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HOOKE, Robert.
Micrographia: 1665
£65,000
First edition, first issue, of this "early landmark in microscopy, containing the first illustration of cells [plate xi]" (Horblit). Published under the aegis of the Royal Society,...
Folio (300 × 192 mm). Contemporary calf, gilt arms to covers, rebacked to style with endpapers renewed. Red morocco-backed folding box. Licence leaf facing title... Read more
LAFOSSE, Philippe Étienne.
Cours d'Hippiatrique, ou Traité Complet de la Médecin des Chevaux, 1772
£20,000
First edition of this celebrated work of animal anatomy. Lafosse had considerable anatomical skill, coupled with a profound knowledge of horses and equitation, and his work ranks...
Folio (503 × 335 mm), in three parts. Contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked to style with gilt spine retaining old morocco label, marbled endpapers, edges stained... Read more
DUCHENNE (DE BOULOGNE), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand.
Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions. 1862
£12,500
First edition of this landmark in the history of clinical medical photography; presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "A mon ami [the identity of the...
Large octavo (272 × 178 mm). Original gilt-lettered red morocco-grain cloth spine and front cover skilfully laid down over later red pebble grain cloth to style,... Read more
GRAY, Henry.
Anatomy descriptive and surgical. 1858
£9,750
First edition of the medical text which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Publisher's presentation copy to Frederick...
Royal octavo. Original bead-grain brown cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, brick-red endpapers. Oatmeal cloth folding case. Paper book label "GOM"... Read more
PORTA, Giovanni Battista della.
Magiae naturalis libri XX. 1589
£5,000
First edition of the complete text in twenty books of Della Porta's major work. Giambattista della Porta (1538–1615) is one of the most interesting figures of early modern...
Folio (296 × 217 mm). Nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled sides, vellum tips. Woodcut title border incorporating lynx at head, author's portrait on verso,... Read more
GRAY, Henry.
Anatomy descriptive and surgical. 1858
£5,000
First edition of the medical text which has been more widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors than any other. Not only an important book of reference,...
Royal octavo. Original bead-grain brown cloth blocked in blind, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, brick-red endpapers. Profusely illustrated with... Read more
HODGKIN, Thomas.
On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and the Spleen, 1832
£4,750
First printing of one of the most influential papers in the history of oncology, the paper that gained its author eponymous fame, in which he described seven cases with an unusual...
Octavo. Early 20th-century library cloth, general title to spine gilt. 4 folding plates at rear relating to other papers in the volume. Cancelled stamp of University... Read more
ITARD, Jean Marc Gaspard.
De l'éducation d'un homme sauvage, 1801
£4,750
First Edition of Itard's first account of his attempted education of Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron. Itard was a French physician noted for his work with deaf-mutes, but his...
Octavo (197 × 126 cm). Later blue paper wrappers, edges trimmed. Etched portrait frontispiece depicting the Wild Boy; signed as usual by the author and the... Read more
KEMP, William.
A Brief Treatise Of the nature, causes, signes, preservation from, and cure of the Pestilence. 1665
£3,750
First edition. Kemp was a Holborn medical practitioner writing just as the devastating outbreak of bubonic plague reached the city of London: his postscript is dated 22 July 1665,...
Small quarto (178 × 129 mm), pp. [6], 47, 50-94, [2]; irregular pagination but collates complete. Recent sprinkled sheep to style, double blind rules,... Read more
SAUNDERS, Richard.
Saunders Physiognomie, 1671
£2,500
Second and enlarged edition of the major work of the astrological physician Richard Saunders (1613–1675), a member of William Lilly's circle who acted as physician to Lilly and...
Folio (283 × 187 mm). Early 19th-century diced calf, neatly rebacked and relined, covers with gilt border. Engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut title... Read more
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Bye-laws, Rules, Orders, and Directions, for the Better Government of His Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, 1776
£2,250
First and only edition. Established under a charter of William and Mary in 1694 as the Royal Hospital for Seamen; "for the relief and support of seamen of the Royal Navy who, by...
Quarto (255 × 197 mm) Contemporary red morocco, presentation quality binding, raised bands to the spine, olive branch tool to the compartments, broad gilt... Read more
SEGUIN, Edward.
Idiocy: and its Treatment by the Physiological Method. 1866
£1,750
First edition of the first book published in America dealing with the care and institutional management of the mentally retarded. Under the influence of the teachings of Itard and...
Octavo. Original brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to the boards. A little rubbed and sunned, neatly rebacked with the original spine... Read more
HOFMANN, Albert.
Die Mutterkorn-alkaloide. 1964
£1,750
First edition thus, first impression, revised from Die Chemie der Mutterkornalkaloide published in 1958. A scientific work on LSD by the Swiss scientist who first synthesised it and...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Diagrams throughout. Partially erased ownership signature to front free... Read more
PRINGLE, Sir John.
Observations on the Diseases of the Army. 1765
£1,500
"The Fifth Edition, Corrected.", the only quarto edition and extremely handsome thus. Pringle is seen as the founder of Military Medicine. Under the patronage of the Earl of Stair,...
Quarto. (275 × 208 mm). Engraved vignette to the title page and another at the head of the first chapter, wood-engraved head-pieces and cul-de-lampes. Very... Read more
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GREENHILL, Thomas.
Nekrokedeia [in Greek]: or the Art of Embalming; 1705
£1,500
First edition. "Nekrokedeia is a lovely object, the illustrations are fine, and Greenhill's scholarship is impressive. It offers rich evidence on attitudes to death, of early...
Quarto (245 × 190 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red sprinkled edges. Housed in plain brown cloth slipcase with... Read more
HOLDER, William.
Elements of Speech: 1669
£1,500
First Edition. Holder (1615/6–1698) was a clergyman and natural philosopher, one of the first members of the Royal Society. "In 1660 at Bletchingdon he achieved considerable...
Octavo (165 × 108 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf, lacks label. With initial licence leaf. Ownership inscription and inkstamp on Virginia A Osborne on front... Read more
ST JOHN, Sir Paulet.
Every Man his Own Farrier; 1780
£1,500
First edition. The author Sir Paulet St John, 1st Baronet (1704–1780), of Farley in the county of Southampton, served as MP for Winchester and Hampshire. A monument still stands...
Octavo. Uncut in original grey paper boards, plain paper backstrip, manuscript label at head of spine. Armorial bookplate and ownership inscription of Henry Coleman,... Read more
HAMILTON, Allan McLean
Types of Insanity: 1883
£1,350
First edition, uncommon thus. Hamilton (1848-1919), described on the title page as "one of the consulting physicians to the insane asylums of New York City, and the Hudson River...
Quarto (307 × 242 mm) Original printed wraps, professionally resewn and restored at the spine, housed in original brown cloth portfolio, title gilt to the upper... Read more
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SHORT, Richard.
Peri psychroposias [translit. from Greek], Of Drinking Water, 1656
£1,250
First edition. Short defended beer- and wine-drinking against innovators suggesting the health benefits of drinking water instead. As water was liable to contamination at this time,...
Small octavo (135 × 86 mm). Eighteenth-century half calf, marbled sides, the spine retooled at a later date with intersecting gilt circles and two maroon labels.... Read more
ESQUIROL, Jean-Étienne Dominique.
Mental Maladies. 1845
£1,250
First English Edition. "Hunt's translation includes all but the section on 'statistics and hygiene of establishments for the insane, together with the medico-legal relations of the...
Octavo. Contemporary brown embossed cloth, skilfully rebacked to style. Ownership inscription of Charles H. Fox, Brislington 1861 to front free endpaper (Brislington... Read more
MONRO, Donald.
An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British Military Hospitals in Germany, 1764
£1,200
First Edition. Donald Monro was the second surviving son of the surgeon and anatomist Alexander Monro primus. He studied under his father at Edinburgh and after graduation set up a...
Octavo (216 ×134 mm). Lightly sprinkled contemporary calf, red morocco label, raised bands with single rules gilt to the compartments. The Macclesfield copy with... Read more
TULLOCH, Alexander Murray.
Statistical Reports on the Sickness, Mortality, & Invaliding among Her Majesty's Troops 1841
£1,000
First Edition. Uncommon, five copies only on COPAC, three of which appear to be in BL, OCLC lists just one copy in the NY Academy of Medicine. Tulloch's work here represents the...
Fo. (327 × 205 mm). Numerous tables, five of them folding. Ex-Royal College of Surgeons' Library, ink-stamp and cancellation to title page only, light browning... Read more
DIGBY, Sir Kenelm.
A late Discourse Made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France … Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy; 1658
£1,000
Second edition in English, same year as the first, a translation of a lecture delivered to a congress of French virtuosi, giving Digby's complex mechanical explanation of the...
Duodecimo (139 × 75 mm). Contemporary unlettered sheep sewn on two cords, unlined, double blind rules. Engraved bookplate of William Tempest of the Inner Temple,... Read more
FISHER, M. F. K.
A Cordiall Water. 1963
£925
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Jessica Mitford, "For JMT – Decca – who has many secret recipes of...
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. A beautiful copy in the price-clipped jacket with a tiny nicks to the head of the spine... Read more
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel.
The Brain. Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically. 1882-7
£900
First edition, translated directly from the Stockholm Manuscript which had lain untouched in the Archives of the Swedish Academy of Sciences for close to 140 years. Swedenborg...
2 volumes, octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spines, portrait bust in roundel gilt to the upper boards, Swedenborg's arms in gilt to the lower boards.... Read more
