Nigel Phillips Catalogue 46

CATALOGUE 46 Rare Books on Medicine

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CATALOGUE 46

The cover illustration is taken from item 108, Soldo.

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ALLBUTT, Thomas Clifford. On the Use of the Ophthalmoscope in Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys; also in certain other general disorders. London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1871.

8vo, pp. xii, (iv), 405, chromolithographed frontispiece and 1 chromolithographed plate. Library stamp on half-title, title and back of frontispiece. Modern quarter morocco. £375 FIRST EDITION. Allbutt was one of the first to employ the ophthalmoscope in Britain, and to extend its use beyond the diagnosis of ocular diseases. In this work he strove to explain to his contemporaries the numerous and important indications of intracranial disease provided by ophthalmoscopic examination.

Becker catalogue 10. Albert, Dates in ophthalmology, 1871. “…a pioneering monograph” (ODNB).

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ANNESLEY, Sir James. A Treatise on the Statistical and Topographical Reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras Presidency. Second edition, with corrections and large additions. London: Printed for Thomas and George Underwood… 1829.

8vo, 2 leaves, pp. vii, iii, 225–501, 1 leaf (explanation of the plate), folding partly hand-coloured map of India (bound in upside-down), 1 hand-coloured engraved plate.

Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, sides richly panelled in gilt and blind, spine gilt (spine and edges of boards a little discoloured), gilt edges. £600 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. This book is a separate publication of parts 2 and 3 of Sir James Annesley’s Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India, the second edition of which was published in the same year. Annesley was an authority on the diseases of India. His Researches into…the more prevalent diseases of India is described in the Norman catalogue as representing “the most complete treatment of diseases on the sub-continent to date, and nothing of the quality of his work had been published in England, or elsewhere, in this field.”

Very rare: COPAC records only 1 copy. This is clearly a copy intended for presentation, but there is unfortunately no clue as to the recipient.

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AUDIBRAN, [Joseph]. L’Art du Dentiste considéré chirurgicalement et nécessité de forcer les nouveaux dentistes, exerçant sans diplôme, se faire recevoir, après avoir subi les examens voulus par les réglemens. Mémoire addressé a messieurs les Ministres de l’Instruction Publique, du Commerce et de l’Agriculture ainsi qu’a M. le Doyen de la Faculté de Médecine. Paris: Chez l’auteur,... 1844.

8vo, pp. 46, (2) blank. Original pink printed wrappers, faded and slightly worn, uncut. £220 FIRST EDITION(?). A rare item by Audibran, dentist to the French court, on the organisation of dentistry in France. Audibran played a major role in what became known as the “war of the dentists” and in the formation of the organised body of dentists in Paris which regulated the profession.

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BABINSKI, Joseph. Étude anatomique et clinique sur la Sclérose en Plaques. Paris: G. Masson… 1885.

8vo, 3 leaves (the first blank), pp. (7)–150, 1 leaf (contents), and 2 chromolithographed plates (the first slightly shaved at the fore-edge). Paper slightly browned. Modern quarter buckram and marbled paper sides, paper label on spine. Inscribed on the first blank leaf by the author: “A mon ami Jardet, souvenir du Laboratoire d’Anatomie pathologique. J. Babinski.” £200 FIRST EDITION of Babinski’s study of multiple sclerosis.

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Founding Work of Ophthalmology Remarkable for its Illustrations BARTISCH, Georg. Ophthalmoduleia [Greek type]. Das ist, Augendienst. Newer und wolgegründter Bericht von ursachen und erkentnüs aller Gebrechen, Schäden und Mängel der Augen und des Gesichtes… Mit schönen, herrlichen Contrafectischen Figuren... [Colophon:] Gedruckt zu Dresden: durch Matthes Stöckel, 1583.

Folio, ff. (xxviii), 274, (8). Title in red and black within ornamental woodcut border (repeated on C1r), woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut portrait of the author aged 48, and 88 full-page woodcuts in the text (including several repeated and 2 of the anatomy of the brain and eye with 5 and 6 overlay flaps respectively). Contemporary limp vellum, doeskin ties replaced. Purchase note of Andreas Lautmarr dated 1585 on front pastedown; also of Lundsgaard in Copenhagen, 1921; two old, small and faint library stamps on the title-page. Some inherent stains from the binding on the endpapers, paper a little browned as is usual with this book, but a really nice copy. £58,000 FIRST EDITION. The first modern work on eye surgery, and one of the most remarkable illustrated books in early medical literature.

It was also the first work to establish a subspeciality within the domain of surgery, establishing the term “ophthalmology”.

“The book’s text, in twelve parts, and its woodcut illustrations combine to give a comprehensive view of Renaissance eye surgery. The woodcuts constitute one of the most remarkable features of the publication: they total ninety-one, including some repetitions, and they are believed to have been executed by Hans Hewamaul after Bartisch’s own drawings.

Two of the illustrations are presented with overlays showing anatomical parts lying successively one under the other; Bartisch was the first to illustrate the brain and the eye in this manner. The book was printed at Bartisch’s own expense and was widely used for the next century” (Daniel M. Albert and Eugene Flamm in the Grolier One Hundred).

These striking illustrations show the anatomy and diseases of the eye, surgical operations, instruments,

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distilling apparatus, etc. They are crowded with detail, and form a comprehensive picture book of practical methods of treatment.

Bartisch was court oculist to the Elector of of Dresden and the founder of modern ophthalmology.

He was a skilful operator, and developed many instruments. He was renowned for his cataract operations, and was the first to practise the extirpation of the bulbus in cancer of the eye.

G&M 5817. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 22. Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 49. Hirschberg II, pp. 323–342. Norman catalogue 125.

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BECK, Theodric Romeyn. Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. Second edition, with notes, and an appendix of original cases and the latest discoveries. By William Dunlop.

London: Printed for John Anderson,... 1825.

8vo, pp. xliv, 640. Half-title. Foxing on the endpapers, and a few spots in the text. Contemporary half calf, upper joint cracking but still quite firm, boards a little rubbed. £250 Second English edition of the first notable American text on forensic medicine (G&M 1735, the first edition, Albany, 1823). Of particular interest is the 10-page bibliography at the beginning. Dr. George Male, the father of English medical jurisprudence, called this book “one of the best works of juridical medicine that has been compiled either in this or any other country.”

Nemec, Highlights in medicolegal relations, 370: “...the first authoritative book on the subject in the United States and one of the best in the English language.” This edition is the earliest English edition in the Wellcome and in the British Library.

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The Chemistry of Anaesthesia BEDDOES, Thomas, and James WATT. Considerations on the Medicinal Use, and on the Production of Factitious Airs. Part I. By Thomas Beddoes, M.D. Part II. By James Watt, Engineer. Edition the second. To which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart [etc., etc.] Bristol: Printed by Bulgin and Rosser; for J. Johnson… London. 1795.

2 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, pp. 8, 9*–19*, (1) blank, 9–172, 40, and 5 engraved plates (3 folding) of apparatus. Printed partly on light blue paper. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt (joints and tips of corners neatly restored), black morocco label, traces of an armorial bookplate removed from the front pastedown. Slight foxing and offsetting on the plates, otherwise a fine copy. £1600 Second edition. Beddoes was the first to suggest that the inhalation of certain gases would relieve pain, and in 1798 he founded a research institution for the study of inhalation therapy, largely funded by Josiah Wedgwood. The apparatus was designed by James Watt, and manufactured by Boulton & Watt. Beddoes appointed as superintendent the nineteen-year old Humphry Davy, who undertook an extensive series of chemical and physiological experiments on factitious airs, and in 1799 produced pure nitrous oxide and discovered its analgesic properties.

Between 500 and 600 copies of the first edition of this book, consisting of 80 pages, were published in October 1794. The present second edition published the following year includes correspondence and cases from many distinguished physicians. It is notable for a letter from Richard Pearson (pp. 74–76) describing the effects of ether inhalation in cases of tuberculosis.

The first part by Beddoes covers experiments that he conducted on humans and animals subjected to inhaling various gases. A third edition appeared in 1796 with five parts. All editions Duncum, The Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia, pp. 64–70. Fulton & Stanton I.8 (the first edition). Neville I, p. 114: “A classic early pioneering work in chemical anesthesia”. Cole 71 (third edition). Duveen p. 61 (first edition).

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BELL, Charles. On the Nerves of the Face; being a second paper on that subject. [In:] Philosophical Transactions…for the year MDCCCXXIX. [Vol. 119,] Part II, pp. 317–330 and 2 plates from drawings by Bell. London: Printed by Richard Taylor… 1829. continued...

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Large 4to, pp. iv, (ii), (241)–370, (2), 12, (8), price list slip, and 3 engraved plates. Original blue wrappers, uncut. Spine worn, but a fine copy. Presentation copy to Jussieu, inscribed from the Society on the upper wrapper, and with the small stamp of the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle. The whole issue is offered, of which Bell’s paper occupies pp. 317–330. £275 FIRST EDITION. In this, Bell’s second paper on the nerves of the face, he gave a more detailed description of “Bell’s palsy”, the facial paralysis ensuing from lesion of the motor nerve of the face, which he had described for the first time in his paper of 1821 (G&M 4520).

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BELL, Thomas. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Teeth. Second edition.

London: Printed for S. Highley,... 1835.

8vo, pp. xv, 332, (2) adverts, and 11 engraved plates mostly by C.J. Canton with 11 leaves of explanation. Original green patterned cloth with original paper label on spine, uncut. Cloth a little marked, but an excellent copy. £280 Second edition. Bell was the foremost dental surgeon of his time, and “for a long period the only capable surgeon who applied scientific surgery to diseases of the teeth” (DNB). His book was based on the works of Hunter, Blake, and Fox.

Most Important Pre-Vesalian Illustrations 10. BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo. Isagogae breves p[er]lucide ac uberrime in anatomia[m] humani corporis a co[m]mun i[n] Medicoru[m] Academia usitata…

[Colophon:] Impressum & noviter revissum. Bononie [Bologna]: per Benedictum Hectoris… 1523.

4to (in 8s), 80 leaves. With 23 full-page anatomical woodcuts within typographical borders, title within woodcut border incorporating a dissection scene, printer’s woodcut device on last leaf. Name deleted from central tablet of title-page leaving a hole neatly repaired from behind but with loss of a few words of the verses on the verso, also tiny hole in fore-edge margin and worm hole in lower margin (both repaired), two tiny worm holes in lower margin of following 3 leaves, fore-edge margin of I6 cropped affecting marginal notes on recto and verso, 2 woodcuts lightly inked. Early 19th century green straight-grained morocco (extremities very slightly rubbed), gilt border. £22,000 Second edition of Berengario’s Isagoge, containing the loveliest and most important pre-Vesalian anatomical illustrations.

In 1521 Berengario published a commentary on the then obsolete anatomical compendium of Mondino. He added illustrations, which were the first anatomical illustrations taken from nature and the best and most important pre-Vesalian illustrations. He thus inaugurated a new epoch in anatomy, correcting numerous errors and pioneering independent research into the anatomy of separate parts of the body. In the following year he replaced his Commentaria, now seen as the most important forerunner of Vesalius, with this Isagogae. It has the same arrangement as the Commentaria, uses many of the same woodcuts, and has additional anatomical observations including a description of the valves of the heart. The present second edition added three more anatomical woodcuts as well as some revisions to the illustrations; these alterations and additions emphasised the anatomy of the heart and brain, and include the first published view of the cerebral ventricles from an actual dissection. This edition also re-uses the title-page border from the Commentaria, with some small alterations.

“Berengario was the first anatomist to publish illustrated treatises on anatomy based on his own dissections. His Commentaria on the fourteenth-century Anatomia of Mondino was the first work since the time of Galen to display any considerable amount of original anatomical information based upon personal investigation and observation. The woodcut illustrations of muscle men posed before a landscape background in this work, while crude and lacking in detail in comparison to continued...

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Item 10, Berengario

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Item 10, Berengario

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those in Vesalius’s Fabrica, represent the model on which Vesalius based his series of larger and more scientifically portrayed muscle men…” (Norman catalogue, note to the Commentaria, of which the Isagogae is a textually condensed version).

See G&M 368 (first edition; “this is the work by which Berengario is best known”). Choulant/ Frank pp. 136–142. Putti, Berengario da Carpi, pp. 148–154. See Stillwell 599 (“improved text and illustrations”). Norman catalogue 189.

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BERNARD, Claude. Mémoire sur le Pancréas et sur le role du suc pancréatique dans les phénomènes digestifs, particulièrement dans la digestion des matières grasses neutres.

[In:] Supplément aux Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. 1. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier… 1856.

4to, 4 leaves (the first blank), 563 pages, 23 hand-coloured engraved plates + 5 folding engraved plates (3 hand coloured) numbered 1–9. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper label on spine.

Some minor foxing, slight wear to spine, but a fine copy. The whole volume is offered, of which Bernard’s paper occupies pp. 379–563 and the 5 folding plates. £650 FIRST EDITION. “Bernard elucidated the digestive functions of the pancreas, especially its role in the breakdown and absorption of fats. Bernard devised the temporary pancreatic fistula (later improved by Pavlov) in order to collect the juice in its pure state, and demonstrated its role in the first stage of fat metabolism by showing that it acted on fats by a saponification process, i.e. the breakdown of fat into fatty acids and glycerine. This marked a radical departure from previous views of the pancreas, the best of which had conceived of it as a kind of abdominal salivary gland.

The final and most complete statement of Bernard’s discoveries occurs in his 1856 Mémoire, published in vol. 1 of the Supplément aux comptes rendus of the Académie des Sciences, and in a very small separate edition…” (Norman). The paper is illustrated by the five folding plates printed in exquisite detail, three of which are beautifully hand-coloured.

G&M 1000.1: “The most beautifully illustrated of all Bernard’s writings…” Norman catalogue 202 (the separate edition). Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 67b.

12. BERNARD, Claude. Leçons sur le Diabète et la Glycogenèse Animale. Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et fils… 1877.

8vo, pp. viii, 576. With 1 full-page illustration. Original printed wrappers, uncut. Upper wrapper slightly discoloured, but a fine copy. £300 FIRST EDITION. “Claude Bernard, in these classical lectures on diabetes, clearly states the principles of glycemia and glycosuria. He stresses the invariable presence of sugar in the blood of healthy people as well as of diabetics, although the test must be made promptly or the sugar disappears. This view has not been generally accepted but is correct. Lectures 5 and 6 are devoted to an interesting and definitive historical survey of glycemia. The entire book is rich in fundamental observations” (Bloomfield, A bibliography of internal medicine selected diseases, pp. 120–121).

G&M 3942. Bernard first investigated the glycogenic functions in 1843. This was one of his last works; he died in 1878.

13. BISSET, Charles. Medical Essays and Observations. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by I. Thompson Esq… 1766.

8vo, pp. (viii), 304. Contemporary speckled calf, red morocco label on spine. Armorial Tollemache bookplate; small private library stamp at foot of two pages. £325 FIRST EDITION of this rare Newcastle imprint. The first few chapters concern the diseases and climate of the West Indies (Bisset was second surgeon to the military hospital at Jamaica). There are also three chapters on scurvy, on which he published a monograph in 1755. He also served as a surgeon with Admiral Vernon's fleet.

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14. BLANE, Gilbert. Observations on the Diseases of Seamen. The second edition, with corrections and additions. London: Printed by Joseph Cooper; And sold by John Murray,... 1789.

8vo, pp. viii, 4, xv, (i) blank, (17)–560, xv (index), and 3 folding tables. Contemporary half calf (spine and upper joint cracked, slight wear to foot of spine), brown morocco label on spine. Tear (or paper flaw) in O5 without loss, a very clean and fresh copy. Early signature (cropped) in upper corner of title, small personal stamp on verso. £950 Second edition, with additional material, of one of the most important works in naval medicine. See G&M 2158 and 3715, the first edition of 1785. Blane was physician to Admiral Rodney, and later to the British fleet. He was held in great esteem by the Navy, and was instrumental in effecting improvements in living conditions among seamen. Through Blane’s influence the issue of lemon juice in the British Navy was ordered in 1795, after which scurvy soon disappeared. With Lind he stands predominant in the history of naval medicine.

This copy has both the 4-page errata and the 15-page dedication (dated May 1, 1785) and preface; most copies have either one or the other.

15. [BLOODLETTING BROADSIDE.] Wes man sich ieglicher zeit, nach warer Influentz himmlischer Gestirn, Planeten unnd Zeychen, zu halten hab, Dabei vonn der Aderlaesse unnd anderen der Natur notwendigen uebungen. Strasburg: Christian Egenolph, [c.1528–1530].

Single sheet, folio, 285 x 405 mm., with 20 woodcuts. Gothic type. One tear with slight loss to one woodcut near the margin, a small area backed, three creases where folded, otherwise well preserved. £1250 This fugitive sheet is an astrological guide to bloodletting. Seven of the woodcuts represent the planets, and twelve smaller ones the signs of the Zodiac. The last cut indicates the parts of the body affected, with explanatory text. By reason of their use and fragility, broadsides of this period are very scarce; this example is apparently unrecorded, and is not in VD16 or Chrisman, Bibliography of Strasbourg imprints 1480–1599 (New Haven, 1982).

16. BOERHAAVE, Herman. Boerhaave’s Aphorisms: concerning the knowledge and cure of diseases. Translated from the last edition printed in Latin at Leyden, 1728.

With useful observations and explanations. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch…and W. Innys and R. Manby… 1735.

8vo, pp. (xvi), 444, (4). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco label, double gilt fillet on sides. Short cracks at ends of joints, one corner bumped, but a nice copy. Small personal library stamp on verso of title and on one or two other pages. £300 Third edition in English. Boerhaave’s Aphorisms is a collection of short pronouncements concerning the diagnosis and therapy of various diseases. It was hugely popular, with many editions, translations, plagiarisms and commentaries. Lindeboom 195.

17. BOERHAAVE, Herman. Herman Boerhaave’s Materia Medica: or, a series of prescriptions adapted to the sections of his practical aphorisms concerning the knowledge and cure of diseases. Translated from the Latin original of the last genuine edition of the author. London: Printed for W. Innys…and R. Manby… 1741.

8vo, pp. (viii), 208, xxix, (3) adverts. Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled in gilt and with red morocco label, double gilt fillet on sides. Some page corners creased, but a fine copy. Small personal library stamp on verso of title and on one or two other pages. £280 continued...

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Item 15, Bloodletting Broadside

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Third edition in English of the prescriptions published by Boerhaave to complement his aphorisms.

Boerhaave “purposely omitted every recommendation to drugs in his Aphorisms… However, in his lectures he used to discuss pharmacological and pharmacotherapeutic notions extensively, the materia medica, and he felt that a collection of prescriptions would be the necessary complement to the Aphorisms, so enabling his disciples to treat patients according to his views” (Lindeboom).

Lindeboom 311.

18. BOERHAAVE, Herman. Praxis Medica, sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendis & curandis morbis. Pars prima [–quinta]. Editio tertia, aucta, & accuratissima. Londini: Sumtibus Societatis. 1738.

5 volumes, 12mo, pp. (viii), 648, (12); 1 leaf, pp. 400, (8); 1 leaf, pp. 458, (2); 1 leaf, pp. 326, (6); 1 leaf, pp. 381, (11). Titles within typographical borders. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments, each with two brown morocco labels (1 partly missing), red edges, marbled endpapers. £180 Third London edition (the seventh overall, according to Lindeboom) of these commentaries by an anonymous author on Boerhaave’s Aphorismi de cognoscendis & curandis morbis, first published in 1709, a text which enjoyed enormous success. The most famous commentaries on Boerhaave’s aphorisms are those of Gerard van Swieten, which appeared in 1741–1772.

Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana, 204 (describing this edition as being in 4 volumes, 8vo).

19. BRIGHT, [Richard]. Clinical Memoirs on Abdominal Tumours and Intumescence.

Reprinted from the ‘Guy’s Hospital Reports.’ Edited by G. Hilaro Barlow. London: The New Sydenham Society, 1861.

8vo, pp. xviii, 326. Illustrations in the text. Original brown blind-stamped cloth. Small nick in upper joint, library stamp in upper corner of first few leaves, but a very good copy. £250 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. G&M 2616. “...an extremely interesting, learned, fresh and vigorous work. It opens with a chapter on ‘exploration of the abdomen’ reminding one of the diagnostic teaching of Laënnec. The reports of ovarian tumors and the frequently attendant ‘ovarian dropsy’ are exceptionally able. Another good section is devoted to ‘acephalocyst hydatids’ or echinococcus cysts, which Bright saw frequently in London and in his travels, which included Iceland, where the disease in endemic today” (Long, History of pathology, p. 160).

20. BROMFIELD, William. Chirurgical Observations and Cases. London: T. Cadell, 1773.

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 288, *289–*290, 289–352, 5 folding engraved plates; 1 leaf (half-title), pp. (x), 379, 13 folding plates. With one half-title (as is correct). Contemporary German or Swedish half sheep, brown morocco labels on spines, yellow edges. Early stamp in the inner margin of both title-pages. A fine and fresh set. £1200 FIRST EDITION. “His Chirurgical observations and cases...contain a number of valuable improvements in surgical methods, particularly as to bilateral lithotomy and the compression of the subclavian artery above the clavicle on the first rib. He also clearly points out the proper manner of ligating the artery in amputations, using the tenaculum to draw out the vessel, so that the nerve and other tissues should not be included, but he used a flat ligature. That he was a cool operator is shown in a case of lithotomy which he reports in the second volume at page 266, in which the intestines protruded into the bladder, and in which he first extracted three stones and then returned the intestines, with result of a perfect cure” (Billings, The history and literature of surgery, p. 72).

Bromfield was the founder and first surgeon of the Lock Hospital, and a surgeon to St. George’s Hospital. Most of the second volume is concerned with the diseases of bones, fractures, and rickets, and with lithotomy, Bromfield here giving “the first authentic interpretation of Celsus regarding continued...

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what was later called bilateral lithotomy” (Orr Catalogue 88). Bromfield was also the first to employ an hermetic seal by stretching the skin, during an operation on the knee-joint described in this book (Valentin, Geschichte der Orthopädie, 104).

21. BROWN-SÉQUARD, Charles Édouard. Course of Lectures on the Physiology and Pathology of the Central Nervous System. Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in May, 1858. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1860.

8vo, pp. xii, 276, 3 plates. Original black blind-stamped cloth (spine very neatly repaired, tips of corners slightly worn). Armorial bookplate of Philip Crampton Smyly. £400 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of this course of lectures which were first published in The Lancet. As Brown-Séquard said himself, they contain the results of his life’s work to date, and as such they constitute his most substantial monograph. Although delivered in England, they were never published here or translated into French. See McHenry pp. 422–423, illustrating the titlepage and one plate showing experiments and demonstrations on the spinal cord, on which BrownSéquard conducted definitive studies.

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BURDACH, Karl Friedrich. Handbuch der Pathologie. Leipzig: bey I.C. Hinrichs. 1808.

8vo, 1 leaf, pp. xxviii, 426, (1) errata. The title-page is engraved, and is followed by the half-title.

Contemporary half speckled sheep and speckled boards, red morocco label on spine, red edges.

Light foxing, but a very good copy. Blindstamp and signature of F. Hirsch on front free endpaper. £200 FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest publications of the eminent physiologist Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776–1847), and perhaps his first on clinical medicine (as opposed to medical history or bibliography), published before he obtained his first appointment as professor of anatomy, physiology, and forensic medicine at Dorpat.

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CARNOCHAN, John Murray. Amputation of the entire lower jaw, with disarticulation of both condyles. With plates. (From the New-York Journal of Medicine.) New-York: Van Norden & Amerman,... 1852.

8vo, 11 pages, and 2 chromolithographed plates. Some light dust-soiling and small stains. Modern marbled wrappers. £200 OFFPRINT. This paper presents the first known report of resection of the entire mandible including both condyles. For Carnochan, see Rutkow, The history of surgery in the United States, GS40 and OR6.

24. CAVALLO, Tiberius. An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity. The second edition, corrected and improved. London: Printed for the author… 1781.

8vo, pp. xii, 124, 1 folding engraved plate. Original boards, uncut. Boards dust-soiled and the upper cover dampstained, otherwise a very good copy. £280 Second edition. Cavallo had published his larger work on electricity in general in 1777. “Pursuing his interests in electricity and its possible applications, Cavallo published An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity (1780; 2nd edn, 1781), which was concerned with the medical uses of the electric ‘fluid’. In the Essay he described the methods and instruments in use at the time and reported cases of diseases that had been treated by electricity. He admitted, however, that further research was needed in order for medical electricity to be seriously distinguished from the practices of quacks and charlatans, and, in his private correspondence with James Lind, physician to George III, he alluded to his reservations about the value of electricity as a medical therapy” (ODNB).

Not in Ekelöf, which has the German edition. Wheeler Gift 489 (first edition): “…work of value.”

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25. CHESELDEN, William. A Treatise on the High Operation for the Stone with XVII. copper-plates. London: Printed for John Osborn… 1723.

8vo, pp. (iv), xi, (i), 180 [i.e. 188], 17 fine engraved plates. Later half calf. A few plate numbers shaved, but a fine copy. £1600 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4282. This book includes translations of extracts of the books of Le Mercier, Fabricius Hildanus, Tolet, and Dionis, and the first edition in English of Rousset on suprapubic lithotomy, translated from his Caesarei partus assertio historiologica (1590).

Cheselden was the leading lithotomist of his time, and a surgeon and anatomist of the first rank. His classic book on cutting for the stone describes his method of performing suprapubic lithotomy, a method which he abandoned in 1727 for the lateral operation, ultimately reviving and refining the techniques of Jacques de Beaulieu, Frère Jacques (1651–1714), into the classic lateral operation for stone which became the standard method during the entire 18th century, and, indeed, well into the 19th. See Murphy, History of Urology, pp. 107–109.

26. COLLES, Abraham. Selections from the Works...consisting chiefly of his practical observations on the venereal disease, and on the use of mercury. Edited, with annotations,

by Robert McDonnell. London: The New Sydenham Society, 1881.

8vo, pp. xvi, 431, engraved frontispiece portrait. Tissue guard for the portrait foxed and offset onto title, a few spots at the end, otherwise a clean copy. Publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on spine and vignette on upper cover. Bookplate of Henry W. Laing, his signature at top of title, and a manuscript note on the last page. £120 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. See G&M 2380 and 5201, Colles’s Practical Observations on the venereal disease, 1837. Colles introduced small doses of mercury in the treatment of syphilis.

“Colles’s law” is named after him. This collection also includes Colles’s paper “On the operation of tying the subclavian artery” (G&M 2936), and “On the fracture of the carpal extremity of the radius” (G&M 4410), later named “Colles’s fracture”.

Vaccination in Provincial France 27. COMITÉ CENTRAL DE VACCINE. Comité Central de Vaccine du Département du Calvados, établi a Caen. Instructions sur l’inoculation de la Vaccine pour les habitans du Département. [Colophon:] A Caen: chez G. Le Roy, Imprimeur de la Préfecture…

[November 1803].

8vo, 16 pages. Caption title. Modern wrappers. £380 FIRST EDITION(?) of an early set of instructions issued by the Comité Central de Vaccine of the département of Calvados for vaccination against smallpox in Normandy. Written by a committee of five physicians all based in Caen, and issued in an edition of 1200 copies, this rare provincial publication recommends the general adoption of vaccination, details Jenner’s experiences, distinguishes between common symptoms, and discusses false vaccine. The instructions then describe two methods of administering vaccine, using fresh and dried vaccine, the effects of vaccination, and the technique’s universal applicability.

The committee responsible for vaccination in Paris had issued its instructions in 1801. The present work is not in the catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale nor in the Catalogue Collectif de France, and would appear to be the first set of instructions for vaccination issued in the French provinces.

28. COOPER, Sir Astley. Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Testis.

Second edition. Edited by Bransby B. Cooper. London: John Churchill, 1841.

Large 4to, pp. xiii, 1 leaf, pp. 330, (48), and 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates (2 double-page).

Original green cloth, slightly rubbed, spine neatly repaired at ends, new yellow endpapers. £400 continued...

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See G&M 4166, the first edition (1830) of this major, beautifully illustrated monograph on the testis, which ranks among Cooper’s best works. “It is a comprehensive study of the normal anatomy of the testis, followed by a description of the pathology and treatment of its diseases.

The care, patience and skill expended on the anatomical dissections can be appreciated by one glance at the illustrations... No one who wishes to study the details of the anatomy of the testis can afford to overlook Sir Astley Cooper’s dissertation” (Brock, The Life and Work of Astley Cooper, pp. 91–92).

29. CORVISART, Jean Nicolas. Essai sur les Maladies et les Lésions Organiques du Coeur et des gros Vaisseaux; extrait des leçons cliniques… Publié, sous ses yeux, par C.E. Horeau… A Paris: De l’Imprimerie de Migneret. 1806.

8vo, 3 leaves, pp. (ix)–lvi, 484, 1 leaf (errata). With the half-title and final errata leaf. Contemporary sheep-backed boards, spine with gilt centres and red morocco label, plain sides with vellum tips (small repair to foot of spine). Text slightly foxed and some very mild spotting, otherwise a nice copy. Initials S.M. in gilt at foot of spine. £750 FIRST EDITION. “Corvisart founded clinical cardiology and introduced percussion into the clinic after translating Auenbrugger’s book. He classed cardiac enlargement as active or passive aneurysm of the heart, and recognised the purring tremor as a sign of valvular obstruction but did not listen to the heart. His Essai was the first treatise on heart disease to conform to the pattern of a text-book and deal systematically with pericarditis, myocardial disease, carditis and aneurysm. He was physician to Napoleon and a reputed bon viveur… The first edition of Corvisart was written by Horeau from lecture notes, but later editions were by Corvisart himself” (Evan Bedford Catalogue 360).

G&M 2737: “Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders.”

See also Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, pp. 279–290 and Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 159.

Norman catalogue 518.

30. CORVISART, Jean Nicolas. A Treatise on the Diseases and Organic Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels. Translated from the French, by C.H. Hebb… London: Published by Underwood and Blacks… 1813.

8vo, pp. xx, xxxvi, 404. Original boards (somewhat marked, edges worn, piece torn from front free endpaper), rebacked with suitable drab paper, printed paper label, uncut. £650 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION (the first edition in English was published in Philadelphia the previous year) of Corvisart’s classic work, the first “comprehensive and systematic treatise on diseases of the heart” (the preface) in the English language.

“Corvisart founded clinical cardiology and introduced percussion into the clinic after translating Auenbrugger’s book. He classed cardiac enlargement as active or passive aneurysm of the heart, and recognised the purring tremor as a sign of valvular obstruction but did not listen to the heart. His Essai was the first treatise on heart disease to conform to the pattern of a text-book and deal systematically with pericarditis, myocardial disease, carditis and aneurysm.

He was physician to Napoleon and a reputed bon viveur… The first edition of Corvisart was written by Horeau from lecture notes, but later editions were by Corvisart himself” (Evan Bedford Catalogue).

See G&M 2737 (first edition, in French, of 1806): “Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders.”

Bedford catalogue 364: “Hebb’s translation of the second French edition, now very rare.” This edition is much rarer than the French original or the American edition. See also Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, pp. 279–290, and Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 159.

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31. COULSON, William. On Diseases of the Hip-Joint; with observations on affections of the joints in the puerperal state. Second edition, with alterations and additions. London: Longman,... 1841.

8vo, pp. xvi, 211, 4 leaves, and 4 lithographed plates (the first two hand-coloured) by Perry and Condon and printed by Hullmandel. Foxing on the last two plates, and a little spotting on the first few leaves and on the boards, but a very good copy. Original boards, neatly rebacked, uncut edges. £240 Second edition. “His investigations on puerperal affections of the joints…did much to improve the knowledge of their nature and pathology. They were published in the second edition of his work on ‘Diseases of the Hip Joint’ (DNB).

32. COX, William Sands. A Memoir on Amputation of the Thigh, at the Hip-Joint, (with a successful case). London: Published by Reeve, Brothers…and John Churchill… 1845.

Folio, pp. (xiv), (5)–47, (1), hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and 1 hand-coloured plate.

Including an 8-page list of subscribers with a supplementary slip pasted to the last page, and 3 lithographed illustrations in the text. Late nineteenth century red half morocco and cloth sides, decorative endpapers, spine lettered and with shelf mark in gilt. £650 FIRST EDITION. An unusually fine production, with a frontispiece showing Elizabeth Powis, a successful amputee, and a plate of the great sciatic nerve, both hand-coloured. The text makes numerous references to previous cases in the literature, and at the end are tables of successful and unsuccessful cases, beginning in 1748.

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33.

CUSHING, Harvey. Studies in Intracranial Physiology & Surgery. The third circulation, the hypophysis, the gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925. London: Oxford University Press, [1926].

8vo, pp. xii, 146, text illustrations. Original red cloth, spine slightly faded but a fine copy. £300 FIRST EDITION. Includes three bibliographies. Cushing bibliography 10. Norman Catalogue 553.

34. CUSHING, Harvey, and Percival BAILEY. Tumors arising from the Blood-Vessels of the Brain. Angiomatous malformations and hemangioblastomas. Springfield [&] Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas… 1928.

8vo, pp. x, 219, 1 leaf, with 159 text illustrations. Original blue ribbed cloth, fine copy. £300 FIRST EDITION. “A beautifully illustrated monograph based on 29 cases of one of the rarest and most interesting groups of intracranial tumors…” (Cushing Society bibliography). This is one of the scarcest of Cushing's books — only one thousand copies were printed, of which 270 bear the English imprint. Cushing Society bibliography 14.

35.

CUSHING, Harvey. Intracranial tumours. Notes upon a series of two thousand verified cases with surgical-mortality percentages pertaining thereto. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox… [1932].

8vo, pp. viii, 2 leaves, pp. 150. Illustrations in the text. Original red cloth (spine faded, two small ink blots on upper cover and trace of a label removed, two date stamps on front pastedown). £250 FIRST EDITION, English issue. G&M 4900: “Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of brain tumours as a whole.” Cushing Society bibliography 16.

Early Sociological Study 36. DAIGNAN, Guillaume. Tableau des Variétés de la Vie Humaine… A Paris: Chez l’auteur,… 1786.

2 volumes, 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. v–xxiii, (i), 389; 2 leaves, 386 pages, 5 folding letterpress tables. Vol. 1 includes a 2-leaf dedication to the king bound between aii and aiii. Contemporary calf-backed boards, spines gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. Some small and very discreet repairs to the spines, short tear in the last folding table, otherwise an excellent copy. £1500 FIRST EDITION. An extensive and very early study of children at the age of puberty, which includes such statistical information as comparative data and mortality tables. Daignan (1732– 1812) was a military physician and physician in ordinary to the king. His principal interest was in the plight of urban youth. He concludes his work with tables of life expectancy based on variables of age, constitution, stature, physique, climate and soil, sex, occupation and disease. He surveyed 10,000 individuals with respect to mortality according to sex, age and occupation.

37. DANDY, Walter E. Benign Tumors in the Third Ventricle of the Brain: diagnosis and treatment. London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox… [1933].

8vo, pp. viii, 171, (3) blank, 4 folding tables. With 120 illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, spine and edges slightly faded. £160 FIRST EDITION, English issue of the first book by Walter Dandy, the great neurosurgeon “who by his exemplary teaching did more to advance the technique of neurosurgery than any other pioneer in this specialty” (Haymaker & Schiller, The founders of neurology, pp. 549–551).

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38. DANDY, Walter E. Intracranial Arterial Aneurysms. Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing Company, Inc, 1945.

8vo, pp. viii, 147, (1), (2) blank, and 6 folding charts mounted on blank leaves. Original blue cloth, a little dull, but a good copy. Contemporary signature on front endpaper and a few underlings in the text. £150 FIRST EDITION. Dandy was the first to show that cerebral aneurysms were amenable to surgical procedure. “In the preface to his scholarly monograph on the subject, he stated: ‘Intracranial arterial aneurysms, always considered rare and almost impossible both of diagnosis and of treatment, are now added to the lengthening line of lesions that are curable by surgery’ ” ((Haymaker & Schiller, The founders of neurology, pp. 549–551).

39. DAVIS, David D. Elements of Operative Midwifery; comprising a description of certain new and improved powers for assisting difficult and dangerous labours… London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co... 1825.

4to, pp. (vii), 345, (1), 1 leaf (“Directions to the binder“), and 20 folding lithographed plates. Two small library stamps on the title-page and on each plate, paper very slightly browned in the margins.

Contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered, flat spine gilt and with red morocco label. £1100 FIRST EDITION. This book is particularly valuable for its fine double-page lithographed plates, which are in effect an atlas of obstetrical instruments, and which are an early example of the use of lithography in medical illustration. They were mostly printed by Hullmandel from drawings and lithographs by William Clift, among others. Davis was the first Professor of Midwifery at London University (later University College), and he was in attendance at the birth of Queen Victoria. He devised several new techniques and improvements in instruments.

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40. DAWSON, James W. The Histology of Disseminated Sclerosis. [In:] Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Part III.—Session 1914–15. Edinburgh: Published by Robert Grant & Son… 1916.

Large 4to, 1 leaf, pp. 517–740, and 33 plates numbered XLV–LXXVIII. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides panelled in blind, fine copy. £400 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, issued separately on March 10th 1916. G&M 4718: “A classic monograph on the pathology of multiple sclerosis.” McHenry (p. 431) describes Dawson, with Müller (1904), as contributing the definitive work on the pathology of the disease.

41. ECONOMO, Constantin von. Encephalitis Lethargica, its sequelae and treatment.

Translated and adapted by K.O. Newman, M.D. London: Oxford University Press… 1931.

8vo, pp. xiv, (ii), 200. Half-title, figures in the text. Original red cloth, cloth of lower cover and corner of upper cover wrinkled by damp, otherwise a very good copy. £200 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of von Economo’s monograph of 1918 on encephalitis lethargica, “von Economo’s disease”. See G&M 4650 for his first brief description of the condition in the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift.

42.

ELLIOT, John. An Account of the nature and medicinal virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and those most in repute on the Continent. To which are prefixed, directions for impregnating water with fixed air… Extracted from Dr. Priestley’s experiments on air. With an appendix, containing a description of Dr. Nooth’s apparatus… London: Printed for J. Johnson… 1781.

8vo, pp. (iv), 47, (1) blank, (51)–236, folding engraved frontispiece. Without leaf E1 (pp. 49–50, blank?) as in the ECCO copy. Divisional title to the main body of the work beginning on p. 68. Good modern half calf antique. Foxing on the frontispiece offset on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy. Small personal library stamp on verso of title and on one or two other pages. £450 FIRST EDITION. “The present work covers the chemistry of the mineral waters of the British Isles and the Continent. Included is Priestley’s pamphlet Impregnation of water with fixed air (1772), then out of print, as well as additions to the second volume of his Experiments on air (1775). The plate illustrates the apparatus of Priestley, improved by Nooth, Magellan, and Parker, and further improved by Blades. Very scarce, as are all of Elliot’s works” (Neville).

Neville I, p. 412. Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, II, p. 777. Cole 403 has the second edition of 1789.

43. FALLOPPIO, Gabriele. Observationes Anatomicae. Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Marcum Antonium Ulmum, 1562.

Small 8vo, ff. (viii), 222. A few early MS marginalia. Light spotting and staining on the title and a tiny hole in the margin. Contemporary limp vellum, spine wrinkled and shrunk at the head, ties missing, several tears and small holes in the front endpapers. Generally a very clean copy in good original state, with the binding essentially undisturbed. £9500 FIRST EDITION, 1562 issue (see below). See G&M 378.2, 1208, and 1537 (1561 issue). The greatest Italian anatomical book of the sixteenth century.

Rather than a complete study of the whole of anatomy, Falloppio, who was a pupil of Vesalius, designed this work as a critical commentary of his teacher’s De humani corporis fabrica, correcting continued...

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some of its errors and adding additional observations and details. For this reason there was no need for illustrations. In fact it was a work of great originality, in which Falloppio reported very many new discoveries and observations. It was his only work published during his lifetime, and therefore the only one which can be said to be fully authentic. It is now very rarely offered for sale.

Falloppio discovered and first described the chorda tympani, semicircular canals and the “aqueduct of Falloppius”, correctly described the structure and course of the cerebral vessels, and knew the circular folds of the small intestines. He gave the first description of the “circle of Willis”, enumerated all the nerves of the eye, and introduced a number of anatomical names, including the vagina and placenta, and is best remembered for his account of the tubes named after him. He also gave excellent descriptions of the ovaries, hymen, clitoris, and round ligaments, and proved the existence of the seminal vesicles. He included an important account of the kidneys, which may antedate that of Eustachius. For a full account of Falloppio’s discoveries, see the article by C.D. O'Malley in the DSB. Vesalius replied positively to Falloppio’s book with his Anatomicarum Gabrielis Falloppii observationum examen, 1564, published posthumously by his friends.

This issue was printed from the same standing type as the first of 1561, and should therefore be properly called an issue, not a new edition. It has a “I” added to the date on the title-page, some of the pages with tables are reset, some of the errata are corrected, and the foliation, although the same, is reset (e.g., f. 178 is misnumbered 278). The main body of the type is identical in every way. In addition, leaf (8), the errata leaf, is usually cancelled but if present exists in two states, one printed on both sides and one printed on the recto only. In this copy it is present and printed on both sides. The final leaf with the printer’s device and colophon dated 1561 was excised from all copies of this issue.

See Lilly, Notable medical books, 39, and Norman Catalogue 757 (1561 issue). Politzer, History of otology, pp. 51–55.

44.

FERRIER, David. The Localisation of Cerebral Disease being the Gulstonian Lectures of the Royal College of Physicians for 1878. London: Smith, Elder & Co… 1878.

8vo, 6 leaves (including the first blank), 142 pages, 1 leaf (adverts). Half-title, text illustrations.

Original green cloth, fine copy. Library stamp on title and label on front endpaper of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. £300 FIRST EDITION, intended to serve as a complement to The Functions of the Brain. “Ferrier's observations gave to the hitherto disputed existence of ‘localization’ of cerebral functions a solid basis of proved experimental fact” (C.S. Sherrington in ODNB). See Spillane, The Doctrine of the Nerves, pp. 387–399: “Two classic monographs: 1876 [The functions of the brain] and 1878..."

45. FERRIER, David. The Croonian Lectures on Cerebral Localisation. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, June 1890. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1890.

8vo, pp. vi, 1 leaf (sub-title), pp. 152; text illustrations. Original green cloth. Library stamp and shelfmark on title and library marks in pencil on verso, paper slightly browned in the margins and a few spots here and there, otherwise a very good and clean copy.8vo, pp. vi, 1 leaf (sub-title), pp. 152; text illustrations. Original green cloth. Library stamp and shelfmark on title and library marks in pencil on verso, paper slightly browned in the margins and a few spots here and there, otherwise a very good and clean copy. £250 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION (reprinted from the British Medical Journal). “As well as his experimental results, Ferrier’s book (1890) included descriptions of [J. Hughlings] Jackson’s clinical cases. Thus Ferrier was among the first to apply his experimental principles to observations in man. He was indeed the link between Jackson and the modern work on the cerebral cortex of Sherrington and others” (McHenry).

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First Timed Measurement of the Pulse 46. FLOYER, Sir John. The Physician’s Pulse-Watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch. In three parts. I. The old Galenic art of feeling the pulse is described… II. A new mechanical method is propos’d… III. The Chinese art of feeling the pulse is describ’d… To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford… 1707 (volume 2: Printed for J. Nicholson…

W. Taylor…and H. Clemens… 1710).

2 volumes, 8vo, 13 leaves, 440 pages; 4 leaves, pp. xxviii, 468. Title-pages within double-ruled borders.

Contemporary calf, spines unlettered except for volume numbers in gilt, gilt fillet on sides. Some leaves lightly browned but a fine and fresh set. Armorial bookplate of William Constable in both volumes and small paper shelf labels ot foot of spines; small personal library stamp on verso of titles. £6500 FIRST EDITION and a rare matching set in fine condition. Floyer was the first to count the pulse with the aid of a watch, the first precision instrument in clinical practice.

“The significance of Floyer’s The Physician's Pulse-Watch (2 vols., 1707–10) lies in his insistence on the value of accurate measurement of pulse rates, so that ‘we may know the natural pulse and the excesses and defects from this in diseases’ (volume 1, 1707, 23). Pulse-timing became a routine procedure for Floyer, and enabled him to make scores of observations, in which he endeavoured to establish relationships between pulse rates and other measurements, such as the rate of respiration, temperature, and barometric readings, age, sex, and season, and even the latitude where readings were taken. To begin with his timing device was the minute hand of a pendulum clock or a sea-minute glass. He then commissioned Samuel Watson, a clockmaker in Coventry, to make a watch for the purpose of timing the pulse. The physician’s pulse watch, the first instrument designed for bedside clinical measurement, incorporated a second hand [only the second watch to do so], as well as a lever for stopping the mechanism. Though most of his search for the clinical relevance of pulse-timing proved futile, in Haller’s words, Floyer introduced a practice which is now universal. He also produced some of the first reports made in English concerning Chinese pulse lore and acupuncture, news of which had recently been conveyed to the west by Jesuit missionaries” (Denis Gibbs in ODNB). The second volume contains the first English translation of Cleyer’s book on Chinese pulse-lore, Specimen medicinae Sinicae, 1682 (G&M 6492).

G&M 2670. Parkinson, Breakthroughs, 1707. Hagelin, Rare and important medical books in the Karolinska Institute (1992), pp. 112–113 (also a matching set). East, The story of heart disease, pp.

17–20. Copies usually appear lacking one or the other volume, and matching sets are particularly rare. The late Dr. Denis Gibbs, an avid collector of Floyer’s works and the author of his entry in the ODNB, did not have such a set.

47. FREIND, John. The History of Physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Dr. Mead. The third edition [–The second edition corrected]. London: Printed for J. Walthoe… 1726 [–1727].

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. (iv), 312; 2 leaves, pp. 415, 72. Including the initial advertisement leaf in vol.

2. Titles within double ruled border. Endpapers and first 2 leaves of vol. 1 browned (as in other copies seen), otherwise a clean and fresh set. Contemporary calf, sides with double gilt fillet, spines ruled in gilt and with red morocco labels. Top of spine of vol. 2 chipped and upper joint cracked but perfectly firm. £550 Third edition of volume 1, second edition of volume 2. The first history of medicine by an Englishman, and still a classic book. It is the best English book on the period of which it treats. Volume 1 covers Greek writers, and volume 2 Arab, mediaeval and Renaissance medicine. Sets of first editions are uncommon, mixed editions being more usual. Freind wrote the book while incarcerated in the Tower of London, from where he was freed by the intervention of Richard Mead.

See G&M 6378. The pagination is the same as for the first edition, but the text of volume 1 is corrected.

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48.

The Most Celebrated Herbal FUCHS, Leonhard. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes… Basileae [Basel]: In Officina Isingriniana, 1542.

Folio, pp. (xxviii), 896, (4). Printer’s device on title and last leaf, woodcut portrait of Fuchs on verso of title, woodcut portraits of the artists on penultimate leaf, and 509 full-page woodcuts in the text. Seventeenth century French calf, panelled in gilt with double gilt fillet, spine gilt in compartments (spine and corners expertly restored, sides somewhat marked and rubbed). Some very minor foxing and finger soiling in the foreedge margins, but a fine copy. Purchase note on front pastedown of Dr. Louis Morin in Paris on 12th June 1672. £46,000 FIRST EDITION of Fuchs’s celebrated herbal. This work effected a revolution in the natural sciences comparable to that of Copernicus in astronomy and Vesalius in anatomy, both of which were published the following year, 1543. It was part of the pioneering efforts of Fuchs, Brunfels and Bock that earned them the title of the “German fathers of botany”. All three partook of a reforming zeal, partially religious in origin, to correct botanical knowledge, which had mostly been in the hands of itinerant and illiterate herbalists. To effect this reform accurate illustration and identification was the first requirement and it was to this task that Fuchs addressed himself. Fuchs employed the best artists then available in Basel: Albrecht Meyer did the drawings, Heinrich Füllmaurer transferred them to the woodblocks, and they were cut by Veit Rudolph Speckle. All three are depicted in the book, the first time that book illustrators are themselves portrayed and named. These illustrations set a new standard for botanical depiction and were some of the most Item 48, Fuchs influential in botanical history, being copied for innumerable works well into the 18th century. Some forty species are illustrated for the first time, including several American plants such as maize and the pumpkin.

The herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs “have rightly been ascribed importance in the history of botany, and for two reasons. In the first place they established the requisites of botanical illustration — verisimilitude in form and habit, and accuracy of significant detail… Secondly they provided a corpus of plant species which were identifiable with a considerable degree of certainty by any reasonably careful observer, no matter by what classical or vernacular names they were called” (Morton, History of Botanical Science).

Printing and the Mind of Man 69. Dibner 19. Horblit 33b. Hunt 48. Norman catalogue 846.

Parkinson, Breakthroughs, p. 37. Stillwell 640. Sparrow, Milestones, 72.

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49. GARNETT, Thomas. Experiments and Observations on the Horley-Green Spaw, near Halifax. To which is added a short account of two other mineral waters, in Yorkshire.

Bradford, Yorks.: Printed for for the author, by George Nicholson... 1790.

8vo, 3 leaves, pp. (3)– 86. With the half-title. Disbound. Presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the dedication: “Mr. Outhwaite with best wishes from his friend and humble servt. Tho. Garnett”. £200 FIRST EDITION. Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, p. 793. Duveen 524.

50. GERAUDLY, [Claude Jaquier de]. L’Art de Conserver les Dents. Ouvrage utile & nécessaire, non seulement aux jeunes gens qui se destinent à la profession de chirurgiendentiste, mais encore à toutes les personnes qui veulent avoir les dents belles & nettes.

A Paris: Chez P.G. Le Mercier,... 1737.

Small 8vo, pp. xi, (i), 161, (7). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spine gilt, original marbled endpapers, very good copy. Early inscription on the title, later bookplate on front pastedown. £1100 FIRST EDITION, variant issue without the author in the imprint. Geraudly published this, the first important French book on dentistry after Fauchard, at a time when French dental books were “some of the most remarkable and finest dental literature that we posses” (Weinberger, p. 312).

“Fr. A. Geraudly, a French dentist, wrote (1737) an excellent treatise on dental maladies and on the mode of preserving the teeth. His book...contributed to the diffusion of dental knowledge relative to dental prophylaxis and therapeutics, but apart from this brought no increment to the progress of practical dentistry. Some of the ideas of the author, however, merit consideration...”

(Guerini, pp. 302–303).

The Wellcome copy (III, p. 108) mentions the author in the imprint. See also Weinberger p. 313 and Hoffmann-Axthelm p. 207. Despite the simple make-up of the preliminaries, the title of this copy is clearly conjugate with the blank leaf before it (not included in the pagination given above).

51. GILLES DE CORBEIL. (Aegidius Corboliensis). Carmina de urinarum indiciis.

[Colophon:] Venetiis [Venice]: i[m]pressus p[er] Benardinum [de Vitalibus] Venetum expensis d. Jeronymi Duranti. die. 16. mensis februarii 1494.

4to, 77 leaves (of 78, lacking the final blank). With the initial blank leaf, Gothic letter, 43 lines, initial spaces with guide letters. Careful restorations in some upper corners or margins affecting text only on S4 but without loss, a few small stains in lower margin, faint trace of an old library stamp removed from last page. Modern dark red calf, inner gilt dentelles. £6800 FIRST COMBINED EDITION of the author’s De urinis and De pulsibus, both of which had been published separately once before (in 1483 and 1484 respectively). This edition was edited by Venantius Mutius, with a commentary by Gentilis de Fuligneo.

The twelfth century French physician Gilles de Corbeil transplanted Salernitan medicine to Paris and gave expression to its most important achievements in attractive form. He was a pupil at the medical schools of Salerno and Montpellier, and later went to Paris where he was physician to Philippe Auguste of France (1165–1213).

He wrote two works in verse form on the two principal diagnostic tools available to physicians of the time, the pulse and the urine. The Liber de urinis constitutes a compendium of uroscopy mainly on the lines of the Regula urinarum of Maurus. It remained the authoritative textbook on uroscopy until the sixteenth century.

Klebs 466.1. Goff A94. Osler 7403. Murphy, The history of urology, p. 38. For a study of Gilles de Corbeil, see Ann. Med. Hist., VII (1925), p. 362.

Chiefly Known from this German Translation 52. GOLGI, Camillo. Untersuchungen über den feineren Bau des centralen und peripherischen Nervensystems. Aus dem italienischen übersetzt von Dr. R. Teuscher.

Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1894. continued...

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2 volumes (text and atlas) in 1, large 4to, pp. (viii), 272; atlas: title leaf and 30 lithographed plates (2 folding) from drawings by Golgi each with a facing leaf of text (except plates 29 and 30 which share the text leaf). Contemporary green cloth with new calf spine and endpapers. Clean vertical tear in title-page repaired with tissue, paper very slightly browned in the margins, otherwise a clean copy. £1950 FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. See G&M 1416, the original Italian edition of 1886: “Golgi’s histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain, and described the ‘Golgi apparatus’ and ‘Golgi type II’ nerve cells — cells with short axons ramified within the cortex. In 1906 he shared the Nobel Prize with Ramón y Cajal. First published as a series of papers in Riv. sper. Freniat., 1882–85. Chiefly known from the German translation, Untersuchungen über den feineren Bau des centralen und peripherischen Nervensystems (1894).”

Until the work of Golgi, little headway had been made in the study of the nervous system because of a lack of appropriate techniques. Golgi invented a completely original method of colouring cells and nerve fibres which brings out clearly the features of nerve elements, and thus permitted considerable progress to be made. The striking plates in this work, many of which are printed in colour, are from his own drawings made with the aid of his new technique.

McHenry, pp. 161–164. Haymaker & Schiller, pp. 35–39.

53. GOWERS, W[illiam] R[ichard]. The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Spinal Cord. An address delivered to the Medical Society of Wolverhampton, October 9th, 1879. (With additions and illustrations.) London: J. & A. Churchill… 1880.

8vo, pp. viii, 80, 1 plate printed in red, + 24 (publisher’s advertisements dated April 1880). Original brown cloth, uncut, upper corners bumped and affected by damp, stitching slightly loose. Half-title and last page lightly browned, pale dampstain on plate. Pencilled initials on front endpaper, and some pencilled underlining in the text. £450 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4562. “In his Diagnosis of Diseases of the Spinal Cord (1880), he illustrated from a dissection with Horsley for the first time the relationship of the spinal segments to the vertebral bodies, and demonstrated the dorsal spinocerebellar tract (Gowers’ tract). In this work he introduced the terms myotatic and knee-jerk, which he elicited with the rubber edge of his stethoscope or a ‘percussion hammer’ ” (McHenry, p. 315).

54. GOWERS, Sir William R. Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound, Abiotrophy, and other lectures. London: J. & A. Churchill… 1904.

8vo, 4 leaves (the first blank), pp. (9)–250. Plus Churchill’s 32-page catalogue at the end dated May 1903. Figures in the text. Original blue cloth, slightly soiled, library label on front pastedown.

Endpapers browned affecting first and last page, otherwise a clean copy. £120 FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, all the lectures having previously appeared in print in various forms.

55. GOWERS, Sir William R. The Border-land of Epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment. London: J. & A. Churchill… 1907.

8vo, pp. vi, 121, + Churchill’s adverts dated December 1907. Original green cloth, a nice copy. £300 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4821.

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56. GRAINGER, R.D. Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Spinal Cord.

London: Samuel Highley… 1837.

8vo, 2 leaves, pp. (iii)–x, 159, (1), 1 lithographed plate by Wagner in Zürich, errata slip. Plus Highley’s 8-page adverts at the end dated April 1837. Library stamp on title and first page of text, paper of text pages slightly browned. Modern half brown morocco. £350 SOLE EDITION. Grainger’s monograph on the spinal cord is listed by McHenry as one of a number of works on the subject published during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and one that carried further the investigation of its function and of reflex anatomy. It includes his discovery that the grey matter in the cord and its afferent roots is the true medium of reflex action (Garrison).

It was not until the next decade, however, that improvements in histological and experimental techniques enabled its finer structure to be revealed.

“Grainger, ‘the calm and perspicacious scholar’, reconciled many controversies relating to reflex function of the spinal cord: ‘[his] enquiries are stamped with the character of truth’ ” (Liddell, The discovery of reflexes, 1960).

Inscribed to Blumenbach 57. HAIGHTON, John. An Experimental Inquiry concerning Animal Impregnation. From the Philosophical Transactions. [London: no printer, 1797.]

Large 4to, 40 pages. Original blue wrappers, uncut. Foxing on the title and wrappers, paper a little browned, edges of wrappers a little torn and frayed. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed on the verso of the title “Dr Blumenbach / Professor of Physiology / Gottingen / From the author”; library stamp of the Rostock Academy at the foot of the title. £550 OFFPRINT. “The mammalian ovary was recognised as homologous with the ovary of the oviparous animals. In this connection, the work of Nuck in 1691 is very important as one of the earliest instances of experimental procedure. He ligatured the uterine horns after copulation in a dog, and observed pregnancy afterwards, implantation having taken place above the ligature. His conclusion was that the embryo was derived from the ovary and not from the sperm—‘animal ex ovo generari experimento probatur’. His work was repeated almost exactly 100 years later by Haighton, who drew almost exactly the same conclusion from it” (Needham, A history of embryology, p. 144).

Haighton was Lecturer on Physiology and Midwifery at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals, with the title of Obstetric Physician. Eighteenth century offprints are uncommon.

58.

HALLER, Albrecht von. Pathological Observations, chiefly from dissections of morbid bodies. London: Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham… 1756.

8vo, pp. (ii), viii, 197, 1 leaf (adverts), 3 folding engraved plates. Preface (pp. v–viii) bound before the contents, library stamp in lower corner of title and several other pages and on backs of plates, otherwise a very clean copy. Good twentieth century half calf, red morocco label on spine. £550 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Haller is reputed to have dissected over 400 corpses.

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The Circulation of the Blood HARVEY, William. The Anatomical Exercises…concerning the motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood Physician of Rotterdam. To which is added Dr. James De Back his discourse of the Heart… London: Printed by Francis Leach, for Richard Lowndes,… 1653.

3 parts in 1 volume, 8vo, 20 leaves (including the first blank), 111 pages; 10 leaves, 123 pages; 1 leaf, 86 pages. Title is a cancel as in most copies, divisional titles to the second and third parts. Upper continued...

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corner of the front free endpaper and the first blank leaf torn away, some very minor worming in upper inner corner towards the end touching a few letters, some light foxing and minor soiling.

Original publisher’s sheep, a little cracked and marked (spine neatly repaired), two small lacunae in the leather of the lower cover and tip of one corner worn. Early signature of Robert Apsley at top of title. £42,000 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis (1628). “The most important book in the history of medicine. Harvey proved experimentally that in animals the blood is impelled in a circle by the beat of the heart, passing from arteries to veins through pores (i.e. the capillaries, seen by Malpighi with the microscope in 1660)” (G&M). It should also be regarded as “the first record of a complete biological investigation, giving a clear and accurate description of the methods employed to recognise the laws governing an important vital process, a knowledge of which had till then been befogged by mistaken conceptions…” (H.P. Bayon in Keynes).

This is an unusually tall copy (158 mm.). In most copies the headlines, and sometimes even the top lines of the text, are shaved. In this copy none of the headlines is shaved, and on some leaves the lower edge is uncut. This copy has 11 of the 13 misprints listed by Keynes that were corrected as the book passed through the press. In addition, F3 is mis-signed F5. It is complete with the first blank leaf.

Wing H1083. See G&M 759, Printing and the Mind of Man 127, etc. (the first edition of 1628).

Keynes, Bibliography, 19.

60. HARVEY, William. The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey. De Motu Cordis 1628: De Circulatione Sanguinis 1649: The first English text of 1653 now newly edited

by Geoffrey Keynes. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis. London: The Nonesuch Press, [1928].

8vo, pp. xvi, 202, 1 leaf (limitation statement), 2 leaves (blank), 1 folded engraved plate. Original niger morocco, t.e.g., other edges uncut. No. 323 of an edition of 1450 copies. £200 A good edition of Harvey’s works on the circulation of the blood, finely printed on Dutch paper.

Keynes 25.

“Angina Pectoris” 61. HEBERDEN, William. Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast. [In:] Medical Transactions, volume II, pp. 59–67.

London: Printed for S. Baker and J. Dodsley, 1772.

3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, (ii), 472, 1 leaf (errata); pp. xv, 533, 1 leaf (errata); xiii, 453, 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco labels.

Slight wear to foot of one spine, small stain on one cover, upper joint of vol. 1 cracked, otherwise a fine set. Armorial bookplates of William Constable; small personal library stamp on verso of titles and on one or two other pages. £1200 A fine set of the first three volumes of this early medical journal, including in volume 2 the first edition of William Heberden’s classic paper on angina pectoris.

G&M 2887: “This classic description of angina pectoris is the substance of a paper read on July 21, 1768. Although descriptions of angina are to be found in the works of earlier writers, these mention only dyspnoea in their cases. The merit of Heberden’s account (in which, incidentally, he used the name ‘angina pectoris’) lies in the

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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.” See also East, The story of heart disease, pp. 97–100.

Among the other papers in these first three volumes of Medical Transactions are “A letter to Dr. Heberden, concerning the Angina Pectoris”, Heberden’s account of the dissection of a patient with the condition, “A letter from Dr. Wall to Dr. Heberden on the same subject”, a case of angina pectoris reported by Dr. Haygarth, and Heberden’s papers on night-blindness (G&M 5831) and chicken-pox (5438).

62. HESSELBACH, Adam Kaspar. Die Erkenntniss und Behandlung der Eingeweidebrueche durch naturgetreue Abbildungen erläutert. Nürnberg: Verlag von Bauer und Raspe, 1840.

Large folio, pp. x, 79, and 20 life-size lithographed plates, one figure partly coloured. Contemporary (original?) half cloth and marbled sides. First two leaves re-guarded in inner margin, some very minor foxing, but an excellent copy. £1600 SOLE EDITION of this fine atlas of hernia, originally published in 22 fascicules. The plates were drawn and lithographed in Würzburg by S. Hesselbach, probably a relation. Adam Hesselbach was born and worked in Würzburg, and followed his father Franz Kaspar Hesselbach’s profession as a surgeon. Both specialised in the operation for hernia, the father being remembered eponymously by “Hesselbach’s hernia” and “triangle”.

Rare; not in Waller, Wellcome, etc. This copy has the publisher’s prospectus and subscription invitation (1 leaf, quarto) bound in at the end.

63. HODGKIN, Thomas. Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy of the Serous and Mucous Membranes. In two volumes. Vol. I. On the serous membranes… (–Vol. II. Part I. On the mucous membranes [all published]). London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper,... 1836 (vol.

2: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1840).

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. ix, (x), 402, (2) adverts; viii, (xvi), 541, (1), (2) adverts. Additional adverts inserted at the end of vol. 1. Original pebbled (volume 1) and straight-grained (volume 2) mauve cloth, partly faded as usual, both volumes rebacked to match retaining the original paper labels (somewhat rubbed and soiled) on spines, uncut. Cancelled library stamp on versos of titles and evidence of a bookplate removed, some foxing on the endpapers. £2250 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2290. “One of the earliest English books on pathology” (Garrison), and the stimulus for the study of tissue pathology in England.

Hodgkin was the first in England to give a regular course of lectures in morbid anatomy, which he began at Guy’s Hospital in 1827. The notes for his lectures over the years became the basis for the present book, which established his reputation as a member of the distinguished school of morbid anatomists connected with Guy’s Hospital. Hodgkin made a number of original observations in the course of his lectures, although in many cases others put them into print before him.

Hodgkin gave an impetus to the study of pathology which extended to many aspects of the subject. His extensive lectures included not just the changes which occur to the body after the death, but external injury, the working of poisons, and other forensic details.

G&M 2290. Long, A History of Pathology, pp. 162–163: “...a monumental treatise.” Very scarce, especially so when both volumes are found together.

64. HOFMANN, Caspar. Pathologia Parva, in quâ methodus Galeni practica explicatur, quam olim Fr. Frisimelica promiserat… Jenae: Typis Ernesti Steinmanni, Impensis Joh. Reiffenbergeri… 1640. [Bound with:] Rejectanea Pathologica, quâ de morbis formæ continued...

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et materiae, à Fernelio, Argenterioq per somnum visis. Helmaestadi [Helmstedt]: Typis heredum Jacobi Lucii, Impensis Jeremiae Rixneri, 1639.

2 works in 1 volume, 16mo, 143 and (63) pages. Contemporary vellum, a nice copy. Neat early inscription of Joannes Pfaust(?) on first title-page. £150 FIRST EDITIONS of two works by Caspar Hofmann (1572–1648), one of the most learned physicians of the seventeenth century (Hirsch). He was a prolific author of inconsequential works, mostly expressing the views of the ancients.

First Microscopic Illustrations of Cancer 65.

HOME, Sir Everard. A Short Tract on the Formation of Tumours, and the peculiarities that are met with in the structure of those that have become cancerous; with their mode of treatment. London: Printed for Longman,… 1830.

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8vo, 2 leaves, 98 pages, 1 leaf, and 4 lithographed plates (1 bound as a frontispiece, 2 folding)

by Basire from drawings by Bauer. Foxing on the folding plates. Original cloth-backed boards, a little worn, stitching a little loose, upper joint just cracking at top. £850 SOLE EDITION of Home’s last published work (he was aged 74 at the time). G&M 2611. Home examined sections of a cancerous tumour under the microscope, and was the first to publish his observations. The two double-page plates contain the first illustrations of microscopic sections of cancer, although Home drew no worthwhile conclusions from his microscopic studies.

The two other plates, one bound as a frontispiece, are of a woman, Hannah Jones, who had an enormous tumour on the side of her head removed by Home. The plates show the patient before and after the operation, which is described on pages 10–16.

66. HOPE, J[ames]. Principles and Illustrations of Morbid Anatomy…being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings, from originals by the author… London: Printed for Whittaker, & Co… 1834.

Large 8vo, pp. vii, iv, 274, (2) blank, 275–305, (1), (v)-xcv, and 48 plates containing 260 superb hand-coloured figures. Title-page a little browned and with an old repair in the upper inner corner, paper of plates lightly browned or foxed (a couple more heavily), otherwise a very clean copy. Early twentieth century blue straight-grained cloth, a few small marks in lower corner of upper cover. £2400 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2289: “Hope left a fine pathological atlas with brilliantly coloured lithographs from his own drawings. While the book does not equal the atlases of Cruveilhier and Carswell, it is important as being a great stimulus to the study of pathology in England.”

The atlases of Cruveilhier and Carswell were published in folio and large quarto formats respectively, Carswell’s also having 48 plates. This work occupied Hope for thirteen years, and was published over a period of two years. Hope’s profits from it were very small because of the expense of the plates. None of the drawings were made without the specimen in front of him, and to obviate changes of colour from decomposition or exposure to air, he usually completed the drawing within a few hours of the specimen being removed from the subject, important for showing pathological detail with regard to the length of time that the patient had been dead. This was the first English book in which such detail was conveyed in coloured plates.

Goldschmid 147. Long, History of pathology, p. 155.

67. HUNTER, John. The Natural History of the Human Teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases. Illustrated with copper-plates. To which is added, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth. The third edition. London: Printed for J. Johnson,...by W. Spilsbury, Snowhill, 1803.

4to, pp. viii, 246, (7), 16 engraved plates with 16 leaves of explanation. Nineteenth century red half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, extremities rubbed, short crack at top of upper joint.

Bookplate of John Deakin Heaton, M.D. on front pastedown, and his initials dated 1848 in upper corner of title. Paper slightly browned, a few small marks, but a very good copy. £650 Third edition, and the first in which the Natural History and the Practical Treatise were published together. See G&M 3675 and 3676 (the respective first editions). These two works revolutionised the practice of dentistry, placing what had been an empirical art on a basis of scientific observation, and providing a foundation for later dental research. The Natural History is a detailed study of the mouth, jaws and teeth, with exceptionally accurate plates. Hunter correctly understood the growth and development of the jaws and their relation to the muscles of mastication. He coined the term cuspids, bicuspids, molars, and incisors. He devised appliances for the correction of malocclusion.

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Guerini, History of dentistry, 318–321. Russell, British anatomy, 436. The plates and accompanying leaves of explanation are the sheets of the second edition, and are on noticeably thicker and whiter paper.

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HUTCHINSON, Benjamin. Biographia Medica; or, historical and critical memoirs of the life and writings of the most eminent medical characters that have existed from the earliest account of time to the present period; with a catalogue of their literary productions. London: Printed for J. Johnson,... 1799.

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. vii, (viii), 510; 1 leaf, pp. 546. Printed on light blue paper. A little foxing, and paper slightly browned in the margins (more so on the first and last leaves). Contemporary half calf, nicely rebacked and corners repaired. Signature in upper margin of title-pages of John Julius Jones. £750 FIRST EDITION. G&M 6707. The first general dictionary of medical biography in English. John Aikin’s pioneer work of 1780 covered only British physicians.

With a Formal Presentation Inscription 69. JOUBERT, Laurent. Traitté des Arcbusades, contenant la vraye essence du mal, & sa propre curation, par certaines & methodiques indications… Nouvellement revue & augmenté presque de la moitié… A Lyon: Par Jean de Tournes, Imprimeur du Roy. 1574.

8vo, pp. (xvi), 256, (40). Half-page woodcut portrait of the author on p. (x), four divisional titlepages, de Tournes’ woodcut device on final verso (recto blank). Contemporary vellum (soiled, stain on upper cover, head of spine slightly defective), evidence of four ties. A few small stains (mostly in the upper corner), but a nice copy in original state. With a presentation inscription in Latin, very neatly set out and written in capital letters facing the title-page, from the author to his friend Claude Formy. £7000 FIRST COMPLETE EDITION (the second chronologically) of this rare monograph on one of the two great problems of Renaissance surgery, the treatment of wounds by firearms (the other was epidemic syphilis). As Joubert says on the title-page, this edition is greatly expanded with several new sections from the first of 1570, which had 132 pages. The third of the new sections is on burns.

Joubert was a distinguished physician of Montpellier, professor of medicine in the university and dean of the faculty. He served in the royal army in the campaign of 1569. He was to within a few years an exact contemporary of Paré, but although Paré’s book on the same subject had been published nearly thirty years earlier, Joubert makes no mention of him.

The wonderful presentation inscription from the author in this copy is so unusual in a book of this kind. It is to Joubert’s close friend Claude Formy (”Claude the converted”), a fellow convert to Protestantism, physician, and leader of the Reformation in Montpellier. The two collaborated on a biography of Guillaume Rondelet, who was Joubert’s teacher and Formy’s cousin.

Very rare; for instance Wellcome has the first but not this second edition, Durling (2635) has this edition (possibly incomplete at the beginning) but not the first (although it is now in the online catalogue). Three copies are located in the USA, and 1 in the UK. It is not in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

70. LA CONDAMINE, [Charles-Marie de]. A Discourse on Inoculation, read before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the 24th of April 1754. London: Printed for P. Vaillant… 1755.

8vo, pp. xiv, 69. Without the half-title. Large engraved allegorical vignette on title-page. Lightlyinked library stamp in lower corner of several text leaves, tear across last leaf neatly repaired without loss. Recent cloth, red morocco label along spine. £280 continued...

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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Dr. M. Maty, of the first of three memoirs on inoculation by La Condamine read before the Academy. “In his youth La Condamine had contracted smallpox, which perhaps led him to take such a resolute stand in the debate over inoculation. His role in this matter was that of a popularizer, and he played it with considerable talent. The clarity and grace of his style served him well, as did his good nature… By the end of his life, the ‘Don Quixote of inoculation’, as Louis Petit de Bachaumont called him, had seen the triumph of the idea he had defended with such passion” (DSB).

The Death of Thomas Arnold 71. LATHAM, Peter Mere. Lectures on Subjects connected with Clinical Medicine, comprising diseases of the heart. London: Longman,… 1845 (volume 2: 1846).

2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xxiii, 374, (2) advertisements, 32 (Longman’s catalogue); xi, 419, (1), 32 (Longman’s catalogue dated October 1846). Half-titles. Original green blind-stamped cloth, uncut, a fine set. Inscribed in volume 1, “From the Author”, and in volume 2 “With the Author’s Comp[limen]ts”. £250 Second edition (but see below). G&M 2755.1 (citing this edition): “Includes (vol. 2, pp. 373–379) a classical description of coronary thrombosis, although not using the term. The patient was Thomas Arnold, the educationist, and the report was signed by Joseph Hodgson and by S. Bucknill, Arnold’s physician. See also G&M 2227, The Collected Works: “Latham…was an authority of cardiac disease… His clinical lectures are among the very best.”

Latham’s Lectures first appeared in one volume in 1836, but are here so altered and enlarged as to constitute a new book. See East, The story of heart disease, pp. 108–111.

72. LAVOISIER, Antoine-Laurent. Essays, on the effects produced by various processes on Atmospheric Air; with a particular view to an investigation of the constitution of the acids. Translated from the French, by Thomas Henry, F.R.S… Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres, for J. Johnson…London. 1783.

8vo, pp. xx, 142, (2) advertisements. Half-title. Foxing on the first 20 leaves as usual, otherwise a very good copy. Good modern half calf antique. £1600 FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of this group of papers which Lavoisier published in the Mémoires of the Académie Royale des Sciences; there is no equivalent edition in French. The first paper is the first edition in English of his Expériences sur la respiration des animaux, in which he asserted that respiration involved only the air éminement respirable (i.e., oxygen), and that the remainder of the air is purely passive, entering and leaving the lungs unchanged. This began his first serious studies of respiration which were to culminate in 1785–1789 in his classic investigations on the subject (see Fulton, Selected readings in the history of physiology).

Other papers are on combustion and on the analysis of acids, including his paper read to the Académie in 1779 which contains the first appearance of the word ‘oxygen’ in chemistry, although the translator uses the usual term for time, ‘dephlogistcated air’, and Lavoisier’s original definition of it. In the eighth essay (pp. 96–118) of this important work, Lavoisier proposes his theory that oxygen is an essential constituent of all acids, and he remarks: “Here, therefore, we have a new road opened in chemistry…” (p. 115).

Cole 761. Duveen p. 340. Neville II, p. 17. Duveen & Klickstein 336 (and see also pp. 44 et seq.).

This is the only separate edition of these papers in any language.

73. LE CLERC, Daniel. Histoire de la Medecine, où l’on voit l’origine & les progrès de cet art, de siècle en siècle... Nouvelle edition, revuë, corrigée, & augmentée par l’auteur en divers endroits, & sur tout d’un plan pour servir à la continuation de cette histoire dépuis la fin du siècle II. jusques au milieu du XVII. A La Haye [The Hague]: chez Isaac van der Kloot, 1729. continued...

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4to, pp. (xviii), 820, (20), (2) blank, engraved frontispiece, 8 plates, 1 folding table. Title printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments. Paper a little browned (a few signatures more so). Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt with floral ornament, red morocco label, neat repairs to spine and corners, armorial bookplate of J.B. Tissot, 1735, a pharmacist. £650 BEST EDITION. G&M 6379 (this edition): “The first large history of medicine. It is still consulted today. Le Clerc is sometimes called the ‘Father of the History of Medicine’. The first edition of this work appeared in 1696, but later editions are more useful.”

74. LISTER, Joseph. On the Minute Structure of Involuntary Muscle Fibre. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXI, Part IV. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by Neill and Company, 1857.

4to, title-page + pp. 549–557, one double-page folding lithographed plate. Title a little dust-soiled.

A good copy in modern cloth-backed boards. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed at the head of the title “Professor Quecket [sic] with the author’s kind regards” (very slightly shaved). £750 OFFPRINT, with specially printed title, of Lister’s “confirmation of Kölliker’s description of involuntary muscle cells, based on Lister’s own observations of such cells in the arterioles of the frog’s web. Lister also showed that these cells occur in mammals as well as amphibians” (Norman).

See Norman Catalogue 1364 (without a title-page).

The recipient of this copy, Professor John Thomas Queckett, was a renowned microscopist and histologist, who (from 1843) was assistant conservator of the Hunterian Museum, then (in 1852) professor of histology, and finally (in 1856) conservator. He formed a most extensive and valuable collection of microscopic preparations, injected by himself, illustrating the tissues of plants and animals in health and in disease, and showing the results and uses of microscopic investigation.

One of the Most Important Texts in the History of Physiology 75. LOWER, Richard. Tractatus de Corde. Item de motu & colore sanguinis et chyli in eum transitu. Londini: Typis Jo. Redmayne impensis Jacobi Allestry… 1669.

8vo, 8 leaves, pp. 220, (20), 7 folding engraved plates. Complete with the initial blank A1.

Contemporary French speckled calf, gilt arms on sides (see below), very neatly rebacked preserving the original spine. £23,500 FIRST EDITION, second issue (see below) of “the most important contribution to circulatory physiology after William Harvey’s De motu cordis, published three years before Lower’s birth.

Nobel Laureate André Cournand considered Lower’s book to be one of the most important texts in the history of physiology because of the nature of its observations, the rigor of its experimental design and demonstrations, and its simple and convincing form of presentation…

“Lower entered medical practice in London in 1666 and continued experiments he had begun in Oxford on the motion and color of the blood and on transfusion. His observations on these subjects were summarized in Tractatus de corde.

“Lower made important observations on the structure of cardiac muscle, the quantity of blood in the vascular system, the velocity of blood flow, and the effects of aeration of blood as it passed through the lungs. He was impressed by the complex arrangement of muscular fibers in the heart and felt their unique arrangement was responsible for the contraction of the ventricular cavities in systole that propelled blood into the vascular system. In a series of experiments performed with Robert Hooke, Lower showed that the red color of arterial blood was due to its contact with ‘fresh air’ in the lungs. His book also contained observations on the technique and safety of blood transfusion, a technique he pioneered” (W. Bruce Fye in Grolier One Hundred (Medicine).

There are two issues: in the second issue, the original leaf A6 has been replaced by a cancellans in order (according to John F. Fulton) to “modify (very slightly) a scurrilous remark… concerning the Irishman O’Meara” (ibid). continued...

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Provenance: arms on the covers of Daniel Huet (1630–1720), Bishop of Avranches and celebrated anti-Cartesian; engraved bookplate with his arms commemorating his living donation of his library in 1692 to the Jesuit order in Paris on front pastedown; donation inscription confirming the same on the title; manuscript and printed shelfmarks. Huet was a celebrated scholar and author, whose library of books and manuscripts was later purchased by the King for the Royal Library.

Wing L3310. G&M 761. Printing and the Mind of Man 149. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine) 34.

Fulton, Two Oxford Physiologists, 4.

76. MACKENZIE, Sir James. The Study of the Pulse arterial, venous, and hepatic and of the movements of the heart. Edinburgh and London: Young J. Pentland, 1902.

8vo, pp. xx, (ii), 325, (3) blank, + Pentland’s 30-page catalogue dated March 1901 inserted at the end. Half-title, diagrams in the text. Original green cloth, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Spotting on the endpapers but a very good copy. £200 FIRST EDITION. G&M 2812. “His reputation rests on his long continued researches into the nature of irregularities of the heart’s rhythm. He graphically recorded the movements of the jugular veins and used these records in conjunction with others in an elaborate and acute analysis of the movements of the heart’s separate chambers. His ‘polygraph’, an instrument devised to take his records, was invented with the aid of a Lancashire watchmaker, Mr Shaw.

Mackenzie’s book The Study of the Pulse (1902), in which the earlier observations were collected, gave the impetus to much work of the same kind by others” (ODNB). See Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, p.767. Bedford catalogue 67.

77. MAPLESON, Thomas. A Treatise on the Art of Cupping: in which the history of that operation is traced; the various diseases in which it is useful indicated; and the most approved method of performing is described. London: Printed for the author… 1813.

12mo, pp. vi, (ii), 80. Half-title. Original drab boards, sometime rebacked with brown cloth, original paper label on upper cover. Spotting on the endpapers. Inscribed “From the author” on the verso of the half-title, and with a signature dated 1814 in upper corner of title. £250 FIRST EDITION. Mapleson was cupper to the Prince Regent.

78. MARIE, Pierre, & [José Dantas] SOUZA-LEITE. Essays on Acromegaly. With bibliography and appendix of cases by other authors. London: The New Sydenham Society, 1891.

8vo, pp. vi, (i), 182, 2 folding plates; and the Society’s annual report (38 pages) bound in at the end.

Illustrations in the text. Original brown blind-stamped cloth. Stamp and presentation stamp of the British Medical Association on title, otherwise a fine copy. £160 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Marie’s classic paper, in which he gave the first complete clinical description of the hypertrophic condition which he named “acromegaly”. Marie was Charcot’s ablest pupil. See G&M 3884 for the original French journal appearance. The volume also includes the thesis on acromegaly by the Brazilian J.D. Souza-Leite, Marie’s pupil and collaborator. Medvei, History of endocrinology, pp. 306–309.

79. MARIE, Pierre. Contribution à l’étude et au diagnostic des formes frustes de la Maladie de Basedow. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Progrès Médical [&] A. Delahaye et E. Lecrosnier… 1883.

8vo, 2 leaves, 85 pages, 2 leaves. Modern quarter buckram and marbled paper sides, paper label on spine. Inscribed on the half-title by the author: “A mon excellent ami Jardet, sauveur de la Salpêtrière. P. Marie”. £275 continued...

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FIRST EDITION. “Marie’s thesis for the M.D. (1883) carried a graphic description of the tremor observed in the extended arms and fingers in persons with Graves’s disease — a phenomenon he had begun to study while a medical student” (Haymaker & Schiller, The founders of neurology, p. 476).

Obstetrics as a Science 80. MAURICEAU, François. Des Maladies des Femmes Grosses et Accouchees. Avec la bonne et veritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels, & les moyens de remedier à tous ceux qui sont contre-nature, & aux indspositions des enfans nouveau-nés: ensemble une tres-exacte description de toutes les parties de la femme qui sont destinées à la generation… A Paris: Chez Jean Henault…Jean D’Houry…Robert de Ninville…[&] Jean Baptiste Coignard… 1668.

4to, pp. (xxiv), 536, engraved title by Vallet after Paillet incorporating a portrait of the author.

Woodcut headpieces and initials, and 30 engravings in the text (some full-page). Name erased from blank areas of engraved and printed titles, paper slightly browned and a few small marks.

Contemporary mottled calf, nicely rebacked and tips of corners repaired.

Ownership inscription dated 1693 at head of title deleted. £5500 FIRST EDITION of the book which “established obstetrics as a science” (G&M). This was the outstanding textbook of the time, the first important textbook of obstetrics for nearly sixty years (since that of Jacques Guillemeau in 1609), and the first important obstetrical text to be published in five vernacular languages as well as Latin.

“While much in Mauriceau’s treatise echoed the teachings of his predecessors, the work also included several important new features, such as Mauriceau’s detailed analysis of the mechanism of labor, his introduction of the practice of delivering women in bed rather than in the obstetric chair, the Item 80, Mauriceau earliest account of the continued...

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prevention of congenital syphilis by antisyphilitic treatment during pregnancy, and the rebuttal of Paré’s erroneous account of pubic separation during birth” (Norman). The original illustrations, many signed “du Cerceau”, who was a junior member of a famous family of architects and artists, set a new trend in obstetric illustration.

G&M 6147. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 33. Lilly, Notable Medical Books, p. 85. Norman catalogue 1461. Radcliffe, Milestones in Midwifery, pp. 23–26. Speert, Milestones, pp. 558–566.

Cutter & Viets pp. 77–81.

81. MAURICEAU, François. The Diseases of Women with Child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes… Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D. By whom this second edition is reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author’s Anatomy. London: Printed by John Darby… 1683.

8vo, pp. (xx), 36, 438, (8), and 8 folding engraved plates. Title within double ruled border.

Contemporary mottled calf, unlettered, sides ruled in blind. Tear without loss in one plate, some very minor marks, but a fine copy. £2750 Second edition in English. 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.

Wing M1372 (4 + 4 copies); by comparison the first edition in English of 1672 would appear to be extremely rare, with Wing recording only two copies. See G&M 6147 (first edition, in French, 1668). See also Speert, Milestones, pp. 558–566, and Thoms, Classical Contributions, pp. 59–62.

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MAYO, Herbert. Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries. Number I. August 1822 [–Number II. July 1823, all published]. London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822 [–1823].

2 volumes, 8vo, 2 leaves, 120 pages, 8 folding lithographed plates; 2 leaves, 141 pages, 1 leaf (imprint), 7 plates numbered IX–XV. Original brown printed wrappers, neatly rebacked. Library stamp on titles and at foot of upper wrappers, wrappers dust-soiled, but a very good set. £2250 FIRST EDITION. G&M 1390. A very rare and important classic in neurology. Mayo took the next step after Bell and Magendie towards clarifying the problem of reflex action. In the first part, clearly demonstrating the true functions of the facial nerve, Mayo attributed sensory function to the fifth cranial nerve and motor power to the seventh nerve. In the second part he showed that a circumscribed segment of the nervous system sufficed to produced muscular action, and described the phenomenon to which Marshall Hall later applied the term “reflex”. These discoveries of the functions of the nerves of the face, made independently of his teacher Charles Bell, are often but inaccurately attributed to Bell, and the publication of this book was the start of an exceedingly bitter and prolonged controversy. Whereas it can be argued that Bell’s wording is unclear, Mayo’s statement and claim are “clear, precise, and unmistakable” (Dr. R. Druitt, quoted in DNB). This was Mayo’s most important neurological work.

In the first part, Mayo included English translations of four essays by Johann Reil on the structure of the human cerebellum, which were originally published in his Archiv für die Physiologie. The eight plates all refer to these essays.

McHenry p. 144 (Reil) and p. 199. Spillane p. 229. Fulton, Selected readings in the history of physiology, pp. 285–286. Norman catalogue 1473.

83. MEAD, Richard. Medical precepts and cautions. Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack… Second edition. London: Printed for J. Brindley… 1755. continued...

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8vo, pp. xvi, 311, (1). Woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco label, double gilt fillet on sides, a very nice copy. Single tiny wormhole in top and bottom margins, short wormtrack in upper margin of last 5 leaves and endpapers. Small private library stamp on verso of title and one other page. £200 Second edition in English of the great Richard Mead's last book, a collection of case reports. The chapter On Madness propounds his greatest influence on psychiatry, that insanity was incompatible with other major disease (see Hunter & Macalpine pp. 385–388). It also includes his description of St. Vitus’ Dance or chorea minor (an early description), and of asthma and cataract.

84. MELETIUS. De Natura Structuraque Hominis Opus, Polemonis Atheniensis… interpretationis: Hippocratis De Hominis Structura. Dioclis Ad Antigonum Regem de tuenda valetudine epistola. Melampi De Nevis Corporis Tratactatus. Omnia haec non prius edita. Nicolao Petreio Corcyraeo interprete. Venetiis [Venice]: [Colophon: exofficina Gryphii, sumptibus vero Francisci Camotii & sociorum], 1552.

4to, 4 leaves 191 pages, 16 leaves (indexes and errata). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, italic letter with Roman headings. Early eighteenth century brown morocco, panelled in gilt with the arms of Pope Clement XI (Giovanni Francesco Albani, pope 1700–1721) in centre, unlettered spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, marbled pastedowns.

Title-page very slightly soiled and with one or two small stains, otherwise a fine copy. Early signature at top of title. £2600 FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest works on anatomy, written probably in the eighth century Item 84, Meletius

by Meletius, a Christian monk and physician from Phrygia (now part of Turkey). The present edition appears to be the only one until the publication of the original Greek text in 1836.

Choulant (Handbuch, p. 145), describing the work as very rare, compares it to that of Nemesius (4th century), whom Meletius cites in the chapter on the head, and it was possibly through Meletius that cerebral localisation, propounded by Nemesius but then forgotten for several centuries, came to be accepted and described as early as the tenth century by Rhazes, an important figure in the diffusion of the idea. The chapter on the eye has been the subject of recent study by Robert Renehan (1984) and J. Lascaratos & M. Tsirou (1990). Other chapters are on the ear, the nose, the heart, the kidney, etc. One of the longest chapters is the last one, on food and taste.

Meletius’s work stands out as being written during a period of almost no original medical writings, occurring as it does between those of Aetius, Alexander of Tralles and Paulus of Aegineta in the sixth century, and the Arabic School in the ninth.

Meletius’ work is followed by several smaller works, the principal one being the Naturae signorum interpretatio, a Latin translation of the Byzantine Greek forgery of Antonio Polemo’s Physiognomica (Durling).

See R. Renehan, “Meletius’ chapter on the eyes: an unidentified source”, in Symposium on Byzantine Medicine, Washington, D.C. 1984; J. Lascaratos & M. Tsiro, Ophthalmological ideas of the Byzantine author Meletius, 1990.

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Best Incunable Edition The Basis of Modern Pharmacy 85. MESUE, Johannes. (Maswijah al-Mardini)). [Opera Medicinalia.] [Colophon:] Impressa Venetiis [Venice:] per Bonetum Locatellum…impensis…Octaviani Scoti… 1495.

Folio (318 x 217 mm.), 332 unnumbered leaves. Gothic type, printed in double columns, 66 lines, floriated woodcut white-on-black initials, numerous initials supplied in red or blue, headings underlined in red, large publisher’s woodcut device at end. Contemporary blind-tooled half pigskin over beech boards, lettered in manuscript on upper cover. Upper joint just cracking, one upper corner chipped, old and almost imperceptible repair to fore-edge of upper board, clasps missing, wormtrack in lower inner blank corner of first dozen leaves then diminishing, otherwise a fine copy in a very well preserved contemporary binding. Old armorial bookplate on upper cover, two later bookplates on front pastedown. £34,000 Penultimate and most complete of the incunable editions, and the first to include (as listed on the title-page) the commentary of St. John de Armand on the Antidotarium of Nicolas of Salerno, together with his text, one of the most widely recogniszed pharmacopoeias of the Middle Ages. Also included is the Complementum practicae of Francescus Pedemontanus; a commentary on the Canones of Mesuë by Mundinus, Expositio super canones universales; the Expositio super Antidotarium Mesue

by Christophorus de Honestis; the Additiones ad practicam of Petrus de Abano on tumours of the breast and diseases of the stomach and liver; and the Compendium aromatariorum of Saladinus of Ascoli, generally considered the first really modern pharmacopoeia.

“The Grabadin [here called the Antidotarium] of Mesuë junior was for centuries the authority on the composition of medicaments. The book was not only in use in practically every European pharmacy but in addition became the basis of the later official pharmacopoeias. The Grabadin is, as Sudhof calls it, ‘the pharmacological quintessence Item 85, Mesuë of Arabian therapeutics’ and contains the entire armamentarium of compounded medicines which we owe to the Arabians. The arrangement is like that of the later pharmacopoeias. The compounded medicines are divided into groups according to their forms — confections, juleps, syrups, etc. — the monographs containing directions for the preparation of the respective products and also notes on their medicinal uses” (Kremers & Urdang, History of Pharmacy, pp. 21–22).

Klebs 680.14. BMC V, 444. See Garrison, p. 133. Hagelin, Old and Rare Books on Materia Medica, p. 18 (later edition).

Early Monograph on Apoplexy 86. MISTICHELLI, Domenico. Trattato dell’ Apoplessia in cui con nuove osservazioni anatomiche, e riflessioni fisiche si ricercano tutte le cagioni, e spezie di quel male, e vi si palesa frà gli altri un nuovo, & efficace Rimedio. In Roma: a spese di Antonio de’ Rossi… 1709.

4to, pp. (xx), 174, (14), engraved allegorical frontispiece and 2 engraved plates. Some light foxing and several gatherings lightly browned (as in the only other copy we have handled), a few small marks and stains, short (1 cm.) tear in upper margin of title, short (2 cm.) tear or paper flaw in continued...

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fore-edge margin of leaves S3 and S4. Contemporary limp vellum, no front free endpaper. Early signature at foot of title-page deleted in ink. £2800 SOLE EDITION of an extremely rare and early monograph on apoplexy. Mistichelli described the medullary crossing and provided the first published illustration of the decussation in the pyramids, thus beginning the elucidation of the various tracts in the spinal cord. He also illustrated the outward rotation of the paralysed limb. He reasoned that the nerve crossing in the pyramids was responsible for the hemiplegia following wounds of the opposite side of the head. He also argued against the then popular notion of nervous fluids. However he erroneously maintained that the nerves originated in the dura mater, and suggested that the paralysis in the leg could be cured by the application of a hot cautery to the foot. See Finger, Origins of neuroscience, pp. 193–194, and McHenry pp. 84–86, both reproducing Mistichelli’s plate.

The first important book on apoplexy was by Wepfer in 1658, and other monographs on the subjects before Mistichelli were by Nymann (1670), and Bayle (1677). Mistichelli’s book is very rare (it is not, for example, in the Wellcome catalogue or Blake, although it is in the Wellcome online catalogue).”

87. MITCHELL, Silas Weir. Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System. Especially in women. Second edition, revised and enlarged. London: J. & A. Churchill… 1885.

8vo, pp. xii,(13)–287, and 5 tables (1 folding). Plus Churchill’s 16-page catalogue at the end dated September 1885. Original brown cloth (very slight wear to ends of spine, faint trace of a bookplate removed), uncut. £150 First published in Philadelphia in 1881, this is the English issue with a cancel title.

88. NANSEN, Fridjof. The Structure and Combination of the Histological Elements of the Central Nervous System. [In: Bergens Mus. Aarsberetning. No place, printer or date, 1886.]

8vo, 1 leaf, pp. (29)–214, 1 leaf (contents), and 11 double-page lithographed plates by Nansen (the first printed in blue). Signature of Franz E(?) Schulze at top of title, also library stamp at foot and a few other markings, paper of plates a little browned in the margins. Modern Continental clothbacked boards. £1500 FIRST EDITION. G&M 1368. Nansen, better known for his Arctic explorations, published a number of papers resulting from his study of a variety of specimens ranging fron molluscs to small animals, “but his most important was…[the present work]. The monograph carries the description and the illustrations of an important detail (in Myxine glutinosa), which Nansen was the first to note: each dorsal root nerve fiber (‘nerve tube’, ‘nerve cylinder’), just after entering the spinal cord, or even before entering, divides into an ascending and a descending branch, both of which give off numerous collaterals to various cord segments’ (Haymaker & Schiller, The founders of neurology, pp. 136–142).

“In his thesis, Nansen provided a bridge between the network concept of Golgi and the view of the nerve cell as an individual entity… His name became linked as one of the founders of the neuron doctrine” (Shepherd, Foundations of the neuron doctrine, 1991).

District Nursing 89. NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Organization of Nursing. An account of the Liverpool Nurses’ Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing. By a member of the committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale. Liverpool: A. Holden… London: Longman,… 1865.

8vo, pp. (viii), 9–103, lithographed frontispiece of the school, and 1 lithographed plan. Original limp blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, upper inner hinge cracked, two small marks on the upper cover, but a very good copy. Book label of G.N.T. on front pastedown. £1200 continued...

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FIRST EDITION. Liverpool was a pioneer city in the training of nurses, and the first district nurse began work there in 1860. “The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was founded by William Rathbone in 1862, after consultation with Miss Nightingale. This was the beginning of a long and fruitful association which was to result in the organization and development of district nursing and workhouse infirmary nursing, both of which were first tried out in Liverpool, and later extended to other parts of the country” (Bishop & Goldie). This scarce work is an account of the founding and operation of the School; it includes an introduction and numerous notes by Florence Nightingale, and is dedicated to her. Bishop & Goldie 14.

90. NORMAN, Haskell F. (editor). One hundred books famous in medicine. New York: The Grolier Club, 1995.

4to, pp. xlii, 390, (3), and 32 plates in colour. Original cloth, slipcase, as new. £150 FIRST EDITION. G&M 6957. Conceived, organised, and with a introduction by Haskell Norman, this catalogue was distilled from suggestions for inclusion by collectors, booksellers, scholars and bibliographers, who also wrote the extensive descriptions. It includes bibliographical details. The most interesting copies that could be found (presentation, association, dedication, authors’ copies, etc.) of each work were borrowed for the exhibition at the Grolier Club of New York in 1994. The catalogue was edited by Hope Mayo.

91. ORIBASIUS. Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem: quibus tota medicina in compendium redacta continentur: Joanne Baptista Rasario…interprete. [Colophon:] Venetiis [Venice]: apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium, 1554.

Small 8vo, 216 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title, text printed in italics throughout. Title and last page a bit soiled and stained, some very minor foxing in the text. Eighteenth century Italian marbled boards and sheep spine, ruled in gilt, red morocco label (head of spine slightly worn, short crack at top of lower joint), red edges. From the library of the Royal Society of Medicine, with their stamp on title and front endpaper; large bookplate of John Fletcher on pastedown and a note on Rasario tipped in. £1100 FIRST EDITION. Derived from his larger work Collectorum medicinalium, Oribasius produced this abridged edition or synopsis for his son Eustathius. “In following the medical studies of his son, [Oribasius] had come to realise the necessity for a short text-book…which purposely contained only the essentials of the art of healing and conveyed in concise form the mature experience and independently acquired judgment of the author… The attractive accounts of gymnastics, diet at various ages, education and diseases of children are of especial interest” (Neuburger, p. 303).

The Collectorum was the most extensive surviving work of the fourth century Greek physician Oribasius, and comprised excerpts of the more important writings of the Greek physicians. “For the historian of medicine Oribasius is especially important for his role in preserving earlier, more important medical authors, whom we know about, in part, only through his excerpts” (DSB).

Choulant, Handbuch, p. 124: “Rare.”

Discovery of the Thoracic Duct 92. PECQUET, Jean. Experimenta Nova Anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, & ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur.

Eiusdem dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli motu. Parisiis: Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy…et Gabrielem Cramoisy… 1651.

Small 4to, pp. (xii), 108. With 6 engravings in the text (1 full-page). Woodcut initials, divisional title to the Dissertatio Anatomica de Circulatione Sanguinis, et Chyli Motu. Contemporary limp vellum.

Paper slightly browned and vellum darkened, but an excellent copy. Early signature of Dupin of Montpellier at foot of title, bookplate of Meyer Friedman (1910–2001), physician and book collector. £11,000 continued...

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FIRST EDITION of Pecquet’s famous work in which he records his discovery of the chyle reservoir.

“In his experiments with live dogs Pecquet discovered the thoracic duct and cisterna chylii. He correctly described the termination of the chyliferous vessels (Aselli’s ‘lacteal veins’) in the cisterna, refuting the erroneous notion that the vessels ended in the liver; he also described the junction of the thoracic duct at the union of the jugular and subclavial veins. In a rare early instance of nearly simultaneous triple independent discovery, the thoracic duct was also discovered independently by Thomas Bartholin (1652; see G&M 1096) and by the Swedish physician Olof Rudbeck (1653; see G&M 1098)” (Norman).

In Paris Harvey’s theories of the circulation of the blood had been rejected at the university, and in this book Pecquet, who worked with a small group of Harveyites at the Jardin du Roi, included a dissertation on the circulation, which ensured its acceptance there. See “Appendix IV, The Acceptance of Harvey’s Doctrine during his Lifetime” in Keynes, The Life of William Harvey (1966).

G&M 1095. Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 28A. Norman catalogue 1676. Foster, Lectures on the History of Physiology, p. 49.

First Book on Toxicology 93. PIETRO D’ABANO. Tractatus de Venenis. [Colophon:] Rome: [no printer,] 1490.

4to, 18 unnumbered leaves. Gothic letter, 33 lines. Modern dark unlettered sheep, a fine copy. £7500 Eighth printing, but the fifth separate edition. The first printed book on toxicology, treating of poisons and their antidotes. “The topics considered in its six main chapters are: the classification of poisons, how they act upon the body, how to guard against them, the effects and cures of a long list of particular poisons, and finally the problem of a panacea or bezoar against all poisons” (Thorndike). The poisons considered are wide ranging, and include arsenic and hemlock, narcotics, and animal poisons. The author makes reference to the loadstone as a poison if taken internally, and to two kinds of magnet (see Mottelay, p. 501, referring to this edition).

Pietro d’Abano was born near Padua in 1250, and wrote De venenis in about 1316. First printed with his Conciliator at Mantua in 1472, the same year as Bagellardo’s book on paediatrics, it was one of the first books on a specific medical speciality to be printed.

Klebs 774.8. BMC IV, 91. For a full account of this book, and of Pietro d’Abano’s life and other works, see Thorndike, II, pp. 874–947, and for the more bizarre aspects of his life (and death), see the Biographie Générale.

On the Burden of Large Families on the Poor 94. PLACE, Francis. Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population: including an examination of the proposed remedies of Mr. Malthus, and a reply to the objections of Mr. Godwin and others. London: Printed for Longman,… 1822.

8vo, pp. xv, 280. Library stamp on the title, endpapers foxed, light foxing throughout. Contemporary calf, imperceptibly rebacked. £4750 FIRST EDITION. Place was the first important proponent of birth control in any English-speaking country and openly advocated contraception in this book, a subject with important implications for population theory, economics, and social conditions.

Francis Place had a hard upbringing in London, and during his early years he was at one time out of work and close to starvation. His business flourished, however, and by 1815 he was a prosperous man with time for reading and politics. “In 1808 he had met and befriended Jeremy Bentham and through him encountered James Mill, who in turn introduced him to the economist David Ricardo… Place accepted Bentham’s jurisprudence, Malthus’s principle of population, and Ricardo’s doctrine of the wages fund, but when Godwin published a defence of his position against Malthus in 1820, he wrote a lengthy reply called Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population (1822). In this Place criticized Malthus for his ignorance of the conditions in which the poor lived and Godwin for giving up all hope for their improvement. If Godwin was too despondent, continued...

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Malthus was too naïve to suppose that working men would be persuaded to avoid hardship by marrying later in life. Place himself thought that the poor could be persuaded to avoid the burden of large families only if they were encouraged to use contraception, and his frank propaganda for this lost him many friends” (ODNB).

G&M 1696.1. Himes, The Medical Histrory of Contraception, pp. 212–213.

95. POTT, Percivall. Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, commonly called Fistula Lachrymalis. The fourth edition, improved. London: Printed for Hawes, Clarke and Collins, 1772. [Bound with:] [2] Remarks on the Disease, commonly called a Fistula in Ano. The fourth edition. London: Printed for Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins… 1775.

2 works in 1 volume, 8vo, 2 leaves, pp. vii, 67; pp. x, (11)–128, 1 engraved plate. Half-title to the first work. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt devices and red morocco label (nicely repaired but spine and part of upper cover darkened), very good, clean copies. Early signature of J. Tice on halftitle and small book label of James K. Welch on front free endpaper. £475 [1] See James, Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England, p.113: "...He gives a good description of the anatomy of the parts and with regard to the treatment of lachrymal obstruction lays down three varieties of the disease..." Not in the Becker catalogue.

[2] See G&M 3424.2: “Probably the greatest English classic of colon-rectal surgery. Pott recommended the practice of simple division rather than the newer, more complicated methods proposed by Cheselden and Le Dran, and audaciously pointed out that there were lessons which regular practitioners might learn from quacks apropos of this subject.”

96. 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. Small paper flaw in one leaf with loss of a few letters, some minor foxing. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked and corners repaired, spines ruled in gilt with two red morocco labels. Bookplate in each volume of Dr. A.R. Hodgson. £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. Pott wrote the first important English book on hernia, gave the classic description of hydrocele, of “Pott’s gangrene”, “Pott’s fracture”, “Pott’s disease”, occupational cancer, and of head injuries.

97. RAMÓN Y CAJAL, Santiago. Histologie du Système Nerveux de l’homme & des vertébrés. Edition française revue & mise a jour par l’auteur. Traduite de l’espagnol par le Dr. L. Azoulay. Madrid: Instituto Ramon y Cajal. 1952 (–1955).

2 volumes, large and thick 8vo, pp. xv, 986, frontispiece portrait; 4 leaves (the first 2 blank), 993 pages, 1 leaf (errata). With numerous figures in the text. Original blue cloth (spines slightly faded, light foxing on endpapers). Signature on front free endpapers. £250 See G&M 1293.1 (first edition, in Spanish, of 1899–1904): “This monumental work sets out the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. Ramón y Cajal’s research confirmed the neuron doctrine; his classification of neurons provided a histological basis for cerebral localization. His descriptions of the cerebral cortex are still the most authoritative. Illustrated from Cajal’s own drawings. Revised and enlarged French translation, 2 vols, Paris, 1909-10; reprinted Madrid, 1952–55.”

"In 1904 Cajal completed a landmark in histology and neuroanatomy…” (McHenry, p. 169).

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98. ROSENBAUM, Julius. The Plague of Lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity,... Translated from the sixth (unabridged) German edition by an Oxford M.A. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901.

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxv, 297, (3); vi, (i), 342, 1 leaf. Titles in red and black. Original maroon wrappers, uncut. Wrappers a little faded and split at ends of joints, but a clean and crisp copy. £240 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. See G&M 2421 (the German edition of 1845). This edition was limited to 500 copies, of which this is no. 397. A bibliography is included at the end of the first volume.

99. ROUPPE, Louis. Observations on Diseases incidental to Seamen. Translated from the Latin edition printed at Leyden. London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, jun… 1772.

8vo, 1 leaf, pp. ii, xxiv, iii, 435. Contemporary speckled sheep, cracks at ends of joints, slight wear to ends of spine, some scuff marks on the covers, but a clean and fresh copy. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Lonsdale; small personal stamp on verso of title. £750 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of a comprehensive Dutch work on naval medicine, “one of the best works on marine medicine that we possess” (Hirsch). It includes a long chapter on scurvy.

100. RUST, Johann Nepomuk. Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Medicin, Chirurgie und Staatsarzneikunde. Berlin: Verlag von Theod. Chr. Fr. Enslin, 1834 [–1836].

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 475, (1), 1 leaf (errata), 3 folding and stilted lithographed plates; viii, 566, (2) adverts, 1 lithographed plate. Contemporary half roan (ends of spines and tips of corners worn).

Bookplates of Professor A.R. Hodgson. £295 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4319. This extensive collection contains the first description of “Rust’s disease” — tuberculous spondylitis of the cervical vertebrae. A third volume was published after the author’s death in 1840, but complete sets are rare. Waller 8332 has only the first two volumes, as does one of the four copies recorded by RLIN; Wellcome has all three. Rust was physician to a division in the Prussian army, and a professor in Berlin.

101. SALISBURY INFIRMARY. The Statutes and Rules, for the Government of the General Infirmary, at the city of Salisbury, for the relief of the sick and lame poor, from whatever county recommended. As altered since their first publication. The third edition. Salisbury: Printed by Collins and Johnson, 1782.

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8vo, pp. (vi), 86, 10, 1 leaf (errata).

Calf-backed boards by Bretherton, 1850, with his ticket, blue sugarpaper front endpapers (lightly foxed), rear free endpaper excised.

Small personal stamp on verso of title and in lower margin of p. 51. £300 Third edition. Salisbury Infirmary, built by voluntary subscription in the 1760s, closed in 1993 although the building is still standing in Fisherton Street. This book includes rules for all members of the staff, including messengers and porters, as well as for the patients. ESTC records 4 copies.

Presentation Copy 102. SASSONIA, Ercole. Luis Venereae Perfectissimus Tractatus…exceptus, in capita distinctus, indice locupletatus, luciq; datus: opera. Andreghetti Andreghettii. Patavii [Padua]: Apud Laurentium Pasquatum… 1597.

4to, ff. (viii), 48, (1) errata. With two different printer’s devices (on the title and last leaf), and two woodcut tailpieces. Library stamp on the title, otherwise a very clean copy. Old boards. Presentation copy from the author to an unnamed recipient, inscribed and dated at the foot of the title in the year and place of publication: “Donum Authoris VII Novemb. Ao. IIIC Patavii”. £1100 Second edition (first, 1593, under a slightly different title) of the the principal treatise on venereal disease of Ercole Sassonia (1551–1607), a Paduan by birth and professor of medicine at the university of Venice and later of Padua. This copy is unusual in having a contemporary presentation inscription, and for having a final errata leaf which is not recorded in any other copy found.

103. SCHALLING, Jacob. Ophthalmia [in Greek] sive disquisitio hermetico-galenica de natura oculorum eorumque visibilibus characteribus morbis & remediis. Censura gratiosi ordinis D.D. F.F.rm. Rosatae Crucis oblata & representata. Augentrost, darinn von Natur, sichtbaren Bildnissen, Kranckheiten und Artzeneyen der Augen trewlich und fleissig gehandelt wird. Dem hochlöblichen Orden derer H.H. Brüder des Rosen Creutzes zum Urtheil und Censur untergeben und praesentirt. Erffurdt: In Verlegung Johann Bischoffs Buchf. 1615.

Small folio, 5 leaves, 169 [i.e. 179] pages. The title-page (slightly shaved, cut round and mounted at an early date and folded in, being larger than the rest of the book) is engraved, with letterpress in the central tablet. With 17 woodcuts of the eye in the text, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Eighteenth century German speckled boards, red lettering piece (chipped) on spine. Leaves E3 & I2 cropped at foot with loss or partial loss of signatures and catchwords, also last line of text on I2 recto just shaved on the downstrokes, otherwise a fine copy. Old stamp of Dr. Monoyer on second leaf; engraved bookplate of Thomas Lauth (1758–1826, anatomist in Strassburg). £7500 FIRST EDITION of a very early monograph on ophthalmology and a very rare book, a curious mixture of strictly medical information and mysticism. Written in Latin with the German translation on facing pages, it is divided into three parts: the first deals with the anatomy and physiology of the eye; the second deals with visible images and includes chapters on light and colours; and the third deals with eye diseases and materia medica, therapeutics and dietetics, and ends with a chapter on chemical operations. Schalling, from Winssheim in Franconia, was evidently a Rosicrucian.

This exceptionally rare and unusual book is not in the Becker catalogue, and does not appear to be mentioned in the literature of ophthalmology. Gardner, Bibliotheca Rosicruciana, 598.

Illustrations for Harvey's Book on Embryology 104. SCHRADER, Justus. (editor). Observationes et Historiae omnes e singulae e Guiljelmi Harvei libello De Generatione Animalium... Item Wilhelm Langly de generatione animalium observationes... Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Typis Abrahami Wolfgang, 1674.

12mo, pp. (xxxii), 240, engraved title by Romeyn de Hooghe and 8 plates. Nineteenth century tree calf, gilt borders, spine richly gilt in compartments and with red morocco label, marbled edges and endpapers. Joints rubbed and just cracking at top, but a pretty copy. £1750 FIRST EDITION. This is for all practical purposes the first illustrated edition of William Harvey's De Generatione Animalium, 1651 (G&M 467), the most important book on embryology to appear during the seventeenth century. This work however also demonstrates original research continued...

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in embryology on its own account. Under the editorship of Schrader it combines excerpts from Harvey’s epochal book with the illustrated publication of the extensive experiments on the development of the chick embryo made by the Dutch physician Wilhelm Langly in 1655. “Langly mentions Harvey more than once, and evidently followed his example in careful observation, for his text is concise and accurate and his drawings very noteworthy… Langly’s figures…are therefore of interest in that they closely resemble the pictures which would have been needed for Harvey’s book had it been illustrated” (Needham, History of Embryology, pp. 153–154). Keynes 41. Russell, British Anatomy, 383.

105. SMITH, Hugh. Essays physiological and practical, on the Nature and Circulation of the Blood. And the effects and uses of blood-letting. London: Printed for W. Johnston… 1761.

8vo, pp. x, 1 leaf, pp. 132. With the half-title. Faint library stamp on title-page, paper slightly browned, otherwise a very good copy. Good modern half calf. £300 SOLE EDITION. Hugh Smith (d. 1790) “studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and obtained the degree of MD on 22 April 1755. He initially practised in Essex, but went to London in 1759, and settled in Mincing Lane. In 1760 he began a course of lectures on the theory and practice of physic, which proved to be extremely popular. These, together with the publication of Essays on Circulation of the Blood, with Reflections on Blood-Letting (1761), earned him a wide reputation” (ODNB).

106. SNOW, John. On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: containing a description of the various stages of etherization and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George’s and University College hospitals. London: John Churchill… 1847.

8vo, pp. viii, 88 (but without the half-title). With 3 woodcut illustrations (1 full-page). Modern morocco by Middleton, spine gilt (stamps of the Wellcome Library on verso of title, small wormholes in upper margin of first few leaves). £8500 FIRST EDITION. G&M 5658.

Published in October 1847, this was the second treatise on ether anaesthesia, and Snow’s first book on the subject. It contains the first illustrated account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapour received by the patient. Snow had published some preliminary comments in the London Medical Gazette, following which he modified the inhaler, and included the description of the final modified version in this book.

See Duncum pp. 153–157.

Not in Fulton & Stanton (but see VII.145, a lecture on the subject published in The Lancet). Norman Catalogue 1966. A great rarity.

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107. [SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE.] Medical Essays and Observations revised and published by a society in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed by T. and W. Ruddiman for Mr. William Monro bookseller… 1733 (–1744).

5 volumes in 6 (vol. 5 is in 2 parts), 8vo, with 23 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spines with gilt centres and red and green morocco labels, a fine set. Early signature of Thomas Bell in upper corner of titles; later ticket of a Dublin bookseller; small personal library stamp on verso of titles and on one or two other pages. £900 A fine and complete set in contemporary bindings of the first proper medical journal in Britain (it was preceded by three short-lived journals between 1684 and 1716), all in first edition except for volumes 2 and 3 which are in second edition. It was edited by Alexander Monro primus, who was the secretary and a founder member of the “society in Edinburgh”. It also contains the majority of his published work (ODNB). Far from being a nondescript collection of papers, the contents of the journal were carefully planned, and they include meteorological records for the period in question and an index. These essays were well received in both Britain and the Continent, being published in French and German, and helped to spread throughout Europe the fame of the Edinburgh Medical School in the eighteenth century. The Society was the first medical society in Edinburgh, and was a predecessor of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Garrison, Medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, p. 305. LeFanu, British periodicals of medicine, 4.

A Private Surgical Museum 108. SOLDO, Mauro. Descrizione degl'instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili raccolte ad uso chirurgico e medico dal P. Don Ippolito Rondinelli… Faenza: presso l' Archi Impress. Camerale, e del S. Ufficio, 1766.

Small folio, pp. xx, 119, (1), large folding plan of the museum and 72 stilted plates. Half-title, engraved vignette on title, engraved head- and tailpieces. Some light foxing, a few gatherings lightly browned, faint dampstain in lower corner of last few plates. Contemporary vellum (a little marked and one corner bumped, lower edges worn), marbled pastedowns, red edges, spine lettered in gilt. Signature of C. Tance(?), Milan, in upper corner of title. £6750 FIRST EDITION. The catalogue of the private museum of surgical and medical instruments established by Father Ippolito Rondinelli in Ravenna, which Soldo described as “the first museum of medicine and surgery”. The plates, which are somewhat primitive, are unlike any other medical illustrations of the time. Various bandages are displayed draped over classical busts. The different instruments are rococo in their design. The work is divided into sections devoted to different parts of the body and the instruments used in treating them: the first part is devoted to the head, beginning with trepans and instruments for head wounds, followed by those for the eyes, nose, teeth, ears, and neck. The second section is devoted to the thorax, the third to the abdomen and genitals, the fourth to the limbs, and the fifth to various therapeutic devices, including an exercise machine in the form of a dragon. Hospital beds, invalid chairs, various orthopaedic devices, and the ancillary apparatus of the surgical theatre, hospital and doctor’s clinic are all illustrated.

This unusual book, with its ornamental typography and etched plates, is unlike other medical works with copperplates, but is in keeping with the elaborate museum books of the late eighteenth century. However, very few books in the Wunderkammer tradition pertain to medical subjects. Extremely rare: not in the BL, Cushing or Putti catalogues. Waller 8159; Wellcome V, p. 145 (under Soldi).

109. SOUTHWELL, Thomas. Medical Essays and Observations being an abridgment of the useful medical papers, contained in the History and Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, from their re-establishment in 1699, to the year 1750, inclusive.

Disposed under the following general heads… London: Printed by J. Knox… 1764. continued...

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4 volumes, 8vo, 1 leaf, pp. xi, (i), 392; 1 leaf, pp. 400, (2); 4 leaves, pp. 395; 1 leaf, pp. 403, and 12 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary calf, red morocco labels on spines, slight wear to top of one spine but a lovely set. Armorial bookplates of the Earl of Lonsdale; small personal library stamp on verso of titles and on one or two other pages. £1500 FIRST EDITION. A fine set of the rare abridged English translation of the medical papers in the Histoire et Mémoires of the Académie Royale des Sciences from 1699 to 1750. The Académie did not begin regular publication of its transactions until after its re-establishment in 1699 (the pre-1699 papers were not published until 1733 and were never translated). Among the important papers included in these translations are three by Alexis Littre (G&M 1215, 3418 and 3575) remembered eponymously by “Littre’s hernia”, etc, two by Pourfoir du Petit (G&M 764 and 1313, his discovery of the vasomotor nerves), and one by Poupart (G&M 977, “Poupart’s ligament”).

110. SPALLANZANI, [Lazzaro]. An Essay on Animal Reproductions. Translated from the Italian [by M. Maty]. London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand. 1769.

8vo, pp. iv, 86. Paper very slightly browned. Modern wrappers, paper label on upper wrapper. £600 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and the first work of Spallanzani to be published in English This is one of Spallanzani’s most important works, which he intended as a prelude to a major work on reproduction, but which was never published. In it he first advanced the doctrine of the regeneration of the spinal cord, through his discovery of its new growth during regeneration of the tail of the lizard. By decapitation of the frog he showed that certain postures may be maintained by a reflex action of the spinal cord. He described regenerative capacities of remarkable complexity and repetitiveness, and established the general law that an inverse ratio obtains between the regenerative capacity and age of the individual. In this avenue of experimental research, Spallanzani left all his predecessors far behind him, in both method and results” (Nordenskiöld, History of biology, 247–248).

See G&M 101 (first edition, in Italian, of the previous year). Prandi, p. 93 ( “Il volumetto è multo raro”). Spallanzani sent a copy of the first edition to the Royal Society, and in that same year he was elected a Fellow.

Influenced the Whole of Eighteenth Century Medicine 111. STAHL, Georg Ernst. Theoria Medica Vera. Physiologiam & pathologiam,... Halae [Halle]: literis Orphanotrophei, 1708.

4to, pp. (vi), 172, (6), (175)–1432, (39), engraved frontispiece portrait. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum over boards. A little foxing and dust-soiling, but an excellent copy. £1400 FIRST EDITION. G&M 69. “The True Theory of Medicine” was Stahl’s greatest single medical work. It provides in quite massive detail his doctrines of physiology and pathology. Stahl revamped Helmont’s idea of a “sensitive soul”, as the source of all vital phenomena, a concept which became the modern “vital principle”. Disease to Stahl was a disturbance of vital functions caused by misdirected activities of the soul. Stahl’s animism is of considerable importance to the anthropologist and the psychiatrist. In 1871, E.B. Tylor deliberately employed the Stahlian concept to explain the psychology of primitive man. As an advocate of psychotherapy, Stahl is a connecting link between the present and the past. He observed some of the remarkable effects of the mind upon the body, and his theory of the distraught psyche as a causa causans of disease contains the germ of Freudian doctrine.

For an excellent review of Stahl’s prolix writing see Lester S. King in DSB; Stahl “influenced the whole of eighteenth century medicine; and his his imprint is being increasingly appreciated as historians trace his role in the drama of eighteenth century medical thought.”

Partington, History of chemistry, II, 655–659. Foster, Lectures on the history of physiology, 168–173.

Long, History of pathology, 120. Norman Catalogue 2004.

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Of Prime Importance in Physiology, Embryology and Geology 112. STENSEN, Niels. (Nicolaus Steno). Elementorum Myologiae Specimen, seu musculi descriptio geometrica. Cui accedunt canis carchariae dissectum caput, et dissectus piscis ex canum genere. Florentiae [Florence]: Ex Typographia sub signo Stellae, 1667.

4to, pp. (viii), 123, and 7 plates (3 woodcut and folding, 4 engraved), other woodcut illustrations in the text. Original Italian paste-paper boards, uncut, later maroon paper spine (slightly rubbed) laid over the original which is thus undamaged, paper label (chipped). A few minor dampstains in the lower margin, otherwise a fine copy in original state. £12,500 FIRST EDITION. The foundation of muscle mechanics, the birth of scientific geology, and the comprehension of the mammalian ovum. G&M 577. Lilly, Notable medical books, p. 79.

The book is divided into three distinct parts. The controversy resulting from the publication of his De Musculis et Glandulis in 1664 led Stensen to publish the Elementorum, in which he laid the foundation of muscular mechanics as we know it (in the first part). It “dealt chiefly with the questions: Does the muscle increase in size during contraction? Are hardness and swelling of the muscle signs of a increase in volume? Stensen first provided clear concepts and a clear-cut terminology of the parts of the muscle. Then he characterized the individual muscle fiber and the muscle itself as a paralleliped bordered by six parallelograms” (DSB). See Fulton, Selected readings, pp. 213–215.

Also in the Elementorum (in the third part), Stensen described the female genital organs of dogfish. He demonstrated the follicles in the ovaries, and affirmed that the “testis” of women correspond to the “roe” of ovipara. He was the first to grasp the true nature of the mammalian “ovary”, a term he introduced in this book. Thus Harvey and Stensen between them substituted the modern knowledge of mammalian ova for the ancient theory of the coagulum, all in the space of fourteen years. See Needham, History of embryology, pp. 137–138, and Cole, Early theories of sexual generation, p. 163.

The second part is on geology, in which Stensen outlined the basic principles on which modern geology is founded. The greatest period of Stensen’s research began in Florence at the end of October 1666, when he received the head of a gigantic shark, Carcharodon rondeletii, that had been caught off Leghorn. He made acute observations of its skin, its canals, the brain and nerves, the Lorenzinian ampullae, and the eyes. The rows of pointed teeth in the mouth (illustrated on plates 4 and 6) led him to a thorough study of their number and substance. He discusses the question whether the “glossopetrae” or sharks’ teeth found in rocks belonged to such fish, or were mere mineral concretions. He concludes that they were fossil sharks’ teeth. “A whole series of conclusions about rock origin and structure flowed from this recognition...” (Winter). These conclusions are given in the 22-page “digression”, as Stensen calls it, in the present book, the last three of which are firstly, that the soil in question was once under water; secondly, that the soil in question is a sediment gradually accumulated from water, and thirdly that the parts that resemble parts of animals are in fact parts of animals. Thus originated the sedimentary theory of geology, Steno actually using the words “strata” and “sedimenta” in this book. He went on to expound his theory in the Prodromus of 1669.

See Garboe, Nicolaus Steno…and the foundation of exact geology and crystallography, (1954); Garboe, The earliest geological treatise (1667) by Nicolaus Steno translated from Canis Carchariae Dissectum Caput (London, 1958). Winter, The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation concerning a Solid Body (New York & London, 1968). DSB.

113. STOKES, William. The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta. Dublin: Hodges and Smith… 1854.

8vo, pp. xvi, 689. With the half-title. Original brown blind-stamped cloth (very nicely rebacked preserving the original backstrip), uncut. Signature of Alex C. MacRay, Melbourne, Dec. 4th 1853, on title; pencilled signature of J.A. Haran, 1893, on half-title. £1500 continued...

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FIRST EDITION. G&M 2760. Stokes’s name is associated with the phenomenon known as Cheyne-Stokes respiration. On pp. 320–327 in this book he gives a lucid account of the periodic type of breathing discussed by John Cheyne in 1818, but Cheyne did not associate any diagnostic importance with the syndrome. Stokes in this book also advocated pursuance of a system of graduated muscular exercises to aid in the removal of cardiac debility, especially among younger persons. The book is additionally famous for its accurate descriptions of pericarditis, valvular diseases, and weakening of the heart in typhus fever. It also includes the first description of paroxysmal tachycardia (p. 161).

Stokes was a major figure in the Irish school. His reputation was made by his book on diseases of the chest, and he published the first systematic treatise on the use of the stethoscope.

Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, pp. 484–489. Willius & Dry, pp. 134–135. Bedford catalogue 280

Important Early Account of Hysteria 114. SYDENHAM, Thomas. Dissertatio Epistolaris ad…Guilielmum Cole M.D. de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentium nec non de Affectione Hysterica. Londoni: Typis M.C. impensis Walteri Kettilby… 1682.

8vo, 1 leaf, pp. 193, (1). Title within double ruled border. Title slightly browned, and very slight browning in the margins. Near-contemporary speckled calf, very nicely rebacked, sides panelled in blind. Early signature of R. Frewin on front endpaper, probably Richard Frewin, the leading Oxford physician of his time and Camden Professor of History; small personal library stamp on verso of title. £1200 FIRST EDITION. The most important seventeenth century treatise on psychological medicine (Dewhurst). “In his famous ‘Epistolatory Dissertation on the Hysterical Affections, a letter to Dr. William Cole’, Sydenham so precisely describes the symptoms of hysteria that even today little can be added to what he said. He maintained that it was the most common chronic disease, and he recognized that in spite of the fact that hysteria refers to the uterus (Greek, hysteron, uterus), males suffer from this disease also… Sydenham recognized for the first time the fact that hysterical symptoms may simulate almost all forms of organic diseases. He mentions, for example, paralysis of one side of the body, which may also be caused by apoplexy, and states that hysterical hemiplegia may proceed ‘from some violent commotion of the mind (strong emotions)’. He described hysterical convulsions resembling epileptic attacks, hysterical headaches that induced vomiting, psychogenic ‘palpitation of the heart’, and what he called a ‘hysterical cough’… ” (Alexander & Selesnick, History of Psychiatry, pp. 94–95).

Wing S6309. See Hunter & Macalpine pp. 221–224, contrasting Willis’s approach to hysteria, 1671, (G&M 4839) with Sydenham’s: “Today hysteria survives in Sydenham’s sense…” Dewhurst, Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 46. Meynell, Bibliography, 3.1. Norman catalogue 2309.

115. SYDENHAM, Thomas. Observationes Medicae circa Morborum Acutorum Historiam et Curationem. Londoni: Typis A.C. Impensis Gualteri Kettilby… 1676.

8vo, pp. (liv), 425, 27 leaves, engraved frontispiece portrait by Blooteling after Mary Beale. Title within double ruled border. Contemporary vellum, a little marked, head of spine repaired at an early date, later paper label. Paper very slightly browned and some mild foxing, foxing stain on pp.

51–54, otherwise a very good copy. £2250 FIRST EDITION. A founding work in epidemiology, and Sydenham’s first book. This work includes the most minute account of measles, its differentiation from scarlatina (which he named), an important account of smallpox, and an excellent description of scarlet fever. The book was a result of clinical notes kept between 1669 and 1674, after the Great Plague of London. In the preface, Sydenham set out his ideas for ambitious therapeutic reforms, exemplified in the text with respect to epidemic diseases, paying attention to one particular factor causing seasonal and annual variations. “Sydenham’s studies in the geography and meteorology of epidemic diseases and the continued...

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rhythmic periodicity of their recurrences make him, with Hippocrates and Baillou, one of the main founders of epidemiology” (Garrison).

G&M 2198, 5075 (scarlet fever), 5407 (smallpox) & 5441.1 (measles). Wing S6314 (this is technically a third edition of the Methodus Curandi Febres, but is so altered and enlarged as to constitute a new work). Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 89. One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine (Exhibition Catalogue), 35. Meynell, Bibliography, 1.4. Norman catalogue 2038. For a further study of Sydenham’s theory of epidemics, see Major Greenwood in Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., XII, 55–76, 1919.

With Florence Nightingale at Scutari 116. [TAYLOR, Frances Margaret.] Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses; the narrative of twelve months’ experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari. By a lady volunteer.

London: Hurst and Blackett… 1856.

2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 328, tinted lithographed frontispiece; pp. ix, 273, (1), tinted lithographed frontispiece. Plus 40 pages of adverts inserted at the end of volume 2. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spines and upper covers (upper cover of volume 2 a little marked). Signature of Thomas Fullgaines 1857 at top of titles. £150 FIRST EDITION. Fanny Taylor was one of the ladies who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari. “Its interest centres in the descriptions of the writer’s experience and observations at the hospitals of Scutari and Koulali from January to November 1855, as well as in the incidental information she furnishes as to the condition of these particular hospitals and the management of hospitals generally… The great interest of the book lies less in its indications of military hospital management or mismanagement than in its sketches of individual characters and of the character of the soldiers in general” (review in the Spectator, 12 April 1856).

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117. THOMIN, [Marc]. Instruction sur l’Usage des Lunettes ou conserves, pour toutes sortes de vues. Marques auxquelles on peut connoître si les vues longues ordinaires ont besoin de conserves ou lunettes, des verres convexes qui leur conviennes, & des verres concaves qui sont propres avec vues courtes… A Paris: Chez Claude Lamesle… 1746. continued...

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12mo, 130 pages, 1 leaf (Approbation). Contemporary speckled calf, very nicely rebacked, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Top of upper margin of title excised, small blank piece of title excised and restored, two library stamps at top of title and partly in upper margin of following leaf. £950 FIRST EDITION. “Written for the general public by an optician and mirror-maker, this treatise discusses the preservation of vision and the use of spectacles for the correction of imperfect sight.

The corrective properties of various convex and concave lenses are described” (Becker catalogue 374). Albert, Norton & Hurtes, Source Book of Ophthalmology, 2288.

Incunable of Syphilis 118. TORRELLA, Gaspare. Dialogus de dolore cum tractatu de ulceribus in pudendagra evenire solitis. [Colophon:] Impressus Rome: per Joannem Besicken & Martinum de Amsterdam, 31 October 1500.

4to, 60 leaves. Gothic letter, 36 lines, three woodcut initials. Title-page a little soiled, dampstain in lower inner corner throughout, otherwise in very good state. Later boards. Some early manuscript notes in the margins. £16,000 FIRST EDITION of this very early book on syphilis, and Torrella’s second book on the subject.

Syphilis, as it later became known, first appeared in Europe in the mid-1490s. Torrella, as papal physician, was more or less obliged to address the subject, and he had to invent a name for it. He called it “pudendagra”. “The most striking feature of Torrella’s view of Morbus Gallicus was his optimistic opinion that it was both known and curable. He claimed that he had treated successfully seventeen cases in just the two months of September and October 1497… Clearly, one strategy of a man at the top of his profession, who had by now apparently fitted a new disease into the extant medical apparatus, was the bold one of announcing his mastery of it.

Since it was seen as a new disease, there were no common expectations about its durability or curability. Torrella seems to have decided to fill that space with the help of the printing press…”

(Elmer & Grell, editors, Health, disease and society in Europe 1500–1800, pp. 21–22).

Gaspare Torrella (c.1452–c.1520) was physician to Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). Both came from Valencia. He was also physician to his successor, Julius II (who suffered from syphilis), to his son Cesare Borgia, and librarian of the Vatican library.

BMC IV, 142. Goff T391. Klebs 980.1. Stillwell, The awakening interest in science, 536. This was the only separate edition, and is rare; it was included by Luisinus in his compendium on syphilis of 1566–7. Torrella was the only person to publish two works on the subject before 1501.

119. UNDERWOOD, Michael. Surgical tracts: containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs; in which former methods of treatment are candidly examined, and compared with one more rational and safe; effected without rest and confinement. Together with hints on a successful method of treating some scrophulous tumors; and the mammary-abscess, and sore nipples of lying-in women. The second edition; revised, enlarged, and defended.

To which are now added, observations on the more common disorders of the eye, and on gangrene. London: Printed for J. Mathews… 1788.

8vo, pp. xxiv, 151, 77, 1 leaf (advertisements). With the half-title and final advertisement leaf, divisional title to the later tracts. Spotting on the first and last few leaves, otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary half calf, spine ruled in gilt and with green morocco label (rubbed, head of spine a little worn and crack at top of upper joint, lower corners worn). Bookplate of Henry Denny of Saxmundham. £240 Second edition; the first appeared in 1783 as A Treatise upon Ulcers of the Legs but the varied contents of this enlarged edition required a different title. This was Underwood’s only book other than his great work on paediatrics.

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120. UNZER, Johann August and Georg PROCHASKA. The Principles of Physiology, by John Augustus Unzer; and A Dissertation on the Functions of the Nervous System, by George Prochaska. Translated and edited by Thomas Laycock. London: The Sydenham Society, 1851.

8vo, pp. xii, xv, 463, (1). Original green cloth (spine slightly faded), t.e.g., uncut and largely unopened. Minor foxing on the first and last few leaves. £150 FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH of Unzer’s Erste Gründe der Physiologie, 1771 (G&M 1357), and of Prochaska’s De functionibus systematis nervosi, 1780–84 (G&M 1386). Unzer’s book is an admirable systematic presentation of contemporary knowledge, in which he was the first to use acclaimed, and foreshadowed several important discoveries but without clinical evidence.

SeeMcHenry pp. 119–120.

121. VETCH, John. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye. London: Printed for the author, and sold by Burgess and Hill… 1820.

8vo, 2 leaves, pp. (vii)–x, (ii), 267, (1), 3 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. The first leaf excised, with the stub remaining (see below). Some very light foxing in the first few leaves, large library stamp at foot of title and (faintly) on p. 45, otherwise a clean copy. Nineteenth century blue half calf and cloth sides, the calf rubbed in places, spine ruled in gilt with brown morocco label and small paper shelf label. Early signature of James B. Simmonds on front free endpaper, and a few marginal notes probably in his hand. £280 FIRST EDITION. Vetch’s textbook concentrates on the ophthalmias, with thorough descriptions of the transmission, symtoms and treatment of trachoma, his speciality. Hirschberg notes that Vetch in this book introduced the placement of a suture through the base of a staphyloma, a procedure which the great Albrecht von Graefe later endorsed.

Albert, Norton & Hurtes 2378. Becker catalogue 390. The first leaf in this copy has been deliberately excised, as in one other copy noted (Jeremy Norman, Catalogue 24, item 292).

122. WARDROP, James. The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye. Illustrated by coloured plates. Second edition. London: John Churchill… 1834.

2 volumes, 8vo, 4 leaves, pp. (v)–xxxi, 175; (viii), 290, 1 leaf, and 18 fine stipple-engraved plates (16 hand-coloured). Half-titles. Original green cloth-backed boards, uncut edges. Some light foxing in vol. 2, corners slightly worn, otherwise a very good, clean set. £600 Second edition. The first book on the pathology of the eye, illustrated with some exquisite handcoloured plates. This edition has three more plates than the first of 1808–18, but the text is unaltered, as there had been no additions to the knowledge of the subject in the intervening years. “ ‘Wardrop was the first to classify the various inflammations of the eye according to the structure attacked’ (Chance, p. 72). Inspired by the pathological anatomy of Bichat, Wardrop’s topographical description of ocular disease earned him the title ‘the first modern ophthalmologist’ from Duke-Elder…” (Becker).

See G&M 5840; Becker catalogue 400; Gorin pp. 62 and 120; and Albert, Norton & Hurtes 2430.

123. WEPFER, Johann Jacob. Historia Apoplecticorum, observationibus & scholiis anatomicis & medicis quamplurimis elaboratae & illustratae. Una cum epistola Johannis Ott de scriptis Holderi… & Morlandi de stentorophonia. Accesserunt huic editioni aliorum celebrium medicorum observationes historiaeque variae circa apoplexiam. Ut et Bernardi Huete… Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Laurentium Basilium. 1759. continued...

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8vo, pp. (xx), 572. Original Italian carta rustica boards, uncut and partly unopened. Wormhole in front free endpaper and a few small holes in lower margin of title-page, otherwise a very good copy. £650 See G&M 2703 and 4511.2, the extremely rare first edition of 1658, in which Wepfer showed apoplexy to be a result of haemorrhage into the brain. Later editions were considerably expanded

by Wepfer and later editors, and this edition also includes observations on apoplexy by various other authors (from p. 345), and at the end a treatise on the cure of mania by Bernard Huete.

This was probably the last edition, and is quite rare; no copy is recorded by Copac (although Wellcome has a copy), and it is not in the National Library of Medicine.

124. WHYTT, Robert. Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of those Disorders which have been commonly called Nervous, Hypocondriac, or Hysteric, to which areprefixed some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves. Edinburgh: T. Becket, and P.Du Hondt, London; and J. Balfour, Edinburgh. 1765.

8vo, pp. viii, (viii), 520. Old library stamp on title and release stamp on endpaper. Contemporary speckled calf, small chip from foot of spine and a bookplate removed, but a fine copy. £2250 FIRST EDITION. G&M 4841. “The first important English work on neurology after Willis” (McHenry). The Observations “reveals great clinical acumen and provides vivid accounts of a wide range of neurological and psychiatric patients whom Whytt attended at the Royal Infirmary.

He declared that disorders variously called flatulent, spasmodic, hypochondriac, hysteric, and more recently, nervous, had become the wastebasket diagnosis for those conditions about which physicians were ignorant; and therefore he set out ‘to wipe off this reproach’ and to throw some light on these ailments. He resorted to his previous work to explain the nature of these diseases, emphasizing the ‘sentient and sympathetic power of the nerves’, and described instances of referred pain — anticipating, by his explanation of the causes, modern demonstrations of the reasons for them. Whytt clarified Thomas Willis’s term ‘nervous’, already in use for over 100 years, and explained such physical phenomena as blushing, lacrimation, and sweating, brought on by emotion or passion, as owing to some change made in the brain or nerves by the mind or sentient principle. This work added significant contributions to scientific medicine” (DSB). See Comrie, History of Scottish Medicine, pp. 307–309.

“Wolffian Bodies” 125. WOLFF, Caspar Friedrich. Über die Bildung des Darmkanals im bebrüteten Hühnchen. Uebersetzt und mit einer einleitenden Abhandlung und Anmerkungen versehen von Johann Friedrich Meckel. Halle: in der Rengerschen Buchhandlung, 1812.

8vo, pp. 263, (1), 2 folding engraved plates. Blind library stamp on title and p. 259 and inked withdrawn stamp on verso of title, small hole in blank margin of first plate, otherwise a very good clean copy. Original German marbled boards, original label on spine, head of spine and corners worn, joints and edges rubbed, small shelf label on upper cover and library label on front endpaper. £2800 FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN and FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. See G&M 471 (the publication of the Latin original in the journal of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1768–9): “One of the acknowledged classics of embryology.” Wolff ’s description of the formation of the chick’s intestine by the rolling inwards of the leaf-like layer of the blastoderm was important for proving his theory of epigenesis, and at the same time disproving preformationism. These leaf-like layers were a potent influence in the work of Pander and von Baer, who praised this book highly.

Wolff ’s paper was largely ignored until this translation into German by J.F. Meckel, who added a 56-page introduction and notes. “The publication of Meckel’s translation of Wolff ’s treatise on the formation of the intestines of the chick was an event whose importance, in view of the profound influence which this work exerted upon Pander and von Baer, it would be difficult to continued...

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overestimate” (Adelmann). “It is interesting to note that the facts brought forward by Wolff have never been contradicted, but have been used as a foundation to which numberless morphological embryologists have added facts discovered by themselves” (Needham). In several places Wolff describes the mesonephroi, the renal organs now known as “Wolffian bodies”. These descriptions are briefer than the ones in his Theoria Generationis (1759), “but are in some respects a distinct improvement on his earlier accounts” (Adelmann).

Adelmann, Marcello Malpighi and the evolution of embryology, IV, 1652–1702. Needham, History of embryology, 221–223. See Speert, Obstetric and gynecologic milestones, 18–25.

126. YONGE, James. Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable, not only by the opinion and experience of many (the best) authors, but the remarkable history of a child four years old cured of two very large depressions, with the loss of a great part of the skull, a portion of the brain also issuing thorough a penetrating wound of the dura and pia mater… London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Faithorn and John Kersey… 1682.

12mo, pp. (xx), 132. Title within rules, 2 woodcuts in the text. Title a little soiled, several small wormholes in lower inner corner. Contemporary panelled calf, unlettered, some small repairs to head of spine and corners, no front free endpaper, a nice copy. The copy of William Hewson (1739– 1774, surgeon and anatomist), with his inscription in the upper corner of the title-page. £4800 SOLE EDITION. Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head. Yonge was a naval surgeon, who set up in practice in Plymouth when he gave up the sea. He had just performed the operation for an injury of the head outlined in the title above when a local physician, Dr. Durston, asserted that wounds of the brain were always fatal. To prove his error, Yonge published this book, which includes details of the operation in great detail, followed by extracts from and references to 65 earlier authors, five of whom are English.

Bound with this copy is Nehemiah Grew’s The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun (London, 1672), lacking the two plates, and James Le Franc’s Corpus Animatum: seu, Tractatus de Anima Animante (London, 1664), an extremely rare book but this copy shaved on the fore-edge of several leaves with loss of letters. Contemporary signature of Henry Sober in all three works.

Wing Y43. Cushing Y12. See also The Journal of James Yonge, 1647-1721, Plymouth surgeon.

Edited by F. N. L. Poynter (London, 1963).

127. ZIMMERMANN, Johann Georg. A Treatise on the Dysentery: with a description of the Epidemic dysentery that happened in Switzerland in the year 1765. Translated from the original German...by C.R. Hopson. London: John and Francis Rivington, 1771.

8vo, pp. (x), 294. Library stamp at foot of title-page. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, good copy. £295 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. See G&M 5090: “First important monograph on bacillary dysentery.”

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