Dominic Winter BMI 18th April High Res

DOMINIC WINTER BOOK AUCTIONS

BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL INSTITUTE PART I WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2012

Lot 154 • Front Cover: Lot 374

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BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL INSTITUTE THE RARE BOOK COLLECTION PART I: HIPPOCRATES TO JENNER Wednesday 18 April 2012 Lots 1-455 commencing at 11am

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ADDITIONAL NOTES ON DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITION

All the books bear a BMI ink library stamp on the title-page and most of the plates. Examples of these stamps, which are usually light, can be seen throughout the catalogue. The Birmingham General Hospital oval ink stamps are found in some of the books in addition to the BMI stamp. These are larger and darker and besides title-pages and some plates these are often to be found in or near the lower margin of the rectos scattered through each volume. These stamps are simply identified as 'library stamp' or 'library stamps' in each case. There are additionally bookplates of Birmingham Library, Birmingham Medical Library and Johnstone family, as well as gift bookplates which have been noted in each case.

Many of the books were rebound in maroon library cloth in the late 19th century with the title, date and BMI ownership name stamped on the spine. These bindings have not been described in any detail and buyers unable to view the sale should expect to receive a book commensurate with its age, given its institutional provenance. Modern restoration and binding, as noted in the descriptions, has been carried out to a high professional standard but these books too bear the name of the BMI on the spine and all these institutional markings should be borne in mind by prospective bidders.

Whilst we seek to describe lots accurately, it may be impractical for us to carry out exhaustive due diligence on each lot. Prospective buyers are given ample opportunities to view and inspect before any sale and they (and any independent experts on their behalf) must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of any description applied to a lot. Prospective buyers also bid on the understanding that, inevitably, representations or statements by the Auctioneer as to authorship, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price involve matters of opinion. We undertake that any such opinion shall be honestly and reasonably held and accept liability for opinions given negligently or fraudulently. Subject to the foregoing neither the auctioneer nor our employees or agents nor the seller accept liability for the correctness of such opinions and all conditions and warranties, whether relating to description, condition or quality of lots, express, implied or statutory, are hereby excluded.

However, notwithstanding this condition and subject to the further provisions of this and the following two paragraphs as set forth below, property may be returned by the purchaser, the sale rescinded and the purchase price refunded under the following conditions: (1) printed books which prove upon collation to be defective in text or illustration (provided such defects are not indicated within the catalogue or at the sale), and (2) autographs which prove not to be genuine (if this can be demonstrated and if not indicated in the catalogue or at the sale).

Printed books are not returnable for defects not affecting text and illustration, including, but not limited to, lack of half-titles, lists of plates, binder's instructions, errata, blanks or advertisements. No returns will be accepted unless written notice, by registered mail or receipted courier, is received by the Auctioneer within fourteen (14) days of the sale of the property and the property is returned in the same condition as it was at the time of sale.

No lot is returnable on account of property included but not specifically named and described in such lot. Lots containing three or more titles, whether named or unnamed, and selling for two hundred pounds (ÂŁ200) or less, exclusive of buyer's premium, are sold not subject to return for any reason. Books not described in full have not necessarily been collated and are not guaranteed.

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FOREWORD It has sadly become necessary to sell the Birmingham Medical Institute (BMI) Collection of Historical Medical Books. A survey of the foundation of this collection by former honorary librarian and bibliophile Dr Brian Gough is given below. The collection has been stored for the past seventy years by the University of Birmingham and, until recently, was housed in the basement of the Barnes Library at the Birmingham Medical School. Essential development of a Conference Centre at the Birmingham Medical Institute, at a time of reduction of medical education, has caused loss of income and consequent financial stringency. In order to continue services to members, the Council of the Institute decided that it had become necessary to raise money and that books no longer in current use had to be sold in order to keep the Institute solvent. Reluctant selling of the antiquarian book collection proved to be the only means available to obtain necessary funding. Breaking a book collection by sale at auction is comparable to selling Old Master paintings from a country house in order to pay taxes. However, in adversity comes opportunity, and sales of rare collections such as this opens up the prospect of making individual books available to new libraries and collectors worldwide. It is hoped that this proves to be the outcome for the BMI rare books collection and that these books take on a new lease of life elsewhere.

Professor Keith Shinton President, Birmingham Medical Institute April 2012

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Birmingham Medical Institute – A Brief History of the Library (An edited version of an article written in 1986)

The opening of the Birmingham General Hospital in 1779 was one manifestation of the wealth derived from the industrial revolution and in particular from Boulton’s Soho Manufactory. The next century saw even more spectacular growth, and medicine, by the foundation of the Medical School in 1825, of the Queen’s Hospital in 1840 and of a number of specialist hospitals, was not behind. Many new doctors were drawn to the town, both to serve the hospitals and general practice. Medical societies were formed and met in hotels or the houses of members. Several medical libraries were available but had restricted membership, though that at the General Hospital was available to local practitioners. The Birmingham Library, largely founded by Joseph Priestley, had an important medical section open to members.

A more comprehensive and up-to-date library was wanted by the increasing medical population which grew from 178 in the borough in 1861 to 230 in 1881. It was left to George Fabian Evans, physician to the General Hospital, to make a start. He retired in 1868 and received a generous testimonial from friends and patients and was able to bequeath £1000 to found a medical library. The object of the legacy aroused considerable interest and donations were received of an additional £2000. Also the Ingleby Fund, set up by the son of a former Professor of Midwifery, gave £5000 in trust.

In 1875, the Birmingham Medical Institute (BMI) was launched with temporary rooms in Queen’s College, Paradise Street and a special committee started to create a library. The driving spirit seems to have been Lawson Tait. He had been in Birmingham for only five years but had already made a name for himself both in surgery and in the public life of the borough. The existing libraries indicated their willingness to co-operate. The General Hospital provided 2000 books, many having come from the library of the physicians Edward and James Johnstone including Edward Johnstone’s manuscript catalogue and many with the Johnstone bookplate. The Birmingham Library handed over 2722 medical works and the Midland Medical Society its library of 439 books. Lawson Tait approached Oscott College which had an ancient library presented by a nobleman and was able to purchase some medical books, though later the Rev. Dr Northcote did have to beg for a few to be returned. Mr Taylor of Bennett’s Hill sold his collection for £125 and “the books of a deceased practitioner were purchased”.

Of the 6826 volumes now assembled there were naturally many duplicates and many were in a bad state of repair, that had to be sewn, rebound and lettered head and tail. The disposal of the duplicates was a considerable problem. A thousand lists of duplicates and desiderata were circulated and many exchanges were made with libraries and individuals. New books were bought as well as a wide selection of journals including many from Europe. A new BMI building was erected in the newly developing Edmund Street, with a library on the first floor. The opening took place with in December 1889 by the Mayor of Birmingham. Henceforward the library became an important part of Midland medical life. During the Great War the building was taken over by the RAMC but when the war ceased the inevitable financial crisis forced a sale of the premises. A warehouse in Great Charles Street enabled the library and the shelving to be moved to this new site. In 1939, because of the risk of war damage, the older books were packed in tea chests and stored at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston where they remained until the fifties. The cases were then re-opened, the books put in order, to some extent restored and a catalogue made. In March 1955 an exhibition was mounted for the visit of the Medical Section of the Library Association to Birmingham.

The building in Great Charles Street was soon to be taken over for road widening, the Institute being moved to its present site at 36 Harborne Road but the reading room had to house the current books and journals. Suggestions were made that the historical books should be sold and in fact some duplicates went to Sotheby’s. The then Dean of the Birmingham Medical School, Sir Arthur Thomson, persuaded the Institute members that the solution would be to put the historical books on permanent loan to the University to be stored at the Barnes Library at the Medical School. In return members were entitled to

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full use of the University Library, then a valuable concession to those who were not graduates of the University or members of the teaching staff.

A few books had been rebound largely by the generosity of the Wellcome Foundation but at that period it was extremely difficult to persuade binders anywhere in the country to accept such a commission for a large number of books that needed major attention. Gradually the University Bindery, at the expense of the Wellcome Foundation, the British Library and the BMI, worked over the years to put almost all in fine condition. The four thousand volumes now make a very handsome showing but as they are locked away in the basement of the Barnes Library it is not easy to view them.

The present list typifies the nineteenth century medical library of which not many remain intact. There are no incunables but several early sixteenth century books, e.g. William of Occam, Hippocrates, and John of Gaddesden’s ‘Rosa anglica’ [1502]. But the most spectacular are the great herbals and anatomical folios. The first published anatomy drawn from cadaver by a great but anonymous artist was that of Vesalius and we have the second and better 1555 edition of ‘De humani corporis fabrica’. A manuscript note by Dr James Johnstone who had presented it to the General Hospital claims that Titian was the artist though this is now known to be untrue. So good were the designs that they were copied for many years, sometimes without acknowledgement. This annoyed Vesalius who particularly condemned an English plagiarist, Geminus, for poor execution although the engraved plates compare very favourably with the original woodcuts. This can be seen in ‘Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineatio aere exarata’ which has an English text, oddly not a translation of Vesalius. Later Vesalian illustrations can be found for instance, in Helkiah Crooke’s ‘Microcosmographia; a description of the body of man… ’ printed by Shakespeare’s printer Jaggard in 1616, and in the pocket version of the same of which we have the second edition of 1634 edited by Alexander Read.

Vesalius was not alone in attempting a strictly accurate anatomy. His contemporary Eustachius was making his own excellent drawings and engraved plates were ready for the printer when the appearance of ‘De fabrica’ deterred him from going ahead. Not until the early eighteenth century were they found in the Papal Library and published by Lancisi in 1714. We have this as well as the edition of 1728. In 1702 Clopton Havers, remembered for his description of the Haversian Canals in his ‘Osteologia nova’ of 1691, edited a century old work under the title ‘The anatomy of man and woman… so disposed by pasting that all the parts… are exactly represented in their proper site’. Our copy is unusually complete for this rare and fragile piece.

To go back a century, Heironymus Fabricius (of Aquapendente), who was Harvey’s teacher at Padua, stirred his interest in reproduction by ‘De formato foetu’ of 1600, and in the circulation; the illustration of the valves in the veins is shown in ‘Opera anatomica’, our edition being of 1625. Harvey adapted the plate in ‘De motu cordis et sanguinis circulation…’ 1666 to demonstrate the flow of blood towards the heart whereas Fabricius suggested the valves prevented a too rapid flow away from the heart. While we have several seventeenth century copies of ‘De generatione animalium’, including the first edition in Latin of 1651 and the first English translation of 1653, we have no early copies of ‘De motu cordis’.

Harvey’s innovative approach to physiology was an important element in the work of the group of scientists who were to form the Royal Society after the Restoration of Charles II. Our strong representation of this period includes Willis ‘Cerebri anatome…’ 1664, with illustrations of the Circle of Willis by Christopher Wren; Boyle ‘New experiments physico-mechanicall touching the spring of the air… ’ 1660; Lower ‘Tractatus de corde… ’ 1671, the Elsevir printing; Mayow ‘Tractatus duo… ’ 1669; and his ‘Tractatus quinque… ’ 1674; and many others.

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John Graunt is not much remembered today but his ‘Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality’, of which we have the third edition of 1665, was the first study of the use of statistics. He used the weekly list of deaths with their amateur diagnoses to make astonishing calculations about society.

By the eighteenth century anatomies were still important and we have Cheselden ‘Osteographia, or, the anatomy of the bones’ 1733; Bidloo ‘Anatomia humani corporis’, 1685, and its English translation revised

by Albinus of Leyden, 1737. A particular treasure is Albinus ‘Dissertatio secunda de sede et caussa coloris Aethiopium…’ 1737, not for its scientific content but because it is one of the earliest examples of multicolour printing as opposed to the tinting of a simple engraving. L’Admiral was the printer of a section of negro skin.

However the growth area of medicine was obstetrics when the forceps secretly introduced by the Chamberlens in the seventeenth century, but not generally known until the eighteenth, made serious intervention in labour possible. We have Hugh Chamberlen’s translation of the standard French work by Mauriceau ‘The diseases of women with child and in child-bed…’ 1716; naturally, there is no mention of forceps. ‘The compleat midwife’s practice’ 1680 came from the French as did Mrs Jane Sharp ‘The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifery improv’d’ 1724. An English midwife, Mrs Elizabeth Nihill, wrote ‘A treatise on the art of midwifery’ 1760 in which she criticised men-midwives with Smellie as her particular target; but it was he who really put obstetrics on a scientific basis with a series of textbooks and the magnificent ‘A sett of anatomical tables’ 1754.

The end of the century saw a new burst of scientific work from John Hunter and we have a very full collection of the works of both John and William Hunter and many of their pupils. We have the first and second editions of Jenner ‘An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae… known as the cow-pox’, 1798 and 1800; also such masterpieces as Addison ‘On the constitutional and local effects of diseases of the supra-renal capsules’, 1855, and Bright ‘Reports of the medical cases… illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by reference to morbid anatomy’, 1827-31.

The important specialty of dentistry is remarkably well represented John Hunter, of course, together with Fox ‘The natural history and disease of the human teeth’, 2nd ed. 1814; Thomas Bell ‘The anatomy, physiology and diseases of the teeth’, 1829; and Tomes ‘A course of lectures on dental physiology and surgery…’ 1848. Earlier Joseph Hurlock wrote a major work, ‘A practical treatise upon dentition or the breeding of teeth in children’ 1742, but even earlier the ‘De chirurgica’ of the eleventh century Arabian writer Albucasis, described and illustrated methods of cleaning and wiring teeth.

Robert Bunon’s ‘Essay sur les maladies des dents…’ 1743, also described the development of the teeth while Jourdain-Berchillet in ‘Traite des maladies et des operations reellement chirurgicales de la bouche… ’ 1778 dealt with the surgery of the maxillary region.

This brief survey of the Birmingham Medical Institute Collection of Historical Medical Books explains how it was formed, maintained and housed from the 19th to the 21st Century.

Dr Brian Gough Honorary Librarian Birmingham Medical Institute 1986

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PROVENANCE NOTES Below are given brief details concerning some of the individual book donors and inscribers. There are strong connections with the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, founded in 1832 at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary. The Association's membership grew rapidly and in 1853 it extended its membership to London doctors and became the British Medical Association in 1856. There are also notable connections with the Lunar Society of Birmingham, founded in 1766 by William Small, Erasmus Darwin and Matthew Boulton. Among the original members of this small but brilliant body of men were William Withering and Joseph Priestley.

ALBERT BAKER

JOHN FREER (died 1857)

Baker was associated with Bell Fletcher in the foundation of Sydenham College, and was President of the B.M.A. at their Birmingham meeting in 1872. He was one of the original students in the first class of the Birmingham Medical School in 1825.

John Freer, surgeon, (?son of George) gained his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1809.In 1854 he was working in Sutton Coldfield , near Birmingham, and had formerly been 'Assistant Surgeon to the Royal North British Fusiliers, and Rifle Brigade, Waterloo'.

SIR GILBERT BARLING (1855-1940) JOSEPH SAMPSON GAMGEE, F.R.C.S., F.R.S.E., M.R.C.V.S. (1828-1886)

Barling joined the General Hospital staff as resident pathologist in 1880. From 1886-92 he was Professor of Pathology at Queen’s College, and in 1893 he was appointed Professor of Surgery, a post he held until 1913 when he became Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University.

Gamgee was surgeon to the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and introduced the use of absorbent cotton wool as a surgical dressing.

EDWARD JOHNSTONE, M.D. (1757-1851).

JOHN BARRITT MELSON M.D. (1811-1898)

Edward Johnstone was the first President of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association at its meeting in Worcester in 1832. He was one of the original physicians to the Birmingham General Hospital.

John Barritt Melson was a Birmingham physician, lecturer, city magistrate and preacher.

THOMAS BLACKALL F.R.C.P. (1814-1899).

JOHN JOHNSTONE, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.O., F.R.S. (1768-1836)

The identity of the Blackall bequested books has not been confirmed. This Thomas Blackall undertook his medical training at St. George's Hospital; following qualification, he served as a Visiting Physician on the Dreadnought Hospital-ship, as well as developing a practice in Mayfair. On the death of his father, in 1860, he inherited a fortune which enabled him to retire to Devon, where he was a known benefactor to local charities.

John Johnstone was brother of Edward, and was also a physician at the General Hospital.

JAMES JOHNSTONE, M.D., F.R.C.P. (1806-1869) James was a son of Edward Johnstone, and also became physician to the General Hospital. James Johnstone was elected first president of the British Medical Association.

JOHN BRAXTON HICKS F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (1823-1897) OLIVER PEMBERTON

John Braxton Hicks entered general practice in Tottenham, but in 1858 was recruited by Guy's Hospital as assistant obstetric physician. In 1868 he was promoted full obstetric physician at Guy's and in 1883 consulting physician. He also held appointments at St Mary's Hospital, the Royal Maternity Charity, and the Royal Infirmary. Braxton Hicks contractions are named after him.

Pemberton was Professor of Anatomy, and later of Surgery, in Birmingham Medical School. He objected strongly to the admission of homeopaths to membership of the Medical Institute at its foundation. Later he became Her Majesty’s Coroner for Birmingham.

SMALLWOOD SAVAGE F.R.C.S.

GEORGE FREER (1770-1823)

Honorary Surgeon, Birmingham Lying-in Wolverhampton Hospital for Women.

Freer, surgeon to the General Hospital, was the first surgeon to ligature successfully the external iliac artery for femoral aneurism. He was also the first surgeon in Britain to perform successfully a colostomy for intestinal obstruction.

Charity,

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SIR WILLOUGHBY FRANCIS WADE, M.D. (1827-1906) Wade was physician to the Queen’s Hospital, later transferring to the General Hospital.

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MEDICINE To commence at 11am

1 Abu al-Qasim. Chirurgia Albucasis. De cauterio cum igne, & medicinis acutis, per singula corporis humani membra. De sectione, perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulneribus, & extractione sagittarum, caeterisque similibus. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis membrorum.

Cum instrumentorum deliniationibus, Strasbourg: Joannes Schott, 1544 [1532], pp. [iv], 117-319 [1], lacks u1 (pp. 229-230, censored as depicting instruments for female circumcision), woodcut illustrations throughout including some full-page and one partly folding (z6), colophon dated 26 February 1532, faint library stamp to title, scattered old marginalia, some spotting, light browning and old dampstaining especially to margins of first and last few leaves, some dust-soiling to first and last leaves, a little worming to text, mostly pinhead hole but one short running wormhole affecting first fourteen leaves, bound with Tagault (Jean), [De chirurgica institutione libri quinque, 1st edition, Paris: Chrestien Wechel, 1543], woodcut initials and several illustrations including some full-page, errata leaf at rear with printer’s woodcut device to verso, lacks eight preliminaries (all of first quire (alpha) leaves 2 and 5 from delta; delta 3 and 4 duplicated and misgathered), some old dampstaining mainly to early leaves, occasional spotting or browning, a few minor wormholes touching letterpress of final few leaves, three extraneous leaves bound between the two works and one old flyleaf bound into second work before G4, library cloth, slightly frayed at head of spine and joints, folio (278 x 188mm) The first work has taken the sheets (l-2d6) from the last part of Priscianus, Octavii Horatiani rerum medicarum libri quatuor, his accessit sextus liber de materia chirurgica, authore Iacobo Hollerio Stempano, medico Parisiensi, Strasbourg: Joannes Schott, 1532 [Adams P2119; Durling 3764] and bound them with two new preliminaries (title, 3pp. index) as a separately issued work. An interesting coupling of two early printed and uncommon surgery works.

(1) ÂŁ2000-3000

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3 Academie Royale de Chirurgie. Memoires de l’Academie Royale de chirurgie..., volumes 1-5 only, new edition, Paris, 1787-69-78-8474, 84 engraved mostly folding plates, library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and browning, first volume slightly dampstained and with some paper holes from p. 783 to end, together with Prix de l’Academie..., Memoires sur les sujets proposes..., volume 5, Parts 1 & 2 only, Paris, 1798, plus Receuil des pieces qui ont concuru pour le prix..., volumes 2 & 3 only, 1757-86, library stamp to titles, some spotting, browning and occasional old dampstaining, library cloth, some rubbing and wear, white china ink titling to spines of last four volumes, 4to.

2 Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae. Acta physicomedica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae naturae curiosorum. exhibentia Ephemerides sive observationes, historias et experimenta, volumes 1-7 (of 10), Nuremberg, 1727-44, engraved frontispiece and two portraits before titles of volumes 1, 2, 4 & 5, frontispiece and single portrait to volume 3, Appendices and Supplements bound at rear of each volume, 85 mostly folding engraved plates (one double-page plate bound face down into spine) and three tables, library stamp to titles, plates and occasionally elsewhere, several volumes close-trimmed at upper margin, some spotting and soiling, old dampstaining at rear of last volume, library cloth, 4to.

Sold as a periodical not subject to return.

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Sold as a periodical not subject to return.

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£300-400

£300-400

4 Academie Royale des Sciences. Histoire de l’Academie Royale des sciences, (avec les memoires de mathematique & de physique pour la meme annee), Annee MDCXCIX [1699], Amsterdam, 1706, thirty mostly folding engraved plates and tables including frontispiece, occasional repaired tears, together with Suite des memoires de mathematique et de physique... de l’annee 1706[-07], 2 volumes, Amsterdam, 1708, 25 engraved plates, all volumes with titles printed in red and black, library stamps to titles and plates, some spotting and browning throughout, plus Academie Royale de Chirurgie, Memoires, Paris, volumes 1 (Parts 1 & 2), 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 1764/1774, , three half-titles and four frontispieces only, volume 1 part 2 with 21 engraved plates and volume 15 with five engraved plates, mostly folding, library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and soiling, old dampstaining to both volumes with plates, all library cloth, last volume damp-marked on lower cover, all 12mo.

Sold as a periodical not subject to return.

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£200-300

5 Adams (George). Micrographia Illustrata: or the Microscope Explained, in several New Inventions, particularly of a new variable microscope for examining all sorts of minute objects, and also of a new camera obscura microscope..., 4th edition, Printed for the author, 1771, seventy-two engraved plates including some folding, library stamp to title and plates, spotting throughout, old inscription to half-title, a few closed tears and marginal repairs without loss of text, later library cloth, spine browned and detached, 8vo (1)

£300-400

6 Adams (George). An Essay on Electricity, Explaining the Theory and Practice of That Useful Science and the Mode of Applying it to Medical Purposes, 3rd edition, 1787, engraved vignette title, nine folding engraved plates, occasional light foxing, final plate browned, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern full morocco gilt, 8vo First appearance of “Mode of Applying Electricity to Medical Purposes”. Contains a contemporary engraved bookplate of J. Flamank as well as a presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr G.H. Marshall.

(1) £200-300

Lot 5

Lot 6

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Lot 7

7 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Dissertatio secunda de sede et caussa coloris Aethiopum et caeterorum hominum. Accedunt icones coloribus distinctae, 1st edition, Leiden: Theodorum Haak, & Amsterdam: Jacob Graal & Henri de Leth, 1737, title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut head-piece, tail-piece and initial, 18 pages of text, including title, three-colour mezzotint plate on fold-out page by Jan L’Admiral, with single-rule border in gold leaf, very faint library stamp to title, and top blank margin of folding plate, some light browning to text leaves, contemporary vellum, with gilt library stamp to foot of upper cover, a little soiled, with modern cloth slipcase, 4to (255 x 205mm) Wellcome II, p. 26. Cushing, A-105. Heirs of Hippocrates 842. Franklin, Early Colour Printing, pp. 41-42. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), whose father Bernard Albinus was also a medical scientist and a professor of medicine at the University of Leiden, was one of the greatest anatomists of the 18th century.

His most important work was the Historia Musculorum Corporis Humani published in 1734. The present short work is an examination of the structure of black or Ethiopic skin pigment identified by Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). One of the first colour-printed anatomical illustrations ever published, being one of six anatomical illustrations produced by by Jan L’Admiral (1698-1773) for Albinus for separate publications. The painter Jan L’Admiral and his brother Jacob worked in the London studio of mezzotint colour printing inventor Jacob Christoph le Blon, although L’Admiral presented the technique as his own when he offered his services to Albinus in Leiden.

(1) £1500-2000

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8 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Icones ossium foetus humani, accedit osteogeniae brevis historia, 1st edition, Leiden: J. et H. Verbeek, 1737, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, sixteen engraved plates with accompanying outline plates on sixteen folding sheets, library stamp to title and plates (mostly away from images), some spotting, occasionally heavy, contemporary initials T.J.L.(?) and Birmingham Medical Institute presentation bookplate from Dr [Willoughby] Wade to front endpapers, library cloth, slightly rubbed and dampstained, 4to (245 x 195mm)

9 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii, anatomici summi... Accedit tabularum editio nova, Leiden: Langerak and Verbeek, 1744, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (both with small marginal repair), 89 engraved plates plus corresponding outline plates, privilege leaf at end, first few leaves a little soiled with light marginal dampstain, a few light spots, previous owner signature of Thomas Taylor, 1815 to halftitle, modern burgundy morocco-backed boards, folio ‘In this edition, each of Eustachius’ plates is supplemented by a separate outline plate of equal size on which the explanatory letters are engraved. The Eustachian plates in this edition, too, are newly engraved copies, different from those in the Amsterdam edition... The explanations of the plates are by Albinus’ (Choulant-Frank, p. 202). Wellcome II, p.26.

(1) £500-800

‘Albinus is particularly remembered for his descriptions of the bones, and this first edition of his treatise on fetal bones is one of his finest atlases. All of the fetal bones are illustrated with great detail and are finely lined in the sixteen plates and sixteen line drawings, but in no place is the total skeleton depicted’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 830); Choulant-Frank, p. 280; Wellcome II, p. 26.

(1) £500-800

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10 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeletons and Muscles... , [1749], plates only, thirty-five engraved plates and sixteen outline plates, a few marginal splits and closed tear repairs, long horizontal closed tear repair to plate of the front of a woman (after Bidloo), some spotting and soiling throughout, first plate heavily soiled with two library stamps, library stamp to other plate versos, modern quarter morocco over cloth, rubbed, large folio (625 x 460mm) (1)

11 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). [Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, John and Paul Knapton, 1749], 13 large copperengraved plates only (of 40, lacking text leaves), after Jan Wandelaar, each strengthened to verso with later paper, a few close-trimmed with dampstains, modern blue morocco-backed boards, folio ‘Among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases... Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas (present in this volume) depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741’ (Norman).

£700-1000

‘The splendid series of 40 large copperplates … established a new standard in anatomical illustration, and remain unsurpassed for their artistic beauty and scientific accuracy’ (G-M 399).

(1) £300-500

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12 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, John and Paul Knapton, 1749, vignette to title, twenty-eight engraved plates and twelve outline plates, closed tear repairs to margins of sheets [m] and [q], bound with A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves... , 1750, engraved vignette to title, five (of 7) engraved plates and four outline plates, lacking the second and third plate showing the front and back of a woman to follow sheet A, long horizontal closed tear repair across image of Table I across two of the figures, minor old marginalia to sheet N recto, index leaf at rear, library stamps throughout both works, most plates bearing two ink stamps, some spotting and soiling, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, covers near-detached, remains of backstrip loose but present, atlas folio (725 x 525mm) (1)

13 Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 2 parts in one volume, Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, for Andrew Bell Engraver, 1777-78, separate titlepages each bearing vignette engraving by Bell, 41 full-page engraved plates including 13 outline key plates, occasional light foxing, some offsetting of plates, 19th-century sheep-backed boards, worn and frayed, folio This Edinburgh edition was slightly smaller than the London printed first English edition of 1749. The plates, engraved by Andrew Bell, were used again in his Anatomia Britannica published at Edinburgh in 1798. Heirs of Hippocrates 833; Russell 7; Waller 339; Wellcome II, p. 26.

(1) £150-200

14 Allen (Benjamin). The Natural History of the Chalybeat and Purging Waters of England, Among which are treated at large, the Apoplexy & Hypochondriacism, To which are added some observations on the Bath waters in Somersetshire, 1st edition, 1699, a little spotting and soiling throughout, faint library stamp to title, lacks final quire of four leaves (indexes), library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

£1500-2000

Wing A1018.

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16 Andry de Boisregard (Nicolas). An Account of the Breeding of Worms in Human Bodies; Their Nature, and Several Sorts; Their Effects, Symptoms, and Prognostics. With the True Means to avoid them, and Medicines to Cure them, 1st edition in English, 1701, three folding engraved plates, occasional light spotting, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr. Blackall, later full brown morocco, 8vo ‘The first medical parasitology text - an exhaustive study of the parasites of man, the diseases associated with them and their treatment. Andry’s views were often ahead of his time. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he did not believe in the spontaneous generation of parasites but clearly stated that their seeds entered the body from outside sources and that some foods were particularly liable to contain them’ (G-M 2448.2).

(1) £200-300

17 Andry de Bois-Regard (Nicolas). De la generation des vers dans le corps de l’homme, Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1701, title printed in red and black, five engraved plates including one folding, folding plate with closed tear, library stamps to title and occasionally throughout, contemporary vellum, 12mo, together with Hunter (John), Observations on the Structure and Oeconomy of Whales, [1787], reprinted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (volume 77, pp. 371-450), containing eight folding engraved plates, bound with Observations tending to shew that the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog, are all of the Same Species, [1787], also bound with An Experiment to Determine the Effect of Extirpating One Ovarium upon the Number of Young Produced, [1787], library stamps to plates and sporadically throughout, library cloth, 4to, and [Monro, Alexander, primus], An Essay on Comparative Anatomy, 1744, blank leaves bearing contemporary ink notes interspersed throughout, library cloth, 8vo, plus a 1783 edition of the same work, and Nannoni (Lorenzo), Trattato di Anatomia, Fisiologia, e Zootomia, 3 volumes, Siena, 1788-91, two folding engraved plates, library cloth, 4to

15 Alpini (Prosper). De medicina Aegyptiorum, libri quatuor, & Iacobi Bontii in Indiis archiatri, De medicina Indorum, 2 parts in one, Venice: Nicolas Redelichuysen, 1645, title printed in red and black, a few woodcut illustrations including one full-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, separate part-title and foliation to second work, some old marginalia and underscoring throughout plus leaf of notes bound in at rear, library stamp to main title, a little light soiling and browning and some old dampstaining to lower outer corners, library cloth, lower cover dampstained and slightly bowed not affecting contents, 4to (225 x 175mm) Alpini’s is the first important work on the history of Egyptian medicine and this is a later edition of G-M 6468, Norman 39 & Osler 1706 (all citing 1st edition 1591); Heirs of Hippocrates 384 (1646 edition). Bondt’s work ‘was probably the first to regard tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he gained there. It is the first Dutch work on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera’ (G-M 2263, citing 1st edition, 1642); Heirs of Hippocrates 463 (1642 edition).

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19 Arbuthnot (John). An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, 1st edition, 1733, half-title, one leaf torn and repaired with old ink ms. replacing missing printed text, library stamp to title, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr Haskell, modern full morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Dobson (Matthew), A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air, 2nd edition, 1785, faint library stamp and contemporary ownership name “Thomas Pollard” to title, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Wade, modern quarter morocco, 8vo Arbuthnot wrote the present work at a time when he suffered a period of bad health and he comments, in the Preface, on the frequent delays he experienced. Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson stated that this essay is ‘one of the most remarkable books in the literature of medicine’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 734); Cushing A217 (1751 edition); Osler 1828.

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18 Andry de Boisregard (Nicolas). L’orthopedie ou l’art de prevenir et de corriger dans les enfans, les difformites du corps. Le tout par des moyens a la portee des peres, & des meres, & de routes les personnes qui ont des enfans a elever, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Paris: La veuve Alix; Lambert & Durand, 1741, engraved frontispiece after A. Humblot, fourteen engraved plates (a few close-trimmed, one shaved at lower margin), a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, 12mo The first book on orthopaedics (literally ‘straight child’), a term coined by French physician Nicolas Andry (1658-1742). The work, intended as advice for parents rather than physicians, is based on Andry’s belief that many adult deformities occurred due to bad posture in childhood caused by sitting on poorly designed furniture and wearing restrictive clothing.

20 Aretaeus of Cappadocia. De acutorum ac diuturnorum morborum causis & signis, lib. IIII, De acutorum, ac diuturnorum morborum curatione lib. IIII, 1st edition, Paris: Adr. Turnebum, 1554, 102 leaves, Greek and Latin title, Greek text with a few decorative woodcut initials and initial spaces with printed guide letters, a few scattered old ink marginalia, some minor dust-soiling, printer’s woodcut device to title (faint library stamp and a little chipped at edges), inscribed ‘Ex musao Anto. Valetij’ at foot in a contemporary hand with Greek inscription beneath, (probably the scholar-doctor Antoine Valet, 1546-1610), later ownership signature of James Johnstone to somewhat chipped front free endpaper, all edges gilt, modern calf gilt, 8vo (167 x 105mm)

‘He advised attention to proper posture in the prevention and correction of spinal curvature; he had a practical knowledge of body mechanics. This is also the first book on diseases of children to include mention of chlorosis.’ (G-M 4301). The metaphorical engraved plate of a crooked sapling tied to a stake is much used as a generic international symbol of orthopaedic institutions.

Norman 55.

(1) £1200-1800

Editio Princeps of Aretaeus’ work on the causes, symptoms and cures of acute and chronic diseases. Included is the ‘first accurate account of diabetes, to which Aretaeus gave its present name’ (G-M 22). Adams A1549; Durling 255; Norman 63; Osler 327.

(1) £700-1000

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21 Aretaeus of Cappadocia. De causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor de Curatione acutorum et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor, edited by John Wigan, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1723, Greek and Latin text with separate pagination, lacking part-titles(?) li and 2A1, some spotting and occasional browning, ownership signature of Thos. Fryer Webb, 1840, to title-page, Birmingham Medical Institute presentation bookplate from Bennett May to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep-backed calf, some wear to spine and upper cover detached, folio (395 x 245mm) A rare and finely printed edition, used by Boerhaave for his edition of Aretaeus in 1735 – see following lot. Curiously, this was only the second time Aretaeus’s extant works had been published since the 1550s. Norman 64.

(1) £300-400

23 [Aretius, Benedictus, editor]. De medicamentorum simplicium gradibus et compositionibus, opus nouum, physicum partim & medicum, partim etiam chymicum, in quinq[ue] libros digestum, authoris incerti, Zurich: Froschouerus, 1572, printer’s woodcut device (of frogs climbing a tree) to title (faint library stamp), forty leaves with several leaves misnumbered, a little spotting and soiling, old ink stain to lower outer corner of leaf A6 not touching text, some browning towards rear, modern morocco gilt, small 8vo Sometimes attributed to Paracelsus.

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24 Ash (John). Experiments and Observations, to Investigate, by Chemical Analysis, the Medicinal Properties of the Mineral Waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chappelle, in Germany; and of the waters and boue near St. Amand, in French Flanders, 1st edition, 1788, library stamp and a few spots to title (trimmed at upper margin not affecting text), early ownership signature of J.J. Vickers to following leaf, library cloth, small 8vo

22 Aretaeus of Cappadocia. Causis et signis acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor. De curatione acutorum, et diuturnorum morborum libri quatuor..., Edited by Hermann Boerhaave, Leiden: J. vander Aa, 1735, title printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin, occasional minor spotting, contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine, some stains, folio Large paper copy.

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25 Aurelianus (Caelius). De acutis morbis Lib. III, De diuturnis Lib. V, ad fidem exemplaris manu scripti castigati, & annotationibus illustrati, cum indice copiosissimo..., Lyon: Guliel. Rovillium, 1569, printer’s woodcut device to title, some woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, blanks at end of preliminaries and end of text both present, faint library stamp to title, some light soiling and browning, minute old ownership inscription to title upper margin and later signature of J. Cartledge to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, upper joint partly split, 8vo Adams A2249.

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26 Avicenna. [Canon medicinae.] Arabum medicorum principis. Ex Gerardi Cremonensis versione et Andreae Alpagi Bellumensis castigatione. A Joanne Costaeo et Joanne Paulo Mongio annotationibus iampridem illustratus..., 2 volumes, Venice: Juntas, 1595, title-page printed in red and black, woodcut vignettes, initials and designs to early leaves, one full-page woodcut figure and six woodcuts on two pages, separate title ‘Tabulae Isagociae’ in volume 1 and separate Index title in volume 2, lacks final blank at rear of each volume, red library stamp of the College of Physicians to both volume titles, Birmingham General Hospital Library stamps to titlepages and intermittently throughout, largely confined to lower margins, some spotting and dampstaining throughout, darker brown stain to lower outer extremities of first volume, scattered old marginalia, modern morocco, folio (348 x 245mm)

£200-300

Durling 392.

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27 Bacci (Andrea). De venenis et antidotis [prolegomena], seu communia praecepta ad humanum vitam tuendam saluberrima. In quibus diffinitiva methodus venenorum proponitur per genera, ac differentias suas, partes et passiones, praeseruandi modum, et communia ad eorum curationem antidota complectens. De canis rabiosi morsu et eius curatione..., 1st edition, Rome: Vincenzo Accolti, 1586, printer’s woodcut device and faint library stamp to title, some spotting, lacks final blank, contemporary limp vellum with spine lettered in manuscript, a little soiling and wear, lacks ties, slim 4to (1)

£500-700

29 Baglivi (Giorgio). De praxi medica ad veram observandi rationem revocanda, libri duo, accedunt dissertationes novae: I. De anatome, morsu, & effectibus tarantulae ... II. De usu & abusu vesicantium. III. Experimenta varia anatomico infusoria. IV. De circulatione sanguinis in rana. V. Historia morbi & sectionis cadaveris Marcelli Malpighii...

VI. Appendix de apoplexiis fere epidemicis..., Lyon: Joannem Anisson, 1699, one plate, a little spotting and soiling, library stamp to title, library cloth, upper cover detached, plus The Practice of Physick, Reduc'd to the Ancient Way of Observations... , Together with Several New and Curious Dissertations, Particularly of the Tarantula, and the Nature of its Poison... , Andrew Bell et al, 1704, lacks plate, some heavy old water staining and discolouring to early leaves, title relaid with small loss affecting border, library stamp and early ownership inscription of 'Joh. Gennis', library cloth, upper joint split, both 8vo, plus the second edition of the same work, printed for D. Midwinter et al, 1723, engraved plate, library stamp to title and plate, occasional old marginalia, some spotting, library cloth, all 8vo

28 Bacon (Francis). Instauratio magna [Novum organum], 1st edition, 2nd issue, John Bill, 1620, engraved title by Simon van de Pass (a few spots and library stamp to lower margin) rehinged with archival tape, woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, initial blank rehinged after dedication leaves, woodcut headpieces and historiated initials, closed tear repairs to leaves c1-c2, without blank c4, with e3 cancelled and reprinted on e4r, adding an errata and omitting the name of Bill Norton from the colophon, presentation bookplate to the BMI to front pastedown from Dr [Willoughby] Wade, modern morocco gilt, folio (282 x 186mm) First edition of Bacon’s manifesto for a new philosophy of scientific method, relying on laws deduced from observation and investigation. Bacon originally conceived his revolutionary work in six parts, of which only the first and second parts, the De augmentiis scientiarum (1623, a greatly expanded version of Of the Advancement of Learning) and the Novum organum were completed. He conceived a new method of acquiring knowledge of the world through observation, experiment and inductive reasoning, which he envisioned as a tool for the ‘total reconstruction of sciences, arts and all human knowledge... to extend the power and dominion of the human race... over the universe’...

'Baglivi was a leader in the Iatrophysical School and devoted much time to experimental physiology. This small volume is the work for which Baglivi is usually remembered. Book II contains the famous description of Marcello Malpighi's last illness and death, Malpighi having been Baglivi's teacher and colleague. Baglivi performed a post mortem examination of the body of Malpighi showing that death was caused by an acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage' (Heirs of Hippocrates 736: 1st edition, Rome, 1696); GM 68 (Opera Omnia, 1704).

(3) £200-300

Bacon made no contributions to science itself, but his insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences.... As a philosopher Bacon’s influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Leibniz, Huygens and particularly Robert Boyle were deeply indebted to him, as were the Encyclopidistes and Voltaire...’ (PMM). His vision inspired the creation of the Royal Society and the other early scientific academies.

Gibson 103b; PMM 119; STC 1163; Dibner, Heralds of Science 80; Norman 98 (large paper copy).

(1) £5000-8000

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30 Baillie (Matthew). A Series of Engravings, Accompanied with Explanations, Which are Intended to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body, 1st edition, 1799-1803, ten fasciculus, 73 engraved plates after William Clift, scattered light spotting, library stamps, previous owner signature of Richard Wood to title, modern cloth, 4to

31 [Balneology]. De balneis, omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quam quoscunque ceterarum artium probatos scriptores, 1st edition, Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1553, 14, 497 leaves, Roman type, mostly double column, woodcut initials and woodcut printer’s device to title, five full-page woodcuts, lacks final blank (3q10), old manuscript notes to later flyleaves bound at rear, occasional minor spotting and old dampstaining and browning largely confined to margins of some of the earlier leaves, three faint library stamps to title, professional outer corner repairs to title and following leaf, modern morocco gilt, folio (302 x 207mm)

‘The first systematic atlas of pathology’ (G-M 2282). The work was intended to illustrate his Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (1793), but with each plate accompanied by detailed text, it is considered a stand alone work. Baillie, nephew and pupil of William Hunter and the plates were prepared by William Clift, John Hunter’s artist, depicting many specimens in Hunter’s collection. Norman 109.

(1) £800-1200

This work is one of the most complete collections on baths and bathing compiled during the sixteenth century, containing texts by more than seventy authors among whom are Hippocrates, Avicenna, Averroës, Galen, Gesner, Cardano, Savonarola, Fuchs, d’Abano, and Maimonides. Many of these works are printed here for the first and only time so that this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the state of balneology, then at the height of its popularity. The five woodcuts in the work show the plan of a spa, part of the baths at Pfeffers in Switzerland, the baths of Plombière, a map of the baths around Venice and Trieste, and a view of the interior of a Roman bath’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 217); Durling 1101; G-M 1986; Norman 113; Osler 1902; Wellcome 652.

(1) £800-1200

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33 Banister (John). The Workes of that Famous Chyrurgian, Mr. Iohn Banester, by Him Digested into Five Bookes... , 4 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition, Thomas Harper, 1633, separate printed titles to parts two to four, lacks first general title (A1), leaf A1 of part two (blank?) and final blank, library stamp to first title, spotting and soiling throughout, library cloth, joints cracked and spine ends slightly frayed, together with Bonham (Thomas), The Chyrurgians Closet, or, An Antidotari Chyrurgicall... , and Now Drawne into Method and Forme, by Edward Poeton of Petworth... , 1st edition, Edward Brewster, 1630, some browning and old dampstaining throughout, title soiled, index closely trimmed at foremargins shaving a few letters, scarce old ink marginalia and ownership signature of F.A. Hope(?) to title, library stamp at head of title, library cloth, slightly rubbed, both 4to, plus [Read, Alexander], Somatographia Anthropine, or, A Description of the Body of Man, with the Practise of Chirurgery... , 2 parts in 1 volume, 1634, woodcut illustrations throughout, partly offset, lacks initial blank and pp. 97-117 at end of part 2, some soiling and dampstaining throughout, first and last leaves soiled, white library cloth, darkened and soiled, 8vo, plus a defective copy of Peter Lowe’s ‘Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie’, 2nd edition, 1612, library cloth, 4to STC 1357, 3279, 20783 & 16870 respectively.

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32 Banister (John). The Historie of Man, Sucked from the Sappe of the Most Approued Anathomistes, in this Present Age, Compiled in Most Compendious Fourme, and Now Published in English, for all the Utilitie of all Godly Chirurgians, within this Realme, 1st edition, John Daye, 1578, title within ornamental woodcut border, main text in black letter, woodcut illustrations, initials and tail-pieces, lacking leaves 2I1-4 at end (index leaves and final blank), first few leaves repaired, illustration of dissection instruments trimmed and laid down at end, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, some dampstains, library stamp to title, modern library morocco, folio

£400-600

34 Barbette (Paul). Opera omnia medica et chirurgica notis et observationibus... cum appendice..., opera et studio J. J. Manget, 3 parts in one, Geneva: I.A. Chouet, 1683, one engraved plate of surgical instruments, spotting throughout, heavy at front and rear, library stamp to title, close-trimmed at upper and outer margins occasionally shaving running head, library cloth, small 4to, together with Thesaurus chirurgiae: The Chirurgical and Anatomical Works... , 3 volumes in 1, 3rd edition, Moses Pitt, 1676, engraved frontispiece and three folding plates to first work, separate titles (Medicina Militaris and Cista Militaris, both dated 1674), library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and light browning, trivial worming to lower margin, lacks half-titles and two final advert leaves, hinges cracked, library cloth, 8vo, (Wing B700), plus Praxis Barbettina, cum notis & observationibus Frederici Deckers, Leiden: Gassbekios, 1669, lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to printed title, light browning, old manuscript pharmacy notes to rear fly-leaf, modern cloth, slightly frayed at head, 12mo, plus three other editions of the same works

One of the earliest English anatomies to describe the human body post Vesalius (with the usual religious narrative) from anatomist and surgeon John Banister (1533-1610). The work contains the first English translation of the section on pulmonary circulation, taken from Matteo Colombo’s De Re Anatomica libri XV (1559). STC 1359.

(1) £400-600

A much reprinted work, this early edition of Opera Omnia was published one year after the first edition. Krivatsy 651; Waller 667. The Praxis contains sections on the heart, epilepsy, and the gastro-intestinal system.

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37 Bartholin (Thomas). Bartholinus Anatomy; made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists, 4 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, John Streater, 1668, lacking initial advertisement leaf and final leaf of text, three folding plates only (of four), numerous engravings to text, title and final two leaves fraying to edges and relaid, some other marginal browning and fraying, faint library stamps to title and folding plates, contemporary ink ownership markings to title and p. 372 by Thomas Hoyle of Llangwyfon dated 1694, modern library half morocco gilt, folio (Wing B977), together with Roilan (Jean), A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chrrurgery, 3rd edition, John Streater, 1671, 22 plates only (of 24), title relaid with significant loss, four other leaves relaid and several leaves with paper repairs, modern quarter calf gilt, folio (Wing R1526), plus a slightly defective copy of Nathaniel Highmore’s Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica, The Hague, 1651, lacks engraved frontispiece and plate 12, plus some other minor defects, contemporary vellum, soiled, folio (3)

£200-300

35 Barrough (Philip). The Method of Physick, Containing the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote, 3rd edition, Richard Field, 1601, closetrimmed at foremargins occasionally shaving one letter of each line of side-notes, spotting and occasional old dampstaining, dust-soiled at front and rear, library stamp to title (lower outer corner repair), closed tear and upper corner repairs to final leaf of index also not affecting text, modern morocco gilt, 4to (178 x 127mm) STC 1511; Wellcome I, 684.

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36 Barry (Edward ). A Treatise on the Three Different Digestions, and Discharges of the Human Body and the Diseases of their Principal Organs, 1st edition, 1759, library cloth, 8vo, together with Robinson (Bryan) A Dissertation on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies, 1st edition, 1748,bound with Douglas (Robert), An Essay concerning the Generation of Heat in Animals, 1st edition, 1747, also bound with Langrish (Browne), Physical Experiments upon Brutes: in order to discover a Safe, and Easy Method of dissolving the Stone in the Bladder, by Injections, 1st edition, 1746, bound together in library cloth, 8vo, plus others related, mostly in French (7)

38 Bauhin (Caspar). Theatrum anatomicum, 2 parts in one volume, [Frankfurt]: Theodori de Bry, 1621-20, engraved title, 140 engraved plates, part two lacking title, many text leaves browned, paper repair to lower margin of engraved title, faint library stamp to each plate, modern full morocco, 4to, together with Winslow (Jacques-Benigne), An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body... Translated from the French Original, by G. Douglas, 5th edition, 2 parts in one volume, 1776, four folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, later library cloth reback, 4to, plus Keill (James), The Anatomy of the Humane Body Abridg’d: or, a Short and full View of all the Parts of the Body, 5th edition, 1714, light browning, BMI presentation bookplate from Oliver Pemberton, contemporary panelled calf, later library calf reback, 12mo, together with a copy of the 8th edition (1731) bound in modern quarter morocco, and three others related

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39 Beddoes (Thomas). A Lecture Introductory to a Course of Popular Instruction on the Constitution and Management of the Human Body, 1st edition, Bristol, 1797, 72 pp., library stamp and inner margin closed tear to title, bound with A Letter to Erasmus Darwin, MD on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption, and Some Other Diseases Hitherto Found Incurable, Bristol, [1793], 72 pp. including postscript dated 5th July 1793 (pp. 67-72), some spotting, bound with Essay on the Causes, Early Signs, and Prevention of Pulmonary Consumption for the Use of Parents and Preceptors, 1st edition, Bristol, 1799, half-title, library cloth, upper cover detached and spine ends slightly frayed, together with Observations on the Medical and Domestic Management of the Consumptive, on the Powers of Digitalis Purpurea, and on the Cure of Schrophula, 1st edition, 1801, engraved plate, library stamp to title and plate, lacks half-title and portrait frontispiece, some spotting, library cloth, some wear to joints, plus Beddoes (Thomas), Observations on the Nature and Cure of Calculus, Sea Scurvy, Consumption, Catarrh, and Fever, 1st edition, 1793, errata leaf at rear, neat contemporary owner’s name to title, light foxing to endpapers, library cloth, together with Beddoes (Thomas, published by), Reports Principally concerning the Effects of the Nitrous Acid in the Venereal Disease, by the Surgeons of the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, and other Practicioners, Bristol: N. Biggs, 1797, bound with A Collection of Testimonies respecting the Treatment of the Venereal Disease by Nitrous Acid, published by Thomas Beddoes, 1799, library cloth, all 8vo (4)

40 Beddoes (Thomas). Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge, Principally from the West of England, Collected by Thomas Beddoes, two advert and errata leaves at rear, library stamp and closed inner margin tear to title, library cloth, a little frayed on joints, 8vo Contains the first appearance of two scientific papers by Humphry Davy: ‘Essays on Heat, Light, and the Combination of Light’ (pp. 1-147) and ‘An Essay on the Generation of Phosoxygen’ (pp. 149-205). ‘Beddoes’s most significant contribution to science was the discovery of Humphry Davy, whom he appointed superintendent of Pneumatic Institution, for the treatment of diseases by administration of gases, when Davy was just nineteen.

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41 Bell (John). Engravings, Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1794, additional engraved title and 32 engraved plates including four outline plates, faint library stamps to titles and plates, bound with Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body, 3rd edition, 1810, additional engraved title, 32 engraved plates, a few plates with arteries highlighted in colour, library stamps to plates, modern half calf, 4to ‘Fifteen plates with many individual figures depict the bones, fourteen plates illustrate the muscles, and the joints are shown in three plates. These exquisite copperplates, drawn by the author, are accurate and uniquely elegant in the Bell style.’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 1187); Osler 7674; Russell 60; Wellcome II, p. 137. Includes the 1st and 3rd editions of the same work with slightly differing titles, bound together.

(1) £500-800

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Lot 42 42 Bellini (Lorenzo). De urinis et pulsibus, de missione sanguinis, de febribus, de morbis capitis et pectoris, dicatum Francisco Redi, cum praefatatione Johannis Bohnii..., 2nd edition, Frankfurt and Leipzig: Printed for Johannes Grossius by Christian Scholvinus, 1685, title printed in red and black (detached, library stamp and a few old annotations), bound with Bartholin (Caspar), De fontium fluviorumque origine ex pluviis dissertatio physica, 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1689, 48pp., bound with Whistler (Daniel), Disputatio medica inauguralis, De morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indiginae vocant The Rickets, quam Deo suppetias ferente, ex authoritate Johannis Polyandri a Kerchoven, reprint of the 1645 Leiden edition, Thomas Flesher, 1684, 16pp., bound with Stisser (Johann Andreas), De machinis fumiductoriis curiosis sive fumum impellendi intra corpus instrumentis ... epistola ad... ad ... Societatis Regiae Anglicanae, 1st edition, Hamburg: Gottfried Liebezeit, 1686, 16pp., four folding plates of tobacco pipes (each with library stamp), title close-trimmed at foremargin shaving the final letter s from “humiductoriis”, bound with Hanhard (Johann Huldreich), Dissertatio physica chemica, de salibus novis experimentis illustrata, 1st edition, Basel: prostat apud Reges, 1685, bound with Cujus sal eruditionis digestione decenti ita sapidum palatoque Aptissimum Evasit ut Et Ad Instar Auri Igne Probate Illibatum Perstiterit Is Merito E Fece Populi Ad Culmen Honoris Evehitur Doctorisque Tiara Decoratur Is Vero Est Vir Juvenis...

Dn. Joh. Huldricus Hanhardus Helvetio Vitoduranus Accipiens E Manu Viri... D. D. Jacobi Rothii Anat. et Botan. Profess. Meritissimi... Ob Studium Singulare Itinera Literaria Summe Promeritan Solenniter In Rauracorum Parnasso D. VII. Iulii Ann. MDCLXXXV..., Basel, 1685, 12pp., some spotting or browning throughout, small brown stain to foremargin of last three items not affecting text and with worming within the stain of last two works, old manuscript notes to fly-leaf at front, library cloth, slightly rubbed and split at head of upper joint, 4to 1) Bellini, professor of anatomy and medicine at Pisa, ‘realized the value of the urine as an aid to diagnosis and insisted on its chemical analysis in pathological conditions’ (G-M 4162, 1st edition, 1683). He became a professor early in life due to his discovery of ducts in the kidney, and later was physician to Cosimo de Medici and Pope Clement XI. 2) Caspar Bartholin, junior, was the first Scandinavian to support the new ideas on the origin of springs.

3) Whistler’s graduation thesis was the first description of rickets as a definite disease manifesting itself by a more or less constant association of symptoms.

The book attracted little attention, and credit for the first description is usually give to Glisson (1650) who described rickets on the basis of clinical and post mortem experience with the condition (see below). Wing W1677.

4) Stisser’s medical study focuses on the use of tobacco smoke mixed with medicines to treat nervous disorders, including hysteria and epilepsy, and also compares the design and efficacy of English and German pipes in delivering the therapy. Waller 9266.

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Lot 43 43 Bergmann (Torbern). A Dissertation on Elective Attractions, 1st English edition, 1785, five large folding chemical charts at rear (one with closed tear repair to verso), library stamp to title and plates, spotting throughout, closed tears without loss to title and following leaf lower margin, library cloth, soiled, upper joint cracked and a little wear at head of spine, 8vo

44 Berkeley (George). A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects, 1st edition, Dublin, 1752, extra leaf ‘Table of contents’ after title (only found in some copies), some light browning throughout, library stamp to title and some tract titles, contemporary ownership signature of Richard Raikes at upper margin of title, modern library cloth gilt, 12mo

Bergmann published his dissertation in 1775, this translation being by Thomas Beddoes.

(1) £150-200

Keynes 101. Published in London the same year. This is a variant with a paragraph beginning “Licentious habits of youth” added on page 58 of the reprinted pages 55-58; footnotes referring to ‘Alciphron’ on pages 69 and 70 omitted on the reprinted leaf; and two paragraphs beginning “The constitution of these kingdoms” and “The magistrates, perhaps” omitted from pages 7779 together with two footnotes lettered “h” and “i” resulting in a reprint of a shortened text on four leaves and the excision of pages 85-[86].

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45 Bidloo (Govard). Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis... , 1st edition, Amsterdam; Widow of Joannes van Someren, Heirs of Joannes van Dyk, Henry and Widow of Theodore Boon, 1685, additional engraved title (somewhat soiled with marginal splits and losses to outer corners not affecting plate impression), relaid, engraved printer’s device to title, old ownership names of John Corrie(?), Geor. Bell (both struck through) and Jno. Carter to upper right corner, outer and lower margins partly strengthened to verso, following leaf (dedication) a little chipped along foremargin, engraved portrait of Bidloo by Abraham Bloteling after Gerarde de Lairesse, 105 numbered engraved plates (numbers 1-3 bound at rear), plate twenty-three partly folding (dust soiled and split at upper margin, small tear with loss and repair to verso of inner margin fold), library stamps to engraved title and all plates, some spotting, dust soiling and marginal browning throughout, occasional marginal splits and repairs not affecting text, contemporary calf, worn, large folio (600 x 355mm) ‘One of the finest anatomical atlases of the Baroque period. The 105 plates were drawn by the painter Gerard de Lairesse, under whose influence the French style of Poussin and Lorraine became dominant in Holland... His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker spiritual expression to the significance of the art of dissection’ (Norman 231); Ayres 667, Choulant-Frank, pp. 251-252; G-M 385; Trevazzi 1238; Wellcome II, p. 165.

(1) £1500-2000

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46 Blane (Gilbert). Observations on the Diseases Incident to Seamen, 1st edition, 1785, three folding letterpress tables (one with closed tear), repair to p.464, occasional light spots and stains, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo

48 Bondt (Jacob de). An Account of the Diseases, Natural History, and Medicines of the East Indies, Translated from the Latin... , To Which are Added Annotations by a Physician, 1776, publisher’s advert leaf at rear, some spotting, library stamp to title, together with Clark (John), Observations on the Diseases which Prevail in Long Voyages to Hot Countries, Particularly on Those in the East Indies, and on the Same Diseases as they Appear in Great Britain, 2 volumes bound in 1, 2nd [3rd] edition, 1792, separate title and part title to volume 2, paginated as one, folding table as pp. 565-6, errata leaf at rear, two small library stamps to title and one at end of text, minor spotting, both library cloth, slightly rubbed and darkened, second volume a little frayed at head of spine, both 8vo

Blane’s second work on naval medicine, strongly supporting Lind’s work on scurvy. As Admiral Rodney’s physician in the West Indies, he vastly improved the health of seamen, by introducing lemon juice as an antiscorbutic (prompting the Royal Navy to introduce it universally in 1795) and enforcing strict hygiene and sanitation regimes. ‘With Lind he stands predominant in the history of naval medicine’ (G-M 2158); Norman 242.

(1) £400-600

G-M 2263 (first Latin edition, 1642): ‘It is the first Dutch work on tropical medicine and includes the first modern descriptions of beri-beri and cholera’.

The first English translation appeared in 1769.

(2) £200-300

49 Bonnet (Charles). La palingenesie philosophique, ou idees sur l’etat passe et sur l’etat futur des etres vivans, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Geneva, 1769, errata at rear of volume 1, library stamp to both titles, some spotting and old dampstaining, modern library cloth gilt, 8vo Rare first edition on theoretical biology, dealing with the past and future of living beings, before and after death.

(2) £200-300

47 Boerhaave (Hermann). Institutiones et experimenta chemiae, 2 volumes in one, Paris [i.e. Leiden?], 1724, one folding engraved plate and one engraved illustrtion, library stamp to title and plate, occasional marginal dampstaining, light dust-soiling and toning, sewing broken between R8 & S1 in volume one, library cloth, spine rubbed, 8vo, together with Elementa chaemiae, quae anniversario labore docuit, in publicis, privatisque..., 2 volumes, Paris: Guillelmum Cavelier, 1733, half-title to volume one, seventeen engraved plates, library stamps to half-titles, title and plates, occasional browning and dampstaining, library cloth, 4to, plus Elements of Chymistry, Faithfully Abridg’d, from the late Genuine Edition, Publish’d and Sign’d by himself at Leyden..., To which are Added, Curious and Useful Notes. Rectifying several Opinions, etc. of the Learned Author by Edward Strother, 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, C. Rivington, 1737, seventeen engraved plates, decorative woodcut initials, head & tailpieces, library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 8vo, plus other eighteenth-century Boerhaave works, including Van Swieten’s Commentaria, 5 volumes, 1742-72, all but one in library cloth

50 Botallo (Leonardo). Opera omnia medica & chirurgica, edited

by J. van Horne, Leiden: Daniel & Abraham a Gaasbeeck, 1660, four folding engraved plates including two of the heart and one larger plate of surgical instruments, lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and old light dampstain to lower outer corners throughout, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo First edition of Botallo’s collected works including his writings on the heart, giving his name to Botallo’s duct, Botallo’s foramen and Botallo’s ligament.

G-M 802.1; Wellcome II, p. 209.

(1) £200-300

Norman 257, Duveen pp. 83-84 and Lindeboom 444 for the first work.

Boerhaave’s 1724 edition of Institutiones et experimenta chemiae, bearing a Paris imprint, was probably published in Leiden. ‘This spurious edition of Boerhaave’s chemical notes so incensed Boerhaave that on 9 October 1726 he published a warning in the Leydische Courant against booksellers selling such works, and on 25 October asked the academic Senate for help in protecting him from any further abuses at the hands of unscrupulous printers and booksellers. He also later countered the work with an authorized chemical textbook, the Elementa chemicae (1732), which remained the authoritative chemical manual for many years. All copies of the Elementa carried Boerhaave’s autograph signature, attesting to the work’s authenticity and protecting against pirated editions’ (Norman).

(27) £300-500

51 Boulton (Richard). A Treatise of the Reason of Muscular Motion..., 1st edition, 1697, lacks imprimatur leaf, title lightly browned and with some adhesion damage to gutter margin on to new endpaper, faint library stamp and small hole affecting ‘LONDON’ in imprint, closed tear to final leaf of text, lacks second and final leaf of ads. at rear, a little soiling and a few marginal marks, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 12mo Wing B3833.

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52 Boyle (Robert). New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects..., 1st edition, Oxford, 1660, half-title inscribed to verso ‘Thomas Holder His Book 1707’, folding engraved plate (minor fore-edge fraying), errata to final leaf verso, faint library stamps to title and plate, some spotting, old dampstaining to lower margins throughout, library cloth, slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo

53 Boyle (Robert). The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments. (Written Formerly by way of Notes upon an Essay about Nitre.). The Second Edition, Augmented by a Discourse of Subordinate Formes, Oxford, 1667, three sectional half-titles, woodcut initials and ornaments, some light spotting and toning, library cloth (upper joint splitting), 8vo

Boyle’s first scientific publication and an investigation into all properties of air.

‘The importance of this work in the history of respiration is Boyle’s demonstration that air is essential for life’ (G-M 914); Fulton 13; Wing B3998.

(1) £800-1200

Second edition of one of Boyle’s large output of works on alchemy and mechanical philosophy.

(1) £200-300

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54 Boyle (Robert). Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays, 1st edition, 1684, a little spotting and soiling throughout, small brown stain to foremargin of first two quires, faint library stamp and ownership signature of Joseph Wilkes to title, lacks final blank, library cloth, rubbed and lower cover soiled, 8vo (169 x 104mm) Fulton 149; Wing 3966.

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55 Boyle (Robert). The Philosophical Works, abridged, methodized, and disposed under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The whole illustrated with Notes, containing the Improvements made in the several Parts of natural and experimental Knowledge since his time,

by Peter Shaw, 3 volumes, 1st edition, printed for W. and J. Innys, 1725, twenty-one folding engraved plates, volume 2 with surface abrasion (and loss of a few words) to Oo2, and with some worming to blank fore-margin Llll1-Zzzz3, volume 3 with long closed tear in Aaa2, occasional light foxing, endpapers renewed, contemporary Cambridge pane calf, corners sometime repaired, rubbed and extremities slightly worn, rebacked, 4to (218 x 160mm)

ÂŁ700-1000

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56 Bradley (Richard). The Virtue and Use of Coffee, With Regard to the Plague, and Other Infectious Distempers... , 1st edition, 1721, engraved partly folding frontispiece, 5 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, faint library stamp to plate only, slight browning to title margins, modern calf gilt with numerous blanks bound at rear, together with [Kettilby, Mary], A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, for the Use of All Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses, by Several Hands, 6th edition, 1746, heavy spotting throughout, library stamp to title, closed tear repair to lower margin of R6, library cloth, both a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

£200-300

57 Brambilla (Giovanni Alessandro). Instrumentarium chirurgicum militare Austriacum, 1st edition, [Vienna: Schmidt], 1782, engraved title, engraved dedication, 67 engraved plates, occasional light soiling, modern blue moroccobacked boards, folio Scarce work on surgical instruments used by the Austro-Hungarian military in the late eighteenth century by Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla (1728-1800), personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. (1) £1000-1500

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58 Bree (Robert). A Practical Enquiry on Disorder to Respiration, distinguishing convulsive asthma, its specific causes, and proper indications of cure, 1st edition, Birmingham: printed for the author, 1797, library stamps to title and occasionally elsewhere, a few old marginal ink notes (trimmed), some old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, late 19th-century library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

60 Brisbane (John). The Anatomy of Painting: Or, A Short and Easy Introduction to Anatomy: being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures, also, a new translation of Albinus’s history of that work, and of his index to the six tables: to which are added the Anatomy of Celsus, with notes, and the physiology of Cicero, with an introduction, giving a short view of picturesque anatomy, 1st edition, printed by George Scott, 1769, title with engraved vignette, six full-page engraved anatomical plates, each with matching full-page engraving with the bones and ligaments identified, some spotting to first and last few leaves, minor water stain occasionally to extreme head of inner margin only, untrimmed (sheet size 39 x 25 cm), endpapers renewed, contemporary boards with old reback, and library gilt stamp to foot of spine, light library stamp to title and each plate, soiled and somewhat worn, folio

One of the early physicians to the Birmingham General Hospital, Bree suffered from asthma and describes his own condition in this classic work on the subject, which went on to be published in many editions. He describes his own case under the initials R.B. (1) £200-300

59 Briggs (William). Ophthalmo-graphia, sive oculi ejusque partium descriptio anatomica, cui accessit nova visionis theoria, 2 parts in one, revised edition, 1685, separate title to part two, three folding engraved plates (first with closed tear repair to verso), library stamp to first title and each plate, early ownership inscription partly trimmed at upper margin of title, library cloth, 8vo (146 x 93mm)

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£150-200

61 Brocklesby (Richard). Oeconomical and Medical Observations, in Two Parts. From the Year 1758 to the Year 1763, Inclusive, Tending to the Improvement of Military Hospitals, and the Cure of Camp Diseases, Incidents, Soldiers ..., 1st edition, 1764, library stamp to title, scattered minor spotting, contemporary calf, some edge wear, modern calf gilt reback, 8vo

Wing B4668A & B4667. Briggs’s Ophthalmographia was originally published in 1676. This is the first Latin and first complete edition of Nova visionis theoria and for which a letter by Isaac Newton commending the text appears on leaves A3r to A4v.

(1) £1000-1500

‘The best book of the century regarding military sanitation’ (G-M 2153).

(1) £200-300

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62 Brown (John). A Compleat Discourse of Wounds both in General and Particular: Whereunto are Added the severall Fractures of the Skull, with their variety of Figures, As also a Treatise of Gunshot-Wounds in General, 1st edition, William Jacob, 1678, engraved portrait frontispiece, eight engraved plates, faint library stamp to title, portrait and two plates, a little spotting at front and rear, closely trimmed at upper margin, library cloth, slightly soiled, upper joint tender and minor fraying to extremities, 4to (190 x 150mm) Rare. John Brown(e) (1642-1700) studied at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, later practised there, and was appointed surgeon to Charles II. Wing B5124.

(1) ÂŁ2000-3000

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Lot 63 63 Brown (John). A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours, Both General and Particular, as They Appear in Humane Body from Head to Foot..., 1st edition, R. Clavel, 1678, five engraved plates (of six, lacks portrait frontispiece), faint library stamp to title and each plate, a little spotting and soiling, library cloth,8vo Rare, Wing B5215.

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£200-300

64 Bruce (John). First Principles of Philosophy, for the Use of Students, 2nd [enlarged] edition, Edinburgh, 1781, half-title, library stamp to title, some old dampstaining (heaviest at rear), library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 12mo ESTC T90049.

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£200-300

65 Bruele (Walter). Praxis Medicinae, or, The Physicians Practice, Wherein are Contained Inward Diseases from the Head to the Foote, Explayning the Nature of each Disease, with the Part Affected..., 1st English edition, William Sheares, 1632, faint library stamp to title and preliminary leaves, some soiling and old dampstaining throughout, first and last few leaves dust-soiled and slightly frayed at margins and with some corner loss but without loss of text (slightly affecting title-page rule border), occasional worming to lower margin away from text, library cloth, damp mark to lower cover, 4to Rare. STC 3929; Wellcome 1093.

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66 Brunner (Johann Conrad). Experimenta nova circa pancreas, accedit diatribe de lympha & genuino pancreatis usu, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Henr. Wetstenius, 1683, four engraved plates including two folding (the last with two closed tear repairs to verso), lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to title and plates, running wormhole to lower margins of first two quires not affecting text, library cloth, 8vo ‘Brunner came near to discovering pancreatic diabetes. His experiments on the dog represent pioneer work on internal secretion. Following excision of the pancreas, he recorded extreme thirst and polyuria’ (G-M 3927); Norman 362; Waller 1566; Wellcome II, 258.

(1) £150-200

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67 Bullein (William). Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence Against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes that doe Dayly Assaulte Mankinde: Which Bulwarke is Kept with Hilarius the Gardener & Health the Phisicion, with the Chirurgian, to Helpe the Wounded Souldiours. Gathered and Practised from the Most Worthy Learned, both Olde and New: to the Great Comfort of Mankinde, 4 parts in one, 3rd edition, Thomas Marshe, 1579, titles within woodcut border (first title trimmed to top and outer margins affecting borders), woodcut arms of the Order of the Garter to first title verso, woodcut illustrations and historiated initials, text in black letter, lacking rear blank 3F6, occasional annotations and light marginal water stains, one or two lower corners torn away, P2 rehinged, a few leaves trimmed at aouter margin, previous owner names of Guilielimus Reade and Otwell Worsley (dated 24 August 1621) to first title, library cloth, folio (281 x 185mm) The first part ‘The Booke of Simples’ is of interest as being one of the earliest herbals in English. William Bullein (c. 1520-1576) was a Tudor physician and possible kinsman to Anne Boleyn, and the book is a mixture of medical advice, herbal remedies and forthright political comment, sprinkled with jokes and puns. Durling 779; STC 4034; Wellcome I, 1149.

(1) £2000-3000

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69 Burton (John). An Essay Towards a Complete New System of Midwifery, Theoretical and Practical. Together with the Descriptions, Causes and Methods of Removing, or Relieving the Disorders Peculiar to Pregnant and Lying-in Women, and New-born Infants... in four parts, 1st edition, 1751, eighteen etched plates (17 folding)

by George Stubbs, a few strengthened along folds to verso) light toning and offsetting, previous owner signature erased from title (with surface abrasion), library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, together with A Letter to William Smellie, M.D. Containing Critical and Practical Remarks upon his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. Wherein the Various Gross Mistakes and Dangerous Methods of Practice Mentioned and Recommended by that Writer, are Fully Demonstrated and Generally Corrected, by John Burton, 1st edition, 1753, folding engraved plate, errata leaf at end, occasional light spotting and browning, previous owner signature of John Freer to title and front endpaper, his bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo

68 Bunon (Robert). Essay sur les maladies des dents ..., 1st edition, Paris, 1743, 3 pp. approbation at rear, library stamp to title, old dampstaining to lower and outer margins, modern morocco gilt over marbled boards, 12mo (164 x 94mm) G-M 3672.1. The Essay was the first of Bunon’s important works on dentistry and one of the first books devoted to children’s teeth, being published just one year after Hurlock’s great work (see lot 216).

(1) £400-600

‘Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section’ (G-M 6268). The plates are the earliest published engravings by George Stubbs and his first attempt at etching (he prepared for the illustrations by dissecting a female cadaver he had secretly kept in an attic).

Burton’s rival, the eminent London man-midwife William Smellie, had published his warmly received Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery in 1751, with Burton reacting with his critical Letter to William Smellie above. Burton was satirized as “Dr. Slop” in Laurence Sterne’s Tristam Shandy, following political differences with York clergyman Dr Jacques Sterne (Laurence’s uncle and prominent Whig) and accused of treason during the Jacobite Rising of 1745. G-M 6268; Norman 380; Waller 1667.

(2) £700-1000

70 Capivaccio (Girolamo). Practica medicina seu methodus cognoscendorum et curandorum omnium humani corporis affectuum...., edited by J.H. Beyer, Frankfurt: Ex Officina Paltheniana, sumptibus Petri Fischeri, 1594, title printed in red and black with vignette device, faint library stamp, some spotting and old light dampstaining towards rear, library cloth, 4to (1)

£200-300

71 Cardano (Girolamo). De venenis libri tres, 1st edition, Padua: Paulum Frambottum, 1653, printer’s woodcut device to title (faint library stamp), a few woodcut initials and one diagram to text, some spotting, old dampstaining to upper inner and outer margins throughout, lacks final quire of six leaves (11pp. index), hinges broken and contents loose in contemporary limp vellum, soiled, 4to Uncommon.

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£150-200

72 Carminati (Bassano). De animalium ex mephitibus, et noxis halitibus interitu, ejusque Propioribus Cassis, libri tres, 1st edition, Laude Pompeja, 1777, woodcut initials, light water stain and spots, library stamp, bookplate, contemporary vellum, a little stained and bowed, 4to, together with Brogiani (Dominico), De veneno animantium naturali et acquisito tractatus, 1st edition, Florence, 1752, title with engraved vignette, marginal wormtracks and a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, plus Plenck (Joseph Jacob), Toxicologia seu doctrina de venenis et antidotis, 1st edition, Vienna, 1785, title with engraved vignette, 338pp., manuscript note to last leaf, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Mr Pemberton, library cloth, 8vo

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£200-300

73 Caseneuve (Louis de). Hieroglyphicorum et medicorum emblematum [dodekakrounos], Lyon: Sumptibus Pauli Frellon, 1626, woodcut device to title, woodcut initials and headpieces, thirteen woodcut illustrations to the text, library stamp to title and first and last page of text, marginal dampstaining, a little fraying to fore-edge of last few leaves, library cloth, loss to foot of spine, folio Rare.

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74 Castelli (Bartolomeo). Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum ex Hippocrate, et Galeno desumptum..., Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1644, faint library stamp and presentation inscription to title, ‘John Howorth Lane ex dono Johannis Howorth de Carleton’, a little soiling, closetrimmed, library cloth, upper joint frayed, small 8vo, together with Le Clerc (Daniel), Histoire de la medecine..., 1st edition, Geneva: Chouet & Retter, 1696, faint library stamp to title, light browning and old dampstaining to lower margin, hinges cracked and last leaf slightly frayed at inner margin and partly detached, library cloth, 12mo

£200-300

G-M 6794 (1598 edition) & G-M 6379 (1729 edition).

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76 Castro (Rodrigo de). De universa muliebrium morborum medicina, novo & antehac nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum; et Studiosis omnibus utile, Medicis vero pernecessarium, 4th enlarged and corrected edition, 2 parts in one volume, Hamburg: Zacharias Hertel, 1662, first title in red & black with allegorical engraving, separate title and register to second part, folding table, library stamp to title and table, bound with Medicuspoliticus: sive de officiis medico-politicis tractatus, Hamburg: Zacharias Hertel, 1662, final blank present, occasional browning to both works, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to

75 Castle (George). The Chymical Galenist: A Treatise, Wherein the Practise of the Ancients is Reconcil’d to the New Discoveries in the Theory of Physick, shewing, that many of their rules, methods, and medicins, are useful for the curing of diseases in this age, and in the northern parts of the world, in which are some reflections upon a book, intituled, Medela Medicinae [by Marchamont Nedham], 1st edition, 1667, imprimatur leaf before title with fore-margin repair to blank recto not affecting text, a little spotting and marginal dampstaining, inner hinge strengthening at rear, with thin paper guard touching a few of the final letters and digits of each line on last page of contents, tightly bound, late 19th-century library cloth, partly rubbed and faded, joints frayed and small tear at head of spine, small 8vo, together with Culpeper (Nicholas), Culpeper’s School of Physick, or The Experimental Practice of the Whole Lot ..., printed for R. Harford, 1678, some scattered old ink marginalia, some marginal spotting and soiling, a few library stamps, lacks A1 (portrait frontispiece), modern cloth, joints partly split, both 8vo 1) Osler 2253; Wing C1233. 2) Wing C7544B. (2)

The Portuguese Jewish physician Rodrigo de Castro (1546-1627) fled from the Inquisition to become one of the earliest Jewish settlers in Hamburg. The first work here is his influential work on gynaecology: Krivatsy 2289; Wellcome II, p 312. The second work is ‘one of the first “modern” works on medical ethics.

It includes chapters on problems in forensic medicine, e.g. the examination of injuries, virginity, impotence, signs of poisoning and the examination of slaves’ (Norman 416); G-M 1759; Krivatsy 2291; Waller 1821 (all citing the first edition of 1614).

(1) £300-400

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77 Celsus (Aurelius Cornelius). De re medica libri octo..., Lyon: Seb. Gryphium, 1542, printer’s woodcut device to title and final blank verso, some light browning and a scattering of underscoring in old coloured pencil, faint library stamp to title, armorial bookplate of Thomas Webb to front pastedown and presentation bookplate to the BMI from Sir Willoughby Wade to front free endpaper, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards with two clasps, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo Durling 913.

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ÂŁ200-300

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78 Charas (Moyse). New Experiments upon Vipers. Containing also an Exact Description of all the Parts of a Viper, the Seat of its Poyson, and the Several Effects thereof, Together with the Exquisite Remedies, that by the Skilful may be Drawn from Vipers, as well for the Cure of their Bitings, as for that of other Maladies, 1st edition in English, 1670, additional engraved title, three folding engraved plates, E6 with closed marginal tear, a few top margins close-trimmed, library stamp to front endpaper, presentation label to BMI from Dr Smallwood Savage (distinguished Birmingham gynaecological surgeon, contemporary mottled calf, upper joint splitting, edges rubbed, 8vo Translation of French apothecary and Huguenot Moyse Charas’s work on viperidae and venom and his belief that snake saliva only became venomous when the snake became agitated. This was in opposition to Francesco Redi’s view that venom was constant and produced from glands behind the fangs.

(1) £300-500

79 Charleton (Walter). Enquiries into Human Nature, in VI. Anatomic Praelections in the New Theatre of the Royal Colledge of Physicians in London, 1st edition, Robert Boulter, 1680, imprimatur leaf before title, engraved portrait frontispiece cut down and relaid, engraved plate of the Cutlerian Theatre following title, six engraved illustrations to text (Of Motion Voluntary), 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, faint library stamp to portrait lower corner and title, hinges slightly cracked, library cloth, short split to upper joint, 4to, together with De scorbuto liber singularis, Guliel Wells & Rob. Scott, 1672, library stamp to title, some old water staining throughout, lacks initial and final blank, library cloth, 8vo These were the first lectures given in the Cutlerian Theatre of the Royal College of Physicians, delivered by Walter Charleton (1619-1707) while he was president (1689-1691). Krivatsy 2390; Osler 2296; Wellcome II, 329; Wing C3678 & Wing C3669.

(2) £600-800

81 Cheselden (William). The Anatomy of the Human Body. With XXXIV Copper-Plates, 3rd edition, James & John Knapton, 1726, large paper copy, 34 engraved plates, some gatherings a little loose, faint library stamps to title and plates, contemporary owners name to front endpaper, contemporary calf, crude later cloth reback, 8vo, together with the 12th (1784) and 13th (1792) editions of the same work Russell 152, 163, 164.

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80 Cheselden (William). A Treatise on the High Operation for the Stone with XVII. Copper-Plates, 1st edition, John Osborn, 1723, wood engraved headpieces and initials, 17 engraved plates, faint library stamp to title and plates, two plates shaved with minimal loss to printed numeral in upper margin, library cloth, upper hinge split, 8vo In this monograph Cheselden reports of nine patients he operated on for vesical calculi by the suprapubic route, although in 1727 he abandoned this method in favour of the perineal approach. Also included in this work are translations of Francois Rousset’s ‘A Treatise on the High Operation of the Stone’, Pierre Le Mercier’s ‘A Question proposed to be Disputed on in the Phisick-Schools in Paris, on Thursday, December 13 1635’, Fabricius’ ‘Of the High Operation for the Stone’, Tolet’s ‘On the High Operation from his Book entituled Traite de la Lithotomie’ and Dionis’ ‘On the High Operation, from his Book entituled Cours d’Operations de Chirurgie’ as well as an appendix titled ‘Two Cases to shew that Wounds into the Abdomen are not exceeding Dangerous’.

Heirs of Hippocrates 813; G-M 4282; Waller 1939; Wellcome II, p. 335.

(1) £400-600

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82 Cheselden (William). Osteographia, Or the Anatomy of the Bones, 1st edition, 1733, engraved frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, engraved royal arms on separate sheet, engraved dedication, (with deer skeleton to verso), 29 engraved illustrations, 112 engraved plates (complete), comprising two sets of plates numbered I-LVI by Jacob Schijnvoet and Gerard van der Gucht, first set lettered with explanatory text to verso, second set unlettered and without text, plate LVI of first set with deer skeleton to verso; plate LVI of the second set with obelisk ruin in red, historiated initials, occasional light spotting and toning, endpapers renewed, hinges reinforced, contemporary half calf, rebacked, corners chipped, folio ‘The most famous and among the most artistically interesting osteological atlases ever produced’ (Norman), the first full and accurate description of human skeletal anatomy. One of only 400 copies, “which being finished, the plates shall be destroyed that the price of the book may never sink in the possession of the subscribers” (from ‘To the Reader’). The accuracy of the drawing of the large plates of bones is derived from Cheselden’s innovative use of the camera obscura (the use of which is depicted on the title vignette and used for the first time solely for book illustration). The thick paper and large folio format allowed for life-size illustrations of separate human bones.

William Cheselden (1688-1752) studied anatomy under William Cowper (16661709), becoming full surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1720. A pioneer of surgical techniques in bladder stone removal and ophthalmics, he is credited with performing the first known successful case of restorative eye surgery on a blind 13-year-old boy, an iridotomy, using a cataract-extraction knife to create an artificial pupil.

G-M 395; Norman 466; Waller 1941.

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£3000-4000

83 Chisholm (Colin). An Essay on the Malignant Pestilential Fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the Coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794, 1st edition, 1795, library stamp to title, untrimmed, modern library half morocco, 8vo, together with Butter (William), A Treatise on the Kinkcough, 1st edition, 1773, browning to first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, later reback, 8vo, and Blackmore (Richard), A Treatise of Consumptions and other Distempers belonging to the Breast and Lungs, 2nd edition, 1725, faint library stamp to title, contemporary calf, modern reback, 8vo, and Fearon (Henry), A Treatise on Cancers, 3rd edition, 1790, half-title, owner’s name excised to upper margin of title, bound with Pearson (John), Practical Observations on Cancerous Complaints, 1793, library cloth, 8vo, together with Bennet (Christopher), Tabidorum Theatrum, Leiden: Coster, 1714, title in red and black, four engraved plates, library cloth, small 8vo, plus two other related works including a 5th edition of Deidier’s ‘Traite des Tumeurs’ (1732), and Deshaies Gendron’s ‘Enquiries into the Nature, Knowledge, and Cure of Cancers’ (1701), plus five others on fevers (12)

£300-400

84 Claudini (Giulio Cesare). Responsionum et consultationum medicinalium tomus unicus... Additur breuis exercitatio de ultimo corporis alimento cum aliquot digressiunculis, auctore Florio Bernardo, Venice: Bertani, 1646, Responsionum et consultationum medicinalium tomus unicus... Additur breuis exercitatio de ultimo corporis alimento cum aliquot digressiunculis, auctore Florio Bernardo, Venice: Bertani, 1646, [32], 602, 19 pp., library stamps to title and several to text margins, some marginal browning and old dampstaining to first and last few leaves, modern calf gilt, together with Fernel (Jean), Universa medicina primum quidem studio et diligentia Guiljelmi Plantii Cennomanni elimata, nunc autem notis, observationibus, et remediis secretis Ioann. et Othonis Heurni et aliorum praestantissimorum medicorum scholiis illustrata, cui accedunt casus & observationes rariores, quas ... Otho Heurnius, 3 parts in one, Utrecht: Gisberti aa Zijll, & Theodori ab Ackersdijck, 1656, lacks additional engraved title, title somehat dust-soiled, separate title and pagination to part two and half-title and pagination to Heurne’s Historiae at end, some old marginal dampstaining and occastional marginal library stamps, library cloth, both 4to (2)

85 Cluyt (Outger). Opuscula duo singularia. I. De nuce medica. II. De hemerobio sive ephemero insecto, & majali verme, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Jacob Charpentier, 1634, woodcut illustrations to title, two part-titles and text, paginated as one, errata to final leaf verso, lacks folding plate as often, library stamp and early ownership signature of Paul Manfred to title, some spotting and occasional heavy browning, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and some wear to extremities, 4to

£200-300

This deals in part with the short-lived mayfly.

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86 Coe (Thomas). A Treatise on Biliary Concretions: Or, Stones in the Gall-Bladder and Ducts, 1st edition, 1757, two folding engraved plates, preface leaf XV misbound, a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, together with Saunders (William), A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver; Together with an Inquiry into the Properties and Component Parts of the Bile and Biliary Concretions, 2nd edition, 1795, occasional light spotting, library stamps, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, plus Hull (John), An Essay on Phlegmatia Dolens, Including an Account of the Symptoms, Causes and Cure of Peritonitis Puerperalis & Conjunctiva &c., 1st edition, Manchester, 1800, a few light spots, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, contemporary calf, rebacked, repaired, all 8vo, plus two works on kidneys and urine by James Parsons and William Rutty (5)

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87 Colbatch (John). A Treatise of the Gout... , 1st edition, 1697, lacks initial blank, faint library stamp and a little spotting to title, bound with Four Treatises of Physick and Chirurgery... , the second edition Corrected and Enlarged, 1698, general title and four separate parttitles, continuous register, some spotting, bound with The Doctrine of Acids in the Cure of Diseases Farther Asserted, Being an Answer to Some Objections Raised Against it by Dr. F[rancis] Tuthill of Dorchester in Dorsetshire... , 1st edition, 1698, heavy browning throughout, bound with A Relation of a Very Sudden and Extraordinary Cure of a Person Bitten by a Viper, by the Means of Acids... , 1st edition, 1698, half-title, A1 (‘To the unknown Dr. Colbatch’) torn with large loss affecting last seven lines of recto, some spotting, manuscript contents to old front free endpaper, library cloth, 8vo, together with another copy of A Relation of a very Sudden and Extraordinary Cure of a Person Bitten by a Viper, by the Means of Acids. Together with some remarks upon Dr. Tuthill’s vindication of his objections against the doctrine of acids, 1st edition, 1698, half-title with adverts for the author’s other works to verso, some browning and old dampstaining to upper margin throughout, small repair to title upper corner touching outer rule border only, both library cloth, second volume soiled and slightly frayed on joints, both 8vo Wing C5013, C4997, C4995 & C5007 (2 copies) respectively.

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88 Cole (William). De secretione animali cogitata, 1st edition, Oxford, 1674, imprimatur leaf before title, library stamp to title, a little spotting, closed tear to foremargin of a6, together with Cole (William). Novae hypotheseos, ad explicanda febrium intermittentium syptomata et typos excogitate hypotyposis, una cum aetiologia remediorum, speciatim vero de curatione per corticem Peruvianum, 1st edition, 1693, imprimatur leaf (dampstains to margins), engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title to part two, some heavy spotting and occasional browning, faint library stamp to title and portrait, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 12mo/8vo Wing C5041 & C5042.

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89 Cole (William). A Physico-Medical Essay Concerning the Late Frequency of Apoplexies, together with a General Method of their Prevention, and Cure, in a Letter to a Physitian, 1st edition, Oxford: printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, 1689, imprimatur leaf and engraved portrait frontispiece before title (with printer’s vignette device), library stamp to portrait and title, old ink inscriptions to title, the monogram ‘W P’ repeated and ‘Bib. Harv. C.S.’, bound with Purcell (John), A Treatise of Vapours, or Hysterick Fits... , 1st edition, printed for Nicholas Cox, 1702, lacks L8 (blank) before index, some spotting, library stamp and early ownership signature of Andrew Hall to title, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo, (169 x 106mm)

91 Cooke (James). Supplementum Chirurgiae, or The Supplement to the Marrow of Chyrurgerie: Wherein is contained fevers, simple and componnd [sic], pestilential, and not, rickets, small pox and measles, with their definitions, causes, signes, prognosticks, and cures, both general, and particular. As also the military chest, containing all necessary medicaments, fit for sea, or land-service, whether simples, or compounds, such as purge, and those that do not; with their several vertues, doses, note of goodness, &c as also instruments. Amongst which are many approved receipts for several diseases, by James Cooke, Practitioner in Physick, and Chirurgery, 1st edition, 1655, vertical half-title (inscribed ‘Bib: Harv: C.S:’ in an old hand), library stamp to title, cigarette burn mark to lower fore-edge outside printed rule borders, bound with Hall (John), Select Observations on English Bodies..., trans. James Cooke, 1st edition, 1657, vertical half-title, archival closed tear repair to A7 verso without loss, foremargins of leaves A9/10 slightly chipped and frayed without loss of text or rule border, manuscript deletion/correction to three words K12 verso, lacks final two blanks, minor spotting, library cloth gilt, 12mo

1) Krivatsy 2569; Wing C5043. 2) Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 288-291. Both works are rare, the first edition by Purcell especially so.

(2) £500-800

90 Collins (Samuel). A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants, 2 volumes, 1735, engraved frontispiece to each volume including portrait of author to volume one, 70 engraved anatomical plates only (of 72), lacking plates 30 & 31 as well as descriptive leaf of text for plates 31 & 32, volume two with some dampstaining, light foxing to endpapers, modern quarter morocco, folio, together with a defective copy of John Browne’s Myographia Nova, or, A Graphical Description of all the Muscles in the Humane Body, 2nd edition, 1705, lacks one plate, some heavy browning and other defects, contemporary half morocco, worn and upper cover detached, folio (3)

Wing C6107; Wing H356 & Norman 971.

Cooke was a surgeon at Warwick who also translated this second work. Hall married Shakespeare’s elder daughter Susanna, and was a successful Stratford practitioner, living at Hall’s Croft. The illnesses of several eminent persons are described, including Michael Drayton, the poet, but there is a gap in the period around the time of Shakespeare’s death. Both books are rare and were both printed ‘for John Sherley, at the Golden Pelican, in Little-Britain’.

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45

92 Cowper (William). Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body... To Which is Prefix’d an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, 1st edition, 1724, engraved frontispiece, engraved table, 67 engraved plates, including plate XIII in two states, engraved illustrations, plate XIV with marginal repair, a few minor spots, modern black morocco-backed boards, folio

93 Cowper (William). Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures After the Life... To Which is Prefix’d an Introduction Concerning Muscular Motion, 1st edition, 1724, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved table, 67 engraved plates after Rubens and Raphael, plate XIII in two states, illustrations, scattered light spotting, endpapers renewed, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio

‘This work made a modest first appearance in 1694 as an octavo, but Cowper worked until his death on a new edition which was finally published posthumously under the supervision and at the expense of Richard Mead (1673-1754). This sumptuous folio with engravings after Rubens and Raphael and an ingenious set of historiated initials ranks among the most artistic anatomical atlases of the period’ (G-M 392.1).

(1) £700-1000

Large paper copy. G-M 392.1.

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Lot 94 94 Cowper (William). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn After the Life by some of the Best Masters in Europe... Illustrated with Large Explications, Containing Many New Anatomical Discoveries, and Chirurgical Observations: To which is Added an Introduction Explaining the Animal Oeconomy, with a Copious Index, Revised and Pulish’d by C. B. Albinus, Professor of Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery and Practice, in the University of Utrecht, 2nd edition, Leiden, 1737, engraved additional title, 114 engraved plates, most after Gerard de Lairesse, woodcut initials and tail pieces, plate 10 with repaired tear, scattered light spotting, hinges reinforced, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracking, rubbed, folio

95 Cramer (Johann Andreas). Elements of the Art of Assaying Metals.

In Two Parts. The First containing the Theory, The Second the Practice of the said Art. The Whole Deduced from the true Properties and Nature of Fossils...Translated from the Latin, 1st English edition, 1741, six folding plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 8vo Cramer was considered one of the greatest assayers of his time and was appointed director of mines and smelters for Brunswick, in the Harz Mountains. The work was originally published in Latin in 1739. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, volume I, p.180.

(1) £300-400

Lairesse originally drew illustrations for 105 of the plates used in Govard Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685 - see lot 45) and represent a complete departure from Vesalius’s idealistic style. English surgeon William Cowper (c. 1666-1709) acquired three hundred of the unused plates (Bidloo’s edition sold poorly) and issued them with his superior new English text plus nine extra plates by Michael van der Gucht in his Anatomy of the Humane Bodies in 1698, with no mention of Bidloo or Lairesse. This led to claims of plagiarism from Bidloo and a series of pamphlets published in each anatomist’s defence. ‘Lairesse displayed his figures in an emotional, almost tender manner, contrasting the raw dissected parts with the full, soft surfaces of uncut flesh, placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding, setting ordinary household objects such as books, jars or cabinets in the same scene as cut-up torsos or limbs, and in one plate showing a fly crawling on an opened abdomen. His illustrations brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new darker spiritual expression to the act of dissection.’ (Norman 231). Waller 2192.

(1) £1500-2000

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96 Croce (Giovanni Andrea della). Chirurgiae universalis opus absolutum, 1st edition, Venice: R. Meiettum, 1596, title printed in red and black with large woodcut device, woodcut illustrations of operations and instruments, 4pp. contemporary manuscript index at end, manuscript note to front endpaper, one or two small repaired tears, light water stain and a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, edges lightly rubbed, 4to ‘Croce improved the instruments for trephination, and published classic woodcuts depicting the operation, including the first illustration of a neurological surgery operation actually taking place. The work is also important for Croce’s descriptions of cranial and cerebral diseases... Croce illustrated all of the instruments used before and during his own time’ (G-M 4850.4, referring to his earlier Chirurgiae, libri septem, 1573); Adams C2993; Durling 1083.

(1) £1000-1500

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97 Crooke (Helkiah). Mikrokosmographia. A Description of the Body of Man. Together with the Controversies and Figures thereto Belonging. Collected and Translated out of all the Best Authors of Anatomy, Especially out of Gasper Bauhinus, and Andreas Laurentius, W. Jaggard, 1616, cancel title with woodcut illustrations, woodcut illustrations, initials and head and -tail pieces, lacking front blank?, occasional annotation and marginalia, one or two repairs and tears, some minor soiling, library stamps, modern burgundy morocco, folio A reissue of the 1615 first edition, with the cancel title Jaggard and Barbican imprint and without the bifolium. Crooke heavily borrowed the text from Gaspard Bauhin’s Theatrum Anatomicum (1605, see lot 38 for another edition), with the illustrations from Vesalius via Bauhin. He incurred the displeasure of the College of Physicians for depicting conception and reproduction, which were considered indecent, even though they were after Vesalius, and despite the College’s efforts to have the publication suppressed, it went ahead with Crooke’s defiant depictions of a male and pregnant female figure on the title-page. One of the last anatomies based on continental sources before the emergence of the purely English anatomical school. Heirs of Hippocrates 405; STC 6062.2.

(1) £1500-2000

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Lot 99

98 Cruikshank (William). The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, 1st edition, printed for G. Nicol, 1786, three engraved plates, one folding (with short handling tear repaired with adhesive tape), scattered foxing, title-page and plates with small library stamp, title dusty and with early ms. signature at head (trimmed), BMI library ticket on front pastedown, modern quarter calf, slightly rubbed and spine lightly faded, 4to (270 x 200mm)

99 Cruikshank (William). The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, 2nd edition Considerably Enlarged and Illustrated with Additional Plates, 1790, half-title, five sepia-engraved plates, including two folding, occasional light spotting and offsetting, library stamps, small portrait of author (from another work) tipped-in to title, contemporary cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and faded, 4to

100 Cruikshank (William). Experiments of the Insensible Perspiration of the Human Body, Shewing its Affinity to Respiration.

Published Originally in 1799, and now Republished with Additions and Corrections, 1795, half-title present, faint library stamp and oval library stamp to title, few other leaves with oval ink stamps to blank margins at head & foot, modern dark blue quarter morocco, 8vo, together with Crawford (Adair), Experiments and Observations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies, being an Attempt to Resolve these Phenomena into a General Law of Nature, 2nd edition, 1788, four engraved plates (one folding), library stamp to title, occasional scattered spotting, library cloth, frayed at head of spine, 8vo, with Peart (Edwart), The Generation of Animal Heat, Investigated. With an Introduction, in which is an Attempt to point out, and ascertain, the Elementary Principles, and Fundamental Laws of Nature..., Gainsborough: printed by H. Mozley, 1788, library stamp to title, leaf P1 torn and repaired, ink ownership signature Thomas Taylor 1817 to front blank, library cloth, 8vo, plus five others

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‘With Hunter and Hewson, Cruikshank laid the foundation of modern knowledge concerning the lymphatics. He was Dr. Johnson’s physician and William Hunter’s assistant.’ (G-M 1103); Norman 537.

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101 Cullen (William). A Treatise of the Materia Medica, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: Charles Elliott, 1789, first volume title-page heavily soiled, lacks half-title to volume 1, old ownership name erased from both titles, some spotting, contemporary polished sheep, some wear, rebacked with old labels relaid, 4to, together with Alston (Charles), Lectures on the Materia Medica... , 2 volumes, 1770, lacks half-title to volume 2, library stamps to title and occasionally to lower margins elsewhere, plus Rutty (John), Materia Medica, antiqua & nova... , Rotterdam, 1775, half-title with signature of J. Johnstone, some spotting and soiling, library stamps to title and occasionally elsewhere, all library cloth, 4to, plus three four-volume sets of editions of William Cullen’s Practice of Physic, 1784, 1787 and 1796, various bindings (the last set non-matching), all 8vo (17)

103 Dalechamps (Jacques). Chirurgie francoise ..., avec plusieurs figures des instrumens ..., 2nd edition, Paris: Olivier de Varennes, 1610, title-page printed in red and black with printer’s woodcut device, engraved illustrations to text, faint library stamp to title, occasional old marginal dampstaining, presentation bookplate to the Birmingham Medical Institute from Alfred Baker to front free endpaper, with earlier inscription to Baker from a former pupil J. Smith, dated 1873, contemporary vellum, a little soiled, 4to (232 x 166mm) Considered the most important French surgical book of the sixteenth century after Pare’s Dix livres de chirurgie (1564), the first edition of 1573 contains a commentary on Paul of Aegina, Hippocrates, Celsus, Aetius of Amida, Avicenna and Albucasis. This second edition augments this with the edition of Girault’s and Riolan’s works.

(1) £500-800

£200-300

104 Darwin (Erasmus). Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1794-96, ten engraved plates, inlcuding six hand-coloured, one leaf with marginal repairs, some offsetting and light spotting, library stamps, library cloth, volume II upper joint splitting, 4to, together with Boerhaave (Hermann), [Physiologike], seu Oeconomia Animalis, 1st edition, 1741, title with engraved vignette, 54 folding engraved plates, light water stains and spotting, occasional annotation, library stamps, library cloth, lower cover with small dampstain, 4to, with two others: Johannes Bohn’s Circulus Anatomico. Physiologicus seu Oeconomia Corporis Animalis, 1710 and Mathurin Brisson’s Regnum Animale in Classes IX., 1762

102 Culpeper (Nicholas). A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the Dispensatory Made by the Colledg of Physitians of London, and by them imposed upon all the apothecaries of England to make up their medicines by, and in this third edition is added a key to Galen’s method of physick, Printed by Peter Cole, 1651, lacks portrait frontispiece (as often), faint library stamp to title (dust-soiled), some spotting and marginal dampstaining, several lower outer corners browned, library cloth, folio, together with Willis (Thomas). The London Practice of Physick, or the Whole Practical Part of Physick Contained in the Works of Dr. Willis, Faithfully made English, and printed together for the Publick Good, 1689, engraved portrait frontispiece, errata leaf at rear, faint library stamp to title, minor spotting and soiling, presentation bookplate to BMI from Dr Blackall to front pastedown, modern calf with leather label to spine, 8vo Wing C7542 & W2839.

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105 Dease (William). Observations on Wounds of the Head. With a Particular Enquiry into the Parts Principally Affected, in those who Die in Consequence of such Injuries, 1st edition, Dublin, 1776, 175pp., library stamp to title, bound with Hulme (Nathaniel), A Safe and Easy Remedy, Proposed for the Relief of the Stone and Gravel, the Scurvy, Gout, &c. And for the Destruction of Worms in the Human Body..., 3rd edition, Dublin, 1780, 79pp., a few light spots, library cloth, chip at spine head, 8vo

£200-300

Dublin surgeon William Dease’s first work, his other works being on midwifery and venereal disease.

(1) £150-200

106 Deering (Charles). Catalogus Stirpium, &c. Or, a Catalogue of Plants Naturally Growing and Commonly Cultivated in Divers Parts of England, More Especially about Nottingham... 1st edition, Nottingham: G. Ayscough, 1738, additional dedication to William Griffith, part of Dd2 excised, numerous manuscript notes bound-in at end, library stamps, a few spots, library cloth, light stains, 8vo, together with Wepfer (Johan Jacob), Historia Cicutae Aquaticae, Leiden, 1733, title printed in red and black, six engraved plates (five folding), library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Ray (John), Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum... 3rd edition, 1st issue, 1724, 24 engraved plates, a few spots, library cloth, library stamp, 8vo, with Meyrick (William), The New Family Herbal; Or, Domestick Physician, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1790, engraved frontispiece (detached), 14 hand-coloured engraved plates, light offsetting and spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, and Thomas Short’s Medicina Britannica: Or, a Treatise on such Physical Plants... 1746 (5)

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107 Denman (Thomas). Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery.

Part the Fisrt (sic), 1st edition, [all published], 1782, 262pp. plus index, together with An Essay on Difficult Labours, parts 1-3, 1st edition, 1787-91, 99pp., 78pp., 90pp., bound with An Essay on Uterine Hemorrhages Depending on Pregnancy and Parturition, 1st edition, 1785, 75pp., bound with An Essay on Preternatural Labours, 1st edition, 1786, 52pp., bound with An Essay on the Puerperal Fever, 3rd edition, 1785, 43pp., some light stains, manuscript list at front, library cloth, joints splitting, 8vo, together with Aphorisms on the Application and Use of the Forceps, on Preternatural Labours, and on Labours Attended with Hemorrhage, by Thomas Denman, 1st edition, 1783, blank interleaves, library stamp to title, 8vo, plus An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery, by Thomas Denman, 2 volumes, 1788-95, some dampstains, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards and library cloth, 8vo, with four other works: Thomas Denman’s An Essay on Difficult Labours, 3 parts in one, 1st edition, 1787-91, William Smellie’s A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 3 volumes, mixed eds., 1762-64, another set in 3 volumes, 1779, and another set in 3 volumes, 1784 (14)

£400-600

109 Desault (Pierre Joseph). Parisian Chirurgical Journal, Translated into English by Robert Gosling, 2 volumes, Printed for the Translator, 1794, four engraved plates, lacks final blank to volume 2, together with Journal de chirurgie, volumes 1 & 2 (of four), Paris, 1791, three engraved plates to volume 1, library stamp to each title and plate, some spotting, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (4)

£150-200

110 Descartes (Rene). De homine figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl, 2nd edition, Leiden: Hack, 1664, printer’s woodcut device on title, ten engraved plates including some folding (the first with two lift-up flaps), numerous engravings and woodcuts in text, library stamp to title and plates, title and a few text leaf foremargins marked with numerous hair-line blue ink(?) streaks, some occasional light browning, a little worming to upper outer corners away from text, inner hinges broken, library cloth, 4to (198 x 152mm)

108 Denman (Thomas). A Collection of Engravings, Tending to Illustrate the Generation and Parturition of Animals, and of the Human Species, 1st edition, 1787 [1790], text in English and French, 15 engraved plates after J.V. Rymsdyk, light marginal water stains, some light spots and offsetting onto text, previous owner signature to front blank, library cloth, folio

‘Descartes was prepared to publish this book in 1633 but decided to withhold it when he learned of Galileo’s condemnation by the Church. As a result, the first edition was not published until 1662, twelve years after Descartes’ death.

The Latin translation preceded the French edition by two years, the present second Latin edition appearing the same year as the first French edition. It is sometimes called the first book on physiology...’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 453); G-M 574 (1st edition); Krivastsy 3121; Waller 2376.

(1) £700-1000

Thomas Denman (1733-1815) studied midwifery under William Smellie (16971763), the greatest eighteenth-century obstetrician, after a career as a naval surgeon. ‘Denman’s spontaneous evolution’, a natural, unassisted turning of a foetus from the transverse presentation, is named after him.

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112 Deventer (Hendrik van). Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens. Premiere [-seconde] partie, ou l’on trouve tout ce qui est necessaire pour les Operations qui les conernent, & l’on fait voir de quelle maniere, dans le cas d’une necessite pressante, on peut, sans avoir recours aux Instrumens, remettre dans une situation convenable, ou tirer par les Pieds, d’une Matrice Oblique, ou Directe, les Enfans mal situes, vivans, ou morts, sans les endommager, ni la Mere, 2 parts in one, Paris: Pierre Prault, 1733, half-title, forty engraved plates on 37 leaves (complete, including one folding with short closed tear), continuous pagination throughout volume, errata leaf present at rear of volume, closed tear to lower blank margin of leaf eiii, ink library stammp to title and plates, some dampstaining to margins, occasional spotting (mostly at front and rear), upper pastedown with presentation label to BMI

by Dr. Wade, modern calf gilt, 4to, together with Operationum chirurgicarum novum lumen exhibentium obstetricantibus, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, Leiden, 1733, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, 37 engraved plates, some folding, one or two tears, occasional minor soiling, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, contemporary vellum, dust-stained, 4to

111 Descartes (Rene). Principia philosophiae, ultima editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita & mendis expurgata, Amsterdam: D. Elzevir, 1677, title with woodcut device, illustrations, lacking portrait frontispiece, bound with Renati Descartes specimina philosophiae..., 1677, title with woodcut device, numerous illustrations, bound with Passiones animae, per Renatum Descartes, 1677, title with woodcut device, some spotting and light water stains, previous owner signature of James Johnstone adhered to front pastedown, modern calf-backed boards, small 4to The sixth and last Elzevir edition, the three parts almost always found together.

(1) £200-300

Hendrik Van Deventer (1651-1724) was born at The Hague. He was one of the founders of modern obstetrics and studied midwifery and orthopaedics. He contributed greatly into the research of the pelvis and the effects of abnormalities which affected labour. This work was first published in the Dutch language in 1696.

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113 Diemerbroeck (Ysbrand van). De peste libri quatuor, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione & experientia confirmatam exhibentes, 1st edition, Arnheim: Jan Jacobsz, 1646, some spotting and soiling throughout, lacks final blank, library stamps to title and several scattered mostly marginal stamps, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to, together with Webster (Noah). A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases, 2 volumes, 1800, library stamps to titles, dampstaining to lower corner, contemporary half calf, one cover detached, 8vo, plus Muratori (Lodovico Antonio), Del Governo della Peste E delle maniere di guardarsene, 2 parts in one volume, Pesaro, 1743, faint library stamp to title, contemporary vellum, 8vo, and Lobb (Theophilus), A Practical Treatise of Painful Distempers, 1739, owner’s name to title, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 8vo, and [Strother, Edward], The Practical Physician for Travellers, whether by Sea or Land, 1st edition, 1729, faint library stamp to title, contemporary calf, joints cracking, 8vo, plus Cleghorn (Geore), Observations on the Epidemical Diseases in Minorca. From the Year 1744 to 1749, 2nd edition, 1762, library stamps to titles and occasionally throughout, library cloth, 8vo, plus a 4th edition (1779) of the same work

114 Diemerbroeck (Isbrand van). Opera omnia, anatomica et media, 4 parts in one volume, edited by T. Van Diemerbroeck, Utrecht, 1685, lacking additional engraved title, contains all sixteen folding engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern library half morocco gilt, folio ‘Compiled posthumously by his son Timan, Diemerbroeck’s important tract on the plague and his anatomy, with its excellent plates and other medical works, are present in this large volume’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 498); Cushing D153; Waller 2452; Wellcom II p.467.

(1) £200-300

115 Dionis (Pierre). A Course of Chirurgical Operations, Demonstrated in The Royal Garden at Paris, 2nd (English) edition, 1733, ten engraved plates, engraved illustrations and decorations to text, library stamp to title, some spotting, contemporary calf, joints cracked, together with Garengeot (Rene Jacques Croissant de), A Treatise of Chirurgical Operations, According to the Mechanism of the Parts of the Humane Body and the Theory and Practice of the Most Learned and Experienced Surgeons in Paris... , revised and corrected by St. Andre, 1723, 3 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, library stamp to title, some heavy spotting and occasional browning or marginal dampstaining, plus Le Dran (Henri Francois), Observations in Surgery, Containing One Hundred and Fifteen Different Cases... , to Which is Added, a New Chirurgical Dictionary, 1739, title printed in red and black, two folding engraved plates, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and browning, plus four other editions of copies of Le Dran’s surgical works (1739-1766), plus two others related by Saviard and La Vaugion, all with usual library stamps, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, some with wear to joints, 8vo

1) Diemerbroeck: ‘An important early account of the plague’ (G-M 5117).

(8) £300-400

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£300-400

116 Dioscorides (Pedanius). Opera quae extant omnia, 3 parts in one volume, Frankfurt: heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1598, Greek text with parallel Latin translation and commentary by Jean-Antoine Sarrasin, two engraved portraits of author and translator, blank at end of preliminaries present, four leaves index misbound at the end of part one, part-title to second part and full-title to third part, each with separate pagination, some spotting and browning, title heavily browned and rehinged with margin strengthening to verso, later ownership name (?Tho. Byce Webb, 1840) partly torn with loss to upper outer corner, modern morocco gilt, folio (346 x 218mm) Adams D658; Durling 1137, 1168.

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118 Dolaeus (Johann). Encyclopaedia, medicinae theoreticopracticae, qua tam veterum, quam recentiorum, Paracelsistarum nempe, Helmontianorum, Willisianorum, Sylvianorum, Cartesianorum, de causis & curationibus morborum sententiae exhibentur..., 1st edition, Frankfurt: F. Knoch, 1684, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black (dust-soiled), blank before main text present, double column, some spotting, soiling and old dampstaining, a little worming to upper margins of last few leaves not affecting text, library stamp to portrait and title, early ownership signature of Edward Baldwin to portrait recto (dated 1709) and title, modern quarter calf gilt over marbled boards, 4to, together with Ettmuller (Michael), Opera omnia theoretica et practica..., 4 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Sam Smith, 1685, title printed in red and black with imprint pasted on at foot (slightly soiled and trimmed at upper margin shaving lettering of author’s name), four-page index bound at front, some browning and old dampstaining throughout, library stamp and early ownership signature of Dan: Kenrick to title, library cloth, upper cover and first three leaves detached, spine torn, 4to

117 Dodoens (Rembert). A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes, wherin is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers [and] sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes..., 1st English edition, London [i.e. Antwerp: Printed by Henry Loe, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, 1578, title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut illustrations throughout, lacks leaf *6 at end of first quire with portrait to verso and final leaf (3Y4) with final page of index and colophon to verso, some early ownership names (Thomas Watkins and William Bransby) and scattered marginalia, occasional library stamps including one faint one to title (foremargin closely trimmed, some old ownership names and deletions at head and foot), some soiling and a few marginal repairs without loss of text, modern moroccco gilt, folio (285 x 183mm) Nissen 516; STC 6984.

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1) Rare first edition of this medical encyclopaedia by the German physician Dolaeus, translated into English by William Salmon and published as Systema Medicinale in 1686. 2) Wing E3384A. (2) £300-500

119 Dover (Thomas). The Ancient Physician’s Legacy to his Country, Being what he has Collected in Forty-Nine Years Practice..., 1733, woodcut initials and headpieces, a few leaves close-trimmed at top margin, light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 12mo, together with the 6th & 8th editions of the same work, 1742 & 1771, plus Duncan (Andrew), Medical Cases, Selected from the Records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh: With Remarks and Observations; Being the Substance of Case-Lectures, Delivered During the Years 1776-7, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1778, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece (offset to text), light marginal toning, 8vo, with a 2nd & 3rd edition of the same work, 1781 & 1784 and a 4th edition of Duncan’s Heads of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1789

£600-800

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120 Drake (James). Anthropologia nova: or, a New System of Anatomy. Describing the Animal Oeconomy, and a Short Rationale of Many Distempers Incident to Human Bodies, 3rd edition Corrected, 2 volumes, 1750, portrait frontispiece, 27 engraved plates plus five outline plates, some plates folding, a few plates with short tears or minor browning to fore-edges, together with The Appendix to Dr. Drake’s Anthropologia Nova, 1728, 51 engraved plates, BMI bookplate to each volume and ownership markings of Francis Harp? and Thomas Savage MD, contemporary uniform sprinkled calf, joints cracking, 8vo, together with a two volume edition of the same work dated 1727 but wanting the portrait frontispiece and with 30 plates only (of 32) Russell 289; 288.

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121 [Du Laurens, Andre]. Historia anatomica humani corporis et singularum eius partium, Frankfurt:Matthaus de Becker & Theodor de Bry, 1599], engraved medallion portrait of King Henry IV on leaf *2r, woodcut initials throughout, twenty-six full-page copperengraved plates (old pencil scribble at foot of plate on Z1r), lacks engraved title, signature 3L in index and final blank, some spotting and light browning, a few old manuscript annotations, old ownership signature of J[ohn] Freer to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, some wear, folio (300 x 202mm)

£200-300

‘This work became very popular and went through a number of editions. It remains as one of the more important anatomical texts of the late sixteenth century. Although the book contains many illustrations, few of the plates are taken from Du Laurens’ own observations as he took most of his figures from Vesalius, Valverde, Coiter, and others’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 387); Adams D1072; Choulant-Frank, p. 222; Durling 1313; Osler 3174; Waller 2629; Wellcome 1935.

(1) £500-700

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122 Edinburgh Philosophical Society. Essays and Observations, Physical and Literary, read before a Society in Edinburgh, and published by them, 3 volumes, Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1754-71, twenty-one (of twenty-two) folding engraved plates, lacks plate 1 to volume 2 (ovary of the buccinum ampullatum), plate 1 to volume 1 defective, library stamp to titles and plates, some occasional browning and old marginal dampstaining, library cloth, together with Medical and Philosophical Commentaries, by a Society in Edinburgh, volumes 1-3 & 6 only, Edinburgh, 1773-75 & 1792, library stamps to titles, first 3 volumes, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, final volume modern library cloth, all 8vo

123 Estienne (Henri). Dictionarium medicum, vel., expositiones vocum medicinalium..., 1st edition, [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1564, printer’s woodcut device to title (old paper repair to upper margin not affecting printed text), Greek text, some soiling and dampstaining throughout, heaviest to first and last few leaves and upper inner margins, several oval library stamps to lower margins including title, sometimes touching text, library cloth, rubbed and soiled and upper joints weak, 8vo (164 x 100mm)

Essays and Observations contains eighty-nine papers presented to the Society which was led by such luminaries as Colin Maclaurin and Lord Kames.

Contributors include Robert Whytt, Colin Maclaurin (mathematics), Charles Alston (botany), Alexander Monro (primus), William Cullen and Joseph Black.

Volume 3 also includes a letter from Benjamin Franklin to David Hume on the method of securing houses from the effects of lightning (pages 129-40), and it was David Hume who helped to prepare volume 1 in his capacity as Secretary of the Society. This set effectively forms a continuation of’Medical Essays and Observations, revised and published by a Society in Edinburgh, 5 volumes, 1733-44.

(7) £200-300

Consists of Estienne’s Vocabulorum medicinalium expositiones Graecae, and his edition and translation into Latin of various other related works. G-M 6791; Durling 1402; Adams D524.

(1) £300-500

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124 Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Opuscula anatomica. De renum structura, officio, & administratione. De auditis organis. Examen offium. De motu capitis. De vena...& de dentibus, 2nd edition, Leiden: Apud Johannem vander Linden, 1707, [12],358;[6],98;[12],47 pp., general title printed in red & black, ten folding engraved plates, last portion of text lightly dampstained affecting final two plates, library bookplate to pastedown and early ink ownership markings dated 1808 to front free endpaper, contemporary blind-tooled vellum, some dust-soiling, 8vo

125 Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae, edited by Giovanni Maris Lancisi, 1st edition, Rome: F. Gonzaga, 1714, title with engraved vignette after Pier Leone Ghezzi, 47 fine copperengraved plates after Eustachi and Pier Matteo Pini, (bound without the unnumbered graduated scale plate), woodcut initials, title detached, library stamps, occasional light spotting, library cloth, small tear at head of spine, folio, (375 x 250mm) Only the first eight plates were issued during Eustachi’s lifetime (for his Opuscula Anatomica, 1564), the whole series of 47 plates prepared in 1552 for Eustachi’s intended work De Dissensionibus ac Controversiis Anatomicis.

The other thirty-nine plates (with framed rules on three sides to provide coordinates for reference), ‘remained unprinted and forgotten in the Vatican Library until discovered in the early 18th century, and were then presented

by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi... These copperplates are more accurate than the work of Vesalius. Singer was of the opinion that had they appeared in 1552 Eustachius would have ranked with Vesalius as one of the founders of modern anatomy. He discovered the Eustachian tube, the thoracic duct, the adrenals and the abducens nerve, and gave the first accurate description of the uterus. He also described the cochlea, the muscles of the throat and the origin of the optic nerves’ (G-M 391); Norman 740; Wellcome II, p. 536.

(1) £1500-2000

A reprint of the 1564 Venice first edition of this compilation of Eustachi’s works on the teeth, kidney, ear, and venous system. He was among the first to study the teeth in any detail, and his treatise here contains an early description of the first and second dentitions as well as the tooth’s basic composition of enamel and dentin. Heirs of Hippocrates 322 (1st edition).

(1) £700-1000

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127 Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii quas e tenebris tandem vindicatas et Clementis Papae XI, Munificentia dono acceptas, praefatione, ac notis illustravit Joh. Maria Lancisius, second Rome edition, Rome: L. & T. Pagliarini, 1728, engraved ornamental frontispiece with vignette portrait of Eustachius, small tear with loss to upper outer corner outside of plate impression, old adhesion marks from previous bookplate removal to frontispiece verso, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette of a dissection scene, old ownership signature of Robt. Smith to upper margin, forty-seven fine engraved plates with numbered rule borders (for use as coordinates in conjunction with text), faint library stamp to title and all plates, erasure mark to blank area within plate impression of plate 18, some spotting, Johnstonre armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, folio (372 x 250mm)

126 Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae, Amsterdam: Apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1722, title in red and black with engraved vignette of a human dissection in an anatomy theatre, 44 engraved plates only (of 48), lacking plates 9, 25, 32 and an unnumbered plate, blank leaf bound-in after each plate, one plate torn and relaid, dampstained throughout, some leaves fraying to edges with marginal paper repairs to eight leaves, one leaf torn across and repaired, faint library stamp to every plate and occasionally throughout, contemporary marbled sheep, modern professional reback, folio Heirs of Hippocrates 324; G-M 391 (1714 edition).

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G-M 391; Norman 740 (both citing first edition, 1714).

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128 Fabrizzi (Girolamo). [Opera physica anatomica: de formato foetu, venarum ostiolis, formatione ovi, & pulli, locutione, & eius instrumentis, brutorum loquela...], 5 parts in one volume, 1st collected edition, Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625, separate title to each part but lacks general title and title to ‘Formatione ovi’, first title ‘De Formato foetu’ dated 1600 and printed within engraved decorative border (early inscription to upper margin trimmed away), forty-nine engraved plates including twelve double-page (these all on new guards), some larger plates closely trimmed at margins, some offsetting to text, colophon for first work dated 1604 with errata leaf bound after, title-pages to third, fourth and fifth works with printer’s device and imprint of Lorenzo Pasquati, each dated 1603, index leaves to ‘Locutione’ and ‘Brutorm loquela’ misbound, lacks final blank, faint library stamp to first title and all plates, some occasional spotting and soiling and a few minor marginal tears and archival repairs, ownership signature of Rich[ar]d Henry Morris, dated 1778, to preserved old front free endpaper, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, rubbed, folio (394 x 260mm) Fabrizzi, (Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente), was professor of medicine at Padua, and the influential teacher of William Harvey. The works here use the sheets of the original editions, with no conclusive indication that these were issued as the Opera of 1625, and are bound up as follows: De formato foetu (G-M 465; Norman 751, 1600 edition); Formatione ovi, & pulli (Norman 752, 1621 edition); Venarum ostiolis (G-M 757; Norman 750, 1603 edition); De locutione & eius instrumentis (Norman 749, 1603 edition); Brutorum loquela.

Wellcome I, 2126. Collation: pi2 [-pi1 general title], a-b2, A-E4, F-I2, K4 [K4 a cancel with corrected plate], L-O2, P4, Q2, R-Z4, Aa2; A-H4, I2 [+1, errata], 4 leaves plates [-pi1, title]; pi1, A4, B-C2, D4; pi1, **2, D3/4, A-C4, D1/2; pi2, D3, A-C4 [-D4 blank].

(1) £2000-3000

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131 Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera omnia anatomica & physiologica, Leipzig, 1687, half-title, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, 62 copper-engraved plates (some folding), illustrations, library stamps, one or two closed tears, some spotting and browning, BMI presentation label from the Executors of the late R. Middlemore to front endpaper, contemporary vellum, upper joint repaired, dust-soiling, folio First collected works edition of influential Paduan anatomist and surgeon Hieronymus Fabicius ab Aquapendente (1537-1619), friend of Galileo and teacher of William Harvey, Julius Casserius and Adriaan van den Spiegel.

(1) £300-400

129 Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera anatomica: de formato foetu, formatione ovi, & pulli, locutione, & eius instrumentis, brutorum loquela, venarum ostiolis..., 5 parts in one volume, 1st collected edition, Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625, general title with engraved printer’s device (soiled and torn without loss), forty-seven (of 49) engraved plates including twelve double-page, De formato feotu lacks separate title, leaves D2/3 with full-page engraving to verso of each, engraving to K4 recto a duplicate of K2, tears with loss to H2, R3/4, Formatione ovi lacks title, last plate torn with loss, Brutorum loquela lacks title, dedication and final blank, Venarum ostiolis with tears with loss to A4, B1, C1/2 and D4, Locutione lacks title, synopsis and index leaves, D1/2 torn with loss affecting engravings to versos, library stamp to title and plates, some soiling, old dampstaining and marginal closed tears and other defects, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, heavily soiled and worn, split along upper joint from head to foot, folio (413 x 273mm) Sold with all faults not subject to return.

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£500-800

130 Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Medicina practica, 1st edition, Paris: C. Cottard, 1634 [colophon dated 1633], title with woodcut device, woodcut initails and headpieces, occasional wormtracks, some light browning and marginal tears, library stamps, modern moroccobacked boards, 4to (1)

£250-300

132 Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera chirurgica. Quorum pars prior pentateuchum chirurgicum, posterior operationes chirurgicas continet, Leiden, 1723, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, nine folding engraved plates, some light spotting and marginal water stains, library stamps, library cloth, spine a little rubbed, folio (1)

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£300-400

135 Falloppio (Gabriele). Opera omnia..., 2 volumes in one, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1600, printer’s woodcut device to both titles, index to each volume, library stamps to title and a few lower margins, some spotting and old dampstaining (mostly to upper inner margins) throughout, ownership signature of Albert Kyper to title lower margin, cut signature of James Johnstone pasted to front pastedown (endpapers renewed), contemporary blind-stamped vellum over boards, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, lower outer corner repaired, folio (365 x 218mm) First published in 1584, the appendix to this edition was published as volume 3 in 1606. Provenance: Albert Kyper, professor of medicine at Leiden, published several medical works between 1615 and 1660, including Institutiones medicae and Anthropologia, corporis humani. Adams F135.

(1) £200-300

136 Fernel (Jean). Therapeutices universalis, seu Medendi rationis, libri septem, bound with De abditis rerum causis libri duo, both Frankfurt: Heirs of A. Wechel, C. Marnius & J. Aubrius, 1593, printer’s woodcut device to both titles, portrait to first title verso, final blank to first work present, slight spotting throughout and a little old dampstaining to lower outer corners of final leaves, faint library stamp to first title (light browning), skilful repair to third leaf (Aa3) without loss of text, library cloth, 8vo (1)

£200-300

133 Fabry von Hilden (Wilhelm). De gangraena et sphacelo, tractatus methodicus... Editio decima et ultima, omnium locupletissima..., Oppenheim: Hieronymus Galler, 16[17], printer’s device on title and engraved portrait to verso, fifteen woodcut and two copper-engraved illustrations to text, final leaf blank, library stamps and old inscriptions to title (last four letters of Roman numeral date erased), some browning, soiling and old dampstaining throughout, contemporary vellum gilt, soiled, 4to (195 x 154mm) In this work, first published in 1593, Fabricius Hildanus recommended amputation for gangrene, high above the infected part.

(1) £1000-1500

134 Fabry von Hilden (Wilhelm). Opera quae extant omnia, 2 parts in one volume, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Joan Ludovici Dufour, 16821671, half-titles present, lacking additional engraved title, woodcut illusts to text, lightly foxed with some edge flaking to preliminaries, page edges stained red, modern cloth gilt, together with Ettmuller (Michael), Opera omnia: nempe, institutiones medicinae, cum notis; collegium practicum generale & speciale de morbis virorum, 2 volumes, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri, 1688, halftitles (one with paper repair), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (with library stamp), contemporary mottled calf, modern sympathetic rebacks, all folio (3)

£200-300

137 Ferrara (Gabriele Camillo). Sylva chirurgiae, in tres libros divisa..., translated by Peter Uffenbach, 1st Latin edition, Frankfurt: Jacob de Zetter, 1625, title within decorative border, seventy-two full-page plates on thirty-six leaves, final blank present, faint library stamp to title and plates, some light spotting or browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo A rare work containing fine illustrations of surgical instruments and medicinal distillation apparatus and procedures. Originally published in two parts in Italian in 1596. Krivatsy 4030; Waller 3002. This edition not in Wellcome.

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139 [Floyer, John]. The Preternatural State of Animal Humours Described, by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation. And the cure of each particular cacochymia... To this treatise are added two appendixes... About the nature of fevers... Concerning the effervescence and ebullition of the several cacochymia’s [sic]..., 1st edition, 1696, half-title, faint library stamp to title, heavy spotting throughout, late 19th-ce. library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

138 Fioranvanti (Leonardo). Three Exact Pieces..., viz. His Rationall Secrets, and Chirurgery, Reviewed and Revived. Together with a Book of Excellent Experiments and Secrets, Collected out of the Practises of Severall Expert Men in Both Faculties, Whereunto is Annexed Paracelsus his One hundred and fourteen experiments, with certain excellent works of B.G. a Portu Aquitano, also Isaac Hollandus his Secrets concerning his vegetall and animall work, With Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot, 4 parts in one volume, 1st edition, 1652, fleuron border to main title (minor nicks to foremargin), three part-titles, leaves (bb)1&2 (To the Reader and Contents to second book) bound at end of preliminary leaves to first book, paper flaw to lower margin of 2K1 with resultant closed tear touching catchword to recto and ‘the’ in final line verso, faint library stamp to title, some light browning, old dampstains and fraying to foremargin extremities, partly loose and broken in library cloth, 4to (183 x 138mm)

Wing F1389.

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A better than usual copy of this first edition of a compilation of texts, primarily translations of the popular Fioravanti, and more importantly Paracelsus, by John Hester, first published nearly a century earlier. Norman 797; Sudhoff, Bibliographia Paracelsica 370; Wing F953.

(1) £700-1000

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140 Floyer (John). The Physician’s Pulse-Watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch. In three parts... To which is added an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse, volume 1 (of 2, as often), 1st edition, 1707, single advert leaf after contents, light library stamp to title, some spotting, late 19th-c. cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

141 Floyer (John). A Comment on Forty Two Histories Discribed

by Hippocrates in the First and Third Books of his Epidemics, 1st edition, 1726, title ruled in red (faint library stamp), some spotting and browning, errata deleted and corrected in text in an early hand, three leaves ms. index at front (initialled R.M.) and two leaves notes in the same neat hand at rear, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, together with A Treatise on Asthma, Divided into Four Parts, 3rd corrected ed., 1726, some spotting and numerous library stamps, library cloth, rubbed, plus PharmakoBasanos, or the Touch-Stone of Medicines, volume 1 only (of 2), [1687], three advert and errata leaves at rear, library stamps, some heavy dampstaining and soiling at front and rear, modern morocco gilt with Johnstone library bookplate preserved, 8vo

G-M 2670. Floyer, a Lichfield physician, was the first to count the pulse with the aid of a watch and to make regular observations on the pulse rate. A second volume was published in 1710 and contained the first English translation of Cleyer’s book on Chinese pulse-lore.

(1) £300-400

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143 Fontana (Felice). Treatise on the Venom of the Viper; on the American Poisons; and on the Cherry Laurel, and some other Vegetable Poisons..., Translated from the Original French... by Joseph Skinner, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1787, half-titles, ten folding engraved plates, title with library stamp and stamps to plates, some dampstaining and spotting mostly to volume one, text block to volume one split, library cloth, 8vo, together with Mead (Richard), A Mechanical Account of Poisons, in Several Essays, 3rd edition, 1745, four engraved plates (including one folding), engraved illustration to title and final leaf, library stamp to title and plates, some light dampstaining, contemporary calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked and some wear, 8vo, plus a fourth edition of the same work published 1747, in library cloth

142 Foes (Anuce). Oeconomia Hippocratis, alphabeti serie distincta..., 1st edition, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1588, printer’s woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, engraved medallion portrait of the author to title verso, woodcut initials and head-pieces, Greek and Latin text, double column, early inscriptions to title and some scattered underscoring, some spotting and old dampstaining throughout, library stamps to title and to lower margins of several rectos, ownership inscription and mongoram stamp of James Johnstone to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and upper joint split, folio (336 x 205mm)

G-M 2103 for the first title, which was originally published in Italian in 1767.

‘The starting point of modern investigations of serpent venoms’.

(4) £300-400

144 Foot (Jesse). The Life of John Hunter, 1st edition, 1794, faint library stamp to title and library label and stamps to front endpapers, modern morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo (1)

‘This large concordance of Hippocrates’ works, listing important words in Greek with text references and commentary, took Foes over forty years to complete. It was the standard reference used for studying Hippocrates’ writings and for etymological studies until the appearance of Littre’s definitive work some 250 years later. The fine medallion portrait of Foes on the verso of the title-page was executed by the French engraver Pierre Woeiriot (ca.

1531-ca. 1589) and appears only in first editions of the book’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 348); Adams F660; Durling 1589; G-M 6793; Waller 3101; Wellcome 2334.

(1) £200-300

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145 Ford (Edward). Observations on the Disease of the Hip Joint; To Which are Added, Some Remarks on White Swellings on the Knee, the Caries of the Joint of the Wrist and Other Similar Complaints, 1st edition, 1794, eight aquatint plates, including three folding or double-page, occasional minor spotting, library stamps, previous owner signature of D.W. Crompton, 1826 to front endpaper, library cloth, slightly bowed, 8vo, together with Musgrave (William), De Arthritide Symptomatica Dissertatio, 1st edition, Exeter, 1703, errata leaf at end, E6 with marginal repair, erratic signatures, light water stain, previous owner signature, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, modern half tan morocco, 8vo, with two others by Musgrave: De Arthritide Anomala, Sive Interna Dissertatio, 1707 and De Arthritide Primigenia & Regulari, 1776 (4)

£400-600

146 Fordyce (William). A New Inquiry into the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure, of Putrid and Inflammatory Fevers, 1st edition, 1773, neat contemporary owners name and faint library stamp to title, modern full morocco gilt, 8vo, together with other works by the same author including A Dissertation on Simple Fever, or on fever Consisting of One Paroxysm Only, 1794, library stamps to title, bound with A Second Dissertation on Fever..., 1795, library cloth, 8vo, and A Third Dissertation on Fever, 1798, library stamps to title, bound with A Fourth Dissertation on Fever, 1802, library cloth, 8vo, together with Cullen (William). Lectures on the Materia Medica, T. Lowndes, 1773, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 4to, together with other books by William Cullen including Institutions of Medicine. Part I Physiology, 1st edition, 1772, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 12mo, plus two other editions of the same work (1777 & 1785), and Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae, 2 parts in one volume, new edition, 1772, library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and a twovolume copy of the same work (1795)

147 Fracastoro (Girolamo). De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber unus, De contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione, libri tres, 2nd edition, Lyon: Gulielmum Gazeium, 1550, printer’s woodcut device to title, woodcut initials, colophon leaf at rear, some old marginalia and underscoring, faint library stamp to title (slightly soiled), dampstaining to final leaves, old illuminated leaf on paper and later old endpaper at rear, the latter with closed tear and ownership inscription of Edward Stanhope (probably the main annotator of the text), BMI presentation bookplate from Dr [Willoughby] Wade to front pastedown, contemporary blind-panelled calf with the cypher W to both covers, rebacked with original spine relaid, 16mo The second edition of Fracastoro’s classic work on the germ theory of infectious disease. ‘Although his medical poem on syphilis is perhaps more widely known, the present work is a far more important contribution to science, establishes Fracastoro as one of the foremost scientists of all time, and earns him the title of founder of modern epidemiology.

After studying under Albinus and Cullen, Fordyce lectured on medicine and chemistry at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London for almost thirty years. He confirmed Lavoisier’s views against the phlogiston theory and, using himself as a subject, demonstrated that human beings maintain a constant body temperature at elevated external temperatures. Heirs of Hippocrates 1023 (Second Dissertation on Fever).

(10) £200-300

De contagione contains the first scientifically reasoned statement of the true nature of infection, contagion, and the germ theory of disease and is the foundation of all modern views on the nature of infectious diseases. The influence of Fracastoro’s ideas was evident during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the work of Francesco Redi, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and Antonio Vallisnieri as they contributed to a greater understanding of the nature of infection. Fracastoro’s influence is also clearly reflected in the work of such modern scientists as Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, and Robert Koch as they broadened and furthered man’s knowledge of infectious diseases’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 174); Durling 1636; G-M 2528; Norman 827; Osler 2652; Waller 3163; Wellcome 2393 - all citing 1546 first edition.

(1) £700-1000

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148 Fracastoro (Girolamo). Opera omnia, 2nd collected edition, Venice: Giunta, 1574 [colophon dated 1583], woodcut printer’s device to title and colophon leaf at rear, woodcut portrait and diagrams to text, some marginal old dampstaining and slight soiling to first and last leaves, faint library stamp to title and portrait leaf recto and verso, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr [Willoughby] Wade, library cloth, slightly rubbed on joints, 4to (227 x 169mm) First published in 1555 this works edition includes his principal astronomical, philosophical, poetic and medical treatises. Adams F818; Durling 1632; Wellcome I, 2397.

(1) £400-600

149 Freind (John). Opera Omnia, 1st edition, 1733, licence leaf, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, engraved headpiece and initial, a few light spots, library stamp, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio ‘Freind was the first English historian of medicine’ (Garrison-Morton). Whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London for high treason (he was innocent), Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole was suffering from renal calculi and called in Freind’s great friend Richard Mead, who refused Walpole treatment until Freind was released, which happened rather speedily.

(1) £200-300

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150 Fuchs (Leonhart). Operum Leonharti Fuchsii medici et philosophi excellentissimi, 3 parts in one, Frankfurt, 1566-67, woodcut portrait of the author to each part title, woodcut illustrations and initials, some small wormholes, occasional light water stains, library cloth, folio (312 x 193mm)

152 Galen (Claudius). Medicorum omnium fer e principis opera, nunc demum a clarissimis iuxta & eruditis uiris latinitate donata, iam uero ordine iusto, & studio exquisitio re in lucem recens edita, Basel: [Per Andream Cratandrum, mense Martio], 1529, printer’s woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, final blank present, ink marginalia and underscoring in one or more early hands throughout, library stamps to title and to scattered lower margins throughout, some soiling and dampstaining, occasionally heavy, closed tear repair to foremargin of 2H4 verso, early ownership signature of (?)Jo. James to title and Johnstone armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, soiled, cracked on joints and snagged at head of spine, folio (313 x 208mm)

Considered one of the founding fathers of botany (along with Brunfels and Bock) and expanding on Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (1st century A.D.), Fuchs described four hundred German and one hundred foreign plants (including New World plants maize and pumpkin), the largest number of plants useful as drugs and herbs. The fuchsia, when brought back from the Americas, was named for him.

(1) £1000-1500

A rare edition, WorldCat only locating two copies held in France.

(1) £300-500

151 Fuller (Francis). Medicina Gymnastica: Or, A Treatise Concerning the Power of Exercise, with Respect to the Animal Oeconomy, and the Great Necessity of it in the Cure of Several Distempers, 1st edition, Robert Knaplock, 1705, imprimatur leaf before title, library stamp and ownership signature of John Freer to title, some spotting, marginal dampstaining and soiling, especially to first and last leaves, library cloth, rubbed and slightly frayed at head of spine, 8vo The first treatise in English on the use of therapeutic exercise. The first edition is far less common than the second enlarged edition of the same year. ESTC T140184.

(1) £200-300

153 Gastaldi (Hieronymus). Tractatus de avertenda et profliganda peste politico-legalis eo lucubratus tempore, quo ipse Loemocomiorum primo, mox Sanitatis Commissarius Genealis fuit, peste urbem invadente anno MDCLVI et LVII, Bologna: Typographia Manolessiana, 1684, 47 engraved plates, woodcut decorations and initials, library stamps to title, half-title partly detached, old dampstaining throughout, heaviest towards rear with some light marginal adhesion, some browning, contemporary vellum, soiled and slight wear to joints and spine, folio (402 x 275mm) Krivatsy 4580 (imperfect); Wellcome III, p. 93: ‘Deals chiefly with plague measures in Rome’.

(1) £200-300

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154 Geminus (Thomas, c. 1510-1562). Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata, 1st or 2nd English issue, Imprynted at London by Nycholas Hyll dwellynge in Saynte Johns streate, for Thomas Geminus, [1553], forty engraved plates, Adam & Eve double-page plate with figures trimmed close and just touching a fingertip of each, relaid on to two facing leaves, lacks the armorial, architecutral and allegorical engraved title here supplied in an early and possibly near-contemporary manuscript facsimile using silverpoint and sepia ink, manuscript details of the 1559 imprint incorporated at foot, central panel excised and left blank (Royal Coat of Arms in the 1553 editions, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1559 edition), a few minor tears and small loss to lower right margin, the whole leaf relaid, dedication leaf for King Edward VI, slightly browned and soiled, old inscription of Watt Tooke(?) dated 167[?] to upper outer corner and slightly trimmed, dedication leaf verso 'To the ientill readers and Surgeons of Englande', dated 1552, tiny holes to leaves A1 (old ink spash), G1 and G6, split to lower margin of B7, old ink marginalia to C1 verso, archival closed tear repairs to F1 including horizontal split across image and lower outer corner of text block, marginal paper repair to same leaf not affecting text, first cerebral engraved plate trimmed into plate impression touching image, I2 duplicated, upper marginal wormholes not affecting text or plates of leaves I3 to end, final leaf slightly browned and chipped at inner margin, with two small tears and loss not affecting text, leaf reattached at inner margin to endpaper, some other general spotting and soiling, old marginal dampstaining confined largely to preliminaries, signatures A-B and final leaf, library cloth, folio (369 x 258 mm) The Latin Geminus of 1545 and the English edition of 1553 were the first illustrated textbooks of anatomy to be published in this country and the forty illustrations were printed from the first copper plates to be executed here.

'Encouraged by the success of his Latin edition of Vesalius, Geminus was persuaded, possibly by Vesalius's old roommate John Caius, to prepare a version of the Vesalian plates with English text for the benefit of "unlatined surgeons." As he doubted his proficiency in English, Geminus sought the aid of Nicholas Udall, dramatist (he wrote the comedy Ralph Royster Doyster) and prebendary of Windsor, to translate the characterum indices of the Vesalian plates. The English text chosen to accompany the plates was an early translation of the Surgery of Henri de Mondeville, which Thomas Vicary, surgeon to Henry VIII, had used almost word for word in his own Anatomie of the bodie of man (1548). The text was rearranged in Geminus's book to follow the traditional order of conducting a dissection, beginning with the viscera and ending with the bones in order to dissect first those parts which would most quickly putrefy' (Norman 887).

Collation *2[-*1], A6, B7, C-I6 [I2 duplicated], K2; forty engraved plates. Additionally, bound before and after the dedication leaf are to be found three pages of Explanation leaves relating to the fugitive sheet of a seated Adam and Eve with flaps (see Russell 308). Two copies of the first sheet have been used to show recto and verso; the verso of sheet two was blank. Each page is slightly cut down at head and foot, trimmed close at the foremargin affecting text in most lines and relaid on three sheets.

The text of this impressive work is in double column, black letter, and with crible metal-cut initials. A watermark of a pot or gauntlet and star is visible in many of the sheets. The illustrations comprise the external anatomy of Adam and Eve (here separated and mounted on two sheets), three skeletal engravings, sixteen muscular engravings, five arterial and venal engravings, four neural engravings, six engravings of organs, four cerebral engravings and one engraving of ocular parts and surgical instruments. These are all based on Vesalian woodcuts to be found in the Fabrica and the Epitome.

The first edition in English is extremely rare, the copies produced being so well-used that few have survived in any semblance of good condition. The Norman copy of the undated first issue claimed to be the only complete copy in private hands. There are two English versions of 1553, (STC 11715.5 & 11716), that with an undated title-page being claimed as the first issue. Both are otherwise identical and bear the same imprint at the rear as found in this copy, and not found in any other edition identified. The matter is further complicated by the presence of the three added pages of explanation to accompany the fugitive plate of a seated Adam and Eve (not included in this copy), that though not part of the collation, are often found in copies of the 1559 edition. This copy in the main body of text (excepting the last leaf which is slightly browned and spotted and separated from the main body of text) is in very good order with only the presence of the usual light Birmingham Medical Institute library stamps affecting the freshness of the plates. For further discussions of this remarkable volume see Russell 830-833 (and 308), Cushing VI.C.-2, Norman 887. See also an article by S.V. Larkey, The Library, XIII (1932-33), pp. 367-94.

(1) ÂŁ3000-5000

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155 Gemma Reinerus (Frisius). De principiis astronomiae et cosmographiae ..., his haccessit Ioannis Schoneri de usu globi astriferi opusculum, Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1557, printer’s woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initial and illustrations to text, privilege leaf with colophon to verso as penultimate leaf (dated 1556), library stamp to title and device at rear, library cloth, 8vo (161 x 103mm) (1)

157 Gerard (John). The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.

Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie, Very Much enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, 2nd edition, printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633, engraved title (with faint ink stamp), numerous botanical woodcuts to text, lacks first & last blanks, small hole to leaf Z1 (slightly affecting text), upper outer blank corners of leaves 6U3-7B5 torn and majority neatly repaired, later endpapers, upper pastedown with remains of earlier pastedown retained with manuscript ownership inscriptions including “J.H. Judson, Surgeon, Ware, Herts, 1812”, modern morocco, upper board scuffed and slightly marked, folio (347 x 235mm)

£300-500

156 Genga (Bernardino). Anatomy Improv’d and Illustrated with Regard to the uses thereof in Designing: Not only laid down from an Examen of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body but also Demonstrated and Exemplified from the Most Celebrated Antique Statues in Rome... The Explanations and Indexes Added by John Maria Lancissi, P. Physitian to his Holyness Pope Innocent XI. First Published in Rome by Dom di Rossi and now Re-engraven by the Ablest Hands in England. And Republish’d by John Senex, [1723], 59 engraved plates, including 42 anatomical plates by John Sturt and Michael van der Gucht, list of subscriber’s at end, title with small repair at lower corner (light marginal soiling), plates VII & XIX with repairs, a few minor spots, small presentation label from Mrs G Evans, modern cloth, folio

Published first in 1597 this second edition was prepared by Thomas Johnson, an apothecary and botanist. Johnson corrected and added a vast amount of material and the number of woodcuts was increased by half as many again. Even the illustrations were improved making this a highly desirable edition.

Hunt 223; Nissen 698; STC 11751.

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‘This is one of the finest of all books on anatomy for artists’ (G-M 386).

Russell 313.

(1) £400-600

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158 Gibson (Thomas). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies Epitomized, 6th edition, 1703, imprimatur before title, twenty engraved plates, some spotting or browning throughout, library stamps to title and plates, old ownership signatures of Thomae Gilberd dated 1738 and Danielis Leblon, also presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr Blackall, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked and recornered, together with a fifth edition of the same work, 1697, twenty engraved plates, lacks imprimatur and first leaf of To the Reader (A3), old dampstaining throughout, library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, a little frayed at head of joints, both 8vo Russell 319 & 318.

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£200-300

159 Giffard (William). Cases in Midwifry, Revis’d and Publish’d by Edward Hody, 1st edition, 1734, three folding engraved plates (first plate signed A. Motte), occasional light water stains, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Oliver Pemberton, modern red half morocco, spine a little faded, 4to (234 x 180mm)

Lot 159

‘Contains, under Case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with illustrations of two variant types. Giffard is considered the first English obstetrician to publish substantial contributions to clinical midwifery.’ (G-M 6156.3). He was the first to use the Mauriceau-Smellie-Veitm method of extracting the aftercoming head and performed the now termed Ritgen Manoeuvre (for the prevention of tears to the perineum during delivery. Norman 902; Wellcome III, p.114.

(1) £300-400

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161 Glisson (Francis). De rachitide sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo The Rickets dicitur, 1650, woodcut illustrations to text, a little spotting and occasional marginal dampstaining, marginal repair to 2C1 but with small hole and loss affecting lettering of five lines, closely trimmed touching some page numbers and running heads of preliminaries and slightly affecting ownership signature of W. Berington to title, lacks A1 (blank except for the signature ‘A’), presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr Melson, late 19th-c. cloth, slightly faded, 8vo (159 x 105mm)

160 Glauber (Johann Rudolf). The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: Containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: Also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of Making Salt-Petre, and Improving of Barren-Land, and the Fruits of the Earth...

Translated into English, and Published for Publick Good by the Labour, Care and Charge, of Christopher Packe, 3 parts in one, 1689, engraved frontispiece, four woodcut plates, six engraved plates, one folding (trimmed at lower margin affecting image), woodcut illustration, some contemporary underlining and annotation, occasional minor spots, burnholes and inksplashes, endpapers renewed, 18th c calf, rebacked, some edgewear, folio

Considered the first monograph devoted to a single disease published in England. G-M 3729: ‘Although anticipated by Whistler and others in the description of infantile rickets, Glisson’s account was the fullest that had till then appeared... Glisson’s book on rickets was one of the earliest instances of collaborative medical research in England, combining the observations of Glisson and seven other contributors’; Norman 910; Wing G854.

(1) £2000-3000

Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemical engineer and discoverer of sodium sulphate (“Glauber’s salt”). The list of subscribers include Robert Boyle and William Penn. Wing G845.

(1) £800-1200

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162 Glisson (Francis). Anatomia hepatis, cui praemittuntur quaedam ad rem anatomicam universe spectantia. Et ad calcem operis subjiciuntur nonnulla de lymphae-ductibus nuper repertis, Amsterdam: Johann Ravestein, 1659, printer’s vignette woodcut device to title (faint library stamp), two folding en. plates, lacks additional engraved title, library cloth, a few nicks to spine ends, 12mo (125 x 75mm) First published in 1654 (G-M 972) this is the second Latin edition of this classic work on the liver. Osler 2759; Waller 3583; Cushing G289.

(1) £200-300

163 Glisson (Francis). Anatomia hepatis..., editio nova, Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge, & Elizaeum Weyerstraten, 1665, lacks additional engraved title (and final blank?), faint library stamp to title, bound with Malpighi (Marcello), De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica..., John Martyn, 1669, heavy spotting towards rear, library cloth, a little frayed at head of spine, 12mo (125 x 70mm)

165 Good (John Mason). [A] Dissertation on the Diseases of Prisons and Poor-Houses, Published at the Request of the Medical Society of London..., To which is Added a Singular Case of PraeterNatural Foetation, with Remarks on the Phenomena that Occurred..., 1st edition, 1795, marginal dampstaining throughout, title (with library stamp) close-trimmed at upper margin with loss of ‘A’ and just touching last four letters of ‘Dissertation’, leaves B8/9 skilfully rehinged, modern library cloth, partly dampstained and soiled, 12mo (158 x 95mm)

1) G-M 972 (1654 edition). 2) G-M 535 (1666 edition); Wing M348.

(1) £200-300

164 Glisson (Francis). A Treatise of the Rickets: Being a Disease Common to Children..., Translated by Phil[ip] Armin, Enlarged, Corrected, and very much amended... By Nich. Culpeper, 1668, woodcuts to text, some spotting throughout, together with Tractatus de rachitide, sive morbo puerili, subtextis continue? observationibus Georgii Bate & Ahasueri Regemorteri, editio postrema, The Hague: Arnoldum Leers, 1682, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black with printer’s vignette woodcut device, a little spotting and soiling, faint library stamp to title, both library cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, small 8vo and 12mo First item: Wing G861; Osler 2758.

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Goldsmiths’ 16427; ESTC T9240.

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£200-300

166 Goodall (Charles). The Royal College of Physicians of London Founded and Established by Law... , and An Historical Account of the College’s Proceedings Against Empiricks and Unlicensed Practices in Every Princes Reign from the first Incorporation to the Murther of the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First, 1st edition, Walter Kettilby, 1684, imprimatur leaf laid down on to title verso, separate title-page but continuous pagination to second part, some spotting and soiling throughout, title-page heavily dust soiled and with two closed vertical tears into text from lower margin, old ownership name heavily erased in old ink and one surface abrasion with loss of first two letters of the word Proceedings, upper hinge cracked, library cloth, rubbed, a little frayed at head and foot of spine, 4to

£200-300

Wing G1091.

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167 Graaf (Regnier de). De virorum organis generationi inservientibus; de clysteribus et de usu siphonis in anatomia, 1st edition, Leiden & Rotterdam: ex officina Hackiana, 1668, engraved title, eleven folding engraved plates (the first with closed tear repair and partial relining to verso, lacks portrait frontispiece (as often), library stamps to title and plates, a little spotting and occasional browning, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus, 1st edition, Leiden: ex officina Hackiana, 1672, engraved portrait frontispiece, 27 engraved plates including nine folding (a few with closed tear repairs to verso), library stamps to title and plates, lacks additional engraved title, modern library cloth, slightly wear to head of spine, 8vo

168 Graaf (Regnier de). De succo pancreatico: Or, A Physical and Anatomical Treatise of the Nature and Office of the Pancreatick Juice..., translated by Christopher Pack, 1st English edition, 1676, woodcut printer’s device to title (some spotting and browning to gutter margin, two faint library stamps, upper outer corner torn away affecting rule border, three folding engraved plates, library stamps and first with closed tear repair not affecting plate, heavy spotting throughout, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo (164 x 102mm) Krivatsy 4913; Norman 924; Wing G-1463.

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1) ‘This small volume is the first edition of this classical and accurate account of the anatomy of the testicle...’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 637); G-M 1210; Krivatsy 4909; Norman 925; Waller 3670.

2) ‘...He herein gives the first description of ovarian (Graafian) follicles and the corpus luteum. His was an advanced and accurate understanding of the anatomy of the female genitalia. The twenty-seven engraved plates illustrating Graaf’s anatomical research add interest to this small volume’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 638); G-M 1209; Krivatsy 4908; Norman 926; Waller 3669.

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169 Graunt (John). Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality, with Reference to the Government, Religion, Trade, Growth, Air, Diseases, and the Several Changes of the Said City, the Third Edition, Much Enlarged, John Martyn & James Allestry, 1665, two folding tables, both with closed tear repairs to verso, the larger table with further fold wear and minor damage to lettering, some old dampstaining throughout, marginal chipping and browning to first and last few leaves, outer margin of E8 repaired with some loss of text affecting nine lines, small tear to lower outer corner of H4 touching one letter of final line verso, lacks imprimatur leaf before title and both blanks (a8 and O8), modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo (161 x 99mm) First published in 1666, Graunt’s observations on the bills of mortality led to the publication of the first life table to be based on real mortality data.

Designed to provide a warning against the plague epidemic, the bills of mortality did not give the age of death, but did provide the cause of death, and from this Graunt was able to estimate that 36% of all deaths concerned children under the age of six. Among the wide range of deaths listed in the Table of Casualty are the more common as well as Excessive drinking, Fainted in a Bath, Grief, Killed by several Accidents, Lethargy, Leprosie, Overlaid and starved at Nurse, and Suddenly.

Goldsmiths’ 1757; Kress 1155; Wing G1600.

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£200-300

171 Grew (Nehemiah). The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society, 1st edition, printed for the author by W. Rawlins, 1682, licence leaf before main title, 83 copper-engraved plates, including four double-page, pp. 213-220 mispaginated, erratic signatures, occasional light water stains and spotting, library label, modern calf, a little rubbed, folio First collected edition of Grew’s earlier works (The Anatomy of Vegetables; An Idea of a Phytological History and The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks), the book is the first textbook on plant anatomy with fine and accurate plates, as observed by Grew using a microscope, and containing the first microscopic description of pollen. Along with Malpighi, Grew is considered the founder of plant anatomy and demonstrates that the normal internal structure of plants are made of “cells”, first observed by Robert Hooke in 1665.

Henrey 162; Nissen 758; Norman 946.

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172 Groenveldt (Joannes). A Treatise of the Safe, Internal use of Cantharides in the Practice of Physick ..., Now Translated into English with his Approbation, by John Marten, Chyrurgeon, 1706, faint library stamp, lacks final blank leaf 2A8, some light dampstaining to lower blank margins, library cloth, stained & discoloured, 8vo, together with Irving (Ralph), Experimants on the Red and Quill Peruvian Bark: with Observations on its History, Mode of Operation, and uses, 1785, pp.133-136 repeated in pagination, but text and collation continuous, three pages of publisher’s adverts at rear, very faint library stamp to title, bound with Skeete (Thomas), Experiments and Observations on Quilled and Red Peruvian Bark ..., 1786, half-title present, one leaf of publishers adverts at rear of volume, very faint library stamp to title, library cloth, upper joint cracked, 8vo, plus four others by Thomas Goulard, Daniel Turner, Thomas Thompson and Jeremiah Wainewright

170 Grew (Nehemiah). The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks, together with an account of their vegetation ground to thereupon, in two parts ..., 1st edition, 1675, title somewhat soiled and torn without loss (relined), nineteen engraved plates at rear, all but two folding and the last shown on a black background, library stamps to title and plates, a few splits to plate folds, some spotting and light browning throughout, brown staining to lower margins of preliminary, hinges cracked, library cloth, slightly rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo (176 x 103mm) Henrey 163; Hunt 362; Osler 2839; Wing G947.

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173 Guidott (Thomas). A Collection of Treatises Relating to the City and Waters of Bath..., To which is added, Thermae Redivivae; or, The City of Bath described, &c. by Henry Chapman, 1725, four engraved plates (including one folding), faint library stamp to title and plates, some slight dampstaining & mottling, library cloth, together with Falconer (William), An Essay on the Bath Waters, in Four Parts: Containing a Prefactory Introduction on the Study of Mineral Waters in general..., 1772, faint library stamp to title, modern blue quarter morocco, spine slightly darkened, plus Baylies (William), Practical Reflections on the uses and abuses of Bath Waters. Made from Actual Experiments and Observations, 1757, half-title inscribed to verso “Ja. Johnstone from the author”, library stamp and oval library stamp to title, oval library stamps to half-title and some lower blanks margins throughout volume, library cloth, all 8vo (3)

£200-300

174 Guillemeau (Jacques). The Frenche Chirurgerye, or All the manualle operations of Chirurgerye, with divers, & sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne neufownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of Chirurgerye ..., now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M., Dordrecht, Isaac Canin, 1597 [colophon dated 1598], engraved title with large fullpage engraved royal coat-of-arms to verso, some soiling and marks, with several 17th century ownership signatures in ink, and closetrimmed to fore-margin with several repaired tears, thirteen full-page engraved plates of human anatomy and various medical instruments, some soiling, 17th century ink annotations to margins, folio 28 (G4), with closed tear to upper portion repaired, lacks final leaf of index, with colophon to verso, later 19th century maroon cloth by C. Cooper of Birmingham, with their ticket to front pastedown, rubbed and a little frayed to extreme head and foot of spine, with Birmingham Medical Institute gilt stamp at foot, folio (36 x 23.5cm) STC 12498. G-M 3669 for the first edition in French of 1594. A pupil of Ambroise Pare, Jacques Guillemeau (1550-1613), was an oculist, obstetrician, and surgeon to Charles IX and Henry IV of France. He wrote the first French book on ophthalmology in 1585, entitled Traités des Maladies de l’Oeil, and his treatise on child birth, entitled L’Heureux Accouchement des Femmes, first published in 1609, was quickly translated into English as Child-birth, or The Happy Deliverie of Women in 1612.

(1) £300-500

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176 Hall (John). Select Observations on English Bodies of Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases..., trans. James Cook, 2nd edition, 1679, library stamp to title, lacks portrait frontispiece and index leaf at rear, closely trimmed at upper margin affecting running heads, spotting throughout, library cloth, together with Cooke (James), Mellificium Chirurgiae, or the Marrow of Surgery Much Enlarged, to which is now added Anatomy..., 1676, seven engraved plates with facing explanation leaf, some folding and several trimmed or torn with loss, three folding engraved plates of surgical instruments to second part, lacks half-title, portrait and one(?) plate, library stamps to title and plates, early ownership signature of B. Hector to title, spotting and some dampstaining throughout, repair at foot of final page not affecting text, closely trimmed at upper margin, modern morocco, both 8vo. Sold with all faults not subject to return.

175 Guy de Chauliac. In arte medica exercitatissimi chirurgia..., Lyon: Sebastianum Honoratum, 1572, woodcut printer’s device to title, some woodcut initials and decorative head and tail-pieces, a little spotting and marginal browning, scattered library stamps including two to title (some soiling with author’s name inscribed to upper margin), a few old ink marginalia and notes to front and rear endpapers, ownership signature of James Johnstone to front pastedown and armorial family bookplate at rear, front free endpaper slightly frayed and det., hinges broken, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (170 x 110mm) ‘Although Guy’s notable treatise was republished innumerable times, fifteenth-century editions are now exceedingly rare and those of the sixteenth century are difficult to find. In addition to the basic work, Chirurgia magna, this copy also contains his Chirurgia parva and De balneis Porrectanis’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 108); Durling 2237.

(1) £300-500

Wing H357 & C6015.

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£200-300

177 Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 8 parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Gottingen, 1743-56, titles with engraved vignettes printed in red and black, 47 fine engraved plates, some folding, occasional light spotting, library stamps, modern half morocco, folio (460 x 275mm) ‘Although nearly ten engravers prepared plates for the book, the plates are all of high quality and are clear, artistic and exact renditions of their subjects’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 881). ‘Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations’ (G-M 397); Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198.

(2) £1500-2000

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178 Haller (Albrecht von). A Disseration on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals, 1755, half-title and final leaf verso (advertisements) dust-soiled, bound with Pathological Observations, Chiefly from Dissections of Morbid Bodies, 1756, three folding plates, advert leaf at rear, lacks half-title, bound with La Condamine (Charles Marie de), A Discourse on Inoculation, read before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the 24th April 1754, [translated by Matthew Maty], 1st English edition, P. Vaillant, 1755, engraved vignette to title, closed marginal tears to final leaf into text without loss (archivally repaired), lacks half-title, library stamps to titles of first two works, plate versos and occasionally to lower margins elsewhere, library cloth, 8vo La Condamine (1701-1774) was extremely active in the promotion of the inoculation of smallpox. This work was originally published in French a year earlier and is one of the earliest Western works on the subject.

(1) ÂŁ200-300

179 Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 2 volumes (text in 8 parts/atlas), 1756 (but 1745-81), titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes (general title dated 1756, parts titles dated 1745, 1749, 1753, 1756 & 1781), 47 engraved plates, a few folding, plate 13 with marginal losses, occasional light spotting and ink splashes, library stamps, front hinge of text volume broken, later buckram-backed boards, folio (427 x 265mm) G-M 397; Heirs of Hippocrates 881; Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198.

(2) ÂŁ1000-1500

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180 Haller (Albrecht von). Bibliotheca anatomica; qua scripta ad anatomen et physiologiam facientia a rerum initiis recensentur, 2 volumes, Zurich, 1774-1777, half-title and cancel titlepage to volume one (as usual), some foxiing to volume two, library stamps to titles and occasionally throughout, contemporary vellum, some wear to spine and corners, one volume rebacked, 4to, together with Boerhaave (Hermann), Praelectiones Academicae, edited by Albrecht Haller, 6 parts in four volumes, Venice, 1751, faint library stamps to titles, contemporary vellum with library markings, 4to Haller’s Bibliotheca anatomica compiles bibliographies of botany, anatomy, medicine and surgery. G-M 438.

(6) £200-300

181 Hamilton (Alexander). Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1784, 6pp., publisher’s list at end, light marginal toning, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Mr Brindley, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints, and of Children in Early Infancy, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1792, one or two marginal stains, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, with a new edition (1787) and 4th edition (1796) of Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (4)

£150-200

182 Harris (Walter). De morbis acutis infantum, 2nd edition, 1705, advert. leaf at end, occasional light spotting and water stains, library stamps, previous owner signatures to front endpaper, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Astruc (John), A General and Compleat Treatise of all the Diseases Incident to Children, From their Birth to the Age of Fifteen, 1st edition, 1746, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, modern full brown morocco, 8vo, plus a 3rd edition of Walter Harris’s De Morbis Infantum, 1720

Lot 183

‘Harris was physician to William and Mary. His book served for nearly a century as a standard work on paediatrics. He anticipated the modern treatment of tetany by using calcium salts in infantile convulsions’ (G-M 6321).

(3) £200-300

183 Harvey (Gideon). The Family Physician and the House Apothecary ..., 1st edition, 1676, imprimatur printed to title verso, without two leaves of errata at rear found in some copies, faint library stamp to title, minor spotting and browning, modern cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and soiled, 12mo (144 x 82mm) In this little book Dr. Harvey reveals how to brew home remedies and even gives details of costs of ingredients in order to help expose the shameless profiteering of some of the London apothecaries. Wing H1064.

(1) £500-700

184 Harvey (Gideon). Casus Medico-Chirurgicus: or, a most Memorable Case of a Noble-Man Deceased, Wherein is shewed, His Lordship’s Wound, the various Diseases survening, how his Physicians and Surgeons treated him..., 1st edition, 1678, initial blank present with contemporary ownership signature of Will.

Hurdis dated 1678, some spotting and soiling and marginal dampstains, library cloth, joints rubbed, small 8vo (152 x 93mm) The case was that of Charles, Lord Mohun, who was wounded in a duel and died. Wing H1057.

(1) £300-400

Lot 184

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185 Harvey (Gideon). The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation, with Remarks on a Supposed Great Case of Apoplectick Fits... , 1st edition, James Partridge, 1689, some spotting, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 12mo (141 x 80mm) A scarce work in which Harvey describes expectancy as ‘the applying of remedies that do little hurt and less good, from which the patient day by day frustraneously expecting relief, and benefit, is at last deferred so long, that Nature, and Time have partially, or entirely, cured the disease... ‘, (p. 2). Wing H1056.

(1) £300-500

186 Harvey (William). Recentiorum disceptationes de motu cordis, sanguinis, et chyli, in animalibus, 5 parts in one volume, Leiden: Jean Maire, 1647, printer’s woodcut device to title, six engraved plates (two in De motu cordis and four in Aselli’s work), three woodcuts in the text to Walaeus (two full-page and one halfpage), some old dampstaining throughout and with some discolouration to text at gutter margins, a little resultant sporadic paper loss and very small holes affecting the letterpress of a number of pages in part three (DuRoy, Spongia; and Drake, Contra animadversiones), library cloth, upper joint partly split and tender, 4to (177 x 138mm) The fourth printing of De motu cordis. ‘Before the publication of this small tract there was no understanding of the circulatory movement of the blood; instead it was thought that the blood “irrigated” the tissues in a kind of tidal action. Harvey, whose teacher Fabricius at Padua had discovered the semilunar valves in the veins, demonstrated what his master had failed to observe the continuous circulation of the blood impelled in a circle by the beat of the heart. Harvey demonstrated quantitatively the volume of blood flow, which, from the hearts capacity and rate of beat, he determined to be three times the weight of the body per hour. Thus Galen’s notion that blood was continually produced by ingested food and the hearts porous septum, was swept aside’ (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 123).

‘Together with Vesalius’s Fabrica (1543), Harvey’s De motu cordis (1628) shares the honour as the greatest book in the history of medicine. By fundamentally changing our conceptions of the functions of the heart and blood vessels, Harvey pointed the way to reform of all of physiology and medicine. During the mid 17th century new mechanical and chemical systems of physiology incorporated the circulation as a basic assumption in the explanation of a wide range of vital phenomena, and while subsequent developments in physiology have led to great changes in thinking about the functions of the circulation, they have abundantly confirmed the importance of Harvey’s discovery as the cornerstone of modern physiology and medicine’ (G-M 758).

Harvey received a mixture of support and resistance as evident from these texts on the circulation debate. This is the reissue of the second complete edition of the De motu cordis using the sheets of the 1639 printing which comprised Harvey’s work,Primerose’s Animadversiones against Harvey, and Asellis De Lactibus. Thisreissue is augmented with Walaeus’ Theses de circulatione naturali,Primerose’s refutations of Walaeus and Drake, and DuRoy’s and Drake’s refutations of Primerose, making this the most complete collection of texts on the circulation debate. For collation of this copy see Keynes 6; Krivatsy 5331; not in Wellcome.

(1) £700-1000

Lot 185

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Lot 186

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Lot 187

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187 Harvey (William). Exercitationes de generatione animalium.

Quibus accedunt quaedam, De partu: De membranis ac humoribus uteri: et De conceptione, 1st edition, Du Gard for O. Pulleyn, 1651, engraved frontispiece facing (to recto and facing pi1 as sometimes, see Keynes) of Jove seated on a pedestal and holding in his hands an egg inscribed ‘ex ova omnia’, a little trimmed at lower foremargin with loss of rule border, engraved head-pieces and initials throughout, first and last blank and that at C4 all present, ownership signature of Joesph Bromehead on title with his manuscript note to frontispiece verso ‘Editio princeps’, ownership signature of J[ohn] Braxton Hicks dated 1866 to front pastedown and with small presentation bookplate from Hicks to the BMI pasted to initial blank recto, contemporary sheep gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, some edge wear, 4to (214 x 160mm) ‘After the publication of De motu cordis, Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previouslyheld doctrine of “preformation” of the foetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publicize his findings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend, Sir George Ent, to put them into print. The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 436: 1st Amsterdam edition, 1651).

G-M 467; Keynes, Harvey, 34; Norman 1011; PMM 127. Wing 1091.

Provenance: Joseph Bromehead (1748-1826), was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford (BA 1768, MA 1771), and served as Curate of Eckington, Derbyshire, until his death. He wrote hymns and also published ‘The Melancholy Student, An Elegiac Poem’ (1769) and ‘An Oration on the Utility of Public Infirmaries: Occasioned by the opening of the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford’ (1772). John Braxton Hicks FRCP, FRS (1823-1897).

(1) £1000-1500

190 Harvey (William). Opera sive exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, atque exercitationes duae antomicae, de circulatione sanguinis ad Joannem Riolanum filium, tumque exercitationes de generatione animalium, quibus praefationem addidit Bernardus Siegfried Albinus..., 2 parts in one volume, editio novissima, Leiden: Johannes van Kerckhem, 1737, general half-title and half-title to second part, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, double-page engraved plate with four figures in part one, Y1 (Libri aliquot medici et juridis quos excudit...) misbound after **3 at end of unnumbered preliminary leaves in part one, lacks blanks at end of both parts (Y2 and 3K2), library stamps throughout to lower margins and including general half-title, first full title and plate versos, some spotting, library cloth, 4to (189 x 152mm)

188 Harvey (William). Exercitationes de generatione animalium..., Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1651, lacks additional engraved title and final blank, library stamp to title with printer’s device, occasional pen or pencil marginalia and underscoring, library cloth, 12mo (125 x 74mm) ‘The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year. This Elzevir edition is believed to be the first of the three Amsterdam editions’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 416); G-M 467 (London edition, 1651); Keynes 35 or 36 (from imprint on engraved title); Osler 712; Russell 376; Waller 4119; Wellcome III, p. 220.

(1) £200-300

189 Harvey (William). Exercitationes anatomicae de motu cordis et sanguinis circulatione..., R. Daniel, 1660 [1661], lacks additional engraved title, both plates, leaf of text R10 and final blank, library stamp and tear to title without loss of text, library cloth, joints frayed, 12mo (121 x 69mm), together with a later edition of the same work, Glasgow: R. Urie, 1751, lacks folding plate and N6 with final page of index, library stamp to title (a little browned and chipped at edges), two marginal tears to preliminary leaves not affecting text, old ownership signatures of John Bevans to titlepage and R.J. Browne pasted to front pastedown, presentation BMI bookplate from H. Langley Browne, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 12mo Keynes 10 (and Wing H1089) & 15 respectively.

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First collected edition in Latin. ‘Harvey’s chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckhem at Leiden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766’ (Keynes, p.

100). The anatomist Albinus edited several works editions including the collected works of Vesalius (1725), see lot 418 below.

This Albinus Harvey is rare though not as rare as the separately issued 1736 edition of volume 1: ‘This form of van Kerckhem’s edition is rare, the sheets of the greater part of the issue having been published in 1737 as Part I of the Opera’ (Keynes 14n). Keynes 46.

(1) £700-1000

£200-300

87

Lot 191 191 Havers (Clopton). Osteologia Nova, or Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition, 1st edition, 1691, imprimatur leaf before title, two engraved plates including one partfolding, publisher’s ad. leaf at rear, faint library stamps to title and plates, old inscription struck through on title, modern morocco gilt over marbled boards, spine slightly faded, 8vo (179 x 110mm)

193 Heister (Lorenz). Medical, Cirurgical, and Anatomical Cases and Observations...Translated from the German Original by George Wirgman, 1st English edition, 1755, engraved vignette title, eight folding engraved plates, library stamps to title and plates, contemporary calf, modern library calf reback, 4to, together with A General System of Surgery...Translated into English, 2nd edition, 1745, 38 folding engraved plates, library stamps to title and plates, some dampstaining and inoffensive worming, contemporary calf, fraying to extremities., 4to, and another edition of the same work (1753) complete with all plates

‘The first complete and systematic study of the structure of the bones. Havers gave the first full description of the microscopic structure of the bone canals made for the passage of blood-vessels, named “Haversian canals” in his honor’ (Norman 1024); G-M 387; Krivatsy 5363; Wing H1162.

(1) £1500-2000

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194 Helmont (Jean Baptiste van). Opuscula medica inaudita, I. De Lithiasi. II. De Febribus. III. De Humoribus Galeni. IV. De Peste, 3 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Cologne: Jodocum Kalcoven [Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir], 1644, general title-page and three part titles (Part Two title stating ‘second edition’), errata leaf at rear of each part and separate approbation leaf at end, cancelled approbation leaf (but no blank) present at end of part two, faint library stamp to main title-page (dust-soiled), dampstaining to upper and outer margins of first part, heavy browning to lower half of most leaves of final part, old manuscript contents list to front endpaper, library cloth, 8vo

192 Heister (Lorenz). Institutiones chirurgicae, 2 volumes, 1st Latin edition, Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1739, title printed in red and black, 38 folding engraved plates, library stamps to plates and occasionally throughout, some light dampstaining, library cloth, 4to, together with Compendium anatomicum totam rem anatomicam, 2 parts in one volume, Nuremberg, 1736, engraved portrait frontispiece, nine folding engraved plates, library stamp to plates, Birmingham Medical Institute presentation bookplate from Mr Pemberton, contemporary calf, later library reback, 8vo, plus a copy of the 1741 Latin edition, with nine plates and bound in library cloth, a copy of the 1752 English edition complete with eight folding engraved plates, bound in modern quarter morocco, and a 1777 Latin 12mo unillustrated edition, bound in library cloth (6)

£200-300

Krivatsy 5441; Norman 1048 (2nd edition, 1648, bound as second part of the first collected edition of Ortus medicinae).

(1) £200-300

£200-300

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195 Helmont (Jean Baptiste van). Ortus medicinae, id est initia physicae inaudita, progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem ad vitam longam, edited by F.M. van Helmont, 2 parts in one volume, Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1652, engraved portrait of J.B. and F.M. van Helmont to *4 verso, separate title to Opuscula medica inaudita..., editio tertia multo emendatior, separate register but continuous pagination, woodcut printer’s device on both titlepages, faint library stamp and spotting to main title-page, a little damp soiling and spotting to last few leaves of index, library cloth, lower cover dampstained, 4to

196 Helmont (Jan Baptista van). Oriatrike or, Physick Refined.

The common Errors therein Refuted, and the whole Art Reformed & Rectified: beining a New Rise and Progress of Phylosophy and Medicine, for the Destruction of Diseases and Prolongation of Life..., 1662, engraved frontispiece (with faint library stamp, slightly torn mostly to margins and lined to verso), title with ownership signature E. Hutchinson 1760 and very faint library stamp, strengthened to inner margin, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, endpapers renewed, early 19th-century mottled sheep, rebacked and board edges worn, folio (292 x 185mm)

‘Helmont’s most important work [...in which] Helmont established his name as one of the founders of biochemistry, although some authorities believe that he is perhaps overrated because of his vacillations between mysticism and science. In any event, his discovery of digestive juices in the stomach and intestine, and especially his first use of the specific gravity of urine for diagnostic purposes, mark him as a man of no insignificant importance in the history of medicine’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 409); G-M 665; Norman 1048 (all citing 1648 first edition); Willems 1141.

(1) £200-300

Wing H1400.

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£300-400

198 Hewson (William). Experimental Inquiries: Part the First.

Being a Second Edition of an Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood, 2nd edition, 1772, bound with Experimental Enquiries: Part the Second. Containing a Description of the Lymphatic System, 1st edition, 1774, half-titles, six engraved plates (five folding), occasional library stamps throughout, some contemporary marginal notes, library cloth, 8vo, together with Experiment Inquiries: Part the Third. Containing a Description of the Red Particles of the Blood, 1st edition, 1777, half-title, four folding engraved plates, library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 8vo, and other related works with library markings including Robinson (Bryan), A Treatise on the Animal Oeconomy, Dublin, 1732, folding engraved plate, library cloth, 8vo, plus Pemberton (Henry), A Course of Physiology, 1773, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 8vo, plus Simson (Thomas), An Inquiry how far the Vital and Animal Actions of the More Perfect Animals can be Accounted for Independent of the Brain, Edinburgh, 1752, two folding engraved plates, paper repair to upper edge of title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Paxton (P.), Specimen physico-medicum, de corpore humano, & ejus morbis. Or, an Essay Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of most Diseases, 1711, library cloth, 8vo, plus Wilkinson (C.H.), Essays, Physiological and Philosophical, 1798, library cloth, 8vo (7)

£300-400

199 Hill (John). A History of the Materia Medica, 1st edition, 1751, light water stain at front, a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, 4to, together with The Useful Family Herbal..., 2nd edition, 1755, eight engraved plates, occasional light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus The Useful Family-Herbal, new edition, 1789, six engraved plates only (of eight), T2 repaired, some spotting, previous owner signatures, BMI presentation label from Dr W Newton, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, with a loose autograph letter from Dr Newton to Dr Gough presenting the book to the BMI (3)

£200-300

200 Hillary (William). Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbadoes, To Which is Added A Treatise on the Putrid Bilious Fever, Commonly Called the Yellow Fever, and Such Other Diseases as are Indigenous or Endemial, in the West India Islands, or in the Torrid Zone, 2nd edition, 1766, some spotting, heavier at front and rear, old dampstaining to gutter margins towards rear, light library stamp to title, presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr. Blackall to front pastedown, modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo

197 Heurne (Johan van). Praxis medicinae nova ratio: qua, libris tribus methodi ad praxin medicam, aditus facillimus aperitur ad omnes morbos curandos, 1st edition, Leiden: Plantin, 1587, printer’s woodcut device to title, two (of three) folding tables, one on a modern guard and both bound before A1, woodcut illustrations in the text, old ink marginalia and inscription ‘Bib: Harv:’ to title, library stamps to title and plates, somewhat soiled at front and rear, occasional old dampstaining, archival repairs with loss of text to upper outer corners of last four leaves of index, modern morocco gilt, 4to

G-M 1770 (1st edition, 1759): ‘Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue’.

(1) £200-300

Rare first edition of this general treatment of the medical profession.

(1) £200-300

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201 Hippocrates. Octoginta volumina... nunc tandem per M. Fabium Caluum Latinitate donata... nunc primum in lucem aedita..., 1st edition, Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525, 410 leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (untrimmed, faint library stamp at upper margin), two large woodcut initials, Roman, italic and gothic type, initial spaces with printed guide letters, old marginal pen mark to 2L5v and marginal note to 3M3r, archival closed tear repairs to upper margins of leaves H3-5 not touching text, small tear with loss to lower outer corner of leaf P2 not affecting text, a little spotting and light browning and old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, occasional library stamps to lower margins of text leaf rectos (nine in total), very minor worming to lower margins towards rear and a few trivial single wormholes to upper margins of last few leaves including colophon and final blank, armorial bookplate of Johnstone [probably John Johnstone, 1768-1836, physician and biographer] to front pastedown, 19th-c. morocco gilt, spine darkened, joints tender, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (280 x 205mm) ‘Although various fragments of Hippocrates’ works had been published earlier in Greek and Arabic versions, these eighty works, translated for the first time from the Greek texts into Latin by Marco Fabio Calvo (d. 1527), form the first so-called “complete” Hippocrates. The editio princeps of the Greek texts was published in 1526 [at the Aldine Press]. These eighty texts, the most familiar of which is the Aphorisms, were probably written by a number of authors, but all are in the Hippocratic tradition. This historically important book, along with the massive French translation of Littre in the nineteenth century, must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 10); Adams H567; Durling 2320; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177.

(1) £7000-10000 91

202 Hippocrates. Hippocratis coi Opera quae extant Graece et Latine, veterum codicum collatione restituta, nono ordine in quattuor classes digesta, interpretationis latinae emmendatione, & scholiis illustrata, a Hieron. Mercuriali Foroliviensi, 2 volumes bound in one, Venice, Industria ac sumptibus Iuntarum, 1588, engraved general title with text printed in red and black, printed title to volume 2 in red and black present (lacking printed title to first volume), divisional half-titles, Greek and Latin text in double-column, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title with careful excisions beside printed title and at foot (probably to remove ownership inscriptions), and repaired with blank paper, light water stain to top margins, and lower outer corners at front of volume, to upper outer corner twoards middle of volume and to fore-margin at rear, final three leaves with minor paper loss to lower outer corner, not affecting text, modern half calf, with small Birmingham Medical Institute name stamp to foot of spine, thick folio

203 Hippocrates. Opera omnia quae extant..., 8 parts in one volume, Greek & Latin text, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andre Wechel, 1595, library stamp to title, occasional library stamps to lower outer corners, separate part-titles (tear not affecting text to title of part 2), printer’s woodcut device to final leaf verso, some spotting, ownership signature and two small monogram stamps of James Johnstone to front endpapers, old vellum with original vellum cover panels with central blind-stamped arabesque design relaid, rubbed and soiled, folio Adams H566; Durling 2319.

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Adams H565. Graesse 3, 281. Brunet 3, 170 ‘edition assez estimee’. Durling 2318. Ebert 9728. Waller 4484. Wellcome 3175.

(1) £300-500

92

£400-600

204 Hippocrates. Magni Hippocratus medicorum omnium facile principis, opera quae extant: in viii. sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa, 2 volumes, Geneva: Samuelis Chouet, 1657-62, halftitle, engraved portrait frontispiece, volume one title printed in red and black, double column text in parallel Greek and Latin, comtemp. blind-tooled vellum, some splitting at the joints, missing one spine label, together with Hippocratis Magni Coacae Praenotiones. Opus Admirabile, in tres Libros Tributum. Interprete & Enarratore Ludovico Dureto, Paris, 1658, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials and head and tailpieces, text in Latin and Greek, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary vellum, a little bowed and discoloured, all folio (3)

205 Hodges (Nathaniel). Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary Directions against the like Contagion..., To which is added, an essay on the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious: with Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here, 2nd edition, 1720, pp.[ii]+iii-vi, 288, folding table at rear, first gathering comprising three leaves (possibly lacking front blank/half-title?), library stamp to title and two stamps to folding table, library cloth, 8vo, (G-M 5121), together with Mead (Richard), A Discourse on the Plague, 9th edition, 1744, title with ownership ink stamp of R. Nesbitt MD to lower blank margin and also faint library stamp, front blank inscribed ‘From the Author’, occasional light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, with Harvey (Gideon), The City Remembrancer: being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665..., volume 1 only (of two), lacks half-title, library stamp to title, library cloth, dampstained at foot of upper board, 8vo

£200-300

Nathaniel Hodges provided the best record of the Great Plague of 1665.

Hodges was a physician to the City of London and medical hero of the great epidemic. The first edition was published in 1672 in Latin and translation into English 1720.

(3) £200-300

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207 Hoffmann (Friedrich). Opera omnia physico-medica ..., 6 volumes in three, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1748, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title printed in red and black, library stamp to titles, some spotting, occasional browning and old dampstaining, together with Operum omnium physico-medicorum supplementum, three parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Geneva, 1753, plus Supplementum, 2nd revised edition, two parts in 1 volume, Geneva, 1754, half-title to part one of both editions, first title of both editions printed in red and black, library stamp to titles, some spotting, browning, and old dampstaining (somewhat heavy to lower margins of 2nd edition supplement, all contemporary mottled sheep, matching antique-style rebacks, except for 1st edition volume 1 supplement (some wear to spine and covers detached), all folio (357 x 217mm) (6)

£300-500

208 Home (Francis). Clinical Experiments, Histories, and Dissections, 1st edition, Edinburgh, William Creech & J. Murray, 1780, author’s presentation inscription to Dr. Black to title verso, errata leaf at rear, library stamp and some spotting to title, library cloth, a little nicked at head of spine, together with a second edition of the same work, 1682 [1782], faint library stamp to title, cut down armorial bookplate of Johnstone to title verso, occasional early ink marginalia and markings, possibly in the hand of Edward Johnstone (1757-1851), Birmingham General Hospital library stamps to some lower margins, uncut, modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo (230 x 140mm), plus Principia Medicinae, 2 copies, 2nd and 3rd editions, Edinburgh, 1762 & 17770, the first with light dampstaining to upper inner margins, ownership signature of R. Rudwood and presentation BMI bookplate from Dr. Blackall to front pastedown, second copy with presentation BMI bookplate from Dr. Wade, both with library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards and contemporary calf, antique-style reback, all 8vo Francis Home (1719-1813) followed William Cullen as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1775 to 1777. Clinical observation was always one of his interests and he promoted the methodology for history taking and physical examination formulated by the medical faculty at Edinburgh University.

(4) £200-300

206 Hoffmann (Friedrich). Opera omnia physico-medica ..., 6 volumes bound in four, 1st edition, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1740, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume 1, first title printed in red and black, blank at rear of volume 5, faint library stamp to titles, occasional light browning or old marginal dampstaining, early leaves of volume 5 with worm tracings to fore-margin, sometimes with minor loss of text in first three gathers, the first four leaves with archival tape repairs, volumes 2 & 3 and 5 & 6 each bound as one volume, Birmingham Medical Institute presentation bookplate from Doctor Melson to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary calf, some corner wear, antique-style rebacks, folio (358 x 224mm) A good copy of the first edition of a standard reference work for the study of medicine in the eighteenth century. Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742) was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Halle.

(4) £300-500

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209 Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth and Diseases, 1st edition, 1771, half-title, 16 copper-engraved plates, bound with A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth; Intended as a Supplement to the Natural History of Those Parts, 1st edition, 1778, half-title, light toning and scattered spots, library cloth, 4to ‘The first scientific study of the teeth and is basic to all modern dentistry’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 968). ‘This is a detailed study of the mouth, jaws and teeth with exceptionally accurate plates. Hunter correctly understood the growth and development of the jaws and their relation to the muscles of mastication. He coined the terms cuspids, bicuspids, molars and incisors’ (G-M 3675-6); Norman 1116. (With Supplement 1778).

(1) £1500-2000

210 Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth, and Diseases, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, 1778, half-titles, 16 copper-engraved plates, occasional light spotting and toning, library stamps, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 4to G-M 3675-76; Norman 1116 (first editions).

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211 Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, 1st edition, 1786, seven engraved plates after William Bell, burnholes in text of final index leaf, some light spotting, bound with Strictures in Vindication of Some of the Doctrines Misrepresented by Mr. Foot in his two Pamphlets Entitled, Observations upon the New Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatise on the Venereal Disease; Including Mr. Pott’s Plagiarisms and Misinformation on the Subject of Pus or Matter, in his Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, Commonly Called Fistula Lachrymalis, by T. Brand, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, and Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty’s Royal Hospital at Greenwich, 1787, 56pp., light spots, library cloth, spine a little rubbed, 4to

212 Hunter (John). Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, 2nd edition, 1792, nineteen engraved plates, lacking first blank (A1), first few leaves and plates foxed, title and plates with small library stamp, final (index) leaf with small nick in upper blank margin, endpapers renewed, BMI book ticket on front pastedown, modern quarter morocco, 4to See Norman 1118 for the first edition.

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£200-300

213 Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds, to which is prefixed, A Short Account of the Author’s Life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home, 1st edition, printed by John Richardson, for George Nicol, 1794, engraved portrait frontispiece and nine engraved plates (foxed), a few leaves browned, library stamp on title-page and plates, frontispiece and first few leaves with a few small worm holes at head of blank gutter, final text leaf a little torn at blank gutter, with paper repair on verso, hinges split, library cloth, foot of spine slightly frayed, 4to (260 x 200mm)

‘In Hunter’s day the venereal diseases were thought to be due to a single poison. To test this theory Hunter experimented with matter taken from a gonorrhoeal patient who, unknown to Hunter, also had syphilis. Hunter maintained that gonorrhoea and syphilis were caused by a single pathogen.

Backed by the weight of his own authority, this experiment retarded the development of knowledge regarding the two diseases. Contrary to legend, however, there is no proof that Hunter actually inoculated himself with venereal disease. The hard (“Hunterian”) chancre eponymizes Hunter. This work also makes a major contribution to urological surgery’ (G-M 2377).

G-M 2283; Norman 1122.

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The book was the first to be published from Hunter’s private press at his house on Castle Street, established to prevent unauthorised editions of his works. This book is one of 1000 copies printed. Norman 1117.

(1) £400-600

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£1000-1500

215 Hunter (William). An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and its Contents, [edited by Matthew Baillie], 1st. edition, 1794, 88pp., half-title, a few light spots, library stamp, previous owner signature of W. Sanders to title, library cloth, 4to

214 Hunter (William). Medical Commentaries. Part I. Containing a Plain and Direct Answer tp Professor Monro jun. Interspersed with Remarks on the Structure, Functions and Diseases of Several Parts of the Human Body, 1st edition, [all published], 1762, four engraved plates, final leaf misnumbered p.103, some spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, together with Two Introductory Lectures, Delivered by Dr. William Hunter, to his Last Course of Anatomical Lectures, at his Theatre in Windmill-Street: As they were left Corrected for the Press by himself. To which are Added, some Papers Relating to Dr. Hunter’s Intended Plan, for Establishing a Museum in London, for the Improvement of Anatomy, Surgery, and Physic, 1st edition, 1784, half-title (with advert. to verso), folding engraved plate (with marginal water stains), occasional spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, together with Hunter’s Medical Commentaries Part I., 2nd edition, 1777 (3)

‘Hunter’s nephew, Matthew Baillie found an uncompleted manuscript several years after Hunter’s death and discovered that it was intended to be the text for the atlas [i.e. Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, 1774]. In the Advertisement Baillie explains that he is publishing the work for the first time, with only a few changes and remarks which he felt necessary for completeness’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 945); G-M 6157.1.

(1) £200-300

216 Hurlock (Joseph). A Practical Treatise upon Dentician, or, The Breeding of Teeth in Children, wherein the causes of the acute symptoms arising in that dangerous period are enquired into ..., the whole illustrated with proper cases and remarks, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1742, faint library stamp to title, a little spotting and some old dampstaining to upper outer corners, late 19th-century library cloth, spine ends frayed, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (190 x 117mm)

£200-300

G-M 3672; ‘The first English book on children’s teeth’ and the second book in English on dentistry, the first being Charles Allen’s The Operator for the Teeth, 1685.

(1) £1500-2000

217 Ingen-Housz (John). Experiments Upon Vegetables, Discovering their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-Shine, and of Injuring it in the Shade and at Night. To Which is Joined, a New Method of Examining the Accurate Degree of Salubrity of the Atmosphere, 1st edition, 1779, folding engraved plate (trimmed at lower margin), bound with Observations on the Poisonous Vegetables Which are Either Indigenous in Great Britain, or Cultivated for Ornament, by Bradford Wilmer, 1st edition, 1781, a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo ‘Ingen-Housz showed that the green parts of plants, when exposed to light, fix the free carbon dioxide of the atmosphere, but that in darkness plants have no such power. Thus he proved that animal life is dependent ultimately on plant life, a discovery of fundamental importance in the economy of the world of living things’ (G-M 103); Henrey 866; Norman 1141.

(1) £400-600

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218 Ingrassia (Giovanni Filippo ). De tumoribus praeter naturam tomus primus. In quo generatim tumorum omnium praeternaturalium species: praesertimque earum nomina & definitiones, atque etiam causae, multaque generalia declarantur. Graecique & Latini, & Arabes, quatenus ad haec ipsa pertinet, enucleantur. Occasione sumpta ab Avicennae verbis, Arabum Medicorum Principis, Tertia Fen Quarti Libri, Tractatu Primo ..., volume 1 [all published],Naples, Matthaeus Cancer, 1553, title with large woodcut coat of arms, full-page engraved portrait of the author, two woodcut medallions at head of first leaf of dedication, woodcut initials, text complete but erractically bound, title-page to the commentary by Charerius without woodcut border, leaf Q6 stained and damaged with some loss (partially repaired), and preceeding leaf with small tear to lower margin, repaired, affecting a few letters, bound with Ibn Serapion (Yuhanna, and others), In hoc volumine continentur: Insignium Medicorum, Joan. Serapionis Arabis De Simplicibus Medicinis opus praeclarum & ingens. Averrois Arabis, De eisdem liber eximius. Rasis filii Zachariae, De eisdem opusculum perutile. Incerti item autoris De Centaureo libellus hactenus Galeno inscriptus.

Dictionum Arabicarum iuxta atque Latinarum index valde necessarius, Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher of Andlau, 1531, title with small printer’s woodcut device, woodcut initials, printer’s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, some light browning, contemporary blind-panelled and decorated full vellum, rubbed and soiled with some wear to extremities, lacking clasps, with faint gilt library stamp to foot of spine, folio Adams I119. Waller 5065. Wellcome 3416. For the second work: ChoulantFrank, page 372. Wellcome 5936.

Provenance: Ex libris Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573-1651), with his bookplate engraved in 1630 by Raphael Sadeler to front pastedown. His library was formerly known as the Munchner Hofbibliothek, and is now the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. With additonal smaller bookplate of the Earl of Munster to upper outer corner of the front pastedown, and small presentation label at foot from Oliver Pemberton to the Birmingham Medical Institute.

(1) £2000-3000

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Lot 220 219 Innes (John). Eight Anatomical Tables of a Human Body; containing the Principal Parts of the Skeletons and Muscles represented in the large Tables of Albinus, Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, 1776, eight engraved plates (with offsetting), faint library stamps to title and plates, one leaf with small tear to foremargin, library cloth, split to head of upper hinge, 4to(in 2’s), together with Bidloo (Govard), Opera omnia anatomico-chirurgica, Leiden, 1715, 19 full-page plates only (of 21) plus 9 engravings to the text, library stamp to title and plates, library cloth, 4to, and Harwood (Sir Busick), A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, 3rd edition, Cambridge, 1792, each leaf with interspersed blank, bound with a late 18th century catalogue of medical samples titled “A Descriptive Catalogue, &c. Preparations in Spirits”, 62 pp., some light dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo, plus Bromfield (William), Syllabus anatomicus generalem humani corporis partium ideam comprehendens, 1736, each leaf with interspersed blank, light foxing, 4to, later library cloth, 4to

220 James (Robert). A Medicinal Dictionary, including Physick, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, and Botany ..., together with the History of Drugs ..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, sold by T. Osborne, 1743-45, sixty-three numbered engraved plates, bound in at rear of volumes 1 & 3 (complete), most double-page and folding plates numbered as two, last three folding plates slightly spotted and soiled, with a few marginal splits and tears, plate 58/59 with vertical tape repair the length of fold without loss, occasional spotting, a few faint library stamps to plate margins, ownership signature of J[ohn] Freer to all titles and earlier bookplates of George Freer and Birmingham Library to pastedowns of volumes 1 and 2, modern half morocco over cloth, folio (410 x 250mm) ‘The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson’s first venture into lexicography, and when he was done, a syndicate of booksellers asked him to write his famous dictionary. Dennis Diderot collaborated on the French translation [which] gave him the idea to produce the famous Diderot et d’Alembert Encyclopedie’ (G-M 6799).

(3) £700-1000

1) Russell 460; 3) Russell 390. The catalogue of specimens is scarce and is believed to be an early catalogue of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, containing a list of John Sheldon’s preparations.

(4) £200-300

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221 Jenner (Edward). An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1798, half-title, four hand-finished engraved plates, printed in sanguine by William Skelton (two plates with engraver’s name partly cropped), errata leaf at end, light vertical crease and a few minor spots, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern half pigskin over cloth, spine a little rubbed with tears at ends, 4to (275 x 210mm) A good copy of ‘One of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine’ (G-M 5423). Although the practice of inoculating patients with mild forms of smallpox taken from human pustules was known in India, China and Turkey, and brought to England by Lady Mary Wortley (wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) in 1718 and termed ‘variolation’, this was a dangerous and unreliable preventive method.

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), a pupil of John Hunter and a general practitioner in Berkeley, Gloucestershire was aware of the west country observation that generally milkmaids, who were infected with cowpox, a mild disease similar to smallpox, did not contract smallpox. Although others before had successfully inoculated patients with cowpox to prevent smallpox, Jenner conducted his first experiment on 14 May, 1796 on a country boy, James Phipps, injecting lymph matter into him from a cowpox- infected milkmaid.

Six weeks later he injected the boy with smallpox, and no infection followed. After further successful inoculations, and initial scepticism by the medical establishment, vaccination was adopted wholeheartedly in Britain and worldwide. ‘Jenner had started one of the greatest practical advances in preventive medicine and today there are inoculations which confer immunity against scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough and tetanus, as well as some of the old-age plagues such as bubonic plague, cholera and yellow fever’ (PMM 250); Le Fanu 8; Norman 1162; Wellcome III, p.351.

(1) £7000-10000

222 Joannes de Mediolano. Regimen sanitatis Salerni..., Translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englyshe by Thomas Paynel[l]..., 3rd English edition, [ T. Berthelet, 1535], title within engraved ornamental border (faint library stamp to upper border, three small holes with slight loss of text, relaid, early ownership signatures of Robert (?)Seddall and Thomas Wydowes), black letter, browning and dampstaining throughout, close-trimmed at upper margin affecting some running heads and page numbers, final leaf repaired at lower margin with loss of text in bottom two lines of recto, lacks final leaf with full-page printer’s device, bound with Venner (Tobias), Via recta ad vitam longam, or, a plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health..., whereunto is annexed... a necessary and compendious treatise of the famous baths of Bathe..., 2 parts (of three), Henry Hood, 1638, separate part-title to second part, text ends on 2X3 verso, lacking third part [12], 142pp. (‘An accurate treatise concerning tobacco’), browning and dampstaining throughout, close-trimmed affecting running heads and side-notes, all edges gilt with rounded corners, 19th-century calf, rubbed, 4to (165 x 120mm) STC 21598 & 24647.

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£200-300

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223 John of Gaddesden. Rosa Anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes noviter impressa & per que diligentissime emendata, 2nd edition, Venice: Impressa mandato & expensis heredum Octaviani Scoti, per Bonetum Locatellum, 1502, 135 leaves, double column, sixtyfive lines, white on black five-line (and one fourteen-line) woodcut initials, white on black printer’s woodcut device beneath colophon, lacks final blank, scattered minor old underscoring and marginalia including author’s name identified on title, some spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, old and mostly light dampstaining to lower and outer margins touching text throughout, heaviest in quires b to e, neat closed tear to gutter margin of a2 touching letterpress of Table without loss, some marginal browning and one small tear with loss to foremargin of final leaf, British Museum and ‘Duplicate for Sale 1769’ ink stamps beneath title letterpress and beneath colophon at rear, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards (date imprint incorrectly stamped as 1516), folio (295 x 205mm) This was the first printed medical book written by an Englishman. Durling 2607; G-M 2191 (1st edition); Wellcome 2486; Heirs of Hippocrates 105.

John of Gaddesden (c. 1280-1361), took his name from Little or Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He was court physician to Edward II and was supposedly the inspiration for Chaucer’s “Doctour of Physik” in The Canterbury Tales. ‘Gaddesden left a considerable reputation. He was the first major medical scholar to have been trained wholly in England, and the only Oxford-trained medieval physician to achieve recognition on the continent. His Rosa anglica was a distillation of the works of more than forty-six medical authorities, ancient and recent, although it ignored the near contemporary works from the northern Italian universities. In it Gaddesden claims to have saved the king’s son (presumably either Thomas or Edmund, sons of Edward I from his second marriage) from smallpox by wrapping him in scarlet cloth in a bed with red hangings. He also, unusually, admits to practising the arts of the surgeon and barber-surgeon as well as the physician, proclaiming his skills at setting bones, letting blood, drawing teeth, and even cutting corns and killing lice. Money was probably a factor: Gaddesden boasts of his fees, suggests expensive remedies for the rich and cheap ones for the poor, and notes that mental illnesses are seldom lucrative for the physician.

Gaddesden chose the title because the five books of the Rosa recalled the five sepals of the rose; it also echoed the Lilium medicine of Bernard de Gordon. Gaddesden claims that, just as a rose excels every other flower, so the Rosa excels all previous medical works, and that poor surgeons and physicians can substitute it for many other books. Matthaeus Sylvaticus mentioned Gaddesden in his Pandectae (1317), and although the illustrious Montpellier surgeon, Guy de Chauliac, sniffed in 1363 that the Rosa was a foolish compendium of stale material, Chaucer included Gaddesden with Galen, Avicenna, and the other great medical authorities.

Numerous Latin copies of the Rosa survive and it was partially translated into Middle English and Irish in the fifteenth century. The first printed edition appeared at Pavia in 1492; three more followed, the first two at Venice and the third at Augsburg, in 1502, 1516, and 1595 respectively. The only modern English translation of the Rosa, published in 1929, was made from an Irish version of the fifteenth century’ (DNB).

This is the oldest book in The Birmingham Medical Institute’s Collection. This edition is considered to display superior printing to that of the first edition and this attractive copy appears to be the first to be offered at auction for over thirty years.

(1) £5000-7000

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224 Johnson (Robert). Enchiridion Medicum, or, a Manual of Physick, Being a Compendium of the Whole Art, in Three Parts: Viz. I. Of diseases of the head, II. Of diseases of the breast, III. Of diseases of the belly..., Comprehending the substance of the more approved authours both ancient and modern: Published for the benefit of all persons, being fitted to the meanest capacity, 1st edition, 1684, advertisement and 6pp. index at rear, old heavy dampstaining throughout, lacks portrait frontispiece, library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, together with Moor (Bartholomaeus de). Pathologiae cerebri delineatio practica, in qua, morborum soporosorum per notas characteristicas distinctio..., 1st edition, Amsterdam: G. Borstius, 1704, title printed in red and black, stamps to title and occasionally to margins elsewhere, heavy old brown stain to inner margins of early leaves, old manuscript biographical and historical note about De Moor [seemingly by James or John Johnstone] to front free endpaper, suggesting that Boerhaave may have been influenced by him and that De Moor writes well, library cloth, 4to Johnson: Wing J816.

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226 Jones (John). The Mysteries of Opium Reveal’d by Dr. John Jones, Chancellor of Landaff, a Member of the College of Physicians in London..., who, I. Gives an account of the name, make, choice, effects, &c. of opium. II. Proves all former opinions of its operation to be meer Chimera’s. III. Demonstrates what its true cause is... IV. Shews its noxious principle, and how to separate it, thereby rendering it a safe and noble Panacea, whereof, V. He shews the palliative and curative use, 1701, licence leaf facing title, folding table entitled “A Table of the Doses of the Best and Safest Opiates”, bound without first blank leaf, library stamp to title and folding table, some light browning and occasional spotting, library cloth, 8vo Wellcome III, p.363.

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£300-500

£200-300

225 Johnstone (John). An Essay on Mineral Poisons, 1st edition, [Evesham], 1795, library stamp to title, uncoloured lithograph plate opposite page 204, separate title and pagination to second part, modern buckram gilt, 8vo (2)

£300-400

227 Jones (Philip). An Essay on Crookedness, or Distortions of the Spine, 1st edition, 1788, lacking portrait frontipiece, five engraved plates (including four folding), two folding facsimile engravings of handwriting, library stamp to title and plates, library cloth, 8vo, together with Thomson (George), The Anatomy of the Human Bones; with an Account of Muscular Motion, 1734, 15 engraved plates, library stamp to titles and plates, library cloth, 8vo, plus Douglas (James), Myographiae Comparatae; Specimen: or, a Comparative Description of all the Muscles in a Man, Edinburgh, 1760, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus other related works with library markings including Ontyd’s ‘A Treatise on Mortal Diseases’ (1798), Monro’s ‘The Anatomy of the Human Bones and Nerves’ (1746), John Innes’ ‘A Short Description of the Human Muscles’ (1776), and ‘An Attempt to explain the Oeconomy of the Human Frame’ (1739) Lot 226

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230 Justamond (John Obadiah). Surgical Tracts... , the Whole Collected and Interspersed with Occasional Notes and Observations

by William Houlston, 1789, lacks list of subscribers, library stamp to title, some spotting, library cloth, 4to, together with Bromfeild (William), Chirurgical Observations and Cases, 2 volumes, 1773, eighteen folding engraved plates, some spotting and dampstaining, library stamp to titles and plates, library cloth, slightly frayed at head of spines, 8vo, plus Dunn (Edward), A Compendious and New Method of Performing Chirurgical Operations, Fit for Young Surgeons... , 1724, approbation leaf before title, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, plus Boulton (Richard), A System of Rational and Practical Chirurgery... , 1713, lacks half-title, small repairs to upper margins of last two leaves of adverts, old ownership description to front free endpaper, lacks half-title, library cloth, slightly torn at head of spine, 8vo, plus other eighteenthcentury English language surgery interest including works by Gooch, Turner, Sharp, White and Wiseman, mostly library cloth, 8vo (30)

228 Jorden (Edward). A Discourse of Natural Bathes, and Mineral Waters... , and in this Fourth Edition, a Quaere Concerning Drinking Bathe-Water at Bathe, is Resolved, to Which is Added, an Appendix Concerning Bathe... , by Thomas Guidot[t], three parts in one volume, 1673, folding table, separate titles and pagination to second and third parts, some spotting and occasional light old dampstaining, white library cloth with leather label to spine, soiled, 8vo, together with Witty (Robert). Scarbrough Spaw, or a Description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough in Yorkshire, 1st edition, 1660, lacks imprimatur at front and final blank, errata to final leaf recto, old inscription and faint library stamp to title, a little browning, library cloth, slightly dampstained, small 8vo Wing J1075 & W3231.

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231 [Kennedy, Peter]. Ophthalmographia; Or, a Treatise of the Eye, in two Parts. Part I. Containing a New and Exact Description of the Eye; as also the Theory of the Vision Considered, with its Diseases. Part II. Containing the Signs, Causes, and Cure of the Maladies Incident to the Eye. To which is Added an Appendix of some of the Diseases of the Ear; Wherein is Observed the Communication Between these Two Organs, 1st edition, 1713, half-title, folding engraved plate (short tear along fold), 3pp. publisher’s list at end, small marginal water stain and a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo Wellcome III, p.385.

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£200-300

232 Kirkland (Thomas). A Commentary on Apoplectic and Paralytic Affections. And on Diseases Connected With the Subject, 1st edition, 1792, half-title (dust-soiled), occasional contemporary annotation, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Andree (John), Cases of the Epilepsy, Hysteric Fits, and St. Vitus’s Dance, With the Process of Cure: Interspersed with Pracitcal Observations. To Which are Added, Cases pf the Bite of a Mad Dog, and a Method that has been found Successful, 2nd edition, 1753, light marginal water stains and toning, library stamp, previous owner signature of John Freer to title, library cloth, a little rubbed and stained, 8vo, plus White (Thomas), A Treatise on the Struma, or Scrofula, Commonly Called The King’s Evil..., 3rd edition, 1794, light spotting, library stamp, presentation copy, inscribed to title: “Doctor Sims, from the author”, library cloth, 8vo, with George Cheyne’s The English Malady: Or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds..., 4th edition, 1734

£200-300

229 Jurin (James). Dissertationes physico-mathematicau partim antea editae in Actis Philosophicis Londinensibus... , partim nunc primum impressae, 1732, three engraved folding plates at rear (all slightly trimmed at lower margin), booksellers’ adverts to final leaf verso, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting, upper hinge cracked, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

£300-400

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234 La Motte (Guillaume Mauquet de). Traite complet des accouchemens naturels, non naturels, et contre nature, 1st edition, Paris, 1721, lightly foxed to first and last few leaves, library cloth, 4to, together with Mauriceau (Francois), Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses, 6th edition, Paris, 1721, engraved plates to text, library cloth, 4to, and another work by the same author titled ‘Observations sur La Grossesse’ (1728), plus other odd or incomplete works by Mauriceau and La Motte (6)

233 L’Emery (Nicolas). Modern Curiosities of Art & Nature, Extracted out of the Cabinets of the Most Eminent Personages of the French Court, Together with the Choicest Secrets in Mechanicks... , 1st English Edition, printed for Matthew Gilliflower and James Partridge, 1685, additional engraved title (closed tear, relined and rehinged), ‘Abstract of the General Contents’ on verso of preceding leaf, five pages of advertisements at end, lacks leaves I12 and M11, library stamps to both titles and early ownership name to printed title, some soiling and browning throughout, a few marginal splits, somewhat broken in 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, rubbed, 12mo (148 x 90mm)

£100-150

235 Lancisi (Giovanni Maria). De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus postumum, in duas partes divisum juxta exemplar romanum, Leiden: Philippum Bonk & Antonium Gerardum Steenman, 1740, title printed in red and black, seven folding engraved plates and one unnumbered plate, one plate with short tear not affecting engraved area, faint library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 4to

L’Emery includes medical and cookery receipts as well as chapters on jewels and pearls, perfumes, artificial fireworks, hunting and fishing, horses and other animals, and the preservation of wine. Wing L1041.

(1) £300-400

‘Lancisi noted the frequency of cardiac aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneurysms. He was the first to descibe cardiac syphilis. Lancisi shares with Vieussens the honour of laying the foundation of the pathology of heart disease’ G-M2973 (1728 edition); Heirs of Hippocrates 693.

(1) £200-300

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237 Lanfranco, of Milan. A Most Excellent and Learned Woorke of Chirurgerie, Called Chirurgia, parua Lanfranci, Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien..., Printed by Thomas Marshe, four parts in one volume, 1st English edition, 1565, title (dated, with portrait of John Hall to verso followed by four lines of verse) soiled with tears and repairs but minor damage to letterpress of imprint and verse, woodcut initials and several woodcut illustrations to text, old ink marginalia and underscoring in more than one hand, old ownership signature of John Etheridge to final leaf verso, old dampstaining throughout with tide-mark near lower margin, closely cropped at upper margin touching running heads, lacks final blank, later vellum with original vellum (soiled) laid down, 4to (182 x 138mm)

236 Lancisi (Giovanni Maria). Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia, 4 volumes, Rome, 1745, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, nine folding engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, volume two without half-title, non-matching half morocco library bindings, 4to, together with Lancisi (Giovanni Maria), Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste, ex campaniae sinibus anno MDCCXIII latio importata, Rome: Joannis Mariae Salvioni, 1715, half-title, title printed in red and black, scattered light foxing, bookplate of Edward Johnstone (1757-1851) to verso of half-title, library stamp to title and sporadically throughout, library cloth, both 4to, plus Gibson (William), The Farrier’s New Guide, 1st edition, 1720, folding engraved frontispiece bound in after preliminary leaves (with loss to outer edge), seven engraved plates, title relaid and with crossed out owners name, contemporary panelled calf, crude later reback, 8vo

The surgeon Lanfranc of Milan (c.1250-1306), variously called Guido Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, or Alanfrancus is credited with transferring the lead in surgical technique from Italy to France. STC 15192.

(1) £500-800

1)Lancisi was physician to Pope Clement XI and was the first to describe cardiac syphilis, as well as being a noted epidemiologist. This collected edition includes his celebrated treatise on the heart ‘De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus’ which is not present in the 1718 edition. G-M 71 (1718 edition).

2) First edition of a rare work on the cattle plague and an epidemic among horses that struck Rome in 1712.

(3) £200-300

238 Leeuwenhoek (Antoni van). Arcana naturae detecta [bound with] Continuatio, 2 volumes in one, Delft: Henrik van Krooneveld, 1695-97, engraved portrait frontispiece, lacks additional engraved title to first work, 27 and 7 engraved plates respectively (correct), many folding, plate facing 3S4 split in two along fold, a few closed marginal tears, woodcut initals and engraved illustrations to text in first work, library stamps to titles and plates, some light browning and old dampstaining, library cloth, rubbed, a little wear to head of spine, 4to (187 x 153mm) Dobell, A. van Leeuwenhoek, 25 & 26; Norman 1319 & 1321; Waller 10877 & 10880. First work PMM 166.

(1) £500-800

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239 Leopold (Johann Friedrich). Relatio epistolica de itinere suo Suecico nuper facto, ad excellentissimum... D. Johannem Woodward, MD, 2nd edition, W. Bickerton & J. Pote, 1727, halftitle, eight folding engraved plates, library stamp to title and plates, minor dust soiling and spotting, library cloth, 8vo First published in 1720 this work on Swedish mineralogy is uncommon in this second edition reprint of 1727.

(1) £100-150

240 Lind (James). A Treatise on the Scurvy. In Three Parts.

Containing an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and the Cure, of that Disease. Together with a Critical and Chronological View of what has been Published on the Subject, 2nd edition Corrected, with Additions and Improvements, 1757, one or two light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo Pioneering work on scurvy by naval physician James Lind (1716-94), who conducted ‘the first deliberately planned controlled therapeutic trial ever undertaken’ (G-M 3713).

Aboard H.M.S. Salisbury in 1747, he divided twelve scorbutic sailors into pairs, all on identical diets, but additionally the first pair given a daily quart of cider, the second pair twenty-five drops of vitriol, the third pair six spoonfuls of vinegar, the fourth pair half a pint of seawater, the fifth pair two oranges and a lemon, the sixth pair a paste mixed with barley-water. Needless to say only the fifth pair, having run out of fruit after six days, recovered sufficiently to be fit for duty.

Lot 239

Although it was known for some time that citrus fruit had an antiscorbutic effect, Lind, although still believing scurvy was the result of putrefaction, was the first to conclude that they were the most effective remedy. As a result of adopting Lind’s recommendations, James Cook lost only one man to the disease on his second voyage 1768-71 and after lemon juice was issued by the Royal Navy in 1795, scurvy soon disappeared.

Heirs of Hippocrates 936; Norman 1354.

(1)

£1000-1500

241 Lind (James). An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen, in the Royal Navy. Containing Directions Proper for all those who Undertake long Voyages at Sea, or Reside in Unhealthy Situations. With Cautions Necessary for the Preservation of such Persons as Attend the Sick in Fevers, 2nd edition, Improved and Enlarged, 1762, half-title, errata leaf at end, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, recent full blindstamped calf by Grange, 8vo, together with Blane (Gilbert), Observations on the Diseases of Seamen, 2nd edition, 1789, three folding letterpress tables, (lacking A1 corrected second state title), light spotting, library stamp, excised signature of W.F. Wade to front pastedown, contemporary boards, rebacked, 8vo, with Francis Milman’s An Enquiry into the Source from Whence the Symptoms of the Scurvy and of Putrid Fevers Arise, 1782 [bound with Dr. Milman’s Animadversions on the Nature and on the Cure of the Dropsy, Translated from the Latin into English by F. Swediaur, 1786] (3)

Lot 240

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£300-400

242 Linnaeus (Carl). Materia Medica, Liber I. de Plantis, first edition, Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1749, folding engraved plate, interleaved with blanks with occasional early neat annotations to text and blanks in a neat unidentified hand, lacks frontispiece, library stamp to title, some spotting, library cloth, together with Pulteney (Richard), A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus, 1st edition, T. Payne & B. White, 1781, scrawled contemporary ownership signature of J[ames?] Johnstone to titlepage, library stamps to title and a few mostly marginal stamps to text, both library cloth, 8vo Lot 243

1) Linnaeus’s most important and influential work. Waller 5907; Wellcome III, 526.

2) Henrey 1256. Both uncommon.

(2)

£500-700

243 Linnaeus (Carl). Genera morborum, in auditorum usum edita, 1st edition, Uppsala: apud Christ. Ehr. Steinert, 1763, 32, [7] pp., somewhat spotted and dampstained throughout, first two leaves chipped at outer corners not affecting text, title leaf with faint library stamp and contemporary ownership signature of W[illiam] Withering MD above printer’s woodcut device, title also chipped at inner margin just touching initial letter G and M of first two words, rehinged, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards with thick blank leaves inserted at rear of volume, slim 8vo (174 x 101mm) A nice association copy. William Withering developed an interest in botany while practising in Stafford in 1767. His Arrangement of British Plants used and extended the Linnaean system of classification and became a standard botany text for many years. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1789 and had a genus named after him, the Witheringia solanacea.

However, it is for describing the effects of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, in heart disease, for which Withering is best remembered (see lot 450). Heart disease appears as number 48 in this genera of diseases compiled by Linnaeus, though other than Withering’s signature there are no further annotations. Soulsby 979.

(1) £300-400

244 Lister (Martin). De fontibus medicatis Angliae, exercitatio nova, & prior [-altera], 2 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, Walter Kettilby, 1684, engraved plate of mineral crystals, two preliminary leaves to follow title-page in volume 1 bound with preliminary leaves to part two, lacks imprimatur leaf at front, blank between parts present, library stamp to first title, two closed marginal tears (first title and G4) without loss, library cloth, 8vo (167 x 107mm) Wing L2519.

(1)

109

£200-300

245 London Medical Journal. The London Medical Journal, by a Society of Physicians, [edited by Samuel Foart Simmons], 11 volumes bound in ten, 1781-90, volumes 1 and 2 bound as one, volume 1 lacking index and title with title-page to volume 2 bound at front and corrected to include both volumes by hand, some engraved plates, library stamp to titles, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed and some wear, upper cover to volume 7 detached, 8vo Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.

Besides original communications this series has much information of books and events. Among the contributors are James Johnstone of Worcester, Joseph Brandish of Alcester, Robert Mynors and Thomas Tomlinson Jr., of Birmingham. Very rare. ESTC (P6037) citing only three quarterly issues held at the British Library and two North American Institutions. The Journal was continued as ‘Medical Facts and Observations’ (1791-1800), ‘The Medical and Physical Journal’ (1799-1814), ‘The New Medical and Physical Journal’ (1810-1815), and ‘The London Medical and Physcial Journal’ (1815-33).

(10) £300-500

247 Lowe (Peter). A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie..., Whereunto is added the Rule of making Remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use: with the Presages of Divine Hippocrates, 3rd edition, corrected and much amended, Thomas Purfoot, 1634, title within ornamental border, woodcut illustrations to text including somefull-page, separate title and register to ‘Presages’, library stamps to title and following leaf, some spotting and browning, title dust-soiled and with following leaf somewhat chipped and browned at margins not affecting text, bound with Clowes (William), A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Observations for all those that are burned with the flame of Gunpowder, &c. and also for curing of wounds made with musket and caliver shot, and other weapons of warre..., Last of all is adioyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues Venera by unctions and other approved wayes of curing..., 3rd edition, Printed by M. Dawson, 1637, four full-page woodcut illustrations (these leaves misgathered), woodcut initials, separate title to second part but with continuous register and pagination, some browning and soiling, X2 torn with loss at outer corner affecting last eight lines, a few small marginal splits and chips, contemporary ownership signature of Henry Yorke to preserved rear endpaper, Johnstone armorial bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf gilt, a little rubbed at extremities, 4to (193 x 138mm)

246 Lovell (Robert). Panzoryktologia, sive Panzulogicomineralogia, or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, two parts in one volume, Oxford,, 1661, decorative woodcut border to both parts, blank at end of first part present, first title somewhat dust soiled with two library stamps, a few adhesion marks to final page, modern calf gilt, 8vo (160 x 102mm) Wing L3246 & L2345; Osler 3274.

(1)

STC 16871 & 5443 respectively.

(1)

£300-400

110

£1000-1500

Lot 248 248 Lower (Richard). Tractatus de corde, item de motu & colore sanguinis, et chyli in eum transitu, 3rd edition, Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1671, library stamp and dust-soiling to title, five folding engraved plates at rear (lacks plate 5), first two plates relined, some spotting and soiling, old dampstaining to foremargins, a few wormholes towards rear affecting text and plates, together with a fourth edition of the same work, London, 1680, library stamp to title, folding engraved plate at rear, library stamp to title and plate, some spotting and soiling, especially to final leaf of text and plate, both library cloth, slightly rubbed, the first volume stained on upper cover,both 8vo 1) After Harvey’s De motu cordis, Lower’s work is considered ‘the most important contribution to circulatory physiology’ (Grolier, Medicine). PMM 149 & Waller 6406 (for the first edition). Krivatsy 7159 & 7160; Fulton 8 & 9.

2) Wing L3312.

(2)

£300-500

249 Maitre-Jan (Antoine). Traite des maladies de l’oeil et des remedes propres pour leur guerison, enrichy de plusiers experiences de physique, 1st edition, Troyes, 1707, woodcut device to title, woodcut initial and headpiece, privilege leaf present, some mispagination, light water stains and spotting, library stamp, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, 4to

250 Malpighi (Marcello). De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica..., accedit dissertatio ejusdem de polypo cordis, John Martyn, 1669, library stamp to title, a little spotting and soiling, contemporary calf,later sheep reback, some wear, 12mo, together with Fletcher (John), The Differences, Causes, and Judgements of Urine, According to the Best Writers..., Printed by John Leggat, 1623, two woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, library stamp and ownership signature to title of John Phillips, dated 1672, lacks final blank, close-trimmed, first and last leaves browned at margins and final leaf frayed at head with loss of running head, presentation BMI bookplate from Oliver Pemberton to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, some wear, modern calf reback, small 8vo

‘Maitre-Jan is sometimes called the father of French ophthalmology because of his many contributions to the field and for the writing of this large compendium on ophthalmology - the most complete and accurate of its day. The work contains extensive and detailed discussion of the diagnosis and surgical treatmentn of a wide variety of eye conditions, as well as a long section devoted to the medical treatment of cancer, infections and injuries of the eye’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 677).

Maitre-Jan proved in 1692 that the opaque lens is cataract, but this was not accepted until confirmed by Brisseau in 1709. G-M 5824.

(1) £500-800

1) Second edition of Malpighi’s important work, first published in quarto in Bologna in 1666. ‘Includes Malpighi’s classical essay on the kidney, the “Malpighian bodies” which have perpetuated his name. The book also includes the first description of Hodgkin’s disease’ (G-M 535, citing 1666 edition). Wing M348.

2) STC 11063.

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£300-400

251 Malpighi (Marcello & Fracassati, Carlo). Epistolae anatomicae, Amsterdam: Caspar Commelin, 1669, printer’s woodcut device and library stamp to title, five folding engraved plates (each with library stamp, the last with repair to versos, the latter creating a vertical brown mark), minor spotting and soiling, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 12mo (129 x 74mm) Frati, Bibliografia Malpighiana, 19. Each of the six items has a half-title. By Marcello Malpighi: De cerebro; De lingua; De externo tactus organo; De omento, pinguedine, et adiposis ductibus; Carlo Fracassati: De lingua; De cerebro.

(4) £200-300

252 Malpighi (Marcello). Opera Omnia, figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis illustrata. Tomis duobus comprehensa, 2 volumes in one, 1686, two titles printed in red and black (first title with engraved arms of the Royal Society), 123 engraved plates (including seven small unumbered plates), lacking engraved frontispiece, some minor spotting and soiling, previous owner signature to first title), hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio ‘Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus helping the completion of Harvey’s work on the circulation. He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in the “Malpighian bodies”, “Mapighi’s layer” of the epidermis, “Malpighi’s (splenic) corpuscles”. Malpighi was an excellent draughtsman but a poor writer’ (G-M 66).

(1) £400-600

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253 Malpighi (Marcello). Opera posthuma, in quibus excellentissimi authoris vita continetur..., editio ultima..., Amsterdam: Donatum Donati, 1700, title printed in red and black, nineteen folding engraved plates at rear, library stamps to title and all plates rectos and versos, occasional library stamps to text margins, a little old dampstaining to upper and lower outer corners of first and last few leaves, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 4to (230 x 190mm) G-M 4299; Krivatsy 7326.

(1)

£300-400

254 Malpighi (Marcello). Consultationum medicinalium centuria prima, quam in gratiam clinicorum evulgat Hieronymus Gaspari, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, 1713, 184pp., lacks final blank(?), faint library stamp to title, some spotting and light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (215 x 160mm) With the same title-page and imprint as the first edition of the same year, but with text reset and errata corrected.

(1) £200-300

255 Marryat (Thomas). Therapeutics; or, the Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: printed by Pearson and Rollason, 1785, halftitle present, generally foxed and toned, title-page with faint library stamp, library cloth, spine darkened and extremities slightly rubbed, corners damp-soiled, 4to, together with Manning (Henry), Modern Improvements in the Practice of Physic, 1780, half-title, slight dampstaining to upper margins, plus Shebbeare (John), The Practice of Physic, 2 volumes, 1755, engraved plate at rear of volume 1, lacks half-title to volume 2, some spotting and old dampstaining, hinges slightly cracked, plus [Brown, John], The Elements of Medicine, or, a Translation of the elementa medicinae brunonis... , 2 volumes, 1788, initial blank and final errata leaf to volume 2, old ownership signature of J. Vickers to both titles, some spotting and soiling, all with usual library stamps to titles and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, plus others similar, all 8vo (20)

£200-300

257 Martius (Galeottus). De homine libri duo, Basel: Johann Froben, May, 1517, title (detached) within ornamental woodcut border, faint library stamp, decorative woodcut initials throughout, lacks final leaf with printer’s device to recto, bound with Cornarius (Janus), In divi Hippocratis lavdem praefatio ante eiusdem prognostica, [Basel: J. Froben], 1st edition, December 1528, 12pp. including title and printer’s woodcut device to final leaf verso, bound with [Universae rei medicae epigraphe seu enumeratio, compendio tractata, Basel: Froben, 1529], woodcut initial, errate to final leaf recto, lacks title, bound with [Vegetius Renatus (Publius), Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicina libri quatuor], 1st edition, Basel: Johann Faber, 1528, two woodcut initials, lacks title, some marginal dampstaining to final leaves not affecting text, old ink marginalia and underscoring to second and third works and a scattering of marginalia to final work, the whole volume closely trimmed affecting running heads in first and third works, shaving some side-notes letterpress of first work with no loss of sense, also affecting some marginalia in third work, library cloth, upper joint split and upper cover det., 4to (186 x 146mm)

256 Martelli (Giandomenico). Delle acque caje ovvero de’Bagni di Viterbo; Opera fisico-medica..., Rome, 1777, folding engraved frontispiece, with three faint library stamps to frontispiece and one to title, contemporary vellum, 4to (1)

1) Adams M749; Wllocme I, 4095.

2) Not in Adams or Wellcome; Copac lists one copy at Glasgow.

3) Not in Adams; Wellcome I, 1608.

£200-300

4) Adams V341; Durling 2563; Wellcome I, 2564.

(1)

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£1000-1500

258 Mascagni (Paolo). Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia, 1st edition, Siena: Pazzini Carli, 1787, engraved vignette to title, engraved dedication leaf, twenty-seven engraved plates and fourteen outline plates (correct), a little spotting and soiling, uncut, contemporary half sheep over boards, soiled and worn, upper cover detached, large folio (590 x 420mm) ‘Mascagni, Professor of Anatomy at Siena, made several discoveries regarding the lymphatics. His beautiful atlas contains forty-one engravings of the lymphatics and gained him lasting fame’ (G-M 1104); ‘The spectacular copperplates by Ciro Santi in this work depict vessels in some of the finest detail present in anatomical illustration before the advent of photography’ (Norman 1450); Choulant-Frank, pp. 315-316; Ayres 684; Waller 6295.

(1) £1500-2000

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259 Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei... de medica materia, Venice: Ex Officina Valgrisiana, 1565, woodcut printer’s device on title, full-page woodcut portrait within elaborate border on M6v, and over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, insects, and distillation prcesses, most of them by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, the majority filling three-quarters of the page, some soiling, pinhead wormholes and untidy early manuscript marks to title including ownership signature of Tho. Lewis dated 1663, repaired tears to three preliminaries running close to main text block and affecting some sidenotes, last leaves somewhat soiled with final two leaves torn and repaired with significant loss, 17th-century blind-panelled reversed calf with later spine and repairs, thick folio (345 x 240mm) The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech) and the 1563 Neu Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but for this edition the scope was enlarged to include fine zoological cuts and genre scenes. For an account of the history of the woodblocks see Hunt 90. Adams D672; Hunt 92; Nissen 1305.

(1) ÂŁ2000-3000

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260 Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Opera quae extant omnia: hoc est, Commentarii in VI. Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia: adjectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus, ex antiquissimis Codicibus desumptis, qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt: a Casparo Bauhino..., editio altera, Basel: Joannis Konig, 1674, half-title, title within decorative engraved border, leaf a6 with port of Caspar Bauhin, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, woodcut dec. initials, head & tailpieces, bound without leaf AA1 (blank ?), some browning and spotting, dampstaining at head, ink stamp to half-title, title and few other leaves (mostly lower blank margins), later endpapers, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, rebacked with later morocco title label, upper joint slightly split at head, dust-soiled, folio (355 x 210mm) Nissen 1309.

(1)

ÂŁ800-1200 116

261 Mayerne (Theodore Turquet de). A Treatise of the Gout, Written Originally in the French Tongue... , Englished for the General Benefit, by Thomas Sherley, MD... , Whereunto is Added, Advice about Hyponchondriacal-Fits, by the Same Author, 1st edition, D. Newman, 1676, imprimatur leaf before title (archival repairs to foremargin recto not affecting text), 4 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, library stamp and old ownership signature of John Broughton to title, repair to lower outer corner of A8 not affecting text, some spotting and soiling throughout, small brown stain at foot of imprimatur leaf and faintly at foot of title-page and to foremargins of final leaves not affecting text, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, small 8vo (150 x 95mm)

262 Mayerne (Theodore Turquet de). Praxeos Mayernianae in morbis internis praecipue gravioribus & chronicis syntagma..., 2 volumes, 1st & 2nd edition respectively, 1690-96, imprimatur leaf and engraved portrait frontispiece (by W. Elder) to volume 1, last four leaves of preliminaries to volume 1 misgathered in the last signature, errata leaf at rear, lacks final blank(?), spotting throughout and occasional mostly marginal library stamps, library cloth, 5 pages publisher’s adverts at rear of volume 2, broken and disbound with first four leaves detached and corners curled, library stamp to title (dust-soiled), both 8vo Krivatsy 7627; Osler 3355; Waller 6371; Wing M1431 & M1433.

The work was edited by Mayerne’s godson Sir Theodore de Vaux with a preface by Walter Charleton. The second volume was first published in 1695 and is sometimes found with an identical portrait frontispiece. It is titled Praxeos Mayernianae ex adversariis, consiliis ac epistolis ejus summa cura ac diligentia concinnatum. Syntagma alterum, quatuor tractatus continens: viz. I. De febribus. II. De morbis externis. III. De arthritide. IV. De lue venerea.

Both parts are rarely found together.

(2) £400-600

Rare, with some copies not including ‘Advice... ‘ pp. 73-116, here present.

Wing M1435.

(1) £200-300

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265 Mead (Richard). A Discourse on the Small Pox and Measles, 1748, scattered light foxing, faint library stamp to title, owner’s name to free endpaper “Thomas Freer, Birmingham, October 6 1831”, library cloth, 8vo, together with a copy of the 2nd edition of the same work (1755), plus Kirkpatrick (James), The Analysis of Innoculation...with an Occasional Consideration of the Most Remarkable Appearances in the Small Pox, 1st edition, 1754, library stamps to title and five other pages, first and last few leaves toned and spotted, library cloth, 8vo, together with Walker (Robert), An Inquiry into the Small-Pox Medical and Political, 1790, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus others related by Black, Dimsdale, Hillary, Holland and Lobb (9)

£300-500

266 Mead (Richard). Opera Omnia, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris, 1757, eight folding engraved plates, occasional light spotting, library stamps, BMI presentation labels from Dr Wade, contemporary mottled calf, joints splitting, spines and edges chipped, 8vo, together with Monita et Praecepta Medica, 1st edition, 1751, half-title (with previous owner signature), light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Medical Precepts and Cautions, Translated from the Latin

by Thomas Stack, 1st edition, 1751, light spotting and soiling, library stamp, library cloth, some fading, 8vo, with five other works by Mead: Medica Sacra: Sive, de Morbis Insignioribus qui in Bibliis Memorantur Commentatius, 1749, Medica Sacra; Or, a Commentary on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Sciptures, 1755, Medical Works, 3 volumes, 1763, Medical Works 1775 & 1776 and Medical Precepts and Cautions, 3rd edition, 1763 (12)

£250-300

267 The Medical and Chirurgical Review; Containing a Copius Account of the Various Publications in Different Languages on Medicine and Surgery, 15 volumes, 1795-1807, lacks volume 16, faint library stamp to titles, some spotting, uncut, library labels to front pastedowns, modern quarter calf gilt over cloth, 8vo. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return Rare. ESTC P6244.

(15)

£200-300

263 Mayow (John). Tractatus quinque medico-physici. Quorum primus agit de sal-nitro, et spiritu nitro-aero. Secundus de respiratione.

Tertius de respiratione foetus in utero, et ovo. Quartus de motu musculari, et spiritibus animalibus. Ultimus de rachitide, 1st edition, Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674, six partly folding engraved plates at rear, lacks portrait frontispiece, library stamp to title and plates, some light old dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo (173 x 113mm) Scarce classic of English medicine by Mayow with five treatises, incorporating revised versions of the two on respiration and rickets, previously published as the Tractatus Duo, plus three more on nitro-aerial spirit, foetal respiration and muscular motion. G-M 578 and 2726.2.

Heirs of Hippocrates 631; Krivatsy 7653 (lacks portrait); Norman 1474; Osler 3359; Russell 566(b); Waller 6392; Wing M1537.

(1) £700-1000

264 McBride (David). A Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physic, 1st edition, 1772, half-title, library stamp on title, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to Hunter & Macalpine pp. 449-50: ‘Because McBride first described in a textbook of medicine the strait-waistcoat which played so important a part in the management of the insane for almost one hundred years, he has mistakenly been credited with its invention... ‘.

(1) £200-300

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268 The Medical Museum: Or, a Repository of Cases, Experiments, Researches, and Discoveries, Collected at Home and Abroad... by a Gentleman of the Faculty, 3 volumes, W. Bristow, 1763-64, twelve engraved plates including frontispiece to volume one and folding plate of a heart printed in red to volume 3, possibly lacks two plates from volume 2 (plates present numbered 1, 3 and 5), library stamp to titles and plates, archival closed tear repair to three E4 of volume 2, library cloth, rubbed and faded on spines, 8vo. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.

ESTC N3815.

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£200-300

269 Medical Observations and Inquiries. By a Society of Physicians in London, 6 volumes, 1st editions, William Johnston [or T. Cadell], 1757-62-67-71-76-84, twenty-nine engraved plates, all but one folding, separate errata leaf to volumes 1 & 3, publisher’s advert leaf to volume 4, half-title and separately paginated Appendix at end of volume 5, signature of J. Johnstone to title of volume 5 with Johnstone armorial bookplate to verso, library stamps to titles, plates and occasionally to margins throughout, volumes 3-6 each with an extra work bound at rear, Linden (Diederick Wessel), A Medicinal and Experimental History and Analysis of the Hanlys-Spa Saline, Purging, and Chalybeate Waters, Near Shrewsbury, 1st edition, 1768, plus Pott (Percival), Remarks on the Disease Commonly Called a Fistula in Ano, 1st edition, 1765, engraved plate, plus Millar (John), Observations on the Asthma and on the Hooping Cough, 1st edition, 1769, half-title, plus Hulme (Nathaniel), A Treatise on the Puerperal Fever, 1st edition, 1772, folding engraved plate, library stamp to titles, plates and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled and a little frayed at heads of some spines, 8vo. Sold as a periodical not subject to return.

A remarkable sammelband. The journal in itself is rare complete and all in first edition as here; the addition of four contemporary works including two important ones makes this collection unique. In total there are some 208 papers with John Fothergill and William Hunter being the leading contributors.

Notable papers include: 1) John Bard, “A case of an extra-uterine foetus” (volume 2, pp. 369-72). John Bard performed the first abdominal operation for extrauterine pregnancy in America. This is the first scientific paper on a surgical topic to emanate from the North American colonies. G-M 6155; Norman 116.

2) William Hunter, “A singular case of the separation of the ossa pubis” (ibid, pp. 321-39). G-M 6254; Norman 1124. 3) Charles White, “An account of a new method of reducing shoulders, (without the use of an ambe) which have been several months dislocated, in cases where the common methods have proved ineffectual” (ibid, pp. 373-81). G-M 4407; Norman 2230. 4) Matthew Dobson, “Experiments and observations on the urine in diabetes” (volume 5, pp. 298316). G-M 3928. 5) William Hunter, “On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children” (volume 6, pp. 266-90). G-M 1732: In Garrison’s view this is ‘the most important early contribution to forensic medicine made by a British writer’.

Pott: ‘Probably the greatest English classic of colon-rectal surgery. Pott recommended the practice of simple division rather than the newer, more complicated methods proposed by Cheselden and Le Dran, and audaciously pointed out that there were lessons which regular practitioners might learn from quacks apropos of this subject’ (G-M 3424.2); Norman 1733. Millar: G-M 3167.

(6) £1000-1500

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Lot 272 270 Medical Register. The Medical Register for the Year 1779, Printed for J. Murray, 1779, half-title, library stamp to title, some spotting, old newscutting concerning Joseph Priestly tipped in between pp. 102-103 with offset browning to both pages, ownership signature of G.A. Phillips, Walsall, dated 1880 to front pastedown and laid on to the rear pastedown a three-page autograph letter signed to Phillips from Guy Birch, Lichfield, 9th September 1897, informing him that ‘The Birch who was at Barton under Needwood [Staffordshire] in 1779 was my grandfather Moses Birch [surgeon]...’ and continuing with further Birch family history, contemporary half calf, rubbed and slightly split at head of upper joint, together with The Medical Register for the Year 1780, Fielding and Walker, 1780, half-title, modern cloth gilt, both 8vo ‘This was the first attempt to compile a medical directory in this country and not by any means a “register” as the term is used now. The first “Medical Directory” was not produced until 1845. There were 3 issues: 1779, 1780 and 1783; and these volumes are now very rare, particularly that of 1779. On page 136 is an intimation regarding the opening of the General Hospital, Birmingham’ (Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books on the Occasion of the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, Birmingham, 1958, no. 86).

(2) £400-600

271 Medici Antiqui Graeci: Aretaeus, Palladius Ruffus, Theophilus, physici & chirugi.... translated by Junio Paulo Grassi, edited by Celso Grassi, 2 parts in one volume, Basel: P. Perna, 1581, half-title, separate pagination and index to second part (Rufus’ De corporis humani partium appellationibus), blank 3E4 present, some browning, old dampstaining and marginal fraying, library stamps to main title and some margins, early contemporary ownership and gift inscriptions to title and following leaf (Tho. Colm and ‘ex dono Hen. Field M.A.), old index notes in an untidy hand to two old endpapers preserved at front and rear (archival repairs to foremargins), modern calf gilt, 4to (212 x 150mm) This first collected edition includes Hippocrates’ De purgatoriis medicamentis. Durling 2153; G-M 56. Wellcome I, 4179.

(1) £300-500

272 Meek’ren (Jobus van). Observationes medico-chirurgicae, translated by Abraham Blasius, 1st Latin edition, Amsterdam: Heinrich & widow of Theodor Boom, 1682, woodcut vignette to title, engraved illustrations to text, final blank present, lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to title, some old dampstaining, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, upper hinges cracked, contemporary vellum, soiled and split along upper joint, 8vo ‘Van Meekeren was the first to record a bone graft’ G-M 5735 (1st Dutch edition, 1668); Heirs of Hippocrates 498.5; Waller 6434.

(1) £300-400

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273 Menzies (Robert). A Dissertation on Respiration, translated from the Latin ... with notes, by Charles Sugrue, 1st edition, Edinburgh: G. Mudie and Son & J. Johnson, 1796, engraved frontispiece, final errata leaf with advertisement to verso, bound with Bostock (John), An Essay on Respiration, parts I and II, 1st edition, Liverpool: Longman and Rees, 1804, one engraved plate, lacks half-title(?), library stamp to frontispiece and both titles, some spotting throughout, together with Hales (Stephen), Statical Essays, containing Vegetable Staticks, or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables ..., 2 volumes, 3rd edition, 1738-40, sixteen engraved plates to volume 1, imprimatur leaf before title of volume 2, library stamps to titles and plates and occasionally elsewhere, upper hinges to volume 2 cracked, plus Parsons (James), Philosophical Observations on the Analagy between the Propogation of Animals and that of Vegetables, 1752, folding engraved plate, heavy spotting and some marginal browning at front and rear, library stamp to title and plate, ownership signature of John Freer to title, hinges cracked, plus Bradley (Richard), A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature ..., 2nd edition, 1739, title printed in red and black, twenty-nine folding engraved plates, library stamps to title, plates, and occasionally elsewhere, all library cloth, a little wear, 8vo, plus others related (11)

274 Mercuriale (Girolamo). Medicina practica, seu de cognoscendis, discernendis, & curandis, omnibus humani corporis affectibus, earumque causis indagandis, Frankfurt: In officina Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri, 1st edition, 1601, woodcut printer’s device to title, offsetting and some light foxing, contemporary owners name “David Bolton” to endpaper and some ink notes to title, faint library stamp to title, contemporary full vellum, several puncture marks to lower cover, folio Extremely scarce first edition of this work.

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£300-400

£200-300

275 Mery (Jean). Observations sur la maniere de tailler dans les deux sexes pour l’extraction de la pierre, pratiquee par Frere Jacques. Nouveau systeme de la circulation du sang par le trou ovale dans le foetus humain, avec les reponses aux objections qui ont ete faites contre cette hypothese, 2 pts in one, 1st edition, Paris: [no publisher], 1700, part-title and separate pagination to part 2, six engraved plates, faint library stamp to plates and title (ownership signature of G. de Lys at upper margin slightly trimmed), closed marginal tears to leaf G8 of second part, preliminaries slightly misgathered with two blanks together, browning and several neat marginal repairs to final leaves, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, small 8vo (157 x 87mm)

Lot 274

Waller 6503; Osler 3393.

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277 Michaelis (Johann). Opera medico-chirurgica quotquot innotuerunt omnia, ejus nempe I. Praxis clinica generalis ad Jonstoni... II. Praxis clinica specialis... III. Apparatus formularum, seu annotationes in morellum... IV. Ordo visitandi officinas... V. Clavis ad authoris polychresta..., 1st edition, Nuremberg: Johann Hofmann, 1688, engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, dark library stamp to foot of plate impression and titlepage, some spotting and intermittent old dampstaining to foremargins, contemporary blind-panelled calf, joints cracked, 4to (204 x 160mm)

276 Mesue (Joannes). Opera divi Ioannis Mesue..., Lyon: [Johannes Crespin], 1533, title printed in red and black with printer’s woodcut device, within decorative woodcut border, old ownership inscriptions, woodcut initials throughout, lacks final two leaves (text leaf with colophon to verso and final blank), some marginal dampstaining throughout (occasionally heavy) and some marginal soiling to first and last leaves, repairs to a2 (with loss of side-notes) and final leaf (2o4, with loss of lower third of text to both pages), some inner marginal repairs without loss, the volume bound very tight with gutter margin side-notes all legible but often deep into the curvature of the pages, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, remains of brass clasps to lower covers, modern calf gilt reback with four raised bands, corners restored, folio (320 x 210mm)

‘Michaelis studied medicine at Wittenberg under Sennertus, but, as was the custom, he visited other universities in Germany and Holland, and finally graduated at Leipzig (Mag. Phil. 1630; Dr. med 1631). He became professor of medicine there and introduced the use of chemical remedies and invented several specifics...’ (Ferguson II, p. 94). Rare - WorldCat locates only five copies, four in German libraries and one in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

(1) £300-500

Masawaihal-Mardini (or Mesue the Younger) was allegedly a Syrian physician who died in 1015 at the age of ninety. No Arabic originals of his works have been found and even his existence is doubted, with many thinking that his name was assumed by a Latin compiler (sometimes referred to as ‘pseudoMesue’). Among the works attributed to him and included here is the Antidotarium, very influential in familiarizing Europe with Arabic pharmacy and materia medica.

This edition is uncommon with no copies traced in British or North American libraries.

(1) £300-500

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278 Moffett (Thomas). Healths Improvement, or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in the Nation ..., Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, 1655, imprimatur leaf before title (spotted and slightly dampstained), old inscription of John Tourneor to recto, faint library stamp and old ownership name of Charles Hornblower to title (somewhat spotted and dust soiled), old manuscript prescription written to two blanks at rear, a little spotting and dampstaining to lower outer corners throughout, scattered old ink marginalia and the repeated signature of Charles Hornblower, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to (180 x 140mm) Oxford P27; Vicaire 613. Wing M2382.

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279 Molins (William). Myotomia; or the Anatomical Administration of all the Muscles of an Humane Body, as they Arise in Dissection... Reviv’d with additions... Whereunto is added Sir Charles Scarborovgh’s Syllabus Musculorum, 1680, imprimatur leaf, library stamp to title, browning and some soiling throughout, closely trimmed at upper margin catching a few page numbers, library cloth, rubbed, small 8vo (148 x 90mm) Uncommon. Wing M2391.

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£300-500

280 Monginot (Francois). A New Mystery in Physick Discovered,

by Curing of Fevers and Agues by Quinquina or Jesuites Powder, Translated from the French, by Dr. [Peter] Belon, with Additions, Will. Crook, 1681, library stamp to title, close trimmed, touching outer rule of title and a few letters of following leaf, a few running heads slightly shaved, wormhole paper repair to penultimate leaf and final leaf relined obscuring adverts to verso, lacks final four advert leaves (E3-6), together with Henshaw (Nathaniel), AeroChalinos, or, A Register for the Air, in Five Chapters... , for the Better Preservation of Health, and Cure of Diseases, After a New Method, 1st edition, Dublin: Samuel Dancer, 1664, some heavy dampstaining throughout, library stamp to title, paper flaw with slight loss of text affecting two lines of a4, final leaf torn and repaired with loss of text affecting first eleven lines, close trimmed at upper margin, lacks final blank(?), hinges cracked, both library cloth, rubbed, 12mo & 8vo

£1000-1500

Wing M2416 & H1481.

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282 Monro (Donald). A Treatise on Mineral Waters, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1770, half-title to volume one, library stamp to each title, pp.vii/viii in volume 2 torn with slight loss to inner margin and repaired, together with Russell (Richard), A Dissertation on the use of Sea-Waters in the Diseases of the Glands ..., 3rd edition, 1755, engraved frontispiece (with library stamp to verso) and one engraved plate, library stamp to title and plate, 16 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear, few leaves with ink annotations, endpapers renewed retaining contemporary ownership of ‘Gilbert East of the Middle Temple London’ to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, board corners worn, 12mo, together with a fourth edition of the same work published 1765, bound in library cloth, plus Peirce (Robert), The History and Memoirs of the Bath: containing Observations on what Cures have been there wrought, both by Bathing and Drinking those Waters ..., 2 parts in one, 1713, part two title imprint dated 1697, lacks map frontispiece, lower margins slightly close-trimmed with loss of ruled border to titles, library stamp to general title, library cloth, 8vo and Pearson (George).

Observations and Experiments for investigating the Chymical History of the Tepid Springs of Buxton ..., 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1784, one engraved plate, faint library stamp to title of each, some leaves with minor staining to lower margins, all library cloth, 8vo (6)

281 Monro (Alexander, primus). Traite d’osteologie, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition in French, Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1759, engraved allegorical frontispiece to volume 1, engraved vignettes on title-pages, engraved and head and tail-pieces, sixty-two engraved plates including thirty-one in outline, light library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and soiling, occasional browning and marginal dampstaining, contemporary sheep gilt, worn on joints and some loss to extremities, large folio (545 x 410mm) ‘This translation by Jean Joseph Sue (Primus) is a most sumptuous production, completely overshadowing the original. Its only counterpart is Cheselden’s Osteographia. Russell 590; Blake 309; Choulant-Frank p. 324.

It has been suggested by Roberts & Tomlinson (pp. 438-45) that the translation and supervision of the illustrations may have been by MarieGenevieve-Charlotte Thiroux d’Arconville and so possibly making this the first anatomical work produced by a woman.

(1) £1000-1500

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£300-400

283 Monro (Alexander, primus). The Works, Published by His Son, Alexander Monro, to Which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1781, engraved portrait frontispiece, seven folding engraved plates, some offsetting, library stamp and ownership signature of G. De Lys to title, some spotting and soiling, first and last leaves heavily soiled, half-title re-attached at inner margin, hinges cracked, modern cloth, rubbed and soiled, together with Mead (Richard), The Medical Works, 1 volume bound in 2, 1762, five engraved plates, all but one folding, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, rubbed and stained plus Lettsom (John Coakley), The Works of John Fothergill, with Some Account of His Life, 1784, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, eleven engraved plates, first plate with closed tear repair to verso, library stamps to title, plates and occasionally elsewhere, old dampstain to upper inner margins throughout, hinges cracked, library cloth, a little frayed at spine ends, all 4to, plus other mostly multi-volume eighteenth-century octavo-format Works Editions of Thomas Sydenham, Clifton Wintringham, John Fothergill, John Huxham, John Gregory and Percival Pott, various bindings (26)

284 Monro (Alexander, secundus). Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System, Illustrated with Tables, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1783, fifty engraved plates on fortyone sheets (plates 15, 16 and 18 folding), lacks half-title, faint library stamp to title and plates, some damp spotting throughout, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, upper cover detached and lower joints weak, some loss to head and foot of spine, folio (477 x 295mm) ‘Monro discovered the communication between the lateral ventricles of the human brain with each other and with a third ventricle, the “foramen of Monro” (G-M 1385); Norman 1538.

(1) £700-1000

£300-400

285 Monro (Alexander, secundus). The Structure and Physiology of Fishes Explained, and Compared with those of Man and Other Animals, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1785, 49 engraved plates on 43 sheets only (lacking plate I), a few repaired to verso, some light spotting, modern burgundy half morocco, folio (1)

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286 Monro (Alexander, secundus). A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their Structure Explained, and Compared with that of the Capsular Ligaments of the Joints, and of those Sacs which Line the Cavities of the Thorax and Abdomen; With Remarks on the Accidents and Diseases which Affect those Several Sacs, and on the Operations Necessary for their Cure, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1788, ten engraved plates, extraillustrated with four extra plates after Fyfe by C. Cameron (one with marginal tear), some folding, occasional spotting and library stamps, modern calf-backed boards, folio

287 Monro (Alexander, secundus ). A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body, their Structure Explained, and Compared with that of the Capsular Ligaments of the Joints, and of those Sacs which line the Cavities of the Thorax and Abdomen... , 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1788, ten engraved plates including four folding (several marginal closed tears without loss), library stamps to title and plates, some spotting and soiling throughout, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, near-contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, some loss to head and foot of spine, tall folio (477 x 285mm)

‘This classic work contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and bones which Albinus had named the bursae mucosae. They are illustrated on ten plates which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 1011).

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‘The first serious study of this subject and the most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty’ (G-M 399.2).

(1) £400-600

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289 Monro (Donald). An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British Military Hospitals in Germany, From January 1761 to the Return of the Troops to England in March 1763.

To which is Added, an Essay on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers, and Conducting Military Hospitals, 1st edition, 1764, occasional spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, together with Swieten (Geerard, Baron van), A Short Account of the Most Common Diseases Incident to Armies. With a Method of Cure.

Translated from the Orginal of Baron Van Swieten, 1762, 110pp., library stamps, previous owner signature of Johnston to title, library cloth, 12mo, plus Hunter (John), Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica; And on the Best Means of Preserving the Health of Europeans in that Climate, 2nd edition, 1796, a few light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, with Donal Monro’s Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health of Soldiers and of Conduction Military Hospitals, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1780, Geerard van Swieten’s Description Abbregee des Maladies qui Regnent le Plus Communement dans les Armees, 1761 and John Pringle’s Observations on the Diseases of the Army, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th editions, 1761-75 (11)

290 Monroe (Donald). An Essay on the Dropsy, and its Different Species, 3rd edition, 1765, half-title, library stamps to main title, some spotting, bound with Ayre (Joseph), Researches into the Nature and Treatment of Dropsy... , 1825, library stamp to title, together with Wilkes (Richard), An Historical Essay on the Dropsy, to which is added an Appendix, by N.D. Falck, 1777, folding engraved plate, some old dampstaining, marginal browning at front and rear, library stamp to title, plus Clare (Peter), An Essay on the Cure of Abscesses by Caustic, and on the Treatment of Wounds and Ulcers... , 1779, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling to first and last leaves, lacks half-title, plus Harvey (Gideon), The Third Edition of the Vanities of Philosophy and Physick... , 1702, some spotting and browning throughout, inner hinges cracked, all library cloth, 8vo, plus other mostly 18th-century therapeutics and general medicine interest

288 Monro (Alexander, secundus). Three Treatises on the Brain, the Eye, and the Ear, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1797, additional parttitles but paginated as one, twenty-two (of 24 engraved plates) including one hand coloured (bound upside down) and some folding, lacks plates 4 & 8 of the third part, library stamps to title and plates, some offsetting of plates to text, partly uncut and partly browned at margins with a few closed tears not affecting text, main title lower outer corner repaired and not affecting text, modern quarter morocco gilt, folio (330 x 245mm) Norman 1539. Monro’s last published work.

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£250-300

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291 Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libriquinque, 2 volumes in one, Venice: Ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title in red and black, library stamps to half-title, portrait and a few lower margins, some spotting, light old dampstaining to early leaves, Ii3 of volume 1 torn with loss to blank area of outer and lower margins, a few old ink marginal annotations, underscoring and marks, all possibly in the hand of James Johnstone and with approx. seventy leaves of manuscript medical notes bound at rear, mostly taken from late 18th-c. medical and related works and the majority seemingly in the hand of James Johnstone, but with at least one other hand present, remains of armorial Johnstone family bookplate to front pastedown and remains of original presentation inscription from James to John Johnstone dated 1834 pasted above and below, modern half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (365 x 230mm) ‘Published when he was seventy-nine years of age, [De Sedibus] had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni’s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 792).

G-M 2276; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 125; Norman 1547; PMM 206.

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£2000-3000

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292 Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). Adversaria anatomica omnia..., opus nunc vere absolutum, inventis, et innumeris observationibus, ac monitis refertum..., Venice: Remondiniana, 1762, half-title, title printed in red and black, six parts in one volume with part-titles but paginated as one, lacks portrait frontispiece, bound with Epistolae anatomicae duae novas observationes, et animadversiones complectentes..., Venice, 1762, eleven plates to first work bound at rear, library stamp to first title and plates, some spotting and heavy browning, a heavier brown stain to lower margins of last few text leaves and plates not affecting text or images, contemporary half calf over boards, later reversed calf reback and corner repairs, some wear, folio (377 x 230mm)

293 Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis, 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, Padua, 1765, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title printed in red and black, text in double column, some light spotting and water stains, library stamp to first title, modern moroccobacked boards, folio (382 x 218mm)

The six parts of Adversaria first appeared between 1706 and 1719 and won Morgagni international fame as an anatomist. This was the last edition of both these works to appear in his lifetime and the most complete version of the Adversaria.

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295 Moseley (Benjamin). A Treatise on Tropical Diseases; And on the Climate of the West-Indies, 1st edition, 1787, half-title, errata slip, a few light spots, library stamp to title, library cloth, upper cover detached, 8vo, together with Moseley (Benjamin), A Treatise on Tropical Diseases; On Military Operations; And on the Climate of the West-Indies, 3rd edition, 1795, half-title, light water stain and spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Lind (James), An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates. With the Method of Preventing their Fatal Consequences, 4th edition, 1788, light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo (3)

294 Morton (Richard). Phthisiologia seu exercitationes de phthisi tribus libris comprehensae, totumque opus variis historiis illustratum, 1st edition, Samuel Smith, 1689, imprimatur leaf before title, torn with loss to upper inner margin not affecting text, relaid, errata leaf at rear with old ownership signature of Maunsell Courtman to verso, lacks final blank, faint library stamp to title, some browning throughout and staining to lower margins of quires N to T occasionally touching text, upper outer corner of N4 torn and crudely repaired with a little loss of text affecting first eleven line endings to recto and verso, upper outer corners of Q5-8 torn with loss not affecting text, together with Pyretologia: seu exercitationes de morbis universalibus acutis, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Samuel Smith, 1692-94, two folding tables to volume 1, one split without loss at inner margin, heavy spotting and some old dampstaining throughout, library stamp to title and plates, lacks portrait frontispiece, volume 2 with portrait frontispiece (relaid), title and portrait slightly dust-soiled, advert leaf at rear, some browning throughout, worm tracing to lower margins of first few leaves not affecting text, all library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo

296 Motherby (George). A New Medical Dictionary; or, General Repository of Physic. Containing An Explanation of the Terms, and A Description of the Various Particulars relating to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Pharmacy..., 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1775, twenty-three engraved plates at rear, and two tables of chemical symbols, faint library stamp to title and plates, printed in double-column, occasional minor waterstaining, red sprinkled edges, modern half morocco, minor mark on lower cover, folio (360 x 210mm)

1) The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis, and the first description of anorexia nervosa. G-M 3216; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 230-32; Norman 1555; Osler 3459; Wing M2831.

2) Wing M2832.

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£200-300

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298 Mynors (Robert). Practical Thoughts on Amputations, 1st edition, Birmingham, [1783], folding engraved plate, library stamps to title and plate margin, bound with A History of the Practice of Trepanning the Skull and the After-Treatment; with observations upon a new method of care, illustrated by a case, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1785, presentation inscription ‘From the Author’ to title upper margin, library cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

£200-300

297 Motherby (George). A New Medical Dictionary, or, General Repository of Physick ..., 3rd edition, revised and corrected, with considerable additions by George Wallace, 1791, thirty engraved plates bound at rear, faint library stamp to title and plate margins, minor spotting, modern antique-style quarter morocco gilt over cloth boards, folio (350 x 235mm) (1)

£200-300

299 Needham (Walter). Disquisitio anatomica de formato foetu, 1st edition, 1667, title browned and slightly dampstained with adhesion remains of bookplate to verso, seven folding engraved plates, library stamp to each and two browned along fore-edge, O8 blank, some spotting or light browning throughout, closed tear repair to foremargin of D1, closely trimmed at upper margin throughout, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (155 x 94mm) ‘The first book to report chemical experiments on the developing mammalian embryo, and the first to give practical instructions on dissection of embryos’(G-M 467.2); Norman 1579; Wing N409.

(1) £600-800

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302 Nihell (James). New and Extraordinary Observations Concerning the Prediction of Various Crises by the Pulse, Independent of the Critical Signs Delivered by the Ancients; Made, First by Dr. Don Francisco Solano de Luque, Late of the City of Antequera in Spain; And Subsequently by Several Other Physicians..., 1st edition, 1741, light dust-stains, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Bordeu (Theophile de), Inquiries Concerning the Varieties of the Pulse, and the Particular Crisis each more Especially Indicates, Written Originally in French, 1764, some light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Falconer (William), Observations Respecting the Pulse: Intended to Point Out with Greater Certainty, the Indications which it Signifies, Especially in Feverish Complaints, 1st edition, 1796, half-title, pp.27-28 repaired, a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, chipped at spine head, 8vo (3)

£250-300

300 Nicholls (Francis). De anima medica praelectio ex lumleii et caldwadi instituto, in theatro collegii regalis medicorum Londinensium, ad socios habita, die december 16 anno 1748, editio altera, notis amplioribus aucta, 3rd edition, 1773, eleven engraved plates, one coloured in sanguine, some light offsetting and spotting, library stamps, previous owner inscription of Thomas Freer, Birmingham to front endpaper, library cloth, 4to Cornish physician Francis (or Frank) Nicholls (1699-1778) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728, and demonstrated the formation of chronic aneurysm in arteries, as well as observing that arteries were supplied with nerves thereby regulating blood pressure. The above work is the first illustrated edition of Nicholls’ inaugural Lumleian lecture, at the Royal College of Physicians, given in 1748/49.

(1) £200-300

301 Nicholson (William). The First Principles of Chemistry, 1st edition, 1790, folding engraved plate, faint library stamp to title and plate, library cloth, 8vo, together with Watson (Richard), Chemical Essays, 5 volumes, mixed eds., 1782-96, faint library stamps to titles, library cloth, small 8vo, and Scheele (Carl Wilhelm), Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire, 1780, lacks title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Dossie (Robert), The Elaboratory Laid Open; or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry Revealed, 2nd edition, 1768, faint library stamp to title, owner’s name to front free endpaper “John Phillips May 30th [17]74”, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Savage, modern quarter morocco, 8vo, plus others related (11)

£300-400

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303 Nugent (Christopher). An Essay on the Hydrophobia: To which is prefixed the Case of a Person who was bit by a Mad Dog; Had the Hydrophobia; and was happily cured, 1st edition, 1753, library stamp to title and ink mark to final leaf, closed tear to inner margin of E1, library cloth, together with Hamilton (Robert), Remarks on the means of obviating the Fatal Effects of the Bite of a Mad Dog, or other rabid Animal; with Observations on the Method of Cure when Hydrophobia occurs; and the Opinion relative to Worming of Dogs refuted..., 1st edition, Ipswich: printed

by Shave & Jackson, 1785, one engraved plate, ink library and oval library stamps to fore-edge margin of title and to few other leaves throughout volume, library cloth, plus Mease (James), An essay on the Disease Produced by the Bite of a Mad Dog, or other Rabid Animal, with a Preface and appendix by J. C. Lettsom, Philadelphia printed, London: Reprinted for C. Dilly, 1793, library stamp to title, repaired short closed tear to leaves Z1 & Z2, library cloth, upper joint slightly cracked, all 8vo (3)

307 Ould (Sir Fielding). A Treatise of Midwifery. In Three Parts, 1st London edition, 1748, two engraved plates, occasional light water stains, library stamps, modern morooco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Chapman (Edmund), A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to the Operation.

To which are Added Fifty-Seven Cases, Selected from Upwards of Twenty-Seven Years Practice, 2nd edition, 1735, two engraved plates, 6pp. publisher’s list at end, a few spots, library stamp, contemporary mottled calf, spine rubbed, 8vo, plus Astruc (Jean), A Treatise on the Diseases of Women... Translated from the French Original, 3 volumes, 1st edition in English, 1762-67, two folding engraved plates, light water stains and spotting, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, volumes I & II contemporary calf (rebacked), volume III library cloth, 8vo, with three others: John Friend’s Emmenologia, Translated into English

by Thomas Dale, 2nd edition, 1752, Edmund Chapman’s A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, 3rd edition, 1759 and Henry Daventer’s The Art of Midwifery Improv’d, 4th edition, 1746

£200-300

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£300-400

304 O’Halloran (Sylvester). A Complete Treatise on Gangrene and Sphacelus, with a New Method of Amputation, 1st London edition, printed for Paul Vallant, 1765, light browning throughout, library stamp to title, lacks final blank, library cloth, rubbed on joints, together with Morton (Richard), Phthisiologia: or, a Treatise of Consumptions, 2nd edition, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint library stamp and neat owner’s name to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Hamilton (Robert), Observations on Scrophulous Affections, with Remarks on Schirrus, Cancer, and Rachitis, 1791, single engraved plate, library stamps to title and occasionally throughout, untrimmed, modern library quarter calf, all 8vo, plus three others 1) Sylvester O’Halloran (1728-1807) was an Irish surgeon practising for the most part in Limerick. The book was first published in the same year by the author in Limerick, containing a subscribers’ list, an appendix and errata leaf and second dedication.

(6) £150-200

305 Ocellus Lucanus. De universi natura. Textum e Graeco in Latinum transtulit... illustravit C.E. Vizzanius..., Bologna: ex typographia Ferroniana, 1646, Greek and Latin text, half-title, blank and separate title to Pars politica, errata leaf at rear, a little spotting and old marginal dampstaining, a few leaves slightly browned, contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, 4to (1)

£200-300

306 Oliver (William). A Practical Essay on Fevers. Containing Remarks on the Hot and Cool Methods of their Cure, 1st edition, 1704, library cloth, 12mo, together with Bellini (Lorenzo), A Mechanical Account of Fevers, 1st edition, 1720, library cloth, 8vo, and Zimmerman (John George), A Treatise on the Dysentery: with a Description of the Epidemic Dysentary that Happened in Switzerland in the Year 1765, Translated by C.R. Hopson, 1771, 19th century library cloth, 8vo, plus Turner (Daniel), A Discourse Concerning Fevers. In Two Letters, 3rd edition, 1739, engraved portrait frontispiece, some light dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo, and Glass (Thomas), Commentarii duodecim de febribus ad hippocratis disciplinan accommodati, 1742, faint library stamp to title, 19th century library cloth, 8vo, and Degner (Johann Hartmann), Historia medica de dysenteria biblioso-contagiosa, Utrecht, 1754, title in red and black, library cloth, 8vo, plus five editions of John Huxham’s Essay on Fevers (11)

Lot 305

£200-300

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308 Paaw (Pieter). Primitiae anatomicae de humani corporis ossibus, 1st edition, Leiden: Joost van Colster, 1615, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of dancing skeletons, outer margin torn and neatly repaired without loss of text, four folding engraved plates, each with marginal splits without loss, twenty-six engraved illustrations to text, errata leaf bound at end of preliminaries, library stamp to title and plates, a little spotting and soiling, some dampstaining to lower margins, lacks folding frontispiece of a disection scene, bound with Vesalius (Andreas), Epitome anatomica: Opus redivivum, edited by Pieter Paaw, 1st edition, Leiden: Joost van Colster, 1616, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, folding engraved plate (library stamp) and engraved illustrations to text, errata leaf at rear, bound with Paaw (Pieter), Succenturiatus anatomicus ..., 1st edition, two parts in one, Amsterdam: Joost van Colster, 1616, portrait of the author to title verso, one engraved folding plate of the skeletal anatomy of the human body (library stamp and tear without loss), engraved illustrations to text, title printed in red and black with separate titlepage to the second part, lacks folding frontispiece (a duplicate of the missing frontispiece to the first work) and one folding plate of the head, a few marginal tears without loss, not affecting text, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, 4to (119 x 149mm)

309 [Panaroli, Domenico]. Discorso delle stufe da bagni di Roma e suoi nocumenti, con un modo singolare di fabricarle, o di bagnarsi senza lesione alcuna , del Sig. Despotico Calathino, 1st edition, Rome: Gio. Battista Robletti, 1646, 24pp. including colophon with decorative head-piece at rear, title within decorative woodcut border, faint library stamp to upper corner, two woodcut initials, double-page copper-engraved plate by Girolamo Pedrignani between explanation and colophon leaves, contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, a little soiled, slim 4to (210 x 154mm)

Paaw was a pupil of Fabrizzi at Padua and founder of the Anatomical School at Leiden. Sadly, the fine folding frontispiece missing from the first and third works shows Paaw giving an anatomy lesson in the anatomical theatre at Leiden, the first such theatre in the Netherlands. The third work is a commentary on the books of Hippocrates and Celsus on wounds of the head, the first part in Greek and Latin, the second part in Latin only.

(1) ÂŁ500-800

Exceedingly rare work on Roman Baths.

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134

ÂŁ700-1000

310 Paracelsus (Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast). Chyrurgia Minor, quam Alias Bertheoneam intitulauit, [?Basel: Perna], 1573, woodcut initials, lacking 3z4 (blank?), occasional underlining and annotations, some soiling and dampstains, a few repairs and worm tracks, library cloth, folio Durling 3497.

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ÂŁ200-300

311 Pare (Ambroise). Opera, et Latinitate donata, Iacobi Guillemeau, Paris: Jacob Du-Puys, 1582, woodcut to title, portrait of the author, 362 woodcuts to text, woodcut initials and decorative head-piece borders, faint library stamp to title, some old dampstaining to outer margins throughout, lacks final blank, modern half morocco over cloth, slightly rubbed, folio (335 x 210mm) First Latin edition and third edition overall. The woodcuts of the 1582 edition are those of the first and second edition (in French) of 1575 supplemented by those from the second of 1579. Doe 46; Durling 3531; Heirs of Hippocrates 271.

(1) ÂŁ1000-1500

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312 Pare (Ambroise). Les Oeuvres d’Ambroise Pare..., divisees en vingt huict livres, avec les figures & portraicts, tant de l’anatomie, que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres, reveues & augmentees par l’autheur, 4th edition, Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1585, title within engraved ornamental border, engraved portrait of the author to verso of leaf following first quire, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces and illustrations throughout, four-page table between leaves E5 and E6, ownership signature of ‘Thos. Lovatt 1805’ to second leaf, some spotting, marginal soiling and dampstaining throughout with one heavier stain to foremargin of early leaves, a few marginal closed tear repairs and one repair to B1 touching text, first and last few leaves slightly chipped and browned at margins, library stamp and upper margin repairs to title, title and final leaf rehinged, modern morocco gilt, folio (367 x 235mm) The collected works of the greatest 16th-century surgeon, superbly illustrated with numerous woodcuts. ‘It is generally accepted by all authorities that there was no third French edition of the collected works. This fourth edition in 1585 was, therefore, the immediate successor of the second edition in 1585 and is the most highly prized of the collected editions, and rightly so.

Carefully revised by the author, it was the last one to be seen personally through the press by him; and it contains the “Apologie et traicte contenant les voyages”, which is Pare’s most characteristic document’ (Doe 31). Of the twenty-two copies inspected by Doe in her bibliography of Pare only nine had the portrait by Horbeck, here present. Wellcome I, 4821.

Overall, a good wide-margined copy with most of the dampstaining and browning being away from the text.

(1) £3000-5000

313 Pare (Ambroise). The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson. Whereunto are added three Tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the Veines, Arteries, & Nerves, with large Figures, 2 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, 1649, engraved title (browned), final section with separate title, two folding full-page woodcut plates only (of three) depicting the vascular system, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, library stamps to title and full-page plates, some old smudges and marks, occasional inoffensive marginalia, light dampstaining to final portion, early 19th century full sheep, upper joint cracked, folio Krivatsy 8604; Waller 7148; Wing p349.

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Lot 313

£300-500

137

Lot 314

138

314 Paul of Aegina. Libri Septem. In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur, 1st edition, Venice: Aldus, 1528, title with woodcut Aldine device, and to final blank verso, preliminary leaves in Latin, main text (pp. 1-138) in Greek italic, occasional Latin annotation, light mainly marginal water stains, a few marginal wormtracks and holes, library stamps to title and lower margins, final blank with repaired tear, library cloth, folio Paul of Aegina (c. 625-c. 690) was an Alexandrian physician and his magnus opus Libri Septem contained most western medical knowledge during his time. He much influenced the great Persian physician Al-Razi (Rhazes) and other Islamic surgeons including Abu alQasim.

Paulus Aegineta was the most important physician of his day and a skilful surgeon. He gave orginal descriptions of lithotomy, trephining, tonsillectomy, paracentesis and amputation of the breast; the first clear description of the effects of lead poisoning also comes from him. His work first appeared in Greek from the famous Aldine Press in Venice in 1528, edited by F. Torresani (Asulanus)’ (G-M 36); Adams 488.

(1) £3000-5000

315 Paul of Aegina. Medicinae totius enchiridion, septem libris universam..., Albano Torino ... interprete, Basel: Oporinus, 1551, some dust-soiling to first few leaves, light old dampstain to lower margin of first leaves and upper margin of final leaves, faint library stamp to title (short closed tear at foot repaired to verso), contemporary vellum, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo Durling 3557; Wellcome 4865.

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£300-400

316 Pechey (John). A Collection of Chronical Diseases, viz. The Colick, The Billious Colick, Hysterick Diseases, The Gout, and The Bloody Urine from the Stone in the Kidnies, 1st edition, 1692, spotting throughout, old dampstaining to upper margins of early leaves, faint library stamp to title, late 19th-century library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (170 x 104mm) Krivatsy 8729; Wing P1018.

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Lot 315 £100-150

139

318 Percival (Thomas). Essays Medical, Philosophical, and Experimental, 2 volumes, 4th edition, Warrington, 1788, half-titles, together with Zimmermann (Johann Georg), A Treatise on Experience in Physic, 2 volumes., 1782, lacks half-title to volume 2, all library cloth, some wear, 8vo, plus Woodman (Philip), Medicus Novissimus, or, The Modern Physician... , 1712, library cloth, small 8vo, plus Walwyn (William), Physick for Families... , 1696, lacks portrait frontispiece, title detached, hinges cracked, small 8vo, (Wing W667), plus other eighteenth-century English language practice of medicine and related, all with library stamps to titles and plates where present, mostly library cloth, 8vo (20)

£200-300

317 Pemell (Robert). De morbis capitis; or, Of the Chief Internall Diseases of the Head, With their Causes, Signes, Prognosticks, and Cures, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue, by R. P., 1st edition, Philemon Stephens, 1650, title-page within decorative woodcut border (a little trimmed at upper and outer margins), library stamp to title, some old marginal dampstaining and dust-soiling, tightly bound (stab stitched), old manuscript inscription to blank before title, lacks final leaf (K8, blank?), library cloth, small 8vo (139 x 87mm) The first neurology book written in English. Pemell, writing contemporaneously with Thomas Willis, describes, among other things, how to arouse a patient from an epileptic seizure. Besides, the more accepted methods of making a noise in the patient’s ears, rubbing and bathing the soles of the feet, he suggests more esoteric methods, such as applying ‘a female pigeon (the fethers being first pulled off) unto the navell of the epileptick; for hereby the fit is abated, and the venomous vapours are drawn away’. Includes a bibliography. Rare institutionally and no auction records found. Wing P1131.

(1) £700-1000

319 Perfect (William). Select Cases in the Different Species of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, With the Modes of Practice as Adopted in the Treatment of Each, 1st edition, Rochester, 1787, halftitle, one or two light spots, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 8vo Revised and enlarged edition of Perfect’s Methods of Cure, in Some Particular Cases of Insanity (1778) and the first collection of psychiatric case studies. Norman 1682.

(1) £300-400

140

320 Perrault (Claude). Description anatomique d’un cameleon, d’un castor, d’un dromadaire, d’un ovrs, et d’une gazelle, 1st edition, Paris, 1669, title with woodcut device, five folding engraved plates by Sebastien LeClerk (a few tears and repairs to verso), occasional soiling and light spotting, library stamps, library cloth, small 4to Second work on comparative anatomy by the “Parisians”, a group of members of the Academie Royale des Sciences, led by Perrault including Jean Pecquet, Guichard Joseph Duverney and Moyse Charas. Recording their methods of investigation and results and begining with dissections of a thresher shark and a lion from the royal menagerie, the team set about debunking popular myths such as salamanders living in fire and chameleons subsisting on air.

Nissen ZBI 3122; Norman 1686.

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321 Perry (Charles). A Mechanical Account and Explication of the Hysteric Passion, Under all its Various Symptoms and Appearances. And Likewise of all such other Diseases as are Peculiarly Incident to the Sex, 1st edition, 1755, woodcut headpieces and initials, a few spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo, together with Rowley (William), A Treatise on Female, Nervous, Hysterical, Hypochondriacal, Billous, Convulsive Diseases; Apoplexy and Palsy; With Thoughts on Madness, Suicide &c. In Which the Principal Disorders are Explained from Anatomical Facts, and the Treatment Formed on Several New Principles, 1st edition, 1788, half-title, B1 cancel, scattered light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Pierre Pomme’s Traite des Affections Vaporeuses des Deux Sexes, 1st edition, 1763 & 3rd edition, 1767

£400-600

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£300-400

Lot 322

142

322 Pharmacopoeia. Pharmacopoea Londinensis, in qua medicamenta antiqua et nova usitatissima, sedulo collecta, accuratissime examinata, quotidiana experientia confirmata describuntur, 1st edition, 1st issue, J. Marriot, 1618, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, p.181 misnumbered 118, annotation to 2C verso, library stamp and previous owner initials to title, some occasional dampstains and inksplashes, one or two closed marginal tears, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio The rare suppressed first issue, dated 7 May, 1618, and the first of ten editions of the London Pharmacopoeia from the College of Physicians, issued by royal charter to regulate the composition of medicines.

According to Dr George Urdang (Director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy) “the famous epilogue of the second issue, charging the printer of the first with having “snatched away from our hands this little work not yet finished off”, was designed, under the pretext of typographical correction, to suppress the first issue and substitute for it a work so expanded and altered as to change its essential character. The first issue was a simple formulary, the second took on many features of a textbook. In this and in several incidental respects, Dr. Urdang thinks the second issue reflects “the change from the Renaissance to the Baroque Spirit which was taking place at that time”. He finds reason to believe that an opposition group of younger members of the College demanded the revision”. STC 16772.

(1) £2000-3000

323 Pineau (Severin). Opusculum physiologum & anatomicum in duos libellos distinctum..., Paris: Steph. Preuosteau, 1597, printer’s woodcut device to title, six woodcut illustrations including two fullpage (both slightly trimmed), library stamp and early inscription to title, slight dust-soiling and browning at front and rear, old ownership signature of G. de Lys and Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front endpapers, contemporary panelled calf, old reback, some wear and upper cover detached, together with Gourmelen (Etienne), Chirurgicae artis, ex Hippocratis, & aliorum veterum medicorum decretis, ad rationis normam redactae, libri III..., Paris: Gilles Gilles, 1580, privilege leaf at rear, title soiled and frayed at margins, relined, second leaf slightly browned and with marginal paper repair not affecting text, library stamp and old inscription to title, library cloth, frayed on joints, plus Gesner (Conrad), Euonymus... de remediis secretis, liber secundus [Part 2 of Thesaurus euonymi philiatri], [Zurich: Froschauer, 1569], woodcut illustrations of distillation apparatus, some soiling, tears and repairs to first and last leaves, final leaf torn with loss and relaid and lacks preceding leaf of index, scattered old marginalia, some dampstaining, library stamp to title, library cloth, small nick to foot of spine, plus Curio (Johannes, ed.), Conservandae bonae valetudinis praecepta longe saluberrima, regi Angliae quondam a doctoribus Scholae Salernitanae versibus conscripta..., Frankfurt: Heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1573, title printed in red and black, sixtyfour woodcut illustrations to text, title and following leaf soiled, browned and detached, some old dampstaining and soiling, library cloth, all 8vo 2) Waller 3657. 4) Adams S107; Durling 3814.

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Lot 323

£300-400

143

326 Platter (Felix). Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque corpori & animo.... Basel: Ludwig Konig, 1641, several library stamps, some light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled and slightly split at head of upper joint, together with a 1680 edition of the same work from the same publisher, browning throughout, library cloth, both 8vo, plus Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulierum item..., Amsterdam, 1648, engraved title (library stamps to recto and verso), some browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, plus [Digby, Kenelm & Others], Theatrum sympatheticum, in quo sympathiae actiones variae... exhibentur, & mechanice, physice, mathematice, chimice & medice occasione pulveris sympathetici ita quidem elucidantur..., editio altera, priori emendatior, Amsterdam, 1661, browning throughout, library cloth, both 12mo, plus Nicolas Chesneau’s Observationum (Paris, 1672), and three others by Daniel Sennert (Amsterdam, 1644), Hippocrates (Geneva, 1675) and Celsus (Amsterdam, 1687) Platter’s work contains the first known case of death from hypertrophy of the thymus, in an infant (G-M 3789); and an account of meningioma (G-M 4511.1).

(8) £300-400

324 Pisanelli (Baldassare). Trattato della natura de cibi e del bere, Venice: Gio. Battista Uscio, 1587, printer’s woodcut device and faint library stamp to title, old ownership inscription ‘D. Stephan felicis’ at foot, some spotting and old dampstaining throughout, small tear to outer lower corner of L2 not affecting text, hinges cracked, contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties, soiled and some wear to spine with loss at head and foot, 4to (205 x 145mm) Cagle 1168 (2nd edition, Venice, 1584, but noting the existence of the 1583 folio first edition published in Rome). This edition not in Adams, Cagle or Vicaire.

(1) £1000-1500

325 Pisanelli (Baldassare). De alimentorum facultatibus libellus aureus, Brussels: Francois Foppens, 1662, engraved vignette to title, neat old ink ownership signature of Ioannis Luxton to title, faint library stamp, presentation bookplate to the Birmingham Medical Institute from Dr Blackall, contemporary blind-stamped vellum with leather label to spine, slightly soiled, 12mo

327 Plinius Secundus (Gaius). Historia mundi..., denuo sic emendata... non nihil etiam Beati Rhenani... annotationibus, 2 pts in one, Basel: Hieronymus Froben, 1530, woodcut device on both titlepages and at the end of both parts, woodcut initials, some neat old ink underscoring and scattered marginalia, library stamps to title and some lower margins, some soiling and old dampstaining throughout, slight marginal damp-fraying with loss to last signature of index not affecting text, title soiled, split at upper margin without loss, inner margin and lower half verso repaired with loss of lower blank outer corner only, armorial bookplate of the Jonnstone family to front pastedown, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, soiled, folio (360 x 250mm)

Translation by Arnold Freitag of Pisanelli’s Trattato della natura de’ cibi e del bere.

(1) £150-200

Adams P1561.

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144

£200-300

329 Pomet (Pierre). A Complete History of Drugs ..., 2 volumes in one, 4th edition, carefully corrected, with large editions, J. & J. Bonwicke et al, 1748, title printed in red and black (detached), eighty-six engraved plates, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting, inner hinges cracked, library cloth, rubbed and marked, 4to, together with Tauvry (Daniel), A Treatise of Medicines ..., 1st edition, Richard Wellington, 1700, two advert leaves at rear, library stamp to title, some soiling and heavy old dampstaining at front and rear, lacks initial blank, library cloth, joints slightly frayed, 8vo, (Wing T247), plus London Hospitals, The Modern Practice of the London Hospitals, viz. St. Bartholomew’s, St. Thomas’s, Guy’s, St. George’s, The Portuguese, and the Lock, at Hyde-Park-Corner, 3rd edition, S. Crowder and J. Coote, 1770, library stamp to title, a little spotting and soiling, library cloth, 8vo, plus other 18th-century English language dispensatory interest, including six editions of Quincy, various bindings and sizes (19)

£300-500

330 Porterfield (William). A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phaenomena of Vision, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1759, eight folding engraved plates, some light toning and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo

328 Pomet (Pierre). A Compleat History of Druggs, Written in French by Monsieur Pomet... from Messrs. Lemery and Tournefort, Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal and Mineral; With their use in Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy, and Other Arts, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, 1712, titles printed in red and black, 86 engraved plates, some close-trimmed, a few tears and repairs, some water stains and soiling, volume I title previous owner names scribbled-through, BMI presentation labels from Dr Blackall, modern calf, some fading, 4to

‘Porterfield was a Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at Edinburgh from 1724-26. His book included many original observations. It was the first important British work on the anatomy and physiology of the eye’ (G-M 1484.2).

An authority on the eye, he devised the first optometer and possibly gave the first medical account of his experiences after having a leg amputated.

(2) £700-1000

‘The most complete materia medica of the time, compiled by the druggist/botanist Pomet’ (G-M 1827.1); Hunt 248; Pritzel 7258.

(2) £400-600

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331 Portzius (Joannes David). Demonst[r]atio brevis medico chyrurgica de tumoribus..., Leeuwarden: Heronem Nautam, 1679, bound with Severino (Marco Aurelio), Synopseos chirurgiae libri sex, Amsterdam: Elizeum Weyerstraeten, 1664, engraved title, blank at rear, bound with Marchetti (Pietro de), Observationum medico-chirurgicarum rariorum sylloge, Amsterdam: Petri Le Grand, 1665, folding engraved plate of a finger tip and tendons, split along fold, last two leaves blank, faint library stamp to first title, some browning and dampstaining throughout with a few minor marginal splits, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, together with Feyens (Johannes), De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius novus ac singularis, Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson, 1643, faint library stamp to title, closed tear repair to verso, contemporary vellum, soiled, plus Fontanus (Nicolaus), Commentarius in Sebastianum Austrium ... de puerorum morbis, Amsterdam: Jansson, 1642, three folding engraved plates, library stamp to title, title verso and plates, pencil underscoring and marginal marks throughout, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Wade, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, all 12mo, plus other small format 16th-century medical books in Latin, several with defects Marchetti: G-M 5572; Norman 1436 (both citing 1664 edition).

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333 Pott (Percivall). The Chirurgical Works, 1st edition, printed for Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, 1775, twelve engraved plates, title and half-title with faint library stamp, red sprinkled edges, modern half sheep gilt, rubbed, 4to (1)

334 Priestley (Joseph). Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 3 volumes, 1st editions, J. Johnstone, 177475-77, six engraved plates including three folding (some offsetting), library stamps throughout including to titles and plates, Johnstone armorial bookplate to title verso of volume 2, old dampstaining to volumes 2 and 3 throughout, half-title and errata leaf to volume 1 present, lacks advert leaf from rear of volume 1 and two advert leaves from each of volumes 2 and 3, library cloth, volumes 2 and 3 dampstained, together with the second series, Experiments and Observations relating to various branches of natural philosophy, with a continuation of the observations on air, 3 volumes, 1st editions, J. Johnstone, London (volumes 2 & 3 Birmingham): 177981-86, engraved frontispiece to each volume (two folding), volume 1 with “printed” spelled as “peinted” in imprint to volume 1, library stamps to title, plates and occasionally elsewhere, some spotting and dust soiling, all volumes with Birmingham Medical Institute book labels to front endpapers, library cloth, rubbed and slightly soiled, spine ends of volume 1 frayed, all 8vo (205 x 125mm)

£200-300

332 Pott (Percival). A Treatise on the Hydrocele, or Watry Rupture, and other Diseases of the testicle, It’s Coats and Vessels, 2nd edition, 1767, two engraved plates, some browning and dampstaining, library stamps to title and plates, contemporary calf, later reback, 8vo, together with other works by Pott including A Treatise on Ruptures, 2nd edition, 1763, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, 3 volumes, 1790, engraved portrait frontispiece, seventeen engraved plates, owner’s name and faint library stamps to titles, library cloth, 8vo, plus Astruc (John), A Treatise on the Fistula of the Anus, 1738, folding engraved plate, library stamp to title and plate, library cloth, 8vo (6)

£300-500

The first edition of Priestley’s greatest work detailing his further pneumatic experiments, including the discovery of oxygen. Some of these experiments were carried out in Birmingham.

Duveen, p. 484; Horblit 85; Norman 1750; PMM 217; Crook S/451-453 (and S/465-467).

(6) £700-1000

£200-300

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335 Priestley (Joseph). The History and Present State of Electricity, with original experiments, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, corrected and enlarged, C. Bathurst and others, 1775, eight folding engraved plates, publisher’s catalogue and index at rear of volume 2, faint library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and dustsoiling, light old dampstaining to upper margins, contemporary ownership signature of Stephen Hemsted of Ilsley, Berkshire, to both titles, Birmingham Medical Institute book labels to endpapers, library cloth, slightly darkened and soiled, nick to lower joint of volume 2, 8vo (201 x 125mm) Crook S/483.

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336 Purmann (Matthaeus Gottfried). Chirurgia Curiosa: Or, the Newest and Most Curious Observations and Operations in the Whole Art of Chirurgery. Regularly Methodized, Explained and Rendred Intelligible and Easie to Every Practioner: Whether Relating to Manual Operations, or the Choice and Application of Proper Remedies... To Which is Added Natural Morborum Medicatrix: Or, Nature Cures Diseases, 1st edition in English, 1706, five folding copper-engraved plates (last two bound upside down), errata leaf, erratic pagination and signatures, some spotting and browning, library cloth, folio

£300-400

Military surgeon Purmann experimented unsuccessfully with transfusing animal blood into wounded soldiers amongst his more pioneering treatments. Wellcome IV, p. 449; Waller 7677.

(1) £300-400

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338 Ramazzini (Bernardino). Opera Omnia, medica & physiologica, Geneva, 1718, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, four engraved plates (two folding), occasional ligyht spotting, library stamps, cut signature of J. Johnstone to front pastedown, modern half calf, 4to, together with Opera Omnia, Medica & Physiologica, 3rd edition, 1718, title printed in red and black, four engraved plates (two folding), a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 4to (2)

£400-600

339 Randolph (George). An Enquiry into the Medicinal Virtues of Bristol-Water: and the Indications of Cure which it answers, 1750, library stamp to title and neat paper repair to lower outer blank corner, dampstain to fore-edge margins of leaves O3 & O4, library cloth, 8vo (197 x 125mm), together with Sutherland (Alexander), An Attempt to Ascertain and extend the Virtues of Bath and Bristol Waters by Experiments and Cases, 2nd edition, 1764, library stamp to title, library cloth, 12mo, plus Oliver (William), A Practical Dissertation on Bath-Waters..., to which is added, a Relation of a very extraordinary Sleeper near Bath, 5th edition, 1764, half-title, library stamp to title, some occasional spotting, library cloth, 12mo

337 Ramazzini (Bernardino). De morbis artificum diatriba, 2nd edition, Utrecht, 1703, title with woodcut device, some water stains, library stamp, library cloth, dampstains to top margins, 8vo, together with A Dissertation on Endemial Diseases; Or, Those Disorders which Arise from Particular Climates, Situations and Methods of Living; Together with a Treatise on the Diseases of Tradesmen, to which ther are Subject by their Particular Callings. With a Method of Avoiding and Treating them. The First by the Celebrated Frederick Hoffman... the Second by Bern. Ramazini, Newly Translated, with a Preface and an Appendix by Dr. James, 1st edition, 1746, 296pp., plus Index, and Supplement on the Diseases of Printers pp.398-432 bound at end, lacking one leaf of publisher’s list, one or two light spots, library stamp, library cloth, dampstains, 8vo, plus Health Preserved, in Two Treatises. I. On the Diseases of Artificers, which by their Particular they are Most Liable to. With the Method of Avoiding them, and their Cure. By Bern. Ramazini... II. On those Distempers, which Arise from Particular Climates and Methods of Life... by Frederick Hoffman, Translated and Enlarged, with an Appendix by R. James, 2nd edition, 1750, final leaf with marginal repair, light water stains, library stamps, modern calf, edges slightly rubbed, 8vo

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£200-300

340 Read (Alexander). A Treatise of the First Part of Chirurgerie, called by mee Synthetike, the part which teacheth the reunition of the parts of the bodie disjoyned. Containing the methodical doctrine of Wounds: delivered in Lectures in the BarberChirurgeons Hall upon Tuesdayes, appointed for these Exercises, and the keeping of their Courts, 1st edition, printed by John Haviland for Francis Constable, 1638, [8]+247 pp., a few woodcut initials, etc., faint library stamp to title, and minor soiling to extreme edges, modern quarter brown morocco gilt, small 4to STC 20786.

(1)

First work is the second edition by ‘the father of industrial hygiene’.

‘Ramazzini methodically collected all this material [from Helmont and Paracelsus on diseases of miners] and added the results of his own investigations into the diseases of manual workers and the relation between their occupations and diseases, besides drawing on the observations of others who had direct experience of such cases. He described miner’s phthisis, leadpoisoning of potters, eye-trouble of gilders, printers and other artisans, and included diseases peculiar to doctors’ (PMM 170); G-M 2121; Norman 1776.

(3) £700-1000

149

£200-300

341 Read (Alexander). The Workes of that Famous Physitian..., 3 parts in one volume, 3rd edition, Richard Thrale, 1659, separately dated title-page to second and third parts (‘A treatise of the first part of chirurgery’ and ‘A treatise of all the muscles of the whole body’), each title-page within typographical border, library stamp to first title, some browning and old dampstaining, heavy towards rear, library cloth, badly dampstained and wrinkled with cloth lifting, upper joint partly split, 4to, together with Chirurgorum comes: or The Whole Practice of Chirurgery..., Christopher Wilkinson, 1687, lacks plate, library stamp to title, old dampstaining, heavier to early leaves, marginal repairs to B5 and B6 not affecting text, old ownership signature of John Phelps to A2 (and faintly to title), library cloth, some fading and fraying to joints, 8vo 1)A binding copy. Wing R426. 2) Wing R427.

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343 Rhijne (Willem ten). Dissertatio de arthritide: Mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: Et orationes tres, I. De chymiae ac botaniae antiquitate & dignitate. II. De physiognomia. III. De monstris, 1st London edition, R. Chiswell, 1683, six engraved plates including five folding (each with closed tear into image and one repaired to verso), lacks portrait frontispiece (offsetting to title) and final blank, tear to leaf (a4) outer margin with a little loss of first letters to two lines of verso, some browning and old dampstaining to lower half of pages throughout, faint library stamp to title and plates, library cloth gilt, slightly soiled, 8vo (172 x 113mm)

£200-300

342 Rhazes [Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi]. De variolis et morabillis, Arabice et Latine, edited by John Channing, 1766, text in Arabic and Latin, faint library stamp to title, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Blackall, contemporary calfbacked marbled boards, upper cover detached, 8vo Rhazes notes that surviving the disease prevented an individual from developing it again, thereby providing the first theory of acquired immunity.

G-M 2527.99.

(1) £200-300

Published simultaneously in London, the Hague and Leipzig. Norman 2062: ‘Ten Rhijne’s treatise gave the Western world its first detailed descriptions of Japanese and Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and moxibustion; it also contains the first illustration of acu-points published in the West’; GM 6374.10; Wing R1326; Krivatsy 9603; Waller 9518.

(1) £700-1000

150

344 Ridley (Humphrey). The Anatomy of the Brain, containing its mechanism and physiology, together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject..., To which is annex’d a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion, 1st edition, 1695, imprimatur leaf before title, five folding engraved plates by Michael Vander Gucht after William Cowper (three with short closed tears to inner margins and two with paper repairs to verso), some spotting throughout, a little old dampstaining to upper and lower margins of first few leaves, faint library stamp to title and plates, contemporary panelled calf with old reback, some wear to extremities and upper cover detached, 8vo (188 x 120mm) Norman 1833; Russell 699; G-M 1379.1. First edition of the earliest English monograph devoted entirely to the brain, building on the earlier accounts by such as Willis and Vieussens.

(1) ÂŁ3000-5000

151

346 Riviere (Lazare). The Compleat Practice of Physick in Eighteen Several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Differences, Diagnostick, and Prognostick Signs. Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man, 1655, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with Praxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with ^TPraxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, ^Dlacks additional engraved title, bound with Methodus curandarum febrium, The Hague, 1651, occasional light browning, dampstaining towards rear of volume, white library cloth, soiled, 8vo, together with Craanen (Theodorus), Lumen rationale medicum, hoc est praxis medica reformata sive annotationes in Praxin Henrici Regii, accedit examen institutum in Dan. Sennerti..., 2 parts in one volume, Middelburg: J. de Reede, 1686, additional engraved title-page, Sennert’s Examen institutum with separate title-page and pagination, index at rear, faint library stamp to printed title-page, presentation bookplate to BMI from Dr Blackall tipped in at front, earlier ownership signature of N. (?)Munckley dated 1745, contemporary vellum, together with a second copy lacking engraved title-page, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, both 8vo, plus Waldschmidt (Johann Jacobus), Praxis medicinae rationalis succincta, per casus tradita..., preface by Johann Dolaeus, Paris: Sumptibus Societatis, 1691, lacks engraved frontispiece and final blank(?), library stamp to title, some occasional spotting and light browning, library cloth, 12mo Wing R1559.

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£300-400

347 Riviere (Lazare). The Practice of Physick, Wherein is plainly set forth, the Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several Sorts of Signs: Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man..., 1661, separate title to ‘Four Books’ dated 1658, lacks engraved portrait frontispiece, some browning and spotting throughout, slightly close-trimmed at head & foot, front blank with ink ownership stamp ‘R. Birch Novem. 26 1768’, front pastedown with presentation label to Birmingham Medical Institute form Dr. T.D.F. Evans, modern quarter morocco gilt, 4to

345 Ridley (Humphrey). Observationes quaedam medicopracticae & physiologicae, inter quas aliquanto fusius agitur de asthmate et hydophobia, 1st edition, 1703, engraved plate of a heart (with small wormhole), M4 with marginal manuscript correction, a few minor spots, library cloth, 8vo, together with Withers (Thomas), A Treatise on the Asthma. To Which are Added Cases and Observations..., 1st edition, 1786, library stamps, a few spots, 8vo

The volume includes an additional title-page, possibly intended as an advertisement, entitled “The Rationall Physitian’s Library. Containing these most Excellent Books following; in that Order they ought to be Read and Studied..., 1661”.

(1) £300-400

Following on from his Anatomy of the Brain (1695), Ridley proves himself as good a clinical observer as an anatomist, with over thirty observations, some on asthma and hydrophobia, and the anatomy of a fetal heart, with descriptions of autopsies.

(2) £250-300

152

348 Riviere (Lazare). Opera medica universa. quibus continentur, Frankfurt, 1674, title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, library stamps to title and first two leaves of text, repaired hole to final leaf and inner margin of leaf Dd, some marginal worming, modern quarter morocco gilt, together with Schenck von Grafenberg (Johannes), Observationum medicarum rariorum, libri VII... , Frankfurt, 1665, title in red and black with woodcut publisher’s device (library stamp), few woodcut decorative initials, some dampstaining and mottling throughout, front endpaper frayed and damp mottled with one blank detached, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, head of spine worn, marked and some soiling, plus Peccettius (Franciscus), Cheirurgia Francisci Peccettii coelestini cortonensis physici, et cheirurgi, in qua omnia, tam ad huius artis theoriam, quam praxim spectantia traduntur, Pavia: Apud Hearedes Caroli Francisci Magrij, 1697, woodcut headpieces and initials, library stamp to title, modern quarter library morocco gilt, all folio 1) G-M 2727. Contains the first ever reference to aortic stenosis.

(3) £300-400

349 Rohault (Jacques). Physica, 2nd edition, 1702, 19 folding engraved plates on 18 sheets, lacking A1 blank, some light dampstains, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo, together with Sprat (Thomas), The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, 2nd edition, 1702, two engraved plates (lacking frontispiece), light water stain, library stamp, library cloth, 4to, plus Pringle (John), Six Discourses, Delivered by Sir John Pringle, Bart.

When President of the Royal Society; On the Occasion of Six Annual Assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley’s Medal, 1st edition, 1783, F3 with repaired tear, a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, upper cover detached, spine defective, 8vo, with three others: Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, 2nd edition, 1683 (lacking plates), Benjamin Martin’s The Philosophical Grammar; Being a View of the Present State of Experimented Physiology, or Natural Philosophy in Four Parts, 3rd edition, 1748 and John Keill’s Introductio ad Veram Physicam: Seu Lectiones Physicae, 6th edition, 1741

Lot 347

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£250-300

350 Rollo (John). An Account of Two Cases of the Diabetes Mellitus: with Remarks as they arose during the Progress of the Cure, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1797, half-titles (one relaid), browning to first and last few leaves, faint library stamps to titles, modern quarter library morocco, 8vo, together with a 2nd edition (1798) of the same work in one volume, bound in library cloth, plus Home (Everard), Practical Observations on the Treatment of Strictures in the Urethra, and in the Oesophagus, 2nd edition, 1797, half-title, faint library stamp and croseed-out owners name to title, three engraved plates (one folding), library cloth, upper cover detached, 8vo, and Russell (Richard), The Oeconomy of Nature in Acute and Chronical Diseases of the Glands, 1755, single engraved plate, library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and others including Whytt’s ‘An Essay on the Virtues of Lime-Water’ (1755), Schomberg’s ‘A Treatise on the Colica Pictonum’ (1764), and a 1st and 2nd edition of John Purcell’s ‘A Treatise of the Cholick’ (1714 & 1715) Rollo was a pioneer in recommending a restricted diet for the treatment of diabetes. The first edition is scarce. G-M 3930.

(9) £300-400

351 Rondelet (Guillaume). De ponderibus sive de iusta quantitate & proportione medicamentorum, liber, 1st edition, Lyon: B. Molonaeus, 1560, printer’s woodcut device to title, portrait to final leaf verso of preliminaries, decorative woodcut initials, three leaves dedication and errata at rear, browning and some old dampstaining and soiling throughout, faint library stamp to title, modern quarter calf over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 8vo

Lot 348 153

Adams R747.

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£200-300

352 Rondelet (Guillaume). Methodus curandorum omnium morborum corporis humani..., Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1592, printer’s woodcut device, library stamp and early ownership name of Fra. Carington to title, scattered marginalia and marks, lacks final leaf with device to verso, some soiling and occasional old dampstaining, small hole to title away from letterpress, contemporary vellum (endpapers slightly damp-frayed), soiled, thick 8vo, together with Donati (Giovanni Battista), Rei medice studio stipendium quinctum... de aquis Lucensibus libri IV..., 4th edition, Lucca: Ottaviano Guidoboni, 1606, printer’s woodcut device and faint library stamp to title, final blank present, a little spotting, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, small 4to, plus Bruyerin (Jean Baptiste), Cibus medicus, sive, De re cibaria libri XXII..., Nuremberg, 1659, printer’s woodcut device and library stamp to title, occasional old dampstaining and browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo 1) Adams R756.

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£200-300

353 Rosen de Rosenstein (N.). The Diseases of Children, and their Remedies. Translated into English by Andrew Sparrman, 1st edition, 1776, light spotting and water stains, library stamp, later library buckram, spine chipped at head, upper joint split, 8vo ‘Sir Frederic Still considered this work “the most progressive which had yet been written”; it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of paediatrics. Rosen was particularly interested in infant feeding’ (GM 6323). First published in Swedish in 1764 the work is considered a landmark in paediatrics.

(1) £200-300

354 Ruini (Carlo). Anatomia del cavallo, infermita, et suoi rimedii: opera nuova, degna di qualsivoglia prencipe, & cavaliere, & motto necessaria a filosofi, medici, cavallerizzi, & marescalchi..., Florence: Prati, 1618, title printed in red & black with woodcut printers device, 64 full-page woodcut plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, library stamp to title and two other pages, dampstaining to first and last few leaves, early 19th century half vellum with minimal library markings, maroon morroco label to spine, flaking to fore-edges, folio

Lot 355 356 Rush (Benjamin). An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, as it appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the year 1793, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: printed by Thomas Dobson, 1794, library stamp to title, scattered spotting, library cloth, spine faded and joints frayed, 8vo

‘First book devoted exclusively to the structure of a single species other than man. Besides being one of the foundation-stones of modern veterinary medicine, it contains a description of the lesser circulation. The admirable woodcuts were inspired by those in Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica (1543).’ (G-M 285 - 1598 first edition) (1) £1000-1500

G-M 5453 (1st edition, 1794): ‘Benjamin Rush was the most eminent figure in Philadelphia medicine in his day. His description of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 is classical. He did magnificent work in treating the sick during the epidemic and in proposing measures to prevent a reocurrence’.

(1) £200-300

357 Rush (Benjamin). Medical Inquiries and Observations, volumes 1-2 & 4-5, Philadelphia: printed by [or for] Thomas Dobson, 1794-93-96-98, volumes 1 and 4 with half-titles, volume 2 with errata leaf at rear, library stamp to titles, some spotting, library cloth, 8vo, together with Denham (Joseph), Observations on the Effects of Buxton Water, 1st edition, 1793, some heavy spotting at front and rear, title trimmed at upper margin, faint library stamp to title, closed tear repair to a3, bound with Rush (Benjamin), Medical Inquiries and Observations, volume 2 (of 2), 1st edition, Philadelphia, , 1793, errata leaf at rear, errata corrected in neat contemporary manuscript and with further corrections in the same unidentified hand, possibly by the author, bound with Anderson (Alexander Purcell), Tentamen chemicum inaugurale, de compositione acidi sulphurici..., 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1790, half-title, author’s presentation inscription to Mr Percival to main title verso, a little spotting at rear, library cloth, small tear at head of spine, all 8vo

355 Ruscelli (Girolamo). The Secrets of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont, Containing Excellent Remedies against Diverse Diseases, Wounds, and Other Accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings ..., newly corrected and amended, and also somewhat inlarged..., Translated out of French... by William Ward (and Richard Androse), 1595, title (relaid) soiled and with old ink inscription deletions, library stamp and marginal tears, separate dated titles to parts 2-4, light browning and old dampstaining to first leaves, closed tear repairs without loss to leaves 2L7 and 2M3, dampstained and somewhat soiled towards rear, final two leaves torn and repaired with some loss to text, library cloth, a little rubbed, 4to (190 x 140mm) STC 312. Signatures: A-2Z8.

(1)

£400-600

Volume 1 is a third edition, the first edition published in Philadelphia in 1789.

Volume 2 is a first edition, and completes the first edition pairing. Volumes 4 and 5 are also first editions. The handful of extra manuscript corrections in the bound-up volume are so minor as to point to the author as the most likely source. G-M 80 (citing 5 volume edition [1794]-98).

(5) £300-400

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358 Russell (Patrick). A Treatise of the Plague: Containing an Historical Journal, and Medical Account of the Plague, at Aleppo, in the Years 1760, 1761, and 1762. Also, Remarks on Quarantines, Lazarettos, and the Administration of Police in Times of Pestilence.

To Which is Added, an Appendix, Containing Cases of the Plague; And an Account of the Weather, During the Pestilential Season, 1st edition, 1791, occasional light spotting, library stamp to title, modern morocco-backed boards, 4to

360 Rutty (John). A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin. With their Periods, Successions, and Revolutions, during the Space of Forty Years. With a comparative View of the Difference of the Irish Climate and Diseases, and those of England and other Countries, 1st edition, Robinson & Roberts, 1770, circular library stamp to verso of title, engraved armorial of Ingestre Hall to upper pastedown, modern quarter calf, 8vo, together with Falconer (William). Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life, on the Disposition and Temper, Manners and Behaviour, Intellects, Laws and Customs, Form of Government, and Religion, of Mankind, 1st edition, printed for C. Dilly, 1781, title-page dust-soiled, lacking the final 14 leaves comprising index and advertisements, red sprinkled edges, library cloth, slightly rubbed and marked in places, 4to

Patrick Russell (1727-1805) joined his brother Alexander, also a physician in Aleppo in 1750, succeeding him in 1753 as physician to the resident British merchants. The outbreak of plague there 1760-62 allowed him to add to his brother’s studies of the disease and he examines attempts at inoculation.

The appendix lists 120 cases he observed, and he comments on quarantine measures and economic consequences.

Waller 8330; Wellcome IV, 593.

(1) £700-1000

359 Rutty (John). Methodical Synopsis of Mineral Waters, comprehending the Most Celebrated Medicinal Waters, Both Cold and Hot, of Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and Italy, and several other Parts of the World..., 1st edition, printed for William Johnston, 1757, title-page printed in red & black, engraved headpieces and initial letters, first few leaves browned, O4-P1 with marginal water-staining, marbled endpapers, front free endpaper with Birmingham Medical Institute presentation label inscribed from Mr. Gamgee, hinges strengthened with fabric tape, contemporary marbled calf gilt, rubbed, rebacked, 4to (1)

Falconer: Norman 755.

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£200-300

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£300-500

361 Ruysch (Frederik). Thesaurus anatomicus octavus [nonus, decimus], Amsterdam, 1709-16, parts 8-10 only, 11 engraved plates, some folding, bound with Thesaurus Animalium Primus, 1710, additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates, bound with Curae posteriores, seu thesaurus anatomicus omnium praecedentium maximus, 1724, 3 engraved plates, bound with Curae renovatae, seu, thesaurus anatomicus post curas posteriores, novus, 1728, 3 engraved plates, bound with Operum Anatomico-Medico-Chirurgicorum Index Locupletissimus [and Appendix], 1725, main text in Latin and Dutch, light spotting and water stains, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Sir Gilbert Barling (1855-1940, Birmingham physician) and Mason Science College library presentation label from O. Pemberton, 1886, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to, together with other eighteenth-century Latin Works editions by Ruysch, Baglivi and Sydenham, including mixed and incomplete editions, all library cloth ‘Ruysch, professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam is notable for his method of injecting the vessels. The recipe for the material used by Ruysch has remained a secret. He gave the first description of bronchial blood vessels and vascular plexuses of the heart, demonstrated the valves of the lymphatics, and made a great number of other important discoveries in anatomy’ (G-M 389). His cabinet of anatomical specimens, displayed in surreal landscapes, in houses in Amsterdam became a major tourist attraction, the entire collection bought by Tsar Peter the Great in 1717.

(12) ÂŁ300-500

157

362 Ryder (Hugh). New Practical Observations in Surgery, Containing Divers Remarkable Cases and Cures, 1st edition, 1685, some old soiling and dampstaining throughout, closely trimmed at upper margin, faint library stamp to title (foremargin strengthened to verso), lacks initial blank, modern buckram with leather spine label, soiled, 8vo (145 x 90mm)

364 Salmon (William). Parateremata: or Select Physical and Chyrurgical Observations, containing Divers Remarkable Histories of Cures Done by Several Famous Physicians, and Above Seven Hundred Eminent Cures..., 1st edition, 1687, engraved portrait frontispiece and eight plates, advertisement leaf at rear, faint library stamps to title and plates, some marginal browning and old dampstaining, presentation bookplate from Dr Blackall to BMI on front pastedown, modern calf, a little rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo (171 x 109mm)

Hugh Ryder (fl. 1664-1693) was a naval surgeon and surgeon to James II. This rare work includes cases of head wounds. Wing R2418. Hunter & Macalpine, p. 225. ESTC locates five copies including three in the UK and noting that the Wellcome copy also lacks the initial blank.

(1) £1000-1500

Krivatsy 10178; Wing S435.

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363 Saint Andre (Francois de). Chymical Disceptations, or, Discourses upon Acid and Alkali, wherein are examined the object of Mr. Boyle against these principles..., faithfully rendered out of French into English by J.W., to which is added, by the translator, a discourse of phlebotomy..., 2 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Printed for Tho. Dawks and Benj. Allport, 1689, separate half-title and part-title to second part, advert leaf and penultimate blank at rear, lacks imprimatur leaf before title, faint library stamp and old ownership signature of John Allen (?physician, 1660?-1741) to upper margin, some old ink underscoring to early leaves, light browning and dust-soiling, library cloth, slightly rubbed and small split to head of spine, small 8vo (138 x 91mm) Rare. Wing A3113A. (1)

£300-400

365 Salmon (William). Seplasium, The Compleat English Physician: or, The Druggist’s Shop Openedition.., 1st edition, 1693, half-title with partial contents list to verso, library stamp to titlepage, small tear at upper margin (the piece of paper present and attached to following leaf where badly cut), trimmed close to upper rule throughout, small tear with loss to upper outer corner of final leaf not affecting text, hinges partly cracked, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (170 x 110mm) Heirs of Hippocrates 655; Krivatsy 10180; Waller 8426; Wing S452.

(1) £300-400

£150-200

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366 Salmon (William). Pharmacopoeia Bateana, or Bate’s Dispensatory, translated from the last edition of the Latin copy ..., 3rd edition, S. Smith and B. Walford, 1706, publisher’s adverts to final leaf verso, library stamp to title, occasional spotting and browning, modern half morocco over marbled boards, together with Fuller (Thomas), Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea, or, A Body of Medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts, answering most intentions of cure ..., 3rd edition, W. & J. Innys, 1719, some spotting and old dampstaining, a little worming to text towards rear, archival repairs to margins of early leaves, modern half morocco over marbled boards, spines sunned, plus Culpeper (Nicholas), Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory Further Adorned ..., 1667, heavy spotting and browning throughout, closely trimmed at upper margin touching running heads, occasional marginal tears and nicks, library stamp to title, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, 8vo, plus other 18thcentury English language pharmacopoeias, various bindings and sizes (16)

367 Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st edition, 1st issue, H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, title printed in red & black (with ink stamp to upper blank margin of the Manor House, Knowle), numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, lacks addn. engraved title, short worm trail to title and initial leaves, few other worm holes, first & last few leaves with marginal fraying, two leaves at rear of volume torn to lower outer corners with loss and repaired, seven other leaves at rear of volume strengthened to lower outer corners with archival tissue, some browning & spotting, endpapers renewed, upper pastedown trimmed to reveal earlier endpaper beneath with ownership signature of J.H. Kimbell and also with presentation label to the British Medical Institute from Dr William Watson Newton, manuscript poetry to rear pastedown with the dates 1762 & 1769 and the name John Fry, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, board edges and corners repaired, folio (367 x 220mm)

£300-400

Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an ‘Index morborum’.

(1) £500-800

159

368 Salzmann (C.G.). Gymnastics for Youth: Or a Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools. An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education, Chiefly as it Relates to the Body, Freely Translated from the German, 1st edition, J. Johnson, 1800, ten engraved plates including folding frontispiece, frontispiece and title somewhat soiled and stained, two faint library stamps to frontispiece and one to title, light water stains to plates, old ownership signature of (?)Gul. Joly to title upper margin, library cloth, upper joint weak, 8vo The plates are attributed to William Blake (see Geoffrey Keynes, Blake, p.

248).

(1) £300-500

369 Sandford (William). A Few Practical Remarks on the Medicinal Effects of Wine and Spirits; with observations on the oeconomy of health, intended principally for the use of Parents, Guardians, and others intrusted with the care of youth, by William Sandford, surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary, 1st edition, Worcester, 1799, half-title and a final leaf of errata, library stamp to title, some spotting, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

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£200-300

370 Santorini (Giovanni Domenico). Observationes anatomicae, Leiden: apud G. Langerak, 1739, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, three folding engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, late library cloth, 4to, together with Morgagni (Giovanni Battista), Epistolae anatomicae duae novas observationes, Leiden: Joannem a Kerkhem, 1728, closed tears to title, Birmingham General Hospital Library stamp to title and sporadically throughout, some light foxing, library cloth, 4to, and Lyser (Michael) Culter anatomicus. Hoc est methodus brevis facilis ac perspicua artificiose & compendiose humana incidendi cadavera, Copenhagen: Matthiae Godicchenii, 1665, some edge flaking and soiling to first and last few leaves, library cloth, small 8vo, and Nicholls (Francis), Compendium anatomicooeconomicum, 1738, seven engraved plates, library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 4to, plus three other 17th-century medical works in Latin by Severinus Eugalenus (1658), Jean Fernel (1645) and Joannes Jonstonus (1652) (7)

£300-400

371 Scarpa (Antonio). Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu, 1st edition, Pavia, 1789, 16 engraved plates by Scarpa (eight duplicate in outline), bound with Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas von), Icones Organi Auditus Humani, 1st edition, Frankfurt, 1806, nine engraved plates (five outline), occasional light spotting and water stains, library stamps, front hinge breaking, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio ‘Scarpa made important researches concerning the auditory and olfactory apparatus of fishes, birds, reptiles and man’ (G-M 1453). Studying anatomy under Morgagni at Padua, he became a skilful anatomical artist. In his earlier work on the ear, De Structura Fenestrae Rotundaeauris (1772) he gives a more accurate description of the osseous labyrinth and describes the true function of the round window.

Heirs of Hippocrates 1103; Waller 8532.

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Lot 373

372 Scarpa (Antonio). Tabulae eurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam... , 1st edition, Pavia: B. Comini, 1794, fourteen engraved plates including seven outline plates (by Faustino Anderloni) bound at rear, faint library stamp to full title and each plate, some spotting and soiling, closed tear repair to foremargin of outline plate six into plate impression, contemporary half roan over marbled boards, rubbed and some wear to extremities, large folio (585 x 458mm)

373 Schott (Gaspar). Physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturarae et artis libri XII. comprehensa, Wurzburg: Jobus Hertz for Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi jun. Haeredum, 1667, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved armorial to verso, wanting engraved title, with 58 engraved plates only (of 61), lacking plates 40, 42 & 51, faint library stamp to title and each plate, some inoffensive dampstaining and light foxing, contemporary blindstamped vellum, 19th-century vellum reback with library markings, together with Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher. Miscellanea curiosa medico-physica... [Annus Primus], Leipzig: V.J. Trescher & J. Bauer, 1670, half-title, engraved frontispiece, fourteen plates including eight folding, library stamp to title and plates, lacks final two leaves (index?), spotting and some heavy browning, worming to lower margins of final leaves affecting text of final three leaves (end of Redi’s separately paginated but integral Observationes de viperis), contemporary calf, covers detached, 4to. Sold as periodicals not subject to return.

Blake 404; Choulant-Frank 299; G-M 1253; Norman 1897; Waller 8545.

(1) ÂŁ1500-2000

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374 Schultes (Johann). Armamentarium chirurgicum renovatum & auctum triginta novem tabulis..., 3 parts in one volume, Amsterdam: Joannem a Someren, 1672, additional engraved titlepage, printer’s woodcut device to all three titles, eighty-three fullpage engraved illustrations, library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and soiling, occasional small marginal tears, closed tear to D4 of second part into text with archival repair, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, some wear, lower joints weak and upper cover detached, together with two other defective copies of other editions of the same work, the first octavo edition, The Hague: Adriann Vlacq, 1656, additional engraved title-page (imprint dated 1657), forty-two full-page engraved illustrations, lacks D1/2 (pp. 49-52 with two plates), occasional old ink marginalia, library stamps to titles, some plates and margins, hinges partly broken, contemporary vellum, soiled, the third copy edited by Joannes Tilingius, four parts in one volume, Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans 1693, separate part-titles, parts three and four paginated as one and bound before part one, full-page engraved illustrations throughout plus two folding engraved plates not included in text, lacks additional engraved title and signature S (pp. 273-88) from end of part two before index, faint library stamp to first title and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, spine detached, all 8vo ‘Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and instruments. The first edition was the only edition published in folio format.

This was the most popular surgical text of the 17th century. It underwent numerous editions and translations. That with the most expanded text and illustrations was published in Amsterdam, 1672’ (G-M 5571, citing first edition, 1655, and noting 1672 edition offered here).

Collations: 1) Krivatsy 10752. [16], 343, [21]; [4], 288, [11]; [2] 3-32. 2) Krivatsy 10747. [24], 180 (i.e. 160), 159-328, [14] [lacks 49-52]. 3) Krivatsy 10753. [6], 62, [1]; 343, [17], 2 folding plates; 272, [8] [lacks *1, sig. S].

(3) £500-800

375 Schurig (Martin). Spermatologia historico-medica, h.e. seminis humani consideratio physico-medico-legalis, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Johannis Beckii, 1720, title printed in red & black, contents browned, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 4to, together with Freind (John), Emmenologia in qua fluxus muliebris menstrui phaenomena, pediodi, vitia..., Paris: Guillelmum Cavelier, 1727, bound with Praelectiones chymicae, Paris: Cavelier, 1727, faint library stamp and contemporary owners name to first title, modern library calf, small 8vo, plus Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 3 volumes in two, 4th edition, 1799, half-titles, folding table, a few light spots, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, later half calf (volume 2 rebacked, a little rubbed), plus others related, all with defects (7)

£200-300

376 Schweitzer (Johann Heinrich). Compendium physicae Aristotelico-Cartesianae, in usum tironum methodo erotematica adornatum..., 1st edition, Edward Hall, 1687, title printed in red and black, marginal browning to first and last leaves, library stamp and slight chipping to title-page foremargin not affecting text, modern calf gilt, 12mo, together with Stier (Johann), [Praecepta doctrinae logicae, ethicae, physicae, metaphysicae, sphaerica], 6 parts in one, 7th edition, John Redmayne, 1671, separate part-title and pagination, lacks engraved title-page and E8 (third part-title), some old marginal dampstaining and a little red cloth colour run to lower outer corners of first and last few leaves, library cloth, lower outer corners stained, 4to Wing S907A & S5542.

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£200-300

378 Senac (Jean Baptiste). Traite de la structure du coeur, de son action, et de ses maladies, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Jacques Vincent, 1749, without portrait frontispiece (as often), 17 folding engraved plates, some ink corrections to plate numerals, library stamps to plates and sporadically throughout, a little loss to lower corner of title to volume two (not affecting text), library cloth, 4to 377 Scribonius Largus. Compositiones medicae, Iohannes Rhodius recensuit, notis illustravit, Lexicon Scribonianum adiecit, 2 parts in one, Padua: Paulo Frambotti, 1655, half-title, woodcut printer’s device to title, final leaf of preliminaries blank, two engraved plates and twelve engraved illustrations to text (eight fullpage), divisional half-title to second part (partly dampstained, also affecting conjugate leaf, with old repair to verso not affecting text), errata leaf at rear, several old red ink stamps of Libraria Colonna including to title and final leaf verso, faint library stamp to main title, contemporary vellum with later leather label to spine, slightly soiled, 4to (1)

The portrait frontispiece is unusual and seems to have been added to only a minority of copies. Senac, a member of the Academie Royale des Sciences and physician to Louis XV, is best known for this work on the heart.

It includes seventeen finely engraved plates and provides ‘the first comprehensive and systematic treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the heart and its diseases’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 823); G-M 2733; Osler 3960.

(2) £200-300

£200-300

165

379 Severino (Marco Aurelio). De recondita abscessuum natura, libri VIII... Variis additamentis..., 2nd edition, Frankfurt: C. Ro¿telius for J. Beyer, 1643, twenty engraved illustrations to text (all but two full-page), lacks additional engraved title, library stamps to title and scattered throughout and within most plate impressions, some spotting and browning at front and rear, closed tear to F3, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (207 x 165mm) ‘The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats all kinds of swellings under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasma of the genital organs and sarcomata of bones. Tumours of the breast are classified into four groups, the section devoted to them being one of the most important in the book.

This was also the first book to include illustrations of lesions with the text’ (G-M 2273: 1st edition, 1632).

‘The book’s twenty plates are among the first to depict pathological lesions and to include diseased organs as well as complete views of the individual with the tumor. He includes all manner of tumors and swellings under the term “abscessus” and describes their surgical treatment in detail. In the chapter on breast neoplasms he delineates four types and differentiates quite clearly between the concept of benign and malignant tumors’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 449); Waller 8890.

(1) £400-600

380 Severino (Marco Aurelio). De abscessuum recondita natura, libri viii, Leiden: Joannem a Kerckhem, 1724, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title, seventeen engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern calf gilt, 4to, together with Trimembris chirurgia, in qua diaetetico - chirurgica, pharmaco chirurgica, et chemico-chirurgica, Leiden: Kerckhem, 1725, engraved vignette title, library stamp to title, contemporary vellum, 4to, together with Bonet (Theophile), Sepulchretum sive anatomia practica, 3 volumes, Geneva: Cramer & Perachon, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, initial title printed in red and black, faint library stamps to titles, foxing to a few leaves, contemporary calf, volumes 1 and 2 with modern rebacks, the other volume with upper cover detached, folio, together with volume 1 only of Bonet’s Medicina septentrionalis collatitia (1685)

Lot 379

G-M 2273 (1632 edition) and G-M 2274 (1679 edition).

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£300-400

381 Sharp (Jane). The Compleat Midwife’s Companion: Or, the Art of Midwifry Improv’d. Directing Child-Bearing Women how to order themselves in their Conception, Breeding, Bearing and Nursing of Children. In Six Books, Divided into Several Chapters from each Book. With Physical Descriptions for each Disease Incident to the Female Sex, whether Virgins, Wives or Widows: Adapted Chiefly for their use, 3rd edition, 1724, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, 12pp. publisher’s list at end (final leaf repaired with loss), a few repaired tears, a few leaves close-trimmed to top margin, a few minor spots, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, 12mo Scarce. ‘The first book written by an English midwife’ (G-M 6156.1). The first edition was published in 1671, and is drawn from the works of Nicholas Culpeper and others combined with her own experiences, and is divided into chronological sections covering conception, pregnancy, birth and post-natal care, with practical advice to parents and midwives. She strongly believed that the profession of midwifery should only be practised by women.

(1) £700-1000

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382 Sheldon (John). The History of the Absorbent System, Part the First [all published] Containing the Chylography, or Description of the Human Lacteal Vessels, With the Different Methods of Discovering, Injecting and Preparing them, and the Instruments used for these Purposes, 1st edition, [all published], 1784, six engraved plates, a few closed tears, occasional light soiling, library stamps, library cloth, some loss to spine ends, 4to, together with Haller (Albrecht von). First Lines of Physiology, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1779, without half-title, library stamps to title and final page, library cloth, splitting to joints, 8vo, plus Dr. Albert Haller’s Physiology; being a Course of Lectures..., 2 volumes, 1754, lacking portrait frontispiece, one gathering loose in volume one, library cloth, 8vo, and other works by Haller including De Partum Corporis Humani, 8 parts in five volumes, Leiden, 1779, faint library stamps to titles, library cloth, 8vo, plus Medical, Chirurgical and Anatomical Cases and Experiments, 1758, half-title, some worming to inner margin, library cloth, 8vo, and Disputationes Chirurgicae Selectae, volumes 1-4 only (of 5), Amsterdam & Lausanne, 1755, engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved plates, library cloth, 4to, plus a copy of Thomas Henry’s ‘Memoirs of Albert de Haller’ (1783) (15)

385 Smellie (William). A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, 2nd edition, Corrected, 1752, 10pp. adverts. at end, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from O. Pemberton, modern calf, spine a little faded, 8vo, together with Pugh (Benjamin), A Treatise of Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to the Operation. With Several Improvements in that Art, 1st edition, 1754, eleven folding engraved plates, a few close-trimmed to top margins, D4 with repaired tear, a few spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from George Jones, library cloth, 8vo, plus Turner (Daniel), The Force of the Mother’s Imagination upon her Foetus in Utero, Still farther Considered: In the Way of a Reply to Dr. Blondel’s last Book, Entitled, The Power of the Mother’s Imagination over the the Foetus Examined..., 1st edition, 1730, occasional dampstains and light soiling, some annotation, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Dr Smallwood Savage, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, with six others: Thomas Kirkland’s A Treatise on Child-Bed Fevers, and on the Method of Preventing them, 1774, John Leake’s Practical Observations on the Child-Bed Fever: Also on the Nature and Treatment of Uterine Haemorrhages, Convulsions, and such other Acute Diseases, 1772 & 2nd edition, 1774, William Dease’s Observations in Midwifery, Particularly on the Different Methods of Assisting Women in Tedious and Difficult Labours..., 1783, David Spence’s A System of Midwifery, Theoretical and Practical, 1784 and William Osborn’s Essays on the Practice of Midwifery in Natural and Difficult Labours, 1792

£200-300

383 Simpson (William). Hydrologia Chymica: or, The Chymical Anatomy of the Scarbrough and Other Spaws in York-shire, wherein are interspersed, some animadversions upon Dr. Wittie’s lately published treatise of the Scarbrough-spaw, also, a short description of the spaws at Malton and Knarsbrough, and a discourse concerning the original of hot springs and other fountains, with the causes and cures of most of the stubbornest diseases (either chronical or acute) incident to the body of man..., 1st edition, Richard Chiswel, 1669, two folding diagrams, library stamp to title and plates, bound with Hydrological Essayes: or, A Vindication of Hydrologia Chymica..., 1st edition, Richard Chiswel, 1670, lacks additional reset title-page (p. 1), library cloth, rubbed and soiled, upper joint weak, 8vo Wing S3833 & S3834.

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£200-300

384 Simson (Thomas). The System of the Womb, With a Particular Account of the Menses, Independent of a Plethora: To which are subjoin’d, a few Observations relating to Cold, and its Effects upon the Body, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1729, engraved arms of the Duke of Chandos, woodcut headpiece and initial, some spotting, library stamp, BMI presentation label from J.M. Bartleet?, Exor. of Mr Samuel Berry, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Jones (Thomas), Aphorisms Relating to the Pregnancy, Delivery, and Diseases of Women. Translated from the French of Mauriceau. To which is Added a Vindication of Daventer’s Opinion, Concerning the Density and Obliquity of the Womb in the Time of Gestation, 1st edition, 1739, 102pp., bound with A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, and its Cure in all its Stages and Circumstances, by Herman Boerhaave, 1729, 80pp., bound with A Treatise of Sudden Deaths; And the Reason why such Numbers of People have Died Suddenly of Late Years... by Nicholas Robinson, 2nd edition, 1735, 82pp., bound with New Discoveries and Improvements in the Most Considerable Branches of Anatomy and Surgery... by Alexander Stuart, 1738, 55pp., one or two tears, some light spotting, a few wormholes, library stamp, Birmingham library label, contemporary vellum-backed boards, rubbed and stained, 8vo, plus Manning (Henry), A Treatise on Female Diseases: In which are also Comprehended those most Incident to Pregnant and Child-Bed Women, 1st edition, 1771, light water stains, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, library cloth, 8vo, with three others: Henry Manning’s A Treatise on Female Diseases..., 2nd edition, 1785, Francis Mariceau’s The Diseases of Women with Child, 5th edition, 1716 and John Leake’s Medical Instructions Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic or Slow Diseases Peculiar to Women, 4th edition, 1777 (6)

£400-600

386 Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas von). Icones embryonum humanorum, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1799, engraved vignette title, small engraved illustration at foot of final leaf of text (p. 10), two engraved plates with twenty engravings, spotting, browning and dust-soiling throughout, some old marginal dampstaining, a little chipped at edges, modern cloth gilt, large slim folio (585 x 420mm) (1)

£250-300

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387 Spaher (Michael & Johann Remmelin). A Survey of the Microcosme: Or, the Anatomy of the Bodies of Man and Woman. Wherein the Skin, Veins, Arteries, Nerves, Muscles, Viscera, Bones and Ligaments thereof are Accurately Delineated, and so Disposed by Pasting, as that all the Parts of the said Bodies, both Internal and External are Exactly Represented in their Proper Site... Corrected by Clopton Havers, M.D., 2nd edition, 1702, four engraved plates, three with numerous hinged overlays (lacking one over the woman’s vulva), a few tears and some marginal soiling, contemporary boards, rebacked, rubbed, 4to (1)

ÂŁ700-1000

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388 Spieghel (Adraan van der). De formatu foetu... Epistolae duae anatomicae. Tractatus de arthritide, 1st edition, Padua: J.B. de Martinis & L. Pasquatus, [1626], light library stamp to title and nine engraved plates, ownership signatures of Robert Bland M.D. (dated 17th January 1812) and J. Braxton Hicks (1866) to front pastedown and presentation bookplate to the BMI from Hicks to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (395 x 265mm) ‘Spigelius’ son-in-law, the physician Liberalis Crema of Padua, had bought several ... copperplates from Casserius’ grandson and when in 1626 he wished to publish a few selections from the posthumous works of his father-in-law, he chose nine appropriate plates and added them with his own explanations to these selections... The plates... deal with the pregnant uterus, placenta, and the child. They are among Casserius’ most beautiful engravings. Four of them represent entire female figures with the abdomen cut open... The work was published at Crema’s expense and is rare’ (Choulant-Frank, p. 226); Cushing S360; Waller 9119; Wellcome 6038; Heirs of Hippocrates 413.

Provenance: Robert Bland (1740-1816) man-midwife who published ‘Observations on Human and Comparative Parturition’ (1794). John Braxton Hicks (1823-97), and English doctor, described false labour contractions now named after him.

(1) £2000-3000

390 Stark (William). The Works... consisting of Clinical and Anatomical Observations, with Experiments, Dietical and Statical, revised and published from his original mss., 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1788, half-title present, three folding plates, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear, bound after Hunter (John), Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, 1st edition, 1786, eighteen engraved plates, title-page with early manuscript signature of Edward Johnstone M.D., both works with some foxing (mostly to plates), with library stamp to plates (also found on first title), and with oval library stamp intermittently throughout, upper hinge split between front blank and title, library cloth, 4to 1) William Stark (1741-1770) was an English physician and medical pioneer who investigated scurvy by experimenting on himself with fatal consequences. He obtained his medical degree in 1769, and immediately began his studies into the effects of diet. His first experiment involved a diet of just bread and water with a little sugar for the duration of 31 days, after which he slowly introduced other foods one at a time, including olive oil, milk, roast goose, boiled beef, fat, figs, and veal. Stark recorded that after two months his gums were red and swollen and prone to bleeding; he had given himself scurvy which led to his early death at the age of twenty-nine whilst he was still in the throes of his experiments. This scarce work was one of the first on dietary studies. Blake, p. 431. 2) G-M 309.

(1) £300-400

389 Sprat (Thomas). The History of the Royal-Society of London, for the improving of natural knowledge, 1st edition, 1667, engraved arms of the Society on the verso of the imprimatur (A1), two engraved plates, second state of P85 with ‘of’ dittology corrected, faint library stamps to title and plates, some spotting and old dampstaining to lower outer corners throughout, library cloth gilt, slightly soiled and dampstained, 4to This account of the nature, organisation, work and aims of the Royal Society also includes edited versions of fourteen original papers by Robert Hooke, William Petty and others. As with nearly all copies, the engraved frontispiece is typically absent. Wing S5032; Norman 1989.

(1) £200-300

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392 Stuart (Alexander). Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari, 1st edition, Samuel Richardson, 1738, printer’s engraved vignette to title and final leaf verso, five engraved plates, all but one folding, lacks frontispiece, faint library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and soiling, plate 3 browned, library cloth, rubbed and slightly faded, 4to (1)

393 Stukeley (William). Of the Gout; In Two Parts. First, a Letter to Sir Hans Sloane, Batt. about the Cure of the Gout, by Oyl’s Externally Applied: Secondly, a Treatise of the Cause and Cure of the Gout, 1st edition, 1734, 119pp., engraved plate, some light spotting and water stains, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr [John Barritt] Melson, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, together with Caverhill (John), A Treatise on the Cause and Cure of the Gout, 1st edition, 1769, three engraved plates, a few light spots, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, library cloth, 8vo, plus Ingram (Richard), The Gout. Extraordinary Cases in the Head, Stomach and Extremities... 1st edition, 1767, half-title, light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, with four others related: Thomas Thompson’s An Historical, Critical and Practical Treatise of the Gout, 1750, George Cheyne’s An Essay of the True Nature and Due Method of Treating the Gout, Written for the use of Richard Tennison, 4th edition, 1737, William Cadogan’s A Dissertation on the Gout, and all Chronic Diseases Jointly Considered..., 4th edition, 1771 and Sampson Perry’s A Disquisition of the Stone and Gravel: With Strictures on the Gout, when combined with those Disorders, 7th edition, 1785

391 Stoerck (Anton). An Essay on the Medicinal Nature of Hemlock, in Two Parts, 1st English edition, Edinburgh: Alex.

Donaldson, 1762, folding engraved frontispiece, old ownership signature of Frans. Burke to title, library stamps to frontispiece and title (detached), some spotting, library cloth, 8vo (1)

£200-300

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395 Swammerdam (Jan). Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus, de respiratione usuque pulmonum.... Leiden, 1679, woodcuts to text, lacks additional engraved title, library stamps and small tear with loss to title, bound with Rosenschild (Jacob Henrik Paulli von),Anatomiae Bilsianae anatome..., accessit... Jo. Jac. Wepferi De dubiis anatomicis epistola cum responsione, Strassburg, 1665, three folding engravedplates, heavy spotting throughout, bound with Bellini (Lorenzo),De structura renum observatio anatomica, 2nd edition, Strasbourg, 1664, two folding engraved plates, final blank present, bound with Rosenschild (Jacob Henrik Paulli von), Epigrammatum promiscuorum libellus. Strassburg, 1664,heavy spotting or browning to last three works, old marginal dampstaining to final leaves, library stamps to all plates, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, 8vo

394 Swalve (Bernhard). Pancreas pancrene: sive, Pancreatis et succi ex eo profluentis commentum succinctum, 1st edition, Amsterdam, 1667, lacks additional engraved title, library stamp to title, a little spotting and browning, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 12mo (128 x 72mm)

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A rare and early book on the pancreas by Swalve (1626-c.1680), who studied medicine in Leiden, where Walaeus was one of his professors. Waller 9381; Krivatsy 11592.

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397 Sydenham (Thomas). The Entire Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham, Newly made English from the Originals: wherein the History of acute and chronic Diseases, and the safest and most effectual Methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added, Explanatory and Practical Notes, from the best medicinal Writers by John Swan, 1742, library stamp to title, title partly adhered to following leaf at gutterwith some consequent adhesive staining, library cloth, 8vo, together with Praxis Medica. The Practice of Physick: or, Dr. Sydenham’s Processus Integri, Translated out of Latin into English, with large Annotations..., the Third Edition, Inlarged throughout, with some Thousands of Additions not in the first Impression, by William Salmon, 1716, engraved portrait frontispiece, slight dustsoiling to last few leaves, front free endpaper with library stamp and presentation label by Dr. Smallwood Savage. front pastedown with printed book label of Henry Knight and manuscript ownership of T.H. Smith, Alcester, 1901, hinges split, contemporary panneled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, with The Entire Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham..., the third edition, with all notes inserted in their proper places by John Swan, 1753, title with ownership signature of John Heath (upper margin excised), short worm trail to lower blank margins of initial leaves, endpapers renewed with presentation label to the BMI by Dr. Smallwood Savage, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, plus one other incomplete volume of Sydenham’s Works (4)

£200-300

398 Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). Cheirurgia nova... de narium, aurium, labiorum’que defectu, per insitionem cutis ex humero, arte, hactenus omnibus ignota, serviendo..., Frankfurt: Johannes Saurius, 1598, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, twenty-two full-page woodcuts, some spotting and browning throughout, minor hair-line worming to outer margins of signatures D-F touching occasional letters without loss of sense, some old ink marginalia, scattered underscoring and notes to front endpapers, faint library stamp to title (dust-soiled), front free endpaper slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and upper joint split, 8vo (164 x 105mm) Durling 4312; Waller 9451; Wellcome 621. First published in a folio edition the previous year under the title: De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (G-M 5734).

(1) £2000-3000

396 Sydenham (Thomas). Tractaus de podagra et hydrope, 1st edition, 1683, short closed tear to title upper margin with archival tissue repair to verso, bound as the third work with two other first editions by Sydenham, Epistolae responsoriae duae, prima de morbis epidiemicis ..., secunda de luis venereae ..., 1680 [and] Dissertatio epistolaris ..., De observationibus nuperis ... De affectione hysterica, 1682, Epistolae with blank at front and errata leaf at rear, errata to other two works printed to final leaf versos, faint library stamp to title of Epistolae and with slightly trimmed ownership signatures of G. de Lys and J. Wilkes to upper margin, old manuscript contents list to blank recto (somewhat spotted and dust-soiled), library cloth (gilt-titled pamphlets volume 18 to spine), slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (172 x 112mm) A nice clean copy of three of only five works published by Sydenham in his lifetime. The first work (bound chronologically as the third item in the volume) is Sydenham’s classic description of gout, based upon his own sufferings. Considered his masterpiece, it earned him the title ‘The English Hippocrates’. 1) PMM159; Wing S6320; G-M4486; Norman 2040; Osler 998; Waller 9422. 2) Wing S6310. 3) Wing S6309.

(1) £2000-3000

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399 Taglini (Carlo). Libri duo de aere eiusque natura et effectis cum notis et animadversionibus, 1st edition, Florence, 1736, halftitle, engraved frontispiece including medallion portrait of the author, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette printer’s device, woodcut initials and head and tail pieces, folding engraved plates at rear, library stamps to title and plate, a little spotting and soiling, minor old dampstaining to lower inner margins, contemporary calf gilt, some wear with loss to extremities, folio (250 x 172mm) (1)

401 Thibaut (Pierre). The Art of Chymistry, as it is now practised, [trans. William Aglionby?], 1675, imprimatur leaf before title, library stamp to title, some spotting throughout, closely trimmed at upper margin shaving some running heads, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (151 x 91mm)

£500-800

400 Tanner (John). The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick, Fully Discovered, in Four Books..., 2nd edition, with Additions, 1667, lacks initial blank, browning throughout, faint library stamp and somesoling to title and final leaf verso, library cloth, 8vo, together with Vicary (Thomas), The English-Mans Treasure.... 9th edition, 1641, defective at front and rear,browning, old dampstaining and ink annotations throughout, occasional worm tracings, library cloth, small 4to

A reprint of the 1668 edition. Wing T892.

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‘Tanner, a licentiate of the College of Physicians, was a London practitioner.

Tanner first published this compendium of the medical arts in 1659 and intended it for the medical student, layperson, and housewife who had occasion to tend the sick. Tanner discusses anatomy, a wide variety of diseases and their therapy, surgical problems such as fractures, wounds, tumors, and ulcers, and the nature, operation, and preparation of compound medicines’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 601: 3rd edition, 1672). Wing T137 & V334.

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402 Tiling (Matthias). Rhabarbarologi[a] seu curiosa rhabarbari disquisitio, illius etymologiam, differentiam, locu[m] natalem, formam, temperamentum, vires, substantiam, &c..., 1st edition, Frankfurt, 1679, engraved portrait frontispiece marginal repairs to verso not affecting plate, additional engraved title, main title printed in red and black, fore-margin shaved and touching a few letters, two folding engraved plates, final leaf blank, spotting and some browning and old dampstaining throughout, faint library stamps to portrait and title leaves, BM duplicate stamps from 1831 to title verso and at end, presentation bookplate to Birmingham Medical Institute from Mr Pemberton on front pastedown, modern morocco gilt, 4to (193 x 147mm) Rare. Osler 4106.

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£500-800

403 Tod (Thomas). Observations on Dr. M’Farlan’s Inquiries Concerning the State of the Poor. By T. Tod, Merchant, Treasurer to the Orphan Hospital, Published for the Benefit of the Orphans, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1783, lacks half-title, title slightly dust-soiled and with old ms. ‘3’ to upper corner, modern library morocco over marbled boards, 8vo (209 x 129mm) ESTC T97633.

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£200-300

Lot 403

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406 [Towne, Richard]. A Treatise of the Diseases Most Frequent in the West-Indies, and Herein More Particularly of Those Which Occur in Barbadoes, 1st edition, 1726, imprimatur leaf before title, 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, library stamp to title and some spotting throughout, ownership signature of John Freer to title, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo

404 Torraca (Gaetano ). Delle Antiche Terme Taurine Esistenti nel Territorio di Civitavecchia Dissertazione in cui si Premettono le Memorie cronologiche di essa citta..., Rome, 1761, manuscript inscription to title “Biblioth: Colli Calai ex Libris P.F. Marroni” and with three library stamps (one very faint), some dampstaining throughout, contemporary vellum, 4to, together with Antisari (Domenico), Lettera concernente l’uso e virtu de Bagni di Viterbo detti del Papa scritta a monsignore illustrissimo Gio. Maria Lancisi, Viterbo: Giulio de Giulii, 1706, faint library stamp to title, leaf M2 creased, contemporary vellum, small 8vo (2)

Blake 456; Sabin 96370.

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£300-400

£200-300

405 Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de). Materia Medica, or, A Description of Simple Medicines Generally Us’d in Physic... , Faithfully Translated into English, 1st English language edition, Andrew Bell, 1708, advert leaf bound at rear, library stamp to title, a little spotting, library cloth, 8vo (1)

£200-300

407 Tralles (Balthasar Ludwig). Usus opii, salubris et noxius, in morborum medela, solidis et certis principiis superstructus, 4 parts in one, 1st edition, Wroclaw, 1757-62, engraved portrait frontispiece (small repair to verso), woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces, a few spots, rough-trimmed fore-edges, modern half morocco, 4to ‘In this comprehensive treatise on the uses of opium, he reviews the history of its use as a therapeutic, gives a chemical analysis of its properties, and goes on to discuss its healthful and harmful applications in treating such problems as haemorrhages, fevers, pain, epilepsy, dysentery, and mental illness. He also describes the treatment of victims of accidental or intentional poisoning’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 895).

(1) £150-200

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408 Trallianus (Alexander). Alexander Tralliani medici lib. XII. Rhazae de pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Jacobi Goupyli in eosdem castigationes. ex bibliotheca regia, 1st edition, Paris: R. Estienne, 1548, title and final leaf with Estienne device, text in Greek and Latin, occasional light marginal dampstains, 19th c. boards, slightly rubbed, folio First edition of the complete Greek text. Although mainly a compiler, Alexander of Tralles (A.D. 525-605) produced some original work, most famously his original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. G-M 34-35.

(1) £300-500

409 Trotter (Thomas). Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen, Comprehending the History of Health in His Majesty’s Fleet, under the Command of Richard Earl Howe, Admiral, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1797-1803, half-title to volume 2, engraved frontispiece to volume 3 (offset to title), lacks portrait frontispiece to volume 1 and 4 pp. ads. at rear of volume 2, volume 3 bound with An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical, on Drunkenness, and its Effects on the Human Body, 1st edition, 1804, half-title, publisher’s ads. to final leaf verso, some spotting, library stamps to titles and plate, (volumes 1 and 2 with presentation bookplates to the BMI from Dr Blackall pasted to front endpapers), modern cloth (volume 3 non-matching) with red leather labels to spines, rubbed, 8vo (215 x 133mm) 1) G-M 215 & 2071.1; Norman 2097 & 2098. 2) The first medical treatise on alcoholism, Hunter & Macalpine pp. 587-91.

(3) £700-1000

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411 Turner (Daniel). A Remarkable Case in Surgery, Wherein an Account is Given of an Uncommon Fracture and Depression of the Skull, in a Child about Six Years Old, Accompanied with a Large Abscess or Aposteme Upon the Brain... , 1st edition, R. Parker, 1709, folding engraved plate tipped on to foremargin of p. 59, library stamp to blank area in plate impression and closed tear repair to inner margin, errata to final leaf verso, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling throughout, a few ink corrections in an early hand, modern calf gilt, small 8vo (160 x 92mm) Daniel Turner (1667-1741) here advertises his skill in treating skull fractures, being a notoriously vocal opponent of barbers, quacks and all untrained practising surgeons. Very rare, ESTC listing only four copies (British Library, John Rylands Library, Manchester and two copies at Yale University).

(1) £300-500

412 Turner (Daniel). Syphilis. A Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease, 2 volumes, 4th edition, 1732, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, some dampstaining to outer corners, library cloth, 8vo, together with Syphilis; The Second Part. Containing some farther observations..., 1st edition, 1739, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus other works on venereal disease by Astruk, Chapman, Falck, Foot, Howard, Lombard, etc., plus other unrelated works by Daniel Turner including Aphrodisiacus (1736), A Discourse concerning Gleets (1729), and three editions of De Morbis Cutaneis (1726 & 1731)

410 Tulp (Nicolaus). Observationes medicae, editio nova, libro quarto auctior, et sparsim multis in locis emendatior, Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1652, engraved title-page, faint library stamp and two marginal repairs to edge of plate impression, eighteen engraved plates (including the first depiction of an orang-outang), pencil marginalia throughout (partly trimmed), some spotting and old dampstaining throughout, old ownership signature of William (?)Turton to front free endpaper, white library cloth with leather label to spine, soiled, 8vo (143 x 95mm)

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First printed in 1641 this is Tulp’s only printed work. This enlarged second edition contains the first description of beri-beri and diphtheria. G-M 3737; Heirs of Hippocrates 464; Norman 2115; Waller 9716; Willems 1155.

(1) £200-300

£300-400

413 Tyson (Edward). The Anatomy of a Pygmy Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man. With an Essay Concerning the Pygmies, &c. of the Antients... to which is added, the anatomy and description of a rattle-snake: also of the musk-hog, with a discourse upon the jointed and round-worm, 2nd edition, 1751, initial imprimatur leaf and part-title to second part, third part with separate pagination and register, sixteen engraved plates including some part folding, first two plates torn with slightly loss at inner margin folds, library stamps to title and plates, some heavy spotting and light browning, small paper flaw(?) to C1 affecting two words of second line, small closed tear to K2 without loss of text, lacks final advert leaf, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to A reissue of the 1st edition of 1699, titled Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris..., and with the addition of ‘The anatomy... of a rattle-snake’.

(1) £200-300

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414 Underwood (Michael). A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with General Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1795, half-titles, folding table, a few light spots, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo ‘Underwood laid the foundation of modern paediatrics. His work was superior to anything that had previously appeared and remained the most important book on the subject for sixty years, passing through many editions. Includes the first description of sclerema neonatorum (Underwood’s disease); the second edition (1789) contains a description of congenital heart disease in children, being the first paediatric treatise to do so’ (G-M 6326); Norman 2122. (1789 edition).

(2) £300-400

415 Valli (Eusebio). Experiments on Animal Electricity, with their Application to Physiology. And some Pathological and Medical Observations, 1st edition in English, 1793, a few light spots, library stamps, James Johnstone, previous owner name to front blank, modern green buckram, 8vo, together with Richardson (William).

The Chemical Principles of the Metallic Arts; with an Account of the Principal Diseases incident to the Different Artificers, Birmingham, 1790, three folding tables, faint library stamps to title and folding tables, library cloth, plus MacLaurin (Colin), An Account of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books, 3rd edition, 1775, half-title, six folding engraved plates, light foxing to a few leaves, library cloth, all 8vo Eusebio Valli (1755-1816) was an Italian physician, who along with Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta researched ‘animal electricity’ and toured European cities publicly demonstrating his experiments, later refuted by Volta as being distinct.

(3) £200-300

416 Valsalva (Antonio Maria). De aure humana tractatus, in quo integra auris fabrica, multis novis inventis & iconismis illustrata, describitur; omniumque ejus partium usus indagantur. Quibus interposita est musculorum uvulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio, et delineato, 2nd edition?, Utrecht, 1707, ten folding engraved plates (plate IV close-trimmed at lower margin), light spotting and browning, occasional underlining and annotation, library stamps, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, small 4to, together with Du Verney (Guichard Joseph), A Treatise of the Ear: Containing an Exact Description of the Several Parts thereof, and their Respective Uses; With the Diseases it is Liable to; and their Cure, Englished and Improved by John Marshall, 2nd edition, 1748, 15 folding engraved plates only (of 16, lacking plate X), bound with Onanism: Or, a Treatise upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation: Or, the Dangerous Effects of Secret and Excessive Venery, by M. Tissot... Translated from the last Paris Edition by A. Hume, 3rd edition, 1767, 184pp., light spotting, library stamp, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, modern morocco-backed boards, plus An Historical Dissertation on a Particular Species of Gangrenousv Sore Throat, which Reigned the Last Year Amongst Young Children at Paris, Translated from the French of Dr. Chomel...

by N. Torriano, 1753 ‘Valsalva, a pupil of Malpighi and teacher of Morgagni, is best remembered for his work upon the ear, in which he described and depicted its most minute muscles and nerves. He divided the ear into “external”, “middle” and “internal”; his method of inflating the middle ear (Valsalva’s manoeuvre) is still practised. The book includes a description of “Valsalva’s dysphagia”‘ (G-M 1546); Norman 2125.

(3) £400-600

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417 Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer’s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with ‘facsimile’ manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer’s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (18061869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562.

Heirs of Hippocrates 283: ‘In 1552, a small “pocket” edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an “anatomy” of the sixteenth century.

The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, “for no other reason that one can see,” comments Cushing, “unless to save the nun’s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure” (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.’

Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine’s copy of Estienne’s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545).

(1) £10000-15000

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418 Vesalius (Andreas). Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 2 volumes, edited by Hermann Boerhaave & Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Leiden: Joannem du Vivie and J. & H. Verbeek, 1725, half-title, fine additional engraved title of a crowded anatomy theatre, engraved portrait of Vesalius, titles printed in red & black, 77 engraved plates only (of 79), lacking plates 74 & 75, faint library stamps to titles and plates, modern library half morocco, folio The first collected edition of Vesalius’s works with superb engraved plates by Jan Wandelaer (1690-1759). Heirs of Hippocrates 287; Lindeboom 554; Osler 579; Waller 9917.

(2) £1000-1500

419 [Vesling, Johann]. The Anatomy of the Body of Man... , translated by Nicholas Culpeper, printed for George Sawbridge, 1677, twenty-four engraved plates, each plate with explanation leaf, title-page with early manuscript signature of Thomas Richards (and previous name above obliterated with ink), faint library stamp to title and plates, oval library stamp intermittently to lower margin rectos, hinge split between A1 and A2, library cloth, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, tall 4to (283 x 190mm) Wing V287.

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£400-600

420 Vicary (Thomas). The English-Mans Treasure, with the True Anatomie of Mans Body... , Whereunto are Annexed Many Secrets Appertaining to Chyrurgery, with Divers Excellent Approved Remedies for all Captaines and Souldiers, that Travell eyther by Water or Land... , and now Eighthly Augmented and Enlarged... ,

by Bar. Alsop & Tho. Fawset, 1633, one full-page engraved illustration, old ink marginalia to first few leaves, title soiled and with library stamp to upper outer corner, old dampstaining throughout, a few marginal repairs, paper of final third of volume somewhat grey and soiled, marginal repairs with text loss to all four leaves of index, a few other minor defects, library cloth, rubbed on joints and spine ends, 4to, together with a defective copy of John Browne’s ‘Compleat Treatise of the Muscles’, 1683, lacking portrait frontispiece and four plates, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, folio STC 24712 & Wing B 5126A. (2)

Lot 419

£200-300

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Lot 421

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422 Vieussens (Raymond). Neurographia universalis. Hoc est, omnium corporis humani nervorum, simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica, 2nd issue, Lyon: Joannem Certe, 1685, half-title, title printed in red and black, lacking engraved portrait and armorial plate, contains 28 engraved plates only (of 30), missing plates 19 & 25, dampstaining to final portion of work, a few short tears to large folding plates, oval library stamps to several pages and each plate, presentation inscription dated 1801 to verso of half-title to Edward Johnstone (1757-1851) from James Johnstone (17301802), library cloth gilt, a little fraying to extremities, folio

421 Vicq D’Azyr (Felix). Traite d’anatomie et de physiologie, avec des planches coloriees representant au naturel les divers organes de l’homme et des animaux, volume 1 [all published], 1st edition, Paris, 1786, 69 plates, consisting of 34 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 34 number-keyed line engraved plates and a single engraved plate (no. XVIII), by and after Alexandre Briceau, bound without half-title and allegorical frontispiece, some occasional marginal light spotting and dampstains, modern green morocco-backed boards, folio ‘The most accurate neuroanatomical work produced before the advent of microscopic staining techniques. Vicq d’Azyr identified accurately for the first time many cerebral convolutions, along with various internal structures of the brain. This was the first volume of an ambitious study of anatomy and physiology which remained unfinished at Vicq d’Azyr’s premature death.’ (G-M 401.2).

‘The son of a French army officer, Vieussens did not receive adequate financial support for his education from his family, so provided his own support, studying philosophy at Rhodez and medicine at Montpellier. As physician to the hospital of Saint Eloy in Montpellier, he had occasion to perform over five hundred postmortem examinations during the course of which he made a number of anatomical discoveries. This well-illustrated compendium of the anatomy of the nervous system is based on these examinations and provides the most complete description of the brain and spinal cord to appear during the seventeenth century. Vieussens was one of the first anatomists to dissect out the internal capsule, corona radiata, cerebral peduncles, and pyramidal fasiculi of the pons’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 641); Cushing, V-135; G-M 1379.

(1) £300-500

Felix Vic d’Azyr (1746-94) was the last physician to Marie-Antionette and Perpetual Secretary of the Societe Royale de Medecine. As an anatomist he pioneered the use of alcohol in brain dissection and described the band of Vicq d’Azyr in the cerebral cortex and the mammillothalamic bundle. The aquatint plates “created a sensation at the time” according to Brunet, the work unfinished due to Vicq d’Azyr’s death in 1794 during the Terror.

Brunet V, 1176; Norman 2150; Waller 9953.

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£3000-5000

423 Vieussens (Raymond de). Neurographia universalis, edito novissima, Leiden, 1716, half-title, engraved portrait, title with woodcut device, 29 copper-engraved plates and illustrations only, some folding (lacking plate XIII), errata leaf at end, some closed tears, light browning and marginal soiling, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, edges rubbed, folio Originally published in 1685, ‘the best illustrated neurological monograph of the seventeenth century. Vieussens was the first to make good use of Stensen’s suggestion that the intracerebral white matter should be studied by tracing the paths of its fibers, and the first to describe the olivary nucleus, the centrum semiovale (“ovale of Vieussens”), the pyramids and the semilunar ganglion’ (Norman 2153).

(1) £400-600

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424 Vigo (Giovanni de). Opera in chyrurgia. Additur chyrurgia Mariani sancti Barolitani, 2 parts in one volume, Lyon: In edibus Jacobi Myt, 1521, both titles with ornamental woodcut borders and the first printed in red and black, double-column text with woodcut initials, three unnumbered index leaves at end of first work (with printer’s woodcut device after colophon), the second work lacking final leaf of text (supplied in old neat facsimile manuscript, verso blank) and three leaves of index, some spotting and browning, foremargins of first few leaves a little chipped with trivial loss to one side-note on a2v, modern half morocco over marbled boards, a little rubbed, 8vo (195 x 135mm)

425 Vigo (Giovanni da). Practica D. Ioannis a Vigo Genuensis..., Lyon: Heirs of Jacques Giunta, 1564, printer’s woodcut device, faint library stamp and old ownership names to title, lacks colophon leaf and final blank, some browning, modern calf, together with Paul of Aegina, Medici opera, Ioanne Guinterio Andernaco medico peritissimo interprete..., Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1567, printer’s woodcut device, faint library stamp and paper repair at foot of title without loss of text, some light browning, library cloth, plus Foreest (Pieter van), Observationum et curationum medicinalium liber XXI: De mesenterii & intestinorum affectibus, ac de colicis & iliacis doloribus... [bound with] libri duo: XXIV, de renum affectibus ac morbis; XXV, de vesicae malis ac affectibus..., Leiden: Plantin, 1596, library stamp to first title, some spotting, closely trimmed at upper margin occasionally shaving running head, library cloth, plus Hippocrates, Medicorum omnium..., translated by Janus Cornarius, volume 1 (of 2), Basel: Froben, 1554, printer’s woodcut device to title (partly hand tinted) and final leaf verso, scattered marginalia, library stamps to title and occasionally elsewhere, ownership signature of Ja[mes] Johnstone to title, library cloth, rubbed on joints and spine, all 8vo

Though reprinted numerous times copies of early editions of Vigo’s surgery are uncommon. The second part was written by Mariano Santo, a student of Vigo who achieved great fame through his introduction of the ‘Marian operation’ of lithotomy.

(1) £300-500

2) Durling 3563; Wellcome 4872. 3) Adams F770 & F771; Wellcome 2367. 4) Adams H573.

(4) £300-500

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426 Vigo (Giovanni da). The Whole Workes of That Famous Chirurgion Maister Iohn Vigo: Newly Corrected, by Men Skilfull in that Arte, Wherevnto are annexed certain works, compiled and published by Thomas Gale, Maister in Chirurgerie, 3 parts in one volume, Thomas East, 1586, black letter, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces, part one and two title-pages within border of printer’s ornaments, the first slightly browned and soiled and with one horizontal closed tear affecting imprint details, relaid and rehinged, double-page table at end of part two with vertical heading of first leaf recto trimmed and supplied in old manuscript (‘A profitable table of ulcers’), printer’s woodcut device to colophon on final leaf verso, some scattered old marginalia, lacks blank at end of part two and title-page to third part, occasional soiling and old dampstaining, a little worming to lower margins occasionally touching letterpress towards rear of second part and first half of third part but without loss of sense, hinges broken, library cloth, some fraying to head of joints and spine, 4to (184 x 140mm) A later edition of one of the most important surgical works of the Renaissance, which appeared in over forty editions in six languages for more than a century after its initial publication in 1514. Vigo was the first to discuss syphilis: he identified its primary and secondary stages and recommended a mercury ointment as a treatment.

STC 24723; Wellcome 6623.

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£1000-1500

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429 Wecker (Johann Jacob). Antidotarium geminum, generale et speciale, 2 parts in one volume, Basel: Conrad von Waldkirch, 1595, both titles within woodcut fleuron borders, double column, woodcut illustrations to text, library stamp and old inscriptions to title, some soiling and dampstaining throughout, soiling heavier at front and back, worming to lower margins of final leaves, some archival closed tear repairs to index, final leaf laid down and repaired with slight loss of text, contemporary blind-stamped calf, modern reback, 4to (240 x 170mm)

427 Wallis (George). The Art of Preventing Diseases, and Restoring Health... , 1793, together with Cheyne (George), An Essay on Regimen, together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical... , 3rd edition, 1753, plus Townsend (Joseph), A Guide to Health, Being Cautions and Directions in the Treatment of Diseases, 2 volumes, 1796, all with library stamp to title, some spotting throughout, library cloth, plus other 18th-century English language general medicine interest, mostly library cloth bindings (25)

£300-400

First published in 1576. Adams W29; Duveen 612; Ferguson II, 354; Wellcome I, 6702.

(1) £400-600

428 Ware (James). Remarks on the Ophthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and Purulent Eye, with Methods of Cure, Considerably Different from those Commonly used; and Cases Annexed, in Proof of their Unity, 1st edition, 1780, half-title, library stamps, BMI presentation label from Mrs Priestley Smith, library cloth, chipped at spine head, 8vo, together with Chirurgical Observation Relative to the Eye, &c,

by James Ware, 2 volumes, 1798, three engraved plates (one folding), occasional water stains and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo, with three others: Charles de Saint-Yves’ A Chirurgical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eyes, 1748, Jacobus Hovius’s Tractatus de Circulari Humorum Motu in Oculis, Edition Nova, 1740 and John Sheldon’s An Essay on the Iris, [1794], extracted from a larger work (6)

£200-300

430 Wedel (Georg Wolfgang). Opiologia ad mentem Academiae Naturae Curiosorum, 1st edition, Jena: Johann Fritsch, 1674, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette depicting tapping of poppy heads, library stamp to title, some spotting and occasional browning, signed presentation inscription from George Dowdeswell [MD, of Gloucester, elected Radcliffe fellow year of this inscription, died 1773] to Edward Vernon, dated at Leiden 13th October 1746 to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (197 x 160mm) The work describes the pharmacological aspects of opium. Ferguson II, p.

537.

(1) £300-500

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432 White (Charles). A Treatise on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-In Women, and the Means of Curing, but more Especially of Preventing the Principal Disorders to which they are Liable.

Together with some New Directions Concerning the Delivery of the Child and Placenta in Natural Births. Illustrated with Cases, 1st edition, 1773, two engraved plates, p.145 with small tear in text, some offsetting and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, upper joint split, 8vo, together with the 3rd edition (1785) and 5th edition (1791) of the same work ‘White was the first to state clearly in a text on midwifery the necessity of absolute cleanliness in the lying-in chamber, the isolation of infected patients, and adequate ventilation. He instituted the principle of uterine drainage, placing his patients in a sitting position shortly after delivery using a special bed and chair. White was also the first after Hippocrates to make any substantial contributions towards the solution of the aetiology and management of puerperal fever’ (G-M 6270). He co-founded the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1752 (along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft) and was a firm believer in polgenism. Waller 10268.

(3) £200-300

433 Whytt (Robert). Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Those Disorders Which have been Commonly Called Nervous Hypochondriac, or Hysteric, to Which are Prefixed some Remarks on the Sympathy of the Nerves, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1765, some spotting and occasional pencil marginalia, library stamp to title, library cloth, split along upper joint with spine now partially detached, 8vo G-M 4841; Hunter & Macalpine p. 389.

(1)

£200-300

434 Whytt (Robert). The Works, Published by his Son [Robert Whytt], 1st collected edition, Edinburgh: printed for T. Becket et al, 1768, one engraved plate, occasional light staining and marks, final quarter of volume with minor worming in blank fore-margin, library stamp on title-page, red sprinkled edges, library cloth, head of spine frayed, 4to Contains Whytt’s Essay on the Vital and Other Involuntary Motions of Animals; Observations on the Sensibility and Irritability of the Parts of Men and Other Animals; An Account of Some Experiments Made with Opium on Living and Dying Animals; Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Those Disorders which are commonly called Nervous, Hyponchondriac, or Hysteric; plus Whytt’s minor works. Russell 865.

(1) £300-400

431 Weidmann (Johann Peter). De necrosi ossium, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Impensis Andreaeis, 1793, engraved vignette to title (trimmed at upper margin), fifteen fine engraved plates bound at rear, library stamp to vignette and plates, some heavy spotting and old dampstain to lower margins, library cloth, folio (405 x 269mm) Weidmann was professor of surgery and obstetrics at Mainz.

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£200-300

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435 William of Ockham. Summule in lib. physicorum [Aristotelis], edited by Agostino da Fivizzano, Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 17 August 1506, 34 leaves, 58 lines and headline, double column, Roman letter, woodcuts of a teacher with pupils to title-page and a smaller cut of the Virgin and Child presenting rosaries to title verso, 10-line woodcut black-on-white historiated initial on Alr, 8-line and 5-line Lombard and white-onblack initials on 2-3 and Alr, initial spaces with guide letters elsewhere, imprint from colophon to final leaf recto, the verso contains two poems addressed to the editor, Marcus de Benevento, above the printer's woodcut device, faint library stamp to title and additional light oval ink stamps of Birmingham Library to title and several leaves touching text, old St. Augustine quotation to title lower margin signed(?) R. Bateman, twenty blank leaves inserted at front and rear, many with 18th and 19th-century notes in more than one hand, first and last leaves somewhat soiled and slightly frayed, Birmingham Library bookplate and ownership name of H. White dated 1806 to front pastedown, old limp vellum, lacks ties, soiled, 4to (215 x 160 mm) The second edition, a reprint, with minor changes, of the text of the edition princeps (Bologna, 1494 [Goff O-22]).

Collation: pi2, A-D8. Rare; WorldCat locates just eight copies, six in the UK, one in Spain and one in Canada. Adams O-42; Essling 1513.

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436 Willis (Thomas). Cerebri anatome: cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus, 1st edition, Ja. Flesher for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, 1664, fifteen engraved plates including 11 folding [draen

by Sir Christopher Wren and Richard Lower], lacks imprimatur with portrait of author to verso, title heavily dust-soiled and some lighter soiling to first and final leaves, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and browning from a dampstain affecting upper and lower margins and some plates esepecially towards rear, late19thcentury library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to (185 x 152mm) ‘The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term “neurology”‘ (Garrison-Morton).

Willis, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University, was dissatisfied with existing accounts of the brain, and so conducted brain dissections himself, with the aid of his students Christopher Wren, Richard Lower and Thomas Millington (an early recorded instance of collaborative scientific research).

Lot 436

G-M 1378; Heirs of Hippocrates 538; Krivatsy 13009; Norman 2243; Russell 866; Waller 10315; Wing W2824.

(1) £2000-3000

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437 Willis (Thomas). Cerebri anatome, cui accessit nervorum descriptio et usus, 1st octavo edition, 1664, imprimatur leaf, fifteen folding engraved plates (bearing page numbers that refer to the quarto edition of the same year), related small engraved illustration (Fig. II) inserted opposite p. 232, library stamps to title and plates, old ownership signatures of Jno. Freer and Edward Baldwin to title, the latter dated 1707, a little spotting and marginal soiling, lacks a8 (leaf of explanation sometimes found inserted between pp.

56-57), late 19th-c. lib cloth, upper joint partly split and a little frayed at spine ends, 8vo (150 x 93mm) Russell 867; Wing 2823; G-M 1378: The most complete and accurate account of the nervous system which had hitherto appeared, and the work that coined the term “neurology�.

(1) ÂŁ1500-2000

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438 Willis (Thomas). Pathologiae cerebri, et Nervosi Generis Specimen, 1st edition, Oxford, 1667, engraved portrait frontispiece (closed tear into image from lower margin with repair to verso), divisional half-title to ‘Tractatus secundus de scorbuto’, tear with loss to leaf T2 affecting text to inner margin of last six lines of both pages, occasional light browning, old dampstain to outer margins of early leaves, faint library stamp to title and frontispiece, old ownership signature of J. Clerk to title, late 19th-c. cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 4to (194 x 155mm) Madan 2793; Wing W2841; G-M 1378. Not in Norman or Heirs of Hippocrates. ‘Willis gave one of the most extensive accounts of the whole field of mental illness which had appeared up to that time. He attributed “melancholy” or affective psychosis to “passions of the heart”; and “madness” or psychosis accompanied by thought disorder, delusions or hallucinations - that is schizophrenia - to “vice or fault of the Brain”. He recognised the difference between the symptoms of gross brain disease and those of mental illness in which he accounted for the absence of pathological findings by postulating a disturbance of the brain and nerves in terms of disordered “Animal Spirits”. For this reason he is often credited with having first equated mind disease with brain disease’ (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 188).

(1) £2000-3000

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439 Willis (Thomas). De anima brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae, Prior physiologica..., Altera pathologica..., 1st edition, Oxford imprint, 1672, imprimatur before title (ownership signature of James Johnstone to recto), eight engraved plates including five folding, vertical half-title on g2v (bound before g1), divisional titles on g1r and 2H1r, final text leaf cancelled and replaced with ‘Zzzz Aaaa’4, 4B2, followed by cancellandum 3Z2 and five pages of advert leaves, errata not provided, library stamp to title and plates, some old dampstaining to lower corners, library cloth, 4to (215 x 170mm) G-M 1544; Norman 2244; Waller 10320; Wing W2825.

(1)

440 Willis (Thomas). Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Or, an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies.

Shewing the Signs, Causes and Cures of most Distempers Incident thereunto. In Two Parts. As Also a Treatise of the Scurvy, and the several sorts thereof, with their Symptoms, Causes and Cure, 1st edition in English, 1679, 14 engraved plates (plate V with marginal tear), F3 with small hole in text, spine light spotting, library cloth, tear at spine head, a little rubbed, folio ‘Willis noted the sweetness of the urine in diabetes mellitus; he differentiated between this condition and diabetes insipidus’ (G-M 3926).

Thomas Willis (1621-75) is regarded as the father of clinical neuroscience (he is credited with coining the term ‘neurology’) and comparative anatomy and described the function of ‘the circle of Willis’, the arterial circle at the base of the brain. As well as being incredibly influential in the advancement of medicine and science as a whole, he made ‘significant original contributions to cardiology, endocrinology and gastroenterology’ (Williams and Sunderland, 2001, p. 506).

(1) £1500-2000

£1500-2000

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441 Willis (Thomas). Pharmaceutice rationalis, sive diatriba de medicamentorum..., 2 parts in one volume, “3rd edition”, Oxford, 1679-78, engraved printer’s device to title (detached), separate title to second part dated 1678, fourteen folding engraved plates (of 16?, lacking plates 7 & 8 of second part), one plate relined and one with repairs to fold verso, library stamps to title and several plates, occasional marginal soiling or dampstaining, library cloth, 8vo (183 x 113mm)

442 Winslow (Jacques Benigne). An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body... Translated from the French Original by G. Douglas, 2 volumes in one, 3rd edition, 1749, four folding engraved plates, a few light spots, library stamps, hinges reinforced, bookplate of John Hooper, contemporary calf, joints cracked, edges rubbed, together with a fifth edition of the same work, 2 volumes in one, 1763, four folding engraved plates at rear, library stamp to verso of title, leaf A3 of volume 1 excised at head slightly affecting text and closed tear to M2, contemporary calf with red morocco, joints cracked and worn at head of spine, 4to

Wing W2847; Madan 3239. First published in Oxford in 1674 this was ‘One of the great books of seventeenth-century English medicine, this is the first scientific work on pharmacology as well as a valuable epitome of the materia medica of the time’ (Heirs of Hippocrates 537).

(1) £200-300

Russell 885.

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£200-300

443 Wintringham (Clifton, the elder). Tractatus de podagra, in quo de ultimis vasis et liquidis, et succo nutritio, tractatur, [bound with] A Treatise of Endemic Diseases wherein the different nature of airs, situations, soils, waters, diet, &c. are mechanically explain’d and accounted for, [bound with] An essay on Contagious Diseases: more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential fevers, 1st eds., York: Francis Hildyard, 1714-18-21, a few woodcut diagrams to first and third works, half-title to third work only, publisher’s adverts to final leaf verso of second and third works, two library stamps to first title, first work somewhat browned and with an old dampstain to upper inner margins of first two works, third work close-trimmed at upper margin just touching a few running heads, modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, 8vo (1)

444 Wintringham (Clifton). An Experimental Inquiry on Some Parts of the Animal Structure, 1st edition, J. Walthowe, 1740, halftitle with publisher’s advertisements to verso, errata at foot of final page of index, bound after De morbis quibusdam commentarii, [volume 1 of 2 only], 1st edition, T. Cadell, 1782, library stamps to both half- and full-title-pages and occasionally elsewhere to lower margins, some minor spotting and soiling, library cloth, 8vo ESTC (N71634) only cites 6 copies of the first work, all in North American libraries. Russell 893, a second volume of the second work was published in 1791, this first volume giving no indication that another volume was to follow.

(1) £200-300

445 Wiseman (Richard). Severall Chirurgical Treatises, 1st edition, 1676, half-title, 3R2 with marginal hole, one or two burn holes, occasional light marginal water stain and a few spots, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio

£500-800

‘Wiseman ranks in surgery as high as does Sydenham in medicine. He made many valuable contributions to the subject; he was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints (“tumour albus”) and he gave a good account of gunshot wounds. Wiseman became surgeon to Charles II in 1672’ (G-M 5573). Norman 2253.

(1) £400-600

446 Wiseman (Richard). Several Chirurgical Treatises, 2nd edition, 1686, half-title (short sellotape repair to lower edge), neat owner’s name to title, final five leaves strengthened with tape to upper edge, modern library full calf, folio Krivatsy 13083.

(1)

£300-400

447 Wiseman (Richard). Eight Chirurgical Treatises, on these Following Heads, Viz. I. Of Tumours. II. Of Ulcers. III. Of Diseases of the Anus. IV. Of the Kings-Evil. V. Of Wounds. VI. Of Gun-shot Wounds. VII. Of Fractures and Luxations. VIII. Of the Lues Venerea, 3rd edition, 1696, half-title, library stamps to title, worming to foremargin of first portion of text with some subsequent paper repairs, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetic modern reback with red morocco spine label, folio, together with Ranby (John). The Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, 1st edition, 1744, contemporary owner’s name and faint library stamp to title, bound with Baynton (Thomas), Descriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Old Ulcers of the Legs, 2nd edition, Bristol, 1799, lacking title leaf, library cloth, 8vo, together with Underwood (Michael), Surgical Tracts, containing a Treatise upon Ulcers of the Legs...to which are now added, Observations on the More Common Disorders of the Eye, and on Gangrene, 2nd edition, 1788, light library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and Home (Everard), Practical Observations on the Treatment of Ulcers on the Legs, considered as a Branch of Military Surgery, 1797, bound with Spender (J.C.), Observations on the Causes and Treatment of Ulcerous Diseases of the Leg, 1835, library cloth, 8vo, plus Bell (Benjamin), A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers, 3rd edition, 1784, half-title present, engraved plate, 19th century library cloth, together with two later editions of the same work dated 1787 and 1798

Lot 445

1) Wing 3106. The second named work is a scarce account of some of the surgical cases which came under Ranby’s care when he served under Lord Stair in the War of the Austrian Succession.

(7) £300-400

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449 Withering (William). An Account of the Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat; or Scarlatina Anginosa: particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778, [2nd edition] to which is now prefixed, some Remark son the Nature and Cure of the Ulcerated Sore Throat, Birmingham 1793, half-title, pubs. advert to final leaf verso, occasional ink proof corrections, some spotting, library cloth with original salmon-pink stiff wrappers preserved, 8vo Provenance: Upper wrapper inscribed ‘With corrections evidently by the Author, W.F. Wade’. This copy makes no printed reference on the title to this being a second edition (as the more common ESTC T18320) and Wade’s assumption seems to be true, though the corrections here marked were evidently not made in the variant issue. G-M 5079 (1st edition, 1779). ESTC N30244 (locating four copies of this issue).

(1) £300-500

448 Withering (William). Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de angina gangraenosa..., Edinburgh, 1766, title lightly browned and with very minor fore-edge fraying, bound with Ruston (Thomas), Dissertatio medica, de febribus biliosis putridis, Edinburgh, 1765, half-title, bound with Smyth (Marcus), Disputatio medica inauguralis, de hepatitide, Edinburgh, 1766, half-title, bound with Cairnie (John), Disputatio medica inauguralis, de erysipelate, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1766, scattered spotting and light marginal browning throughout, modern morocco gilt, 8vo William Withering worked at Birmingham General Hospital following his study at Edinburgh University. He returned to the subject of this dissertation on scarlet fever following an epidemic in Birmingham in 1778, publishing An Account of Scarlet Fever the following year. Norman 2254. All the dissertations are uncommon and sole editions.

(1) £500-800

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450 Withering (William). An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses, with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1785, uncoloured engraved folding frontispiece (second state, with artist’s name and with lower leaves pointing to the left), two small splits on folds, upper margin of title excised leaving manuscript inscription beneath, ‘[?from] the Author’ but not seemingly in the Withering’s holograph, faint library stamp to title and three stamps to frontispiece (one touching lower right leaf), lacks first leaf before half-title (plain except for two rules and signed ‘a’ to recto with verso blank), unnumbered leaf after preliminaries with explanation of plate, bookseller ads. to final leaf verso, bound with [Darwin, Charles, 1758-1778], Experiments establishing a Criterion between Mucilaginous and Pugulent Matter. And An Account of the Retrograde Motions of the Absorbent Vessels of Animal Bodies in some Diseases.,[Edited, with a life of the author, by Erasmus Darwin, the Elder], 1st edition, Lichfield, 1780, final unnumbered leaf with an epitaph of Charles Darwin, bound with Ferriar (John), Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de variola..., Edinburgh, 1781, 30pp., lacks final blank, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled, 8vo (203 x 125mm) 1) Containing the results of ten years clinical trials which demonstrated his discovery of the efficacy of digitalis in heart diseases. It is one of the first modern clinical studies of a drug and one of the great medical works to be first published in Birmingham. G-M 1836; Hunt 676; Norman 2255; Henrey 1505; Hunt 676; Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Osler 426.

2) Charles Darwin was the eldest son of Dr Erasmus Darwin and before his untimely death and for this work he won the first medal by the Aesculapian Society of Edinburgh in March 1778. ‘The foxglove has been given to dropsical patients in this country with considerable success: the following cases are related...’, p. 103. Both works are rare.

(1) £2000-3000

451 Worb (Joannes Ignatius, called Beintema, van Peima).

Loimologia [transliterated from Greek], sive historia constitutionis pestilentis; annis 1708, 1709, 1710, 1711, 1712 & 1713, Vienna: typis Joannis van Ghelen, 1714, bound with Aeromantiae, in qua tractatur de mundo, spatio, vacuo, denso, raro, aere ac caeteris qualitatibus chthonosphaerae variae accidentibus, Vienna: Ghelen, 1716, four engraved plates, also bound with another copy of Aeromantiae published in 1715, front free endpaper of volume inscribed in ink “Ex dono Authoris Vienna Novembris 21mo 1716”, lengthy contemporary ink ms. notes to endpapers, contemporary vellum, some fraying and loss to spine, small 8vo The first work concerns the plague which afflicted parts of Europe between 1708-1713, the other two works being meteorological texts recording atmospheric conditions from the period 1709-1716. Bookplate of Edward Johnstone (1757-1851), physician.

(1) £200-300

452 Y-Worth (William). Chymicus Rationalis: or, the Fundamental Grounds of the Chymical Art Rationally Stated and Demonstrated, by various examples in distillation, rectification, and exaltation of vinor spirits, tinctures, oyls, salts, powers, and oleosums..., 1st edition, 1692, browning throughout, library stamp to title (rule border trimmed at foot), lacks folding plate, untidy old ownership inscription deletion and insertion ‘Tho: Roths Booke’ at end of dedication with some ink on previous and following leaves, archival closed tear repair to H4, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 12mo Rare. Wing Y217.

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£200-300

453 Yonge (James). Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable, Not only by the Opinion and Experience of many (the best) Authors, but the remarkable History of a Child four Years old cured of two very large Depressions, with the loss of a great part of the Skull, a Portion of the Brain also issuing thorough a penetrating Wound of the Dura and Pia Mater, Published for the Encouragement of Young Chirurgeons, and Vindication of the Author, 1st edition, 1682, three small woodcut illustrations of text, old ownership name excised from title and repaired to verso without loss of text, some spotting at front and rear, late 18th-century cloth, a little rubbed and dust soiled, 8vo (154 x 95mm) Probably the first monograph in English on surgery of the head, which besides describing in detail the operation referred to in the title, includes extracts and references from earlier authors. Wing Y43.

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454 Zinn (Johann Gottfried). Descriptio anatomica oculi humani iconibus illustrata, new revised and enlarged edition, Gottingen: Abrami Van den Hoeck, 1780, seven folding engraved plates at rear, library stamp to title and plates, some spotting, old ownership signature of H. Donly to title, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed and some edge wear, rebacked with original spine relaid, 4to (215 x 171mm) ‘The first complete study of the anatomy of the eye, including the first description of the “Zonule of Zinn”, and the “Annulus of Zinn”‘ (G-M 1484, citing first edition, 1755).

(1) £300-400

455 Zwelfer (Joannes). Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata cum ejus mantissa & appendice... , 3 parts in 1 volume, Dordrecht: Vincent Caimax, 1672, separate titles to appendix and final part, library stamp to titles and occasionally elsewhere, general title somewhat soiled and a little frayed at margins, lacks additional engraved title, modern library cloth, partly faded and split along upper joint, 4to, together with Bate (George), Pharmacopoeia Bateana, in qua, octingenta circiter pharmaca... , edited by James Shipton, 1688, imprimatur leaf before title, errata leaf at rear, library stamp to title, some soiling and marginal fraying at front and rear, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, small 8vo, (Wing B1085), plus Hermann (Paul), Cynosura materiae medicae..., Strasbourg, 1710, title printed in red and black, lacks fourth leaf of preliminaries (blank?), library stamps to title, some spotting and browning throughout, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 4to, plus Gaubius (Hieronymus David), Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum, Leiden, 1739, title printed in red and black, faint library stamp to title, some spotting, modern library cloth, a little dampstained, 8vo, plus Dale (Samuel), Pharmacologiae seu manuductionis ad materiam medicam supplementum... , Sam Smith & Benj. Walford 1705, library stamp to title, some spotting or browning, library cloth, 8vo, plus other 18th-century pharmacopoeias and related in Latin, including editions from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, occasional old manuscript annotations, mostly 8vo

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G. Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique. A Bibliography of Books Appertaining to Food and Drink and Related Subjects. Introduction by Andre L. Simon (1954)

Waller

Biblioteca Walleriana. The Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science Collected by Dr. Erik Waller and Bequeathed to the Royal Library of the University of Uppsala … Compiled by Hans Sallander (Stockholm, 1965)

Waring

E.J. Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, or Bibliography of Therapeutics, Chiefly in Reference to Articles of the Material Medica (1878)

Wellcome

Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London. A Catalogue of Printed Books (1962-1976)

Willems

A. Willems, Les Elzevier (Brussels, 1880)

Wing

D. Wing, Short-Title Catalogue … of English Books … 1641-1700 (New York, 1972, 1982, 1951)

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Conditions of Sale and Business 7. Any representation or statement by the Auctioneer in any catalogue, brochure or advertisement of forthcoming sales as to authorship, attribution, genuineness, origin, date, age, provenance, condition or estimated selling price is a statement of opinion only. Every person interested should exercise and rely on his own judgement as to such matters and neither the Auctioneer nor his servants or agents are responsible for the correctness of such opinions. No warranty whatsoever is given by the Auctioneer or the seller in respect of any lot and any express or implied warranties are hereby excluded.

1. The Seller warrants to the Auctioneer and the buyer that he is the true owner or is properly authorised to sell the property by the true owner and is able to transfer good and marketable title to the property free from any third party claims.

2. (a) The highest bidder to be the buyer. If during the auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen he has absolute authority to settle it or re-offer the lot. The Auctioneer may at his sole discretion determine the advance of bidding or refuse a bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots or withdraw any lot without prior notice. (b) Where goods are bought at auction by a buyer who has entered into an agreement with another or others that the other or others (or some of them) shall abstain from bidding for the goods and the buyer or other party or one of the other parties is a dealer (as defined in the Auction Biddings Agreement Act 1927) the buyer warrants that the goods are bought bona fide on joint account.

8. (a) Notwithstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within fourteen days of the sale the Auctioneer has received from the buyer of any lot notice in writing that in his view the lot is a deliberate forgery and within fourteen days after such notification the buyer returns the same to the Auctioneer in the same condition as at the time of the sale and satisfies the Auctioneer that considered in the light of the entry in the catalogue the lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded. "A deliberate forgery" means a lot made with intention to deceive. (b) A buyer's claim under this condition shall be limited to any amount paid to the Auctioneer for the lot and for the purpose of this condition the buyer shall be the person to whom the original invoice was made out by the Auctioneer.

3. The buyer shall pay the price at which a lot is knocked down by the Auctioneer to the buyer (“the hammer price”) together with a premium of 19.5% of the hammer price. Where the lot is marked by an asterisk the premium will be subject to VAT at 23.40% which under the Auctioneer’s Margin Scheme will form part of the buyer’s premium on our invoice and will not be separately identified (the premium added to the hammer price will hereafter collectively be referred to as “the total sum due”). By making any bid the buyer acknowledges that his attention has been drawn to the fact that on the sale of any lot the Auctioneer will receive from the seller commission at its usual rates in addition to the said premium of 19.5% and assents to the Auctioneer receiving the said commission.

9. Lots may be removed during the sale after full settlement in accordance with 4(d) hereof.

10. All goods delivered to the Auctioneer's premises will be deemed to be delivered for sale by auction unless otherwise stated in writing and will be catalogued and sold at the Auctioneer's discretion and accepted by the Auctioneer subject to all these conditions. In the case of miscellaneous books, the Auctioneer reserves the right to extract and dispose of books that, in the opinion of the Auctioneer at his absolute discretion, have no saleable value and, therefore, might detract from the saleability of the rest of the lot and the Auctioneer shall incur no liability to the seller, in respect of the books disposed of. By delivering the goods to the Auctioneer for inclusion in his auction sales each seller acknowledges that he/she accepts and agrees to all the conditions.

4. (a) The buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his name and permanent address and pay to the Auctioneer immediately after the conclusion of the auction the total sum due. (b) The buyer may be required to pay down during the course of the sale the whole or any part of the total sum due, and if he fails to do so after such request the lot or lots may at the Auctioneer's absolute discretion be put up again and resold immediately. (c) The buyer shall at his own expense take away any lot or lots purchased no later than five working days after the auction day. (d) The Auctioneer may at his own discretion agree credit terms with a buyer and extend the time limits for collection in special cases but otherwise payment shall be deemed to have been made only after the Auctioneer has received cash or a sterling banker’s draft or the buyer's cheque has been cleared.

11. (a) Unless otherwise instructed in writing all goods on the Auctioneer's premises and in their custody will be held insured against the risks of fire, burglary, water damage and accidental breakage or damage for which insurance the Auctioneer will charge a premium of £1.50 per £100. The value of the goods so covered will be the hammer price, or in the case of unsold lots the best bid, or in the case of loss or damage prior to the sale that which the specialised staff of the Auctioneer shall in their absolute discretion estimate to be the auction value of such goods. (b) The Auctioneer shall not be responsible for damage to or the loss, theft, or destruction of any goods not so insured because of the owner’s written instructions.

5. (a) If the buyer fails to pay for or take away any lot or lots pursuant to clause 4 or breaches any other condition of that clause the Auctioneer as agent for the seller shall be entitled after consultation with the seller to exercise one or other of the following rights: (i) Rescind the sale of that or any other lots sold to the buyer who defaults and re-sell the lot or lots whereupon the defaulting buyer shall pay to the Auctioneer any shortfall between the proceeds of that sale after deduction of costs of re-sale and the total sum due. Any surplus shall belong to the seller. (ii) Proceed for damages for breach of contract. (b) Without prejudice to the Auctioneer's rights hereunder if any lots or lots are not collected within five days or such longer period as the Auctioneer may have agreed otherwise, the Auctioneer may charge the buyer a storage charge of £1.00 + VAT at the current rate per lot per day. (c) Ownership of the lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has paid to the Auctioneer the total sum due.

12. The Auctioneer shall remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller thirty days after the day of the auction provided that the Auctioneer has received the total sum due from the buyer. In all other cases the Auctioneer will remit the proceeds of the sale to the seller within seven days of the receipt by the Auctioneer of the total sum due. The Auctioneer will not be deemed to have received the total sum due until after any cheque delivered by the buyer has been cleared. In the event of the Auctioneer exercising his right to rescind the sale his obligation to the seller hereunder lapses.

6. (a) The seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the seller for any lot on which a reserve has been placed. A seller may not bid on any lot on which a reserve has been placed. (b) Where any lot fails to sell, the Auctioneer shall notify the seller accordingly. The seller shall make arrangements either to re-offer the lot for sale or to collect the lot and may be asked to pay a commission not exceeding 50% of the selling commission and any special expenses incurred in cataloguing the lot. (c) If such arrangements are not made within seven days of the notification the Auctioneer is empowered to sell the lot by auction or by private treaty at not less than the reserve price and to receive from the seller the normal selling commission and special expenses.

13. In the case of the seller withdrawing instructions to the Auctioneer to sell any lot or lots, the Auctioneer may charge a fee of 12.5% of the Auctioneer's middle estimate of the auction price of the lot withdrawn together with Value Added Tax thereon and any expenses incurred in respect of the lot or lots.

14. The Auctioneer’s current standard notices and information (i.e. Collation and Amendments) will apply to any contract with the Auctioneer as if incorporated herein.

15. These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

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DOMINIC WINTER BOOK AUCTIONS SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS Saleroom and Offices: Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5UQ Tel: 01285 860006 Fax: 01285 862461

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Postage can be arranged for most purchases. For UK and European customers we use DPD (formerly Parceline) or Royal Mail: a separate charge is added to the invoice (minimum ÂŁ15) and parcels are despatched as soon as possible after payment has been received. All framed and glazed items and all lots for overseas customers outside Europe will be sent to Mail Boxes Etc. (tel: Swindon 01793 525009) or R.F. Shipping (tel: London 0845 873 6240). Both of these companies will quote and invoice separately. Please note: DWBA invoices must be paid before consignments are handed to third party shipping companies.

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The nearest train station to the saleroom is Kemble (BR) which is on the London (Paddington) to Worcester Shrub Hill line. Train journey times from London are on average 90 minutes whether direct or with one change, and run at about one per hour from early until late. Several of the trains in each direction are direct and about half the services require a brief change at Swindon. Customers are advised to check train times and book as early as possible for the best range of ticket services and discounts.

National Rail Enquiries:

08457 484950

Telephone advance train ticket booking:

08457 000125 (First Great Western)

Online train timetables and online ticket bookings:

www.nationalrail.co.uk

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01285 655299 / 07980 579947 01285 650850 01285 642767

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01793 701701

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BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL INSTITUTE THE RARE BOOK COLLECTION PART II: Medical Books, Pamphlets & Manuscripts, 1670-1920 plus Pictures & Medical Artefacts

Thursday 26 July 2012

Specialist in charge: Chris Albury chris@dominicwinter.co.uk

Back Cover: Lot 417