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Boston: Bililngs Clapp & Co, 1880. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 8 leaves. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary, perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within the squares that a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Publications in Culture and Society. Vol. 8. Bibliography. Index. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

New York: Borroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth boards with cover lettered and illustrated in gilt. Teg, silver endpapers with embossed star design. Fine, almost as new.. 160 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Describes every explorer, traveler, and missionary that carried with them a Tabloid Medical Kit. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. leather_bound. Orig full tan morocco, gilt spine title, raised bands. Teg. Fine. 202 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 14 of 1450. Harvey, refusing to believe what he was taught, was the first to understand and explain circulation. One of the major books in the history of medicine. Issued on the occasion… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J. Nourse, 1759. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border fillets. Very good. 396 pages. 21 x 13 1/2. Born in Scotland, Flemyng arrived London 1751 to teach physiology to nascent medical students who had not been to the Universities. This work contains the substance of his London lectures. The author was abreast of… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: T. Cox, 1729. First edition. Boards. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt cover fillets, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine.. 216 pages. [A8-O8,P7]. 20 x 13 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts following text [A4]. Engraved title page vignette. One of the most influential medical men of his age, physician to the Hanoverian… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Claude Jombert, 1722. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 119 pages [*7,A8-O8]. 13 1/2 x 9 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Italian physiologist, physician and professor, Santorio initiated his medical practice in Venice, 1599, where he became part of a learned circle that included Galileo. He invented a device he called the "pulsilogium" for measuring the pulse which… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco: California Academy of Medicine, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards and niger back. Very good. 186 pages. Eighteen full-page photographs. References. Index. Four page facsimile pamphlet on tan paper inserted. Limited edition, one of 970 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Spine darkened. GRABHORN PRESS 141.

San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated gray cloth. Very good. 86 pages. List of Officers, 1930-1960. Membership Roll. Biographies of deceased pastpresidents, fifteen in total. Index. Partly unopened. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.

London: J. Johnson, 1804. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. 3 vols. 567, 528 & 534 pages. 26 page index., errata for each volume. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. First published 1796. Forty-seven engraved copper-plates in total -- 22 (Vol, I), 10 (Vol.II), 15 (Vol.III). A divine and man of letters, the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1792. Second edition. Hardcover. Vols. I-II contemporary marbled boards rebacked in brown calf with leather spine labels; Vol. III in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, corners worn, boards rubbed, spine foot worn. 3 vols. Very good. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Le Editions Du Valois, 1953. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine in fine portfolio in slightly nicked matching slipcase. Dubout. 192 pages. 26 x 21 cm, fifty-four colored lithographs (aquarelles) by Dubout, inimitably ribald and Gallic -- physicians, buffoons and cheeky bums. -- the original comedy produced Paris, 1923. Limited edition, copy 1002 of 2050. A… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: W. and J. Newton et al., 1720. Second edition. leather_bound. Modern quarter brown calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. and marbled boards. Fine.. 344 pages, Index (9) AND Preface (6), 116 pages re MEDICO-PHYSICAL ESSAYS containing a separate title page. 20 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece and folding plate. A medical writer apprenticed to… Saber más sobre este artículo