Category: History

Medicine and Ethnology. Selected Essays

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press : 1971

Seller ID: 851

KEY ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF CULTURE IN MEDICINE BY ONE OF ITS PIONEERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gil title to cover and spine, 195 pp, very good. ERWIN HEINZ ACKERKNECHT (1906 - 1988) was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitlerâ€™s rise to power. It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine. He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and cultu...
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Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck

By: Bass, George F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society : 1967

Seller ID: 709

UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY: FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO ENTIRELY EXCAVATE AN ANCIENT SHIPWRECK. 12 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 177 pp, 162 figures in text. Age-toning to cover edges, spine darkened, unmarked, unread, very good. GEORGE FLETCHER BASS (born 1932) is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, He was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of the Bronze Age,...
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Introduction a l'Etude de la Medecine Experimentale

By: Bernard, Claude

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Paris, J.B. Bailliere et Fils : 1865

Seller ID: 1216

1865 SCARCE FIRST ISSUE OF CLAUDE BERNARD'S INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, THE WORK THAT BROUGHT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO CLINICAL RESEARCH--COPY OF NOTED FRENCH SURGEON. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, marbled paper covered boards with brown leather spine with raised bands, gilt title top and Samuel Pozzi bottom of spine, marbled endpapers, Paris bookseller's ticket corner of front paste down, decorative bookplate of Herbert Jeremy Goldings to front flyleaf, signature of Samuel Pozzi top of half title page, with fine pencil notes beneath title, verso half title with Crete bo...
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Image for Dissertation sur les Generalites de la Clinique Medicale, et Sur le Plan et la Methode a Suivre dans l'Enseigement de de Cette Science; Presentee au Concours Ouvert le 20 Juin 1831 Pour Une Chaire de Clinique Medicale, Vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris TOGETHER WITH original lithograph of Dr. Bouillaud signed by him

Dissertation sur les Generalites de la Clinique Medicale, et Sur le Plan et la Methode a Suivre dans l'Enseigement de de Cette Science; Presentee au Concours Ouvert le 20 Juin 1831 Pour Une Chaire de Clinique Medicale, Vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris TOGETHER WITH original lithograph of Dr. Bouillaud signed by him

By: Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, J. B. Bailliere : 1831

Seller ID: 1234

DISSERTATION ON MEDICAL PRACTICE, NOSOLOGY, AND EDUCATION BY NOTED FRENCH PHYSICIAN, INSCRIBED TO HIS MENTOR, WHOSE AUTOGRAPH CRITIQUE IS INCLUDED, COPY OF PREMIER MEDICAL PUBLISHER, JB BAILLIERE - PLUS LITHOGRAPH OF BOUILLAUD. 8 inches tall hardcover, period red cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, 83 pp, signed association copy. Front paste-down: Ink inscription (presumably by J.-B. Bailliere): Ce volume contient: 1) Jugement de Bouillaud par M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedicace a Broussais; 3) Jugement de Broussais, comme juge du concours ou M. Bouillaud a été nomme Professeur; 4...
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Science and Medicine in the People's Republic of China

By: Bowers, John Z.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Asia Society : 1972

Seller ID: 875

ILLUSTRATED ISSUE OF THE ASIA SOCIETY ON SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA--1972--THE YEAR THAT NIXON VISITED CHINA. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8 inches tall softcover, color printed covers, 84 pp, illustrated with photographs, published by the Asia Society, New York, No. 26, Summer 1972; light wear to cover edges, SIIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by John Z. Bowens. Text unmarked, very good. INTRODUCTION by John Z. Bowers, M.D. THE ASIA SOCIETY The Asia Society is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization founded in 1956 in the belief that there is an urgent need for greater knowledge of Asia in...
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Pediatrics. Devoted to the Diseases of Infants and Children

By: Brown, Dillon (owner) and Carpenter, George (editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Van Publishing Co. : 1896 (original publication)

Seller ID: 732

FINE FACSIMILE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF A SHORT-LIVED PEDIATRIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE US AND UK IN 1896. 9 1/2 inches tall black custom screw post binder covered in black pebbled cloth, pictorial book plate to front paste-down Presented by Pet Milk Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, containing facsimile copies of Pediatrics, A Semi-Monthly Journal. Included are Vol. 1 (issues 1, 3, 4-12) and Vol. 2, issue 1. Condition: fine. GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER, M.D. (1859 - 1910) was an English physician and paediatrician. Carpenter syndrome is named for him. He was a medical stu...
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Image for Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

By: Browne J

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Medicina Rara Ltd. : 1697

Seller ID: 49

SUMPTUOUS DELUXE FOLIO FULL LEATHER BINDING OF FINE PRINTING FACSIMILE OF RARE 17TH CENTURY MUSCLE ANATOMY. 8 x 12 1/2 inches tall full leather binding, gilt border to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, 109 pages, 37 plates, fine condition. In ivory paper covered slipcase lightly soiled with crayon mark on one side. Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., plates made from the original 1697 London edition. The paper is permanent, natural Curtis Rag, bearing the watermark of Medicina Rara. 300 copies bound in full leather numbered in roman numerals (deluxe binding) of which this is ...
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My Flight to the North Pole

By: Byrd, R. E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, B. G. Teubner : 1931

Seller ID: 876

1931 ABRIDGED ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BYRD'S EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH POLE PUBLISHED FOR GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING HITLER'S RISE TO POWER--ANNOTATED IN GERMAN. 7 3/4 inches tall softcover booklet, printed paper covers, frontis map of north pole, 52 pp, 9 photo text figures, covers soiled, spine frayed, tears to edges of title page, marginal notes in German. tissue repair to closed tear p 15. Published in the series Teubners Neusptachliche Lekture fur sechsstufige lehranstalten und die mittelklassen von vollanstalten [Teubner's New Language reading for six-level teaching institut...
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A History of Medicine

By: Castiglioni, Arturo

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1941

Seller ID: 799

1941 LANDMARK 1000-PAGE HISTORY OF MEDICINE BY ITALIAN-AMERICAN YALE PROFESSOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xxviii, 1013 pp, index, xl, [ii], very good, no dust jacket. ARTURO CASTIGLIONI (1874 - 1953) was an Italian-born American medical historian and professor at Yale University. GARRISON-MORTON No. 6418 Storia della medicina. Milan: Soc. Ed. Unitas, 1927. This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance I...
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Image for La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de Sieur de Chevigni, dans laquelle, outre les Matieres contenues dans les Editions precedentes, on trouve une Instruction plus ample sur la Religion, l'Astronomie, la Chronologie, la Geographie, la Guerre, les Fortifications, le Blason, les Fables

La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de Sieur de Chevigni, dans laquelle, outre les Matieres contenues dans les Editions precedentes, on trouve une Instruction plus ample sur la Religion, l'Astronomie, la Chronologie, la Geographie, la Guerre, les Fortifications, le Blason, les Fables

By: Chevigny, S. D. V. de and de Limiers, Henri Philippe

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain : 1729

Seller ID: 1084

1729 PORTABLE ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE IN COURTLY AFFAIRS, ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVED MAPS AND ROYAL PEDIGREES. Four hardcover volumes, each 6 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding, brown paper covers, spine gilt with gilt red leather labels, Vol. I, engraved frontispiece titled, Trahat sua quemque voluptas [To each his own taste, explained in a 5-page ode in the preface], [54], 427, 17 folding plates; Vol. II, [8], 479, 33 folding plates; Vol III, [4], 408, 11 folding plates; Vol IV, [4], 410 (lacking pp 131-134, inserted in facsimile), 7 folding plates. Cove...
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A History of Comparative Anatomy from Aristotle to the Eighteenth Century

By: Cole, F.J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. : 1944

Seller ID: 736

1944 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 524 pp, 200 figures; corners bumped, gilt title bright, binding tight, front hinge starting, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 356. FRANCIS JOSEPH COLE (1872 -bio 1959) was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Liverpool from 1897 until 1906, when he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading, the first holder of the post. He then began sett...
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History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series: Surgery

By: Cope, Zachary

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office : 1953

Seller ID: 785

1953 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGICAL MEDICINE DEVELOPED DURING WORLD WAR II--BY EMINENT BRITISH SURGEON. SIR ZACHARY COPE. 9 3/4 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, armorial bookplate to front flyleaf, xix, 772 pp, 92 plates, 14 figures. Corners bumped, abrasions to spine, bottom spine end frayed, page edges soiled, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FOREWORD: This volume of the Official Medical History of the War of 1939~45 chronicles the chief advances made in Surgery during that War. The History owes much to all those distinguished contrib...
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Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume I, Number I

By: Danielli, J. F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Academic Press : 1961

Seller ID: 966

1961 FIRST ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY NOW IN 60TH YEAR, PUBLISHED PAPERS BY LUMINARIES OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall volume, printed green paper covers and spine, preface and 106 pages, Instructions to Authors; age-toning to cover edges, no ownership or institutional marks, very good. CONTENTS: Williams, R. J. P., Possible Functions of Chains of Catalysts; Hail, G. G., Permeation through a Spherical Membrane; Elsasser, Walter M., Quanta and the Concept of Organismic Law; Amesz, J., Duysens, L. X. M. and Brandt, D. C. Methods for Measuring and Correcting the Absorption ...
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Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher

By: Davy, Humphry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1830

Seller ID: 1238

1830 FIRST EDITION EARLY VICTORIAN BESTSELLER ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY BY AN EMINENT BRITISH CHEMIST. 6 1/2 x 4 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate to front paste-down, vi, [vi], 281, [i]. Corners bumped, wear to covers, bottom 3/4 inches of spine chipped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched ...
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Medicine Old and New. An Introductory Address, delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct 2nd, 1899

By: Dickinson, W. Howship

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. : 1899

Seller ID: 1291

1899 ADDRESS TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL BY PROMINENT LONDON NEPHROLOGIST--COPY OF LEADING NEW YORK PSYCHIATRIST. 12 1/2 inches tall slim hardcover, brown pebbled cloth covers, gilt emblem of St. George & Dragon and title to cover, 47 pp, corners rubbed, decorative bookplate of Charles W. Pilgrim front paste-down, very good. WILLIAM HOWSHIP DICKINSON (1832 - 1913) was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George's Hospital. He authored several comprehensive monographs on kidney disease, and wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease in which affected fa...
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Some Human Oddities. Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny and the Fanatical

By: Dingwall EJ;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Home & Van Thal Ltd. : 1947

Seller ID: 166

COLLECTION OF DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF BIZARRE PEOPLE THROUGH HISTORY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, 198 pages, original red cloth binding, 12 black and white plates. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front endpaper. Very good, no dust jacket. PREFACE: 'Books about queer people are usually of two main types. There those in which a vivid presentation of each character is made, unencumbered with any references to the documentary and other sources consulted. Then there are the more technical accounts which are mainly medical and psychological monographs, which make no pretence to being anything ...
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Back-Bone; Photographed from 'The Scalpel'

By: Dixon EH;

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. de Witt : 1866

Seller ID: 151

1866 SCARCE ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES FROM POPULAR AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL WITH ORIGINAL PHOTO OF AUTHOR. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvii, 396 pages, brown cloth binding with spine gilt. Original 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inch original albumen photographic portrait of the author tipped as frontispiece. Dedication to Horace Greeley [editor of the New York Tribune] and Peter Cooper [American industrialist]. Spine ends frayed, light soiling of covers, bookplate to front paste-down, lacking front free endpaper, old water stains to corners of pages. Overall good. CONTENTS (selected): Scenes in Western practice...
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Image for Anatomical Eponyms. Being a Biographical Dictionary of Those Anatomists Whose Names Have Become Incorporated Into Anatomical Nomenclature, With Definitions of the Structures to Which Their Names HAve Been Attached and References to the Works in Which They are Described

Anatomical Eponyms. Being a Biographical Dictionary of Those Anatomists Whose Names Have Become Incorporated Into Anatomical Nomenclature, With Definitions of the Structures to Which Their Names HAve Been Attached and References to the Works in Which They are Described

By: Dobson, Jessie

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. : 1962

Seller ID: 1204

UNIQUE DICTIONARY OF ANATOMICAL EPONYMS BY CURATOR OF THE HUNTERIAN MUSEUM IN LONDON--COPY OF AN ACADEMIC SURGEON WITH TLS FROM THE AUTHOR WITH POCKET CONTAINING IMAGES OF KIDNEY CASTS FROM THE MUSEUM. 9 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth boards, spine gilt, bookplate of NSR Maluf front paste-down; signed and dated November 4th, 1964 by author on title page; frontis portrait of Vesalius, 235 pp; very good in jacket lightly soiled, otherwise very good in mylar sleeve. Laid in TLS from author to NSR Maluf, dated 31st March, 1969, "Dear Dr. Maluf, I have great pleasure in enclosing the negatives ...
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Human Physiology, illustrated by numerous engravings

By: Dunglison, Robley

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey and Lea : 1832

Seller ID: 231

1832 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, FATHER OF AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGY. Two volume work, 9 inches tall hardcover, original full leather bindings, volume 1 with hinges reinforced, and volume 2 with recent leather spine expertly restored with gilt bands. Dedication 'To James Madison, Esq. ex-president of the United States, Rector of the University of Virginia, &c. &c. alike distinguished as an illustrious benefactor to his country, a zealous promoter of science and literature, and the friend of mankind; this work, intended to illustrate the functions executed by that be...
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Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M.D.

By: Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, John F. Trow : 1862

Seller ID: 651

SCARCE MEMORIAL BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT NEW YORK COUPLE BY A SON, THIS COPY SIGNED BY ANOTHER SON, DEAN AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, pebbled black cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to cover, In Memoriam, ink signature front endpaper, Theo. W. Dwight; 91 pp divided into 3 sections: 1) In Memoriam, Benjamin Woolsey Dwight; 2) A Brief Sketch of Dr. B. W. Dwight, published by permission from the sermon, delivered at his funeral, from Mark 6:20 by Rev. Simeon North, D.D., then President of Hamilton College; 3) Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Mrs. So...
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Category: History