Bethesda, Maryland: US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971. 8vo; pp. v, [1], 51; very good in original gray cloth stamped in black on covers, stamped in black and gilt on spine. DHEW publication no. 71-296. More
University: Published for the American Dialect Society by the University of Alabama Press, 1981. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 105; original grey printed wrappers, spine a bit toned, light foxing to textblock fore edge and title page, else very good. Publication of the American Dialect Society no. 66. Includes a brief..... More
Paris: chez J. -B. Bailliere, 1842. 8vo, pp. viii, 744; 1 folding plate showing 26 figures; quarter calf over marbled boards; joints cracked, spine ends a little chipped; textblock clean and the bindings sound. More
Bucarest: La Société Roumaine de Neurologie, Psychiatrie, et Endocrinologie, 1933. Large, thick 8vo, pp. 715; black and white illustrations, photographs, graphs, charts, and diagrams throughout; original printed wrappers, lacking upper cover, spine ends partially perished, interior mostly fine. Scientific festschrift honoring Gheorghe Marinescu (ca. 1863-1938). Articles in French, German, Italian..... More
Paris: Labé, 1860. Slim 4to, pp. 109; modern marbled wrappers, light wear, occasional damp staining, later blue pencil notes on title page, else very good. At head of title: "Faculté de Médecine de Paris: concours pour l'agrégation, section de médecine et de médecine légale," faint rubber stamp of the Faculté..... More
Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing for the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 148; 45 illustrations (mostly from photographs) in the text; fine copy in the dust jacket. Extensive bibliography and index. More
London: James Nisbet & Co., 1910. 4to, pp. 12; plain text illustrations; original stiff cream printed wrappers; edges toned, minor wear from handling, else very good and sound. A short work on "chronic intestinal stasis," a.k.a. constipation. More
Philadelphia: Key, Mielke & Biddle, 1832. First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 332; 2 engraved plates; later blue cloth, red leather spine label stamped in gilt; light water damage at the inner and outer margins of several leaves, including the plates; a good copy. Garrison-Morton 2160: "Larrey was the greatest..... More
Paris: J. Smith et F. Buisson [et J.-B. Baillière], 1812-17-41. First edition, 5 volumes, 8vo, folding plan, 17 engraved plates (1 folding; original red paper-covered boards, brown morocco labels on spines; spine of volume 4 slightly discolored; the uncommon fifth volume, Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages, is in early..... More
Paris: Demonville et Soeurs, an XI - 1803. First edition, 8vo, pp. 10, [errata leaf], 480; engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 engraved plates showing genital tumors associated with elephantiasis; contemporary and probably original quarter brown morocco and red pastepaper covered boards, rebacked, retaining original pastedowns and flyleaves and with black..... More
Paris: Chez Béchet, 1831. Second edition, 12mo, pp. 152; 1 table; occasional foxing, small tear on upper cover near spine, else a very good copy in later decorative printed wrappers; inscribed by the author on half-title. Baron Felix Hippolyte Larrey (1808-1895), son of celebrated Larrey, was a French military doctor..... More
London: printed by C. Whittingham for H. D. Symons and J. Walker, 1804. Second edition illustrated by four hundred and eighteen engravings, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], cxlix, [1], 242; [4], 324; [6], 399, [1], [10] index; copper-engraved frontispiece portrait after Corbould, 424 engraved plates, leaf B1 in volume..... More
Berlin: 1765. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 331, [1]; title printed in red and black; 2 engraved head-pieces, 6 engraved folding plates; bound with: Le Cat, Nouveau systÍme, sur la cause de l'évacuation périodique du sexe, Amsterdam, 1765, pp. viii, 1235; engraved headpiece, woodcut ornaments; together 2 titles in contemporary..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1951]. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to, pp. xx, 176; frontispiece portrait and 27 facsimiles on plates throughout; spine ends just beginning to fray, otherwise very good in original light green morocco-grained cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Jenner (1749-1823) is best known as the discoverer..... More
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 102; disbound, lacking half title page; foxing of varying severity throughout, late 19th-century ownership signature at head of p. 50; very good and sound. The section on Italy is "reprinted almost without alteration" from the author's Observations on Italian..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1942]. 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 286; 1 folding table, numerous plates (1 folding) with black & white photographic illustrations, newspaper and magazine clippings (c.1942-1947) mentioning the author are laid in; some light toning, extremities are a bit faded at edges and spine, else very good..... More
[Winchester, England]: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985. Second edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 160; frontispiece portrait after engraving by W. Read and 9 full-page illustrations in the text; a fine copy in original green cloth and somewhat scuffed dustjacket with a few creases along bottom edges. A...... More
London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 227; 7 plates (1 in color); fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. "This first monograph on the history of coronary heart disease fills a most important gap in the history of medicine" Issued as..... More
New York: Froben Press, 1943. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 504; 100 photographic plates at end of text; very good in original light blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. GM 5812. More
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1939. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 512; black & white photographic plates, index, translated and edited by Archibald Young; very light wear to extremities, fore edge has a few spots, otherwise very good and sound in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine..... More
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, Libraire-Editeur, 1869. First edition, 4to, pp. 62; removed from binding; very good. Academic dissertation on chorea. More
New York: Froben Press, 1943. Second edition, revised and reset (first published 1936), 8vo, pp. [1], 119; frontispiece facsimile and 28 full-page portraits in the text; minor wear to extremities and vertical "stripe" of water damage on back cover, otherwise a very good copy. A brief "General Survey" of pediatrics..... More
Paris: Librarie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1925. First edition, 8vo, [4], 600, [4] ads; 395 illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text; contemporary brown cloth backed marbled boards; numerous informed annotations in the margins of the text in pencil; textblock lightly toned, extremities worn, good or better overall. More
Jena: Gustave Fischer, 1907. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 420; 1 folding colored plate, text illustrations; original quarter black cloth over patterned paper-covered boards; bookplates on front endpapers, corners rubbed. More
Chicago: American Medical Association, April, 1929. Large, thick 8vo, being volume 18, no. 4, pp. xxi, [1], [935]-2045, [1] (i.e. 1110 pages); numerous illustrations and plates, 1 folding, some colored; very good in contemporary red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Special number of the Arvhives of Surgery in honor of..... More
