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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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the
foundation of pathological anatomy,
“one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of
medicine”
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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