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Anatomia, das ist sinnreiche, künstliche, begründete Auffschneidung, Theilung, unnd Zerlegung...
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Anatomia, das ist sinnreiche, künstliche, begründete Auffschneidung, Theilung, unnd Zerlegung eines vollkommenen menschlichen Leibs und Cörpers, durch alle desselbigen jnnerliche und eusserliche Gliedtmassen und Gefäss, so wol mit eygendtlicher Beschreibung erkläret, als mit lebendigen Contrafacturen fürgebildet . .

by COLOMBO, Realdo / COITER, Volcher

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Frankfurt am Main: Matthias Becker for Theodor de Bry, 1609. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Three parts in one volume. Folio (305 x 197 mm). ff. [4], pp. 1-148, ff. 149-160, [4], 161-164, pp. 165-274, [2], including general title dated 1609, 3 section titles on pp. 1, 61 and 225, all dated 1608, pagination of ff. 149-164 single-sided only, with 2 unpaginated leaves between ff. 160 and 161, final blank leaf. General title with engraved device, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, folding letterpress table seamed to fore-edge of p.69, 44 mostly full-page anatomical engravings after Vesalius and Coiter. 18th century three-quarter calf, simple paper boards, some blind ruling, black-dyed edges (joint of upper board split at foot, chipping and worming of spine ends and upper corner of rear board, wear and chipping to extremeties). Text somewhat browned and dust-soiled, some worming to outer blank margins, occasional minor spotting and staining,… Read More
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The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of...
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The Anatomical Exercises ... Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. With the Preface of Zachariah Wood ... to Which is Added, Dr. James de Back, his Discourse of the Heart

by HARVEY, William

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London: For Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1673. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three parts in one volume. 8vo (167 x 105 mm). [24], 107, [21], 16, 13-172 pp. Signatures: a4 A-U8, (U3, U4 misprinted T3, T4). De Back's treatise has a separate title-page. With lengthy eighteenth-century annotations concerning Harvey to both endpapers. Contemporary calf, spine expertly rebacked and with some gilt ruling and gilt-lettered label (boards slightly scratched and rubbed). Text little evenly browned, occasional minor spotting, small worm track to lower blank margin, a bit short at upper margin. Provenance: illegible signature, Trinity College Cambridge (inscribed on first free endpaper), also lettered "Lower" on fore-edge. A very good and clean copy. ---- Wing H1084; Keynes 20; Wellcome III, p.219; Waller 4106. The second English edition of Harvey's celebrated De motu cordis in which he sets forth his discovery and experimental proof of the… Read More
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Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement,...
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Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec des planches imprimées en couleur / Exposition anatomique des maux veneriens sur les parties de l'homme et de la femme, et les remedes les plus usites dans ces sortes de maladies

by GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien

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Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1778. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec des planches imprimées en couleur.Seconde édition, augmentée de la coupe de la symphise. Paris: Demonville, 1778. Large Folio (410 x 283 mm). [6], 34, [2] pp. and 10 color mezzotint plates, signed Gautier d'Agoty père, plates I to VIII dated 1773, two plates on the "cup of the symphise" added in this edition: plate IX dated 1773 and Plate X (engraved), dated 1779. Includes the unnumbered leaf "Table Génerale et détachee", the unnumbered errata/privilege leaf, and the final unnumbered leaf "Opération de la Symphise". [Bound with:] Exposition anatomique des maux veneriens sur les parties de l'homme et de la femme, et les remedes les plus usites dans ces sortes de maladies. Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1773. 26 pp. and 4 color… Read More
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[Author's presentation copy]. De Variolis et Morbillis Liber
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[Author's presentation copy]. De Variolis et Morbillis Liber

by MEAD, Richard

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London: Brindley, 1747. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (217 x 213 mm). xvi, 197, [3] pp., including half-title, final blank leaf Cc4, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Inscribed on first flyleaf verso "From the Author" and further up "Grand papier". About 5 cm at head of half-title trimmed (away from text field) and restored with paper. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt-lettered morocco label, boards and board edges tooled in gilt, marbled edges, original endpapers (minor wear to extremities, front hinge starting, upper board stained ut upper corner). Text crisp and clean throughout. A very good+ copy printed on strong paper. ---- Garrison-Morton 5417; NLM/Blake, p.295; Wellcome IV, p. 96. FIRST EDITION of Mead's work on smallpox, and one of the 150 "fine" issues, with manuscript note, "Grand papier" above presentation inscription. The work includes a Latin translation of Rhazes' commentary, the first work… Read More
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Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge
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Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge

by HELMHOLTZ, Hermann von

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Berlin: A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P. Jeanrenaud), 1851. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 8vo (203 x 130 mm). 43 [1], [2] pp. and one engraved plate by Afinger after drawings by Helmholtz. Bound in contemporary German marbled paper over card board, spine with hand-lettered paper label, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (minor rubbing of extremities, corners slightly bumped, minor chipping to foot of spine). Protected in half-calf and cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine. Text and plate little age toned, very minor occasional spotting. Provenance: pencil note on plate verso "complete/Norman". A very good and clean copy. ---- FIRST EDITION of Helmholtz' announcement of his invention of the ophthalmoscope. This was a by-product of Helmholtz's attempt to demonstrate to his physiology students that when the human eye is made to glow with reflected light, the light emitted from the pupil follows the same course it took in… Read More
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[Canon medicinae]. Liber Canonis primus quem princeps aboali abinsceni de medicina edidit....
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[Canon medicinae]. Liber Canonis primus quem princeps aboali abinsceni de medicina edidit. tra[n]slatus a magistro Gerardo cremonensi in toleto ab arabico in latinu[m]. Uerba aboali abinsceni. Liber 1-5, lat. von Gerardus Cremonensis Daran: De viribus cordis (al-adwija al-qalbijja), Latin von Arnoldus de Villa Nova

by AVICENNA [IBN SINA, Al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah, سينا بن علي بن الحسن بن الله عبد بن الحسين علي أبو]

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Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. March 24, 1490. Chancery 4to (228 x 177 mm). 442 unnumbered leaves including initial blank a1. Signatures: a-p8 q10 t-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-N8 O-P6 Q-Z8 aa-bb8 cc10 dd-gg8 hh10 (a1 blank). Text in double columns, 60 lines, types 2:130G, 3:62G, 4:92G. Title from incipit of Book 1. Colophon reads: Regis aboali hassem filii hali abinsceni liber tot[ius] finitus est vna cum tractatu de viribus cordis translato ab Arnaldo de vilanoua. Impressus [et] diligentissime correctus ma[n]dato et impensis nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti ciuis modoetiensis. Uenetiis. Anno salutis. M. CCCCXC. die. 24. Martij. Contains Avicenna's De viribus cordis (leaves 2g5v-2h4r), translated by Arnaldus de Villanova. Incipit reads: Libellus Auicen[n]e de virib[us] cordis translat[us] ab Arnaldo de villa noua barchinone feliciter i[n]cipit. Rubricated throughout with 3- to 6-line capitals opening paragraphs painted in red or blue, mostly… Read More
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Cheiroplotheke (Greek) seu Armamentarium chirurgicum. Opus posthumum . . - In quo tot, tam...
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Cheiroplotheke (Greek) seu Armamentarium chirurgicum. Opus posthumum . . - In quo tot, tam veterum ac recentiorum instrumenta ab authore correcta, quam noviter ab ipso inventa. . . Nunc primum in lucem editum

by SCULTETUS, Johannes

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Ulm: Balthasar Kühnen, 1655. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Ulm: Balthasar Kühnen, 1655. [2], 10, 132, [4] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device, text in double column, 43 engraved plates. Little evenly browned internally, a few spots in places, title with vertical screase, most leaves with damp-softening at fore-margin, 14 plates trimmed close to or just into plate frame at fore-margin, fore-edge of 11 plates remargined, plate 20 cropped into plate but not affecting images, fore-edge of text pp. 37-47, 54, 59-60 remargined just touching text block, final pages chipped at fore-margin. [Bound with:] BROWNE, Joannis. Myographia Nova sive Musculorum omnium in Corpore Humano hactenus repertorium accuratissima descriptio . . . Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1694. [16], 90, [4] pp., engraved allegorical title, letterpress title printed in red and black, 1 folding table, 2 engraved plates outside pagination and 38 full page… Read More
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Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete
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Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Florentino interprete

by GUIDI, Guido [VIDIUS, Vidus]

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Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 30 April 1544. Folio (363 x 241 mm). [36], 533 [1] pp., 210 woodcut text illustrations (of which 30 full-page), ornamental metalcut initials, bound without final blank leaf L6. Roman and Greek types. Signatures: aa8 bb10; a-z8 A-I8 K-L6 (-L6). Bound in later green-dyed reverse calf, spine with 5 raised bands, blind-ruling and tooling of boards and spine, spine with gilt-lettered brown morocco label, red-sprinkled edges, later endpapers (spine sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, corners bumped). Text very crips and bright with very minor browning in places, some leaves with light damp-staining to lower corner and head near gutter, oversize woodcuts on pp. 497, 500 and 502 trimmed close to image at fore-margin. Provenance: Malan de Merindol library (woodcut bookplate to front-pastedown). A very good, tall copy with all the oversize woodcuts intact. ---- RARE FIRST EDITION, VARIANT… Read More
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A Classification of the Tumors of the Glioma group on a Histo-Genetic Basis with a correlated...
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A Classification of the Tumors of the Glioma group on a Histo-Genetic Basis with a correlated Study of Prognosis

by CUSHING, Harvey & BAILEY, Percival

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Philadelphia, London and Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (230 x 152 mm). [6], 175 [1] pp., numerous text illustrations. Original publishers red cloth, spine gilt lettered (a trifle rubbing of extremities). Text clean and bright throughout. Provenance: A. Ward (bookplate to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION of the first classification of gliomatous tumors of the central nervous system. "This monograph is significant in the history of neurology since it represents the first serious attempt to classify gliomatous tumors of the central nervous system on a histological basis correlated with the life history of each type of growth. The analysis herein offered has become the basis of most subsequent classifications of tumors of the glioma group" (Cushing). Bibliography: Cushing, Bibliography 8; Garrison-Morton 4608; Heirs of Hippocrates 2331; Fulton. Harvey Cushing. p. 521; not in Norman. - Visit our website to see more images!
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Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Saluberrima; Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Salvberrima;...
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Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Saluberrima; Conservandae Sanitatis Praecepta Salvberrima; Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum; Regi Angliae quondam a Doctribus Scholae Salernitanae versibus conscripta, nunc demum non integritati solum at[que] nitori suo restituta, sed Rhythmis quoq[ue] Germanicis illustrata

by École de Salerne [VILLENEUVE, Arnaud de, MAGNINUS mediolansis], CURIO, Johannes (editor)

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Franc[oforti]: Egen[olphi], 1559. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (155x100 mm). [12], 279 ll., including title printed in red and black and 60 woodcuts in text by Beham, Schäuffelein and others. Text in Latin and German. Signatures: alpha8, *4, A-Z8, a-m8, colophon on last leaf: Francoforti apud Haeredes Christian Egenolphi, Anno M. D. LIX. 17th-c full vellum, spine lettered in black. Illegible ownership signature to title page. Light browning and little occasional spotting, one page with marginalia in old hand, faint marginal dampstaining to a few final leaves. A handsome copy. ---- VD16 R 579, Wellcome 5376; Adams, S106; Durling 3812; Heirs of Hippocrates 76; Waller 7819; Richter, Egenolffs Erben, 74; Pauli, Beham, p. 500 (No. 1211-19). ). Second, revised and enlarged edition published bei the heirs of Egenolff. The famous treatise on food and diet "Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatum" was compiled for the English King by the medical school… Read More
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Contribution à l'étude des fractures du crane. Des blessures des sinus de la dure-mère (sinus...
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Contribution à l'étude des fractures du crane. Des blessures des sinus de la dure-mère (sinus longitudinal supérieur et sinus latéral)

by LUYS, Jules-Bernard

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Paris: G. Steinheil, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (247 x 162 mm). 126 pp., including half title, 2 chromolithographic plates protected by tissue guards, text illustrations, original printed wrappers bound in. Pages mostly unopened. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed, joints tender). Wrappers and half title browned, except for very little browning to outer margins generally clean and crisp. Provenance: Librairie Alain Brieux (ticket loosely inserted), James Tait Goodrich. Near fine copy. - Visit our website to see more images!
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Das buch zu distillieren die zusamen gethonen ding Composita genant durch die einzige(n) ding und...
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Das buch zu distillieren die zusamen gethonen ding Composita genant durch die einzige(n) ding und das buch Thesaurus pauperu(m) für die armen durch experiment ... zu trost un(d) heil de(r) menschen un(d) nutzlich ir leben und leib daruß zu erlengeren und in gesuntheit zu behalten

by BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus

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Strassburg: Johann Grüninger, 1519. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 28 August 1519. Folio (305 x 200 mm). 330 leaves, Roman numbering. Black letter in two columns, title with full-page woodcut, 145 woodcut text illustration, of which one double-page, woodcut initials. Signatures: A-Z6; Aa-Zz6; a-i6. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, spine with 3 raised bands, brown-dyed edges, later endpapers (old repair of spine ends and joints with vellum, brass clasps and fittings gone, wooden boards wormed and worn). Lower edge in parts uncut. Internally somewhat browned, minor occasional spotting, scattered small, mostly marginal, lampoil- and waterstains (brown staining from lampoil more pronounced towards top corner of final leaves), finger- and dust-soiling, stronger to final leaves, a few occasional short tears, paper flaws, and ink smudges, first 6 leaves including title with paper restoration at fore-margin (most… Read More
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De Morbis Libri XIIII. Ad Cosmum Medicem Florentinorum ducem
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De Morbis Libri XIIII. Ad Cosmum Medicem Florentinorum ducem

by ARGENTERIO, Giovanni

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Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1556. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (289 x 186 mm). 19, [1], 358, [24] pp. Title within elaborate engraved border, large pictorial initials engraved, old marginal annotations in old hand to text, restorations to cover, mainly marginal and light dampstaining, old paper repair to title margin. 18th century full vellum, handwritten title to spine. --- Edit 16 2502; Index Aurel; 107.228; Durling 264; STC Italian (BL London) 37; not in Adams, Wellcome. Second enlarged edition of the main work of the physician Giovanni Argenterio (1513-1572). He was an opponent of the views of Galenus.
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De anima brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae
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De anima brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae

by WILLIS, Thomas

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Oxford: Richard Davis at the Sheldonian Theatre, 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. 4to (197 x 149 mm). [56], 16, 33-565 (i.e. 563), 11 pp., 8 engraved plates of brain anatomy (5 folding); imprimatur leaf bound opposite title, longitudinal half-title g2 bound before the divisional title g1 for part one; page 563 misnumbered 565; general index at the end. Signatures: [pi]2 A4 b-f4 g2 2A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Yyy4 Zzz4(Zzz1 + "Zzzz Aaaa"4, Bbbb2). Bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked with new morocco spine label lettered in gilt, corners mended, endleaves renewed, dark sprinkled edges (rebacking rubbed, joints cracking). Text with light even browning, occasional spotting mostly to outer margins; instances of very faint blue vertical bands on some leaves, perhaps offsetting from bookmarks that are no longer in place; book block mostly split before p. 87; leaf Zzz4 with small patch of paper torn at fore-margin not affecting text.… Read More
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De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus
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De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus

by CARDANO, Girolamo

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Bologna: A. Benacci, 1569. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. De causis, signis, ac locis morborum, liber unus. Bologna: A. Benacci, 1569. 110 (i.e. 112), [4] leaves. Woodcut initials and tailpieces, 4 leaves of index at end. Signatures: A-O8 P4. Light browning of just a few leaves, but generally bright and clean throughout. Leaf A8 chipped at lower corner not affecting text, pp. 23-28 with brown stains at outer blank margin, light pale dampstaining to final 4 leaves. [Bound with:] VALVERDE, Juan de. De Animi et corporis Sanitate tuenda libellus. Venise: Dominicus Lilius, 1553. 50, [6] leaves. Including printer's woodcut device on title, repeated on final leaf recto, woodcut initials, woodcut text diagram, general index at end. Signatures: A-G8. Fol. D2v with brown spot, a few spots elsewhere, fol. D3r with contemporary annotation. [Bound with:] VALDAGNI, Giuseppe (VALDANIUS, Josephus). De Mistione Dialogi duo. Item Procli de Motu libri duo ab… Read More
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De conceptu et generatione hominis, et iis quae circa h(a)ec potissimum consyderantur, libri sex
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De conceptu et generatione hominis, et iis quae circa h(a)ec potissimum consyderantur, libri sex

by RUEFF, Jacob. [RYFF, Jakob or RUFF, Jacob]

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Zürich: C. Froschauer, 1554. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (200 x 140 mm). [4], 105, [1] leaves, Signatures: aa4 a-z4 A-B4 C6. Includes final blank and 65 (6 full-page) woodcut illustrations and historiated initials in text, errata on final leaf verso. Bound in near contemporary vellum, spine handlettered in ink, original endpapers (vellum dust-soiled and spotted, extremities rubbed, a little fraying to spine-ends). Housed in custom clamshell box. Text with minor even browning, title-page somewhat dust soiled and spotted, light waterstaining to second half, a bit stronger to 17 leaves, but in all quite clean and crisp. Provenance: Alistar Livingston Gunn, MD (bookplate to front pastedown), old ownership inscription to first flyleaf. A very good copy in untouched original binding. ---- FIRST EDITION of the improved version of Roesslin's "Rosengarten" with "the first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book" (Garrison-Morton). Jakob… Read More
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De lactibus sive lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere novo invento... dissertatio
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De lactibus sive lacteis venis quarto vasorum mesaraicorum genere novo invento... dissertatio

by ASELLI, Gaspare

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Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1627. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (245 x 188 mm). [8] (of [14], 79 [1], [8] pp., with the engraved author's portrait by Cesare Bassano, 4-leaf Index bound at end. Lacking the engraved title, two blanks and 3 preliminary leaves a2-5. With 3 (of 4) LARGE FOLDING CHIAROSCURO WOODCUT PLATES (lacking plate I), printed in black, dark red and light red bound at the beginning, woodcut initials and head-piece. All pages untrimmed, dampstaining and light browning throughout, occasional spotting, tear to plate IV without loss, minor fraying of leaf edges. Contemporary wrappers (damaged, front cover wanting). ----- Choulant-Frank, pp. 240-241; Garrison-Morton 1094; Grolier Medicine 26; Heirs of Hippocrates 453; NLM/Krivatsy 446; Norman 76; Osler 1846; Waller 502; Wellcome I:6837. - FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK WITH ANATOMICAL ILLUSTRATIONS PRINTED IN COLOR. In 1662, during a vivisection performed upon a dog… Read More
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De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum in duas partes divisum
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De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum in duas partes divisum

by LANCISI, Giovanni Maria

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Rome: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (347 x 230 mm). viii, 160, [2] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Jakob Frey after Sebastian Conca, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by C. Gregori, engraved text illustration on p.123, errata leaf and 7 engraved plates of the heart and coronary system after N. Riccioli bound at end. 20th-century half vellum over xylographic paper covered boards, spine with gilt-lettered morocco label, red dyed edges. Light dampstaining to fore-margin of frontispiece, little uneven browning of text, very minor occasional spotting, light waterstaining to blank fore-margin of 7 text leaves, tear at upper corner of errata leaf repaired without loss, plates mounted on stubs and with some tears repaired. Provenance: Stanescu family (collection stamp with motto "Six luceat lux" and shelf-mark stamp to first free endpaper, faint red stamp to title-page, stamp… Read More
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De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitation: cum refutationibus Aemylii...
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De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitation: cum refutationibus Aemylii Parisani et Iacobi Primirosii in Londinensi collegio doctoris medici

by HARVEY, William

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Leyden: Johann Maire, 1639. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two parts in one volume. 4to (180 x 138 mm). [8], 267 [1], [2] 3-84 pp., including title with woodcut printer's device, separate half-title to second part, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, two engraved folding plates. The two unsigned leaves 'Ad lectorem' bound after first title. Signatures: (?)2 [pi]2 A-Kk4 Ll2 a-i4 l2. Pages 159-60 omitted. 19th century half sheep, spine lettered in gilt (leather dry and rubbed, upper spine chipped, light wear to extremities). Text only little browned throughout, occasional minor spotting, small hole in first title not affecting text. A very good copy internally. ---- Keynes 3; Heirs of Hippocrates 417; Grolier/Medicine 27 (first ed.); NLM/Krivatsy 5329; Parkinson and Lumb 1147; PMM 127 (first ed.); Waller 4089; Wellcome I, 3070; Norman 1006 (first ed.). - Third, but second complete, edition of the single most important and famous medical book ever… Read More
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De re medica libri octo. Acessere in primum eiusdem, Hieremiae Thriveri Brachelii commentarij...
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De re medica libri octo. Acessere in primum eiusdem, Hieremiae Thriveri Brachelii commentarij doctissimi: In reliquos verò septem, Balduini Ronssei Gandensis, Reipub. Goudanae medici enarrationes

by CELSUS, Aurelius Cornelius

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Leiden: Ex officina Plantiniana apud Fr. Raphalengium, 1592. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (213 x 155 mm). [24], 752, [16] pp. Title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, 3 large woodcut illustrations in text, general index and errata at end. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, spine with paper label lettered in manuscript, original endpapers (vellum browned and dust-soiled, original ties gone). Uneven browning of pages, smaller worm track to inner gutter of a few leaves, long clean tear at lower margin of leaf KK3, occasional minor spotting, numerous light text markings in pencil to first half. A very good copy in untouched original binding. ---- Adams C-1249; Wellcome I, 1405; NLM/Durling 921; Waller 1851; Garrison-Morton 20 (for 1st ed.) -"The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about AD 30 it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus's… Read More
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