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BELL, Sir Charles. The Anatomy of the Brain, explained in a Series of Engravings. London: C. Whittingham for T.N. Longman and O. Rees [et al.], 1802. Quarto, modern three-quarter calf in sympathetic style over contemporary marbled boards. First edition of Bell's detailed work on the anatomy of the brain, with 12 exquisite stipple-engraved plates, 11 with original hand-coloring. Scarce. |
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with 48 stunning hand-colored plates CARSWELL, Robert. Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Diseases. London: Longman, Rees, Orme (and others) for the author, 1838. Folio (366 x 265 mm), contemporary three-quarter calf rebacked and recornered, marbled boards. First edition in book form of arguably the finest pathological atlas, with 48 stunning hand-colored lithographic plates after Carswell. |
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CHESELDEN, William (1688-1752). The Anatomy of the Humane Body. -- Syllabus, sive index humani corporis partium anatomocus. London: N. Cliff and D. Jackson, 1713. Two parts bound in one volume. Octavo, contemporary paneled calf rebacked; red leather label. First edition of Cheselden's influential medical text, complete with 23 engraved plates (2 folding). |
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EUSTACHIUS, Bartholomeo. Tabulae Anatomicae. Edited by Giovanni Maria Lancisi. Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1714. Folio (384 x 356 mm), contemporary full calf with elaborately gilt-decorated spine. First edition, a wide-margined copy, of the great anatomical atlas of Eustachius, complete with engraved title vignette after Pier Leone Ghezze and 47 full-page copperplate engravings by Giulio de' Musi after drawings by Eustachius and Pier Matteo Pini. |
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the origin of psychoanalysis FREUD, Sigmund and Joseph BREUER (1842-1925). Studien über Hysterie. Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1895. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers rebacked with portions of original spine laid-down, uncut and partially unopened. First edition, first printing of Freud and Breuer's account of their discovery of the profound benefits of "free association"; generally considered the founding paper of psychoanalysis. Most rare in original wrappers. |
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Freud's first published paper FREUD, Sigmund. "Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri)," pp. 15-27, In: Sitzungsbericht der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, LXXV, III Abtheilung. January-May 1877. Vienna: Karl Gerold's son, 1877. Octavo, original blue wrappers, uncut and partially unopened. Custom cloth box. First edition in original wrappers of Freud's first published paper. An exceptional copy of a fragile item, most rare in original wrappers. |
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foundation of pathological anatomy, MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista. The Seats and Causes of Diseases investigated by Anatomy; in five books, containing a great variety of dissections, with remarks. London: A. Millar, T. Cadell, Johnson and Payne, 1769. Quarto, contemporary full calf rebacked. Three volumes. First edition in English of the founding work of modern pathological anatomy, and the only complete translation into English. |
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the discovery of the X-ray: "revolutionized diagnostic medicine” [RONTGEN] Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad. “Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen” [ “About a new kind of rays” ], parts I and II. WITH: “Weitere Beobachtungen uber die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen” [ “Further observations about the properties of X-rays” ], pp.1-37 in Annalen der Physik, Neue Folge, Vol. 64. Leipzig: Barth-Verlag, 1898. (The full volume, 812 pages). Octavo, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards. |
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first edition of Santorini's great anatomical work SANTORINI, Giovanni Domenico. Observationes anatomicae. Venice: Giovanni Battista Recurti, 1724. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked. First edition, with three engraved folding plates, of Santorini's most important contribution to medical science, containing the "major discoveries for which Santorini is known eponymically" (Garrison-Morton). |
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"the foundation stone of cellular pathology" VIRCHOW, Rudolf. Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begrundung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre.Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1858. Octavo, modern three-quarter calf over original boards. First edition of one of the most influential works in the history of medicine. |
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Cellular Pathology: first edition in English VIRCHOW, Rudolf. Cellular Pathology as Based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology. London: John Churchill, 1860. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter calf rebacked, marbled boards. First edition in English of one of the most influential works in the history of medicine. |
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"one of the most important source books on cancer" VIRCHOW, Rudolf. Die Krankhaften
Geschwülste. Vols. I-III, [all published]. Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1863-1867.
Three volumes in four. Octavo, original printed wrappers, uncut. Housed
in custom cloth slipcase with chemises. First edition, in scarce original
wrappers, of Virchow's pioneering work on tumor pathology. Generally found bound up in three volumes, it is extremely rare
in the original four parts. |
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