Essays and Tracts By the Late John Abercrombie M.D. First Physician to the Queen for Scotland, Etc.

By: ABERCROMBIE, JOHN:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Whyte & Co. and Longman Brown Green & Longmans, 1845:

Seller ID: 79156

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Hardback, approx 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Full morocco Leather binding, raised banding and decorative gilt to spine, with lettering and gilt decorative panelling to boards. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and edges, corners slightly bumped. Endpapers darkened, some foxing and handling marks to title page, neat inscription to contents page “To my Darling, 1949.” A couple of neat pencil notes, Else inside pages clean and tight throughout. 318pp. View more info

Lectures on the Materia Medica: Containing the Natural History of Drugs, Their Virtues and Doses: Also Directions for the Study of Materia Medica; and an Appendix on the Method of Prescribing. In Two Volumes.

By: ALSTON, Dr. Charles: HOPE, John:

Price: £220.00

Publisher: London & Edinburgh, Edward and Charles Dilly, and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1770 1st edition:

Seller ID: 79714

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2 volumes. Large hardbacks, 10.5 x 8 inches. Quarter bound in brown calf leather and marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and numbering to spines. Speckled page edges. In good conditions. Covers are quite worn; Hinges all cracked with glue repairs, extremities rubbed, corners bumped, some minor rubbing to boards. Neat inscriptions to endpapers. Some darkening and mild foxing to pages (mostly to title pages) a couple of minor stains and light handling marks to prelims, else inside pages clean and tight. 544 + 584pp + index. View more info

Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, by Regimen and Simple Medicines. With an Appendix containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners. The Eighth Edition, to which is now added a Complete and Copious Index.

By: BUCHAN, WILLIAM:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, W. Strahan, T. Cadell, J. Balfour and W. Creech, 1784:

Seller ID: 82029

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Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In full calf leather binding, blind paneled boards, raised banding to spine, with gilt lettering to maroon leather spine label. Olivine edges. In very good condition. Contemporary leather to spine, very neat professional repair. Original leather on boards heavily rubbed, edges and corners bumped and chipped. Some minor darkening to endpapers. No penned inscriptions. Title page edges darkened and rubbed. Some darkening and handling marks to pages, some random minor stains and soiling. Else a very good tight copy of a very early edition. 767pp. View more info

Hydropathy. The Theory, Principles, and Practice of the Water Cure, shewn to be in accordance with medical science and the teachings of common sense; Illustrated with many Important Cases. With nine engravings.

By: JOHNSON, EDWARD:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London. Simkin, Marshall, and Co. 1843 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 65014

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8vo. In beige cloth covers with gilt to spine and blind embossed decor to boards. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened.. handling marks. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1844. Else a clean and tight copy. 334pp. With b/w diagrams. The theory and practice of hydropathy. The author gives case histories claiming successful cures of paralysis, gout, gonorrhoea, deafness, baldness, hernia, psoriasis and more. View more info

The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. Vol. XIII. January - June 1851. Being a practical and analytical digest of the contents of the principal british and continental medical works published in the preceeding six months. Together with a series of critical reports on the progress of medicine and the collateral sciences during the same period.

By: RANKING, W. H.;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: John Churchill, London. 1851 1st edition:

Seller ID: 75065

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Size approx 5 x 8 inches. In green cloth with gilt lettering to spines and blind embossed decoration and illustration to covers and spine. In very good condition. Covers are rubbed, corners bumped. Bottom corners nicked. Ends of spine rubbed/nicked. Neat inscription to half title. Pages are clean and tight throughout. 384pp. Contains Practical Medicine, Pathology, Therapeutics, Surgery, Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children. View more info

The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences. Vol. XIV. July - December 1851. Being a practical and analytical digest of the contents of the principal british and continental medical works published in the preceeding six months. Together with a series of critical reports on the progress of medicine and the collateral sciences during the same period.

By: RANKING, W. H.;

Price: £15.00

Publisher: John Churchill, London, 1852 1st edition:

Seller ID: 75066

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Size approx 5 x 8 inches. In green cloth with gilt lettering to spines and blind embossed decoration and illustration to covers and spine. In very good condition. Covers are rubbed, corners bumped. Bottom corners nicked. Ends of spine rubbed/nicked. Neat inscription to half title. Pages are clean and tight throughout. 384pp. Contains Practical Medicine, Pathology, Therapeutics, Surgery, Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children. View more info

The History of Prostitution: It’s Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout The World. With Numerous Editorial Notes and Appendix. New Edition.

By: SANGER, William W.:

Price: £100.00

Publisher: New York, The Medical Publishing Co., 1906 New Ed.:

Seller ID: 78344

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Hardback, Tall, approx 9.5 x 6 ins. In navy blue cloth, blind embossed paneled boards, gilt lettering and banding to spine. Dark brown endpapers. In very good condition. Corners and ends of spine rubbed, with some minor bumps to edges. Very small tear to top edge of title page next to neat pencil inscription. Some slight handling marks else pages very clean and tight. 709pp + 1pp cat “Flagellation” View more info

Methodus Curandi Febres Propriis Observationibus Superstructura. The Latin text of the 1666 and 1668 editions with English translation from R.G.Latham (1848). Introduction, notes and index by G.G.Meynell.

By: SYDENHAM, THOMAE:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Winterdown Books. Folkestone. 1987 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 74074

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Size 6.25 x 8.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with silver to spine. With dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to back. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 239pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. “Sydenham’s first book on the treatment of fevers has not been reprinted since the 2nd edition of 1668 and has never been translated as a whole”. View more info

Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson In Two Volumes. On Epilepsy and Convulsions, and Evolution of the Nervous System. Edited for the Guarantors of “Brain.”

By: TAYLOR, James: HOLMES, Gordon: WALSHIE, F.M.R.:

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1931 1st:

Seller ID: 81785

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2 volumes. Hardbacks, approx 10 x 6.5 inches. Blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering to spines, blind embossed monogrammed boards. In dustwrappers. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrappers (DW some darkening and minor handling marks, rubbing to edges, small tape repair to bottom front corner v.1. Not price clipped.) Cloths clean and bright. Neat inscription to front endpaper in vol.2, “Purdon Martin.” Some partial darkening to endpapers in v.1. Bookseller labels “H.K. Lewis, London,” to fronts. Some neat pencil notes to margins. Else a very clean an... View more info

Squint: Its Causes, Pathology and Treatment.

By: WORTH, CLAUD:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd. 1906 3rd edition.:

Seller ID: 73051

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Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed at ends. Corners slightly bumped. Mild foxing to endpapers. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. 229pp. With b/w illustrations. Medical textbook on Squint and its treatment at the beginning of the 20th century. View more info