Medicine from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A corner torn from seal with loss of a few letters, else fine. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies (what he calls "monsters"). Bocquillot answers that in… Read more

London: S. Highley, 1846. A few minor chips at sheet edges, generally fine. 8vo. [4], 23, [1] pages. Disbound. First offprint edition, printed for private circulation, this essay was read at the London Medical Society and originally appeared in The Transactions of the Medical Society of London for 1845. Forbes Winslow (1810-1874) was a British psychiatrist, author and… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Cooper's paper appears on page 1-12, 222-33. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. "Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2929). In this volume… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1840. Fine copy. 8vo. Burton's paper appears on page 63-79. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning - 'Burton's blue line' - an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, London" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2099). … Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1814. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Stevens's paper appears on page 422-34. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935). In this volume is one other important paper: BRODIE, Benjamin Collins (1783-1862). "Further observations on the diseases which… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Some foxing. 8vo. Travers's paper appears on pages 1-16. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2931.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Parkinson's paper appears on page 57-58. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First case of appendicitis reported in English, and the first in which perforation was recognized as the cause of death" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3560).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1819. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Bostock's paper appears on page 161-65. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Bostock's classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock's catarrh'. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The case… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1878. Minimal soiling, a generally fine copy. 8vo. Ord's paper appears on page 57-78. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Ord coined the term "myxedema" for the condition noted earlier by Curling and Gull." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3825).… Read more

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1883. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, a fine copy. 8vo. Barlow's paper appears on page 159-219. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Classic description of infantile scurvy ('Barlow's disease'), which includes the pathology of the condition" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3720).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Discreet library stamps on endpaper, minimal soiling. 8vo. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. Includes articles by some of the most significant physicians of the day, including Cooper, Travers, Roger, Brodie, and Charles Bell.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1842. Fine copy. 8vo. Curling's paper appears on page 260-81. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "'Curling's ulcer'. Although not first to report duodenal ulcers as a complication of burns, Curling correlated the work of previous writers on the subject and directed attention to it" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3445).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1839. Minimal chipping and soiling. 8vo. Stafford's paper appears on page 218-21. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4259). In this volume is one… Read more

N.p., 1668. Front hinge partly split, but sound. 12mo (130 x 74 mm). Engraved title. [24], 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. "By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most unusual of… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. A fine copy, fresh and bright with just a hint of wear at the extremities. 8vo. 234 pages, [4] pages ads at end, including for Henderson's first book and a 2-page list of "Useful Books for Women." Vignette illustrations in text. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, following… Read more

Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, 1803. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a "report on the administration of home help" and a "report on… Read more

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al., 1832. First edition. Chipping to ends of spine, library bookplate on pastedown, hinges cracked but volume tight and clean/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Hodgkin's paper is on pp. 68-114. Entire volume: xxiii, 523 pp. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, gilt crest on front cover. The first full… Read more

Cincinnati: P. W. Garfield, 1891. Later edition. Inscriptions on pastedown, some rubbing/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original cloth. A surgical classic. Garrison-Morton-Norman (first edition 1863).

Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1815. Spine reinforced with tape, library label and stamp on title/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Contemporary sheep.

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. First edition. Library stamps (ink and perforated), binding worn/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original muslin.