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- The Works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with Notes. Edited by James F. Palmer. (with the Plates volume)
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,617.23
- Publisher: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Date Published: 1835
- Description: first collected edition; text complete in 4 volumes octavo, with portrait (silhouette bust) and a folding facsimile of a letter in first volume + the Plates volume, quarto, 27, [1] pp., frontispiece adapted from the Joshua Reynolds portrait, 61 plates with some folding (Numbered I-XXVI, XXVI*, XXVII-LX), the text volumes in later half cloth and the plates in full cloth but the spines and corners matching; sides darkened and dulled, private book plates, a group of leaves in the fourth volume detached but all present, general age toning and all the pictorial matter has age spotting or age staining, the long plate of the electric eel tattered and soiled at outside margin but image not touched, good. Volumes Included: 5
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- Alberti v. Haller ... primae lineae physiologiae, in usum praelectionum academicarum, ad editionem tertio auctam & emendatam expressae. Accedit rerum index.
- ISBN: NA Price: $128.70
- Publisher: Edinburgi: Sumptibus G. Drummond nec non Kincaid & Bell Date Published: 1767
- Description: [12] (beginning with half title), 538 pp., the only illustration is the title vignette; library and private ownership markings, calf binding worn with front cover almost deatched, paper not fragile but age toned and block breaking into two segments, good- only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 803443
- Hunterian Lectures on the Development & Transition of the Testis, Normal and Abnormal.
- ISBN: NA Price: $53.86
- Publisher: London: Williams & Norgate, Date Published: 1888
- Description: first book edition, previously published in the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology; [viii], 122 pp., 2 double page plates with multiple figures; red original cloth darkened at spine and margins, signature of a contemporary owner and book plate of a modern one, overall good+; human testis but due to an inability to acquire human embryos in the very early stages of development some conclusions are drawn from those of chicks and rabbits. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 854082
- The Engines of the Human Body. Being the substance of Christmas Lectures given at the Royal institution of Great Britain, Christmas,1916-1917.
- ISBN: NA Price: $38.73
- Publisher: Londin: Williams and Norgate, Date Published: 1919
- Description: first edition; xii, 284 pp. folding plate, illustrations in text; original cloth dulled, book plate of a private owner, the plate has misfold creases and tattered at fore edge but no loss, good; "the machinery of our bodies is regarded in this book from a somewhat novel point of view, that of the mechanical engineer",. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 841270
- Anatomical Eponyms ... With a foreword by the late Frederic Wood.
- ISBN: 0443001529 Price: $107.08
- Publisher: Edinburgh/London: E. & S. Livingstone, Date Published: 1962
- Description: Second Edition, signed by author on title; large octavo, [viii], 235 pp., frontispiece (Versalius); book plate of Noble Suydam Rustum Maluf and at the end he has added a pocket containing six color negatives of of kidney casts in the Royal College of Surgeons and a related letter that have nothing to do with the book, else very good in jacket and original cloth; "Being a biographical dictionary of those anatomists whose names have become incorporated into anatomical nomenclature, with definitions of the structures to which their names have been attached and references to the works in which they are described.", anatomy only, no diseases or conditions e.g. the reader will find Bell's Nerve and Bell's Muscle but not Bell's Palsy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, human anatomy, biographical dictionaries, eponyms, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 841335
- Dissertation physique de Mr. Pierre Camper, sur les differences reelles que presentent les traits du visage chez les hommes de differents pays et de differents ages; ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,022.86
- Publisher: A Utrecht: Chez B. Wild & J. Altheer Date Published: 1791
- Description: sur le beau qui caracterise les statues antiques et les pierres gravees. Suivie de la proposition d'une nouvelle methode pour dessiner toutes sortes de tetes humaines avec la plus grande surete.; first edition in French; quarto, viii, 114, [2] pp., 9 folding plates, 1 folding diagram; old unprinted paper covers chipped at spine and with small ink blot on front cover, book plate of naturalist Charles Atwood Kofoid, library ownership perforations, small hand stamp, a few smudges but overall clean and an untrimmed copy, now in a rubbed quarter cloth slipcase and cloth covered folder; an important transitional work that goes beyond the speculations of Lavater but is not as methodologically complex as the work of Blemenbach and later students of crainiometrics; that there is some relationship between the configuration of the skull and facial appearance in undoubted but Camper went beyond this simple correlation to suggest that character and even intelligence could be derived from accurate measurements, particularly through the use of the facial angle which is formed by the intersection of a line running from the ears to the nostrils with one from the forehead to the front teeth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, crainiology, cephalometry, human anatomy Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 480749
- Atlas der Entwicklung der Nase und des Gaumens beim Menschen mit Einschluss der Entwicklungsstorungen.
- ISBN: NA Price: $91.50
- Publisher: Jena: Veerlag von Gustav Fischer, Date Published: 1913
- Description: first edition; quarto, vii, [1], 130 pp. followed by a section of approximately (the numbering is a little irregular) 189 figures, some two or three to a plate along with facing explanatory text pages; original cloth faded at spine and margins with front hinge cracked, private book plate, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science and medicine, human anatomy, embryology, nose, palate, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858573
- The Morphology of the Skull.
- ISBN: NA Price: $224.20
- Publisher: London: Macmillan, Date Published: 1877
- Description: first edition; small octavo, xv, [1], 368 pp., small illustrations in text; red flexible cloth, darkened and rubbed with hinges weak, light general age toning to text, book plate and signatures of previous owners, good; dogfish, frog, snake, fowl, pig, etc.. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805643
- Adversaria anatomica (quarta, quinta, sexta, i.e. Adversaria anatomica omnia ... Volumes 4-6)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,441.05
- Publisher: Patavii: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, Vulpiorum aere, Date Published: 1719
- Description: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 only; first editions of these volumes, all quarto and with their own title pages and imprints; (Volume 4) [xvi], 91, [1] pp., 1 plate with five figures + (Volume 5) [viii], 224 pp, 2 plates + (Volume 6) [viii], 137, [1] pp. , 2 plates, [2] (advertisement) pp.; later cloth lightened at spine and library book plate on front free endpaper, the only marking on the interior in a small number hand stamp on first title, a few sections age toned but an overall very good and an untrimmed copy with clear impressions of the plates; most of these volumes devoted to comments on the Theatrum anatomicum of Jean-Jaques Manget, Volume 5 also contains "Joannis Mariae Lancisii ... Dissertationes duae anatomico-medicae nuper ad auctorem scriptae, altera De vena sine pari, altera De gangliis nervorum" on pages 75-124. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, human anatomy, pathological anatomy Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 534558
- Buchanan's Manual of Anatomy. Eighth Edition.
- ISBN: NA Price: $189.30
- Publisher: London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, Date Published: 1949
- Description: eighth edition but the second under Jones' editorship with a return to an emphasis on gross topographical anatomy; large, thick octavo, viii, 1616 pp., 48 plates, illustrations in text; book plate and signature of a private owner, jacket has a few margin chips, still very good in original cloth. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: medicine, human anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 856507
- Atlas of Descriptive Human Anatomy. Edited and Translated from the 13th German Edition by Eduard Uhlenhuth. Volume III. Blood Vessels, Nervous System, Sense Organs, Integument and Lymphatics.
- ISBN: NA Price: $13.76
- Publisher: NY: Hafner, Date Published: 1957
- Description: Volume 3 only; 7th English Edition; quarto, xviii, 390 pp., profusion of illustrations with many color or partial color; original cloth now slightly faded, bookplate, overall very good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: medicine, human anatomy mll Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 859529
- Primates. Comparative Anatomy and Taxonomy. (8 volumes)
- ISBN: NA Price: $738.94
- Publisher: Edinburgh: At the University Press (imprint varies), Date Published: 1953
- Description: Volumes 1 through 8, all published, a final volume was projected but never issued; all first editions (Volume 8 was issued before Volume 7), quarto, very well illustrated after photographs and line drawings by Hill's wife Yvonne, includes distribution maps; 1. Strepsirhini. 2. Haplorhini: Tarsioidea. 3. Pithecoidea: Platyrrhini (Families Hapalidae and Callimiconidae). 4. Cebidae. Part A. 5. Cebidae. Part B. 6. Catarrhini, Cercopithecoidea, Cercopithecinae. 7. Cynopithecinae: Cercocebus, Macaca, Cynopithecus. 8. Cynopithecinae: Papio, Mandrillus, Theropithecus.; book plate of a private owner in each volume but very good+ in jackets and original cloth; an enormous undertaking thoroughly treating not only living but all known extinct primates (at one time the author was drawn into the Yeti controversy but cryptozoological primates are for obvious reasons excluded, as are humans). Volumes Included: 8
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- Item Number: 705537
- The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. (Volumes 1-4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,200.80
- Publisher: London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper (later by Longman, etc.) Date Published: 1836
- Description: the complete main work in 4 volumes but lacks the Supplementary Volume; first edition; small. thick quarto, total of over 4000 pages with numerous small illustrations in text; library and private ownership markings including Chester Royal Infirmary book plates on front covers of original cloth, spines worn with tears and chipping, blocks sound but needs rebacking, general age toning to text, good only; contributors include Marshall Hall, Sir Richard Quaim, Richard Grainger, Richard Owen, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Thomas Bell, Sir James Paget, Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, et al.. Volumes Included: 4
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- Item Number: 705569
- Recherches sur le systeme vasculaire dans la sanguine de l'Hippopotome.
- ISBN: NA Price: $137.50
- Publisher: Paris: Imprimerie de Mallet-Bachelier, Date Published: 1860
- Description: quarto, 4 pp.; the unprinted paper wrappers tattered and a modern owner has added a pen note that it was reprintred "Compte rendu l'Acad. de Sci. ... 1860" but there is no confirmation of this in the text, good. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 849477
- Arteriographie des membres et de l'aorte abdominale. Avec 54 planches originales. Preface du professeur Leriche.
- ISBN: NA Price: $295.17
- Publisher: Paris: Masson et Cie, Date Published: 1931
- Description: first edition; xi, [1], 192, 48 (ads) pp. 54 full page illustrations after radiographs included in the pagination; book plate and signature of a previous owner, original paper wrappers taped at spine, advertising section age toned, overall good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, human anatomy, arteries, angiography, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 849546
- Lecons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee de l'homme et des animaux, faites a la Faculte de sciences de Paris. (Volumes 1-13)
- ISBN: NA Price: $613.14
- Publisher: Paris: Victor Masson, Date Published: 1857
- Description: Volumes 1 through 13 only (of 14); almost uniformly bound in red quarter leather with paper covered board sides (the first volume is visually very close but has no raised bands and no border on spine title); bindings rubbed with a few short peel marks, book plates of a modern private owner, hand stamp of a different owner on title of first volume and hand stamp of a library on tile of last (but no other library markings), a few light damp stains at text margins and one volume has red pencil marginalia in one section, sound and good+ copies. Volumes Included: 13
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- Item Number: 705375
- Recherches sur l'osteologie et la myologie des batraciens a leurs differens ages; presentee a l'Academie royale des sciences ... par Ant. Duges.
- ISBN: NA Price: $261.84
- Publisher: Paris/Londres: J.-B. Bailliere, Date Published: 1834
- Description: Extrait des Memoires des savans etrangers; large quarto (leaves 27 cm. tall), [2] (half title), v, [1], 7-116, [6] (table, errata) pp., 20 plates (I-VI, VI bis, VII, VII bis, VIII-XVII, Pl. Additionnelle); book plate of a private owner, later cloth with original paper sides bound in (imprint on front cover dated 1835), light age staining throughout including the plates; a good+, untrimmed copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, amphibians, anatomy, MLL Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 858687
- Researches Upon the Anatomy of the Pinnipedia. (Part III.) Descriptive Anatomy of the Sea-lion (Otaria jubata) (from Transactions of the Zoological Society of London)
- ISBN: NA Price: $262.95
- Publisher: London: Date Published: 1874
- Description: Part 3 only; first edition; small folio, 100 pp., 8 plates with one of them double page and some partially color; library and private ownership markings, general light age toning, last plate dark at one corner with no images touched, later cloth soiled but sound, overall good+. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 805627
- Tratado de anatomÃa pictorica , inspeccionado por la Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, y aprobado por el gobierno de S.M. para el studio de los pintores y escultores.
- ISBN: NA Price: $631.67
- Publisher: Madrid /Valencia : Jose Ma. Faquinto, Editor-Librero, Date Published: 1891
- Description: small folio (32 cm. tall), 99, [4] pp, pictorial title, 18 plates with explanatory text on facing pages; paper wrappers lightly tattered and front cover detached, text browned but partially unopened, good only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 679865
- A Probationary Essay on the Obturatrix Artery, its Varieties and Surgical Relations; submitted, by authority of the President and his Council to the Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when candidate for admission ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $95.75
- Publisher: Edinburgh: Printed by P. Neill, Date Published: 1829
- Description: first edition; small octavo, [viii] (beginning with half title), 56 pp., 2 plates with red and blue hand coloring of the arteries; an early owner has added a pen note on title that MacFarlane was admitted the next month, very good in unprinted mauve paper wrappers and scarce as a first. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of medicine, human anatomy, arteries, surgery, JZX Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 866942
