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WINKLER'S GROSSES ANATOMISCHES MUSEUM
by Winkler, J[ulius]
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- [ca. 1880s]
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- Broadside
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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SGD 479.68
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[S.l.]: A. Friedländer, lithographer, [ca. 1880s]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. Advertising card, 11.5 x 8.6 cm., pictorical color lithograph on recto, text on verso. Light wear, staining and light scuffing on verso, evidently from early adhesive. Very good.
Chromolithographic card promoting the anatomical museum of Julius Winkler in Leipzig, featuring a centerpiece of an anatomical theater (mid-dissection), surrounded… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE MYTH OF THE BIRTH OF THE HERO (A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF MYTHOLOGY) : NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE MONOGRAPH SERIES No. 18
by Rank, Otto
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- Used - Very good
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- First edition in English
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- 1914
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- Softcover
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SGD 342.62
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New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1914. 100 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light pencil marks and underlining. Wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities; rear wrapper creased. Very good.
The first English-language edition of Otto Rank's seminal psychoanalytic reading on heroes in myths across ages and cultures, after the German first edition of 1909. Item Price
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EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE, AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION
by Beaumont, William
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- First Edition
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- 1833
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- Hardcover
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SGD 2,398.38
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Plattsburgh [N.Y.]: Printed by F. P. Allen, 1833. 280 pp, including 3 wood-engraved figures in text. Original cloth-backed plain paper over boards, in modern cloth clamshell case. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernovsky in case. Binding worn, joints cracked, leaves wrinkled, mold stains in outer leaves, contents mildly foxed. Good.
"To the medical bibliographer there are few more treasured Americana than… Read more about this item Item Price
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CURRENT ADVANCES AND CONCEPTS IN VIROLOGY [WITH 4 PLATES] THESE VERY WEE ANIMALS
by Lilly Research Laboratories
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- Used - Near fine
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- First Separate Edition
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- 1960
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- Softcover
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SGD 68.52
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Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.Pp. 523-532 plus 4 plates containing 11 images (4 color). Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Light rust marks near staples and light fading at wrappers' fold, else fine.
Offprint from THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1959, providing a brief history of the discovery and study of viruses and recent developments in the understanding of what a virus is,… Read more about this item Item Price
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POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS : A DIGEST OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE POSSESSION, USE, SALE, AND MANUFACTURE OF POISONS AND HABIT-FORMING DRUGS ENACTED DURING 1912 AND 1913, NOW IN FORCE IN THE UNITED STATES
by Wilbert, Martin I. & Murray Galt Motter
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- 1913
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- Softcover
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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SGD 171.31
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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913. 89 pp. Printed self-wrappers, side-stapled. Soft diagonal crease, light wear in outer leaves, else near fine.
Comprehensive survey of recently enacted drug laws, listed by state, territory, and federal bodies, published the year prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act, the first major federal law relating to opiates and cocaine. The authors,… Read more about this item Item Price
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LA LUTTE CONTRE LA SYPHILIS EN BELGIQUE : SON ORGANIZATION - SES RÉSULTATS
by Bayet, Adrien
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- Used - Near fine.
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- First Edition
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- 1929
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- Hardcover
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SGD 205.58
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[Brussels]: Ligue nationale belge contre le péril vénérien, 1929. Large octavo. 44 pp., containing eight in-text graphs, plus one double-page map. In French. Contemporary blue half morocco and marbled boards, stamped, ruled, and lettered in gilt, original stiff printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly worn and sunned, light stain in upper margin of p. 23 (touching some text), else fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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SLEEPING BEAUTY II : GRIEF, BEREAVEMENT AND THE FAMILY IN MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY : AMERICAN & EUROPEAN TRADITIONS
by Burns, Stanley B., with Elizabeth A. Burns
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- Very good
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- First Edition
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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SGD 479.68
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New York: Burns Archive Press, 2002. Folio. [186] pp., including numerous black-and-white and color photographic illustrations. In English and French. Black cloth, stamped in silver, in matching black dust jacket. Signed by Stanley B. Burns on the title page and inscribed to Johnny Fox and Valeria Duarte on facing page, "Presented To Johnny & Val & The Freakatorium fellow affectionatos… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 479.68
THE COMING MEDICAL MAN; AN ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE BEFORE THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, DECEMBER 8, 1874
by Roosa, D. B. St. John
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- First Edition
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- 1874
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- Softcover
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SGD 82.23
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 26 pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Purple inkstamp of the Purple Collection on front wrapper. One-inch cosed tear at head of front wrapper, early tidestains and toning throughout, else very good.
Uncommon treatise on medical education and certification. Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1838-1908) was a prominent… Read more about this item Item Price
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ROBERT NESBITTS OSTEOGENIE ODER ABHANDLUNG VON ERZEUGUNG DER KNOCHEN IM MENSCHLICHEN KÖRPER IN ZWEEN VORLESUNGEN ERKLÄRT, DIE AUF DEM ANATOMISCHEN THEATER DER WUNDÄRZTE IN LONDON DEN ERSTEN UND ANDERN DES HEUMONATS, IM JAHR 1731. GEHALTEN WORDEN . . .
by Nesbitt, Robert; Johann Ernst Greding (trans.)
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- First German-language edition
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- 1753
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- Hardcover
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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SGD 616.72
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Altenburg: Paul Emanuel Richters, 1753. Quarto. [8],xxviii,[4],104 pp. plus six folding plates. In German. Contemporary three-quarter leather and speckled paper over boards. 19th-century ex-dono inscription in title page and occasional 19th-century marginal notes in German. Spine and nearly all leather perished, joints cracked. 2 x 2 cm. square excision in front free endpaper. Very light occasional foxing, else near fine… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 616.72
SILENI ALCIBIADIS.* I.E. ARS SANANDI, CUM EXPECTATIONE. OPPOSITA ARS CURANDI NUDA EXPECTATIONE: SATYRA HARVEANA CASTIGATAE. CUPIDUS PRUDENTI USUI: STUPIDIS RUDENTI LUSUI. . .
by Harvey, Gideon; Georg Ernest Stahl
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- Used - Very good
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- 1730
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- Hardcover
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Paris: Fr. Horth-hemels, 1730. Hardcover. Very good. [10],246 pp. plus frontispiece and two folding tables. In Latin. Early three-quarter vellum and speckled paper over boards, raised bands, manuscript paper title and shelf labels. Early shelf number inscription in front free endpaper, light institutional inkstamp in title page. Lightly rubbed, extremities worn. Very good.
George Ernest Stahls influential… Read more about this item Item Price
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DE IPECACUANHA DISSERTATIO QUAM VENIA EXP. FAC. MED. UPSAL. PRÆSIDE C. P. THUNBERG. . . PRO GRADU MEDICO CONSCRIPSIT ET PUBLICÆ CENSURÆ OFFERT IMMANUEL BILLBERG. . . PARS PRIOR [and] . . . JOH. OTTO LINDSTRÔMER. . . PARS ALTERA
by Thunberg, Carl Peter; Johan Immanuel Billberg & Johan Otto Lindströmer
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- First Edition
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- 1824
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- Softcover
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SGD 164.46
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Uppsala: Excudebant Regiae academiae typographi, 1824. Two volumes: 22;[1],[23]-38 pp. In Latin. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Small marginal tear in second leaf, very minor dust soiling in outer leaves, else fine.
Medical dissertations submitted by Johan Immanuel Billberg and Johan Otto Lindströmer at Uppsala University on the topic of ipecacuanha. Johan Immanuel (or Emanuel) Billberg (1799-1845) received his PhD in… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ORIGIN OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
by Barker, Creighton
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- First Separate Edition
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- 1942
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- Softcover
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SGD 61.67
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[New Haven], 1942. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 9 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Slight edgewear, else fine.
Offprint from CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. V., No. 12 (December, 1941). A narrative of the founding process of the Society from its precursors in Litchfield and New Haven counties to its charter and first meeting in 1792. Item Price
SGD 61.67