Medicine from Veery Books

New York: Christie's, 1999. 93 pp + ads. 183 lots. P.O. has made short notes about condition on a few lots. Wraps nicely illustrated with a plate from Jan van der Straet's Nova Reperta showing a 16th-century printing establishment, the front wraps showing a dramatic view of the press, the back compositors, proofreaders and collators. The frontispiece shows the… Read more about this item

Toronto, 1967. 53 pp. including 16 b&w plates. 120 items. Light bumping to fore edge, inside fine. Contents: Introduction; Pharmacists and Apothecaries; Pharmacists Dispensing Medicines; Doctors Giving Medicine to Patients; John Bull and His Doctors; Patients Taking Medicines; The Taste of Medicines; Individual Subjects--Portraits; Individual Subjects--Caricatures; James Morison; Quacks and Quackery; Advertising; The Drug Store; Drug Store Interiors; Diseases and… Read more about this item

Durham, North Carolina: Duke School of Medicine Library, 1956. 34 pp. 50 items. Bumping to top and bottom of spine, with short (less than 1/4-inch) spilits. Sewn wraps illustrated by a portrait of Thomas Gale from his Certain Workes of Chirurgerie, 1563 [No. 19]. From the Josiah C. Trent collection in the history of medicine, an annotated catalogue of the… Read more about this item