Art & Medicine from Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books

Cambridge,: Oleander Press,, (1982).. ix, [i, blank], 111, [vii, blnak] pp. 8vo (14,5 x 21,5 cm.). Original cloth with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations. ¶ Van Rymsdyk was one of the greatest medical artists of the 18th century, who, i.a., was responsible for the immortal plates in the obstetrical atlases of Hunter, Smellie, and Jenty.

Paris,: Le François,, 1914.. [vi], 303, [v] pp. 8vo 14 x 21 cm.). Modern blind wrappers, original front cover mounted on first side, uncur and unopened. With 249 illustrations in black and white. ** A charming iconography of medical curiosities after famous painters and illustrators such as Rubens, Rambrandt, Breughel, Callot, Rowlandson, Gavarni etc. , accompagnied by the learned… Read more about this item

Paris,: Collection de L'Ecritoire,, 1933. [iv, blank], [ii], iv, 328, [iii] pp. Rual 8vo (14,5 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (some minute imperfections), unopened and uncut. With 30 vignettes and portraits in the text. Garrison & Morton 6621. A most charming anthology of French poetry by 33 different authors (i.a. Synphorien Champier,Jean Lebon, Clusius, J.-F Sacnmbe, Nicolas Ellain,… Read more about this item

Paris,: Librarie Plon,, 1925-1929.. 3 volumes: [iv], v, [i], 358, [ii]; [iv], iv, 414, [ii]; [iv], iii, [i], 252, [iv] pp. Small 4to. (15.5 x 20.5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, entirely uncut. Richly illustrated with 1351 plates and illustrations. ¶ A complete set of this great work. Comprises, I: Les Arts de l'Orient Classiques, Egypte, Chaldée, Assyrie; II: L'Art… Read more about this item

Paris,: Blaisot, Md. d'Estampes,, (n.d., ca. 1840).. A large folded lithographed plate (31 x 41 cm.) preserved in the original gilt lettered portfolio (10,5 x 16,5 cm.) ¶ A rare and slightly erotic lithograph printed by Auguste Bry..-- (Some scattered light foxing; spine of the portfolio partly slighly rubbed; some folds reinforced).

Paris, ,: Plon-Nourit,, 1909.. 2 volumes, text: xv, [i], 270 with some figures & atlas viii pp., 130 plates (1-110 & 87bis-107bis). Large folio (28,5 x 37 cm.). In sheet as published, uncut and preverved under the original printed wrappers. Complete with the orginal publisher's half cloth portfolio (spine faded and slightly worn; the boards dust soiled). Over 300… Read more about this item

Paris,: Garnier Frères,, (1903).. [iv], xxiii, [i], 490, [ii]pp. 8vo (14,5 x 21 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With a frontispiece and 238 illustrations in the text. ¶ Best and most complete French edition of Wright's famous work. Wright was one of the founders of the British Archaeological Society and several British bibliophile societies.

Den Haag,: Mouton,, (ca. 1965).. ix, 222, [ii] pp. 4to. Original cloth, with coloured dust-jackets. With 95, partly coloured, plates and illustrations. Plokker's work 'Geschonden Beeld' (1962), was translated into most European languages. This standard work on the art of the insane, comprises documents and testimonies of great interest for psychopathology and esthetics. Herrlinger/Putscher, Geschichte der medizinischen Abb. II,… Read more about this item

Paris,: Librarie Plon,, (1953).. [VI], VI, 177, [III] pp. 8vo. (15 x 19.5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 29 text figures and 50 plates. Richer, artist at "la Salpêtrière" put the study of medicine in relation to art upon a sound footing. See Garrison & Morton 6605-07. This classic was originally published in 1906. Nice copy