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London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. leather_bound. Orig full tan morocco, gilt spine title, raised bands. Teg. Fine. 202 pages. 21 x 13 cm. Limited edition, copy 14 of 1450. Harvey, refusing to believe what he was taught, was the first to understand and explain circulation. One of the major books in the history of medicine. Issued on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration of the first publication of the text of De Motu Cordis. Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen on Dutch paper.

Birmingham: M. Swinney for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1792. Second edition. Hardcover. Vols. I-II contemporary marbled boards rebacked in brown calf with leather spine labels; Vol. III in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, corners worn, boards rubbed, spine foot worn. 3 vols. Very good. 1151 pages Vols. I-II, and 503 pages Vol. III. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Illustrated with eight plates, five fold-outs, one plain and two in color. First published 1776 in two volumes (titled A BOTANICAL ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH VEGETABLES.....), Vol.III, a first edition, 1792 describes cryptogamia only. "This edition, was rendered especially valuable by the addition of `a new set of references to figures.'" were by Jonathan Stokes (Vols. I-II) and Stokes and Withering (Vol.III). "Sir J.E. Smith considered, that Stokes performed with great judgment the laborious task of examining almost every figure, throughout the whole botanical library, which was referable to any British plant, and of disposing citations of the whole in… Read More

London: J. Johnson, 1804. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards. Very good. 3 vols. 567, 528 & 534 pages. 26 page index., errata for each volume. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. First published 1796. Forty-seven engraved copper-plates in total -- 22 (Vol, I), 10 (Vol.II), 15 (Vol.III). A divine and man of letters, the author studied at the university of Edinburgh. "Gregory was for the most part self-educated, and acquired a very credible amount of erudition." [see: DNB p.836]. Overall a clean firm copy; scattered, intermittent age-toning; moderate extremity rubbing; Vol. I lacks leather spine label; chipping to remaining spine labels. Bookplates.

London: T. Cox, 1729. First edition. Boards. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt cover fillets, rebacked, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine.. 216 pages. [A8-O8,P7]. 20 x 13 cm. Four pages of publisher adverts following text [A4]. Engraved title page vignette. One of the most influential medical men of his age, physician to the Hanoverian Court, imprisoned for his Jacobite sympathies, he exerted a significant influence on contemporary medical theory and practice. He was appointed physician to Queen Caroline, a post he held until his death. This work published 1702, a treatise on the nature of of menstrous purgation. Modest text browning, overall a firm and tight copy.

San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated gray cloth. Very good. 86 pages. List of Officers, 1930-1960. Membership Roll. Biographies of deceased pastpresidents, fifteen in total. Index. Partly unopened. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.

San Francisco: California Academy of Medicine, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards and niger back. Very good. 186 pages. Eighteen full-page photographs. References. Index. Four page facsimile pamphlet on tan paper inserted. Limited edition, one of 970 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Spine darkened. GRABHORN PRESS 141.

London: J. Nourse, 1759. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, double gilt border fillets. Very good. 396 pages. 21 x 13 1/2. Born in Scotland, Flemyng arrived London 1751 to teach physiology to nascent medical students who had not been to the Universities. This work contains the substance of his London lectures. The author was abreast of the best physiological teaching of the time, and an original experimenter and reasoner as well. In a letter to Haller he states that motor and sensory nerves are anatomically distinct, although they may exist in the same bundle -- the experimental proof come many years later. [see: DNB p.705]. Bookplate, fresh and clean copy, raised bands, chipping to backstrip extremities, but overall a firm copy.

Paris: Le Editions Du Valois, 1953. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine in fine portfolio in slightly nicked matching slipcase. Dubout. 192 pages. 26 x 21 cm, fifty-four colored lithographs (aquarelles) by Dubout, inimitably ribald and Gallic -- physicians, buffoons and cheeky bums. -- the original comedy produced Paris, 1923. Limited edition, copy 1002 of 2050. A fresh, bright, and clean copy.

Paris: Claude Jombert, 1722. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 119 pages [*7,A8-O8]. 13 1/2 x 9 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Italian physiologist, physician and professor, Santorio initiated his medical practice in Venice, 1599, where he became part of a learned circle that included Galileo. He invented a device he called the "pulsilogium" for measuring the pulse which was the first machine sytstem in medical history. His most famous experiments involve the study of bodily weight. This work made him famous throughout Europe. He was the first to apply a numerical scale to the thermoscope, which later evolved into the thermometer [see: PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 182]. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, red leather spine label printed in gilt, marbled boards, bookplate, backstrip worn head and foot, front cover joint cracked but firm.

London: W. and J. Newton et al., 1720. Second edition. leather_bound. Modern quarter brown calf with black leather spine label printed in gilt. and marbled boards. Fine.. 344 pages, Index (9) AND Preface (6), 116 pages re MEDICO-PHYSICAL ESSAYS containing a separate title page. 20 x 14 cm. Engraved frontispiece and folding plate. A medical writer apprenticed to an apothecary he practiced medicine in London, eventually earning a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. A dissenter, friend to Dr. Richard Mead and Dr. John Woodward, his ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, 1721 was widely popular going through many editions. Mild text browning.

New York: Borroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth boards with cover lettered and illustrated in gilt. Teg, silver endpapers with embossed star design. Fine, almost as new.. 160 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Describes every explorer, traveler, and missionary that carried with them a Tabloid Medical Kit. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs both in black and white and color. Crisp, exceptionally clean copy.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Publications in Culture and Society. Vol. 8. Bibliography. Index. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

Boston: Bililngs Clapp & Co, 1880. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 8 leaves. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary, perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within the squares that a child can copy to the accompanying blank. Front and back covers are chromolithographs.