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CHININUM: Scriptiones Collectae Anno MCMXXIV Editae
Edition: First edition.
Amsterdam: Bureau for Increasing the Use of Quinine, 1925. Original orange and black cloth. pp xii, (263) + 12 plates + folding map at rear. Map, facsimile holograph and illus. in text. Spine lightly sunned, small soil spots to front cover, bookplate inside front cover; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Papers on the uses of quinine. Topics covered included malaria, pneumonia, heart disease, surgery, gynecology & obstetrics, dermatology & venerial diseases, odontology, and more. Text is in English
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28170More details Price: USD $40.00 -
COELESTIS PHYSIOGNOMONIA e in appendice DELLA CELESTE FISONOMIA. a cura di Alfonso Paolella
Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1996. Volume 8 in Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovan Battista della Porta. Cream card covers, printed in green, pp. [xxxii], [353] + [2], illustrated with facsimiles of della Porta's original illustrations. Fine, clean copy. Text in Italian.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 27786More details Price: USD $25.00 -
DAS WAR MEIN LEBEN
Bad Würishiofen, Germany: Kindler und Schiermeyer, c. 1951. Later printing (71-90 Tausend). Red cloth gilt lettered. pp 638 + plates. Text paper toned, spine lightly sunned, damp stains to front and rear covers, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. The great German surgeon's autobiography. He authored five Garrison-Morton medical classics. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 25963More details Price: USD $19.50 -
DISEASE AND DESTINY: A Bibliography of Medical References to the Famous. With additions and an Introduction by Gordon E. Mestler. Preface by Emerson Crosby Kelly
Edition: First edition.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1962. Dark blue cloth. pp 535. Fine copy, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has a short split at bottom fold of lightly tanned spine, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28310More details Price: USD $25.00 -
Disease in Ancient Man: an international symposium
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1983. Black boards. pp (xx), 297, [3]. Photos in text, indexed. Inscribed by the editor at top of title page. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27578More details Price: USD $25.00 -
DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: portrait of an American surgeon in Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1997. Third printing. Octavo, card covers. pp (367) + plates. Illustrations at rear. Owner blind stamp to title page and at rear, VG+ otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45664More details Price: USD $11.95 -
DRUMS AND SCALPEL. From Native Healers to Physicians on the North Pacific Coast.
Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1968. Dark blue boards, endpaper maps. (xii), 145, (3) pp. Photo plates inserted. Fine copy in a chipped, torn, rubbed and faded dust jacket. An historical account of the upcoast physicians of British Columbia.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 10854More details Price: USD $15.00 -
DUNCAN GRAHAM. Medical Reformer and Educator.
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Hannah Institute & Dundurn Press, 1989. Octavo, 121, [3] pp, 16 glossy pages of photos, light tan boards. A fine copy in fine jacket. No. 1 in the publisher's Canadian Medical Lives series.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 20690More details Price: USD $15.00 -
ENGRAVINGS OF THE BRAIN AND NERVES. ncluding Facsimiles of the First Editions of The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a series of Engravings. (1802); A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves. (1803); On the Nerves of the Face (1829)
Birmingham, Alabama: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982. Quarto, blue leather decorated in gilt, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, marble pattern endpapers, bound-in ribbon marker. Colour and black & white plates, one folding. Fine copy. 2 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46468More details Price: USD $35.00 -
EPISTAXIS ( 4 issues for 1936-39)
University of Toronto, Medical Society, 1936-39. 10 inches / 25.5 cm, stapled in illustrated paper covers printed in red and black. Volume 25, 1936; Volume 26, 1937; Volume 27, 1938 and Volume 28, 1939. pp 30, 46, 38, 40 (including rear cover). Toronto ads, verse, articles, jokes, cartoons and illustrations, etc. Vol. 37 has a macabre cover illustration of a skull. Staples a bit rusty, near fine. An annual published by the student Medical Society, University of Toronto. "Epistaxis" means nosebleed. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45382More details Price: USD $60.00 -
Evolution of Sickness and Healing
Edition: First printing
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth & boards. pp (xvi), 364. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a soft crease to front flap, else fine. Contents include: Preface / The Need for Theory in the study of Sickness and Healing / Origins of Sickness and Healing / Early Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / Later Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / Culture, Drugs, and Disorders of Habituation / Somatopsychic Disorders in an Evolutionary Context / Description Parameters of Sickness and Healing / An Evolutionary Conception of Sickness and Healing / A Broad View of Medical Evolution / Implications of an Evolutionary Approach to Sickness and Healing / Toward an Evolutionary Philosophy of Medicine / Appendix: Outline of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / References / Index.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46222More details Price: USD $16.95 -
FRACTURES AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1930. Octavo, mustard cloth. pp (viii), 415. Photos throughout. Ink inscription inside front cover ("G.A. Shingsby, Masseur. Toronto 1917, Saskatoon 1918, Regina 1918, Moosejaw (sic) 1919."). Minor cover soiling, else a VG clean and tight copy. At the time of publication Dr Wilson was Surgeon-in-Chief at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto and Assistant Prof. of Surgery at the University of Toronto. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 32617More details Price: USD $45.00 -
Francis Scrimger: Beyond The Call Of Duty
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Dundurn, 1991. White cloth. pp 112; + plates. index. Canadian medical lives series no. 5. Ink owner name, else fine. Jacket has sunning to spine and inner margins of panels, else fine. Scrimger won a V.C. in World War I and went on to a distinguished medical career and became a teacher at McGill University.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47979More details Price: USD $13.95 -
Gene Technology: Stem Cell and Leukemia Research
Berlin: Springer, 1996. Glossy boards. pp 540. NATO ASI Series, Serish H: Cell Biology, Vol. 94. Fine copy. 1,5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49841More details Price: USD $49.95 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 10
New York: Plenum Press, 1988. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 272. Slight rubbing to foot of spine, else a fine copy, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47380More details Price: USD $65.00 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 11
New York: Plenum Press, 1989. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 235. Light rubbing to surface gloss, else fine, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47291More details Price: USD $65.00 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 12
New York: Plenum Press, 1990. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 339. Light rubbing to surface gloss, scratch to rear cover, else fine, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47292More details Price: USD $65.00 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 13
New York: Plenum Press, 1991. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 380. Fine copy, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47305More details Price: USD $65.00 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 14
New York: Plenum Press, 1992. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 339. Light rubbing to surface gloss, else fine, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47293More details Price: USD $65.00 -
Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods: Volume 15
New York: Plenum Press, 1993. Octavo, glossy boards, pp 247. Light rubbing to the surface gloss, else a fine copy, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47422More details Price: USD $65.00