History Of Medicine from Wykeham Books

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1990. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 40 pp. 120 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Datestamp on rear inside wrapper. Good.

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1983. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 56 pp. 177 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Good.

Cornell University Press, Ithaca, first edition, 1974. Cloth, large 8vo, 28 cm,. xxi, 531, [4] pp. includes 173 letters in Latin, Italian and French, with English summaries and introduction. Bibl.: p.417-495. - Index. Letters in Latin, Italian, or French, with English summaries and commentaries. . Contents: '... includes letters to Baglivi, numerous drafts of his replies, and a… Read more about this item

Photocopied extract from the volume published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1969. Cloth, gilt spine-title :'Cushing', 8vo, a bound photocopy,. pp [621] - 663 photocopied as single pages so that the text appears on the rectos only. 333 entries. Reprinted with additions, from A Bibliography of the Writings of Harvey Cushing Prepared on the Occasion of… Read more about this item

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., London, first edition, 1945. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xvi, 448 pp, 72 plates. From the introduction: ".., an attempt has been made in the following pages to construct an outline of the progress of medicine from the days of Imhotep to those of Sir William Osler. An outline does not aim at finality,… Read more about this item

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, [first edition, 1973Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, first edition, 1973. Cloth, large 8vo, 30 cm,. xxiv, 459 pp, with illustrations of 377 portraits.portraits. 3269 entries + 36 in the addenda, giving details of some 12.000 portraits. From the foreword: "The extent of the collection of medical and scientific… Read more about this item

M. Moleiro Editor, Barcelona, first edition, 2001. Limited edition of 987 numbered copies. Facsimile: brown leather with gold decoration, 36 x 26 cm, commentary volume: cloth, 4to,. Facsimile: 340 pp, 386 ills; commentary: 432 pp. 8488526679 8488526687 A very high-quality facsimile of the "Livre des simples médecines" The book of simple medicines) of the Russian National Library, St… Read more about this item

Score, Paris, 1976 facsimile reprint of 1669 edition. Imitation leather, marbled endpapers, 16 cm,. [16], 232 pp, ills, folding plates. Facsimile of original published in Amsterdam by Danielem Elzevirium, 1669. Bumped at the head of the spine with some wear there, otherwise Very Good in the marbled board slipcase.

Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens (NY), bookseller's catalogue, Spring 1984. Laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 56 pp. 176 items. A well-annotated catalogue, with a subject index. Date of receipt noted on front wrapper, otherwise Near Very Good. .

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, first edition, 1989. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm,. 71, [1] pp, colour ills. Tippex stains to rear wrapper, otherwise near Very Good.

Editions Medicina Rara, n.p., undated [c.1976] reprint of the 1714 edition. One of 2300 copies bound in half leather from a total edition of 2800. Leather-backed boards, silver cover title, folio,. xliv, 115, [11, 5] pp, plates. The plates for this printing were made from a copy of the 1714 Lancisi edition belonging to the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart.… Read more about this item

Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd, n.p., undated reprint of the 1794 edition. One of 2500 copies bound in three-quarter leather and buckram from a total edition of 2800. Three-quarter leather and buckram, folio,. xi, v-xvi, 106, [1], plates. Printed on esparto paper at the Curwen Press. Copy No. 2038. Fine in partly faded plain board slipcase.

Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, first edition, 1969. Cloth, 8vo,. [3], 182 pp. Very Good in price-clipped dustwrapper.

published for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Science History Publications, Sagamore Beach, first edition, 2004. Cloth, 4to, 29 cm,. xi, 178 pp, ills. Residue of a partly removed label on front free endpaper and library stamp on rear pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in a duststained dustwrapper which has a small blank ;label on… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first paperback edition, 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 23 cm,. viii, 288 pp, ills. From the blurb: "With the exception of famine, scurvy is probably the nutritional deficiency disease that has caused the most human suffering in recorded history. Scurvy plagued sailors on long ocean voyages and broke out whenever groups of people had… Read more about this item

Dawsons of Pall Mall, London, 1965 reprint of 1931 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm,. xviii, 526 pp, ills, facs. From the introduction - ".. I have chosen to be largely biographical, but I have also endeavoured to trace at the same time the growth of medical interest in children and in their diseases, and have reproduced in… Read more about this item

Scarecrow Reprint, Metuchen, 1973 reprint of the 1839 edition with a new introduction. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 22 cm,. xi, xii, 172 pp. From the introduction: "Walker's Documents and dates . . . thus merits reprinting because it is a fascinating document in itself, because of its historical importance in making Bell's Idea generally available for the first… Read more about this item

Adam & Co., London, first edition, 1938. Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm,. [10], 249, [1] pp, plates, ills. Contents include: Section One. Section Two. Abnormal Longevity. Section Three. Man's And Other Life Spans. Section Four. Infirm Old Age. Section Five. Attempts At Rejuvenation. Section Six. Conclusions. Good in torn and duststained dustwrapper.

Headley Brothers, London, first edition, 1950. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 22 cm,. 23 pp. From the introduction: " There is nothing that I can add to the details of Harvey's life given by my predecessors, nor shall I attempt to prove that Harvey was a paediatrician, although parts of De Generatione show an interest in paediatrics. My concern… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. xi, 499 pp, ills. From the blurb: "Profcssor Tanner's volume traces the history of studies of the physical growth of children from the time of the Ancient Greeks to the present day. The author summarises the background to and the achievement of the surveys of child growth made in… Read more about this item