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Harvey (William). Exercitationes de generatione animalium..., Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1651, lacks additional engraved title and final blank, library stamp to title with printer`s device, occasional pen or pencil marginalia and underscoring, library cloth, 12mo (125 x 74mm) The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year. This Elzevir edition is believed to be the first of the three Amsterdam editions` (Heirs of Hippocrates 416); G-M 467 (London edition, 1651); Keynes 35 or 36 (from imprint on engraved title); Osler 712; Russell 376; Waller 4119; Wellcome III, p. 220. (1)

Harvey (William). Opera sive exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, atque exercitationes duae antomicae, de circulatione sanguinis ad Joannem Riolanum filium, tumque exercitationes de generatione animalium, quibus praefationem addidit Bernardus Siegfried Albinus..., 2 parts in one volume, editio novissima, Leiden: Johannes van Kerckhem, 1737, general half-title and half-title to second part, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, double-page engraved plate with four figures in part one, Y1 (Libri aliquot medici et juridis quos excudit...) misbound after **3 at end of unnumbered preliminary leaves in part one, lacks blanks at end of both parts (Y2 and 3K2), library stamps throughout to lower margins and including general half-title, first full title and plate versos, some spotting, library cloth, 4to (189 x 152mm) First collected edition in Latin. Harvey`s chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckhem at Leiden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766` (Keynes, p. 100). The anatomist Albinus edited several works editions including the collected works of Vesalius (1725), see lot 418 below. This Albinus Harvey is rare though not as rare as the separately issued 1736 edition of volume 1: This form of van Kerckhem`s edition is rare, the sheets of the greater part of the issue having been published in 1737 as Part I of the Opera` (Keynes 14n). Keynes 46. (1)

Havers (Clopton). Osteologia Nova, or Some New Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the Manner of their Accretion and Nutrition, 1st edition, 1691, imprimatur leaf before title, two engraved plates including one part-folding, publisher`s ad. leaf at rear, faint library stamps to title and plates, old inscription struck through on title, modern morocco gilt over marbled boards, spine slightly faded, 8vo (179 x 110mm) The first complete and systematic study of the structure of the bones. Havers gave the first full description of the microscopic structure of the bone canals made for the passage of blood-vessels, named `Haversian canals` in his honor` (Norman 1024); G-M 387; Krivatsy 5363; Wing H1162. (1)

Helmont (Jean Baptiste van). Opuscula medica inaudita, I. De Lithiasi. II. De Febribus. III. De Humoribus Galeni. IV. De Peste, 3 parts in one volume, 1st edition, Cologne: Jodocum Kalcoven [Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir], 1644, general title-page and three part titles (Part Two title stating second edition`), errata leaf at rear of each part and separate approbation leaf at end, cancelled approbation leaf (but no blank) present at end of part two, faint library stamp to main title-page (dust-soiled), dampstaining to upper and outer margins of first part, heavy browning to lower half of most leaves of final part, old manuscript contents list to front endpaper, library cloth, 8vo. Krivatsy 5441; Norman 1048 (2nd edition, 1648, bound as second part of the first collected edition of Ortus medicinae). (1)

Heurne (Johan van). Praxis medicinae nova ratio: qua, libris tribus methodi ad praxin medicam, aditus facillimus aperitur ad omnes morbos curandos, 1st edition, Leiden: Plantin, 1587, printer`s woodcut device to title, two (of three) folding tables, one on a modern guard and both bound before A1, woodcut illustrations in the text, old ink marginalia and inscription Bib: Harv:` to title, library stamps to title and plates, somewhat soiled at front and rear, occasional old dampstaining, archival repairs with loss of text to upper outer corners of last four leaves of index, modern morocco gilt, 4to. Rare first edition of this general treatment of the medical profession. (1)

Hewson (William). Experimental Inquiries: Part the First. Being a Second Edition of an Inquiry into the Properties of the Blood, 2nd edition, 1772, bound with Experimental Enquiries: Part the Second. Containing a Description of the Lymphatic System, 1st edition, 1774, half-titles, six engraved plates (five folding), occasional library stamps throughout, some contemporary marginal notes, library cloth, 8vo, together with Experiment Inquiries: Part the Third. Containing a Description of the Red Particles of the Blood, 1st edition, 1777, half-title, four folding engraved plates, library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 8vo, and other related works with library markings including Robinson (Bryan), A Treatise on the Animal Oeconomy, Dublin, 1732, folding engraved plate, library cloth, 8vo, plus Pemberton (Henry), A Course of Physiology, 1773, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, 8vo, plus Simson (Thomas), An Inquiry how far the Vital and Animal Actions of the More Perfect Animals can be Accounted for Independent of the Brain, Edinburgh, 1752, two folding engraved plates, paper repair to upper edge of title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Paxton (P.), Specimen physico-medicum, de corpore humano, & ejus morbis. Or, an Essay Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of most Diseases, 1711, library cloth, 8vo, plus Wilkinson (C.H.), Essays, Physiological and Philosophical, 1798, library cloth, 8vo (7)

Hillary (William). Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases, in the Island of Barbadoes, To Which is Added A Treatise on the Putrid Bilious Fever, Commonly Called the Yellow Fever, and Such Other Diseases as are Indigenous or Endemial, in the West India Islands, or in the Torrid Zone, 2nd edition, 1766, some spotting, heavier at front and rear, old dampstaining to gutter margins towards rear, light library stamp to title, presentation bookplate to the BMI from Dr. Blackall to front pastedown, modern quarter calf gilt, 8vo. G-M 1770 (1st edition, 1759): Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue`. (1)

Hippocrates. Octoginta volumina... nunc tandem per M. Fabium Caluum Latinitate donata... nunc primum in lucem aedita..., 1st edition, Rome: Franciscus Minutius Calvus, 1525, 410 leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (untrimmed, faint library stamp at upper margin), two large woodcut initials, Roman, italic and gothic type, initial spaces with printed guide letters, old marginal pen mark to 2L5v and marginal note to 3M3r, archival closed tear repairs to upper margins of leaves H3-5 not touching text, small tear with loss to lower outer corner of leaf P2 not affecting text, a little spotting and light browning and old dampstaining to upper margins throughout, occasional library stamps to lower margins of text leaf rectos (nine in total), very minor worming to lower margins towards rear and a few trivial single wormholes to upper margins of last few leaves including colophon and final blank, armorial bookplate of Johnstone [probably John Johnstone, 1768-1836, physician and biographer] to front pastedown, 19th-c. morocco gilt, spine darkened, joints tender, slightly rubbed and soiled, folio (280 x 205mm) Although various fragments of Hippocrates` works had been published earlier in Greek and Arabic versions, these eighty works, translated for the first time from the Greek texts into Latin by Marco Fabio Calvo (d. 1527), form the first so-called `complete` Hippocrates. The editio princeps of the Greek texts was published in 1526 [at the Aldine Press]. These eighty texts, the most familiar of which is the Aphorisms, were probably written by a number of authors, but all are in the Hippocratic tradition. This historically important book, along with the massive French translation of Littre in the nineteenth century, must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates` (Heirs of Hippocrates 10); Adams H567; Durling 2320; Norman 1076; Osler 149; PMM 55; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177. (1)

Hippocrates. Hippocratis coi Opera quae extant Graece et Latine, veterum codicum collatione restituta, nono ordine in quattuor classes digesta, interpretationis latinae emmendatione, & scholiis illustrata, a Hieron. Mercuriali Foroliviensi, 2 volumes bound in one, Venice, Industria ac sumptibus Iuntarum, 1588, engraved general title with text printed in red and black, printed title to volume 2 in red and black present (lacking printed title to first volume), divisional half-titles, Greek and Latin text in double-column, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, engraved title with careful excisions beside printed title and at foot (probably to remove ownership inscriptions), and repaired with blank paper, light water stain to top margins, and lower outer corners at front of volume, to upper outer corner twoards middle of volume and to fore-margin at rear, final three leaves with minor paper loss to lower outer corner, not affecting text, modern half calf, with small Birmingham Medical Institute name stamp to foot of spine, thick folio. Adams H565. Graesse 3, 281. Brunet 3, 170 edition assez estimee`. Durling 2318. Ebert 9728. Waller 4484. Wellcome 3175. (1)

Hodges (Nathaniel). Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: with precautionary Directions against the like Contagion..., To which is added, an essay on the different Causes of Pestilential Diseases, and how they become Contagious: with Remarks on the Infection now in France, and the most probable Means to prevent its Spreading here, 2nd edition, 1720, pp.[ii]+iii-vi, 288, folding table at rear, first gathering comprising three leaves (possibly lacking front blank/half-title?), library stamp to title and two stamps to folding table, library cloth, 8vo, (G-M 5121), together with Mead (Richard), A Discourse on the Plague, 9th edition, 1744, title with ownership ink stamp of R. Nesbitt MD to lower blank margin and also faint library stamp, front blank inscribed From the Author`, occasional light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, with Harvey (Gideon), The City Remembrancer: being Historical Narratives of the Great Plague at London, 1665..., volume 1 only (of two), lacks half-title, library stamp to title, library cloth, dampstained at foot of upper board, 8vo. Nathaniel Hodges provided the best record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was a physician to the City of London and medical hero of the great epidemic. The first edition was published in 1672 in Latin and translation into English 1720. (3)

Hoffmann (Friedrich). Opera omnia physico-medica ..., 6 volumes in three, Geneva: Fratres de Tournes, 1748, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title printed in red and black, library stamp to titles, some spotting, occasional browning and old dampstaining, together with Operum omnium physico-medicorum supplementum, three parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Geneva, 1753, plus Supplementum, 2nd revised edition, two parts in 1 volume, Geneva, 1754, half-title to part one of both editions, first title of both editions printed in red and black, library stamp to titles, some spotting, browning, and old dampstaining (somewhat heavy to lower margins of 2nd edition supplement, all contemporary mottled sheep, matching antique-style rebacks, except for 1st edition volume 1 supplement (some wear to spine and covers detached), all folio (357 x 217mm) (6)

Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth and Diseases, 1st edition, 1771, half-title, 16 copper-engraved plates, bound with A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Teeth; Intended as a Supplement to the Natural History of Those Parts, 1st edition, 1778, half-title, light toning and scattered spots, library cloth, 4to. The first scientific study of the teeth and is basic to all modern dentistry` (Heirs of Hippocrates 968). This is a detailed study of the mouth, jaws and teeth with exceptionally accurate plates. Hunter correctly understood the growth and development of the jaws and their relation to the muscles of mastication. He coined the terms cuspids, bicuspids, molars and incisors` (G-M 3675-6); Norman 1116. (With Supplement 1778). (1)

Hunter (John). The Natural History of the Human Teeth: Explaining their Structure, Use, Formation, Growth, and Diseases, 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, 1778, half-titles, 16 copper-engraved plates, occasional light spotting and toning, library stamps, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 4to. G-M 3675-76; Norman 1116 (first editions). (1)

Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, 1st edition, 1786, seven engraved plates after William Bell, burnholes in text of final index leaf, some light spotting, bound with Strictures in Vindication of Some of the Doctrines Misrepresented by Mr. Foot in his two Pamphlets Entitled, Observations upon the New Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatise on the Venereal Disease; Including Mr. Pott`s Plagiarisms and Misinformation on the Subject of Pus or Matter, in his Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, Commonly Called Fistula Lachrymalis, by T. Brand, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, London, and Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty`s Royal Hospital at Greenwich, 1787, 56pp., light spots, library cloth, spine a little rubbed, 4to. In Hunter`s day the venereal diseases were thought to be due to a single poison. To test this theory Hunter experimented with matter taken from a gonorrhoeal patient who, unknown to Hunter, also had syphilis. Hunter maintained that gonorrhoea and syphilis were caused by a single pathogen. Backed by the weight of his own authority, this experiment retarded the development of knowledge regarding the two diseases. Contrary to legend, however, there is no proof that Hunter actually inoculated himself with venereal disease. The hard (`Hunterian`) chancre eponymizes Hunter. This work also makes a major contribution to urological surgery` (G-M 2377). The book was the first to be published from Hunter`s private press at his house on Castle Street, established to prevent unauthorised editions of his works. This book is one of 1000 copies printed. Norman 1117. (1)

Hunter (John). Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, 2nd edition, 1792, nineteen engraved plates, lacking first blank (A1), first few leaves and plates foxed, title and plates with small library stamp, final (index) leaf with small nick in upper blank margin, endpapers renewed, BMI book ticket on front pastedown, modern quarter morocco, 4to. See Norman 1118 for the first edition. (1)

Hunter (John). A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds, to which is prefixed, A Short Account of the Author`s Life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home, 1st edition, printed by John Richardson, for George Nicol, 1794, engraved portrait frontispiece and nine engraved plates (foxed), a few leaves browned, library stamp on title-page and plates, frontispiece and first few leaves with a few small worm holes at head of blank gutter, final text leaf a little torn at blank gutter, with paper repair on verso, hinges split, library cloth, foot of spine slightly frayed, 4to (260 x 200mm) G-M 2283; Norman 1122. (1)

Hunter (William). An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and its Contents, [edited by Matthew Baillie], 1st. edition, 1794, 88pp., half-title, a few light spots, library stamp, previous owner signature of W. Sanders to title, library cloth, 4to. Hunter`s nephew, Matthew Baillie found an uncompleted manuscript several years after Hunter`s death and discovered that it was intended to be the text for the atlas [i.e. Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, 1774]. In the Advertisement Baillie explains that he is publishing the work for the first time, with only a few changes and remarks which he felt necessary for completeness` (Heirs of Hippocrates 945); G-M 6157.1. (1)

James (Robert). A Medicinal Dictionary, including Physick, Surgery, Anatomy, Chymistry, and Botany ..., together with the History of Drugs ..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, sold by T. Osborne, 1743-45, sixty-three numbered engraved plates, bound in at rear of volumes 1 & 3 (complete), most double-page and folding plates numbered as two, last three folding plates slightly spotted and soiled, with a few marginal splits and tears, plate 58/59 with vertical tape repair the length of fold without loss, occasional spotting, a few faint library stamps to plate margins, ownership signature of J[ohn] Freer to all titles and earlier bookplates of George Freer and Birmingham Library to pastedowns of volumes 1 and 2, modern half morocco over cloth, folio (410 x 250mm) The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early nineteenth century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson`s first venture into lexicography, and when he was done, a syndicate of booksellers asked him to write his famous dictionary. Dennis Diderot collaborated on the French translation [which] gave him the idea to produce the famous Diderot et d`Alembert Encyclopedie` (G-M 6799). (3)

Jenner (Edward). An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1798, half-title, four hand-finished engraved plates, printed in sanguine by William Skelton (two plates with engraver`s name partly cropped), errata leaf at end, light vertical crease and a few minor spots, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern half pigskin over cloth, spine a little rubbed with tears at ends, 4to (275 x 210mm) A good copy of One of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine` (G-M 5423). Although the practice of inoculating patients with mild forms of smallpox taken from human pustules was known in India, China and Turkey, and brought to England by Lady Mary Wortley (wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) in 1718 and termed variolation`, this was a dangerous and unreliable preventive method. Edward Jenner (1749-1823), a pupil of John Hunter and a general practitioner in Berkeley, Gloucestershire was aware of the west country observation that generally milkmaids, who were infected with cowpox, a mild disease similar to smallpox, did not contract smallpox. Although others before had successfully inoculated patients with cowpox to prevent smallpox, Jenner conducted his first experiment on 14 May, 1796 on a country boy, James Phipps, injecting lymph matter into him from a cowpox- infected milkmaid. Six weeks later he injected the boy with smallpox, and no infection followed. After further successful inoculations, and initial scepticism by the medical establishment, vaccination was adopted wholeheartedly in Britain and worldwide. Jenner had started one of the greatest practical advances in preventive medicine and today there are inoculations which confer immunity against scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough and tetanus, as well as some of the old-age plagues such as bubonic plague, cholera and yellow fever` (PMM 250); Le Fanu 8; Norman 1162; Wellcome III, p.351. (1)

John of Gaddesden. Rosa Anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes noviter impressa & per que diligentissime emendata, 2nd edition, Venice: Impressa mandato & expensis heredum Octaviani Scoti, per Bonetum Locatellum, 1502, 135 leaves, double column, sixty-five lines, white on black five-line (and one fourteen-line) woodcut initials, white on black printer`s woodcut device beneath colophon, lacks final blank, scattered minor old underscoring and marginalia including author`s name identified on title, some spotting and dust-soiling at front and rear, old and mostly light dampstaining to lower and outer margins touching text throughout, heaviest in quires b to e, neat closed tear to gutter margin of a2 touching letterpress of Table without loss, some marginal browning and one small tear with loss to foremargin of final leaf, British Museum and Duplicate for Sale 1769` ink stamps beneath title letterpress and beneath colophon at rear, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards (date imprint incorrectly stamped as 1516), folio (295 x 205mm) This was the first printed medical book written by an Englishman. Durling 2607; G-M 2191 (1st edition); Wellcome 2486; Heirs of Hippocrates 105. John of Gaddesden (c. 1280-1361), took his name from Little or Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He was court physician to Edward II and was supposedly the inspiration for Chaucer`s `Doctour of Physik` in The Canterbury Tales. Gaddesden left a considerable reputation. He was the first major medical scholar to have been trained wholly in England, and the only Oxford-trained medieval physician to achieve recognition on the continent. His Rosa anglica was a distillation of the works of more than forty-six medical authorities, ancient and recent, although it ignored the near contemporary works from the northern Italian universities. In it Gaddesden claims to have saved the king`s son (presumably either Thomas or Edmund, sons of Edward I from his second marriage) from smallpox by wrapping him in scarlet cloth in a bed with red hangings. He also, unusually, admits to practising the arts of the surgeon and barber-surgeon as well as the physician, proclaiming his skills at setting bones, letting blood, drawing teeth, and even cutting corns and killing lice. Money was probably a factor: Gaddesden boasts of his fees, suggests expensive remedies for the rich and cheap ones for the poor, and notes that mental illnesses are seldom lucrative for the physician. Gaddesden chose the title because the five books of the Rosa recalled the five sepals of the rose; it also echoed the Lilium medicine of Bernard de Gordon. Gaddesden claims that, just as a rose excels every other flower, so the Rosa excels all previous medical works, and that poor surgeons and physicians can substitute it for many other books. Matthaeus Sylvaticus mentioned Gaddesden in his Pandectae (1317), and although the illustrious Montpellier surgeon, Guy de Chauliac, sniffed in 1363 that the Rosa was a foolish compendium of stale material, Chaucer included Gaddesden with Galen, Avicenna, and the other great medical authorities. Numerous Latin copies of the Rosa survive and it was partially translated into Middle English and Irish in the fifteenth century. The first printed edition appeared at Pavia in 1492; three more followed, the first two at Venice and the third at Augsburg, in 1502, 1516, and 1595 respectively. The only modern English translation of the Rosa, published in 1929, was made from an Irish version of the fifteenth century` (DNB). This is the oldest book in The Birmingham Medical Institute`s Collection. This edition is considered to display superior printing to that of the first edition and this attractive copy appears to be the first to be offered at auction for over thirty years. (1)

La Motte (Guillaume Mauquet de). Traite complet des accouchemens naturels, non naturels, et contre nature, 1st edition, Paris, 1721, lightly foxed to first and last few leaves, library cloth, 4to, together with Mauriceau (Francois), Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses, 6th edition, Paris, 1721, engraved plates to text, library cloth, 4to, and another work by the same author titled Observations sur La Grossesse` (1728), plus other odd or incomplete works by Mauriceau and La Motte (6)

Lancisi (Giovanni Maria). De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus opus postumum, in duas partes divisum juxta exemplar romanum, Leiden: Philippum Bonk & Antonium Gerardum Steenman, 1740, title printed in red and black, seven folding engraved plates and one unnumbered plate, one plate with short tear not affecting engraved area, faint library stamps to title and plates, library cloth, 4to. Lancisi noted the frequency of cardiac aneurysm and showed the importance of syphilis, asthma, palpitation, violent emotions, and excess as causes of aneurysms. He was the first to descibe cardiac syphilis. Lancisi shares with Vieussens the honour of laying the foundation of the pathology of heart disease` G-M2973 (1728 edition); Heirs of Hippocrates 693. (1)

Lancisi (Giovanni Maria). Opera quae hactenus prodierunt omnia, 4 volumes, Rome, 1745, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, nine folding engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, volume two without half-title, non-matching half morocco library bindings, 4to, together with Lancisi (Giovanni Maria), Dissertatio historica de bovilla peste, ex campaniae sinibus anno MDCCXIII latio importata, Rome: Joannis Mariae Salvioni, 1715, half-title, title printed in red and black, scattered light foxing, bookplate of Edward Johnstone (1757-1851) to verso of half-title, library stamp to title and sporadically throughout, library cloth, both 4to, plus Gibson (William), The Farrier`s New Guide, 1st edition, 1720, folding engraved frontispiece bound in after preliminary leaves (with loss to outer edge), seven engraved plates, title relaid and with crossed out owners name, contemporary panelled calf, crude later reback, 8vo. 1)Lancisi was physician to Pope Clement XI and was the first to describe cardiac syphilis, as well as being a noted epidemiologist. This collected edition includes his celebrated treatise on the heart De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus` which is not present in the 1718 edition. G-M 71 (1718 edition). 2) First edition of a rare work on the cattle plague and an epidemic among horses that struck Rome in 1712. (6)

Lanfranco, of Milan. A Most Excellent and Learned Woorke of Chirurgerie, Called Chirurgia, parua Lanfranci, Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien..., Printed by Thomas Marshe, four parts in one volume, 1st English edition, 1565, title (dated, with portrait of John Hall to verso followed by four lines of verse) soiled with tears and repairs but minor damage to letterpress of imprint and verse, woodcut initials and several woodcut illustrations to text, old ink marginalia and underscoring in more than one hand, old ownership signature of John Etheridge to final leaf verso, old dampstaining throughout with tide-mark near lower margin, closely cropped at upper margin touching running heads, lacks final blank, later vellum with original vellum (soiled) laid down, 4to (182 x 138mm) The surgeon Lanfranc of Milan (c.1250-1306), variously called Guido Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, or Alanfrancus is credited with transferring the lead in surgical technique from Italy to France. STC 15192. (1)

Leopold (Johann Friedrich). Relatio epistolica de itinere suo Suecico nuper facto, ad excellentissimum... D. Johannem Woodward, MD, 2nd edition, W. Bickerton & J. Pote, 1727, half-title, eight folding engraved plates, library stamp to title and plates, minor dust soiling and spotting, library cloth, 8vo. First published in 1720 this work on Swedish mineralogy is uncommon in this second edition reprint of 1727. (1)

Lind (James). A Treatise on the Scurvy. In Three Parts. Containing an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and the Cure, of that Disease. Together with a Critical and Chronological View of what has been Published on the Subject, 2nd edition Corrected, with Additions and Improvements, 1757, one or two light spots, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo. Pioneering work on scurvy by naval physician James Lind (1716-94), who conducted the first deliberately planned controlled therapeutic trial ever undertaken` (G-M 3713). Aboard H.M.S. Salisbury in 1747, he divided twelve scorbutic sailors into pairs, all on identical diets, but additionally the first pair given a daily quart of cider, the second pair twenty-five drops of vitriol, the third pair six spoonfuls of vinegar, the fourth pair half a pint of seawater, the fifth pair two oranges and a lemon, the sixth pair a paste mixed with barley-water. Needless to say only the fifth pair, having run out of fruit after six days, recovered sufficiently to be fit for duty. Although it was known for some time that citrus fruit had an antiscorbutic effect, Lind, although still believing scurvy was the result of putrefaction, was the first to conclude that they were the most effective remedy. As a result of adopting Lind`s recommendations, James Cook lost only one man to the disease on his second voyage 1768-71 and after lemon juice was issued by the Royal Navy in 1795, scurvy soon disappeared. Heirs of Hippocrates 936; Norman 1354. (1)

Linnaeus (Carl). Materia Medica, Liber I. de Plantis, first edition, Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1749, folding engraved plate, interleaved with blanks with occasional early neat annotations to text and blanks in a neat unidentified hand, lacks frontispiece, library stamp to title, some spotting, library cloth, together with Pulteney (Richard), A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus, 1st edition, T. Payne & B. White, 1781, scrawled contemporary ownership signature of J[ames?] Johnstone to title-page, library stamps to title and a few mostly marginal stamps to text, both library cloth, 8vo. 1) Linnaeus`s most important and influential work. Waller 5907; Wellcome III, 526. 2) Henrey 1256. Both uncommon. (2)

Linnaeus (Carl). Genera morborum, in auditorum usum edita, 1st edition, Uppsala: apud Christ. Ehr. Steinert, 1763, 32, [7] pp., somewhat spotted and dampstained throughout, first two leaves chipped at outer corners not affecting text, title leaf with faint library stamp and contemporary ownership signature of W[illiam] Withering MD above printer`s woodcut device, title also chipped at inner margin just touching initial letter G and M of first two words, rehinged, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards with thick blank leaves inserted at rear of volume, slim 8vo (174 x 101mm) A nice association copy. William Withering developed an interest in botany while practising in Stafford in 1767. His Arrangement of British Plants used and extended the Linnaean system of classification and became a standard botany text for many years. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1789 and had a genus named after him, the Witheringia solanacea. However, it is for describing the effects of foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, in heart disease, for which Withering is best remembered (see lot 450). Heart disease appears as number 48 in this genera of diseases compiled by Linnaeus, though other than Withering`s signature there are no further annotations. Soulsby 979. (1)

Lister (Martin). De fontibus medicatis Angliae, exercitatio nova, & prior [-altera], 2 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, Walter Kettilby, 1684, engraved plate of mineral crystals, two preliminary leaves to follow title-page in volume 1 bound with preliminary leaves to part two, lacks imprimatur leaf at front, blank between parts present, library stamp to first title, two closed marginal tears (first title and G4) without loss, library cloth, 8vo (167 x 107mm) Wing L2519. (1)

Lower (Richard). Tractatus de corde, item de motu & colore sanguinis, et chyli in eum transitu, 3rd edition, Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1671, library stamp and dust-soiling to title, five folding engraved plates at rear (lacks plate 5), first two plates relined, some spotting and soiling, old dampstaining to foremargins, a few wormholes towards rear affecting text and plates, together with a fourth edition of the same work, London, 1680, library stamp to title, folding engraved plate at rear, library stamp to title and plate, some spotting and soiling, especially to final leaf of text and plate, both library cloth, slightly rubbed, the first volume stained on upper cover,both 8vo. 1) After Harvey`s De motu cordis, Lower`s work is considered the most important contribution to circulatory physiology` (Grolier, Medicine). PMM 149 & Waller 6406 (for the first edition). Krivatsy 7159 & 7160; Fulton 8 & 9. 2) Wing L3312. (2)

Malpighi (Marcello). De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica..., accedit dissertatio ejusdem de polypo cordis, John Martyn, 1669, library stamp to title, a little spotting and soiling, contemporary calf,later sheep reback, some wear, 12mo, together with Fletcher (John), The Differences, Causes, and Judgements of Urine, According to the Best Writers..., Printed by John Leggat, 1623, two woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials, library stamp and ownership signature to title of John Phillips, dated 1672, lacks final blank, close-trimmed, first and last leaves browned at margins and final leaf frayed at head with loss of running head, presentation BMI bookplate from Oliver Pemberton to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, some wear, modern calf reback, small 8vo. 1) Second edition of Malpighi`s important work, first published in quarto in Bologna in 1666. Includes Malpighi`s classical essay on the kidney, the `Malpighian bodies` which have perpetuated his name. The book also includes the first description of Hodgkin`s disease` (G-M 535, citing 1666 edition). Wing M348. 2) STC 11063. (2)

Malpighi (Marcello). Consultationum medicinalium centuria prima, quam in gratiam clinicorum evulgat Hieronymus Gaspari, Padua: Tipografia del Seminario, 1713, 184pp., lacks final blank(?), faint library stamp to title, some spotting and light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, 4to (215 x 160mm) With the same title-page and imprint as the first edition of the same year, but with text reset and errata corrected. (1)

Martius (Galeottus). De homine libri duo, Basel: Johann Froben, May, 1517, title (detached) within ornamental woodcut border, faint library stamp, decorative woodcut initials throughout, lacks final leaf with printer`s device to recto, bound with Cornarius (Janus), In divi Hippocratis lavdem praefatio ante eiusdem prognostica, [Basel: J. Froben], 1st edition, December 1528, 12pp. including title and printer`s woodcut device to final leaf verso, bound with [Universae rei medicae epigraphe seu enumeratio, compendio tractata, Basel: Froben, 1529], woodcut initial, errate to final leaf recto, lacks title, bound with [Vegetius Renatus (Publius), Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicina libri quatuor], 1st edition, Basel: Johann Faber, 1528, two woodcut initials, lacks title, some marginal dampstaining to final leaves not affecting text, old ink marginalia and underscoring to second and third works and a scattering of marginalia to final work, the whole volume closely trimmed affecting running heads in first and third works, shaving some side-notes letterpress of first work with no loss of sense, also affecting some marginalia in third work, library cloth, upper joint split and upper cover det., 4to (186 x 146mm) 1) Adams M749; Wllocme I, 4095. 2) Not in Adams or Wellcome; Copac lists one copy at Glasgow. 3) Not in Adams; Wellcome I, 1608. 4) Adams V341; Durling 2563; Wellcome I, 2564. (1)

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei... de medica materia, Venice: Ex Officina Valgrisiana, 1565, woodcut printer`s device on title, full-page woodcut portrait within elaborate border on M6v, and over 900 large woodcuts of plants, herbs, animals, insects, and distillation prcesses, most of them by Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck, the majority filling three-quarters of the page, some soiling, pinhead wormholes and untidy early manuscript marks to title including ownership signature of Tho. Lewis dated 1663, repaired tears to three preliminaries running close to main text block and affecting some side-notes, last leaves somewhat soiled with final two leaves torn and repaired with significant loss, 17th-century blind-panelled reversed calf with later spine and repairs, thick folio (345 x 240mm) The botanical cuts first appeared in the 1562 Herbar (in Czech) and the 1563 Neu Kreuterbuch printed in Prague, but for this edition the scope was enlarged to include fine zoological cuts and genre scenes. For an account of the history of the woodblocks see Hunt 90. Adams D672; Hunt 92; Nissen 1305. (1)

McBride (David). A Methodical Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Physic, 1st edition, 1772, half-title, library stamp on title, library cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, 4to. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 449-50: Because McBride first described in a textbook of medicine the strait-waistcoat which played so important a part in the management of the insane for almost one hundred years, he has mistakenly been credited with its invention... . (1)

Mead (Richard). A Discourse on the Small Pox and Measles, 1748, scattered light foxing, faint library stamp to title, owner`s name to free endpaper `Thomas Freer, Birmingham, October 6 1831`, library cloth, 8vo, together with a copy of the 2nd edition of the same work (1755), plus Kirkpatrick (James), The Analysis of Innoculation...with an Occasional Consideration of the Most Remarkable Appearances in the Small Pox, 1st edition, 1754, library stamps to title and five other pages, first and last few leaves toned and spotted, library cloth, 8vo, together with Walker (Robert), An Inquiry into the Small-Pox Medical and Political, 1790, faint library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus others related by Black, Dimsdale, Hillary, Holland and Lobb (9)

Medical Observations and Inquiries. By a Society of Physicians in London, 6 volumes, 1st editions, William Johnston [or T. Cadell], 1757-62-67-71-76-84, twenty-nine engraved plates, all but one folding, separate errata leaf to volumes 1 & 3, publisher`s advert leaf to volume 4, half-title and separately paginated Appendix at end of volume 5, signature of J. Johnstone to title of volume 5 with Johnstone armorial bookplate to verso, library stamps to titles, plates and occasionally to margins throughout, volumes 3-6 each with an extra work bound at rear, Linden (Diederick Wessel), A Medicinal and Experimental History and Analysis of the Hanlys-Spa Saline, Purging, and Chalybeate Waters, Near Shrewsbury, 1st edition, 1768, plus Pott (Percival), Remarks on the Disease Commonly Called a Fistula in Ano, 1st edition, 1765, engraved plate, plus Millar (John), Observations on the Asthma and on the Hooping Cough, 1st edition, 1769, half-title, plus Hulme (Nathaniel), A Treatise on the Puerperal Fever, 1st edition, 1772, folding engraved plate, library stamp to titles, plates and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, slightly rubbed and soiled and a little frayed at heads of some spines, 8vo. Sold as a periodical not subject to return. A remarkable sammelband. The journal in itself is rare complete and all in first edition as here; the addition of four contemporary works including two important ones makes this collection unique. In total there are some 208 papers with John Fothergill and William Hunter being the leading contributors. Notable papers include: 1) John Bard, `A case of an extra-uterine foetus` (volume 2, pp. 369-72). John Bard performed the first abdominal operation for extrauterine pregnancy in America. This is the first scientific paper on a surgical topic to emanate from the North American colonies. G-M 6155; Norman 116. 2) William Hunter, `A singular case of the separation of the ossa pubis` (ibid, pp. 321-39). G-M 6254; Norman 1124. 3) Charles White, `An account of a new method of reducing shoulders, (without the use of an ambe) which have been several months dislocated, in cases where the common methods have proved ineffectual` (ibid, pp. 373-81). G-M 4407; Norman 2230. 4) Matthew Dobson, `Experiments and observations on the urine in diabetes` (volume 5, pp. 298-316). G-M 3928. 5) William Hunter, `On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children` (volume 6, pp. 266-90). G-M 1732: In Garrison`s view this is the most important early contribution to forensic medicine made by a British writer`. Pott: Probably the greatest English classic of colon-rectal surgery. Pott recommended the practice of simple division rather than the newer, more complicated methods proposed by Cheselden and Le Dran, and audaciously pointed out that there were lessons which regular practitioners might learn from quacks apropos of this subject` (G-M 3424.2); Norman 1733. Millar: G-M 3167. (6)

Medici Antiqui Graeci: Aretaeus, Palladius Ruffus, Theophilus, physici & chirugi.... translated by Junio Paulo Grassi, edited by Celso Grassi, 2 parts in one volume, Basel: P. Perna, 1581, half-title, separate pagination and index to second part (Rufus` De corporis humani partium appellationibus), blank 3E4 present, some browning, old dampstaining and marginal fraying, library stamps to main title and some margins, early contemporary ownership and gift inscriptions to title and following leaf (Tho. Colm and ex dono Hen. Field M.A.), old index notes in an untidy hand to two old endpapers preserved at front and rear (archival repairs to foremargins), modern calf gilt, 4to (212 x 150mm) This first collected edition includes Hippocrates` De purgatoriis medicamentis. Durling 2153; G-M 56. Wellcome I, 4179. (1)

Mercuriale (Girolamo). Medicina practica, seu de cognoscendis, discernendis, & curandis, omnibus humani corporis affectibus, earumque causis indagandis, Frankfurt: In officina Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri, 1st edition, 1601, woodcut printer`s device to title, offsetting and some light foxing, contemporary owners name `David Bolton` to endpaper and some ink notes to title, faint library stamp to title, contemporary full vellum, several puncture marks to lower cover, folio. Extremely scarce first edition of this work. (1)

Mesue (Joannes). Opera divi Ioannis Mesue..., Lyon: [Johannes Crespin], 1533, title printed in red and black with printer`s woodcut device, within decorative woodcut border, old ownership inscriptions, woodcut initials throughout, lacks final two leaves (text leaf with colophon to verso and final blank), some marginal dampstaining throughout (occasionally heavy) and some marginal soiling to first and last leaves, repairs to a2 (with loss of side-notes) and final leaf (2o4, with loss of lower third of text to both pages), some inner marginal repairs without loss, the volume bound very tight with gutter margin side-notes all legible but often deep into the curvature of the pages, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, remains of brass clasps to lower covers, modern calf gilt reback with four raised bands, corners restored, folio (320 x 210mm) Masawaihal-Mardini (or Mesue the Younger) was allegedly a Syrian physician who died in 1015 at the age of ninety. No Arabic originals of his works have been found and even his existence is doubted, with many thinking that his name was assumed by a Latin compiler (sometimes referred to as pseudo-Mesue`). Among the works attributed to him and included here is the Antidotarium, very influential in familiarizing Europe with Arabic pharmacy and materia medica. This edition is uncommon with no copies traced in British or North American libraries. (1)

Monginot (Francois). A New Mystery in Physick Discovered, by Curing of Fevers and Agues by Quinquina or Jesuites Powder, Translated from the French, by Dr. [Peter] Belon, with Additions, Will. Crook, 1681, library stamp to title, close trimmed, touching outer rule of title and a few letters of following leaf, a few running heads slightly shaved, wormhole paper repair to penultimate leaf and final leaf relined obscuring adverts to verso, lacks final four advert leaves (E3-6), together with Henshaw (Nathaniel), Aero-Chalinos, or, A Register for the Air, in Five Chapters... , for the Better Preservation of Health, and Cure of Diseases, After a New Method, 1st edition, Dublin: Samuel Dancer, 1664, some heavy dampstaining throughout, library stamp to title, paper flaw with slight loss of text affecting two lines of a4, final leaf torn and repaired with loss of text affecting first eleven lines, close trimmed at upper margin, lacks final blank(?), hinges cracked, both library cloth, rubbed, 12mo & 8vo. Wing M2416 & H1481. (2)

Monro (Alexander, primus). Traite d`osteologie, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition in French, Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1759, engraved allegorical frontispiece to volume 1, engraved vignettes on title-pages, engraved and head and tail-pieces, sixty-two engraved plates including thirty-one in outline, light library stamp to title and plates, some spotting and soiling, occasional browning and marginal dampstaining, contemporary sheep gilt, worn on joints and some loss to extremities, large folio (545 x 410mm) This translation by Jean Joseph Sue (Primus) is a most sumptuous production, completely overshadowing the original. Its only counterpart is Cheselden`s Osteographia. Russell 590; Blake 309; Choulant-Frank p. 324. It has been suggested by Roberts & Tomlinson (pp. 438-45) that the translation and supervision of the illustrations may have been by Marie-Genevieve-Charlotte Thiroux d`Arconville and so possibly making this the first anatomical work produced by a woman. (1)

Monro (Alexander, primus). The Works, Published by His Son, Alexander Monro, to Which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1781, engraved portrait frontispiece, seven folding engraved plates, some offsetting, library stamp and ownership signature of G. De Lys to title, some spotting and soiling, first and last leaves heavily soiled, half-title re-attached at inner margin, hinges cracked, modern cloth, rubbed and soiled, together with Mead (Richard), The Medical Works, 1 volume bound in 2, 1762, five engraved plates, all but one folding, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, rubbed and stained plus Lettsom (John Coakley), The Works of John Fothergill, with Some Account of His Life, 1784, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, eleven engraved plates, first plate with closed tear repair to verso, library stamps to title, plates and occasionally elsewhere, old dampstain to upper inner margins throughout, hinges cracked, library cloth, a little frayed at spine ends, all 4to, plus other mostly multi-volume eighteenth-century octavo-format Works Editions of Thomas Sydenham, Clifton Wintringham, John Fothergill, John Huxham, John Gregory and Percival Pott, various bindings (22)

Monro (Alexander, secundus). A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their Structure Explained, and Compared with that of the Capsular Ligaments of the Joints, and of those Sacs which Line the Cavities of the Thorax and Abdomen; With Remarks on the Accidents and Diseases which Affect those Several Sacs, and on the Operations Necessary for their Cure, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1788, ten engraved plates, extra-illustrated with four extra plates after Fyfe by C. Cameron (one with marginal tear), some folding, occasional spotting and library stamps, modern calf-backed boards, folio. This classic work contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and bones which Albinus had named the bursae mucosae. They are illustrated on ten plates which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon` (Heirs of Hippocrates 1011). The first serious study of this subject and the most original anatomical work by the greatest of the Monro dynasty` (G-M 399.2). (1) Not extra-illustrated, these four plates are part of larger plates that belong to the work and that have been bound as halves

Monroe (Donald). An Essay on the Dropsy, and its Different Species, 3rd edition, 1765, half-title, library stamps to main title, some spotting, bound with Ayre (Joseph), Researches into the Nature and Treatment of Dropsy... , 1825, library stamp to title, together with Wilkes (Richard), An Historical Essay on the Dropsy, to which is added an Appendix, by N.D. Falck, 1777, folding engraved plate, some old dampstaining, marginal browning at front and rear, library stamp to title, plus Clare (Peter), An Essay on the Cure of Abscesses by Caustic, and on the Treatment of Wounds and Ulcers... , 1779, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling to first and last leaves, lacks half-title, plus Harvey (Gideon), The Third Edition of the Vanities of Philosophy and Physick... , 1702, some spotting and browning throughout, inner hinges cracked, all library cloth, 8vo, plus other mostly 18th-century therapeutics and general medicine interest (20)

Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). Adversaria anatomica omnia..., opus nunc vere absolutum, inventis, et innumeris observationibus, ac monitis refertum..., Venice: Remondiniana, 1762, half-title, title printed in red and black, six parts in one volume with part-titles but paginated as one, lacks portrait frontispiece, bound with Epistolae anatomicae duae novas observationes, et animadversiones complectentes..., Venice, 1762, eleven plates to first work bound at rear, library stamp to first title and plates, some spotting and heavy browning, a heavier brown stain to lower margins of last few text leaves and plates not affecting text or images, contemporary half calf over boards, later reversed calf reback and corner repairs, some wear, folio (377 x 230mm) The six parts of Adversaria first appeared between 1706 and 1719 and won Morgagni international fame as an anatomist. This was the last edition of both these works to appear in his lifetime and the most complete version of the Adversaria. (1)

Nicholls (Francis). De anima medica praelectio ex lumleii et caldwadi instituto, in theatro collegii regalis medicorum Londinensium, ad socios habita, die december 16 anno 1748, editio altera, notis amplioribus aucta, 3rd edition, 1773, eleven engraved plates, one coloured in sanguine, some light offsetting and spotting, library stamps, previous owner inscription of Thomas Freer, Birmingham to front endpaper, library cloth, 4to. Cornish physician Francis (or Frank) Nicholls (1699-1778) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728, and demonstrated the formation of chronic aneurysm in arteries, as well as observing that arteries were supplied with nerves thereby regulating blood pressure. The above work is the first illustrated edition of Nicholls` inaugural Lumleian lecture, at the Royal College of Physicians, given in 1748/49. (1)

Nicholson (William). The First Principles of Chemistry, 1st edition, 1790, folding engraved plate, faint library stamp to title and plate, library cloth, 8vo, together with Watson (Richard), Chemical Essays, 5 volumes, mixed eds., 1782-96, faint library stamps to titles, library cloth, small 8vo, and Scheele (Carl Wilhelm), Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire, 1780, lacks title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Dossie (Robert), The Elaboratory Laid Open; or, the Secrets of Modern Chemistry Revealed, 2nd edition, 1768, faint library stamp to title, owner`s name to front free endpaper `John Phillips May 30th [17]74`, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Savage, modern quarter morocco, 8vo, plus others related (12)

Nihell (James). New and Extraordinary Observations Concerning the Prediction of Various Crises by the Pulse, Independent of the Critical Signs Delivered by the Ancients; Made, First by Dr. Don Francisco Solano de Luque, Late of the City of Antequera in Spain; And Subsequently by Several Other Physicians..., 1st edition, 1741, light dust-stains, library stamps, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Bordeu (Theophile de), Inquiries Concerning the Varieties of the Pulse, and the Particular Crisis each more Especially Indicates, Written Originally in French, 1764, some light spotting, library stamp, library cloth, 8vo, plus Falconer (William), Observations Respecting the Pulse: Intended to Point Out with Greater Certainty, the Indications which it Signifies, Especially in Feverish Complaints, 1st edition, 1796, half-title, pp.27-28 repaired, a few spots, library stamp, library cloth, chipped at spine head, 8vo (3)

O`Halloran (Sylvester). A Complete Treatise on Gangrene and Sphacelus, with a New Method of Amputation, 1st London edition, printed for Paul Vallant, 1765, light browning throughout, library stamp to title, lacks final blank, library cloth, rubbed on joints, together with Morton (Richard), Phthisiologia: or, a Treatise of Consumptions, 2nd edition, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, faint library stamp and neat owner`s name to title, library cloth, 8vo, plus Hamilton (Robert), Observations on Scrophulous Affections, with Remarks on Schirrus, Cancer, and Rachitis, 1791, single engraved plate, library stamps to title and occasionally throughout, untrimmed, modern library quarter calf, all 8vo, plus three others. 1) Sylvester O`Halloran (1728-1807) was an Irish surgeon practising for the most part in Limerick. The book was first published in the same year by the author in Limerick, containing a subscribers` list, an appendix and errata leaf and second dedication. (6)

Paaw (Pieter). Primitiae anatomicae de humani corporis ossibus, 1st edition, Leiden: Joost van Colster, 1615, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of dancing skeletons, outer margin torn and neatly repaired without loss of text, four folding engraved plates, each with marginal splits without loss, twenty-six engraved illustrations to text, errata leaf bound at end of preliminaries, library stamp to title and plates, a little spotting and soiling, some dampstaining to lower margins, lacks folding frontispiece of a disection scene, bound with Vesalius (Andreas), Epitome anatomica: Opus redivivum, edited by Pieter Paaw, 1st edition, Leiden: Joost van Colster, 1616, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, folding engraved plate (library stamp) and engraved illustrations to text, errata leaf at rear, bound with Paaw (Pieter), Succenturiatus anatomicus ..., 1st edition, two parts in one, Amsterdam: Joost van Colster, 1616, portrait of the author to title verso, one engraved folding plate of the skeletal anatomy of the human body (library stamp and tear without loss), engraved illustrations to text, title printed in red and black with separate title-page to the second part, lacks folding frontispiece (a duplicate of the missing frontispiece to the first work) and one folding plate of the head, a few marginal tears without loss, not affecting text, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, 4to (119 x 149mm) Paaw was a pupil of Fabrizzi at Padua and founder of the Anatomical School at Leiden. Sadly, the fine folding frontispiece missing from the first and third works shows Paaw giving an anatomy lesson in the anatomical theatre at Leiden, the first such theatre in the Netherlands. The third work is a commentary on the books of Hippocrates and Celsus on wounds of the head, the first part in Greek and Latin, the second part in Latin only. (1)

Pare (Ambroise). Opera, et Latinitate donata, Iacobi Guillemeau, Paris: Jacob Du-Puys, 1582, woodcut to title, portrait of the author, 362 woodcuts to text, woodcut initials and decorative head-piece borders, faint library stamp to title, some old dampstaining to outer margins throughout, lacks final blank, modern half morocco over cloth, slightly rubbed, folio (335 x 210mm) First Latin edition and third edition overall. The woodcuts of the 1582 edition are those of the first and second edition (in French) of 1575 supplemented by those from the second of 1579. Doe 46; Durling 3531; Heirs of Hippocrates 271. (1)

Pare (Ambroise). Les Oeuvres d`Ambroise Pare..., divisees en vingt huict livres, avec les figures & portraicts, tant de l`anatomie, que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres, reveues & augmentees par l`autheur, 4th edition, Paris: Gabriel Buon, 1585, title within engraved ornamental border, engraved portrait of the author to verso of leaf following first quire, woodcut initials, head and tail-pieces and illustrations throughout, four-page table between leaves E5 and E6, ownership signature of Thos. Lovatt 1805` to second leaf, some spotting, marginal soiling and dampstaining throughout with one heavier stain to foremargin of early leaves, a few marginal closed tear repairs and one repair to B1 touching text, first and last few leaves slightly chipped and browned at margins, library stamp and upper margin repairs to title, title and final leaf rehinged, modern morocco gilt, folio (367 x 235mm) The collected works of the greatest 16th-century surgeon, superbly illustrated with numerous woodcuts. It is generally accepted by all authorities that there was no third French edition of the collected works. This fourth edition in 1585 was, therefore, the immediate successor of the second edition in 1585 and is the most highly prized of the collected editions, and rightly so. Carefully revised by the author, it was the last one to be seen personally through the press by him; and it contains the `Apologie et traicte contenant les voyages`, which is Pare`s most characteristic document` (Doe 31). Of the twenty-two copies inspected by Doe in her bibliography of Pare only nine had the portrait by Horbeck, here present. Wellcome I, 4821. Overall, a good wide-margined copy with most of the dampstaining and browning being away from the text. (1)

Paul of Aegina. Libri Septem. In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur, 1st edition, Venice: Aldus, 1528, title with woodcut Aldine device, and to final blank verso, preliminary leaves in Latin, main text (pp. 1-138) in Greek italic, occasional Latin annotation, light mainly marginal water stains, a few marginal wormtracks and holes, library stamps to title and lower margins, final blank with repaired tear, library cloth, folio. Paul of Aegina (c. 625-c. 690) was an Alexandrian physician and his magnus opus Libri Septem contained most western medical knowledge during his time. He much influenced the great Persian physician Al-Razi (Rhazes) and other Islamic surgeons including Abu al-Qasim. Paulus Aegineta was the most important physician of his day and a skilful surgeon. He gave orginal descriptions of lithotomy, trephining, tonsillectomy, paracentesis and amputation of the breast; the first clear description of the effects of lead poisoning also comes from him. His work first appeared in Greek from the famous Aldine Press in Venice in 1528, edited by F. Torresani (Asulanus)` (G-M 36); Adams 488. (1)

Pemell (Robert). De morbis capitis; or, Of the Chief Internall Diseases of the Head, With their Causes, Signes, Prognosticks, and Cures, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue, by R. P., 1st edition, Philemon Stephens, 1650, title-page within decorative woodcut border (a little trimmed at upper and outer margins), library stamp to title, some old marginal dampstaining and dust-soiling, tightly bound (stab stitched), old manuscript inscription to blank before title, lacks final leaf (K8, blank?), library cloth, small 8vo (139 x 87mm) The first neurology book written in English. Pemell, writing contemporaneously with Thomas Willis, describes, among other things, how to arouse a patient from an epileptic seizure. Besides, the more accepted methods of making a noise in the patient`s ears, rubbing and bathing the soles of the feet, he suggests more esoteric methods, such as applying a female pigeon (the fethers being first pulled off) unto the navell of the epileptick; for hereby the fit is abated, and the venomous vapours are drawn away`. Includes a bibliography. Rare institutionally and no auction records found. Wing P1131. (1)

Perfect (William). Select Cases in the Different Species of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, With the Modes of Practice as Adopted in the Treatment of Each, 1st edition, Rochester, 1787, half-title, one or two light spots, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 8vo. Revised and enlarged edition of Perfect`s Methods of Cure, in Some Particular Cases of Insanity (1778) and the first collection of psychiatric case studies. Norman 1682. (1)

Pharmacopoeia. Pharmacopoea Londinensis, in qua medicamenta antiqua et nova usitatissima, sedulo collecta, accuratissime examinata, quotidiana experientia confirmata describuntur, 1st edition, 1st issue, J. Marriot, 1618, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials and headpieces, p.181 misnumbered 118, annotation to 2C verso, library stamp and previous owner initials to title, some occasional dampstains and inksplashes, one or two closed marginal tears, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio. The rare suppressed first issue, dated 7 May, 1618, and the first of ten editions of the London Pharmacopoeia from the College of Physicians, issued by royal charter to regulate the composition of medicines. According to Dr George Urdang (Director of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy) `the famous epilogue of the second issue, charging the printer of the first with having `snatched away from our hands this little work not yet finished off`, was designed, under the pretext of typographical correction, to suppress the first issue and substitute for it a work so expanded and altered as to change its essential character. The first issue was a simple formulary, the second took on many features of a textbook. In this and in several incidental respects, Dr. Urdang thinks the second issue reflects `the change from the Renaissance to the Baroque Spirit which was taking place at that time`. He finds reason to believe that an opposition group of younger members of the College demanded the revision`. STC 16772. (1)

Platter (Felix). Observationum, in hominis affectibus plerisque corpori & animo.... Basel: Ludwig Konig, 1641, several library stamps, some light browning, contemporary vellum, soiled and slightly split at head of upper joint, together with a 1680 edition of the same work from the same publisher, browning throughout, library cloth, both 8vo, plus Albertus Magnus, De secretis mulierum item..., Amsterdam, 1648, engraved title (library stamps to recto and verso), some browning, contemporary vellum, soiled, plus [Digby, Kenelm & Others], Theatrum sympatheticum, in quo sympathiae actiones variae... exhibentur, & mechanice, physice, mathematice, chimice & medice occasione pulveris sympathetici ita quidem elucidantur..., editio altera, priori emendatior, Amsterdam, 1661, browning throughout, library cloth, both 12mo, plus Nicolas Chesneau`s Observationum (Paris, 1672), and three others by Daniel Sennert (Amsterdam, 1644), Hippocrates (Geneva, 1675) and Celsus (Amsterdam, 1687) Platter`s work contains the first known case of death from hypertrophy of the thymus, in an infant (G-M 3789); and an account of meningioma (G-M 4511.1). (8)

Porterfield (William). A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phaenomena of Vision, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1759, eight folding engraved plates, some light toning and spotting, library stamps, library cloth, 8vo. Porterfield was a Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at Edinburgh from 1724-26. His book included many original observations. It was the first important British work on the anatomy and physiology of the eye` (G-M 1484.2). An authority on the eye, he devised the first optometer and possibly gave the first medical account of his experiences after having a leg amputated. (2)

Portzius (Joannes David). Demonst[r]atio brevis medico chyrurgica de tumoribus..., Leeuwarden: Heronem Nautam, 1679, bound with Severino (Marco Aurelio), Synopseos chirurgiae libri sex, Amsterdam: Elizeum Weyerstraeten, 1664, engraved title, blank at rear, bound with Marchetti (Pietro de), Observationum medico-chirurgicarum rariorum sylloge, Amsterdam: Petri Le Grand, 1665, folding engraved plate of a finger tip and tendons, split along fold, last two leaves blank, faint library stamp to first title, some browning and dampstaining throughout with a few minor marginal splits, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, together with Feyens (Johannes), De flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus, commentarius novus ac singularis, Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson, 1643, faint library stamp to title, closed tear repair to verso, contemporary vellum, soiled, plus Fontanus (Nicolaus), Commentarius in Sebastianum Austrium ... de puerorum morbis, Amsterdam: Jansson, 1642, three folding engraved plates, library stamp to title, title verso and plates, pencil underscoring and marginal marks throughout, presentation BMI bookplate from Dr Wade, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, all 12mo, plus other small format 16th-century medical books in Latin, several with defects. Marchetti: G-M 5572; Norman 1436 (both citing 1664 edition). (9)