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The cover illustration is taken from the title-page to Book Four, on the height of the sun, of Pedro de Medinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book on navigation (item 73), with his world map behind. The illustration on the inside back cover shows the first title-page of item 110, Tardy. ÂŠ Nigel Phillips 2013

AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re Metallica Libri XII. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adjunctis Latinis, Germanicisque appellationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de Animantibus Subterraneis Liber, ab Autore recognitus: cum Indicibus diversis... Basileae [Basel: In officina Frobeniana, per Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium], 1561. Folio, 6 leaves (including the blank 6th leaf), 502 pages, 37 leaves, and 2 woodcut plates (1 folding, both slightly shaved at the fore-edge, as often). Froben’s woodcut device on title and on verso of last leaf, and about 270 splendid woodcuts (many full-page) in the text. Several small wormholes in the first and last two leaves, first gathering faintly dampstained, a few gatherings lightly browned, otherwise an excellent copy. Modern vellum from an old antiphonal (inner hinges loose, endpapers a little browned). £5800 Second Latin edition, corrected, of “the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times... The De Re Metallica embraces everything connected with the mining industry and metallurgical processes, including administration, prospecting, the duties of officials and companies and the manufacture of glass, sulphur and alum. The magnificent series of two hundred and seventy-three large woodcut illustrations by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch add to its value. Some of the most important sections are those on mechanical engineering and the use of water-power, hauling, pumps, ventilation, blowing of furnaces, transport of ores, etc., showing a very elaborate technique” (Printing & the Mind of Man). This second edition is almost a page-for-page reprint of the first, but is typographically superior and is printed on heavier paper. The woodcuts are the same as those in the first edition. DSB, I, pp. 77–79. Neville I, p. 17. Partington II, pp. 46–55. Hoover 18. See Printing & the Mind of Man 79; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 88; Horblit 2b; and Sparrow, Milestones of Science, p. 8 and plate 26 for the first edition of 1556.

ALGHISI, Tommaso. Litotomia ovvero del cavar la pietra... Stamper. di Giuseppe Manni,... 1707.

In Firenze: Nella

Small folio, pp. 24, CX, (1) licence, and 16 fine engraved plates. Half-title, engraved vignette on title by Cosimo Mogalli, some fine and large woodcut ornaments. Contemporary sheep, ends of spine and corners repaired, no free endpapers. A few small marks but generally an excellent copy. £1800 FIRST EDITION of one of the finest books on urology, with respect to both printing and illustration, and one of the best early books on lithotomy. Alghisi, a native of Florence, was probably the first to use an indwelling urethral catheter to drain urine away from the wound after lithotomy. The fact that he advocated the inclined position of the patient with his head raised led to its general adoption. See Murphy, The history of urology, p. 100, (illustrating plate XVI). Kiefer catalogue 12.

AMMON, Friedrich August von, & Moritz BAUMGARTEN. Die Plastische Chirurgie nach ihren bisherigen Leistungen kritisch dargestellt. Eine von der Medizinischen Gesellschaft zu Gent gekrönte Preisschrift. Berlin: Verlag von G. Reimer, 1842. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 310. With the half-title showing the medal awarded to the authors. Contemporary half green cloth and marbled boards. Paper very slightly browned, spine and edges of boards slightly rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. Old shelf label on upper board and front pastedown. £1800 FIRST EDITION. G&M 5744. The first critical review of the new field of plastic surgery, and the second comprehensive work on the subject, preceded only by Zeis’s Handbuch of 1838 (G&M 5743.4). Ammon “exercised a tremendous influence on the plastic surgery of his time. His friendship with Dieffenbach induced him to make great contributions to plastic surgery, both through his critical reports and his publication of new methods, especially for the areas of the lips and lids” continued... 1

Item 2, Alghisi, the operation for lithotomy

(Gabka & Vaubel, Plastic surgery past and present, p. 134). Ammon was in fact Zeis’s teacher, and was influential in his approach to plastic surgery. Zeis reports on Ammon’s operations in several chapters of his Handbuch, and in his bibliography he praised Ammon’s work on the physiology of transplanted tissue. Ammon is best known in the field of ophthalmology for his great atlas of the pathology of the eye. He took a special interest in ophthalmic plastic surgery and gives a full account of blepharoplasty and canthoplasty in this book. Zeis Index 463 and p. 463. Becker catalogue 15. Albert, Norton & Hurtes 58.

ARMSTRONG, John. The Morbid Anatomy of the Stomach, Bowels, and Liver, illustrated by a series of plates from drawings after nature... London: Published by Baldwin and Cradock... 1838. Large 4to, 2 leaves, 102 pages, and 16 hand-coloured lithographed plates by T. and W. Fairland from drawings mostly by W. Cocks. Upper corner of the dedication leaf torn away and neatly restored, unobtrusive library stamp on the title-page and plates. Modern brown buckram. £900 FIRST EDITION of this pathological atlas with hand-coloured plates of very high quality. They are also some of the earliest coloured pathological plates, appearing before the first fascicule of Cruveilhier’s atlas, and two years after the first edition of Hooper’s pathological atlas of the brain. The work was published in fascicules in 1828–29, and was never completed. Armstrong died in 1829. Goldschmid pp. 155–156, who saw only a copy lacking the title-page, considers the plates in this work to be of great accuracy and fidelity.

Description of Tracheotomy for Diphtheria BARTHOLIN, Thomas. De Angina Puerorum Campaniae Siciliaeque Epidemica Exercitationes. Accedit de laryngotomia Cl. V. Renati Moreau. Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris]: Apud Olivarium de Varennes... 1646. Small 8vo, pp. (xx), 140. Contemporary vellum (a little soiled), a very good copy. £950 FIRST EDITION of the first important clinical description of diphtheria. Descriptions of diphtheria epidemics had been published in 1620 by Sgambatus, and in 1636 by Cletus, but “in 1646 a tiny volume was published in Paris, in the Rue St. Jacques at the Sign of the Golden Vase, by one whose name lives on in the nomenclature of anatomy, Thomas Bartholin. Its value was altogether out of proportion to its size, for it was a piece of careful clinical observation, backed by a knowledge of anatomy which was uncommon in those days” (Still). The book, which is quite rare, was possibly overlooked by Garrison & Morton, which cites (5047) Baillou's general work on epidemics for including a description of a sixteenth century epidemic. The discourse by Moreau on laryngotomy (the term tracheotomy was not used until 1649) on pp. 117–140 “was an answer by Moreau to a request by Bartholin for an opinion as to the safety and soundness of this operation for relieving suffocation in diphtheria in children.” Stevenson & Guthrie, omitting both Bartholin and Moreau, state that the operation became standard procedure only in 1620 with Habicot, the third to perform it. Moreau performed it twice with success, “and gives an admirable description of a tracheotomy which might serve as a model for any clinical clerk today” (Still). Still, The History of Paediatrics, pp. 231–233. See Stevenson & Guthrie pp. 31–32 and 55.

BEDDOES, Thomas. Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever: together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology. London: Printed for J. Murray... 1793. 8vo, pp. xvi, 278, (2) errata and advertisement. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label. Short (2 cm.) crack at top of upper joint, small wormtrack in upper and lower corners of front endpapers and first dozen leaves, otherwise a nice copy. Bookplate on front pastedown of John Yudkin (1910–1995), professor of nutrition. £400 FIRST EDITION. The observations on scurvy are made principally from a chemical point of view — Beddoes was an admirer of Lavoisier and Priestley, whose views he promulgates in this book. He considered the lack of oxygen a principal cause of scurvy. This book includes a translation of two memoirs by Girtanner on irritability, and observations on animal electricity, oxygen, etc. See Carpenter, The history of scurvy and vitamin C, pp. 89–90.

BELLINI, Lorenzo. Opuscula aliquot. Pistorii [Pistoia]: Ex Nova Offiicina Stephani Gatti, 1695. 4to, pp. (xx), 215, (1), 2 leaves (contents and errata), 3 folding plates each with several woodcut figures. Half-title. Some minor browning or foxing but a very good copy. Original paper boards, spine torn and worn at head, upper inner hinge a little loose. £950 FIRST EDITION. Bellini was the first Italian to systematically apply mechanical theories to medicine, particularly in his researches on the kidneys and the urinary system. However, he did not fully develop his iatromechanical ideas until the present work, which he published after encouragement from Archibald Pitcairne, the Scottish follower of Newton. Through Pitcairne’s influence his theories enjoyed an international reputation in the circles of Boerhaave, Mead, and others in the early eighteenth century. In this book, dedicated to Pitcairne, Bellini covered problems ranging from the hydraulics of intra- and extrauterine circulation to the mechanics of the villi. About half of the book is devoted to the movement of the heart, with other essays on the movement of bile, and on bloodletting.

Item 8, Paul Bert’s experimental air chambers

BERT, Paul. Recherches Expérimentales sur l’influence que les modifications dans la Pression Barométrique exercent sur les phénomènes de la vie. Paris: G. Masson, 1874. 8vo, 2 leaves, 170 pages, 6 plates of Bert’s apparatus. Half-title. Stamp of A. Gubler on title. Modern quarter red morocco. £725 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, offprinted from the Annales des Sciences Naturelles for April of the same year, of Bert’s first book on high and low pressure physiology, a précis of his monumental La Pression Barométrique which was then in production. This book contains the essence of some of his findings presented in full in his larger work. It may properly be described as an incunable of the new science of hyperbaric medicine.

I Think He Means Dyeing BERTHOLLET, [Claude Louis]. Elements of the Art of Dying. Containing the theory of dying in general, as far as it respects the properties of colouring substances. Translated from the French... Edinburgh: Printed for Lawrie and Symington. 1792. 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. ii, 119. Good modern quarter calf antique, green morocco label on spine, a fine copy. £650 Second edition in English (but the first of this translation), of the first modern book on dyeing. This, however, is only a partial translation of Berthollet’s Éléments de l’art de la teinture as work was halted when William Hamilton’s translation (London, 1791) appeared. “The general properties of colouring substances...; the action of air and light upon colours, the influence of the nitric and oxigenated muriatic acids in colouring animal substances; the nature of galls and astringents in general, with the characters of wool, silk, and flax as subjects for the Art of Dying are the topics treated of in the part...now published” (“Advertisement”, pp. i–ii). Cole 119. Neville I, pp. 136–137, illustrating the title-page. Not in Duveen.

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A Proper Basis for Chemistry BERTHOLLET, Claude Louis, Comte. Essai de Statique Chimique. A Paris: Chez Firmin Didot, An XI. – 1803. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 543; viii, 555, (1). Half-titles. Some light foxing. Contemporary mauve calf (spines faded to brown, short crack at top of one joint), sides blind-stamped with an ornate floral pattern, flat spines gilt, single gilt fillet on sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Ornate ex-libris of the Collège Royal D’Orléans in centres of upper covers. An attractive copy. £950 FIRST EDITION of Berthollet’s most important work in which he attempted to provide a proper basis for chemistry, so that its experimental results could be viewed in the light of theoretical first principles. Here Berthollet laid the foundations of our understanding of the causes of chemical affinities and reactions. Cole 122. DSB, II, pp. 73–82. Duveen, p. 75. Neville I, p. 138: “One of the great milestone books in the development of chemical theory.” Partington, III, pp. 644–646 & IV, pp. 576–579.

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BOHN, Johann. De Renunciatione Vulnerum, seu vulnerum lethalium examen, exponens horum formalitatem & causas, tam in specie ac per singulas corporis partes. Editio altera. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Viduam Sebastiani, & Christianum Petzoldum, 1710. [Bound with:] [2] AMMANN, Paul. Praxis Vulnerum Lethalium, sex decadibus historiarum rariorum, ut plurimum traumaticarum, cum cribrationibus singularibus adornata. Francofurti: [no printer], 1701. 2 works in 1 volume, small 8vo, pp. (xvi), 296, (8); (xxxii), 480, (32). Title of [1] printed in red and black. Eighteenth century French(?) mottled calf, spine gilt, marbled endpapers, tips of corners a little worn. Paper rather foxed or browned, otherwise good copies. £450 [1] Second edition. See G&M 1726 (first edition of 1689). An important and early work on forensic medicine (a term coined by Bohn), and the best book of the period on fatal injuries. Bohn is considered one of the founders of this discipline, and one of the initiators of forensic autopsy (DSB). In this book Bohn discusses the various types of lethal wounds, distinguishing between those received before and after death. More than a quarter of the book is devoted to neurological injuries. Nemec, Highlights in Medicolegal Relations, 251: “...The best work on fatal injuries, with frequent references of medico-legal importance.” [2] Second edition. Garrison (p. 272) lists Ammann’s book as one of several early and important contributions to forensic medicine which were made in Germany at that time. Both Ammann and Bohn were professors at Leipzig, Bohn of anatomy and Ammann of botany and later physiology.

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Biomechanics BORELLI, Giovanni Alphonso. De Motu Animalium. Opus posthumum. Ex Typographia Angeli Bernabò. 1680 [–1681].

Romae:

2 volumes, 4to, pp. (xii), 376, (11), and 18 stilted and folding engraved plates; pp. (iv), 520. Woodcut device on titles. Dampstain (mostly quite faint) in lower corner of volume 1 and upper inner corner of volume 2, a few other small dampstains, some light browning of a few gatherings (as usual with this book). Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (but lettering rubbed and spines a bit marked), generally an excellent set. £6500 FIRST EDITION. The foundation of the study of biomechanics. “Inspired by Harvey’s mathematical demonstration of the circulation of the blood, Borelli, a trained mathematician and physicist, conceived of the body as a machine whose phenomena could be explained entirely by the laws of physics. Borelli was the first to recognise that bones were levers powered by the action of muscle, and devoted the first volume of his work to the external motions produced by this interaction, with continued... 5

extensive calculations on the motor forces of muscles. The second volume treats of internal motions, such as the movements of muscles themselves, circulation, respiration, secretion, and nervous activity. Borelli was the first to explain heartbeat as a simple muscular contraction, and to ascribe its action to nervous stimulation; he was also the first to describe circulation as a simple hydraulic system” (Norman). Borelli (1608–1779) was primarily a mathematician, one of the most distinguished pupils of Galileo, and the principal animus of the Accademia del Cimento. On the movement of animals was his most important work. In it, he analysed the movements of human and animal bodies, the flight of birds, and the swimming of fish in terms of mechanical action, of levers and fulcrums. Moreover, he realised that the action of muscle involved complex chemical processes and neurological stimulation. His study of fish swimming led him to design several types of diving apparatus, described at the end of vol. 2. Horblit, 13. Dibner, Heralds of Science, 190. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1680. Lefanu, Notable medical books, pp. 90–91. G&M 762 (cardiology) and 3669.2 (probably the first measurement of masticatory force). Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, pp. 42–43. Fulton, History of physiology, pp. 220–222. Norman catalogue 270.

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[BOUILLET, — .] Traité des moyens de rendre les rivieres navigables. Avec plusieurs desseins de jettées, ponts à rouleaux & rampans, ecluses, soûtiens, digues, coffres pour bâtir sous l’eau, & autres machines dont on se sert en Hollande & ailleurs, pour remedier aux obstacles qui s’opposent à la navigation des rivieres, & pour approfondir les canaux & curer les ports. Où il est aussi parlé des moyens de retirer les bâtimens coulez à fond, & d’en sauver les marchandises. Ouvrage tres-utile à tous les ingenieurs, & à tous ceux qui se mêlent de bâtimens & de machines. Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet,... 1693. 8vo, pp. viii, 102, (2)contents, 12 engraved plates (3 folding). Dampstain on some plates, a little soiling and small stains in the margins. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, neat repairs to spine and corners. Signature on the title of Ernest Vincent, and another very small signature deleted; bookplate of the Witt Collection of maritime books. £1200 FIRST EDITION. An early work in the French literature of hydraulic engineering, but the great Dutch engineer Cornelis Meijer, in the preface to his Nuovi ritrovamenti, justifiably claims that this work is a translation, with omissions, of his L’arte di restituire à Roma la tralasciata nauigatione del suo Teuere. In the preface, Bouillet states that some of the machines he proposes were used in Holland, and that some of his descriptions are direct translations from the Dutch, and elsewhere. Bouillet describes methods of dredging rivers, constructing slipways and sluices, clearing ports and harbours, and maintaining river banks. He also describes two methods of raising a sunken ship, and a method of blowing the deck off a ship with gunpowder to reveal the cargo, and then salvaging it with diving bells made of copper. These techniques are illustrated in the fine engraved plates.

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From His Own Hospital Library BREE, Robert. A Practical Inquiry on Disordered Respiration; distinguishing convulsive asthma, its specific causes, and proper indications of cure. Birmingham: Printed for the author, by M. Swinney... 1797. 8vo, pp. xvi, 420. Half-title. Library stamp on the half-title and lower corner of a few pages and an older faint stamp on title, faint dampstain in upper corner but mostly very faint, otherwise a very clean copy. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt, red morocco label. A few marginal notes (cropped) in an early hand. £750 FIRST EDITION. The most complete treatise on asthma that had yet appeared. Bree belongs to that select group of physicians who have written about their own condition; chronic asthma caused him to retire from practice in 1793, and he used his own case in this book. He studied the continued... 6

Item 12, Borelli

psychological factors of the disease, and “showed that attacks could be precipitated by a current situation which by association of ideas and feelings revived not only the memory but also the emotional response which accompanied the first attack, even if the patient was unaware of this connection” (Hunter & Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, pp. 554–556). Bree moved to Birmingham in 1796, and this copy belonged to the library of the hospital to which he was appointed as one of the four honorary physicians, a post from which he resigned on 18 March 1806. The first and second editions were both printed in Birmingham and are rare, much rarer than the later editions, which were published in London.

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First English Treatise on the Anatomy of the Eye Including a Letter by Sir Isaac Newton BRIGGS, William. Ophthalmo-graphia, sive oculi ejusq; partium descriptio anatomica. Cui accessit Nova Visionis Theoria, Regiae Societati Londin. proposita. Editio altera. Londini: Typis J.P. Impensis Sam. Simpson Bibliopol. Cantabrig... 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume, small 8vo, pp. (xxiv), 80, (7), 2 folding engraved plates; (xvi), 80, 1 folding engraved plate. Separate title-page to the Nova Visionis Theoria, both titles within rules. Modern unlettered calf antique. Signature of William ?? [cropped at top] of Trinity College, Oxford, 1729, at top of title; old library stamp on title. £4500 Second edition of the Ophthalmo-graphia, G&M 1481.2 (first edition of 1676); FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, and FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of the Nova Visionis Theoria, G&M 1481.3 (first appearance in the Philosophical Collections; see below). The letter by Newton, who gave a detailed critique of Briggs’s paper, is printed here for the first time as a preface to the Theoria, which Newton recommended for publication, and which he used in developing his own theories of optics. “Briggs was one of the few seventeenth century physicians to specialise in ophthalmology, and his Ophthalmo-graphia was the first British treatise on the anatomy of the eye. It contained the first description and depiction of the papillae of the optic disc, correctly described the retina as an expansion of the fibers of the optic nerve, and postulated that this nervous layer (not the choroid, as had been previously claimed) was responsible for vision. Briggs also recognised the function of the lens in transmitting and refracting light, and illustrated its place in the eye correctly, in contrast to earlier authors who showed the lens filling the entire inner eye... Briggs’s hypothesis of vibration to explain nervous action is also expounded in Ophthalmo-graphia; he is credited with introducing this idea into English medical literature. His anatomical skill and knowledge was praised by Newton, who acknowledged the benefits he had derived from it in his preface to the Nova Visionis Theoria (1685)” (Norman 340). On one occasion Newton and Briggs assisted each other in dissecting an eye. The bibliography of this book is interesting, and complicated. The first edition of the Ophthalmographia was published in Cambridge in 1676, with a 4-page dedication to Sir Ralph Montagu. There are two issues of the present 1685 edition, both of which consist of the sheets of the 1676 edition with a new title-leaf, and the Theoria added. In one issue (the present copy), the Ophthalmographia is dedicated as before to Montagu (2 leaves), and the Theoria to the King, James II, who came to the throne earlier in 1685 (1 leaf). In the other, and presumably slightly later, issue, the dedication to Montagu has been removed, and the dedication to the King placed at the beginning of the Ophthalmo-graphia. Two possible reasons for the alteration are, firstly, that Montagu (1638– 1709), who was the Ambassador to France, fell from favour at the accession of James II, and it was therefore unwise to dedicate a book to him; or secondly that it was inappropriate to dedicate only the second half of a book to the king.

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The initial paper of the Theoria, “A New Theory of Vision”, had already appeared in No. 6 of the Philosophical Collections; Briggs published a “Continuation of a Discourse about Vision...” in the Philosophical Transactions in 1683, in which he referred to Newton and responded to his objections set out in his letter. The present edition is a Latin translation of both papers. Wing 4668A and 4667 (giving the two parts separate numbers). Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana, 4.28. Not in Babson or Gray. Russell, British anatomy, 91. James, Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England, pp. 74–83. Albert, Norton & Hurtes 318 (“...landmark English ophthalmology texts”).

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BRONGNIART, Alexandre. Traité Élémentaire de Minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts... Paris: Chez Deterville... 1807. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 564; 2 leaves, pp. 443, (1), 16 folding plates on 15 sheets (plates IX and X are on one sheet). Half-titles. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels. Tiny piece chipped from head of spine of volume 2, but a fine set. £700 FIRST EDITION of the author’s first book. This work was “commissioned as a text-book for [Brongniart’s] and Haüy’s courses at the Faculté des Sciences and the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. He adopted a simple scheme of classification based mainly on physical properties, but he also made extensive use of Haüy’s crystallographic work... He emphasized the importance of studying the modes of occurrence of minerals as well as their properties, but firmly avoided any discussion of their origins as being too speculative” (DSB).

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The First English Book on Deafness B[ULWER], J[ohn]. Chirologia: or the naturall language of the hand. Composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or, the art of manuall rhetoricke. Consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence... London: Printed by Tho. Harper... sold by R. Whitaker, 1644. 2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. (xxvii), 187, (1), 2 leaves (full-page illustration and errata); (xvi), 146, (1) errata, + engraved title to each part. Including 3 full-page illustrations in each part. First engraved title slightly damaged in the gutter, upper corner of preliminary leaf a2 torn away with loss of about a dozen letters, dampstain (mostly very slight) in lower corner of some leaves, one or two small wormholes in lower margin of second part. Contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked and edges restored, endpapers replaced. Signature of John Tyreman, 1650, on final errata leaf. £2200 FIRST EDITION OF BOTH PARTS. G&M 3347 and 3346 respectively. The first English books on deafness and the education of deaf-mutes. “According to Hodgson, John Bulwer published a book called Chirologia, which dealt with the use and value of manual gestures for speech, oratory and acting. His gestures do not seem to be based on the sign language of the deaf themselves, though he does refer to a manual alphabet used by the deaf. According to Hodgson, Bulwer was the first to advocate a school for the deaf, and like most people interested in the education of the deaf in Britain from this time onwards, he was really more interested in devising ways of teaching the deaf to speak than in describing or using any sign language they might have of their own” (Deuchar, British Sign Language). Wing B5462 and 5466 (recording three variant issues of the first edition, all in the same year). Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-laryngology, p. 74: “The first in Britain to devote his attention to the subject was John Bulwer...”

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With The “Unpublished” Second Volume CHEYNE, John. Essays on the Diseases of Children, with cases and dissections. Volume I. Containing Essay I. Of cynanche trachealis, or croup. Essay II. Of the bowel complaints more immediately connected with the biliary secretion. (–Vol. II. [Containing] Essay III. On hydrocephalus acutus or dropsy in the brain.) Edinburgh: Printed by and for Mundell & Son, and Longman & Rees, London. 1801 (vol. II: Printed for Mundell, Doig & Stevenson, and J. Murray, London. 1808). 2 volumes (the first in two parts), large 8vo (in 4s), 3 leaves, 72 pages, 5 hand-coloured engraved plates, 2 leaves, 80 pages, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, 1 engraving in the text; pp. viii, (9)– 218, errata slip. Lacking the final advertisement leaf. Additional title-pages to the first two essays, the second dated 1802, omitting any reference to volume 1. Faint and unobtrusive library stamp on the first title and the plates, a few other library stamps in volume 2, and a few spots, otherwise fine copies with wide margins. Good modern half calf antique, flat spines gilt, green morocco labels. £3200 FIRST EDITIONS, and as such of exceptional rarity, as it is generally thought that volume 2 as such was never published, and that the third essay appeared separately in 1808 under its own title of An Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus (see for instance, the Wellcome catalogue II, p. 339). However, here is evidence that the second volume was actually published; a copy in this state is in the National Library of Medicine, and a copy (without volume 1) was offered by Dawsons of Pall Mall in their Catalogue 229 (1972). There appear to be four other copies located by COPAC. Cheyne developed a particular interest in the diseases of children and in acute and epidemic diseases, and his essay on hydrocephalus was the first description of the condition. “Cheyne’s Essay, one of the first noteworthy monographs on neuropathology to appear in the nineteenth century, contains the first description of acute hydrocephalus or basilar (tuberculous) meningitis, a disease that primarily affects children. The work was a continuation of Robert Whytt’s Observations on the dropsy in the brain (1768), in which Whytt gave the classic account of tuberculous meningitis” (Norman). Cheyne moved to Dublin in 1809, and published a second essay on the subject there in 1815. The hand-coloured engraved and stipple-engraved plates in the first volume are of exquisite quality, six of them being from drawings by Charles Bell. G&M 4635, the essay on hydrocephalus acutus; see also Norman catalogue 472; McHenry, History of neurology, pp. 248–249; and Abt, Pediatrics, pp. 84–85.

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A Classic Treatise CHEYNE, John. Cases of Apoplexy and Lethargy: with observations upon the comatose diseases. London: Printed for Thomas Underwood... 1812. 8vo, 4 leaves, 224 pages, and 5 engraved plates of the brain. Library stamp on the title-page and on the plates in blank areas, first plate offset on to the last page of text, plates slightly browned and dampstained in the margins. Good modern half calf antique. £1200 FIRST EDITION. “The first idea that anaemia of the brain rather than vascular congestion might be the cause of apoplexy is to be found in the work of John Cheyne (1812)... Included in this work are five plates illustrating various forms of apoplexy that were engraved from the drawings of specimens in Charles Bell’s museum. These include the earliest illustration of a subarachnoid hemorrhage and examples of cerebral infarction” (McHenry, p. 249, etc., illustrating the title-page and plate IV). G&M 4519.1. See Spillane, The Doctrine of the Nerves, pp. 176–177.

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CLOQUET, Jules [Germain]. Anatomical Description of the parts concerned in Inguinal and Femoral Hernia. Translated from the French...with lithographic plates from the original etchings...by Andrew Melville McWhinnie. London: S. Highley,... 1835.

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8vo, pp. iv, 50, (2)adverts, 4 lithographed plates by the translator. Small stain from a former binding in the upper corners throughout, two old library stamps on title and stamp on backs of plates. Good modern half calf antique. £260 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Cloquet’s thesis, and the first of several works by him on hernia. See G&M 3585 (original French edition of 1817). For this work Cloquet dissected more than 300 specimens. Henry Marcy considered his work to be in the class of Cooper and Scarpa.

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COCCHI, Antonio. De Usu Artis Anatomicae Oratio... Editio secunda cui accedunt Observationes ad Lithotomiam Attinentes aliaque chirurgiae monumenta. Auctore Doctissimo Viro Gulielmo Bromfield... Florentiae [Florence]: Apud Andream Bonduccium. 1761. 4to, 2 leaves, pp. 9–86, 1 leaf, 1 folding engraved plate of instruments. Separate title-page to Bromfield’s work, both titles with woodcut ornaments. Modern boards, bookplate of the historian of medicine J. Johnstone Abraham, with a note by him on Bromfield and his sons on the front free endpaper. A fine and clean copy. £120 Second edition of Cocchi’s work on art in anatomy, first published in 1736, together with the first edition of William Bromfield’s lectures on lithotomy, in a Latin translation. “In 1735 Bromfield was lecturing in anatomy and the following year published Syllabus anatomicus. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Barber–Surgeons’ Hall in 1744” (ODNB). Murphy (The History of Urology) makes a brief reference to Bromfield. Not in the Kiefer catalogue.

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COCKBURN, William. The Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea. The second edition with additions. London: Printed and sold by G. Straghan... 1715. 8vo, pp. (xxxii), 224. Title within rules. Wormhole in lower margin of last two leaves and endpapers. Contemporary panelled sheep, neat repairs to ends of spine and one corner. Edges of upper cover a little rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. With the bookplate of J. Johnston Abraham, the biographer of J.C. Lettsom. £400 Second edition. Cockburn was physician to the Navy, and the inventor of a secret remedy against dysentery which brought him great wealth. The present book went through four English editions, of which the first two are rather rare (one copy of this edition in NUC).

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COOPER, Bransby B. A Treatise on Ligaments. and G. Underwood... 1825.

London: Published by Messrs. T.

4to, pp. xi, 151, 13 engraved plates (6 folded) by Basire from drawings by John Graves with 13 leaves of explanation, 2 engravings in the text on p. 75 with additional leaf of explanation. Lacking a half-title(?). Some foxing and faint library stamp on the plates, some minor dust soiling, some upper corners creased towards the end. Good modern half calf antique. £450 FIRST EDITION. A very fine treatise on the anatomy of the ligaments. The plates are principally concerned with the ligaments of the spinal column. Cooper intended this work as a supplement to the Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of his uncle Sir Astley Cooper. He also considers it to be the first book in English on the subject.

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CROCKER, H. Radcliffe. Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin in a series of illustrations from original drawings with descriptive letterpress. London: The Caxton Publishing Co... 1903. 2 volumes, large folio, with 6 preliminary leaves (4+2), and 96 chromolithographed plates with 104 leaves of descriptive text. Contemporary maroon half morocco and red cloth sides, spines gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., a fine and very clean set. Bookplate on front pastedowns. £1500 Second edition (using the original sheets first published in 16 parts in Edinburgh between 1893 and 1896) of this life-sized atlas of diseases of the skin, the largest (in format) English work on dermatology. For the last twenty years of his life Crocker was the doyen of British dermatologists. He “was one of the first to appreciate the value of microscopic examination of a skin biopsy and undertook some of the earliest thorough epidemiological investigations of skin disease. His many scientific publications included the first descriptions of a number of important skin disorders including granuloma annulare and erythema elevatum diutinum, and he is credited with the identification of micrococci as the causative agents of impetigo. In England he pioneered the application of X-rays in the management of inflammatory skin disease and the use of Koch’s treatment of lupus vulgaris with tuberculin” (ODNB). Crocker also published a textbook in 1888 (G&M 3998), which ranked as the first text in English on the subject.

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[CULLEN, William.] publisher,] 1769.

Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae.

Edinburgi: [no printer or

8vo, pp. iv, 2 leaves, pp. 303, xii. Signature of Rowland Bayley 1774 at top of title. Contemporary calf, very neatly rebacked. Armorial bookplate of John Spencer. Title slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a good, clean copy. £1200 FIRST EDITION of the book which made Cullen’s reputation. G&M 2204. “Drawing from the Linnean system of general systematics, Cullen classified diseases into four categories: fevers, nervous disorders, cachexias (diseases resulting from a bad habit of body), and local diseases. At the time this system seemed a great improvement, and Cullen’s reputation was substantially increased by its publication, yet it brought together some widely distinct diseases while separating others that were closely interrelated. The work also contains synopses of François Bossier de Sauvage’s Nosologia methodica (1763), Linnaeus’s Genera morborum (1763) and Vogel’s Definitiones generum morborum (1764)” (Norman). This first edition is surprisingly rare. It is not in the catalogues of the Wellcome, Osler, Waller or NLM (Blake, but is in the online catalogue); NUC records over 30 editions, but only two copies of this first edition, in the supplement. Norman Catalogue 539. See Copeman, A short history of the gout, pp. 8–9, for Cullen’s classification of rheumatic diseases, including gout.

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CURRIE, William Wallace. Memoir of the life, writings, and correspondence of James Currie, M.D. F.R.S. of Liverpool... Edited by his son, William Wallace Currie. London: Printed for Longman,... 1831. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, 524, engraved frontispiece portrait by T.A. Dean; pp. xii, 503, (1). Probably lacking half-titles. Contemporary russia, spines richly gilt in compartments, floral gilt borders on sides, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Neat repairs to heads of spines, upper joints just cracking, but a nice set. Signature of Arthur Forbes, 1837, on front endpapers. £180 SOLE EDITION. James Currie (1756–1805) of Dumfriesshire emigrated to Virginia where he led an adventurous life before returning to Britain and taking up medicine, practising in Liverpool. He is distinguished for being the first in England to make systematic records of clinical thermometrical observations. This extensive biography by his son includes some short original pieces and, in volume 2, correspondence.

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DAVID, [Jean Pierre]. Prize dissertations by M. David, surgeon at Rouen in Normandy, as adjudged by the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris. First, on the effects of motion and rest, and their several modes of application in surgery. Secondly, on the various effects of counter-strokes on the human body, and the methods of relieving them. Translated from the original French, with copious additional annotations, by J.O. Justamond... London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1790. 4to, 1 leaf, pp. 165, (1). Some spotting, title a bit dust-soiled and light soiling in the upper margins. Good modern quarter calf antique. Signature of R.J. Allard in upper corner of title. £1200 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN ENGLISH of a classic and very rare work in orthopaedics, important for showing the effect of movement and of rest in the treatment of joint conditions. David concluded “that to bring about anchylosis — to effect the union of bones — rest was beneficial, action was injurious. On the other hand, if anchylosis were to be avoided, as in injuries to the elbow or knee joints, then the opposite practice must be pursued — that of action or movement” (Keith). Even after the work of Hilton in the nineteenth century, modern surgeons came to accept the work of David. David also described the various types of spinal deformity consequent to vertebral disease in the same year that Pott published his account. In fact David’s book includes a description of Pott’s disease, with post-mortem findings, better than Pott’s own. David’s essay on motion and rest first appeared in English the year before, included by Justamond in his Surgical Tracts. This separate edition is extremely rare (ESTC records 7 copies word-wide). See G&M 4303 (first edition of 1779). Bick, Source Book, p. 80. Keith, Menders of the Maimed, pp. 34 and 189–191: “...his famous essay.” Valentin, Geschichte der Orthopädie, p. 64.

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DEASE, William. Observations on Wounds of the Head. With a particular enquiry into the parts principally affected, in those who die in consequence of such injuries. Dublin: Printed for J. Williams... 1776. 8vo, pp. v, xxviii, (29)–177. Title slightly marked and with a faint library stamp. Good modern half calf antique. £1600 FIRST EDITION. The first Irish book on surgery, and Dease’s first publication. Its subject matter was occasioned by the high number of head injuries with which Dease was presented (of the 24 cases that he gives, only three are clearly accidental), and the inconsistent success in treating them. Dease was a distinguished Irish surgeon and man-midwife. He was a founder of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, its first professor of surgery, and its first treasurer. The book was reprinted in London in the same year, but this original Irish edition is extremely scarce.

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Firefighting DEL GIUDICE, Francesco. Universalità dei mezzi di Previdenza, Difesa, e Salvezza per le calamità degl’ Incendi. Opera premiata in concorso dalla Accademia delle Scienze dell’ Istituto di Bologna. Bologna: Tipografia dell’ Istituto delle Scienze, 1848. 4to, 4 leaves, pp. viii, 387, 1 leaf (errata), and 19 folding plates (numbered to 17, + plates VI bis and XIII bis). Contemporary red roan-backed boards, spine gilt, uncut and opened. Head of spine worn, edges of boards worn or rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. £1500 FIRST EDITION. An extremely comprehensive book on firefighting, covering the history of firefighting, the prevention of fires, and the methods of fighting fires, including the equipment required, discussing the merits of the latest breathing apparatus invented both in Italy and abroad. The plates show various types of pumps, ladders, slides and other rescue apparatus. Bibliographical continued... 13

details are given in footnotes. Del Giudice was director of the corps of fire-fighters of Naples. This was the only edition of his book, and is rare, but in 1851 appeared his Degli ammaestramenti dell’arte di spegnere gli incendi ed usare i partiti di salvezza per uomini e cose.

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DELPECH, [Jacques Mathieu]. Mémorial des Hopitaux du Midi, et de la clinique de Montpellier. Paris: Chez Gabon,...1829 [–1830]. 3 volumes in 2, 4to, 1 leaf (prospectus), pp. 656, 1 plate; pp. viii, 744, 3 plates; pp. 40, 3 plates. Two small stains in upper margin of one plate. Contemporary half vellum, blue morocco labels, small chip in spine of vol.2, edges a little rubbed but a nice set. £1200 SOLE EDITION. This scarce book was a journal begun and edited by Delpech, pioneer orthopaedic and plastic surgeon. It is dedicated to publishing the accounts of clinical surgery carried out at Montpellier and other hospitals of the Midi, and abstracts of lectures by the professors there. It contains a large amount of material by Delpech himself, as well as by other contributors. Owing to the civil unrest in 1830, Delpech ceased its publication abruptly, for which he prints an apology at the end of vol. 3. Delpech was almost solely responsible for raising the status of the Montpellier school from the level to which it had sunk before his appointment as professor there in 1812.

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DENMAN, Thomas. Essays on the Puerperal Fever, and on puerperal convulsions. London: Printed for J. Walter... 1768. 8vo, 2 leaves, 74 pages. Good modern half calf antique. Inscribed in the upper corner of the title “From the Author.” £450 FIRST EDITION of Denman’s first published work, and the first in a series of short monographs on specific aspects of obstetrics that he published over a period of some forty years. It is dedicated to William Hunter, who at that time had the most extensive and lucrative practice as a man-midwife in London, and it was not until his death in 1783 that Denman’s practice was able to flourish.

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A Rare Collection DENMAN, Thomas. [1 Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery. Part the First [sic]. London:[n.p.,]Printedintheyear1782.[ Boundwith: ] [2] An essay on Difficult Labours. Part first. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1787. [And:] [3] An Essay on Difficult Labours. Part second. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1790. [And:] [4] An Essay on Difficult Labours. Part third, and last, on puerperal convulsions, and on the descent of the funis. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1791. [And:] [5] An Essay on Uterine Hemorrhages depending on pregnancy and parturition. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1785. [And:] [6] An Essay on Preternatural Labours. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1786. [And:] [7] An Essay on Natural Labours. [London:] Printed for J.. Johnson... 1786. [And:] [8] An Essay on Puerperal Fever. The third edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1785. 8 works in 1 volume, 8vo. Some very minor browning and small marks, but fine copies. Good modern half calf antique. £1500

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[1] FIRST EDITION. This is the very rare original edition of one of the two works on which Denman’s reputation rests. It was later expanded into two volumes. Pp. (iii), iii, 262, iv (index). [2] FIRST EDITION. 99 pages. [3] FIRST EDITION. Pp. 78, (1) advertisement for Denman’s publications. [4] FIRST EDITION. 1 leaf, 90 pages. [5] FIRST EDITION. 2 leaves, 75 pages. [6] FIRST EDITION. There was a second edition in the same year. 2 leaves, 52 pages. [7] FIRST EDITION.2 leaves, 52 pages. [8] Third edition. 2 leaves, 43 pages. A collection of most of the works of Thomas Denman, the leading man-midwife in London, and one of the first three licentiates in midwifery in London. Until 1783 Denman was in the shadow of William Hunter, but on his death Denman’s practice began to flourish. Some of the works did not see second editions, and most are quite rare, e.g. the three on difficult labours.

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DENMAN, Thomas. Aphorisms on the Application and Use of the Forceps, on preternatural labours, and on labours attended with hemorrhage. London: [n.p.,] Printed in the Year 1783. 12mo, 2 leaves, 95 pages. Interleaved. Faint library stamp on title. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt, red morocco label. A fine copy. £550 FIRST EDITION. This is one of the two works on which Denman’s reputation rests. It was his most popular work, and one in which all the most important points of the subject are stated with admirable precision. The Wellcome and British Library copies are also interleaved.

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DENMAN, Thomas. A Collection of Engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species. London: Sold by J. Johnson... 1787 [but 1790]. Folio, 2 leaves, 2 pages, and 15 unnumbered engraved plates with 15 leaves of text in English and French. Faint and unobtrusive library stamp on the title and plates, pale dampstain in the lower corner of a few leaves and plates, some minor spotting and offsetting. Modern brown cloth. Signature of Thomas Taylor, 1822, on a binder’s leaf before the title. £2800 FIRST EDITION of this suite of very fine plates. The first four show the reproductive organs of the frog, hen, and cow and the eggs of the cuttlefish, and the last eleven depict the human ovum, the foetus and uterus of women who died in childbirth, etc. Denman states that he believes several of the engravings to be the first depiction of their respective subjects. Seven of these plates are from drawings by Jan van Rymsdyck (who did most of the drawings for Jenty’s, Smellie’s, and William Hunter’s great atlases), one of which is the last drawing he is known to have done (according to his biographer John L. Thornton). Others are by various artists, the engraving being mostly done by Skelton, and the stipple-engraving by Knight. The plates are dated variously between 1783 and 1790. Denman used these plates again, incorporating them into the two quarto editions of his Introduction to the practice of midwifery (1801 and 1805), and they were again published separately as his Engravings, representing the Generation of Some Animals (1815). ESTC gives two issues or editions, one with 9 plates, dated 1783 to 1787, and one with 15 plates, as in the present copy, with no copies in the British Isles.

Item 34, Denman

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The Louse DENNY, Henry. Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniae; or, an essay on the British species of parasitic insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach, with the modern divisions of the genera according to the views of Leach, Nitzsch, and Burmeister, with highly magnified figures of each species. London: Henry G. Bohn,... 1842. 8vo, pp. (viii), (vii)–xxiv, (ii), 262, (1) Postscript, 10 (Bohn’s adverts), and 26 hand-coloured plates containing more than 100 figures. Half-title. Inscription erased from top of title. Original purple cloth, uncut. Spine faded to brown and extremities slightly rubbed, but a very good copy. £280 FIRST EDITION. Denny was the leading authority of the mid-nineteenth century on parasitic insects. This substantial monograph on the louse is one of only two books he published, and is considered by the article on the louse in the Ency. Brit. (1911) to be the most important on the subject.

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DERMOTT, G[eorge] D[arby]. Illustrations of the Arteries, connected with aneurism, and surgical operations. These plates are intended to explain the relative position of the arteries, in respect to the surrounding parts, and the organs to be met with in such operations, both externally and internally to their sheaths. [London:] Published by Thomas Hill and Co... 1841. Large folio, 2 preliminary leaves + 15 leaves of explanation variously paginated, and 9 handcoloured lithographed plates (including 2 double-page) and 4 outline plates. The two doublepage plates slightly shaved at the fore-edge, a few spots and small marks, but a very good copy. Nineteenth century maroon half calf (rubbed), cloth sides, green morocco presentation label on upper cover. £1600 Second edition of this extraordinary suite of plates, representing in life-size the arteries of the head, neck, shoulders, and arms. The finished plates were lithographed by Scharf from drawings by, or under the direction of, the author, except for one which was both drawn and lithographed by the author. This edition incorporates the second edition of the plates of the neck, as stated in the “Notice Respecting the Plates” on the second leaf, and has two additional plates. I can find only one copy dated 1841, recorded by OCLC; COPAC records 3 copies dated 1824–25 or 1826, and RLIN 3 copies dated 1824. The Wellcome catalogue indicates that it was originally published in parts. Not in the British Library; not noticed by Choulant.

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DESMARRES, L[ouis] A[uguste]. Traité Théorique et Pratique des Maladies des Yeux. Deuxième Édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. Paris: Germer Baillière, 1854 [–1858]. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. (iii), 636; (iii), 598; xi, 816, figures in the text; vol.1 prelims misbound in vol.3, some spotting; quarter calf, marbled sides, spines of vols 2 and 3 neatly repaired. £350 Second and better edition, being almost completely rewritten, and enlarged by an entire volume. See G&M 5863; the second systematic textbook in French on diseases of the eye. “In this latter edition Desmarres was able to include descriptions of pathological states made possible only by the use of the ophthalmoscope, the description of which had just been published by Helmholtz in 1851. The first volume is introduced by an anatomical description of the eye translated from the German of Ernst Wilhelm Brücke (1819–1892)” (Becker 103). Albert, Norton & Hurtes 573.

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[DOULCET, Denis Claude.] Mémoire sur la Maladie qui a attaqué, en différens temps, les Femmes en couche, à l’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. Lû dans une des Assemblées de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, dites Prima-Mensis. Suivi d’un Rapport, fait par order du Gouvernement, sur le même sujet; avec des réflexions sur la nature & le traitement de la fièvre puerpérale. Lû dans da séance de la Société Royale de Médecine, tenue au Louvre le 6 Septembre 1782. A Moulins: de l’imprimerie de J.C. Pavy,... 1783. 12mo, 47 pages. Original brown wrappers, uncut. Circular dampstain on upper wrapper (a good Burgundy, perhaps?) resulting in a small brown stain in the gutter throughout and three spots on the first few leaves. £220 FIRST EDITION (?). This memoir on the successful treatment of puerperal fever by Doulcet was ordered to be read at the Faculté de Médecine, and immediately disseminated by printing it in different towns. There were at least six separate printings in 1783, as Blake records three others at Bourges, Clermont-Ferrand, and Rouen, and Wellcome two at Grenoble and Orléans, but not the present one. The report on the memoir, which occupies pp. 26–47, is signed by de Lassone, Lorry, Vicq d’Azyr and four others.

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DURLACHER, Lewis. A Treatise on Corns, Bunions, the Diseases of Nails, and the general management of the feet. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1845. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 196, and 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates from drawings by Alexander Durlacher. Original mauve cloth, faded to brown (as usual?), rebacked preserving most of the original spine, yellow endpapers replaced, paper very slightly browned in the margins, uncut edges, a very good copy. Bookplates of C.J. Peacock and J. Colin Dagnall, the historian of the subject. £900 FIRST AND BEST EDITION, being the only illustrated edition and in larger format than later editions. G&M 4325. This book gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (later designated Morton's metatarsalgia), plantar digital neuritis, oncycophosis, Durlacher's corn, etc. It placed chiropody on a scientific basis, and is, in the opinion of J.C. Dagnall, the most important book in the literature. See Dagnall, “The history of chiropodial literature”, in The Chiropodist, 1965.

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With the Author’s Final Corrections and Additions DUVERNEY, [Guichard Joseph]. Oeuvres Anatomiques. Antoine Jombert, 1761.

A Paris: Chez Charles-

2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxx, (ii), 608, 82 (index), 19 folding engraved plates; viii, 698, 11 plates. Minor foxing and small marks in both volumes, a few gatherings slightly browned. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, small repairs to spines and tips of four corners, a very good copy. £3200 SOLE COLLECTED EDITION, incorporating Duverney’s classic book on the ear, the Traité de l’Organe de l’Ouie, which appears here for the first time with the additions made by Duverney between its first publication in 1683 and his death in 1730. See G&M 1545 and 3351: “The first scientific account of the structure, function and diseases of the ear. Duverney showed that the bony external meatus develops from the tympanic ring and that the mastoid air cells communicate with the tympanic cavity. It was he who first suggested the theory of hearing later developed by, and accredited to, Helmholtz.” The Traité de l’Organe de l’Ouie was the only book published by Duverney in his lifetime. The other works in these volumes are his Cours Complet d’Anatomie (here in its first edition), in three parts, the first of which is on the brain and organs of sense, and his treatises on the bones, on the muscles, on the glands, and on the vessels. At the end of the second volume are his observations on the circulation of the blood in the foetus, and his original and important work in comparative anatomy. The editor was the cardiologist J.B. Sénac. Stevenson & Guthrie, History of oto-laryngology, pp. 38–39. Cole, A history of comparative anatomy (numerous references). Cole Library 1000.

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EARLE, Henry. Two Lectures on the Primary and Secondary Treatment of Burns. London: Longman,... 1832. 8vo, pp. iv, 59, (1), 2 plates + 1 leaf of description. Old library stamp on title, and red ink line in lower corner. Plates dampstained, and faint dampstain in lower corner of some leaves. Modern marbled boards. Presentation copy from Sir Benjamin Brodie to St. George’s Hospital, with an inscription dated 1836 on verso of title. £220 ONLY EDITION of an early English monograph on burns. One of the few books to precede it was written by Earle's father, Sir James Earle, in 1799. The second plate shows the contractions of a burnt hand corrected by surgery.

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ESMARCH, Friedrich. Carl Rümpler, 1877.

Handbuch der Kriegschirurgischen Technik.

Hannover:

8vo, pp. xv, 316, 30 chromolithographed plates and 536 text illustrations. Half-title. Three hospital library stamps on title. Contemporary brown half morocco, black cloth sides, spines and corners neatly repaired. £550 FIRST EDITION. An important and profusely illustrated field-manual. Esmarch introduced many improvements in military surgery, in particular the first-aid bandage on the battlefield, and the “Esmarch bandage” for standardising surgical hemostasis. “He did much to improve the status of military surgery through his contributions on resection after gunshot wounds, the proper locale for field hospitals and bandaging stations, surgical techniques, first aid to the wounded, and on first aid in accidents” (Garrison).

Item 42, Esmarch

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FABRE, Pierre Jean. Alchymista Christianus. In quo deus rerum author omnium, & quamplurima fidei Christianae mysteria, per analogias chymicas & figuras explicantur, Christianorumque orthodoxa, doctrina, vita & probitas non oscitanter exchymica arte demonstrantur. Tolosae Tectosagum [Toulouse]: Apud Petrum Bosc, Bibliopolam. 1632. 8vo, pp. (xxxi), 236, (4). Woodcut device on title. Contemporary English calf (small hole in foot of spine and in top of lower joint), paper labels on spine, pastedowns from printer’s waste. £1400 FIRST EDITION. Fabre was a physician and alchemist, whose remedies, borrowed from chemistry, brought him a great reputation. This work, on the relationship between chemistry and Christianity, is one of about eleven books that he wrote on medicine and alchemy, all of which were published in Toulouse. A French edition was published in 2001. Bound with this copy is the first part of Fabre’s Myrothecium Spagyricum, sive, Pharmacopoea Chymica (1632). The second part (pp. 353–448), which has its own title-page, is not present. Duveen, p. 202. Ferguson I, p. 260.

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FARREN, George. Observations on the Laws of Mortality and Disease, and on the principles of life insurance. With an appendix, containing illustrations of the progress of mania, melancholia, craziness, and demonomania, as displayed in Shakespeare’s characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar. London: Printed for the author, by Dean and Munday... 1829. 8vo, 3 leaves, pp. (5)–96, 2 leaves (Prospectus of the Asylum Life Office), pp. (97)–132, 1 leaf (advertisement for the Asylum Life Office). Modern brown cloth, uncut, a very clean copy. Unobtrusive library stamp on the title and a presentation label on a binder’s leaf before the title. £550 FIRST EDITION of this study of the probable duration of human life. Farren was Resident Director of the Asylum Foreign and Domestic Life Assurance Company, and had previously been Director of the Economic Life Assurance Company. He published several other works on the subject, including one specifically on famous musicians, which were mostly privately printed and are rare.

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FERGUSON, James. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics. With the use of the globes, the art of dialing, and the calculation of the mean times of new and full moons and eclipses. London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand. 1764. [Bound with:] A Supplement to Mr. Ferguson’s Book of Lectures... Containing Thirteen Copper-Plates, with descriptions, of the machinery which he has added to his apparatus, since that book was printed. London: Printed for A. Millar, and sold by T. Cadell... 1767. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to, pp. vii, (i), 252, (4), 23 folding and stilted engraved plates by J. Mynde after the author; pp. 40, and 13 plates. Contemporary pale speckled calf, red morocco label on spine. Plate XVIII and adjacent pages a bit browned, minor cracks at ends of joints, foot of spine a little worn, but a lovely copy. Eighteenth century armorial bookplate of John Monins. £1250 Second edition, but the first in quarto, of the lectures of the best known itinerant scientific lecturer of the eighteenth century, together with the first edition of the supplement. Ferguson’s Lectures was phenomenally popular, and passed through many editions during and after his lifetime. Ferguson was principally an astronomer and horologist, largely self-taught, but his lectures covered a wide range of experimental science, and according to Musson & Robinson, exerted a far greater influence in disseminating scientific knowledge than has hitherto been acknowledged. The supplement does not usually accompany the main work, although they were probably issued together (it could not have been issued with the first edition, which was octavo). This is a particularly fine copy. Musson & Robinson, Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution, pp. 101–104.

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FERRI, Alfonso. De Sclopetorum sive Archibusorum Vulneribus. Eiusdem de caruncula sive callo quae cervici vesicae innascuntur. Romae: apud Valerium et Aloysium Doricòs fratres, 1552. 4to, pp. (iv), 132, (4) contents. Three woodcuts of instruments in the text. Lower blank corner of title torn away and very neatly restored, pale dampstain in the upper margin of eight leaves, a few small insignificant stains, generally an excellent copy. Modern vellum over boards. £5500 FIRST EDITION. The second monograph on the treatment of gunshot wounds (Paré’s being the first), which, with syphilis on which Ferri also wrote a monograph, were the two greatest medical problems of the sixteenth century. Ferri was the first to deal with injuries caused by heavy guns. He invented a surgical instrument called an “alphonsinum” for removing bullets, which is illustrated in three woodcuts on page 29. He advised correctly that pieces of clothing and armour left deep in a wound led to suppuration, and should be removed, but he also perpetuated the idea that gunshot wounds were poisonous. The tract on the fleshy growths on the cervix of the bladder is of particular interest to the historian of urology, and is one of the earliest on the subject. The Spaniard Andrès Laguna published a work on the same subject the year before (1551), which is cited as the first important work on diseases of the genito-urinary system. This tract by Ferri, which was the subject of an extensive analysis by Malgaigne, is discussed at length by Desnos, Histoire de l’urologie, pp. 99–100. Cockle, Military books, 844. Cushing F105.

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FREER, George. Observations on Aneurism, and some diseases of the arterial system. Birmingham: Printed by Knott & Lloyd... 1807. 4to, pp. viii, 116, and 5 engraved plates (4 hand-coloured) by Eginton from drawings by Hodgson, 1 small woodcut on p. 112. Lacking the half-title. Old library stamp on each plate, tear in blank area of plate 3 neatly repaired, light foxing on the first three leaves, a few spots at the end. Good modern half calf antique. £1100 SOLE EDITION. A very rare, important, and practically unknown work, with engraved plates from drawings by Freer’s apprentice at Birmingham, Joseph Hodgson, whose illustrations for his own work on the same subject published in 1815 (in which he described “Hodgson’s disease”) are described as the best illustrations of aneurysms published to date. Freer gives a valuable account of the diseases of the arteries, and describes in detail the case of J. M’Donald on whom Freer operated for a large aneurysm of the femoral artery. Freer had not seen Scarpa’s classic work on aneurysm (1804) when he claimed in this book that his ligation of the iliac artery in that case was “the first case on record, wherein this operation completely succeeded” (p. 79).

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Virchow’s Dedicatee GOODSIR, John and Harry D.S. Edinburgh: Myles Macphail... 1845.

Anatomical and Pathological Observations.

8vo, 2 leaves, pp. iv, 127, (1), and 9 lithographed plates from drawings by the Goodsirs. Contemporary mauve cloth, spine and edges faded to brown. Library shelf marks at the top of the title, otherwise a very good copy. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on a blank leaf before the title : “Professor Clark, With the Authors’ Compt.” Armorial bookplate of William Clark M.D. on front endpaper, and presentation label from J.W. Clark to Cambridge Philosophical Library. £900 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2294.1. John Goodsir’s paper on “Centres of nutrition” (the first paper in this volume) incorporates fundamental observations on cell structure, a subject for much debate at that time. Goodsir recognized the importance of cell division as the basis of growth and development. He differentiated between the embryonic growth centers of organs and permanent ‘centers of nutrition’ of the tissues, and established that cells are the active structures involved in continued... 21

glandular secretion. He thus anticipated by a number of years the work of Rudolph Virchow, who dedicated his Cellularpathologie (1859), not to his teacher or to one of the great figures in medicine at the time, but to the researcher who in his opinion had made one of the most important advances in the field of cellular pathology, John Goodsir, “one of the earliest and most acute observers of celllife, both physiological and pathological” (DSB). Virchow said in his book that Goodsir had shown long before that “the nuclei must...be regarded as the central organs of the cells.” The paper in this volume by John Goodsir on the bone-forming properties of certain corpuscles found within osseous tissue represents the foundation of the study of osteogenesis, as distinct from descriptive osteology. Hughes, A history of cytology, 48.

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GROUX, Eugène. Fissura Sterni Congenita. New observations and experiments made in Amerika and Great Britain with illustrations of the case and instruments by... Second edition. Hamburg: by J.E.M. Köhler. 1859. Large 4to, 2 leaves + 12 pages, lithographed frontispiece portrait, 7 lithographed plates and 1 leaf of explanation, and 5 leaves of facsimiles of manuscript and apparatus (with their lower edges folded in, being larger than the rest of the book). Unobtrusive library stamp on the plates, some minor dust soiling. Good modern diced quarter calf. £1200 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. This curious work records the first use of telegraphy to measure and record the heart beat and pulse. Eugène Groux’s chest deformity was a well-known curiosity in European medical circles, partly on account of his own efforts to promote it, as he toured the Continent soliciting medical opinions. However, when he made a tour of America Dr. Upham of Boston saw Groux as an opportunity to study the motions and sounds of the heart using the new art of telegraphy to record and measure the heart beat. He used an instrument placed against Groux’s chest, the other end of which was in contact with the circuit breaker of the telegraph. Upham called his device a “sphygmos-phone”, and anticipated the sphygmograph of Marey and Chauveau by four years. G&M 812.2 citing this edition, which was enlarged from the original American offprint of the same year by several facsimiles of excerpts from Groux’s travel diaries. Of the three other copies known to have been offered for sale, none had the frontispiece portrait.

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HABICOT, Nicolas. Antigigantologie, ou contre discours de la grandeur des geans. A Paris: Chez Iean Corrozet,... 1618. Small 8vo, pp. (viii), 182, (1) errata. Woodcut device on title. Faint dampstain in upper corner of last 20 leaves, otherwise a very good copy. Nineteenth century French quarter red morocco, marbled sides and endpapers. £950 FIRST EDITION. A notorious palaeontological event. In 1613 the remains of an extremely large creature were found in the Dauphiné area of France. The discovery was announced by a surgeon, Mazurier, who attributed the bones to Teutobocus, king of the Teutons. The bones were sent to Paris where they were examined by anatomists. Habicot maintained that they were the bones of a giant, thirteen feet in height, but his opinion was attacked by Jean Riolan (hiding under a pseudonym), who demonstrated that they belonged to a large quadruped. Riolan launched a polemic not just against Habicot, but against the school of surgeons in general. Habicot did not reply, but a repost did come from the pen of Jacques Guillemeau. Habicot, fearing that the reply would be taken as his, disowned it. However, it appears that Riolan was correct, and the bones were in fact those of an elephant. Habicot published Gigantostéologie, ou discours des os d’un géant in 1613, the year of the discovery, and the present book five years later. See Zittel, History of Geology and Palaeontology, 134.

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HAMILTON, Alexander. Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliot... 1784. 8vo, pp. xvi, 426, 6 (advertisements). Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled sides, vellum tips, bookplate, label missing from spine but a very good copy. Signature of J. Henderson in upper corner of title. £200 FIRST EDITION, although in effect a reincarnation of his first book, Elements of the Practice of Midwifery (1775). The Outlines itself went into a fifth edition in England, and was also published five times in America, where it was “remarkably influential in molding the practice of obstetrics in the United States” (Cutter & Viets, p. 205). Hamilton was the fourth professor of midwifery in Edinburgh. “After lecturing on midwifery with success for some years, he was in 1780 appointed joint professor of midwifery in the University of Edinburgh with Dr. Thomas Young, and sole professor in 1783 on Young’s death. In 1791 he was instrumental in establishing the Lying-in Hospital” (ODNB). See also Spencer, The History of British Midwifery, pp. 93–99.

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The Idea of the Mammalian Ovum HARVEY, William. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri: & de conceptione. Londoni: Typis Du-Gardianis; impensis Octaviani Pulleyn... 1651. 4to, 15 leaves, pp. 301, (1), 1 leaf (blank). With the fine allegorical frontispiece and the two blank leaves C4 (intended to be cancelled) and Ss4 but lacking the first blank leaf. Woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary sheep, spine and corners neatly repaired, spine lettered in gilt, (later(?) gilt fillet on sides and lettering on spine rubbed and partly missing. The frontispiece, usually shaved at the bottom as it is larger than the book, is here intact at the bottom but very slightly shaved at the lower fore-edge corner, and is slightly browned. Signature of J. Braxton Hicks (1823–1897), distinguished London physician and obstetrician, on front pastedown; 19th century presentation label from him to the Birmingham Medical Institute on free endpaper, and their gilt stamp (rubbed) on the spine. £7500 FIRST EDITION. G&M 467 and 6146: “The most important book on the subject to appear during the seventeenth century.” Harvey was among the first to disbelieve the erroneous doctrine of the preformation of the foetus. The motto of the frontispiece “Ex ovo omnia” epitomised his theory of the mammalian ovum, a theory not proven until von Baer’s discovery in 1827. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his work on embryology would have placed him among the greatest of biological scientists. The chapter on labour, De Partu, is the first original work on obstetrics to be published by an Englishman. Wing H1091. Keynes 34. Russell, British Anatomy, 375. Needham, History of Embryology, pp. 112–133. Spencer, History of British Midwifery, pp. 1–6.

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Important Early Medical Journal [HEBERDEN, William, Snr., et al.] Medical Transactions, published by the College of Physicians in London. Volume the first [–sixth]. London: S. Baker and J. Dodsley, 1768 [–Longman,... 1820]. 6 volumes, 8vo, over 2750 pages, 8 plates (3 folding and 2 coloured), 2 engraved charts (1 folding). Library inscription on titles of 4 volumes and stamp on some plates, some foxing and light soiling. Recent half calf (two volumes fractionally smaller but bindings uniform), bookplate in volume 1 of Robert Mowbray, whose small but very fine and select medical library was sold in Scotland in 1986. £2800

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ALL FIRST EDITIONS. A complete set of this important periodical, the second significant medical journal published in London. It was preceded by three short-lived journals between 1684 and 1716, then by Medical Essays and Observations in Edinburgh, and by Medical observations and Inquiries, which ran to six volumes, as the present journal did. Its editor is not known, but its “first promoter” (DNB) and most prolific early contributor was William Heberden Snr. Among the important papers it contains are his papers on night-blindness (G&M 5831, “a classical description”), on chickenpox (G&M 5438, in which he differentiated it from smallpox), and probably his most important paper, “Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast” (G&M 2887), his original classic description of angina pectoris. “The merit of Heberden’s account (in which, incidentally, he used the name ‘angina pectoris’) lies in the fact that he was the first to include a description of the paroxysmal oppression in the thorax. His account is so perfect that it might well have been written today” (G&M). Garrison, Medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, p. 306. LeFanu, British periodicals of medicine, 13. Only the first volume went to a later edition.

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HENOCH, E[duard]. Beiträge zur Kinderheilkunde. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1861. 8vo, pp. viii, (ii), 213, 30 (adverts). Paper slightly browned, library stamp at foot of title and on endpapers. Contemporary quarter cloth, marbled sides, good copy. £550 FIRST EDITION. G&M 6336. Henoch initiated the modern concept of paediatrics. This was the first of his publications on the subject. See Abt, Paediatrics, pp. 94–95.

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HERNIA. [1] BORDENAVE, [Toussaint]. Mémoire sur le Danger des Caustiques pour la cure radicale des Hernies. A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de J.G. Clousier... 1774. [Bound with:] [2] GAUTHIER, [Hugues]. Dissertation sur l’usage des Caustiques, pour la guérison radicale & absolue des Hernies ou Descentes, de façon à n’avoir plus besoin de bandages pour le reste de la vie. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert... [&] l’Auteur... 1774. [Bound with:] [3] BLAKEY, William. Instructions pour prévenir et Guerir les descentes ou Hernies. Par M. Blakay... A Paris: Chez Guillaume Desprez... 1760. 3 works in 1 volume, 12mo. [1]: 46 pages, 1 blank leaf. [2]: 1 leaf, 142 pages. [3]: 28 pages, with 2 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels (ends of spine worn, joints just cracking), marbled endpapers. £380 [1]. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (it was also published in the Mém. de l’Acad. Roy. de Chir. in the same year). The supplement is clearly additional, and probably not by Bordenave as he is referred to in the third person. Rare; not in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Wellcome, BL, etc; NLM has a copy. [2]. FIRST EDITION. [3]. FIRST EDITION? This is the earliest book on hernia by William Blakey in the British Library. He was clearly working in Paris at the time, but later published books on hernia in London in English. Rare; not in the Wellcome, NLM, etc. Several other pieces are also bound into this volume, including four letters on hernia by Juville, being “Extraits” (offprints separately printed with their own title-pages) from the Journal de Médecine for 1775.

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The First Complete Account of the Lymphatics HEWSON, William. Experimental Inquiries: Part the First. Being a second edition of an inquiry into the properties of the blood... London: Printed for T. Cadell... 1772. [Bound with:] HEWSON, William. Experimental Inquiries: Part the Second. Containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals... London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1774. [And:] FALCONAR, Magnus. Experimental Inquiries: Part the Third. Containing a Description of the Red Particles of the Blood... London: Printed for T. Longman... 1777. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 223; xvi, 239, 6 engraved plates (5 folding); xxi, (ii) errata, 144, (8), 4 folding engraved plates. Half-title to each part, the second part is dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. Library stamp on the first title and plates and a few elsewhere, faint and unobtrusive stamps in part 3, stain on pp. 125/126 of part 1, pale and mostly very faint dampstain in the lower corner of part 2. Good modern half calf antique. Signature of John Lamb dated 1778 on a binder’s leaf in part 3, and a few contemporary notes in part 1. £1800 FIRST EDITIONS of all three parts of Hewson’s Experimental Enquiries, and as such very rare, containing Hewson’s researches into the blood and lymphatics, described by Garrison as “of capital importance”. By precise thermometry he established the fact that fibrinogen is responsible for the clotting of the blood, and first described lymphocyte. He showed that red corpuscles are discoid, not spherical, and gave the first clear description of the three parts of the blood. He gave the first complete account of the anatomical peculiarities of the lymphatics, dividing them into two groups. He described the leucocytes as derived from the lymphatic glands and thymus. The first part had previously appeared as An Experimental Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood, a duodecimo of 204 pages. The following year Hewson brought out the present expanded edition under the new title of Experimental Inquiries, with a promise of more to follow. Hewson died in 1774, and the third part was completed by his friend Magnus Falconar. It is extremely unusual to find the three parts together, especially when all are in first edition. G&M 863 (with incorrect date) and 1102. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1771 (the Experimental Inquiry) and 1774. Russell,British Anatomy, 407, 409, 410.

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HIGHMORE, Nathaniel. Case of a Fœtus found in the Abdomen of a Young Man [Thomas Lane], at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire. London: Printed [in Sherborne] for the author, published by Longman,... 1815. 4to, pp. 30, (1) errata, 2 folding engraved plates by Heath from drawings by Clift. Some dust- and finger-soiling. Good modern half calf antique, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. £400 FIRST EDITION of this extraordinary case report, although Highmore refers to two other welldocumented cases. The specimen was deposited in the Royal College of Surgeons. A large list of subscribers occupies pp. 5–9.

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HIPPOCRATES. The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates: by John Moffat, M.D. translator of Aretæus. London: Printed by T. Bensley; for C. Elliot,... 1788. 8vo, pp. (iii)–xx, 292. Lacking the half-title, otherwise a good copy. Modern half calf antique. £650 First edition of this translation; the Prognostics had previously appeared in English in Clifton’s translation of 1734. The Prognostics is one of the most important of the Hippocratic writings, and the first book of the Prorrhetics is the oldest. “The dignity of the Greek physician was based more upon his supposed ability to predict clinical and epidemiological happenings than upon his power to control continued... 25

them. To this end, Hippocrates instituted, for the first time, a careful, systematic and thorough-going examination of the patient’s condition, including the facial appearance, pulse, temperature, respiration, excreta, sputum, localized pains, and movements of the body... He introduced the doctrines of the four humors (humoral pathology), coction of food in the stomach, healing by first intention; and divided diseases into acute and chronic, endemic and epidemic” (Garrison, pp. 96–97).

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HULME, Nathaniel. A safe and easy remedy, proposed for the relief of the stone and gravel, the scurvy, gout, &c. And for the destruction of worms in the human body, illustrated by cases: together with an extemporaneous method of impregnating water, and other liquids, with fixed air, by simple mixture only, without the assistance of any apparatus, or complicated machine. The third edition. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for L. Flin... 1780. 8vo, pp. (viii), 79. Some minor foxing. Good modern quarter calf antique, marbled sides, red morocco label on spine. £400 FIRST IRISH EDITION. In 1777 Hulme published a lecture in which he cited his successful treatment for dissolving or breaking up a bladder stone with draughts of potassium carbonate followed by sulphuric acid, both in water in order to induce the release of carbon dioxide. The alleged result was that hundreds of fragments of calculus came away for several weeks, and the patient remained in good health a year later. In the present work he advocates the use of the same remedy for scurvy, gout and worms. ESTC records 8 copies, four of them in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The first two editions were published in London.

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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. Paper slightly browned throughout (the title more so), portrait foxed and some spotting in a few gatherings (as usual), short slit (paper flaw?) in Aa3 without loss, old repair to blank area of last leaf, old library stamp on portrait, title and plates. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt with red morocco label, marbled sides. £2800 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.

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IMBERT-DELONNES, [Ange Bernard]. Traité de l’Hydrocèle, cure radicale de cette maladie; et traitement de plusieurs autres qui attaquent les parties de la génération de l’homme. A Paris: Chez Pierre-J. Duplain,... 1785. 8vo, pp. (iv), xlviii, 424, (4). Contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, green morocco label on spine, fine copy. £350 FIRST EDITION of the author’s first book. The greater part of the book is on the hydrocele, but at the end are chapters on related disorders. Imbert-Delonnes was an army surgeon, and surgeon to the Duc d’Orléans.

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JENKINS, Jeremiah. Observations on the Present State of the Profession & Trade of Medicine, as practised by physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, chemists, druggists, and quacks in the metropolis and throughout the country of Great Britain. London: Printed for the author, and sold by all booksellers... 1810. 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. xvi, 140, (4) advertisements. Faint library stamp on the title-page. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt, red morocco label, a fine copy. £300 SOLE EDITION. Jenkins took his comments on the present state of the medical profession in this work from a journal, A selection of interesting cases in surgery, medicine and midwifery, and republished them so that the members of the various legislative bodies “may not be ignorant of the disgraceful practices, both of regular men and licensed quacks, when the important subject of medical reform is discussed” (p. ii).

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KEATE, Thomas. Cases of Hydrocele, with observations on a peculiar method of treating that disease. To which is subjoined, a singular case of hernia vesicæ urinariæ, complicated with the hydrocele; and two cases of hernia incarcerata. London: Printed for J. Walter, Charing-Cross. 1788. Small 8vo, pp. (iv), 60, folding stipple-engraved plate by Frederick Birnie. Good modern quarter calf antique, green morocco label on spine. Folding plate a little creased and soiled near the lower edge, otherwise a very good copy. £250 FIRST EDITION of Keate’s only surgical publication, and rare. Apart from a German translation there were no other editions. “He succeeded Gunning in 1798 as surgeon-general to the army, and the next year was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He also became inspector of the National Cow-Pox Establishment. Keate was an examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1800, and master in 1802, 1809, and 1818. He was an excellent surgeon, and was the first to tie the subclavian artery for aneurysm” ODNB). (

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[KENNEDY, Peter.] Ophthalmographia; or, a Treatise of the Eye, in two parts. Part I. Containing a new and exact description of the eye; as also the theory of the vision considered, with its Diseases. Part II. Containing the signs, causes, and cure of the maladies incident to the eye. To which is added an appendix of some of the diseases of the ear; wherein is observed the communication between these two organs. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott... 1713. 8vo, pp. (xxiv), 109, (3), 1 folding engraved plate. With the half-title and final advertisement leaf. Title with double ruled border (slightly shaved at head), woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Good modern quarter calf antique. Old library stamp on title, small stain in lower margin of first few leaves, paper slightly browned, but a very good copy. £1600

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FIRST EDITION. “One of the few books in English which documents what the enlightened eighteenth century surgeon knew about the eye...the original copies have become extremely scarce... One of the most detailed and interesting portions of the discussion is his description of cataract and its treatment by couching... Kennedy makes a few original observations. These include finding that a scratched convex lens will, in a dark room, produce an image. Also floaters can, according to the laws of optics, not be reproduced by stationary particles in the aqueous, but are attributed, following the teaching of Pitcairne, to changes in the retinal blood vessels” (Albert pp. 3 and 13). This is one of the few English books on ophthalmology of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, which are mostly quite rare. Twenty-six years later Kennedy published A supplement to Kennedy’s Ophthalmographia, which is even rarer. The brief appendix on diseases of the ear is one of the earliest English writings on otology. Albert, Norton & Hurtes 1225. See James, Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England, p. 90. Not in the Becker catalogue.

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KNIGHT, Godwin. An Attempt to demonstrate, that all the Phaenomena in Nature may be explained by Two Simple Active Principles, Attraction and Repulsion: wherein the attractions of cohesion, gravity, and magnetism, are shewn to be one and the same; and the phaenomena of the latter are more particularly explained. London: Printed for J. Nourse... 1754. 4to, 2 leaves (half-title and title), 95 pages. One woodcut on p. 66. Paper very slightly browned towards the end. Modern quarter calf antique. £1200 FIRST EDITION, second issue (the sheets of the first edition reissued with a slightly altered titlepage and the addition of a half-title). “In the early nineteenth century, there were a number of points of view which could provide the chemist with guidelines worth following. There was, first of all, an English tradition in chemistry which could be traced back to the patron saint of English science, Sir Isaac Newton. It took Newton’s work on force and raised it to the level of a universal science. The classic example in the eighteenth century is Godwin Knight’s An Attempt... “But Knight’s work was relatively crude... A more subtle solution to the problem of complexity and of the nature of matter was provided by the Jesuit Rudjer Boskovic...in 1758. Like Knight, Boskovic dismissed the reality of matter and substituted forces but, unlike Knight, was able to combine the forces of attraction and repulsion in one ‘atom’...” (from a long discussion of this book by L. Pearce Williams in DSB, 4, pp. 529–530). Knight’s starting point was a suggestion by Newton in the Opticks. He sought to explain all natural phaenomena, such as light, heat, heat, magnetism, as being composed of attractive and repulsive particles which cluster in individual ways. “For this Newtonian text he also drew on his own experiments and on continental research into metallurgy and mining” (ODNB). See Ekelöf 311 and Wheeler Gift 350 (the first issue of 1748). Knight was the first to make powerful magnets; he was also a practising physician, and principal librarian to the newly founded British Museum.

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The Dedication Copy [L'EPÉE, Abbé Charles Michel de.] The Method of Educating the Deaf and Dumb; confirmed by long experience... Translated from the French and Latin. London: Printed by George Cooke...and published by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies... 1801. Small 8vo (in 4s), 4 leaves, pp. xxxii, (iv), 230, 1 folding letterpress table paginated 55–56. Halftitle. Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, spine ruled in gilt and gilt lettered, single gilt fillet on sides and inner edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Foxing on 4 leaves, otherwise a lovely copy. Signature of Lord Eldon (John Scott, first earl of Eldon, 1751–1838), the dedicatee, and his armorial bookplate on the front free endpaper. £1250 continued... 28

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. THE DEDICATION COPY of one of the most important books on the subject of educating the deaf and dumb. “The Abbé L’Épée met two deaf girls, decided to educate them, and soon had a class of 60 devoted pupils, whom he supported and amongst whom he lived. He based his methods on those of Bonet and Amman, and was the first to attach great important to signs” (G&M). This is his definitive work, and contains a reprint of his two earlier books on the subject. L’Épée founded the first school for the deaf in Paris in 1760. Two years after his death the National Assembly recognised him as a “Benefactor of Humanity” and declared that the deaf had rights according to the constitution. In 1791 the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets à Paris, which L’Épée had founded, began to receive government funding. This first edition in English is extremely rare; in fact I was unaware of its existence until the appearance of this copy. COPAC records three copies. The translator was Francis Green, who included a valuable history of the education of the deaf in his preface. The dedication was to Lord Eldon, who, as Lord Chancellor, was ultimately responsible for the care of the deaf and infirm in Britain. See G&M 3359 (first edition of 1784). Stevenson & Guthrie, History of Oto-Laryngology, p. 75.

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LE CAT, [Claude Nicolas]. Traité de l'existance, de la nature et des propriétés du fluide des nerfs, et principalement de son action dans le mouvement musculaire... suivi des dissertations sur la sensibilité des meninges, des tendons, &c. l’insensibilité du cerveau, la structure des nerfs, l’irritibilité Hallérienne, &c. Berlin: [no printer,] 1765. 8vo, pp. (viii), 331, (1), 6 folding engraved plates. Complete with the half-title and the blanks I3, X7 and X8. Title printed in red and black, engraved vignettes on pp. 3 and 137. A little foxing and a few small marks. Contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt, some small and almost imperceptible repairs to head of spine and tips of corners. £800 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of two publications that had originally appeared in the collection of prize dissertations of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and which are here corrected and much enlarged by the author. The first deals with the nature and properties of the nervous fluid and its influence on muscular motion, and the second with the sensibility of the meninges, and the insensibility of the brain and the structure of the nerves, ending with a criticism of Haller’s theory of irritability. These texts are of importance for the theories of muscular contraction and nerve conduction at the time which preceded Galvani’s experiments to stimulate muscles and nerves by electricity. Le Cat was also one of the chief writers before the nineteenth century on spina bifida, illustrated on two of the plates.

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LE DRAN, Henri-François. Parallele des Differentes Manieres de Tirer la Pierre hors de la Vessie. A Paris: Chez Charles Osmont... 1730. [Bound with:] Suite du Parallele des différentes manieres de faire l’extraction de la pierre qui est dans la vessie urinaire. Publié en 1730. Seconde partie. A Paris: Chez la Veuve Delaguette,... 1756. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. vii, (iii), 195, (5), and 6 folding engraved plates; pp. (iv), 97, (2), 2 folding engraved plates with 2 leaves of explanation. Tear across two plates neatly repaired without loss, strip torn from the surface of p. 91 of the Suite removing about 20 letters (supplied in pencil), otherwise excellent copies. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, red edges, small repairs to ends of spine and corners. £700 FIRST EDITION, including the rare Suite. G&M 4283. An important book in the history of lithotomy, as Le Dran evaluates the different methods of lithotomy just coming into use, with an account of his own experiences. In particular he discusses the methods of Rau and Cheselden, and in the Suite those of Foubert, Thomas, Le Cat, and Frère Côme. Le Dran made many improvements to lithotomy, and is credited by Murphy as the originator of the lateral operation usually attributed to Cheselden. continued... 29

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Murphy, History of urology, pp. 115, etc. Despite the presence of the sixth plate of the forceps dated 1749, this is the first edition, and not the reprint of c. 1772 but still dated 1730 recorded by Wellcome. The Suite, published 26 years after the original work, is rare, and not normally found with it.

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LONG, Roger. Astronomy, in five books. (–1764 [i.e. 1784]).

Cambridge: Printed for the author, 1742

2 volumes, 4to, pp. xvi, (viii), 356; iv, (357)–728, (14), 2 engraved frontispieces and 97 folding engraved plates. Engraved vignette on pp. 1 and 585. Contemporary mottled calf, nicely rebacked, spines gilt, red morocco labels, frontispiece and title-page of volume 1 a little dust-soiled, but a clean copy. Armorial bookplate of James Smith of Jordanhill on pastedowns; later stamp of Glasgow Observatory in lower corner of front free endpapers. £2000 FIRST EDITION. In this large treatise Long provided a thorough introduction to the principles of astronomy and navigation, as well as to the use of maps and globes. He published the first two books, comprising the first volume, in 1742, but it was to be forty-two years, and fourteen years after his death, before the second volume appeared. The final, unfinished, book was largely completed by Richard Dunthorne, and after his death by William Wales, and was checked by Nevil Maskelyne.

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Essential Advice for Captain Cook MacBRIDE, David. Experimental Essays on medical and philosophical subjects: particularly, I. On the fermentation of alimentary mixtures, and digestion of the food. II. On the nature and properties of fixed air. III. On the respective powers...of antiseptics. IV. On the scurvy... V. On the dissolvent power of quick-lime... The second edition, enlarged and corrected. London: Printed for A. Millar and T. Cadell,... 1767. 8vo, pp. xiv, (ii), 296, 2 folding letterpress tables and 4 engraved plates (1 folding). Contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label, 19th century blue marbled endpapers. Some gatherings slightly browned, otherwise a very nice copy. Manuscript ex libris on verso of title of Jacobus Regiae (Giacomo Re?) dated 1812 and stamp beneath with the initials G.R.; bookplate on front pastedown of John Yudkin (1910–1995), professor of nutrition. £1100 Second London edition. The Irishman David Macbride studied in Glasgow and became a naval surgeon. His principal subject of investigation in this series of five essays was fixed air (carbon dioxide). Of particular interest is the essay on scurvy, which Macbride considered to be due to a lack of fixed air, and vegetables rich in fixed air. He therefore recommended fresh vegetables as a cure, or for longer voyages, an infusion of malt that he called the wort. Macbride’s experimental results also sparked Joseph Priestley’s interest in the medicinal possibilities of the new gases he was discovering, and this research led to the work of Thomas Beddoes and the Pneumatic Institute. At the end of this edition is a 10-page Postscript detailing how the wort cured scurvy on the Royal Naval ship Jason, commanded by MacBride’s brother. The Admiralty ordered that the wort should be given further trial, and sent copies of this edition of the book to Captain Cook, who took them on his first voyage in 1768. Heeding Macbride’s advice, Cook took every opportunity to obtain fresh supplies, and never lost a man to scurvy, a quite extraordinary feat at the time. The first edition, without the important postscript, was published in London in 1764, and this second edition was also published in Dublin earlier in the same year. Keevil, Medicine and the Navy, III, pp. 308–309. Partington, , III, pp. 143–144. Cole 854. Neville II, p. 107.

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MAURICEAU, François. The Diseases of Women with Child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix’d an exact description of the parts of generation in women... The sixth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the description of an excellent instrument to bring a child that comes right... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen. London: Printed for T. Cox...and J. Clarke...and T. Combes... 1727. 8vo, pp. xliv, 373, (7), 10 copper-engraved plates on 8 sheets (6 folding). Upper blank corner of title torn away, the folding plates creased and slightly soiled and two with short tears repaired. Contemporary calf, a little rubbed, spine carefully repaired, original green morocco label preserved. £380 Sixth edition in English. See G&M 6147 (first, 1668). This was the most important obstetrical book of its time, and it established obstetrics as a science. The translation was by Hugh Chamberlen, who held the secret of the forceps, and who tried to sell it to Mauriceau. See also Speert, Milestones, pp. 558–566, and Thoms, Classical Contributions, pp. 59–62.

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MEAD, Richard. Medica Sacra: sive, de morbis insignioribus, qui in Bibliis memorantur, commentarius. London: J. Brindley, 1749. 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. xix, (iii), 108. Half-title. Paper lightly browned or foxed, otherwise a good copy. Half calf antique. £240 FIRST EDITION. On the diseases mentioned in the Bible. Mead explained Job’s disease as elephantiasis, Saul’s as melancholia, Jehoram’s as dysentery, Hezekiah’s as an abscess, and Nebuchadnezzar’s as hypochondriasis. He also discusses leprosy, palsy and demoniacal possession.

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First Book on Navigation MEDINA, Pedro de. L’Arte del Navegar, in laqual si contengono le regole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi, alla bona navegation necessarii. Composta per...& tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano... In Vinetia [Venice]: ad instantia di Gioanbattista Pedrezano... 1554. [Bound with:] 2. Il Portolano del Mare, nel qual si dichiara minutamente del sito di tutti il porti, quali sono da Venetia in Levante, & in Ponente: & d’altre cose utilissime, & necessarie à i naviganti. Di nuovo con quella piu accurrata diligentia, che s’è potuto, corretto, & ristampato. In Venetia [Venice]: Appresso Daniel Zanetti, & compagni. 1576. [And:] 3. Il Consolato del Mare; nel quale si comprendono tutti gli statuti, & ordini: disposti da gli antichi, per ogni caso di mercantia & di navigare: cosi a beneficio di marinari, come di mercanti, & patroni di nave, & navilii... In Venetia [Venice]: Appresso Daniel Zanetti, & compagni. 1576. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (in 8s), ff. (xii, including the last blank), CXXXVII, 1 (blank); ff. (ii), 39, (1) blank, but lacking ff. 33–38; ff. (xvi), 230 [i.e. 240]. With a large woodcut on the first title-page, repeated on f. XVII, and different large woodcuts at the beginning of each of the eight Books, fullpage woodcut world map on f. XXXIII, other woodcuts and letterpress tables in the text, woodcut initials; the Portolano and Consolato printed in italics throughout. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt (but the gilt partly rubbed), small repairs to two corners. £16,000 1. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, first issue, of the first book on navigation. This volume is in effect a complete handbook of navigation as it comprises a treatise on navigation, a pilot for the Mediterranean, and a treatise on the laws of the sea. Two Spanish monographs which began the science of navigation were published in quick succession: the present book appeared first (Valladolid, 1545), followed shortly afterwards by the Breve Compendio de la Sphera y de la Arte de Navegar (Seville, 1551) of Martin Cortes. Medina’s continued... 32

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book was quickly translated into Italian (the present edition) and French, and was the principal text for those countries, while an English translation of Cortesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book appeared in 1561, followed by Medinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in 1581. That of Cortes was more complete and accurate, but between them these two books supplied the navigators of four nations with their first key to the mastery of the sea. The eight Books of this work are on cosmography, the seas and oceans, winds, the height of the sun and of the pole, the compass, the moon, and the calendar. On f. XXXIII is a world map, showing the whole of the east coast of America from Brazil to Canada, as well as most of the Mediterranean and the west coast of Europe and part of Africa. This and the French edition of the same year were preceded only by two Spanish editions, which are exceptionally rare and valuable. This edition was reissued the following year. Sabin 47346. Church catalogue 98. Not in the Taylor Collection, which had the French edition and second Spanish edition. Wheeler Gift 41 (second issue). Pale stain on f. XVII (followed by an additional blank leaf), otherwise a fine and clean copy. continued... 33

2. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (?) of Il Portolano del Mare. This is the first edition listed in Censimento, but it is clear from the title-page that this is a corrected edition. Apart from the six missing leaves, which were clearly never present, a fine and clean copy. 3. Fourth edition in Italian (?) of the Consolato del Mare, the first major codification of maritime law. Said to have been compiled at Barcelona (or, according to other authorities, at Pisa) in the fourteenth century, it was adopted by the cities of the Mediterranean (France, England and the Baltic states adopted other codes). It was a compilation of comprehensive rules for all maritime matters, dealing with the ownership of vessels, the duties and responsibilities of their masters or captains, duties of seamen and their wages, freight, salvage, jettison, average contribution, the rights of neutrals in time of war — in fact, with all the matters that now enter into the admiralty and maritime law of all civilised nations; and its principles have been universally adopted. It had been preceded by the Amalfian Tables, but they were superseded by the Consolato del Mare, which became and remained the maritime law of the Mediterranean through all the period of the Middle Ages, and down even to comparatively recent times. Some headlines cut a little close (actually cropped on one leaf), lower corner torn from E8 with loss of a few letters and small blank corner torn from following leaf, faint dampstain in lower margin towards the end with a little damage to last five leaves.

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MONRO, Alexander (secundus). A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their structure explained, and compared with that of the capsular ligaments of the joints, and of those sacs which line the cavities of the thorax and abdomen; with remarks on the accidents and diseases which affect those several sacs, and on the operations necessary for their cure. Illustrated with tables. Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliott, T. Kay...and for Charles Elliott, 1788. Folio, 60 pages and 10 finely engraved plates by George Cameron, Thomas Donaldson and J. Beugo from drawings by Donaldson and Andrew Fyfe (6 folded; plates 1–3 and 5 are printed on two sheets). Old library stamp at head of title and light dust-soiling in margins, some other minor dustsoiling, three tears in blank areas of plate 3 (one professionally repaired). Early 19th century half calf, sides rubbed, edges and tips of corners worn, red morocco title label on spine and matching library label at foot. £1900 FIRST EDITION. G&M 399.2: “The first serious study of this subject and the most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty.” This classic work contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and bones which Albinus had named the bursae mucosae. They are illustrated on ten plates “which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon” (Heirs of Hippocrates 1011). The plates depict the foot, various joints including the knee and hip, and four of the plates are life-sized representations of the entire arm and leg. Russell, British anatomy, 613. Taylor, The Monro Collection, M170.

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MORET, Theodor. Tractatus Physico-Mathematicus de Æstu Maris. [Antwerp]: Apud Jacobum Meursium, 1665.

Antverpiæ

4to, pp. (viii), 127, 1 leaf (errata). Woodcut vignette on title, three woodcuts in the text including two global projections showing America, other woodcut diagrams, woodcut tailpiece. Modern quarter calf antique. Title and last (blank) page slightly dust-soiled, neat restoration to upper inner corner of title. Inscribed “Hasely Court” (home of the Boulton family) on title. £600 FIRST EDITION. “Interesting as an early work treating exclusively on the theory of the tides. Very rare” (Sotheran II, 12066). Moret, a Jesuit born in Antwerp in 1602, taught philosophy and mathematics for thirty years in Prague, and afterwards in Breslau, where he died in 1667.

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MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista. The Seats and Causes of Diseases investigated by anatomy; in five books, containing a great variety of dissections, with remarks. To which are added very accurate and copious indexes of the principal things and names therein contained. Translated from the Latin...by Benjamin Alexander. London: Printed for A. Millar... 1769. 3 volumes, 4to, pp. (iv), (ix)–xxxii, (ii), 868; vi, 770; (vi), 604, (152) index. Some foxing and minor soiling on first and last few leaves in each volume. Contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, new endpapers, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels. Scuff marks on sides and edges worn, but a good set. £2600 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the founding work of modern pathological anatomy, and the only complete translation into English. See G&M 2276, 2734 and 2885. Morgagni was the first to systematically and thoroughly correlate clinical details with accurate post mortem findings. The book contained no illustrations, but Morgagni had the ability to describe his findings with a “fascinating literary style” (Long) which makes his book “one of the most readable of all medical books” (Lilly). Morgagni gave the first descriptions of several pathological descriptions. In the monumental collection of over 700 cases of disease he recorded an authentic case of angina pectoris, and gave classic descriptions of mitral stenosis and heart-block. He gave reports of epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, and the first clear elaboration of the findings in apoplexy since Wepfer a century before. He is remembered eponymously for Morgagni’s tubercle, ventricle, and foramen singulare. See Printing and the Mind of Man 206; Grolier One Hundred (Medicine) 46; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 125; Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 125. Long, History of pathology, pp. 67–72. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 441–444. Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, pp. 173–187; etc. One of the most important books in the history of medicine.

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MUSA, Antonius. Fragmenta quae extant. Collegit nunc primum, praefatus est, commentarios, & notulas addidit Florianus Caldani. Bassani: apud Josephum Remondini et filios... 1800. 8vo, 147 pages, engraved frontispiece. Contemporary tree sheep, gilt border in a rope-work pattern, spine gilt in compartments, orange label, marbled endpapers, a fine copy. £650 FIRST EDITION. Antonius Musa was a Roman physician in the time of Caesar Augustus, whom he famously cured of a rheumatic disease. Apart from two pieces by Musa, this book also contains a preface to the two works, a commentary on Musa by Vincenzo Benini, and a note on the life and writings of Benini himself. Musa was also the author of pharmaceutical works quoted by Galen, who is the chief source of the fragments. According to Haeser, the De bona valetudine, included here, is of later origin. Osler 3478. A very attractive copy of a finely printed book.

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The Boiled Mutton Gravy Experiment NEEDHAM, [John] Turbeville. Observations upon the Generation, Composition, and Decomposition of Animal and Vegetable Substances. Communicated in a letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society... London: Printed in the year 1749. 4to, 1 leaf, 52 pages, 1 folding engraved plate. Modern calf-backed boards antique. Slit or paper flaw (7 cm.) in blank area of title very neatly repaired, lower ruled border of the plate slightly shaved. Initials J.W. in an early hand on the title-page. £800 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, an offprint from the Philosophical Transactions, of the second of Needham’s works on spontaneous generation, and the one which includes the experiment which he himself considered crucial to the debate.

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In 1748, at Buffon’s invitation, Needham examined fluids extracted from the reproductive organs of animals and infusions of plant and animal tissue. Buffon never claimed to have observed the microscopic joining of the molecules that he speculated took place, but Needham thought he actually did see new organisms taking shape out of disorganised material. This was his famous experiment with boiled mutton gravy. Needham’s case rested upon the fact that, if meat broth was placed in a sealed vessel and heated to a high temperature so that all life was destroyed in it, it would be found to be swarming some days later with microscopical animals, which it was. The debate continued, involving Spallanzani and Pasteur, and is still unresolved, as Joseph Needham wrote in 1934. Needham, A history of embryology (1934), pp. 188–189. Bulloch, The history of bacteriology, pp. 72–74. DSB X, p. 10. Penso, La conquête du monde invisible, pp. 241–242.

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NEWTON, Isaac. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English, and illustrated with a commentary, by Robert Thorp, M.A. Volume the First [all published]. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. 1777. 4to, pp. lviii, (ii), 360, and 22 stilted and folding engraved plates. Half-title misbound after the title, dedication leaf misbound after the first leaf of subscribers. Nineteenth century half calf (nicely rebacked and recornered as the original), flat spine gilt in compartments, drab paper sides. Some minor foxing on the title and elsewhere, tear (8 cm.) in R2 carefully repaired affecting a few letters, but a fine copy. £5200 FIRST EDITION of the second translation into English of the Principia, although only the first volume was published. Thorp’s translation, “though based on Motte’s edition of 1729, is considered by Cohen (Newton, 1969, p. iv) to be ‘notably improved and amended’. Further, he declared, for anyone wishing to follow Newton’s reasoning and ‘to comprehend this great treatise on its own terms, there is no better work...available in English’.” (Gjertsen, The Newton Handbook). This first edition is quite rare; it was reissued in 1802. Thorp was one of the three editors of the Excerpta published in 1765. Wallis 28. Gray 28. Not in Babson.

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PAAW, Pieter. Succenturiatus Anatomicus. continens Commentaria in Hippocratem, de Capitis Vulneribus. additae in aliquot capita libri VIII. C. Celsi Explicationes. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Iodocum à Colster, 1616. 4to, pp. (xxiv), 270; (ii), 128, fine folding engraved frontispiece (bound after the fourth leaf, as often), 2 folding plates; numerous engraved illustrations in the text, including many half- and full-page, and a portrait of Paaw on the verso of the title. Title printed in red and black, separate title-page to the second part. Contemporary vellum. Short tear at the fold in the frontispiece and one plate, tear across leaf Nn1 neatly repaired without loss, paper slightly browned, the vellum a little marked and soiled, but an excellent copy. £3600 FIRST EDITION of Paaw’s commentary on the books of Hippocrates and Celsus on wounds of the head. The text of the first part is in Greek and Latin, and both parts are richly illustrated with very finely executed engravings, a few of which are repeated, which show the anatomy of the head (including the teeth), and the surgical instruments used. The two folding plates are of the skeletal anatomy of the entire body and of the head. Artistically, the glory of this beautiful book is the folding frontispiece, engraved by Andries Jacobsz Stock after Jacob de Gheyn (1565–1629), which depicts Paaw giving an anatomy lesson in the anatomical theatre at Leiden. The theatre was built at his request, and was the first such theatre in the Netherlands. This plate was also published in Paaw’s book on the anatomy of the bones published in 1615. It is modelled on the title-page of the Fabrica of Vesalius, of whom Paaw was an ardent admirer, editing an edition of the Epitome in 1616. Blas Bruni Celli, Bibliografia Hipocrática, 3234.

Item 80, Paaw

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PANUM, Peter Ludvig. Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Physiologie und Pathologie der Embolie, Transfusion und Blutmenge. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1864. 8vo, pp. (ii), 286, 1 folding table. Paper very slightly browned. Original green printed wrappers, uncut, good copy. £350 FIRST EDITION. The work of this Danish physiologist on the blood earned him a place among the principal men of his science, and this study of the experimental pathology of embolism is described by Garrison as one of the “special pathological studies of the period”. Panum found that when he introduced experimental emboli into laboratory animals, the cessation of cardiac action was gradual rather than abrupt. He was assistant to Claude Bernard, and the founder of modern Danish physiology. G&M 3008, Panum’s paper of 1862 in Virchow’s Archiv, of which the present contains the first printing in book form. Norman catalogue 1633.

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The Year Now Begins on January 1st PARKER, George, second earl of Macclesfield. Remarks upon the Solar and the Lunar Years, the cycle of 19 years, commonly called the Golden Number, the Epact, and a method finding the time of Easter, as it is now observed in most parts of Europe. Being part of a letter...to Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society... London: Printed for Charles Davis, Printer to the Royal Society. 1750. [Bound with:] PARKER, George, second earl of Macclesfield. The Earl of Macclesfield’s Speech in the House of Peers on Monday the 18th day of March 1750. At the second reading of the Bill for Regulating the Commencement of the Year. &c. London: Printed for Charles Davis... 1751. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to, 1 leaf, 18 pages, 1 folding letterpress table; 23 pages. Modern quarter calf antique. The folding table annotated in an early hand, and a second manuscript folding table bound in referring to the Golden Numbers in the Julian calendar. £750 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION and FIRST EDITION respectively of the two works most influential in introducing the Gregorian calendar and thereby altering the legal year to begin on January 1st. This unified the calendar throughout Europe, as most other countries had adopted the Gregorian calendar some fifty years earlier. “In parliament Macclesfield was a principal proponent in 1752 (with Lord Chesterfield) for the adoption of the Gregorian calendar and the change in the new year from 26 March to 1 January. He communicated to the Royal Society on 10 May 1750 a preparatory paper entitled ‘Remarks upon the solar and the lunar years’ and made most of the necessary calculations, and his speech in the House of Lords on 18 March 1751, on the second reading of the Bill for Regulating the Commencement of the Year, was printed by general request. Lord Chesterfield wrote of him as the virtual author of the bill, and as ‘one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe’... (ODNB).

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Fundamental Researches in Muscle Physiology PASCOLI, Alessandro. Il Corpo-Umano, o breve storia, dove con nuovo metodo si descrivono in compendio tutti gli organi suoi... In Perugia: pe’l Constantini... 1700. [And:] BAGLIVI, Giorgio. De Fibra Motrice, et Morbosa; nec non de experimentis, ac morbis salivae, bilis, & sanguinis. Ubi obiter de respiratione, & somno. De statice aeris, & liquidorum per observationes barometricas, & hydrostaticas ad usum respirationis explicata. De circulatione sanguinis in testudine, eiusdemque cordis anatome. Epistola ad Alexandrum Pascoli. Perusiae [Perugia]: apud Constantinum, 1700. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to, pp. xx, 339, (1), LXXXVIII, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Pascoli by Frezza; pp. 58. Half-title, 20 engraved anatomical plates on text pages in the first part, continued... 38

4 woodcuts in the text of the second part, leaves H6 and T6 blank, H4 and K4 blank but for roman pagination. Contemporary vellum, red morocco label, a fine and fresh copy. £1600 FIRST EDITIONS of Pascoli’s anatomy, together with the treatise by Baglivi on physiology in which he distinguished for the first time between smooth and striped muscle. “Baglivi’s research was now concentrated on the microscopic structure of muscle fibers and the physical and physiological properties of saliva, bile, and blood... He was able to distinguish between smooth and striated muscles; and he discovered the histological distinction between two categories of fibers, which he called fibra motrices seu musculares (with parallel fiber bundles) and fibrae membrenaceae (with bundles running in various directions)... His fundamental research concerning the fibers made him one of the most important students of muscle physiology before Albrecht von Haller” (DSB). This was Baglivi’s best book. It is sometimes found separately, but despite having a separate title-page it is part of Pascoli’s treatise, as a note on the last preliminary page states.

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PEARSON, George. [1] Directions for impregnating the Buxton-water, with its own and other gases; and for composing artificial Buxton-water. London: printed for the Author. 1785. [Bound with:] [2] Observations on the effects of Variolous Infection on Pregnant Women. From the Medical Commentaries, volume XIX. Page 213. [Bound with:] [3] An Examination of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the claims of remuneration for the Vaccine Pock Inoculation: containing a statement of the principal historical facts of the vaccina. London: Printed for J. Johnson... 1802. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo. [1]: pp. (ii), 16 [i.e. 19], (1), engraved frontispiece. Frontispiece offset onto title-page. [2]: pp. 48, 82–86 (Appendix), 2 (blank). Half-title and last page of text a bit dust-soiled. [3]: 2 leaves, pp. 188, (8), stipple-engraved frontispiece printed in two colours. Some foxing. Three works bound together in contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked at foot but holding. The first work is a presentation copy, inscribed “Mr. Bower, with respect from the Author” (slightly cropped); and with the armorial bookplate of Henry Bower F.S.A. Henry Bower, of 38 Great Marlborough Street, was the guardian of the bookbinder Francis Bedford (1799–1883). £650 [1]. FIRST EDITION. Pearson’s second book on the analysis of Buxton water. See Partington III, pp. 694–695. Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, p. 786. [2]. OFFPRINT, with the Appendix, which appears to be inserted here from another work. [3]. FIRST EDITION. “In December 1799, he opened, without informing Jenner of his intention, an institute for vaccination, which he was to head, at 5 Golden Square. Though Pearson shortly afterwards invited Jenner, in a rather offhand manner, to be a corresponding physician, the latter resolutely refused the offer. The ensuing quarrel culminated in 1802 with Pearson’s intense opposition to Jenner’s successful petition for government compensation for loss of earnings resulting from his preoccupation with promoting vaccination. At the hearing Pearson attempted in several ways to belittle Jenner’s achievement” (ODNB). See LeFanu, p. 77.

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The Best Edition PERFECT, William. Select Cases in the different species of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, with the modes of practice as adopted in the treatment of each. Rochester: Printed and sold by W. Gillman; sold also by J. Murray...and J. Dew...London. 1787. 8vo, pp. viii, 335. Half-title. Good modern half calf antique, a fine copy. £2400 First edition of this title, but a substantially revised and improved third edition of Perfect’s Method of cure, in some particular cases of insanity (1778), which was the first collection of psychiatric case material, and as such provides a useful record of eighteenth century conceptions and methods of treating mental illness. The work went through seven editions under its continued... 39

various titles (a record exceeded only by Burton’s Anatomy of melancholy), and of these the present edition is the best; the naive theoretical discussions of the former editions are omitted, the old case histories polished up, and new ones added so as to make it a representative survey of contemporary psychiatric practice. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 501–505 (this edition). Norman catalogue 1682. Published in Rochester, Kent, all editions are quite scarce.

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First Book on Bone Disease PETIT, J[ean] L[ouis]. L’Art de Guerir les Maladies des Os. Où l’on traite des luxations & des fractures, avec les instruments necessaires & une machine de nouvelle invention pour les réduire: ensemble des exostoses & des caries, des anchyloses, des maladies des dents, & de la charte ou rachitis, maladie ordinaire aux enfans. A Paris: Chez Laurent d’Houry... 1705. 12mo, pp. (xx), 304. Woodcuts in the text. Early MS ex libris on title (repeated on front endpaper), and later stamp in upper corner of title. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A few spots and small marks in the text, head of spine and one corner of binding worn, but a very good copy. £2800 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4300. The first important book on diseases of the bones. This was the only book published by Petit during his lifetime, and it made his reputation. It gave many original descriptions, including the first account of softening of the bones and of the formation of clots in arteries following ligation. He invented the screw tourniquet, and developed new procedures such as mastoidectomy and others in amputation and herniotomy. The first two Books are on fractures, and the last Book (Book V) is on rickets. Later editions, of which there were many throughout the eighteenth century, were entitled Traité des maladies des os. This, one of the first major monographs in orthopaedics, was published some 35 years before Andry’s L’Orthopédie. Bick, Source book of orthopaedics, p. 81, etc. Weinberger, History of dentistry, p. 436 (chronologically the fourth French book listed): Petit “deduced intensified teething problems in children with rickets from the fact that these teeth with many small points tear the gingiva which is particularly firm in such children” (Hoffmann-Axthelm, p. 208). This first edition is rare.

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PIORRY, Pierre-Adolphe. De la Percussion Médiate et des Signes obtenus a l’aide de ce nouveau moyen d’exploration, dans les maladies des organes thoraciques et abdominaux. Paris: J.S. Chaudé...et J.B. Baillière... 1828. 8vo, pp. x, 336, and 2 folding engraved plates by Ambroise Tardieu. Half-title. Paper slightly browned in the margins. Contemporary sheep-backed boards, flat spine gilt (wormhole in lower part of spine). £800 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2675. Piorry pioneered mediate percussion, the actual sounding of the chest with instruments, which was the first refinement of the technique of listening to the chest introduced by Auenbrugger, to whom, with Corvisart and Laennec, this book is dedicated. Piorry invented the percussor and pleximeter, and modified Laennec’s stethoscope. The publication of this monograph earned widespread acclaim for Piorry and made his reputation. Bedford catalogue 471.

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PORTA, Luigi. Delle Alterazioni Patologiche delle Arterie per la legatura e la torsione. Esperienze ed osservazioni... Milano: Tipografia di Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio, 1845. Large 4to, pp. x, 439, (1), and 13 aquatint plates (all but one folding). Half-title. Original(?) vellum, bevelled edges. A little foxing in the text, binding a little soiled and slightly rubbed on the spine, otherwise a very good copy. £650 continued... 40

FIRST EDITION of Porta’s most important book. “By his research on the pathological changes caused to arteries by ligation and torsion he contributed to establishing the foundations of modern vascular surgery. “Beginning in 1835 he made an extensive series of animal experiments on more than 270 animals of various species. He continued these investigations for nine years, and his results, coupled with his clinical observations, led him to significant discoveries concerning experimentally induced pathological changes of the arteries. Among these, his findings on the manner in which collateral circulation is established following the obliteration of parts of the arteries are of particular interest. “In his work Porta distinguished between direct collateral circulation,... and indirect collateral circulation... He also made a distinction between two types of anastomosis produced by ligation of the artery...” (DSB, abbreviated from a long description of Porta’s work in this field). The plates of arteries in this book are of superb quality. Porta was Scarpa’s successor at Pavia, where he created the Anatomico-Surgical Museum.

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POTT, Percivall. The Chirurgical Works... A new edition, with his last corrections. To which are added, a short account of the life of the author, a method of curing the hydrocele by injection, and occasional notes and observations. By Sir James Earle, F.R.S. London: Printed by Wood and Innes... for J. Johnson... 1808. 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. (iv), xli, 397, frontispiece portrait and 9 plates (1 folding); (iv), 467, 4 plates (2 folding); (iv), 344, (34) index, 9 plates. Two plates in vol. 1 transposed, 2G4 in vol. 2 torn across and neatly repaired without loss, slight browning of the plates, otherwise a good copy. Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked using the original red morocco labels, sides of volume 2 a bit marked. With the bookplates of J. Johnston Abraham, the biographer of J.C. Lettsom. £750 The last edition of Pott’s collected works, whose important innovations extended to so many branches of surgery. This edition was edited by the eminent surgeon Sir James Earle.

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POYET, [Bernard]. Nouveau Système de Pont en Bois et en Fer Forgé...comparé avec les ponts ordinaires pour la durée, la solidité et l’économie. [No place or date; Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Plaissan, rue de Vaugirard, No. 15, 1820 or 1821.] Small folio, 3 pages + 4 folding engraved plates (the first large and extending). Caption title. Original blue wrappers, a fine copy. £1200 FIRST EDITION. One of the first published works on suspension bridges. “In 1819 the architect Bernard Poyet patented his system of a multi-stayed timber and wroughtiron double cantilever bridge of spans varying from 12 to 42 metres, which he had developed as early as 1790–1800. This remarkable design, which resembles the great cable-stayed bridges of recent years, consisted of inclined wrought-iron stays attached to a central mast with a timber deck. However, when Poyet submitted it to the Ponts et Chaussées to obtain the necessary permission to put it into practice, it was rejected out of hand by their committee of Prony, Brisson and Navier. This condemnation, surprising at a time when Navier in particular was investigating the possibilities of suspension bridges, has been discussed at length by A. Picon in his article, ‘Les Haubans et les Fers. Presentation d’une innovation de l’architecte Poyet’ (Revue Amphion. Études historiques des techniques, 1987)... [Navier’s own book on the subject was published slightly later, in 1823.] The present item was circulated after this rejection and includes the patent drawings with detailed descriptions as well as setting out the advantages of the system, which were cheapness, ease of maintenance, speed of erection, durability, flexibility, and so on. Although there was a lack of stiffness in the design, not unusual in early suspension bridges, the principle was nevertheless sound and very much ahead of its time” (Julia Elton, Elton Engineering Books, Catalogue 4). With this copy is the Rapports de l’Athénée des Arts et de la Société royale académique des Sciences de Paris (4to, 20 pages, stitched), in which the reports of these two institutions are preceded by observations by Poyet.

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PUGH, Benjamin. A Treatise of Midwifery, chiefly with regard to the operation. With several improvements in that art... London: Printed for J. Buckland... 1754. 8vo, pp. xvi, 152, 11 folding stilted engraved plates. Good modern half calf antique, red morocco label. Margins of title and last leaf and plate stained from an earlier binding, paper and lower corners of title a little chipped, small hole in I2 with loss of one letter of text, two pale dampstains mostly in the margins throughout. £500 SOLE EDITION. “The work is based on an experience of upwards of two thousand cases which he had attended in the course of fourteen years, and is a valuable practical exposition on the subject... The most interesting of the illustrations are those in Plate I, which shows his curved forceps... It is on account of these forceps that claims have been made by Aveling and others for Pugh as the originator of the pelvic curve...” (Spencer, History of British Midwifery, pp. 22–27). See also Radcliffe, Milestones in Midwifery, p. 38. One of the scarcest English monographs on obstetrics of the eighteenth century.

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RAICUS, Johann. Tractatus de Podagra Medico-Kimicus. Francofurti [Frankfurt]: In officina Danielis & Davidis Aubriorum, et Clementis Schleichii. 1621. Small 8vo, pp. (xxvi), 54. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Paper rather foxed, slight damage to inner margin of last leaf with loss of a few letters. Contemporary vellum, neatly rebacked, spine lettered in manuscript, no free endpapers. £280 SOLE EDITION of an early treatise on the gout. Bound with this copy is a treatise on the medical waters of Tillerborn (but with damage to the inner margin of the first two leaves). Not noticed by Copeman.

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ROBINSON, Bryan. A Treatise of the Animal Oeconomy. Viz. Of the motion of the fluids thro’ the vessels. Of muscular motion, the motion of the blood, and respiration. Of secretion. Of the discharges of human bodies. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, for C. Rivington...London. 1732. 8vo (in 4s), pp. iv, 283, (1), 1 folding engraved plate. The title is a cancel. Woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpieces. Good modern half calf antique, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label. A little foxing and dust-soiling, library stamp in lower corner of title-page and several other pages. Early manuscript note in the margin of two pages, both referring to Robinson’s Dissertation on the æther of Sir Isaac Newton. £850 FIRST EDITION, issue printed in Dublin for the English market, with Rivington’s name in the imprint (the issue for the Irish market has the imprint “Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson...”). “Robinson's major publication was his Treatise of the Animal Oeconomy... In it Robinson aimed to avoid hypotheses, and explain physiological laws by reason and experiment. He greatly admired Newton, and he tried to account for animal motions by Newton's principles and to apply the latter to the rational treatment of diseases. He attributed the production of muscular power to the vibration of an ethereal fluid pervading the animal body. In his chapter on respiration he cited experiments to show that the ‘acid parts’ of the air were necessary for a candle to give light, a coal to burn, and a dog to breathe. He was therefore aware of the nature of oxygen, in anticipation of the discoveries of Priestley and Lavoisier in 1775. His chapter on the pulse records that from birth onwards the pulse rate declines. Robinson aimed to show, with tables and calculations of averages, that the rapidity of the pulse is in inverse proportion to height, that it increased from morning to night and decreased during sleep, was slower before dinner than after, and was influenced by emotions and exercise. In 1837 in a paper on pulsation of the heart Robert Knox credits Robinson with the discovery of the differential pulse rate” (ODNB). Babson 160 (Irish issue). Not in Gray or Wallis.

Item 94, Roesslin

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ROESSLIN, Eucharius. Der schwangern frauwen und Hebam[m]en Rosengarten. [Colophon:] Getruckt zu Strassburg...durch Balthassar Beck, 1529. [Bound with:] [2] LONITZER, Adam. Reformation, oder Ordnung für die Hebammen, allen guten Policeyen dienstlich. Gestelt an einen Erbarn Rath des Heyligen Reichs Statt Franckfurt, am Meyn... [Colophon:] Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Meyn, bey Christian Egonolffs Erben,... 1573. 2 works in 1 volume, 4to, 60 unnumbered leaves, including the final blank; 44 unnumbered leaves. Large woodcut on the first title, large woodcut of a parturient woman on a delivery chair (repeated once), and 20 smaller woodcuts in the text of the birth stool and the foetus in utero. Contemporary limp vellum (slightly soiled, silk ties missing), yapped fore-edges. Faint dampstain in the upper margin of the first work, paper of the second a little browned. Very fine copies, in a wonderful state of preservation. Extensive contemporary annotations on blank leaves at the beginning and end and on 7 pages of the Roesslin. £11,500 1. Early edition (the fifth according to Hellman) of the first printed textbook for midwives, and one of the first printed books devoted to obstetrics, preceded only by the 13-page Büchlein of Ortolff von Bayrlant, and by the Secreta mulierum of Albertus Magnus. See G&M 6138 (first edition of 1513). Roesslin’s book had an enormous influence, running to over a hundred editions and translations. The striking woodcuts of the early editions not only mark it out as an outstanding medical book of the period, but revive in the printed book a tradition of obstetrical illustration begun in the manuscripts of antiquity. The woodcut on the title depicts Roesslin giving a copy of the book to the dedicatee, Katherine, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg. “Roesslin established the necessity for thorough instruction of midwives. In his versified preface he censured the wretched condition of obstetrics, and the ignorance, carelessness and superstition of the midwives, who brought about unnecessary deaths of numberless newborn. The infant mortality Roesslin bluntly labelled murder... In his book...he attempted to eliminate, or at least mitigate, these evils... From the practical obstetrical standpoint, the significance of the Rosengarten lies also in the fact that Roesslin again brought to the fore the knowledge of podalic version which had been almost forgotten since the time of Soranus and Mustio. He thus limited cephalic version, which has more theoretical merit but is less practical in execution” (Hellman). Hellman, A Collection of Early Obstetrical Books, 5. Thoms, Classical contributions, 49–54. 2. FIRST EDITION. G&M 6143. The earliest public document legislating the practice of midwives in Frankfurt, and one of the earliest published pieces of medical legislation for the practice of medicine. Lonitzer was the city physician at Frankfurt. These are remarkable copies of these two books, in a fine state of preservation. They are intimately connected, as Lonitzer, who married the daughter of his printer, wrote a revision of Roesslin’s book. Roesslin called for the regulation of midwives, and perhaps thereby even brought about the legislation enshrined in Lonitzer’s book.

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[ROSA, Michele.] De Epidemicis et Contagiosis Acroasis. Accessit scheda ad catarrhum, seu tussim, quam russam nominant, pertinens. [Modena: no printer,] 1782. 8vo, pp. 26, (2), 234. Pages 169–172 misbound near the beginning, some light foxing. Contemporary half sheep, a little worn. £295 FIRST EDITION. In 1782 Rosa was appointed professor of practical medicine and president of the faculty of medicine at the new university of Modena, which he made famous by the publication of this book on epidemics. “It is not without interest that Michele Rosa (1731–1812), of Rimini, professor at Modena (1782), believed that contagious diseases could be derived from disease germs, from the physical condition of the air, or from emanations from the ground. He attributed special importance to so-called abnormal physical constitutions (alterations of the atmosphere which modify the organism so as to predispose it to disease). This concept of the physical constitution was developed by various Italians such as F. Asti of Mantua, and C. Allioni...” (Castiglioni).

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First Bibliography of Embryology SCHURIG, Martin. Embryologia historico-medica hoc est Infantis Humani consideratio physico-medico-forensis,... Dresden & Leipzig: Christoph Hekel the younger, 1732. 4to, pp. (iv), 920, (31). Foxing throughout (as usual?). Contemporary vellum over boards, a little marked, boards slightly bowed and upper joint cracking at head, but a good copy. Early MS ex libris of Sebastian Edleber on front endpaper, old bookplate of F.H. Meinolph, also later library label, blind stamp on title and last text leaf, and ink stamps on verso of title. £550 FIRST EDITION. Schurig realised that he was living at the end of a great scientific movement following the Renaissance, and set himself to compile large treatises on aspects of medicine, taking care to give all references with meticulous accuracy, and to omit no work, significant or insignificant. This was the last but one of the series. “In it he treated compendiously of all the theories which had been advanced about embryology during the immediately preceding two centuries, and his chapters on foetal nutrition and foetal respiration throw a flood of light on to the intellectual climate in which Harvey and Mayow worked. Schurig’s bibliography is a very striking part of his book, extending to sixteen pages and including five hundred and sixty references; it was the first attempt of its kind, [and is]...of the greatest assistance” (Needham, History of embryology, pp. xii and 164–165).

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SERRES, [Antoine Étienne Reynaud Augustin]. Anatomie Comparée Transcendante. Principes d’Embryogénie, de Zoogénie et de Tératogénie. Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Ce... 1859. Large 4to, 1 leaf, pp. xv, 942, 1 leaf (errata), + 18 pages numbered “206—1” – “206—10” and “938” – “938—7”, and 26 folding lithographed plates. Modern half morocco antique. A little dust-soiling on the edges of a few plates, otherwise a fine copy. £1500 FIRST EDITION of Serres’s principal work on embryology and teratology. “Serres’s theoretical position was more closely akin to that of Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, who regarded Serres as his collaborator. Serres believed that there was only one underlying animal type and that in the course of their development, the organs of the higher animals repeated the form of the equivalent organs in lower organisms... The distinction between a repetition of the organs of lower forms and the repetition of the actual organisms is often blurred; the latter view is sometimes called the SerresMeckel Law. “After 1828 belief in either version of the Serres-Meckel Law was gradually abandoned as the result of Baer’s criticism, but throughout the 1840’s and 1850’s Serres continued to write papers in which he maintained his original views; ...in 1859 Serres produced a final memoir in which he still maintained his original views” (DSB). This was Serres’s largest work on the subject. The fine suite of plates illustrates incompletely separated twins, malformed organs and limbs, etc.

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SEVRIN, L.-J. Dictionnaire des Nomenclatures Chimique et Minéralogique anciennes, comparées aux nomenclatures chimique et minéralogique modernes, d’après les ouvrages des chimistes et le traité de minéralogie de Mr. Hauy... A Paris: de l’imprimerie de M.J. Hénèe. Chez Samson... 1807. 8vo, 2 leaves (half-title and title), pp. xxx, (31)–232, 5 folding letterpress synoptic tables and 3 folding engraved tables of chemical symbols. Signed by Samson on the verso of the title. Original marbled wrappers, uncut. Lower blank corner torn from pp. 163/164 just touching one letter, small hole in blank area of the last letterpress table, some foxing, and a very faint dampstain towards the end, but a fresh copy in original state. £800

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FIRST EDITION. “An important early dictionary of the new chemical and mineralogical nomenclatures. The chemical section occupies pages 31–144 and is divided into two parts: “Nomenclature ancienne et moderne” and “Nomenclature française et latine,” preceded by a long and interesting introduction on the new discoveries in chemistry. The mineralogical section occupies pages 145–232, comprising two parts: “Nomenclature ancienne et moderne” and Nomenclature moderne et ancienne.” The plates showing symbols of chemical substances are an extension of those of Hassenfratz and Adet. The author, Sevrin, was a ‘master of pharmacy,’ but no other information on him or this work has been found. Very rare.” (Neville). “Very scarce. Although largely unknown, this is a valuable dictionary of chemical and mineralogical nomenclature. It was written at a time when vast changes were being proposed in mineralogical and chemical naming conventions” (Schuh, Mineralogy and Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920, 4419. Cole 1204: “Sevrin has brought the new nomenclature up to date and has applied the principles to mineralogy...” Neville II, p. 462. Not in Duveen or Partington.

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Finest Atlas of Ophthalmology SICHEL, [Jules]. Iconographie Ophthalmologique ou description, avec figures coloriées, des maladies de l’organe de la vue, comprenant l’anatomie pathologique, la pathologie et la thérapeutique médico-chirurgicales. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1852–1859. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xix, (i), 823; (iv), 80, and 80 fine engraved plates, mostly hand-coloured, with numerous figures, from drawings by Lackerbauer and Émile Beau. Half-titles. Library stamp on versos of titles, foxing in both volumes but the plates generally clean. Contemporary red half morocco, joints neatly repaired., t.e.g. £2800 FIRST EDITION. G&M 5868. This book and that of Friedrich Ammon remain the greatest atlases of ophthalmology before the introduction of the ophthalmoscope (although in fact three plates involved the use of it). “Sichel thought that with his illustrations he had reached the limits of graphic art. Fr. Jaeger, who previously had thought that it would be impossible to produce a useful atlas for ophthalmology, agreed with Sichel, and so did F.A. Ammon who twenty years earlier had written a similar book. “Sichel explains in the introduction that after numerous expensive trials he finally turned to copper etchings and expressed the hope that he had elevated his atlas to the then prevailing height of the arts and sciences. The painter Émile Beau dedicated for several years his talents exclusively to the production of this book. The illustrations are not only true replicas, but ‘nearly the equivalent of nature’. I would dare to say that the artistic value of these illustrations has not been exceeded, often not even reached, by more modern atlases...” (Hirschberg/Blodi, VII, p. 109). Goldschmid, p. 190 (“...von besonderer Schönheit”). Albert, Norton & Hurtes 2135.

100. SIMON, [Jean François]. Cours de Pathologie et de Thérapeutique Chirurgicales. Ouvrage posthume de M. Simon... Revû, mis en ordre & considérablement augmenté par M. [Prudent] Hévin... A Paris: Chez Mequignon, l’aîné,... 1780. 8vo, pp. xvi, 690, (6), + 2 leaves “Aux Étudians de Chirurgie” bound in between pp. viii and ix. Including the half-title; also the “Approbation” and 2 leaves of Méquignon’s catalogue at the end. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, very good copy. Contemporary signature of Charles Barrett, a doctor at Montpellier, on front endpaper, and his bookplate on the pastedown. £600 FIRST EDITION. “Hévin first edited this work, says Bégin, from the manuscripts of Simon, his friend and colleague; but having enlarged it considerably, he brought it out under his name alone in the second edition of 1784, in two volumes. Reprinted in 1793, this work is remarkable for the multitude of matter that the author has assembled; it is a collection of precepts relevant to every surgical disease” (Biographie Générale, in translation). Simon died in 1770.

101. 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.

102. SIMS, J[ames] Marion. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery. With special reference to the management of the sterile condition. London: Robert Hardwicke,... 1866. 8vo, pp. (ii) half-title, viii, (ii) sub-title, 436, + Hardwicke’s adverts inserted at the end. Original maroon cloth, uncut, bookplate on front pastedown. Spine faded to brown (as usual), small tear at head and foot of spine, one corner creased, but a fine copy. £850 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. G&M 6057. Sims’s most important work, and his only book. It includes a description of the speculum named after him, and his pioneering work on the treatment of infertility, including analysis of the conditions essential to conception, and his investigations into artificial insemination. He discusses techniques of uterine surgery and pathological conditions requiring surgical intervention. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 66B. See Lilly, Notable medical books, p. 225 (New York edition). Speert, Milestones, pp. 442–454. Thoms, Classical Contributions, pp. 235–239. Zimmerman & Veith pp. 436–457. The work was originally serialised in The Lancet in 1864–1865, and this first book-form edition appeared in London while Sims was in Europe during the American Civil War. This London edition is considerably rarer than the New York edition published later in the same year.

The First “Civil Engineer” 103. SMEATON, John. Reports...made on various occasions in the course of his employment of an Engineer. Printed for a Select Committee of Civil-Engineers, and sold by Mr. Faden, Geographer to His Majesty. London: Printed by S. Brooke,... 1797 [Volumes 2 and 3: London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812]. 3 volumes, 4to, pp. xxx, (ii)blank, (xxv)–xxxii, 412, engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Bromley after M. Brown and 33 engraved plates; xi, 440, 23 plates; vii, 420, 16 plates. Lacking the half-title in vol. 2 (not called for in vols. 1 and 3). Contemporary half russia, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, joints neatly repaired. Sides slightly rubbed, some foxing particularly on a few of the plates and very light browning, but otherwise an excellent, clean set. £1800 FIRST EDITION OF ALL THREE VOLUMES (see below). John Smeaton was the first “civil engineer”, a term he adopted to distinguish civilian consultants and designers from the increasing number of military engineers who were graduating from the Royal Military Academy. In 1759 he completed his first major engineering project, the Eddystone lighthouse, which brought him great fame, and about which he published a fine book in folio. In the next thirty two years he was responsible for many engineering projects, including bridges, steam engine facilities, power stations run by wind or water, mill structures and machinery, and river and harbour improvements. These three volumes contain more than 200 reports, an almost complete collection of those he wrote between October 1760 and January 1792. Volume 1 was first published on its own in 1797 (as here), but without illustrations. Volume 1 of the present set is in first edition, but was presumably issued in 1812 as it contains the plates which were continued... 47

added to the volume when it was reissued in 1812 with the first editions of volumes 2 and 3. In 1814 the publishers added The miscellaneous papers of John Smeaton...comprising his communications to the Royal Society, printed in the Philosophical transactions, forming a fourth volume to his Reports, which is sometimes found with the first three. Most of the records in COPAC are for three volume sets. Skempton 1345 and 1346. DSB.

104. SOEMMERRING, S[amuel] Th[omas]. [1]De Morbis Vasorum Absorbentium Corporis Humani... Pars pathologica. Accedit index scriptorum de systemate absorbente. Frankfurt: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1795. [Bound with:] [2]De Concrementis Biliariis Corporis Humani. Frankfurt: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1795. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. xv, 223; 1 leaf, pp. 2, 5–68. Paper of second work lightly browned. Contemporary half sheep, a good, fresh copy. £450 [1] FIRST EDITION. G&M 2609.1. Soemmerring noted an association between pipe smoking and cancer on p. 109 of this book on the absorbent system. At the end is a bibliography of over 300 items on the subject, arranged chronologically and alphabetically. [2] FIRST EDITION of one of Soemmerring’s scarcer monographs, on biliary concretions, which also includes a large bibliography.

First Treatise on Natural Childbirth 105. SOLAYRÉS DE RENHAC, François Louis Joseph. Dissertatio de Partu Viribus Maternis Absoluto... [Paris:] Typis Laur.-Car. D’Houry,... 1771. 4to, pp. (iv), 36. Engraved armorial headpiece to the dedication. Modern calf-backed boards antique. Diminishing stain in inner margin of last 7 leaves, otherwise a fine copy. £1800 FIRST EDITION. The first treatise on natural childbirth. Solayrés (1737–1772) was a brilliant young obstetrician with a promising career ahead of him, cut short by his early death. Born at Calhac in the south of France, he graduated from the University of Montpellier where he taught anatomy and surgery until he moved to Paris in 1768. Elected to membership of the Collège de Chirurgie, he submitted the present admission thesis, of which his pupil Baudelocque wrote: “This thesis is a complete treatise on natural labour, the mechanism of which had never till then been perfectly developed.” Solayrés’ thesis is now extremely rare. In 1831 it was republished by E.C.J. von Siebold with a full recognition of its epoch-making character. According to Siebold, Solayrés was the first writer to describe clearly the physiological factors involved and the relation of the mechanical forces. Cutter & Viets, pp. 91–92 (illustrating the title-page taken from Siebold’s reprint). Norman catalogue 1974.

106. SOUSSELIER DE LA TOUR, — . L’Ami de la Nature, ou maniere de traiter les maladies par le prétendu magnétisme animal. A Dijon: Chez J.B. Capel,... 1784. 8vo, pp. xiii, (i), 175, (1). Half-title. Original marbled wrappers (spine defective), uncut. £320 FIRST EDITION. In this work on hypnotism and animal magnetism, Sousselier de la Tour states that he developed his own form of animal magnetism, which bore no resemblance to Mesmer’s. He claimed that animal magnetism was nothing more than a form of electricity. The first chapter is on artificial electricity, and Chapter VII is on treatment with the “electrical machine”, but the remainder of the subject matter of this book is quite varied: thunder and winds, tides, earthquakes and volcanoes, and various medical subjects. In the last chapter, on diverse subjects but principally on electricity, the author mentions the recently invented hot-air balloons. Crabtree, Animal magnetism, 113. Not in the Wheeler Gift or Ekelöf; Overmeier & Senior in the Bakken catalogue list the Lausanne edition of the same year. Norman catalogue M146.

107. SPALLANZANI, Abbé [Lazzaro]. Programme ou Précis d’un Ouvrage sur les Réproductions Animales. Traduit de l’Italien, par Mr. B****** de la Sabionne. A Geneve, Chez Claude Philibert, 1768. Small 8vo, pp. vii, 102, + an inserted leaf of dedication to the Abbé Nollet. Several woodcut ornaments. Modern half calf antique, spine gilt in compartments. Inscribed in a contemporary hand in the lower margin of the title “Madame Arouet”. £750 FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the Prodromo...sopra le riproduzioni animali, and the first work of Spallanzani to be published in a foreign language. See G&M 101. Spallanzani first advanced the doctrine of the regeneration of the spinal cord. He found the precise location of those cuts in earthworms which affected the segmental regenerative process, and noted regenerative capacities of remarkable complexity and repetitiveness in the land snail, salamander, toad, and frog. By decapitation of the frog he also showed that certain postures may be maintained by a reflex action of the spinal cord. “Spallanzani established the general law that in susceptible species an inverse ratio obtains between the regenerative capacity and age of the animal. Early in 1768 he reported these findings in Prodromo...sopra le riproduzioni animali” (DSB). Prandi, Bibliografia di Lazzaro Spallanzani, p. 79: “Of such rarity that several biographies of Spallanzani, citing this translation, give other publishers and the date as 1769” (in translation). Prandi records one copy only, in the Biblioteca dell‘Archiginasio in Bologna. NUC locates three copies. Neither Prandi nor NUC record the inserted dedication leaf. The English translation appeared the following year, and later the same year Spallanzani was elected F.R.S.

108. SYDENHAM, Thomas. Epistolae Responsoriae Duae... Prima de morbis epidemicis ab anno 1675 ad annum 1680. Ad...Robertum Brady. Secunda de luis venereae historia et curatione. Ad...Henricum Pamam. London: M.C. for Walter Kettilby, 1680. Small 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 129, 1 leaf (errata); without the initial blank. Title within rules. 19th century presentation inscription at top of p.1. Library stamp at foot of title recto and verso, and on p.101; margins slightly browned and one or two headlines just shaved, otherwise a very good copy. Mottled calf antique. £750 FIRST EDITION of Sydenham’s second book, taking the form of two letters, the first on the epidemic diseases of 1675 to 1680, the second on venereal disease. “His chief contributions to medicine were: first, his observations on the epidemic diseases of succesive years, which have been the model of many similar researches... ” (DNB). Sydenham published only five works in his lifetime, and one posthumously, of which no copy is known. First editions of his books are seldom seen on the market. Wing S6310. For a further study of Sydenham’s theory of epidemics, see Major Greenwood in Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., vol. XII, 55–76, 1919.

109. SYLVESTER, Charles. The Philosophy of Domestic Economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying, & cooking,...adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and more recently, on a greatly extended scale, in several other public buildings, newly erected in this country... Nottingham: Printed by H. Barnett, and sold by Longman... 1819. 4to, 1 leaf (title), pp. ix [i.e. xi], 11, 62, engraved frontispiece of the Derbyshire General Infirmary and 10 detailed plates, errata slip. Paper a little browned throughout, more so in the margins of the plates, a little dust-soiled in the upper margin and a little foxing on the plates, library stamps on the title and dedication. Original drab boards (rebacked with matching paper, corners and edges worn), uncut. Publisher’s advertisements dated 1819 inserted between the front endpapers. £750 continued... 49

FIRST EDITION. The first successful attempt to provide rationally planned domestic services on a large scale. The Derbyshire Infirmary, completed c.1810, was famed for the advanced and effective nature of its technical services. These were designed by Charles Sylvester, probably with the assistance of his close friend William Strutt, who had installed hot air heating in his epochmaking Derby Mill of 1792/3, the first iron-framed building in the world. “In this book Sylvester gives an account of the project, fully describing the layout of the building from basement to attic together with the appliances employed. Chief amongst these is the air warming stove, for the Infirmary had a hot-air heating system similar to that in the Derby Mill. It was also renowned for its water closets with self-ventilating devices activated by the opening and closing of the door. The laundry and washing machines were both adapted from designs by Strutt for use in the processing of textiles...” (Elton Engineering Books, Catalogue 2). The Infirmary was unfortunately rebuilt in the 1890s and none of Sylvester’s work survives. His book is thus the only record of this pioneer building.

Support for Harvey in France 110. TARDY, Claude. [A collection of 11 works, as follows:] –Traitté du Mouvement Circulaire du Sang et des Esprits. A Paris: Chez Charles du Mesnil... [&] Jean Guignard... 1654. 3 parts, pp. (xvi), 119; 32, (2); 86, (2). –Traitté de la Monarchie du Coeur en l’homme, des quatre humeurs & de leurs sources, des usages du foye, et des vaisseaux qui contiennent le chyle. A Paris: Chez La Veuve du Puys... [&] Jean Guignard... 1656. Pp. (ii), 12. –Les Operations Chirurgiques esclairées des experiences du mouvement circulaire du sang & des esprits. Pp. 140, (4); caption title. –In Libellos Hippocratis de septimestri et octimestri partu. Commentarii quibus universa partuum doctrina propriis rationibus demonstratur. Parisiis: apud Carolum du Mesnil... 1651. 48 pages. –Quæstio Medica. Quod libet ariis disputationibus mane discutienda, in Scholis Medicorum, die Iovis 22. Januarii. An morbi omnes à vitiato circulari motu sanguinis? 8 pages; caption title. –Quæstio Medica. Cardinalitiis disputationibus mane discutienda in Scholis Medic. die Iovis X. Martii. An biliosis purgatio ante cibum? [1661.] 4 pages; caption title. –Observationes Anatomicae. 7 pages; caption title. –Hippocratica Purgandi Methodus. Parisiis: apud Carolum Chastelain... 1646. Pp. (viii), 40. –In Libellum Hippocratis De Virginum Morbis. Commentatio paraphrastica. Ubi de morbis capitis et aliis qui prodeunt ex intercepto, imminuto, depravato & adaucto circulari motu sanguinis... Parisiis: apud Jacobum de Senlecque...et apud Carolum du Mesnil... 1648. 40 pages. –Illustratio These N defensarum in Scholis Medicorum, quarum caput erat. Estne septenarius vi propia criticus. [N.p., n.d.] 8 pages; caption title. –Tempus Infusionis Animae. [N.p., n.d.] 7 pages; caption title. 11 works in 1 volume, 4to. Signature of “J. Riolle[?] fils” on first title. Some printed sidenotes shaved. Contemporary vellum. £5500 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Claude Tardy (1607–1670), professor of anatomy and surgery and a regent of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, was one of the earliest adherents to Harvey’s theory of the circulation of the blood in France. He also claimed to have performed the first blood transfusion from human to human. In the first and most substantial of the tracts in this volume, Traitté du mouvement circulaire du sang et des esprits, while he proceeds from the conviction that the circular movement of the blood had already been known to Hippocrates, he praises Harvey in a paragraph which begins: “Et neantmons je ne dois pas oublier en ce rencontre l’honneur qui est deu aux merites d’Harnay [sic], ce grand homme Anglois, qui le premier de tous les modernes s’est apperceu

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de la necessité de ce tournoyement du sang...” (Part 1, p. 23). Apart from several translations and commentaries of texts by Hippocrates, almost all the other tracts are concerned with the heart and the circulation of the blood. The third part of the first tract is concerned with the cause of disease, particularly diseases of the brain, apoplexy, diseases of the kidneys and bladder, of the liver, and of the heart. Tardy escaped the notice of Ernst Weil in his “The Echo of Harvey’s De Motu Cordis (1628) 1628 to 1657”, in J. Hist. Med., XII, p. 169 (1957), and of Keynes in his “The Reception of Harvey’s Doctrine during his Lifetime, 1628–1657” (based on Weil), in his Life of William Harvey. An extremely rare volume. The British Library has a similar collection (the Colbert/Sloane copy, in red morocco), but with a later general title dated 1667, reading Cours de Medecine... The Privilege (in both copies, being the same sheets) is dated 4th December 1654. The Operations de Chirurgie (the third item, above) was reissued separately in 1665 with 8 leaves of preliminary matter added (the BL copy contains the Operations de Chirurgie exactly as here).

111. TEALE, T[homas] Pridgin (Jnr). Dangers to Health: a pictorial guide to domestic Sanitary Defects. London: J. & J. Churchill... Leeds: Charles Goodall, 1878. 8vo, pp, (viii), (5)–10, 55 partly-coloured plates with explanations on facing pages, vi (appendix). Churchill’s 24-page adverts for October 1878 inserted at the end. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Signature dated 1882 at top of title. Faint dampstain on front endpapers, and upper cover slightly wrinkled, but a good clean copy. £125 FIRST EDITION. This book sets out in graphic detail the sanitary arrangements, chiefly with regard to plumbing and drainage, which we now take for granted, but which at that time were just coming into practice. Unhealthy plumbing was commonplace in both old and new houses. Teale became aware that “probably one third, at least, of the incidental illness of the kingdom, including perhaps much of the childbed illness, and some of the fatal results of surgical operations in hospitals and private houses...are the direct result of drainage defect” (the Introduction). In addition to plumbing, Teale covers ventilation, poisonous wallpaper, and some of the dangers caused by the sharp practices of some builders.

The “Thomas splint” 112. THOMAS, Hugh Owen. Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints with their deformities. Treated by a new and efficient method, (enforced, uninterrupted, and prolonged rest.) Liverpool: T. Dobb & Co., [1876]. 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. vii, 130, (1) adverts, and 22 plates. Errata slip. Original plum cloth, slight wear to ends of spine. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper “Presented by the Author to Jno. R. Jones, September 13th 1876”. £950 Second edition, issue without the edition statement on the title. See G&M 4340 (the first edition of 1875, which is a great rarity). A famous book in the history of orthopaedics, which includes the description of the splint which Thomas designed for immobilisation of the hip, and which was named after him. A man of great individuality, Thomas designed the cap he wore, the phaeton he rode in, and the surgical appliances he used. He practised only in Liverpool, and produced his books, mostly in pamphlet form, through a local printer, hence their rarity. See Keith, Menders of the maimed, chapter III. Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 70. Bick, Source book, pp. 279–283, etc.

113. THOMPSON, Sir Henry. Modern Cremation. Its history and practice with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co... 1889. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 95, 41+(5) advertisements, frontispiece. Original maroon cloth. Tissue guard foxed slightly affecting frontispiece and title, otherwise a fine copy. Receipt for life membership of The Cremation Society of England, signed by the secretary and dated December 1889, pasted to the front endpapers. £280 FIRST EDITION. Thompson was the first in England to draw attention to the subject of cremation. “Experiments had been recently made in Italy, but a cremation society, the first of its kind in Europe, was founded in London, chiefly by Thompson’s energy, in 1874. From that time onwards he acted as the president, and did all in his power to promote the practice in England and on the Continent...” (DNB).

114. [TOWNE, Richard.] A Treatise of the Diseases most frequent in the West-Indies, and herein more particularly of those which occur in Barbadoes. London: Printed for John Clarke... 1726. 8vo, pp. (xii), 192, (4). Complete with the initial imprimatur leaf and the final two advertisement leaves. Good modern half calf antique, spine gilt, red morocco label. Early signature of Jonathan Freer and a faint library stamp on the title. A nice, clean copy. £1600 SOLE EDITION of the first book on the diseases endemic to Barbados and perhaps the second book on the diseases of the Caribbean, published the year after the work on Jamaica of Sir Hans Sloane, to whom this book is dedicated (and who, says Towne in his dedication, had “unquestionably the best physical library in the world”). In this work Towne records the results of seven years clinical experience in Barbados, describing each of the prevalent diseases in detail and the modes of treatment that he found successful. He includes prescription formulas for the various medicines he administered for each disease.

115. TYNDALL, John. Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne-Crystallic Action, including the question of diamagnetic polarity. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. 8vo, pp. xix, 361, (2)+24 (adverts dated September 1871), frontispiece and 9 plates (2 folding). Original maroon cloth, uncut, spine and part of lower cover faded, paper shelf label on spine, good copy. PRESENTATION COPY from the author, inscribed on the half-title “James Croll Esq [1821– 1890, geologist] with the author’s esteem. September 1877”. £140 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The eight memoirs contained in this book had all been previously published in the Philosophical Transactions or the Philosophical Magazine. One of them is a letter by Faraday, Tyndall’s friend and patron. In the latter half of the book are letters and essays by Tyndall, Faraday, and William Thomson. Ekelöf 1301. Wheeler Gift 1786 (also 3041 and 3042 for individual references to two of these “remarkable” papers).

116. VALLISNIERI, Antonio. Considerazioni, ed Esperienze Intorno al creduto Cervello di Bue impietrito, vivente ancor l’animale... In Padoa [Padua]: nella Stamperia del Seminario, 1710. [Bound with:] Considerazioni, ed Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione de’ Vermi ordinarj del corpo umano... In Padoa: nella Stamperia del Seminario, 1710.

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2 works in 1 volume, 4to, 8 leaves, 51 pages, and 10 folding plates (all engraved except the first which is woodcut); 6 leaves, 160 pages, 4 folding engraved plates. Half-title to the first work. Contemporary vellum over boards, fine copies. £1200 FIRST EDITIONS of Vallisnieri’s first two books; the first discusses some curious stones found in the brains of cattle; the second is on parasitic worms of the human body, and is an important essay in parasitology. Vallisnieri proved that these worms were not due to spontaneous generation, but grew from eggs. He was the leading researcher in the field of parasitology at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and played a fundamental role in the field of helminthology and entomology (Penso, La conquête du monde invisible, pp. 191–199, in translation, illustrating several of the figures from Plate 3 of this book).

117. VENTURI, Giambatista. Commentarj sopra la storia e le teorie dell’ Ottica. Tomo primo [all published]. Bologna: Pe’ Fratelli Masi, e Compagno, 1814. Large 4to, 2 leaves (the first blank), pp. xxxii, 246, engraved portrait of Bonaventura Corti by Rocca after Minghetti, and 10 stilted and folding engraved plates. Contemporary red boards, uncut and largely unopened. Upper joint just cracking at ends, a little foxing, but a very good copy. £1200 FIRST EDITION. The history of optics and perspective from ancient times to the time of Huygens. At the beginning is a memoir of Bonaventura Corti (1729–1813), professor of physics in the college of Reggio and Venturi’s teacher, who discovered cyclosis in 1774. His observations were overlooked, however, and the phenomenon was rediscovered by L.C. Treviranus in 1811. The great Italian physicist Venturi here restates the original observations made by his master Corti.

118. WATSON, Richard. Chemical Essays. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon...For T. & J. Merrill, and J. Deighton... 1781 [–1786]; [With:] Chemical Essays. Volume V. London: Printed for T. Evans,... 1787. 5 volumes, small 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. 349, 1 folding table; 6 leaves, pp. 368; 3 leaves, pp. ii, 376; (xxiii), 354, (50); (viii), 375. Preliminary leaves of vols. I and II misbound. Contemporary calf, spines ruled in gilt, red morocco labels, small chip in top of one spine. Volumes IV and V slightly taller, and not quite uniform with I–III. Nevertheless, a fine set. Armorial bookplate of George Baillie in vols. I– III, and of Wm. Constable in vols. IV–V. Inscribed in vol. I “The Gift of Mr. John North, Septr. 1784.” £750 FIRST EDITIONS, and an attractive set of Watson’s Chemical Essays (4 volumes), together with the first edition of the fifth volume which was published with the London editions. “These five volumes collect all of the printed works by Watson on chemical subjects. Vols. I–IV contain a total of 36 essays not published in journals, while vol. V includes four papers previously published in the Philosophical Transactions and his three separate works...” (Cole). “Watson is best known for his Chemical Essays, some of which are still valued for their lucidity, in particular his account of the phlogiston theory,...which has been frequently been cited. He also described the classic experiment in which hot water in a tightly stoppered flask can be made to boil by pouring cold water over the air space” (DSB). The fifth volume contains his important investigation of the phenomena of solution and his anticipation of Blagden’s Law. A set of all first editions is really quite rare. Cole was unable to identify any set in first edition throughout, and had not seen the first edition of volume IV. The book’s evident and immediate success prompted its reprinting in London (1782–6), and the addition of the fifth volume. See Cole 1342. Duveen p. 610 (one volume in second edition). No edition in the Neville catalogue, but the online catalogue has a set also with one volume in second edition.

119. WATSON, William. Experiments and Observations tending to illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity. In one letter to Martin Folkes, Esq; President, and two to the Royal Society. [And:] A Sequel to the Experiments and Observations tending to illustrate the nature and properties of electricity: wherein it is presumed, by a series of experiments expresly for that purpose, that the source of the electrical power, and its manner of acting are demonstrated. Addressed to the Royal Society. London: Printed for C. Davis, Printer to the Royal Society,... 1746. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. viii, 3–59; 1 leaf, 80 pages, 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary quarter calf, nicely rebacked, marbled boards (edges and corners worn). Paper very slightly browned, but an excellent copy. Early signature of P. Neale on title. £900 Second edition of the first work, first edition of the second. The principal work on electricity by the scientist whom Priestley described as “the most active and interested person in the kingdom in everything relating to electricity.” Watson was the first to observe the flash of light attending the discharge of a Leyden jar, and he provided the first demonstration of the passage of electricity through a vacuum, and the plus and minus of electricity. “He notices that the ‘electrical force always describes a circuit’ and propounds the theory that in an electrical machine the glass globes, &c. have not the electrical power in themselves, but only serve as ‘the first movers and determiners of that power’. He agrees with the Abbé Nollet in regarding electricity as existing normally everywhere in a state of equilibrium, and regards the electrical machine as comparable to a pump which accumulates electricity on the bodies we ‘electrified’. Watson’s theory, though less clearly formulated, is hardly distinguishable from that of Benjamin Franklin” (DNB). The first, second and third editions of the Experiments all appeared in the same year. The first is quite rare — the edition most usually seen is the third. The Sequel is rare, and not usually found with the Experiments. Wheeler Gift 333 and 333b (third and first editions): “Numerous original experiments.” Ekelöf 294 and 295 (third and second editions).

120. [WEBSTER, William.] A Small Treatise of the Square and Cube, wherein is shewn how to find the value of the remainder, or fractions, in either of them, without the trouble of adding pairs of noughts to the one, or ternaries of noughts to the other... The second edition. London: Printed by J. Read... and sold by Nathaniel Witham, Mathematical Instrument-Maker... 1740. [Bound with:] A Supplement to the Square and Cube. Wherein is set forth that the extraction of the square and cube, with pairs or ternaries of cyphers, in order to find the value of the remainder, or fractions in either of them, is unnecessary. For in small numbers they are erroneous, and in large numbers needless. London: Printed by J. Read... 1740. 2 works in 1 volume, 27 pages; 67 pages, printed slip “To try the Truth of the Denominators” pasted to the verso of the second title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Modern calf-backed boards antique. Some margins cut a little close touching several page numbers and with loss of two letters on p. 61 of the Supplement. £450 Second edition, and first edition of the Supplement. William Webster (fl. 1725–1751) seems to have been a coach, preparing young men for the army and navy examinations. See Taylor, Mathematical practitioners of Hanoverian England, 317, who records three works by Webster, including a Course of Practical Mathematics in three volumes, but not the present work. COPAC locates 3 copies, and a single copy of the Supplement (ESTC adds a second copy). Neither COPAC nor ESTC records any copy of the first edition.

121. WEIDMANN, Johann Peter. De Necrosi Ossium. [Frankfurt]: Impensis Andreaeis, 1793.

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inner corner of plates. Contemporary half speckled calf, rebacked and corners renewed, marbled paper sides rubbed on edges and with minor loss of surface on sides. £900 FIRST EDITION. An early monograph on bone necrosis, published the year before James Russell’s treatise (G&M 4307), which was one of the first attempts at a complete description of the condition. Weidmann was professor of surgery and obstetrics at Mainz. His book is remarkable for the splendid suite of copperplates with which it is illustrated.

122. WELLS, William Charles. An Essay on Dew, and several appearances connected with it. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1814. 8vo, pp. (iii), 146. Contemporary blue half calf, spine gilt, gilt edges, marbled sides and endpapers. Title very slightly foxed and dust-soiled, spotting on endpapers, binding slightly worn at head of spine, but a good copy. £600 FIRST EDITION. G&M 1604. The first correct theory of dew — a classic work in meteorology and in environmental and industrial medicine. “His researches on the subject were of major importance in the development of the science of ventilation, particularly in its relation to relative humidity and the influence of the latter on the comfort of the occupants of factories, ships, theatres, etc.” (G&M). Wells made a meticulous study of the formation of dew, and correctly interpreted his data, proving for the first time that dew is formed by air coming into contact with objects that have been cooled in a cloudless night sky. “Wells’ Essay was greatly praised by Herschel, and it is indeed one of the few examples of the use of strict inductive logic in science” (Knight, Natural Science Books in English).

123. WENCKEBACH, K[arel] F[rederik]. Die Unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung. Leipzig und Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1914. Large 8vo, pp. vi, 249, 2 folding plates, diagrams in the text. Contemporary cloth-backed boards, original printed wrapper cut out and mounted on front board. Fine copy. £340 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2844. Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate in this book (pp. 173–175) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation, and he established the clinical basis for its use in in cardiac therapeutics. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions of various forms of cardiac arrhythmia. See also Willius & Dry p. 343.

First Description of Tuberculous Meningitis 124. WHYTT, Robert. Observations on the Dropsy in the Brain. To which are added his other treatises never hitherto published by themselves. Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour, by Balfour, Auld, & Smellie, 1768. 8vo, pp. (iv), 193. Without the blank leaf U4. Faint library stamp on the title and upper corner neatly restored, foxing on the first three leaves, paper slightly browned. Good modern half calf antique. £1500 FIRST EDITION, with the extremely rare appendix. G&M 4634. The first account of the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis in children. Whytt divided the disease into three stages according to the character of the pulse, and he attributed its various manifestations to the presence of a serous exudate in the brain. “It is a masterpiece of clinical observation, the finest first description of a disease to appear until then. Brief and lucid, the monograph is based on about a dozen cases in which everything of clinical value that could be detected without modern laboratory apparatus is recorded. Monro’s foramen, connecting the lateral and third ventricles of the brain, was first observed greatly dilated in one of the cases here described, which Monro (Secundus) and Whytt saw in 1764 during a consultation” (Samuel Radbill, enthusiastically, in DSB). continued... 55

This work was published by his son two years after Whytt’s death. The other papers printed with it, on experiments with opium, the strength of lime-waters, etc., had mostly appeared in journals, but the Observations appears here for the first time (it was also published in the same year in the Works). This copy has the Appendix which is rarely found with the main work. Still, History of paediatrics, pp. 443–449. McHenry pp. 112–120.

Printed in York 125. WINTRINGHAM, Clifton. Tractatus de Podagra, in quo de ultimis vasis et liquidis, et succo nutritio, tractatur. Hildyard... 1714. [Bound with:] A Treatise of Endemic Diseases wherein the different nature of airs, situations, soils, waters, diet, &c. are mechanically explain’d and accounted for. York: Printed by Grace White for Francis Hildyard,... 1718. [Bound with:] An essay on Contagious Diseases: more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential fevers. York: Printed by Charles Bourne for Francis Hildyard,... 1721. 3 works in 1 volume, 8vo. Pp. xii, 164; xi, 123, (1); 2 leaves (half-title and title), pp. iii–vi, 63, (1). All titlepages within double-ruled borders, a few woodcut diagrams in [1] and [3]. Contemporary mottled calf, unlettered, double gilt rules on sides. Binding a little rubbed and upper joint cracked, but fine copies. Contemporary signature of Edm. Dring, and a price of two shillings, on front pastedown. £1800 SOLE EDITIONS. The first three published works of a prominent York physician, all locally printed. Wintringham (1689–1748) had a successful practice in York for more than thirty-five years. He should not be confused with his son, Sir Clifton Wintringham (1710–1794), also a physician, born at York, who became physician to George III and physician-general to the forces. These three works are all rare, in particular the Tractatus de Podagra (not in Wellcome; 3 copies in NUC), and the Essay on Contagious Diseases (1 copy). John White, who printed of the first work, was York’s chief printer from 1680 until his death in 1716. His widow, Grace White, took over the business and ran it until 1721. She printed the second of these works, which is one of only ten imprints by her recorded by the ESTC (1990), although she also founded and printed the York Mercury in 1718. She died in 1721, and was succeeded by Charles Bourne, her husband’s grandson. He died in August 1724, and his widow married Thomas Gent, perhaps the most famous of York’s early printers.

126. WITTE(N), Henning. Memoriae Medicorum nostri seculi clarissimum renovatae decas prima. Francofurti: Apud Martinum Hallervord, typis Joannis Andreae, 1676. 8vo, pp. 72, (16), 73–185 [i.e. 285], engraved frontispiece. Title printed in red and black (and slightly dust-soiled). Contemporary unlettered calf, spine neatly restored, edges rubbed. £220 SOLE EDITION of this valuable bio-bibliographical work consisting of the extensive obituaries by different authors of 21 famous medical men who died between 1609 and 1670, followed by lists of their writings. Among the authors treated are Clusius, Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Caspar Bartholin, Gregor Horst, Danniel Sennert, Caspar Hofmann, J.B. van Helmont, Olaus Worm, J.A. van der Linden, and others. Hirsch I, p. xxxvii, listing this book among his sources.