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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

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LARREY, [Felix] Hippolyte. Relation chirurgicale des événemens de juillet 1830, a l'hopital militaire du gros-caillou. Paris. Chez Béchet, 1831. Seconde édition. 8vo. 152pp. With a half-title. Later calf-backed marbled papers boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. Light shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Neurologica to FEP, ink-stamps of the Société Medico Pratique to half-title and title page, leaves browned and spotted. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27762

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POTT, Percivall. Nuovo metodo di curare le fratture, e le lussazioni opera del signor percivall pott... Venezia [i.e. Venice]. Presso Leonardo e Giammaria fratelli Bassaglia, 1784. 8vo. 160pp, [2]. Uncut in original publisher's cream paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, short tear to spine. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 19340

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GREEN, Horace. Observations on the pathology of croup... New York. John Wiley, 1849. First edition. 8vo. iv, [3], x-xi, [2], vi-vii, [1], 115pp, [1]. Contents leaves misbound. With two initial leaves of publisher's advertisements and an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamped black cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, gilt-stamp of the Birmingham Medical Institute to foot of chipped spine. Ink-stamps of the aforementioned institution to frontispiece and title page, scattered foxing, occasional underlining in ink. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 27301

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MEAD, Richard. De variolis et morbillis liber. Londini [i.e. London]. Prostant apud Joannem Brindley, 1747. 8vo. xvi, 197pp, [1]. With a half-title. Later gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine and lettering-piece. Armorial bookplate with motto 'Nil conscire sibi' and bookplate of Coward College Library to FEP, ink-stamps of the recently dispersed library of Hugh Selbourne to verso of title page and p.51, damp-stained. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso ... More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 19339

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[WESTERN AFRICA]. Report of commissioner of inquiry on the western coast of africa. Climate, and it's influence on health. London. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1842. First edition. Folio. 46pp. Stitched, as issued. Slight chipping to fore-edge of title page, occasional spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24365