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Click here to subscribeVictorian white metal slide-action propelling pencil in the form of Nelson's Column, the base with inset purple stone and engraved with four naval battle honours and registration mark, forced action slide opening to reveal a model of Nelson on top of the column, together with a carved bone page marker surmounted by a white metal model of Napoleon and the French Imperial Eagle, pencil 13cm open (2)
Morand (Sauveur Francois). Opuscules de Chirurgie, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, Paris, 1768-72, titles with woodcut devices, library stamps, light spotting and soiling, library cloth, 4to (252 x 197mm). ‘Records, p.161, a successful operation for temporo-sphenoidal abscess, 1752. The patient, a monk, had otorrhoea followed by a mastoid abscess, which Morand opened’ (G-M 4851). Morand was a co-founder of the Academie de Chirurgie, a pioneer in urology and whilst visiting William Cheselden in London in 1729, learned his new method for stone cut, the lateral perineal lithotomy. (1) Please note: Volume 2 lack half-title
Quain (Richard). The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body and its Applications to Pathology and Operative Surgery, with a Series of Lithographic Drawings, the Drawings from Nature and on Stone by Joseph Maclise, 2 volumes (Text & Atlas), 1844, errata slip tipped in to text volume, library stamp to title, Birmingham Library bookplate to front pastedown with president’s note dated 1849, hinges broken, contemporary half morocco gilt, worn, 8vo, the Atlas volume with eighty-seven partially-coloured lithographed plates on india paper, some occasional spotting and dust-soiling, light library stamp to title and each plate, contemporary half morocco over cloth, rubbed and soiled, atlas 4to (670 x 530mm). Second edition of Quain’s major work, based on the finding of the dissection of ‘nearly a thousand subjects’. (2)
Stone (Arthur Daniel). A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Stomach, and of Digestion; Including the History and Treatment of those Affections of the Liver and Digestive Organs, which Occur in Persons who Return from the East or West Indies; with Observations on Various Medicines, and Particularly on the Improper use of Emetics, 1st edition, 1806, 291pp. library stamp, bound with Observations on Derangements of the Digestive Organs; and Some View of their Connection with Local Complaints, by William Law, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1821, 156pp., bound with A Familiar Treatise on Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, Bilious and Nervous Affections..., by George Shipman, 1st edition, 1821, 172pp., bound with A Treatise on those Diseases which are either Directly or Indirectly Connected with Indigestion: Comprising a Commentary on the Principal Ailments of Children, by David Unwins, 1st edition, 1827, 274pp. occasional light spotting and marginal toning, modern half morocco, 8vo, together with Saunders (William), A Treatise on the Structure, Economy, and Diseases of the Liver..., 1st edition, 1793, two leaves with repaired tears, library stamp and previous owner signature, bound with at front A Practical Treatise on Various Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera, by Christopher Robert Pemberton, 2nd edition, 1807, half-title, folding engraved plate, library stamp, spotting, previous owner signature, library cloth, 8vo, plus Monro (Alexander, jun.), The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Gullet, Stomach, and Intestines, 1st edition, Edinburgh, 1811, 21 engraved plates, including four hand-coloured, library stamps, offsetting and some spotting and browning, library cloth, upper joint splitting, 8vo, with others related by John Abercrombie, Thomas Hare, James Johnson, William Cooke etc (18)
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)
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)
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)
Prior (Thomas). An Authentick Narrative of the Success of Tar-Water, in a Great Number and Variety of Distempers, with Remarks..., Dublin printed, London re-printed, 1746, 4, [188] pp, title somewhat spotted, library stamp, rehinged, old ownership names of Theoph. Blackall and John Blackall (April 1798) to upper margin, first and last leaves somewhat spotted, bound with Regnault (Jean Baptiste), Observations sur la phthisie pulmonaire ou essai sur la mousse d’islande consideree comme medicament..., 1802, 101, [3] pp, hand-coloured plate, errata to final leaf recto, first two leaves soiled and badly stained (without loss of legibility of letter-press), bound with Robinson (Bryan), Observations on the Virtues and Observations of Medicines, 1752, [xii], 216 pp, folding lithographic plate, some spotting, bound with Kingdon (Dr.), Orthopaedic and Notopathic Institution for the Cure of Deformities and Diseases of the Spine in Young Ladies, Conducted by Dr. Kingdon, at Gothic House, Stockwell, Surrey, About Three Miles from London, 1st edition, printed by M.G. Duke, [1836], 8 pp, bound with Hurteloup (Achille), Cases of Lithotriti, or Examples of the Stone Cured without Incision... (1831, viii, 54 pp, half-title present, last leaf near-detached, modern buckram gilt, 8vo (1)
Whytt (Robert). Physiological Essays, Containing, I. An Enquiry into the Causes Which Promote the Circulation of the Fluids in the very Small Vesssels of Animals, II. Observations on the Sensibility and Irritability of the Parts of Men and Other Animals..., 1st edition, 1755, [viii], 223 pp, library stamp and slight soiling to title, contemporary full-page manuscript note to final leaf verso (blank), bound with Butter (William), A Method of Cure for the Stone Chiefly by Injections with Descriptions and Delineations of the Instruments Contrived for those Purposes, Edinburgh, 1754, iv, 84 pp, folding engraved plate (faint stamp), bound with Monroe (Donald), An Essay on the Dropsy, and its Different Species, 1755, [xvi], 172 pp, half-title, library cloth, rubbed, 8vo (1)
Carswell (Robert). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease, 1st edition in book form, 1838, 48 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, drawn by Robert Carswell, occasional light marginal finger marks, presentation label from Professor Leonard Gamgee and his signature to front endpaper, contemporary burgundy half calf, joints and edges rubbed. folio (365 x 260mm). A good copy of arguably the finest pathological atlas. ‘Carswell was Professor of Morbid Anatomy at University College, London, and one of the leading English pathologists of his day. A fine artist, he personally painted 2,000 water-colours of pathological specimens. His great pathological atlas contains splendid hand-coloured lithographs which he selected from his collection of water-colours and personally drew on stone’ (G-M 2291). The subjects are Inflammation, Analogous Tissues, Atrophy, Hypertrophy, Pus, Mortification, Haemorrhage, Softening, Melanoma, Carcinoma and Tubercle. Leonard Parker Gamgee (1868-1956) was a renowned Birmingham surgeon and son of Joseph Sampson Gamgee. Norman 408; Wellcome II, p. (306. (1)
* Film Stills and British Lobby Cards. A collection of over 700 items relating to actors with surnames beginning with the letter S and T, c. 1950s/1990s, including some individual lobby cards and the majority of film stills including many reprints and duplicates, actors` names include Sam Shepard, Brooke Shields, Simone Signoret, Phil Silvers, Alistair Sim, Frank Sinatra, Madeleine Smith, Sylvester Stallone, Terence Stamp, Harry Dean Stanton, James Stewart, Sharon Stone, Donald Sutherland, Meryl Streep, Patrick Swayze, Elizabeth Taylor, etc., filed in labelled envelopes and folders in a full filing cabinet drawer (a drawer)
Gibbings (Robert). Fourteen Wood Engravings, Golden Cockerel Press, [1932], fourteen full-page wood-engravings, original red morocco-backed boards (spine faded, lacking wrapper), slipcase, 4to, together with Crotty Shinkwin... [and] The Beauty Spot, by A.E. Coppard, Golden Cockerel Press, 1932, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, bookplate, t.e.g., original calf-backed boards, spine faded, 8vo, limited edition, 373/500, with four others including Songs & Poems by Henry Carey (limited edition, 242/350) and Myfanwy Piper`s The Wood-Engravings of Reynolds Stone, 1951, inscribed by the author (6)
Stone (Reynolds). Reynolds Stone Engravings, With an Introduction by the Artist and an Appreciation by Kenneth Clark, Curwen Press, 1977, numerous colour and b & w illustrations, original blue buckram, (spine faded), slipcase, folio. Limited edition, 56/150 signed by the artist, with an original loose wood-engraving of Waterfall, Prescelly Mountains, South Wales, signed by the artist in pencil. (1)
A polished stone desk set. With mottled green base, with groove for pens and pencils and supported by 4 small brass feet. Black stone edging and rectangular ink well holders with hinged lids. The edging and lid with white inset inscription ‘Graf Zeppelin – New York 1936’ and depiction of a Zeppelin over ‘4.2.29’ 14.5x8". GC. no liners for inkwells. Plate.2
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