Opus De Venenis ... In quo naturalis primum historia venenatorum omnium, ... Deinde vero Alexipharmacia, ... Adiunximus Eiusdem generis commentarium ... Ferdinandi Ponzetti by ARDOYNIS, Santis De - 1562

London: Printed by Thomas Dawks, 1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. [...Illustrated with the Preparations, Virtues and Uses of all Simple Medicaments, Vegitable, Animal and Mineral: Of all the Compounds, both Internal and External: And of all the Chymical Preperations now in Use. Together with several choice Medicines added by the Author. As also, the Praxis of Chymistry, As it is now Exercised, fitted to the meanest Capacity.] Paneled calf with framed in blind tooled lines. Title in gilt on new purple leather spine label, with new endpapers. [16] 896 p.p. Two small stains to upper front board. Some light rubbing to edges, boards. Some trimming to pages, not affecting text. Light foxing and browning to pages, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce medical text by apothecary and 'doctor of physick' William Salmon [1644-1713], a prolific medical writer who owned an apothecary near St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, seeing patients who had been turned away. Salmon would treat… 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

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

Very good complete copy of Hermann Köhler's celebrated German study of medicinal botanyWith 283 dynamic botanical chromolithographs mainly signed W.M. (Walther Otto Muller), with others by Carl Friedrich Schmidt and K. or E. Gunther. The botanical plates are justly famous for their attractive design, with all parts of the flower, leaf, branch, fruit and seed displayed over the entire plate.This monumental German herbal was written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler, edited after his death by Gustav Pabst, and published by Franz Eugen Köhler from 1887-1890. The third volume was published later in 1898 with the subtitle Latest medicinal plants and confusions (Neueste Medizinalpflanzen und Verwechslungen), revised by Max Vogtherr and M. Gürke, curators at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.With an advert for the fourth volume with another 100 plates (never published).Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834-1879) was a Prussian German physician and chemist. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his work as a military… Read More

Very good complete copy of Stephenson and Churchill's medical botany.With 187 fine hand-coloured botanical illustrations drawn and engraved by William Clark (Vol. I), others drawn by G. Reid and Charles Morgan Curtis and engraved by [Edward Smith] Weddell and W.M. Maddocks.Includes the endangered plant roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale, Pl. 90.John Stephenson (1790-1864) was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He also wrote Medical Zoology and Mineralogy (1838). James Morss Churchill (1796-1863) was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. He also wrote the first article on acupuncture in the UK in 1821.New edition (after the first in four volumes in 1831) edited by Gilbert T. Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College, London. William Clark (fl. 1820-1840) was botanical artist and engraver to the Horticultural Society of London, providing illustrations for the Pomological Magazine and the… Read More

Venezia: Presso Francesco Pitteri, 1770. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition in Italian. Two volumes. xx, 447pp; 400pp. There are several misnumbered pages. Recent half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated and lettered in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved frontispiece, twenty copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume one; title vignette, eighteen copper-engraved foldout plates, initials and tail-pieces in volume two. A massive treaty that covers every aspect of surgery, from tending to wounds to performing complex procedures. Garrison and Morton states: "Heister is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany... This was the most popular surgical text of the 18th century; it underwent numerous editions and translations". The plates show numerous surgical instruments and their application. Old dampstains affecting the edges, scattered foxing throughout. Short tears (not affecting text) to four of the leaves, some old mends to five of the… Read More

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Danielem Elsevirium, 1671 A very good copy of the '3rd and Final' edition of Richard Lower's major treatise on the working of the heart and lungs. Richard Lower (1631-1691) was the first person to perform a blood transfusion, reporting in 1666 that blood had been successfully transferred between 2 dogs. Shortly afterwards he carried out an experiment to transfuse some blood from a sheep to a man - with some hopes that the gentleness of the lamb would be carried in the blood. He counted Thomas Willis (founder of the Royal Society) and Robert Hooke as close associates and was a follower of William Harvey. Tractatus de Corde (roughly translated as Treatment of the Heart) was his most important work, detailing his experimental surgery and findings. This copy, in contemporary full leather binding, formed part of the Selbourne Library - acquired by the late Hugh Selbourne - and has the Selbourne Library stamp to the verso of the title page, and the bottom margin of p 51.… Read More

BASILEAE: EX OFFICINA PERNEA PER CONRAD. VVALDKIRCH, 1584. Bella edizione del 1584 di questa raccolta di tre opere del medico e filosofo italiano Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) celebre per aver teorizzato l'uso della ginnastica su base medica. All'interno del volume sono presenti tre opere: la prima "De morbis puerorum" una pietra miliare per la pediatria moderna. Mercuriale parla di morbillo, vaiolo, sifilide congenita, disturbi di nutrizione, balbuzia e dedica tutta una parte ai vermi intestinali. Il secondo il suo celebre trattato di tossicologia "De venenis et morbis venenosis". Il terzo "Censura de Hippocratis operibus" una critica e revisione delle opere e pensiero di Ippocrate. Belle lettere iniziali decorate. Qualche antica nota manoscritta a margine di appunti e commenti. Rara edizione. Copertina in piena pergamena coeva con titolo manoscritto al dorso in buone condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Laccetti di chiusura mancanti .… Read More

London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. [1836 - 1840]. Two volumes, octavo, pp ix, (11), 402; viii, (16), 541, rather age-toned, slight marginal staining, the first title page is repaired and strengthened to its fore-edge, pages 305 - 346 in the first volume are slightly bruised to the fore-edge with resulting slight tears to a few of those pages, otherwise this set is clean and sound internally, recently bound in a very attractive black half calf and marbled boards, the spines with raised bands, panelled, blind-stamped. Presentation copy to Thomas Young, inscribed on the second title page "with the author's kind regards". RARE. [Hodgkin [1798 -1866] was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was… Read More

Venetiis (Venice): In Officina Valgrisiana, 1571. Illustrated with many hundreds of half-page woodcuts. pp (14), 922, (13), the title page is laid down and has slight losses, the next leaf is restored at the corner with no loss of text, the preliminary index is a bit thumbed and marked, a little marginal staining to the last hundred pages, a little marginal staining and marking on occasional pages, but overall very firm and tight and in better condition than many copies. There are very neat early manuscript notes on many pages, mainly limited to the common English names. Contemporary (?) simple lined calf, rebacked and with new endpapers in the early twentieth century, with the original spine laid down. An inked paper title label on the spine. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers. RARE. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to… Read More