Loimologia (in Greek) Sive Pestis Nuperae Apud Populum Londinensem Grassantis Narratio Historica (History of the Recent Pestilence Amongst the People of London) de Nathanaele (Nathanael or Nathaniel) Hodges - 1672

Amsterdam: J. Ravesteyn, 1662. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved emblematic Titlepage. . Duodecimo original leather 4 raised bands, spine compartments gilt & gilt spine title (worn with lower half of top hinge split/hinges rubbed & some ends of hinge splits/tips worn/scuffed but quite sound & firm). Engraved titlepage +[26] +388pp +[3]pp index. Small archival repair to margin of TP (no involvement of print), ownership stamp (faint & hard to read) on pastedown and nice ownership inscription of an Avignon medical doctor dated 1676 on flyleaf. *Harvey's fundamental work on embryology and endocrinology which, if he had not discovered the circulation of the blood would alone have ensured his fame. All earlier theories of reproduction were based on Aristotelian and Galenic medicinal teaching but Harvey's researches on chicken and deer embryos proved to his satisfaction that semen fertilized the ovum and that spontaneous generation was without foundation. He also explained growth and differentiation of organs… Leer más

Leipzig: Johannis Herebordi Klosii [Johann Herbert Kloss], 1691. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, spine label chipped and nearly gone, worn at corners with some loss at spine ends and light cracking to hinge, but still a fairly well preserved binding. Originally published in 1677. The Responsa Medica, originally published separately in 1668 in bound at the end with its own title page in red and black but consecutive pagination. 1157pp. Van de Sande bookplate on endpaper. During the 30 years war, he was physician to the Elector of Brandenburg and in 1638 cured a large portion of the Swedish army of the plague for which he was much lauded (at least by the Swedes). Size: Octavo (8vo). Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039124.

LONDON, G NICOL, 1788. SECOND EDITION, QUARTO, RECENT FINE HALF LEATHER BINDING, RAISED BANDS, GILT TITLES, NEW ENDPAPERS, 7 ENGRAVED PLATES. A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY.

Richard Wellington, London, 1696. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full title is: The Family Physitian, or a Collection of Choice, Approv'd and Experienc'd Remedies for the Cure of Almost all Diseases incident to Humane Bodies, whether Interal or External; useful in Families, and very servicable to Country People. Containig Some hundreds of considerable Recipes and Secrets of great Valuue, with Observations of great Cures. Together with the true English Wineceller and the Right Method of making English Wines or Metheglin: With a Collection of the Choicest and the Safest Cosmetick Remedies for Preserving the Beauty and Complection of Ladies, never before Published Contains: Free end-paper with previous owner's name and date of 1730; Advertisements for "the whole Works of that Excellent Practical Physitian, Dr Thomas Sydenham" and "Vade Mecum" by Sir Sam Morland; Title-page with same previous owner's name; Note "To the Courteous… Leer más

New York, Printed for the Editor, 1847. New York medical education in the 1840s. The first American journal devoted to medicine. Early reports of the use of ether in Boston (pp. 27, 39, 52-54, 73-74). Includes throughout, Prof. Valentine Mott's University Surgical Clinique & (#1) Van Buren on ankylosis; A Sketch of the Hospital of the Colored Home; (#2) Isaacs on the foot, Green on air passages; Collins, A Few Remarks on the Inhalation of Ethereal Vapor and An Operation for the Removal of a Mamma under its Influence; (#3) commentary on Green's treatise on air passages; articles on patents & letheon; Progress of the Cholera, Cox on hydrocele; Fitch, Statistics of the Colored Home; (#4) Garvin, Sulphuric Ether in Surgical Operations, Trousseau on meningitis in children; Homeopathic honesty; Health of the Army on the Rio Grande; (#5) Isaacs on monstrosity; (#6) Shelton on ovaritis; (#7) Isaacs on malformation of the heart; (#8) Colored Home; Child's report on vaccination. Hard Cover. 431 pages,… Leer más

Amsterdam: Henricus & Widow Theodor Boom, 1681. Hardcover. Very Good-. Engraved title of a surgery scene, patients waiting and examination table + 60 copperplate engravings in the text + 5 woodcuts.. Octavo old sprinkled boards with gilt spine label (recased and spine underlaid, tips bit worn, newer end-papers. Engraved title +Printed title with woodcut printer's mark Apollo & Pegasus in a landscape +[12]pp +392pp +[6]pp index & blank. Nice name C.? Michaelis to blank area of printed title. *This is the first Latin translation by the medical student Abraham Blasius of the 'Heel-en Geneeskonstige Aanmerkingen' of the Dutch physician Job van Meek'ren, illustrated by cases from his own patients. Four leaves have 2mmx10mm paper faults to fore edge and 8 leaves with marginal damp mark not touching text. An entire and particularly crisp clean copy with good margins, strong paper and no underlining/marginalia of these well illustrated medical observations.

Leipzig: Johannis Herebordi Klosii [Johann Herbert Kloss], 1691. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, spine label chipped and nearly gone, worn at corners with some loss at spine ends and light cracking to hinge, but still a fairly well preserved binding. Originally published in 1677. The Responsa Medica, originally published separately in 1668 in bound at the end with its own title page in red and black but consecutive pagination. 1157pp. Van de Sande bookplate on endpaper. During the 30 years war, he was physician to the Elector of Brandenburg and in 1638 cured a large portion of the Swedish army of the plague for which he was much lauded (at least by the Swedes). Size: Octavo (8vo). Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039124.

Tight in possibly contemporary binding with later? title label: "Medical Topography, 1830", previous owner's name and one line comment on FEP. 2 or 3 pages with some red pencil underlining, one printer's ink stain and two pages with small repaired tears. Otherwise superb printing on now slightly yellowed pages.Seller accepts reasonable offersPostage free worldwide

Octavo, old quarter cloth and grey boards, uncut, viiipp + 207pp, 5 engraved plates, contemporary ownership in ink on the title of James B Eames, a fine copy.
Rare. Menzies Campbell 433. Crowley, 1763. Not in Poletti. Weinberger p.129.
First American edition, first published with the same title in London in 1831. The illustrations include an operating chair and various dental instruments. In the historical sketch Snell refers to the works of Martin, Berdmore, Fauchard, Geraudy, Larini, Mouton, Lecluse, Bunun, Dubois de Chemant, Hunter, Blake and Fox. The chapters include The Operating Chair, Extraction of the Teeth, Excision of the Teeth, The Dental Mirror, Stopping, Scaling the Teeth and Ligatures for fastening Loose Teeth.

Richard Wellington, London, 1696. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full title is: The Family Physitian, or a Collection of Choice, Approv'd and Experienc'd Remedies for the Cure of Almost all Diseases incident to Humane Bodies, whether Interal or External; useful in Families, and very servicable to Country People. Containig Some hundreds of considerable Recipes and Secrets of great Valuue, with Observations of great Cures. Together with the true English Wineceller and the Right Method of making English Wines or Metheglin: With a Collection of the Choicest and the Safest Cosmetick Remedies for Preserving the Beauty and Complection of Ladies, never before Published Contains: Free end-paper with previous owner's name and date of 1730; Advertisements for "the whole Works of that Excellent Practical Physitian, Dr Thomas Sydenham" and "Vade Mecum" by Sir Sam Morland; Title-page with same previous owner's name; Note "To the Courteous… Leer más