Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831. First American edition. 8vo. xxii, 464 pp. Contemporary sheep. "First textbook of neuropathology. Originally published in a series of articles in Edin. med. surg. J., 1818-19, and first collected into book form in the German translation, with appendix, by C. Nasse, Bonn, E. Weber, 1821".....
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, 1886. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half leather. Contains: Charles FINLAY. “Yellow fever: its transmission by means of the Culex mosquito.” Pp. 395-409.
New York: Paul Hoeber, 1917-1937. First editions. Together 11 volumes, 4to. Illustrations in text. Full volumes bound in red library cloth, gilt-lettered on spines; the two final single issues in original printed wrappers. A large run of this important journal. Garrison-Morton-Norman 6652. Included in this run are: HYDE, Edward, Earl.....
New York: Evert Duyckinck et al, 1824. 8vo. Contemporary sheep.
Boston: Timothy Bedlington, 1829. Fourth(?) American edition. 8vo. 559 pp. Contemporary American mottled sheep, red morocco lettering-piece. "The present volume embraces a great variety of diseases; diseases peculiarly interesting and important from their frequent occurrence, fatal tendency" (Preface by Leland). Earlier American editions were published in 1821, 1822, and 1824.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1873. First edition. 8vo. Baker's paper is on pp. 198-211. Entire volume: 257 pp., 81 pp. tables at end. Contemporary half cloth, marbled boards. "First description of erythema serpens, usually called 'erysipeloid of Rosenbach', following the latter’s paper in Arch. klin. Chir., 1887, 36, 346".....
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1864. Third American edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1883. 8vo. Barlow’s paper appears on page 159-219. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Classic description of infantile scurvy ('Barlow’s disease'), which includes the pathology of the condition" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3720).
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1861. First American edition. 8vo. 463 pp. Wood-engravings in text. Original cloth. Provenance: C. H. Ferguson, Toledo, OH (signature on pastedown). This is the first of three books Barwell wrote on orthopedics. Includes sections on synovitis, rheumatism, pyarthrosis, acute articular osteitis, chronic rheumatic arthritis, hip-joint disease.....
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1847. Second edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. "Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach.....
Paris: Labé, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Bernard's paper is on pp. 303-19. Entire volume: 512 pp. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. "Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Medical Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 995).
London: New Sydenham Society, 1866-67. First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. "One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 6048, first edition in French, 1860-62).
Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans and Theodor Haak, 1728. Fourth edition, signed by the publishers. 8vo. [8], 350, [12] pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, initials AH in blind on front cover. Provenance: Robert Haaft? (signature on title); Henry Dixon (1805 inscription on pastedown, his figures on.....
London: J. Wilcox, B. Creake, and John Sackfield, 1720. First edition of this spurious adaptation of Boerhaave. 8vo. 328 pp. Contemporary English panelled calf. Provenance: W. Burton (early owner's name in ink on pastedown); some old unobtrusive pencilled marginalia. "One of Boerhaave's pupils published an adaption of his 'Libellus de.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1819. 8vo. Bostock’s paper appears on page 161-65. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Bostock’s classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock’s catarrh'. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The.....
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary half leather.
Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie, 1828. Second edition. Two volumes, 8vo. Half-titles. 412, 440 pp. Period-style calf, gilt-panelled on covers, smooth spines gilt-lettered and -decorated. Provenance: A. Tureaud (early signatures on titles). Second edition of arguably the most famous work on gastronomy ever published, by Brillat Savarin, magistrate, politician and.....
London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1842. Third edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
N.p. 1668. 12mo (130 x 74 mm). Engraved title. [24], 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. "By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most.....
New York: Charles S. Francis, 1831. Fifth edition (stated in Preface). 8vo. xiv, 798 pp., folding table, 12 plates with letterpress descriptions, viii Index, advertisements. Original sheep. In 1815 Burns was appointed the first Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow. Cordasco 30-0132.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al, 1840. 8vo. Burton’s paper appears on page 63-79. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning – 'Burton’s blue line' – an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St.....
Chicago: 29 October 1927. First edition. Folio. Pp. 1500-1505. Disbound. "Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2414).
New York: William Wood [I-IV], Paul B. Hoeber [V, VII] and Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins [X], 1902-1909, 1931, 1941. First editions, all numbered and limited to between 300 and 575 copies [except for the last unnumbered vol.]. Together 7 volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original cloth-backed boards. The Charaka Club was founded.....
Paris: Victor Masson et fils, 1868. First edition. 8vo. Charcot's paper is on pp. 161-78. Entire volume: 750 pp. Half-title. 17 lithographed plates at end. Modern cloth. "Charcot called attention to tabetic arthropathy, a condition which has since borne his name, while the tabetic joints he so well described are.....
New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1853. Twentieth edition. 8vo. Original cloth.
