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Denman (Thomas). A Collection of Engravings, Tending to Illustrate the Generation and Parturition of Animals, and of the Human Species, 1st edition, 1787 [1790], text in English and French, 15 engraved plates after J.V. Rymsdyk, light marginal water stains, some light spots and offsetting onto text, previous owner signature to front blank, library cloth, folio. Thomas Denman (1733-1815) studied midwifery under William Smellie (1697-1763), the greatest eighteenth-century obstetrician, after a career as a naval surgeon. Denman`s spontaneous evolution`, a natural, unassisted turning of a foetus from the transverse presentation, is named after him. (1)

Dioscorides (Pedanius). Opera quae extant omnia, 3 parts in one volume, Frankfurt: heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1598, Greek text with parallel Latin translation and commentary by Jean-Antoine Sarrasin, two engraved portraits of author and translator, blank at end of preliminaries present, four leaves index misbound at the end of part one, part-title to second part and full-title to third part, each with separate pagination, some spotting and browning, title heavily browned and rehinged with margin strengthening to verso, later ownership name (?Tho. Byce Webb, 1840) partly torn with loss to upper outer corner, modern morocco gilt, folio (346 x 218mm) Adams D658; Durling 1137, 1168. (1)

Dodoens (Rembert). A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes, wherin is contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers [and] sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes..., 1st English edition, London [i.e. Antwerp: Printed by Henry Loe, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, 1578, title within decorative woodcut border, woodcut illustrations throughout, lacks leaf *6 at end of first quire with portrait to verso and final leaf (3Y4) with final page of index and colophon to verso, some early ownership names (Thomas Watkins and William Bransby) and scattered marginalia, occasional library stamps including one faint one to title (foremargin closely trimmed, some old ownership names and deletions at head and foot), some soiling and a few marginal repairs without loss of text, modern moroccco gilt, folio (285 x 183mm) Nissen 516; STC 6984. (1)

[Du Laurens, Andre]. Historia anatomica humani corporis et singularum eius partium, Frankfurt:Matthaus de Becker & Theodor de Bry, 1599], engraved medallion portrait of King Henry IV on leaf *2r, woodcut initials throughout, twenty-six full-page copper-engraved plates (old pencil scribble at foot of plate on Z1r), lacks engraved title, signature 3L in index and final blank, some spotting and light browning, a few old manuscript annotations, old ownership signature of J[ohn] Freer to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, old reback and corner repairs, some wear, folio (300 x 202mm) This work became very popular and went through a number of editions. It remains as one of the more important anatomical texts of the late sixteenth century. Although the book contains many illustrations, few of the plates are taken from Du Laurens` own observations as he took most of his figures from Vesalius, Valverde, Coiter, and others` (Heirs of Hippocrates 387); Adams D1072; Choulant-Frank, p. 222; Durling 1313; Osler 3174; Waller 2629; Wellcome 1935. (1)

Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae, edited by Giovanni Maris Lancisi, 1st edition, Rome: F. Gonzaga, 1714, title with engraved vignette after Pier Leone Ghezzi, 47 fine copper-engraved plates after Eustachi and Pier Matteo Pini, (bound without the unnumbered graduated scale plate), woodcut initials, title detached, library stamps, occasional light spotting, library cloth, small tear at head of spine, folio, (375 x 250mm) Only the first eight plates were issued during Eustachi`s lifetime (for his Opuscula Anatomica, 1564), the whole series of 47 plates prepared in 1552 for Eustachi`s intended work De Dissensionibus ac Controversiis Anatomicis. The other thirty-nine plates (with framed rules on three sides to provide coordinates for reference), remained unprinted and forgotten in the Vatican Library until discovered in the early 18th century, and were then presented by Pope Clement XI to his physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi... These copperplates are more accurate than the work of Vesalius. Singer was of the opinion that had they appeared in 1552 Eustachius would have ranked with Vesalius as one of the founders of modern anatomy. He discovered the Eustachian tube, the thoracic duct, the adrenals and the abducens nerve, and gave the first accurate description of the uterus. He also described the cochlea, the muscles of the throat and the origin of the optic nerves` (G-M 391); Norman 740; Wellcome II, p. 536. (1)

Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae, Amsterdam: Apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1722, title in red and black with engraved vignette of a human dissection in an anatomy theatre, 44 engraved plates only (of 48), lacking plates 9, 25, 32 and an unnumbered plate, blank leaf bound-in after each plate, one plate torn and relaid, dampstained throughout, some leaves fraying to edges with marginal paper repairs to eight leaves, one leaf torn across and repaired, faint library stamp to every plate and occasionally throughout, contemporary marbled sheep, modern professional reback, folio. Heirs of Hippocrates 324; G-M 391 (1714 edition). (1)

Eustachi (Bartolomeo). Tabulae anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii quas e tenebris tandem vindicatas et Clementis Papae XI, Munificentia dono acceptas, praefatione, ac notis illustravit Joh. Maria Lancisius, second Rome edition, Rome: L. & T. Pagliarini, 1728, engraved ornamental frontispiece with vignette portrait of Eustachius, small tear with loss to upper outer corner outside of plate impression, old adhesion marks from previous bookplate removal to frontispiece verso, title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette of a dissection scene, old ownership signature of Robt. Smith to upper margin, forty-seven fine engraved plates with numbered rule borders (for use as coordinates in conjunction with text), faint library stamp to title and all plates, erasure mark to blank area within plate impression of plate 18, some spotting, Johnstonre armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and some wear, folio (372 x 250mm) G-M 391; Norman 740 (both citing first edition, 1714). (1)

Fabrizzi (Girolamo). [Opera physica anatomica: de formato foetu, venarum ostiolis, formatione ovi, & pulli, locutione, & eius instrumentis, brutorum loquela...], 5 parts in one volume, 1st collected edition, Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625, separate title to each part but lacks general title and title to Formatione ovi`, first title De Formato foetu` dated 1600 and printed within engraved decorative border (early inscription to upper margin trimmed away), forty-nine engraved plates including twelve double-page (these all on new guards), some larger plates closely trimmed at margins, some offsetting to text, colophon for first work dated 1604 with errata leaf bound after, title-pages to third, fourth and fifth works with printer`s device and imprint of Lorenzo Pasquati, each dated 1603, index leaves to Locutione` and Brutorm loquela` misbound, lacks final blank, faint library stamp to first title and all plates, some occasional spotting and soiling and a few minor marginal tears and archival repairs, ownership signature of Rich[ar]d Henry Morris, dated 1778, to preserved old front free endpaper, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, rubbed, folio (394 x 260mm) Fabrizzi, (Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente), was professor of medicine at Padua, and the influential teacher of William Harvey. The works here use the sheets of the original editions, with no conclusive indication that these were issued as the Opera of 1625, and are bound up as follows: De formato foetu (G-M 465; Norman 751, 1600 edition); Formatione ovi, & pulli (Norman 752, 1621 edition); Venarum ostiolis (G-M 757; Norman 750, 1603 edition); De locutione & eius instrumentis (Norman 749, 1603 edition); Brutorum loquela. Wellcome I, 2126. Collation: pi2 [-pi1 general title], a-b2, A-E4, F-I2, K4 [K4 a cancel with corrected plate], L-O2, P4, Q2, R-Z4, Aa2; A-H4, I2 [+1, errata], 4 leaves plates [-pi1, title]; pi1, A4, B-C2, D4; pi1, **2, D3/4, A-C4, D1/2; pi2, D3, A-C4 [-D4 blank]. (1)

Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera anatomica: de formato foetu, formatione ovi, & pulli, locutione, & eius instrumentis, brutorum loquela, venarum ostiolis..., 5 parts in one volume, 1st collected edition, Padua: Roberti Meglietti, 1625, general title with engraved printer`s device (soiled and torn without loss), forty-seven (of 49) engraved plates including twelve double-page, De formato feotu lacks separate title, leaves D2/3 with full-page engraving to verso of each, engraving to K4 recto a duplicate of K2, tears with loss to H2, R3/4, Formatione ovi lacks title, last plate torn with loss, Brutorum loquela lacks title, dedication and final blank, Venarum ostiolis with tears with loss to A4, B1, C1/2 and D4, Locutione lacks title, synopsis and index leaves, D1/2 torn with loss affecting engravings to versos, library stamp to title and plates, some soiling, old dampstaining and marginal closed tears and other defects, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, heavily soiled and worn, split along upper joint from head to foot, folio (413 x 273mm) Sold with all faults not subject to return. (1)

Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera omnia anatomica & physiologica, Leipzig, 1687, half-title, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, 62 copper-engraved plates (some folding), illustrations, library stamps, one or two closed tears, some spotting and browning, BMI presentation label from the Executors of the late R. Middlemore to front endpaper, contemporary vellum, upper joint repaired, dust-soiling, folio. First collected works edition of influential Paduan anatomist and surgeon Hieronymus Fabicius ab Aquapendente (1537-1619), friend of Galileo and teacher of William Harvey, Julius Casserius and Adriaan van den Spiegel. (1)

Fabrizzi (Girolamo). Opera chirurgica. Quorum pars prior pentateuchum chirurgicum, posterior operationes chirurgicas continet, Leiden, 1723, half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, nine folding engraved plates, some light spotting and marginal water stains, library stamps, library cloth, spine a little rubbed, folio (1)

Fabry von Hilden (Wilhelm). Opera quae extant omnia, 2 parts in one volume, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Joan Ludovici Dufour, 1682-1671, half-titles present, lacking additional engraved title, woodcut illusts to text, lightly foxed with some edge flaking to preliminaries, page edges stained red, modern cloth gilt, together with Ettmuller (Michael), Opera omnia: nempe, institutiones medicinae, cum notis; collegium practicum generale & speciale de morbis virorum, 2 volumes, Frankfurt: Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri, 1688, half-titles (one with paper repair), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette (with library stamp), contemporary mottled calf, modern sympathetic rebacks, all folio (3)

Falloppio (Gabriele). Opera omnia..., 2 volumes in one, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1600, printer`s woodcut device to both titles, index to each volume, library stamps to title and a few lower margins, some spotting and old dampstaining (mostly to upper inner margins) throughout, ownership signature of Albert Kyper to title lower margin, cut signature of James Johnstone pasted to front pastedown (endpapers renewed), contemporary blind-stamped vellum over boards, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed and soiled, lower outer corner repaired, folio (365 x 218mm) First published in 1584, the appendix to this edition was published as volume 3 in 1606. Provenance: Albert Kyper, professor of medicine at Leiden, published several medical works between 1615 and 1660, including Institutiones medicae and Anthropologia, corporis humani. Adams F135. (1)

Foes (Anuce). Oeconomia Hippocratis, alphabeti serie distincta..., 1st edition, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1588, printer`s woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, engraved medallion portrait of the author to title verso, woodcut initials and head-pieces, Greek and Latin text, double column, early inscriptions to title and some scattered underscoring, some spotting and old dampstaining throughout, library stamps to title and to lower margins of several rectos, ownership inscription and mongoram stamp of James Johnstone to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, soiled and upper joint split, folio (336 x 205mm) This large concordance of Hippocrates` works, listing important words in Greek with text references and commentary, took Foes over forty years to complete. It was the standard reference used for studying Hippocrates` writings and for etymological studies until the appearance of Littre`s definitive work some 250 years later. The fine medallion portrait of Foes on the verso of the title-page was executed by the French engraver Pierre Woeiriot (ca. 1531-ca. 1589) and appears only in first editions of the book` (Heirs of Hippocrates 348); Adams F660; Durling 1589; G-M 6793; Waller 3101; Wellcome 2334. (1)

Freind (John). Opera Omnia, 1st edition, 1733, licence leaf, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title with engraved vignette, engraved headpiece and initial, a few light spots, library stamp, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, folio. Freind was the first English historian of medicine` (Garrison-Morton). Whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London for high treason (he was innocent), Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole was suffering from renal calculi and called in Freind`s great friend Richard Mead, who refused Walpole treatment until Freind was released, which happened rather speedily. (1)

Fuchs (Leonhart). Operum Leonharti Fuchsii medici et philosophi excellentissimi, 3 parts in one, Frankfurt, 1566-67, woodcut portrait of the author to each part title, woodcut illustrations and initials, some small wormholes, occasional light water stains, library cloth, folio (312 x 193mm) Considered one of the founding fathers of botany (along with Brunfels and Bock) and expanding on Dioscorides` Materia Medica (1st century A.D.), Fuchs described four hundred German and one hundred foreign plants (including New World plants maize and pumpkin), the largest number of plants useful as drugs and herbs. The fuchsia, when brought back from the Americas, was named for him. (1)

Galen (Claudius). Medicorum omnium fer e principis opera, nunc demum a clarissimis iuxta & eruditis uiris latinitate donata, iam uero ordine iusto, & studio exquisitio re in lucem recens edita, Basel: [Per Andream Cratandrum, mense Martio], 1529, printer`s woodcut device to title and final leaf verso, woodcut initials, final blank present, ink marginalia and underscoring in one or more early hands throughout, library stamps to title and to scattered lower margins throughout, some soiling and dampstaining, occasionally heavy, closed tear repair to foremargin of 2H4 verso, early ownership signature of (?)Jo. James to title and Johnstone armorial bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, soiled, cracked on joints and snagged at head of spine, folio (313 x 208mm) A rare edition, WorldCat only locating two copies held in France. (1)

Gastaldi (Hieronymus). Tractatus de avertenda et profliganda peste politico-legalis eo lucubratus tempore, quo ipse Loemocomiorum primo, mox Sanitatis Commissarius Genealis fuit, peste urbem invadente anno MDCLVI et LVII, Bologna: Typographia Manolessiana, 1684, 47 engraved plates, woodcut decorations and initials, library stamps to title, half-title partly detached, old dampstaining throughout, heaviest towards rear with some light marginal adhesion, some browning, contemporary vellum, soiled and slight wear to joints and spine, folio (402 x 275mm) Krivatsy 4580 (imperfect); Wellcome III, p. 93: Deals chiefly with plague measures in Rome`. (1)

Geminus (Thomas, c. 1510-1562). Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata, 1st or 2nd English issue, Imprynted at London by Nycholas Hyll dwellynge in Saynte Johns streate, for Thomas Geminus, [1553], forty engraved plates, Adam & Eve double-page plate with figures trimmed close and just touching a fingertip of each, relaid on to two facing leaves, lacks the armorial, architecutral and allegorical engraved title here supplied in an early and possibly near-contemporary manuscript facsimile using silverpoint and sepia ink, manuscript details of the 1559 imprint incorporated at foot, central panel excised and left blank (Royal Coat of Arms in the 1553 editions, portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1559 edition), a few minor tears and small loss to lower right margin, the whole leaf relaid, dedication leaf for King Edward VI, slightly browned and soiled, old inscription of Watt Tooke(?) dated 167[?] to upper outer corner and slightly trimmed, dedication leaf verso To the ientill readers and Surgeons of Englande`, dated 1552, tiny holes to leaves A1 (old ink spash), G1 and G6, split to lower margin of B7, old ink marginalia to C1 verso, archival closed tear repairs to F1 including horizontal split across image and lower outer corner of text block, marginal paper repair to same leaf not affecting text, first cerebral engraved plate trimmed into plate impression touching image, I2 duplicated, upper marginal wormholes not affecting text or plates of leaves I3 to end, final leaf slightly browned and chipped at inner margin, with two small tears and loss not affecting text, leaf reattached at inner margin to endpaper, some other general spotting and soiling, old marginal dampstaining confined largely to preliminaries, signatures A-B and final leaf, library cloth, folio (369 x 258 mm) The Latin Geminus of 1545 and the English edition of 1553 were the first illustrated textbooks of anatomy to be published in this country and the forty illustrations were printed from the first copper plates to be executed here. Encouraged by the success of his Latin edition of Vesalius, Geminus was persuaded, possibly by Vesalius`s old roommate John Caius, to prepare a version of the Vesalian plates with English text for the benefit of `unlatined surgeons.` As he doubted his proficiency in English, Geminus sought the aid of Nicholas Udall, dramatist (he wrote the comedy Ralph Royster Doyster) and prebendary of Windsor, to translate the characterum indices of the Vesalian plates. The English text chosen to accompany the plates was an early translation of the Surgery of Henri de Mondeville, which Thomas Vicary, surgeon to Henry VIII, had used almost word for word in his own Anatomie of the bodie of man (1548). The text was rearranged in Geminus`s book to follow the traditional order of conducting a dissection, beginning with the viscera and ending with the bones in order to dissect first those parts which would most quickly putrefy` (Norman 887). Collation *2[-*1], A6, B7, C-I6 [I2 duplicated], K2; forty engraved plates. Additionally, bound before and after the dedication leaf are to be found three pages of Explanation leaves relating to the fugitive sheet of a seated Adam and Eve with flaps (see Russell 308). Two copies of the first sheet have been used to show recto and verso; the verso of sheet two was blank. Each page is slightly cut down at head and foot, trimmed close at the foremargin affecting text in most lines and relaid on three sheets. The text of this impressive work is in double column, black letter, and with crible metal-cut initials. A watermark of a pot or gauntlet and star is visible in many of the sheets. The illustrations comprise the external anatomy of Adam and Eve (here separated and mounted on two sheets), three skeletal engravings, sixteen muscular engravings, five arterial and venal engravings, four neural engravings, six engravings of organs, four cerebral engravings and one engraving of ocular parts and surgical instruments. These are all based on Vesalian woodcuts to be found in the Fabrica and the Epitome. The first edition in English is extremely rare, the copies produced being so well-used that few have survived in any semblance of good condition. The Norman copy of the undated first issue claimed to be the only complete copy in private hands. There are two English versions of 1553, (STC 11715.5 & 11716), that with an undated title-page being claimed as the first issue. Both are otherwise identical and bear the same imprint at the rear as found in this copy, and not found in any other edition identified. The matter is further complicated by the presence of the three added pages of explanation to accompany the fugitive plate of a seated Adam and Eve (not included in this copy), that though not part of the collation, are often found in copies of the 1559 edition. This copy in the main body of text (excepting the last leaf which is slightly browned and spotted and separated from the main body of text) is in very good order with only the presence of the usual light Birmingham Medical Institute library stamps affecting the freshness of the plates. For further discussions of this remarkable volume see Russell 830-833 (and 308), Cushing VI.C.-2, Norman 887. See also an article by S.V. Larkey, The Library, XIII (1932-33), pp. 367-94. (1)

Genga (Bernardino). Anatomy Improv`d and Illustrated with Regard to the uses thereof in Designing: Not only laid down from an Examen of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body but also Demonstrated and Exemplified from the Most Celebrated Antique Statues in Rome... The Explanations and Indexes Added by John Maria Lancissi, P. Physitian to his Holyness Pope Innocent XI. First Published in Rome by Dom di Rossi and now Re-engraven by the Ablest Hands in England. And Republish`d by John Senex, [1723], 59 engraved plates, including 42 anatomical plates by John Sturt and Michael van der Gucht, list of subscriber`s at end, title with small repair at lower corner (light marginal soiling), plates VII & XIX with repairs, a few minor spots, small presentation label from Mrs G Evans, modern cloth, folio. This is one of the finest of all books on anatomy for artists` (G-M 386). Russell 313. (1)

Glauber (Johann Rudolf). The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: Containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals: Also, Various Cheap and Easie Ways of Making Salt-Petre, and Improving of Barren-Land, and the Fruits of the Earth... Translated into English, and Published for Publick Good by the Labour, Care and Charge, of Christopher Packe, 3 parts in one, 1689, engraved frontispiece, four woodcut plates, six engraved plates, one folding (trimmed at lower margin affecting image), woodcut illustration, some contemporary underlining and annotation, occasional minor spots, burnholes and inksplashes, endpapers renewed, 18th c calf, rebacked, some edgewear, folio. Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemical engineer and discoverer of sodium sulphate (`Glauber`s salt`). The list of subscribers include Robert Boyle and William Penn. Wing G845. (1)

Grew (Nehemiah). The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society, 1st edition, printed for the author by W. Rawlins, 1682, licence leaf before main title, 83 copper-engraved plates, including four double-page, pp. 213-220 mispaginated, erratic signatures, occasional light water stains and spotting, library label, modern calf, a little rubbed, folio. First collected edition of Grew`s earlier works (The Anatomy of Vegetables; An Idea of a Phytological History and The Comparative Anatomy of Trunks), the book is the first textbook on plant anatomy with fine and accurate plates, as observed by Grew using a microscope, and containing the first microscopic description of pollen. Along with Malpighi, Grew is considered the founder of plant anatomy and demonstrates that the normal internal structure of plants are made of `cells`, first observed by Robert Hooke in 1665. Henrey 162; Nissen 758; Norman 946. (1)

Guillemeau (Jacques). The Frenche Chirurgerye, or All the manualle operations of Chirurgerye, with divers, & sundrye figures, and amongst the rest certayne neufownde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of Chirurgerye ..., now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A. M., Dordrecht, Isaac Canin, 1597 [colophon dated 1598], engraved title with large full-page engraved royal coat-of-arms to verso, some soiling and marks, with several 17th century ownership signatures in ink, and close-trimmed to fore-margin with several repaired tears, thirteen full-page engraved plates of human anatomy and various medical instruments, some soiling, 17th century ink annotations to margins, folio 28 (G4), with closed tear to upper portion repaired, lacks final leaf of index, with colophon to verso, later 19th century maroon cloth by C. Cooper of Birmingham, with their ticket to front pastedown, rubbed and a little frayed to extreme head and foot of spine, with Birmingham Medical Institute gilt stamp at foot, folio (36 x 23.5cm) STC 12498. G-M 3669 for the first edition in French of 1594. A pupil of Ambroise Pare, Jacques Guillemeau (1550-1613), was an oculist, obstetrician, and surgeon to Charles IX and Henry IV of France. He wrote the first French book on ophthalmology in 1585, entitled TraitŽs des Maladies de l`Oeil, and his treatise on child birth, entitled L`Heureux Accouchement des Femmes, first published in 1609, was quickly translated into English as Child-birth, or The Happy Deliverie of Women in 1612. (1)

Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 8 parts in 2 volumes, 1st edition, Gottingen, 1743-56, titles with engraved vignettes printed in red and black, 47 fine engraved plates, some folding, occasional light spotting, library stamps, modern half morocco, folio (460 x 275mm) Although nearly ten engravers prepared plates for the book, the plates are all of high quality and are clear, artistic and exact renditions of their subjects` (Heirs of Hippocrates 881). Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations` (G-M 397); Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198. (2)

Haller (Albrecht von). Icones anatomicae quibus praecipuae aliquae partes corporis humani delineatae proponuntur & arteriarum potissimum historia continetur, 2 volumes (text in 8 parts/atlas), 1756 (but 1745-81), titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes (general title dated 1756, parts titles dated 1745, 1749, 1753, 1756 & 1781), 47 engraved plates, a few folding, plate 13 with marginal losses, occasional light spotting and ink splashes, library stamps, front hinge of text volume broken, later buckram-backed boards, folio (427 x 265mm) G-M 397; Heirs of Hippocrates 881; Norman 974; Wellcome III, p.198. (2)

Helmont (Jan Baptista van). Oriatrike or, Physick Refined. The common Errors therein Refuted, and the whole Art Reformed & Rectified: beining a New Rise and Progress of Phylosophy and Medicine, for the Destruction of Diseases and Prolongation of Life..., 1662, engraved frontispiece (with faint library stamp, slightly torn mostly to margins and lined to verso), title with ownership signature E. Hutchinson 1760 and very faint library stamp, strengthened to inner margin, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, endpapers renewed, early 19th-century mottled sheep, rebacked and board edges worn, folio (292 x 185mm) Wing H1400. (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)

Hippocrates. Opera omnia quae extant..., 8 parts in one volume, Greek & Latin text, Frankfurt: Heirs of Andre Wechel, 1595, library stamp to title, occasional library stamps to lower outer corners, separate part-titles (tear not affecting text to title of part 2), printer`s woodcut device to final leaf verso, some spotting, ownership signature and two small monogram stamps of James Johnstone to front endpapers, old vellum with original vellum cover panels with central blind-stamped arabesque design relaid, rubbed and soiled, folio. Adams H566; Durling 2319. (1)

Hippocrates. Magni Hippocratus medicorum omnium facile principis, opera quae extant: in viii. sectiones ex Erotiani mente distributa, 2 volumes, Geneva: Samuelis Chouet, 1657-62, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, volume one title printed in red and black, double column text in parallel Greek and Latin, comtemp. blind-tooled vellum, some splitting at the joints, missing one spine label, together with Hippocratis Magni Coacae Praenotiones. Opus Admirabile, in tres Libros Tributum. Interprete & Enarratore Ludovico Dureto, Paris, 1658, title printed in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut initials and head and tailpieces, text in Latin and Greek, some light spotting and soiling, contemporary vellum, a little bowed and discoloured, all folio (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)

Ingrassia (Giovanni Filippo ). De tumoribus praeter naturam tomus primus. In quo generatim tumorum omnium praeternaturalium species: praesertimque earum nomina & definitiones, atque etiam causae, multaque generalia declarantur. Graecique & Latini, & Arabes, quatenus ad haec ipsa pertinet, enucleantur. Occasione sumpta ab Avicennae verbis, Arabum Medicorum Principis, Tertia Fen Quarti Libri, Tractatu Primo ..., volume 1 [all published],Naples, Matthaeus Cancer, 1553, title with large woodcut coat of arms, full-page engraved portrait of the author, two woodcut medallions at head of first leaf of dedication, woodcut initials, text complete but erractically bound, title-page to the commentary by Charerius without woodcut border, leaf Q6 stained and damaged with some loss (partially repaired), and preceeding leaf with small tear to lower margin, repaired, affecting a few letters, bound with Ibn Serapion (Yuhanna, and others), In hoc volumine continentur: Insignium Medicorum, Joan. Serapionis Arabis De Simplicibus Medicinis opus praeclarum & ingens. Averrois Arabis, De eisdem liber eximius. Rasis filii Zachariae, De eisdem opusculum perutile. Incerti item autoris De Centaureo libellus hactenus Galeno inscriptus. Dictionum Arabicarum iuxta atque Latinarum index valde necessarius, Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher of Andlau, 1531, title with small printer`s woodcut device, woodcut initials, printer`s woodcut device to verso of final leaf, some light browning, contemporary blind-panelled and decorated full vellum, rubbed and soiled with some wear to extremities, lacking clasps, with faint gilt library stamp to foot of spine, folio. Adams I119. Waller 5065. Wellcome 3416. For the second work: Choulant-Frank, page 372. Wellcome 5936. Provenance: Ex libris Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573-1651), with his bookplate engraved in 1630 by Raphael Sadeler to front pastedown. His library was formerly known as the Munchner Hofbibliothek, and is now the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. With additonal smaller bookplate of the Earl of Munster to upper outer corner of the front pastedown, and small presentation label at foot from Oliver Pemberton to the Birmingham Medical Institute. (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)

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)

Malpighi (Marcello). Opera Omnia, figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis illustrata. Tomis duobus comprehensa, 2 volumes in one, 1686, two titles printed in red and black (first title with engraved arms of the Royal Society), 123 engraved plates (including seven small unumbered plates), lacking engraved frontispiece, some minor spotting and soiling, previous owner signature to first title), hinges reinforced, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio. Malpighi was the founder of histology and the greatest of the microscopists. In 1660 he was the first to see the capillary anastomosis between the arteries and the veins, thus helping the completion of Harvey`s work on the circulation. He was a great embryologist; his name is perpetuated in the `Malpighian bodies`, `Mapighi`s layer` of the epidermis, `Malpighi`s (splenic) corpuscles`. Malpighi was an excellent draughtsman but a poor writer` (G-M 66). (1)

Mascagni (Paolo). Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et ichnographia, 1st edition, Siena: Pazzini Carli, 1787, engraved vignette to title, engraved dedication leaf, twenty-seven engraved plates and fourteen outline plates (correct), a little spotting and soiling, uncut, contemporary half sheep over boards, soiled and worn, upper cover detached, large folio (590 x 420mm) Mascagni, Professor of Anatomy at Siena, made several discoveries regarding the lymphatics. His beautiful atlas contains forty-one engravings of the lymphatics and gained him lasting fame` (G-M 1104); The spectacular copperplates by Ciro Santi in this work depict vessels in some of the finest detail present in anatomical illustration before the advent of photography` (Norman 1450); Choulant-Frank, pp. 315-316; Ayres 684; Waller 6295. (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)

Mattioli (Pietro Andrea). Opera quae extant omnia: hoc est, Commentarii in VI. Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia: adjectis in margine variis Graeci textus lectionibus, ex antiquissimis Codicibus desumptis, qui Dioscoridis depravatam lectionem restituunt: a Casparo Bauhino..., editio altera, Basel: Joannis Konig, 1674, half-title, title within decorative engraved border, leaf a6 with port of Caspar Bauhin, numerous woodcut botanical illustrations throughout, woodcut dec. initials, head & tailpieces, bound without leaf AA1 (blank ?), some browning and spotting, dampstaining at head, ink stamp to half-title, title and few other leaves (mostly lower blank margins), later endpapers, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, rebacked with later morocco title label, upper joint slightly split at head, dust-soiled, folio (355 x 210mm) Nissen 1309. (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)

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, secundus). Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System, Illustrated with Tables, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1783, fifty engraved plates on forty-one sheets (plates 15, 16 and 18 folding), lacks half-title, faint library stamp to title and plates, some damp spotting throughout, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, upper cover detached and lower joints weak, some loss to head and foot of spine, folio (477 x 295mm) Monro discovered the communication between the lateral ventricles of the human brain with each other and with a third ventricle, the `foramen of Monro` (G-M 1385); Norman 1538. (1)

Monro (Alexander, secundus). The Structure and Physiology of Fishes Explained, and Compared with those of Man and Other Animals, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1785, 49 engraved plates on 43 sheets only (lacking plate I), a few repaired to verso, some light spotting, modern burgundy half morocco, folio (1)

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

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... , 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1788, ten engraved plates including four folding (several marginal closed tears without loss), library stamps to title and plates, some spotting and soiling throughout, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, near-contemporary cloth, rubbed and soiled, some loss to head and foot of spine, tall folio (477 x 285mm) (1)

Monro (Alexander, secundus). Three Treatises on the Brain, the Eye, and the Ear, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1797, additional part-titles but paginated as one, twenty-two (of 24 engraved plates) including one hand coloured (bound upside down) and some folding, lacks plates 4 & 8 of the third part, library stamps to title and plates, some offsetting of plates to text, partly uncut and partly browned at margins with a few closed tears not affecting text, main title lower outer corner repaired and not affecting text, modern quarter morocco gilt, folio (330 x 245mm) Norman 1539. Monro`s last published work. (1)

Morgagni (Giovanni Battista). De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libriquinque, 2 volumes in one, Venice: Ex typographia Remondiniana, 1761, engraved portrait frontispiece, first title in red and black, library stamps to half-title, portrait and a few lower margins, some spotting, light old dampstaining to early leaves, Ii3 of volume 1 torn with loss to blank area of outer and lower margins, a few old ink marginal annotations, underscoring and marks, all possibly in the hand of James Johnstone and with approx. seventy leaves of manuscript medical notes bound at rear, mostly taken from late 18th-c. medical and related works and the majority seemingly in the hand of James Johnstone, but with at least one other hand present, remains of armorial Johnstone family bookplate to front pastedown and remains of original presentation inscription from James to John Johnstone dated 1834 pasted above and below, modern half calf gilt, slightly rubbed, folio (365 x 230mm) Published when he was seventy-nine years of age, [De Sedibus] had been years in preparation, and constitutes a foundation of modern pathological anatomy. Vast in scope, it is one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine. In it he reports in precise and exhaustive detail his findings in nearly seven hundred autopsy dissections, introducing and insisting on the concept that diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease must be based on an exact understanding of the pathologic changes in the anatomic structures. It put the final rout to the old humoral pathology. Morgagni`s contribution to the understanding of disease may well rank with the contributions of Vesalius in anatomy and Harvey in physiology` (Heirs of Hippocrates 792). G-M 2276; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 125; Norman 1547; PMM 206. (1)

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)

Motherby (George). A New Medical Dictionary; or, General Repository of Physic. Containing An Explanation of the Terms, and A Description of the Various Particulars relating to Anatomy, Physiology, Physic, Surgery, Materia Medica, Pharmacy..., 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1775, twenty-three engraved plates at rear, and two tables of chemical symbols, faint library stamp to title and plates, printed in double-column, occasional minor water-staining, red sprinkled edges, modern half morocco, minor mark on lower cover, folio (360 x 210mm) (1)

Motherby (George). A New Medical Dictionary, or, General Repository of Physick ..., 3rd edition, revised and corrected, with considerable additions by George Wallace, 1791, thirty engraved plates bound at rear, faint library stamp to title and plate margins, minor spotting, modern antique-style quarter morocco gilt over cloth boards, folio (350 x 235mm) (1)

Paracelsus (Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast). Chyrurgia Minor, quam Alias Bertheoneam intitulauit, [?Basel: Perna], 1573, woodcut initials, lacking 3z4 (blank?), occasional underlining and annotations, some soiling and dampstains, a few repairs and worm tracks, library cloth, folio. Durling 3497. (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)

Pare (Ambroise). The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Tho. Johnson. Whereunto are added three Tractates out of Adrianus Spigelius of the Veines, Arteries, & Nerves, with large Figures, 2 parts in one volume, 2nd edition, 1649, engraved title (browned), final section with separate title, two folding full-page woodcut plates only (of three) depicting the vascular system, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, library stamps to title and full-page plates, some old smudges and marks, occasional inoffensive marginalia, light dampstaining to final portion, early 19th century full sheep, upper joint cracked, folio. Krivatsy 8604; Waller 7148; Wing p349. (1) A few crude tears and repairs with occasional slight text loss. Sold with all faults.

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)

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)

Plinius Secundus (Gaius). Historia mundi..., denuo sic emendata... non nihil etiam Beati Rhenani... annotationibus, 2 pts in one, Basel: Hieronymus Froben, 1530, woodcut device on both title-pages and at the end of both parts, woodcut initials, some neat old ink underscoring and scattered marginalia, library stamps to title and some lower margins, some soiling and old dampstaining throughout, slight marginal damp-fraying with loss to last signature of index not affecting text, title soiled, split at upper margin without loss, inner margin and lower half verso repaired with loss of lower blank outer corner only, armorial bookplate of the Jonnstone family to front pastedown, contemporary vellum over wooden boards, soiled, folio (360 x 250mm) Adams P1561. (1)

Purmann (Matthaeus Gottfried). Chirurgia Curiosa: Or, the Newest and Most Curious Observations and Operations in the Whole Art of Chirurgery. Regularly Methodized, Explained and Rendred Intelligible and Easie to Every Practioner: Whether Relating to Manual Operations, or the Choice and Application of Proper Remedies... To Which is Added Natural Morborum Medicatrix: Or, Nature Cures Diseases, 1st edition in English, 1706, five folding copper-engraved plates (last two bound upside down), errata leaf, erratic pagination and signatures, some spotting and browning, library cloth, folio. Military surgeon Purmann experimented unsuccessfully with transfusing animal blood into wounded soldiers amongst his more pioneering treatments. Wellcome IV, p. 449; Waller 7677. (1)

Riviere (Lazare). The Compleat Practice of Physick in Eighteen Several Books. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Differences, Diagnostick, and Prognostick Signs. Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man, 1655, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with Praxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, half-title present, lacking engraved frontispiece, faint library stamp to title, modern library cloth gilt, folio, together with ^TPraxis medica, editio postrema emendatior, 2 volumes in one, The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1651, ^Dlacks additional engraved title, bound with Methodus curandarum febrium, The Hague, 1651, occasional light browning, dampstaining towards rear of volume, white library cloth, soiled, 8vo, together with Craanen (Theodorus), Lumen rationale medicum, hoc est praxis medica reformata sive annotationes in Praxin Henrici Regii, accedit examen institutum in Dan. Sennerti..., 2 parts in one volume, Middelburg: J. de Reede, 1686, additional engraved title-page, Sennert`s Examen institutum with separate title-page and pagination, index at rear, faint library stamp to printed title-page, presentation bookplate to BMI from Dr Blackall tipped in at front, earlier ownership signature of N. (?)Munckley dated 1745, contemporary vellum, together with a second copy lacking engraved title-page, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, modern calf, both 8vo, plus Waldschmidt (Johann Jacobus), Praxis medicinae rationalis succincta, per casus tradita..., preface by Johann Dolaeus, Paris: Sumptibus Societatis, 1691, lacks engraved frontispiece and final blank(?), library stamp to title, some occasional spotting and light browning, library cloth, 12mo. Wing R1559. (5)

Riviere (Lazare). Opera medica universa. quibus continentur, Frankfurt, 1674, title printed in red and black and with engraved vignette, library stamps to title and first two leaves of text, repaired hole to final leaf and inner margin of leaf Dd, some marginal worming, modern quarter morocco gilt, together with Schenck von Grafenberg (Johannes), Observationum medicarum rariorum, libri VII... , Frankfurt, 1665, title in red and black with woodcut publisher`s device (library stamp), few woodcut decorative initials, some dampstaining and mottling throughout, front endpaper frayed and damp mottled with one blank detached, contemporary vellum with blind embossed arabesque to centre of each board, head of spine worn, marked and some soiling, plus Peccettius (Franciscus), Cheirurgia Francisci Peccettii coelestini cortonensis physici, et cheirurgi, in qua omnia, tam ad huius artis theoriam, quam praxim spectantia traduntur, Pavia: Apud Hearedes Caroli Francisci Magrij, 1697, woodcut headpieces and initials, library stamp to title, modern quarter library morocco gilt, all folio. 1) G-M 2727. Contains the first ever reference to aortic stenosis. (3)