Medicine from Milestones of Science Books

Paris: chez Gabriel Buon, au clos Bruneau, à l'enseigne S. Claude, 1582. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (214 x 159 mm). [16], 74 (of 76) leaves, title with printer's woodcut device, 12 woodcut illustrations in text of which 6 full-page; woodcut initials and headpieces. Lacking the separate plate with portrait of the author and… Ler mais sobre este item

Berlin: Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung (G. E. Reimer), 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin: Verlag der Sander'schen Buchhandlung (G. E. Reimer), 1839. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). xviii, 270 pp., 4 folding engraved plates by C. E. Weber after… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Caille & Ravier, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (341 x 265 mm). [6], lxxxviii, 616 pp., including half-title and 24 engraved plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with 4 raised bands tooled in blind and gilt and with gilt lettering (joints repaired). Text with minor browning and… Ler mais sobre este item

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (222 x 145 mm). 53 [1] pp., including one plate. Half brown cloth over blue cardboards, gilt-lettered spine (no dust-jacket, upper portion slightly sunned, light wear to corners). Text crisp and bright throughout, faint pale foxing to pp. 4-5. Provenance: Inscribed and signed by… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Lauwereyns, 1870. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (314 x 248 mm). Atlas only. [8], 48, [2] pp., including half title; text illustrations; 10 chromolithographed plates, each with explanatory text leaf. Modern black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text with occasional light foxing. Provenance: M. Saxtorph, Professor of Surgery, Copenhagen (visiting card to… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (229 x 148 mm). viii, 387 [1] pp. including half-title, 12 engraved plates protected by tissue paper, 85 illustrations in text. Contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (exceptionally well preserved binding). Text… Ler mais sobre este item

Amsterdam: L. Elzevier, 1641. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (152 x 97 mm). [16], 279 [1] pp., title with woodcut device, 14 full-page engraved illustrations numbered I-XIIII and a small unnumbered text engraving; woodcut initials and tailpieces. Signatures: *8 A-R8 S4, including blank leaf *8. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with faint hand-lettering,… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia, London and Montreal: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (230 x 152 mm). [6], 175 [1] pp., numerous text illustrations. Original publishers red cloth, spine gilt lettered (a trifle rubbing of extremities). Text clean and bright throughout. Provenance: A. Ward (bookplate to front pastedown). ---- FIRST EDITION of… Ler mais sobre este item

Nürnberg: [Friedrich Peypus?] for the author, 1506. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to (207 x 148 mm). Signatures: [pi]2 A-Z6 a-k6 l-m4 (-m4 blank). [2], 205 leaves, bound without final blank. Roman types. 57 (1 full-page) woodcut illustrations. The title flanked by 3 woodcut stars and small man-in-moon, on title verso a full-page circular woodcut… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: Richard Davis at the Sheldonian Theatre, 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. 4to (197 x 149 mm). [56], 16, 33-565 (i.e. 563), 11 pp., 8 engraved plates of brain anatomy (5 folding); imprimatur leaf bound opposite title, longitudinal half-title g2 bound before the divisional title g1 for part one;… Ler mais sobre este item

Dublin: W.F. Wakeman, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (230 x 140 mm). xxv [1], 332 pp. 12 pp. publisher's advertisement bound in before title, errata on final preliminary page. Original publisher's card boards with original paper lettering piece on spine (upper joints cracked but cords holding… Ler mais sobre este item

London: E. Flesher, H. Brome and N. Hooke, 1672. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (204 x 148 mm). [52], 534, [2] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, title-page printed in red and black, type-set initials, 2 engraved folding plates, small woodcut text diagrams on pp. 384… Ler mais sobre este item

Halle & Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1805. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (211 x 129 mm). iv, 144 pp., 4 folding engraved plates bound at end. Original plain blue wrappers (dust-soiled at margins, chipped at corners). Text uncut and mostly unopened. Light browning and dust-soiling to… Ler mais sobre este item

Venice: ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in one volume. Folio (370 x 231 mm). xcvi, 298; 452 pp., including half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one, titles with engraved vignettes, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Main-body text printed in two columns. Bound… Ler mais sobre este item

Frankfurt am Main: C. Rötel for Wilhelm Fitzner / Wolfgang Hofmann for Wilhelm Fitzer, 1629. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Medicina catholica, seu mysticum artis medicandi sacrarium. [Tomus I, tractatus I] / Sophiae cum moria certamen, in quo: lapis Lydius a falso structore, Fr. Marino Mersenno . .… Ler mais sobre este item

Frankfurt am Main: H. Gülfferich, 1551. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio (293 x 185 mm). [22], 199, [1] leaves. Title printed in red and black within elaborate woodcut border, large woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations in text (several full page); final leaf verso with printer's full-page armorial vignette. Signatures: A-B4 C6 D-E4,… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1869. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4to (210 x 140 mm). 16 pp. Drop title, two lithographed plates. Modern thin cardboards, preserved in percaline folder with printed paper label to front cover. Light browning and marginal dust-soiling. ---- Norman 1369.… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1870. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 4to (217 x 139 mm). 35 [1] pp. Stitched with spine reinforced with thin paper strip, preserved in modern cloth folder with gilt-lettered morocco label to front cover. Provenance: Complimentary copy from the author to unknown… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees etc., 1822. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to (293 x 234 mm). ix [3], 562, [62] pp., 30 engraved plates by J. C. Canton, each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress, one plate with fold-out flap, one plate hand-colored; errata printed on final… Ler mais sobre este item

Geneva: Imprimerie Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to (276 x 178 mm). [4] [1] 2-115 [1] pp., including half-title and double-page chromolithograph map drawn by B. Müller from the author's instructions and lithographed by Pilet & Cougnard, Geneva. Original publisher's printed wrappers, all pages uncut (slight wear of paper over… Ler mais sobre este item