| Author: |
MACMICHAEL, William |
| Title: |
THE GOLD-HEADED CANE |
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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: |
MANNINGHAM (Richard) |
| Title: |
THE SYMPTOMS, NATURE, CAUSES, AND CURE OF THE FEBRICULA, OR LITTLE FEVER: COMMONLY CALLED THE NERVOUS OR HYSTERIC FEVER; THE FEVER OF THE SPIRITS; HYPO, OR SPLEEN |
| Description: |
Second Edition with Additions. London, J. Robinson, 1750. pp. xii, 136. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. Ex lib. Karolinska Institute with stamp on title. Marginal browning of f.e.p., title page and first leaves of preface. Text clean. |
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* Blake, p. 286; Wellcome IV, p. 45. Not in Waller.
Sir Richard Manningham (1690-1759) first took a law degree at Cambridge but later became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and L.R.C.P. in 1720. He specialised in midwifery acquiring great eminence and was knighted by George I – Munk’s Roll, Vol. 2, p.75 £210 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
THE MEDICAL WORKS |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, Printed for C. Hitch and 12 others, 1762. pp. xxiv, xxvii, 662, (xlviii - Index); Frontis. portrait of Mead in facsimile, 5 folding Plates. 4to. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Foxing, mainly minor. A single old marginal comment re. Daniel Defoe. |
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* Wellcome IV, p. 86; Blake, p.295; HoH 774 - 'Latin editions of Mead's medical works were published as early as 1748. However, it wasnŐt until the publication of the present work that his writings appeared in English'. £150 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
MONITA ET PRAECEPTA MEDICA |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1751. pp. xii, 272. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Marginal browning of pastedown, f.e.p., half-title and title.A few spots/ink stains on very occasional leaves, otherwise text crisp and clean. Bookplate of Dr William Sargant. Ex libris Aberdeen Medical Society 1793 handwritten on f.e.p., and on title with donor's name. |
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* This first edition in Latin not in Blake. Wellcome IV, p. 96; Waller 6398. Mead's last book and consisting of a wide range of miscellaneous writings on neurological, mental, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, eye, skin and other diseases and conditions - HoH 771. Mead paid considerable attention to mental illness and made a number of interesting observations. He doubted whether mania and melancholia were essentially different. However, Mead's greatest influence on psychiatry was his theory that insanity was incompatible with other major disease because the body had not the power to sustain the two simultaneously; this was later shown to be false but resurfaced in the 1930s in terms of the incompatibility of schizophrenia and epilepsy (Hunter & Macalpine, p. 385-6). The first edition is scarce. £150 |
| 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 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
DE VARIOLIS ET MORBILIS LIBER. Huic accessit RHAZIS, medici inter Arabis celeberrimi, de iisdem morbis Commentarius |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. London, John Brindley, 1747. pp. xvi, 197. Contemporary full calf (a little rubbed), rebacked with new label. Old manuscript on front pastedown; light marginal staining of first and last leaves and some fingering in margins of text |
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* Wellcome IV, p. 96; G&M 5417 - 'Includes a Latin translation of Rhaze's commentary. Mead favoured inoculation, and his great authority and influence helped towards a more general acceptance of this measure'. £265 |
| Author: |
MEAD, Richard |
| Title: |
A MECHANICAL ACCOUNT OF POISONS IN SEVERAL ESSAYS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION but may be a pirate edition. London, Printed by J.R. for Ralph South, 1702. pp. (xiv), 175, (i); 1 folding engraved Plate. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked retaining original label, corners repaired. Slight soiling of title page, mainly at margins, otherwise a clean copy. |
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* Blake, p. 295. Mead's first and most important published work and based on numerous experiments done during his leisure time. Apart from the well known essay on the viper and its anatomy (he tasted viper venom with no ill effects) other essays include the tarantula, the mad dog and opium. £265 |
| Author: |
MORTIMER, W. G. |
| Title: |
PERU. HISTORY OF COCA. "THE DIVINE PLANT" OF THE INCAS. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. New York, J.H.Vail & Company, 1901. pp. xxxi, 576; Frontis. and numerous Figs. Original red cloth, recased. Ex lib. with small stamp only at top of both f.e.ps, title and first page of Preface. |
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* G&M 2040.1 - The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Research on the active principle, cocaine, is documented from its isolation in 1859 to the end of the 19th century. £210 |
| Author: |
MORTON, Richard |
| Title: |
OPERA MEDICA, IN TRES TOMOS DISTRIBUTA. I. DE PHTHISI. II. DE MORBIS. III. DE FEBRIBUS |
| Description: |
Editio ultima Emendiator. Amsterdam, Donatum Donati, 1696. pp. Frontis. port. (small stain in centre), (xiv), 206, 2 folding Tables; (xlviii), 242, (xii - Index); (xl), 318, (xvii Đ Index). Later half vellum with decorated boards, retaining old label. Old (obliterated) inscription at foot of title page which is lightly browned. Occasional spotting, staining but text mainly clean and crisp. |
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* Wellcome IV, p. 185; Krivatsky 8126 (deficient). Richard Morton (1637-89), of London, was a careful observer and skilled physician. This collection includes his classic on tuberculosis (G&M 3216 - 'the first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis..'). The third book, on fevers, contains a lengthy account of smallpox. £210 |
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