London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1707. The physician's pulse watch or an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse and to improve it by the help of the pulse watch... London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1707. The Pulse Watch Vol. 2..... More

Paris: Carole Guillard, 1555. 8vo (164 x 108 mm). [20], 238 ff. Text in Greek and Latin. Modern vellum, spine titled in script. Text with only little marginal browning or soiling, occasional minor light spotting, first 3 leaves including title cleaned, a few neat annotation in contemporary hand to first..... More

Paris: chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1728. 12mo (164 x 101 mm). [26], 540 pp., including 20 engraved plates, numbered I-XX. Signatures: a¹² e1 A-Y¹² Z⁶. Contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label (spine ends chipped, hinges split at ends, corners scuffed, soiling and..... More

Paris: J. B. Brunet et Demonville, 1778. Anatomie des parties de la génération, et de ce qui concerne la grossesse et l'accouchement, jointe a l'angéologie de tout le corps humain, avec des planches imprimées en couleur.Seconde édition, augmentée de la coupe de la symphise. Paris: Demonville, 1778. Large Folio (410..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Christian Egenolff the elder, 1556. 4to (190 x 145 mm). [8], 84 leaves. Title with large woodcut illustration, woodcut text illustrations (several full-page). Signatures: *⁴ A-X⁴. 20th century half vellum, boards covered with reused 16th century paper sheet of religious text. Somewhat browned internally, a few faint..... More

Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1571. 4to (235 x 159 mm). [20], 332, [10] pp. Woodcut device on title, large floral and historiated woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text. Signatures: *⁸ **² A-X⁸ Y⁴. Including the final blank Y4. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, flat spine and lower edge lettered in..... More

Paris: Pierre Gaultier, 1544. 30 April 1544. Folio (356 x 243 mm). [36], 533, [3] pp., including final blank, 210 woodcut text illustrations (of which 30 full-page), ornamental metalcut initials. Roman and Greek types. Signatures: aa⁸ bb¹⁰; a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K-L⁶. Early 17th century calf, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-ruling..... More

London, Paris: Baillière, 1843. New Memoir on the Nervous System. London, Paris: Baillière, 1843, 4to. (281 x 215 mm), x, [2], 3-94 pp., half title, 5 folding engr. plates (the last with a little hand-colouring), unobstrusive library stamps to title and plates, pages untrimmed, new endpapers. Original cloth with blindstamped..... More

Paris: Vincent, 1757. 1757-1760. 5 volumes. 12mo (165 x 96 mm). xi [1], 449 [3] pp. and 1 plate; [4], 414 (i.e. 412) pp. and 1 plate; [4], 449 [1], [2] pp. and 1 plate; [2] 480 pp.; [2] 435 [1] pp. and 1 plate. Contemporary mottled French calf, spines..... More

Leyden: Johann Maire, 1639. Two parts in one volume. 4to (180 x 138 mm). [8], 267 [1], [2] 3-84 pp., including title with woodcut printer's device, separate half-title to second part, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, two engraved folding plates. The two unsigned leaves 'Ad lectorem' bound after first title. Signatures..... More

Berlin: A. Förstner'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (P. Jeanrenaud), 1851. 8vo (203 x 130 mm). 43 [1], [2] pp. and one engraved plate by Afinger after drawings by Helmholtz. Bound in contemporary German marbled paper over card board, spine with hand-lettered paper label, red sprinkled edges, original endpapers (minor rubbing of extremities, corners..... More

Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem, ad vitam longam. Edente authoris filio, F. M. van Helmont. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1648. 4to (205 x 160 mm). [36], 1-88, 87-158, 161-176, 175-382, 373-452, 457-800 pp. With engraved portraits of Helmont and his son..... More

Teschen: Druck und Verlag von Karl Prochaska, 1873. 4to (357 x 270 mm). 108 pp., including half title and 4 coloured lithographed plates protected by tissue paper. Contemporary blindstamped plum cloth, brown endpapers (extremities rubbed, some wear to spine ends and corners, cloth soiled and stained, corners bowed). Text little..... More