| Author: |
HEISTER, Laurence. |
| Title: |
A GENERAL SYSTEM OF SURGERY, IN THREE PARTS. Containing the Doctrine and Management I. Of Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers of all Kinds. II. Of the several Operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several Bandages applied |
| Description: |
London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson etc. 1757. Two volumes bound in one. Thick 4to. pp. xvi, 456; separate half-title, 404; (xii); 40 folding copper engraved plates. Contempoary full calf, a little rubbed with a few chips. Closed tears, expertly repaired without loss, to a6 and plates 16 and 40. Very occasional minor marginal staining including a few plates but not affecting the image. Overall, an unusually clean copy in its original binding. |
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* G&M 5576 for the first edition in German of 1718. Heister (1683-1758) 'is the founder of scientific surgery in Germany. His book contains many interesting illustrations and includes an account of tourniquets used in his time; Heister introduced a spinal brace. This was the most popular surgical text of the 18th century'. £775 |
| Author: |
MACMICHAEL, William |
| Title: |
THE GOLD-HEADED CANE |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Murray, 1827. Extra illustrated copy. pp. (viii with 2 blanks), 179, (i); 98 inserted Plates each with tissue guard, with reference to the plate in the text on the opposing page; mainly portraits but also buildings and including as a Frontispiece the College of Physicians followed by The Siege of Warwick Castle – Battle between the Fellows and Licentiates; 1 folding – Consultation of Physicians, after Hogarth. Also woodcuts in the text. Contemporary full polished dark blue calf with raised bands and gilt decoration (slight rubbing of spine); all edges gilt. Occasional light spotting in the text and on some plates. Contemporary ink comment in Latin at foot of portrait of the Bishop of Rochester; light water stain in lower corner of portraits of Sir Humphrey Davy and John Hunter. |
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* G&M 6709. Besides good biographies of the several owners of the gold-headed cane (now in the R.C.P. London) including Radcliffe, Mead and Baillie, the book gives interesting information on the condition of medicine in England in the 18th century.
A number of extra illustrated copies have been offered on the market with varying numbers of inserted plates ranging from 40 to 72 but the present copy seems to be most unusual in having so many – 98 plates.
£600 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MEDICA SACRA: sive De Morbis Insignioribus, qui in Bibliis Memorantur, Commentarius. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1749. pp. xix, (iii), 108. Contemporary full calf with gilt dentelles in corners. Rebacked and corners reinforced. Bookplate of W. Wynne on front pastedown. One mark in the text with loss of two letters, otherwise a very clean copy. |
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* Blake, p. 295; HoH 770 – ‘Mead’s purpose in this book was to account on natural grounds for the diseases mentioned in the Bible’. He explains Job’s complaint as elephantiasis, Saul’s as melancholia, Jehoram’s as dysentery, Hezekial’s as an abscess and so forth. He also discusses leprosy, palsy and demoniacal possession’. £120 |
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