MEDICAL LIST

Ashwell on Women’s Diseases

Second American Edition, 1848

Ashwell, Samuel. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases Peculiar to Women; Illustrated by Cases,

Derived from Hospital and Private Practice. With Notes by Paul B. Goddard. Philadelphia: Lea

& Blanchard, 1848. Second complete American edition from the last London edition. Original

full leather binding in fine condition. With “Catalogue of Medical, Surgical and Miscellaneous

Books” at rear. $150.

Paul Barbette on Medicine & Surgery

Frankfurt, 1673

Barbette, Paul. Medicin und Chirurgische Schriefften. Frankfurt: In

Verlegung Johann Peter Zubrodts und Joh. Baptistae Schonmetters,

1673. Very good in full vellum. Embossed borders and ruling,

remains of cloth ties, title handwritten on spine. With engraved title

page, and woodcut initials and tailpieces. Gothic German font. 544pp

plus indices. Text block is tight and whole. Engraved bookplate of

Alfred Jerome Brown to front pastedown. Also with illustrated

bookplate from “Farewell dinner #2, Mark M. Ravitch, Elkridge

Club, January 25, 1966.” Barbette (1620-1666) was a celebrated

Dutch physician whose works were translated into several

languages. No copies listed on the Internet. $950.

Baudelocque – Signed

Paris, 1806 - With 30 Folding Plates

Baudelocque, Jean Louis. Principes Sur l’Art des Accouchemens,

Par Demandes et Reponses en Faveur des Sages-Femmes.

Troisieme Edition. Paris: Chez Mequignon l’aine, 1806. Third

edition. Thirty folding plates of copperplate engravings, all in fine

condition, depicting obstetric subjects. Original quarter-vellum

binding with marbled paper boards. 8vo, 532pp. Signed by

Baudelocque on verso of half-title. An important and influential

manual by the most important and influential French obstetrician

of his day. Beautiful condition. $500.

Bidloo’s Exercitationum Anatomico-Chirurgicarum

Leyden, 1708 – With 16 Engraved Plates

Bidloo, G. Exercitationum Anatomico-Chirurgicarum Decades Duae.

Leyden: Jordanum Luchtmans, 1708. 16 engraved plates. Contemporary

full vellum binding. Text in Latin. Illustrated manual of surgical techniques

and instruments that went through at least fourteen Latin editions after its

first publication at Ulm in 1653. $2,500.

First Edition

Cardano’s Opuscula Medica Senilia

Lyon, 1638

Cardano, Gerolamo [Hieronymi Cardani]. Opuscula Medica Senilia. Lugduni: Laurentii Durand,

1638. Very good in full vellum. Red morocco gilt title label to spine. Very light dampstaining to

interior; text is whole and completely readable. Later endpapers. Title page printed in red and

black with an engraved device. With large engraved illustration depicting a dragon eating a

human. Occasional woodcut initials and headpieces. Four parts in one: I. De Dentibus. II. De

rationali curandi ratione. III. De facultatibus medicamentorum, praecipue. IV. De morbo Regio.

Cardano (1501-1576) was an Italian physician, mathematician, inventor, astrologer, and gambler.

After studying medicine, he

was refused admittance to the

College of Physicians in Milan

due to his confrontational

style, but still earned a

reputation as a physician, and

was the first to describe

typhoid fever. Cardano

published works on a wide

variety of subjects, and is best

known as a mathematician for

his contributions to algebra

and probability. $1,800.

Renaldus Colombus

De Re Anatomica

Paris, 1572

With contemporary notes & annotations

Columbus, Renaldus [Matteo Realdo Colombo] [Realdi Columbi

Chremonensis]. De Re Anatomica libri XV. Parisiis: Andream Wechelum,

1572. Very good in original full vellum, somewhat worn and stained as is to

be expected. Title hand-lettered on spine. 493pp, octavo. Printer’s device to

title page and final page; decorative initials throughout. Manuscript notes to

the endpapers, dated 1589 and 1590; occasional

underlining and notation by the same 16th

century owner.

Colombus (c.1516-1559) was an Italian

anatomist and surgeon, among the first to

describe pulmonary circulation. De Re

Anatomica, his only written work, was first

published in 1559 shortly before his death. He

makes several important observations in the 15

parts of this work. $1,000.

Flint’s Diseases of the Respiratory Organs

Philadelphia, 1856

Flint, Austin. Physical Exploration and Diagnosis of Diseases Affecting the

Respiratory Organs. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1856. Full recent brown

leather with raised bands and gilt title to spine. Very good condition. Dampstaining

to inner hinge of first ten pages. Thick 8vo, 636pp, plus 32 pages of advertisements

for Blanchard & Lea's medical and surgical publications. $125.

Heisteri—Compendium Medicinae Practicae

Venice: Stephen Manfred, 1758

Heisteri, Laurentii [Lorenz Heister]. Compendium Medicinae

Practicae, cui Praemissa est de Medicinae Mechanicae

Praestantia Dissertatio. Venetiis: Stephani Manfredi, 1758.

Very good in full vellum, with hand-lettered title to spine.

Octavo, lxiv, 455pp with index. Light foxing throughout.

Heister (1683-1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon, and

botanist, who is credited with coining the term “tracheotomy.”

$500.

Johannes Heurne – 1602 Plantin Imprint

Tooled Leather Binding - MGGT

Heurnii, Ioannis [Johannes Heurne]. De Morbis Oculorum, Aurium,

Nasi Dentium et Oris. Leyden: Ex Officina Plantiniana, 1602. Quarto.

One folding plate. Bound with De Morbis Pectoris. Leyden: Ex

Officina Plantiniana, 1602. First editions of both titles. Bound in blind-

tooled full leather contemporary binding bearing the initials MGGT.

De Morbis Oculorum deals with illnesses of the eyes, ears, nose, teeth,

and throat. There is a folding table at the rear. De Morbis Pectoris

deals with illnesses of the chest: pneumonia, asthma, pulmonary inflammation, and pleurisy.

Johannes Heurnius (Jean van Huerne) was a famous Dutch physician. He studied medicine in

Paris and Padua where he took his degree. Afterwards he taught as professor of medicine at

Leyden where he introduced the clinical teaching of medicine as early as 1591. $2,000.

King’s Manual of Obstetrics

150 Illustrations

King, A.F.A. A Manual of Obstetrics. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1892. Fifth edition.

With one hundred and fifty illustrations. Original dark green cloth in very good condition.

$50.

Obstetrics. 1907.

Lee De, Joseph, ed. with Henry D. Roehler & Herbert M. Stowe. Obstetrics. Volume V from the

Practical Medicine Series. Series 1907. Chicago: The Year Book Publishers, 1907. Original blue

cloth; very bright gold tooling. $50.

W. J. Little – A Treatise on the Nature of Club-Foot

London, 1839 – Very Rare First Edition

Little, W. J. A Treatise on the Nature of Club-Foot and Analogous

Distortions; including their treatment both with and without

surgical operation. Illustrated by a series of cases and numerous

practical instructions. London: W. Jeffs, 1839. Very rare first

edition in green embossed cloth; recent matching green spine; front

and rear hinges repaired. 276pp. Engraved illustrations throughout.

With several pages of advertisements at the front and rear. With

bookplate of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of

Maryland.

Little (1810-1894) suffered from a deformed foot himself, which

was corrected by Louis Stromeyer, with whom Little studied

surgical techniques. Little also founded the Royal Orthopaedic

Hospital of London and was the first to medically identify spastic

diplegia. $2,000.

Ch. A. Louis – Pathological Researches on Phthisis

Paris, 1825

Louis, Ch. A. Recherches Anatomico-Pathologiques sur la Phthisie. Paris:

Gabon & Co., 1825. Fine in modern brown half-leather binding; marbled

boards; marbled fore-edges. 560pp. “One of the most influential figures in

French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of

Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation

as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on

358 dissections and 1,960 cases. His use of statistical analysis is

noteworthy.” [David White Books] $300.

Gynecological & Obstetrical Texts by Five Authors in One Volume

With 3 Folding Plates

1650

I. Pinaei, I. Sever. De Integratis et Corruptionis Virginum Notis: Graviditate

item & Partu Naturali Mulierum, Opuscula.

II. Bonacioli, Ludov. Enneas Muliebris [Ferrariensis de Foetus Formatione]

III. Plateri, Fel. De Origini Partium, earumque in utero conformatione.

IV. Gassendi, Petri. De Septo Cordis Pervio, Observatio.

V. Sebizii, Melchioris. De Notis Virginitatis.

Lugduni-Batavorum: Apud Franciscum Moyaert, 1650. Fine 12mo in full vellum. Title of first

work hand-lettered on spine. With engraved title page, 3 engraved folding plates, a folding table,

and several other engraved illustrations. The work by Pineau contains all of the plates and

illustrations, and is 182pp, after which pagination starts over. The second section is 338pp, and

contains Bonacioli, Platter, Gassendi, Sebezius, and an index. Decorative initials, head-, and tail-

pieces throughout.

Severin Pineau (c.1550-1619) was a Parisian physician and surgeon to the king, chiefly

remembered for his work in gynecology. His text covers virginity and its loss. Luigi Bonacioli

(died 1540) practiced medicine in Ferrara, Italy, and this book was the first publication of his text

on the fetus. Felix Platter (1536-1614) was a

German anatomist, and his treatise concerns the

origin of arteries, veins, and nerves. Pierre

Gassendi (1592-1655) was a French philosopher

and scientist, best known as an advocate of

empiricism and as a rival of Descartes. This is the

only published version of his brief description of

the foramen ovale of the heart. Finally, Melchior

Sebezius (1578-1674) was a professor of

medicine at the University of Strassbourg, and his

contribution is a study of virginity. Overall, a

fascinating and significant 17th

century medical

work. $2,000.

Nicol Piso

De Cognoscendis et Curandis Praecipue Internis...

Frankfurt, 1585

Piso, Nicol [Nicholas LePois]. De cognoscendis et curandis

praecipue internis humani corporis morbis libritres: ex

classicorum medicorum tum veterum tum recentiorum

monumentis non ita pridem collecti, & nunc ab eodem

recogniti & aucti. Accessit eiusdem liber De febribus.

Francofurdi: Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli, 1585. Very

good in quarter old calf with paper-covered boards. Elaborate

gilt tooling to spine. 16 leaves, 968pp, 14 leaves, 1 blank, 1

leaf. With printer’s device twice repeated and fine engraved

portrait of the author. Octavo. Wear to paper boards and

slight worming to spine; interior intact.

A large collection of medical observations by the famous

French physician Piso (1527-1590), who was also known by the name LePois. Piso was

physician to the Duke of Lorraine, Charles III. Piso’s grand work, De cognoscendid et

curandis..., was first published in folio in 1580, and continued to be held in high regard through

the next two centuries. $3,500.

De Humana Physiognomonia - 1650

Giovanni Porta – 85 Woodcut Illustrations

Porta, Giovanni. De Humana

Physiognomonia. Libri IV. Editio postrema

priori correctior. Rothomagi: Joannis

Berthelin, 1650. 8vo. Bound in contemporary

paper-covered boards. With 85 woodcut

illustrations comparing basic animal features

with human features—wonderfully executed.

Hand-made paper with deckle edges. Porta’s

famous work on physiognomy; this is the

corrected and expanded edition (the first was

1586). $1,200.

Francesco Redi – Osservationi

Firenze, 1684

With All 26 Plates

Redi, Francesco. Osservationi di Francesco Redi, accademico della crusca, intorno agli animali

viventi che si trovano negli animali vivente. Firenze: Per Piero Matini, all’infegna del Lion

d’Oro, 1684. All 26 plates present,

including 2 fold-out plates. Very good in

original full vellum binding, hand-lettered

title on spine. 232pp with index. Title page

printed in red and black with engraved

printer’s device. Dampstaining to the upper

corner of the plates and to the last 10 pages

of the text. $975.

First Edition, 1906 – With 85 Diagrams and Figures

Sherrington – The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

Sherrington, Charles S. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System. London: Archibald

Constable, 1906. First edition. Yale University, Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Lectures. Very good in

original dark blue cloth; gilt lettering on spine. 411pp with bibliography and index. Illustrated

with 85 diagrams and figures. “Sherrington’s book...provided the conceptual framework for a

century of research into the mechanisms of synaptic transmission and neuronal discharges

associated with perception and action” [David N. Levine, Sherrington’s ‘The Integrative action

of the nervous system’: A centennial appraisal. Journal of Neurological Sciences, Feb 2007.]

$1,600.

Rare First Edition

F. Campbell Stewart – Eminent French Surgeons

Stewart, F. Campbell. Eminent French Surgeons, with a Historical and

Statistical Account of the Hospitals of Paris; together with

Miscellaneous Information and Biographical Notices of the Most

Eminent of the Living Parisian Surgeons. Buffalo: A. Burke. Rare first

edition. Very good in black cloth, embossed boards. Sticker of previous

owner on front free endpaper; inscribed by previous owner on title page.

Light foxing. Some wear to boards. 432pp with errata and bibliography.

$400.

Swammerdam’s Historia Insectorum Generalis

First Edition in Latin – 1685

Swammerdam, Johannes. Historia Insectorum Generalis.

Lugd. Batavorum: Jordanum Luchtmans, 1685. First

edition of the Latin translation by Henricus Christianus

Henninius, from the original Dutch edition of 1669. With

13 folding plates depicting

insects, plus a folding table and

several woodcut devices. Octavo, 212pp plus index. Very good

condition. Full polished calf, respined. Swammerdam (1630-1680) was

a Dutch biologist and microscopist. He was among the first to study

insects systematically, and advanced understanding of insect anatomy

by dissecting insects under microscope and describing the phases of

insect metamorphosis. $2,850.

Swammerdam – Tractus Physico-Anatomico-Medicus,

De Respiratione Usuque Pulmonum…

Leiden, 1738

Swammerdam, Jan. Tractus physico-anatomico-

medicus, de respiratione usuque pulmonum…edition

altera, cui subjuncta es D. Alberti Haller…de

diaphragmatic musculis dissertation anatomica. Editio

tertia. Leiden: Conrad Wishoff, 1738. Small quarto,

text in Latin, 7 small woodcut text illustrations and

several decorative initials and devices, [16] including

additional engraved title-page, 95pp, [1], folding

engraved plate at rear. A few contemporary marginal

notations including ownership signature and smudges at engraved title

page, a few spots and/or ink splashes, overall solid and clean internally.

Modern sheep-backed speckled paper boards. Very good.

Swammerdam is primarily known for his early use of microscopes in

insect classification. This work, a logical next step, moves on to

mammals, the dissection and description of the pulmonary system,

with the addition of Haller’s study of the surrounding muscles. It was

Swammerdam who first connected brain activity to muscle movement

rather than influxes of air or fluid from the pulmonary system, which

the previous balloonist theory had supposed. In this book several

models are devised to illustrate possible pulmonary mechanics and are

illustrated in woodcut. An intriguing step in the understanding of

anatomy. $1,200.

Jacobus Sylvius

Methodus Medicamenta Componendi

Paris, 1555

Sylvius, Jacobus [Iacobo Sylvio][Jacques Dubois]. Methodus Medicamenta Componendi, ex

Simplicibus Judicio summo delectis, & arte certa paratis, quatuor libris distributa. Paris, 1555.

Very good in full vellum, with embossed borders and remains of cloth

ties. Boards bowed outward and lightly stained; cataloging numbers

written on spine. Interior quite clean. Octavo, 204pp plus index.

Printer’s device to title page; woodcut initials throughout. 17th

-century

inscription of Austrian doctor Joannis Rolandi to title page. Ex-libris of

the University of Maryland Department of

Gross Anatomy, with their bookplate,

stamps, and pocket at rear. Jacques Dubois

(1478-1555), known as Jacobus Sylvius in

Latin, was a French anatomist and professor

of surgery at the Royal College in Paris.

$500.

First Edition – The Three Faces of Eve

Signed by Thigpen & Cleckley

Thigpen, Corbett H. & Hervey M. Cleckley. The Three Faces of Eve. New York: McGraw Hill

Book Company, 1957. First edition. Signed by both authors on the front pastedown. Association

copy, warmly inscribed on front flyleaf by both authors to J. McV. Hunt, the author of the

introduction and a past president of the American Psychological Association. Near fine in near

fine dustjacket, but for a half-inch closed tear to the bottom edge of front panel. Crisp unfaded

spine. $550.

First Edition – Collected Works of Weyer

With Engraved Portrait and 9 Woodcut Illustrations

Weyer, Johann. Opera Omnia. Amsterdam: Petrum can den Berge

(Petrus Montanus), 1660. First edition. With the famous engraved

portrait of Weyer done by Holstein. With nine woodcut illustrations

including the engraved portrait of a ten-year-old girl and depictions of

medicinal plants. Thick quarto bound in recent full vellum. This is the

first edition of the first collected works by Weyer, and is viewed as

one of the great psychiatric classics. Weyer “pleaded for medical

treatment of the mentally ill and suggested that the confessions of the

so-called witches were nothing more than reports of visual and

auditory hallucinations experienced under the influence of some

drugs. With skill and sympathy, Weyer described the symptoms of

schizophrenia, the phenomena of mass hysteria, the paranoia of homosexuals, and the

significance of agitation recurring yearly on the same date” (Howells 1982, p.976). Includes

Weyer’s “De Lamiis,” a book that Freud believed helped to found modern psychiatry. Freud

praised Weyer’s “Praestigiis Daemonum” as one of the ten most significant books of all time.

$3000.

Presentation Copy from Author S.B. Wolbach

Etiology and Pathology of Typhus – 1922

Wolbach, S. Burt, John L. Todd, and Francis W. Palfrey. The Etiology and

Pathology of Typhus. Being the Main Report of the Typhus Research

Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press/ The League of Red Cross Societies, 1922.

Fine in dark green cloth. Quarto. 222pp plus 34 plates. Inscribed “To Dr.

Wm. B. MacAllister/ Regards of S.B. Wolbach.” $400.