The medicinal and poisonous plants of Southern Africa: being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal por Watt, John Mitchell and Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk - 1962

Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, 1869. This is the 1869 hardcover first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. SEE PHOTOS. Complete in 12 monthly issues. Good EX-LIBRARY but with no external library markings. Bound in contemporary tan-color full leather (calf) binding with black leather labels on the spine. Gilt lettering is still bright and shiny. Hinges are cracked -- holding on only by the threads. Internally condition is Very Good+ with NO foxing. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO margin notes. Among this volume's subjects are: Resection of the Long Bones (Civil War Minie ball fracture of humerus), Medical Society and Colored Doctors, Monstrous Birth [two headed child], Transfusion of Blood, Opium, Cerebral Paresis, Digestibilities of Food, Acute Laryngitis, Bright's Disease, Lead Poisoning, Lachrymal Obstructions, Pulmonary Consumption, Use of the Calabar Bean in Tetanus, Spermatorrhoea and Impotence, Illustrations of Quackery,… Ler mais

Strasbourg & Paris,: F.G. Levrault & Fuchs,, An V (1796-1797).. viii, 160, [ii] pp. 8vo (12.5 x 20 cm.). Contemporary half brown calf, spine gilt decorated with rulers and buttons, gilt lettered on orange morocco label, marbled boards, marbled edges. A rare and early detailed monograph on the subject. --(A few pages with some light damp staining and/or some foxing, but a very good copy).

Soft cover. Very Good. 10 booklets complete, well illustrated with properties and medicinal benefits of various types of grasses, a noted Chinese herbal remedy. This precedes the Ben Coo Gong Mu of Shi Zhen Li, and has been dated to mid 18th c although this is a reproduction. VG, all booklets softcover well tied covers and in nice condition. Very rare.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Usual wear along spine for book of this period, volume 8, number 4, pps 401-512; 1925 issue, xi band, no 1-2, pps 1-216, many important essays by leading psychoanalists.

Washington, D.C.: Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, 1834. Hardcover. Very Good. Stereotyped by Duff Green. xii, 582 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment; decoration with gilt rules. Marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled at tail of spine: "J. Porter," former owner? First American edition. Based on the lectures given at the London Ophthalmic Infirmary by the English eye surgeon William Lawrence. The Register and Library of Medical and Chirurgical Science, published from 1833 to 1836, was the first medical journal published in Washington, D.C. In Very Good Condition: boards are rubbed; foxing; otherwise, clean and tight.

Paris,: Chez l'Auteur; Durant et Didot,, 1780.. 2 works in one volume: iv, 320, [iv,approbation]; 90, [iv, approbation] pp. Small 8vo (10,5 x 17,5 cm.). Contemporary half dark brown calf, spine richly gilt decorated "á la grotesque", gilt lettered red Morocco label (small tear [ca. 3 cm.] in the gutter of the front side). A nice copy of the first edition of both works. There are 4 later editions, the last in 1805. The author, "ancien chirurgien-major de la Marine" was a great advocate of catheterisation. According to a contemporary review, the work on urology has some interesting point of views, but written in a horible style. In both work Guérin strongly oposite quackery and urge the public not to deal with charlatans. Rare. Hirsch II, 688; Dezeimeris II/1, 656; Wellcome III, 175.

Harper & Brothers. New York. 1885. 8vo. xix, (1), 536, 4pp adverts. Coloured frontispiece of Mrs Forbes Honey Eater with tissue guard, 14 plates, numerous text illustrations including 1 map, 3 coloured folding maps, I coloured map, 1 monochrome map. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and black, slight wear to head of spine. Uniformly toned, a tight crisp copy. Orientalia booksellers plate, New York to rep. A nice copy.
Henry O Forbes (1851-1932) Scottish explorer, zoologist and botanist. Travels and observations in The Cocos-Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Moluccas and Timor-Laut, Buru, Timor etc

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Good+. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue publisher's cloth with gilt title on spine. (xxix) 278pp. Covers with some shelf wear. Spine color lightly faded, ends rubbed..A few lightly foxed pages. Illustrated with 9 plates (one folding) including chromolithographic frontispiece and many text engravings. Geology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages .

Svidnitii & Hirschbergae: Sumptibus Johannis Georgii Boehmii, 1734 Book. Fair. Hardcover. [vi], 438 pages. Pagination matches that given on COPAC for a copy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In the remains of a 19th century binding with amrbled paper covered boards, much though of the leather spine is missing. A few ink notes to the end papers about the book and an old owner's name. Area of adhered paper to the front free end paper. Pages browned throughout, heavily much of the time..

The Shagganappi by E. Pauline Johnson [aka Tekahionwake] (1862-1913). Toronto: First Canadian edition, The Ryerson Press, 1913. USED. Good+ CONDITION / FAIR CONDITION ORIGINAL SILVER AND ORANGE DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Please see our photos. A clean, solid copy that shows minor foxing. 5 5/8 X 8 ½. By Tekahionwake, important tribal historian and member of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!