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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)

Ruini (Carlo). Anatomia del cavallo, infermita, et suoi rimedii: opera nuova, degna di qualsivoglia prencipe, & cavaliere, & motto necessaria a filosofi, medici, cavallerizzi, & marescalchi..., Florence: Prati, 1618, title printed in red & black with woodcut printers device, 64 full-page woodcut plates, woodcut initials and headpieces, library stamp to title and two other pages, dampstaining to first and last few leaves, early 19th century half vellum with minimal library markings, maroon morroco label to spine, flaking to fore-edges, folio. First book devoted exclusively to the structure of a single species other than man. Besides being one of the foundation-stones of modern veterinary medicine, it contains a description of the lesser circulation. The admirable woodcuts were inspired by those in Vesalius`s De humani corporis fabrica (1543).` (G-M 285 - 1598 first edition) (1)

Salmon (William). Botanologia. The English Herbal: or, History of Plants. Containing I. Their names, Greek, Latine and English. II. Their species, or various kinds. III. Their descriptions. IV. Their places of growth. V. Their times of flowering and seeding. VI. Their qualities or properties. VII. Their specifications. VIII. Their preparations, Galenick and chymick. IX Their virtues and uses. X. A complete florilegium, of all the choice flowers cultivated by our florists..., 1st edition, 1st issue, H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710, title printed in red & black (with ink stamp to upper blank margin of the Manor House, Knowle), numerous woodcut botanical illustrations, lacks addn. engraved title, short worm trail to title and initial leaves, few other worm holes, first & last few leaves with marginal fraying, two leaves at rear of volume torn to lower outer corners with loss and repaired, seven other leaves at rear of volume strengthened to lower outer corners with archival tissue, some browning & spotting, endpapers renewed, upper pastedown trimmed to reveal earlier endpaper beneath with ownership signature of J.H. Kimbell and also with presentation label to the British Medical Institute from Dr William Watson Newton, manuscript poetry to rear pastedown with the dates 1762 & 1769 and the name John Fry, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, board edges and corners repaired, folio (367 x 220mm) Henrey 1308. This copy includes the additional unnumbered pages consisting of an Index morborum`. (1)

Scarpa (Antonio). Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu, 1st edition, Pavia, 1789, 16 engraved plates by Scarpa (eight duplicate in outline), bound with Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas von), Icones Organi Auditus Humani, 1st edition, Frankfurt, 1806, nine engraved plates (five outline), occasional light spotting and water stains, library stamps, front hinge breaking, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio. Scarpa made important researches concerning the auditory and olfactory apparatus of fishes, birds, reptiles and man` (G-M 1453). Studying anatomy under Morgagni at Padua, he became a skilful anatomical artist. In his earlier work on the ear, De Structura Fenestrae Rotundaeauris (1772) he gives a more accurate description of the osseous labyrinth and describes the true function of the round window. Heirs of Hippocrates 1103; Waller 8532. (1)

Scarpa (Antonio). Tabulae eurologicae ad illustrandam historiam anatomicam... , 1st edition, Pavia: B. Comini, 1794, fourteen engraved plates including seven outline plates (by Faustino Anderloni) bound at rear, faint library stamp to full title and each plate, some spotting and soiling, closed tear repair to foremargin of outline plate six into plate impression, contemporary half roan over marbled boards, rubbed and some wear to extremities, large folio (585 x 458mm) Blake 404; Choulant-Frank 299; G-M 1253; Norman 1897; Waller 8545. (1)

Schultes (Johann). Armamentarium chirurgicum renovatum & auctum triginta novem tabulis..., 3 parts in one volume, Amsterdam: Joannem a Someren, 1672, additional engraved title-page, printer`s woodcut device to all three titles, eighty-three full-page engraved illustrations, library stamp to titles and plates, some spotting and soiling, occasional small marginal tears, closed tear to D4 of second part into text with archival repair, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, some wear, lower joints weak and upper cover detached, together with two other defective copies of other editions of the same work, the first octavo edition, The Hague: Adriann Vlacq, 1656, additional engraved title-page (imprint dated 1657), forty-two full-page engraved illustrations, lacks D1/2 (pp. 49-52 with two plates), occasional old ink marginalia, library stamps to titles, some plates and margins, hinges partly broken, contemporary vellum, soiled, the third copy edited by Joannes Tilingius, four parts in one volume, Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans 1693, separate part-titles, parts three and four paginated as one and bound before part one, full-page engraved illustrations throughout plus two folding engraved plates not included in text, lacks additional engraved title and signature S (pp. 273-88) from end of part two before index, faint library stamp to first title and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, spine detached, all 8vo. Scultetus is famous for his illustrations of surgical procedures and instruments. The first edition was the only edition published in folio format. This was the most popular surgical text of the 17th century. It underwent numerous editions and translations. That with the most expanded text and illustrations was published in Amsterdam, 1672` (G-M 5571, citing first edition, 1655, and noting 1672 edition offered here). Collations: 1) Krivatsy 10752. [16], 343, [21]; [4], 288, [11]; [2] 3-32. 2) Krivatsy 10747. [24], 180 (i.e. 160), 159-328, [14] [lacks 49-52]. 3) Krivatsy 10753. [6], 62, [1]; 343, [17], 2 folding plates; 272, [8] [lacks *1, sig. S]. (3)

Severino (Marco Aurelio). De abscessuum recondita natura, libri viii, Leiden: Joannem a Kerckhem, 1724, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title, seventeen engraved plates, faint library stamps to title and plates, modern calf gilt, 4to, together with Trimembris chirurgia, in qua diaetetico - chirurgica, pharmaco chirurgica, et chemico-chirurgica, Leiden: Kerckhem, 1725, engraved vignette title, library stamp to title, contemporary vellum, 4to, together with Bonet (Theophile), Sepulchretum sive anatomia practica, 3 volumes, Geneva: Cramer & Perachon, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, initial title printed in red and black, faint library stamps to titles, foxing to a few leaves, contemporary calf, volumes 1 and 2 with modern rebacks, the other volume with upper cover detached, folio, together with volume 1 only of Bonet`s Medicina septentrionalis collatitia (1685) G-M 2273 (1632 edition) and G-M 2274 (1679 edition). (6)

Soemmerring (Samuel Thomas von). Icones embryonum humanorum, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Varrentrapp & Wenner, 1799, engraved vignette title, small engraved illustration at foot of final leaf of text (p. 10), two engraved plates with twenty engravings, spotting, browning and dust-soiling throughout, some old marginal dampstaining, a little chipped at edges, modern cloth gilt, large slim folio (585 x 420mm) (1)

Spieghel (Adraan van der). De formatu foetu... Epistolae duae anatomicae. Tractatus de arthritide, 1st edition, Padua: J.B. de Martinis & L. Pasquatus, [1626], light library stamp to title and nine engraved plates, ownership signatures of Robert Bland M.D. (dated 17th January 1812) and J. Braxton Hicks (1866) to front pastedown and presentation bookplate to the BMI from Hicks to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, folio (395 x 265mm) Spigelius` son-in-law, the physician Liberalis Crema of Padua, had bought several ... copperplates from Casserius` grandson and when in 1626 he wished to publish a few selections from the posthumous works of his father-in-law, he chose nine appropriate plates and added them with his own explanations to these selections... The plates... deal with the pregnant uterus, placenta, and the child. They are among Casserius` most beautiful engravings. Four of them represent entire female figures with the abdomen cut open... The work was published at Crema`s expense and is rare` (Choulant-Frank, p. 226); Cushing S360; Waller 9119; Wellcome 6038; Heirs of Hippocrates 413. Provenance: Robert Bland (1740-1816) man-midwife who published Observations on Human and Comparative Parturition` (1794). John Braxton Hicks (1823-97), and English doctor, described false labour contractions now named after him. (1)

Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). Cheirurgia nova... de narium, aurium, labiorum`que defectu, per insitionem cutis ex humero, arte, hactenus omnibus ignota, serviendo..., Frankfurt: Johannes Saurius, 1598, title in red and black and with engraved vignette, twenty-two full-page woodcuts, some spotting and browning throughout, minor hair-line worming to outer margins of signatures D-F touching occasional letters without loss of sense, some old ink marginalia, scattered underscoring and notes to front endpapers, faint library stamp to title (dust-soiled), front free endpaper slightly frayed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled and upper joint split, 8vo (164 x 105mm) Durling 4312; Waller 9451; Wellcome 621. First published in a folio edition the previous year under the title: De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (G-M 5734). (1)

Trallianus (Alexander). Alexander Tralliani medici lib. XII. Rhazae de pestilentia libellus ex Syrorum lingua in Graecam translatus. Jacobi Goupyli in eosdem castigationes. ex bibliotheca regia, 1st edition, Paris: R. Estienne, 1548, title and final leaf with Estienne device, text in Greek and Latin, occasional light marginal dampstains, 19th c. boards, slightly rubbed, folio. First edition of the complete Greek text. Although mainly a compiler, Alexander of Tralles (A.D. 525-605) produced some original work, most famously his original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. G-M 34-35. (1)

Vesalius (Andreas). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Per Ioannem Oporinum, [1555], woodcut title, portrait of the author on a6 verso, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout (including seventeen full-page anatomical illustrations), two folding tables with woodcut diagrams (one on unsigned leaf between bb5 and bb6, short marginal split to inner margin), historiated woodcut initials, lacks final leaf (blank with printer`s device to verso), library stamp to title, dedication, portrait and table leaves, frequent BGH library stamps, mostly to blank lower outer corners, skilful old and small neat paper repairs to three leaves (cc5/6 & dd1) with facsimile` manuscript insertions to a few words and one illustration, some occasional old light dampstaining to inner margins, a few minor marginal splits and worm holes (sig. K) not affecting text, near-contemporary ownership signature of Guilielmus de Mesa (dated 20-4-1596) to upper margin of final leaf verso (printer`s colophon), plus ownership signature of C. Kendall (dated 1729) to front free endpaper, engraved armorial bookplate of the Johnstone family to front pastedown, above and partly on which is written a presentation inscription in 1834 from John Johnstone (1768-1836, physician & biographer) to his nephew James Johnstone (1806-1869, physician, first president of the British Medical Association and founding benefactor of the Birmingham Medical Institute Library), with a brief signed note by the latter to a second free endpaper verso, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over pasteboards with central arabesque to each cover, lacks ties, crude vellum repairs to spine ends and tape repair to upper joint, partly sprung, folio (408 x 272mm), contained in a purpose-made cloth clamshell book box. Second folio edition of the most important anatomical treatise of the sixteenth century and a watershed work in the history of anatomical illustration. Adams V605; Choulant-Frank pp.181-182; Cushing, Vesalius VI.A.-3; G-M 377; Durling 4579; Norman 2139; Osler 568; PMM 71 (describing the 1543 first folio edition); Waller 9901; Wellcome 6562. Heirs of Hippocrates 283: In 1552, a small `pocket` edition of the Fabrica was pirated in Lyons but, as it had no illustrations, it was neither popular nor profitable. For that matter, neither the first nor the second splendid folio edition was profitable, either, and the printer, Oporinus, suffered losses on both. By the time of this second folio edition, the plates from the first edition had been copied in England and throughout Europe, and the prospect for sale of a new edition must have been considerably lessened. Even so, the new edition was even more lavish than the first, with heavier paper and larger type, necessitating an entire recutting of the initial letters. Corrections were made in the text by Vesalius with some rearrangement of both the text and the illustrations. The woodcut title-page has always created much interest. It carries considerable dramatic impact and probably fairly represents, with some theatrical touches, an `anatomy` of the sixteenth century. The block for the second edition was entirely recut and, although it closely resembles that of the first edition, there are a few changes. The unclothed man of the first edition, observing from his perch at the left, is clothed in the second edition, `for no other reason that one can see,` comments Cushing, `unless to save the nun`s embarrassment by clothing the naked figure` (Cushing Vesalius, p. 90). The wood blocks were cut in Venice and transported by mule across the Alps to Basel, where Oporinus - artist, printer, and friend of Vesalius - received them with detailed instructions from the author.` Provenance note: An identically dated ownership signature of Guilielmus (Guilielmi) de Mesa appears in the National Library of Medicine`s copy of Estienne`s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545). (1)

Vesalius (Andreas). Opera omnia anatomica & chirurgica, 2 volumes, edited by Hermann Boerhaave & Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Leiden: Joannem du Vivie and J. & H. Verbeek, 1725, half-title, fine additional engraved title of a crowded anatomy theatre, engraved portrait of Vesalius, titles printed in red & black, 77 engraved plates only (of 79), lacking plates 74 & 75, faint library stamps to titles and plates, modern library half morocco, folio. The first collected edition of Vesalius`s works with superb engraved plates by Jan Wandelaer (1690-1759). Heirs of Hippocrates 287; Lindeboom 554; Osler 579; Waller 9917. (2)

Vicary (Thomas). The English-Mans Treasure, with the True Anatomie of Mans Body... , Whereunto are Annexed Many Secrets Appertaining to Chyrurgery, with Divers Excellent Approved Remedies for all Captaines and Souldiers, that Travell eyther by Water or Land... , and now Eighthly Augmented and Enlarged... , by Bar. Alsop & Tho. Fawset, 1633, one full-page engraved illustration, old ink marginalia to first few leaves, title soiled and with library stamp to upper outer corner, old dampstaining throughout, a few marginal repairs, paper of final third of volume somewhat grey and soiled, marginal repairs with text loss to all four leaves of index, a few other minor defects, library cloth, rubbed on joints and spine ends, 4to, together with a defective copy of John Browne`s Compleat Treatise of the Muscles`, 1683, lacking portrait frontispiece and four plates, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, folio. STC 24712 & Wing B 5126A. (2)

Vicq D`Azyr (Felix). Traite d`anatomie et de physiologie, avec des planches coloriees representant au naturel les divers organes de l`homme et des animaux, volume 1 [all published], 1st edition, Paris, 1786, 69 plates, consisting of 34 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 34 number-keyed line engraved plates and a single engraved plate (no. XVIII), by and after Alexandre Briceau, bound without half-title and allegorical frontispiece, some occasional marginal light spotting and dampstains, modern green morocco-backed boards, folio. The most accurate neuroanatomical work produced before the advent of microscopic staining techniques. Vicq d`Azyr identified accurately for the first time many cerebral convolutions, along with various internal structures of the brain. This was the first volume of an ambitious study of anatomy and physiology which remained unfinished at Vicq d`Azyr`s premature death.` (G-M 401.2). Felix Vic d`Azyr (1746-94) was the last physician to Marie-Antionette and Perpetual Secretary of the Societe Royale de Medecine. As an anatomist he pioneered the use of alcohol in brain dissection and described the band of Vicq d`Azyr in the cerebral cortex and the mammillothalamic bundle. The aquatint plates `created a sensation at the time` according to Brunet, the work unfinished due to Vicq d`Azyr`s death in 1794 during the Terror. Brunet V, 1176; Norman 2150; Waller 9953. (1)

Vieussens (Raymond). Neurographia universalis. Hoc est, omnium corporis humani nervorum, simul & cerebri, medullaeque spinalis descriptio anatomica, 2nd issue, Lyon: Joannem Certe, 1685, half-title, title printed in red and black, lacking engraved portrait and armorial plate, contains 28 engraved plates only (of 30), missing plates 19 & 25, dampstaining to final portion of work, a few short tears to large folding plates, oval library stamps to several pages and each plate, presentation inscription dated 1801 to verso of half-title to Edward Johnstone (1757-1851) from James Johnstone (1730-1802), library cloth gilt, a little fraying to extremities, folio. The son of a French army officer, Vieussens did not receive adequate financial support for his education from his family, so provided his own support, studying philosophy at Rhodez and medicine at Montpellier. As physician to the hospital of Saint Eloy in Montpellier, he had occasion to perform over five hundred postmortem examinations during the course of which he made a number of anatomical discoveries. This well-illustrated compendium of the anatomy of the nervous system is based on these examinations and provides the most complete description of the brain and spinal cord to appear during the seventeenth century. Vieussens was one of the first anatomists to dissect out the internal capsule, corona radiata, cerebral peduncles, and pyramidal fasiculi of the pons` (Heirs of Hippocrates 641); Cushing, V-135; G-M 1379. (1)

Vieussens (Raymond de). Neurographia universalis, edito novissima, Leiden, 1716, half-title, engraved portrait, title with woodcut device, 29 copper-engraved plates and illustrations only, some folding (lacking plate XIII), errata leaf at end, some closed tears, light browning and marginal soiling, contemporary half calf, joints cracking, edges rubbed, folio. Originally published in 1685, the best illustrated neurological monograph of the seventeenth century. Vieussens was the first to make good use of Stensen`s suggestion that the intracerebral white matter should be studied by tracing the paths of its fibers, and the first to describe the olivary nucleus, the centrum semiovale (`ovale of Vieussens`), the pyramids and the semilunar ganglion` (Norman 2153). (1)

Weidmann (Johann Peter). De necrosi ossium, 1st edition, Frankfurt: Impensis Andreaeis, 1793, engraved vignette to title (trimmed at upper margin), fifteen fine engraved plates bound at rear, library stamp to vignette and plates, some heavy spotting and old dampstain to lower margins, library cloth, folio (405 x 269mm) Weidmann was professor of surgery and obstetrics at Mainz. (1)

Willis (Thomas). Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Or, an Exercitation of the Operations of Medicines in Humane Bodies. Shewing the Signs, Causes and Cures of most Distempers Incident thereunto. In Two Parts. As Also a Treatise of the Scurvy, and the several sorts thereof, with their Symptoms, Causes and Cure, 1st edition in English, 1679, 14 engraved plates (plate V with marginal tear), F3 with small hole in text, spine light spotting, library cloth, tear at spine head, a little rubbed, folio. Willis noted the sweetness of the urine in diabetes mellitus; he differentiated between this condition and diabetes insipidus` (G-M 3926). Thomas Willis (1621-75) is regarded as the father of clinical neuroscience (he is credited with coining the term neurology`) and comparative anatomy and described the function of the circle of Willis`, the arterial circle at the base of the brain. As well as being incredibly influential in the advancement of medicine and science as a whole, he made significant original contributions to cardiology, endocrinology and gastroenterology` (Williams and Sunderland, 2001, p. 506). (1)

Wiseman (Richard). Severall Chirurgical Treatises, 1st edition, 1676, half-title, 3R2 with marginal hole, one or two burn holes, occasional light marginal water stain and a few spots, library cloth, edges a little rubbed, folio. Wiseman ranks in surgery as high as does Sydenham in medicine. He made many valuable contributions to the subject; he was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints (`tumour albus`) and he gave a good account of gunshot wounds. Wiseman became surgeon to Charles II in 1672` (G-M 5573). Norman 2253. (1)

Wiseman (Richard). Several Chirurgical Treatises, 2nd edition, 1686, half-title (short sellotape repair to lower edge), neat owner`s name to title, final five leaves strengthened with tape to upper edge, modern library full calf, folio. Krivatsy 13083. (1)

Wiseman (Richard). Eight Chirurgical Treatises, on these Following Heads, Viz. I. Of Tumours. II. Of Ulcers. III. Of Diseases of the Anus. IV. Of the Kings-Evil. V. Of Wounds. VI. Of Gun-shot Wounds. VII. Of Fractures and Luxations. VIII. Of the Lues Venerea, 3rd edition, 1696, half-title, library stamps to title, worming to fore-margin of first portion of text with some subsequent paper repairs, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetic modern reback with red morocco spine label, folio, together with Ranby (John). The Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, 1st edition, 1744, contemporary owner`s name and faint library stamp to title, bound with Baynton (Thomas), Descriptive Account of a New Method of Treating Old Ulcers of the Legs, 2nd edition, Bristol, 1799, lacking title leaf, library cloth, 8vo, together with Underwood (Michael), Surgical Tracts, containing a Treatise upon Ulcers of the Legs...to which are now added, Observations on the More Common Disorders of the Eye, and on Gangrene, 2nd edition, 1788, light library stamp to title, library cloth, 8vo, and Home (Everard), Practical Observations on the Treatment of Ulcers on the Legs, considered as a Branch of Military Surgery, 1797, bound with Spender (J.C.), Observations on the Causes and Treatment of Ulcerous Diseases of the Leg, 1835, library cloth, 8vo, plus Bell (Benjamin), A Treatise on the Theory and Management of Ulcers, 3rd edition, 1784, half-title present, engraved plate, 19th century library cloth, together with two later editions of the same work dated 1787 and 1798. 1) Wing 3106. The second named work is a scarce account of some of the surgical cases which came under Ranby`s care when he served under Lord Stair in the War of the Austrian Succession. (7)

The Folio Society Hans Anderson Fairy Tales, Grimm`s Fairy Tales, in slip cases.(2)

A souvenir folio edition of the Enthronement of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Emperor of Japan, Tokyo circa 1928, containing original woodcut by Hiroshi Yoshida.

PHOTOGRAPHS, THE ALPS. An album containing 43 photographs. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1910.] Folio (297 x 205mm.) The majority relating to the Bourdillon family and the Alps. Contemporary cloth. - And a few larger format photographs of related interest loosely inserted.

PHOTOGRAPHS, MOTORING. - J.H.A. PRICHARD (compiler and photographer). An album of mounted photographs titled on the front pastedown `Motor Cars and Racing`. [N.p.:] `from 1937`. Oblong folio (205 x 165mm.) 55 black and white small format photographs mounted recto and verso of 10 leaves most captioned. Original boards (worn). Note: many of the photographs appear to be taken at Brooklands.

TITANIC. The Daily Mirror No 2, 645. [London:] Tuesday April 16, 1912. Folio (390 x 299mm.) Numerous illustrations and advertisements. (Some browning, one central horizontal fold.) Note: printed the day after the Titanic sank, with the headline `Disaster to the Titanic...`, also stating on p.3 `Every man, woman and child on the great liner is safe`. - And one other newspaper reporting the first trans-Atlantic flight by Alcock and Brown (2).

PHOTOGRAPHS, FIRST WORLD WAR. - E. McM. HOWES, R.F.C. (compiler). An album containing 59 photographs, circa 1917, Oblong folio (240 x 287mm.) Documenting the compiler`s time stationed in Malta, Salonika and elsewhere, most of social history interest but some featuring aeroplanes. - And another album of photographs, most of social history interest.

Warren Hastings Questions to be put to the Lords in Westminster Hall on the Impeachment against Warren Hastings esquire ordered to be printed 17th April 1795. Folio 4pp trimmed but not affecting text. Exceedingly rare. The Trial of Warren Hastings former Governor General of India was sensational. It lasted for years and became such an attraction that tickets were issued to the various sessions. In the end he was acquitted

Italian Manuscript large manuscript volume of 491pp large folio written in Italian with an original date of 1755. Clearly this is on an ecclesiastical theme as the manuscript bears an inscription in English :’This work is printed but the edition having been interdicted under severe penalties is become extremely scarce & only to be found in very few collections. It is to be found in Earl Spencer’s but in no other in England to the writer’s knowledge. Lacking cover but in good condition throughout.

Ephemera – Crest Album a fine example of a crest album clearly produced as a major reference source containing in a large folio album entitled ‘Album of Diestamping’ the album containing in a purpose made slipcase. The album features many hundreds of examples of crests covering a wide range of organisations including education the church clubs theatres sporting organisations hotels railways and canal companies shipping lines as well as a number of silks of national flags. Condition is very good throughout

Shropshire – ‘Mad’ Jack Mytton important contemporaneous copy of a long letter by Mytton to his by then estranged second wife Caroline Gifford dated Halston October 22nd 1830 – shortly after Caroline had left him. This appears to be a notarial copy marked ‘No 8’ to head and possibly from a compilation of material for use in a legal case (stitch holes to left hand edge suggest this formed part of a larger compilation of material at some stage). Five pp folio paper watermarked 1830. In the letter Mytton makes humble plea to his wife begging for forgiveness and for one chance to win her back. Mytton one of the most notable rakes of his time had a notorious career and well deserved the ‘mad’ title to his name. A persistent drunk it was claimed he could drink eight bottles of port a day. His exploits were colourful to say the least – not least his celebrated arriving at dinner at Halston riding a bear. By 1830 his second wife had had more than enough of him and fled.

America 1794 ms document being the copy of the will of Major General William Edmiston dated January 1794 listing his various bequests but including vast areas of New York State such as Mount Edmiston and the township of Belvidere. Written in English on 4pp folio

Ephemera – theatre – printed sales particulars dated 1833 for an annuity or rent charge in the Theatre Royal Covent Garden and ‘a renter’s share in the new and splendid Theatre Royal Drury Lane’ – both offering free admission to the theatres for 63 years. Printed on one side of a large folio sheet of paper with ms insertions showing what each lot was sold for. A most unusual piece of theatre memorabilia.

Crest Album good example of a Victorian crest album with various original watercolour designs oblong folio album

English Civil War An Act for repeal of the several clauses in the statutes of 1 Elizabeth & 3 Jacobi touching the Oathes of allegiance obedience and supremacy printed Act of Parliament dated February 13th 1648 (actually 1649) 2pp folio unbound. Issued less than two weeks after the execution of the King.

English Civil War An Act for settling the Militia within the Hamblets of the Tower of London May 26th 1649. Printed Act of Parliament folio 6pp unbound good condition. Another Act setting up a special Militia force for the Tower of London again listing a considerable number of Regicides and other hardliners who were to be the controlling committee

English Civil War An Act for raising of Ninety thousand pounds per mensem [ie month] for the maintenance of the forces raised by authority of Parliament for the service of England & Ireland for six months dated April 7th 1649. Printed Act of Parliament on 55pp folio. A staggering amount of money needed to maintain the New Model Army and therefore keep some measure of control and order on the country. This Act lists a considerable number of commissioners charged with collecting the taxes necessary – and the second commissioner listed for the Isle of Ely is one Oliver Cromwell – possibly the first time his name appears in an Act of Parliament.

English Civil War An Act declaring what offences shall be adjudged Treason July 17th 1649. Folio 6pp unbound good condition. The first Treason Act under the Commonwealth whereby it is declared that anyone writing printing or openly declaring that the government is ‘tyranical usurped or unlawful or that the commons in parliament assembled are not the supreme authority of this nation or shall plot contrive or endeavour to stir up or raise force against the government...’ shall be adjudged guilty of High Treason. This is an interesting document as it fails to condemn communication with the exiled King Charles II which no doubt it should have done and also that it is issued in the name of the ‘Keepers of the Liberty of England’. This was a strange interim body drawn from Parliament which was the effective supreme power at the time. Its very existence showed the fragile nature of the governing powers after the demise of the Monarchy. It didn’t last that long.

English Civil War An Act for Admitting of the Six Counties of North Wales to a general composition for their delinquency August 10th 1649. Printed Act of Parliament 10pp folio unbound good condition. A similar measure against North Wales as that issued against the counties of South Wales – raising a considerable fine on the people of North Wales for siding with the King during the Civil War

English Civil War An Act and declaration touching several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653 dated September 17th 1656. Printed Act of Parliament on 20pp folio unbound good condition. An Act which confirmed that several measures taken by Parliament in 1653 and which had been passed without proper consent were to be lawful.

English Civil War A Declaration of his Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland for a day of solemn fasting and humiliation in the Three Nations dated September 23rd 1656 folio unbound 6pp. A document which demonstrates the fundamental Puritanism which came with Cromwell’s rule. Must have been a fun day for all !

English Civil War – Cromwell and Religion An Act for the Better Observation of the Lord’s Day dated September 17th 1656. Folio 18pp unbound good condition. With a number of manuscript side notes to text written in a contemporaneous hand. One of the most draconian Acts ever passed in this country. By this measure Cromwell clamped down on any sort of pleasurable activity taking place on a Sunday with the text leaving it in no doubt as to what you could not do – drinking dancing singing playing of musical instruments maypole dancing fairs shooting revelling wrestling bowling ringing of bells feasting sporting activity and even ‘vainly and profanely walking’ – all these were banned. No wonder when Charles II was restored he earned the title very quickly of the ‘Merry Monarch’ !

Charles II manuscript transcript of his speech to both Houses of Parliament on October 10 1667 on the reassembly of Parliament following the disasters of the Dutch Wars. This is a transcript written probably in the early 18th c – watermark of the paper suggests a date of c1730. Written in a neat secretarial hand on 4pp folio. The manuscript opens with a brief speech by the King and then a longer explanation of the state of the nation by Orlando Bridgeman the Lord Keeper. Charles had prorogued Parliament about 11 weeks before in order to concentrate on the Dutch Wars but they had gone so badly that in effect he had to come back to Parliament to explain what had happened so that he could be voted more money. The document concludes with a list of 14 points discussed by ‘Ye Committee appointed to inspect ye miscarriage of ye Warr’.

English Civil War – Charles II – The Restoration An Act for a Perpetual anniversary thanksgiving on the nine and twentieth day of May. Dated April 25th 1660 printed Act of Parliament folio 5pp unbound good condition.The day was set aside for Thanksgiving for the Restoration of the Monarchy and is still celebrated by some even to this day.

English Civil War – Charles II – The Restoration An Act for the Revers in the Earl of Strafford his Attainder. Dated 1662. Printed Act of Parliament folio 4pp unbound some browning but otherwise good. Charles II here gives a posthumous pardon for the man who was perhaps the most betrayed person in English history. Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford was the loyalist supporter of Charles I in the early years leading up to the Civil War. Parliament targeted him as the means of making the King’s position even weaker than it was and demanded he be impeached for High Treason. The beleaguered King in an act of supreme political expediency which some might term cowardice and betrayal in the extreme sacrificed him to Parliament’s demands and even signed Strafford’s death warrant himself.

Charles II His Majesties most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament on Monday the 10th of February 1667 printed folio 4p unbound good condition. This was the prelude to the Dutch wars and in it the King presses the need to ‘set out a considerable fleet to sea this Summer...’

Charles II – The Post Office An Act for erecting and establishing a Post Office printed Act of Parliament dated April 25th 1660. Folio 15pp unbound good condition. A highly important document. By this measure the British Postal System was created. This Act not only established the existence of a postal service – the basis for communication eventually throughout the world but also laid down the rates of postage – the most important measure in the postal service until the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840. A rare and highly sought after document. Together with An Act for settling the profits of the Post Office and Power of Granting Wine licences on his Royal Highness the Duke of York and an Act of George III dated Dublin 1796 giving further measures relating to the operation of the Post Office

Charles II – the Rye House Plot edition of the London Gazette for October 29th 1685 containing a report that Richard Nelthorp and John Ayloff were brought from Newgate and ordered to be executed being attainted for High Treason for conspiring to the death of Charles II. This refers to the so called ‘Rye House Plot’ which was a conspiracy to murder both Charles and his brother James Duke of York (later James II). The plot was revealed by traitors amongst those concerned and the plotters put to death – among whom was the very same Algernon Sydney who is featured in the previous lot ! Editions of the London Gazette from the 17th c are somewhat rare. This is in fine condition. The edition also carries news of the Turkish invasion of southern Europe and an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.2pp folio