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Paris,: Octave Doin,, 1907.. [viii], iii, [i], 312 pp. 8vo (13,5 x 20,5 cm.). Original burgundy buckram, spine gilt lettered, top edges gilt.. With 24 fine coloured plates after the moulages (wax casting-moulds) of the Hopital Saint-Louis by the incomparable artist Baretta. ¶ The Musée, founded in 1866, started with the modest collection Devergie of watercoulours and photographs. By… Read more

Berlin,: Karger,, 1925.. x, 238, [ii] pp. 8vo. Original cloth. With 120 illustrations. ¶ The illustrations are chiefly of instruments and appliances.

Berlin,: Julius Springer,, 1924.. viii, 80, [ii] pp. Small 4to [20 x 27.5 cm.]. Original cloth (slithly stained). Richly illustrated with 137 coloured illustrations on 64 plates after the 'moulages''(wax models) of F. Kolbow, A. Tempelhoff, M. Landsberg & A. Kröner. ¶ This wellknown atlas is a masterpiece of medical illustration.

Paris,: J. Rueff,, 1903-1906. 2 volumes; [iv], 865, [i]; 464, [iv], (465)-910, [i] pp. 8vo. Contemporary green cloth, spine gilt lettered (spines somewhat stained). With some illustrations. ¶ A great classic, which has became quite rare today. "Fournier, one of the graetest syphilologist, did more than any other person to develop the knowledge regarding congenital syphilis. Through his writings,… Read more

(Bruxelles),: Union Chimique Belge,, 1949.. 139, [v] pp. 8vo (16.5 x 25 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers (a few light scattered spots), entirely uncut and unopened. With a frontispiece and 56 (2 coloured) plates. ¶ Finely printed in black and orange with decorative headings to the chapters (21) at the presses of the master printer J.E. Buschmann of Antwerp.The author… Read more

Paris,: Amedee Legrand,, 1928.. [ii], 379, [iii] pp. 8vo. (16.3 x 23.5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With some figures and 2 coloured plates. A collection of 7 essays by French specialist on the subject which contributed seriously to the development of skin biology. "Publication du Laboratoire de Chimie de la clinique des Maladies Cutanées ... à l'Hôpital Saint-Louis".--(Last… Read more

Leipzig,: Georg Thieme,, 1923.. xv, 366 pp. Tall 8vo (17,5 x 25,5 cm.). Original half cloth. With 66 illustrations and 14 coloured plates. ¶ A classic. Most of the illustrations are of instruments.-- (Small tear in the upper margin of one leaf).

Gent,: Eug. VanderHaeghen,, 1889.. 9, [ii] blank] pp. 8vo (14.5 x 23 cm.). Original blue printed wrappers. With 6 figures on 2 wood engraved plates. ¶ Copy with author's autograph dedication....The author was a surgeon at the Gand Civil Hospital and assistant to the Gand University. In this paper he described new catheter (after his invention) for… Read more

Paris,: Michel Lambert,, 1775.. 2 volumes: xix, [i], 640; [iv], 641-1070, [ii] pp. 8vo (13 x 20 cm.). Bound in contemporary polished calf, spine with raised band and gilt decorated, gilt lettered and numbered on green Morocco labels; red edges (an attractive binding with some minor rubbing and wear). ¶ A rare work, being a mixture of quackery and… Read more

Paris,: Masson,, 1923.. xviii, [ii], 986, [ii], [48 publisher's catalogue] pp. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. With 211 illustrations. --[Collection des Precis Medicaux]. This classic was translated into German by Zwick under the direction of Jadassohn (Bern 1913), and in English by S. Pollitzer (New York 1920). In 1922 an illegal Japanese translation was published].