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... More
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... More
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... More![Observations sur le Discours de M. Pringle, Qui termine la Relation des voyages de M. Cook…[in] Traité des fièvres de l'isle de St.-Domingue… Nouvelle édition. M. Poissonnier DESPERRIÈRES.](/pictures/thumb/4303384.jpg?v=1434432565)
Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1780.
Cook and the Copley medal: scurvy in French
Octavo, recent half calf. Early and informative published French notice of Captain Cook's findings on diet and scurvy, disseminating information of vital importance for the health of mariners derived from the first and second voyages of discovery... More
Nürnberg: Johann Andreæ Endter, 1668.
The exotic East and West Indies
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 with blind-embossed armorial stamps... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
Melbourne: Stillwell & Co. 1889. 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 worn,?ink stain to head of front wrapper. Unusual offprint, rare... More
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... More
London: 1818. Octavo, frontispiece and coloured aquatint plates; in contemporary speckled calf. Second and best edition, with numerous additions and alterations, of this famous account of the voyage of the Alceste which brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador, and specifically to negotiate the China trade, at the... More
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... More
[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... More
Leiden: Theodore Haak, 1764.
Dutch voyage medicine
Octavo, completely uncut, modern half calf. First edition: an important treatise on the diseases of sailors and their cure. Rouppe, naval physician and surgeon, had travelled widely in the West Indies aboard the Dutch ship Princesse Carolina, and he based much of this... More
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... More