Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. Third edition. 8vo. xii, 542 pp. 13 engraved plates, two folding, by J. Drayton and W. Kneass after Alex Sheddon and J. Stewart, Jr. Contemporary sheep. Provenance: Dr. Philip Leidy, father of pioneering American physician Joseph Leidy (bookplate). Though called on the title, "Second.....
Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co., 1850. First edition. 8vo. 878 pp. Folding frontispiece lithographed map by A. Wocher after B. P. Whiting, and 18 single-page maps. Original calf, black morocco lettering-pieces. Provenance: signature of an early owner from New Orleans on the pastedown. "This classical contribution to the social.....
Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1904. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. One of the seven volumes in the complete series. Garrison-Morton-Norman 4981.
London: John Churchill, 1857. Fourth edition. 8vo. Modern half leather.
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, 1891. First edition in English. 8vo. Finlay's paper is on pp. 264-68. Entire volume: 690 pp. Modern half leather. See Garrison-Morton-Norman 5455: "Finlay was the first to suggest that the mosquito carried yellow fever infection from man to man. The paper is reprinted, with translation, in Medical.....
New York: By the Author, 1864. Later edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1877. First edition. 8vo. Förster's paper is on pp. 59-234. Entire volume: viii, 554 pp. At end, General Register, 1880, 68 pp. Contemporary half morocco. "Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5915).....
Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils, 1866. Second edition, revised and corrected. 8vo. 880 pp. Half-title. Illustrations in text. Contemporary French morocco-backed boards. An extensive study, well-illustrated, of the liver and biliary diseases by University of Berlin Professor of Clinical Medicine, Fr. Theodor von Frerichs. He made several contributions to.....
London: New Sydenham Society, 1860-61. First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo. Two color frontispieces, illustrations in text. Original embossed cloth. "Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver.....
Chicago: 3 April 1909. First edition. Folio. Pp. 1075-77. Portait plate of Gorgas by Harris and Ewing. Disbound. "In 1901, Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever.....
Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell, 1842. Second American edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Contemporary sheep. "Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century" (see Garrison-Morton-Norman 2218).
Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1813. Seventh edition. 8vo. Modern half leather.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 8vo. 234 pages, [4] pages ads at end, including for Henderson's first book and a 2-page list of "Useful Books for Women." Vignette illustrations in text. Original decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION of the author's second book, following her successful 'Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving'.....
Paris: Méquignon, 1785. 8vo. xvi + 942 + Index. Half-title. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, morocco lettering-piece in one, a repeated floral panel in the remaining. Hévin was royal surgeon to the Dauphin.
Cincinnati: P. W. Garfield, 1891. Later edition. 8vo. Original cloth. A surgical classic. Garrison-Morton-Norman 5609 (first edition 1863).
Cincinnati: P. W. Garfield, 1891. Later edition. 8vo. Original cloth. A surgical classic. Garrison-Morton-Norman (first edition 1863).
Paris: J. Fr Valade, 1784. Two works in one volume, 12mo. 255; 271 pp, with errata leaf at end. Text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco lettering-piece, smooth spine decorated in gilt. A beautifully-designed and printed edition, the Greek and Latin texts of the aphorisms on.....
Albany: E. F. Backus, [1813]. First American edition. 8vo. [18], [2], 275, [9] pp. Half-title. Modern library cloth. Originally published in 1809, also without authorial attribution. The Preface to this American edition notes that it is an important sequel to the author's 'Anatomist's' and 'Physician's Vade-Mecum.' Austin 944; Shaw &.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. 8vo. 248 pages.Illustrations in text. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, describing Jacobson's pioneering methods of dealing with stress. Jacobson was the originator of the progressive muscle relaxation training concept.
London: William Thorne for the Editor, July 1818 to July 1819. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards.
Vienna and Leipzig: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1887. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Thick 8vo. 1003 pp. Modern half cloth, marbled boards. One of the classic works on skin diseases, by the first physician to describe pigmented Sarcoma ("Kaposi's Sarcoma"). Garrison-Morton-Norman 3995 (first edition of 1880).
New York and London: D. Appleton, 1908. First edition. Thick 8vo. Contemporary half leather.
Berlin and Munich: Julius Springer and J. F. Bergmann, 1929. First edition. 4to. Original two-toned cloth.
London: New Sydenham Society, 1863. Later edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
London: Callow and Wilson, 1824. Fourth edition. 8vo. Contemporary sheep.
