![Item #3835 [ANTI-SMOKING IN 1687]. De morborum curationibus tractatus curiosus (D. M. E. P....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3835.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666713903)
Lugduni (imprint false: likely printed in Germany): 1687. First Edition. 8vo (180 x 100 mm). [8], 295 pp. Later German quarter calf over decorated blue paper boards (actually two different sheets were utilized), printed waste utilized as spine lining (the text is in Latin and French), vellum corner tips, black..... More
![Item #2384 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / MEDICAL BOOKS]. Catalogue des livres de fonds qui se...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2384.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284480)
Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1824 (August). First Edition. 8vo. 14 pp. (final page soiled). Recent sympathetic drab wrappers. Unique (?) and early catalogue of medical books belonging to the firm of J.-B. Bailliere (1797-1885) who was to become one of the most important publishers of medical and scientific books in the..... More
![Item #334 [HUMAN ANATOMY]. Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams. Govard Bidloo, Gerard de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/334.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762185321)
Amsterdam: By de weduwe van Joannes van Someren, de erfgenaamen van Joannes van Dyk, Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1690. Double folio broadsheet engraving, 305 x 470 mm (visible image size), matted (matte protected by clear perspex). THIS HUGE, AND QUITE STRIKING 17TH-CENTURY ANATOMICAL ENGRAVING HAS BEEN JUSTLY..... More
![Item #4184 [MEDICINE - WOMEN PHYSICIANS]. The Laws of Life, with special Reference to the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4184.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718036402)
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. First Edition. 12mo. 180 pp. (text with usual blemishes and signs of age and use, some top corners at one time folded by one or more readers). Original publisher's black cloth, blocked in blind, spine gilt, pale brown endpapers (corners bumped and worn, endcaps..... More
![Item #4409 [SHADOW BOX]. Six antique glass prosthetic eyes in their original mailing box and...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4409.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762185362)
Liverpool: G.D. Caffin, 1940. Artistic composition of six antique glass prosthetic eyes, embedded in their original cotton and mailing box (ca. 153 x 65 mm), surrounded by pale blue dried flowers and stems, the entire composition accomplished by means of a Zoom Box which has subsequently been framed with reddish..... More
![Item #2600 [MEDICINE - 16TH CENTURY SURGICAL ILLUSTRATION]. Della cirugia [...] libri sette:...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2600.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284546)
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More
![Item #2215 [INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2215.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1592542016)
Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Library of Medicine; U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1967 and 1971. First Edition. Together 2 vols. 4to (265 x 205 mm). Ad 1: xi, 698 pp. Ad 2: v, 51 pp. Original decorated gray cloth with black embossed roundel and black..... More
![Item #4524 [MEDICINE - HEALTHY BEVERAGES]. Der Menschen Zung und Gurgel Weid, Zur Notturfft und...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4524.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769964752)
Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, 1720 (ca.). Folio (372 x 217 mm). Engraved title (ONLY) from a suite of 12 engravings. Inner margin strengthened. LIQUID MEDICAMENTS, being the sensational engraved title-page (only) from "The Feast of Man's Tongue and Throat, Presented for Necessity and Delight through the Different Kinds of Drinks," a...... More
![Item #2602 [MEDICAL EPHENERA]. Eureka Cough Tablets. Will Cure Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2602.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284550)
South Bend, Indiana. Trade card, printed on blue paper on one side. With original mailing envelope. "This remedy also purifies the blood and cleanses and renovates the entire system, curing eruptions of the skin and pimples of the face." More
![Item #2601 [CURIOUS MEDICAL EPHEMERA: GIRLS KISSING]. Dr. Radcliffe's Great Remedy. Seven...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2601.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284549)
Pittsburgh: Kennedy & Co. Trade card (chromolithograph) printed on both sides. Highly curious image depicting two girls kissing. "Are you troubled with aches or pains of any kind? It cures like magic all aches and pains. Sold by the agent who present you with this chromo." The concoction reportedly consisted..... More
![Item #4582 [MEDICINE / PSYCHIATRY]. Of the Imagination: As a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4582.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781638744)
Bath, England: Printed by R. Cruttwell, and sold by Cadell and Davies, London, 1800. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 43, [1] pp. (title-page and final page soiled and a little browned). Extracted from a binding, bound in recent pale brown wrappers in the antique style, preserved in blue cloth chemise and..... More
![Item #3604 [BLIND MASSEUR, ACCUPUNCTURIST, HIGHWAY ROBBER - ORIGINAL JAPANESE WOODBLOCK 1867]....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3604.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1636921618)
Omiya Kyusuke, 1867 (censor seal indicates year of the snake). Broadsheet (354 x 235 mm) with contemporary hand-coloring (several wormholes in the face of the robber and one above his head; portion of the paper on upper right defective, just touching text), affixed at upper corners to a sheet of..... More
![Item #3889 [BINDING - OTTOMAN, 1868]. [TOXICOLOGY OF ANIMALS, PLANTS AND MINERALS]. Nüzhet...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1666659015)
Istanbul: Mekteb-i tibbiye-i Sahane, 1868. Small 8vo. 4 pp., [4 pp.], 137 pp., [2] pp. of lithographed text (some foxing or staining). Contemporary Turkish brown goatskin richly gilt (slight wear to binding extremities), original yellow endpapers with relief floral pattern (missing front endpaper). Occasional old annotations on the first pages..... More
![Item #2578 [MEDICINE, CARDIOVASCULAR CIRCULATION]. MELETIUS: De Natura Structuraque Hominis opus....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2578.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673876459)
Venice: Ex Officina Gryphii sumptibus vero Francisci Camotii e sociorum (Giovanni Griffio for Giovanni Francesco Camocio and Partners), 1552. First Edition. Small 4to. [8], 191, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank] pp. Collation: *4 A-Z4 AA4 a-d4. COMPLETE. Woodcut device on title-page, 7- and 5- line historiated initials. Attractive late 18th-..... More
![Item #4506 [HYPNOSIS, MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY]. Hypnosis Notes (cover title). Morton L. Aronson,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4506.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768338462)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1961. 36 pp. (8.5" x 11," mimeographed) + 1 brochure, preserved in individual sleeves, housed in contemporary Acco brown binder (worn, front cover with paper label removed, on which has been written "Hypnosis Notes," evidence of large removal inside front cover). Leaves toned, overall very good..... More
![Item #2374 [BOOK PROVENANCE / MEDICAL DOCTORS]. Essai de repertoire des ex-libris et fers de...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2374.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284472)
Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Small 4to. xvi, 235, [3] pp. Bound in original wrappers, as issued. Preserved in a protective cloth case. The essential resource for the study of provenance of medical books, still unsurpassed. Ours is one of only 50 on fine Velin paper, rare thus..... More
![Item #3841 [GYNECOLOGICAL FLICKER BOOK]. Sex Efficiency Through Exercises. Special Physical...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3841.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760378615)
London (and New York): Ad 1: William Heinemann (Medical Books); Ad 2: Covici-Friede, 1933 and 1931. First English edition. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: 8vo. xviii, 164 pp. With 58 full-page illustrations and 480 flicker cards bound in to produce 12 "cinematographic films." Two flip cards with short tears (not..... More
![Item #4601 [QUACK MEDICINE]. The New York Receipt Book: Adapted from the Fifth-Avenue Hotel. Wei...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4601.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781705164)
New York: D.B. Dewey, 1882 or 1883. 16mo. 34 pp. (some illustrations in the text). Original wrappers printed in red and black with old string loop at the top corner -- apparently as issued (worn, with short tear along the fold; back wrapper chipped with loss of text on the..... More
