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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1813. Some foxing. 8vo. Travers's paper appears on pages 1-16. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2931.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1839. Minimal chipping and soiling. 8vo. Stafford's paper appears on page 218-21. Engraved plates. Original cloth reinforced with tape. Provenance: Medical Library of the New York State Lunatic Asylum (bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. "Sarcoma of the prostate was first recorded by Stafford." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 4259). In this volume is one other important paper: NASMYTH, Alexander (1789-1849). "On the structure, physiology, and pathology of the persistent capsular investments and pulp of the tooth". Vol. 22, pp. 310-28. "'Nasmyth's membrane', or persistent dental capsule" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3681).

London: Longman, Hurst, et al., 1814. First edition. Restoration to spine; some intermittent foxing/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Stevens' paper is on pp. 422-39. Entire volume: xx, 456 pp. 8 engraved plates at end, two hand-colored. Contemporary half sheep. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac, Dec. 27, 1812. The patient died in 1822 and an account of the autopsy is given by Richard Owen in Med.-chir. Trans.,1830, 16,219-35" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1814. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Stevens's paper appears on page 422-34. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First successful ligation of the internal iliac." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2935). In this volume is one other important paper: BRODIE, Benjamin Collins (1783-1862). "Further observations on the diseases which affect the synovial membranes of joints". Vol. 5, pp. 239-54. In Medical Classics vol. 2.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Cooper's paper appears on page 1-12, 222-33. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. Second edition. "Cooper ligated the common carotid artery on Nov. 1, 1805; the patient died, but a second case (June 22, 1808) proved successful" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2929). In this volume are two other important papers: DUNDAS, David. "An account of a peculiar disease of the heart". Vol 1, pp. 37-46. "Account of nine cases of rheumatic endocarditis" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2739). ABERNETHY, John. "On a dimunition... of the area of the aperture by which the left auricle of the heart communicates with the ventricle of the same side". Vol. 1, pp. 27-36. Early report on mitral stenosis.

Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, 1886. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape, library label and stamps on endleaves/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Contemporary half leather. Contains: Charles FINLAY. "Yellow fever: its transmission by means of the Culex mosquito." Pp. 395-409.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891. First edition. Binding rubbed, a few pencilled marginalia/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Councilman and Lafleur's paper is on pp. 395-548. Entire volume: viii, 395-548, plates at end. Contemporary cloth-backed boards. "These workers introduced the term 'amoebic dysentery' in their important investigation of the condition" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5187).

New York: Paul Hoeber, 1937. First editions. Library stamps on endleaves and fore-edges, generally clean internally/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. Together 11 volumes, 4to. Illustrations in text. Full volumes bound in red library cloth, gilt-lettered on spines; the two final single issues in original printed wrappers. A large run of this important journal. Garrison-Morton-Norman 6652. Included in this run are: HYDE, Edward, Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674). Description of the death of his father, Henry Hyde, being the first recorded case of death from angina pectoris (p.210). See Garrison-Morton-Norman 2884.

Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans and Theodor Haak, 1728. Fourth edition, signed by the publishers. Small old tape adhesion on spine, lightly worn; internally clean and crisp/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. [8], 350, [12] pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, initials AH in blind on front cover. Provenance: Robert Haaft? (signature on title); Henry Dixon (1805 inscription on pastedown, his figures on endleaves). An early, lifetime, edition of Booerhave's classic text. "The Aphorisms represent one of Boerhaave's best and most influential works" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2199, edition of 1709). As with other Boerhaave editions, this is signed by the publishers on the verso of the title. Unfortunate experience with pirated editions had caused Boerhaave to insist that publishers sign attestations authenticating the legitimacy of their books.

Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1930. Reprint. Slight rubbing/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original cloth.

London: New Sydenham Society, 1863. Later edition. Joints split, ink- and blindstamps/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original cloth.

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. A corner torn from seal with loss of a few letters, else fine. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies (what he calls "monsters"). Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is caused by bestiality (and implies that in that case the child is not properly human). He believes, however, that when the deformity happens naturally (what he calls the "mother's fantasy" or some other accident of nature) it must be seen as part of God's plan - the "monster" partakes of human nature, and so it should be baptized. He goes on to cite St. Augustine's concurrence in this matter in his Enchiridion. Summarizing his argument: "Quoi qu'ils ne paraissent point dignes de ce sacrement a cause de leur figure bizarre, on les y doit croire dignes par leur nature" [Though they don't seem worthy of this… Read More

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1877. First edition. Binding rubbed; some pale browning/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Förster's paper is on pp. 59-234. Entire volume: viii, 554 pp. At end, General Register, 1880, 68 pp. Contemporary half morocco. "Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5915).

Chicago, 1927. First edition. One marginal tear, otherwise fine/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. Folio. Pp. 1500-1505. Disbound. "Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2414).

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First edition. Spine reinforced with tape; intermittent foxing, heavier at beginning and end/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Mott's paper is on pp. 354-359. Entire volume: xii, 560 pp. Hand-colored engravings. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: James Graham (signature on title). "In his day Mott was the ablest exponent of vascular surgery in the U.S.A. This was the first attempt in America to ligate the subclavian within the scaleni muscles. The procedure had been tried at least twice previously in Europe" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2953). Cordasco 30-0654.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1812. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Parkinson's paper appears on page 57-58. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "First case of appendicitis reported in English, and the first in which perforation was recognized as the cause of death" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 3560).

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1819. Discreet library stamps on endpapers, some foxing. 8vo. Bostock's paper appears on page 161-65. Engraved plates. Modern half leather. FIRST EDITION. "Bostock's classical description of the 'catarrhus aestivus' hay fever, is also referred to as 'Bostock's catarrh'. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The case he described was in fact himself. He was physician to Guy's Hospital London." (Garrison-Morton-Norman 2582).

London: Longman, Hurst, et al., 1816. Second edition. Spine tape repaired; some pale foxing, mostly at beginning and end/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Parkinson's paper is on pp. 57-58. Entire volume: xiii, 383 pp. Contemporary half calf, plain blue boards. First case of appendicitis reported in English, and the first in which perforation was recognized as the cause of death. Garrison-Morton-Norman 3560 (first edition of 1812).

New York, London, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1939. First separate edition. Fine/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. 8vo. Original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Monroe on the front free endpaper.

London: New Sydenham Society, 1866. First edition in English. Some splitting to joints, small hole to one spine; owner's embossed stamp on endleaves and titles, library inkstamp on title of vol. 2, internally clean/From the Collection of Allan B. Kirsner, M.D. Two volumes, 8vo. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. "One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 6048, first edition in French, 1860-62).