Barnes (Joseph K.). The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 volumes, mixed 1st and 2nd issue, Washington, 1875-83, numerous chromolithographed, tinted lithographed and Woodburytype photographic plates, plus folding charts, tables, etc., autograph letter signed from J.S. Billings to J. Sampson Gamgee partly pasted to front pastedown of first volume, library stamp to title-pages and plate margins, hinges cracked and weak, original cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, some cracking to spines and fraying to spine ends and extremities, 4to. Volumes 3, 4 and 6 are second issue, the others first issue. This monumental work has been called ‘The first comprehensive American medical book’ and is the definitive work on medicine practised during the American Civil War. G-M 2171 & 5185. (6)
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Bartholin (Thomas). Acta medica et philosophica Hafniensia Ann. (1671 & 1672, [volume 1], 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1673, title printed in red and black, sixteen engraved plates and wood-engraved illustrated to final leaf, library stamp to title, some browning throughout, worm tracing to lower margin not affecting text, together with Linden (Joannes Antonides van der), Lindenius renovatus..., de scriptis medicis libri duo, 2 parts in 1 volume, Nuremberg, 1686, separate title to second part, errata leaf at rear, browning throughout, library stamp to title, both contemporary vellum, soiling and wear, 4to, plus other 18th-century vellum-bound medical works in Latin, authors being Cesar Magatus (odd volume), Joannes Juncker, Carolus Piso, Daniel Ludwig and Felix Plater, all with library stamps, vellum soiled and worn, 4to/8vo. Acta Medica was the first Danish scientific journal. (12)
Bartley (O.W.). A Treatise on Forensic Medicine; Or Medical Jurisprudence, 1st edition, Bristol, 1815, half-title, library stamp, a few spots, previous owner signature, BMI presentation label from Langley Browne, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo, together with Paris (J.A. & J.S.M. Fonblanque), Medical Jurisprudence, 3 vols., 1st edition, 1823, library stamps, light spotting, library cloth, spines a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Winslow (Forbes), The Anatomy of Suicide, 1st edition, 1840, wood-engraved frontispiece (with marginal water stains), one-page advertisment at end (fore-edges a little chipped), library stamps, original cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, with others related by George Edward Male, John Gordon Smith, Alfred Huth, Robert Lyall etc (21)
Bateman (Thomas). Reports on the Diseases of London, and the State of the Weather, from 1804 to 1816; Including Practical Remarks on the Causes and Treatment of the Former; and Preceded by a Historical View of the State of Health and Disease in the Metropolis in Past Times, 1st edition, 1819, occasional marginalia, library stamps, a few spots, library cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Simon (John), Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, 1st edition, 1854, 8pp. publisher’s list at end, library stamps, title repaired, water stains and light browning, BMI presentation label from Dr Wade, original cloth, rebacked, 8vo, plus Johnson (James), Change of Air, or the Pursuit of Health; an Autumnal Excursion through France, Switzerland & Italy in the Year 1829, 1st edition, 1831, library stamp, light spotting, library cloth, 8vo, with others by Samuel Rideal, John Simon etc (27)
Bell (Charles). A System of Dissections, Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body, the Manner of Displaying the Parts, and their Varieties in Disease, 2 volumes in 1 [7 parts plus Appendix], 1st editions (Part I 2nd edition), Edinburgh, 1798-1803, thirty engraved plates, part-titles, appendix to Part First bound at rear of volume 1, some spotting or browning, occasionally heavy and largely affecting plates, library stamp to title and each plate, together with a second copy of volume 1 [5 parts plus Appendix], 1st editions, Edinburgh, 1798-1799, twenty engraved plates (plates 1, 7, 14, 15 & 16 with partial hand-colouring), part-titles, explanation for plates 2-4 in part I bound after part-title, advertisement leaf following title of part III (as first copy), some spotting and browning throughout, occasional dust-soiling and marginal dampstaining, a few short closed marginal tears without loss, both library cloth, rubbed and soiled, upper cover to first volume near-detached, folio (435 x 275 & 425 x 175mm). ‘Bell’s first independent venture as an author was published while he was still a student, but his considerable artistic talent was already fully developed. The first editions of parts 1-5 of volume I were issued between 1798 and 1799, in the first edition of the ‘Appendix’ in 1800; the second edition of these parts followed the first by a year, and are often found bound with the first editions of volume II, parts 1 and 2. A few copies of this work were issued with partially hand-coloured plates’ (Norman 166, 2nd edition of volume 1, 1st edition of volume 2); G-M 402; Russell 46, 47. (2)
Bell (Charles). Engravings of the Arteries, illustrating the second volume of The Anatomy of the Human Body ..., 1st edition, 1801, ten hand-coloured lithograph plates, library stamp to title and each plate, a little spotting and soiling throughout, library cloth, small tear at head of spine, 4to (265 x 183mm). Norman 167; Russell 51. (1)
Bell (Charles). A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves, 1st edition, 1803, nine engraved plates including last three folding, publisher’s advert leaf at rear, ornamental Birmingham Library ink stamp to blank area of each plate, heavy old water staining and slight dust-soiling throughout, modern cloth gilt, 4to. Heirs of Hippocrates 1298; Norman 169. (1)
Bell (Charles). Observations on Injuries of the Spine and of the Thigh Bone, in Two Lectures, Delivered in the School of Great Windmill Street..., 1st edition, 1824, nine lithographic plates including two double-page, title slightly browned, library stamp to title and each plate, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, spine a little frayed, 4to, together with Barbour (A.H. Freeland), Spinal Deformity in Relation of Obstetrics, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London, [1883], thirty-nine lithographed plates including fifteen tinted and some double-page or folding, library stamps to title and plate margins, author’s initialled presentation inscription to title and with BMI presentation bookplate from the author to front free endpaper, original cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled with wear to spine ends, folio (2)
Bell (Charles). The Nervous System of the Human Body, embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves, 1st edition, 1830, half-title, nine engraved plates, library stamp to titles and plates, a little spotting to text and heavy spotting and browning to plates with some offsetting to facing text leaves, upper hinges near broken, library cloth, rubbed, 4to (276 x 233mm). G-M 1258. (1)
Bodington (George). An Essay on the Treatment and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption, on Principles Natural, Rational, and Successful, With suggestions for an improved plan of treatment of the disease amongst the lower classes of society; and a relation of several successive cases restored from the last stage of consumption to a good state of health, 1st edition, 1840, BMI stamp to title, a little spotting and a few pencil marks, erratum slip tipped on to title, presentation inscription from Mrs Bodington to the BMI inscribed to half-title, original printed boards, some soiling and wear, upper cover detached, 12mo, preserved in purpose-made paper chemise and morocco clamshell book box. Rare. Bodington (1799-1882) practised in Birmingham and later in Sutton Coldfield. In this book, which was poorly received, Bodington was among the first to propose sanatorium treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis - fresh air, a nourishing diet and rest, followed by gradual exercise. G-M 3223. (1)
Bombay Plague. Report of the Bombay Plague Committee, appointed by Government resolution No. (1204/720P, on the plague in Bombay, for the period extending from the 1st July 1897 to the 30th April 1898, under the Chairmanship of Sir James MacNabb Campbell, examined by Captain The Hon. R. Mostyn, 2 volumes (Text & Plans), Bombay, 1898, four large folding plans at rear of text volume, corrigenda slip tipped in, library stamp to title and each plate, a little spotting and soiling, BMI presentation bookplate from the Library Committee of the BMA to front free endpaper, hinges cracked, original cloth backed printed boards, heavily rubbed and soiled, the slip case of plans containing three large colour printed maps, each sectionalised on linen, the first two maps of the Island of Bombay with statistical information, each approx. (132 x 75cm, the third a multi-folding graph showing mortality against temperature, humidity, wind velocity, cloud and rain, contained in original broken cloth slip case with printed label to cover. The 1897/98 Report claimed that plague was most prevalent among the merchant and money-lending castes and that these and other trading castes were responsible for spreading the sickness. Among the European casualties was the President of the Bombay Plague Committee, Surgeon Major Manser who died of plague in January 1897. (2)
Bourneville (Desire Magloire & Regnard, Paul). Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere (Service de M. Charcot), volumes 1 & 2 only (of 3), Paris, 1876-78, wood-engraved vignette to both half-titles, collotype vignette to both titles (printed in red and black), first volume with forty carte-de-visite-size mounted albumen print portraits, sellotape closed tear repair to foremargin of first plate mount not affecting image or caption, one leaf detached, forty collotype plates to volume 2, a few wood-engraved illustrations to text of both volumes, library stamp to both titles and most plate borders to both volumes, occasional spotting, ownership signature and BMI presentation bookplate from Dr. Alexander Bryce to front free endpapers of both volumes, contemporary red quarter morocco over boards, both rebacked to match, slightly rubbed, 4to (221 x 184mm). A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume [missing here] includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Salpetriere from 1870-79’ (G-M 4558.1); Norman 291 (3 volumes, first volume with albumen print vignette mounted on title; lacking plate 6 bis to vol 2). Volume 1 was later reissued by the same publisher with collotype plates. (2)
Burns (Allan). Observations on some of the most Frequent and Important Diseases of the Heart; on Aneurism of the Thoracic Aorta; or Preternatural Pulsation in the Epigastric Region: And on the Unusual Origin and Distribution of some of the Large Arteries of the Human Body, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1809, library stamp, light water stain and spotting, library cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Corvisart des Marets (Jean Nicolas), A Treatise on the Diseases and Organic Lesions of the Heart and Great Vessels, Translated from the French by C. H. Hebb, 1st UK edition, 1813, library stamp, one or two light spots, library cloth, 8vo, plus a 2nd and 3rd edition of Corvisart des Marets’ Essai sur le Maladies et les Lesions Organiques du Coeur et des Gros Vaisseaux, Paris, 1811 & 1818 and a first US edition of An Essay on the Organic Diseases and Lesions..., Philadelphia, 1812. First work: ‘Burns described endocarditis and reported three cases of mitral stenosis. He recognized the thrill present in the latter condition and seems to have understood the mechanism of a cardiac murmur. He also described unilateral paralysis of the diaphragm resulting from pressure on the phrenic nerve by a thoracic aneurysm’ (G-M 2738). ‘Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was the first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort’ (G-M 2737); Norman 377, 518. (5)
Bushe (George). A Treatise on the Malformations, Injuries, and Diseases of the Rectum and Anus, 2 volumes (Text and Plates), 1st edition, New York, 1837, title and contents page of text volume browned, hinges slightly cracked, contemporary cloth, upper half of spine deficient, atlas volume with nine lithographic plates (seven hand-coloured and two folding), some spotting and browning, library stamp to both titles and each plate, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper label to upper cover, soiling and wear, upper cover near-detached, 4to. This is the only 19th-century American surgical text with a separate atlas of plates. It was the first American treatise on colon-rectal surgery. G-M 3441.1. (2)
Carpue (Joseph Constantine). An Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose from the Integuments of the Forehead, in the Cases of Two Officers of His Majesty’s Army: To Which are Prefixed, Historical and Physiological Remarks on the Nasal Operation, Including Descriptions of the Indian and Italian Methods, with Engravings by Charles Turner, Illustrating the Different Stages of the Cure, 1st edition, 1816, half-title, errata leaf at rear, four stipple-engraved plates including three colour-printed, one etched plate [after Tagliacozzi], one woodcut illustration to text, library stamp to title and each plate, a little spotting throughout and slight offsetting to text from plate opposite page 16, bound with Parkinson (James), Hunterian Reminiscences, Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, Delivered by the Late Mr John Hunter, in the Year 1785: Taken in Short-Hand, and Afterwards Fairly Transcribed, by the Late Mr James Parkinson, Edited by His Son, J.W.K. Parkinson, by Whom are Appended Illustrative Notes, 1st edition, 1833, half-title, a few wood-engraved illustrations to text, library stamp to title, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, some soiling and edge wear, modern cloth gilt, rebacked, 4to (270 x 215mm). Carpue’s work is the most important to be published on reconstructed surgery since Tagliacozzi. His account ‘represents more than any other book the beginning of modern plastic surgery. Tagliacozzi’s treatise on making a nose from an arm flap, De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem (Venice: 1597), was an outstanding work, but the world was not ready for it. The condemnation of Tagliacozzi’s operation by religious authorities resulted in almost complete cessation of its practice. Reconstructive surgery subsided into two more centuries of deep sleep’ (McDowell, ‘Introduction’ to the Classics of Medicine Library reprint, 1981, p. ix). This work and that of Dieffenbach (see below) are considered the rarest works published in English on plastic surgery. G-M 5737; Waller 1781; Wellcome II, p. (304. (1)
Cheyne (John). Essays on the Diseases of Children, with Cases and Dissections, Essays I-III in 2 vols., 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1801-08, seven hand-coloured engraved plates after Charles Bell, errata slip at end of volume II, library stamps, light spotting and offsetting, contemporary half calf, joints splitting, rubbed, 4to, together with An Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus or Dropsy in the Brain, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1808, library stamp, bound with The Pathology of the Membrane of the Larynx and Bronchia, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1809, eight engraved plates, bound with An Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Calculous Disorders, by Alexander Marcet, 1st edition, 1817, ten engraved plates (three hand-coloured), first two titles lacking half-titles and advertisements, library stamps, light spotting and offsetting, library cloth, lower board detached, 8vo, plus Cases of Apoplexy and Lethargy: With Observations upon the Comatose Diseases, 1st edition, 1812, five engraved plates, library stamps, some water stains and offsetting, BMI presentation label from Sir Willoughby Wade, modern morocco-backed boards, 8vo. John Cheyne studied pathology and dissection under Charles Bell and authored important early works, the first being Essays on the Diseases of Children, 1801-08. His Pathology of the Larynx and Bronchia is noted: ‘Cheyne’s important book deals mainly with the lesions of croup’ (G-M 3252), An Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus... ‘Acute hydrocephalus first described’ (G-M 4635) and Cases of Apoplexy and Lethargy... ‘Cheyne believed that cerebral anaemia might be the cause of apoplexy and described pathological cases of cerebral infarction and of cerebral haemorrhage. The work contains the first illustration of a subarachnoid haemorrhage’ (G-M 4519.1). (4)
Clarke (Charles Mansfield). Observations on Those Diseases of Females Which are Attended by Discharges, 2 parts in 1 volume, 2nd edition, 1821, thirteen engraved plates including some folding, occasional library stamps including to titles and plates, some spotting and soiling to first few leaves, author’s autograph letter signed (12th May 1846) tipped on to front free endpaper inviting Dickinson W. Crompton of Birmingham to visit him in London, 3 pp, 8vo, library cloth, rubbed and soiled with a little wear to upper joint, together with Meigs (Charles D.), Females and their Diseases, a Series of Letters to His Class, 1st edition, Philadelphia, 1848, some spotting and slight dampstaining to upper margin of first few leaves, library stamp to title (separated from text at inner margin and attached to endpapers and upper board), library cloth, slightly frayed at head of joint, plus Parent-Duchatelet (Alexandre Jean Baptiste), De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris..., 2 volumes, Paris, 1836, half-titles, three folding tables and plans to volume 1, some heavy spotting, library stamps to title, library cloth, rubbed and soiled, spine ends frayed, plus other 19th-century works on the diseases of women (20)
Bermuda. 1921 Second Tercentenary 6d purple, mint corner block of 4. The ‘C’ of the watermark is missing from the corner of the selvedge. The block has some horizontal splitting between the stamps – the lower pair and selvedge are unaffected. In addition, a single mint example with the ‘C’ of the watermark shifted and at an angle, presumably prior to the letter falling out. SG 72a (£1200 when on the stamp)
Bermuda. 1941 (Sept.) 10/- line perf. Unmounted mint marginal block of 4, ex Ulrich and with his neat pencil notes on the reverse. FFs no.11A, B, 12B major break in frame left of upper left scroll, HPFs no.11a, b, 23 broken right Crown support, 24a large break in lower right leaf. Any multiple of this stamp is difficult and this block has several of the more important flaws. SG 119b (£2000)/CW 20
Bermuda. 1962 2d Church with green omitted, on piece with large part ‘COME TO BERMUDA/THE ISLES OF BEAUTY’ slogan cancel. Three are known, all used on piece. The example offered by Victoria Stamp Co. from the ‘Hamilton’ collection had a slightly rounded corner perf and a spot of toning; another has a surface abrasion, so this may be the only ‘perfect’ example. RPS Certificate (1998). SG 164b (£7500)
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