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Numbered 1947 edition of Salerno's health poem
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum
$150.00G. F. Wilkinson Books
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1947. Moderate even tanning to endpapers & text pages. Slipcase with slight tanning at edges, bump to a corner, chip to top edge.; Plain card covers in printed self-wrapper. Sewn gatherings, unopened at the top. In slipcase with illustrated paper title label. Text in Latin, preface in Italian. Esemplare No. 65, stamped on verso of title page, total number of copies not stated.; 8vo 8″ – 9″ tall; 27 pages; The Rule of Health (Regimen sanitatis) is a medieval poem containing a popular simplification of the Galenic rules on diet and hygiene in the context of domestic medical practice. Composed around the twelfth century, it gradually became a very popular work, translated into several vernacular languages. The appendage of Salernitatum suggests that it was authored by one of the physicians working in the famous medical school of Salerno.
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First English Paracelsus, Waite's 1894 two vols
Paracelsus THE HERMETIC AND ALCHEMICAL WRITINGS OF PARACELSUS (2 Volumes)
$2,800.00By The Way Books
London: James Elliott, 1894. First edition. Translated by Arthur Edward Waite; Two Volumes; 11 1/2″ x 9″; xvi, 394 & viii, 396 pages with 4 pages of ads; Top edges gilt; Fore and foot page edges untrimmed. Cloth bound in very good condition; Remarkably nice condition; Former owner stamp at foot of title pages and rear endpapers; Minor bubble in cloth of volume Two.
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Sir Henry Thompson on cremation, 1884
Thompson, Henry Cremation The Treatment of the Body After Death
$200.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884. Third edition. Together with a paper entitled “Cremation or Burial” by Sir T. Spencer Wells, and the charge of Sir James Stephen recently delivered at Cardiff. SCARCE. Disbound but all present. Minor chipping and age toning to edges of half title page and advertisement page at rear. Pages slightly brittle. Text is clean and bright. Good candidate for rebinding. 70 pages.
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Superlatively rare 1921 illustrated dental manual
Christopher, C. J.; Golbeck, W. C. Dental Prosthetics and Oral Research
$950.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #5032034 Original illustrated RARE booklet in folded wrappers describing dental procedures and prosthetics. 86pp. Doctors Christopher and Golbeck practiced at 339 So. Wabash Ave in Chicago. Dr. Christopher was a graduate of the Chicago College Dental Surgery in 1902 and Golbeck from the same in 1898. Illustrations include pictures of the practice’s space with one page giving instructions on “Advisory Service and Personal Supervision” Other pages have headlined “Casting Gold and The Metals of the Platinum Group,” “Demonstration Samples,” Refining Precious Metals,” “C. & G. Casting Gold,” “Modern Denture Construction: Articulation and How to Obtain it,” “ Chair Technique,” “Outlining Areas for Compression and Relief,” “Compound and Plaster Impressions.” All these are followed by page after pages of illustrations of casts, molds, etc. There is a full page “Index to Illustrations for Quick Reference” in the rear and the last printed page has an application form for “Opening A Charge Account” and a “Request for Quotation.” with a diagram. I am not sure whether to call this a sales manual, instruction manual, case reference for instruction purposes, or all three. But it is superlatively rare. Very good condition, but the silk tie ribbon is torn and incomplete.
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1850 Mexican pamphlet on Asiatic cholera treatment
Duck, William Ward Método Curativo Racionall para el Cholera Morbus Asiático, por Guillermo Ward Duck
$500.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Mexico: R. Rafael, 1850. Octavo. 16 pp. Stitched in original wrappers. Horizontal crease through the center of the pamphlet from accidental folding; light edgewear including folded leaf corners; rear wrapper soiled; wormholes through the entire pamphlet that touch the occasional letter, not impacting comprehension. Uncommon pamphlet in which the author, a self-professed retired physician, identifies how to diagnose cholera which had reemerged as a serious problem during and after the Mexican-American War. We’ve not been able to find other references to work by Duck. Fairly uncommon. While this is not an ideal copy given the condition, it is fairly good. Sutro p. 858.
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Association copy inscribed by a Hopkins founder
Kelly, Howard A. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever
$400.00The Accidental Bookseller
Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1923. Third Edition Revised. Likely a Christmas gift to a close colleague with a full page inscription from Kelly. Howard Atwood Kelly was one of the four founding chairs (along with William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and William Welch) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and creators of the Hopkins legacy. Kelly was a clinical innovator, performing the first successful Cesarean section (C-section) in Philadelphia in 1888, and pioneered the use of radium in the treatment of gynecological cancer. The consummate clinician, his name is behind the Kelly clamp and he is the one identified with the test to find the ureter by stimulating its peristalsis by touching it with a forcep. His lasting legacy was the residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Hopkins and the generation of leaders he trained. The recipient is almost assuredly fellow physician James R. Rankin of Muncy, Pennsylvania. In 1905, Rankin accompanied Kelly and Osler to Great Britain, “sharing with them their meetings with eminent British surgeons, attending clinics and having the honor of speaking at a banquet in London’s famous Guild Hall tendered the distinguished Americans by the Royal College of Surgeons” (Rankin obituary). A very good copy, top edge gilt, deckle edges, two interior pages severely browned from inserted news clipping. Accompanied by the quite scarce dust wrapper, also very good, dust soiled, two small chips to spine, edge wear and a few edge tears.
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Rontgen Ray
Borden, W. C. THE USE OF THE RONTGEN RAY BY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN (1898)
$300.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Apparent 1st printing. 4to blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. 98pp. XXXIII plates plus 26 figures. Charts. Statistics. “Prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, United States Army. Borden was “Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.” Ink stamp of Dr. Oliver C. Melson on front paste down. Melson was a physician in Little Rock, Arkansas. Science Magazine, Sept. 9, 1927, reported that Melson, of the Mayo Clinic, was appointed Head of the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Arkansas. Title actually has the spelling, “röntgen. “Good plus copy with some edgewear and moderate fading to spine. Scarce.
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German book of homeopathic remedies
Dr. Clotar Muller Charakteristik von Dreibig der Wichtigsten Homoopathischen Heilmittel Behufs ihrer Univendung in den Gemohalichsten Erkrankungsfallen
$300.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
Leipzig; Dr. Willmar Schwabe, 1880. “Characteristics of thirty of the most important homeopathic remedies for their use in the most common cases of illness”. SCARCE. Very good. 12mo. Brown cloth covered boards with black title to front board and to spine. Minor creasing to front board and minor bumping to spine ends and corners. A few light areas of rubbing to rear board. Minor browning to pages though text remains bright. Previous owner’s writing and stamp to front free end paper. Written in German Fraktur. 104 pages+ ads.
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