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CLELAND, Henry Wilson. On the history and properties chemical and medical of tobacco, a probatory essay Presented to the Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons glasgow. Glasgow,. [Bell and Bain], 1840. First edition. Quarto. [4], 68pp. With a lithographed title page and dedication leaf, and two further leaves, a mounted lithographed plate after De Bry's Historia Brasiliana (1590) on India paper, and a mounted explication of the plate, also on India paper. Handsomely bound by Neil of Glasgow in contemporary dark green morocco, tolled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, title page and dedication leaf, else ... More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30598

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[ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS]. Report on examination of medical practitioners. Drawn up by a committee of the royal college of physicians of edinburgh. Received and ordered to be printed 7th may 1833. Edinburgh. Printed by Neill & Company, 1833. First edition. Quarto. viii, 132pp. With manuscript leaf by F. H. Davidson, President of the Royal College of Physicians, tipped in facing title, later ink-stamp of the Ministry of Health to verso. Uncut in modern cloth-backed paper boards, printed paper label to upper board. Scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30597

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VELPEAU, Alf. A. L. M. Embryologie ou ovologie humaine, contenant l'histoire descriptive et iconographique de l'oeuf humain. Bruuxelles. H. Dumont, 1834. Second edition. Folio. [4], xx, 65pp, [1]. With a half-title and 15 lithographed plates. Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, recently rebacked and recornered. Lightly rubbed. Plates foxed. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24395

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RITTER VON RITTERSHAIN, Gottfried. Die pathologie und therapie der rachitis. Berlin. Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1863. First edition. 8vo. x, 316pp, [2]. With four plates. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Extremities rubbed, marked, bumped, and dulled. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 31009

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[KITCHINER, William]. The art of invigorating and prolonging life, by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts... London. Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. Fourth edition. 12mo. [v]-viii, [2], 336pp. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, recently rebacked, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Boards rubbed. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 31007

LEVACHER DE LA FEUTRIE, Thomas. Du rakitis, ou abrege de son histoire; suivi de propositions aphoristiques sur cette maladie. Paris. [s.n.], [1803]. First edition. 8vo. 43pp, [1]. With a half-title. Modern brown cloth, red calf lettering-piece. Bookplate of John Yudkin to FEP, scattered spotting More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 31013

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[HUNTER, John]. List of books, manuscripts, portraits, &c., relating to john hunter in the royal college of surgeons of england. [London]. [Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1891. First edition. 8vo. 8pp. Sewn, as issued. Very short marginal tear to terminal leaf. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 30755

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[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. [Drop-head title:] Copies of letters from Sir Patrick Manson (1899 and 1900) and General Gorgas (1914) to Sir Ronald Ross regarding his discovery of the Connection Between Malaria and certain Mosquitoes in 1897 to 1899. [London]. [Harrison and Son], [1929?] First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium. 3pp, [1]. Lightly marked and sunned. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of title: 'With Sir Ronald's compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28726

[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. Two ross-manson letters. [London]. [Harrison and Son], [1929]. First edition. 8vo. 12pp. Sewn, as issued. A clean and crisp copy. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of title: 'With Sir Ronald's Compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28727

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[ROSS, Sir Ronald]. Medical life: Sir Ronald Ross Number. New York. Medical Life Press, May 1930 Quarto. [3], 228-267pp, [37]. With 12 terminal leaves of advertisements. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to upper wrapper: 'J. T. Cambridge Esq. / with Sir Ronald's compliments 20.8.30'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28729

ROSS, Sir Ronald. The mode of infection in malaria; three more ross-manson letters, 1898. [London]. [Harrison and Sons], [1929]. First edition. 8vo. 20pp. With a tipped-in errata slip. Sewn as issused, in original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Extremities sunned and a trifle spotted. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, ink inscription to head of upper wrapper: 'With Sir Ronald's Compliments'. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28728

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A MEDICAL MAN. Juvenile smoking: an essay setting forth to the young the evil effects which result from an indulgence of the habit of tobacco-smoking. Bodmin. Liddel and Son, 1883. First edition. 8vo. 16pp. Original publisher's printed green wrappers. Extremities dulled, chipping to edges, loss to spine. Text-block detached from wrappers. Ink-stamps of the British Museum to verso of title page and foot of p.16. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 29777

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FERNEL, Jean. Joannis fernelii ambiani, doctoris medici parisiensis, Archiatri Regii, Consiliorum medicinalium liber. Exeius adversariis quadringentarum consultationum selectus. Nunc denuo fidelus & accuratius quam antea editus, & a quam plurimis mendis, quibus antea scatebat, repurgatus. Cum indice accurato. Francofurti [i.e. Frankfurt]. Apud Joannem Wechelum, 1585. 8vo. 143pp, [1]. Later blind-ruled calf, morocco lettering-piece to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Leaves lightly browned. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 29812

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CLERKE, William, Revd. Sir . Thoughts upon the means of preserving the health of the poor, by prevention and suppression of epidemic fevers. Addressed to the inhabitants of the town of manchester, and of the several populous trading towns surrounding and connected with it. London. Printed for J. Johnson...And J. Edwards, 1790. First edition. 8vo. 27pp, [1]. Modern calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Very minor shelf-wear. Single early manuscript correction to p.11 More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28737

[LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY]. Rules and orders of the public infirmary at Liverpool. Liverpool. Printed by T. Billinge, 1803. Small quarto. 24pp. Modern boards, with upper board imitating title. Occasional browning/spotting to text. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28735

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MITCHELL, Andrew. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de dysenteria... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. Second edition. 8vo. [6], 35pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 28532

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NIXON, Montgomery. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de hydrope anasarca... Edinburgi [i.e. Edinburgh]. Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. First edition. 8vo. [6], 30pp. With a half-title. Uncut. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter. More > £ 125.00 Antiquates Ref. 28533

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[LAWSON, John]. A dissertation on the geometrical analysis of the antients. With a Collection of Theorems and Problems, without solutions, for the exercise of young students. Canterbury. Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby, 1774. First edition. 8vo. [2], xxiv, 32pp. With two engraved folding plates. Disbound. Scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22452

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TURNBULL, A[lexander]. Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents. London. John Churchill, 1843. First edition. 8vo. vi, ii, [1], 4-89, [7]. With an engraved frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, marked, and dulled. Offsetting to title page. Presentation copy, pencilled inscription to FEP. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 18469

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TIEDEMANN, Friedrich. GMELIN, Leopold. Recherches expérimentales, physiologiques et chimiques, sur la digestion... Paris. Chez J.-B. Baillière, 1827. First edition in French. 8vo. In two parts. xxiv, 417, [3], 326pp, [2]. With a half-title and a final errata leaf. Contemporary roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. From the library of British physiologist John Yudkin (1910-1995), with his bookplate to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27757