A Treatise on Opium, Founded Upon Practical Observations by Young, George - 1753

Lisboa [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 154, vi p., 50 leaves of lithographed plates containing 196 illustrations; 26 cm. Rebacked retaining most of contemporary quarter calf with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration; marbled paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Includes list of subscribers. The extremely scarce Portugese edition of Atlas der Geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, the important work of obstetrical plates by Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch, first published the previous year. This was the first such obstetrical work published in Portuguese. In Very Good Condition: corners of boards are rubbed; reback, as described; browning and foxing to both text and plates, heavy at times; otherwise clean and tight.

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

Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to (266.7mm x 317.5mm). A collection of mid 17th century surgical woodcuts that appear in an early edition of The Works of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Pare Translated out of Latine and Compared with the French by Th[omas] Johnson (ESTC lists 4 editions printed between 1634 and 1678). Rebacked with new paper label on spine. [82] p.p. Includes 105 surgical woodcuts that show a variety of tools for sealing the wounds, scraping and extracting teeth; drawing out bullets; knives and saws used for dismemberment and amputation; treatment for and methods of setting fractures and dislocated shoulders and elbows, as well as woodcuts of facial prosthetics for the eyes and nose, and artificial limbs for a hand made with iron. Light rubbing to boards, edges with some spotted stains on front cover. Pages lightly foxed. Early ink stains and scribbling to leaves and endpapers with some offsetting from woodcuts. Otherwise in very good condition with interesting medical woodcuts of… Read More

Venice: Officina Erasmiana, Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1558. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Bound with: Apologia Adversus Amathum Lusitanum cum Censura in Eiusdem Enarrationes. Venice: Ex Officina Erasmiana, Vindentii Valgrisii, 1558. Contemporary pigskin binding, with title lettered on spine. With custom slipcase. Book I (Commentario Secundo Aucti): [cxx], 776 p.p. Handsomely illustrated with 703 woodcut illustrations of plants and animal figures. Includes 133 extra woodcuts than were previously issued in the first Venice edition in 1554.; Book II (Apologia): [8] 9-50 p.p. Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli [1501-1577] was an Italian physician and botanist, who was doctor to Archduke Ferdinand I and Emperor Maximilian II. He helped advanced understanding of medical botany and contributed to knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants. In his Commentaries, Mattioli expanded on and identified plants not mentioned in Dioscorides Materia Medica. This second edition was the first to include… Read More

Lugduni: Gulielmum Rouillium, 1542. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf, with gilt fillets on spine and corners tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. 32mo. [2] 3-158 p.p. plus colophon. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Very light scratches to boards. Sporadic staining to leaves and endpapers, noticeably to blank leaf preceeding title page, and to verso of leaf after colophon. Early marginalia and underlined passages throughout. "In memoriam C.D. Wood 24. Ap. 1920...W.S. Dawson" pasted to front free endpaper. Else a near fine copy. Claudius Galenus [129 AD to c.210 AD) was an influential surgeon during the Roman Empire, whose early medical writings were required reading for medieval medical students in university up until the 16th century. Niccolo Leoniceno [1428-1524] was an Italian humanist scholar and physician who is credited for publishing the paper on syphilis. He produced many important translations of Galen and Hippocrates. The first chapter of this work begins with the question, what is… Read More

Lisboa [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional, 1842. Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 154, vi p., 50 leaves of lithographed plates containing 196 illustrations; 26 cm. Rebacked retaining most of contemporary quarter calf with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration; marbled paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Includes list of subscribers. The extremely scarce Portugese edition of Atlas der Geburtshülflicher Abbildungen, the important work of obstetrical plates by Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch, first published the previous year. This was the first such obstetrical work published in Portuguese. In Very Good Condition: corners of boards are rubbed; reback, as described; browning and foxing to both text and plates, heavy at times; otherwise clean and tight.

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

Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to (266.7mm x 317.5mm). A collection of mid 17th century surgical woodcuts that appear in an early edition of The Works of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Pare Translated out of Latine and Compared with the French by Th[omas] Johnson (ESTC lists 4 editions printed between 1634 and 1678). Rebacked with new paper label on spine. [82] p.p. Includes 105 surgical woodcuts that show a variety of tools for sealing the wounds, scraping and extracting teeth; drawing out bullets; knives and saws used for dismemberment and amputation; treatment for and methods of setting fractures and dislocated shoulders and elbows, as well as woodcuts of facial prosthetics for the eyes and nose, and artificial limbs for a hand made with iron. Light rubbing to boards, edges with some spotted stains on front cover. Pages lightly foxed. Early ink stains and scribbling to leaves and endpapers with some offsetting from woodcuts. Otherwise in very good condition with interesting medical woodcuts of… Read More

Venice: Officina Erasmiana, Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1558. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Bound with: Apologia Adversus Amathum Lusitanum cum Censura in Eiusdem Enarrationes. Venice: Ex Officina Erasmiana, Vindentii Valgrisii, 1558. Contemporary pigskin binding, with title lettered on spine. With custom slipcase. Book I (Commentario Secundo Aucti): [cxx], 776 p.p. Handsomely illustrated with 703 woodcut illustrations of plants and animal figures. Includes 133 extra woodcuts than were previously issued in the first Venice edition in 1554.; Book II (Apologia): [8] 9-50 p.p. Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli [1501-1577] was an Italian physician and botanist, who was doctor to Archduke Ferdinand I and Emperor Maximilian II. He helped advanced understanding of medical botany and contributed to knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants. In his Commentaries, Mattioli expanded on and identified plants not mentioned in Dioscorides Materia Medica. This second edition was the first to include… Read More

Lugduni: Gulielmum Rouillium, 1542. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 32mo. Calf, with gilt fillets on spine and corners tooled in gilt. Newer endpapers. 32mo. [2] 3-158 p.p. plus colophon. Light rubbing to spine and edges. Very light scratches to boards. Sporadic staining to leaves and endpapers, noticeably to blank leaf preceeding title page, and to verso of leaf after colophon. Early marginalia and underlined passages throughout. "In memoriam C.D. Wood 24. Ap. 1920...W.S. Dawson" pasted to front free endpaper. Else a near fine copy. Claudius Galenus [129 AD to c.210 AD) was an influential surgeon during the Roman Empire, whose early medical writings were required reading for medieval medical students in university up until the 16th century. Niccolo Leoniceno [1428-1524] was an Italian humanist scholar and physician who is credited for publishing the paper on syphilis. He produced many important translations of Galen and Hippocrates. The first chapter of this work begins with the question, what is… Read More