Search Results: Authors starting with V from Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Pisa: Giovannelli, 1762. 1st edition. 4to. xv, 131, [1]pp. 197 x 160 mm. covered with paper wrappers, not bound. wrappers are faded and chipped. minor worming, with a little browing and foxing, otherwise good. FIRST EDITION. On the physiological processes involved in nutrition and the life processes of growth and aging. About fifty pages are devoted to nutrition and food. and about twenty to aging and prolonging life. Hirsch. Blake 467. .

Washington, D. C.: J. and G.S. Gideon, 1845. Morse Code Vail, Alfred (1807-59). Description of the American electro magnetic telegraph: Now in operation between the cities of Washington and Baltimore. 24pp. Woodcut text illustrations. Washington: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. 221 x 140 mm. Bound with 2 other works on the telegraph in 19th century boards, cloth backstrip, hand-lettered spine label and library label, corners worn. Light toning but very good. Library bookplate. First Edition. Probably the first publication of the standardized Morse code, the first widely used data code. On May 24, 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse transmitted the first telegraph message ("What hath God wrought?") on an experimental telegraph line strung between Baltimore and Washington D.C., using the version of "Morse code" that became standard in the United States and Canada. The recipient of the message was Albert Vail, Morse's partner in developing the telegraph. Vail, who had worked with Morse since 1837, expanded Morse's… Read More

Berlin: Veit, 1841. 1st edition.

Braunschweig: F Vieweg, 1914.

Munich & Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928. Valier, Max (1895-1930). Raketenfahrt. viii, 252pp. Text illustrations. Munich & Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1928. 216 x 137 mm. Text illustrations. Original pictorial soft covers, slightly worn. Very good. Inscribed by Valier on the title: "Frl. Dr. Gertie Guckenheimer in Hochschatzung und Freundschaft zugeeignet. Mit Kamaradschaftlichen Grüssen Max Valier Berlin 11.11.1928." The rare paperback version of the fifth printing. .

Brussels: Janssens-Deffossé, 1853. Vallez, Prosper Josephus (1811-94). Traité théorique et pratique de médecine oculaire. [4], v, 592pp. Brussels: Janssens-Deffossé, 1853. 219 x 137 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine a bit dulled. Very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Philippe Ricord on the half-title: "A Monsieur le Docteur Ricord à Paris Hommage respectueux de l'auteur Dr. Vallez Bruxelles 12.6.56." First Edition. Vallez was professor of general ophthalmic surgery at the University of Brussels. .

Print: 75x70 mm. Mount: 129x121 mm. Mounted on paper with hand colored boarder.

1524. Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533). The surgeon and the peasant. Engraving, 116 75 mm., matted. Signed within the plate with Lucas's initial "L" and dated 1524. 2 or 3 very small and unobtrusive repairs. Very good impression. . Lucas's famous engraving of a typical barber-surgeon at work. "It has been suggested that this engraving is a subtle indictment of the barber-surgeon. He is shown wearing elegant attire, whereas his patient is portrayed as a poor country bumpkin. In the artistic language of the day the large, heavy purse below the surgeon's right arm signalled an undue preoccupation with money" (Rutkow, Surgery: An Illustrated History, p. 121). Lyons & Petrucelli, Medicine: An Illustrated History, p. 383 (illustrating the engraving). .

Philadelphia & New York: Lea & Febiger, 1913. xii, 17-476pp. Text illustrations. 202 x 137 mm. Original cloth, a bit shaken, spine faded. Bookplate. Good+.

Paris: Baillière, 1854. Amussat, Jean Zuléma (1796-1856). De la possibilité de redresser d'une manière permanente l'utérus en rétroversion par la soudure du col à la partie postérieure et supérieure du vagin. 16pp. Paris: Hennuyer et Cie., 1851. 217 x 132 mm. Bound with 10 other papers on uterine diseases plus an Autograph Letter signed to Ricord in 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine a bit rubbed and faded. Uneven foxing and toning, a few images and inscriptions trimmed, but very good. From Philippe Ricord's library, with a presentation letter to him from one of the authors in this volume bound in; see letter f below. Hôpital Cochin stamp on the title-leaf of the Velpeau paper (see below). First Edition. Amussat, a skilled and innovative surgeon, is best known today for performing the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (Garrison-Morton.com 3442) and for being one of the first to point out the risks of venous air embolism during surgery (Garrison-Morton.com… Read More

Paris: Galerie Contemporaine.

Washington: Duff Green, 1835. VELPEAU, Alfred A. M. (1795-1867). New elements of operative surgery. . . . With an appendix of notes, by Granville Sharp Pattison (1792-1851). 8vo. xxxv [1], 912pp. Washington: Duff Green, 1835. 208 x 136 mm. Sheep c. 1835, a little rubbed, front hinge tender. Foxed and browned, as is common with American books of this period, but very good overall. 19th cent. signature of Clement C. Speiden on front endpaper. First Edition in English of Garrison-Morton 5592, Velpeau's Nouveaux elements de medecine operatoire (1832). Velpeau's Nouveaux elements was the most comprehensive surgical treatise of mid-nineteenth century France; it included important sections on plastic operations, with important historical information and an original classification of the main plastic surgical procedures. Velpeau is remembered eponymically for his description of Velpeau's hernia (femoral hernia external to the great vessels), and for Velpeau's bandage, designed to support the arm in luxation… Read More

The Hague, 1991.

New York: Bremer Press, 1934.

Novato, 2007. Deluxe signed edition, limited to 26 copies.

San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1999. Deluxe limited edition limited to 26 signed and numbered copies.

Venice: Joan. Anton. et Jacobus de Franciscus, 1604. Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64). Anatomia: Addita nunc postremo etiam antiquorum anatome. Folio. [8, including engraved title by Francisco Valegio], 510, [46], [20]pp. Woodcut text illustrations by Joannes Criegher after the original Vesalian woodcuts. The last 20 pages consist of a separately titled appendix: Universa antiquorum anatome tam ossium, quam partium & externarum, & internarum ex Rufo Ephesio medico antiquissimo: Tribus tabellis explicate per Fabium Paulinum . . . Venice: apud Joan. Anton. et Iacobum de Franciscis, [1604]. 318 x 216 mm. Modern vellum. Margins of first and last signatures repaired, title a bit soiled, half-title (Cushing's *1) bound after engraved title (Cushing's *2), signature Xx bound after Yy. Upper margin of title inscribed "Inclita Nationis Polona Patavii Sumptibus," faint ownership inscription dated 1677 on verso title, partly effaced inscription ("Sumptibus nationis emptus") on dedication leaf. Very good./p> Fifth… Read More

San Francisco: Norman, 1999. 1st edition. Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, first published in 1543 is, along with William Harvey's classic work from 1628 on the discovery of the circulation of the blood, one of the two most famous books in the history of medicine. A cornerstone of the scientific revolution, published the same year as Copernicus's monumental treatise on the heliocentric universe, De humani corporis fabrica inaugurated the modern study of anatomy, leading to the eventual overturn of the Galenic system that had dominated medical science for fourteen centuries. Illustrated with woodcuts by artists in the school of Titian that have for centuries remained standard icons of medical literature, Vesalius's work is also a classic of sixteenth-century graphic art. When it was originally published in the mid-sixteenth century its Latin text guaranteed its accessibility to an international medical and scientific audience, all of whom had been educated to read and write Latin.… Read More

1669. Speilmann, The Iconography of Andreas Vesalius (1925) no. 9, pp. 153-55, plate. 46.