Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1935. 4to (245 x 170 mm). Offprint from "Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen", pp. [189]-245, drop title, diagrams in text. Original green printed wrappers with circular woodcut device on upper wrapper (some very light marginal staining, slight creasing of lower wrapper), contained in modern..... More
Paris: Fr. Didot le Jeune, 1765. 8vo (162 x 101 mm). xlv [3], 564 pp. Including half-title to first vol. Continuous pagination for both vols., title of volume two on p. [233]. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (label gone, spine rubbed, head of spine chipped, wear to extremities), marbled endpapers, blue-sprinkled..... More
Lausanne: chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & Compagnie, 1754. L'Inoculation Justifiee, ou Dissertation Pratique et Apologetique sur cette Methode; avec un Essai sur la Mue de la Voix. Lausanne: chez Marc-Michel Bousquet & Compagnie, 1754. xviii, 179 [1] pp. Title with woodcut vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces. [Bound with:] TISSOT, Samuel Auguste..... More
Paris: Philippe Vincent, 1770. 12mo (160 x 95 mm). xi [1], 372 pp. Signatures: a6, A-P12, Q6. Including first blank. Contemporary full sheep, spine with gilt floral decoration (binding weak, upper hinge split at head of spine, boards and spine little rubbed, extremities and corners worn, spine ends chipped), marbled..... More
Liverpool: John Sadler, 1761. 8vo (190 x 115 mm). [1-3] 4-16 pp. Printer's woodcut device depicting Britannia on title, woodcut initial and tailpiece. Simple paper wrappers. Title-page dust soiled and spotted, little browned throughout, repaired clean tear to title. Provenance: John Grant Booksellers of Edinburgh; purchased in the 1950s by..... More
Basel: Johann Faber of Emmich, 1528. 4to (200 x 145 mm). [8] 72 ff. Signatures: [a]-b4 A-S4, 80 leaves. Italic letter with Roman headings. Title within a woodcut border made up of 4 blocks; woodcut initials. [Colophon:] Basileae. Anno. M. D. XXVIII. Excudebat Joannes Faber Emmeus Juliacensis. 18th-century calf-backed boards..... More
Paris: Impr. Didot jeune, 1815. 4to (253 x 197 mm). 22 pp. Modern marbled paper wrappers and new endpapers, marbled edges. Text crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting.
Medical thesis no. 242 by the French physician François-Alexis Vergnies. More
Padua: P. Frambotti, 1647. 4to (250 x 195 mm). [16], 274, [14] pp, including additional engraved title page depicting the anatomical theater at Padua, and 24 engraved copperplates (one outside pagination), bound without the engraved portrait of the author found in a few copies. Contemporary half tanned leather (extremities worn..... More
Paris: L. Duprat-Duverger / Imprimerie de Baudouin, 1805. Oeuvres . . . recueillies et publiées avec des notes et un discours sur sa vie et ses ouvrages. Edited by J. L. Moreau. Paris: L. Duprat-Duverger, 1805. 6 volumes, 8vo (191 x 114 mm). Planches pour les oeuvres. Recueillies et publiées..... More
Lyon: Jean Certe, 1685. Folio (345 x 227 mm). [16], 252, [2] pp., including half-title, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait by Mathieu Boulanger, armorial plate, 22 engraved plates (15 folding) and 8 text engravings, numbered I-XXX in a single series. Contemporary sprinkled vellum, spine with 6..... More
Lyons: In edibus Jacobi Myt, 1521. 8vo (195 x 135 mm), 2 parts in one volume, both titles with ornamental woodcut borders and the first printed in red and black, double-column text with woodcut initials, three unnumbered index leaves at end of first work (with printer's woodcut device after colophon)..... More
Basel: Robert Winter, 1538. 4to (194x138 mm). [8], 264 pp. Printer's device on last leaf. 19th-c full leather with blindstamped supralibros (the Flemish lion) on both boards, spine with 4 raised bands. Endpapers renewed, title with old cancel stamp, neat ink annotations and markings in old hand, small dampstain spot..... More
Berlin: Apud Gottlieb Augustum Lange, 1775. Large folio (417 x 266 mm). [8], LXXXVIII pp. Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette by Berger; 13 folding engraved plates (including 2 dublicate outline plates) by Daniel Berger, Carl Christian Glassbach, C. B. Glassbach, and S. G. Kütner, after Johann..... More
Schaffhausen: Adam Ziegler, 1727. 4to (220 x 170 mm). [32], 984, [40] pp., title printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author and one full-size engraved illustration, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. All pages uncut. Signatures: [pi]4 )(-3)(4 A-6N4 including first blank. Contemporary half calf, spine with red..... More
Paris/London: Royer/by the Author, 1815. 8vo (220 x 127 mm). 151 [1] pp., including half-title and errata on final page. Bound in contempory half morocco, boards with gilt-tooled frame and central royal coat of arms of Louis XVIII, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (minor..... More
Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1582. [24], 341, [3] pp., numerous woodcuts in text, last page with woodcut printer's device, pages occasionally slightly browned, some with slight fraying at the lower margin. Modern half leather. Good copy. ----
Durling 4744, Waller 10310, Wellcome 6745. First Edition. Important and early work on the..... More
Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen / Daniel Elzevir, 1663. I. Diatribae duae medico-philosophicae: Quarum prior agit de fermentatione, sive de motu intestino particularum in quovis corpore; altera de febribus, sive de motu earundem in sanguine animalium. His accessit dissertatio epistolica de urinis. . . Amsterdam: Gerbrandus Schagen, 1663. [32], 376 pp., including..... More
Cologny: Gaspare Storti, 1694. Two parts in one volume. Folio (322 x 218 mm). [16], 586, [18] pp. Half-title, title printed in red and black and with printer's engraved device, engraved portrait of the author by Isabella Piccini and 7 engraved plates, numerous engraved text illustrations, woodcut headpieces and initials..... More
Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1668. 12mo (134 x 78 mm). [12], 338, [22] pp. Engraved portrait of the author on leaf *6v, woodcut printer's device on general title, sections with individual running titles, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, final blank Q6. Signatures: *6 A-O12 P-Q6. Bound in 18th-century vellum, yapp edges..... More
London: Printed by E. Flescher and J. Macock for R. Royston, 1676. Folio (297 x 180 mm). [16], 498, 79 [1], [14] pp. Half title, chapter "Of Lues Venera" with separate pagination, general index at end. Later black morocco, panneled and blind-stamped boards, binding restored and rebacked with original gilt-lettered..... More
Berlin: G. Reimer, 1838. 8vo (205x125 mm). xxxii, 576 pp., two folding hand-colored engraved plates printed in sepia, woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining the original, gilt leather. Internally little browned and spotted. ----
Zeis 619; Garrison-M. 5743.4; Waller 10466; Hirsch/H. V, p.1031. - FIRST EDITION of..... More
