Leipzig: Typis Thomae Fritschii et Francofurti ad Moenum: apud Joh. Philippum Andream, 1694. First edition. This is the first volume (Annus Primus) of the Miscellanea Curiosa, the celebrated scientific journal of the Academia Leopoldina, the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences in the world. Issued in 1694, this “Ephemerides”.....
Leiden: Apud Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium, 1734. First edition. A cornerstone of early modern anatomy, Historia Musculorum Hominis (1734) presents Bernhard Siegfried Albinus’s systematic study of the muscles of the human body, illustrated with some of the most refined copperplate engravings of the eighteenth century. A professor of anatomy.....
Paris: Imprimerie de Fournier Fils, An XII, 1804. First edition. First edition of this seminal scientific treatise by Jean Aldini (1762–1834), the nephew of Luigi Galvani and one of the foremost figures in the early study of bioelectricity. In Essai Théorique et Expérimental sur le Galvanisme, Aldini expands upon his.....
Paris: Rémont, Libraire, quai des Augustins, 1776. First edition. This rare first edition of Allouel’s Explication des Mots d’Usage en Anatomie et en Chirurgie (Paris, 1776) is an important 18th-century medical reference work designed to clarify anatomical and surgical terminology for students and practitioners. Structured as both a glossary and.....
Paris: Veuve Alix; Lambert & Durand, 1741. Third edition. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spines in compartments decorated with floral and rosette tools, and red morocco title labels with gilt lettering “GENERA DES VERS / TOM I–II.” Boards with marbled patterning typical of mid-18th-century Parisian bindings, edges sprinkled red, and.....
Amsterdam: Petrus vanden Berge, 1658. Franciscus Arcaeus’ De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione is a foundational surgical treatise of the early modern period, first published in the late sixteenth century and widely disseminated across Europe. Arcaeus, a Spanish surgeon and physician, was among the first to systematize surgical wound treatment based.....
Innsbruck: Sumptibus Joannis Jacobi Cremeri, 1740. A rare early 18th-century anatomical and medical treatise by the Roman physician and philosopher Hieronymus Leopold Bacchetoni, notable for its comprehensive coverage of human anatomy and physiology within both theoretical and practical medical frameworks. This printed volume contains detailed anatomical analyses with engraved headpieces.....
Lyon: Sumptibus Petri Bruyset & Sociorum, 1745. A comprehensive collected edition of the medical and anatomical works of Giorgio Baglivi (1668–1707), one of the most influential physicians of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This Opera Omnia assembles his principal writings, including De Praxi Medica, alongside dissertations, clinical observations.....
Antwerp: 1715. Ninth edition. A substantial early eighteenth-century collected edition of the medical and anatomical works of Giorgio Baglivi, one of the most influential physicians of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Baglivi, a key figure in the development of iatro-mechanical medicine, emphasized the structural and mechanical understanding of.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. First edition. The Healing of Nerves (1901) by Charles A. Ballance and Purves Stewart is a foundational monograph in early neurological surgery and experimental neurophysiology. The work systematically documents the regeneration, degeneration, and attempted restoration of peripheral nerves following surgical intervention—drawing extensively on experiments with.....
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1932. The Operative Treatment of Facial Palsy, is authored by Sir Charles Ballance, K.C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.C.S., one of the most important pioneers of facial nerve surgery, and Arthur B. Duel, M.D., F.A.C.S., a leading American otolaryngologist. Reprinted from The Archives of Otolaryngology (January 1932, Vol. 15).....
Venice: Apud Laurentium Basilium sub signo Aurorae, 1713. First edition. An early 18th-century Venetian medical treatise on pleurisy and thoracic inflammation, written in Latin by Joannis Baptistae Verna (Giovanni Battista Verna), physician and philosopher of Lanciano and Vigliano. The Tractatus de Pleuritide (1713) represents a detailed and systematic exploration of.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First edition. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones (1899) by Lewellys F. Barker is one of the foundational anatomical and neurological monographs of the late 19th century, produced at Johns Hopkins during the period when the neuron doctrine was still being established.....
Carcassonne: De l’Imprimerie de Pierre Polère, 1798. First edition. An important late-Enlightenment study on biomechanics and physiology by Paul-Joseph Barthez (1734–1806), the French physician, philosopher, and leading vitalist of the Montpellier school. In this work, Barthez explores the mechanical principles governing human and animal motion, extending his physiological theories beyond.....
The Hague: Typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1663. A well-preserved 17th-century edition of Thomas Bartholin’s influential anatomical compendium, revised from the foundational work of his father, Caspar Bartholin. This edition incorporates important updates reflecting the rapidly evolving anatomical knowledge of the mid-17th century, including developments following the discovery and acceptance of the.....
Paris: Chez Méquignon l’aîné, Libraire, rue des Cordeliers, 1787. A foundational late-Enlightenment obstetrical text by Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745–1810), one of France’s most influential accoucheurs and the successor to André Levret as leading authority in the art of childbirth. This 1787 revised and enlarged government-authorized edition was designed as a didactic.....
Plattsburgh: Printed by F. P. Allen, 1833. First edition. A landmark work in the history of physiology and experimental medicine, this is the rare 1833 first edition of William Beaumont’s Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, widely regarded as one of the foundational texts of modern digestive science. Based.....
London: S. Highley, 1829. First edition. Thomas Bell's The Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Teeth stands as one of the foundational English-language works on odontology, and this is a true first edition, printed in 1829 for S. Highley of Fleet Street, jointly with the Webb Street, Maze Pond school.....
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.....
Leiden: Joh. Arnold Langerak, 1711. An early eighteenth-century anatomical work by the celebrated Florentine physician and anatomist Laurentius (Lorenzo) Bellini, one of the foremost medical investigators of the seventeenth century and a noted pupil of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. Bellini is best remembered for his pioneering studies of renal anatomy, particularly.....
Paris: Rignoux, Imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine, 1852. A scarce mid-nineteenth-century French medical study devoted to rickets, bone fragility, and osteomalacia, authored by E. J. Beylard and published in Paris in 1852. This work reflects the growing clinical and pathological interest in metabolic bone diseases during a period when.....
Paris: Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1785. First edition. An 18th-century French medical treatise by Édouard-François-Marie Bosquillon (1744–1816), the distinguished Parisian physician and professor who played a key role in transmitting Scottish Enlightenment medical thought to France. This 1785 Paris edition—nominally a translation of William Cullen’s Institutions of Physiology—is in fact.....
Napoli: Cesareo Domenico, 1891. Second edition. Antonio Cardarelli's Le Malattie Nervose e Funzionali del Cuore is an important contribution to nineteenth-century cardiovascular medicine, examining disorders of the heart arising from disturbances of the nervous system rather than structural cardiac disease. At a time when cardiology was emerging as a distinct.....
Amsterdam: Apud Joan. Ludov. de Lorme, 1710. Fourth edition. A dense and ambitious early Enlightenment scientific work by the noted Swiss-Dutch philosopher and theologian Jean Le Clerc (Joannis Clerici), examining the natural world through the lens of physics, anatomy, botany, zoology, and natural philosophy. The text reflects the transitional intellectual.....
Oxford: printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, 1689. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST BOOK TO USE THE TERM "STROKE". William Cole’s A Physico-Medical Essay Concerning the Late Frequency of Apoplexies, first published in Oxford at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1689, is a landmark in the history of neurology and cerebrovascular medicine. Notably.....