Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1884. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Arrhenius Doctoral Dissertation that led to Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2 Vols: 63 (1) pp + 1 plate; 89(1) pp, uncut, unopened; Original printed wrappers. Fine. First Ed. 8vo (224 mm X 145 mm) (From Herman H.J. Lynge: there is.....
Venice: Apresso li Zinni, 1673. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo Cont. vellum, paper spine label. Blank, 10 lvs, 316 pp. Vellum stained with losses; minor wormhole damage Int. G. Neville I p 49: (Duveen copy) No other copy of the present Zinni imprint has been traced. All editions are rare. Fr.....
Leiden: Apud Joannem Kerkhem, 1726. Editio novissima. A handsome early 18th-century Leiden printing of Bellini’s important anatomical investigations into the kidneys and urinary organs, one of the foundational texts in the early scientific study of renal anatomy and physiology. Bellini, the celebrated Florentine anatomist and pupil of Borelli, was among.....
Edinburgh: Typis Academicis, 1779. 1st Edition. Hardcover. THE DISCOVERY OF CARBON DIOXIDE. 8vo cont. calf, spine ends chipped front end cracked, front cover detached. There is perhaps no other instance of a graduation thesis so weighted with significant novelty as Black's De humore acido a cibis orto, et magnesia alba.....
Lyon: Apud Ioannem Pullonum è Tridino, 1545. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Sammelband: combined with Examen omnium Simplicium medicatorum, in officinis usus est. addita sunt insuper Aristotelis Problemata, que ad stirpium genus & ole racea pertinent; Lyon: Apud Guilielmum de Millis, 1544. Antonio Musa Brasavola’s Examen omnium Syruporum (translated: Examination of All Syrups.....
Thomas Newcomb for Sam. Lowndes, London, 1684. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION of the best contemporary account of the practice of "touching for the King's evil" (scrofula) under the Stuarts, by Charles II's surgeon. Browne had given the first account of cirrhosis of the liver in 1685 and had been.....
Venice: Societas Veneta, 1602. Praxis Medicinae Theorica et Empirica, printed in Venice in 1602, is an early modern medical treatise by the physician Gualterus (Walter) Bruela. Written in Latin for a scholarly medical audience, the work combines theoretical medical understanding with practical therapeutic guidance. Like many medical texts of the.....
Paris: Directeur: Louis Olivier, No. 2, 30 Janvier 1899 (entire issue sm folio in original printed wrappers)), 1899. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Dated May 1899, the present research report is of great interest for the history of science. In January of 1899 the Curie's were considering the instability of radioactive.....
Lyon: Jean Girin & Barthélemy Rivière, 1685. First edition. A landmark in the cultural and scientific history of coffee, tea, and chocolate — the three “new beverages” of early modern Europe. Written by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour (1622–1687), a Lyon apothecary, physician, and merchant, this 1685 first edition is among the.....
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex Officina Francisci Hackii, 1645. Contemporary full mottled calf, double gilt fillet borders, raised bands on spine. Spine worn with chipping to head and tail, joints rubbed, corners softened; gilt titles and compartments faint but visible. A cornerstone of Renaissance and early modern medical literature, this is.....
Appresso Ghirardo Imberti (Venice), 1640. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. De Secreti Rationali (translated as On Rational Secrets) is one of the key works of Leonardo Fioravanti (1517-1588), a Bolognese physician, surgeon, and alchemist known for his unorthodox medical approach. Fioravanti was a Renaissance-era empiricist, blending traditional Galenic and Paracelsian.....
Paris: Chez Cuchet, L An II de la République, Une et Indivisible, 1793. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. This celebrated textbook was Fourcroy's first major publication (1st ed.: 1782). A résumé of the course of seventy lectures he gave each winter in his laboratory, it contains a comprehensive account of.....
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. Photographic Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin is a landmark work in American dermatology by Dr. George Henry Fox, one of the most prominent dermatologists in New York at the turn of the twentieth century and a founding figure in the.....
Chez Pierre Rigaud: Lyon (First French Ed.), 1616. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 19th century pigskin over marbled boards: 4 lvs (title page and epistle), leaves numbered to 293 (i.e. 586 pp), 7 lvs (table of remedies), 8 lvs (table of maladies); 53 woodcuts. Binding repaired and tear in title page.....
London: D. Wilson, at Plato’s Head in the Strand, 1763. First edition. A scarce first edition of James Lind’s final major medical publication, following his landmark Treatise of the Scurvy (1753) and Essay on the Health of Seamen (1762). In this work, Lind, then Physician to the King’s Hospital at.....
2nd Edition. Hardcover. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Or, the New London Dispensatory in VI BooksAs also, The Praxis of Chymistry, The Second Edition London: Th. Dawks, Th. Basset, Jo. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1682 Thick 8vo, lacks front end papers (2?); 8 lvs (including title page); pp 1-896; pp 865-877 (Table of.....
Halae Magdenburgicae: Orphanotrophei, 1715. 1st Edition. Hardcover. RARE CHEMISTRY CLASSIC - FIRST TO SUMMARIZE THE PHLOGISTON THEORY. Neville II p 513: The present collection of almost all of Stahl's early works published between 1683 and 1712 includes his writings on assaying and the Zymotechnia fundamentalis (1697) in which is found.....
Venice: Typis Combi, & LeNoti, 1666. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION OF TACHENIUS' POPULAR WORK ON HIPPOCRATRIC CHEMISTRY. A key work of chemistry and medicine of Otto Tachenius (1610-1680), based on the classic Hippocrates. He was schooled by Franciscus Sylvius and believed that acids formed the basis of all physiology.....
Paris: Chez Laurent d'Houry, 1693. First edition. Jean-Baptiste Verduc's Les Operations de la Chirurgie represents one of the significant French surgical texts published during the reign of Louis XIV, at a time when surgery was emerging from its traditional association with barber-surgeons into a more scientific medical discipline. Verduc combines.....
Edinburgh: John Balfour; printed by Balfour, Auld & Smellie, 1768. Robert Whytt’s landmark neurological study on hydrocephalus, then known as “dropsy in the brain,” representing one of the earliest systematic clinical investigations of the condition. Whytt, physician to the King and Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, provides.....