Authors starting with L from Edwin V Glaser Rare Books

Paris: Béchet Jedune. 1836-37. Occasional foxing. A very good copy of the first edition.. Contemp. half calf over marbled boards vi, 692; 4, (1), 634 pp., in double- columns. Sm. 4to, volumes one and two (of four), . An exhaustive work that eventually ran to four volumes. Scarce. Not in Wellcome or Waller. ... more information

Béchet Jeune, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine. 1836-1846. Gilt on spine rubbed; corners of binding bumped. Some foxing. A very. good set.. Quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and bands on spine First edition. c.4978 pp. 8vo,8vols. ... more information

Paris: Chez Buisson. anXII - 1803. A fine copy of the first edition.. Later marbled boards 153, (1) pp. 8vo. An uncommon book. OCLC shows only three locations, just one in the United States (Johns Hopkins). ... more information

Paris: Hippolytum-Ludovicum Guerin. 1751. With a privilege leaf and signed approbation. A fine copy.. Contemp. mottled calf, spine gilt Second edition(?) 15, 238, (2) pp. 8vo. First published in 1749, both editions are seemingly quite rare, with no copies in Blake, Wellcome, or Waller. --Hirsch, III, 641. BMC (Readex Edition) XXIII, 1123. ... more information

Paris: P. G. Cavelier. 1761. Extremities rubbed; joints just starting. Large ownership stamp of. (Charles Daniel) Gaultier de Claubry on front pastedown and front. blank. A very good copy of the fifth edition.. Contemp. mottled calf, marbled endpapers xxiii, 552 pp. Sm. 8vo. First published in Paris in 1738, this extremely popular text went through at least ten Paris editions and was translated into Italian and Spanish. Blake, p. 251. Wellcome III, p. 430. ... more information

Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan. 1644. Final leaf of index torn with slight loss. Variable foxing and. staining.. Contemp. mottled calf, rebacked orig. spine laid down (40), 979, (82) pp. Vignette on title page, numerous engraved head-and tail-pieces and initials. Thick folio, . This massive and ambitious work was first published in shorter form in 1613 and went through several editions. "Er gilt als grosser Ignorant, besonders bezüglich der Anatomie, und soll A. Paré in servilster Weise copirt... more information

Geneva: J.J. Paschoud. 1825. Some very light wear to wrappers. Some light foxing to the text. A. near fine copy.. Contemp. marbled wrapps. First separate edition. (2), 21 pp., One simple woodcut head-and-tailpiece. 4to. Wheeler Gift Catalogue, I, 818. Ronalds, p. 287. ... more information

Milwaukee: Lakeside Laboratories. 1956. A fine copy of the first edition.. Orig. cloth (62 )pp., 31 full-page color plates. Thin 8vo. ... more information

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. (1966.). Very good.. Cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. ... more information

(Denver). (1981),. A fine copy.. Orig. boards, paper label Facsimile of the Paris 1804 first edition. 8vo. With an English translation in a separate volume bound in stiff wrappers. A facsimile of Laennec's doctoral thesis, produced in a small edition by the distinguished bibliophile-historian-physician, Nolie Mumey, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Laennec's birth. ... more information

Paris: Gabon. 1818. Some marginal staining to first few leaves. A very good copy.. Later marbled paper wrapps. xxx, 623pp., with a folding table. 8vo. Wellcome III, 432. ... more information

Paris: Gabon. 1818. Early ownership signature on half-title. A fine copy of the corrected. and considerably enlarged fifth edition.. Full tree calf, spine gilt xxx, 623pp., with a folding table. 8vo. Wellcome III, 432. ... more information

Boston. 1947. A very good copy.. Orig. printed paper wrapps. pp. 130-136. 12mo. ... more information

Boston. 1942. A very good copy.. Orig. printed paper wrapps. pp. 226-227. 12 mo. ... more information

Paris, Brussels: Chez l'auteur & Crevot. 1828. A very good copy of the augmented 2nd edition.. Orig. printed wrapps. x, (11)-156, (1), with two large folding plates of instruments. 8vo. OCLC locates only two copies of this edition as well as two copies only of the 1826 first edition. ... more information

Paris: Gabon. 1825. Scattered light foxing; a very good copy of the 2nd edition.. Later quarter calf over marbled boards xvi, (17)-143 pp., with 4 figures on two folding plates. 8vo. Although Lallemand is quite well known for his Recherches Anatomico-Pathologiques sur l'Encéphale, 1820-23, this later title is scarce. Not in Wellcome or Waller. ... more information

Paris: H. Agasse. 1806. A bit of light wear to the edges of the spine. A fine copy.. Contemp. quarter-calf over marbled boards with vellum tips, yellow edges First edition. xxiv, 432 pp., A few simple woodcut headpieces in the text. 8vo. Singer, History of Biology, p. 195. Pritzel 5007. Wellcome, III p. 435. Stafleu & Cowan 988. Not in Waller. ... more information

Washington, D.C.: GPO. 1922,. A very good, unopened copy.. Orig. printed paper wrapps pp. 511-522. 8vo. offprint from the Smithsonian Report for 1920. ... more information

Chicago: American Medical Association. 1944. Covers slightly sunned along edges. Rubber stamped signature of J.B.. de C.M. Saunders and numbers on front cover. A very good copy.. Orig. printed wrapps. Reprinted with addtions, from the Archives of Surgery, January 1944, Vol. 48, pp. 53-72. 20 pp., with 10 figures in the text. 8vo. ... more information

NP: The Journal of Educational Psychology. 1935. With the ownership rubberstamp of J.B. de C.M. Saunders in the upper. margin of the first page (above the drop-title), not affecting the. text. A near fine copy of the first separate edition.. Stapled as issued pp. 587-596, with four tables in the text. 8vo. An offprint from The Journal of Educational Psychology, November, 1935. ... more information