tears neatly repaired without loss, a few small marks and slight browning of the paper. Early eighteenth century vellum over boards. Ownership inscription of Johannes Desprez, 1574, on title.

£24,000

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Vesalius’s Epitome, illustrated with the first anatomical copperplates. The translation was made by Jacques Grevin who was both a distinguished physician and an accomplished poet, adding a chapter of his own, Brefe Declaration des Parties du Corps Humain. In 1559–1560 he was forced to leave France for England for religious reasons where he was befriended by Queen Elizabeth. Here he probably met Thomas Geminus, who had published a plagiarised edition of Vesalius illustrated with his own copper engravings, the first time that the medium had been used in an anatomical book. It was probably Grevin who enabled the Parisian printer Christian Wechel to acquire Geminus’s copperplates, as Wechel published an edition of Geminus’s Compendiosa in 1564, illustrated with Geminus’s original engravings. Five years later Grevin published the present translation of the Vesalian text, illustrated with the same engravings. Vesalius complained about Geminus’s plagiarism and regarded his engravings as inept, but “in fact Gemini’s copies, though omitting the background to Vesalius’s figures, are very competent technically. Perhaps the best tribute to this competence is the speed with which his copperplates were in turn themselves plagiarized by continental publishers” (ODNB). Not only were these plates made from the best anatomical illustrations that had ever been published, but Grevin gave prominence to the new technique in the title to this book; it was published not merely with illustrations, but because of them. See G&M 376 (first edition of the Epitome of 1543). Cushing, Bio-bibliography, VI.C.–7 (omitting the last leaf from his collation). Cockx-Idestege, Andreas Vesalius, a Belgian census, 56; Durling 2175; Cushing V94; Waller 9915 (all lacking the last leaf). Not in the Wellcome. A fine copy of this beautiful edition, and particularly rare when complete with the final leaf.

By Vesalius?

108. VESALIUS. BORGARUCCI, Prospero. Chirurgia Magna in septem libros digesta: in qua nihil desiderari potest, quod ad perfectam, atque integram de curandis humani corporis malis, methodum pertineat. Ab...Prospero Borgarutio, recognita, emendata, ac in lucem edita... Venetiis [Venice]: Ex officina Valgrisiana. 1568 [colophon: 1569]. Small 8vo, ff. (xxviii), 475, (1). With the last two preliminary leaves (c7–8, both blank), printer’s device on title and on verso of last leaf (otherwise blank), 23 full-page woodcut illustrations in the text including 4 of the human skeleton, the ‘wound man’, the battle scene, and instruments. Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed, lacking ties), spine lettered boldly in ink “Chirurgia Vesal”, gauffered continued... 51

Item 107, Vesalius

Item 108, Vesalius/Bogarucci

edges. Small stamp removed from title-page leaving a slight scar, light browning or foxing (a little heavier in four gatherings). Some early manuscript marginal notes mostly in the “Antidotarium”.

£10,500

FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the date “V. nonas Octobris 1568” at the end of the dedication and a slightly altered title. This book was published in the year Borgarucci succeeded to the chair of anatomy at Padua, and is stated on the title-page as being written by Vesalius and edited by Prospero Borgarucci, who was professor at the university at Padua and formerly a pupil of Vesalius. Although its authenticity has been in question since even before it was published, the Chirurgia Magna was included by Boerhaave and Albinus in the collected works of Vesalius, and it does contain the text of the Epitome. However, it is now seen as not having been written by Vesalius, although it should be remembered that Vesalius had actually taught surgery in Paris and had intended to write a book on the subject. “That the ‘Surgery’ edited by Borgarucci is not the work which Vesalius intended to write on surgery is absolutely certain. However, one may properly suggest that what Borgarucci bought in Paris and edited and published may have been the class notes of some pupils of Vesalius. The custom of publishing students’ notes as the posthumous works of famous lectures was very common, even in the Italy of the Renaissance... Today we may pass judgment on his [i.e. Borgarucci’s] work as being neither correct nor opportune nor authentic, but we cannot with absolute certainty deny Borgarucci the good intention of contributing to the greater glory of Vesalius” (Arturo Castiglioni in Cushing, Bio-bibliography, pp. 216–217.

109. [VOLTA, Alessandro.] L’Identità del Fluido Elettrico col cosi detto Fluido Galvanico vittoriosamente dimostrata con nuove esperienze ed osservazioni memoria comunicata al Signore Configliachi...

Pavia: Da G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.

Large 4to (300 x 213 mm.), pp. vi, (ii), 145, VII, fine engraved portrait of Volta by Garavaglia, addenda slip pasted to last page. Contemporary green half roan, marbled sides. Sides rubbed and somewhat stained, edges worn, spotting on a few leaves, otherwise a fine copy with wide margins on excellent quality paper. £3200 continued... 53

FIRST EDITION, and a large paper copy. This account of the overthrow of the galvanic theory of animal electricity by Volta, in which he reviewed his reasons for identifying galvanic and common electricity, formed the conclusion of the great Italian physicist’s publications on his theory. The memoir was originally submitted under the name of a student in a prize competition in 1805, but not published until 1814, by Volta’s pupil and successor, Pietro Configliachi, with additional notes by Volta. At the end is a bibliography of Volta’s publications listing 44 works, all except one or two in journals or other works. The present book is thus one of Volta’s few separately published books. Dibner, The founding fathers of electrical science, p. 20, reproducing the portrait. Wheeler Gift 726. Scolari/Fossatti, Bibliografia, 220, describing this work as a “fondamentale memoria di capitalissima importanze”.

110. VULPIAN, [Edmé Félix Alfred]. Leçons sur la Physiologie générale et comparée du Système Nerveux faites au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Rédigées par M. Ernest Brémond. Revues par le professeur. Paris: Germer Baillière... 1866. 8vo, 3 leaves, 920 pages. Some foxing, occasionally severe. 19th century quarter green calf and marbled sides, spine gilt (spine faded to brown), original printed wrappers bound in.

£400

FIRST EDITION. “Associated with Charcot at the Salpêtrière, Vulpian (1826–1887), a pupil of Flourens, devoted most of his effort to the study of the physiology (1866) and pathology (1879– 1886) of the nervous system. He studied degeneration and regeneration in nerves and the effects of drugs on the nervous system. Vulpian, using the crude methods then available, shed new light on neuropathology and succeeded Cruveilhier to the chair of pathological anatomy at the Salpêtrière” (McHenry).

An Englishman’s Commentary on Galileo

111. WHITE, Thomas. De Mundo Dialogi Tres quibus materia, hoc est, quantitas, numerus, figura, partes, partium qualitas & genera: forma, hoc est, magnorum corporum motus... caussae, hoc est, movens, efficiens, gubernans... et tandem definitio... Parisiis: Apud Dionysium Moreau... 1642. 4to, pp. (xii), 446, (18). Two pages of diagrams on pp. (viii) and (ix). Contemporary English speckled calf (somewhat marked and with small hole in leather on upper cover, head of spine slightly worn), unlettered, spine and sides ruled in blind, red edges. Faint stain in fore-edge margin of preliminary leaves, single wormhole in upper corner throughout and a few wormtracks in upper margin but affecting headline or text on only 8 leaves, otherwise a very clean copy.

£4500

FIRST EDITION. De Mundo was inspired by Galileo’s Dialogo. Like Galileo’s book it is written in the form of dialogues, the first dealing with cosmology, the second with questions of motion, the third with problems of cause. “Galileo’s views play a part in the first dialogue, particularly with regard to the nature of comets, and his ideas on motion occupy most of the second dialogue. Although White repudiated the circular motion of the earth in this book, he took pains to set forth Galileo’s arguments at length and with care, giving special attention to his theory of the tides. Since Galileo’s Dialogo, in which these arguments had originally appeared, was a rigorously banned book, one may well wonder whether White was entirely opposed to Galileo, or whether he had in mind the purpose of keeping his ideas in circulation as much as that of criticizing them” (Drake). All of White’s own books were banned in 1661. White was a respected member of Mersenne’s circle in Paris, where he wrote his two major works of natural philosophy, De mundo being one of them. “...with his remarkable accommodation of Copernican heliocentric cosmology and newly revived atomic theory, White was later identified by Leibniz as one who had contrived to ‘reconcile Aristotle with modern philosophy’ (Southgate, 9). Favourable assessments of De mundo were made by contemporaries, including Descartes...” (ODNB). continued... 54

Thomas White (1593–1676), publishing here under the name of Thomas Anglus, was an English Catholic recusant who studied and taught at a number of English colleges on the Continent. He was a friend of Sir Kenelm Digby and Thomas Hobbes, who wrote a long critique of the present work which was only published in 1976. Stillman Drake, “Galileo in English literature of the seventeenth century”, in Galileo, Man of Science, ed. by E. McMullin (1967), pp. 423–424.

112. WILLIS, Robert. Illustrations of Cutaneous Disease. A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms... London: Hippolytus Bailliere... 1841. Folio, 4 preliminary leaves, 73 leaves of explanation variously paginated, and 94 lithographed plates, all but one hand-coloured from drawings after nature by Henning. List of plates bound after the first leaf of text. Spotting on first (uncoloured) plate and margins slightly browned (as usual), minor foxing on one or two plates, endpapers dust-soiled and a bit marked. Contemporary half calf, nicely rebacked and corners repaired. Sir George Murray Humphry’s copy, with a presentation label on the front pastedown from him [to Cambridge University], and small stamp of the Department of Pathology.

£3800

ONLY EDITION of this atlas, one of the largest and finest in the English literature of dermatology. G&M 7478. It was published in fascicules over a period of two years, and is now rare. It is not noticed by Pusey, Crissey & Parrish, or Goldschmid. Willis also published English translation of Rayer’s atlas of dermatology, which inspired him to produce the present book, as well as editions of William Harvey’s works and Gilbert’s De magnete. The earlier owner of this copy, Sir George Humphry (1820–1896), was a surgeon anatomist who wrote the important Treatise on the Human Skeleton (1858). “He was, primarily, a scientist and a collector, particularly of items for the museum of anatomy and surgical pathology [at Cambridge]” (ODNB). Foundation of Modern Neurology

113. WILLIS, Thomas. Cerebri Anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus. Londini: Typis Ja. Flesher, Impensis Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry... 1664. 4to, 20 leaves, pp. 106, (2), 107–456, and 15 anatomical copperplates (10 folding). Imprimatur leaf (here bound after the title). Upper margin of title-page torn away and very neatly restored with old paper (removal of an inscription with the offset faintly visible at the top of the imprimatur), some foxing and light browning throughout. Contemporary calf, very nicely rebacked with spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco label, corners repaired, edges sprinkled red. Two early signatures on title-page (one partly erased and the other inked out).

£12,500

FIRST EDITION. G&M 1378. With this book Willis laid the foundation of cerebral anatomy. It was the most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared. “The Cerebri anatome, published early in 1664, is the foundation document of the anatomy of the central and autonomic nervous systems. It greatly surpassed, in the detail and precision of its descriptions, the fragmentary treatments of the brain that has preceded it. As a text it continued to be used until the late eighteenth century, and was mandatory background reading for neuro-anatomists until the mid-nineteenth century” (DSB). In the preparation of this book Willis was helped by Richard Lower, and its illustrations are by Sir Christopher Wren. In it Willis recognized the sympathetic nervous system and accepted the brain as the organ of thought; he also coined the word “neurology”. His classification of the cerebral nerves held the field until the time of Soemmerring. The book includes the description of the “circle of Willis”, and of the eleventh cranial nerve (“nerve of Willis”). This first edition in quarto is of considerable rarity, such that several of the great collections, including Osler and Cushing, record only the octavo edition published several weeks later. Wing W2824. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine) 32a. Lilly, Notable medical books, 77. McHenry pp. 55–58 (illustrating the title-page). Russell, British anatomy, 866. Albert, Norton & Hurtes, Source book of ophthalmology, 2530. Norman Catalogue 2243.

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