Search Results: Titles starting with O from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

First Edition. 8vo, Epistola Dedicatoria (9), Praesatio (a-c2), 425pp, Elenchus Rerum (55), engraved frontispiece portrait by Blooteling after Mary Beale. Bound in quarter goatskin, red calf label lettered in gilt, raised bands with decorative gilt motifs, likely an early 19th century continental binding, title inscribed in ink on lower edge; an indication of how the book was originally shelved. Published by A. C. Ipenisis Gualteri Kettilby (London), 1676.

A tape repair to the reverse of the frontispiece, a small tear to the bottom right corner of the frontispiece (not affecting the image or text), some fraying to page edges and a little loss (not affecting any text) to pp. 349-352., some occasional minor browning. A very good copy.

This is Thomas Sydenham's (1624-1689) first book and a landmark work in epidemiology. This work "became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease,… Read More

And More Particularly On Those Parts Of It Which Relate To The Surgeon General.
First Edition. 4to, half title, appendix, index, 160 pp. Bound in modern half calf, red morocco spine label, publication date lettered in gilt to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Printed for J. Hatchard (190, Piccadilly), 1808.
A fine copy of Thomas Keate's controversial Report. Rarely encountered complete with the half title, and in such collectible condition.
Thomas Keate Esquire, F.R.S (1745-1821) "was an excellent surgeon, and was the first to tie the subclavian artery for aneurysm. But he was unpunctual and negligent of his hospital duties, and wrote little on surgery. He published several controversial papers, the chief being Observations on the Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry." (ODNB).
Keate was appointed Army Surgeon-General in 1798 and his controversial 1808 Report highlighted numerous issues such as failings by the medical board in irregular and inappropriate appointments,… Read More

A beautiful original Chromolithograph of Old Widcome Church & Widcome House in Bath, produced by T. Nelson & Sons in circa 1865, from a set of views entitled City of Bath. Thomas Nelson was established in 1798 and is still trading today under Nelson Thornes.

Unmounted; the image is 76 x 123 mm, the sheet is 105 x 165 mm.

Fine condition.

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