De l’homicide commis par les enfants
by MOREAU, Paul
Paris: Asselin and Co, 1882. FIRST EDITION. Later cloth-backed marbled boards (stained). Presentation inscription from the author to Dr. Émile Blanche. Light dampstaining throughout, but still a good, complete copy. First edition, a curious occultist study of murderous minors. In the late 19th century, with the waning popularity of time-occupying apprenticeships and the influx of accessible media and popular culture, child crime became a problem and buzzword within European society (think Oliver Twist…). Cases in which sons and daughters... Read More
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Traité de la médecine légale des aliénés
by MOREL, Bénédict Augustin
Paris: Victor Masson and Son, 1866. FIRST EDITION. Original wrappers bound in morocco-backed boards. Some very light dampstaining and foxing. First edition of the first history of medical jurisprudence of insanity. The author begins his study with the ancient Romans and biblical figures, asserting that they often conflated mental illness with supernaturalism and divine power and thus, the mentally ill were not often prosecuted. He goes on to describe the medieval and early modern era, when mentally ill people... Read More
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De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque
by MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista
Venice: Remondini, 1761. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Separate titles to each volume; first title in red and black. Frontispiece portrait by Jean Renard (i.e. Giovanni Volpato, 1733-1803), engraved title vignettes. Two contemporary signatures on first blank, the first of Dr. Aug. Leop. Ulrich and the second, "Fac. Wolff, M.D., confluentiae;" errata on leaf m4r crossed out by a contemporary hand and all corrections made by same hand. Bound in old vellum with new endpapers; lower fore-edge with light waterstain,... Read More
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De sedibus, et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis libri quinque
by MORGAGNI, Giovanni Battista
Venice: Remondini, 1761. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Separate titles to each volume. Frontispiece portrait by Jean Renard (i.e. Giovanni Volpato, 1733-1803), engraved title vignettes. Contemporary annotation on first blank more extensive annotations (possibly notes dealing with medical diagnoses and remedies for specific patients) on last blank. Beautiful contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments; minor spotting and browning. First edition, second issue (the sole difference apparently being that the first issue title page is in red and black), of one... Read More
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The mechanical practice of physick: in which the specifick method is examin’d and exploded; and the Bellinian hypothesis of animal secretion and muscular motion, consider'd and refuted. With some occasional remarks and scholia on Dr. Lobb’s Treatise of the small pox, Dr. Robinson on the animal oeconomy, and Professor Boerhaave’s Account of the animal spirits and muscular motion
by MORGAN, Thomas
London: T. Woodward, 1735. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, rebacked with spine label; interior incredibly crisp and clean, a fantastic copy. First edition of this very interesting book, considering the author’s background. Morgan uses his own experiences as a physician to educate the reader on medical topics and situations such as sudorifics, labor and newborn challenges, fermentation, the heart, and the “mechanical effects of medicines in general” with a focus on how to treat different... Read More
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La platine, l’or blanc, ou le huitieme métal
by [MORIN, Claude]
Paris: Breton, Durand, Pissot, and Lambert, 1758. Folding typographic table. Contemporary mottled calf, spine and label gilt, red edges. Bookplate and ownership inscription of M. Grignon, ownership inscription on the half-title of Jules-Emile du Pressoir. An excellent copy. First edition, the first French monograph on platinum. The author, who published this book anonymously, compiles the available information and studies by other natural historians before describing the metal’s properties: its weight, ductility, reactivity, and interaction with fire. The rest of... Read More
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The human zoo
by MORRIS, Desmond
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. Yellow boards with black cloth and gilt title on spine, dustjacket unclipped with slight rubbing to corners, book plate of Michael Overcash; signed “Best wishes from Demond Morris” on title page. A clean copy. Signed first American edition, second printing as stated. Following the fame of Morris’ first book, he continues down the path of studying humans and “scrutinizes the society the naked ape has created for himself and compares civilized man with... Read More
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The naked ape
by MORRIS, Desmond
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Grey and green cloth with gilt title on spine, dustjacket clipped in all four corners with some ware to edges; book plate of Michael Overcash with inscription; signed “Best wishes from Demond Morris” on title page. A crisp and clean copy of this monumental work. Signed first edition. “Try as he may to ignore the genetic legacy of his evolutionary past, man remains – despite his erudition and inspirations – essentially a... Read More
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An itinerary written by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English; containing his ten yeeres travel through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, Englan, Scotland and Ireland. . .
by MORYSON, Fynes
London: John Beale, 1617. FIRST EDITION. Without the first and final blanks as in most copies. Recent calf in an antique style, spine tooled in gilt with a red morocco label, top edge gilt; interior in excellent condition. With a fascinating provenance (see below). First edition of one of the most famous and fascinating early modern travel accounts, one of the great seventeenth-century works of its kind. Moryson singles out all the “monuments in each place, worth the seeing.”... Read More
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My Life's History
by MOSES, Grandma
[New York]: Harper & Brothers, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated in color. Facsimile documents. Quarter red morocco over patterned boards with gilt titled spine, patterned end-papers, top edge gilt. Light soiling and shelf-wear to boards, near fine. First edition, Number 93 of 270 copies signed by Grandma Moses. A wonderful autobiography of the American folk-artist. Anna May Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961) began her painting career at age 78. Her works have been exhibited around the world, and are often seen... Read More
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An account of an extraordinary case of Diabetes Mellitus." In The American Medical and Philosophical Register, Vol. I, No. III, pp. 347-56, January, 1811
by MOTT, Valentine
New York: E. Sargeant, 1811. Original printed top wrapper. Uncut. Austin, 1347. First edition. Mott (1785-1865) was a professor of surgery at Columbia, where he graduated, and was on the founding faculty of the university medical college of New York, now New York University School of Medicine.
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Prophéties perpétuelles, très-curieuses & très-certaines
by MOULT, Thomas Joseph
Naples: Raymond, 1769. Modern boards. Old stamps « BJ » on the title, old pen trials on the title verso. Title page repaired, some marginal dampstaining. You’ve heard of the perpetual calendar, now get ready for the perpetual fortune teller. Providing insights for every year from 1269 to 2024, it is based on a supposed 28-year orbit of the sun, so that the fortunes repeat every 28 years. Thus, the predictions for the years 1800, 1828, 1856, and 1884 are the... Read More
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Moeurs et pratiques des demons ou des esprits visiteurs
by GOUGENOT DES MOUSSEAUX
Paris: Henri Plon, 1865. Original printed blue wrappers (loss to bottom corner of the rear panel, torn at the base of spine). Somewhat foxed. Unopened. Second edition, expanded and augmented, of this comprehensive study of demonology. His final anti-Satanism diatribe, Gougenot, explains here the evidence of the supernatural world and its necessary inclusion of evil spirits, which may interfere with the activities of the living in order to expand their dominion. He denounces Spiritualism as a Satanic sect through... Read More
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History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry
by MOYER, H.P. [editor]
[Lebanon, PA]: [privately published], 1911. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth with gilt vignette on front cover and gilt spine, sunned, extremities rubbed; ex-libris. First edition.
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Archiv für anatomie, physiologie und Wissenschaftliche Medicin
by MÜLLER, Johannes
Berlin: G. Eichler, 1836. FIRST EDITION. With 15 engraved plates (10 folding). All in the original wrappers, uncut and unopened; minor scattered browning. An exquisite copy. First edition of Müller’s second work in which he first enumerates his law of specific nerve energies, demonstrating that the sensory system of the eye, in addition to responding to external stimuli, can also be excited by internal stimuli of various sorts, such as those arising from organic malfunction, lingering images, or from... Read More
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Miracula & mysteria chymico-medica libris quinque (quorum summam pagina versa exhibet) enucleata ... Accesserunt his, 1. Tyrocinium chymicum. 2. Novum lumen chymicum ..
by MÜLLER, Philipp
Wittebergae: Sumptibus Clement Bergeri, typis Johannis Haken, 1623. FOURTH EDITION. Title in red and black, woodcut illustrations, head- and tail-pieces. Complete with all blanks and index. Bound in a contemporary vellum manuscript, supralibros stamped onto the front cover, edges gauffered; a few leaves very browned (paper stock) but overall a fantastic copy with 2 contemporary ownership inscriptions, one dated 1674, and a small stamp on title. Fourth edition of Müller’s work, first printed in 1610, an illustrated Paracelsian manual... Read More
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The Westminster Alice
by MUNRO, Hector H. (“SAKI”)
London: Reprinted from the Westminster Gazette, 1902. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. With numerous text illustrations by F. Carruthers Gould. Original printed wrappers, stapled twice, smallo tear to front wrapper from the spine; interior excellent. Pencil signature on the top wrapper from D. Temple Munro (?). First printing in book form. A collection of vignettes originally published in the Westminster Gazette of London. One of a number of wonderful political parodies of Lewis Carroll’s famous books, Alice finds herself... Read More
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Red cross & iron cross. By a doctor in France
by [MUNTHE, Axel]
London: John Murray, 1916. FIRST EDITION. including half-title and 2 pages publisher’s advertisements. Original boards with paper labels, minor water damage to covers; damp-staining, especially to first and last few gatherings. Complete with French Red Cross slip laid in. First edition. Written during World War I and published anonymously, the author donated his entire profits from this book to the French Red Cross. BMC, XVIII, 85.
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Opera medica; editio novissima....; De arthritide symptomatica dissertation & De arthritide anomala
by SYDENHAM; MUSGRAVE
Geneva: Gabriel de Tournes, 1723. Each has separate title page, the first in red & black; frontispiece portrait of Sydenham, engraved vignettes, initials, head- and tailpieces. Modern full calf with old (original) backstrip laid down. An exceptionally clean copy with few wormtrails. This Opera, the second of nine editions in Latin from Sydenham's collected works, contains a number of dissertations on epidemics in various cities and regions of continental Europe during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Among... Read More
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ALS to George Agar-Ellis
by NASH, John
1837. Remnants of wax seal. Written in a light brown ink in a slanting, delicate cursive. The Homble | Geo: Agar Ellis | Spring Gardens My dear Sir My friend Mr. Hyde Villiers means to plead his cause in the House of Commons this evening respecting his return from Hedon. The most eminent Lawyers considering that his plea is founded on Law & justice he is anxious for a full hearing and I shall esteem it a... Read More
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De l’administration des finances de la France
by NECKER, Jacques
n.p.: n.p., 1784. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut chapter headings, folding table. Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt spines; an excellent set. First edition, possibly the first printing, of Necker’s famous work on the financial health of France. A very interesting and possibly unique copy, bibliographically. The collation differs from every copy we have examined. These volumes were printed from a smaller set of type and thus contains fewer leaves though the text is exactly the same in virtually all other copies of... Read More
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Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires
by NEGRIER, Charles
Paris, 1840. FIRST EDITION. 11 full-page lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt red sheep-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Old bookseller label of A. Maloine. Light foxing, but otherwise a good copy. [With:] Recueil de faits pour server a l’histoire des ovaires et des affections hystériques de la femme. Angers: Cosnier and Lachèse 1858. 8vo. viii, 176 pp. First editions of these two landmark medical texts on the human ovaries which shifted the clinical opinion of the uterus... Read More
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Elemens de pathologie chirurgicale
by NELATON, A.
Paris: Germer Bailliere, 1844. FIRST EDITION. A very nice set uniformly bound in contemporary French calf-backed marbled boards, small tear to cover of second volume. First edition of the author's greatest work, containing all of his surgical innovations and discoveries, including the first descriptions of "Nélaton's tumour" and "Nélaton's line". Among the surgical instruments he invented are a porcelain-tipped bullet probe and a flexible rubber catheter which bears his name. In addition, there are a number of chapters pertaining... Read More
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Dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de tunicis vaginalibus testis et funiculi spermatici...
by NEUBAUER, Joannes Ernestus
Giessae: Ex Officina Bravniana, 1767. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. With 1 folding engraved plate, engraved vignettes, initials and headpieces. An uncut copy in boards. First and only edition. Neubauer (1742-1777) gives a thorough account of the generative male organ citing opinions and works by authors from Vesalius to many of his contemporaries. The figures on the engraved plate depict how sperm is produced and travels through the male organ.
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Physiologie des amoureux
by NEUFVILLE, Etienne de
Paris, 1841. FIRST EDITION. Wood engravings throughout. Later blue cloth. Minor foxing, but otherwise a good copy. First edition, a facetious allegorical typology of lovers. In the first part, the author attempts to define love and differentiate between people who are in love and those who are not. He describes the traits of love at different ages, and codifies six temperaments indicative of love: sanguine, bilious, melancholic, lymphatic, athletic, and nervous. He goes on to list the ways love... Read More
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