- Lacks 2 plates; hinges nearly broken; a few plates/ textlvs. loose(ning); first/ final few lvs. (sl.) browned. Lacks backstrip. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare. Cf. Proksch I, p.69 (first ed. Paris, 1866).
Jeannel, J. De la prostitution dans les grands villes au dix-neuvième siècle et de l'extinction des maladies vénériennes. Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1868, 1st ed., X,416,(3)p., contemp. hcalf.
- Hinges broken. Spine worn/ dam. = Proksch I, p.431.
- Wrapper splitting. = Separate printing from XIII Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1929, Hollandia.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Cushing, Bibliography 22; Norman 557. Same year as first edition but Norman calls for Boston imprint.
The Harvey Cushing Society. (Baltimore and Springfield), C.C. Thomas, 1939, 1st ed., XV,(1),108,(2)p., photogr. frontisp., orig. giltlettered green cl.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown and library stamps of Medical Library of Maryland on a few prelim. lvs.; newspaper clippings on Cushing's death tipped in on lower pastedown.
= Norman 560.
AND 3 others on H. Cushing, i.a. The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts (New York, 1943, orig. giltlettered cl., 4to).
- Upper corner p.3-6 discolored. Backstrip sunned.
= Cushing, Bibliography 16; Norman 555 (calls for a blue cloth binding). Cushing, throughout his surgical career, kept a thoroughly complete set of statistics on his tumor cases, always with the intent to improve the figures each year with lower morbidity and mortality. At the close of his academic career he sat down and compiled a lifetime of work.
= Cushing, Bibliography 6; Norman 552: "The definitive biography of William Osler". Harvey Cushing won the Pullitzer Prize for this work.
- Trifle foxed. Frontcover partly sunned.
= With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by H. Cushing on first free endpaper. Cushing, Bibliography 274.
AND another edition of the same work.
= Cushing, Bibliography 20: "This volume contains Dr. Cushing's four principal contributions on pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationships"; Norman 556.
- Bookblock sl. shaken.
= The first edition, second issue of this monograph on the pituitary of which 1000 copies were printed. Norman 549: "The first clinical monograph on the pituitary. Based upon a detailed study of fifty cases, Cushing described the clinical manifestations of pituitary disorder (...)"; Cushing, Bibliography 2: "The pituitary body and its disorders is the first clinical monograph on the hypophysis and it stands as one of the landmarks of modern endocrinology".
- Upper outer corner title re-attached; bookplate of W.A.R. Chapin on upper pastedown. Otherwise very fine.
= Cushing, Bibliography 5. Extremely rare, only 250 copies printed, in two variant bindings, one in printed wrappers and one in red clothbacked boards (our copy).
= The Cameron Prize Lectures. Cushing, Bibliography 10; Norman 553.
- Sm. stamp on first free endpaper. = Cf. Norman 560 (1st ed.).
AND a 2nd ed. of the first work.
- Bookplate of A. Ward on upper pastedown.
= Cushing, Bibliography 8: "This monograph is significant in the history of neurology since it represents the first serious attempt to classify gliomatous tumors of the central nervous system on a histological basis correlated with the life history of each type of growth". Not in Norman.
= Cushing, Bibliography 14; Norman 554: "Only 270 of the 1,000 copies bore the English imprint".
- Red stamp on first free endpaper; owner's entry on title covered w. tipp-ex.
= First edition of Cushing's last and greatest clinical monograph. Bibl. Walleriana 2253; Norman 558; Cushing, Bibliography 24.
- Lacks 4 plates: the portrait, plate 1 (w. the accomp. textleaf (p.159/160)) and plate 5 in the part on the female reproductive organs and plate 2 in the part on the pancreas; plate 1 in the section on the pancreas is misbound (should be bound before p.485 instead of p.385); some plates w. (closed) tears on folds. Read out of shape; spine-ends and corners worn; covers sl. rubbed.
= Cf. BMN I, p.60; Lindeboom p.706. Rare.
- Wrappers of the orig. 10 installments sl. discol. along outer margins; otherwise contents fine. Portfolio worn at extremities and sl. rubbed; lacks ties.
= Very rare. From installment 7, after the untimely death of Van Haren Noman at the age of 41, the work that already had been prepared by him was finished by S. Mendes da Costa and J. Spruijt Landskroon. As is stated in the preface, the aim of the work was to use photography to improve the study of dermatology and to help doctors and students in recognizing the various types of skin diseases. "Van Haren Noman was a skilled photographer and made liberal use of photography in his clinic. As a result his main work appeared (...)" (Lindeboom DMB,p.1434f). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Lacks the portrait; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned. Covers sl. rubbed; vol.1 top of spine chipped and lower end upper joint starting.
= Hirsch III, p.141; Garrison-Morton 5576: "Heister is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book contains many interesting illustrations and includes an account of tourniquets used in his time"; Blake p.204; Wellcome III, p.237.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise fine.
= Extremely rare work by the obscure 16th cent. German pharmacist Wendelinus von Helbach. VD16 H-1547. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.
- Lacks upper endpaper. Warped copy; leather dried and chafed.
= BMN I, p.525; Ferguson p.6 (note); Duveen p.336f. (note on the first German ed. of 1681): "(...) translated (by Johann Lange?) from the Dutch edition which had appeared at Amsterdam in 1680." Very rare.
BOUND WITH: Blankaart, S. De Kartesiaanse Academie, Ofte Institutie der Medicyne. Belsende De gantsche Medicyne, bestaande in de leere der gesondheid en des selfs bewaringe, als ook der ongesondheid en haar herstellinge (...). Amst., J. ten Hoorn, 1691, 2nd ed., (8),438,(26)p., 6 engr. plates.
- Occas. sl. dust- or fingerstained and occas. sl. foxed. = BMN I, p.158.
- Upper joint split; backstrip loosening and spine-ends chipped.
= Rare work promoting the breastfeeding of children by their mothers.