Medicine
Printed Admiralty order regarding venereal disease…
London: Office of the Admiralty, 5 October 1757.
"The Risque of getting those Distempers"
Folio, 6 pages plus integral blank; folded to docket size with manuscript annotation "Admiralty New Instructions relating to Surgeons" A scarce and desirable relic of eighteenth-century naval life: an official printed order from the Admiralty concerning...
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$985.00
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Ref: #4403246
Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia…
Sydney: Australian Medical Gazette, 1888. Octavo; in original green cloth. An exhaustive guide to over 200 health resorts in Australia and New Zealand, with analyses of mineral waters, services and therapeutic indications. Also includes activities available to patients, such as Killarney, Queensland, "Very pretty scenery, and dry, bracing climate. Shooting...
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$485.00
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Ref: #2811885
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales…
Warrington: William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell... and N.Conant... London, 1780.
Prison reform in the 1780s
Octavo, with ten folding engraved plates including seven highly detailed architectural plans; a superb copy in original condition, edges completely uncut, in original boards, spine lettered in ink preserved in a quarter morocco...
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$3,400.00
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Ref: #4504469
Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten.
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies: in monastic pigskin binding
Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....
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$19,850.00
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Ref: #4012339
The History of Physick; from the time of Galen…
London: J. Walthoe, 1726.
First history of medicine written by an Englishman
Two volumes, octavo, contemporary panelled calf. Attractive early mixed set of this first history of medicine written by an Englishman, comprising the third edition of the first volume and first edition of the second. Regarding nautical medicine, Friend...
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$2,850.00
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Ref: #3511197
An Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe…
London: J. Johnson, C. Dilly and T. Cadell, 1791.
Prisons, hulks, quarantine stations and mental hospitals
Quarto, with 22 engraved plans and views (18 of them folding) and a large folding table; bound without the half-title in contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine banded in gilt, red morocco label; an excellent...
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$2,250.00
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Ref: #4002621
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales…
London: William Eyres for Cadell and Conant, 1780.
Prison reform in the 1780s
Octavo, with ten folding engraved plates including seven highly detailed architectural plans; contemporary tree calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. Second and best edition of John Howard's exhaustive and highly influential examination of the prisons...
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$2,000.00
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Ref: #4303377
Address in Surgery.
Melbourne: Stillwell & Co., 1889.
"accurate knowledge, infinite painstaking, and sacred reverence for human life"
Octavo, 23 pp., some foxing, old fold, and manuscript postal address and postmarks (1889), where the pamphlet has been mailed from South Australia to New South Wales; in the original printed wrappers, rather spotted and...
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$1,050.00
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Ref: #3806686
Experimental Essays on Medical and Philosophical Subjects.
London: T. Becket and T. Cadell, 1776.
Malt for scurvy
Octavo, two folding tables and four folding plates, modern brown morocco. An important work, including Macbride's essay "On the Scurvy". The author's "Malt" was one of the main antiscorbutics used on Cook's voyages, although it has since been proved to...
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$2,250.00
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Ref: #3702873
Recherches sur le scorbut et les fievres putride…
Paris &c. Didot jeune et al. 1786.
French companion volume to Lind
Octavo, uncut in original plain blue-grey wrappers, early ink spine label. Attractive Didot-printed work on scurvy with references to James Lind and Captain Cook: 'Les Médicins Anglois ont donné l'exemple à ceux des autres nations…'. This was translated.....
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$875.00
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Ref: #4104508
Rare handbill advertising the sale of skull casts.
[Edinburgh]: circa 1820.
Casts of the Human Head in Stucco, Bronze or Terracota.
Printed handbill, 11 x 14 cm., untrimmed; very good. Rare handbill or advertisement for the firm of Luke O'Neil, announcing that the Edinburgh-based statuary company "respectfully begs leave to intimate to the public, that he supplies correct...
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$850.00
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Ref: #4211265
Pre. Fois. Keraudren (Médecin) Médicin en chef des Armées navales…
Paris: 1828.
The Surgeon who wrote the instructions for the Baudin voyage
Engraved portrait, 255 x 195 mm. Fine portrait of important medical researcher into cholera and scurvy, Pierre François Keraudren. Although Keraudren did not sail with Baudin, he played a formative part in the outfitting of the expedition, because...
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$375.00
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Ref: #4203873