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Leipzig: Johannis Herebordi Klosii [Johann Herbert Kloss], 1691. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, spine label chipped and nearly gone, worn at corners with some loss at spine ends and light cracking to hinge, but still a fairly well preserved binding. Originally published in 1677. The Responsa Medica, originally published separately in 1668 in bound at the end with its own title page in red and black but consecutive pagination. 1157pp. Van de Sande bookplate on endpaper. During the 30 years war, he was physician to the Elector of Brandenburg and in 1638 cured a large portion of the Swedish army of the plague for which he was much lauded (at least by the Swedes). Size: Octavo (8vo). Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039124.

Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear. An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry. Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size:… Read More

Tight in possibly contemporary binding with later? title label: "Medical Topography, 1830", previous owner's name and one line comment on FEP. 2 or 3 pages with some red pencil underlining, one printer's ink stain and two pages with small repaired tears. Otherwise superb printing on now slightly yellowed pages.Seller accepts reasonable offersPostage free worldwide

Paris: Laurent d'Houry, 1707. First edition. 1707 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS BY SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. 8 inches tall hardcover (octavo) [28]-746-[23] pages, 11 copper plate engravings (portrait frontispiece & 10 plates, including anatomy theater engraved by J. B. Scotin), 52 woodcuts in the text (numbered in sequence with copper plates, including un-numbered woodcut page 163 depicting stones from the kidneys of Pope Innocent XI in 1689. The remaining woodcuts and plates depict surgical instruments used in operations ranging from ophthalmic surgery to abdominal, obstetric, urologic, and orthopedic operations. Contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt red leather title. Corners and spine ends worn, cover edges abraded, joints cracked but binding firm, 1 mm pinhole through upper corner of first 100 leaves, light marginal browning to pages, and scattered light foxing. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and folding plate… Read More

Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed by the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON (1857-1952). On the verso of the front fly-leaf in Sherrington's hand is a listing of the two titles bound in this volume. Sherrington contributed a paper to the first volume (pp.88-90): Addition Latente and recruitment in reflex contraction and inhibition. Faint library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons. A very good copy.… Read More

Leipzig: Johannis Herebordi Klosii [Johann Herbert Kloss], 1691. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, spine label chipped and nearly gone, worn at corners with some loss at spine ends and light cracking to hinge, but still a fairly well preserved binding. Originally published in 1677. The Responsa Medica, originally published separately in 1668 in bound at the end with its own title page in red and black but consecutive pagination. 1157pp. Van de Sande bookplate on endpaper. During the 30 years war, he was physician to the Elector of Brandenburg and in 1638 cured a large portion of the Swedish army of the plague for which he was much lauded (at least by the Swedes). Size: Octavo (8vo). Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 039124.

Paris: Anisson & Posuel, 1717. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary leather respined and edged in modern leather, old bookplates on the added endpaper. Lovely engraved title and 5 plates. Light dampstain to foredge, plates a bit soiled at edges, a few small wormholes at rear. Explication des plus communs caracteres chymiques pasted to rear blank. Old catalog entry pasted to rear added endpaper. Very good overall. (6), 884, index. 5 plates and explication table bound at rear. An accomplished apothecary and professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Charas was appointed pharmacist to Charles II in 1679, just after the publication of the first edition (1676) of this his most important work. He moved back and forth between there and Europe - he was also the author of an important, if mostly wrong, work on snake venom. His pharmacopia was an important work eliding alchemy into chemistry. Provenance: E. Grendel (bookplate) & Bibliotheca Pharmacia Van de Sande (bookplate). Size:… Read More

Tight in possibly contemporary binding with later? title label: "Medical Topography, 1830", previous owner's name and one line comment on FEP. 2 or 3 pages with some red pencil underlining, one printer's ink stain and two pages with small repaired tears. Otherwise superb printing on now slightly yellowed pages.Seller accepts reasonable offersPostage free worldwide

Paris: Laurent d'Houry, 1707. First edition. 1707 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS BY SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. 8 inches tall hardcover (octavo) [28]-746-[23] pages, 11 copper plate engravings (portrait frontispiece & 10 plates, including anatomy theater engraved by J. B. Scotin), 52 woodcuts in the text (numbered in sequence with copper plates, including un-numbered woodcut page 163 depicting stones from the kidneys of Pope Innocent XI in 1689. The remaining woodcuts and plates depict surgical instruments used in operations ranging from ophthalmic surgery to abdominal, obstetric, urologic, and orthopedic operations. Contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt red leather title. Corners and spine ends worn, cover edges abraded, joints cracked but binding firm, 1 mm pinhole through upper corner of first 100 leaves, light marginal browning to pages, and scattered light foxing. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and folding plate… Read More

Paris: Editions Medicales, 1926. First edition. UNIQUE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF FESTSCHRIFT HONORING NOBELIST CHARLES RICHET, COPY OF NOBELIST CHARLES SHERRINGTON, CONTAINING WALTER CANNON'S ESSAY FIRST USING THE TERM "HOMEOSTASIS".11 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, (n.p., Paris), July 1926. Two volumes in one, original stiff printed wrappers to both volumes bound in, uncut, [4],101 pp, [4]; 37 pp, [1]. Limitation indication in the first volume: copy 269 of 500, signed by the editor. Each volume with the ownership signature of the 1932 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, PAPERS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON (1857-1952). On the verso of the front fly-leaf in Sherrington's hand is a listing of the two titles bound in this volume. Sherrington contributed a paper to the first volume (pp.88-90): Addition Latente and recruitment in reflex contraction and inhibition. Faint library stamps of the Royal College of Surgeons. A very good copy.… Read More