Category: Cardiology

The Surgery of the Common Congenital Cardiac Malformations

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Staples Press : 1968

Seller ID: 551

1968 GUIDE TO PEDIATRIC HEART SURGERY BY PIONEER CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, WHO PERFORMED FIRST HUMAN HEART TRANSPLANT. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 179 pp, black & white illustrations, very good in good dust jacket with faded spine, top spine edge worn, soiling to back cover. CHRISTIAAN N. BARNARD (1922-2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1955, he traveled to the United States and was introduced to the heart...
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Arteriosclerosis. A Consideration of the Prolongation of Life and Efficiency After Forty

By: Bishop, Louis Faugeres

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton : 1914

Seller ID: 834

1914 FIRST EDITION EARLY ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON ARTERIOSCLEOSIS BY AMERICAN PIONEER CARDIOLOGIST: FROM THE RIDDLE OF ARTERIOSCLEROSIS TO LIFE INSURANCE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, maroon cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis chest x-ray of arteriosclerotic patient with tissue guard, x, 383 pp, 11 plates, 25 figures in text; light wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text unmarked, very good. LOUIS FAUGERES BISHOP (1864 - 1941) was the first American physician to limit his practice to cardiovascular disease and to proclaim himself a "cardiologi...
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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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Image for Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate VIII. The arteries, after Drake TOGETHER WITH Plate IX. Trunks of the vena cava with their branches dissected in the body of an adult, &c, after Philosophic Transactions

Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate VIII. The arteries, after Drake TOGETHER WITH Plate IX. Trunks of the vena cava with their branches dissected in the body of an adult, &c, after Philosophic Transactions

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 984

1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE ARTERIAL TREE AND THE VENOUS TREE. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light water stain to corner of Plate VIII, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that prov...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate XI & XII. Arteries of the face, after Haller TOGETHER WITH Plate XI & XII continued

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 987

1762 TWO LARGE ANATOMIC ENGRAVINGS FROM FIRST EDITION OF DIDEROT'S ENCYCLOPEDIE - THE ARTERIES OF THE FACE. Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light old water stain corner of each plate, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowled...
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Encyclopedie, Anatomie Plate XVII. The heart, after Mr. Senac; TOGETHER WITH Plate XVII No 2. Details of the heart, after Mr. Senac

By: Diderot, Denis and d'Alembert, Jean

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Briasson : 1762

Seller ID: 990

Two original copper plate engravings on heavy paper, 9 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches (8 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches platemark), light old water mark top corner of Plate XVII, not affecting image, both very good condition, in custom archival mylar cover; TOGETHER WITH photocopy of letterpress descriptive text (French language) pertaining to the engravings (letters on the anatomical figures are identified in the text). INTRODUCTION TO THE PLATES FOR ANATOMIE: Anatomy, that part of physics that provides knowledge of the human body, should appear with distinction in a Dictionary of the Sciences. It is primarily thr...
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Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty. Technique, Early and Late Results

By: Dotter, C. T., Gruntzig, A. R., Schoop, W. and Zeitler, D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berlin, Springer-Verlag : 1983

Seller ID: 832

1983 ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF 55 PAPERS ON ANGIOPLASTY EDITED BY PIONEERS 6 YEARS AFTER FIRST CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY. 9 1/2 inches tall volume, color printed paper covers, xv, 369 pp, 179 figures, near-fine. CHARLES THEODORE DOTTER (1920 - 1985) was a pioneering US vascular radiologist who is credited with developing interventional radiology. Dotter invented angioplasty and the catheter-delivered stent, which were first used to treat peripheral arterial disease. It was Dotter who, in 1950, developed an automatic X-Ray Roll-Film magazine capable of producing images at the rate of 2 per second. C...
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De Aneurysmatibus, Opus Posthumum. Aneurysms: the Latin Text of Rome, 1745, Revised, with Translation and Notes

By: Lancisi GM;Wright WC;

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1952

Seller ID: 107

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LANDMARK 18TH CENTURY TREATISE ON ANEURISMS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxxv, 362 pages, blue cloth binding with silver title on cover and spine, small dark spot on back cover, signature of O. Herman Dreskin, M.D. on front endpaper, inscription verso of half-title page 'To Herman straight from the Horse's mouth--Al Pearlman, apr 62', otherwise unmarked and very good (no dust jacket). GARRISON-MORTON No. 2973. Lancisi noted the frequency of cardiac aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneury...
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The Heart-Sounds in Normal and Pathological Conditions

By: Orias, Oscar and Braun-Menendez, Eduardo

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1930

Seller ID: 733

1939 CLASSIC OF CARDIAC AUSCULTATION BY PREMIER ARGENTINIAN CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGISTS ORIAS AND MENENDEZ. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red pebbled cloth binding, title to cover, gilt title to spine, frontis portrait of Carl J. Wiggers on verso of half-title, xx, 258 pp, 127 figures in text, corners lightly bumped, spine ends slightly worn, very good. OSCAR ORIAS (1906 - 1955) trained with Carl J Wiggers of Western Reserve University and Walter B. Cannon of Harvard University. In 1939, in collaboration with E. Braun-Menendez, he published Heart Sounds in Normal and Pathological C...
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Hormones and Atherosclerosis

By: PIncus, Gregory

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Academic Press, Inc. : 1959

Seller ID: 836

1959 PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE ON HORMONES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS CHAIRED BY GREGORY PINCUS, STEROID BIOCHEMIST WHO DEVELOPED ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES. 9 1/4 inches high hardcover, red cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt title to spine, xvi, 484 pp, illustrations, corners bumped, spine faded, binding tight, unmarked, very good. GREGORY GOODWIN PINCUS (1903 - 1967) was an American biologist who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill. Dr. Pincus began studying hormonal biology and steroidal hormones early in his career. He was interested in the way that hormones affected mammals' reprod...
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A Technic for Extracorporeal Circulation

By: Stofer, Raymond C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1968

Seller ID: 833

1968 HOW TO SET UP A HEART-LUNG MACHINE BY CHIEF TECHNICIAN FOR THE SHUMWAY HEART SURGERY TEAM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, salmon pink cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, xiv, 115 pp, 26 figures, small stains cover edges, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket. From book reveiw in British Medical Journal, January, 1969: It would be possible to imitate accurately this successful technique from the book alone. . . . It is well illustrated and very readable, and I recommend it particularly to those to whom it is dedicated: all ...
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Image for Disputationes ad Morborum. Historiam et Curationem Facientes. Quas Collegit, Edidit et Recensuit [Discussions of Disease, History and Treatment, Reviewed and Published]; Six Volumes: I. Diseases of the Head and Neck; II, Diseases of the Heart; III, Diseases of the abdomen; IV, Diseases of the Abdomen (continued); V, Of Fevers; VI, Of Diseases That Affect the Body

Disputationes ad Morborum. Historiam et Curationem Facientes. Quas Collegit, Edidit et Recensuit [Discussions of Disease, History and Treatment, Reviewed and Published]; Six Volumes: I. Diseases of the Head and Neck; II, Diseases of the Heart; III, Diseases of the abdomen; IV, Diseases of the Abdomen (continued); V, Of Fevers; VI, Of Diseases That Affect the Body

By: von Haller, Albrecht

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Venice (Vols. I - III), Lausanne (Vols. IV - VI), Haeredum Baglioni (Vols. I-III), Marci-Michael Bosquet (Vols. IV-VI) : 1757-1758

Seller ID: 884

1757-8 SIX VOLUMES BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL CALF WITH 30 COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS SPANS 18TH CENTURY INTERNAL MEDICINE--BY SWISS ANATOMIST ALBRECHT VON HALLER. Six volumes, 10 1/4 inches tall (quarto) 18th century full calf binding, spines with raised bands, gilt tooled compartments, gilt titles to red leather labels, edges dyed red, marbled endpapers, book label of Dr. Rene Billard, Dole, to each front paste-down, title pages with red and black printing, engraved medallions of Haller. Vol I, [4] 639, 2 plates; Vol. II, [2] 704, 4 plates; Vol. III, hand-penned bookplate Ex bibliotheca/ Guillau...
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A Research Upon the Action of Alcohol Upon the Circulation

By: Wood, Horatio C. and Hoyt, Daniel M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences : 1905

Seller ID: 1045

1905 DETAILED PHYSIOLOGIC STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION BY PROMINENT PHARMACOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 11 1/2 inches tall offprint, original gray printed paper covers, contemporary ink inscription of title and unintelligible signature dated Nov 6/05 on cover. 3 plates, edges worn, text unmarked and very good. The paper is notable in that in the Introduction, the contribution of each author is clearly stated, as is the case in the 21st century: It is perhaps proper to state that although the actual work of making the experiments was chiefly performed by ...
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Category: Cardiology