TABULAE ANATOMICAE QUAS AD ILLUSTRANDAM HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICAM by LODER, JUSTUS CHRISTIAN - 1803

Rosedale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 1998.. Edition of 100 . 10 x 10"closed, extends to 30 x 30"; 16 pages. Hinged pages unfolding in four directions to reveal quilt-like patterns, colors, and shapes. Intaglio and letterpress printing. In black cloth boards with inset illustrated title label. Designed, printed, and bound by Maureen Cummins. Signed and numbered. Califia Books: "A collection of excerpts from narratives written by women imprisoned for madness. Descriptions span from the Civil War period to the present and feature unknown women as well as such celebrated figures as Kate Millet and Frances Farmer. These extraordinary tales are related with keen intelligence, rage, and mordant humor. Silkscreen and letterpress printed on squares of white coverweight Folio. Each page is a patch work of black alternating with rich color blocks (over seventy-five in the edition); text is in the form of stitch-like handwriting. Hinged pages unfold in four directions to reveal… Read More

London: Francis Constable, 1633. A Manuall of the Anatomy of the Body of Man, containing the enumeration of the parts of it, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises. [16],336 pp. LACKS TITLE-PAGE ['Printed by I. L[egate] for Francis Constable and Edwin Bush, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard]. Bound in the original full calf with attractive gilt border and decoration. Lacking the free-end papers and the title page. The final page has Summa approbationis and is dated "Datum ex aedibus Lambethanis Oct 17th 1633 Guil. Bray". THE STC STATES 12 NOVEMBER 1633. There appears to be only a handful of the 1634 second issues of this early anatomy book in existance.. THIS IS AN UNRECORDED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Walter Menzies in his article on Alexander Read noted that this small volume was result of Alexander Read's lectures and was a separate book from his 1616 Manual. He cites the only known copy of the second issues to be in the… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Dawks, 1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. [...Illustrated with the Preparations, Virtues and Uses of all Simple Medicaments, Vegitable, Animal and Mineral: Of all the Compounds, both Internal and External: And of all the Chymical Preperations now in Use. Together with several choice Medicines added by the Author. As also, the Praxis of Chymistry, As it is now Exercised, fitted to the meanest Capacity.] Paneled calf with framed in blind tooled lines. Title in gilt on new purple leather spine label, with new endpapers. [16] 896 p.p. Two small stains to upper front board. Some light rubbing to edges, boards. Some trimming to pages, not affecting text. Light foxing and browning to pages, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce medical text by apothecary and 'doctor of physick' William Salmon [1644-1713], a prolific medical writer who owned an apothecary near St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, seeing patients who had been turned away. Salmon would treat… Read More

Torino: Nella stamperia reale, 1758. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (26 cm); [4] leaves, 166 pages, and two engraved folding plates. Engraved vignette on title pages (illustrating the event narrated in the text), engraved portrait of Carlo Emmanuele, two engraved initials with figures of cherubs. In contemporary vellum over boards, red leather label on spine. Pages lightly toned, with some rather negligible stains. Good margins. Bima, Catalogo ragionato, in "La Stampa Reale di Torino" (2003), p. 91; Wellcome V, 148; Blake NLM 426.. This work, which describes the experiences of two sisters, their brother's wife, and her five-year-old child trapped in a ruined stable by an avalanche for 37 days, is now considered a pioneering study in post-traumatic stress disorder. It is the first scientific study of the effects of survival through a period of privation. Somis (1718-93), professor of medicine at the University of Torino, describes the tragic avalanche that destroyed the village of… Read More

Venice: Giunta, 1547 (colophon: 1546). Very Good. Folio (33 cm); [10] 191 [1 blank] leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on title page. Woodcut initials. Text in double columns in roman type. Shoulder notes. In limp vellum, titled in manuscript on spine; lace strips exposed; spine lining old manuscript on vellum, exposed. Small holes in first and last blanks, and inner margin of preliminary leaves. Some dampstaining on last 6 leaves, otherwise a beautiful, large, wide-margined, clean copy . The whole protected in custom built sturdy clamshell case with faux roundback spine covered in brown calf and titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of John Aitken, with motto "in cruces salus." References: Durling 2565; Camerini 522; Adams J37. The definitive Giunta edition of the best-known work by Hippocrates (460-370 BCE). Edited with commentary by Giacomo (or Jacopo) da Forlì (d. 1414), this enlarged, improved version is the best edition of the Aphorisms published up to that point (Camerini). It was… Read More

Rosedale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop,, 1998.. Edition of 100 . 10 x 10"closed, extends to 30 x 30"; 16 pages. Hinged pages unfolding in four directions to reveal quilt-like patterns, colors, and shapes. Intaglio and letterpress printing. In black cloth boards with inset illustrated title label. Designed, printed, and bound by Maureen Cummins. Signed and numbered. Califia Books: "A collection of excerpts from narratives written by women imprisoned for madness. Descriptions span from the Civil War period to the present and feature unknown women as well as such celebrated figures as Kate Millet and Frances Farmer. These extraordinary tales are related with keen intelligence, rage, and mordant humor. Silkscreen and letterpress printed on squares of white coverweight Folio. Each page is a patch work of black alternating with rich color blocks (over seventy-five in the edition); text is in the form of stitch-like handwriting. Hinged pages unfold in four directions to reveal… Read More

London: Francis Constable, 1633. A Manuall of the Anatomy of the Body of Man, containing the enumeration of the parts of it, which usually are shewed in the publike anatomicall exercises. [16],336 pp. LACKS TITLE-PAGE ['Printed by I. L[egate] for Francis Constable and Edwin Bush, and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard]. Bound in the original full calf with attractive gilt border and decoration. Lacking the free-end papers and the title page. The final page has Summa approbationis and is dated "Datum ex aedibus Lambethanis Oct 17th 1633 Guil. Bray". THE STC STATES 12 NOVEMBER 1633. There appears to be only a handful of the 1634 second issues of this early anatomy book in existance.. THIS IS AN UNRECORDED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Walter Menzies in his article on Alexander Read noted that this small volume was result of Alexander Read's lectures and was a separate book from his 1616 Manual. He cites the only known copy of the second issues to be in the… Read More

London: Printed by Thomas Dawks, 1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. [...Illustrated with the Preparations, Virtues and Uses of all Simple Medicaments, Vegitable, Animal and Mineral: Of all the Compounds, both Internal and External: And of all the Chymical Preperations now in Use. Together with several choice Medicines added by the Author. As also, the Praxis of Chymistry, As it is now Exercised, fitted to the meanest Capacity.] Paneled calf with framed in blind tooled lines. Title in gilt on new purple leather spine label, with new endpapers. [16] 896 p.p. Two small stains to upper front board. Some light rubbing to edges, boards. Some trimming to pages, not affecting text. Light foxing and browning to pages, otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce medical text by apothecary and 'doctor of physick' William Salmon [1644-1713], a prolific medical writer who owned an apothecary near St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, seeing patients who had been turned away. Salmon would treat… Read More

Torino: Nella stamperia reale, 1758. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (26 cm); [4] leaves, 166 pages, and two engraved folding plates. Engraved vignette on title pages (illustrating the event narrated in the text), engraved portrait of Carlo Emmanuele, two engraved initials with figures of cherubs. In contemporary vellum over boards, red leather label on spine. Pages lightly toned, with some rather negligible stains. Good margins. Bima, Catalogo ragionato, in "La Stampa Reale di Torino" (2003), p. 91; Wellcome V, 148; Blake NLM 426.. This work, which describes the experiences of two sisters, their brother's wife, and her five-year-old child trapped in a ruined stable by an avalanche for 37 days, is now considered a pioneering study in post-traumatic stress disorder. It is the first scientific study of the effects of survival through a period of privation. Somis (1718-93), professor of medicine at the University of Torino, describes the tragic avalanche that destroyed the village of… Read More

Venice: Giunta, 1547 (colophon: 1546). Very Good. Folio (33 cm); [10] 191 [1 blank] leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on title page. Woodcut initials. Text in double columns in roman type. Shoulder notes. In limp vellum, titled in manuscript on spine; lace strips exposed; spine lining old manuscript on vellum, exposed. Small holes in first and last blanks, and inner margin of preliminary leaves. Some dampstaining on last 6 leaves, otherwise a beautiful, large, wide-margined, clean copy . The whole protected in custom built sturdy clamshell case with faux roundback spine covered in brown calf and titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of John Aitken, with motto "in cruces salus." References: Durling 2565; Camerini 522; Adams J37. The definitive Giunta edition of the best-known work by Hippocrates (460-370 BCE). Edited with commentary by Giacomo (or Jacopo) da Forlì (d. 1414), this enlarged, improved version is the best edition of the Aphorisms published up to that point (Camerini). It was… Read More