Medical booksThere are 23 items
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[Stock catalogues, numbered series:] 2: Early Medical Books, Part I § 4: Early Medical Books, Part II § 7: Early Medical Books. Part III § 8: Early Medical Books, Part IV § 10: Early Medical Books, Part V § 11: Early Medical Books, Part VI § 12: Early Medical Books: Part VII § 13: Early Medical Books, Part VIII § 14: Early Medical Books, Part IX § 15: Early Medical Books, Part X § 16: Early Medical Books, New Series, Part I § 17: Early Medical Books, New Series, Part II § 19: Old Science and Medicine § 21: History of Science § 22: Old Medicine and Science § 23: Old Medicine and Science § 24: Old Medicine and Science § 25: Old medicine and Science [together with: Stock Bulletins: numbered series:] 2: Old Medical books § 3: Old Rare Books § 11: Anatomy and Surgery § 19: Early Books on Medicine and Natural Sciences § 20: Old Medicine and Science [together with publications hors série]
Milan (latterly Florence), R. Lier & Co. (latterly R.A.T. Lier), 1923-1954Twenty-seven catalogues and ephemera (various formats). - A fine series of Reinhard Lier’s very rare catalogues, comprising the complete set of Early Medical Books (Parts I-X and New Series I-II, bound in two volumes by Esther Potter, quarter-cloth), catalogues of Old Science and Medicine (6 catalogues), Bulletins (5 catalogues), Lists, and some publications hors série. ¶ Unmarked copies, mostly in very good condition. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 60-63] Early medical books (parts I-IV)
Munich, J. Halle, 1927-1931Four volumes (23.5 cm), set of four consecutively-paginated catalogues of medical books, as issued, in publisher’s printed wrappers. - The firm was founded in 1889 by Julius H. Halle and was continued after his death (aged 63, on 9 December 1927) by his widow Ida Halle; it was liquidated in 1935. The excellent descriptions were prepared by Ernst Schulte-Strathaus (1881-1968); the last catalogue may have involved Emil Offenbacher, who was apprenticed to the firm from 1931-1933. A projected fifth part offering “Portraits of eminent physicians” was abandoned; in its place, a catalogue with provisional title “V: Medicina occulta: Alchemy, Astrology, Physiognomics, Chiromancy, Magics, Miraculous cures, Mnemotechny” was scheduled, to be followed by “VI: Supplement, biographics, portraits: Index of the whole catalogue”. Neither ever appeared, and the series is complete in four parts as offered here.Offered with [Stock catalogues, numbered series: 51] Alchemie: Metallurgie - Kräuterbücher [at head of title:] Geheime Wissenschaften 1. Munich: J. Halle, 1924. (23.5 cm), 62 pp., 2 illustrations (title-page and cover). 345 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. ¶ Wrappers dust-soiled.
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[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 43] From Fracastoro to Grassi : classics of bacteriology
Munich, H.W. Taeuber Antiquariat, [1934?](22.5 cm), 16 pp., 1 illustration (in colour). 71 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - The earliest book is Frascatoro’s De sympathia et antipathia rerum (Lyon 1550) in a “Fugger” binding. The descriptions by Hans Werner Taeuber (1887-1970) are in English and his prices in US dollars. ¶ Wrapper dust-soiled. -
A Collection of early obstetrical books : an historical essay with bibliographical descriptions of 37 items, including 25 editions of Roesslin's Rosengarten
New Haven, [for the author?], 1952(26 cm), (8) 79 (1) pp., illustrations. 36 catalogue entries. Leaf loosely inserted with entries 17a and 34a. Compliments slip (subscribed by the author) loosely inserted. Publisher’s blue printed wrappers. - Detailed descriptions of 39 early-printed books in the author’s collection, prefaced by “A Collection of Early Obstetrical Books” (reprinted from The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, volume 24, December 1951). These books, together with subsequent acquisitions (C. Doris Hellman, “Additions to the Alfred M. Hellman collection of early obstetrical books” in The Academy Bookman [New York Academy of Medicine], volume 11, no. 2, 1958, pp.2-11), were sold in an auction conducted by Bonhams, London, 10-11 October 1979. The principal buyer was H.P. Kraus (cf. his Catalogue 164, items 111-122). ¶ Title-page annotated in ink; otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 36] Alte Medizin und Naturwissenschaften, II. Theophrastus Paracelsus
Zurich, K.A. Ziegler, [1955?](24 cm), 8 pp., 1 illustration. 94 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Ziegler is best-known for a catalogue of books on alchemy (1944), for which Jung wrote the preface (Thomas Fischer, “The alchemical rare book collection of C.G. Jung” in International Journal of Jungian Studies, volume 3, September 2011, pp.172-173, 178). ¶ Wrappers dust-soiled. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 2] Rare medical books : Based on the collection of Dr Arno B. Luckhardt : With remarks about Dr Luckhardt's contributions to physiology by Dr John F. Fulton
New York, Ida W. Schuman, 1956(22.5 cm), 198 pp. 1515 items; priced. Self-wrappers. - Arno Benedict Luckhardt (1885-1957) was professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Chicago; according to Fulton’s prefatory memoir, he “collected broadly in the history of medicine as well as physiology, and the selection which Mr Schumann now presents in the catalogue illustrates the catholicity of his tastes and interests”. This is the second catalogue in a “new series” inaugurated by Ida Walerstein Schuman (1912-1977) after her husband, the pre-eminent dealer in medical books, Henry Schuman (1899-1962), began to concentrate on publishing. ¶ Ink spot on fore-edge; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
History and bibliography of anatomic illustration : translated and annotated by Mortimer Frank
New York & London, Hafner Publishing Company, 1962(23.5 cm), xxvii (1), 435 (1) pp., with plates. Publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. - English translation of Choulant’s Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung (1st German edition, Leipzig 1852), accompanied by essays by Fielding H. Garrison, Mortimer Frank, Edward C. Streeter, and Charles Singer, and a bibliography of Mortimer Frank (1874-1919) by Jens Christian Bay. Reprint of the New York 1945 edition. ¶ Dust jacket slightly rubbed; otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 216] Rare books and manuscripts in the medical sciences : including many classics in anatomy, biology, clinical medicine, neurology, physiology, surgery & related subjects
Los Angeles, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967(25 cm), 140 pp., [48] p. of plates (pls.I-XXIV), text illustrations. 457 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Among the early-printed books are Ketham’s Fasciculus medicinae 1500 (item 191, $4500), Platina’s De Honesta voluptate 1475 (item 339, $4500), and Savonarola’s De Pulsibus 1487, the Pillone library copy, with its fore-edge painted by Cesare Vecellio (item 378, $3500). ¶ Unmarked copy. -
History of medical illustration from antiquity to A.D. 1800
London, Pitman Medical & Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd, 1970(30 cm), (4) 178 pp., with 32 colour-plates and 318 black & white figures in the text. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Translation of Geschichte der medizinischen Abbildung. 1. Von der Antike bis um 1600 (Munich 1967). Preface (In Memoriam: Robert Herrlinger) by F.N.L. Poynter. Garrison & Morton 6610.4 (translation). ¶ Dust jacket rubbed. Excellent copy. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 45] Medicine : Discoveries and other works of importance from the 14th to the 20th centuries.
San Francisco, John Howell, 1973(26 cm), 128 pp., illustrations. 455 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - A selection from the library of Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), that “Nestor of scientific bibliomania” (Jake Zeitlin). Catalogue compiled by Michael Horowitz. ¶ Dated in ink on upper cover, annotations in ink beside item 368; otherwise a clean copy. -
Notable medical books from the Lilly Library, Indiana University
Indianapolis, Lilly Research Laboratories, 1976(26.5 cm), 275 (1) pp., 130 full-page illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Describes 130 books in the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. (1861-1948). Cf. Joel Silver, J.K. Lilly, Jr: bibliophile, Lilly Library publication, no. 52 (Bloomington 1993). ¶ Superior copy in new condition. -
A Catalogue of fine printed books containing a collection of important books on gynaecology and midwifery which includes a collection of early obstetrical books, formerly in the possession of the late A.M. Hellman (catalogue for an auction conducted by W. & F.C. Bonham, London, 10 October 1979)
London, W. & F.C. Bonham, 1979(24.5 cm), (2) 70 (2) pp., illustrations (1 in colour). 413 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The Hellman collection is offered as lots 258-304. The collector had published descriptions of the great majority of these books, in A Collection of early obstetrical books: an historical essay with bibliographical descriptions of 37 items, including 25 editions of Roesslin’s Rosengarten (New Haven 1952); some later acquisitions were described by his daughter, Clarisse Doris Hellman, “Additions to the Alfred M. Hellman collection of early obstetrical books” in The Academy Bookman, volume 11, 1958, no. 2, pp.2-11. After her death in 1973, a portion of the Hellman collection had been dispersed by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge (Catalogue 238: Rare books in the medical sciences: including a selection of works on gynecology & obstetrics from the library of Dr Alfred M. Hellman, Los Angeles 1975). ¶ Upper wrapper abraded (without loss). Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list. -
Heirs of Hippocrates : the development of medicine in a catalogue of historic books in the Health Sciences Library of the University of Iowa
Iowa City, Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1980(27.5 cm), xiv, 474 pp., portrait-frontispiece (colour), text illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth, gilt title on blue spine label and on upper cover. - Second edition, describing 1196 books in the University of Iowa’s Hardin Library for Health Sciences. The focus is on “great books” published before 1850 and first editions of Vesalius, William Harvey, Robert Hooke, and Edward Jenner are all here. Most of the items described were given to the University by John Martin (1904-1996), a neurosurgeon and bibliophile from Clarinda, Iowa, who began collecting valuable medical books in 1947. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 260] Medical classics including Rare & Important Books in the History and Development of Neurology, Psychology, & Psychiatry from the library of Dr Ludo van Bogaert
Los Angeles, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1982(28 cm), 56 pp., illustrations. 315 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Includes (item 104, price $10,000) the manuscript register of admissions (1802-1808) to Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol’s private psychiatric clinic in Paris (now UCLA Biomedical Library, WM 29.5 P933). Ludo van Bogaert (1897-1989) donated the main part of his large library to the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (La donation du baron van Bogaert: choix de cent œuvres: exposition organisée à la Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er du 14 février au 28 mars 1992, edited by Pierre Cockshaw & Georges Colin, Brussels 1992). ¶ Unmarked copy. -
One hundred books famous in medicine (based on an exhibition held in the Grolier Club, New York, 20 September-23 November 1994)
New York, Grolier Club, 1995(29.5 cm), xlii, 390, (2) pp., 33 colour plates, 181 black & white text illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, leather spine label; original slipcase (no dust jacket issued). - A catalogue of historically important books in the history of medicine, based on an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, 20 September-23 November 1994, conceived and organized by Haskell Norman. The materials described were borrowed from various collections. The bibliographical descriptions are accompanied by essays commissioned from twenty-three experts. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies by the Stinehour Press.Offered with
Association internationale de bibliophilie, The Haskell F. Norman Collection of Science and Medicine: selections exhibited for the International Congress of Bibliophiles. San Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co., 1985. - “This was HFN’s personal choice of his favorites from the library” (Jeremy Norman). ¶ Fine copies. -
The ingenious machine of nature : four centuries of art and anatomy (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 31 October 1996-5 January 1997; also shown in Vancouver, Philadelphia and Jerusalem]
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1996(30.5 cm), 261 pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Catalogue for an exhibition of anatomical drawings, prints and illustrated books, from the mid-15th to mid-19th centuries, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Dürer and Rubens. Essays by Mimi Cazort (The theatre of the body), Monique Kornell (The study of the human machine: books of anatomy for artists), K.B. Roberts (The contexts of anatomical illustrations).Offered with Petherbridge (Deanna), The Quick and the dead: artists and anatomy (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal College of Art, London, 28 October-14 November 1997; also shown elsewhere). London: National Touring Exhibitions, 1997. - Exhibition of anatomical illustration, both medical and artistic, from the 15th to 20th century. 172 objects and images by some 90 artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, Michelangelo, Hogarth, George Stubbs, Robert Gober, Kiki Smith, Marc Quinn and Cindy Sherman. ¶ Very good, unmarked copies
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Anatomie de la couleur : L’invention de l’estampe en couleurs (catalogue of an exhibition held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 27 February-5 May 1996; and Musée Olympique, Lausanne, 22 May-1 September 1996)
Paris & Lausanne, Bibliothèque nationale de France / Musée Olimpique, 1996(30 cm), 151 pp., illustrations (many in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue accompanying an exhibition on the evolution of colour printmaking, from the late medieval hand-coloured woodblock to the end of the 18th century. Among printmakers represented are Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480-after 1525), Hercules Segers (1589-1638), Jakob-Christoph Le Blon (1667-1741), and Jacques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty (c. 1716-1785). Reviewed in Print Quarterly, volume 13 (1996), pp.431-433. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Libri pregiati, la biblioteca medica del Prof. Fabbri, stampe e gouaches (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby’s Italia, Milan, 12-13 November 1996)
Milan, Sotheby’s Italia, 1996(27 cm), 94 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 1494 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Lots 282-550 are books collected by Giovanni Battista Fabbri (1806-1874), professor of medicine at the university in Bologna. ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list. -
Old and rare books on materia medica in the Library of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society : an illustrated and annotated catalogue
Stockholm, Swedish Pharmaceutical Press, 1997(28 cm), 223 (1) pp., 17 colour plates (tipped-in), 133 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s printed boards. - Catalogue of 100 works, arranged in chronological order of publication, from 1529 to the beginning of the nineteenth century (the earlier works are mainly herbals). ¶ As new. -
The Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine. Part I: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance § Part II: The Age of Reason § Part III: The Modern Age (catalogues for auctions conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, 18 March 1998-29 October 1998)
New York, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., 1998Three volumes (27.5 cm), I (18 March 1998): 263 (3) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 1-234. II (15-16 June 1998): 475 (3) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 235-883. III (29 October 1998): 411 (3) pp., illustrations (most in colour). Lots numbered 884-1384. List of prices realised loosely inserted in each catalogue. Publisher’s pictorial boards. - The overall total for the sale was $18.69m. “It is clear that a new level of wealth has been brought to the market for scientific books. If canonised by PMM, the work of Ernst Weil, Henry Zeitlinger, Goldschmidt, Irving Davis and, last but not least, H.A. Feisenberger in creating the market has come to an amazing fruition” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1999, pp.110-114). ¶ Loosely inserted in Part I is Christie’s “Exhibition handlist 1997” (describes selected volumes, shown in Paris, Milan, Stuttgart, and London). Fine, unmarked copies.
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