Anatomy - Physiology from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

London,: MacMillan,, 1949.. viii, 524 pp. 8vo (15,5 x 22,5 cm.). Original publisher's cloth (top & bottom of spine discoloured; remnants of dust-jacket loosely inserted). With 198 illustrations. ¶ The classic reference. Copy with the bookplate of the bookseller John Howell.

Paris,: Félix Alcan,, 1909.. [iv], xv, [i], 704 ; 32 [Catalogue Alcan] pp. 8vo (16,5 x 25 cm.). Half black cloth over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered (outer edges of boards sligghtly frayed). ¶ Lépin, a studend of i.a. Charcot & Virchow is best known for his investigations in experimental medicine, including extensive research involving glycolysis and the… Read more about this item

Leiden,: A. & J. Honkoop,, 1804.. 126 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 22 cm.). Modern blind blue wrappers and end-papers, uncut. ¶ First edition in Dutch of the first monograph on the anatomy of the elder, originally published in 1799 (Erlangen) under the title "Anatomiae corporis humani senilis specimen". Seiler was the founder of surgical anatomy in Germany, and this… Read more about this item

Moscou,: Editions en Langues Etrangeres,, (n.d., ca. 1955).. 690, [ii] pp. 8vo 14 x 20,5 cm.). Original published cloth. With a portrait. Title printed in red and black. ¶ "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion"(G&M 1022). A selection of 60 paper, including Pavlov's authobiography.

Moscou,: Editions en Langues Etrangeres,, 1954.. 679, [i] pp. 8vo 14 x 20,5 cm.). Original published cloth. With a portrait. ¶ "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion"(G&M 1022). A selection of 60 paper, including Pavlov's authobiography.

Paris,: J.-B. Baillière,, 1855.. viii, 512 (=516, including the added pages 504A-504D of the appendix) pp. 8vo (14 x 22 cm.). Contemporary half violet chagreen, spine with 4 raised bands, gilt lettered (some slight rubbing at bottom and top of spine); marbled end-papers. With 22 wood-engraved text illustrations. First edition, fist issue of this great classic. It contains i.a.… Read more about this item

Vetero - Pragae,: Udalrici Gröbl,, 1771.. 92 pp. Small 8vo (10 x 16,5 cm.). Contemporary grey wrappers (some slight imperfections), uncut. With two woodcut vignettes and one folded engraved plate. Thesis. A very rare Prague imprint of which only one other copy is recorded (the NLM's). There are several references to van Leeuwenhoek and his microscopic blood cells observations.… Read more about this item

Paris,: Masson,, 1892.. ix, [i, blank], 348 pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.). Modern blind wrappers , uncut and partly unopened.- (Some scattered light foxing). gatherings; bookseller's label pasted on title). ** A charming work on the history of popular, folk and slang expressions in the French language, related to medicine.

Paris,: Le Bailly,, (1886).. 48 pp. 8vo (14 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 24 charming steel engraved plates. Originally published in 1845. This edition is quite rare (only a few copies in the WorldCat). -- (The plates have some scattered pencil annotation in their margins).

Te Amsterdam, bij: Lodewijk van Es,, 1830.. xiii [i], [82] pp. Folio (25.5 x 40 cm.). recent 3/4 grained chesnut morocco, uncut.. With 47 plates on 38 engraved copper plates, of which 8 with partial contemporary hand colouring. The plates are re-engraved after the plates de Wandelaer made for the Albinus edition of Eustachius (1744). ¶ Very rare, being… Read more about this item

Chicago,: Soc. of Med. History,, 1935.. 50 pp. 8vo (17.5 x 25.5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly discoloured and a few spots; very small piece torn off from upper corner; some unobtrusive markt on the last 3 pages). ¶ Probably the first history on the subject. "Body-snatching was the bootlegging of human dead for purpose of dissection. A consideration… Read more about this item

Amsterdam,: J. Müller & Comp.,, 1834.. viii, 222 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With one fine folded lithographed plate. The rare first Dutch edition, inspired by Blumenbach's "Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des Menschlichen Kórpers" (Góttingen, 1786). Willem Vrolik ?exerted himself to enlarge and to describe the fine anatomical collection of his father Gerard, which contained, i.a., numerous… Read more about this item

Bruxelles,: Edition Arscia,, 1961.. 87, [vi] pp. Small 4to (18 x 23 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With a frontispiece. ¶ Finely printed with Granjon types on Zerkall Bütten by D.B.K. of Bruxelles. Latin texts with French translation and annotations. Fully indexed. Copy with editor's autograph dedication to Y. & J. Debecq.

Frankfurt a M.,: Varrentrap & Wenner,, 1795.. xv, [i, blank], 223, [i, blank] pp. 8vo (12,5 x 21 cm.). 19th century boards, spine gilt lettered on green morcco label (partly rubbed & slightly worn; corners slightly bumped). First edition, rare. Garrison & Morton 2609.1: "Soemmerring noted an association between pipesmoking and cancer of the lip (p. 109)". PP. 183-223… Read more about this item

Lausanne,: Apud Franc. Grasset et Socio,, 1771.. [ii], [xii], 562, [ii] pp. Small 8vo. (10.6 x 17 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raisen band in compartments gilt decorated with fleurons and gilt lettered, edges red. With one woodcut header. The best and most complete edition, being the last published and revised by Haller himself. At the… Read more about this item

A Paris,: Chez Pierre Franç. Didot le jeune,, 1767.. Bound with: L'Usage des Eaux de Baréges et du Mercure, pour les Ecrouelles: Ou Dissertation sur les Tumeurs scrophuleuses, Qui a remporté un Prix à l'Académie Royale de Chirurgie, en 1752. Nouvelle Edition, corrigée. A Paris, Didot, 1767. 2 works in one volume: (iv), x, (ii), 227, (iii); (iv), x,… Read more about this item

Paris,: Germer Baillière,, 1867.. XII, 163, [III] PP. 12M0 (12 X 18 CM.). Original half red morocco, spine with 4 raised bands, in compartments gilt decorated and lettered, on the front side the gilt supra-libros "Ville de Paris - Collége Municipal Chaptal" (prize binding). First edition of this French vulgarization of Helmholtz' classic works (1863 & 1868) on physiological… Read more about this item