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Paris,: Librarie E. le Francois,, 1926.. 308, [iv] pp. 8vo. (14.5 x 19 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. One of the most charming of author's series "Les curiosités de la Médecine".

Paris,: Albin Michel,, (1930-1931). 3 volumes; 384, 384, 384, pp. Sm. 4to (14 x 185, cm.). . Original illustrated wrappers, uncut. With 136 folded plates. ¶ Fine copy of this remarkable Pathalogie Litteraire, perhaps Cabanès best, but certainly most charming, work. Finely illustated. Included are: Baudelaire, Byron, Chateaubriand, Molière, Pascal, Shelley, Wagner, La Fontaine, Rousseau, Rétif de la Bretonne, Saint-Pierre, Lamennais, Auguste Comte, Alfred de Muset, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, de Concours (bros), Hoffman, Swift, Quincey, Coleridge, Cooper, Tennyson, Heine, Chopin, Gogol, Gontcharov, Lermontov, Dostoievsky.

Paris,: Crapart, Caille et Ravier,, An XII - 1804.. xii, 438 pp. 8vo (14 x 20,5 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine gilt decorated (faded) and lettered on a red morocco label (corners slightly rubbed, hingle worm but firm, top of spine damaged). ** First edition. Cabanis, "close friend of Condorcet. Taught hygiene at the École Centrales (from 1794), was assistand to Corvisart, and taught history of medicine in the Ëcole de Santé in Paris. ... His principal work in medicine, 'Coup d'oeil sur les révolutions et sur la réform de la médecine' , advocates methodically gathered tables of observations and experiments as the basis for reforms in treatment and medical instructions" (DSB). Copy with ample margins.

(Madrid),: Espasa-Calpe,, 1934. 93, [iii] pp. Small 4to (15 x 19 cm.). Orihinal half cloth over printed boards. With 6 plates and numerous text figures. ¶ A charming introduction to microscopy and microbiology, published in the series "Libros de la Naturaleza".

Monticello: Pepsin Syrup Company,, (n.d., ca. 1915).. 32 pp. Small 8vo (12 x 17 cm.).Original illustrated wrappers. With several portraits. Fine clean copy. Cadwell's Syrup Pepsin,the perfect laxative. Added: A letter in type-script on the Pepsin Syrup Company's stationery inviting the recipient to obtain a free sample bottle of this nostrum. The original coupon is preserved.

Amsterdam,: Rodopi,, 1985.. [vi], 207, [iii] pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm). Original printed limp wrappers. With 12 illustrations. ¶ pp. 178-199 is a chronological arranged bibliography of Camper's publication 1746-1804 (197 entries). --(Nieuwe Nederlandse bijdragen tot de geschiedenis der geneeskunde en der natuurwetenschappen ; no. 12).

T'Antwerpen,: By den Weduwe van Jean François Lucas,, 1725.. 3 parts in one volume: [xvi], 78, [i]; [iv], 30, i]; [ii], 86, [ii] pp. Small 8vo (10 x 16 cm.). Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands and in compartments gilt (top & bottom of spine slightly damaged; hinges slightly worn, but firm; corners a bit bumped; title shield gone). With an engraved title vignet and some headings. ¶ The last part has a separate title page: CLARIUS ET MAJUS LUMEN PHARMACOPAEORUM Dat is een claerder en meerder licht der Apothekers. Alwaer wordt voor gestelt eene sekere maniere, hoe dat eenige Medicynen moeten bereyt gemaeckt worden, soo Galenicé, als Chimicé, alles met redenen bewesen dienende tot onderwysinge van de Leerlingen. [woodcut vignet] T'Antwerpen, Joannes Franciscus Lucas, 1725. Van der Aa II, 56; Blake 77.-- (First blank end-paper gone; some occasional light foxing, but all together a very acceptable copy of a rare book).

Barcelona,: por Juan Francisco Piferrer,, (1798).. 8pp. Small folio (20 x 28 cm.). 19th century marbled boards (discoloured; spine worn.) ¶ A rare decree, issued by King Don Carlos ordering a three percent tax on Hospitals, orphanages, hospices etc.

New York,: Bramhall,, (1961).. 128 pp. Large 4to. Original cloth with dust-jacket (jacket slightly soiled). With numerous plates and illustrations (many rare pictures). ¶ This book recalls in words and pictures the fads, folies, and foibles of self-doctoring in Grandpa's day.

Bruxelles,: Adolphe Mertens,, 1877.. 53, [iii, blank] pp. Large 8vo (16,5 x 24 cm.). Original tinted lithographed wrappers (slightly soiled and a few small marginal tears; spine reforced), uncut. With 2 folded plates. ** Very rare, only a few copies known. Debaisieux's report presented to the Scretary of Internal Affairs about the development of medical and dental education in the U.S.A. as presented at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.

Lyon,: Association Typographique,, 1889.. 56 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (foxed), uncut and unopened. Chambaud was physician of the Service de Santé Militaire.

Paris,: Octave Doin,, 1888.. [ii], 167, [i blank] pp. 12mo (11,6 17,8 cm.). Original green, gilt lettered publisher's cloth. A quite rare work in which the author, a pharmacist from Paris, gives for the first time a practical description for the preparation of Pepsin which, those days, was lacking in the European pharmacopoiea. A very detailed study with history information. Concluded by a bibliography on Pepsin. This work was originally published in1887 as a thesis (Ecole Supérieure de la Pharmacie, Paris, 1887). According to the World Cat. held in only 3 libraries worldwide.

Paris,: Librarie des Communes,, (n.d. ca. 1850). [iv], 320 pp. Small 8vo. (12 x 18 cm.). Contemporary half cloth, spine gilt lettered. With a frontispiece, numerous text figures and 3 plates (all wood engravings). Good copy of this popular manual. The frontispiece and 3 plates showing the Horse and its anatomy.

Toledo,: Cheney & CO,, (n.d., ca. 1890),. 4 Leaflets with a total of 16 pages, 13,5 x 21 cm. With a few illustrations. Added is a leave with the sworn oath that Cheney "will pay the sum of 100 Dollars for each and avery case of Catarrh that cannot be cures by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure". Signed by Cheney and a Notary Public

(Paris,, ca. 1890).. Wood-engraving by G. Lemoine after Chéret's famous large lithograph. Advertisement clipped from a French magazine (probably L'Illustration). Size 12,3 x 35 cm. A very decorative advertisement, especially when framed.

(Worlg),: Perliner,, (1981).. 255, [i] pp. Large 4to. Original cloth with pictorial dust jacket. With numerous photographs by the author, of which many full colour and double-page. A most interesting account of this remarkable aspect of 'medicine'. The pictures showing famous Philippine healers in, often bloody actions, reaching into patient's bodies to perform their healing.

Paris,: J.-B. Baillière,, 1879.. 60, [iii] pp. 8vo (16,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With one plate drawn and engraved by P, Galland, printed by A. Wulliam of Lyon. ¶ Thesis> Laboratoire de Médecine de la Faculté de Médeciine de Lyon. --(name cut from title-page).

Leipzig,: Leopoald Voss,, 1841.. xxi, [i0, 434 pp. Small 8vo (13,5 x 21 cm.). Original black buckram. ¶ Good copy of the reprint edition, München, 1926. All published. Garrisonn & Morton, 6753: "This is one of the best check list of the printed works of the older medical writers..."The first edition appeared in 1828.

Utrecht,: J.L. Beijers,, 1952.. 164 pp. 8vo (13,3 x 25 cm.). Original printed wrappers. One of the most remarkable antiquarian bookseller's catalogue published on thsi subject. 691 entries, carefully described with notes and bibliographycal references. Introduction and indexes of Greek and Latin authors; Humanists and scholars; printers (15th-16th century).

London,: The Bibliographycal Society., 1911.. xxxii, 119, [i, blank] pp. Small 4to (17,7 x 22,5 cm.). Original half buckram with grey boards (small ink stain on front side), uncut and unopened. A classic English work on the subject. Frinely printed on hand-made paper by Blades, East and Blades.