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Incunabula medica : a study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480
[Oxford], Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1923(28.5 cm), xi, 137 pp., 16 leaves of plates. Publisher’s linen-backed printed boards. - The “List of medical books printed before 1481” (pp.39-126) was edited by Victor Scholderer; the preface is by A.W. Pollard. “Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, the work opens with an essay showing the influence of printing upon the development of modern medicine. Next follows a descriptive list of 217 medical books printed to 1480” (Garrison-Morton, 6769). ¶ Binding very worn (headcap torn, tear along one joint). -
A Bibliography of the poem "Syphilis sive de morbus Gallicus" by Girolamo Fracastoro of Verona
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1935(25.5 cm), 157 pp., frontispiece and 9 plates. Publisher’s cloth. - One hundred editions of the poem are described with detailed collations and extensive notes. Revision of the authors’ Handlist of editions of the poem, Syphilis, sive Morbvs gallicvs by Girolamo Fracastoro, of Verona (Oxford: Privately printed at the University Press by John Johnson, 1933). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. Lacking dust jacket. -
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. -
Morton's medical bibliography : An annotated checklist of texts illustrating the history of medicine (Garrison and Morton) : Fifth edition § Garrison and Morton’s medical bibliography : An annotated checklist of texts illustrating the history of medicine : Second edition
Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1991Two volumes (22 cm and 24 cm), as issued, in the publishers’ cloth bindings and dust jackets. - Fifth (and latest) edition of “One of the best known of all history of medicine reference tools… It lists by subject thousands of books and articles important to the advance of medicine and the allied sciences. It is indispensable for rare book dealers, for rare book collection development, and for general reference” (from a review by Toby A. Appel, in Isis, volume 89, 1998, p.376).Offered with Morton (Leslie Thomas), Garrison and Morton’s medical bibliography: an annotated checklist of texts illustrating the history of medicine. Second edition. New York: Argosy Book Stores, 1961. - Revision of the 1954 edition. ¶ Fine copies.
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