Opera omnia anatomica et medica. Nunc simul collecta, & diligenter rec. per T. de Diemerbroeck by DIEMERBROECK, Isbrand van - 1685

Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, 1770. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition in Italian. Two volumes. xx, 447pp; 400pp. There are several misnumbered pages. Recent half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispiece, twenty copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume one; title vignette, eighteen copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume two. A massive treaty that covers every aspect of surgery, from tending to wounds to performing complex procedures. Garrison and Morton states: "Heister is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany... This was the most popular surgical text of the 18th century; it underwent numerous editions and translations". The plates show numerous surgical instruments and their application. Old dampstains affecting the edges, scattered foxing throughout. Short tears (not affecting text) to four of the leaves, some old mends to five of the… Read More

Lugduni: Gulielmum Rouillium, 1542. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf, with gilt fillets on spine and corners tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. 32mo. [2] 3-158 p.p. plus colophon. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Very light scratches to boards. Sporadic staining to leaves and endpapers, noticeably to blank leaf preceeding title page, and to verso of leaf after colophon. Early marginalia and underlined passages throughout. "In memoriam C.D. Wood 24. Ap. 1920...W.S. Dawson" pasted to front free endpaper. Else a near fine copy. Claudius Galenus [129 AD to c.210 AD) was an influential surgeon during the Roman Empire, whose early medical writings were required reading for medieval medical students in university up until the 16th century. Niccolo Leoniceno [1428-1524] was an Italian humanist scholar and physician who is credited for publishing the paper on syphilis. He produced many important translations of Galen and Hippocrates. The first chapter of this work begins with the question, what is… Read More

BASILEAE: EX OFFICINA PERNEA PER CONRAD. VVALDKIRCH, 1584. Bella edizione del 1584 di questa raccolta di tre opere del medico e filosofo italiano Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) celebre per aver teorizzato l'uso della ginnastica su base medica. All'interno del volume sono presenti tre opere: la prima "De morbis puerorum" una pietra miliare per la pediatria moderna. Mercuriale parla di morbillo, vaiolo, sifilide congenita, disturbi di nutrizione, balbuzia e dedica tutta una parte ai vermi intestinali. Il secondo il suo celebre trattato di tossicologia "De venenis et morbis venenosis". Il terzo "Censura de Hippocratis operibus" una critica e revisione delle opere e pensiero di Ippocrate. Belle lettere iniziali decorate. Qualche antica nota manoscritta a margine di appunti e commenti. Rara edizione. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Laccetti di chiusura mancanti .… Read More

Venetiis (Venice): In Officina Valgrisiana, 1571. Illustrated with many hundreds of half-page woodcuts. pp (14), 922, (13), the title page is laid down and has slight losses, the next leaf is restored at the corner with no loss of text, the preliminary index is a bit thumbed and marked, a little marginal staining to the last hundred pages, a little marginal staining and marking on occasional pages, but overall very firm and tight and in better condition than many copies. There are very neat early manuscript notes on many pages, mainly limited to the common English names. Contemporary (?) simple lined calf, rebacked and with new endpapers in the early twentieth century, with the original spine laid down. An inked paper title label on the spine. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers. RARE. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to… Read More

Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Front hinge cracked, some foxing, boards . worn, fore-edges of some pages chipped.. Hardcover. Leatherbound sammelband of the writings of Dr. Edward O. Otis (1848-1933) , a Massachusetts tuberculosis researcher, medical professor, and one of the founders of the National Association of the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, later renamed the American Lung Association. Dr. Otis' personal copy as indicated by penciled note on front free endpaper and with many letters and other items laid in. Dr. Otis was a proponent of climate therapy and fresh-air sanataria to treat TB patients. Three-quarter leather binding with maroon pebbled cloth boards. Five spine compartments with titling stamped in gilt in two of them. Most items bound in, but a few letters and clippings are laid in. A total of 55 items, including medical journal reprints, letters, cabinet card, book reviews, newspaper clippings, and other material. Full list of items upon request. ;… Read More

Rome: Rochus Bernabo at the expense of Laurentii & Thomae Pagliarini, 1728. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (47 full-page numbered but with pl 35 & 37 replaced in good facsimile) + nice large plate of public dissection on TP + 50 large woodcut initials with country & hunting scenes etc.. Folio (378x251mm) newer calf with 5 raised bands, spine compartments gilt, gilt rules, black label with gilt titling. Titlepage in red & black XXVIII +79pp +[x] index & publisher's catalogue + 47 leaves of plates ex collation but numbered in the plate 1-47 (a4 mistakenly bound after b4). Bookplate of Dr.F.A. Sondervorst on marbled endpapers. A clean wide margined copy, no tears, very unobtrusive pale foxing to a few pages, some pages rehinged at gutter, a few with marginal dusting/damp marks but not affecting printed area except in index. Pl.20 minor offsetting from facing text page. As usual without the unnumbered page meant to be cut out and used to rule the scale. Fine thick quality paper, impressions clear &… Read More

Etienne Charpentier, 1784. Hardcover. See Description. Tall folio (385 mm.). The entire book, including the text, was printed from engraved copper plates – 60 plates (an illustrated title page plate, 29 anatomical plates and 30 calligraphic letterpress plates). Bound in a contemporary or near contemporary binding with calf spine and decorative paste paper boards - rubbed, edges shelf worn, old ink stain on rear cover. Both the upper portion of the spine and the tail cap are carefully restored. Board corners are neatly repaired. Interior contains an occasional minor spots of marginal foxing; a couple of tiny holes or paper defects are present on the text plate opposite plate 20. The leaves are otherwise generally clean. Francois-Michel Disdier (1708-1781) was a professor of surgery and a drawing master at the Academy of Painting in Paris. His "Tableaux anatomiques", a deluxe anatomy book for physicians, was first published in 1758. Many of the plates were done by Crepy and Charpentier… Read More

Rosedale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 1998.. Edition of 100 . 10 x 10"closed, extends to 30 x 30"; 16 pages. Hinged pages unfolding in four directions to reveal quilt-like patterns, colors, and shapes. Intaglio and letterpress printing. In black cloth boards with inset illustrated title label. Designed, printed, and bound by Maureen Cummins. Signed and numbered. Califia Books: "A collection of excerpts from narratives written by women imprisoned for madness. Descriptions span from the Civil War period to the present and feature unknown women as well as such celebrated figures as Kate Millet and Frances Farmer. These extraordinary tales are related with keen intelligence, rage, and mordant humor. Silkscreen and letterpress printed on squares of white coverweight Folio. Each page is a patch work of black alternating with rich color blocks (over seventy-five in the edition); text is in the form of stitch-like handwriting. Hinged pages unfold in four directions to reveal… Read More

New York: French & Adlard, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 299pp; 14 unnumbered leaves and 9 engraved plates, 7 of which are hand-colored and 2 are foldouts. The text volume is bound in the original brown decorated cloth with paper label affixed to the spine. The atlas volume is in the original cloth backed boards with paper label affixed to the front board. "[Bushe] left behind him a brilliant reputation as a bold, dashing operator, and as the author of the well-known standard monograph on the 'Diseases of the Rectum and Anus,' long considered the ablest work on the subject in any language." Dictionary of American Medical Biography, eds. Kelly and Burrage, 1971, p. 180. "The first American treatise on colon-rectal surgery," Garrison-Morton 3441.1. Former library set with stamps on the title pages and on the verso of the plates. Both spines professionally restored, foxing to text blocks, minor pencil annotations in the text volume, fairly heavy wear and rubbing to the atlas covers. A… Read More

Lisboa [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 154, vi p., 50 leaves of lithographed plates containing 196 illustrations; 26 cm. Rebacked retaining most of contemporary quarter calf with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration; marbled paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Includes list of subscribers. The extremely scarce Portugese edition of Atlas der Geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, the important work of obstetrical plates by Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch, first published the previous year. This was the first such obstetrical work published in Portuguese. In Very Good Condition: corners of boards are rubbed; reback, as described; browning and foxing to both text and plates, heavy at times; otherwise clean and tight.