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Smellie (William, editor). Thesaurus medicus, sive, disputationum in Academia Edinensi..., 4 volumes, Edinburgh, 1778-85, five folding engraved plates to volume 2 and four plates to volume 4, occasional library stamps including to titles and plates, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, together with Burnet (Thomas), Thesaurus medicinae practicae..., Venice, 1733, half-title, occasional library stamps including to both titles, bound with Hippocrates contractus in quo magni Hippocratis medicorum principis opera omnia in brevem epitomen... Studio et opera T. Burnet, Venice, 1733, final leaf unstitched and attached at inner hinge to rear board , some marginal dampstaining throughout volume, library cloth, dampstained at head of spine, 4to, plus Berengario (Jacopo), De fractura cranii liber aureus..., new edition, Leiden, 1728, engraved vignette to title, nine engraved plates, some spotting throughout, faint library stamp to title and each plate, library cloth, covers near-detached and some wear at head of spine, 12mo, plus plus other 18th-century Latin-language medical interest, mostly library bindings with usual stamps and marks, 8vo/12mo (46)

Todd (Robert B., editor). The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1836-59, wood-engraved illustrations to text, library stamps to titles, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 4to, together with Cooper (Bransby Blake), Lectures on Anatomy, Interspersed with Practical Remarks, 4 volumes, 1829-32, some spotting throughout, library stamps to titles, some spotting throughout, contemporary half roan, later cloth rebacks, 8vo, plus Abernethy (John), Physiological Lectures..., 1817, some spotting, library stamp to title, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus other 19th-century general anatomy and physiology, all in ex-library condition (approx. 90)

Williamson (Mary Baldwin). An Illustration of the Human Head, in Three Original Drawings, Designed to Exhibit the Beauty and Proportion of its External Form, as Depending on the Arrangement of its Bones and Muscles, London & Clapham, 1834, title, dedication, text (p.5-8), three uncoloured lithograph plates on india paper, plates 2 & 3 with explanation leaf, list of subscribers at rear, original printed grey paper wrappers, folio (all leaves dust-soiled and frayed and torn at edges, lower left hand corner of plate 1 torn with minor loss), together with Sibson (Francis), Medical Anatomy: Or, Illustrations of the Relative Position and Movements of the Internal Organs, London: John Churchill & Sons, 1869, twenty-one hand coloured lithograph plates, small oval ink stamp to verso of each, some spotting, later cloth, upper cover detached, folio, plus Lesser (Dr. Adolf), Atlas der Gerichtlichen Medicin, 2 vols., Berlin, 1883 & Breslaw, 1892, thirty-six double page chromolithograph with tissue-guard, some minor adhesion damage, ink stamps, marginal dust-soiling, recent cloth, plus Weber (Moritz Ignaz), Anatomical Atlas of the Human Body in Natural Size, Dusseldorf, [1831-36], nine multi-folding engraved plates and 39 (of 84) single-page engraved plates (lacks plate 39), ink stamps, some spotting and marginal soiling, contemporary half calf, covers detached, elephant oblong folio (the complete work calls for 89 plates), and others, including a set of Crocker’s Diseases of the Skin (18)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

* Pathological Drawings. An album of thirty-five watercolours of pathological conditions, mid 19th c., many relating to jaundice and diseases of the kidneys, some showing the face and skin colour of the subject, others internal organs, etc., plus one monochrome watercolour, two pencil drawings and nine engravings, twenty-four of the watercolours and drawings signed by S[amuel] Moreton, a few dated in the 1840s and 1850s, some with pen or pencil annotations to recto or verso, library stamp to each, tipped on to rectos of a later album and seven larger watercolours hinged as double-page plates at rear, many sheets approx. 30 x 38 cm and similar, a few smaller and seven larger, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. [Thomas] Bell Fletcher [1806-1897] to front pastedown, modern blue half morocco over cloth, gilt-titled on spine with the name of Dr. Bell Fletcher, cloth a little soiled, 4to (46 x 40cm). The artist of many, or all, of these pathological drawings was Samuel Moreton, one-time museum curator at Queen’s College, Birmingham. (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)

* Hall-Edwards (John, 1858-1926). A red sunset(?) behind hills over a lake, [1917], gouache on board, 285 x 240 mm, framed and glazed with BMI stamp to verso and note indicating that it is signed and dated Spring 1917 (presumably to verso). Major Dr. John Hall-Edwards was the British pioneer of X-ray treatment. For several years before the announcement of Rontgen’s discovery, he had been engaged on experiments in the application of electricity to surgery. When the Rontgen Rays were made known, he devoted himself to experiments, but in 1908 he had to have his left arm amputated owing to the spread of X-ray dermatitis (now preserved by the Chamberlain Museum of Pathology at the University of Birmingham). He also had to have several fingers on his right hand amputated before his death in 1926. He was one of the earliest investigators of the rays in this country, and the first radiograph for the purposes of an operation in the United Kingdom, was taken by him on 14th February 1896. In spite of his infirmities, he continued to work as a radiographer at Birmingham General Hospital and nearby hospitals until his death. Among his many other interests were art and photography, for which he won many medals. He is commemorated by a blue and white plaque on the exterior of the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Painted with his artificial hand during the war this bleak picture of a single tree overlooking the bloody coloured lake and sky perhaps represents resilience and strength in the face of adversity. (1)

Adair (James Makittrick). A Philosophical and Medical Sketch of the Natural History of Human Body and Mind, To Which is Subjoined, an Essay on the Difficulties of Attaining Medical Knowledge..., Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath, 1st edition, Bath, 1787, [xxiv], 318, [1] pp, half-title and final advert leaf at rear, faint library stamp to title, bound with Lind (James), An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates, with Their Methods of Preventing their Fatal Consequences, To Which is Added, an Appendix Concerning Intermittent Fevers, and, a Simple and Easy Way to Render Sea Water Fresh, and to Prevent a Scarcity of Provisions in Long Voyages at Sea, 4th edition, 1788, xvi, 357, [9] pp, final blank present, bound with Goodwin (Edmund), The Connexion of Life with Respiration or, An Experimental Inquiry to the Effects of Submersion, Strangulation, and Several Kinds of Noxious Airs, on Living Animals, with an Account of the Nature of the Disease they Produce..., [4], xvi, 126 pp, occasional spotting, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

Baker (George). An Inquiry into the Merits of a Method of Inoculating the Small-Pox which is now Practiced in Several Counties of England, 1766, [viii], 69 pp, the final leaf is a folding table with verso blank, faint library stamp to margin, half-title present, bound with Glass (Thomas), A Letter from Dr. Glass to Dr. Baker, on the Means of Procuring a Distinct and Favourable Kind of Small-Pox, and on the Use of Cold Air and Cold Water in Putrid Fevers, 1767, [iv], 72 pp, half-title present, bound with A Second Letter..., on Certain Methods of Treating the Small-Pox, During the Eruptive State, 1767, [iv], 55 pp, half-title, errata slip pasted to title verso, a little dust-soiling and spotting, together with a related volume with works by William Wagstaffe, Charles Maitland (two pamphlets) and John Arbuthnot, 1722-1723, uniform modern quarter calf gilt over boards, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

Beddoes (Thomas). A Letter to Erasmus Darwin on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption, 1st edition, Bristol, 1793, 72 pp, first and last pages heavily dust-soiled, some staining to upper margin of first three leaves not affecting text, bound with Rush (Benjamin), Three Lectures Upon Animal Life, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, 1st edition, Philadelphia, 1799, [iii]-viii, 84 pp, lacks half-title, upper outer corner of title torn with loss not affecting text, title and last page dust-soiled, bound with Johnstone (James), Some Account of the Walton Water, Near Tewkesbury, With Thoughts on the Use and Diseases of the Lymphatic Glands, Worcester, [1787], [iii-viii], 48 pp, lacks half-title, last page dust-soiled, bound with three others by Thomas Henry, William Henry and one pamphlet concerning the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, some spotting and soiling, library cloth, frayed at head of spine, 8vo, together with Beddoes (Thomas), Researches Anatomical and Practical Concerning Fever as Connected with Inflammation, [1807], library stamp to title, library cloth, rubbed and soiled and split at head of joints, 8vo, plus Stock (John Edmonds), Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Beddoes, MD, with an Analytical Account of His Writings, 1st edition, 1811, engraved portrait frontispiece, old water stain to upper corner, some spotting and heavily offset to title, some spotting and soiling throughout, half-title present, library stamp to frontispiece and title, modern cloth with leather label to spine, 4to (3)

Berkeley (George). Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, and Divers other Subjects Connected Together and Arising One from Another, 2nd edition, Improved and Corrected by the Author, 1744, 174, [2] pp, faint library stamp and ownership signature of John Freer to title, occasional spotting and light soiling or browning, bound with Anti-Siris: Or, English Wisdsom Exemplify’d by Various Examples, but, Particularly, the Present General Demand for Tar Water..., in a Letter from a Foreign Gentleman at London, to his Friend Abroad, 1st edition, 1744, 60 pp, bound with Hales (Stephen), An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on Tar-Water..., Which was Read Before the Royal Society, 1st edition, 1745, [ii], 29, [1] pp, bound with Saul (Edward), An Historical and Philosophical Account of the Barometer, or Weather-Glass..., 1st edition, 1730, [xii], 100 pp, light spotting and water staining to lower margins, old paper repair to foremargin of I2 affecting first one or two letters of last seven lines of leaf verso, without loss of sense, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Blakiston (Peyton). A Treatise on the Influenza of 1837; Containing an Analysis of One Hundred Cases, Observed at Birmingham, Between the 1st of January and the 15th of February, 1st edition, 1837, 60pp., errata slip tipped in at end, lib. stamp to title, bound with Bakewell (Samuel Glover), An Essay on Insanity..., Edinburgh, 1833, 54pp., author’s presentation inscription to title (slightly trimmed), bound with Plumbe (Samuel), A Popular and Impartial Estimate of the Present Value of Vaccination, as a Security Against Small Pox, and of the Danger of Encouraging or Tolerating the Inoculation of the Latter, [2nd edition], 1832, 99pp., folding table, bound with three others, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards, 8vo, plus two other volumes of mostly medical pamphlets (3)

Bromfeild (William). [4], iv, 88 pp, half-title present, faint library stamp to title, bound with Dimsdale (Thomas), The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox..., 1767, [vi], 160 pp, half-title present, bound with Watson (William), An Account of a Series of Experiments, Instituted with a View of Ascertaining the Most Successful Method of Inoculating the Small-Pox, 1768, [iv], 58, [1] pp, errata to final leaf verso, bound with four others related by Legard Sparham, James Jurin, William Clinch and Jan Ingenhousz, modern quarter morocco gilt over cloth, 8vo (1) Please note: Title of first item missing from printed catalogue: Faults Arising from Experience, Concerning the Present Peculiar Method of Treating Persons Inoculated for the Small-Pox…, 1767,

Cheyne (John). A Second Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus, or Dropsy in the Brain, 1st edition, Dublin, 1815, [vi], [5]-74, [2] pp, final blank present, some heavy spotting or browning, bound with Baynton (Thomas), An Account of a Successful Method of Treating Diseases of the Spine, with Observations, and Cases in Illustration, 1813, [iv], 128 pp, library stamp to title, bound with Griffith (Moses), Practical Observations on the Cure of Hectic and Slow Fevers, and the Pulmonary Consumption..., new edition, 1799, [x], 50 pp, some spotting and dust-soiling, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo. Cheyne’s first Essay was published in Edinburgh in 1808 and gave the first description of the condition. (1)

Clark (John). A Collection of Papers, Intended to Promote an Institution for the Cure and Prevention of Infectious Fevers in Newcastle and other Populous Towns. Together with the Communications of the Most Eminent Physicians, Relative to the Safety and Importance of Annexing Fever-Wards to the Newcastle and other Infirmaries, 2 parts, Newcastle, 1802, 47, [3], 235; [xii], 230 pp, title to both parts and divisional title within first part, one full-page engraved plan to first title verso, two folding plates including one double-sided table, library stamp to first title and one plate, bound with Falconer (William), An Essay on the Plague, Also a Sketch of a Plan of Internal Police, Proposed as a Means of Preventing the Spreading of the Plague, Should it be Introduced into this Country, 1st edition, Bath, 1801, iv, 72 pp, library cloth, rubbed and soiled and a little frayed to extremities, 8vo (1)

Clutterbuck (Henry). Remarks on the Opinions of the Late Mr John Hunter Respecting the Venereal Disease, in a Letter to Joseph Adams, MD, 1st edition, 1799, library stamp to title, lacks final advert leaf, bound with Swift (Charles), Salivation Exploded, or, A Practical Essay on the Venereal Disease..., the third edition, 1782, some dust-soiling, largely at front and rear, bound with Smyth (J. Hamilton), A New Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Gleets, Semenal Weaknesses, the Dreadful Effects of a Certain Detestable Vice, and the Causes of Impotency, Barrenness &c, the 20th edition, [i.e. first and sole] edition, printed for the author, 1782, slight dampstaining to lower outer corners and dust-soiling to first and last leaves, bound with Freeman (Stephen), Venus Uncover’d, Or the Patient’s Victory over the Cruel and Dangerous Disorder, the Venereal Disease..., 17th edition, n.d., first and last page dust-soiled, bound with Falck (Nikolai Detlef), A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, in three parts, 2nd edition, 1774, engraved vignette to title, five engraved plates including one folding, lacks final advert leaf, some spotting and occasional old dampstaining to lower outer corners, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Cox (Joseph Mason). Practical Observations on Insanity..., 1806, [xii], 210 [2] pp, library stamp to title, ad leaf at rear, bound with Halliday (Andrew), A General View of the Present State of Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in Great Britain and Ireland, and in Some Other Kingdoms, 1828, [iv], 101, [3] pp, bound with Society of Friends, A Sketch of the Origin, Progress, and Present State of the Retreat, an Institution Near York, for the Reception of Persons Afflicted with Disorders of the Mind Among the Society of Friends, York, 1828, three double-page engraved plans, occasional browning, a few library stamps, short closed tear to upper margin of first plate centrefold, bound with Blake (Andrew), A Practical Essay on the Disease Generally Known Under the Denomination of Delirium Tremens..., 1830, [xvi], 68 pp, author’s presentation inscription to half-title, for the Reverend R.W. Wilson, dated 6th January 1831, BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Mackey to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints weak and some edge wear, 8vo (1)

Crumpe (Samuel). An Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium..., 1793, ix, [5], 304 pp, half-title and errata leaf, library stamp to title, bound with Ferris (Samuel), A General View of the Establishment of Physic as a Science in England, by the Incorporation of the College of Physicians, London, together with An Inquiry into the Nature of that Incorporation..., 1795, [4], xvi, 168 pp, half-title, bound with Patterson (William), Letters Concerning the Internal Dropsy of the Brain, To Charles William Quin, MD, Dublin, 1794, [iv], 93 pp, bound with Rowley (William), On the Absolute Necessity of Encouraging, Instead of Preventing or Embarrassing the Study of Anatomy, with a Plan to Prevent Violating the Dormitories of the Defunct. Addressed to the Legislature of Great Britain, 1795, 18 pp, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

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)

Dalton (John). Meteorological Observations and Essays, 1st edition, 1793, xvi, 208 pp, light library stamp to title, bound with [Robison, John], Outlines of a Course of Experimental Philosophy, Edinburgh, 1784, 21 pp, bound with Carey (Matthew), A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia..., 2nd edition, 1794, 112 pp, bound with [?Tattersall, William], The Crime of Neglecting Inoculation, Liverpool, 1793, 16 pp, bound with The Best Use of Bad Times, Or, Friendly Hints to Manufacturers and Mechanics, on their Present Distresses, [London?], 1793, 16 pp, author’s presentation inscription to Dr. [Thomas] Percival on title trimmed with loss, bound with Laws and List of the Members of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1788, [iv], 113 pp, bound with Walker (Adam), Analysis of a Course of Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 7th edition, Sold by the Author, c. (1785, 88 pp, final explanation leaf soiled and torn without loss, library cloth, rubbed, soiled and frayed on joints, 8vo. The work by Dalton is a first edition of the author’s first book. It includes his observations on evaporation and the appendix contains what is now known as ‘Dalton’s Law’ of partial pressures: that in a mixture of gases, every gas acts as an independent entity. Norman 574; Wheeler Gift 582. (1)

Dobson (Matthew ). A Medical Commentary on Fixed Air..., 1st edition, Chester, 1779, [vi], 198 pp, half-title present, library stamp to title, old inscription erased at head of half-title with resultant paper thinning, bound with Musgrave (Samuel), Speculations and Conjectures on the Quality of the Nerves, 1776, iv, 146 pp, bound with An Essay on the Nature and Cure of the (So Called) Worm-Fever, 1776, 150 pp, bound with Gulstonian Lectures..., On the Dyspnoea..., Pleurisy and Peripneumony..., Pulmonary Consumption, 1779, [viii], 124, [4] pp, bound with Lettsom (John Coakley), An Answer to Baron Dimsdale’s Review of Dr. Lettsom’s Observations on the Baron’s Remarks Respecting a Letter Upon General Inoculation, 1779, [iv], 48 pp, half-title present, some spotting towards rear and final leaf detached, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, upper cover near-detached, 8vo (1)

Douglas (John). A Treatise on the Hydrocele, 1755, [iii-xvi], 122 pp, ?lacks half-title, library stamp to title, bound with Kirkland (Thomas), An Essay on the Methods of Suppressing Haemorrhages from Divided Arteries, 1763, x [i.e. viii], 53 pp, some old dampstaining and one short closed tear repair without loss, some old dampstaining and soiling to first leaves, bound with Thoughts on Amputation, Being a Supplement to the Letters on Compound Fractures..., 1780, iv, 67, [1] pp, two engraved plates, library stamp to plates, title soiled, bound with Chapman (Edmund), A Reply to Mr Douglas’s Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London and Westminster, 1737, 68 pp, title and final leaf verso heavily dust-soiled, some spotting, bound with three others by Joseph Else, John Foot and one in answer to Mr Foot, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Du Verney (Guichard Joseph). Tractatus de Organo Auditus continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium... e Gallico Latine versus, Nuremberg, 1684, sixteen folding engraved plates, title and plates with library stamp, bound with Valsalva (Antonio Maria), De asure humana tractatus... quibus interposita est musculorum uvulae, atque pharyngis nova descriptio et delineatio, Utrecht, 1717, title in red & black, ten folding engraved plates (with ink stamps to each plate, one plate trimmed at head with loss of caption), bound with Douglas (James), The History of the Lateral Operation: or, an Account of the Method of Extracting a Stone, by making a Wound near the great Protuberance of the Os Ischium, through the Common Integuments and Levator Ani, into the Side of the Bladder..., [1726], close-trimmed at foot with consequent loss of lower line of imprint, bound with two others by Patrick Blair and William Chambers, occasional spotting, marks and toning, library cloth, 4to. Du Verney, G-M 1545 (1st edition French, 1683); Valsalva, G-M 1546 (1704 edition). (1)

Edlin (Abraham). An Account of Two Cases of the Gout, Which Terminated in Death, in Consequence of the External Use of Ice and Cold Water, 1st edition, Uxbridge, [1804], 24 pp, uncut, bound with Kinglake (Robert), A Reply to Mr Edlin’s Two Cases of Gout..., Taunton, 1804, xii, 61, [1] pp, advert to final leaf verso, bound with Rees (George), A Practical Treatise on Haemoptysis, Or Spitting of Blood, Showing the Safety and Efficacy of Emetics, and the Pernicious Effect of Blood-Letting, in the Treatment of that Disease, 1813, viii, 48 pp, Birmingham Medical Book Society stamp and some soiling to title and last page (closed tear without loss), bound with Pearson (Richard), Some Observations on the Present Epidemic Catarrhal Fever, or Influenza, Chiefly in Relation to its Mode of Treatment..., 1803, iv, 26, [1] pp, advert leaf at rear, bound with three others by Henrique Xavier Baeta, Jean Francois Chortet and Camille Melchior Gibert, library cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo (1)

Elliot (John). Philosophical Observations on the Senses of Vision and Hearing, To Which are Added, A Treatise on Harmonic Sounds, and an Essay on Combustion and Animal Heat, 1st edition, 1780, viii, 222, [2] pp, advert leaf at rear, library stamp and a little browning to title, bound with Essays on Physiological Subjects, 1780, [2], v-48 pp, bound with Falconar (Magnus), Experimental Inquiries: Part the Third, Containing a Description of the Red Particles of the Blood in the Human Subject and other Animals..., 1777, [xxiv], 144, [8] pp, four folding engraved plates at rear, some spotting and library stamp to each plate, bound with Wood (Loftus), Observations on a New and Easy Method of Curing Disorders, by Factitious Air, Without the Use of Drugs, Also, an Inquiry into the Medical Properties of Positive and Negative Electricity, 1780, 31, [1] pp, spotting throughout, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)

Falconer (William). Experiments and Observations, in Three Parts. Part I. On the Dissolvent Power of Water Impregnated with Fixable Air, Compared with Simple Water... Part II... On the Urinary Calculus. Part III. On the Antiseptic Power of Water Impregnated with Fixable Air..., 1st edition, 1776, [iv], 136 pp, library stamp to title (detached), bound with White (Charles), An Appendix to the Second Edition of Mr. White’s Treatise on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-in Women, 1777, [ii], 88 pp, bound with Lettsom (John Coakley), Of the Improvement of Medicine in London, on the Basis of the Public Good, 2nd edition, 1775, [viii], 56 pp, half-title and engraved folding frontispiece (library stamp), bound with Observations Preparatory to the Use of Dr. Myersbach’s Medicines: In which the Efficacy of Certain German Prescriptions (Given in English) is Ascertained..., 2nd edition, 1776, [2], [xviii], ii, 73 pp, lacks half-title(?), bound with Dimsdale (Thomas), Thoughts on General and Partial Inoculations, Containing a Translations of Two Treatises, 1776, 4, viii, 70, [2] pp, errata leaf at rear, bound with an extracted part of the Medical Museum, volume 4 (1766), pp [1]-112, engraved folding plate (library stamp), library cloth, rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, 8vo (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)

Falconer (William). A Practical Dissertation on the Medicinal Effects of the Bath Waters, Bath, 1790, [xl], 188 pp, half-title detached, faint library stamp to title, bound with Howlett (John), The Insufficiency of the Causes to Which the Increase of Our Poor, and of the Poor Rates Have Been Commonly Ascribed, the True Ones Stated, with an Inquiry into the Mortality of Country Houses of Industry, and a Slight General View of Mr. Acland’s Plan for Rendering the Poor Independent, 1788, iv, 118, [2] pp, advert leaf at rear, bound with Clerke (William), Thoughts Upon the Means of Preserving the Health of the Poor, by Prevention and Suppression of Epidemic Fevers, Addressed to the Inhabitants of the Town of Manchester, and of the Several Populous Trading Towns Surrounding and Connected With It, 1790, 27 pp, bound with White (Charles), Observations on Gangrenes and Mortifications, Accompanied with, or Occasioned by, Convulsive Spasms, or Arising from Local Injury, Producing Irritation, Warrington, 1790, [ii], 29 pp, half-title with remains of author’s presentation inscription to T. Percival, bound with Bennet (Abraham), New Experiments on Electricity, Wherein the Causes of Thunder and Lightning as Well as the Constant State of Positive or Negative Electricity in the Air or Clouds, are Explained..., Derby, 1789, four folding engraved plates including frontispiece (offset to title), library stamp to each plate, library cloth, rubbed and a little soiled, 8vo (1)

Falconer (William). A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions Upon Disorders of the Body, 1st edition, 1788, [4], [xxii], 105, [3] pp, half-title and adverts at rear, library stamp to title, a little spotting, bound with Commerell (Abbe de), An Account of the Culture and Use of the Mangel Wurzel, or Root of Scarcity, 3rd edition, 1787, [x], 51 pp, hand-coloured frontispiece (close trimmed), bound with A Letter from a Subscriber to the York Lunatic Asylum, to the Governors on that Charity, York, 1788, 31 pp, half-title, some light browning throughout, inscribed by Dr. Perceval to title, bound with Leslie (Patrick Dugud), An Account of the Epidemical Catarrhal Fever, Commonly Called the Influenza, as it Appeared in the City and Environs of Durham, in the Month of June 1782..., [1783?], [vi], 100 pp, bound with Waterhouse (Benjamin), A Synopsis of a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, in Four Parts, Part the First (all published), Boston, 1786, x, 44 pp, some spotting and soiling to last few leaves, bound with two pamphlets relating to Newcastle, a defective pamphlet on prisons and three dissertations by Peter Crompton, Jacob Watson Roberts and Thomas White, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Farr (Samuel). A History of Epidemics, by Hippocrates, in Seven Books..., and a Preliminary Dissertation on the Nature and Cause of Infection, 1st Samuel Farr edition, 1780, half-title, errata to final leaf verso, lacks index (pp. (377-392), inscribed ‘From the translator’ to half-title, library stamp to title, some spotting, bound with [Maude, Thomas], Verbeia, or, Wharfdale, A Poem, Descriptive and Didactic, with Historical Remarks, 1st edition, York, 1782, erratic pagination but complete, inscribed ‘From the author’ to title-page, bound with [Mason, William], An Archaeological Epistle to the Reverend and Worshipful Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter..., to which is Annexed a Glossary..., 1st edition, 1782, 18 pp, advert leaf at rear, presentation inscription to Thomas Percival from Lord George Cavendish to title-page, some spotting and dust-soiling, bound with Hird (William), An Affectionate Tribute to the Memory of the Late Dr. John Fothergill, 1st edition, 1781, 29 pp, closed tear to foremargin of title-page not affecting text, inscribed ‘From the author’ to title-page, lacks half-title, bound with Enfield (William), A Funeral Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of the Late Rev. John Aikin, 1st edition, Warrington, 1781, 22 pp, some spotting, lacks half-title, some marginal dampstaining affecting last three works, library cloth, slightly frayed at head of spine, 4to, together with five others including two volumes of pamphlets including some non-medical interest (6)

Farren (George). Observations on the Laws of Mortality and Disease, and on the Principles of Life Insurance, with an Appendix, Containing Illustrations of the Progress of Mania, Melancholia, Craziness, and Demonomania, as Displayed in Shakespeare’s Characters of Lear, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Edgar, printed for the Author, 1829, [vi], [5]-132, [1] pp, advertisement leaf for Asylum Life Office at rear, light library stamp to title, untrimmed, modern cloth gilt, 8vo (1)

Fordyce (George). A Treatise on the Digestion of Food, 1791, [xii], 204 pp, library stamp to title, bound with Andree (John), Considerations on Bilious Diseases..., 2nd edition, enlarged and improved, 1780, [viii], 61, [3] pp, adverts at rear, bound with Butter (William), A Treatise on the Disease Commonly Called Angina Pectoris, 1791, 62 pp, half-title, bound with Fothergill (Anthony), Cautions to the Heads of Families, in Three Essays, I. Of Cyder-Wine, Prepared in Copper Vessels... II. On the Poison of Lead... III. On the Poison of Copper, 1st edition, Bath, 1790, 95 pp, half-title, plus one other by John Rotherham and four medical dissertations by Charles Angier, William Briggs, Robert Darbey and William Tattersall, library cloth, slightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo (1)

Fothergill (Anthony). Cautions to the Heads of Families, in Three Essays, I. On Cyder-Wine, Prepared in Copper Vessels..., II. On the Poison of Lead..., III. On the Poison of Copper..., 1st edition, Bath, 1790, 95 pp, half-title, library stamp to title, bound with Simpson (William), Observations on Cold Bathing, Leeds, [1791], [iii]-viii, 45, [3] pp, advertisement leaf at rear, lacks half-title, bound with Garnett (Thomas), Experiments and Observations on the Horley-Green Spaw, Near Halifax, To Which is Added a Short Account of Two Other Mineral Waters in Yorkshire, Bradford, 1790, [ii], 86 pp, bound with [Farrer, William], Observations on Specific Medicines, Wherein the Most Select and Approved Specifics in the Whole Materia Medica are Described..., 1767, [2], [xxxvi], 103, [15] pp, some spotting, bound with Fordyce (William), The Great Importance and Proper Method of Cultivating and Curing Rhubarb in Britain, for Medicinal Uses, With an Appendix, 1792, [viii], 27, [1] pp, advertisements to final leaf verso, library cloth, rubbed and a little chipped at head of spine, 8vo (1)

Franklin (Benjamin). Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin and other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism..., Translated from the French, 1st English edition, 1785, xx, 108 pp, small light brown stain to lower margin of first few leaves not affecting text, bound with Wooffendale (Robert), Practical Observations on the Human Teeth, 1st edition, 1783, [xx], 158 pp, engraved frontispiece (offset to title), bound with Moore (James Carrick), A Method of Preventing or Diminishing Pain in Several Operations of Surgery, 1st edition, 1784, [iv], 50, [2] pp, one folding engraved plate (marginal library stamp), final advert leaf, bound with Underwood (Michael), A Treatise Upon Ulcers of the Legs..., 1783, 158, [2] pp, half-title, final blank present, library stamp to title, bound with Feardon (Henry), A Treatise on Cancers..., 1784, [4], [xvi], 77, [3] pp, final blank leaf present, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo. King Louis XVI appointed a Commission to examine Franz Anton Mesmer’s theory on animal magnetism which had won considerable acceptance. Franklin, who was sceptical of the theory, was appointed to the Commission alongside Lavoisier and several others. Franklin was the first to sign the report which unanimously concluded that mesmerism was a hoax, upon which Mesmer’s career abruptly came to an end. (2) Robert Wooffendale was the first professional dentist to travel to the American colonies. During his two years of practice in America, between 1766 and 1768, ‘He may have made the first set of artificial teeth constructed in what is now the United States’ (G-M 3676.2). (1)

Gamgee (Joseph Sampson). The Influence of the Vivisection on Human Surgery, 1st edition, 1882, 31[1] pp, pencil deletions (by the author?), bound with a 2nd edition of the same year, [iv], 32 pp, marginal marks in coloured pencils, bound with Tait (Robert Lawson), The Uselessness of Vivisection Upon Animals as a Method of Scientific Research, Birmingham, 1882, offprint, [ii], [121]-156, [2] pp, bound with French, German, Italian and Danish contemporary offprint translations of the same work, final leaf of German offprint brittled and detached with some loss, bound with Girdlestone (E.D.), Vivisection in its Scientific, Religious, and Moral Aspects, 1884, 68 pp, printed lower wrapper present and somewhat frayed and near-detached, bound with Bowman (William), The Address in Surgery, Read at Chester, August 9, 1866, at the 24th Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, 1882, 39 pp, bound with five related by E.C. Copas, George Gore, G.M. Humphry, Robert McDonnell and John Simon, 1882-84, the majority of the fourteen pamphlets and offprints with library stamp to title, library cloth, covers and spine detached, 8vo (1)

Gourlay (William). Observations on the Natural History, Climate, and Diseases of Madeira, During a Period of Eighteen Years, 1st edition, 1811, [x], 158 pp, errata leaf present, some light browning, bound with Jenkins (Jeremiah), Observations on the Present State of the Profession and Trade of Medicine..., printed for the author, 1810, [4], xvi, 140, [4] pp, two advert leaves at rear, library stamp to title, bound with Berthollet (Claude Louis), Elements of the Art of Dyeing, Containing the Theory of Dyeing in General, As Far as it Respects the Properties of Colouring Substances, Edinburgh, 1792, [iv], 119 pp, bound with Vaughan (James), Cases and Observations on the Hydrophobia, to which is Annexed, an Account of the Caesarean Section..., 2nd edition, [1778], viii, [2], 4-98 pp, title and final page soiled, lacks plates(?), library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Gregory (John). Elements of the Practice of Physic, Edinburgh, 1772, [iv], 199 pp, library stamp and some spotting to title, bound with [Lettsom, John Coakley], Reflections on the General Treatment and Cure of Fevers, printed for the author, 1772, [xvi], 67 pp, author’s name neatly written to title, bound with [Shebbeare, John], A Candid Enquiry into the Merits of Doctor Cadogan’s Dissertation on the Gout..., [iv], 218 pp, author’s name identified on half-title in an old hand, bound with Considerations on the Use and Abuse of Antimonial Medicines in Fevers, and other Disorders..., Read in a Society of Physicians, and Published by Order of the President and Council, 1773, [4], [iv], 48 pp, half-title, last two leaves detached, a little spotting and dust-soiling, library cloth, rubbed and short split to head of spine, 8vo (1)

Guy (Richard). Practical Observations on Cancers and Disorders of the Breast, Explaining the Different Appearances and Events, To Which are Added, One Hundred Cases, Successfully Treated Without Cutting, Also Some Remarks on the Effects of Hemlock, Shewing, the Inefficacy of that Medicine in Cancerous Complaints..., [1762], xvi, 173 pp, half-title, bound with A Collection of Receipts in Physic, Being the Practice of the Late Eminent Dr. Bloxam..., 2nd edition, 1754, [ii], 108, [12] pp, two advertisement leaves before index, lacks half-title, light library stamp and small inner margin repair to title, bound with Andree (John), An Account of the Tilbury Water..., 2nd edition with additions, 1740, 40 pp, some browning at front and rear, bound with Freind (John), [The Benefit of Purging in the Confluent Small-Pox..., 1747], 106, [2] pp, advert leaf at rear, lacks title, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Haller (Albrecht von). A Dissertation on the Motion of the Blood, and on the Effects of Bleeding, Verified by Experiments Made on Living Animals, To Which are Added, Observations on the Heart..., 1757, iv, 156 pp, library stamp to title, some spotting and old marginal dampstaining to inner margins of early leaves, bound with Pott (Percival), Observations on that Disorder of the Corner of the Eye, Commonly Called Fistula Lachrymalis, 1st edition, 1758, [viii], 84 pp, some spotting and dust-soiling and old marginal dampstaining, bound with Cox (Daniel), Observations on the Intermitting Pulse, as Prognosticating, in Acute Diseases, According to Dr. Solano..., 1758, [iv], 144 pp, small tear to title with loss to first word, old dampstaining and soiling, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary vellum, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)

Harper (Andrew). A Treatise on the Real Cause and Cure of Insanity; in which the nature and distinctions of this disease are fully explained, and the treatment established on new principles, 1st edition, 1789, title and final leaf verso spotted and dust-soiled, bound as last work with Dwight (Samuel), De vomitione, ejusque excessu curando, 1st edition, 1722 [and] De hydropibus, deque medicamentis, ad eos utilibus expellendos, 1st edition, 1725 both lack half-titles, some spotting, soiling and old ink marginalia, old paper repair to C1 of later work affecting a few letters to verso, bound with Berkenhout (John), Pharmacopoeia medici, 4th edition, 1788, half-title, some spotting, and lower marginal dampstaining to last two named works, faint library stamp to all title-pages, library cloth, dampstained, 8vo. (1) Hunter & Macalpine, pp 522-24; Norman 990: ‘Harper believed in a psychic rather than somatic origin of mental illness... All of Harper’s works are very rare. (1)

[Hayes, Thomas]. A Serious and Friendly Address to the Public, on the Dangerous Consequences of Neglecting Common Coughs and Colds So Frequent in this Climate, Containing, a Simple, Efficacious, and Domestic Method of Cure, Necessary for all Families, by a Gentleman of the Faculty, 1st edition, 1783, [2], [x], 42 pp, title a little spotted and soiled and close-trimmed at foremargin, short closed tear to upper margin, bound with Nevill (James), A Description of the Venereal Gonorrhoea, Accounting for the Symptoms and Cure of that Disorder, in a New, Easy, and Rational Manner..., 1754, [xx], 115 pp, library stamp to title, some spotting and soiling at front and rear, closed tear repair to final two leaves without loss, final leaf relaid, bound with Thomas (William), An Essay on the Gonorrhoea, with Some Observations on the Use of Opium, in the Cure of that Disease, 1780, [iv], 42 pp, spotting at front and rear, bound with Geach (Francis), Some Observations on the Present Epidemic Dysentery, 1781, [ii], 41 pp, first and last page dust-soiled, bound with four contemporary dissertations by John Charles Fleury, Thomas Miller, Thomas Okes and Thomas Ruston, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus one further volume of various pamphlets. The first edition of Hayes’s work on the common cold is uncommon; it went on to four English and three American editions. (2)

Haygarth (John). Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body, Exemplified by Fictitious Tractors, and Epidemical Convulsions, 1st edition, Bath, 1800, [iv], 43, [1] pp, library stamp and dust-soiling to title, inscribed ‘From the author’, bound with Smyth (James Carmichael), An Account of the Experiment... Onboard the Union Hospital Ship to Determine the Effect of the Nitrous Acid in Destroying Contagion, and the Safety with Which it may be Employed, in a Letter Addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, 1st edition, 1796, 75 pp, folding plan of the hospital ship at rear, some spotting and faint library stamp to plate, bound with College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Facts and Observations Relative to the Nature and Origin of the Pestilential Fever which Prevailed at the City of Philadelphia..., Philadelphia printed and London reprinted, 1799, 40 pp, bound with Rupp (Theophilus Lewis), Remarks on Dr. Priestley’s Experiments and Observations Relating to the Analysis of Atmospherical Air..., [Manchester?, 1798?], offprint, 40 pp, drop-head title, additional blank leaf at front and rear, the first with author’s presentation inscription to Thomas Percival, bound with four others by William Simmons, John Hull and George Tomlinson, all but one concerning a caesarean operation on Elizabeth Thompson, library cloth, lower joint frayed and upper cover detached, 8vo (1)

Hicks (John Braxton). A bound collection of nineteen offprints, 1863-1881, including On the Condition of the Uterus in Obstructed Labour, 1868, On the Contractions of the Uterus Throughout Pregnancy..., 1872, A Contribution to our Knowledge of Puerperal Diseases, Being a Short Report of Eighty-Nine Cases, with Remarks, 1871, Remarks on Tables of Mortality after Obstetric Operations, by J. Braxton Hicks and J.J. Phillips, 1872, occasional library stamp to title, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, a little frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo. The first two named items are G-M 6187 and 6189 respectively. (1)

Home (Francis). An Inquiry into the Nature, Cause, and Cure of the Croup, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1765, small stain to lower margin, title with vertical crease where folded, bound with Wilson (Andrew), Rational Advice to the Military, When Exposed to the Inclemency of Hot Climates and Seasons, 1780, inscribed ‘From the author’ to title verso, bound with Brisbane (John), Select Cases in the Practice of Medicine, 1772, lacks half-title, bound with Monroe (John), Remarks on Dr. Battie’s Treatise on Madness, advertisement leaf after title, small tear to upper outer corner of title, with partial loss of final letter of first word, bound with Baker (George), An Essay Concerning the Cause of Endemial Colic of Devonshire, 1767, bound with others by John Fothergill, Andrew Wilson, William Cadogan, William Grant and J. Vaughan, scattered spotting and library stamp to first work (Fothergill), upper hinge cracked, modern library cloth gilt, 8vo (1)

Hunter (William). Two Introductory Lectures, Delivered by Dr. William Hunter, to His Last Course of Anatomical Lectures, to which are added, Some Papers Relating to Dr. Hunter’s Intended Plan, for Establishing a Museum in London, for the Improvement of Anatomy, Surgery, and Physic, 1st edition, 1784, [ii], 130 pp, half-title with advert for Hunter’s Plates of the Gravid Uterus to verso, lacks folding engraved plate, broken and some leaves detached, bound with Medical Commentaries, Part I, Containing a Plain and Direct Answer to Professor Monro jun., Interspersed with Remarks on the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of Several Parts of the Human Body, 1st edition, 1762, [viii], 113 pp, four engraved plates (closely trimmed touching imprint and plate numbers), spotting and some light browning throughout, bound with Westminster General Dispensary, Observations on the Practice in the Medical Department of the Westminster General Dispensary, Together with an Arithmetical Calculation of the Comparative Success of Various Establishments for the Relief of the Sick, by Order of the Governess, 1777, [viii], 77, [1] pp, adverts to final leaf verso, bound with Clarke (John), An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-In Women, of the Years 1787 and 1788, 1st edition, 1788, [iv], 43 pp, bound with Lettsom (John Coakley), The History of an Extraordinary Introsusception, with an Account of the Dissection by Thomas Whatley, Philosophical Transactions offprint, 1786, [ii], 8 pp, two engraved plates (library stamp to second plate margin), Whatley’s presentation inscription to John Freer Jr. inscribed to title verso, bound with five other contemporary medical pamphlets by John Ash, Gilbert Blane, William Cockell, Nathaniel Hulme and James Moore, some spotting and dust-soiling to most items, stitching broken and many leaves loose or detached, library cloth, upper cover near-detached, 4to (1)

Hutten (Ulrich von). De Morbo Gallico. A Treatise of the French Disease, Publish’d Above 200 Years Past...,1730, [xii], 110, [2] pp, faint library stamp to title (browned), bound with Duck (Arthur, pseud.), The Thresher’s Miscellany: Or, Poems on Several Subjects..., 4th edition, 1731, [viii], 24 pp, bound with A Short View of the State of Affairs, with the Relation to Great Britain, for Four Years Past, with Some Remarks on the Treaty Lately Published and the Pamphlet Entitled Observations Upon It, 1730, 36 pp, bound with The State of Justice Impartially Considered, by the Civil, Natural, and National Law, with Some Curious Admonitions for the Use of Drowsy Bishops, Sleepy Judges and Stupid Magistrates, Wherein the Great Delay of Justice is Fully Exposed, [1732?], 7 pp, bound with Trenchard (Thomas), A Short History of Standing Armies in England, 1731, 70 pp, title slightly creased, final leaf browned, some spotting throughout volume, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, spine detached, 8vo (1)

Jackson (John Hughlings). On a Case of Temporary Left Hemiplegia with Foot-Clonus and Exaggerated Knee-Phenomenon after an Epileptiform Seizure Beginning in the Left Foot, 1881, offprint, 16 pp, library stamp to title, bound with Law (W.T.), Therapeutic Experiment, As an Aid in the Investigation of the Pathology of Epilepsy, with Notes of a Case Treated by Sodium Nitrite, St. Leonard’s and Hastings, 1882, [ii], 8, [2] pp, final leaf blank, library stamp to title, bound with Hovell (Dennis de Berdt), On Pain and Other Symptoms Connected with the Disease Called Hysteria, 1867, [iv], 44 pp, half-title present, bound with Prichard (John), Practical Observations on Hysteria, Especially Relating to its Organic Character, Leamington, 1838, [viii], 36 pp, half-title, library stamp to title, bound with Saundby (Robert), Illustrations of Locomotor Ataxy, A Clinical Lecture Delivered in the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1886, offprint, 24 pp, printed wrappers, library stamps, author’s presentation copy, bound with twenty-one other related items, mostly offprints, partly broken and a few items detached, library cloth, spine frayed and near-detached, 8vo (1)

Johnstone (James). An Historical Dissertation Concerning the Malignant Epidemical Fever of 1756 with Some Account of the Malignant Diseases Prevailing Since the Year 1752, in Kidderminster, 1st edition, 1758, viii, 68 pp, title and last leaf slightly soiled, bound with Johnstone (John), Medical Jurisprudence. On Madness, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1800, [4], viii, 48 pp, blank leaf after title, bound 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, 1st edition, 1805, [viii], 275, [1] pp, half-title, publisher’s notice to final leaf verso, library stamp to title, inscribed ‘From the author’ to half-title, bound with Darwin (Robert Waring), Appeal to the Faculty, Concerning the Case of Mrs Houlston, 1st edition, Shrewsbury, 1789, [iv], 45 pp, half-title dust-soiled and detached with contemporary ownership inscription of Mr Barker, a surgeon of Coleshil[l], bound with two others by William Fordyce and Richard Pearson, library cloth, rubbed, slightly frayed at spine ends, 8vo (1)

Johnstone (James). A Treatise on the Malignant Angina, or, Putrid and Ulcerous Sore-Throat..., Worcester, 1779, [iv], 150 pp, library stamp and slight dust-soiling to title, bound with An Essay on the Use of the Ganglions of the Nerves, Shrewsbury, 1771, [viii], 96 pp, title lightly browned, bound with Moyes (Henry), Heads of a Course of Lectures, Upon the Most Curious and Important Subjects of Philosophical Chemistry..., n.p., c. (1780, 15 pp, slightly dust-soiled, final leaf torn and repaired with loss of blank area of lower margin, bound with Barker (John), A Treatise on the Putrid Constitution of 1777 and the Preceding Years and the Pestilential One of 1778..., Birmingham, 1779, 96 pp, plus three other contemporary pamphlets on fevers, by Mark Akenside, William Butter and Robert Hamilton, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)

Justamond (John Obadiah). An Account of the Methods Pursued in the Treatment of Cancerous and Schirrhous Disorders, and other Indurations, 1st edition, 1780, [vi], 176 pp, library stamp to title, a little dust-soiled at front and rear, bound with Crowther (Bryan), New Diseases. The Rabies Piratica, Its History, Symptoms, & Cure, Also, the Furor Hippocraticus, or Graeco-Mania, With its Treatment, printed for the author, 1810, [ii], 53 pp, bound with An Address to the Medical Profession, [1812?], half-title only (as issued?), bound with Muzell (Frederick), Medical and Chirurgical Observations, Translated from the German Original, 1755, [4], xvi, 131, [1] pp, errata to final leaf verso, bound with [?Harrison, John], A Short Comparative View of the Practice of Surgery in the French Hospitals, with Some Remarks on the Study of Anatomy and Midwifery..., 1750, [iv], 56 pp, closely trimmed at upper margin, ownership signature of J. Kittredge to title, bound with three other medical pamphlets by Thomas Whately, Thomas Baynton and George Aylett, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (1)

Kinneir (David). A New Essay on the Nerves, and the Doctrine of the Animal Spirits Rationally Considered..., 2nd edition, with additions..., 1739, vi, 200 pp, library stamp and some dust-soiling to title, bound with [Cox, Daniel], Observations on the Epidemic Fever of the Year 1741..., 2nd edition corrected, 1742, [4], viii, 60 pp, bound with Warren (Henry), A Treatise Concerning the Malignant Fever in Barbados, and the Neighbouring Islands, with an Account of the Seasons There, from the Year 1734 to 1738, in a Letter to Dr. Mead, 1741, [iv], 75 pp, bound with Sewell (Edward), An Historical and Philosophical Account of the Barometer, or Weather-Glass..., 2nd edition corrected, 1735, 107, [1] pp, adverts to final leaf verso, together with a further volume of pamphlets, mostly later editions on fevers and the plague, authors Sir Richard Blackmore, John Colbatch, John Hancocke and Richard Mead, both library cloth, rubbed and soiled, 8vo (2)

Lavoisier (Antoine Laurent). Essays on the Effects Produced by Various Processes on Atmospheric Air, with a Particular View to the Investigation of the Constitution of the Acids, Translated from the French, by Thomas Henry, 1st edition, Warrington, 1783, xx, 142, [2] pp, half-title and final advert leaf present, heavy foxing throughout preliminary leaves, minor spotting to text, bound with Bergman (Torbern), Outlines of Mineralogy, Translated from the Original, by William Withering, 1st edition, Birmingham, 1783, iv, 128, [4] pp, index at rear, a little spotting, bound with Magalhaes (Joao Jacinto de), Description of a Glass-Apparatus For Making in a Few Minutes, and at a Very Small Expence, the Best Mineral Waters..., in a Letter to the Rev. Dr. J. Priestley, 3rd edition, revised, corrected and enlarged... with an Examination of the Strictures of Mr. T. Cavallo, FRS, Upon these Eudiometers, printed for the author, 1783, engraved frontispiece (stamp), vii, 80 pp, last leaf spotted and detached, bound with two others of chemistry interest by Martin Wall, library cloth, covers detached and backstrip deficient, 8vo. Henry’s is the first collected volume of Lavoisier’s works in English. Included in the nine essays are the idea that oxygen is an indispensable constituent of all acids. Lavoisier’s experiments finally helped to disprove the idea that phlogiston was a separate element contained in all combustible bodies, an idea that Henry himself seemed to favour. Duveen 340. (1)

Lawrie (James Adair). Essay on Cholera, Founded on Observations of the Disease in Various Parts of India, and in Sunderland, Newcastle, and Gateshead, with Notices of the Treatment, and of the Civil and Hospital Police Adopted in these Towns, Glasgow, 1832, vi, [9]-74 pp, (?)lacks half-title, library stamp to title, bound with Moir (D.M.), Practical Observations on Malignant Cholera, as that Disease in now Exhibiting Itself in Scotland, 1832, viii, 52 pp, bound with Papers Relative to the Disease Called Cholera Spasmodica in India, now Prevailing in the North of Europe..., 1831, [iv], 73 pp, bound with a shorter edition of the same work from the same year, bound with Parsons (George), Observations on Cholera, Made During a Visit to Sunderland, Undertaken by Direction of the Birmingham Town Infirmary Board of Health, in the Months of November and December 1831, Birmingham, 1832, 63 pp, author’s presentation inscription to Birmingham Medical Library (slightly soiled and trimmed), bound with four other pamphlets and two reports/reviews, plus a further volume containing ten pamphlets on cholera, 1831-33, both library cloth, soiled and covers detached, 8vo (2)