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Budapest,: Museum Semmelweis,, 1984.. 157, [i] pp. 8vo. (17 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With 190 plates and illustrations of which 20 in full colour. Communicationes de Historia Artis Medicinae, supplementum 13-14. Interesting source for the history of medicine and pharmacy in Hungary

Amsterdam,: Meesters,, 1978.. 384 pp. Original printed wrappers. With 75 plates and illustrations.

(Paris),: Hachette,, (1955).. xvii, 264 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (bottom of spine slightly worn), uncut. ¶ First edition. - (Stamp on half-title).-- [Series: Evolution de la Médecine,Collection dirigé par Robert Debré].

Paris,: Albin Michel / Laffont / Tchou,, 1977-1980.. 8 volumes, 3170 pages.Thick 4to (21,5 x 31 cm.). Bound in original publisher's light brown leather, on each front side an embossed bronze medaillon (Hippocrates, Galenus, Vesalius, Harvey, Laennec, Claude Bernard, Fleming & Marie Curie), top edges gilt; preserved in slip-cases. With a very large number of coloured plates and illustrations, black & which illustrations, toned illustrations.. ¶ This magnificent and beautifully illustrated work is a revision of Laignel-Lavastine's famous "Histoire Génerale de la Médecine (1936-1949), and was written by experts in each branch of the subject. Fully indexed and ample bibliographical information included. The set has a weight of 25 kg, thus postage accordingly!

Paris,: Bibliothèque des Curieux,, 1920.. 246, [ii] pp. 8vo (14,5 x 23 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With plates. ¶ Witkowski, one of France's greatest historians of medicine, was together with Cabanès, one of the pioneer authors in France on historic pathology. The latter however, owing to a conflict with the Académie de Médecine of Paris, presented, in scientific exile, his 'cours de six lecons' on historic pathology at Brussels. --(Paper and cover age oned, but a good copy).

Paris,: Crapart, Caille et Ravier,, An XII - 1804.. xii, 438 pp. 8vo (14 x 20,5 cm.). Contemporary full marbled calf, spine gilt decorated (faded) and lettered on a red morocco label (corners slightly rubbed, hingle worm but firm, top of spine damaged). ** First edition. Cabanis, "close friend of Condorcet. Taught hygiene at the École Centrales (from 1794), was assistand to Corvisart, and taught history of medicine in the Ëcole de Santé in Paris. ... His principal work in medicine, 'Coup d'oeil sur les révolutions et sur la réform de la médecine' , advocates methodically gathered tables of observations and experiments as the basis for reforms in treatment and medical instructions" (DSB). Copy with ample margins.

Wien,, 1948.. xv, 491, [iii] pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth with dust-jacket. With a portrait, plates and illustrations. Ninty important medico-historical contrubutions, mainly in German and in Englsih by the best medico-historians of the period, i.a. E.D. Bauman, E. Berghoff, S. Carvalho, L. Freund, E. Goldschmidt, E.B. Krumbhaar, Erna Lesky, J. Olmsted, W. Pagel, F. Poynter, L. Thorndike, George Urdang, W. Wickerheimer, etc.--[Wiener Beitraege z. Gesch. d. Med. II].

Munchen,: Heinz Moos,, (1967-1972). 2 volumes. 180; 207 pp. 4to. (24.5 x 29 cm.). Original cloth with dust jackets (dust jackets slightly soiled). Richly illustrated with over 770 plates and illustrations, of which ca. 90 in colour. Vol. I: Von der Antike bis um 1600 ; vol. II: Von 1600 bis zur Gegenwart. One of the best modern work on the history of anatomical illustrations since the work of Choulant (1852; 1920; 1945). While in no way superseding the revised editions of Choulant's classic, this work provides a great deal of stockitional material, particularly on artªhistorical research which has taken place during the past few decades. Garrison & Morton, 6610.4; P. Smit 722-23.

Haarlem,: F. Bohn,, 1957.. xvi, 391. 8vo. (16.5 x 24.5 cm.). Original simili vellum, gilt lettered. With some diagrams and numerous illustrations Published at the occassion of the first centenial of the N.T.V.G. Including numerous portraits of Dutch physicians and biographical information.

Paris,: Pymalion Olivier Perrin,, (1978).. 430, [iv] pp. 4to (21 x 28 cm.). Original gilt decorated publisher's buckram with coloured dust-jacket (jackrt slightly damages along upper and lower edge). With numerous illustrations and plates of which 8 finely coloured. ¶ A nice clean copy and a magnificent "history of medicine" told from old medical books and their illustrations preserved in the library of the Paris faculté de Médicine. One of the best histories from the pont of view of the great illustrated medical books. Orriginaly published by Perrin in 1962. Garrison & Morton 6786.7.

Paris,: Masson,, 1892.. ix, [i, blank], 348 pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.). Modern blind wrappers (discoloured), uncut and partly unopened.- (Clear waterstain on title; scattered foxing, especially in the first 4 gatherings). ** A charming work on the history of popular, folk and slang expressions in the French language, related to medicine.

Various imprints,, 1931-1956.. 444 pp. 8vo & 4to. Bound in half dark blue cloth, spine gilt lettered. With illustrations. From the library of Frans A. Sondervorst (with his bookplate). An interesting collections of 38 offprints and separates, hardly to bring to together today. The titles, in sequence of binding: 1954 Irrationales und rationales Denken in der Geschichte der Medizin. 12 pp. - 1934 Die antike Heilkunde und ihre Bedeutung für die Weltmedizin. 18 pp. - 1954 Mechnismus und Vitalismus in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahhunderts. 10 pp. - 1954 Georg B. Gruber zum 10. Geburstag.4 pp. - 1956 Universalmedizin und Goldmacherkunst in siebzehten. Jahrhundert. 14 pp. - 1932 Virchow und rie Romantik. 8 pp. - 1943 Was wissen wir sicher über den Aufenhalt des Paracelsus in Skandinavien? 8 pp. - 1937 Siebenhundert Jahre Heilkunde in Frankfurt am main. 4 pp. - 1936 Les influences religieuses sur le développement de la Médicine.10 pp. - 1933 Wie stehen wir in der… Read More

Rotterdam,: Donner Academic Publications,, (1984).. 191 pp. 8vo. (16 x 32.5 cm.). Original publisher's cloth with dust jacket. With numerous plates and illustrations. This work is not a comprehensive review of cardiac history, though very useful. It seeks to understand today's cardiology from its historic development during the long interval between Harvey and the middle of the 20th century.

New York,: Cancer Research,, 1948.. Two parts in one volume: 78 pp. 4to (20 x 26 cm.). Original printed wrappers. ¶ Written under the auspices of the Hodgkin's Disease Research Foundation. Reprinted from "Cancer Research", vol. VIII, part 1 & 2, February 1949.

Antwerpen,: J.-E. Buschmann,, 1929.. ]ii], 22, [iv] pp. Small 4to (18,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers over limp board (very slightly dust soiled). With 16 text illustrations and 13 plates of which 5 in full colour. ** The rare special edition. The ordinary edition was printed in a 8vo format in 2000 numbered copies on "papier Holyrood". The present copy is one of the 50 numbered copies (this is # 31) printed in "format Impérial" on "Papier Parcheminé français de Ville-sur-Saulx", and issued with a "suite" of the plates, loosely inserted in a separate port-folio. De Smet was a renown Belgian historian of Medicine.

Berlin,: Ferdinand Dümmler,, 1815.. [viii], 10, [iv] pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.). Contemporary grey boards (spine slightly worn). ¶ An outstanding early history of physiology. Copy with the bookplate of Prof. Sigmund Mayer.--(Some scattered light foxing).

Jena,: Gustav Fischer,, 1937.. iv, [iv], 224 pp. 8vo. (17 x 25 cm.). Half blue cloth (original printed wrappers bound in), spine gilt lettered. ¶ An oustanding work. Copy from the library of Prof. Frans A. Sondervorst, but with the bookplate of August van Schevensteen. Pasted in the front of the binding: A review Mayerhofer's work by A. Schevensteen (Revue belge de Philologie, t. XVIII [1939], No. 1), 2 pp. and an In Memoriam of Mayrhofer by Paul Diepgen (Offprint from Münchener Med. Wochenschrift 1938, Nr. 45). 4 pp. With a portrait of Mayrhofer.

Paris,: Roger Dacosta,, (1969).. 350, [iv] pp. 4to (20,5 x 27,5 cm.). Original gilt tooled publisher's cloth with coloured dust-jacket (jacket slightly discoloured and some minor tears at the top). With 2 maps, 12 coloured plates and 110 figures on 62 plain plates. ¶ A beautifully-illustrated history of Pre-Columbian American medicine. Separate sections deal with ancient civilizaions, the magico-religious and emperical aspects of medicine, knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, infectious and parasitic diseases, surgery, public hygiene, the medical profession, therapy. Appendix (pp. 233-252) by Grmek deal with medical subjects in the iconography of ancient Mexican manuscripts. Concluded with an exstensive bibliography.

Editions du Folklore Brabançon, (1929).. xv, [i], 240 pp. 8vo (14,5 x 23,8 cm.). Neatly bound in half red cloth, spine gilt lettered, marbled boards. With 42 plates and illustrations. ¶ Nice copy. Interesting text which deals with folk medicine of the province of Brabant (Wallon) only. Printed in 1300 copies only. --(Bulletin du Service de Recherches Historique et Folkloriques du Brabant).

Paris,: Edition Hippocrate,, 1947.. 334 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. A collections of summaries in French translation of the principal articles published in American medical periodicals during the Second World War, which were hardly available that period in France.-(Collection "Hippocrate").