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

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

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.

Neapoli : Benedicti Gessari, 1753. The RARE First Italian edition published in Naples 1753-1763, this being a 12 volume partial set of Hoffman's major works, containing the following: "Medicinae Rationalis Systematique", Tomus Secundus, Tomus Tertius( Section I and II), all published 1753, and Tomus Quarti, (Pars Secunda and Pars Tertius), 1754 ; "Observationum Physico-Chymicarum Selectiorum", Libri III, 1755; "Operum Omnium Physico-Medicorum Supplementum" (by itself a 13 volume set) books 1 (1754), 5 (1757), 8 (1760), 10 (1762), and 13 (1763) ; and "Opuscula Medica Varii Argumenti, Seu Dissertationes", 1756. Two of the volumes have handwritten " ex Libris Josephi de Bertolois, Medici Physici Avia" an 18th century M.D. who appears to be the original owner. The "Opuscula Medici" and Book 1 of the "Operum Omnium" are Good only, the "Opuscula Medici" lacking its binding but complete in its contents, and Book 1 of the… Read More

Paris: Louis Duprat-Duverger, 1813. New edition. 1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, "THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY." 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing Medicine and Art by Girodet (after Alexandre Briceau), engraved by Robert De Launay, 35 copper plate engravings of the human brain (8 folding), 4 plates of comparative anatomy each containing multiple images. Covers soiled, light browning to page edges, scattered light foxing, fine plate impressions, very good. FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR (1748-1794) was a French physician and anatomist, the originator of comparative anatomy and discoverer of the theory of homology in biology. He graduated in medicine at the University of Paris and became a renowned and brilliant animal and human anatomist and… 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

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

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.

Neapoli : Benedicti Gessari, 1753. The RARE First Italian edition published in Naples 1753-1763, this being a 12 volume partial set of Hoffman's major works, containing the following: "Medicinae Rationalis Systematique", Tomus Secundus, Tomus Tertius( Section I and II), all published 1753, and Tomus Quarti, (Pars Secunda and Pars Tertius), 1754 ; "Observationum Physico-Chymicarum Selectiorum", Libri III, 1755; "Operum Omnium Physico-Medicorum Supplementum" (by itself a 13 volume set) books 1 (1754), 5 (1757), 8 (1760), 10 (1762), and 13 (1763) ; and "Opuscula Medica Varii Argumenti, Seu Dissertationes", 1756. Two of the volumes have handwritten " ex Libris Josephi de Bertolois, Medici Physici Avia" an 18th century M.D. who appears to be the original owner. The "Opuscula Medici" and Book 1 of the "Operum Omnium" are Good only, the "Opuscula Medici" lacking its binding but complete in its contents, and Book 1 of the… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to (266.7mm x 317.5mm). A collection of mid 17th century surgical woodcuts that appear in an early edition of The Works of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Pare Translated out of Latine and Compared with the French by Th[omas] Johnson (ESTC lists 4 editions printed between 1634 and 1678). Rebacked with new paper label on spine. [82] p.p. Includes 105 surgical woodcuts that show a variety of tools for sealing the wounds, scraping and extracting teeth; drawing out bullets; knives and saws used for dismemberment and amputation; treatment for and methods of setting fractures and dislocated shoulders and elbows, as well as woodcuts of facial prosthetics for the eyes and nose, and artificial limbs for a hand made with iron. Light rubbing to boards, edges with some spotted stains on front cover. Pages lightly foxed. Early ink stains and scribbling to leaves and endpapers with some offsetting from woodcuts. Otherwise in very good condition with interesting medical woodcuts of… Read More