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A framed and glazed Islamic illuminated manuscript in three parts, depicting a variety of script within panels, width 57 cm.

A gilt metal and steel crucifix, 27 x 15 cm, to/w a Scandinavian horn spoon with silver mount, carved wood spoon and page-turner and a manuscript song sheet, `A Farewell` by Lady Munster (5)

GREAT MAGDALENS, RIPON; A mid 18th century manuscript map on vellum, cut and mounted on linen, of Magdalens within the Township of Ripon, belonging unto the Revd Mr Lumley, done by Matt Beckwith, 1740, 55cm square. See illustration

RIPON HOSPITAL; Plans of the Property belonging to the Hospital of St Mary Magdalen in the Parish of Ripon, 7 manuscript plans with colour wash on linen backed paper (5 - 69cm x 38cm; 2 - 53cm x 38cm), 19th century

Travel Diary Journal of W. Henry Fowler during his Voyage to India, manuscript account of the journey commencing 20th Dec., 1850, departing from Southampton on the `Ripon`, approx 92 pages, with additional pages of verse, written in Richard`s Universal Remembrancer 1848, (later note stating `Henry Fowler 1822-1854, 3rd son of John Fowler of Wadsley Hall`)

Rev E. Vane, 1783 - 1862 `Journals of the Rev E. Vane`, 1850-1861, extensive manuscript diary giving an interesting insight into mid 19th century life, commencing with `This will be remembered as the most calamitous day of my life ...` morocco binding with gilt title; [Reverend Edward Fane was born at Fulbeck, Lincs, He was prebendary of Salisbury and Lincoln and Rector of Fulbeck] Miss Diana Coventry, a collection of press cuttings, 1927 - 1932, mounted in gilt edged morocco album with clasp lock; Photograph album, an album of small family photographs, June - Dec 1902, including a military camp (Royal Scots etc.), St Andrews (incl. golf), Inverness (Tug of War), Prestonfield, Edinburgh, etc., cloth

Trade Catalogues List of Prices of Pocket Blade Grinders` Work, 1814, 4 pp., [bound with] Prices of Penknives, Grinding, Glazing and Polishing as agreed to on the 4th July, 1831, 1841, 8 pp., leather; J. Sorby & Sons (Spital Hill, Sheffield), Manufacturers of Edge Tools, Shears, Hoes, Plantation Tools, &c., 1816, appears incomplete [bound with] Penestone, Wheatcroft and Singleton (Howard Street, Sheffield), Manufacture and Sell Tools of every Description ..., 1815, 42 pp. leather; Manuscript [?Taylor Bros.], Design and order book for architectural hardware, 1865 - 1877, folio, numerous pen and ink designs of handles, hinges, latches, furniture wheels, door plates, bolts, etc., with details of customer, price, etc., well worn cloth binding; Joseph Smith, Ivory, Bone and Woodturner, nd., single sheet illustrated advert (folded) (4)

Cutlers Ten mounted sepia photographs of craftsmen and craftswomen at work together with three of workshops and one of Frederick Bradbury, each worker identified in ms. to rear of mount, images approx 207mm x 156mm; Manuscript, a small archive of manuscript letters relating to the ending of the partnership of Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell, 1821; Adverts, Two broadside adverts for William Revitt`s Razors and Brownill`s Cutlery (torn) (qty)

Townsend (William & Son) A Collection of Manuscript Material from William Townsend & Son, Printer and Account Book Manufacturer, comprising; Private Trade Ledger, 1885, morocco, brass clasp (well worn); Prices 1822 to 1895, with tipped-in ephemera incl. price lists, invoices, memoranda, binders prices, etc., morocco; Vol 1, interesting manuscript entries covering the operations of the business, vellum; Address Book, with Townsend bookplate, half sheep (worn); Library Catalogue, for William Townsend, The Lodge, Ecclesall, vellum (5)

Bronte Family A small archive of manuscript and typescript works, edited by Davidson Cook, comprising; My Angria and the Angrians by Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley, October 14th 1834, transcribed by Davidson Cook from Charlotte Bronte`s Original Manuscript .. in Honresfield Library, 1925-6, manuscript; Characters of the Great Men of the Present Time by Captain Tree, Honresfield, manuscript; Return of Zamorna by Charlotte Bronte, ... Honresfield Library c1837, 1926, manuscript; Mina Laury by Charlotte Bronte ... Honresfield, 1838, 1926, manuscript; The Duke of Zamorna, An Agrarian Romance ... by Charlotte Bronte in her twenty-third year and now first printed from the Original Manuscript in Honresfeld Library, typescript, with duplicate copy; Poems by Emily Jane Bronte, ... Honresfield, typescript; with four smaller typescripts and eighteen Bronte Society publications (transactions) (qty)

Law (John) Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Rare and Interesting Plants now in the Conservatories and Pleasure Grounds of the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, 1849, frontis, presentation copy, a.e.g., morocco gilt; Anon., Deed of Constitution of the Sheffield Botanical & Horticultural Society, 1844, wraps (worn); Salt (Jonathan), List of Plants, collected chiefly in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield by Jonathan Salt and now in the Sheffield Public Museum, 1889, interleaved, a.e.g., morocco gilt; James Carter, Seedsman and Florist, Catalogue for 1838 of a Choice Collection of Floricultural Seeds ..., Jan. 1838, London, folding sheet, printed front and rear; John Slater, Nurseryman, Seedsman, Florist, 1852, Malton, manuscript invoice with engraved headings (5)

Ecclesall Bierlow Plans, Valuation & Description of Houses, Warehouses & Workshops Situate in the Township of Ecclesall Bierlow, 1842, oblong folio, hand drawn map with 314 hand-drawn and coloured plans, each plan with an accompanying table of tenants` names, property details etc. completed in manuscript, reversed calf (re-backed, upper board detached); Together with, what initially appears a duplicate copy, untitled and lacking boards, this copy has some variations in the entries and the plans appear to be in a different hand (2)

Indentures A collection of early indentures, manuscript on vellum. (qty)

Manuscript Material A collection of diaries, ledgers, account books, etc., Sheffield interest, various sources, many in poor condition, personal inspection essential

Burton (William) The Description of Leicester Shire .., nd. [1622], 4to., frontis, engraved title, folding map after Saxton, armorials in text (many hand coloured), 12 page manuscript `alphabett of the cotes and crests &c. ...` bound in to front, some learned annotation in early hand, Quenby Library stamp to verso of title, various ownership names (incl Randle Holmes to title page) and bookplates, t.e.g., half calf

Rev. Peter Whalley, "The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned and Antiquary John Bridges Esquire", in two vols, Oxford 1791, folio calf defective, some loose pages and tears.

A Victorian Mahogany, Brass and Tinplate Magic Lantern by Frederick Jackson & Co., with adjustable lens, mahogany slide carrier, electric lamp mount, together with four boxes of topographical slides, including Liverpool, Ireland and Belgium, a box of glass negatives and two handwritten manuscript presentations

An early 20th century manuscript of poems, possibly written by Mr Alfred Sale for his beloved Norah Kathleen, book contains numerous poems most with handcoloured illuminated decorative borders, with four small watercolour illustrations, letters and a marriage hymn sheet to the jacket sleeves, the green sleeve with embroidered initials to cover, 8vo

AN EASTERN WHITE METAL AND STEEL KNIFE, the handle embossed with foliate detail, housed in a leather scabbard along with an eastern steel scribes tool with niello type geometric decoration, and an Indian palm leaf manuscript, hand written with illustrations to one side, between wooden covers. Scribes tool and knife probably associated, pitting to each, the palm leaf strips with slight deterioration and some discolouration throughout.

BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) Robert HOWLETT and George DOWNES (photographers). A stereoscopic photograph titled in manuscript verso `On the Great Eastern, Holyhead`, circa 1859-1860, overall card size 84 x 169mm.

INVITATIONS. A collection of approximately 117 printed and manuscript invitations to dinners and balls, all 20th Century.

PHOTOGRAPHS, JAMAICA. - Thomas Edward MURCH (compiler). An album of photographs, titled in manuscript to the inside cover `Views of Jamaica Before and After the Earthquake January 14th 1907`. Folio (315 x 274mm.) All the photographs with identifying caption beneath the image. Original cloth (slightly affected by damp). - And one other photograph album of Egypt and Palestine and a book of Studdy plates.

ARCHITECTURE. A collection of printed and manuscript architectural elevations relating to Terence Carr and W.D. Caröe, the majority early 20th Century. - And a book of related interest.

Curry (James). Observations on Apparent Death from Drowning, Hanging, Suffocation by Noxious Vapours, Fainting-Fits, Intoxication, Lightning, Exposure to Cold, and an Account of the Means to be Employed for Recovery. To which are Added the Treatment Proper in Cases of Poison; with Cautions and Suggestions Respecting Various Circumstances of Sudden Danger, 2nd edition, 1815, six engraved plates, including one hand-coloured, library stamps, ofsetting, light spotting and water stains, library cloth, 8vo, together with Hawes (William), An Address to the King and Parliament of Great Britain, on Preserving the Lives of the Inhabitants... To which are now added, Observations on the General Bills of Mortality... Also, Farther Hints for Restoring Animation by an Improved Plan, and for Preserving Health against the Pernicious Influence of Noxious Vapours, or Contaminated Air; in a Second Letter to the Author by A. Fothergill, 3rd edition, 1783, three titles, Hints and Farther Hints with continous pagination, erratic register, lacking advertisment leaf at end, occasional manuscript corrections, library stamps, previous owner signature to first title, library cloth, joints rubbed, 8vo, plus Orfila (Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure), Directions for the Treatment of Persons who have Taken Poison, and those in a State of Apparent Death; Together with the Means of Detecting Poisons and Adulterations in Wine; Also, of Distinguishing Real from Apparent Death. Translated from the French by R.H. Black. With an Appendix, on Suspended Animation and the Means of Prevention, 1st edition in English, 1818, library stamp, one or two light spots, BMI presentation label from Dr Blackall, modern cloth, 12mo, with A.P.W. Philip’s An Inquiry into the Nature of Sleep and Death, 1834 (4)

Heberden (William). Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases, 1st edition, 1802, one or two words with manuscript corrections, light water stain, a few spots, library cloth, a little rubbed with stains, 8vo, together with Dickinson (Caleb), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Fever..., 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1785, 3pp. publisher’s list at end, bound with Observations on Fever, by Robert Wade, 1st edition, 1824, library stamps, light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, plus Clutterbuck (Henry), Observations on the Prevention and Treatment of the Epidemic Fever, at Present Prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom, 1st edition, 1819, library stamps and light spotting, previous owner signature, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, with others related by William Jenner, William Heberden, Humphry Sandwith, Charles Murchison, etc. First work: ‘Heberden’s Commentaries, originally published in Latin in the same year as the English translation, contains all of his important medical papers’. (Norman 1033); G-M 2207. (36)

Hunter (John). The Works, with Notes, Edited by James F. Palmer, 4 volumes, 1835, silhouette portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (offset to title), some spotting, contemporary prize calf gilt with red and black leather labels to spine, gilt armorial of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital to each upper cover and top-most compartment of each spine, the original prize sheet pasted to front free endpaper of volume 1, partly printed and completed in manuscript, noting that these books were presented to Bernard Rice as the first prize for surgery by William Lawrence and additionally signed by fourteen further medical officers and lecturers, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. C.R. Kenchington to front pastedowns, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with the accompanying volume of plates, 1837, engraved portrait frontispiece and sixty plates, some folding, library stamp to title and each plate, some spotting throughout, Birmingham Medical Library label re-pasted to front pastedown, modern cloth, 4to, plus Subscription Book. Specimen Copy of Illustrations to Palmer’s Edition of the Works of John Hunter, 4 pp with manuscript names of eight subscribers inserted (including Birmingham Medical Library), four names struck through, tipped on to a guard and followed by the portrait frontispiece and fifty-one engraved plates, library stamp to each, original title label re-pasted to front pastedown, modern cloth, 4to (6)

Johnstone (John). An Account of the Discovery of the Power of Mineral Acid Vapours, To Destroy Contagion, 1st edition, 1803, errata slip at rear, some spotting and soiling, library stamp to title (detached), bound with Medical Jurisprudence. On Madness, Birmingham, 1800, title slightly browned, modern cloth gilt, together with Reply to Dr. James Carmichael Smyth, Containing Remarks on His Letter to Mr. Wilberforce, and a Further Account of the Discovery of the Power of Mineral Acids in a State of Gas to Destroy Contagion, 1805, half-title, errata slip at rear, library stamp to title, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, plus An Harveian Oration and other Remains of John Johnstone, MD, FRS, [private impression], 1837, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling, old dampstaining to lower margins at front and rear, ownership signature of John Johnstone’s nephew James to front pastedown, contemporary quarter roan over cloth, some wear and loss at foot of spine, large 8vo, plus A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to Edward Johnstone MD, Part Taken in February 1792, Part May 20 & 21st 1792, by John Johnstone, 34 pp manuscript including title (faint library stamp), five blank leaves at rear, a little spotting and soiling, stitching broken, slim 8vo, plus seven others mostly relating to Birmingham Medical Library catalogue and laws, some manuscript annotations (12)

Maclise (Joseph). Surgical Anatomy, 1st edition, 1851, 35 hand-coloured lithographed plates, a few with manuscript notes in shorthand, library stamps, a few repairs to text leaves, some water stains and spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked rubbed, folio (538 x 360mm), together with On Dislocations and Fractures, by Joseph Maclise, 1st edition, 1859, 36 lithographed plates, library stamps, a few tears and repairs, some spotting and soiling, a few frayed fore-edges, original fasciculus wrappers bound-in modern cloth, folio (535 x 348mm) (2)

Percival (Thomas). Medical Ethics, or, a Code of Institutes and Precepts, Adapted to the Professional Conduct of Physicians and Surgeons..., Manchester, 1803, half-title and main title-page spotted, lacks final advertisement leaf, bound after [Gregory, John], Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician, and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy, 1st edition, 1770, author identified in old manuscript to title, title a little browned and with faint library stamp, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Blackall to front pastedown, modern quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo. First published for private circulation, 1803. ‘The British and American medical professions have adopted much of ‘Percival’ in their ethical codes’ (G-M 1764); Heirs of Hippocrates 1037; Norman 1681; Waller 7299. (1)

Pringle (J.J., editor). A Pictorial Atlas of Skin Diseases and Syphilitic Affections in Photo-Lithochromes from Models in the Museum of St. Louis Hospital, Paris, 1897, fifty colour plates (library stamps to plate versos only), BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. K.M. Bodkin to front pastedown, original half morocco over cloth with leather label to upper cover, some soiling and edge wear, good quality matching leather reback, together with Maclaren (P.H.), Atlas of Venereal Diseases..., Edinburgh, 1886, thirty chromolithographed plates, a little occasional spotting and soiling, upper hinges broken, library cloth, soiling and wear, torn at head of spine, both folio, plus Fox (Tilbury), Atlas of Skin Diseases..., 1877, seventy-two chromolithographed plates, library stamp to each, one leaf with manuscript annotations, BMI presentation bookplate from J.G. Sproxton to front pastedown, modern cloth, 4to (3)

Purcell (John). A Treatise of Vapours, or Hysterick Fits, 2nd edition, Revis’d and Augmented, 1707, light water stain and spotting, presentation inscription to front blank, endpapers renewed, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, 8vo, together with Tate (George), A Treatise on Hysteria, 1st edition, 1830, 6pp. catalogue at end, one or two manuscript corrections, library stamps, a few spots, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, plus Buzzard (Thomas), On the Simulation of Hysteria by Organic Disease of the Nervous System, 1st edition, 1891, library stamps, presentation inscription from the author to the BMI to title, BMI presentation label, original red cloth, BMI stamp to spine, a few marks to lower cover, 8vo, with others related (16)

Fox (T. Colcott and others). The Illustrated Medical News, volumes 1 and 2 only, 1888-90, numerous colour and black and white plates and illustrations, library stamps throughout, modern cloth, 4to, together with Mansch (Anton), Medical World, Gallery of Contemporaries in the Field of Medical Science, 2 volumes, Berlin, n.d., 200 photogravure portrait plates with accompanying letterpress, most with facsimile signature beneath, neat calligraphic manuscript index inserted at front of each volume, contemporary half morocco gilt, heavily rubbed, folio, plus a shorter one-volume edition of the same work, plus six others of mostly 19-century medical portraits interest, all folio/4to (11)

Willughby (Percival, 1596-1685). [Observations in Midwifery], bound with The Country Midwife’s Opusculum or Vade Mecum, shewing the wayes how to deliver any difficult birth, bee it naturall, or, unnaturall. Published for the helping, & easing of women in their extremities, & for the saving of the infants lives. Long practiced, &, with good successe, used in the time of the woman’s travaile. Directing how the midwife should carry her self in the Handy Operation from the beginning to the ending of the Woman’s Delivery, by Percivall Willughby, Gentleman, both c. (1672, author’s original manuscript in two parts, largely written in English, with some Latin receipts and quotations, in an exceptionally neat cursive and compact script, ruled borders throughout with page numbers, catchwords and occasional side-notes and symbols (unascertained variations of the female sex symbol), some spotting and soiling, occasional old dampstaining (affecting whole of second work), but not affecting darkness of the ink or legibility, paper and ink generally in fresh condition, four missing leaves transcribed and inserted in imitation of the original [by Miss Steward in 1938], also without original title-page to first work, a later misleading manuscript title in its place reading ‘An Excellent Worke of Chirurgie or Midwifery Explained, 1635, This Work is respectfully dedi[cated] to the Public and Gentry by the Author’, this leaf slightly frayed at edges and bearing the only library stamp in the volume, followed by Miss Steward’s neater copy of the same leaf, a few small archival closed tear repairs to upper inner margins of early leaves not affecting text, modern blind-stamped antique-style morocco by Slinn of Birmingham, gilt-lettered on spine, 8vo (153 x 95 mm). A highly important and exceptionally rare manuscript of great significance in the history of obstetrics, being one of only two known full-length copies in the author’s hand. The Observations records over 150 cases, dating between 1630 and 1672, illustrating the problems and challenges Willughby had encountered when called upon as a man-midwife to assist at difficult births, many made complicated by the inexperience or inefficiency of the midwife. In the case records he not only gives the dates on which they occurred but also quite often the name of the village or town, and, when in London, even the street to which he had been called. The name of the patient, and often of her husband, is generally included. Besides his ‘honoured good friend’ William Harvey, whose writings are referred to frequently and who even visits him in Derby, Willughby’s other cited references include the accepted works of Pare and Guillemeau, but there is mention of others such as Jane Sharp whose Compleat Midwife’s Companion (1671) was the first book written by an English midwife. The Opusculum, designed to be a vade mecum for ‘countrey midwifes’, gives a summary of his teaching for ‘directing how the midwife should carry herself - from the beginning to the ending of the woman’s delivery’. Collation: pp [4, later bogus title-page and modern copy of the same], 549 [text], [3, blanks], [25, index]; pp [2, title, verso blank], 59, [3, index]. The work is missing its original title-page to the first work and four leaves from the text, two leaves from each part: Pages 5-8 of the first work and pp 57-59 plus first leaf of index of the second work. These pages were transcribed in imitation of the original by Miss Steward and inserted using the Blenkinsop edition in 1938 when the volume was bound by Slinn of Birmingham. The copy had been discovered in the Library by Miles Phillips who paid for its renovation and rebinding. Provenance and background to the known manuscripts. Presented to the Birmingham Medical Library by Dr W. H. Partridge (1791-1854). This may have been the copy mentioned by William Denman (Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery, Second Edition, Volume 1, 1788, pp. xxxii-xxxvi) that was in the possession of Thomas Kirkland (1722-1798) and which the eminent obstetrician and gynaecologist James Hobson Aveling thought had disappeared. The only other complete copy known is that held by the Royal Society of Medicine, London (MSS 296). This copy is now known to probably be the one given to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society by J.H. Aveling about 1881, and which had formerly belonged to Henry Blenkinsop - see below. There is a third manuscript held by the British Library (Sloane MS 529) which though the earliest version of the three covers only 19 leaves, has a break in the text at the end of the second page, and appears to be a greatly abbreviated version of the Observations. The ink has permeated the paper making legibility of this small quarto difficult. By contrast, the BMI and RSM copies are highly legible and clear with very similar, but not always identical, text; the single most striking difference being the larger sheet size of the RSM copy which carries 42 lines to the page rather than thirty, as here. Printed versions. The first edition was finally printed in 1863 in a subscription edition of 100 copies by Henry Blenkinsop (1813-1866). He had purchased his copy of the manuscript from a bookseller’s catalogue. Only about seventeen copies of Blenkinsop’s edition seem to have been bound up, according to a census made by Miles Phillips in the 1950s, the sheets for the remaining copies believed to have been destroyed. A Dutch translation of the Observations preceded the English edition by a century, but this book published in Leiden in 1754 is also exceptionally scarce. A facsimile reprint of Blenkinsop’s edition, with a new introduction by John L. Thornton, FLA, was published by S.R. Publishers (East Ardsley) in 1972. This gives a biography of Willughby and full account of the manuscript and printed versions, much of this latter work based on Miles H. Phillips various articles and research on Willughby. J.H. Aveling also contributed much on the subject in journal articles but see also his English Midwives, their History and Prospects (1872), pp. 54-60, for information on Willoughby and his midwife daughter. See also H.R. Wilson, The History of British Midwifery from 1650-1800 (1927); Adrian Wilson, The Making of Man-Midwifery, Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 (1995), the latter with much reference to Willughby’s work. Biography: Percival[l] Willughby was born in 1596 at Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Trowbridge, Rugby School and Eton College. He matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, on 23 March 1621, graduating BA on 6 July. In 1619 he was apprenticed for seven years to James Van Otten (1568-1624), a London surgeon, intending to join his uncle, Robert Willughby, at the end of the term. However, after Van Otten’s death he began practice on his own account in Derby. He married Elizabeth (1599-1666) in 1631; one of his sons joined his father in practice in 1670, and a daughter, Eleanor, worked with her father as a midwife during his time in Stafford and London. Willughby practised as an obstetrician in Derby from around 1630, and was admitted as an extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1641. He moved to Stafford for a few months in 1655-56, and then to London for four years for the better education of his children. However, he was back in Derby in 1659 and remained there until he died in 1685, aged 89. He left no published works in his own lifetime and it is still a matter of conjecture why he did not publish this manuscript. If it had been published it would have greatly contributed to the development of British obstetrics which was then heavily reliant on the translated writings of Ambroise Pare (1510-1590), Jacques Guillemeau (1550-1613).. The Text of Observations in Midwifery. Willughby was very much in favour of a non-interv

Jenner (Edward). An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox. — Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, 2 parts (of three) in one volume, 2nd edition, London: Sampson Low for the author, 1800, half-titles to both parts, four engraved plates by William Skelton after Skelton and Edward Pearce, printed in colour and finished in colours by hand, light library stamp to upper blank area of each plate, white paper watermarked 1798, one small manuscript correction to leaf K2* (‘Viccinae’ with second letter corrected to ‘a’), bound without the third part (A Continuation of Facts and Observations..., pp 141-182), some light spotting throughout, first half-title inscribed in the author’s holograph ‘For Henry Hickes (sic) Esq. from his obliged friend the Author’, additionally inscribed to front pastedown in the recipient’s holograph, ‘W[illoughby] F. Wade, 16 Temple Row, Birmingham, from the library of the late Dr. [John] Baron of Cheltenham, the biographer of Jenner’, BMI presentation bookplate label from Dr. Wade to front free endpaper facing, contemporary cloth boards with Birmingham Medical Institute stamp to upper cover, some soiling and edge wear, utilitarian cloth reback with heavy cloth-tape to hinges running close to Wade’s inscription on pastedown (touching last letter of ‘Cheltenham’ only), 4to (260 x 205mm). An outstanding association copy from Jenner to his good friend Henry Hicks, a mill owner at Eastington near Stroud, and the first person to submit his own children to the new practice of vaccination. The copy then passed directly from Hicks to John Baron (1786-1851), a friend and major supporter of Jenner from 1809. Henry Hicks is referred to several times in Baron’s Life of Edward Jenner (1827). He is first mentioned when it is noted that it was at Hicks’s house that Jenner prepared his paper with remarks on the cuckoo (p. (15). Later, Baron recounts Hicks’s presence at the Society he had instigated to improve medical science. The meetings were chiefly held at the Fleece Inn, at Rodborough. After the more serious business was finished, non-scientific visitors were allowed to join: ‘No one more frequently enjoyed this indulgence than Jenner’s faithful friend Henry Hicks. This gentleman’s house lay in the direct road from Berkeley to the place of meeting, and it was often Jenner’s custom to call as he passed and carry him with him to Rodborough’ (p. (45). In June 1797 Jenner was showing the manuscript of his great work to close friends for approval. Jenner’s ‘friends [Edward] Gardner and Hicks were also often consulted about it; and, finally before it was send to the press it was accurately and faithfully scrutinised by a select number of his particular associates, at Rudhall near Ross in Herefordshire, the seat of Thomas Westfaling, Esq. They all felt deeply interested in the investigation; they all saw that a matter of so much moment ought to be canvassed with the greatest care; for the dearest interest of their fellow-creatures, as well as their own affectionately loved friend, was involved in it. The party present on this occasion were Mr. Westfaling, Dr. Worthington, Mr. Paytherus, and Mr. H. Hicks’, p 142. Jenner’s Inquiry was finally published on 9th November 1798. ‘On the 27th of that month, he [Jenner] inoculated two of the children of his friend Mr. Hicks, of Eastington, with matter taken the preceding day from a farm at Stonehouse. I dwell on this incident that I may, in the first place, record Mr. Hicks’s confidence in the prophylactic powers of cow-pox, who had the merit of being the first gentleman that submitted his own children to the new practice; and, in the next place to disprove an assertion subsequently made that the first vaccinations performed by Dr. Jenner, after the publication of his Inquiry, were with virus furnished by Dr. Pearson’, pp 303-04. This is referred to again in more detail on page 324. Further on, Baron places Hicks on a higher pedestal: ‘I have already mentioned Henry Hicks as his friend and counsellor: I have also mentioned how sedulously he promoted vaccination by first submitting his own children to it, and then diffusing it in his neighbourhood: I have now to attempt to commemorate his services in another line. He made himself perfectly acquainted with all the details of cow-pox inoculation; and about this time he brought this knowledge into practice. He commenced a series of inoculations; and evinced an accuracy and fidelity which would have done honour to the most enlightened physician... ‘, pp 330-31. Jenner himself refers to the inoculation of Hicks’s children on pp 132-34 of this work: ‘Having been requested by my friend Mr. Henry Hicks, of Eastington, in this county, to inoculate two of his children, and at the same time some of his servants and the people employed in his manufactory, matter was taken from the arm of this boy for the purpose. The numbers inoculated were eighteen. They all took the infection, and either on the fifth or sixth day a vesicle was perceptible on the punctured part... ‘. LeFanu 21 records this as one of the seven inscribed copies made known to him. (1)

Hunter (John, 1728-1793). Lecture Notes on Physiology & Surgery by John Hunter FRS, Taken by C.V. Webb, 1789, 2 volumes, contemporary original manuscript in a neat legible hand, 126 and 108 numbered leaves, the final leaf of the first volume misordered to be four leaves earlier by the author, both volumes broken on spine, spines and contents becoming loose, contemporary calf, covers detached and backstrips deficient, 8vo (230 x 150mm). Hunter’s ‘Lectures delivered in the early years at various venues, on the theory and practice of surgery, beginning in 1772, were works in progress, not infrequently changing viewpoints and correcting data from year to year. Unlike the shorter lecture series of his medical colleagues, Hunter’s more serious lectures were ambitious, consisting of eighty-six one-hour evening lectures three times a week from October to April. To these lectures he devoted a great deal of time and energy since they were designed to teach students not only the elements of their art but also the methods and results of the science from which it must proceed. He was not, however, a successful lecturer. Too uncomfortable as a public speaker and too much interested in detail, however animated he might be in informal conversation, his delivery, read nervously from his detailed notes and text, made him a dull lecturer. Few auditors began the course and fewer stayed on to the end. His metier as a teacher was to establish a working relationship with the student, to teach him through experience rather than by written word’ (DNB). The opening introduction as transcribed by Webb neatly gives a picture of Hunter as lecturer: ‘It is usual at the beginning of every course of lectures to give an introductory one as it is termed & and this is frequently with a view to display the oratory of the lecturer: but this is not my plan; as I do not give lectures to make myself known, I shall confine myself wholly to the subjects which are of the most importance to the practical surgeon. Most of the ideas are my own, not borrowed from books; and as they are founded on facts, I have reason to think them just, every art among mankind has its principles, from which we are enabled to account for old facts, establish new ones, the same holds good in surgery. I shall first consider the animal oeconomy. I mention chiefly the actions of the body in a morbid state, with their recovery and natural functions in health. I shall not give a full course of practical surgery, but principally attend to the rationale of practice. It would therefore be unnecessary to treat of the operations in every particular disease, this being shewn by anatomists who profess it’, p 1. (2)

Birmingham Case Notes. A group of six manuscript volumes of case notes, c. (1863/76, written in more than one unidentified hand, and containing case notes for over 600 patients admitted to hospital, including name, age, address, diagnosis, etc., a total of approximately 1400 pp written in messy but legible hands, contemporary green boards, lettered A, J, K, U, V and W to upper covers, soiled and worn, folio. Medical conditions diagnosed and treated include diseases of the heart, laryngitis, typhoid, pleurisy, epilepsy, cerebral disorder, rheumatism, chorea, hysteria, alcoholism, neuralgia, phthisis, etc. (6)

Cline (Henry, 1750-1827). A Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Surgery [at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London], 1789, contemporary original manuscript in an unidentified student’s hand, in English, in a neat legible hand, title (faint library stamp and some soiling) and 233 pp [i.e. (234 pp], topics of lectures include On the Blood, Structure of the Arteries, Diseases of the Arteries, The Absorbent System, On the Structure of Muscles, On the Glands, On the Appendages of Bones, On the Diseases of the Spine, On the Upper Extremities, On the Leg, On the Bones of the Head and Face, On the Teeth, On the Articulations, Female Organs of Generation, On the Liver, The Distribution of the Veins, Male Organs, Diseases of Urinary Passages, Organs of Taste, Operations of Surgery, etc., the final three pages appearing after a separately paginated manuscript in the same hand, ‘Lectures on the Theory & Practice of Midwifery’, c. (1789, 178 pp, headings include Of the Deformed Pelvis, Female Organs of Generation, The Urethra, Of the Uterus, Of the Fluor Albus, On Conception, Of the Gravid Uterus, Use of the Placenta, Size of the Gravid Uterus, Of the Circulation of Blood Between the Mother and Child, Nourishment of the Fetus, Signs of Pregnancy, Of Quickening, Of Bleeding and Vomiting, Diseases in the Early Months of Pregnancy, Motion of the Child, Of Ruptures, Of Labours, Of the Causes of Pain, The Progress of Labour, Circumstances to be Observed after Delivery, Lingering Labours, Different Kinds of Forceps, Particular Rules for Using the Forceps, Directions for Using the Crochet, the Blunt Hook and other Instruments, Of Miscarriages, Of Extra Uterine Conceptions, Of the Management After Delivery, and Management of the Child, with a further manuscript inverted and bound in at rear in the same neat hand, ‘Lectures on the Venereal Disease by Wm. Osborne MD, Surgeon, Manmidwife to Store Street Hospital, & Surgeon to the 1st Regiment of Lifeguards’, n.d., calligraphic title and 51 pp, preceded by a partially completed thumb-index, some spotting, modern red half morocco gilt over cloth, 4to (275 x 215mm). Henry Cline was lecturer on anatomy, St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1781-1811; and practiced as a surgeon there, 1784-1811. William Osborn[e] (1736-1808) practised for some years as a surgeon, and was elected man-midwife to the Lying-in Hospital in Store Street, London. He was admitted a Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians on 22nd December 1783, being one of only eight accoucheurs to acquire this title. ‘With Thomas Denman, Osborn set up a private school of midwifery, and they taught together from about 1770 to 1782. Following a rift with Denman, Osborn lectured alone, and then with John Clarke (1761-1815). Together Denman and Osborn were believed to have educated more than 1,200 practitioners in midwifery’ (DNB). (1)

Cullen (William, 1710-1790). Clinical Lectures by Dr. William Cullen, [Edinburgh University Infirmary], November 1763, contemporary original manuscript comprising notes of Cullen’s lectures, taken by an unidentified student, in a small but neat hand, 136 pp, headings include Amelioration of Pulse, Of Palsy, Cure of the Palsy, Rheumatism, Of the Hysterical Disease, Of Jaundice, Dysentery, Intermitting Fever, Angina, Croup, Inflammations, etc., occasional crossings out and corrections, the hand occasionally becoming smaller and more difficult to read, bound after a manuscript entitled ‘Pathology’, n.d., mid to late 18th c., in a similar legible but small hand, 79 pp, headings include Sympathy, Of the Morbid State of the Living Powers, Fluidorum, Acrimonia, Sanguinis Morbi, Of Poisons, Effects of Spasm, Prostrate Appetite, Causes of Barrenness, some spotting and marginal browning and fraying with several leaves repaired with archival tissue with little to no loss of legibility or text, bound with a third manuscript, History of Midwifery, Taught by Dr. [Thomas] Young, [University of Edinburgh], 1763, contemporary original manuscript, lecture notes taken by an unidentified student or students, 191 pp, the first twenty-nine pages in a neat legible hand then changing on page 30 to a much smaller but legible hand, occasional deletions and corrections, some spotting and slight marginal browning with a few minor archival tissue repairs not affecting text or legibility, occasional Birmingham General Hospital library stamp to inner margins throughout volume, library cloth, rubbed and a little frayed at head of spine, 8vo (200 x 150mm). William Cullen began giving clinical lectures in the infirmary of Edinburgh University in 1757. Thomas Young (1730-1783) was Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, 1756-1783. His midwifery lectures give post-natal information on the management of newborn children, the qualifications of a good nurse, weaning the child, of inoculation and the diseases of children. (1)

Davies (John Birt, 1799-1878). Selected Medical Cases, Queen’s Hospital, Birminham, 1845-46, 142 leaves, written in a neat and legible hand to rectos only, two-page contents list at front giving names of each of the thirty patients, address, name of disease, result and page reference within the manuscript, all edges gilt, modern cloth gilt, 4to (230 x 190mm). These case notes cover rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, secondary syphilis, acute hydrocephalus, pneumonia, chronic dysentery, spurious croup, diabetes, etc. Most of the patients were cured or relieved, while five died. The patients were of both sexes, varying ages from childhood to older age and involved in a variety of mostly working-class occupations of the day. According to the Lancet Dr. Birt Davies was elected as medical coroner for Birmingham in 1839 (until 1875), and described as ‘a friend to the poor’. He was also the first professor of forensic medicine at the Birmingham School of Medicine. He was a witness in the trial of Edward Oxford in 1840, who was tried for treason for attempting to assassinate Queen Victoria. His evidence marked the formal introduction of the concept of moral insanity. (1)

Gregory (James, 1753-1821). The Practice of Physic, by Dr. Gregory, c. (1810, contemporary original manuscript of lecture notes, presumed to be by Dr. James Gregory at Edinburgh University, from notes taken by a student (Aldred Jukes?), 494, [2] pp, index leaf at rear, written in a very neat and legible hand, subjects in the index include Apoplexy, Cholera Morbus, Diseases of Children, Drowning &c, Epilepsy, Fevers, Hysteria, Inoculation, Measles, Plague, Palsy, Rickets, Scurvy, Stone, Ulcers, Vertigo and Worms, paper watermarked 1807, original presentation inscription relaid to front pastedown, ‘Thomas Chavasse’s book, the gift of his friend Alfred Jukes, March 12th 1812’, faint library stamp to title and presentation note, a little spotting and soiling, BMI presentation bookplate from T.F. Chavasse to front pastedown, modern blue quarter morocco gilt over cloth, folio (330 x 200mm). James Gregory graduated MD at Edinburgh in June 1774, spending the following two years studying medicine abroad. In June 1776 Gregory was elected Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in Edinburgh, a vacancy arising because of the transfer of William Cullen to the chair of the practice of Physic on the death of John Gregory (James’s father). ‘By 1790 Gregory had so well established his reputation that he was appointed joint Professor of the practice of physic, with the right to survivorship, on Cullen’s retirement. After Cullen’s death he remained the sole occupant of this chair for the rest of his life. In November 1818, because of the increase in his practice, he employed his nephew William Pulteney Alison to assist with the lectures. Gregory was noted as a superb lecturer, his explanations covered all aspects of medicine. Sir Robert Christison said of him: ‘in fluency as in choice of language, he surpassed all lecturers I have ever heard before. His doctrines were set forth with great clearness and simplicity, in the form of a commentary on Cullen’s First Lines of the Practice of Physic .... his name lived on in homes throughout the country well into the twentieth century in connection with the celebrated Gregory’s Powder or Gregory’s Mixture. Composed of powdered rhubarb, ginger, and magnesium oxide, it acted as an antacid, stomachic, and cathartic. Gregory spent a great deal of his creative talents in feuds with his contemporaries, both individual and institutional, as witnessed by the long list of pamphlets, mostly sizeable books, among his published works. One such feud in 1793 involved James Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University. The quarrel ended with Gregory beating Hamilton with his cane. For this he was taken to court and fined £100, which Gregory, when paying, offered to double for another opportunity’ (DNB). Gregory was appointed first physician to the King in Scotland in 1799; he was also friend to the poet Robert Burns. Alfred Jukes (b. (1792) became a surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital and was included in a roll of the Royal College of Surgeons of England as a Fellow in 1844. (1)

Heslop (Thomas Pretious, 1823-1885). An Essay on Certain Morbid Conditions of the Heart Occurring During the Course of Fever, author’s original manuscript for his MD thesis at University of Edinburgh, 1848, 108 pp, dated 26th February 1848 at end and signed on title at front, faint pencil note beneath author’s name on title, ‘Recommended by Dr. Alison for competition for the prize, June 23 1848’, addressed to R. Saundby in Birmingham to lower half of final page, first and last page dust-soiled, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Saundby to front endpaper, library cloth gilt, rubbed and a little frayed at head of spine, 4to, (265 x 210mm), together with an unrelated manuscript of lecture notes on pain and inflammation, c. (1830, seventy-two leaves written in a neat hand but with most versos blank, numerous blanks at rear, contemporary half calf over boards, some wear and tear to spine, 8vo (225 x 160mm), plus later unrelated manuscripts including lecture notes on Materia Medica by Professor Fraser, 3 volumes, c. (1890, and 5 volumes of notes by B.T. Davis, c. (1930s. Thomas Heslop was appointed House Physician to Birmingham General Hospital in 1848, shortly after graduating in Edinburgh. He lectured on physiology at Queen’s College, Birmingham, from 1853 to 1858 and acted as physician to the Queen’s Hospital from 1853 to 1860. (13)

Johnstone (Edward, 1757-1851). A Medical Inaugural Dissertation upon the Puerperal Fever, By E. Johnstone MD, Edinburgh, 1775, Attempted in English by J[ohn] Dawes [Royal College of Surgeons, fl. (1821], 1795, original manuscript, title-page and fifty-two leaves, neatly written to rectos only, light library stamp to title, library cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, a little wear to lower joint, slim 4to (224 x 180mm). Edward Johnstone’s inaugural medical dissertation ‘De febre puerperali’ was published in Edinburgh in 1779. No English edition has been published. (1)

Lowder (William, fl. (1778-1801). Lectures on midwifery, [Guy’s Hospital?], c. (1780s, contemporary original manuscript, in English, in a neat and legible hand, 258 pp [i.e. (256 pp, pages numbers 55 & 143 omitted in page numbering], lecture titles include Of the Pelvis in General, Of the Cavity of the Pelvis, On the Organs of Generation, On the Internal Organs of Generation, Of Conception, On the Gravid Uterus, On the Circulation in a Fetus, On Particulars to be Attended to During Pregnancy, Diseases During Pregnancy, On Examination, of the Natural Labour, Of Delivery and the Placenta, Of the Laborious Labour, On Opening the Child’s Head, On Praeternatural Labours, On Turning Cases, Of Twins, Monsters, Of Miscarriages, and Treatment of Women after Delivery, occasional minor spotting or soiling, Birmingham Medical Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, with lecturer’s surname and remains of title Midwif[ery] inked to upper board, rubbed and soiled, a little chipped at spine ends, 4to (195 x 160mm). William Lowder graduated Doctor of Medicine, Aberdeen, 1775; Licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1786; practiced midwifery; lectured at Guy’s Hospital and at the anatomy theatre he and John Haighton (1755-1823, physiologist) ran in St. Saviour’s churchyard, Southwark. He died in 1801. (1)

Murphy (Edward William, 1802-1877). Notes of Lectures on Midwifery, University College, London, Session 1858, contemporary original manuscript written up from notes taken by Thomas F.H. Green, [4], 158 pp, dated 16th July 1858 at end, written in a neat hand on blue paper with rule borders, library stamp to title, modern cloth gilt, slim 4to, together with two further manuscripts from lectures compiled by Thomas Green at University College, London, the first ‘Notes of Lectures on Surgery by [John Eric Erichsen], Session 1859-60, 145 pp but with most versos blank, followed by Clinical Lectures (Surgical) by [Richard] Quain & [John Eric] Erichsen, University College Hospital, October 1859, 14 pp only, followed by numerous blanks and bound with Clinical Medicine [by William] Jenner, December 1860, 23 pp, numerous blanks at rear, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, rubbed, upper joint cracked and cover near-detached, 4to, the third volume titled Notes of Lectures on Morbid Anatomy Delivered in University College, London, by Dr. [William] Jenner, Session 1861, 152, [4], 168 pp, containing two parts on pathological anatomy and special pathology, indexed to pastedowns and rear endpaper, contemporary linen-backed stiff wrappers, rubbed and soiled, frayed along upper joint, plus four other manuscript volumes of lecture notes at University College taken by Green, Lectures on Physiology by Dr. Sharpey, Materia Medica by Professor Garrod, Chemistry by Professor Williamson and Anatomy by Professor Ellis, all contemporary half roan over marbled boards, some wear, the first volume rebacked in cloth, small 4to. The majority of these volumes bear a BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Scurrah. (7)

Russell (James, 1818-1885). Pathological Memoranda, volumes 1-4, compiled c. (1860-80, a total of approximately 550 pages, written in a slightly untidy but legible hand, with some underscoring, deletions, related medical journal cuttings and a small amount of manuscript ephemera tipped or pasted in, indexes to first three volumes, approximately fifteen blank leaves at rear of fourth volume, the memoranda seemingly all referring to the writings of historical and contemporary medical writers on a wide variety of subjects, some spotting and soiling, contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, all broken and worn with contents loose, spines to all and lower cover to volume 2 deficient, folio/4to. James Russell MD was a physician at the Birmingham General Hospital and held a post at Queen’s College medical school. (4)

Saunders (James, 1743-1817). Volume the First. Physical Lectures Read by Dr. Saunders at the Theatre, at Guy’s Hospital Anno 1782, by Nich. Willett Chavasse, contemporary original manuscript, in English, in a neat and legible hand, 276 unnumbered pages, one blank leaf at rear, headings include Introductory Lecture, Physiology, On the Circulation, On Respiration, Circulation, On the Pulse, On Blood, On Nervous Influence, On Sympathy, Human Temperament, Pathology, The General Doctrine of Fevers, On Inflammatory Fever, Low on Nervous Fever, Putrid, Malignant or Petechial Fever, Intermittent Fever, Gangrene, Schirrus, Phrenitis, Opthalmia, Inflammatory Angina, Angina Mucosa, Angina Putrida, Angina Trachealis, Peripneumony & Pleurisy, Peripneumonia Notha, Phthisis Pulmonalis, Inflammation of the Stomach, Inflammation of the Intestines, Hepatitis, Inflammation of the Kidney and Inflammation of the Bladder, owner’s manuscript title to front free endpaper, with BMI presentation bookplate from [a later] Mr Chavasse beneath, upper hinges cracked, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, 4to (195 x 165mm). William Saunders was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a pupil and friend of William Cullen. He graduated MD in 1765. Saunders began practice in London around 1766, and lectured on medicine, becoming in 1770 the first physician in London to advertise clinical lectures. He was elected physician to Guy’s Hospital in 1770, becoming a governor both there and at St. Thomas’s Hospital. His publication on red Peruvian bark (1782) translated into several languages, led to the displacement of quilled bark in the treatment of fevers. He published works on mercury, antimony, stones of the bladder, mineral waters, diseases of the liver and his own lectures. Nicholas Willett Chavasse was born in about 1763 at Northleach, Gloucestershire. In 1791 he married Ann Scott in Walsall and practiced there as a surgeon. Their son Thomas (1800-1884) also became a surgeon, working in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield. (1)

Surgical Operations. A contemporary original manuscript of an unidentified doctor’s lectures on surgical operations, late 18th c., written in a neat legible hand from notes taken by an unidentified student(?), 272, [4] leaves including index, written to numbered rectos only, headings include Operation for the Diseased Tonsills, Operation for the Wry Neck, Amputation of the Breast, Operation for the Fistula Lachrymalis, Cataract, On Hernias and the Operation for the Bubonocele, Paracentesis, The Operation of the Trepan, Lithotomy, ‘As the lateral operation is the only one now practised for the extirpation of the stone, I shall only describe this and refer you for the others to the common books of operations’, Phymosis, Amputations, these all forming ten lectures, the remainder of the volume (pp 189 ff.), titled ‘The Diseases of the Bones’, faint library stamp to first leaf, some minor spotting and soiling and a few marginal splits and tears without loss of text, modern quarter morocco over cloth, 4to (273 x 215mm). The identity of the lecturer has not been identified. It may possibly be Joseph Else (d. (1780), surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, 1768-1780. He was appointed lecturer in anatomy and surgery in 1768, on the unification of the medical schools of St. Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals. He is also to have known to have lectured on diseases of the bones at this time. (1)

Walshe (Walter Hayle, 1812-1892). Notes of Lectures on Medicine Delivered in University College, London by Dr. Walshe, 1850-1860, contemporary original manuscript being notes written up by the student Thomas F. Green, [4], 10, 619 pp, but versos largely blank, written in a neat hand with title and contents list at front, subjects include General Pathology and Special Pathology, Diseases of Encephalon, Of Spinal Cord, Of Kidneys, Of Lungs and Air-Passages, of Alimentary Canal, of Liver and Fevers, fifty-six blank leaves bound at rear, library stamp to additional printed title (completed in manuscript), BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Scurrah to front pastedown, modern quarter morocco gilt over cloth, 4to (220 x 180mm), together with a second volume of notes of Lectures on Medicine by Dr. Walshe from Notes by Thomas Green, Session 1860-1861, [4], 166 pp, subjects include Diseases of the Nervous System, Spinal Cord, Kidneys, Lungs and Air Passages, Alimentary Canal, some spotting, library stamp to title, contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 4to (195 x 150mm). Walter Hale Walshe was an Irish physician, a pioneer in the study of cancer with his discovery that malignant cells can be recognised under a microscope. He was elected as Professor of Morbid Anatomy at the University College, London, in 1841. He lectured on morbid anatomy until 1846, when he was elected Holme Professor of Clinical Medicine. ‘In 1848 he was appointed professor of the principles and practice of medicine, an office which he held until 1862. In his lectures he discussed points upon his fingers in the manner of school teachers, and he was fond of numerical statements and fact and of reaching a definite conclusion as a result of the denial of a series of alternative hypotheses. Sir William Jenner said that he’d never heard a more able or clearer lecturer ... Walshe’s pupils maintained that his was the first accurate description of the anatomy of a movable kidney and of haemorrhage into the dura mater, known as haematoma; he was also the first to teach that patients with regurgitation through the aortic valves are likely to die suddenly’ (DNB). (2)

* Mental Tests. An examiner’s clinical suitcase containing boxed puzzles and related for administering the Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests of Preschool Children, c. (1960, a total of nineteen boxed puzzles and tests, mixed media, together with scissors, mirror, a printed booklet on the tests with manuscript thumb index, plus two folders of uncompleted forms, etc., black suitcase with rivets and metal corners, handle and clasps in working order, rubbed but contents in good condition, 29 x 15 x 46 cm, together with a small group of wooden and plastic nursery toys contained in a slightly smaller suitcase and possibly also for intelligence testing and observation 2)

Curtis (Richard). A Treatise on the Structure and Formation of the Teeth, and Other Parts Connected with them, Together with the Several Disorders to Which they are Subject, and an Inquiry into the Most Probable Method of Preserving them Found to an Advanced Age, 1st edition, Oxford, 1769, 82, [2] pp, library stamps to title and several upper margins and final blank, bound with Dover (Thomas), The Ancient Physician’s Legacy to His Country, Being what he has Collected in Forty-Nine Years Practice..., Printed for the Relict of the Late R. Bradly, 1733, 216, [4] pp, index at rear, closely trimmed, a few mostly marginal library stamps and old light dampstaining to lower inner margin, large closed tear repair to c12 (archival tissue a little browned), manuscript note [believed to be in hand of William Withering] to title verso, ‘Dover’s best praise is that [?] medicines have since his death come into general practice: particularly the [?] powder... this, I believe is the third English impression of the book; a French translation of it was also published at the Hague 1734’, bound with Wesley (John), Primitive Physick: Or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases, 10th edition, corrected and enlarged, Bristol, 1762, 124 pp, occasional pencil marks and marginalia (trimmed at margins and offset to facing pages), possibly also the hand of Withering, library stamp to title and occasionally elsewhere, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 12mo. Thomas Dover was famous for his diaphoretic powder called Dover’s Powder, a sweat-producing powder that came into vogue in London in 1740 as a cure for fevers and colds. This work and that of Wesley would have been of great interest to Withering in his work both as a botanist and with his interest in digitalis. (1)

Falconer (William). A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions Upon Disorders of the Body..., 2nd edition, 1791, engraved portrait frontispiece, iv, 148 pp, some spotting and faint library stamp to title, bound with Codex Pharmaceuticus, in usum medicinae et chirurgiae in nosocomio regio Edinburgensi studiosorum, Edinburgh, 1790, iv, 64 pp, bound with an extract(?) [Beattie, James], A Short Account of the Life and Character of the Late Dr. Thomas Livingston, 7 pp, drop-head title, Aberdeen Journal, May 30 1785 printed at foot of final page, author’s presentation inscription to TP [Thomas Percival], one manuscript correction to final page, bound with [Rush, Benjamin], Information to Europeans who are Disposed to Migrate to the United States, in a Letter from a Citizen of Pennsylvania, to His Friend in Great Britain, 1st edition, Philadelphia, [1790], 16 pp, inscribed ‘From the author’ to title upper margin and author identified in ink to title (Dr. Rush in author’s holograph?) and at end of text, library cloth, frayed at head of spine, small 8vo. The pamphlet by Benjamin Rush is sometimes erroneously attributed to Matthew Carey. Evans 34495. (1)

Nihell (James). New and Extraordinary Observations concerning the Prediction of various Crises by the Pulse, Independent of the Critical Signs delivered by the Ancients..., 1st edition, 1741, [xl],153,[15]pp., manuscript note to blank recto in prelims., bound with Haller (Albrecht von), A Dissertation on the Motion of the Blood, and on the Effects Bleeding..., 1757, iv,156pp., bound with Davies (Richard), To Promote the Experimental Analysis of the Human Blood. Essay the First, Bath, 1760, [iv],55pp., small hole to leaves D2-D4, bound with one other by John Chandler, ink library stamps to titles and few other leaves throughout, library cloth, frayed at head of spine, 8vo (1)

Rush (Benjamin). Three Lectures upon Animal Life, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, 1st edition, Philadelphia, 1799, half-title present but detached and partly frayed and with remains of author’s presentation inscription to upper margin dated 21st November 1800, faint library stamp to title, leaf K2 partly folded with manuscript text correction (in the author’s hand) to p. 68, bound with Tongue (James), An Inaugural Dissertation, upon the Three Following Subjects: I. An Attempt to Prove, that the Lues Venerea was not Introduced into Europe from America, II. An Experimental Enquiry into the Modus Operandi of Mercury, and Curing the Lues Venerea, III. Experimental Proofs that the Lues Venerea, and Gonorrhoea, are Two Distinct Forms of Disease, printed for the author, Philadelphia, 1801, two dedication leaves, half-title with errata to verso, bound before main text, some marginal browning, bound with Roebuck (Jarvis), Experiments and Observations on the Bile, Philadelphia, 1801, author’s presentation inscription to title verso (dedicatee’s name trimmed), bound with Proofs of the Origin of the Yellow Fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the Years 1797, From Domestic Exhalation, and from the Foul Air of the Snow Navigation, from Marseilles..., by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia, 1st edition, Philadelphia, 1798, a little soiling at front and rear, bound with Mease (James), Observations on the Arguments of Professor Rush, in Favour of the Inflammatory Nature of the Disease Produced by the Bite of a Mad Dog, 1st edition, Whitehall, 1801, a few scattered manuscript corrections, some spotting, plus four others Philadelphia-published by William Stephen Jacobs, Robert Berkeley, William Wyatt Bibb and Edward Darrell Smith, 1800-1801, library cloth, covers detached, 8vo (1)

Wells (William Charles). An Essay Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes, Together with Experiments and Observations on Several other Subjects in Optics, 1st edition, 1792, [iv], 144 pp, library stamp to title, manuscript correction to one word on page 3, bound with Ware (James), Chirurgical Observations Relative to the Epiphora, or Watery Eye, the Scrophulous and Intermittent Ophthalmy, the Extraction of the Cataract and the Introduction of the Male Catheter, 1st edition, 1792, [viii], 78, [2] pp, half-title, folding engraved plate (library stamp and closed tear repair without loss), final blank present, bound with Remarks on the Ophthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and Purulent Eye..., 2nd edition, with additions, 1787, [viii], 156 pp, library cloth, rubbed and slightly faded, 8vo (1)

Whytt (Robert). Physiological Essays, Containing, I. An Enquiry into the Causes Which Promote the Circulation of the Fluids in the very Small Vesssels of Animals, II. Observations on the Sensibility and Irritability of the Parts of Men and Other Animals..., 1st edition, 1755, [viii], 223 pp, library stamp and slight soiling to title, contemporary full-page manuscript note to final leaf verso (blank), bound with Butter (William), A Method of Cure for the Stone Chiefly by Injections with Descriptions and Delineations of the Instruments Contrived for those Purposes, Edinburgh, 1754, iv, 84 pp, folding engraved plate (faint stamp), bound with Monroe (Donald), An Essay on the Dropsy, and its Different Species, 1755, [xvi], 172 pp, half-title, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Beddoes (Thomas & James Watt). Considerations on the Medicinal Use of Factious Airs, and on the Manner of Obtaining them in Large Quantities in Two Parts. Part I by Thomas Beddoes, M.D., Part II by James Watt, 1st edition, Bristol, [1794], 48pp. & 32pp., three engraved plates (two folding), bound with Description of a Pneumatic Apparatus, with Directions for Procuring the Factitious Airs, by James Watt, 2 parts including Supplement, 2nd edition, Birmingham, 1795-96, five engraved plates (three folding), plate 4 trimmed at top margin, bound with Considerations on the Medicinal Use and Production of Factious Airs, Part III, 2nd edition, Corrected and Enlarged, 1796 [and] Parts IV & V, Bristol, 1796, two engraved plates (one trimmed), bound with three others: Matthew Dobson’s A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air, Chester, 1779, and two copies of Thomas Beddoes’ A Letter to Erasmus Darwin, M.D. on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption, and some other Diseases hitherto found Incurable, Bristol, 1792, one or two manuscript corrections, manuscript note to recto of Case VI, Melancholia in Parts IV & V of Considerations (trimmed), manuscript address of James Watt to verso of Observations on the Preceding Cases part title verso, library stamps, occasional minor soiling and a few spots, manuscript list at front, library cloth, joints slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

Minadoi (Giovanni Tommaso). Historia Della Guerra Fra Turchi et Persiani, pub. Andrea Muschio & Barezzo Barezzi, Venice, 1588, title page with near contemp. manuscript signature, slight loss, uncoloured folding map of the Middle East by Giacomo Gastaldi, some damp staining throughout, slight worming, some loss to last few leaves and end papers, hinges partially broken, near contemp vellum with crude manuscript title to spine, 4to. Adams M-1456. (1)

[Field, Henry]. Memoirs Historical and Illustrative, of the Botanick Garden at Chelsea; Belonging to the Society of Apothecaries of London, 1820, front blank with manuscript inscription ÒPresented to Thomas Andrew Knight, Esqr. President of the Horticultural Society by the Master Wardens & Society of Apothecaries of LondonÓ, contemp. gilt dec. mottled calf, 8vo, together with Steuart (Sir Henry), The Planter`s Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Efect to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees and Underwood..., 2nd ed., Edinburgh & London, 1828, six eng. plts. (inc. frontis.), some browning, modern half calf, 8vo, with Hill (Sir John), The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants..., 2nd ed., Bungay, 1812, fifty-four hand-col. eng. plts., occ. spotting, contemp. half calf, 8vo, with Hogg (Thomas), A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink..., 2nd ed., 1822, six hand-col. litho plts. (inc. frontis.), contemp. calf gilt, 12mo, plus two others including a defective disbound copy of Country Contentments by Gervase Markham, 11th ed., 1675 (6)

Hey (Mrs. Rebecca). The Moral of Flowers Illustrated by coloured engravings, 1st ed., pub Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & others, 1833, addn. half title, twenty-four engravings with contemp. hand colouring (complete as list), errata slip inserted at rear, near contemp. manuscript ownership signature to front end paper, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed at extrems., 8vo (1)

England & Wales. Cook (E.) England, 1830, ink and watercolour manuscript map, laid on linen and edged with green silk, slight spotting, displayed on two contemp. turned wooden battens, upper batten detached, 750 x 610mm (1)