De Novorum Ossium In Integris Aut Maximis, Ob Morbos, Deperditionibus, Regeneratione Experimenta.. by Troja Michele - 1775

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.

Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear. An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry. Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size:… Read More

Scarce. Most attractive condition. 444pp + xx + 2pp advertisements to the rear. No inscriptions. Title continues: "To Which are Added Cases and Observations, in which the Asthma is complicated with the following Diseases: Catarrhs. Humoral asthmas. Tubercles in the Lungs. Consumptions. Universal dropsical Swellings. A Dropsy of the Breast. Jaundice. Gout. Rheumatism. Chronic Weakness. Intermittent Fevers. Inflammations of the Lungs. Abcesses and Ulcers in the Lungs. The False Peripneumony. Spittings of Blood. Excessive Corpulency. Severe Headachs. Teething. Cutaneous Eruptions. Obstruction of the Menses. A Venereal Ulcer of the Nose. Spasmodic Affections of the Throat. Hysteric Fits. General Convulsions." Withers' treatise provides a rare glimpse of the prevalence of asthma in the 18th century. He felt the condition was becoming more frequent and attributed it to the perils of modern living: "The greater irritability and weakness of the constitution in these days, may, in some measure account for the… Read More

[Paris],: 1762., 1762. Small 4to. [326] pp. Manuscript in student hand. Original quarter calf-backed marbled boards; extremities worn, spine wormed and chipped, joints loose. Rubber stamp: Doctor Mario E. Spada. Very good (noting condition of binding which is less than very good). French doctor, born in 1722 (1718?), In Orleans, died October 21, 1794, in Olivet, near this city. After completing his medical studies, he became a professor of obstetric surgery. Then, he came to Paris to exercise the professorship of anatomy and surgery at the Jardin Royal des Plantes, a member of the agricultural society. Royal professor of anatomy at the King's Garden. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris (since 1760) and that of Stockholm, inspector of the Military Hospitals of France, etc. He was successively assistant anatomist on June 28, 1760, then associate anatomist on August 31, 1773 and finally veteran boarder on September 2, 1784. He was the author of several books and numerous papers: Parmi ses… Read More

London:: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846., 1846. Small 8vo. xxxi, [1], 287, [1], 32 (ads.) pp. Original full brown gilt-stamped cloth; spine neatly restored with new cloth spine and preserving original spine laid down, original endleaves preserved. Ownership rubber-stamp of Olof W. Anderson, Minneapolis, MN; signature of Milton Abramson, MD. Nice copy of a very scarce book. FIRST EDITION of an interesting account of Mesmerism in medicine. ?Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.? [Garrison & Morton]. / In the early part of the 19th century, the successful practice of somnambulism, a development of Mesmerism, spread throughout Europe. ?In the British Isles, James Esdaile and John Elliotson of Edinburgh adopted it, being convinced that it would prove an infallible agency for the relief of pain during surgical operation. . .… Read More

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.

Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear. An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry. Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size:… Read More

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.

Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1851. Very Good in original green marbled boards, marbled end pages, gilt lettering and rules, green leather spine with an early and professional repair of the leather at the spine, a bit rubbed and a bit of light foxing. An important nineteenth century study of cancer, and SCARCE in the First Edition. 892 pp. . First Edition. Leather and Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Brescia: Turlino, 1693. Genuino esemplare in barbe, nell'originale legatura rustica d'attesa (piccoli difetti); completo e collazionato. Lieve difetto restaurato su tre carte di indice.. Legatura coeva in cartone alla rustica, in 4to cm 20x27, pp 328; ampia antiporta allegorica incisa da Suor Isabella PICCINI (nata Elisabetta, 1644-1734), artista veneziana e suora presso il convento francescano di Santa Croce, prolifica autrice di lastre per i maggiori stampatori dell'epoca, soprattutto i Remondini. A pagina 171 con propria antiporta incisa (non firmata), accompaganata da citazione oraziana dedicata al sonno, l'interessante TRATTATO SECONDO Nel quale si discorre a lungo dell'Opio, e de gli Opiati, delle lor facoltà, e loro effetti, conforme le opinioni, tanto de gli Antichi, quanto de' Moderni; Si accennano molte preparationi dello stesso Opio; Si fanno vaire digressioni curiose, Filosofiche, Accademiche, e Spagiriche, con alcune spiegationi del Sonno, de' Sogni, de gli Oracoli, e delle Visioni,… Read More