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‘The Father of Swedish Surgery’

1 ACREL, Olof af. UTFÖRLIG FÖRKLARING OM FRISKA SÄRS EGENSKA-PER, i afseende til deras särskilta natur, kännetecken och pafölgder, med bihang af nagra slutsatzer, om deras lethalitet samt huru och i hwad form eller ordasätt wittnesbörd deröfwer ma lämmas ... Stockholm, Tryck hos Lars Salvius, 1745.

8vo, pp. [x], [9]- 339, [1] errata; lightly foxed throughout, with a few gatherings a little browned, small tear at tail of A5, and very small worm-trail affecting lower gutter from U through to end just touching a couple of letters but with no loss; an attractive copy in contemporary half-calf over sprinkled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, with gold label lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, some light surface wear and soiling, extremities a little bumped and rubbed. £485

First edition of A detailed explanation on the characteristics of wounds, by one of the greatest and most influential physicians in Sweden in the eighteenth century Olaf af Acrel, considered to be an early, if not the first Swedish scientific treatise on surgery.

Olof Acrel (1717–1806) studied at Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus and Nils Rosén von Rosenstein. Developing an interest in surgery, in 1740 he was given a state grant and spent five years travelling across Europe, studying with Albrecht von Haller in Göttingen, Petit and Astruc in Paris, Cheselden in London, and also under Sharp at Guy’s Hospital. The outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession saw him join the French Army, rising to become chief surgeon of a large field-hospital at Lauterburg. He returned to Sweden in 1744 and together with the physician Abraham Bäck, established Sweden’s first National hospital in 1752, the Royal Seraphim Lazarette in Stockholm, holding the position of chief surgeon for nearly half a century. He was among the first in Sweden to perform eye operations and received many honours from throughout Europe. His comprehensive Chirurgiska Händelser (Surgical Cases), published in 1759 (with a second illustrated edition in 1775) proved to be a highly influential surgical textbook across Europe, describing operations in detail and discussing improved instruments.

Blake p. 4; Hirsch I, p. 50; Waller 215; not in Heirs, Osler or Wellcome; see Hagelin, Rare and Important Medical Books, pp. 122–3; see Hæger, The Illustrated History of Surgery, pp. 166–7;OCLC: 14333319 cites only the NLM copy, with a further copy located at the National Library of Sweden.

2 BEAUFORT, Amédée, Comte de. RECHERCHES SUR LA PROTHÈSE DES MEMBRES Paris, P. Asselin, Successeur de Béchet jeune et Labe, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine ... 1867.

8vo, pp. [iv], 107, [1] blank; with numerous text illustrations; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality; in contemporary blue cloth backed boards, small nick in spine, joints and extremities lightly rubbed and worn; a good copy. £350

Rare first edition of this detailed and well illustrated guide to artificial limbs, written by Amédée Comte de Beaufort. A subject of great interest for many years, Beaufort describes a number of articulated devices of his own invention for amputations of both upper and lower limbs. Having been appointed as ‘d’inspecteur général adjoint des établissements de bienfaisance’ in 1847 his motivation in particular was to help the less fortunate in society, with an emphasis on designing simple, practical and inexpensive prostheses, that would be more widely available. A further catalyst for

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his work was the Crimean and Italian campaigns of the 1860s which had left a vast number of amputees. The present work highlights a number of inventions, including his lightweight articulated wooden leg prosthesis, composed of two splints articulated at knee level, as well as his articulated arm and hand, which was controlled by the amp-utee through a shoulder harness. The controlling power started with a strap buttoned into the front button of the trousers, passed through a loop to the opposite axilla, over to the amputated side to a pulley at the elbow, and then to the artificial hand. He also invented a simple hand with a movable thumb and a more complicated one in which repeated pulls on the same cord opened and closed the fingers. As the present work reveals, Beaufort had presented his inventions for peer review, and had received the considerable praise and support of both Broca and Larrey, and which led to Army authorities adopting his models for their staff in 1864. The Assistance Publique also adopted both his ‘arm with a useful hand’ and his articulated clamp hook for general use in civilian hospitals, a viable and much cheaper solution to alternative more realistic and expensive models.

See Robertston, Rehabilitation of Arm Amputees and Limb Deficient Children, p. 28; not in Peltier or Rang; OCLC: 14861180 locates copies at the National Library of Medicine, Columbia, Amsterdam, BnF, and the British Library.

3 BELL, Benjamin. ARSENAL DE CHIRURGIE, ou recueil des instruments et des manières d’opérer adoptées par les modernes, Gravés pour le Cours de Chirurgie. A Paris, Chez Théophile Barrois le jeune, Libraire, quai des Augustins, no 18. An IV. [1796].

4to, pp. [iv], with 99 engraved plates, and one unnumbered plate; faint dampstaining throughout affecting lower part of plate and sometimes touching image, with some dampstaining at head affecting latter part of work; in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, inner hinge cracked but holding, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label, spine repaired, extremities rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £985

Extremely rare French first separate edition, with a print run of only 25 printed on vellum paper according to the half-title, of this fine surgical atlas by Benjamin Bell, originally published as part of his noted six volume System of Surgery (1783–1788).

Benjamin Bell was the leading Scottish surgeon of his time and the founder of a surgical dynasty which extended into the twentieth century. He was born in Dumfries, where he served as an apprentice and then went to Edinburgh at the age of seventeen, where he studied under the Monros’. He spent two years studying in Paris, before a move to London where he trained with William Hunter. On his return to Edinburgh he became the most successful surgeon in Scotland for that period. One of the first to emphasize the importance of preventing or diminishing pain during surgery, he introduced a number of improvements in amputation technique. A System of Surgery in six volumes was his most ambitious work, written in an attempt to displace Heister’s Surgery as the standard textbook. It was the first comprehensive publication by a British surgeon covering the entire subject, and the clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth century surgical works. It went through seven editions, and was translated into French and German.

See Heirs 1079; see Garrison-Morton 5579; see Waller 844; see Wellcome II p. 134; no copy found on OCLC or KVK.


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With a reference to Cannabis as ‘Bang’

4 BERLU, John. THE TREASURY OF DRUGS UNLOCK’D. Or, a full and true description of all sorts of drugs, and chymical preparations, sold by druggists. Whereby you may know the place of their growth, and from whence they come, and how to distinguish the good from the bad. Very useful for all Gentlemen, Merchants, Druggists, Doctors, Apothecaries, Chirurgeons, and their Apprentices. As also for all travellers, Seamen, Custom-house Officers, and all other that either Traffick in them, or make any use of them, or those that import or deliver any of them at the water-side. Giving a true account of all those that are prohibited, and those that are not, whereby many needless disputes and law-suits may be prevented. The whole work alphabetically digested. With a compleat catalogue of all drugs, &c. The second edition with additions. London: Printed for S. Bal-lard, at the Blue Ball in Little-Britain, 1738.

12mo, pp. 166, [2] advertisement leaf for books sold by Samuel Clarke; with woodcut head-pieces and initials; both flyleaves reinforced at gutters, quite heavily browned throughout with staining affecting outer margins; in contemporary sheep, rebacked and recornered preserving some of the original spine, central band of spine nicked and worn with some loss, covers quite prominently stained (possibly smoke damage); despite faults, a good copy. £585

A reissue of the second edition of 1724 with a cancel title-page, of this uncommon and popular layman’s pocket ‘materia medica’ first published in 1690. ‘A valuable catalogue of chemicals, drugs, and natural products available to pharmacists and physicians of the later seventeenth century. Berlu (dates unknown), who describes himself on the title page as a ‘Merchant in Drugs’, has marked prohibited drubs with an asterisk. Very clear directions are given for the preparation of many inorganic and some organic chemicals. The animal, plant, or mineral origins of the preparations are unambiguously described. Other editions, slightly enlarged, appeared in 1724, 1733 and 1738’ (Neville I, p. 128 of the first edition).

Blake p. 44; ESTC; T113538; Duveen p. 68; Ferchl p. 38 (1724 edition); Neville I, p. 128; Wellcome II, p. 150; OCLC: 14320134 locates two further copies at Wisconsin and UCLA with a further copy at the National Library of Scotland.

5 BIERKOWSKI, Ludwig Joseph. ERKLÄRUNG DER ANATOMISCH-CHIRURGISCHE nebst beschreibung der chirurgischen operationen nach den methoden von v. Gräfe, Kluge, und Rust. Erste [-zweite] Abtheilung, Berlin, verlag von Friedr. Aug. Herbig. 1827. [together with]. Anatomisch-chirurgische abbildungen nebst darstellung und beschreibung der chiru-rgischen operationen von Graefe, Kluge und Rust ... Berlin, verlag von Friedr. Aug. Herbig. 1827.

Three volumes, 8vo text (in two parts) together with large folio atlas; pp. [iii]–xii, 496; [ii], 497–973, [3], xvi index, [iv] errata and advertisements; atlas pp. [ii] title-page, with 55 lithograph plates (43 of which are partially hand-coloured) with three further outline plates to plates IV, XVI, XLI; 58 plates in all; text a little foxed and browned, title-

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page of atlas creased, with some occasional dust-soiling and spotting, with ink stain affecting outer margins of first and last couple of leaves; with faint library stamps on front free endpapers and title-page of both text volumes, and ownership signature erased on atlas front free endpaper; text volumes in later marbled boards, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco label, atlas in half-calf over marbled boards, paper label on upper cover, spine and corners repaired; a good copy, though probably a mixed set. £2,600

First edition of this important and scarce German introduction to surgery, by Ludwig Joseph Bierkowski (1801–1860). Comprising a comprehensive text volume together with a striking atlas of 55 lithograph plates drawn by Bierkowski himself, the work provides a fascinating and valuable record of the development of surgery at the beginning of the nineteenth century, highlighting in particular the achievements of von Graefe, Kluge and Rust, though also recognising the work of other European practitioners such as Hunter, Cooper and Lisfranc.

All areas of surgery and surgical anatomy are described with the sections relating to rhinoplasty and plastic surgery (plates XLIV and XLV), and to ophthalmological surgery of especial interest (plates XVIII and XIX with an outline plate), Hirschberg citing in particular the description given of F. A. Zeuschner’s work. Two plates illustrated a number of instruments, with plate XLI devoted to otology. The plates depicting the nerves and arteries of the face and body, and of amputation are particularly fine. In the preface, Rust himself writes that no similar work has so far been published, and states that: ‘Ohne den Werth früherer Leistungen auch nur im Geringsten verkennen zu wollen, kann ich doch dreist behaupten, dass das Werk des Herrn v. Bierkowski sich von all diesen durch Reichhaltigkeit und instruktive Darstellung auszeichnet’ (p. vi).

Bierkowski studied at several universities during the 1820s, notably Berlin and Jena. He gained his medical doctorate from Leipzig in 1829, after the publication of the present work. From 1831 he became professor of surgery at the medical faculty of Krakow.

Three issues of the atlas were produced: the most expensive was printed on better paper and had more complex chromolithograph colouring. This appears to be the ‘standard’ issue with hand-colouring, with the cheapest option only having uncoloured lithographs.

Hirsch I, 530; Lesky, 71 (lacking text); Waller 1045 (lacking text); Goldschmid 125; Hirschberg 563.

The Extraordinary case of Phineas Gage

6 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob. HEILUNG NACH EINER DURCHBOHRUNG DES KOPFES MIT EINER EISENSTANGE [in]: Tagesberichte über die Fortschriftte der Natur- und Heilkunde, erstatte von R. Froriep zu Weimar, April. No. 291. mit Tafel II. [Chirurgische Klinik, Bd. 1. No. 30]. 1851.

8vo, pp.233–236 (in pp.233–240), with one lithograph plate; plate a little browned and dampstained, text lightly browned; in modern wrappers, slightly soiled; a good copy. £250

Offprint. Seemingly the first German account of the noted neurological case of Phineas P. Gage, probably the most famous patient to have survived severe damage to the brain. This present translation is based upon the account published in the July issue of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in 1850, ‘Dr Harlow’s case of recovery from


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the passage of an Iron Bar through the Head’ (AJMS 20: 13–22, also published separately by T. K Collins in Philadelphia in 1850).

Phineas Gage (1823–1860) was a railroad construction worker who suffered severe cerebral trauma as a result of a blast which forced a tamping iron bar through his head, entering point first under his left cheek bone and exiting completely out through the top of his head. Though inflicting severe damage to parts of his frontal brain he reputedly walked away from the accident, though his recovery was slow and complicated, with Gage reportedly experiencing significant changes in personality and temperament.

He was initially treated by John Martyn Harlow, before coming under the scrutiny of Henry Bigelow. It soon became a noted case study, seemingly providing some of the first evidence that different parts of the brain, particularly the frontal lobes, might be involved in specific psychological processes dealing with emotion, personality and problem solving. Both Harlow, and Bigelow as here, wrote initial accounts, with Harlow publishing a later analysis in 1869. Though clearly an extraordinary case, recent studies, notably by Malcolm Macmillan, throw some doubt on how much can actually be learnt from the case, taking into account that we know very little precise information about Gage’s temperament before the accident, and that much written about him during his remaining years, may in fact be the subject of fancy and fabrication. Nevertheless a fascinating account of a still much studied and debated case.

See Malcolm Macmillan, Phineas Gage’s contribution to brain surgery, in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 5 (1996), 56–77; see OCLC: 13493714 for the 1850 Philadelphia account located at Harvard, Vermont and South Carolina.

7 [BIRTH CONTROL]. FINE COLLECTION OF SEVEN DUTCH MEDICAL PAMPHLETS RELATING TO PUBLIC AND SEXUAL HEALTH. STOKVIS, Dr. C.V. DE VERSPREDING VAN BESMETTELIJKE ZIEKTEN DOOR DE SCHOOL en het gezin en de daartegen te nemen maatregelen. (Maat-schappij tot nut van ‘t algemeen). Amsterdam, S. L. Van Looy. 1912. 8vo, pp. 27, [1]; lightly browned. OCLC locate only Yale in the US. [together with]: SCHAUTA, Professr Dr. Friedrich. SIE FRAU VON FüNFZIG JAHREN. Krieg und Geburtshilfe. Zwei studien. Wien & Leipzig, Verlag von Moritz Perles ... 1917. 8vo, pp. 77, [3] advertisements; uncut, some minor foxing. OCLC locates copies at Pennsylvania, Berlin, Utrecht and Göttingen. [together with]: HANN, Dr Siegfried. BADPLAATSEN EN BADKUREN. Uit het Duitsch Vertaald dor A.W.J. Zubli en A. Arn J. Quanjer. [extract] [n.d. n.p]. 8vo, pp. [153]–293, [3]; some minor browning and foxing. [together with]: [CONTRA-CEPTIVE PRICE CATALOGUE]. SANITAS. PRIJSCOURANT VAN SPECI-ALITEITS-GENEESMIDDELEN en artikelen voor ziekenverpleging enz. Sanitas, 73, Utrechtschestraat 73, Amsterdam. [n.d. but ca. 1905?]. Small 8vo, pp. 16, 19, [1]; with text illustrations; minor foxing. Not located on OCLC. [to-gether with]: [CONTRACEPTIVE PRICE CATALOGUE]. SANITAS. NIEUW MALTHUSIANISME. DE WEG TOT WELVAART EN GELUK Behandeling der voorbehoedmiddelen door een verloskundige. Uitgave van ‘Sanitas’, Amsterdam, 1906. Larger 8vo, pp. 32, [4] price list; with text illustrations; minor foxing. OCLC locates only a 1913 edition. [together with]: NOORDUYN, J.P.F.A. DE GESLACHTSDRIFT. (LIBIDO SEXUALIS). [Uit zenuw en zieleleven se-rie IV, no. 3. n.p but Baarn, 1915]. Larger 8vo, pp. 44; seemingly without the

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outer wrapper and imprint details; OCLC locates Dutch copies only. [together with]: KOENIG, Doctor. BEKNOPTE SCHETS der ontwikkeling en geboorte van het kind. Met gekleurde, beweegbare platen en 27 afbeeldingen tusschen den tekst. Amsterdam, A. Van Klaveren. [n.d. but ca 1897?]. 8vo, pp. 32; with numerous text illustrations, and chromolithograph plate with two images, one including numerous flaps. Early edition, possibly the first? OCLC 29532276 locates one copy at Princeton, and which suggests 1897 as a date, taken from ‘Brinkman’s Catalogue der Boeken. 1891–1900’, p. 369.

Together seven pamphlets; in half publisher’s cloth over marbled boards, with printed pa per label on spine (a little dampstained); covers a little bumped and rubbed. £775

A fascinating Dutch sammelband from the early twentieth century containing seven popular medical pamphlets on a number of topics including children’s health and infection control in schools, ‘War and Birth Assistance’, and the benefits of spas and seaside resorts. Of particular interest however are the two detailed contraceptive catalogues issued by the Sanitas Company, which illustrate a number of devices. An essay on libido is also included, the volume concluding with König’s attractively illustrated brief sketch on the development and birth of a child. A chromolithograph plate incorporating the use of flaps in found in this work – and is seemingly identical to one later used by Aletta Jacobs.

For Stokvis see Bibliotheca Medica Neerlandica II, p. 179; for Hann see p. 410.

The first French treatise on medical jurisprudence of the insane

8 BOTTEX, Alex. DE LA MÉDECINE LÉGALE DES ALIÉNÉS. Dans ses rap-ports avec la législation criminelle. Paris, J. B. Baillière ... Lyon, Ch. Savy Jeune, Éditeur. 1838.

8vo, pp. [ii], 100; with engraved title-page vignette; foxed throughout with some marginal dust-soiling and occasional spotting, corners furled, with upper corner of final leaf torn; uncut, stitched as issued in the original wrappers, soiled, torn and worn, though protected within glycine wrapper; still a good copy. £385

First edition of this important work espousing the monomania doctrine, and considered by Raynond de Saussure to be the first French treatise on the medical jurisprudence of the insane.

Alexander Bottex (1796–1849) was a physician at the Antiquaille hospice in Lyon, specializing in the mentally ill. He was an inspector for a number of specialist establishments in Rhône, and wrote several treatises not only on mental health, but on aspects of public health including the treatment of syphilis, waste disposal, as well as on the cholera pandemic of 1832. The concept of monomania, which though later discounted, was first put forward by Esquirol, and subsequently developed by his protogés, most notably Jean Etienne Georget (1795–1828). It had a great influence upon medical jurisprudence, though the theory proved highly contentious amongst the legal fraternity, and became the subject of much debate. It inevitably raised the fear that alienists would consider all criminals as mentally ill to try and avoid serious charge, though this objection was forcibly rejected by Georget amongst others. The resulting need to articulate and define mental illness more clearly for the practical needs of the law courts, inevitably led to a more systematic observation of patients, and ultimately enriched the study of insanity.


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The present work by Bottex can be seen as the final expression of Esquirol’s doc-trine, and of those ‘homme spéciaux qui passent leur vie au milieu des aliénés’ (p. 100). It encapsulates the whole debate, whilst providing a balanced and compassionate out-look. He staunchly rebukes the work of Regnault, one of the leading legal critics of monomania. He pleads for the irresponsibility of the mentally ill, and also addresses the delicate question of confusing passion with insanity, though he gives no clear criterion by which insanity could be distinguished from passion, and is also careful not to over state the need for medical advice in cases, and admits that in some instances it is almost impossible for even the most experienced doctor to decide whether an accused is sane or not. In the case of semi-imbeciles, who may have a blurred vision of right or wrong and are easily impressionable, he suggests that it would be better to send them to an asylum rather than to prison, to avoid contact with those who may lead them down a vicious path.

For a discussion of monomania and Bottex’s contribution to the debate, see Raymond de Saussure, The influence of the Concept of Monomania on French Medico-Legal Psychiatry from 1825–1840, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1946, I (3) pp. 365–397; not in Hunter and Macalpine; OCLC locates five European copies only.

9 BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe Pierre. LES APPAREILS OUATÉS OU NOUVEAU SYSTÈME DE DÉLIGATION POUR LES FRACTURES les entorses, les lux-ations, les contusions, les arthropathies, etc. Brussels, A. Labroue, 1857.

Large folio; pp. [ii] half-title, [ii] title-page, viii subscriber’s list, [5]–83, [1] blank, with fine lithograph frontispiece portrait, and twenty stunning lithograph plates on china paper; aside from some light foxing and soiling, clean and crisp; sympathetically rebacked and recornered in plum morocco over marbled boards, spine in gilt; number 113 of a limited number, signed by the author; a fine copy. £4,000

Surprisingly scarce first and only edition of this most striking and beautifully illustrated atlas of orthopaedic appliances, many the invention of the noted Belgian surgeon and professor of anatomy at Ghent, Adolphe Burggraeve (1806–1902). In addition to various unusual devices, the work graphically illustrated his remarkable cotton-wool bandages for use in the treatment of fractures and dislocations. This finely produced work was presumably only published in limited numbers, though some copies are dated 1858.

Burggraeve was the author of several works, notably on therapeutics and the history of medicine, and is particularly respected for the depth of his scholarship, for his many thoughtful writings on public hygiene and for his wonderful biographies of Jenner (see below) and Vesalius. He is best known as the originator of dosimetric therapy in 1876, outlined in his major work ‘Répertoire universel de médecine dosimétrique’, and he ‘travelled widely in Europe to popularize the theory detailed in the book of chemotherapy based on alkaloids’ (Heirs 1694).

Not in Heirs or Osler though they both cite other works; OCLC locates copies of this 1857 issue at Göttingen and the British Library, with copies at Iowa, Minnesota, Duke, and the National Library of Medicine dated 1858.

10 BURGGRAEVE, Adolphe. MONUMENT à EDW. JENNER, ou, Histoire générale de la vaccine : à l’occasion du premier centenaire de son invention publiée sous le patronage des administrations et du corps médical par le

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Docteur Burggaeve. Bruxelles Paris, Muguardt (J. Merzbach successeur), 1875.

Large folio, pp. [xxii] subscriber’s list printed on yellow paper, xvi, 377; with engraved frontispiece portrait, and five chromolithograph and one black and white lithograph plate; prominent paper repairs to upper gutter of subscriber’s list, preliminary leaves and first few leaves of text, outer margins of pp. 317–323 with marginal tears though not touching text, some foxing and browning throughout; in the original half red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, inner hinge starting, head and tail of spine chipped and worn, joints and extremities rubbed and bumped, all edges gilt. £485

First edition of this noted commemorative work, published to celebrate the centenary of Jenner’s discovery, and written by the noted medical historian Adolphe Burggraeve (1806–1902), Professor at the University of Ghent. The work contains the history of vaccination before Jenner, Jenner’s own work and the developments after his death, and as with many of his works, is a finely produced publication.

11 BUSCH, Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich. ATLAS GEBURTSHÜLFLICHER AB-BILUNGEN mit bezugnahme auf das Lehrbuch der Geburtskunde. Zweite Auflage. Berlin, bei August Hirschwald, 1851.

Large 8vo, pp. xiii, [i], 148; with 49 lithograph plates; title-page rather dust-soiled, fore-edge of first three gatherings worn and furled with several small nicks, the fore-edge of first two leaves neatly reinforced on verso, foxed and browned throughout as with most copies, fore-edge of last couple of gatherings dampstained; neatly rebound in modern black cloth, with original printed wrappers mounted onto covers, spine lettered in gilt; despite faults, a good sound copy. £675

Second edition (first 1841) of this concise and excellent obstetrical manual and lithograph atlas, each chapter discussing a specific plate, each of which themselves contain a number of figures. Amongst other things, the fine plates show various pelvises and the various stages of pregnancy, but concentrates primarily upon the delivery itself, highlighting numerous different presentations. In a number of these where instruments (mostly forceps) would be needed, their use is illustrated. The Caesarean operation is also represented in two plates one of which shows the abdomen with five different types of incision indicated.

Busch was one of the earliest obstetricians to recommend episiotomies: he himself confined their use to cases of ‘organic anomalies’ and was wary about other surgeons using the procedure too freely and inappropriately. He was the author of several noted works, including an earlier noted textbook and atlas Die theoretische und practische Geburtskunde durch Abbildungen erläutert, and Atlas der in funfzig lithographirten Tafeln both published in 1838.

Ricci, Development of Gynaelogical Surgery p. 456; Hirsch I, 783; OCLC: locates copies at McGill, Yale, Chicago, Harvard, the New York Academy of Medicine, Columbia, Rochester, College of Physicians, and the Wellcome.


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With six sepia stipple engravings

12 BUSCH, Johan David. BESCHREIBUNG ZWEIER MERKWÜRDIGEN MENSCHLICHEN MISGEBURTEN nebst einigen andern Beobachtungen aus der praktischen Entbindungskunt. Mit sechs kupfertafeln. Marburg in der neuen akademischen Buchhandlung. 1803.

4to, pp. [ii], xxii, 66; with six remarkable stipple engraved plates (lightly foxed and soiled with some faint marginal dampstaining, plates 2, 3, 4, and 5 with central nick neatly repaired without significant loss); outer margin of title-page neatly reinforced, with neat marginal repair at upper margin, and further neat marginal repairs to pp. 13–21; light foxing and soiling throughout; in recent marbled boards, with original printed wrapper mounted on upper cover, inner hinges neatly and discreetly reinforced; despite minor faults, a good copy. £585

First edition of this uncommon teratological account by the renowned obstetrician Johann David Busch (1755–1833) one of the leading German surgeons of his day, and best remembered for being the first to add traction hooks to forceps. Busch begins his account of curious miscarriages with his preface ‘Ueber Wehemütter und deren Unterricht’, before describing cases histories involving foetuses with no torso, no head, and without a brain Expanding his discussion to include more general obstetrical matters, Busch also addresses the use of forceps during complicated deliveries, as well as including a chapter discussing ‘epilepsie einer gebährenden’. The six stipple engraved plates printed in sepia depict a number of teratological specimens and are particularly striking.

Waller 1672; not in Wellcome; OCLC: 14843598 locates copies at National Library of Medicine, Harvard Countway Medical Library, the Johns Hopkins University, New York Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the British Library.

A New Theory of Cells – discussing Brunonian theory

CASSESE, Emiddio. 13 NEOPIMELELOGIA, Ossia nuova teoria su la cellulare. Napoli, Nella Stamperia Manfrediana. 1810.

8vo, pp. iv, 162; title-page quite browned and spotted with library stamp at tail, with further occasional foxing and soiling throughout, and with prominent stain and worm trail affecting upper gutter from pp. 85 to the end (worming most prominent between pp. 100–149), though neither stain nor worming affecting text; in contemporary green calf backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, head and tail a little rubbed with some minor scuffling along spine and to covers, extremities a litte rubbed and bumped. £385

First edition of this treatise by the Italian physician Emiddio Cassese outlining a ‘New theory of Cells’, and seemingly a scarce contribution to the corpus of embryological literature focusing upon prenatal influences and in particular maternal impression upon the foetus during pregnancy.

Apparently his first work, Cassese talks in wondrous terms of the miracle of conception, and how an initial cell ultimately burgeons into the wonderful human machine, drawing from the mother all that it needs to take not just a physical form, but emotional characteristics: ‘Essa della sola cellulare fa tutte le parti della macchinazion

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dell’ uomo, ed in questo modo. Digrossando quel composto organizzabile mucoso, che nell’ utero dopo il concepimento si ritrova, gli dà una forma che di poco imiti quella dell’ uomo. E poi per l’opera divina, ed affatto sconosciuta della organizzazione fa, che tutt’ i diversi siti del muco così digrossato gradatamente ed in diverse epoche passino in tanti pezzi celulari a singolar, e diverso modo organizzati. Cosicchè questi pezzi cellulari rappresentino i modelli di tutte le diverse parti del macchinamento umano. Con tal saggio, e provvida legge intanto imprime a tutti questi medesimi pezzi cellulari lo stampo di una singolare e diversa destinazione non solo in quanto alla esterna configurazione, ma sì bene, ch’ è quel che più importa, in quanto al gusto, se si fa passar l’espressione, ed al travaglio misterioso dell’ interno modello’ (p. 2).

He cites a number of authors throughout the work, including Tommasini, Blumenbach, Gaubius and Mauriceau, though it is perhaps his discussion of Brunonian theory that is of particular interest, highlighting continued European fascination with Brown’s treatise of 1780, Elementa medicinae.

We have been unable to find any further biographical information, though Cassese subsequently published further works in Napoli, including Picciol Saggio di anatomia (1813); Osteologia (1815); and Brevissima storia del cholera (1836).

Not located in any of the usual bibliographies; not located on OCLC or ICCU, though KVK locates one copy at the Royal Library of Denmark.

14 CHAPONNIER, Alexandre. LA PHYSIOLOGIE DES GENS DU MONDE, Pour servir de complément a l’éducation, ornée de planches. A Paris, Chez Firmin Didot Frères, Libraires. 1829.

8vo, pp. [iv], xii, 375, [1] blank; with four plates (one coloured) on seven pages (two folding) at end; some light foxing, otherwise clean and bright; in contemporary calf backed boards, spine decorated in blind and gilt with green morocco label, head of spine slightly rubbed, upper joint a little cracked but holding, boards somewhat scuffed and rubbed; a good copy. £225

First edition of this rare and rather curious educational work on physiology for adolescents and adults, which provides a complete introduction to the subject. Chaponnier, who was a member of the Paris medical faculty and demonstrated anatomy to painters, defines physiology, and gives an introduction to the human species and the characteristics of the various races. He then goes on to discuss vital properties, movement, the voice and speech, the senses, the functions of the brain, the circulation of the blood, respiration, digestion, secretions, nutrition, sleep, temperaments, the various ages, and death. If Chaponnier is to believed, however, life after reaching adolescence sounds rather depressing: ‘C’est au milieu de l’adolescence que l’on voit paraître le plus fréquemment les hémorragies actives du nez, du poumon, la fièvre inflammataoire; certaines phlegmasies, telles que l’angine, la péripneumonie, la pleurésie, l’engorgement des glandes pulmonaires, qui donne naissance à diverses espèces de phtisies, la chlorose, la catalepsie: la mélancolie érotique, ou cette sorte d’aliénation mentale que développent des sensations jusqu’alors inconneus, et qui, chez les femmes, dégénère parfois en véritable folie’ (p. 295).

The plates at the end demonstrate sign language, as well as a striking, if rather strange schematic representation of the circulation of the blood.

In addition to the present work, Chaponnier also published two works of medical self-help, La pharmacie sans le pharmacien (1829) and La chirurgie sans chirurgiens (1827).

OCLC: 14832622 records just four copies, at Harvard Medical School, the National Library of Medicine, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Wellcome.


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15 [CHOLERA 1832 PANDEMIC]. FOELIX, Jean Jacques Gaspard. ALS PRO-VIDING AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE 1832 CHOLERA EPIDEM-IC. Letter addressed to a fellow lawyer, ‘M. Miot, avocat, rue du marché, Langres (Haute Marne)’, and dated ‘Paris, le 6 Juin 1832’, with two post-mark stamps of the 7th and 9th June 1832.

Neat manuscript, 4to, pp. 4 written on two pages, with address on verso of p. 4; sheet size 222 x 252mm, folded down to postal size of 115 x 90mm; with fold marks evident and a little foxed, remains of wax seal, with adjacent hole through opening; with blindstamp at upper left hand corner (paper stock?); some light soiling and creasing, but otherwise very good. £350

A fine eyewitness account of the second cholera pandemic. Jean Jacques Gaspard Foelix (1791–1853) was a noted lawyer and the founder of the Revue étrangère de législation et d’économie politique. In the present letter to a fellow lawyer, Foelix tries to reassure his colleague about the current epidemic (between March and June some 14,000 victims in Paris had died), in response to concerns expressed by Miot, who is presumably facing a forthcoming trip to Paris. Foelix explains in detail the precautions to be taken, saying that the principal preservative is not to be afraid of the disease. He recommends that one should live temperately, and not drink or eat to excess. It is important to ventilate dwellings and to purify the air by vinegar fumigation’s, though he urges that chloride of lime be avoided as it attacks the lungs. He notes that the main symptoms are vomiting and diarrhoea, and ‘un froid glacial repandu sur tout le corps’. Foelix suggests a number of remedies to adopt at the first signs of the disease. After consulting and notifying the physician, take vapour baths. ‘Sous ce rapport, je dois vous recommander un appareil simple et peu coûteux que chaque famille devrait se procurer parce qu’il sert non seulement contre le choléra, mais encore en d’autres occasions ... Plusieurs de mes amis doivent leur vie à la prompte application de ces bains’. Of the epidemic in Paris he notes that ‘le choléra a principalement exercé ses ravages sur la basse classe qui vit dans la misère et dans la malpropreté. Le nombre des victimes a été beaucoup moindre dans la classe élévée, parce qu’on prend ses mesures à l’apparition des premiers symptômes’.

16 [CHOLERA]. FERRARIO, Giuseppe. AVVERTIMENTO AL POPOLO sui mezzi sicuri di distruggere i contagi nozioni e cura del cholera-morbus e metodo di vita per possibilmente preservarsene. Milano, Coi tipi di Paolo Andrea Molina ... 1831.

8vo, pp. 48; lightly foxed throughout with occasional marginal damp - staining, and some slight creasing; uncut and stitched as issued in the original brown printed wrappers, covers slightly stained and darkened along spine, extremities a little furled with minor edgewear, corners furled, lower outer corner of rear cover faded; with contemporary book-sellers printed label at tail of upper cover; a good copy. £250

First edition of this scarce public health pamphlet, one of a corpus of similar publications issued across Europe in reaction to the threat posed by the advancing second cholera pandemic. Giuseppe Ferrario (1802-?) was a leading Milanese surgeon and physician, and the author of a number of works on public health, epidemiology and the history of medicine, including a statistical study of cholera epidemics (1838), a

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study on bubonic plague (1843), further popular advice pamphlets relating to cholera in 1849 and 1854, as well as a edited collection of the works of Luigi Sacco.

Hirsch II, p. 358; not in Wellcome which cites other works; OCLC: 22234047 locates only two copies at Rochester and Texas.

Father Damien and the Lepers of Kalaupapa

17 DEKEYSER, Leon. CONSIDÉRATIONS SUR LA LÈPRE AUX ILES HAWAÏ. Bruxelles, F. Ernest-Goosens. éditeur. [n.d. but ca. 1908].

Large 8vo, pp. 90; with seven photographic plates, and one large folding statistical table; light browning and foxing throughout, but otherwise clean and crisp; uncut and a wide-margined copy in the original printed wrappers; a presentation copy from the author inscribed on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. £285

Scarce first edition of this detailed account of the leprosy colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, by the Dutch physician Leon Dekeyser. The colony comprised some 488 houses, housing on average 600 lepers, and included a number of hospitals, churches, a laboratory, and a nursery. A special isolation building was set aside to allow for outside visitors. It was clearly , in as much as was possible, quite a vibrant community, with a choral society as well as an athletic club – both of which are illustrated on one of the plates.

‘Kalaupapa’s reputation as a leprosy colony is well-known. Hansen’s disease, the proper term for leprosy, is believed to have spread to Hawaii from China. The first documented case of leprosy occurred in 1848. Its rapid spread and unknown cure precipitated the urgent need for complete and total isolation. Surrounded on three sides by the Pacific ocean and cut off from the rest of Molokai by 1600-foot (488m) sea cliffs, Kalaupapa provided the environment. In early 1866, the first leprosy victims were shipped to Kalaupapa and existed for 7 years before Father Damien arrived. The area was void of all amenities. No buildings, shelters nor potable water were available. These first arrivals dwelled in rock enclosures, caves, and in the most rudimentary shacks, built of sticks and dried leaves. Folklore and oral histories recall some of the horrors: the leprosy victims, arriving by ship, were sometimes told to jump overboard and swim for their lives. Occasionally a strong rope was run from the anchored ship to the shore, and they pulled themselves painfully through the high, salty waves, with legs and feet dangling below like bait on a fishing line. The ship’s crew would then throw into the water whatever supplies had been sent, relying on currents to carry them ashore or the exiles swimming to retrieve them. In 1873, Father Damien deVeuster, aged 33, arrived at Kalaupapa. A Catholic missionary priest from Belgium, he served the leprosy patients at Kalaupapa until his death. A most dedicated and driven man, Father Damien did more than simply administer the faith: he built homes, churches and coffins; arranged for medical services and funding from Honolulu, and became a parent to his diseased wards. Damien contracted the disease, and after 16 years of selfless service, died in 1889 ... In 1977, Pope Paul VI declared Father Damien to be venerable, the first of three steps that lead to sainthood. Pope John Paul II declared Damien blessed in 1995, the second step before canonisation as a saint’ (Visit Molokai website).

Carter, Preliminary Catalogue of Hawaiiana, p. 46; OCLC locates copies at the Wellcome, the British Library, BnF, BIUM, Berlin, the Hebrew University and the National Library of New Zealand.


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18 DELACROIX, Jacques-Vincent. LE PORTE-FEUILLE DU PHYSICIEN ou Recueil amusant & instructif des actions et des moeurs des animaux. Pre-miere Partie [-seconde]. A Paris, Chez Le Jay, Libraire, rue S. Jacques au Grand Corneille. 1780.

Two parts in one volume, 12mo, pp. [iv], 264; [iv], 231; with appealing woodcut head-pieces; some occasional light spotting and marginal browning, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary catspaw, with green silk mark, spine attractively tooled in gilt with red morocco label, joints a little rubbed, all edges red; an appealing copy. £285

First edition of this curious philosophical and satirical work, by the noted jurist, journalist, historian, teacher and translator Jacques-Vincent Delacroix (1743–1832). The author of several works, Delacroix in his day had a brilliant reputation, and became a prominent figure during the Revolution, and is noted for his works on constitutional affairs, as well as for his critical biography of Rousseau.

Querard II, 430; OCLC: 17572319 locates copies at Berkeley, Yale, Leipzig, Bayern and the BnF.

19 DESSORT, Henri. GUIDA PER IL MUSEO ANATOMICO ED ETNOLOGI-CO La più grande fra le collezione d’arte raffiguranti il successivo e com-pleto sviluppo della vita fisica dell’uman genere. Henri Dessort, Editore Proprietario. [Trieste, Tipografia del Lloyd Austriaco, 1863].

8vo, pp. 40; lightly foxed and browned throughout, lower corner of final leaf rather clumsily repaired; stitched as issued in the original pink printed wrapers, spine rather soiled and faded with a couple of small nicks, head and tail lightly worn, lower corner of rear cover also patched with tape and repaired rather obtrusively; nevertheless and good copy. £225

A scarce and appealing guidebook, highlighting the continued mid-nineteenth century fascination with anatomical museums and cabinets of curiosities. Such museums and popular exhibitions, often itinerant, flourished on both sides of the Atlantic during the second half of the 19th century. Due to their ephemeral and often scurrilous nature, only sporadic documentary evidence remains of many of these exhibits, though some achieved considerable fame and notoriety, including those of J. W. Reimer, the Jordans’ in London, Barnum’s American Museum, and the New York Anatomical Museum, to name but a few.

This extensive catalogue highlights the ‘largest collection of art depicting the successive and complete development of the physical life of mankind’, and is divided into two sections revealing this evolution from an anatomical and then ethnological standpoint. Over 600 specimens and exhibits are on view, and include the usual selection of pathological preparations, beginning with the development of the foetus. Various diseases are also depicted, as well as complete human skeletons. In the Cabinetto Riservato’ one can see ‘La Vergine’ and ‘Gli Ermafroditi’, as well as a syphilis victim: clearly in common with other museums, exhibits were included to both shock and edify, and warn men against the dangers of sexual over-abuse. The ethnological section includes an example of a Caucasian, a Mongolian, Native Americans, as well as a ‘Te-Kewiti’ from New Zealand, and other native Australians.

We have been able to find little biographical information about Henri Dessort, but the earliest such catalogue appears to have been printed in Mainz in 1820, Wegweiser durch Henry Dessort’s Ethnologisches und anatomisches Museum, der größten Sammlung

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Künstlerischer Darstellungen aus dem Gebiete des Körperlebens der Menschen. A note in the 1842 Hallisches patriotsches wochenblatt annouces that Henri Dessort’s Circus will perform in honour of Prince Carl of Leipzig in May. A later entry in Cronistoria Dei Teatri Di Moderna Dal 1539 Al 1871 records that the Museum was open during July and August of 1865.

Murray, Museums: Their history and their use, 1904, Vol. II, p. 206 (1877 edition); this edition not cited on OCLC or KVK; later issues were published in Milan in 1864, Turin in 1865 (see OCLC: 27979931 citing the Wellcome copy), 1866, and one in 1889 (OCLC: 519442193 at Rochester), with earlier 1855 and 1857 Dutch editions Gids voor de bezoekers van Dr. Dessort’s anatomisch-ethnologisch museum, noted.

With lithograph plates by Bourgery’s artist

20 DUBRUEIL, Joseph Marie. DES ANOMALIES ARTÉRIELLES considérées dans leurs rapports avec la pathologie et les opérations chirurgicales. Ouvrage accompagné d’un Atlas in 4o de 17 planches coloriées. A Paris, Chez J. B. Baillière Libraire de L’Académie Royale de Médecine ... 1847.

Two volumes, 8vo text, atlas 4to; pp. [iv], 457, [1] errata, (but 462 – pp. 240*–240****); pp. 15, [1] blank and 17 hand-coloured lithographs (most retaining original tissue guards), together with four loosely inserted hand-drawn anatomical illustrations in pen and ink depicting facial tumours and deformities by Pedro de Fuertes; aside from some light foxing, both text and atlas clean and fresh; a mixed set, text in red morocco backed publisher’s cloth, spine in compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt, covers a little soiled, extremities lightly bumped; atlas volume in the original cloth backed printed boards, head and tail of spine and joints rubbed and lightly worn with small split at tail of upper joint, covers a little soiled, extremities lightly bumped and worn; atlas with armorial book-label ‘Ex-Libris Perez de Petinto’ and faint book-sellers blind-stamp on front free endpaper. £685

First edition, a mixed set, of this stunning illustrated treatise for surgeons on arterial anomalies considered in relationship to pathology and surgical procedures, the final work of the distinguished French naval physician, professor of anatomy at Montpelier Joseph-Marie Dubreuil (1790–1852). A prolific author on a wide range of subjects including epidemiology, oncology, teratology, and palaeontology, Dubrueil is probably best remembered for his two meticulous works on arterial vascular anomalies. The first was published in 1841 Observations et réflexions sur les anéurysmes de la portion ascendante et de la crosse de l’aorte in which he described a number of different aneurysms from their evolution to rupture, and notes some auscultation signs unknown to Laënnec. It was in the present work, however, that his research in this field was to be most fully expressed, Dubrueil providing a complete and systematic review of the arterial system.

The seventeen striking plates have been drawn from nature and lithographed by Nicolas Henri Jabob (1782–1871), best known for his collaboration with Bourgery on his magnificent atlas of descriptive anatomy. Jacob was a student of the famous painter Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), and the plates here are similarly remarkable for their clarity, accuracy, colour and aesthetic appeal.

We have been unable to identify further the attractive hand-drawn plates loosely inserted, and can find no biographical information about Pedro de Fuertes.

Hirsch, II, p. 224; not in Goldschmid or Willius & Keys.


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21 ESSICH, Johann Gottfried. BEWÄHRTE RETTUNGSMITTEL FÜR SELB-STMÖRDER und andere Gattungen schnell verunglückter Personen. Augsburg, bey Matthäus Riegers sel Söhnen. 1788.

8vo, pp. xxxii, 222; with attractive wood engraved title-page vignette, and head- and tail-pieces; some foxing throughout, more prominent in a couple of gatherings, gatherings J-M a little browned; with ex-libris stamp from the Bibliothek der Mahr at the tail of the title-page, and on the front free endpaper with further library stamp at head of front free endpaper; bound in later black cloth-backed boards, evidence of previous spine label, extremities lightly rubbed and worn; a good copy. £325

A scarce and detailed early contribution to the corpus of literature on resuscitation, by Johann Essich, a leading physician and member of the Augsburg medical community, and intended for the use of physicians rather than for the public.

Essich (1744?–1806) was the author of several popular works on a variety of subjects, including a practical pharmacological handbook (1783), a handbook for unmarried women in 1785, a cookbook for invalids (1785), and a pocket surgical manual Chirurgischen Krankheiten (1788). In the present work Essich identifies twenty-five ‘classes’ of suicide methods in particular, but also various common accidents, and appropriate methods of ‘rescue’ when dealing with instances of strangulation, inebriation, suffocation, crush victims, drowning, paralysis, burn victims, poisonings, haemorrhages, and wounds, to name but a few.

Blake p. 138; Hirsch II, p. 440; Bernardini, Literature de Suicide 1516–1815, p. 71; Rost, Bibliographie des Selbstmords, p. 45 no. 320; not in Huston; OCLC: 14822189 locates no further US copies, with various Europeon locations cited and a copy traced at the British Library.

22 FABRICIUS AB AQUAPENDENTE, Hieronymus. LE OPERE CHIRU-GICHE Di Girolamo Fabricio D’Acquapendente … Divise in Due Parti. Nella Prima, Si tratta delli Tumori, Ferite, Ulceri, Rotture, e Slocature. Nella Seconda, delle Operationi principali di Chirurgia; Tradotte in Lin-gua Italiana. Et in questa seconda impressione aggiuntovi un compen-dio della chirurgia di Marco Aurelio Severino diviso in Libri Sei, tradotto nell’Italiano utilissimo ai Professor di Chirurgia. In Padova Per Giacomo Cadorino, con Lic. de’ Superiori et privilegio del Serenissimo Senato. 1685.

Small folio, pp. [viii], 268, 265–288 (recto pages of this final section mispaginated); with attractive woodcut title-page printer’s device, woodcut head- and tail pieces and initials, and nine engraved plates depicting orthopaedic and surgical instruments engraved by ‘Gio. Georgi’ (plates with some faint browning and marginal dampstaining); lightly foxed throughout, gathering E more prominently browned and in particular E2 and E5; upper gutter stained from title-page to gathering F, some occasional marginal dampstaining, with more prominent dampstain affecting pp. 200 to the end; old repairs to worm-trail in upper margins of first three gatherings (touching a couple of letters), and lower margins of pp. 1–17 and pp. 157–176, with further small worm-trail between pp. 33–112 also occasionally affecting a letter or number but with no significant loss; in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, endpapers dampstained and with paper repairs, covers quite

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browned and soiled, with old repairs at head of spine, extremities bumped and a little worn. £2,200

Scarce seventeenth century Italian edition of this important and noted collection of the surgical works of Fabricius ab Aquapendente, first published in Latin in an un-illustrated small-format edition in 1619. The Wellcome records an earlier Padua edition of pp. 359 by Cadorino dated 1672, with both Wellcome and Krivatsy recording a Bologna edition of 1678 published by Longhi. Krivatsy notes what could be the first issue of the present edition dated 1684.

Fabricius was one of a line of eminent Italian Renaissance surgeons which included Vigo, Vidius and Tagliocozzi. A pupil of Fallopius and teacher of Harvey, he was responsible for building the anatomical theatre at Padua, which through his influence ‘became the foremost anatomical and surgical school in Europe. Fabricius attempted to improve the technique of tracheotomy and thoracocentesis and of the treatment of strictures of the uretha. He invented orthopaedic apparatuses for torticollis (wry neck), spinal curvatures and deformities of the feet’. (Leonardo p. 142).

This collection includes Italian translations of the Pentateuchos cheirurgicum (first 1592) and the Operationes chirurgicae (1619). ‘The five books of the Pentateuchos are primarily devoted to the description of tumours, wounds, ulcers and fistulas, fractures, and dislocations; to these the Operationes adds a description of surgical instruments (some of which are illustrated) and classic surgical techniques, including a discussion of particular technical expedients devised by Fabricius himself and emphasizing some differences between Fabrici’s technique and that of others’ (DSB). Of particular interest is Fabricius’ extensive discussion of dentistry and oral surgery, in which he describes techniques for various operations such as tartar removal, treatment of dental caries, the filing and extraction of teeth, tooth replacement, and the treatment of lockjaw and jaw dislocations. He described several dental instruments, such as the ‘pelican’ for tooth extraction, the ‘crow’s bill’ forceps for removing roots, the ‘stork’s bill’ forceps for removing incisors, the ‘dog’s bite’ forceps, a drill, a rasper etc. These are not shown here, but were illustrated by Fabricius’ pupil Scultetus in his Armamentarium Chirurgicum (1655).

Of particular appeal and note are the striking plates illustrating the orthopaedic armour designed by Fabricius. This device ‘was in the shape of a man, [and] designed to combine in one apparatus the principles for all existing devices for the corrections of orthopaedic injuries and deformities. A passage by Antonio Vallisneri indicates that this device was actually built and used. Although Fabrici’s surgical works have not yet been studied in any detail it is clear that they rely on both Hippocrates and Galen in diagnostics and therapy. (The medications that Fabricius prescribes are, for example, traditional ones.) Yet the books had great success and went through many editions in many languages’ (DSB).

This edition also includes an Italian translation of Marco Aurelio Severino’s Synopseos Chirurgicae of 1664, found between pp. 265–288. A logical complement to Fabricius’ work, Severino is best remembered for ‘the first textbook of surgical pathology’ (GM 2273), his De recondita natura of 1632.

Krivatsy 3824 (perhaps the first issue dated 1684 but with the same pagination); not in Cushing, Osler, Waller. OCLC locates four copies at UCSF, Duke, McGill and the Wellcome.


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Commentary on Guy de Chauliac

23 FALCON, Jean. REMARQUES SUR LA CHIRURGIE DE M. GUY DE CHAULIAC; diligemment conférées avec toutes les impressions précéd-entes, & pour la plupart mises en langage plus intelligible; outre la tra-duction nouvelle de tous les textes latins de l’auteur. Oeuvre de singulière doctrine, & utilité, pour tous ceux qui sont amateurs de la chirurgie. A Lyon, chez Jean Radisson ... MDCXLIX [1649].

8vo, pp. [xvi], 1000, [54]; woodcut title-page vignette and appealing floriated woodcut initials throughout; clean tear affecting p. 80 but without loss, with some marginal worming throughout the work, most prominent between pp. 155–200, 227–285, 300–339, 469–520 (with loss of some page numbers), 797–839 and 908–931 (affecting headlines with some loss), elsewhere touching the text in places but without any significant loss, with some marginal dampstaining at the beginning and end of the work; in contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, covers soiled and browned with remains of ties, lower upper corner torn with slight loss; despite faults, a good copy. £775

First edition entirely in French of this rare commentary on the surgical work of Guy de Chauliac, apparently intended for the use of barber-surgeons, and based upon an earlier commentary by Jean Falcon (fl. 1491–1541), a doctor at the Faculty of Montpellier, and noted for successfully treating François I.

Nicaise, in his detailed study La Grande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac (1890), is damning of Falcon’s work, stating that ‘mais les commentaires, les gloses, qu’il a ajoutés au texte de Guy, ne montrent pas qu’il ait été, ni un homme instruit, ni de bon jugement’ (p. cxxxvi). ‘Cette édition ne donne pas le texte de Guy; elle est semblable à celle de 1559; le texte français est modifié selon les progrès de la langue, et les passages latin sont traduits en français. Dans ces deux éditions il n’est pas question des traités V et VI de Guy, (fractures, dislocations et maladies spéciales)’ (Nicaise 30, p. cxxxviii). Nevertheless, it provides the medical historian with an insight into the type of literature available to surgeons of the day, at whatever level of skill and education, and emphasises the continued influence exerted by the works of Guy de Chauliac.

Modern surgery begins with Guy de Chauliac, ‘the most eminent surgeon of his time; his authority remained for some 200 years. He distinguished the various kinds of hernia from variocele, hydrocele, and sarcocele, and described an operation for the radical cure of hernia. The book, which was originally written about 1363, includes his views on fractures, and gives an excellent summary of the dentistry of the period. It is the greatest surgical text of the time’ (Garrison-Morton 5556).

Nicaise, 30; Krivatsy 3883 (imperfect copy); Wellcome III p. 6 (also imperfect).

‘Hints from the history of an eye patient’

24 FEST, Johann Samuel. WINKE AUS DER GESCHICHTE EINES AUGENK-RANKEN zu besserer behandlung schwacher und noch gesunder augen. Leipzig, In der Wiedmannschen Buchhandlung, 1793.

8vo, pp. [xvi], 168; occasional minor spotting and soiling; in modern boards; a good copy. £285

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First edition of this rare and personal account by the Thuringian theologian Johann Samuel Fest (1754–1796). The son of an impoverished village schoolmaster, his education was reliant upon charitable donation, Fest earning a little money himself as a choirboy. The humiliation that he encountered as a ‘charity pupil’, combined with ill-health during adolescence, including arthritis and photophobia, almost ended his academic career. The fact that he overcame so many challenges throughout his life greatly influenced his faith and philosophy, and provided inspiration for many of his publications. He is perhaps best remembered for his treatise espousing the benefits of such suffering and tribulation in Versuch über die Vortheile der Leiden und Widerwärtigkeiten des menschlichen Lebens, whilst the present account highlights yet another challenge faced by Fest: ‘Hints from the history of an eye patient, providing better treatment of weak and healthy eyes’. Divided into nine chapters, Fest provides an account and observations of the development and progress of his eye condition, the various remedies that he tried, and precautions that he was forced to adopt, such as avoiding reading in the evening with artificial illumination. Hirschberg ascribes his symptoms to neurasthenia: ‘an understanding and forceful physician could probably have corrected his condition’ (Vol. V, p. 96).

Hamberger/Meusel II, p. 314; Hirschberg, The history of ophthalmology, Volume 5 p. 96; not in Blake, or Waller; OCLC locates a number of European locations including the Wellcome, with no copies seemingly in the US.

25 GALLIZZI, Benedetto. DISSERTAZIONE di Benedetto Gallizzi Vicentino in difesa di sua opinione intorno alcune mediche ordinazioni. Dedicata all’illustrissimo signor conte Gio. Battista Orazio Porto. In Venezia: ap-presso Francesco Pitteri, 1755.

8vo, pp. 51, [1] blank; attractive woodcut device on title-page, and woodcut initials; one conjugate leaf loose, occasional minor soiling and foxing, largely marginal, and most prominent at head of final couple of leaves; in modern marbled wrappers; a good copy. £275

Scarce pharmacological dissertation by the Vincenza physician Bendetto Gallizzi (also Galliccio, 1725–1786), analysing a number of astringents and remedies composed of Peruvian Corteccia or Bark. Gallizzi, a professor of anatomy at Vincenza, subsequently published a number of epidemiological essays discussing epidemics of both plague and influenza.

Rumor II, 5.1; not located on OCLC or KVK with one copy cited at the Biblioteca civica Bertoliana, Vicenza on ICCU.

26 GARDANE, Joseph Jacques de. KATECHISMUS DER ANSCHEINENDEN TODESFÄLLE oder sogenannten Pulslosigkeiten. Wodurch der gemeine Mann unterrichtet wird, wie er bey den verschiedenen Arten anscheinender Todesfälle verfahren soll. Auf befehl Sr. Königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Heinrich von Preußen zum Druck befördert. Berlin, bei Friedrich Maurer, 1787.

8vo, pp. 133, [3] index; some light foxing and browning throughout, with very small worm-hole affecting the upper margin of first four gatherings not affecting text; in modern paper-backed boards, with ochre paper label on spine lettered in gilt; a good copy. £325


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Rare first German translation of Joseph Jacques Gardane’s popular and practical contribution to the corpus of eighteenth century literature on resuscitation, Catéchisme sur les morts apparentes dites Asphyxies (1781), which went through several editions and translations. ‘Gardane, with Pia, was active in the development of resuscitation in France. A very popular publication. Ten editions had been published by 1782, and the States of Burgundy reprinted the tenth ed. at Dijon in 1783 for free distribution throughout the province’ (Huston, Resuscitation, no.18).

Taking the the question and answer format, various methods and theories are outlined. For example, if no bellows or tubes are available, Gardane suggests blowing air into the victim via their nose and mouth, providing one can over distaste of the practice. Though seemingly a less effective method, this direct injection of air into the lungs will never the less be of assistance, as containing less sulphur more will be absorbed than wasted: ‘Da nun diese Luft, bald mehr bald weniger schwefelartig ist, so hat sie schon vieles von ihrer Kraft verloren’. This could also be useful in cases where the tongue is swollen and protruding.

Gardane (1726–1786) was born in Provence, studied in Montpellier and later be came a physician in Paris where he was ‘Censeur Royal’. A member of numerous Academies, he wrote several works, notably on small-pox and syphilis. The present work, according to Quérard, is a separate publication to his earlier illustrated work of 1774 on the subject, Avis au peuple, sur les asphyxies ou morts apparantes et subites and which included a ‘description d’une nouvelle boëte fumigatoire portative’ (see Huston, no. 17).

See Blake p. 166, Wellcome III, p. 88 for the French editions; Querard III, p. 256; Hirsch II, pp.493–494; Huston, Resuscitation, no. 17 and 18;OCLC cites a copy at Bayern, with further copies located at Kiel, Leipzig, and the National Libraries of Austria and Denmark.

27 GREEN, Thomas. THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL or, botanical, medical and agricultural dictionary. Containing an Account of All the known Plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean System. Specifying the Uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as Food, As Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures. With the best Methods of Propagation, and the most recent agricultural improvements. Collected from indisputable au-thorities. Adapted to the use of the farmer, the gardener, the husbandman, the botanist, the florist, and country housekeepers in general. The second edition, revised and improved. Vol. I [-II]. London. Printed at the Caxton Press by Henry Fisher ... [nd but 1824].

Two thick volumes, 4to, pp. [iv], 790, with additional stipple-engraved hand-coloured title-page dated March 1816, hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece dated July 1816, and 56 hand-coloured plates (variously dated); pp. 885, [11], 56 supplement, with hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece dated 1823 and 51 hand-coloured engraved plates (also with various dates, the final plate relating to the 56 page supplement and not listed in the plate list); in all 110 engraved plates; some offsetting throughout as usual, with minor scattered foxing and soiling, small paper flaw affecting p. 498 of Vol I with loss of one letter, with neat marginal tear affecting outer margin of p. 787, and small marginal tear affecting p. 141 of Vol. II; in contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked to style, with morocco labels lettered in gilt, covers lightly scuffed, extremities bumped and a little worn; from the library of ‘Thuya Lodge, on Asticou Hill’, with book-plate on front paste-down of first volume, evidence of second book-plate, and blindstamp on first leaf of Vol II. £2,200

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Second revised edition (first 1816–1820) of this compendious and most attractively illustrated encyclopaedia of herbal knowledge, augmented with gardening and culinary information.

As advertisements for the work reveal (including one for the present edition found in Jamieson’s A Dictionary of Mechanical Science 1829, another Henry Fisher publication), the work was originally published by Fisher and the Caxton Press in parts, with both plain and coloured engravings available for purchase (at 5s and 10s respectively). The Caxton Press specialised in the publication of popular compendiums, moral and instructional works, and periodicals including James Smith’s Panorama of Science and Art (1816), Nicholson’s The Carpenter and Joiner’s Companion, and The Domestic Physician (1814), to name but a few.

The striking stipple-engraved allegorical frontispieces, ‘Wisdom and activity collecting the various treasures of the Vegetable Kingdom’ and ‘The Elements concurring to produce Plants and Flowers’ are by the fashionable miniature painter William Marshall Craig and engraved by R. Hicks. ‘Wisdom’ is represented by an old woman in the background under a hedge, with a youthful Flora seen in the foreground on the left, with presumably ‘Activity’ on the right and represented by a middle-aged, and it must be said rather inactive looking, gardener! The title-page depicts a collection of rather scantily clad young women, surrounded by a wreath of vegetation and flowers. The 107 botanical plates are engraved by F. Dixon, G. Dobie, W. Swift and others, most depicting two or four plants, with a selection also relating to the construction of greenhouses, and to garden design. Many are copied from originals by famous botanical artists such as Merian, Ehret and Philip Miller, and indeed Green, though rather covertly, draws heavily upon Thomas Martyn’s 1807 revision of Miller’s important and popular Gardener’s Dictionary (first 1731). This assertion is made in a far from complimentary review of the work in The Monthly Review’(1818, Vol. 87, p. 192), which claims that The Universal Herbal is merely an abridgement of Martyn’s revision, abounding with inaccuracies, ‘typographical errors, and the frequent instances of carelessness’ (p. 201). ‘The coloured plates, which accompany the volume, are more remarkable for the gaudiness of their tints than for beauty or accuracy. On the whole, however, they are tolerably though coarsely executed; and in all probability they may have the effect of obtaining for the ‘Universal Herbal’ an increased number of purchasers’ (ibid).

The present edition includes some plates taken from the first edition dated between 1816 and 1823. The date is taken from the preface, which is ‘Jan 7th, 1824’. A further revised edition appeared in 1828, some of the plates dated from that year (see the Huntington Library copy on OCLC: 79308595). Cleveland 887 note an 1824–1828 set.

We know little biographical information about Thomas Green, though he may also be the author of Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature (1810), Memoirs of her Late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta (1818) and A Biographical Memoir of the Late Edward Pearson DD (1819).

Freeman 1443 (1816–1820 edition); Great Flower Books, 58; Johnston, 793 and 887; Nissen BBI, 754d; NSTC 2G20164 ( first edition); OCLC: 14827621.

28 GUAYNERIO [or GUAINERIO], Antonio. OPUS PRAECLARUM ad prax-im non mediocriter necessarium cum Joannis Falconi nonnullis non in-utiliter adjunctis ... Reperiuntur Lugduni, ... In bibliotheca Scipionis de Gabiano, 1534.

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title-page and final leaf lightly browned and soiled, both with some minor edge wear and a couple of small marginal holes due to paper flaws, with some marginal damp-staining sporadically throughout, though most prominently affecting the preliminary leaves and from gathering R to the end, small wormhole at upper margin from ff. cclxxi to the end getting more pronounced and touching a few page numbers with some slight loss, a few headlines shaved close; in later full vellum, spine lettered in ink, lower half of spine with recent vellum repair, corners bumped and worn, covers a little spotted and browned; with the modern book-plate of Dr Samuel X Radbill on front paste-down; despite faults, still a good copy of a scarce work. £1,600

Rare and attractively printed early sixteenth century edition of this compilation of the works of the 14th century physician Antonio Guaynerio, divided into twelve sections, including those on the head, eye, heart, mania, and plague, and with a notable section on the nervous system. Of particular interest is a detailed section on gynaecology, with the author noting pregnancy in the absence of menstruation.

Guaynerio (or Guainerio) was in Pavia towards the end of the 14th century, studied medicine under Jacobus Foroliviensis and settled in his home town as a physician. He held the position of Archiater at the court of Amadeus VIII and in his travels through France met with great acclaim. He was the first to mention metal sounds in the treatment of urethral strictures. Several outbreaks of the plague in parts of Savoy prompted the Duke to call on Guaynerio who was proved successful in fighting this disease. Waller p. 9 cites the 1497 Venice edition of his Opera Medica (see also Hain 8099 and Klebs 480.6), with Durling noting a 1518 edition of the present title edited by Claudio Astari, and Durling and the Wellcome citing a 1525 edition also printed in Lyons but by J. Myt for C. Fradin.

The attractive title-page in red and black is surrounded by a handsome woodcut border. With initials throughout and other small woodcut decorations, the work is typographically appealing.

Durling 2190; Wellcome I, 2958; Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise, VII, p. 176; see Poynter, Wellcome Incunables nos 271–273; OCLC: 14325670 cites further copies at the University of Minnesota, the New York Academy of Medicine and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, with further copies located at Chicago and Texas.

‘The Miracle Doctor or Complete Councellor’

29 [GUIDE FOR MOTHERS]. [ANON]. DER WUNDERDOKTOR, oder vollständiger Rathgeber in allen Krankheiten des menschlichen Leibes, für alle Stände. Enthaltend: Die Eigenschaften aller Heilpflanzen, nebst ausführlichem Unterrichte, sie in Gärten zu ziehen, zu pflegen, zu wart-en, und als Heilmittel zu gebrauchen; die Anfertigung aller Kräutersäfte, Kräuterbiere und Kräuterweine, und der berühmten Lebens-Essenz des schwedischen Arztes Zernest; Ehestandsgeheimnisse vom Unvermögen der Männer und der Unfruchtbarkeit der Weiber nebst den unfehlbaren Mitteln dagegen; über Selbstbefleckung; Verhalten der Schwangern und Wöchnerinnen; alle Rettungsmittel bei plötzlichen Lebensgefahren und Verletzungen; die einfachsten und doch wunderbarsten Heilmittel in allen krankhaften Zuständen der Erwachsenen und kinder, nebst den Schön-heitsmitteln für Damen und herren, und die heilquellen Deutschlands und der Schweiz mit Angabe der körperlichen Uebel, worin sie heilsam

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sind. Nach de vorzüglichsten Quellen, und nach untrüglichen Erfahrun-gen der berühmtesten Aerzte aller Völker und Zeiten bearbeitet. München, Jos. Lindauer’sche Buchhandlung [n.d. but 1828?].

8vo, pp. [4], 314, [2], with two folding letterpress tables printed on both sides; title-page somewhat browned, the text lightly foxed throughout due to paper quality, faint dampstain affecting upper margins of first four gatherings, though never touching text; in contemporary sheep backed marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt with orange and blue paper labels, all edges green, joints and surfaces lightly rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped and worn; a good copy. £285

Scarce first edition of this appealing, if slightly curious, domestic guide, ‘The Miracle Doctor or Complete Councillor in all diseases of the human’. This anonymously published work provides advice for the whole household on a range of health and dietary matters, including hints of the cultivation and use of garden herbs and plants, the preparation of herbal beers and wines, the dangers of poisons, marriage secrets for infertile men and barren women, advice on pregnancy and childbirth, a section on first aid and emergency treatment, cosmetic and beauty advice, as well as a selection of ‘most wonderful remedies’ for all occasions. The author has apparently drawn upon the ‘experiences of the most famous physicians’ in compiling the present compendium. The two folding tables at the end of the work contain four tables giving instructions on how to make up a number of different solutions: ‘Lisen Wasser. Enthalten in einem pfunde von 16 unzen an Granen’, followed by one for ‘salt water’, ‘sulfer water’, and a caustic water solution.

OCLC locates only three copies at the National Library of Medicine, Bayern and the Swiss National Library.

30 [GUIDE FOR MOTHERS]. RECLAM, Carl Heinrich. DES WEIBES GE-SUNDHEIT UND SCHÖNHEIT. Aerztliche Rathschläge für frauen und Mädchen. Mit in den text gedruckten holzschnitten. Leipzig & Heidelberg. C. F. Winter’sche Verlagshandlung. 1864.

8vo, pp. [iv] publisher’s advertisements, viii, 372; with several appealing text illustrations; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality, with occasional light spotting and foxing, first and last leaves more prominently browned; occasional pencil annotations in margins; with faint contemporary signature on front free endpaper; in contemporary publisher’s pebble-grained black cloth, faded and illegible paper label on spine (slightly chipped), head and tail of spine and joints lightly worn and rubbed, further light wear to covers, extremities and corners; a good copy. £225

Uncommon first edition of this popular medical guide for women and girls, by the social reformer, police physician, and Professor of Medicine at Leipzig, Carl Heinrich Reclam (1821–1887). Divided into ten sections, Reclam provides a wealth of advice and information on matters including basic physiology and anatomy, on beauty, cosmetics and perfume, ‘Diätetische Winke für Küche und Küchenzettel’, as well as suggesting various suitable physical and mental exercises and stimulation’s, as well as ‘arbeitslehre’. In relation to more delicate matters, sections are including relating to ‘the boudoir and nursery’ and well as to marriage, and which includes advice on delicate sexual matters. The work concludes with a chapter outlining common female ailments. Reclam wrote a number of popular works on medicine, including Nahrungsmittel


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und Speisewahl (1855); Geist und Körper in ihren Wechselbeziehungen (1859), and Das Buch der vernünftigen Lebensweise ... Eine populäre Hygieine (1863), and is noted for him campaign to reintroduce optional cremation, in an attempt to address the public health problems surrounding a shortage of cemetery space.

Hirsch IV, p. 685; OCLC 14853029 locates two copies at the National Library of Medicine, and the Horner Library at the German Society of Pennsylvania.

A copiously illustrated home medical guide

31 [GUIDE FOR MOTHERS]. SCHMITZ, Laurenz. ILLUSTRIERTES HAU-SLEXIKON für gesunde und Kranke. München; Druck und Verlag von G. Schuh & Cie., G.m.b.H. 1904.

Large 8vo, pp. [iv], 919 [1] imprint; with 11 coloured plates on 12 leaves, and six anatomical models of the eye, heart, nose, throat, (within the text) and of the male and female bodies (both with additional explanatory leaves and found at rear); all flaps apparently present (though a couple loose); together with over 400 textual illustrations; some light marginal soiling, but otherwise clean and crisp; in the original maroon publishers decorated cloth, with attractive coloured embossed vignette on upper cover, covers slightly bumped. £185

First edition of this attractively illustrated compendious A-Z home medical help, one of several similar works published at the turn of the century, and which is particularly reminiscent of both Platen’s Die Neue Heilmethode of circa 1896, and H. Muller’s Household Medical Adviser published in 1900 – another German ‘hauslexicon’ that was translated for an English market.

This invaluable tome is copiously illustrated throughout, both with appealing black and white engravings depicting everything for trusses, to the recovery position, to the six coloured plates incorporating flaps, and which illustrate the eye, the heart, the mouth and throat, the nose, and then at the front of the work, the male and female anatomy. A most striking and invaluable home-help that provides advice for every medical emergency.

OCLC: 14809940 cites six copies at Bayern, Nijmegen, Tilburg, UCLA, the NLM and Kings College.

32 HIPPOCRATES. OPERA OMNIA. Graece & Latina edita, et ad omnes alias editiones accommodata ... Joan. Antonidae Vander Linden. Lugduni Bata-vorum [Leiden]: Apude Danielem, Abrahamum & Adrianum à Gaasbeeck. 1665.

Two volumes, 8vo; pp. [xl], 788 (i.e. 880), [2]; [iv], 1034, [134], [2] blank; with engraved title in volume I (a little browned with small paper flaw affecting upper gutter with small loss), and engraved portrait of Hippocrates on *8v, and numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; light damp-staining affecting inner margin of first few leaves of vol. I, small worm-trail neatly repaired at tail of vol I from title to H6, outer corner of p. 497 in Vol II neatly repaired, title-page of vol II lightly foxed, both volumes lightly foxed with some marginal browning, otherwise clean and crisp; a most attractive copy in late 18th century full red morocco by Bradel with his ticket, all edges gilt, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, with triple gilt border to covers, inner gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; with three armorial book-plates in each

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volume, and the signatures of ‘John Warburton, Caius Coll. Cambridge, 1810’, and a later signature in Greek. £1,200

A lovely copy of the first edition of this highly esteemed edition by Van der Linden of the collected works of Hippocrates.

‘Convenient and well-printed handbook edition in two volumes, which divides the text into chapters and paragraphs, and includes the margin numbers of earlier editions. The text itself is often marred by Linden’s forthright criticism, and as he died in 1664, Cornarius’s translation was printed with it, which often does not correspond to the parallel text. But much is contained only in this edition by way of a very rich collection of éloges, literary parallels and extracts, and a very good index is added, so that it will always remain of scholarly and commercial value by its rarity’ (cf Choulant, Handbuch, p. 23).

Pierre Jean Bradel succeeded to the business of his uncle Nicolas Derome le jeune (1731–1790), master binder since 1760, and easily the most famous binder of the period.

Celli, Bibliografia Hipocratica, 2635; see Garrison, pp. 92–101 for a discussion of Hippocrates.

33 HORNE, Johannes van. MIKROTEXNH sue methodica ad chirurgiam introductio. Editio Tertia cum copioso rerum notabiliorum indice. Ludg. Batav. 1675. [bound together with]: MIKPOKOCMOC. Seu manuductio ad historiam corporis humani, in gratiam discipulorum quartùm edita. ... Lugduni Batavorum, 1675.

Together two works in one volume, 12mo, [ii] striking engraved title-page frontispiece signed by J. Hinck, viii, 204; [ii] striking engraved title-page frontispiece signed ‘Lipsiæ Apud Johann Fritzschen’, [xii], 156; aside from some light paper browning throughout and some minor dust-soiling, clean and crisp, small marginal tear affecting first frontispiece with no loss, with a few corners creased; an appealing copy in contemporary vellum, author’s name in ink at head of spine, spine somewhat soiled and browned with some spotting and soiling to covers. £550

An appealing compendium containing two popular seventeenth century Dutch medical manuals on surgery and anatomy by the noted Leiden professor of anatomy, Johannes van Horne (1621–1670). First published in 1663 and 1660 respectively, the Mikrotechne and Mikrokosmos were presumably written to accompany associated courses, and both went through several editions as testified by the present volume containing the third and fourth editions of both works. Though unillustrated, both works are adorned with striking frontispieces, the first depicting an amputation in progress being performed in front of an audience in an anatomical theatre and overseen by a surgeon; the second is printed in Leipzig by Johann Fritzchen.

Whilst perhaps somewhat overlooked by medical historians, Van Horne was a renowned professor at Leyden and did much to improve the education of anatomy. Giving both public and private lectures and anatomical dissections, he taught and inspired Frederic Ruysch, Jan Swammerdam and Nicolaus Steno. Van Horne is probably best remembered for being at the forefront of the discovery of the lymphatic system with his discovery in 1651 of the ductus chyliferus (thoracius) in man, published in his essay Novus Ductus Chyliferus (1652). This discovery was made independently from those of both Pecquet and Rudbeck who had made their discoveries in dogs. ‘A very learned man, with thorough knowledge of the classical and modern languages, van Horne was interested primarily in anatomy but also lectured and published on surgery. ... He understood the art of making fine anatomical preparations and seems also to


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have prepared an anatomical atlas, which was never published’ (DSB). Both of these popular manuals were translated into several languages, including French, German, Dutch and English. (Heirs 536 for 1662 second edition).

I. OCLC: locates only European copies, with further copies located at Toronto, Glasgow and Oxford; this edition not in Krivatsy. II. Krivatsy 5591; OCLC locates copies at Toronto, Cornell, the College of Physicians, the National Library of Medicine, and the Wellcome.

34 [HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION]. [ANON]. MANUEL A L’USAGE DE MM. LES ADMINISTRATEURS DES HOPITAUX DE LYON. A Lyon, De l’imprim erie de S. Darnaud Cutty ..., Façade du Rhône, no. 8. 1821.

8vo, pp. [ii], 98, [42] blank leaves; attractive woodcut printer’s device on title; text a little foxed and browned, notably half-title and title-page; neat manuscript notes in a contemporary hand on first two leaves of blanks; green roan-backed drab boards, with three roan ‘pen’ loops along fore-edge, surfaces a little scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed and worn; a good copy. £325

A rare insight into the day-to-day running of early nineteenth century hospitals. The present handbook has been issued for the use of the administrators of the two principle hospitals in the wealthy industrial town of Lyon – the Hotel-Dieu and the associated charitable institution, the Hôpitaux de la Charité.

After a brief history of their establishment, the handbook proceeds to outline the governing rules and regulations. The instructions given are incredibly precise, often down to the specific hour that ceremonies and duties should be carried out. A strict dress code is provided, with sections devoted to the election of the President, the different functions of the administrators on the Council, to a notice detailing the invitation list for the annual dinner to recognise local dignitaries. Other paragraphs relate to the opening and running of the medical courses, to the ‘Concours pour la nomination des médecins’, the ‘Installation des Chirurgiens-Majors’, and the correct procedure for the installation of a bursar. What is particularly evident is the importance of the Church in the day-to-day running of the two establishments, with precise instructions for several religious festivals and processions given, including the funerals of council members, officers, student surgeons and interns, down to the prayers to be said at the weekly administrative meetings.

Not on OCLC; KVK locates only one copy at the BnF.

35 [HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION]. [ANON]. SYSTEMS OF ADMISSION AT HOSPITALS A plea for reform: being a selection from a series of articles reprinted (by permission) from the ‘Birmingham Daily Post’. With a pref-ace. Birmingham, Printed by Benjamin Hall, ... 1864.

8vo, pp. viii, 32; a little browned throughout due to paper quality, with some occasional dust-soiling and minor dampstaining along margins; a few corners a little creased; in modern boards. £285

Rare first edition, and a nice provincial imprint, of this interesting series of articles, first published in the Birmingham Daily Post and Journal. Discussing the different systems of hospital admission, the work reveals the growing discontent amongst many in the community that the system of charitable admission was the subject of widespread abuse, and therefore in need of reform and regulation. The anonymous author admits that since the articles were first published, efforts have been made by many Birmingham Institutions to address the problem. He hopes, therefore, that by

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publishing the present collection, ‘those who sincerely desire to see a widely-diffused social wrong permanently diminished’ will be assisted. ‘I have much gratification in reflecting that I am here, at one and the same time, upholding the value of public charities, the best interests of the poor, and the welfare of that profession whose chief pride it is that their succour in never withheld from those who stand in need of it’ (p. vii).

This anonymous work received the fulsome praise of a number of contemporary journals, including the Medical Gazette: ‘Worth twenty times the money. This pamphlet ought to be circulated amongst all persons who have taken on themselves the responsibility of becoming members of the Committee or Governing Board of any Hospital. The writer pleads for a free system of admission, instead of a privileged system: in other words, that the benefits of the charity ought to go to the persons most deserving or requiring relief, not to those who are selected by subscribers. Common hospitals are not charities. When a man has given a subscription to a charity, his property in it ceases: it belongs to the poor. But common Hospitals are joint-stock institutions in which the subscriber retains his property in his subscription, and exacts the value of it, often very much more. Would that this clear logical paper were well read!’ (Vol. I, 1864, p. 413).

OCLC: 49006368 locates only one copy at Oxford.

Praised by Nightingale

36 [HOSPITAL DESIGN]. BLONDEL, Charles Ferdinand and Louis SER. RAPPORT SUR LES HOPITAUX CIVILS DE LA VILLE DE LONDRES au point de vue de la comparaison de ces etablissements avec les hopitaux de la ville de Paris. Paris, P. Dupont, 1862.

Large 4to, pp. 238; with seven text illustrations and 10 tables; some occasional light soiling and marginal browning, outer margin of p. 64 torn though with no loss, a couple of pages a little creased, occasional marginal annotations in red crayon and with some neat pencil annotations to tables 1 and 4; in original linen-backed publishers’ cloth, spine ruled and lettered in blind (gilt faded), head of spine with small nick, small tear along upper joint at tail, upper cover with stain at tail, extremities a little bumped and worn; a good copy. £550

First edition of this uncommon and detailed comparative survey of Parisian and London hospitals, one of a number of studies published in Paris in the same year, tackling the issue of improving hospital design and architecture.

Nearly eighty years after Tenon’s scathing attack on Parisian hospitals, reforms were continuing to improve the provision of hospital care. The present study by two structural engineers, follows closely upon the heels of Armand Husson’s better known comparative work on nineteenth century hospitals, Etude sur les Hopitaux, and Le Fort’s Notes sur quelques points de l’hygiène hospitalière en France et en Angleterre. Indeed the present work is dedicated to Husson. Blondel and Ser compare and contrast nineteen hospitals and four workhouses, and provide a comprehensive review of their buildings, ventilation, sanitation, and practices such as the medical services they offer, and their staff, both medical and nursing.

Though Husson had celebrated the great strides that had been made since Tenon, his work recognised and advocated a continued programme of hospital building. The conclusion of Blondel and Ser is that in fact Parisian hospitals are in no way inferior to those in London, and are in many ways superior. As Charles Daremberg reveals in his work La médecine: histoire et doctrines (1865), this long-running debate was clearly


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still a highly controversial subject: ‘Le rapport de MM. Blondel et Ser a un caractère plus spécial que l’Étude de M. Husson; c’est un document où la controverse (une controverse très-légitime et fort impartiale, ce nous semble) a trop de part pour que nous puissions l’analyser et en apprécier les conclusions avec une compétence suffisante. MM Blondel et Ser pensent que nos hôpitaux ne sont en rien inférieurs à ceux de Londres, et que même par beaucoup de points ils leur sont supérieurs. J’ai beaucoup fréquenté les hôpitaux de Paris, mais je n’ai fait qu’entrevoir les hôpitaux de Londres; les observations personnelles me manquent par conséquent pour suivre et contrôler la comparaison. Quoi qu’il en soit, malgré l’habile direction et le zèle sans repos de M. Husson, malgré le concours empressé de ses collègues, il se passera encore bien des années et il se dépensera encore bien des millions avant que nos hôpitaux puissent offrir sinon toutes (cela est impossible), du moins la plupart des conditions qu’on doit chercher à réunir pour que le traitement des maladies dans nos établissements publics rappelle le traitement des maladies dans une maison particulière bien organisée: car c’est là le problème à résoudre’ (p. 474).

Both the present report, and that of Husson, proved to be influential across the Channel. ‘Within the last few years very considerable advances have been made in hospital architecture in this country. A number of hospitals have been improved and added to on correct principles. Several new hospitals embodying these principles have been built, and the plans of many more are at present under discussion. The subject has also awakened renewed attention abroad; and quite recently two works of great importance have appeared on the subject in Paris. One of these is the “Etude sur les Hopitaux”, by M. Armand Husson, Director of the General Administration of the Assistance Publique, the other the “Rapport sur les Hopitaux Civils de la Ville de Londres”, by MM, Blondel and Ser, of the same bureau. These works afford information of great interest on the whole question of Hospital administration, and I am indebted to them for several illustrations introduced into these pages’ (Nightingale, Notes on Hospitals, p. 90).

RIBA online catalogue; Avery, p. 752; OCLC: 12173483.

At the forefront of hygienic hospital design

37 [HOSPITAL DESIGN]. [BÜLAU, Gustav]. DAS HAMBURGISCHE ALLGE-MEINE KRANKENHAUS. Hamburg, Perthes & Besser. 1830.

Large 4to, pp. [ii] stipple engraved title-page, xviii, 86; with six large folding engraved plates; interleaved throughout; title-page somewhat soiled with marginal browning and finger-marking, faint dampstain affecting lower outer margins of plates with some light foxing and soiling, text a little foxed and browned; in later marbled boards, paper label on spine lettered in gilt, joints and head and tail of spine rubbed and worn with loss of paper, further loss along fore-edge of rear cover, boards a little sunned, extremities bumped and lightly worn; still a good copy. £1,350

Rare first edition of this detailed account of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg in Hamburg, one of the largest and most exemplary hospitals of the day in Europe. The present strikingly illustrated account provides an important historical insight into mid nineteenth century hospital design and administration, and reflects the continued efforts being made across Europe to further the progress of hospital reform. Built in the suburb of St. George, and designed by the leading architect Carl Ludwig Wimmel (1786–1845), the hospital was opened on November 10th 1823 with nearly 1100 beds. As the present detailed account of both the construction, and administration of the hospital reveals, it was at the forefront of hygienic hospital design, being the first

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German hospital to have a drainage and water system, including automatic flushing water closets. Male and female patients were also housed in separate wings of the hospital. Of the 1100 beds, 203 were devoted to surgical patients, with 157 given over to syphilitic cases. Special provision was also given to the mentally ill, the hospital providing nearly 250 beds in addition to 82 so called ‘mad-cellars’, for the treatment of severe cases.

The striking title-page depicts the tranquil looking hospital facade, with the six plates including an attractive plan of the grounds, together with floor plans and side elevations.

The work is attributed to the physician Gustav Bülau (1799–1857), and whose son Gotthard was also later associated with the hospital, becoming assistant physician in 1858.

OCLC: 14541852 locates one US copy at the National Library of Medicine, with a further copy located at Yale; not cited on R.I.B.A. online catalogue, or seemingly in the Fowler collection at Johns Hopkins; for a full discussion of Wimmel’s life and work see Eckart Hannmann, Carl Ludwig Wimmel 1786–1845: Hamburgs erster Baudirektor, (1975).

38 [HOSPITAL DESIGN]. JAQUEMET, Hippolyte. DES HÔPITAUX ET DES HOSPICES. Des conditions que doivent présenter ces établissements au point de vue de l’hygiène et des intérêts des populations, par l’auteur, ex-terne de hôpitaux de Paris, Ex-interne à l’Hôtel-Dieu de Bordeaux, mem-bre correspondant de la Société de Médecine de Bordeaux, lauréat de la Société Impériale des Sciences de Lille. Paris, Baillière et fils, 1866.

8vo, pp. [ii] publisher’s advertisement, [vi], 184, 48 publishers’ catalogue; with textual illustrations; aside from some occasional minor spotting and marginal dust-soiling, a lovely, fresh copy; uncut and largely unopened in the original printed wrappers, spine expertly repaired, covers a little spotted and soiled with neat marginal repairs to both upper and lower covers, and neat paper repair to upper cover touching one letter of title; a presentation copy from the author inscribed on the half-title ‘a mon excellent ami Ch. Leroux de [illegible], hommage bien affecteuse. J Hacquemet’; a good copy. £375

First edition, and a signed presentation copy, of this thoughtful essay discussing hospital sanitation and hygiene. The essay was written in response to the question ‘Quelles sont les conditions qui doivent présider à l’édification des hôpitaux, surtout dans l’intéret des personnes que l’humanité y reçoit? Quels sont les inconvénients, les dangers ou les avantages que pourrit présenter l’agglomération de plusieurs de ces établissements dans une même local plus ou moins étendu?’, and posed by the Société de médecine de Bordeaux. It was recognised in a meeting on March 26th 1866. Jacquemet begins with a comparison of institutional health care as opposed to domiciliary care, and even suggests that a time will come in the future where hospitals may be redundant. In the meantime efforts should continue to improve institutional care, and he then turns his attention to an examination of issues such as initial construction, orientation and geographical location of the buildings, the size of building (Jacquemet favouring small hospitals), interior design, heating, ventilation, provisions and equipment, and staffing. In the second section he turns his attention to a discussion of specialist hospitals for the elderly, women and for children.

Not in Avery, Fowler, or R.I.B.A.; for a contemporary review of the work see Annales d’hygilene publique et de médecine légale, Vol. 27, p. 465; OCLC: 6701800 locates copies at NLM, Harvard, Minnesota, College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine.


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An important contribution in the field of immunisation

39 [INOCULATION]. SICK, Georg Friedrich. ÜBER DIE SCHAFPOKKEN UND DEREN EINIMPFUNG, als ein Mittel, die Macht dieser Krankheit zu vernichten. In Verbindung mit einem aufgestellten Impfsystem, nach welchen es möglich ist, die Schafpokkenseuche gänzlich aus dem Präus-sischen Staate und selbst aus Europa zu verbannen. Berlin, bei Dieterici im SV., 1803.

8vo, pp. [iv], xvi, 155, with one engraved plate; some foxing throughout, with occasional minor staining; contemporary blue speckled paste-paper boards, loss of paper at head of spine (through loss of label), joints and extremities rubbed and lightly worn, corners bumped; a good copy. £285

First edition of this rare and important treatise on the inoculation of sheep against sheep-pox, by the German physician Georg Friedrich Sick.

Just as an inoculation system was being perfected and established by Jenner to inoculate humans against small-pox, it became increasingly common place in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to inoculate animals – notably sheep against sheep-pox, a disease resembling human smallpox. ‘It involved inoculation of sheep with the liquid from pox lesions on infected sheep and was known as “clavelisation”. This practice even became obligatory for a while in countries such as Prussia and in some departments in France’ (Bazin, p. 36). This procedure was recommended in France by Bourgelat in 1765 and in Germany by Erxleben in 1770. As demonstrated by the present work, it became more widespread in the beginning of the nineteenth century as an indirect result of the growing popularity of Jenner’s pioneering work. Sick provides a brief history of the disease, before discussing the processes involved, and outlines what he hopes will be a programme to eradicate the disease across not only Prussia but eventually Europe. The plate at p. 115 depicts the incision being made in the skin of the leg, and the application of inoculum matter from infected sheep.

Bazin, The Eradication of Smallpox, p. 36; OCLC locates only European locations.

40 [JAMET, Noel Philibert]. TRAITE DE LA CIRCULATION DES ESPRITS ANIMAUX divisé en quatre parties. Par un Religieux de la Congregation de Saint Maur. A Paris, Chez Jean Couterot, & Loüis Guerin ... MDCLXXXIV [1684].

12mo, pp. [xl], 248, with woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces; small worm-trail affecting lower outer corner throughout, though with no loss of text; aside from some light browning, clean and crisp; in contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt, head and tail of spine and joints repaired, minor worming affecting upper outer margin, corners repaired; still, a good crisp copy. £485

Uncommon first edition, re-issue with cancel title-page (first 1682), of this philo sophical study on ‘des esprits animaux’ – an attempt to solve certain questions unexplained by the recent discovery of the circulation of the blood, to which several chapters are devoted though, rather strikingly, with no obvious mention of Harvey. It also attempts to correlate the more recent advances in the discovery of the lymphatic system. These sections deal more openly with the work of Pecquet and Bartholin – though in fact some of the questions touched upon had already been solved by Pecquet.

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The work has also been attributed to Jean Bonet. The 1682 edition is identical, with only a differing publisher’s imprint: ‘A Paris, Chez la veuve de Louis Billaime, au second pillier dans la grand’sale du Palais, à l’image S. Augustin’.

Krivatsy 6199 (1682 edition); Wellcome III, p. 345 (1682 edition); Quérard, Les Supercheries litteraires devoilees, p. 381 under ‘Un Religieux Bénédictin’; not in Bedford, or in any of the principal Harvey references; OCLC: 14324465 locating further copies in the US at Berkeley, Yale, and Harvard.

41 KIERNANDER, Jonas. UTKAST TIL MEDICINAL-LAGFARHETEN Dom-are til Uplysing, Läkare til Hjelpreda och Barnmorskor til Underwisning I ämnen, som röra Människo-Kroppen. Stockholm, Tryckt hos Anders Jac. Nordström. [n.d. but 1776].

8vo, pp. [ii], [xxxi] preface and contents, [i] blank, 746, [12] index; with engraved title-page; light marginal browning throughout, with some occasional spotting, later ownership inscription on title-page; £225

A rare Swedish manual on forensic medicine written for the ‘enlightenment of judges, the assistance of physicians, and the instruction of midwives’.

Jonas Kiernander was Physician to the King and a member of the Royal Board of Medicine in Sweden. He felt compelled to write this treatise ‘mindful of how unconsciously and negligently forensic medicine has, since long times past, been practised in the Kingdom of Sweden’ (Preface). As a result of numerous errors in the examination of dead bodies, the poor compilation of examination reports and general medical ignorance, felons often evaded punishment, or even worse, innocent people were wrongly convicted by judges who were impeded from making fair decisions through a lack of accurate autopsy reports. Kiernander resolved to improve matters by compiling this manual, at present in draft form whilst he carried out further research on the subject.

The work is divided into three sections, the first dealing with embryology, the second with paediatrics, whilst the final section examines common ailments and causes of fatality affecting man. Each section provides notes of guidance for the judge, words of counsel to the Physician, and instructions to midwives to enable them to carry out their duties. He also includes some general notes on the characteristics of many severe and chronic diseases, a knowledge of which he believes to be imperative for those in forensic medicine, and which also includes proposed preservations against the plague. Descriptions of numerous poisons, are also provided, based upon the work of Linnaeus. Where-ever possible the events are substantiated by numerous observations. Kiernander makes many references to Dr Olaf Acrel, Sweden’s leading surgeon at the time, who wrote several important surgical works.

Blake p. 242; Wellcome III, p. 391: OCLC locates copies at UCSF, Johns Hopkins, and Texas.

A scarce and valuable history of surgical and neurosurgical instruments

42 KROMBHOLZ, Julius Vincenz Edler von. ABHANDLUNGEN AUS DEM GEBIETE DER GESAMMTEN AKOLOGIE, zur Begründung eines System derselben. 1.Theil. Prague, Calve’sche Bhdlg., 1825. [together with]. DIE TREPANATIONS-INSTRUMENTE. Abhandlung aus dem Gebiet der ge-sammten Akologie, zur Begründung eines Systems derselben, 2.Theil, 1 Abt. [no more published]. Prague, J.Calve’sche Bhdlg., 1834.


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Two volumes, 4to, pp. [vi], 419, [10], index and errata, with 780 illustrations on nine large folding lithograph plates (neat repair to plate I with no loss): pp. xii, 136, with 226 illustrations on five large folding lithograph plates; some foxing throughout both volumes affecting text and plates (though principally marginal), but generally crisp and clean; in contemporary marbled boards, with paper labels lettered in gilt, volume I with neat repairs to head and tail of spine and corners, volume II sympathetically rebacked; a good, though mixed set. £3,200

Scarce first editions, all published, of this comprehensive and noteworthy historical and illustrated survey of the progress and development of surgical instruments, with volume two providing an extensive account of neurosurgical instruments. This seemingly little-known work by the noted Prague physician and professor Julius Vincenz Krombholz (1782–1843) provides a highly detailed study and description of developments by many leading surgeons, including Scultet, Paré, Brambilla, Heister, Bell, Levret, Potts, and Rudtorffer – to name but a few. Both volumes are attractively illustrated with large folding lithograph plates that highlight over 1000 instruments including scalpels, saws, files, etc. As he states in his preface: ”Ich bildete mir daher zum Behufe meiner eigenen Studien eine Nebeneinanderstellung aller aus der Vorzeit bis auf uns in Abbildungen gekommenen und bekannten Instrumente in der Ordnung vom Einfachen zum Zusammengesetzten, welche mit der chronologischen fast allenthalben zusammenfällt.”

Hirsch III, 615–16; Wellcome III p.416; not in Osler, or Waller; OCLC locates copies of both volumes at Yale and Chicago only, with Harvard and Wellcome noting copies of the Trepanation atlas.

43 LANFRANC, Guido of Milan. EIN NÜTZLICHES WUNDARTZNEY BÜCH-LEIN ... aus Fürbit des wol erfarnen Meisters Gregorii Fleugauß ... dabey vieler bewerter Recepten heylsamer Salben und Ertzneyen, ein Ausszug ... durch Othonem Braunfelsz verdutscht. [no publisher or place, but colo-phon printer’s device of Hermann Gülfferich, Frankfurt am Main], 1552.

4to, ff. xxx; title-page in red and black with attractive engraved title-page vignette depicting a number of surgical instruments, one text engraving, and full page engraved printer’s device on verso of final leaf; some occasional light spotting and soiling, and some faint marginal dampstaining; in modern vellum backed paper boards, with new endpapers; a good copy. £2,800

An attractive and rare German translation of the noted treatise on wound surgery by Lanfranc of Milan’s (fl. 1290–1296, also Lanfranco, Lanfranchi or Lanfrancus Mediolanensis). Recognised as one of the founders of French surgery, Lanfranc initially practised medicine and surgery in Milan but political difficulties forced him to relocate to Lyons where he wrote Chirurgia Parva, concerning wounds and ulcers, in about 1295. ‘He moved to Paris where he became a highly successful teacher of surgery and wrote his great work, Chirurgia magna, in 1296. Lanfranco preferred cautery over the knife and urged caution in operations such as trephination, lithotomy, cataract extraction, while recommending treatment of hernia with trusses. He operated for intestinal wounds and empyema, provided specific directions for venesection and distinguished between arterial and venous bleeding. Lanfranco was the first to describe brain concussion and gave a classic account of the symptoms of skull fracture. He also made a strong stand against the medieval division between surgery and medicine and stated that

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the surgeon should also be a physician’ (see Heirs 106). ‘According to Hirsch ... his [Chirurgia magna] was first published in Venice in 1490 but no copy of this edition has been traced’ (GM 5553). ‘Lanfranc can properly be included among those great surgeons of the thirteenth century who fostered the art throughout Europe’ (Castiglioni. p. 337). The noted botanist and medical scholar Otto Brunfels was the first to edit and translate Lanfranc’s works, and these became the source of subsequent German translations by Gregor Flüguß. A German translation of the Chirurgia was first published by the popular medical and scientific publisher Christian Egenolff in Strassburg in 1528 under the title Kleynes Wundartznei (with subsequent editions in 1529, and Frankfurt 1569). Durling notes an edition of 1529 by Melchior Sachssen under the title Eyn nutzlichs Wundartzney, with Wellcome noting a Zwickau issue of the same year. Like Egenolff, Gülfferich specialised in the printing of popular medical texts, making this work a natural choice. An English edition was published by John Hall in 1565.

VD 16 L–256 (2); Durling 2726; see Heirs 106; see Garrison, p. 154; see Hæger, The Illustrated History of Surgery, pp. 84–86; not in Adams or Wellcome; OCLC: 14306904 locates further copies at Yale, Johns Hopkins and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Possibly a plagiarism

44 LAVATER, Johann Heinrich. ANLEITUNG ZUR ANATOMISCHEN KEN-NTNISS des menschlichen körpers für zeichner und bildhauer. Mit vielen kupfertafeln, grösstentheils nach den Albinschen des Herrn Ploos von Amstel. Zürich, bey Ziegler und Söhne, 1790.

8vo, pp. 48, [3], 50–179; with 27 engraved plates, of which nine are partially coloured in red; some occasional light soiling and staining, but otherwise clean and crisp; an appealing wide-margined copy in contemporary half roan over marbled boards, morocco label on spine lettered in gilt (somewhat faded), spine tooled in gilt, head of spine nicked and worn, with loss of roan due to worming along upper joint, and slight loss along lower joint, covers a little scuffed, extremities and corners bumped and rubbed. £625

First edition of this attractive guide to anatomy for artists and sculptors, by Johann Heinrich Lavater (1768–1819), son of Johann Casper. The twenty-seven finely engraved plates, representing bones, ligaments, and muscles of the trunk and of the extremities, mostly in the style of Albinus, are taken from line drawings by Cornelis Ploos Van Amstel and originally appeared in Amstel’s own work Aanleiding tot te kennis der anatomie of 1783. The illustrations were re-engraved by L. Halder, and are found in both the present and subsequent French edition of Lavater’s work, although the text he claimed as new.

In his preface Lavater defends the necessity of anatomy for artists by arguing that such knowledge would facilitate learning. He also presents a short list of relevant works to study, including those of Monnet and Suë.

The prints were made by means of two plates to enable the bones to appear in black and the muscles and ligaments in red. Despite his claims of originality, Lavater was accused by the anatomist Johann Martin Fischer of Vienna, of having copied word for word the first edition of Fischer’s own anatomical work. Original or not, this is nevertheless and attractive and finely executed work, and together with Fischer’s work is considered by Röhrl to be ‘the only books in the German language which were of a standard approaching the French’ (p. 187), and which did much to inspire a new


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generation of handbooks providing shorter and more functional explanations. The present work was translated into French by Gauthier de la Peyronie in 1797.

Blake p. 258; Choulant p. 314; Röhrl, pp. 187 and 433; Wellcome III p. 459; OCLC: 11522208 located further copies at Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, and Wisconsin, together with eight copies in Europe.

45 LEJARS, Felix. TRAITÉ DE CHIRURGIE D’URGENCE 482 figures dont 193 dessinées d’après par le Dr E. Daleine et 103 photographies original-es. Paris, Masson et Cie, Éditeurs Libraires de L’Académie de Médecine … 1899.

Large 8vo, pp. vi, 751; with numerous diagrams and half-tone illustrations; a little minor soiling, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary grey publisher’s cloth, lettered and ruled in black and gilt, with red skivver label on spine (chipped with some loss), a little shaken but holding, extremities a little rubbed, worn and bumped; still a good copy. £325

Uncommon first edition of this detailed and comprehensive guide to emergency sur-gery, for both surgeons and general practitioners alike. Deliberately devoid of theo retical discussion, Lejars instead provides clear and practical advice on the various emergency procedures, and instruments to be used, the whole work copiously illus trated to aid the practitioner. The work proved extremely popular, going through sev eral editions, and indeed Lejars became a renowned surgeon during the first World War.

Orr 832 (1909 sixth edition); OCLC: records only four US locations at the National Library of Medicine, Harvard, New York Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Oxford.

46 LUNIER, Ludger. DE L’AUGMENTATION PROGRESSIVE DU CHIFFRE DES ALIÉNÉS et de ses causes. Premier Mémoire. Paris, F. Savy, Libraire-Éditeur. 24, rue Hautefeuille, 24. 1870.

8vo, pp. 16, with large folding table; text lightly browned and foxed throughout due to paper quality, some minor foxing along folds of table; uncut, stitched as issued in the original green printed wrappers, covers a little soiled, with some light edgewear, light abrasion at head of upper cover (possibly through removal of a label), with pencil library marking; a good copy. £225

First separate edition of this brief mémoire, which provides a fascinating insight into the provision of care of the insane. The essay was initially read before the L’Académie Impériale de Médecine on March 23rd 1869, and first appeared in the Annales médico-psychologiques in January 1870. Dr. Ludger Lunier (1822–1897) was one of three Inspectors-Generals of the public asylum and sanitary service in France, and was one of the first to support the legal defence of perversion in a rape case.

In 1868 Lunier had published a detailed statistical survey on the provision of care for lunatics in Switzerland in his work De l’aliénation mentale et du crétinisme en Suisse. At a time when the care of the insane was a subject of great scrutiny, through the work of such men as Charcot, the present essay highlights the rise in the number of lunatics registered in France, and identifies some of the causes. Of particular interest is the large folding statistical table which records and compares the population of French asylums in 1861 and 1869. It lists 65 asylums citing location, date of foundation, their catchment area and the number of residents recorded on January 1st.

OCLC locates copies at the BnF and the BIUM only.

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The Autopsy of Antonio Cocchi described

47 MANETTI, Saverio. LETTERA DEL SIGNORE DOTTORE SAVERIO MAN-ETTI ... Sopra la malattia, morte, e dissezione anatomical del cadavere di Antonio Cocchi, celebre professore di medicina in Firenze, con diverse annotazioni risguardanti gli studi, perizia medica, e opere del medesimo. Seconda edizione, riveduta, e corretta dall’Autore. In Firenze, nella stam-peria di Pietro Gaetano Viviani, MDCCLIX [1759].

4to, pp. 35, [1]; with woodcut printer’s device on title, and attractive woodcut head-piece and initial; somewhat foxed and lightly browned throughout, though still crisp; an attractive wide-margined copy on thick paper, in contemporary vellum, yellow label lettered in gilt on spine, covers a little soiled and slightly scuffed, with accession number in ink at tail of spine; with attractive contemporary? book-plate on front paste-down with the signature of ‘Giulio da Montanto’. £275

Uncommon second edition, revised and corrected, of this unusual work in which the Florentine physician and botanist Saverio Manetti (1723–1785) describes the last illness, death and autopsy of his famous colleague, the physician, philosopher, naturalist and scholar Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758). The ‘Lettera’ addressed to Giovanni Lorenzo Guarnieri, also includes extensive notes on Cocchi’s life, together with a discussion of his published and unpublished works.

The essay first appeared in the Giornale de’Letterati (Rome, 1758), with the first separate edition published in Rome in 1759 (a copy of which is at the Wellcome).

Manetti was director of the Botanical Garden of Florence from 1749 to 1782. In addition to having disseminated the works of Linnaeus in Florence (C. Linnaei Regnum vegetabile, 1756), he is particularly remembered for his part in the publication of one of the greatest illustrated ornothologies ever produced, the Storia naturale degli uccelli (1767–1777).

Blake p. 285; Wellcome IV, p. 42; OCLC: 14333685 locates further copies at UCLA, Yale, Minnesota, Berkeley and Toronto.

Addressing the many curious diseases which attack ‘le beau Sexe’

48 MARIA, Jean. DISSERTATION SUR LES VAPEURS pertes de sang, pertes blanches, grossesses et couches, depost de lait ... A Lyon, [n.p.], 1759.

8vo, pp. 261, [7]; woodcut printer’s device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some occasional light marginal dampstaining effecting the upper gutter and lower outer corners, but generally clean and crisp; in contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, neatly rebacked, corners and extremities repaired and refurbished; a good copy. £485

First edition of this scarce treatise by the Lyonnaise ‘Maître en Chirurgie’, Jean Maria, in which he addresses the many ‘curious’ diseases which plague and attack the ‘fairer sex’. Maria dedicates his work to the Marquise de la Rochebaron, and in his preface states that he hopes the present work will shed some light, and indeed ‘lift the clouds’ from the much ignored class of nervous diseases that affect women. The result of many years of study, observation and practical assistance, he hopes to provide a series of helpful tips and remedies to alleviate the torment that so often affects those of a more


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delicate constitution. Conscious that he is dealing with a potentially embarrassing subject matter, he assures his reader that he will avoid too detailed a discussion on the specifics of each ‘espéce de vapeurs’, but divides them broadly into two groups: ‘hysterie’ and ‘melancholie’. The most common causes of theses, are according to Maria, excesses of ‘molesse’ or feebleness, pleasure, and intemperance. He therefore prescribes not only a number of potions, enemas, purgatives, laxatives, and remedies, but also a cheap and easy to follow regime of health that will help to banish a myriad of common female conditions. These include ‘pertes blanches’ or leucchorrheoia, problems with menstruation, advice for newly pregnant women, ‘remédes pour les couches’, methods to help milk-production, , advice on how to deal with the fall of the uterus, together with a number of remedies to help counteract melancholy and ‘la manie’.

Blake p. 288; Querard V, p. 531; not in Wellcome; OCLC locates only European copies.

49 MARIE DE SAINT URSIN, P. J. MANUEL POPULAIRE DE SANTÉ a l’usage des personnes intelligentes vivant à la Campagne; ou instructions som-maires sur les maladies qui régnent le plus souvent, et les moyens les plus simples de les traiter; suivies de notions chirurgicales et pharmaceutiques. A Paris, Chez Léopold Collin, Lib., rue Git-le-Coeur, no. 3 et chez L’Auteur ... An. 1808.

8vo, pp. [iv], xxviii, [29]–571, [4] errata, [1] blank; with woodcut textual diagrams; some light foxing and browning throughout due to paper quality, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and black, head and tail of spine lightly rubbed, spine a little stained and faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £285

First edition of this practical medical guide, by the physician and former chief medical officer for the Northern Division of Napoleon’s Grand Armée, P. J. Marie de Saint-Ursin (1763–1818).

Published three years after his popular guide to health for women, Saint-Ursin here turns his attention to general health, aimed in particular at those living in the country. Advice is given on the nature and treatment of the most common diseases and complaints, with a brief section outlining some simple surgical procedures also included, covering the treatment of abcesses, fractures, dislocations, and childbirth. He suggests a number of useful instruments to have at hand, and includes a bibliography of reference works (p. 513). The work concludes with some ‘notions élémentaires de pharmacie’, including suggested plants and herbs to use, a selection of simple remedies, as well as a handy guide to comparative guide to ancient and modern weights and measures, ‘Synonymie des anciens poids avecs les nouveaux’ (ff. 558).

In addition to his military positions Saint-Ursin became Inspector General of Health, and was Secretary of the Société Académique de Paris. Between 1800 and 1810 he edited the Gazette de Santé, and in 1815 he became the Chief Medical Officer of the Military Hospital at Calais, until his death in 1818. The proposed supplement to the present work Coup-D’Oeil historique de la Médecine ancienne et moderne, advertised on the verso of the title-page, was never published.

Querard V, p. 534; Wellcome IV, p. 54; OCLC: 14832660 locating copies at Harvard, the National Library of Medicine, and the British Library.

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A tariff to standardise medical fees in Turin

50 [MEDICAL FEES]. TARIFFA DEGLI ONORARI Per le cure, assistenze, con-sulte e operazioni di medicina, chirurgia, ostetricia e veterinaria. Torino, Stamperia Gazzetta del Popolo, 1873.

8vo, pp. 32; with a blank temperature chart loosely inserted; with printer’s device on title-page; somewhat browned and foxed throughout due to paper quality, gutters exposed in a couple of places, notably between pp. 4–5, lower gutter chipped with some loss, corners a little furled; in the original printed wrappers, spine with old tape repair, though with loss at tail, upper lower corner repaired with tape, covers quite foxed and soiled with two ring marks on upper cover, two labels along spine, and accession number? in blue crayon on upper cover; a little fragile, but sound. £185

An unusual and scarce insight into the attempted regulation of medical fees in Turin at the end of the nineteenth century. A suggested tariff for the services of physicians, surgeons, phlebotomists, midwives and veterinarians was first compiled by the Con-siglio Superiore di Sanità in 1852. As the preface states however, the intervening period has seen retail prices more than double, in line with an increased general prosperity throughout all walks and classes of society. It is therefore deemed fair and necessary that professional medical fees should also increase, and thus the present guide has been issued. In no way a legal document, the tariff is merely a guideline, showing an average of what one might expect to pay. An extensive list of common medical consultations and procedures then follows.

Also of interest is the Obstetrical Calendar that is included from pp. 24 onwards. Compiled by Professor Domenico of the Turin Obstetrical Clinic, the year long calendar gives two columns for each month listing the date of last menstruation and corresponding expected date of delivery. Loosely inserted is also a blank temperature chart to be filled in.

Not located on OCLC or KVK; ICCU locates a similar shorter title issued in Casale in 1866.

With 94 Chromolithograph Plates

51 [MEDICAL JOURNAL]. LA MEDICINA PITTORESCA. O Museo Medico-Chirurgico. Corredato Di Cento Tavole D’anatomia Generale, Descrit-tiva, Chirurgica e Patologica, di Patologia Interna ed Esterna, di Medicina Operatoria, D’ostetricia, di Materia Medica e Terapeutica. Traduzione di Giuseppe Ganz. Venezia, Antonelli, 1834–1839.

Four text volumes and accompanying atlas, bound in three, 4to; pp. 196 (a couple of gatherings misbound); [197]–395; 199, [1] blank; 198; with 94 engraved plates, of which ten have been partially hand-coloured, and with appealing engraved tail-pieces; some occasional minor marginal dampstaining, and light foxing and soiling, a couple of small paper flaws, with neat marginal tear affecting plate 4 but with no loss; an attractive, clean and fresh copy bound in contemporary black morocco backed blue marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, minor worming with loss affecting upper joints of atlas and of volume one, extremities lightly rubbed and worn; a very good copy. £2,200

First Italian edition, first published in France as La Médecine Pittoresque (1834–1837). A most attractive copy of this rare and striking illustrated medical journal, originally

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published in 100 parts of eight pages per section, with an accompanying engraved plate. The whole work is divided into three main sections dedicated to anatomy, pathology and therapeutics, and describes and illustrates the human organs in health and sickness, various surgical procedures and instruments, a manual of obstetrics, together with a section of medical botany.

Though the title cites 100 plates, as with the French edition, only 94 were ever included, though the plates in the present copy are predominantly uncoloured, in contrast to the coloured French edition. It may well have been possible to purchase a more expensive coloured version, but we have been unable to confirm this.

OCLC: 14846196, locates copies at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, the National Library of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic and the College of Physicians.

52 [MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY]. SAYRE, Lewis Albert. DIE SPONDYLITIS und die seitlichen verkrümmungen der wirbelsäule und deren behand-lung durch suspension und gypsverband. Deutsch herausgegeben von J.H.Gelbke. Leipzig, verlag von F.C.W.Vogel, 1883.

8vo, pp. viii, 116, [4] publisher’s advertisements; with three double-page and one folding collotype plates and 62 text illustrations; text and plates lightly browned with occasional light foxing throughout, otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary paste paper boards, spine ruled in gilt with red paper label lettered in gilt, small nick in spine at head with slight loss, head and tail neatly repaired, extremities slightly bumped and rubbed; a good copy. £975

Uncommon first German edition of Sayre’s noted orthopaedic work Spinal Disease and Spinal Curvature (1877), renowned for containing as it does some of the most artistic of the early medical photographs. Translated here by J. H. Gelbke, the illustrations are the same as those found in the first edition, though here found on four ‘Lichtdrucktafeln’ or collotypes.

‘Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scolosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic qualities. The book was first published in London while Sayre was a delegate to the British Medical Congress. The virtually identical American edition was published in Philadelphia by Lippincott, also in 1877’ (GM 4344.1). News of Sayre’s treatment of spinal disease and notably of tuberculosis of the spine or Pott’s disease had preceded him to England, and during his stay in 1877 he was asked to lecture and give demonstrations of his methods at the leading surgical centres of Great Britain and Ireland. ‘The

patient was literally suspended by an overhead traction apparatus attached to a specially constructed chin and occiput halter. Only his toes touched the ground, and this was permitted just enough to avoid serious discomfort. While under this severe traction, a snugly fitted plaster of Paris jacket was applied. Later lateral traction bands were added to the suspended body according to the nature of the deformity, and the plaster applied around them. These bands were removed before the finishing layer was applied’ (Bick).

Sayre has been called the father of American orthopaedic surgery because of his pioneering efforts. He was the first in the United States to successfully resect the hip joint in 1854 and was also the first to use plaster-of-Paris as a support for the spinal column in scoliosis and Pott’s disease in 1877’ (see Heirs, 1883).

Waller 8523; see Heirs 1883; Garrison-Morton 4344.1 ( first edition) and also 4344 for his use of plaster-of-Paris ‘as a support for the spinal column in scoliosis and Pott’s disease’; Shands,

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Early Orthopaedic Surgeons of America, pp. 35, 38–40; Bick, pp. 434–435; Peltier, pp. 130–136, 207–211; Keith, Menders of the Maimed, pp. 178–181; Burns, American Medical Publications with Photographs, p. 1234; Truthful Lens 144 (and fig. 83); Taureck, Die Bedeutung der Photographie für die medizinische Abbildung Im 19.Jhdt, p.208.

Containing an early endorsement of Solayrès de Renhac

53 [MIDWIFERY]. AUGIER DU FOT, Anne Amable. CATECHISME SUR L’ART DES ACCOUCHEMENTS pour les Sages-Femmes de la Campagner, fait par l’ordre et aux dépens du gouvernement ... A Mende, sur l’imprimé de Soissons, Chez Claude Bergeron, Imprimeur du Roi et de la Ville. MDC-CLXXV. [1775].

12mo, pp. xxiv, 90, [6]; title-page a little soiled and stained, with some further minor foxing and dust-soiling throughout, otherwise crisp; stitched as issued without wrappers, uncut with some edgewear to extremities including loss to lower edge of title-page (but not affecting text); an attractive unsophisticated copy. £485

A rare provincial issue, published in the same year as the first Soissons edition, of this noted guide to midwifery by the physician Anne Amable Augier Du Fot (1733–1775), professor of obstetrics at Soissons.

One of the ever growing number of ‘man-midwives’, or accoucheurs that practised towards the end of the eighteenth century, and who challenged the authority and ability of rural sages-femmes, the present work is clearly an attempt to curb the ignorant, and indeed sometimes pernicious practices found amongst the poorly educated midwives. During the 1780s, a number of provincial teaching establishments were created in France in an attempt to reform midwifery, and the present work is indeed based upon the twice-yearly courses given by Augier du Fot. Details of the how the course was run and on admission guidelines are described in the introductory preface, and the work therefore provides an invaluable insight into the efforts being made to reform the profession.

The work is divided into five sections, presented in a question and answer format and dealing with conception; the duties of the midwife during labour and delivery; the types of delivery requiring intervention; difficult presentations and instrument use; labours resulting in death of mother; and finally the various illnesses associated with pregnancy and delivery and some general points of advice.

As the preface reveals, however, of particular note is that the work is an early endorsement of the work of Solayrès de Renhac, Augier Du Fot citing the recent review by Baudelocque, of his treatise Dissertatio de Partu Viribus Materis Absoluto (1771), and which Baudelocque considered to be the first complete study on the subject. Solayrès de Renhac was born in 1737 in Calhac and studied at Montpellier, graduating in medicine in 1765. In the same year he became a member of the Royal Society of Science and for a while taught anatomy and surgery in association with the Montpellier medical faculty. In around 1770 he moved to Paris where he was elected to membership in the Collège de Chirurgie. His burgeoning career, however, was cut short by his premature death from tuberculosis only two year later in 1772. Baudelocque was a fervent admirer, and later devoted several pages of his introduction to L’Art des Accouchemens (1781) to a glowing tribute of his friend and colleague, whom he believed had one of the most promising careers in French midwifery, and who was to adopt many of his friend’s principles and doctrines for his own. Solayrès essay was republished in 1831 by Eduard von Siebold, ‘with a full recognition of its epoch-making character. He states that Solayrès was the


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first writer to describe clearly the physiologic factors involved and the relation of the mechanical forces’ (Cutter & Viets, p. 91).

Augier de Fot’s treatise is an early contribution to a growing corpus of literature devoted to this subject, and can be compared to that of Icart in 1784, Leçons pratiques sur l’art des accouchemens (accompanying a similar teaching course in the Province of Languedoc), Michel Pierre Le Pelletier’s Mémoires ou observations pratiques sur les accouchements of 1799, and Cecile Fagette’s textbook of 1825 Instructions sommaires théoriques et pratiques sur les accouchements, and which accompanied a teaching course in Albi.

Blake p. 24 (both a 1775 Pezenas issue and the Soissons issue); R.C.O.G. cites a 1775 edition printed in Limoges; Waller 529 (Soissons issue); Wellcome II, p. 70 (Soissons issue); see Hirsch I, p. 227; this issue not on OCLC.

54 [MIDWIFERY]. LOWENSTEIN, Albert Samuel. DER THEORETISCHE UND PRAKTISCHE GEBURTSHELFER oder vollständiger unterricht der gesammten geburtshülfer und der krankheiten der schwangern, wöchnerinnen und neugebornen kinder. Zum gebrauche für Aerzte, Wundärtze, Gebuertshelfer, Studirende und Examination. Berlin, Verlag von Carl Henmann, 1836.

8vo, pp. iv, [iii]-xxxii, 38, 38a–38d, [39]–548, [ii] errata, [549]–567, [1] blank; with one folding letterpress table; occasional neat errata corrections in ink, aside from some occasional light foxing, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary black paste-paper boards, green paper label lettered in manuscript on spine, front free endpaper excised, head and tail of spine a little bumped (possibly neatly restored); a good copy. £350

Scarce second edition (first 1831) of this extensive introduction to obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics for students and professionals alike, one of a number of theoretical and practical works on the subject by the Jewish surgeon and physician from Berlin, Albert Samuel Löwenstein. This ‘complete instruction’ is divided into six main sections that deal in turn with the pregnancy; associated diseases; normal childbirth and treatment of the new-born; post-partum diseases; irregular births and obstetrical surgical procedures; and diseases of new-born infants. Of interest is the lengthy bibliography included from pp. 13–38d (the final four pages an addenda of recent publications), together with the folding table providing a useful pregnancy chart.

Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, I, p. 270; not in R.C.O.G.; OCLC locates three copies of this edition at the NLM, Berlin and Augsburg; the first edition is located at Chicago and Washington, whilst copies of the third edition of 1839 are found at Harvard and the British Library.

Compiled by ‘the fourth great doctor of the Grand Armée’

55 [MILITARY MEDICINE]. COSTE, Jean-Francois, et al. AVIS SUR LES MOYENS DE CONSERVER OU DE RETABLIR LA SANTE DES TROUPES à L’Armée d’Italie. A Paris, de L’Imprimerie de la Républic, Prairial, an IV [1796].

8vo, pp. [ii], 65; some light foxing and occasional marginal dust-soiling; stitched as issued, uncut and unopened in the original wrappers, 3cm tear at head of spine with loss, with minor wear to tail, extremities a little creased and furled, but otherwise a fresh, appealing copy. £485

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A surprisingly uncommon, yet fascinating insight into the state of French Revolutionary military health, hygiene and medical practice. The present treatise discussing ways to conserve and restore the health of French troops taking part in Bonaparte’s whirlwind Italian campaign of 1796–97 was compiled and issued by ‘Les inspecteurs généraux du service de santé des armées’, including Jean-François Coste, Biron, Heurteloup, Villar, Bayen, and Antoine Parmentier. The need for such a report attests to the difficulties being encountered on the ground, and the recommendations must have been sorely needed. Between 1793 and 1794 the French army had lost nearly a thousand of their ‘officiers de santé’, and the unstable social situation meant that not enough students were being trained to fill the gap. The army, and particularly the Army of Italy, was stretched and in a terrible state. It was this fact that made Napoleon Bonaparte’s subsequent success during the Italian campaign the more remarkable, and his fame as a military commander can be dated back to this expedition. As a young and relatively unknown commander of this poorly supported army he managed to defeat a series of much larger Austrian and allied armies, conquer most of northern Italy, and force the Austrians to the negotiating table.

Though signed by the secretary of the ‘Inspecteurs’, Vergez, it was only natural that the military physician Coste (1741–1819), should be called upon to contribute, and no doubt contributed much to the work. ‘Arguably the fourth great doctor of the Grand Armée, unlucky not to have his name also inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe, was the physician Jean-François Coste. Less well known than Larrey, Percy and Desgenettes, his modern reputation has been enhanced by a recent comprehensive biography’ (Howard p. 63). Coste had been given charge of the French Expeditionary Forces at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. He travelled to the United States with Rochambeau’s army in July 1780 and stayed there for more than two years, winning the friendship of Washington and Franklin and, in June 1782, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from William and Mary College in Williamsburg. Upon his return in 1784 he was appointed as Chief Medical Officer of the Army, and later Chief Medical Officer of the Hotel des Invalides. The present work, whilst drawing upon many noted military hygiene authorities such as Pringle, Monro, and Ramazzini, also includes a number of presumably first hand observations by Coste from his time in America at Virginia and Pennsylvania.

See Howard, Napoleon’s doctors: the medical services of the Grande Armée, p. 63–4; for the detailed biography referred to by Howard see Lemaire, J.F. Coste: Premier Médecin des Armées de Napoléon; OCLC locates copies at UCLA, Princeton, and the Wellcome, NLM (b and ref ), with further copies located at Aberdeen, Lyon and the BnF.

56 [MILITARY MEDICINE]. LUCADOU, Antoine Samuel. MEMOIRE SUR LES MALADIES LES PLUS FAMILIÈRES A ROCHEFORT. Avec des obser-vations sur les maladies qui ont régne dans l’Armée navale combinée, pen-dant la campagne de 1779. A Paris, Chez Guillot, Libraire de Monsieur ... MDCCLXXXVII [1787].

8vo, pp. [vi], iv, [5]–335, [1] blank; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces; aside from some occasional minor foxing and soiling, clean and crisp; last gathering a little loose, with corners and outer margins quite furled and creased, with final leaf adhered to lower outer wrapper; uncut in the original blue paste-paper wrappers, remains of paper label lettered in manuscript on spine (though half of label missing and lettering smudged and obscured), spine quite rubbed and worn with loss of paper


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at head and tail and on spine itself, though holding firm, extremities furled; an attractive, unsophisticated copy. £425

Rare first edition of this treatise discussing the nature, causes, symptoms and treatment of epidemic disease as observed amongst the naval and military personnel based at the Atlantic seaport of Rochefort. Based upon many years of observations and study, Lucadou provides an analysis of the nature of the various diseases encountered, many of which were seasonal, and discusses a number of methods of treatment, including blood-letting. He highlights in particular the problems encountered during the abortive and disastrous campaign of 1779 to invade England, and during which time he was a squadron physician. The ill-equipped fleet were kept at sea for many months, with further troops keep waiting at embarkation ports such as Rochefort for months on end. Scurvy weakened the crews, and in the hot, crowded shipboard conditions, typhus and smallpox also broke out, and which rapidly spread through ports due to the constant influx of soldiers and sailors. Rochefort’s close proximity to an area of marshland, was also believed to be a contributory factor to the continual threat of epidemics. Playing such an important role in French military strategy, indeed it was from Rochefort that La Fayette set sail in 1780 to offer his help to Washington in the war of Independence, it was only natural that public and military health should come under scrutiny. The present analysis comes three years after Noël Retz’s similar study Précis d’observations (1784).

Lucadou (ca. 1760s?–1814) remained in Rochefort as a naval physician until 1791, when the political situation prompted him to withdraw to Bordeaux, where he remained in civil practice, eventually become President of the Bordeaux Medical Society. The present work is dedicated to Poissonier, Inspector-General of Maritime Medicine, though it is unclear as to whether this refers to Pierre Isaac or his younger brother Antoine, both of whom had for many years played influential roles in the supervision of medical care for the French fleet, and who had both published works on naval health.

Hirsch IV, p. 52; Querard V, p. 382; OCLC records only three copies at the Society of Cincinnati Library, the BnF, and Bordeaux.

57 [MILITARY MEDICINE]. REVOLAT, Etienne Benoit. NOUVELLE HY-GIÈNE MILITAIRE, ou préceptes sur la santé de l’homme de guerre considéré dans toutes ses positions, comme: les Garnisons, les Canton-nemens, les Campemens, les Bivouacs, les Ambulances, les Hôpitaux, les Embarquemens, etc, etc. Ouvrage utile aux Médecins et Chirurgiens près les Armées, aux Chefs, de Corps, aux Officiers et Sous-Officiers de toute arme. A Lyon, Chez Tournachon-Molin, An XII–MDCCCIII [1803].

8vo, pp. xxiv, 304, [4]; light foxing and browning throughout, small paper flaw with loss at tail of p. 11, some marginal tears with loss due to rough opening, effecting pp. 37, 103 and 157 but never affecting text; an ex-libris copy from the Bibliotheque Centrale Service de Santé, with their libary stamp on title-page, and sporadically throughout the text; in nineteenth century red roan backed marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, remains of printed library label at tail, head and tail of spine rubbed and lightly worn, spine and joints a little scuffed and rubbed, extremities bumped, corners lightly worn; a good copy. £400

Rare first edition of this treatise on military hygiene highlighting a ‘new’ system of guidelines and precepts on the health of military personnel, and which provides a valuable insight into the state of medical practice during the early Napoleonic era,

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at a time of great reform throughout all areas of post-revolutionary France. Etienne Revolat (1768–1848), for many years a practitioner in Montpellier, joined the Army and participated in campaigns in Germany, Italy and Spain. He eventually rose to the rank of Surgeon-Major. Having experienced for himself at first hand, the effects of poor military hygiene during his Italian campaigns of 1796, efforts to improve and reform the care and health of the Army would no doubt have found great favour with Napoleon and his new advisors. Revolat divides his work into three sections that introduce general rules of hygiene, before looking in turn at health matters during times of peace and war. Topics under discussion include diet, clothing, exercise, accommodation, as well as the discussing issues such as the choice of suitable recruits, the care of military prisoners, and the effects of forced marches.

After his military career, Revolat moved to Bordeaux, and in addition to carrying on a civilian practice, became interested in mental health, subsequently becoming director of the Lunatic Asylum there, and penning a couple of works on the subject in 1838 and 1846. He is also remembered for his translation into French of Denman’s work on puerperal fever in 1785.

Hirsch V, p. 1; Querard VII, p. 557; OCLC records copies at Yale, Harvard, NLM, Minnesota, the College of Physicians and Texas.

58 MORIN, Joseph. MANUEL THÉORIQUE ET PRATIQUE D’HYGIÈNE Ou l’art conserver sa santé. Paris, Roret, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille au coin de celle du Battoie. 1827.

12mo, pp. [vi], 328; including an advertisement leaf for Roret’s Manuels at the front; aside from some occasional minor marginal soiling, clean and crisp; an appealing copy in contemporary marbled calf, spine attractively tooled and lettered in gilt, with very small worming hole at head of spine and lower joint. £225

A most appealing and uncommon little handbook providing advice on general health and hygiene by Dr. Joseph Morin, a member of the faculty of medicine in Paris. According to the preface inspired by the work of the physiologist François Chaussier Manuel Théorique et pratique d’hygiène, Morin begins with a general introduction to the physiology of the body, before examining in detail matters relating to food and drink, attitudes to exercise, issues of clothing, and care of the skin. Of particular note, he provides quite a detailed discussion of number of different sources of nutrition, both animal and vegetable, providing a brief description of each and commenting upon how good they are for the digestion. A similar list is then provided for various types of refreshments. He also devotes considerable attention to care of the skin, with chapters also discussing the benefits of bathing. The final chapter is devoted to issues of health relating to women, including menstruation, pregnancy and child-birth.

Querard VI, p. 320; Wellcome IV, p. 181; OCLC: 24394310 cites copies at McGill, Harvard, the Library of Congress, and Rochester.

‘Apply voltaic electricity to the patient’

59 MURRAY, John. REMARKS ON THE DISEASE CALLED HYDROPHOBIA prophylactic and curative. London: Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, MDCCCXXX [1830].

8vo, pp. ix, [3], 86. [2]; some light foxing and soiling, a couple of small marginal tears due to rough opening, with some marginal dust-soiling; uncut in the original grey boards, neatly rebacked, corners bumped and worn; a good copy. £185


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Uncommon first edition of this interesting treatise on the nature and treatment of hydrophobia or rabies, by the Scottish popular scientific writer and lecturer, John Murray (ca. 1786–1851).

One of the most feared of the infectious diseases, little progress was made on understanding the nature of the disease until the germ theory had been established by Pasteur in the 1880s. Until that date various prophylactic measures were employed, notably the local excision and cauterization of the injured tissue. Murray here presents a number of case histories before outlining his suggested curative and prophylactic methods. In particular he suggests applying ‘voltaic electricity to the patient, ab initio. The pensile galvanic pile is a convenient mode of excitement, and is promptly renewed; the organs concerned in respiration should be included in the circle formed by the conducting wires, and afterwards the brain. Our chief reliance would be on an atmosphere of chlorine, applied ... to the surface of the body, so that the system should be charged with it. The next remedial measure is to impregnate the atmosphere which the patient breathes, either with chlorine or with the vapour of red fuming nitrous acid, placed near, and the latter would less irritate the lungs’ (p. 82).

Citing the work of several European authors on the subject (though with no reference to James Thacher’s noted work of 1812), Murray has been particularly influenced by the work of Trolliet, Nouveau Traité de la Rage (Lyon, 1820).

Murray was born at Stranraer in about 1786. He was the author of several popular scientific works on a wide range of subjects, and became well known as a lecturer for the Mechanics’ Institution. He is also noted for his contribution to debate on the safety lamp prompted by Davy’s memoirs in 1816, and exhibited at his lectures an experimental safety lamp.

NSTC 2M41806; Wellcome IV, p. 203; OCLC: 14838729.

‘The science of good nursing I consider to be very imperfectly understood’

60 [NURSING]. [HANBURY, Elizabeth Bell]. THE GOOD NURSE; Or hints on the management of the sick and lying-in chamber, and the nursery. Dedicated by permission, to Mrs Priscilla Wakefield. London: Printed for S. Prowett, 23 Old Bond-Street; and W. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street. 1825.

8vo, pp. xxxiv, [ii] half-title, 251, [1]; some occasional light foxing and soiling throughout, but generally clean and crisp; uncut in contemporary boards, with recent neat blue cloth reback, with paper label on spine, covers a little stained and soiled, extremities and corners rubbed and somewhat worn; a very good copy. £775

Surprisingly uncommon first edition of this practical manual, dedicated to Priscilla Wakefield, and which provides a fascinating insight into the provision and practice of nursing during the early 19th century, revealing the nature of their work and responsibilities, and the increasing importance of nurses in the care of post-natal women. This concise ‘domestic’ work, aimed at both nurses themselves, as well as ‘heads of families’, ‘is intended to convey the best mode of conducting the sick and lying-in chamber; as nothing is attended with more serious consequences than the want of this necessary information on subjects so materially connected with our happiness’ (p. ix).

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profession (see Preston, Charitable words: women, philanthropy, and the language of charity, ff. 127), the importance of choosing women of suitable temperament, and indeed of improving character became a matter of increasing debate. Hanbury believes that ‘persons who undertake this important charge should be better taught than domestics in general; their employment being of such a nature as not only to require considerable judgement, but strict principle, with an easiness of disposition arising from a good heart; one that is graced with affection and kindness, added to a patient mild temper; as an irritable nature or constitution is very unsuitable in an attendant on the sick and lying-in chamber, as well as in the nurse who attends on young children’ (p. xvi). ‘My choice of nurse would be, a middle-sized woman, not lusty, but sufficiently in good case to give an assurance that she was not of a fretful temper – healthy and with good teeth ... her breath should not be offensive; neither should she take snuff – that is very objectionable indeed’ (ff. 5). Nurses should be neither too young, nor too old or unable to cope with the various physical exsertions imposed upon them. Married women or widows, or those who have been mothers, are often by nature more caring and tender, and ideally it should be a profession of choice, as ‘a nurse who is a nurse from choice, will fill her post better than one who follows the employment without any attachment to it’ (p. 9). No doubt aware that society in general viewed the role of nurses as being somewhat inferior, Hanbury makes a plea that her role be respected: ‘Let nurse be kindly cared for; night watching with constant care and anxiety require much consideration; a dish of strong coffee should be brought to her the first thing in the morning; a glass of wine should be given as the occasion may require; and a little brandy when any thing occurs which affects the bystander, and on moving a patient in an infectious disease, or on opening a broken limb’ (p. 11).

Divided into forty-eight chapters, Hanbury goes on to address such topics as ‘On the necessity of the better regulation of Medical Attendance’; ‘On deceiving the Physician’, and on duty of self-preservation in the sick chamber. Chapters 7-XVII concentrate upon the management of the sick chamber, before attention is turned to the management of the lying-in chamber and care of the mother and infant.

Though no mention is made of the present work, it seems safe to assume that the author was the noted philanthropist and centenarian cited in the DNB, Elizabeth Hanbury (1793–1901). A friend and colleague of Elizabeth Fry, she assisted Fry during prison visits, and together with her sister Mary took part in the antislavery movement. Indeed she concludes the present work with a ‘Note on Slavery’, stating that ‘I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without acknowledging the zeal which has led many benevolent people to make great sacrifices in emancipating their slaves’. She married Cornelius Hanbury in 1826, and in 1833 was acknowledged a minister in the Society of Friends in 1833. She died aged 108 in 1901. A second edition was published in 1828, including an engraved frontispiece depicting ‘The portrait of the good nurse’.

Atwater S. 501 (1828 edition); Mortimer, New Directions in the History of Nursing, p. 66; NSTC 2H6220; Rafferty, Nursing history and the politics of welfare, p. 145; Wellcome III, p. 205; OCLC: 23035904 locates copies at Northwestern, Boston, New York Public Library, Texas, Cambridge, the British Library, and Oxford.

61 [NURSING]. MAI, Franz Anton. UNTERRICHT FÜR KRANKENWÄRTER zu Gebrauch von öffentlichen Vorlesungen. Zweite, verbesserte auflage. Mannheim, in der Schwanischen Buchhandlung, 1784.

8vo, pp. 224; with attractive woodcut title-page vignette and head-piece; some light foxing and browning throughout, occasional faint dampstain affecting lower margin, otherwise clean and crisp; in modern paper-backed blue boards, ochre paper label on spine lettered in gilt; a good copy. £675


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Scarce second edition (first 1782) of this practical handbook for sick attendants, nurses and charitable persons, by the noted physician and humanitarian Franz Anton Mai (1742–1814). The work is of importance in the history of nursing, providing as it does an early attempt to regulate the profession, and can be seen as a precursor to later and more successful efforts to improve the training of nurses by Maximilian Schmidt in Vienna, and Johann Dieffenbach and Carl Emil Gedike in Berlin. Part of a reforming movement to improve the education of primary health-carers such as nurses and ‘sages-femmes’, Mai’s work is one of a corpus of instructional works aimed at these largely uneducated healing professions.

Mai (more commonly May), studied philosophy and medicine at Heidelberg before specialising in the practice of obstetrics in Mannheim, and later at Heidelberg, where he became professor of obstetrics. Throughout his career he was active in proposing measures to improve the health of his countrymen, and in particular he sought to improve standards in medical education, May conscious that inappropriate and ill-judged care was not only a hindrance to recovery, but all too frequently the cause of unnecessary death. Already involved with the establishment of a midwifery school in Mannheim, May proposed the founding of a school for ‘well-informed’ sick attendants, which would provide a three month course for students. The school was opened in Mannheim in 1782, and the present textbook was intended to accompany the course (and was given to free to students) and provides advice on all aspects of care so that they could better assist physicians. Despite this aim, the idea of the school met with fierce opposition by many in the profession who were fearful that by educating such lowly assistants they would challenge, rather than assist the medical authority of physicians, and that limited knowledge could prove more harmful than beneficial.

Students were verbally tested each week, with a final examination being taken at the end of the course. Suitable recruits were to be drawn from across society including widows, ‘kindsfrauen’, those already working in hospitals and orphanages, military attendants, charitable institutions, and from across all religious denominations. May outlines what he considers to be the suitable characteristics and temperament of carers, gives advice on the symptoms and treatment of specific diseases, on how to accurate recognise and describe a patient’s condition, on specific requirements depending upon the age of the patient, advice on invalid diet, on the ventilation and cleanliness of the sick room, and advice on the dangers of infection and precautionary measures to be taken. Specific attention in given to the care of women and children after childbirth, and on the care of children suffering from smallpox, measles and other childhood diseases.

During the 1790s May held public lectures in Mannheim providing advice on health and diet, and in 1800 put forward a system of public health reforms which were approved by the Elector Elisabeth Auguste, the medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg, and the medical officials of Mannheim. Due to the uncertain political conditions, however, the threat of war, and ineffectual government, his proposals were never realised, and after initial success, his hopes for a widespread improvement in the training of nurses did not materialise.

Blake p. 294 (1782 edition); Waller 6368; Wellcome IV p. 88; Hirsch IV, p. 175; see Eduard Seidler, Lebensplan und Gesundheitsführung. Franz Anton Mai und die medizinische Aufklärung in Mannheim; see Rosen, Fee and Mormon, A History of Public Health, p. 141; see Wolff, Biographisches Lexikon zur pflegegeschichte; OCLC: 24292289 locates further copies at the New York Academy of Medicine, Mainz, Göttingen, Berlin and Kiel.

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Advised by Locke

62 PITT, Robert. THE ANTIDOTE: or, the Preservative of Health and Life, and the restorative of physick to its sincerity and perfection. The useful and pernicious medicines: the Natural and Artificial Cures: The Natural and Artificial Deaths are distinguish’d. And the necessity asserted of reviving the former constant practice of physicians preparing and improving their most valued medicines, and the apothecaries delivering in their shops the common general remedies. London: Printed for John Nutt, near Station-ers-Hall. 1704.

8vo, pp. [50], 270, [4] blank; small dampstaining affecting outer margins of first couple of gatherings, some occasional minor soiling and staining (notably at p. 1 and p. 218), otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary blindstamped sheep, inner hinge cracked but holding, head of spine chipped with loss (1cm), joints cracked but holding, covers scuffed, corners rubbed and worn; still, a good copy. £875

First edition of this uncommon and fervent attack on apothecaries, by the Oxford anatomist and physician to St. Bartholomew’s Robert Pitt (1653–1713). The present work is a continuation of his equally impassioned work of 1702 The Crafts and Frauds of Physick Expos’d. Whilst Pitt’s previous work was an appeal to the governors of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital to curb the fraudulent practice of overpricing and adulterating medicines, Pitt this time escalates his grievance by addressing his work to fellow members of the Royal Society.

The work is a valuable contribution to the long running dispute between physicians and apothecaries who, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries had encroached upon doctor’s rights to prescribe and make up their own medicines. The Society of Apothecaries had gained great wealth and esteem, and members were in many cases also practising medicine full-time. The exodus of physicians from London during the Great Plague, and the decision of the House of Lords in the year of the present work to uphold the rights of Apothecaries to prescribe as well as dispense drugs, had ensured their place and role in the ranks of the medical professions. This state ultimately led to open conflict with the physicians, as Pitt’s work clearly demonstrates. ‘He took an active part in the controversy which followed the establishment of a dispensary by the College of Physicians in 1696, and published in 1702 The Craft and Frauds of Physick exposed’, dedicated to Sir William Prichard, president, and to the governors of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and written to show the small cost of the really useful drugs, the worthlessness of some expensive ones, and the folly of taking too much physic. The book gives a clear exposition of the therapeutics of that day, and is full of shrewd observations. Sarsaparilla, which for more than a hundred years later was a highly esteemed drug, had been detected by Pitt to be inert, and he condemned the use of bezoar, of powder of vipers, of mummy, and of many other once famous therapeutic agents, on the ground that accurate tests proved them of no effect. A second and third edition appeared in 1703. In 1704 he published The Antidote ... and in 1705 The Frauds and Villainies of the Common Practice of Physic demonstrated to be curable by the College Dispensary. (DNB).

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on-going debate. ‘He shared Locke’s view that many expensive medicines were dan-gerous, whereas cheap remedies, and even no medicines, usually proved quite effec tive. Locke wholeheartedly supported Pitt’s plea for a simplification in prescribing medi-cines, and the latter published his views on general medical reforms in ‘The Antidote’ (Dewhurst, John Locke, 1632–1704, physician and philosopher: a medical biography p. 305).

Blake p. 345; Munk I, 446; Neville II, p. 307 for Craft and Frauds; Thorndike VIII, 102–103; Wellcome IV p. 395; OCLC: 14311965.

63 PORTAL, Antoine. BEOBACHTUNGEN üBER DIE NATUR UND DIE BE-HANDLUNGSART DER RACHITIS, oder der Krümmungen des Rück-grathes, der obern und untern Extremitäten. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit anmerkungen und einem sachregister versehen von einem ausübenden deutschen arzte in Paris. Wiessenfels und Leipzig, bey Friedrich Severin und Comp. 1798.

8vo, pp. xvi, 232; lightly foxed throughout, but generally clean; with neat contemp-orary accession note in ink on inside rear cover; in contemporary marbled stiff paper wrappers, remains of paper label on spine, head and tail of spine and joints a little rubbed and worn; a good copy. £200

First German edition (first French, Observations sur la nature et sur le traitement du rachitisme, 1797) of this detailed treatise on rickets by the noted French anatomist and physician Antoine Portal (1742–1832). After studying in Montpellier, Portal taught anatomy for many years in Paris, and became physician to Louis XVIII. Through his influence he was able to help found the Royal Academy of Medicine in 1820. He was the author of numerous works, notably his six volume History of anatomy and surgery (1770–1773) (Garrison-Morton 437).

Grulee 701 ( first French edition); OCLC: 14822592 locates copies at the NLM and the New York Academy of Medicine, with a number of European locations cited.

64 PUBLIC HEALTH BROADSIDE IN YIDDISH. LARGE GRAPHIC POSTER. TUBERCULOSIS, its dangers and what you can do. London, Fund for the relief of Jewish victims of the war in eastern Europe, Federation of Ukrain-ian Jews, 1923.

Large illustrated broadside, 980mm x 660mm; in two tone brown and yellow, with text and numerous vignettes; laid down on archcival linen, faint library stamp at tail, with some professional restorations; a fine example. £3,850

A rare and highly evocative poster about the dangers of tuberculosis and how to avoid them. It was published in London in 1923 by the Federation of Ukrainian Jews – a fund For Jewish Victims of the War in Eastern Europe. The poster is in two tone brown/yellow and depicts, in a series of vignettes, a variety of household scenarios, emphasizing the importance of hygiene and of not letting the healthy into contact with the sick. The importance of hygienic practices in the home is also stressed. The artwork is crude but powerfully effective. The text is in Yiddish. The bad practices are bordered in a heavy brown border with skull and crossbones in each corner as a dramatic warning. The healthy and good practices are on lighter background showing healthier scenes and children playing in the open air. The overall impact provides an evocative and dramatic warning to take proper precautions to avoid the dreaded disease. An extremely rare and unusual poster.

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65 RABAUD, Etienne and Fernand MONPILLARD. ATLAS D’HISTOLOGIE NORMALE. Principaux tissus et organes. Paris, Georges Carré et C. Naud, Éditeurs ... 1900.

Large 8vo, pp. [iv], 89, [1] blank, [108] comprising coloure microphotographs, each with an accompanying leaf of explanatory text, and a printed overlay; overlays now somewhat browned; some occasional marginal browning and soiling; in contemporary red linen-backed publisher’s cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, a little shaken, head and tail of spine lighlty bumped and worn, surfaces and extremities slightly rubbed and scuffed; signed on the half-title ‘A mon maître le professeur Joffroy, respectueux hommage. Paris 11 Mars 1900. Etienne Rabaud’. £550

Uncommon first edition of this striking and pioneering atlas of histology, illustrated with 50 coloured microphotographs.

Etienne Rabaud was ‘Chef de Laboratoire’ at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the author of several works on anatomy, pathology, embryology and physiology. He contributed a number of ‘flap’ anatomies for an elementary series including Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain (1899), and Anatomie élémentaire de la main et du pied published in 1901. In 1903 he published an expanded and more substantial work on the anatomy and physiology of the human body, also employing the use of anatomical flaps.

The scientist Fernand Monpillard (1865–1937), became a photographic innovator. In 1892 he joined the Société Francaise de Photographie, and was a pioneering promoter of the autochrome. He developed a process to extend the sensitivity of autochrome plates, and his work on color screens was adopted by the Lumiere brothers. He also took numerous microphotographs – his true expertise – and authored numerous treatises and papers on photography, including Macrophotographie et Microphotographie in 1926.

66 RAFFAELE, Giovanni. OSTETRICIA TEORICO-PRATICA con atlante di figure tratte dai più pregiati autori e migliorate secondo i progressi della scienza. Napoli, presso G. Batelli, 1841–1843.

Two volumes 8vo, and one folio atlas; pp. xxx, 302; 368 [363–4 blank]; pp. [72] with 66 large and finely engraved plates; text volumes lightly foxed, but otherwise clean and fresh, atlas volume more strongly foxed and soiled throughout, title-page stained, and with some prominent marginal dampstaining, outer margins of a couple of plates chipped and soiled as slightly loose, plates 32 and 65 with marginal tears (65 touching image but with no loss); a mixed set, text volumes in vellum with red morocco labels and evidence of further spine labels, covers somewhat dampstained and soiled, atlas volume in green morocco backed boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper cover stained, some surface scuffing extremities rubbed and worn with some loss of paper; despite faults a good copy of a scarce work. £1,750

Scarce first edition of this seemingly little-known yet comprehensive and most attractively illustrated theoretical and practical obstetrical textbook, by the Sicilian obstetrician Giovanni Raffaele (1804–1882), and probably the most important and exhaustive Italian work on the subject of the day.

Professor of obstetrics at Napoli, the work was published over two years, and covers ‘Dei parti naturali e dell’ igiene loro conveniente’, and ‘Dei travagli laboriosi e delle cure che loro convengono’. The fine and precise engravings, in the large folio atlas, have been executed by a number of engravers, and in addition to highlighting various


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pelvises, numerous different presentations, also illustrate a variety of gynaecological and obstetrical instruments, with the final five plates also depicting the use of forceps.

Waller 7721; Wellcome IV, p. 463; not in Osler, Heirs, RCOG, or Eternal Eve, or Cutter and Viets; OCLC: 14837923 cites further copies at the National Library of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, and Lyon, with KVK locating further copies at the National Library of Italy and on ABEA.

67 ROBERTON, John. INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Essays on Constitutional peculiarities. Sudden Impressions. Bathing. Animal Food. London Porter and Ale. Digestion. Dropsy and Liver Complaints. [London]. Printed for J. J. Stockdale ... 1817.

8vo, pp. iv, [5]–100; lightly foxed and soiled, though principally affecting title-page and verso of final leaf; in modern boards. £425

Scarce first edition of this collection of thoughts and musings on a range of health matters, by the controversial Scottish physician John Roberton (1776–1840?). As with most of his publications, the present work is aimed at the general public and has been divested of ‘professional obscurities and unnecessary technical terms’ in an effort to make it more accessible. Divided into seven chapters, Roberton warns against the dangers of excess in all areas of life, with sections on the perils of excessive drinking and eating, and concluding with a section on the use of mercury for the treatment of liver complaints.

Roberton was a radical fringe figure in the medical profession, active in both Edinburgh and London, though the true extent of his medical qualifications remains in doubt. Though the author of an important treatise advocating the founding of a medical police force in 1809, considered to be the first English treatise on the subject, it is his controversial work of 1811 On Diseases of the Generative System for which he is best remembered. Clearly a fiery and quarrelsome character, by 1811 Roberton had already ostracised himself from the Edinburgh fraternity and fallen foul of the medical profession and most of polite society. Again aimed at a more popular readership, Generative Systems was poorly received by contemporaries, and his criticism of the methods of Sir Everard Home led him into direct conflict with Home’s relative Matthew Baillie, who refused to accept the dedication of this book. Illustrated with engravings of sexual organs, the work was considered to be verging on the obscene rather than the anatomical, though it proved popular with the general readership. Owing to his reputation and the somewhat sensational nature of the work along with its explicit illustrations, Roberton had some difficulty in finding a publisher, eventually turning to John Joseph Stockdale, who himself had something of a reputation for publishing risqué material. Stockdale guaranteed the salacious reputation of the work when over the next few years he published further editions (sometimes under the pseudonym of Thomas Little), himself interpolating still more sensational illustrations, with a fourth edition appearing in the year of the present work. After a well-thumbed copy of the fifth edition was discovered by prison inspectors in Newgate Prison in 1836, the book became the centre of the important defamation case of Stockdale v. Hansard. Despite this controversy, Roberton seems to have maintained a prosperous household in St. James’s Park and continued in private practice. He published a number of popular works on a variety of subjects, including under the pseudonym T. Bell MD (see the following item), and again through Stockdale,

Comrie, II, p. 626; NSTC 2R12238; for a detailed discussion of the controversy with Baillie see Roberta McGrath, Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body, ff. 38; see White, B. M. (October 1, 1983). Medical police. Politics and police: the fate of John Roberton,

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Medical History 27(4) (4): 407–422 for a discussion of his work of 1809; OCLC locates only two copies at Oxford and the British Library, with a further copy cited on COPAC at the Royal College of Surgeons.

68 [ROBERTON, John]. Under the pseudonym Thomas BELL. KALOGYNO-MIA, Or the Laws of Female Beauty: Being the Elementary Principles of That Science. J.J. Stockdale 1821.

8vo, pp. iv, iv, 331; with engraved frontispiece (plate 14), and 23 further engraved plates (one double-page); some light sporadic browning and foxing, otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary black half calf with marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, joints a little rubbed; from the library of George, Second Marquess of Milford Haven, with both green morocco and attractive paper armorial bookplates; a good copy. £750

Scarce first edition of this sex manual aimed at a male readership though disguised as a guide to beauty of the female sex, by John Roberton, written under his pseudonym of Thomas Bell. After the publication of his contro-versial work of 1811 On Diseases of the Generative System, though ostensibly a philosophical treatise on the nature of female beauty, Roberton returns to the same theme of sexual health and generation, with chapters discussing beauty and love, before turning to a more detailed discussion of sexual intercourse, and ‘the laws regulating that intercourse’. He concludes his work with a ‘Catalogue Raisonné of the defects in female beauty’. A number of plates depict both the male and female sexual organs, and indeed a note of caution is included in the plate description: ‘Plates 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 should not be carelessly exposed either to Ladies or to Young Persons ... As the work is a scientific one, and calculated both by its mode of construction and by its price for the higher and more reflecting class of readers, and as the Plates above are enumerated are also entirely scientific and anatomical, the publisher might have dispensed with this precaution; but he is anxious that these readers should have it in their power to obviate the possibility of careles exposure of such anatomical plates: they are therefore detached from the work, and may be locked up separately’ (p. i). Though not yet involved in the notorious Hansard-Stockdale case, this caution, and Roberton’s decision to use a pseudonym, clearly re flect the pressures that both felt in light of the public reaction to their previous collab oration. A fascinating insight into early nineteenth century sexual thought, revealing the sensitivity over the publication of works dealing with such matters, and the fine line in the debate of what was considered to be medical or sexual, anatomical or pornographical.

For a detailed discussion of this work and Roberton’s part in the obscenity debate see Roberta McGrath, Seeing her sex: medical archives and the female body, ff. 47; OCLC locates copies at Toronto, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Rochester, Cambridge, Oxford, Wellcome and the British Library.

69 RUCCO, Julius. LA MÉDECINE DE LA NATURE protectrice de la vie hu-maine a l’usage des praticiens et des gens du monde, désireux de suivre le progrès de la médecine rationnelle dans la cure des maladies chroniques, opiniâtres aux moyens ordinaires. Paris. Chez J. B. Baillière Libraire de L’Académie Impériale de Mèdecine ... A Londres, Chez H. Baillière ... A New York, ... A Madrid. [n.d. but ca. 1854?].


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8vo, pp. 255, [1] imprint; lightly browned and foxed throughout due to paper quality, with small damp-stain affecting upper margins of last two gatherings, three small tears to outer margin of half-title neatly repaired; rebound in modern brown morocco backed boards, spine in compartments ruled and lettered in blind and gilt, preserving the original printed wrappers, outer margin of upper wrapper neatly reinforced; a good copy. £225

Scarce first edition of this homœopathic treatise on the health and the treatment of disease, by the ubiquitous Italian physician, Julius Rucco.

Rucco, the author of popular several works, divides the present practical guide on the protection of health into three sections. The first outlines some general tenets of health and hygiene, Rucco then discussing the use and benefits of homoeopathy in the treatment of various chronic diseases including epilepsy, migraines, paralysis and cancer. From page 95–108 he includes a list of homeopathic remedies and their length of efficiency in terms of days. The final section highlights in particular the homeopathic treatment of cholera, Rucco concluding with a selection of reviews for his work on the pulse, for a number of English, French, Italian and Belgian journals and colleagues. ‘Ce singulier volume renferme entre autres, un traité de la respiration d’après les lois de la nature, et un chapitre consacré aux diverses affections de l’âme. Traitement homoeopathique p. 47 et jusqu’à la fin (Caillet).

A Neapolitan by birth, spent many years in Baltimore, and published his physio-logical dissertation in Philadelphia in 1818. He was subsequently admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians of London. He is best remembered for his 1827 two volume work on the pulse, a development of his earlier and scarcer work on the subject published in Italian in 1810 Lo spirito dell’arte sfigmica applicato al trattoto dell febbri ed alla dopia classe delle malattie.

Caillet 9699; Munk’s Roll, III, p. 254; OCLC: cites only one copy at the National Library of Medicine, with KVK locating three further copies at the British Library, the National Library of Italy (dating the work 1854?), and the National Library of Switzerland (suggesting 1855).

70 RUDIUS, Eustachius. DE MORBIS OCCULTIS, ET VENENATIS, LIBRI QUINQUE ... Ub quibus hæc Medicinæ pars reliquarum omnium præstan-tissima, & utilissima, quæ hactenus tenebris circumsepta iacuit, soloq empirico ritu tractata suit, ad lucem, & certam rationalem methodum re-uocatur. Venetiis Apud Tomam Baglionum, 1610.

Folio, pp. [xii], 227; title-page in red and black, with striking woodcut printer’s device on title (of the goddess of plenty?) numerous attractive historiated woodcut initials and woodcut tail-pieces; an attractive copy bound in full calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt with stars, with double-ruled border, expertly repaired along joints, and corners. £3,500

Scarce first edition of this most attractive and curious study and treatment of toxicology and disease – an intriguing mixture of the mysterious and medical, and the last work of the noted Italian physician and philosopher Eustachius Rudius (1551–1611).

Rudius divides his work into five parts: ‘De Corporis Humani Vitiis Occultis, sive quae magis experientia, quam methodo curantur. Liber Primus. Qui ae omnia complectitur, quae ad occulti vitii, sub una communi idea constituti, cognitionen, & curationem spectant’; ‘In quo de Cordi Venenatis affectibus generatim differitur’; ‘Qui cordis Venena, & Venenatos affectus speciatim aperit’; ‘In quo de Cerebri venenatis affectibus differitur’; and ‘Qui iecoris Venena, venenatosque morbos complectitur’.

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Amongst the poisons discussed are those of the viper, scorpion and mandrake, with a chapter devoted to elephantiasis, rabies and ‘hydrargyro’ or mercurial rash. The work is also cited by Proksch for the lengthy section on ‘De Gallico Morbo’ or venereal disease, with Rudius recommending the use of a contraceptive compress for men, and proposing a pessary steeped in a concoction of guaiac, for women to be worn for a day following intercourse, to ward against the pox (Liber 5, p. 192). (See Patrick Siena, Sins of the Flesh, Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe, p. 61).

Eustachius Rudius (or Rudio 1551–1611) studied at Padua, later becoming a medical officer at Udine. In 1599 he was appointed to the chair of practical medicine at Padua, succeeding Alessandro Massaria. He was a fervent follower of Galen and a critic of Paracelsus. Born in Belluno, he published extensively on a number of subjects including on the pulse, on fevers, tumours, and ulcers, and is probably best remembered for both his Ars Medica, and his treatise De Virtutibus et Viciis Cordis (1587) – an early treatise on cardiac physiology and pathology, and which is claimed by some to have influenced his student Harvey. It is possible that Harvey attended Rudius’ lectures whilst at Padua, and may have first obtained his knowledge of the structure and the functions of the heart from the Padovan. Both Osler and Willis seem wary of this theory, noting that Harvey makes no reference to Rudius in any of his writings. Rudius is also remembered for his description of cretinism.

Wellcome I 5610; Price, Supplement to the Short-Title Catalogue of Works in Physical Research, p. 89; Proksch, Die Litteratur über die venerischen krankheiten, I, p. 21; cited by Thorndike V, pp. 43–44; see Gweneth Whitteridge, William Harvey and the Circulation of the blood (1971) 32–3 and Pagel, William Harvey’s biological ideas (1967) p. 104, n.61); not in Brunet, Caillet, Durling; Duveen; Heirs; Rosenthal, Dorbon-Aine or Waller; not in Osler though see 916 and 917; OCLC: 14318995 notes copies at Yale, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, the National Library of Medicine, Cornell, the New York Academy of Medicine, NYPL, North Carolina, the Bakken and Oxford with further European locations cited.

71 [SALEMAN’S SAMPLES]. HAUSHALTER, Paul, Louis SPILLMAN, Georges ÉTIENNE and Charles THIRY. CLINIQUES MÉDICALES ICON-OGRAPHIQUES Fascicule Spécimen. Paris, Ane Libie Carré et C. Naud. Éditeur … 1901.

Large Folio, pp. 4, with one full-page half-tone plate; somewhat browned and soiled, with some marginal tears and nicks; original printed orange wrappers, soiled and worn. £185

A scarce publishing sample, from what is itself a rare atlas of morbid pathology, originally published in eight fascicles, and containing a collection of photographs of clinical cases encountered over several years at the Faculty of Medicine at Nancy. The present ‘specimen’ includes plate 17 highlighting ‘Paralysies diverses de la face’, and was the first of eight plates included in the third fascicle.

Under the editorship of the paediatrician Paul Haushalter, together with Louis Spillmann (brother of the leading professor of medicine at Nancy, Paul Spillmann), Georges Étienne and Charles Thiry, a wealth of photographic material was gathered together depicting various forms and modifications of several diseases and conditions including muscular atrophy, infantile paralysis and hemiplegia, paralysis of the face, Basedow’s disease, hydrocephalus, chronic rhumatism, rickets and other abnormalities and deformities. A number of dermatological conditions were also highlighted such as gangrene, vitiligo, moles, trophoneurosis, and syphilis. The authors endeavoured to illustrate both typical presentations, as well as unusual or exceptional case histories, highlighting the particular pathognomonic characteristic of the disease in question. By


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using photographs, a closer inspection of the cases under study was possible, allowing the student to recognise the important diagnostic features that could easily be missed by a hurried inspection at the time of actual physical inspection. It also provided an opportunity for a comparison of similar cases, to enable a recognition of analogies as as well as differences.

The striking full-page half-tone illustrations (62 in the final publishing work), highlighted the case histories of some 300 individuals, and were obtained from the private clinic of Paul Spillmann, as well as from the Clinique des Maladies des Enfants at Nancy.

Haushalter wrote a number of other works in collaboration with both Louis and Paul Spillmann, including Précis de diagnostique médical et d’exploration clinique (1907), Manuel de diagnostic médical et d’exploration clinique (1884) as well as his work on infant cancer Cancer du rein chez l’enfant (1895).

‘Light upon a Dark Subject’

72 [SALESMAN’S SAMPLE]. GERARD, Joseph. CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF STERILITY IN THE SEXES Fecundation by Artificial methods. Trans-lated from the French. With notes by Chas Everett Warren M.D., Boston Mass. Designed by Jose Roy. [Boston, the International Medical Exchange, Publishers]. Printed for Private Use only by the Profession. [1890].

12mo, pp. [vi], [32], 74, [6]; title-page in red and black, with numerous appealing illustrations, some partially coloured; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality; in the original red publisher’s cloth, upper cover stamped and lettered in black, with small vignette on rear cover, head and tail of spine rubbed and lightly worn, covers darkened and soiled with small dampstain on upper cover, extremities lightly bumped and worn; a good copy. £185

An uncommon salesman’s sample of this most striking and itself surprisingly scarce treatise on the infertility and artificial insemination, first published in 1888 as Nouvelles causes de stérilité dans les deux sexes by Joseph (or Jules) Gérard (1834-). Originally comprising some four hundred pages, and with the final English edition of 1891 spanning to over 550 pages, this small and ‘unique work in miniature from the French’ contains sample pages from the forthcoming publication, and ‘nominally

relates to Sterility, but incidentally introduces, in an amusing colloquial manner, many facts relating to the hygiene of the sexual organs and the relations of the sexes’. Whilst of historical interest for the subject matter addressed, being as the title-page itself describes as a subject very much for ‘private use only by the profession’, the work is of most striking appeal through the numerous small vignettes and illustrations included – the work of José Roy. A contemporary of Dali and Man Ray, Roy, a commercial book illustrator, was a contributor to the Montmartre based group of artists known as the Incohérents – considered to be progenitors of the Dada movement. Cited by Caillet for their curiosity and hints of spiritualism, their risqué and suggestive nature was clearly intentional: ‘Perhaps the suggestiveness of these fantastic designs may be censurable, but they were made with the purpose of clearly illustrating and impressing facts cited in the text; more than this, allegorical and diagrammatic figures shock the feelings much less than the brutal reality of purely scientific and anatomically correct plates’.

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The first French edition, according to Caillet, caused a sensation on publication, and was soon sold out.

Caillet 4487 for the first French edition; not in Arbour, Canvassing Books.

73 [SALESMAN’S SAMPLER]. [STOUT, Henry Rice]. OUR FAMILY PHYSI-CIAN; A thoroughly reliable guide to the detection and treatment of all diseases that can be either checked in their career, or treated entirely by an intelligent person, without the aid of a physician; especially such as require prompt and energetic measures, and those peculiar to this country. Em-bracing the Allopathic, Homoeopathic, Hydropathic, Eclectic and Herbal Modes of Treatment. Also giving full and explicit directions for nursing the sick, etc. Chicago, J. S. Goodman & Co., Cincinnati: G. F. Vent & Co., 1868.

8vo, pp. xiv, [11]–32, [99]–144, [408]–429, [517]–514; pp. 19 [but 18], from the German edition ‘Unser familien-Arzt’, [48] blank ruled order book for subscribers; with one folding advertising leaf, and one page of text illustrations; light soiling and browning otherwise clean and crisp; several manuscript notes and scribbles throughout the blank order form, though only one possibly relating to a subscription for the book, the rest being domestic notes; in the original blind-stamped black morocco, title in gilt on upper cover,with marbled edges, head and tail of spine and joints a little rubbed and scuffed, with light wear and scuffing to covers, extremities bumped and a little worn; with two binding samples mounted on both front and rear paste-downs; a good copy. £225

Scarce salesman’s sampler, of this popular and alternative home medical guide, published by Stout in both English and German editions, as highlighted in the present promotional example. The first English edition was published anonymously in 1868 and went through several editions published over the next twenty years, with the first German edition Unser familien-arzt: Allöopathische, homöopathische, hydropathische, eclectische und kräuter-heilmethode published in 1869. In addition to the sample pages, the work was available for purchase in a choice of two bindings: either plain cloth, or as here, in elaborately blind-stamped ‘American’ morocco. Examples of both, printed in English and German, are mounted on the front and rear paste-downs.

Henry Rice Stout (1843–1914) was a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Chicago in 1868. He practiced medicine in Florida for over forty years, and was president of the Homoeopathic Board of Medical Examiners in Florida.

See Atwater 3385–3388 (dating the first English edition as 1869); not in Arbour, Canvassing Books; OCLC locates copies of the first edition (dated 1868) at Oklahoma, Indiana, the Lloyd Library and Arkansas.

74 SCHREGER, Christian Heinrich Theodor. KOSMETISCHES TASCHEN-BUCH FÜR DAMEN, zur gesundheitsgemäßen Schönheitspflege ihres Körpers durchs ganze Leben, und in allen Lebensverhältnissen….Nürn-berg, bey Johann Leonhard Schragg. 1812.

8vo, pp. [ii] cancel half-title, xii including cancel title-page on thicker paper, 272, [3] errata, [1] blank; with engraved frontispiece; some foxing and browning throughout; uncut in nineteenth century half-vellum over marbled boards, with red morocco label lettered in gilt, vellum a little rubbed and soiled; a good copy. £385


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First edition, variant re-issue with cancel title on thick paper, of this rare cosmetic manual for women, by the German physician and chemist Theodor Schreger (1768–1833).

Schreger was the author of several practical works on health and well-being, including works on bathing and on dietetics and general health for travellers, as well on chemical equipment and ophthalmology. In the present work, he turns his attention to cosmetics. This is taken in the broadest sense, and embraces beauty treatments insofar as they are related to the health of the body throughout a woman’s life, and in circumstance. Schreger describes the purpose of cosmetics, discussing the influence on female beauty of air, clothing, diet, sleep and rest. He then examines the effect of treatments for certain parts of the body, looking at care of the face, eyes, teeth, hair, neck and bosom, arms, hands and feet.

In the fourth section, Schreger turns to external factors: he discusses bathing, the water with which one should wash, ointments and pomades for hair and skin, as well as other hair-care products. There are further chapters on nail polishes and tooth powders. In the final part, Schreger turns to discuss the art of make-up, and its various colours. An appendix contains details of air fresheners and perfumes for rooms, and clothes washing.

The work was first published in 1810 with OCLC locating two copies in Germany. At least three variant issues were published in 1811, one being undated though also with a cancel title on thick paper (at the NLM and Minnesota Bio-medical Library), one at the British Library and Chicago dated, and one without a frontispiece (at the Wellcome). The present re-issue has a half-title with the sub-title ‘Die weibliche Schönheitspflege für jegliches Alter und Lebensverhältnis’. A Danish translation was published in 1813.

Lipperheide 3251 (postulating a date for the first edition of 1810); OCLC: 154342858 locates one copy of this edition at Chicago.

75 SEGOND, Louis Auguste. HYGIÈNE DU CHANTEUR, influence du chant sur l’économie animale; causes principales de l’affaiblissement de la voix et du développement de certaines maladies chez les chanteurs; moyens de prévenir ces maladies. Paris, Labé, Libraire de la Faculté de médecine. 1846.

8vo, pp. [iv], xvi, [17]- 246; with numerous text illustrations; occasional foxing and light marginal browning; uncut in the original printed wrappers, wrappers a little soiled, corners torn, preserved in glycine dust-jacket. £225

First edition of this practical and popular guide for singers on the health and care of the voice, by the experienced Parisian physician, physiologist, and accomplished singer, Louis Auguste Segond. Dedicated to his singing teacher, Manuel Garcia, this helpful work provides advice on all areas of vocal training and hygiene, providing an explanation of the anatomy and physiology of the throat and larynx, the importance of the lungs and breathing techniques, the role of the vocal chords, ‘théories de la voix de poitrine et de la voix de tête’, physical influences that can affect the voice, such as age and sleep, the use of gargles and lubricants, as well as a discussion on the removal of the tonsils. Segond also includes a discussion on castrati (p. 208).

The work was well-received, and was translated into English in the same year, Vocal Care for the Singer, with a second edition appearing in 1848. It was still being referred to in 1910 by the Boston Symphony Chorus. ‘In 1846, the French medical doctor Louis August Segond published a very helpful book ‘Hygiène du chanteur’, dedicated to his

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Manuel García. Concerning sleep, he advises ‘Dormir c’est réparer’ (p. 189) – that is, to sleep is to repair [the voice] – and he recommends an eight-hour sleep cycle for singers. His observation that ‘la disposition bonne ou mauvaise de la voix est une conséquence de l’état général de l’organisme’ especially applies to the aging voice’ (Scott, For the Love of Music, p. 214).

Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1919; OCLC: 14824138 locate copies at the National Library of Medicine, Arizona, the New York Academy of Medicine, New York Public Library, Brigham Young and the Eastman School of Music, Rochester.

76 SIBLY, Ebenezer. THE MEDICAL MIRROR. Or Treatise on the Impregna-tion of the Human Female, shewing the Origin of Diseases and the Princi-ples of Life and Death. Being an entirely new edition with large additions. (And Anatomical Plates). London, Printed for the author and sold by J. R. Saffell, 11 Holborn Bars [n.d. but ca. 1798?].

8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved title-page, [iv] dedication and preface, 96, 99–218, 16 publisher’s advertisements; with 13 finely engraved plates, the one of the heart being double-page and printed in red (a little dampstained); frontispiece a little dampstained and loose though holding, second plate neatly remounted with large tear repaired, outer margins of some plates shaved, with tail of advertisements shaved with slight loss, and large tear affecting upper corner of final advertisement with loss; some general light soiling and browning, and occasional light marginal dampstaining; in later linen backed blue paste-paper boards, neatly recased, head and tail of spine worn, with tear along lower joint of spine, covers a little stained, extremities and corners rubbed and lightly worn; still a good copy. £685

The new revised edition of this scarce and finely illustrated late eighteenth century obstetrical guide for women, first published in 1794, and which provides a fascinating insight into contemporary views on sexuality and women’s health. Originally containing only four plates, the present new edition has been expanded, now including an engraved title-page, and 13 engraved plates, most notably the double-page plate of the front and back of the heart and which is printed in red. As with all editions, dating the work is problematical, with both 1798 and 1800 suggested on OCLC. The new frontispiece portrait of Sibly is by Pale and Lemey; as opposed to that by Dodd and Pass and found in the second edition.

Ebenezer Sibly (1751–1800) was a graduate from Aberdeen who was as devoted to astrological science as to medicine. He was the author of several works on astrology, including the Key to physic and the occult science of astrology (1794), and had made a name for himself by editing a new edition of Culpeper’s Herbal. The son of a Bristol artisan, he had begun his medical career as a surgeon in London, but obtained his MD from Aberdeen in 1792. He shared his astrological interest with his brother Manoah (1757–1840) a prominent Swedenborgian (see item below 158). Both were of a radical political persuasion, and Ebenezer campaigned for the Whigs in the election of 1790. ‘Sibly’s writings display a charactecteristic blending of religious and medical radicalism: a willingness to unite disparate occult, religious and natural philosophical traditions and a desire to encourage self-reliance in the treatment of disease .... all the indications are that Sibly made a good living from his books, which went through many editions, as well as from the sale of his famous solar and lunar tinctures, which, he claimed, counteracted the adverse influences of these luminaries’ (Harrison, pp. 41,From Medical


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Astrology to Medical Astronomy in The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol 33, No. 1 2000).

In this attractively illustrated guide to the medical aspects of sex and pregnancy, Sibly first discusses, in florid tones and great detail the process of impregnation, before examining the progress of pregnancy and the development of the foetus from month to month. He goes on to examine the menstrual cycle, ‘feminine or lunar diseases’, and various ailments to which women are susceptible, in each case giving case studies. He also examines the nature of infertility, ‘masculine or solar diseases’, onanism and its treatment, rheumatic gout, and other ailments, and includes a number of letters from patients.

The first edition of the present work was apparently published in 1794, though the dating of all editions of the work is extremely complicated – indeed the work is of interest as much for its bibliographical history as for its content matter, both being worthy of further study. The plates are particularly striking: two plates depict the nine month gestation period of a foetus, as well as one that reveals ‘The Action of Quickening’.

ESTC N3723 (though see N3722 for a variant issue of this ‘New Edition’ with 178 pp); OCLC: 17685008 citing copies at Stanford, Berkeley, Kansas and Wellcome.

Including an account of James Mitchell

77 [SIGN LANGUAGE]. LENOIR, Alphonse. FAITS DIVERS, Pensées di-verses, et quelques réponses de sourds-muets precedes d’une gravure representant leur alphabet manuel et de notions sur la dactylologie ou le langage des doigts, avec des details interesssants sur une sourde-muette-aveugle Francaise, et sur un Sourd-Muet-Aveugle Ecossais. 2me edition, refondue et augmentee. Paris, Rue Racine, 15. [Imprimerie de Hennuyes et Cie ... Batignolles]. 1850.

Small 8vo, pp. 107, with one folding engraved chart; foxed and throughout, with dampstaining affecting upper gutter throughout, and occasional further marginal dampstaining affecting lower margin and lower outer corner; corners a little furled; in modern boards, with printed spine label, preserving the original yellow printed wrappers, outer corners of upper wrapper torn £225

Scarce second edition of this selection of thoughts and facts on the education of deaf-mutes by one of leading Parisian educators in the field, Alphonse Lenoir. The work, here considerably revised and expanded, was first published in 1848 as Dactylologie, ou Langage des Doigts. The attractive folding frontispiece highlights the signed alphabet.

Lenoir, himself had a hearing impairment and was a teacher at the Institution nationale de Paris. Together with Laurent Clerc, Ferdinand Berthier and Claudius Forestier, he did much to pioneer and advocate the education of the deaf. With Berthier and Forestier, Lenoir participated in a long protest at the Paris school after the sacking of their outspoken hearing colleague Roch-Ambroise Bebian. This fervent group of activists were instrumental in forming the first official Deaf organisation – the Sociéte Centrale (1838) which later became known as the Sociéte Universelle des Sourds-Muets in 1867.

Lenoir includes in the present treatise biographical accounts of two noted deaf-mutes, including that of the noted Scotsman ‘Jacques’ i.e. James Mitchell (pp. 77–83), one of the earliest cases on record of a blind deaf-mute, and whose case had been brought before the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1812 by Dugald Steward.

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Century France; OCLC: 644014078 locates three copies only at Gallaudet, Manchester, and the BnF.

78 SKELTON, John. A PLEA FOR THE BOTANIC PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, London: Published by J. Watson, Paternoster-Row; and at our Botanic Es-tablishment, 11, East Parade, Leeds. 1853.

8vo, pp. viii, [9]–278; with engraved frontispiece; light browning and soiling throughout, a few corners folded and dust-soiled, some marginal finger-soiling, with a couple of minor marginal nicks; typeset on a few gatherings a little faint; in contemporary blindstamped publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, head of spine lightly worn with minor loss of cloth, covers a little faded and soiled, with some staining to lower board, extremities lightly rubbed with minor wear; a good, sound copy. £225

Uncommon first edition of this provincial treatise, by the noted English herbalist John Skelton. A friend and contemporary of Coffin, Skelton was born in 1806 in Devon. ‘Skelton had learned plant medicine at the side of an old village doctoress and midwife – in this case, his grandmother’ (Griggs, p. 203). Following on from the success of his Family Medical Adviser (1852), Skelton hopes to provide in the present work a brief history of the philosophy, rise and progess of ‘the Medico Botanic system in America and England’ (p. iii) – previously the subject of various public lectures delivered by Skelton. The work is of particular note therefore, as it includes a detailed discussion of the life and work of Thomson.

Griggs, Green Pharmacy, ff. 202; NSTC 2S23341; OCLC locates copies at Monash, Chicago, the National Library of Medicine, Minnesota, Rochester, Oxford, the British Library and the Wellcome.

79 [SMALL POX]. DORAT, Claude Joseph. L’INOCULATION, ODE. A Paris, Chez Monory, Libraire de S. A. S. Monseigneur le Prince de Condé, rue de la Comédie Françoise. MDCCLXXIV [De L’Imprimerie de Michel Lambert, rue de la Harpe, près S. Côme]. [1774].

8vo, pp. 16; with attractive woodcut title-page and tail-pieces; a lovely, crisp copy; in modern printed wrappers. £325

A surprisingly scarce, and attractively printed celebratory poem in praise of inoculation, by the noted French man of letters Claude Joseph Dorat (1734–1780). Dorat was presumably inspired to write his Ode to commemorate the recent death of the leading French proponent of inoculation, La Condamine, whilst using it also as an opportunity to celebrate the recent coronation of Louis XVI. In a brief preface he recognises the importance of both La Condamine, and Lady Montagu in bringing the method to European attention. The Ode seems to reflect also, the growing vogue amongst poets and French literary men to recognise and celebrate the general enthusiasm for scientific advancement.

It was during the 1760s and 1770s that Dorat was at his most prolific, writing fables, comedies, tragedies, epigrams, madrigals, epistles, novels and odes, though he managed to alienate both the philosophes and their critics, notably Palissot, and his talents were considered to be mediocre. His books were often lavishly illustrated and expensively produced, to secure their success.

Querard II, p. 577; OCLC locates copies at the British Library, Cambridge, the BnF, BIUM and two further French locations.


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80 [SMALL POX]. VENTURUCCI, Giuseppe. DISCORSO SULLA VACCINA-ZIONE Firenze, Tipografia e Calcografia All’ Insgna di Clio. 1841.

8vo, pp. 28, with folding letterpress table; lightly foxed with faint dampstain affecting gutter of title-page, some minor marginal dust-soiling, with small neat paper repair to upper corner of title; in the original printed wrappers, head and tail of spine lightly worn, upper corner of front wrapper neatly repaired, covers foxed and a little soiled; a good copy. £350

Rare first edition of this interesting contribution to the vaccination debate, by the Firenze physician Giuseppe Venturucci. Beginning his discussion with a brief history of both inoculation, and Jenner’s discovery, Venturucci addresses the growing debate at the time as to whether vaccination offered lifelong immunity, or whether it was necessary to revaccinate. He also raises the other major objection to Jennerian vaccination, that of the degeneration of the vaccine as a consequence of person to person propagation. He discusses Fiard’s attempts in 1836 to reproduce the vaccine virus, and notes attempts by Salvagnoli (p. 26) to reinoculate cattle as a way of creating a new vaccine. An account found online in the contemporary journal Atti della ... riunione degli scienziati Italiani of 1841 (Vol. 1 p. 569 and 616) discusses in further the debate between Venturucci and Salvagnoli , a discussion which itself re-emphasises the considerable scientific attention that was being given to the matter. Venturucci concludes his work with useful comparative folding table highlighting the different characteristics of various eruptive diseases. We have been able to find any further biographical information about the authorm though OCLC locates his other work of 1843 Sulla rabbia communicata.

ICCU locates only one copy of the present work; not located on OCLC.

81 STAMPINI, Luigi. DESCRIZIONE D’UN FETO UMANO nato colla mag-gior parte delle membra raddoppiate ... In Roma, nella Stamperia di Pallade, per Niccolo e Marco Pagliarini Mercanti di Libri, e stampatori a Pasquino. Con Licenza de’ Superiori. 1749.

4to, pp. xv, [1] blank; with seven folding and fine engraved plates, followed by four folding leaves of explanatory text; with attractive engraved printer’s device on title-page, and fine woodcut head-and tail-piece and initial; small paper flaw affecting outer margin of p. xv, light foxing and soiling throughout (including to plates); in modern marbled wrappers; an attractive, wide-margined copy. £685

First edition of this rare teratological treatise by the Bolognese professor of surgery, Luigi Stampini. In this detailed work Stampini provides an anatomical description of the foetus – Siamese twins with one head only. The twins were born in Rome in October 1748 to a 34 year mother of four, who had gone into labour after seven months. The work is of particular note and importance for the seven finely engraved plates by Sorbi, and which depict every aspect of the foetus, including a dissection. The fourth plate reveals the opened thorax and abdominal cavities with plates 5–7 highlighting the partly duplicated organs of respiration and digestion. Though surprisingly uncommon, Stampini’s work was noted for the fine plates, and was later cited by leading anatomists including Boerhaave, Haller, Portal and Plocquet.

Blake p. 430; Wellcome V, p. 174; OCLC: 20350602 locates copies at UCLA, Berkeley, Yale, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Texas, Kansas, Glasgow, and the BnF.

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82 TICHY, Joseph Wenceslas. Dissertatio inaugualis medica DE ARENULIS IN LOTIO ADPARENTIBUS ut infallibili salutaris morborum eventus, si-gno prognostico. Pragæ, in Officina Wolfgangi Gerle. 1775.

8vo, pp. [xii], 106, [2] explanatory leaf; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, and attractive engraved folding plate; some light spotting and foxing, otherwise clean and crisp; uncut in contemporary marbled paste-paper boards, head and tail of spine a little rubbed and worn, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £150

Scarce and most attractively printed doctoral dissertation on nephrology, discussing in particular the nature and construction of renal calculi. Tichy provides an historical discussion of the subject, with frequent bibliographical references, and the work is particularly notable for the most attractive folding engraved plate depicting various crystalline forms.

Wellcome V. p. 269; OCLC states two further copies at Bayern and Göttingen.

By Philip II’s Physician

83 VALLES, Francisco de. METHODUS MEDENDI .... In quatuor libros di-visa. Quorum I. Continet victum ægrotantium. II. Rationem curandi per indicationes simplices. III Per compositas, & cum aliquid eorum, quæ in-dicare possunt nos latet. IV. Occasions curandi, & abstinendi à curationi-bus. Lovanii, Typis Hieronymi Nempaei, 1647.

8vo, pp. [12], 296; aside from some occasional minor spotting and soiling, clean and crisp; with old Avignon book-sellers label on front cover verso, partially removed; uncut in contemporary hand-coloured printed wrappers, spine completely lacking exposing the cords, but binding holding, covers a little soiled with some marginal wear; still a good copy. £425

An appealing mid-seventeenth century edition, and seemingly a variant issue, of this compilation of therapeutic works by the famous Spanish physician Francisco de Valles, (1524–1592) first published in Venice in 1589. Valles was physician to Philip II of Spain, and worked to promote a revival of the teachings of Hippocrates. The present work includes remedies and therapeutic methods for a number of complaints including dysentery and nephritus. A previous edition was published in 1614, with subsequent editions appearing in Paris in 1651, and 1696.

Our present copy collates against that at the Wellcome, though with a different setting of the title-page. The copy at the Bodleian is another variant – with the setting of the title-page different again, and with differing preliminary leaves.

Krivatsy 12139; Palau 350937; Waller 9787; Wellcome V, p. 327; not in Parkinson and Lumb; KVK locates further copies at the Bodleain, Amsterdam, Bayern and Göttingen.


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84 WILSON, Henry. WONDERFUL CHARACTERS. Comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation. London: J. Robins and Co., Albion Press, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster Row. 1821–1822.

Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title-page, 496, and 15 engraved portraits; [iv] engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title-page, 480, with 14 engraved portraits; [iv] engraved frontispiece and additional title, 469, [1] plate list, and 16 engraved portraits; in all 48 portraits; browned throughout due to paper quality with some foxing and soiling (quite heavy in places), with offsetting from most plates, and large stain affecting upper margins of Vol III pp. 315–327; in contemporary quarter black straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, spines attractively lettered and tooled in gilt, light rubbing and wear to head of spines, covers a little rubbed and worn with some loss of paper, extremities bumped and lightly worn; despite browning a good copy. £750

First edition of this famous and popular handbook of the ‘weird and wonderful’, providing entertaining and lively accounts of many eccentric and remarkable characters of the day, and including actors and other entertainers, prodigies, women leading mens’ lives and vice versa, ‘freaks’, and perpetrators of particularly gruesome crimes – together, in many cases, with their portraits. Amongst those cited include Wybrand Lolkes (the Dutch dwarf ), Ann Moore (the fasting woman of Tutbury), Elizabeth Brownrigg (executed for cruelty and murder), Thomas Hills Everitt (the enormous baby), Thomas Parr (who died at the age of 152), and Chevalier D’Eon (who passed as a woman for many years).

Many of the characters and some of the plates (versions, at least) are found in earlier collections of the sort, including the publisher R.S. Kirby’s Wonderful and eccentric museum (1803–1820), and, presumably, Caulfield’s Blackguardiana of 1793.

NSTC 2W25254; OCLC: 9348538.

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85 ADAMS, George. LECTURES ON NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHI-LOSOPHY, considered in it’s present state of improvement. Describing, in a familiar and easy manner, the principal phenomena of nature; and shew-ing, that they all co-operate in displaying the goodness, wisdom, and pow-er of God. In Five Volumes, the fifth volume consisting of the plates and index. Vol. I [-V]. London: Printed by R. Hindmarsh, printer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ... Sold by the Author 1794.

Five volumes, 8vo; pp. xlviii, 548, with attractive engraved frontispiece; viii, 561, [3]; viii, 579, [1]; viii, 576; 43, [1] directions to binder, and 39 folding engraved plates; some occasional soiling and marginal browning, otherwise generally clean and crisp; an attractive uncut copy in the original paper-backed boards, all but volume V retaining the original pink printed label (though a couple chipped), all five spines worn however with quite considerable loss of back-strip; nevertheless an attractive uncut copy in the original paste-paper boards. £1,600

First Edition, and attractive copy in the original boards, of this noted work by the famous instrument maker George Adams junior (1750–1795), his last major work. The text is accompanied by an impressive suite of engraved plates, predominantly depicting instruments and apparatus designed and available for purchase from the Adams firm. Volume two is devoted principally to optics and optical instruments whilst the other volumes are given over to mechanics, astronomy, heat, air pressure, electricity and magnetism etc. The set is fully indexed and keyed to the illustrations.

The Adams family (George Snr, and his sons George Jnr and Dudley) had notable success as makers of scientific instruments, and all three at some time held the appointment of mathematical instrument- or globe-maker to George III. The King George III collection at the Science Museum mostly comprises instruments by Adams of Fleet Street, as the firm was known. George Junior also earned a name for himself as a scientific author publishing his Essays on the Microscope (1787 and which superseded his father’s noted Micrographia Illustrata), and Astronomical and Geographical Essays (1791), and the present collection, which was explicitly intended to counteract the noticeable atheistic bent of the contemporary sciences.

Poggendorff I, 10; see Daumas p. 238; ESTC T88417.

86 [ALMANAC]. [PALMAVERDE]. IL CORSO DELLE STELLE osservato dal pronostico moderno Palmaverde almanacco Piemontese per l’anno 1798. Dove l’indicano le mutazioni dell’aria ec. Il giornale de’ santi, le quarant’ore, ed altre nuove particolari notizie. Torino Nella stamperia di Giambatista Fontana. [1798].

24mo, pp. 144; including attractive woodcut frontispiece; with woodcut printer’s device on title-page, and woodcut diagram; text within ruled border; aside from some very slight soiling, clean and crisp; an appealing copy in contemporary mottled sheep, with gilt border, spine ruled in gilt, joints and extremities lightly rubbed with minor wear, with neat date in mss at head of upper cover. £285

An appealing copy of the noted Piedmontese Palmaverde almanac for the year 1798. First published by Giambatista Fontana in 1722 and based upon the Royal French Almanac,


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this yearly publication became extremely popular and was the almanac of the court until 1774 when it was discarded in favour of royal printing presses own Calendario della Real

Corte. Nevertheless, it remained in circulation well into the nineteenth century. The present example includes monthly calendars, lists of sovereigns, tables of newly appointed knights, bishops and archbishops, magistrates, lawyers etc, as well as monetary tariffs.

From a long tradition of almanacs and calendars printed in Piedmont, and like other similar publications of the period, the Palmaverde tried to move away from astrological predictions, and become more of a forum for discussion about social, scientific and economic progress, concentrating in particular upon the annual developments in the court, and religious and political circles. A survey of 1783 revealed that 18,000 copies were sold a year. All copies appear scarce.

See Braida, Lodovica, Le Guide del tempo; produzione, contenuti e forme degli almanachhi piemontesi nel settecento in Journal of Modern History, Vol 65, no 4, Dec 1993; this edition not located on OCLC.

Ethereal fluid propelling the solar system

ANQUETIL, Jean Pierre. 87 QUESTIONS SUR L’ASTRONOMIE, suivies de la propositions d’un nouveau système accompagné de deux planches gravées sur acier. Paris, L’Auteur, Rue de Ménilmontant ... 1833.

8vo, pp. [iv], 110, [2]; with attractive woodcut printer’s device on title-page and two folding engraved plates; lightly browned throughout with some occasional spotting, with a few manuscript corrections in brown ink; uncut, and stitched as issued in the original yellow wrappers, spine neatly restored, covers a little dust-soiled with light dampstain along spine and at head of upper cover; with the author’s signature of authentication on verso of half-title. £285

First edition of this scarce, if rather curious, series of observations on astronomy by Jean Pierre Anquetil, the author of a number of books on navigation, magnetism and astronomy. ‘If the learned Newton had rectified the ideas of Kepler and those of Descartes, instead of introducing attraction and the vacuum, little would perhaps now remain to be done for improving our knowledge of the heavenly bodies’. The work is divided into two sections: Anquetil first poses a series of questions that he considers to be as yet unexplained by current astronomical systems. He then seeks to answer these in the second section through an exposition of his new system. Questions asked include ‘why does the milky way seem to us as a zone or circle in space?’; ‘what is the reason for the different colours of the stars’; on the composition of comets; and ‘If the attraction of the moon raise the waters of the sea, in what manner can the wind help that rising in time of the highest tides’.

Anquetil believes that the solar system resolves around ‘a centre or nebula by means of an ethereal fluid, which is set in movement by the nebula’ (p. 11 of the English edition). This fluid moves the sun, which sets in motion the planets including the earth ‘which by the great impulsion it receives, in order to cause its motion round the sun, is compelled, at the same time, to turn round its axis (as do the other planets) in an opposite direction to that of its onward movement; this sets the surrounding fluid in motion, which fluid conveys the moon round the earth’.

In addition to challenging Newtonian theory, Anquetil also challenges and comments upon the theories of other leading astronomers, including that of Herschel, one of the questions being ‘Whence must come the attraction which has the power of governing Herschel’s satellites, as their orbit round their planet stands vertical?’.

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An English edition was also published in Paris in the same year, with a second edition appearing in 1835.

OCLC locates three copies in France, and records the English edition at the British Library and BnF.

88 BABBAGE, Charles. OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISCOVERY IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES OF THE REMAINS OF HUMAN ART mixed with the bones of extinct races of animals. [From the Proceedings of the Royal Society for May 26, 1859]. London. [1860].

8vo, pp. 16; with seven engraved figures; stitched as issued in contemporary wrappers; a part from some minor soiling a good, clean copy. £225

Original offprint, on the contentious matter of dating human artefacts found in the same geological strata as the remains of extinct animals. ‘Babbage pointed out the imprecise nature of the evidence and concluded that ”whilst we ought to be quite prepared to examine any evidence which tends to prove the great antiquity of our race, yet that if facts adduced can be explained and accounted for by the operation of a few simple and natural causes, it is unphilosophical to infer the co-existence of man with those races of extinct animals”’ (Origins of Cyberspace, 78).

The essay first appeared in The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, pp.297–308, in the complete monthly issue for October 1859, before appearing for the second time in the Royal Society of London Proceedings, 1860 (pp. 59–72), and when this offprint was presumably issued.

Origins of Cyberspace, 78 ( journal); OCLC: 5004501 cites copies at Yale, the Library of Congress, Harvard, Cincinnati, Victoria and Albert Museum.

89 [BALLAND, Eugène Amédée]. ALLENT, B., pseudonym. LES ANIMAUX INDUSTRIEUX, ou Description des ruses qu’ils mettent en oeuvre pour saisir leur proie et fuir leurs ennemis; des moyens qu’ils emploient dans la construction de leurs habitations; de leurs combats; de leurs jeux, et de toutes les ressources qu’ils ont reçues de la nature, pour veiller à l’entretien et à la conservation de leur vie. Paris, A la librairie de l’enfance et de la jeu-nesse, P.C. Lehuby, successeur de M. P. Blanchard. 1834.

8vo, pp. [ii], 331, [1] blank; with additional engraved title-page, engraved frontis-piece and six engraved plates; some light marginal browning, and occasional faint marginal dampstaining, otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary mottled calf, borders ruled in gilt, spine in gilt with black morocco label, upper joint cracked and weak, but holding with some wear to head and tail of spine, corners a little bumped and worn; nevertheless, an appealing copy. £200

Fourth, and surprisingly uncommon edition (first 1821) of this appealing and amusing introduction to animal behaviour and psychology, aimed particularly at young children ‘des deux sexes’. The work, written by the noted children’s author Eugène Amédée Balland though published under the pseudonym of B. Allent, draws heavily upon the natural history works of Buffon. This popular work was republished a number of times throughout the nineteenth century, and was later adopted by the ‘Ministre de l’instruction publique, pour être donné en prix dans les lycées, et par la ville de Paris’ according to the edition of 1873.

Querard I, 161; not in Osborne; see Gumuchian 4371 for Balland’s work of 1823, Les Papillons, though the present work is not listed.


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In celebration of the Degree

90 BASSI, Laura. SCARCE COMMEMORATIVE BRONZE MEDALLION struck to celebrate the conferral of her degree at Bologna, aged 21 in 1732. Laureate bust facing right wearing fur gown, with her her tied up, legend surround, reverse depicting Bassi as Minerva talking with Philosophy and emblems of learning, and the legend Soli Cui Fas Vidisse Minervam. [Ant. Lazari Fec, 1732].

Large round bronze medallion, 70mm in diametre, with some light patination; a very good, near extremely fine example. £3,200

A rare opportunity to acquire this significant commemorative medallion celebrating the degree ceremony of the eighteenth century ‘femme de science’ and important Italian Enlightenment figure Laura Maria Catarina Bassi (1711–1778). Through her extensive work she did much to disseminate Newtonian thought in Italy and she was one of the leading Italian critics of Descartes and Cartesianism during the first half of the eighteenth century.

In 1732 Laura Bassi became the first woman to join the faculty of a European university on her appointment to teach at the University of Bologna at the age of 21. A child pro-digy, Bassi was ‘educated in mathematics, philosophy, anatomy, natural history and languages by Dr Gaetano Tacconi, a professor at the college of medicine. In April 1732 she engaged in a public debate with five philosophers.’ From the moment that Bassi agreed to participate in the public debates, her social position shifted. No longer simply a woman whose learning made her an object of curiosity and a participant in the civil discourse of the urban patriciate, she had become the symbol of the scientific and cultural regeneration of the city. The conferral of a degree on 12 May and the Senate’s decision to award her a university chair on 29 October 1732 formalized the terms of the new relationship’ (Findlen, p. 449). Matteo Bazzani praised Bassi in an oration es pec-ially written for the degree ceremony, and to further emphasise this momentous event, the ceremony diverged from the usual format in a number of ways. ‘Rather than giving gifts, as tradition dictated, she was herself the recipient of lavish presents: the silver, jewel-encrusted crown of laurels ... that replaced the traditional beret of male graduates, the medal struck for the occasion, and the poems written in her honor’ (ibid p. 453).

On the reverse of the medallion, Bassi is depicted as the Roman goddess Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, the arts and professionals. An engraved image of the medallion was included in Fantuzzi’s 1778 Elogio, which also includes Matteo Bazzani’s oration given on the occasion of Bassi receiving her doctorate.

Iconographically, Bassi was later celebrated in one of the most striking and important eighteenth century portrait collections of European scholars, Johann Jakob Brucker’s Pinacotheca Scriptorum Nostra Aetate Literis Illustrium (published in both Latin and German with vernacular title of Bilder-sal heutiges Tages lebender). This scarce work was issued in Augsburg by Johann Jakob Haid as four parts issued in fascicules between 1741–55, and celebrated contemporary figures learned in science, literature, philosophy, and theology. Far more than just a mere bio-bibliography, the 100 exquisitely produced mezzotints by one of Germany’s leading print publishers, after his own and other artists’ drawings, provided faithful portraits of leading figures, set in varied frames. Bassi’s inclusion, together with that of Emilie du Châtelet in the same fourth volume, clearly reflects their importance and peer recognition. Only one other female scholar was included by Bruckner – that of the poet Madelena Sibylla Riegeria (in part five). Other leading scientists selected by Bruckner included Johann Bernouill, Maupertuis, Haller, Gesner, Trew, Van Swieten, Hebenstreit, Formey and Albinus. Later portraits

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include an eighteenth century oil on canvas of Bassi later in life, painted by Carlo Vandi. The Wellcome library hold a nineteenth century lithograph by A. di Lorenzo (Burgess 194.1) seemingly depicting Bassi early in her career.

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists III, 350; Molinari, Medals and Plaquettes from the Molinari Collection of Bowdoin College, Brusnwick, 170; see Findlen, Science as a Career in Englightenment Italy: the Strategies of Laura Bassi in Isis, Vol 84, No. 3, pp. 441–469, 1993.

91 BECCARIA, Giovanni Battista. ELECTRICITAS VINDEX EXPERIMEN-TIS ATQUE OBSERVATIONIBUS STABILITA Olomuchii in Metropoli Moraviae, Typis Josephae Hirnliane; Factore Josepho Francisco Loserth. [Olmütz], [n.d. but ca 1774].

4to, pp. [xiv], 52, [24]; with attractive engraved device on dedication page, woodcut headpieces, one folding letterpress table, and two folding engraved plates; some occasional light foxing and soiling, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary red paste-paper boards, ruled in gilt, head and tail of spine a little bumped, small loss of paper to rear cover, covers somewhat darkened and stained, extremities a little rubbed and worn; overall though a good crisp copy. £975

A rare and attractive variant Olmütz issue of this reworking of Beccaria’s Experimenta, atque observationes quibus electricitas vindex late constitur, atque explicar of 1769, which outlines numerous experiments made by the distin guished Italian priest and philosopher relating to electric charge and distribution. The 1769 work was apparently a private publication celebrating the demonstration of electrical experiments to the Emperor Joseph II at Turin.

In 1765, G. F. Cigna published an account of his experiments that developed Nollet’s elaboration of Symmer’s famous manipulation with electrified silk stockings. ‘Beccaria pursued these experiments with all his skill, inventiveness, and energy, largely because they seemed to favour the anti-Franklin double fluid theory. But the more remarkable and delicate of the phenomena he investigated, which depend upon in-duction in the coatings from residual charges left on the dielectric after the discharge of a condenser, required something more than Franklin’s system for their explanation. Beccaria ... supplied this deficiency with a complicated scheme of electrical atmospheres and ”vindicating” or regenerating, electricity. These ideas, which found their clearest expression in his Electricitas Vindex (1769), subsequently led Volta, while seeking alternatives to them, to the invention of the electrophorus’ (DSB).

Although an edition of this work is recorded in Bakken [p.40] and the Honeyman Sale Part I, lot 254, 1978, both have a differing pagination (pp. 90) and imprint to the present edition, being instead ‘Graecii, Typis Widmanstadii’. OCLC 17366201 elaborates further by identifying two issues of this Graz imprint of 1773 and 1775 (found at Burndy, Northwestern, Harvard (1773) and Göttingen, 1775). The present Olmütz issue concludes with a 24 page collection of theses edited by Franciscus Bergmann, who contributed the preface to the first published work by Beccaria, and whose name is found at the end of the present dedication.

Dawson’s No. 91 Item 487 for the present issue; Bakken p. 40 ( for other Graz issue); Ronalds 41; Poggendorff I, 124; Wheeler Gift 424 (all for the earlier work); OCLC: 17403225 locates two copies of this imprint at the Smithsonian and Harvard, though making no mention of the concluding 24 pages of theses.


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92 BINNINGER, Gaspar. LA VERITABLE CAUSE DU FLUX & REFLUX DE LA MER à Halle, aux dépens d’un Amateur des Belles Lettres, chez Jean Chret-ien Gruner, 1749.

8vo, pp. [xxiv], 326, [2]; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials throughout; title-page and final leaf a little foxed, with occasional light foxing and browning throughout; in the original speckled paste-paper boards, with red paper label lettered in gilt at head of spine, label a little chipped, head and tail of spine rubbed and lightly worn, with some wear and bumping along upper outer edge, further light rubbing and wear to corners and extremities; a good copy. £485

Scarce and attractive first edition of this somewhat curious pre-Newtonian study on the cause and nature of tides. Divided into eight chapters, Binninger examines and dismisses traditional theories on the motion of tides, including early theories on the connection between the tides and the moon. He discusses such things as the origin of springs and underground water, these chapters underpinning the main tenet of his argument which is found in the final chapter – his belief in ‘terrestrial respiration’ – i.e. that water is effectively breathed in and out from the ground.

The connection between the tides and the moon had long been argued. Kepler had sought to develop a lunar tidal theory in the Astronomia Nova, but his work was dismissed by Galileo as mere astrology. ‘Galileo went on to argue that tides were caused by the earth’s motion, both daily and annual, and constituted the strongest evidence of the Copernican system. Against such views, the influential figure of Descartes presented tidal motion in a purely mechanical manner within his general theory of vortices. No one before Newton seems to have considered that the sun, as well as the moon, could exert its influence over tides. Newton’s analysis of tidal motion can be found in Principia, Book III, … and The System of the World … It was an analysis … which afforded ‘the firm basis on which all subsequent work has been laid’ (Darwin, 1911, p. 89)’ (Gjertson p. 578). As the Principia was not translated in to French until 1756, Binninger is unlikely to have had access to his theories, although one gets the impression that even access to such information would not have changed his views!

Poggendorf I 194; OCLC: 49050744 records copies at the Burndy Library, Berkeley, and the British Library, with a number of Europeoan and microfilm copies.

The Shaving Machine that Never Caught On – a satire on the French Revolution?

93 [BOBBIN, Tim, i.e. John COLLIER]? [BROADSIDE]. REPRESENTATION OF THE NEW SHAVING MACHINE, whereby a number of Persons may be done at the same time with expedition ease and safety. Manufactured and Sold by D. Merry and Son, Birmingham. [n.p but probably London; n.d. but ca 1770–1790s?].

Single engraved sheet with etched image and text and explanations printed below, 219mm x 233mm, image size 133mm x 216mm, plate mark 215mm x 225mm; a little browned and creased, a couple of small brown stains touching image, evidence of previous mount adhesive on verso; overall very good. £550

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trolley, which slides along a track worked by a cog-wheel. The mock advertising text below announces that: ‘Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known and even doubted by those who have not seen it, the Inventor has, for their satisfaction, prefixed a Plate representing his Shaving and Dressing Room. Pledges himself that his Machine will be found to do its work in the most safe, smooth, and efficacious manner, with three scrapes or movements, and that those who shall have once tried it, will no longer entertain any doubts on the subject’.

The cog-wheel is turned by a man far right. The six customers (or should that be victims?) each sit with their heads resting along what looks horribly like an executioner’s block, whilst the barber is seen directing the position of his cust-omer’s faces. ‘Here he is desiring the Gentleman with the large nose to keep it more to the left, that it may be out of the way’. To the left, three further men are seen, two apparently waiting in turn (one is reading a paper), whilst another man seems to be powdering the customer’s six wigs on a shelf above their heads by firing smoke out of a gun. To the left foreground sits a young boy ‘employed in the ordinary and tedious mode of dressing a Wig’. As the machine passes along the track, ‘the brush, followed by the razor, performs on the right cheek. The faces, the brush, & the razor, being then reversed, a contrary motion of the Wheel does the left cheek. And the faces being again turned to the front, the forebeard is done by the instrument at I’.

We have so far located three copies of this image at Princeton, the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, and at the British Museum. All three catalogue the print as being anonymous. It is possible that it may in fact be the work of the well known Lancashire caricaturist John Collier (1708–1786), best remembered for his savage satirical work Human Passions Delineated (1773), in which he lampooned the behaviour of upper and lower classes alike. In the upper right hand corner of the present image can be seen on the wall a painting of a grinning and slightly grotesque man, below which is signed ‘Tim Bobbin’. We have been unable so far to verify this certain, and it appears not to be mentioned in related bibliographies – but the vanity of the situation seems ripe for Collier’s attention.

Possibly a wild flight of fancy rather than a serious conjecture, but should the illusions to the guillotine be more than just be a figment of an active booksellers’ imagination, the true veiled meaning could perhaps be the developing situation in France, though this would place publication to after Collier’s death, Guillotin having first proposed his new machine in 1789. It is interesting though, that Guillotin originally put forward six proposals to the Legislative Assembly (we have six customers here), and that he apparently presented an etching that illustrated an ornate device, operated by a rather effete looking executioner (a.k.a our Master Barber?). The machine was hidden from the view of large crowds (as here inside the shop), according with Guillotin’s view that execution should be private and dignified. The guillotine was first used in 1792, though was in fact built by by Tobias Schmidt, a German engineer.

See BM Satires, Vol II, 15654 and which refers to this print, together with three further images depicting designs for shaving machines; BM Satires also cites Caricatures VI p. 204.


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94 BRAUN, Friedrich HIMMELS-ATLAS in transparenten Karten. Stuttgart, verlag v. Wilhelm Nitzschke, [n.d. but ca. 1860]. [together with]. BRAUN, Friedrich. TRANSPARENTE HIMMELS-KARTE Stuttgart, verlag von Wil-helm Nitzscheke [n.d. but ca. 1880]. [together with]. FüHRER BEIM GE-BRAUCH DER TRANSPARENTEN HIMMELSKARTE. Separate-Ausgabe der Himmelskarte aus dem Himmels-Atlas in 30 transparenten Stern-bilder-Karten. Stuttgart, verlag von Wilhelm Nitzschke. [Druck von karl Kirn in Stuttgart. n.d. but ca. 1880].

Offered together two folios; I. Including large folding chromolithograph map of the heavens in four sections, incorporating transparencies, map a little soiled, together with set of 30 loosely inserted lithograph blue cards, each also incorporating transparencies to reveal the constellations, the cards backed with yellow tissue paper (outer margin of map with slight wear and nicking, some occasional light soiling and marginal wear, lower margin of plate 28 dampstained); in later green cloth folder, with the original green blindstamped cloth front and rear covers neatly laid down, and preserving the original paste-downs with contemporary ownership signature, upper cover lettered in gilt with the title, with ties. II. Including the large folding chromolithograph map of the heaves in four sections only, with two brass hanging fasteners at upper margin, together with accompanying 8vo text pamphlet; in the original cloth backed wallet portfolio, with attractive chromolithograph title mounted on upper cover depicting Atlas holding the world, text with paper back-strip, boards of portfolio a little soiled and dampstained with light wear, otherwise good. £1,800

A most attractive and rare celestial atlas. Offered together here is a copy of the first edition, German issue, of the map and accompanying cards, together with the seemingly later 1880 issue of the map and text pamphlet, thus providing an interesting opportunity to study the publishing history of this popular, yet scarce work.

The idea of disseminating astronomy through the use of transparent constellation cards to show the location of the stars was most famously first used in Urania’s Mirror (1825). This diaphanous effect was further popularized by Franz Niklaus König in his Celestial atlas (1826), and later used by Otto Möllinger in his Himmelsatlas of 1851. Both the folding map showing the entire sky from the north pole to 40 degrees south latitude, and the set of thirty numbered cards, have the individual stars cut out and backed with yellow tissue paper on the cards, and with red, orange, yellow on the folding chart: all glow when backlit. There are a number of different shapes and sizes in order of increasing magnitude. The accompanying pamphlet, found here only in the 1880 version and seemingly abridged (the original pamphlet was 51pp and often seems to be lacking), nevertheless provides an accessible, detailed and technical introduction to the heavens, which was presumably issued for the use of schools and the home.

Two issues of the original version are known: the present copy appears to be the German issue with the imprint of Wilhelm Nitschke, and with the German name given prominence on the star charts, followed by the constellation names in French and English. The folding chart is also titled in German Transparente Himmels-Karte, and has only the Nitzschke imprint. The 1880 edition offered here is seemingly just a later re-issue of this German issue. An alternative issue was also first published, but with the additional Brussels imprint of August Schnée, and with the folding chart entitled in French only Carte Transparente du Ciel and with an imprint of both Schnée and Nitzsche.

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notably by James Reynolds and his series of Astronomical and Geographical Diagrams – no doubt an ultimately lucrative innovation that opened up the sales of such works to wider audiences.

Heinsius’s Allgemeines Bücher-Lexikon I (1863), p. 147; Tooley I, p. 185.

95 BRÜCKNER, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb. DIE KUNST DIE SEIFEN, besonders die talgseifen mit beträchtlicherer Kostenersparniß als bisher zu bereiten, nach Anleitung chemischer Grundsätze. Görlitz, bei C. G. Anton, 1802.

8vo, pp. [xvi], 358, [10]; with four folding engraved plates (outer margin of one plate browned and furled), two engraved text images, and one folding letterpress tables; somewhat foxed and browned throughout due to paper quality; attractively bound in later half-mottled calf over marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt with green morocco label lettered in gilt, retaining original green silk marker, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, corners a little worn, with attractive decorated endpapers. £485

Scarce first edition of this detailed chemical treatise on the art of soap-making, particularly those made of tallow, by Johann Brückner, described on the title-page as ‘Seifensiedermeister in Schönberg’.

Clearly aimed at the practitioner Brückner hopes to outline more cost effective methods than previously cited. He begins with a useful list of works on soap-making contained within the preface, and a brief history of the origin of soap. Amongst the various topics covered in this detailed work, Brückner includes an explanation of some chemical terms, the best solvents to use with tallow, how to make good almond soap, and how best to arrange one’s workshop and tools. The folding engraved plates, and two text illustrations highlight various pieces of equipment, with the folding statistical table highlighting ‘über die schwere der aschenlaugen’.

The only edition cited on OCLC is that of 1811, which is also referred to in Engelmann Bibliotheca-mechanico-technologico 54.

Hamberger-Meusel 13; not in Cole, Duveen or Neville; not on OCLC which cites only the 1811 edition; KVK locates two copies only at Tübingen and the Royal National Library of Denmark.

Alan Nunn May’s Copy

96 [CALCULATING MACHINES]. BAXANDALL, David. CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM South Kensington. With descriptive and historical notes and illustrations. Mathematics I. Calculating machines and Instruments. London: Printed and Published by his Majesty’s Stationery Office ... 1926.

8vo, pp. 85, [1] blank; with 13 photographs; some occasional light soiling, with paper wear through rust from staples evident on title-page and first two leaves; with occasional pencil markings throughout; recently biographical note tipped along gutter of title-page; stapled as issued in the original printed green wrappers, some staining and minor wear to upper cover at staples, hinges a little weak, with small tears along lower joint at tail, head and tail of spine a little worn and bumped, covers a little soiled and creased; with Alan Nunn May’s signature at head of upper cover. £125

Alan Nunn May’s copy of this ‘well-annotated and well-illustrated historical catalogue, focusing primarily on European calculating machines and instruments from the


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seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Among the machines illustrated are two machines built by the Earl of Stanhope, and an original Morland calculator. All three of these machines were formerly owned by Charles Babbage. This remained the most useful and informative exhibition catalogue of early calculating instruments through the 1960s. An updated edition of the catalogue was issued in 1975’ (Origins of Cyberspace, 222).

Provenance: Nunn May was one of the notorious Cambridge group accused of espionage after WWII. Going against government and popular opinion, he was one of several nuclear physicists and scientific idealists at Cambridge during the late ‘30’s and ‘40’s who passionately believed that scientific information should be available to all. Nunn May was the first to be caught in 1946 when his Russian ‘minder’ defected, admitting that he had passed classified, but not top secret, information to the Russians. He was convicted of spying and passing samples of uranium isotopes 235 and 237. For this act of treachery he was sentenced to 10 years hard labour in Wormwood Scrubs. He was released in 1953 after serving six and a half years. Nunn May subsequently remarried, and the present catalogue was sold by his stepson who had inherited his library. The present catalogue spent six and a half years in Wormwood Scrubs because, unusually at the time, Nunn May was allowed to take his science books in with him.

Origins of Cyberspace, 222; OCLC: 9055071.

97 [CALCULATING MACHINES]. DE COLMAR, Thomas. [BROADSIDE]. ARITHMOMÈTRE MACHINE A CALCULER Approuvée par l’Institut de France (Académie des sciences), par la Société d’encouragement, par le Conseil des ponts et chaussées, etc. Exposition Universelle de 1878, Classe 15. Paris, Impr. G. Jousset. 1878.

Single printed sheet, 220mm x 139mm; with small engraved illustration of the machine; lightly browned and foxed, with evidence of previous horizontal fold; a nice example. £185

A fine promotional leaflet given out to visitors at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878, advertising Thomas de Colmar’s Arithmomètre, the world’s first commercially successful mechanical calculator. The machine could add and subtract directly as well as perform long multiplications and divisions effectively, and was capable of calculations up to thirty digits. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar (1785–1870), took inspiration from the Leibniz mechanism (by using the stepped drum) and Pascal’s calculator, and eventually patented his newly engineered device in 1820. It was manufactured from 1851 to 1915, and for almost forty years was the only type of mechanical calculator in commercial production. Through its sturdy design (it was almost two metres long) it gained a strong reputation of reliability and accuracy, though being both expensive to produce and purchase annual production was small. The device was first exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the 1855 Paris Exhibition. Thomas de Colmar died in 1870 and manufacturing of the machine had been taken over by his son, Thomas de Bojano.

See Origins of Cyberspace, 406;

98 CHARLIER, Carl Vilhelm Ludwig. STUDIES IN STELLAR STATISTICS. Meddelanden från Lunds Astronomiska Observatorium. Parts I-V, Lund and Uppsala, 1912–1926

Five parts, 4to, pp; 63, [1] blank; [ii], 110, seven plates on six leaves; [iv], 108, [10],

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five plates; [ii], 54, seven plates; 33, ten plates; in the original light blue and grey printed wrappers, spines of first two volumes neatly rebacked, light soiling and foxing, with some marginal edgewear (particularly affecting Vols II and V with chipping and some loss). £250

A complete set of Charlier’s detailed memoirs on the study of stellar structure. The five essays discuss: the constitution of the milky way; the motion of the stars; the distances and the distribution of the stars of the spectral type b; stellar clusters and related celestial phænomena; the galaxy of the b-stars. The work was published in various journals. Parts I, II and III were issued as Kongl. Fysiograpfiska Sällskapets Handlingar Band 23, Nr 2 & 4 and Band 26, nr 19. Parts III and V as Nova acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Ser IV, vol 4, nr 7 and ‘volumen extra ordinem editum 1927’.

OCLC: 44024330 cite Yale, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri as having a complete set, with Stanford, UCLA, Chicago, Minnesota, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and North Carolina having parts I and II only.

‘Unknown to the usual chemical historians’ and modelled on Algarotti

99 [COMPAGNONI, Guiseppe]. LA CHIMICA PER LE DONNE. Tomo Primo – [Tomo Secondo]. Editio Terza. In Venezia, Presso Giustino Pasquali q. Mario. 1805.

Two volumes, 8vo; pp. xx, 243, [i] blank; viii, 237, [1] imprint, [2] blank; faint but very unobtrusive dampstain affecting upper gutter of Vol. 1 throughout, occasional light foxing and soiling otherwise clean; an uncut wide margined copy in mustard paste-paper wrappers, with paper labels lettered in mss on spine (Vol II label chipped with some loss), both spines with horizontal splits along cords, with wear and some loss of paper affecting both spine tails, covers lightly stained and soiled, extremities furled with marginal nicks and tears; an attractive unsophisticated copy. £775

Third edition (first 1796) of this scarce introduction to chemistry for ladies, by Guiseppe Compagnoni (1754–1833). The popularity of books such as Francesco Algarotti’s Newtonianismo per le dame spawned a genre of similar works of which the present work by Compagnoni is ‘an excellent textbook for women readers, based on the new chemistry of Lavoisier as enunciated in the Fondamenti della Scienza Fisico-Chimica of Vincenzo Dandolo. Presented in a series of 101 letters, this work covers the history of chemistry, elements and compounds, attraction, affinity, caloric, fire and light, the phlogistic versus the new chemistry, gases, combustion, acids and alkalis, salts, the old and new nomenclature, minerals etc. Pages 147–237 of Vol II entitled ‘Lettere Aerologiche’, discuses the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere and various gases, with references to ballooning by the Montgolfier brothers’ (Neville I, p. 287). ‘Compagnoni created the last of a number of fictional women whose questions about scientific learning facilitated the popularization of new doctrines in the early modern period. His Chemistry for Ladies (1796), explicitly modelled upon Francesco Algarotti’s Newtonianism for Ladies (1737) rather than Marie Meurdrac’s Chemistry made easy for Ladies (1666), began as a series of letters between himself and Countess Marianna Rossi of Ferrara on the ideas of Lavoisier. Expressing scepticism over a woman’s desire to learn a subject as dry and difficult as chemistry, Compagnoni is reassured by the countess that she indeed wishes to be initiated into the mysteries of Lavoisier’s new language because chemistry ‘by now has become the fashionable science’ (Findlen, Translating the New Science).

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p. 131 referring only to the second edition, and Duveen citing the rare Spanish trans-lation of 1802.

Blake, 96; Cole 291 ( first edition); Duveen 142 (a Spanish translation); Wellcome II, 379; Neville I, p. 287; OCLC: 17597388 locates copies at Harvard, Delaware and Pennsylvania, with copies of the first edition at Berkeley, Othmer, Wisconsin, NLM, Huntington, Oklahoma and the Wellcome.

100 CRISTOFORI, Pietro. SULLA FORZA CAUSTICA DE CORPI Memoria ... Rovereto, Dall’ Imp. Reg. Stamp. Marchesani. 1816.

8vo, pp. 37, [1]; aside from a faint dampstain on title-page, clean and crisp; an appealing wide-margined copy, stitched as issued in the original wrappers, upper cover a little dampstained, with some minor soiling; a presentation copy signed by the author on the inside front cover. £285

Rare first edition, and an appealing Italian provincial imprint, of this short chemical essay on the corrosive properties of caustic substances and their effects upon organic matter, by Pietro Cristofori, described as ‘a farmacista e accademico Roveretano’. Cristofori makes frequent reference to the work of previous authors on the subject, including Bergman, Scheele, Kirwan, Fourcroy, Lavoisier, Priestley, Bertholet, Chaptal, Lemery, Macquer, Black, Stahl and Davy – amongst others.

The ancient fortress town of Rovereto is found in the Italian province of Trento.

Not in Cole, Neville, Duveen or Ferguson; OCLC: 166000589 cites one copy at Bayern, with a further copy located at Padua; no further copies located on KVK or ICCU.

Praised by Marx, dismissed by Engels and Gould, rehabilitated by Wilkins

101 [DARWIN]. TREMAUX, Pierre. ORIGINE ET TRANSFORMATIONS DE L’HOMME et des autres êtres. Première partie indiquant la transformation des êtres organisés, la formation des espèces, les conditions qui produ-isent les types, l’instinct et les facultés intellectuelles, la base des sciences naturelles, historiques, politiques, etc. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, et Cie ... 1865.

8vo, pp. [iv], 490, [2]; with engraved sepia plate (on page nos 272bis); half-title and final leaf a little browned and spotted, with some occasional minor spotting and soiling, otherwise clean and crisp; retaining green silk marker; in contemporary green morocco backed marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine and bands a little rubbed, extremities lightly bumped and rubbed; a good copy. £1,200

First edition of this scarce and somewhat controversial contribution to the corpus of literature on speciation, by the ethnologist and explorer Pierre Tremaux (1818–1895). Though noted for his travel works, in particular his photographic account of a trip down the Nile to the Sudan in 1847, his anthropological and biological works are less well-known and until recently had received little academic attention.

Tremaux’s work initially came to prominence through the advocacy of Karl Marx, who enthusiastically recommended the work to Engels in 1865, having proclaimed it to be ‘a very important advance over Darwin’. This view, has subsequently been vehemently challenged by both Bernard Cohen (Revolution in Science, 1985), and later Stephen Gould in his essay The Darwinian Gentleman at Marx’s Funeral. In Cohen’s view ‘The judgement of history does not accord with Marx’s laudation. For example Trémaux does not rate an entry in the recently completed 16 volume Dictionary of Scientific Biography, nor

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is his name even mentioned in the standard histories of biology, and of evolution’ (p. 345). More damningly Gould writes: ‘The scholarly literature frequently cites Marx’s great enthusiasm (until the more scientifically savvy Engels set him straight) for a curious book published in 1865 by the now (and deservedly) unknown French explorer and ethnologist P. Trémaux ... Marx professed ardent admiration for this work, proclaiming it ’einen Forstschritt Iberia Darwin’ (an advance over Darwin). The more sober Engels bought the book at Marx’s urging, but then dampened his friend’s ardour by writing: ‘I have arrived at the conclusion that there is nothing to his theory if for no other reason than because he neither understands geology nor is capable of the most ordinary literary historical criticism.’ I [Gould] had long been curious about Trémaux and sought a copy of his book for many years. I finally purchased one a while ago--and I must say that I have never read a more absurd or more poorly documented thesis’ (Gould, I have Landed, p.125; also in The Richness of Life, p. 177).

An attempt to rehabilitate Tremaux’s work has recently been undertaken, however, by Wilkins and Nelson, in their detailed essay Trémaux on species: A theory of allopathic speciation(and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner (2008). Including English translations of passages from Trémaux’s book, the essay presents a re-evaluation of Tremaux’s work, and indeed argues that the work may well have influenced Darwin’s own revision of the 1866 edition of the Origin. ‘Pierre Trémaux’s 1865 ideas on speciation have been unjustly derided following his acceptance by Marx and rejection by Engels, and almost nobody has read his ideas in a charitable light. Here we offer an interpretation based on translating the term sol as ”habitat”, in order to show that Trémaux proposed a theory of allopathic speciation before Wagner and a punctuated equilibrium theory before Gould and Eldredge, and translate the relevant discussion from the French. We believe he may have influenced Darwin’s revision to the 1866 edition of the Origin on rates of evolution, and suggest that Gould’s dismissal of Trémaux is motivated by concern that others might think punctuated equilibrium theory was tainted by a connection with Trémaux’ (p. 1).

Wilkins and Nelson, Tremaux on Species: A theory of allopathic speciation’ (on-line article available); Cohen, Revolution in Science p. 345, (1985); Gould, The Richness of Life, p. 177: OCLC: 6624944 locate copies at Arizona, Berkeley and UCLA, the Library of Congress, Michigan, the British Museum and the Wellcome.

With 64 fabric samples

102 [DYEING]. SANSONE, Antonio. DER ZEUGDRUCK Bleicherei, Färberei, Druckerei und Appretur baumwollener Gewebe. Deutsche Ausgabe von B. Pick. Berlin, verlag von Julius Springer, 1890.

8vo, pp. viii, 291. [1] errata, [4] advertisements; with 23 engraved plates of which 19 are folding, and with 12 plates containing 64 original mounted fabric samples, together with numerous text illustrations; text and plates with light marginal browning; with library label on front paste-down; in the original publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little rubbed with small split affecting head of lower, covers a little scuffed and soiled, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £385

First German edition of Sansone’s The Printing of Cotton Fabrics (1888, with a second edition in 1901). Originally published in Manchester, according to the preface of the first English edition ‘The book contains ... record of many of the lectures delivered before the students of the School of Dyeing ... Manchester Technical School. Some of the practical recipes have been published ... in the Textile Manufacturer’. Having


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been well-received, and already translated into French, Sansone felt there to be a need and audience for the present translation, done by B. Pick – an assistant at the chemical school in the industrial town of Mulhouse. Sansone provides an overview of current industrial practices, including notice of recent improvements and discoveries. In addition to the copious striking illustrations throughout, including depiction’s of various pieces of apparatus found in the most up-to-date chemical factories, the work is noteworthy for the 64 original mounted samples of dyed cloth found at the end of the work: it is rare to find all present as here, and seem particularly scarce in the first English edition having been bound as a separate volume.

In addition to the present work, Sansone published Dyeing: comprising the dyeing and bleaching of wool, silk, cotton, flax, hemp, china grass &c (Manchester, 1888) and Recent progress in the industries of dyeing & calico printing (Manchester 1895).

We have been unable to find any biographical information about Sansone, though he appears to have worked in both Manchester and Berlin.

103 ELSNER, Johann G. MEINE ERFAHRUNGEN IN DER HöHERN SCHAF-ZUCHT Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta’schen buchhandlung. 1827.

8vo, pp. iv, 215; lightly browned and foxed throughout; a few neat pencil annotations in margins; generally clean and crisp; contemporary marbled boards, spine, surfaces and extremities lightly rubbed with minor wear; a good copy. £200

Scarce first edition of this detailed work on animal husbandry, by the noted agronomist Johann Elsner, (1784–1869). Elsner was one of the leading sheep-breeders of his day, and wrote a number of works recounting his experiences. The present treatise not only deals with breeding programmes, but discusses in detail the care, treatment and use of wool, in particular with reference to Merino sheep, or which he was a noted breeder.

A second edition was published in 1835.

ADB VI, 69; OCLC cites only Iowa State in the US, though several European copies listed.

104 [ETIQUETTE & CONDUCT OF LIFE]. JUMEL, Jean Charles. GALERIE DES JEUNES PERSONNES ou les qualités du coeur et de l’esprit, présentée dans des exemples de vertus, pour servir à l’education de la jeunesse. A Paris, ... 1813. [together with]: GALERIE DES ENFANTS ou les motifs d’une noble emulation. A Paris, a la librairie d’éducation et de jurisprudence d’Alexis Eymery ... 1813. [bound with]: ANDRE, Jean-François. MUSÉE DE LA JEUNESSE OU CHOIX DE CONTES FABLES ALLEGORIES et d’essais moraux propres a former l’esprit et le coeur de la jeunesse. A l’usage des deux sexes, pris dans les meilleurs Auteurs anglais. Traduit par J. F. Andre. Seconde édition. A Paris, Chez Le Prieur ... 1812–1813.

Together three works in two volumes, 8vo; pp. [ii] half-title, viii, 275, [1] errata; with hand-coloured frontispiece and five hand-coloured plates; aside from some occasional minor spotting and soiling, and lovely, clean fresh copy; pp. [iv], viii, 291, [1] errata, with six engraved plates; lightly foxed throughout, with small worm-trail affecting upper margins between pp. 97–105 including upper margin of one plate; pp. [iv] frontispiece and title-page, [7]- 300, with eight engraved plates; title-page within ruled border; text browned and foxed throughout, heavy in some gatherings, though plates, aside from some occasional spotting are fresh and bright; a lovely copy in

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contemporary speckled calf, with ruled border, spine attractively tooled in gilt with red morocco label, with red silk marker, all edges gilt, head and tail of spine and joints a little rubbed and worn; second volume in later half-morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, extremities lightly rubbed; overall a good copy. £975

Offered together three scarce and most attractive etiquette books, intended for the moral edification and education of young girls and boys.

I. Second edition (first 1812) and a lovely hand-coloured copy, of this appealing contribution to the genre of guidance works on the ‘conduct of life’ for young adults by L’Abbé Jean Charles Jumel (1751–1824). Aimed in particular at young girls, Jumel hopes that his work will help to fight off the eighteenth century tendency towards dissipation, and help them to acquire ‘une façon de penser plus mâle’ (p. [iii]). The Galerie introduces a myriad of inspirational stories of courage and virtue involving famous women, counterbalanced by a number of cautionary tales, all of which help to demonstrate qualities deemed suitable for young ladies of the Napoleonic era. Amongst those celebrated are Marie Therese, the Empress of Austria, Anne of Austria (both of whom are attractively illustrated), and Marguerite of Anjou, the wife of King Henry VI of England.

II. First edition of the companion volume by Jumel for young boys, and brimming with similarly inspiring tales and biographical sketches to teach them virtue, courage and moral fortitude. Famous figures cited include Grotius, Pascal, Montaigne, Newton, Descartes, Raphaël and Voltaire.

III. Second edition of André’s work (first 1811) and which provides both young readers of both sexes a ‘museum’ of moral tales, fables and allegories to lift the spirit and heart. According to André, these are largely drawn from English authors, although no citations are clearly in evidence. The work is adorned by eight finely engraved and striking plates.

I. Querard IV, p. 270 though later editions; OCLC: 252050453 notes one copy at Berlin, with a further copy located at Amsterdam: the 1812 edition is located at the BnF: II. Gumuchian 3466; OCLC: 270109135 notes the Morgan (indeed the Gumuchian) copy, with further copies located at the BnF, Lyon, Maastricht and Montreal: III. Gumuchian 4238; OCLC 174453658 note a copy at the Morgan Library, with a further copy at the BnF, which also records the first edition of 1811 together with Waseda.

105 EUCLID. LES QUINZE LIVRES DES ELEMENTS D’EUCLIDE Traduits en François par D. Henrion ... plus, le livre des donnez du même Euclide, aus-si traduit en François par ledit Henrion. Tome I [-II]. A Rouen, Chez Jean Lucas, ruë aux Juifs, à côté de la petite porte de l’Hotel de Ville. MDCLXXVI [1676].

Three parts in one volume, 8vo; pp. [viii], 532, [1] blank; [iv], 527, [1]; 116 ‘Commentaire ou preface de Marin philosophe, sur le livre des donnez d’Euclide’; with woodcut title-page printer’s device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, and numerous woodcut text illustrations; somewhat browned and foxed throughout, with some occasional light marginal dampstaining, neat marginal tear at head of p. 169 in Vol II, touching text but without loss; in contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands decorated in gilt, with red morocco label lettered in gilt, tail of spine, joints and corners neatly repaired, covers a little stained, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £985

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mathematician Didier (or Denis) Henrion (ca. 1580–1632), originally published in Paris in 1615 and the first French edition of the complete text. The first Rouen edition was 1626, with a further issue in 1649 (of which this is a reissue), with all previous editions published in Paris. Though the author of several mathematical works and translations of texts from Latin into French, including his Traité des logarithmes (1626), the second work on the subject published in France, it is for this translation of Euclid that Henrion is best remembered. Henrion is believed by some sources to be the pseudonym of Clément Cyriaque de Mangin.

Brunet II 1090; Riccardi p. 31; Steck IV, 64; for French translations of Euclid see Les Traductions francaises d’Euclide in Revue francaise d’histoire des sciences 1957 p. 38ff; OCLC: 39494837 locates two copies at the Burndy Library and the New York Public Library with a further copy at Columbia.

106 [EUCLID]. WALLACE, Robert. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY; or a new and compendious demonstration of the first six books of Euclid, with many new and useful propositions, practical rules, examples, and observations; also, the rectification and quadrature of the circle, and a collection of inter-esting problems for exercise. Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Co. and Lon-don: Thomas Tegg, 1825.

12mo, pp. [iv] blank, viii, 88, [4] blank; with two folding engraved plates depicting 140 geometrical figures; with some occasional minor spotting and soiling, but generally clean and crisp; in the original presentation red blindstamped morocco, covers attractively tooled in gilt, with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, all edges gilt and retaining blue silk tie, outer margins of front blue endpaper a little dampstained with evidence of previous book-label (now removed), with two book labels on front paste-down; extremities lightly rubbed and worn; with presentation inscription in ink on front free endpaper to ‘H Brougham Esqr., In testimony of the sincere respect and gratitude of the author’; a very good copy. £385

Scarce first edition, and an attractive presentation copy. Wallace was at the time professor of mathematics at the Anderson’s Institution in Glasgow and subsequently editor of the Scots Mechanics Magazine. The present work is a short guide to Euclid’s Elements, which as Wallace pointed out, though ‘perfect as that work is, and forming one of the most splendid monuments of ancient genius, still there is to be found a shorter road than his to Geometry’ (p. 5). Wallace dedicated his work to Henry Brougham, ‘geometer and statesman’; the present copy, indeed, bears his presentation inscription ‘in testimony of the sincere respect and gratitude of the author’.

Brougham (1778–1868) was a founder and contributor to the influential Edinburgh Review, a Whig politician, attorney-general for Queen Caroline; legal reformer, campaigner against the slave trade; an early proponent of state education, rector of Glasgow University and a founder of London University.

Wallace also gave private lecture courses in geography and related subjects between 1828 and 1832 at his home in South Frederick Street. In 1828 he published ‘Elements of Algebra’. By this time he describes himself as ‘Late Andersonian Professor of Mathematics, Glasgow; and teacher of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, London’. A second edition of the present work was published in 1831. In 1822 he seems to have edited a late edition of Playfair’s Elements of Geometry.

NSTC 2W3254; not inRiccardi; OCLC cites copies in Glasgow, the National Library of Scotland and Aberdeen, with a copy of the second edition at the British Library (1831).

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107 [EULER, Leonhard]. LETTRES DE L. EULER A UNE PRINCESSE D’ALLEMAGNE Sur divers sujets de physique & de philosophie. Tome Premier [-Troisieme]. A Saint Petersbourg De l”imprimerie de l”Academie Impériale des Sciences 1768–1768–1772.

Three volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 314 with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut diagrams, and one folding woodcut plate; pp. xiv, 340 with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut diagrams, and with three folding throw-out woodcut plates; pp. xiv, [ii] errata, 404, with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut diagrams, and with eight folding throw-out woodcut plates; light foxing and soiling with occasional marginal dampstaining affecting all three volumes (dampstaining more prominent in some places), small paper flaw just touching text on p. 251 of Vol II, old paper repair to final leaf of Vol III with worming affecting upper gutter of final endpaper; ownership signature on p. 273, 211 and 151 respectively and with small neat library stamp on verso of each title-page; in contemporary mottled calf, spines elaborately tooled in gilt with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, gilt monogram of ‘G.v.K’ on upper cover of each volume, slight marginal dampstaining affecting all three upper covers, head of spine of Vol. III darkened with minor worming affecting upper joint, rear cover of Vol II a little darkened with slight loss of calf due to worming, some light scuffing, extremities a little rubbed and worn; still, an attractive copy. £15,500

Rare first edition of this celebrated eighteenth century treatise on physics and cosmology, written in a series of letters addressed to the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau. The work was inspired by lessons given by Euler to the Princess, a relative of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, during his time in Berlin, but were not published until his return to St Petersburg, and includes sections on the wave theory of light, electricity, magnetism, mechanics, acoustics, microscopes and telescopes. ‘Written in an absorbing and popular manner, the book was an unusual success and ran to twelve editions in the original French, nine in English, six in German, four in Russian, and two in both Dutch and Swedish’ (DSB). ‘His Lettres à une princesse d’Allemagne ... in which he attacked Leibnitz’s monadology, had an immediate success and profoundly influenced contemporary philosophy’ (see Printing in the Mind of Man 196).

Provenance: It seems probable that the present copy once belonged to the Swedish diplomat Georg von Kjörning (1743–92). From 1765 he was based in St. Petersburg and was still there when Linnaeus wrote to him in 1775 (the only letter that has survived, but probably from a larger correspondence), and was married there in 1782. It seems probable that he took part in Gustavus III’s visit to the Russian Academy of Science 1777, when the king met Euler.

Houzeau & Lancaster, 8897; Eneström 343, 344 and 417; see DSB; Honeyman Collection II, 1074; cf. PMM, 196.

108 FORMANOIR DE PALTEAU, Guillaume. OBSERVATIONS ET EXPERI-ENCES sur diverses parties de l’agriculture. A Paris, Chez la Veuve D’Houry ... 1768.

8vo, pp. viii, 107, [5] publisher’s catalogue; with woodcut printers device on title-


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page; aside from some minor marginal browning, clean and crisp; uncut, in the original stiff blue wrappers, £200

First edition of this treatise on agriculture, by the noted agronomist and beekeeper, Formanoir de Palteau. Born in 1712, Formanoir was a member of the Société d’agriculture de Paris, and is best remembered for his 1756 treatise on apiculture, Nouvelle Construction de Ruches de Bois avec la façon d’y gouverner les Abeilles. The present series of observations are based upon his thirty years as a successful agronomist.

Querard III, p. 164; OCLC: 46210504 notes copies at the Hagley Museum, Kansas, the British Library, the BnF, Göttingen and Bayern.

109 FREISAUFF VON NEUDEGG, Felix. BESCHREIBUNG DES NEUEN PLANETARIUMS, zur Erleichterung und Beförderung des Elementar-Stu-diums der Welt- und Erdbeschreibung, ohne Voraussetzung mathema-tischer Vorkenntnisse, für Liebhaber dieser Wissenschaften bearbeitet. München und Stuttgart, J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung. Wien, bei J. B. Wallishausser. 1829.

8vo, pp. x, 78, of which three leaves are folding tables; with two folding engraved plates (one large), and one further folding plate printed in sepia on transparent tracing paper; some light foxing and dust-soiling, with some minor dampstaining affecting upper margins of last few leaves; in contemporary red paste-paper boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, head of upper joint split but holding firm, covers a little spotted and soiled, extremities lightly rubbed and worn, corners bumped; a good copy. £1,450

Rare first edition of this detailed description of a ‘new planetarium’ to aid the elementary instruction of astronomy and geography ‘without the need for previous mathematical knowledge’, and for the use of lovers of science. The design and invention of Felix Freisauff von Neudegg (1799- ca. 1854), a Lieutenant, and later Captain and instructor in mathematics and astronomy at the Pionniercorpsschule in Kornneuburg, and the private tutor of the sons of Archduke Karl of Austria.

The present work provides a description of the planetarium and on how best to use it, and is accompanied by three striking plates – the third of which is of particular note being printed on waxed transparent paper and highlighting three horizons at Copenhagen, Vienna and Naples. According to Freisauff two issues of the treatise were available for purchase – one with the plates, and one without which could be used in

conjunction with the planetarium itself.Freisauff was the author of an earlier elementary

work on Geography in 1827, and also an leading early exponent of the printing process ‘ektypography’ which he used in his work Ektypographischer Schul-Atlas für Blinde: nach der Erfindung desselben ausgeführt, in der k.k. priv. ektypographischen Anstalt (Vienna 1837). An early form of typographic etching the process however did not fall into general use. He also invented and described the ‘Luftcirculationsofen’, and in 1852 published Das fortschreitende Bewegungsprincip für Dampf- und Eisenbahn-Wagen, auf ebenen und geneigten Bahnen highlighting his prize-winning locomotive ‘Bavaria’.

OCLC: 164789102 records only one copy at Bayern; no other copies located.

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A chronology of human progress before the birth of Christ

G.S.G. 110 INVENTAIRE HISTORIQUE ET ANECDOTIQUE DES DE-COUVERTES et institutions religieuses, scientifiques, littéraires et in-dustrielles depuis le commencement du monde jusqu’à Jésus-Christ. Versailles: Beau Jne, Imprimeur-Éditeur ... 36 rue de l’Orangerie, 1856.

8vo, pp. viii, 320; foxed throughout with some marginal browning; in contemporary morocco backed marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, with red morocco label lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine lightly rubbed, spine a little scuffed with small repair at tail; a good copy. £285

Scarce first edition of this chronology charting the progress of the arts and sciences ‘depuis le commencement du monde jusqu’à Jésus-Christ’. Drawn largely from biblical and ancient authorities, the anonymous author provides a fascinating cornucopia of facts and figures, beginning his timeline at 4963 B.C., with the Garden of Eden and Adam as the first farmer, before progressing through the ancient civilisations to highlight a myriad of significant events and developments in human progress. He identifies 4700 B.C. as the year of the first antediluvian houses, as well as the first use of fire, as recorded in the Scriptures. The Tower of Babel in 2907 B.C was the date ‘gu’ont commencé les langes diverses qui se parlaient dans l’antiquité’ (p. 16), whilst the first mention of wine is noted in the year 1000 B.C. From the serious to the light-hearted, the work includes such information as the first use of canals (1750), early mentions of glass (1640), the manufacture of silk (1078), books (2005), punctuation (450), the development of geometry (450), the introduction of different calendar systems, as well as early references to cheese (2005), ‘prestidigitateurs’ (500), and even sausages (200), to name but a few! A wonderful compilation.

OCLC: 85900457 locates a 1990 reprint? at the University of Johannesburg.

The doctrine of scepticism developed – anticipating Hume

111 GLANVILL, Joseph. SCEPSIS SCIENTIFICA or, Confest Ignorance, the way to Science; in an Essay of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion. With a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius. London: Printed by E. Cotes, for Henry Eversden ... 1665.

Two parts in one volume, 4to; pp. [xxxii], 184, [xvi], 92, including the longitudinal half-title, but without the imprimatur and errata leaf; with engraved coat-of-arms at head of dedication; lightly browned throughout, most prominent around margins, with occasional neat pencil and ink markings and marginal annotations; in contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, extremities a little rubbed and bumped; a good copy. £975

Second extensively revised and recast edition of this important work on scientific method and probably Glanvill’s most important work, his The vanity of dogmatizing, of 1661. Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) was Chaplain to Charles II, prebendary of Worcester, philosopher, and one of the earliest fellows of the Royal Society. His philosophy of science (inspired by Cartesianism), expressed in The vanity of dogmatizing was attacked by the Catholic scholar-priest and Aristotelian Thomas White. The Scepsis scientifica reiterates Glanvill’s ideas and contains, in the second part, his reply to White, and earned Glanvill admission to the Royal Society as a valued apologist – ‘he argued


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that the new experimental philosophy was beneficial in practical terms, had already advanced knowledge beyond what antiquity could claim and would rapidly advance

it still further, and was harmless- indeed, it was helpful- to the cause of religion. In the process he produced one of the earliest histories, and one of the earliest philosophies, of science’ (DSB). He influenced the development of the doctrine of scepticism (or the open mind) as a method in thinking and is seen by many to have anticipated Hume’s theory of causation. ‘On the basis of his scepticism, empiricism, and his constructive theory of types of certitude, Glanvill provided one of the first rationales for the scientific work of the Royal Society. He espoused a view about the limitations of human knowledge and the bases for certitude which was developed in the Anglican theological tradition of William Chillingworth and Bishop Wilkins, and applied this to the “new science”. In so doing, he preceded Locke, Newton, and Hume in suggesting some of the major features of later empiricism and scepticism, though he probably did not influence any of them directly’ (Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, III p. 336).

Considering that many copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of London a good copy of a rare book. With the longitudinal half-title

that is often lacking, though without the imprimatur and errata leaf.

Neville I,527; Wheeler Gift Catalogue 147a; Wing G 827, 828; Osler 2736; Wellcome III, p. 120; Thorndike, VIII: 567–568; for a detailed analysis of Glanvill’s work and significance see Richard Popkin, The Development of the Philosophical Reputation of Joseph Glanvill in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr., 1954), pp. 305–311, one of several articles by Popkin on Glanvill; OCLC: 1078167.

112 [GOODRICH, Samuel]. PETER PARLEY’S VICTORIA GAME OF BRITISH SOVEREIGNS n.d., n.p, but probably Darton & Clark, ca. 1836.

Small 8vo, lithograph hand-coloured sheet 430mm x 462mm, dissected and mounted in 15 sections onto linen, each section 145mm x 94mm; somewhat foxed and browned with some edgewear; without rules (as with all copies so far traced); folded into hinged cloth covered boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, inner hinges and spine expertly repaired, boards a little soiled and frayed; still a good copy. £325

An uncommon and appealing Victorian educational game. ‘With the portrait of each monarch from William I to Victoria is given the date of their birth, began to reign, date of death and number of years reigned. Not dated, no publisher’s name, but probably by Darton & Clark, Holborn Hill, at a date later than 1836’ (Whitehouse, p. 26).

Played with counters and dice, players moved along the board from William to Victoria, providing snippets of information about the sovereigns upon whose square one had landed: the better ones’ knowledge, the faster one traversed the board! A copy located at Carisbrooke Castle Museum on the Isle of Wight, provides some further insight. A previous owner has marked in pencil some basic rules on the inside cover, and has added the letters G, F or B beside each monarch: apparently these letters stood for ‘good’, ‘fair’ and ‘bad’. If a player landed on a ‘good’ sovereign and supplied a historical fact, one could throw again – though the player would stay put if no fact was given. Landing on a fair sovereign resulted in either staying on the square, or going back three spaces if no information was provided. However, landing on a ‘bad’ sovereign was penalised by an automatic ‘go back 6’, reduced to only three if a fact was given. It was clearly a rather slow game – as according to the Carisbrooke copy the number of bad or fair sovereigns outweighed those considered to be good!

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A later issued located on-line seems to have the revised title: Amusement in English History. A game exhibiting the most remarkable events. A copy at the New Zealand public library also suggests Jarrold & Sons as the publisher.

Whitehouse, p. 26.

Inspired by Hartley and Condillac

113 GORINI, Guiseppe Corio. L’UOMO. Trattato fisico morale ... diviso in tre libri. In Lucca. [Presso A. R. ]. 1756.

Large 4to, pp. 480 [i.e 482]; with attractive additional engraved title-page, nine engraved head-piece vignettes, with numerous woodcut head and tail pieces and initials; in contemporary mottled calf, joints and head and tail of spine neatly repaired; a good copy. £550

Rare first edition of this attractively produced, yet controversial, philosophical and theological treatise by the philosopher, dramatist and religious reformer Marchese Guiseppe Gorini Corio (1685–1761). The work is divided into three sections which deal in turn with the nature and being of man, his passions, and his duties, and elegantly debates such matters as freedom of thought, immortality of the soul, atheism, the doctrine of ideas, idolatry, and temptation. Corio fell foul of the authorities in Rome through his espousal of sensationalist arguments and his criticism of religious superstition. His work of 1742 Politico, diritto e religione per ben pensare in which he expressed jurisdictionalist views, arguing for a clearer distinction between the state, the figure of the sovereign, and the church, angered the Catholic authorities and was placed on the Index. The present work, which seems inspired by both Condillac’s sensationalism, and David Hartley’s associationist psychology, had a similar fate and was placed on the Index in 1759. The work was translated in French in 1761 as L’Antropologie, Traité Metaphysique.

OCLC: 27482503 locates copies at Chicago, Berlin, Madrid, and Göttingen.

114 HAGEN, Karl Gottfried. COMMENTATIO BOTANICO DE RANUNCULIS PRUSSICIS Regiomonti [Königsberg], Impensis G. L. Hartung, 1784.

4to, pp. 41; some light foxing and soiling, p. 38 particularly soiled, otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary drab boards, remains of lettering at head of spine though rather rubbed, covers slightly stained and soiled, head and tail of spine, extremities and corners lightly bumped and worn; a good copy. £150

Rare first edition of this brief botanical treatise discussing the genus Ranunculus, by Karl Gottried Hagen (1749–1829). Hagen was born and studied in Königsberg, and subsequently became professor of medicine and physics there and was a noted pharmacologist. He was instrumental in the reform of the training of pharmacists and helped to establish the first experimental pharmaceutical-chemical laboratory at the University, in so doing firmly establishing scientific pharmacy in Germany. A close friend of Immanuel Kant, and son-in-law of the mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, he was the author of several works notably on chemistry, botany and pharmacology.


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115 HALLER, Alberti. OBSERVATIONES BOTANICAE Ex itinere in Sylvam Hercyniam anno MDCCXXXVIII suscepto. Gottingae, Sumtu Mich. Turpi-onis. [n.d. but also 1738?].

4to, pp. 70, [2], with three attractive folding engraved plates; uncut, disbound, some light furling and edgewear, and with evidence of early library accession numbers in ink. £200

Later issue, seemingly published in the same year (though dated by some as 1740) of this pre-Linnaean botanical thesis by Alberti Haller and discussing a number of observations made relating to mosses, seeds and plants in the forests of Hercynia. The dissertation was first presented by Haller in 1738 under the title Ex itinere in sylvam hercyniam hac aestate suscepto observationes botanicas Praeses Albertus Haller ... In Academia Georgia Augusta Et Respondens Fridericus Ludovicus Christianus Cropp Med. Cult. Ricklinga-Hannoveranus Ad D. [...] Octobr. MDCCXXXVIII, and is sometimes found listed under the name of the respondent Cropp. Most copies also refer only to one engraved plate, as opposed to the three found here.

OCLC: 56785189 locates a copy of this issue at Yale, with further copies found at Göttingen and Cornell, Lloyd, Missouri and Bayern (dated 1740).

116 HARTMANN, Johann Friedrich. DIE NATÜRLICHE LUFT-ELEKTRIC-ITÄT der atmosphäre. Tabellarisch entworfen. Hannover, gedruckt bey H. E. C. Schlüter. 1779.

8vo, pp. 40; with woodcut head- and tail-piece; title-page a little soiled and browned, cropped a little close along outer edge shaving a couple of letters but with no significant loss; in modern boards; a good copy. £200

Rare first edition, by the Hannovan amateur scientist Johann Friedrich Hartmann (d. 1800), of this brief and unusual ‘sketch’ presented in tabular form, introducing the principles of atmospheric electricity. An official at Hanover Hospital and member of numerous scientific societies, Hartmann was the author of numerous books and articles on electrical subjects. Mottelay cites three of his more noted works: Abhandlung von der verwandschaft (1759 and also discussing atmospheric electricity); Anmerkungen (1764), and his Electrische experimente of 1766, all of which, describe and illustrate ‘several very curious electrical experiments. One of the most interesting of these demonstrates the progressive motion of the electrical discharge’ (Mottelay, p. 216). In 1770 he published a contribution to the electrotherapeutic debate Die angewandte electricität bey krankheiten des menschlichen körpers, before publishing his more detailed Encyklopädie in 1784: indeed according to the foreward of the present work, this preparatory sketch was intended to be included in that work.

Poggendorff I, 1024–25; Mottelay, p. 216; Ronalds, p. 232; seemingly not in Wheeler Gift; OCLC: 15500697 locates copies at the Smithsonian and the American Philosophical Society.

117 HÉLÈNE, Maxime, pseudonym for Maxime VUILLAUME. LES NOUV-ELLES ROUTES DU GLOBE Bibliothèque de la Nature. Les travaux publics au XIXe siècle. Avec une Lettre de M. Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canaux Isth-miques et Routes Souterraines ... Avec 92 gravures dont quatre plances hors texte. Paris, G. Masson, Éditeur, Libraire de L’Académie de Médecine. [n.d. but 1882].

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Large 8vo, pp. viii, 318, [2]; with frontispiece, four large double page engraved plates, and numerous text illustrations; light foxing and soiling throughout, plates a little browned due to paper quality; uncut in contemporary cloth backed boards, with original printed wrappers mounted on covers, spine sunned with light rubbing at head and tail, covers a little soiled with some loss around extremities of mounted wrappers, small nick affecting outer margin of lower cover with evidence of crease, extremities bumped and a little worn, notably at corners; a good copy. £200

Surprisingly uncommon first edition of this de-tailed survey of contemporary civil engineering, by the noted engineer, journalist and radical Max-ime Vuillaume (1844–1925), writing under his pseud onym of Maxime Hèlène. This detailed and attractively illustrated work highlights a number of recent significant engineering projects, notably in relation to the construction of canals, and the tunnels, including the Suez and Panama canals, the Simplon and Mont-Blanc tunnels, as well as a discussion of Gamond’s early nineteenth century scheme to construct a Channel Tunnel from Dover to Calais.

Vuillaume was a socialist writer and one of the leading spirits of the Paris Commune of 1871. He was one of the three founders of the radical journal Le Pere Duschesne, and in his memoirs Les Cahiers Rouges provided an insight into the psychology of the revolutionists at the time. He subsequently wrote a number of technical works and contributed works not only to the present Bibliothèque de la Nature series, but also to Hachette’s series Bibliothèque des Merveilles, including La Pondre de canon et les nouveaux corps explosifs (1878). Indeed the present work concludes with a brief appendix on significant technical developments in large scale public works including the use of dynamite.

OCLC locates copies at Ottawa, Tulane, Harvard, the Library of Congress, Duke, Princeton, Montreal, the British Library and the New York Public Library.

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118 HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich. DER HIMMEL MIT SEINER WUNDERN UND DER KALENDAR MIT SEINER DEUTUNG. Für Leser aus allen Ständen, besonders für die wiszbegierige Jugend überaus faszlich und verständlich vorgetragen. Mit zwey Himmelskarten. Leipzig, In Kommission bey K.A. Hartleben in Pesth. 1813.

8vo, pp. [iv], 168, [4]; with two folding engraved plates, the first partially hand-coloured; with light foxing and soiling throughout, corners of final few leaves a little furled and worn, with last couple of corners torn, otherwise clean and fresh; uncut in original marbled wrappers, paper label on spine lettered in manuscript with later printed accession label also adhered at head (partially removed); joints slightly splitting and worn, though holding firm; a very good copy. £425

Second edition? of this attractive little text book of astronomy, particularly appealing in having one of the plates partially hand-coloured. Divided into two parts, chapters in the first part cover the sun, the planets and their satellites, comets, the fixed stars, and the influence of astronomy. The second part deals with calendars and is divided into three chapters. The attractive hand-coloured calendar depicts ‘Das system der sonne’, which the second plate is an appealing engraved star chart.

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An 1812 edition with a variant title and comprising 237 pages is located at Berlin and is also attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Hempel. It seems likely that this is a second edition, though we have been unable to compare the two works to verify this.

Not in Houzeau; OCLC: 34575560 locates two copies at the Adler and New York Public Library.

119 HOPPUS, Edward. PRACTICAL MEASURING MADE EASY To the meanest capacity, by a new set of tables; which upon a bare inspection, shew what is the solid or superficial content (and consequently the value) of any piece or quantity of timber, stone, board, glass, &c., used in building, &c., also, the solid content (and consequently the value) of all kinds of squared or round timber, whether it be standing or felled ... with a preface; shewing the convenience and excellence of this new method, and demonstrating that whoever ventures to rely upon obsolete tables and directions publish’d by Isaac Keay, is liable to be deceived (in common cases) 10 s. in the pound ... Calculated and re-examined from the press, by E. Hoppus, Surveyor to the Corporation of the London Assurance. The Second edition; to which is now added a very useful appendix, concerning the value of nails, locks, hinges &c. London, Printed and Sold by E. Wicksteed at the Black Swan in Newgate-street. 1738.

Narrow small 4to, pp. [iv], xxxix, [9] (including two advertisements on p. xxx and xl), 176; with one small folding leaf of plates; some light marginal soiling and browning throughout, with occasional minor ink stains, and small stain at gutter affecting gatherings K & L; in contemporary calf, tooled in blind, spine and extremities neatly repaired; a good copy. £225

Surprisingly scarce second edition of this extremely popular and practical mathe-matical guide for the use of builders and carpenters. Hoppus’ Practical Measuring Made Easy continued to be published for well over a century. The note of approbation on the verso of the title is signed by Hoppus himself, and a glowing testimonial by the mathematician Charles Leadbetter faces the title. Leadbetter (1695–1744) was an excise officer, who taught mathematics, astronomy and navigation in London and gained a considerable reputation by correctly predicting the solar eclipse of 1715. In 1717 he published A treatise on eclipses for 26 years. Agnes Clerke (in DSB) described him as one of the first commentators on Newton and says that his books were useful in their time.

ESTC t133665; OCLC: 13499514 cites four copies at UCLA, Harvard, Texas and Virginia Historical Society, with further copies on KVK at Oxford, the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

120 HÜBNER, Johann Gottfried. GEDANKEN VON VERBESSERUNG DER MAGNETNADELN bey der Boussole. Halle, verlegt von Carl Hermann Hemmerde. 1772.

8vo, pp. 30; with attractive woodcut title-page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, and one engraved plate (dampstained); light dampstain affecting gutter throughout, with occasional minor spotting, and final verso somewhat dust-soiled; in modern boards. £225

Uncommon first edition of this brief essay on magnetic declination by Hübner, discussing in particular his thoughts on the mariner’s compass or ‘boussole’. In

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addition to presenting his own thoughts on the matter, and including an engraved plate that depicts the magnetic needles, Hübner cites the work of numerous authors who had attempted to make improvements to the compass, including Penther, Boehm, and Smeaton.

Ronalds, p. 250; OCLC locates copies at Harvard, the Smithsonian and the American Philosophical Society.

121 KRAMP, Christian. ÉLÉMENS DE GÉOMETRIE Par C. Kramp, Profes-seur de Mathématiques et de Physique à l’Ecole de Cologne; ... A Cologne Iimprimé chez Th. F. Thiriart; et se vend chez Hansen, libraire. 1806.

8vo, pp. 16, 298; with six folding engraved plates printed on blue paper; signed by the book-dealer Jean Gaspar Hansen on the ‘avis’; some occasional light soiling and spotting, a few corners furled and creased, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary sprinkled paste-paper boards, red paper label lettered in gilt on spine, label slightly chipped, head and tail of spine, joints and extremities a little rubbed and worn; a very good copy. £375

Scarce first edition of this practical introduction to geometry by Christian Kramp (1760–1826), professor of mathematics and dean of the Faculty of Science at Strasbourg, and one of his introductory works in pure mathematics. Kramp wrote a series of notable works on astronomy, aerostatics, crystallography, and mathematics, and may be ‘con-sidered to be one of the representatives of the combinatorial school, which played an important role in German mathematics. Kramp developed a method that synthesises the fundamental principles of the calculus of variations as stated by Arbogast with the basic procedures of combinatorial analysis. He thus strove to create an intimate union of differential calculus and ordinary algebra, as had Lagrange in his last work ‘ (DSB).

Poggendorff I, 1313.

Including 134 leather samples

122 LAMB, Morris Charles. LEATHER DRESSING. Including dyeing, stain-ing, & finishing. London: Published by the Leather Trade Publishing Com-pany, 207A Borough High Street, S.E. [1907].

8vo, pp. [ii] title-page, xvi, 438, [24] advertisements (including one folding leaf ); with half-tone frontispiece and two further half-tone plates, numerous text illustrations, half-tones and diagrams (some full page), 15 pages within text with mounted leather samples (57 in all), each page with tissue guard, and with 13 plates on 11 leaves at end of work with a further 77 mounted samples of leather; in all 134 samples; some light marginal browning, tissue guards within text leaving leading to faint browning of opposite leaf, rear plate leaves are on thicker card, with some light browning and soiling, and some minor edgewear; samples all fresh and clean; in the original red publisher’s cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine bumped and lightly worn, spine and covers lightly sunned; overall a very good, fresh copy. £400

First edition in book form, originally issued in parts from 1905, of this detailed introduction to leather work for the use of manufacturers, workmen and students, and the work of Morris Lamb (1877–1940), director of the Leather Dyeing Department at the Herold’s Institute in Bermondsey, and a technical and consulting chemist to the leather trades.

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‘The book now presented is the first in which the subject of leather dyeing, staining, and finishing, is altogether discreted from that of the preparatory processes of tanning, and treated as a speciality. Very thoughtful attention has been given by the author during the past decade to the application of scientific principles to the colouring of leather, with the view of brining a craft that was until quite recently, a ‘rule of thumb’ industry into line with present day ideas. As the work has appeared in parts, of which that today issued is the last, the author is in the somewhat unique position of writing a preface to a book now in the main already published, and moreover already commented upon by the Trade Press. The comments of both the press and of friends in the trade have been numerous and very flattering; these comments, together with the remarkable sale of the work has been favoured with, have been most encouraging’ (preface).

The numerous samples mounted within the text are all present, and are bright and fresh. The samples mounted on card at the rear have been supplied from a number of specialist dying firms including ‘Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst on Main’ (4 on 2 leaves); The Bayer Company Limited of Elberfeld (2 leaves); The Badische Company of London, Manchester and Glasgow (2 leaves); Leopold Cassella & Co., of Frankfurt and Main (2 leaves); The Berlin Aniline Co., (1 leaf ); The Society of Chemical Industry in Basle (1 leaf ); and ‘Chemische Fabriken vorm. Weiler-ter Meer’ in Ürdingen-on-Rhine (1 leaf ). A second expanded edition of the work appeared in 1909. From the very nature of the publication, and certainly in the case of the second edition, it would appear that the number of examples included at the end of the work varied from copy to copy, presumably dependant upon the availability of samples provided by the suppliers.

Lamb studied originally at Leeds University. The Herold’s Institute subsequently developed into the Leathersellers’ Technical College, of which Lamb eventually became Principal in 1927, a post that he held until 1936. He was well respected within the profession, and was renowned for his practical and technical knowledge.

123 [LARGE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE METRIC SYSTEM]. SISTEMA MET-RICO DECIMALE Diposto per cura del Prof. E. Sergent. Milano, Antonio Vallardi, Editore, Via S. Margherita No. 9, 1864.

Four large hand-coloured steel-engraved plates, 580 x 800mm, mounted separately and each in protective mylar, occasional minor marginal tears, with evidence of some creasing and previous vertical folds, else fine. £975

A fine and most appealing example of this impressive large-scale introduction to the metric system, designed for teaching purposes. The four large broadsides illustrated in bold, bright colours, were meant to be mounted together, and vividly display the use and form of metric measures, including linear, area, weight, volume and cubic measures. A number of scientific instruments are also illustrated including thermometers, barometers, and gas measures, etc., with a useful conversion table for local weights and measures.

This striking educational tool is similar in style to James Reynolds’ series of Large Illustrations of Science (see item below 152), published during the 1860s–70s, and which disseminated the basic principles of such disciplines as geometry and hydrostatics.

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‘The most beautiful and complete of all the editions’

124 LEMERY, Nicolas. COURS DE CHYMIE contenant la manière de faire les opérations qui sont en usage dans la Médecine, par une Méthode facile. Avec des raisonnemens sur chaque opération, pour l’instruction de ceux qui veulent s’appliquer à cette Science. Nouvelle édition ... A Paris, Chez Charles-Maurice d’Houry, pere, Imprimeur-Libraire de Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans, rue de la vieille Bouclerie. 1756.

4to, pp. [vi], xxiv, 945, [1], blank; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, attractive engraved vignette by B. Audran after David Teniers the younger at head of p. 1, seven folding engraved plates of chemical apparatus, and two engraved tables of chemical symbols; some light foxing and soiling throughout, foxing more noticeable in a couple of gatherings, otherwise clean and crisp; an attractive wide-margined copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, attractively tooled in gilt, all edges red, head and tail of spine and raised bands rubbed and lightly worn, small worm hole affecting lower edge of rear cover, covers lightly scuffed, extremities rubbed and a little worn. £875

The attractive penultimate edition, and the first in quarto, of prob ably the most celebrated chemical treatise of its day. The present edition was ‘edited and greatly enlarged by Theodore Baron d’Henouville (1715–1768), “who added many notes in an effort to update it in conformity with current phlogistic theory” (D.S.B.). Some copies omit J.-T. Herissant and instead have the name Charles Maurice d’Houry père in the imprint ... while other copies have Laurent-Charles d’Houry fils. The present is by far the most beautiful and complete of all the editions of Lemery’s Cours. The second and final edition edited by Baron was published the following year (1757) by Laurent-Charles d’Houry in quarto format but in smaller type and with different pagination’ (Neville II, p. 41).

‘Lemery (1645–1715) was one of the most interesting men of his time. The pupil of an apothecary, he condemned the alchemistic mysteries which still cluttered chemistry up and enjoyed teaching it in a simple way and illustrated by experiments in his own rooms. His lectures were crowded and audiences included many ladies. In 1699 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences, and having been converted from Calvinism to Catholicism he was appointed to deliver lectures on chemistry to working people at that institution … Lemery was largely responsible for the love of chemical experiment which was so distinctive a character of the XVIII century’ (Duveen p. 347). The work enjoyed unprecedented success and went through many editions in French, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Latin, etc. The early editions of Lemery’s textbook were sold by him from his house in Paris and tend to be very rare. ‘He was careful to revise, correct, and update at least eleven editions himself, the last appearing in 1716. Posthumous editions were published until 1756, each keeping current with new material’ (Neville II, p. 39).

The beautiful copper engraved vignette at the head of p. 1 depicts a chemist in his laboratory, and is reproduced by Neville. According to Cole, the original painting is in a private collection in Scotland.


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Bolton 614; Cole 802 (which cites a frontispiece portrait not mentioned by Duveen, Ferguson or Neville); Dorbon 2600; D.S.B., VIII, pp. 172–75; Duveen, p. 349; Ferchl 307; Ferguson II, 22; Neville II, p. 41 for this edition; Partington, III, p. 30; Wellcome III, 486.

125 LEWIS, William. COMMERCIUM PHILOSOPHICO-TECHNICUM; or, the Philosophical Commerce of Arts: designed as an attempt to improve Arts, Trades, and Manufactures. London, Printed by H. Baldwin, for the Author; and Sold by R. Willock ... 1763–1765.

Large 4to, pp. [ii] priviledge on verso beginning ‘George R’ dated the Eighth day of February 1762 and signed Egremont, [ii] title-page dated 1763 and with no ‘Vol I’, [ii] Dedication ‘To the King’, xviii (preface), x (contents), 646, [14] index; with large double-page engraved frontispiece (neatly remounted) and five engraved plates (numbered 1–4, the first unnumbered and with small abrasion touching part of image); some light browning and occasional soiling and smudges throughout, a few gatherings a little more prominently browned, lower outer corner of p. 301 torn with loss (but not of text); a nice wide-margined copy, in full marbled calf, later quite sympathetically rebacked preserving the original red morocco label, spine ruled in gilt, extremities slightly scuffed, corners bumped and worn; from the Library of Rupert and Marie Boas Hall. £1,750

First edition, second issue (though retaining the original title-page) of this classic treatise on applied chemistry and metallurgy. The work marked a breakthrough in the approach both to research chemistry and to its application. Until Lewis, chemistry was barely considered a discipline in its own right: Lewis’ approach changed this and he here explains the difference between physics and chemistry, pointing out the importance of both. The first part of the work is devoted to ‘a detailed description of the laboratory of an experimental chemist’ – a depiction of which is found in the spectacular frontispiece.

The Philosophical Commerce of Arts was also especially influential in the worlds of technology and the arts. Lewis covered numerous areas of interest to the manufacturer and artist, and his exhaustive account of the physics and chemistry of gold and of its use appealed in particular to those who worked with metal in numerous trades, at a time when the vogue for black and gilt ornament and decoration was at its height. His discussion included a wide variety of topics: black lead and the similarity of its behaviour to that of charcoal; the manufacture of pencils; the use of anacardium as marking ink; experiments with the juice of the Japanese laquer-tree; black metallic calxes; black paints, stains and varnishes; a composition for sheep-marking to avoid waste resulting from the common use of pitch and tar; preservatives for ships; and the manufacture and varnishing of papier maché goods. The final section of the book consists of a complete account of all the work that had been done on platina up to that time.’ The proved popular and was still being sold in 1789, as well as being translated into both French and German.

The marvellous frontispiece depicting an ideal experimental laboratory – the first designed specifically for research in applied physics and chemistry – is closely based on Lewis’ own laboratory at Kingston. The chemical apparatus is shown on the left and centre, and the mechanical and physical instruments to the right. Lewis had developed small furnaces for experimental work and these are shown in both the frontispiece and the plates. The Society of Arts was so impressed with Lewis’ laboratory that on August 3rd 1763 a resolution was passed to duplicate it.

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parts were issued in 1763, and the rest in 1765. The first part was issued with a title date of 1763 and with no mention of volume number on the title. When the final parts were published in 1765 another title, this time described as Volume I (Lewis intending a second volume which never materialised) was published, together with the Preface, additional Contents leaves and an Index. The failure to produce a second volume perhaps explains, as here, the decision to retain the earlier 1763 title, and not including the 1765 title-page. As Cole notes, a number of variants exist, and the work is sometimes found in two volumes.

Cole 822; Duveen p. 355 (noting only four plates); Ferguson II p. 30; Kress 6114; Neville II, p. 60; Partington II p. 762; Wellcome III, p. 512; see F.W. Gibbs’ article William Lewis ... pp. 122–151, Volume 8, of the Annals of Science, 1952 for a full analysis of the book, and discussion of Lewis’ life and work.

126 LLOYD, John. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE OLD SOUTH WALES IRON WORKS (1760 to 1840). From Original documents. London: Printed by the Bedford Press, 20 & 21, Bedfordbury, W.C. 1906.

Folio, pp. viii, 218; with errata note tipped in; with 29 black and white photographs and facsimiles (some partially coloured), and one large folding linen-backed map; some occasional light foxing; in contemporary red half morocco, spine tooled in gilt with green morocco label, corners a little bumped and worn; a good copy. £275

An attractive and surprisingly uncommon first edition of this historical survey of the iron industry in South Wales, copiously illustrated. The work is based upon documents acquired over many years by the legal firm of Walter & Powell in Brecon, who had been employed by several of the chief iron masters in the area. The firm eventually closed and the papers lay hidden, eventually coming to light and used as a basis by Lloyd for his history.

‘Whether the play is worth the candle is another matter. I think it has been, because the introduction of a great chain of Iron Works into South Wales in barely more than a generation, and their rapid development to a great height of prosperity, and subsequently their equally sudden decadence, is too important a factor in South Wales history, and in the history of our country, to be ignored’ (preface).

127 [MATHEMATICAL BROADSIDE]. BEDIGIS FILS. ELEMENTS D’ARITH-METIQUE POUR LES COMMENCANTS. Où se trouvent le nom des Chif-fres, les Chiffres Arabes, les Chiffres Romains, les Chiffres Français, ce que vaut le Zéro, la Table de Numération, l’Addition, la Soustraction, la Multiplication, la Division et une Table de Multiplication, avec leurs Expli-cations. A Paris chez les Srs Mondhare et Jean, rue St Jean de Beauvais pres celle des noyers. Bedigis fils, fécit. Coulubrier Sculpsit. 1785.

Engraved broadside, image 366 x 247mm; plate mark 378 x 255mm; sheet size 533 x 410mm; title at head, table divided into 11 sections including striking pyramidal representation of the multiplication table; untrimmed, a good strong impression, with two small worm holes along central vertical fold, and very small hole in central cross-section fold but with no significant loss of image, some faint marginal spotting and soiling, with three small marginal tears. £975


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A large and striking wall chart outlining the elementary principles of arithmetic spec-ifically for the use of tradesmen, designed by the Parisian firm Bedigis fils and engraved

by Coulubrier. This fine and typographically appealing engraving intro duces the user to Arabic, Roman and French numerals, the properties of zero, and tables outlining the principles of addition, subtraction, division, and most strikingly for multiplication – which takes the form of a pyramidal table in the centre of the broadside.

It seems probable that this is a collaboration between François Nicholas Bédigis (b. 1738? or 1758 – ca 1800) and the engraver Remi-Claude Coulubrier. Bedigis was a member of the Académie d’écriture of Paris, and is best known for his two works on the art of writing and penmanship L’Art d’écrire démontré par des principes approfondis et développés dans toute leur étendue, and Démonstrations de l’art d’écrire –

both making prominent use of engraving, and the later also printed by Mondhare.

For more details of his calligraphic works see Becker, The Practice of Letters, item 154 p. 84.

128 MEINECKE, Johann Ludwig Georg. LEHRBUCH DER MINERALOGIE mit Beziehung auf Technologie und Geographie. Für Schulen und den Pri-vatunterricht Halle, bey Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1808.

8vo, pp. xiv, 218; some light foxing and spotting due to paper quality, one gathering a little creased; with numerous contemporary marginal annotations in pencil; in contemporary green paste-paper boards, with red paper label lettered in gilt on spine, covers soiled, joints and extremities rubbed and worn with some loss of paper. £285

First edition of this rare introduction to mineralogy for schools and private institutions, designed to give students an understanding of the chemical and technical underpinnings of the subject, written by Johann Meinecke (1781–1823), professor of chemistry at Halle and the author of a number of similar educational scientific works discussing chemistry, botany, physics and mathematics.

A second edition was published in 1824, with the addition of four folding plates.

Poggendorff II, 103; not in Cole; OCLC record only two European locations at Amsterdam and Strasbourg.

For the use of horse lovers, officers, and travellers

129 MEYER, Gottlob. DIE KUNST, ohne alle Anleitung regelmäßig reiten zu lernen und seine Pferde selbst zu heilen. Ein nothwendiges hülfsbuch für Pferdeliebhaber, Oekonomen, Officiere und Reisende; Mit kupfern. Zweyte ganz umgearbeitete Auflage. Erfurt, in der Henningschen Buch-handlung. 1808.

8vo, pp. 78; with four attractive folding engraved plates; some very light occasional spotting and browning, otherwise clean and crisp; in modern boards. £325

Scarce second edition of this attractively illustrated hippological treatise on the art of riding and care of horses by Gottlob Meyer, and intended for the use of ‘horse lovers, economists, Officers and travelers’. The work was first published in 1803. The first edition comprised 114 pages: Kiel University erroneously use the same pagination for the present edition, though a review of the work in the April 1810 Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung Vol IV, 326 confirms that there should only be 78pp for this edition.

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Huth, Works on horses and equitation, p. 71; OCLC locates only two copies of the first 1803 edition, both at Jena and the Danish National Library, with a copy of the present edition at Kiel.

130 MICHAUD, Louis. LA CHIMIE DES DAMES ou cours de chimie élémen-taire appliquée aux usages domestiques, comprenant l’etude des princi-pales matières employées dans l’economie domestique, leur origine, leur préparation, leurs propriétés et leur usages. Des falsifications et moyens de les reconnaitre. Conservation des aliments. matières vénéneuses, avec figures explicatives. Gèneve, Chez les principaux Libraires. 1851.

8vo, pp. 483, [1]; with one folding engraved plate; some light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and fresh; in contemporary green quarter morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little rubbed and worn; £325

First edition of this surprisingly uncommon work on chemistry written specifically for the use of women. Michaud addresses the basic principles of chemistry as applied to domestic economy, and includes recommendations concerning the storage and conservation of food stuffs, and the recognition of poisonous substances etc.

In 1853 Michaud published Histoire complete des Telegraphes which is acknowledged as an early history of the subject.

Duveen 402; Bolton I, 669; not in Neville; OCLC locates copies at Wisconsin, Berlin and the Swiss National Library only.

131 MIDDLETON, James. A CELESTIAL ATLAS containing Maps of all the Constellations visible in Great Britain, with corresponding Blank Maps of the Stars, systematically arranged for communicating a practical knowl-edge of the Heavens. London, Whittaker and Co., Norwich, Jarrold and Sons. [1842.]

Oblong folio, pp. vi (including engraved title); with five hand-coloured engraved plates and five corresponding star maps (white on black); title-page foxed with prominent dampstain along inner gutter and fainter staining along fore-edge; first two star maps quite prominently browned with marginal dampstain affecting along fore-edge, with some occasional soiling and some slight offsetting; in the original marbled boards, neatly rebacked and recornered, with red morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover; a good copy of a scarce work. £1,500

First edition, and a hand-coloured copy, of this rare and extremely attractive celestial atlas. All the constellations visible in Great Britain are depicted, with corresponding blank maps of the stars. This atlas, described by Brown as ”beautifully coloured” was reduced in 1846 for use in schools: ‘Favourable notices appeared in the leading periodicals of the day, and several of the chief astronomers expressed their approbation of these maps ... even today [1932] Middleton’s work is not common’ (p. 69). Middleton was a teacher of astronomy with a particular expertise with globes.

See Brown, Astronomical Atlases p. 68–9; NSTC 2M26960.

132 [MINING SAFETY – THE HERMON PRIZE ESSAYS]. CRESWICK , Wil-liam and William GALLOWAY, and William HOPTON. ESSAYS ON THE PREVENTION OF EXPLOSIONS AND ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES, to

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which were awarded the first and second prizes given by Edward Hermon, esq., M.P., Preston. Essay I. By Wilfred Creswick, of Sheffield. Essay II. By William Galloway, of London. Essay III. By William Hopton, of St. Helens. London: W.M. Hutchings, 5, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C., 1874.

8vo, pp. iv, 79, [4], including a four page publisher’s list at end (books on mining); with several text illustrations and nine large folding plates or plans (some partially hand-coloured); some light spotting and marginal dust-soiling (most prominent to margins of publisher’s list); bound in the original blue cloth gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt, spine lightly faded, head and tail of spine a little chipped and worn, with some soiling and light wear to surfaces and extremities; contemporary ownership signature of ‘Frederick Hardwick, Eckington Colleries, Chesterfield’ at head of title and on front fly-leaf; a good copy. £285

This treatise contains the three winning essays submitted for a competition to discuss issues of mining safety, to be competed for by ‘practical miners in the coalfields of Lancashire and Yorkshire’. The donor, Edward Hermon, was M.P. for Preston, and the prizes were substantial, £150 being set aside for the winning essay. In the event the two essays by Creswick and Galloway were deemed to be of equal merit and were awarded joint first prize (£100 each) and that by Hopton was awarded £50. Various types of mines are illustrated in the numerous folding plans.

OCLC: 4927197.

The original author’s proof of her scarce mnemonical history of England

133 [MNEMONICS]. [SAINT-OUEN Laure Boen de]. NOUVELLE MNÉMO-NIQUE APPLIQUÉE à L’HISTOIRE D’ANGLETERRE. Pour faire suite à l’histoire de France d’après la même méthode. Par Mme ***. [n.p., n.d. but probably ca. 1823–1824].

Neat and legible manuscript in a single hand, 8vo, pp. [xviii], 24, [vi], [ii] plate, [27]–534, 536–561, [6] nos 464–468; with 52 exquisitely hand-drawn ink and wash plates containing 104 original drawings; some light foxing, soiling and some ink staining throughout, with prominent ink? stain affecting outer margins of pp. 93–111, and damp-stain affecting upper margins between pp. 225–300 and from pp. 486 to the end; with further neat corrections in pencil throughout in the same hand; in contemporary full red diced morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, head of spine a little bumped, covers a little stained and soiled with some light scuffing, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped with minor wear; still a most attractive copy. £3,250

A unique and most attractive manuscript proof copy of this rare mnemonical and historical work on the Kings and Queens of England, by the noted nineteenth century French pedagogue Laure Boen de Saint-Ouen (1799–1838), including 52 elegantly hand-drawn plates in pen and ink and which provides a new and effective method of teaching history.

Though here titled Nouvelle mnémonique, it seems probable that the present manu-script eventually came to be published as Tome I of a proposed series of works under the title Tableaux historiques des peuples modernes européans, composés de médallions, etc, accompagné d’un text explicatif (Paris, 1825). This work had the half-title of Histoire d’Angleterre, with a second edition published in the year of her death under the title Tableaux mnémoniques de l’histoire d’Angleterre (1838). Saint-Ouen had first revealed this novel and eye-catching

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mnemonical method in 1822 in her Tableaux mnémoniques de l’histoire de France in 1822, and the success and positive reception of the work had prompted her to embark on a series of similar formats covering the nations and people of Europe: in addition to the history on England, the authoress planned to publish similar works discussing Germany, Russia and Spain.

Providing a history of England from Egbert in 800 and concluding with the reign of George II in 1727, the manuscript spanning almost 600 pages contains 104 original drawings done with ink and wash, comprising 52 portraits and mnemonical 52 med allions. As these vividly demonstrate, hers was very much a pictorial system: for each reign Saint-Ouen includes a portrait of the monarch, with the medallion below including several small emblems designed to represent a significant event: for example a small chariot signifies a victory in battle, whilst an upside down chariot depicts a loss in battle. A sword represents an assassination (as in the case of Edward II on p. 165), in contrast to an hourglass signifying a natural death (see Elizabeth I opposite p. 272). The date to remember is found beneath the relevant emblem – for example the invasion of the Spanish Armada is attractively illustrated by two galleons off the coast of England and dated 1596. The manuscript notes then provide brief description of the reign. We have been able to locate only one copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and so have been unable to compare the final published result: it is uncertain therefore whether these are merely provisional notes – or whether they form the actual text. The numerous corrections in pencil throughout suggest that this may be close to the final version.

This method – described by contemporary reviewers as being ‘well-conceived and well executed’ was used subsequently by Saint-Ouen in her work of 1837 Histoire Ancienne Mnémonique, and which also included a number of exercises and questions to test the student. Her intended series of European histories seems to have been curtailed by her untimely death. Through the present work, however, together her other popular and oft-reprinted historical works, notably her History of France (1827) Saint-Ouen helped to revolutionise the way that history was taught in French elementary schools, and was a leading educationalist.

See Querard, VI p. 285; see also the website of the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique for biographical information and a list of her works.

134 MUNERELLE. LES PHENOMENES ET LES CURIOSITES DE LA NATURE. Texte par Munerelle. Dessins par Lemaitre. Strasbourg, Derivaux, Libraire, Rue de Hallebardes 24; Paris, Mme Arthus-Bertrand ... Martinon, Libraire ... 1856.

Large 4to, pp. [84]; text printed in blue throughout; with lithographed aquatint printed in sepia on title depicting an erupting volcano and 37 full-page colour-printed lithographed plates, finished by hand and glazed, all depicting natural phenomena, each plate interleaved with blank guard; Clair du Lune plate with childish pencil scribbles along outer margin; text and plate lightly foxed throughout; in contemporary plain red morocco backed publisher’s cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, moired silk paste-downs, head and tail of spine rubbed and light worn, extremities and corners bumped and slightly worn; a good copy. £975

A scarce and exquisite chromolithographic book intended for children, described on the half-title as an ‘Album de la Jeunesse Studieuse’. Perhaps inspired by the works of James Reynolds in London, and indeed the SPCK publication of Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenonema (see below), the subject matter of the plates is dramatic depicting

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several natural wonders of the world. The text is printed entirely in blue ink, and all the plates are protected by a leaf of thicker paper. The plates are signed by the Strasbourg lithographer E. Lemaitre. Amongst the phenomena depicted are earthquakes, ty-phoons, avalanches, volcanoes, tidal waves, with other natural curiosities illustrated such as the glacial source of the Rhine, Fingal’s Cave, the Nile River, Niagara Falls, Mount Vesuvius, an avalanche in the Alps and the Aurora Borealis, whilst the gold discoveries of 1848 in California are also depicted.

As with the SPCK publication, it would appear that the work was originally issued in parts of one plate and one leaf of text, each text leaf having a colophon with the printers address, G. Silbermann, Strasbourg. It would appear that the purchaser would also have a further choice as to binding: the present example, though with attractive moired silk paste-down and gilt edges is bound in plain morocco backed cloth. A more ornately decorated ‘romantic’ binding with covers lettered and decorated in gilt was available for purchase. Such a finely produced publication, even if originally issued in parts to widen its appeal, would, nevertheless, presumably have only been the preserve of a more exclusive and affluent audience.

Gumuchian 4546; OCLC: 32355151 locates copies at Berkeley, Princeton, Cambridge, the BnF and Lyon.

135 [NATURAL PHENOMENA]. THIRTY PLATES ILLUSTRATIVE OF NATU-RAL PHENOMENA, Etc With a short description annexed to each plate. Published under the direction of the committee of general literature and education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; Sold at the depository, 77, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and 4, Roy-al Exchange; and by all booksellers. 1849.

Large 4to, with thirty hand-coloured plates; outer margin of title-page a little chipped and worn, some occasional light foxing and dust-soiling throughout; in the original brown blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked in calf, inner hinges cracked but holding, extremities lightly bumped, corners worn and bumped with signs of attempted restoration; contemporary inscription on final free endpaper; an attractive copy. £775

Second collected edition (first 1846) of this most striking educational work published by the SPCK and reminiscent of the popular works of science published by James Reynolds. The beautifully engraved plates, signed by ‘Whimper’ and each with their own imprint, were available for individual purchase either hand-coloured as here (at 2d), or plain at 3/4d, and depict a variety of natural phenomena including ‘The Rainbow’, ‘Glaciers’, ‘Fingal’s Cave’, ‘Niagra Falls’, ‘Avalanches’, ‘Torrents of Mud’, ‘Sandstorms’ and ‘Volcanoes’. The work was later published in a revised smaller 8vo format in 1852.

OCLC: 19997884 locates copies at Toronto, UCLC, the Smithsonian, Harvard, University of South Carolina, and the V&A.

136 NEWTON, Isaac. COMMEMORATIVE OVAL BRONZE PLAQUETTE Bust facing right against stippled background, perhaps after James Roëttiers, reverse blank, undated and unsigned, seemingly late 18th century.

Oval cast cast bronze plaquette, 59mm x 48mm, light patination and discolouration; extremely fine. £675

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A rare and appealing oval bronze plaquette. Few surpassed Isaac Newton in the number of times they commissioned portraits of themselves, and the numerous engravings, paintings, and medallions helped to make Newton a cultural icon. Though the image on the present plaquette resembles the 1726 medallion by the distinguished medallist John Croker (1670–1741), this seems to be closer to that struck by James Roettiers. The Roëttiers were a Flemish family of medallists, engravers and goldsmiths, active in France and England during the eighteenth century. James or Jacques de la Tour Roettiers (1707–1784), the son of Norbert Roettiers, was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the suburbs of Paris. After spending some time in Rome, he moved to London in 1732, where he was appointed engraver to the Royal Mint, London. He later moved back to France where he became the goldsmith to Louis XV and was elected to membership of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, largely on the basis of his portrait medals of John Locke and Isaac Newton, which he had formally executed in England. His medal of Newton in 1739 was executed by order and at the expense of Mr Thomas Hammond, and only a few were struck off as presents to his friends and to admirers of Newton.

137 [NEWTON]. DECORE, Godefridus Antonius. ARITHMETICA UNIVER-SALIS SUMMI NEWTONI Contracta, Illustrata & Locupletata. Præeunte. Logica Analitica. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Apud Conrelium de Pect-er. MDCCLXI [1761].

8vo, pp. [viii], 212, with woodcut printer’s device and woodcut initials, and six folding engraved plates; plates somewhat foxed and browned with upper margins of plates III and V cut close and slightly shaved, occasional light foxing and browning throughout text but generally clean, a couple of gutters exposed; with library markings on title-page and two library stamps on verso of title; in contemporary paste-paper boards, neatly rebacked with new morocco label. £385

Uncommon first edition of this lesser known abridgement of, and commentary upon, Newton’s Arithmetica Universalis (1707), by Godefridus Decoré.

Originally published and edited by William Whiston, with Newton’s reluctant permission, the Arithmetica Universalis was based upon a series of lectures on algebra giving by Newton as Lucasian Professor. More than a mere introduction to the subject, Newton elucidates a number of new theorems on various points in algebra and the theory of equations. The first edition appeared without Newton’s name on the title-page, though no attempt was made to hide the author’s identity within the text. ‘Despite Newton’s somewhat churlish attitude to his own work ... the Arithmetica universalis proved to be one of the more popular of Newton’s books’ (Gjertson, p. 35). S’Gravesande edited an edition in Leiden in 1732, with Babson also listing a two volume edition by Castillioni in the same year as the present work.

Haan 1118; Gray 282; Rider, p. 104; Wallis 282; not in Babson.

138 [NEWTON]. DES MAIZEAUX, Pierre, editor. RECUEIL DE DIVERSES PIECES, sur la philosophie, la religion naturelle, l’histoire, les mathema-tiques, etc. Par Mrs. Leibniz, Clarke, Newton, et autres autheurs célèbres. Seconde edition, revue, corrigée, et augmentée. Tome I [-II]. A Amster-dam, Chez François Changuion. 1740.

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blank; [ii] frontispiece portrait, [ii] title-page, 550, [iv] contents and errata (usually found at the beginning); title-pages in red and black each with attractive engraved vignette, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and with a couple of woodcut illustrations; some occasional light spotting and soiling, but otherwise clean and crisp; an appealing copy in contemporary full calf, spines tooled in gilt with morocco labels, label of vol I chipped and worn with some further wear along spine, head and tail of spine of vol II chipped and nicked with small loss. £685

Second edition (first 1720) of this noted Newtonian item. ‘Des Maizeaux, a Huguenot, fled with his family from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. After studying theology in Geneva ... des Maizeaux settled in England in 1699. He remained in England for the rest of his life, working as a writer, publisher and businessman ... The first volume was innocuous enough, consisting mainly of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence already published. The second volume, however, contained several of the letters between Leibniz, Conti, Chamberlayne and Newton. Although some of the correspondence had been published in Raphson and elsewhere, other letters were being published for the first time’ (Gjertson p. 174). Amongst material appearing for the first time was the correspondence of Leibniz and A.S. Conti on the dispute over the invention of the calculus as well as Newton’s remarks on Leibniz’s letter to Conti (first published by Raphson in 1717), and Leibniz’s reply. The work also served to initiate the final round of the long-standing priority dispute on the subject with Bernoulli.

Babson 233 (third edition); Gjertsen, p. 174; see Gray 380; Wallis 380.02.

139 [NEWTON]. FELLER, Abbe Francois Xaxier de. OBSERVATIONS PHILO-SOPHIQUES SUR LES SYSTÊMES DE NEWTON, DE COPERNIC, DE LA PLURALITÉ DES MONDES, &c. Précédées d’une Dissertation Théologique sur les tremblements det terre, les orages, &c. Ouvrage utile à ceux qui veulent se précautionner contre le ton de la Philosophie modern. A Liege, Chez J. F. Bassompiere, Imprimeur ... MDCCLXXI [1771].

12mo, pp. [ii], 180, [2]; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials; half-title a little dust-soiled, occasional light spotting and foxing throughout; an appealing copy in nineteenth century calf-backed marbled boards, orange label on spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, extremities lightly bumped. £525

Scarce first edition, anonymously published, of this appealing series of philosophical ‘conversations’ and observations by the Jesuit author and apologist Francois Xavier de Feller (1735–1802). Beginning with a theological ‘dissertation’ (pp. 3–34) on the nature and true causes of earthquakes and storms, written in a conversational form between a philosopher and theologian. A series of five imaginary conversations then follow, between firstly Newton and Huet (Conversations I & II), then Cardinal Bellarmino and Galilleo (III), and finally Kircher and Huygens (IV & V). These introduce the reader to the theories of Newton, Copernicus and the plurality of worlds respectively, and on the merits of new versus old science.

A noted philosopher and professor of rhetoric and theology, Feller displayed a natural aptitude for mathematics and the physical sciences, as displayed in the present work – one of some 120 publications on a diverse range of subjects. At the time of publication, Feller was still a Jesuit based in Liege: the order was suppressed only two years later, though he remained in Liege continuing to write and preach. Feller prided himself on presenting balanced and philosophical discussions, though all of his works naturally attest to his allegiance to the Catholic faith and Jesuit Order.

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Feller’s principal work, which first appeared under the pen-name ‘Flexierde Reval’, was published in the following year, Catéchisme philosophique ou recueil d’observations propres à défendre la religion chrétienne contre ses ennemis. The second edition of the present work was published using the same pseudonym in 1778.

Gray, 74; Poggendorff I 732; Wallis 74; Querard III, p. 87; Sommervogel 615; OCLC records two copies only at the Burndy Library and Stanford.

140 [NEWTON]. [FRISI, Paolo]. ELOGIO DEL CAVALIERE ISACCO NEW-TON. [Milan, n.p, n.d. but 1778].

8vo, pp. 132; a little foxed and soiled throughout, a couple of gatherings more prominently browned; cords exposed in a couple of places, but holding; uncut in contemporary blue marbled paper-back wrappers, spine with considerable loss of paper, covers foxed and a little soiled with two small worm-holes on upper cover, extremities nicked and worn; a sound copy. £285

First edition of this noted eulogy. A professor of philosophy at Casale, Novara, Milan and Pisa University, Frisi was an ardent admirer of Newton, as the present eulogy illustrates. ‘In concluding this eulogy he says: ”To the Principia, I have given more study and more admiration that to any other book … His cosmography is the greatest eulogy that I have been able to make Newton”’ (Babson, 272).

The author of many important works on mathematics, physics, and astronomy, including in 1768 his De Gravitate, the first treatise on celestial mechanics according to Houzeau, Frisi also ‘did work in hydraulics and was called upon to plan works for the regulation of rivers and canals in various parts of northern Italy. He was responsible for laying out the canal built in 1819 between Milan and Pavia.’ (DSB). An editor of Il Caffè, a newspaper that was influenced by the thought of the French Illuminati, Frisi exerted a notable effect on the cultural, social, and political life of Milan in the later part of the 18th century.

Babson 272; Gray 393; Wallis 393.

Scarce Baxter Prints

141 [NEWTON]. [FROST, Isaac]. THE NEWTONIAN SYSTEM OF THE UNI-VERSE. A suite of six plates published separately from ‘Two Systems of Astronomy’. Drawn by Issac Frost. Engraved by W. P. Clubb & Son, 7 Char-terhouse St., Printed in Oil Colours by G. Baxter, Patentee, 11 Northamp-ton Square. [1846].

Set of Six Baxter engravings in striking tones of blue, white, yellow, and green depicting planetary motion, sheet size 255mm x 322mm; plate mark 240mm x 310mm; some marginal browning and light edge wear, notably to plate 1, with faint dampstain to corner of first plate, plate 9 more browned seemingly through paper quality; preserved in a modern cloth portfolio; an attractive set. £1,800

A rare set of the seemingly separately published suite of six stunning astronomical plates, taken from Isaac Frost’s Two Systems of Astronomy, considered by many at the time, despite the contentious subject matter, to be ‘one of the handsomest quartos of our day, both in typography and engraving’ (Notes and Queries, Vol V, p. 283, 1852).

Isaac Frost was an artist, scientist and prominent member of the religious Muggle-tonian sect in the mid nineteenth-century. The Sect was formed during the aftermath of the English Civil War in the 1650s by cousins John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton,

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who believed themselves to be the ‘two witnesses’ referred to in the Book of Revelations and chosen to preach to the ungodly world in its final days. After the Restoration Muggleton developed the doctrine that God no longer intervened in his creation and that prayer, formal services, and evangelism were therefore useless. In the intervening three centuries the movement was small but seemingly prosperous, and continued as a group well into the Victoria era, with the last reported member surviving into the mid 20th century. Most of the movement’s archives then passed to the British Library.

As a prominent member of the Sect, Frost was instrumental in the refinement of the Muggletonian’s geocentric astronomical theory, and which was vividly represented in his 1846 work. At a time when there was great popular interest in scientific lectures and shows on such topics as astronomy, Frost was a fervent opponent of the traditional Newtonian cosmology and he used the work as a forum to expound his theories. The striking engravings, based on planetary charts drawn by Frost, demonstrate that the earth was at the centre of the universe, and collectively illustrated his view that ‘The Newtonian System is, confessedly, of heathen origin, as may be seen by its history’ (from the original text p. xii).

As was often the case with Muggletonian printed works, Frost spared no expense when it came to publication, employing the recently devised printing process of George Baxter to execute the finely engraved plates – of which there were eleven in all in the published work. George Baxter was a London printer who developed and patented an innovative method of intaglio printing from a metal plate with colouring using oil pigments from woodblocks, and which are renown for their beauty, displaying subtle tones of blue, white, yellow and green. The results were superb but the process was not cheap and Baxter was granted an extension of his patent in 1847 in part because he had not yet made a profit from it, and it ultimately proved to be too expensive to sustain commercially. As a result all of his works are rare. The present suite of plates was presumably published separately for distribution amongst the Muggletonian community. The set includes: Plate 1, The Newtonian System of the Universe; Plate 3, The Newtonian System; Plate 6, The Newtonian System; Plate 7, System According to the Holy Scriptures; Plate 9, System According to the Holy Scriptures; Plate 10, System According to the Holy Scriptures.

OCLC: 32324878 locating a set at the UC San Diego, with a further set located on the web confirming the same six plates.

By Newton’s proponent in Sweden

142 [NEWTON]. MELANDER, Daniel. ASTRONOMIE ... Förra [-Senare] De-len. Stockholm, Tryck Hos Johan Pehr Lindh, 1795.

Two volumes, 8vo, pp. iv, xliii, [i] blank, 392, with three folding plates: 474, [8], with two folding plates; some light spotting and foxing throughout, with some very occasional light dampstaining; with occasional neat manuscript notes in ink throughout, and with neat index and notes in mss at end of Vol I, and on mount of plate IV; in contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, spines ruled in gilt with gold morocco labels lettered in gilt, head of spine of Vol II chipped with some loss, joints of Vol II starting to crack, extremities rubbed, corners bumped and a little worn; still a good copy; from the libary of Anders Broberg with his book-plates on front paste-downs, and with the signature of E? Tollstedt on both paste-downs. £425

An uncommon first Swedish edition of Daniel Melander’s widely disseminated text-book on fundamental astronomy, Conspectus praelectionum academicarum continens fundamenta astronomiae, first published in 1779. This comprehensive work introduces

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the student to the prevailing theories of the day, frequently citing the works of Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe, La Lande, Maupertuis, Caroline and William Herschel, and of course Newton, of whom Melander was a noted supporter.

Daniel Melander or Melanderhjelm (1726–1810) was intending to be a priest, but his father persuaded him to study science and mathematics for which he had a particular aptitude. He became a student at Uppsala where he studied philosophy, mathematics and physics, graduating as master of philosophy. He became lecturer in physics in 1757 and professor of astronomy by 1778. In 1782 he moved to Stockholm where he became one of the leading scientists in Sweden in the later half of the eighteenth century, with a major worldwide correspondence. He led the 1802 expedition to Lapland on a comparative study of the meridian following up on the expedition lead by Maupertuis in 1736.

Poggendorff II, 108; OCLC 31718741 cites two copies at Texas and the Paris Observatory, with further copies located at Wisconsin and the British Library, Berlin, and the National Libraries of Denmark and Finland.

143 [NEWTON]. SIGORGNE, Pierre. INSTITUTIONS NEWTONIENNES Seconde edition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée, avec figures. A Paris, Chez Guillyn, Libraire, quai des Augustins, du côté du Pont S. Michel, au Lys d’or. MDCC. LXIX [1769].

8vo, pp. lvi, lii, 393, [3] table and errata; with six folding engraved plates, mis-numbered nos 1–7 but without plate 4 as usual; some occasional light foxing and browning, but otherwise clean and crisp; in later marbled boards, red paper label on spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine bumped and worn with some minor nicks, extremities a little bumped and worn; a good copy. £475

Second edition (first 1747) of this influential text-book on Newton, and Pierre Sigorgne’s major work. It provided a ‘clear introduction to Newtonian mathematical and physical principles, [which] contributed to the acceptance of the attraction theory by the French Scientific community. A Latin résumé of the [work] was rapidly recognized as the standard Newtonian textbook in Western Europe’ (DSB).

Sigorgne was a committed anti-Cartesian and ‘as a gifted educator and popularizer of science ... was prominent in introducing Newtonian theories into the French university curriculum’ (ibid).

Babson 112 (this edition); Wallis 150.001; OCLC: 3745265.

144 OKEN, Lorenz. LEHRBUCH DER NATURPHILOSOPHIE I -[III]. Jena, bei Friedrich Fromann. 1809–1811.

Three volumes in one, 8vo, pp. xii, xvii–xxiv [misbound from part III prelims], 228; xxviii, 180; xvi, 374, [ii] errata and blank; some occasional minor browning and soiling, otherwise clean and crisp; with neat stamped monogram at tail of each title-page; in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine with red paper label, lettered and tooled in gilt and blind, some slight offsetting from binding onto free endpapers, extremities a little bumped and rubbed; a very good copy. £775

An attractive copy of the first edition of this important work by Oken, one of the leading founders of the Naturphilosophen (‘nature philosophers’) who flourished in early nineteenth century Germany. In the Lehrbuch he sought to bring his different doctrines into mutual connection, and to ‘show that the mineral, vegetable and animal


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kingdoms are not to be arranged arbitrarily in accordance with single and isolated characters, but to be based upon the cardinal organs or anatomical systems, from which a firmly established number of classes would necessarily be evolved; that each class, moreover, takes its starting-point from below, and consequently that all of them pass parallel to each other’; and that, ‘as in chemistry, where the combinations follow a definite numerical law, so also in anatomy the organs, in physiology the functions, and in natural history the classes, families, and even genera of minerals, plants, and animals present a similar arithmetical ratio’. The Lehrbuch procured for Oken the title of Hofrath, or court-councillor, and in 1812 he was appointed ordinary professor of the natural sciences’ (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

With the rise of experimental natural science – the founders of which were hostile to Naturphilosophie – Oken’s reputation was somewhat eclipsed, and indeed some believe his views, and those of his associates, to have been harmful to the progress of biology. In recent years, however, Oken’s role and that of the Naturephilosophen has been reassessed, as closer studies of the Romantic period and, in particular, biology at that time and its subsequent repercussions upon modern biology, has been undertaken.

Poggendorf II, 319; see Singer, A Short History of Biology p. 217–219 for a discussion of Oken’s work and views; OCLC: 6758284 and 14839420.

145 PARA DU PHANJAS, Francois. THÉORIE DES ÊTRES SENSIBLES ou cours complet de physique, speculative, experimentale, systematique et geometrique, mise a la portee de tout le monde, avec un table alphabetique des matieres, qui fait de tout cet ouvrage un vrai dictionaire de physique ... Tome Premier [- Quatrieme]. A Paris, rue Dauphine, Chez Charles-An-toine Jombert, pere, Libraire du Roi pour l’Artillerie & le Génie, à l’Image Notre Dame. Avec Approbation & privilége du Roi. MDCCLXXII [1772].

Four volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], lxxxiii, [3], 556, with four folding engraved plates; pp. [iv], 558, with four folding engraved plates; pp. 518, with nine folding engraved plates; pp. 649, [1] blank, with eight folding engraved plates; in all 25 engraved plates; generally clean and crisp throughout, with some occasional light foxing and browning, and with the occasional small marginal nick; each volume with armorial library stamp on half-title, and with additional library stamp on title-page, p. 25 and final leaf of text; with contemporary ownership signature on each title-page; in contemporary mottled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt with morocco label, tail of spines chipped with loss to Vols III and IV, some corners and head of spines neatly repaired, some light rubbing and wear to joints and extremities; a good set. £975

First edition of this extensive textbook of physics by the Jesuit mathematician and philosopher Francois Para du Phanjas (1724–1797).

The work is divided into seven parts dealing in turn with the nature of bodies and attraction (with much on chemical affinities); on the laws of motion and mechanics; on the theory of the earth and its origins; the theory of hydrostatics; the theory of air (including sections on electricity, meteorology, the properties of gases); the theory of light; and concluding with astronomy and celestrial mechanics. The attractive plates depict many of the laws, phenomena, and experiments discussed in the text.

Para du Phanjas taught at Grenoble, Marseille and Besançon and was a successful and popular teacher. After the suppression of his order, he moved to Paris and published a series of scientific and philosophical works.

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Poggendorff II, 356–357; Roller and Goodman II, p. 275; see Sommervogel for a list of his other works; OCLC 48777724.

Probably a forgery

146 PARACELSUS, Aureolus Theophrastus. DE SUMMIS NATURAE MYS-TERIIS COMMENTARII TRES à Gerardo Dorn conuersi, multóque quàm antea fideliter characterismis & marginalibus exornati, auctíque. Quo-rum nomina sequens pagella dabit. Basilæa, Ex Officina Pernæa Per Conr. Waldkirch, 1584

8vo, pp. [xvi], 173, (but 147), 10 pages of illustrations, [1] blank; with full-page woodcut portrait of the author, with woodcut head-pieces and initials, and numerous text woodcuts; lightly browned throughout due to paper quality, with some occasional light spotting, and some faint marginal dampstaining affecting the first and last few leaves, outer margins very slightly cropped occasional shaving the odd letter of marginal notes; copiously annotated and underlined throughout in both pencil and ink in a couple of hands, with manuscript notes on final endpaper, and a note on front endpaper, ‘Freiburg den 21 Marti 1748’; in eighteenth century blue paste-paper boards, spine lettered in ink, head of spine worn with loss of written label, upper joint slightly worn, covers a little soiled; a good copy. £1,800

Second edition (first 1570) of this rare compilation of works purportedly by Paracelsus (1493–1540) and translated and edited by Gerard Dorn, though according to Sudhoff more probably a forgery by Dorn. Dorn claims to have translated the original from Ger-man into Latin, but as no original German edition exists, it seems reasonable therefore to assume that the editor was in fact the author. Divided into four sections, the work discusses De spiritibus planetarum; De occulta philosophia; Medicina coelestis, sive de signis zodiaci & mysteriis eorum and the brief De transmutationis metallorum tempore.

Born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, he took the name Paracelsus later in life, meaning ‘superior to Celsus’, an early Roman physician.

Adams, P274; Caillet, 8309; Duveen, p. 453; Graesse, Magica, 111; Parkinson and Lumb 1808 (1570 edition); Rosenthal 8867; Sudhoff, Versuch einer Kritik der Echtheid Paracelsischen Schriften, 125 (1570 edition discussed in detail) and 201; VD 16, Vol. 15, P507; Wellcome I, 4779; OCLC: 11311085 cites copies at the National Library of Medicine, Washington, Nebraska and Wisconsin, with further copies located at Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Bayern.

147 [PLANS FOR PROPOSED LONDON BRIDGE]. LABELYE, Charles. HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVING. These plans of London Bridge exclu-sive of the Houses. No 1. as it may be amended by reducing the Sterlings. No. 2 As it may be altered by reducing the Arches; are most humbly pre-sented unto the Rt. Honble. Sr. Richd. Hoare, Lord Mayor of the said City at whose request they were drawn by his Lordships most Oblig’d and most Obedient servant, Charles Labelye Esqr. B. Cole, Sculp. 1746.

Single engraved sheet, plate mark 232mm x 387mm, sheet size 255mm x 400mm; with two longitudinal views, hand-coloured; some smudging to upper right corner, and along lower edge, lower edge untrimmed; mounted. £225

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setting forth proposals to redesign Old London Bridge, by the noted Swiss bridge engineer and mathematician, Charles Labelye (1705–1781).

Having moved to England during the 1720s Labelye came to prominence through his appointment as chief engineer on the building of Westminster Bridge, though much to the hostility of his unsuccessful English colleagues. Though blighted by delays and controversy, the project is noted for his invention of caissons to support the bridge during construction. As the first major bridge built over an English river for more than a century, and only the second masonry bridge over the Thames, Westminster Bridge attracted great attention, and though dubbed by some as the ‘Bridge of Fools’, eventually received considerable praise for its elegant structure. At the time of the present

proposal, work was nearing completion (though damage to an arch set back the opening for nearly four years), and so attention turned to the urgent need to repair and redesign the deterioriting and overcrowded Old London Bridge. Congestion on the bridge had become so serious that in 1722 the Lord Mayor decreed that incoming and outgoing traffic be kept to separate lanes. Labelye would have been a natural choice as prospective surveyor and engineer, and was approached by the Corporation of London. Already in consultation about a major drainage engineering project in the East Anglian fenlands, he submitted the present proposals, which suggested that the ‘sterlings’ (i.e. starlings or piers) be reduced ‘to afford twice as much water-way as they do at present’. Houses would be excluded, Labelye also suggesting that the number of arches also be reduced, ‘according to the opinion of the Celebrated Architect Sir Christopher Wren’.

In the end, his proposals were never acted upon, though in 1756 an Act was passed to demolish all the shops and houses on the Bridge. In 1758–62, the houses were removed along with the two centre arches, replaced with a single wider span to improve navigation on the river. A design by Telford in 1799 was similarly rejected, and it was not until 1825 that building began on a new bridge 100 feet upstream, designed by John Rennie. The old bridge continued in use as the new bridge was being built, and was demolished after the latter opened in 1831.

Labelye’s engraving was later included in Maitland’s History of London, 1756 (plate 17 in Vol II – see Adams, p. 99).

148 [POCKET ATLAS FOR CHILDREN]. VLAM, Bartolomeus. NOUVEL AT-LAS DES ENFANS ou principes clairs pour apprendre facilement et en fort peu de tems la geographie suivi d’un traité méthodique de la Sphere, qui explique les mouvement des Astres, les divers Systèmes du Monde, & l’usage des globes: enrichi de XXIV cartes enluminées. Nouvelles édition revues et corrigées. A Amsterdam, chez B. Vlam, Libraire, dans la Kalver-straat. 1776.

8vo, pp. xx, 232; title-page in red and black, with separate title-page to the treatise on spheres; with attractive engraved frontispiece and 24 folding engraved maps and plates, all but the frontispiece hand-coloured, (plates XXIII and XXIV referring to the sphere); some neat old paper repairs to margins and plates XI, XVI, XXII and to central fold of plate XX, light foxing and browning throughout with some occasional minor ink staining, paper somewhat creased; with contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf; in contemporary mottled sheep, spine in compartments with raised bands, with green morocco label lettered in gilt, label scuffed, head of spine and joints repaired, covers a little scuffed, corners bumped and worn; still an appealing copy. £975

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Rare second Vlam edition (first 1772) of this most attractive children’s ‘new’ world atlas, finely illustrated with 22 numbered hand-coloured engraved ‘blind’ maps – i.e. with the geographical names omitted to allow the child to ‘find blindly’ the places under study – an unusual and appealing method of teaching. Divided into twenty-three chapters comprising a series of questions and answers, each with an accompanying map, the students are introduced to the countries of Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, Africa and including with a chapter on the Americas. The regions depicted in the maps are identified with key letters and numbers only, the names being given only in the answers to the questions. The numbered maps open with two world hemispheres in orthographic projection, followed by a map of Europe, seventeen maps of parts of Europe, and three covering Asia, Africa and North and South America. .

The work concludes from pp. 183 (continuously paginated but with a separate title-page) with a short treatise outlining the elementary principles of cosmography and astronomy, together with a short introduction to the use of globes. This part is nicely illustrated with a fine plate of an armillary globe, and a hand-coloured map showing orbits of the planets according to Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe and Copernicus (plate XXIV). A detailed index of place names in found at the end of the work, before three pages of bookseller’s advertisements.

The ‘old’ Atlas des Enfans was first published by J. H. Schneider at Amsterdam in 1760 and proved immensely popular going through at least seven editions to 1785, and including several pirate printings in both France and Germany. Bartholomeus Vlam in Amsterdam seems to have been the first of several other publishers to copy the idea, issuing his own version in 1772, with additions to the dialogues and under the present title. Early atlases intended for children are extremely rare, because they were often not purchased by major libraries and by their very nature were well used!

Koeman VI, Vl 1; Tooley, p. 642; cf. Gumuchian 388 (ed. Lyon, J.M. Bruyset, 1790); Phillips & LeGear Vlam 1776; OCLC 13960001 locates copies at UCLA, Indiana, the Newberry Library, Princeton and John Carter Brown.

149 POEDERLÉ, Eugène-Joseph-Charles-Gilain-Hubert d’Olmen, Baron de MANUEL DE L’ARBORISTE ET DU FORESTIER, ouvrage extrait des meil-leurs auteurs anciens & modernes, & soutenu d’observations faites dans différens Pays où l’auteur a voyagé. A Bruxelles; et se trouve A Paris, Chez Valade ... MDCCLXXIV [1774].

8vo, pp. [viii], x, 405, [1]; with attractive woodcut head- and tail-pieces; outer margins of title-page uncut, aside from some minor browning a clean, crisp copy; contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated in gilt with red morocco label, some slight scuffing to surfaces, corners bumped and a little worn; an attractive copy. £385

Rare first edition, re-issue with cancel title-page, of this detailed handbook on arboriculture and forest management, by Baron Eugène Joseph d’Olmen Poederlé (c. 1725–1813), the ‘Belgian landed gentleman, botanist, sylviculturist and agronomist living in Bruxelles and on his property at Saintes’ (Stafleu IV p. 308). In his work, first published in 1772, Poederlé cites the work of authors both ancient and modern, including Caton, Columelle, Palladius, Buffon and Du Hamel, as well as drawing upon his own experiences and observations made during a series of tours throughout Europe to observe practices and forestry techniques in other nations, including America.


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A subject about which he clearly feels passionately, Poederlé addresses his work in particular to his Belgium compatriots, both amateur and professional, and hopes to provide a useful and inspirational guide.

The nine chapters discuss tree nurseries; propagation through seeds, layering or cuttings; the care of the young saplings; seasonal planting times, and the correct methods of planting, maintaining and pruning; soil and climate requirements; coppicing; and on the exploitation of the wood. The final, and by far the most lengthy chapter, contains an alphabetical list of trees, Poederlé giving their names in Latin, Flemish and Wallon, before outlining the properties, growing requirements and uses. A useful insight into the state of arboriculture during the latter stages of the eighteenth century. Clearly a popular work, a second edition appeared in 1788, with a third edition in 1792.

Stafleu 8086; Pritzel 7222; BM Natural History IV, p. 1590 (third edition); KVK locates one copy of this edition at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France; OCLC 68349497 records only two copies of the 1772 edition.

150 POITIER DES LAURIERES, Laurent. NOUVELLE DÉCOUVERTE SUR LE FLUX ET LE REFLUX DES MERS, dont la couse physique est le dou-ble mouvement du globe. Explication simple et naturelle de toutes les circonstances qui accompagnent ce phénomène admirable. Chimère de l’attraction newtonienne. Méchanisme du mouvement général des mers, etc. A Paris, Chez Laurens aîné ... et chez l’Auteur ... 1806.

8vo, pp. 90; somewhat foxed throughout; title-page gutter reinforced, with small repair to upper gutter of p. 87; manuscript correction in brown ink to imprint which has burnt through leaving a couple of small holes; in modern marbled boards, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. £325

Seemingly the first edition edition of this curious anti-Newtonian contribution to the long running debate on the cause and nature of tides, by Laurent Poitier Des Laurières (1740–1810, sometime Deslaurières), in which he challenges and rejects his theory of gravitational pull. A theologian and pastor by profession, Des Laurières was an enthusiastic amateur mathematician, described rather unflatteringly by the Biographie universelle as ‘one of the mathematicians who wasted their time in trying to seek a solution to the problem of the quadrature of the circle, and who flattered themselves to have done so’. Through ‘stubbornness or vanity’ he attempted to solve and explain other noted problems, and which led him towards the present study on tides. The Biographie suggests that the work was first published in 1798 under the title Nouvelle découverte sur le mouvement continuel de la mer but we have been unable to verify this, with no copy so far located, having seemingly vanished into obscurity. The present edition faired a little better, though was also largely ignored. He continued to publish and submit solutions, including in 1804 Identité géométrique du cercle et du carré, for which he attempted to claim a prize: a submission that was apparently ignored by the authorities.

OCLC locates copies at Berkeley, Tulane and Columbia.

151 QUETELET, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques. SUR L’ANTHROPOMÉTRIE Ou sur la mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme. Extrait des Bulletin de l’Acadèmie de Bruxelles, 2. serie, Tome 31, Nr. 2; [Bruxelles], 1871.

8vo, pp. 12; lightly soiled and browned, with evidence of previous horizontal fold; un stitched and unopened, with minor nick along outer margin; a good copy. £225

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Rare original offprint of this essay providing a brief synopsis of his important work on the measurement and characteristics of man, Anthropométrie, ou mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme (Bruxelles 1870), perhaps designed to coincide with the publication of the more common re-issue of 1871. The work originated the study of anthropometry.

‘Quetelet showed that if a series of anthropological measurements of either physical or intellectual qualities were plotted on squared paper, allowing x to be the measurements and y to be their frequency, they formed a curve like that representing the expansion of the binomial, or like that formed by plotting the errors of a great number of observers’ (Penniman, p. 105). ‘By applying the mathematics of the Gaussian curve to anthropological data, it became possible to plot the average or ‘standard’ deviation from the statistical average, and thus to interpret anthropological data with greater exactness’ (Norman 1771).

Quetelet’s early life was concerned with mathematics and the physical sciences and he was influenced in his work on probability by scientists such as Laplace and Fourier. The anthropological implications of mathematical data soon captured his attention and as early as 1831 he introduced the ‘homme moyen’ in Recherches sur le penchant au crime. His Sur l’homme, 1835, which later became Physique Sociale, 1869, established a new era in statistics.

See Einaudi 4593, (Brussels 1871); see Garrison-Morton 171, (Paris 1871); Hadden History of Anthropology p. 21; Penniman, A Hundred Years of Anthropology, p. 105; Palgrave III, p. 247; KVK locates only one copy, at Erfurt.

152 REYNOLDS, James. LARGE ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCIENCE. Reynolds’s Series of Coloured Diagrams Illustrating the Principles of Hydrostat-ics; including the pressure and equilibrium of liquids, supply of water to towns, levelling, the syphon, intermitting springs, hydrostatic press, specific gravity, &c. with explanatory notes. Prize medal awarded for Rey-nolds’s Educational Diagrams, Class XXIX. International Exhibition 1862. London: James Reynolds, 174, Strand. Price 5s 6d. [1873].

Large folio, with 8vo text of pp. 8 mounted on guard at front; with four double-page chromolithograph plates (68 x 52 cm) mounted on guards; an excellent copy, clean and fresh, in the original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edges. £875

First edition (?) of these enchanting large-scale illustrations designed to explain the principles of hydrostatics and apparently the third of James Reynolds’ series of Large Illustrations of Science. The illustrations, which are in bold, bright colours, are clear, well-defined and excellently labelled: they contain 25 figures, each of which is carefully and precisely explained in the accompanying text. Due to the way the work is issued and the apparent rarity of it and others in the series, it may be supposed that the entire work was expected to be removed from its wrappers, the illustrations wall-mounted (preferably in a row, to have the full sequence of figures at their most accessible) and the text used as a prompt to an instructor.

James Reynolds published many large-scale productions, the majority of them (at least, those that seem to have survived) being maps.

OCLC and NUC do not record any location for this example, with a copy of the Geometrical Diagrams located at the British Library.


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Ptolemy and Brahe dismissed

153 ROBERT, Francois. GEOGRAPHIE NATURELLE Historique, politique et raisonnée. Suivi d’un traité de la sphére, avec l’exposition des différens systêmes astronomiques du Monde. Tome Premier [-Troisieme]. A Paris Chez Desnos Libraire, rue Saint Jacques. A Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey. MDCCLXXVII [1777].

Three volumes, 8vo; pp. [ii], 4, [3]–588, [ii], with attractive woodcut title-page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, and five folding engraved plates; pp. 422, with woodcut title-page vignette and head- and tail-pieces; pp. 295, 94, [1] errata; with appealing woodcut title-page vignettes and head- and tail-pieces; some occasional light foxing and soiling throughout, title-page of Vol. III a little browned, with small paper flaw affecting Vol. II p. 306 with loss of a couple of letters; an attractive, crisp copy in contemporary mottled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, attractively tooled in gilt with red and yellow morocco labels lettered in gilt, a couple of labels a little chipped and worn, head and tail of spines and joints lightly rubbed, with some minor scuffing and soiling to covers, corners and extremities a little bumped. £650

An appealing copy of the first edition of this attractively produced introduction to geography and astronomy by François Robert (1737–1819), ‘Professeur émérite de Philosophie’, and subsequently ‘Géographe ordinaire du Roi’. As the title reveals, Robert discusses the nations of the world from a geographical, political, and historical viewpoint. Vol. III, pp. 103–223 is devoted to an introduction to North and South America. The Traité de la Spheré, found at the end of this third volume, has a separate title-page, though the five plates that accompany this essay are here found bound at the end of the first volume. This short essay was also published separately in the same year. ‘L’ouvrage presente synthetise en un petit volume les principaux systemes cosmographiques qui ont ete proposes depuis l’Antiquite’ (Perbost, Catalogue d’exposition ‘Galilee ou la revolution cosmographique’, SICD Toulouse, 1998 – online). Robert considers that there is no longer any question of doubting the validity of the Copernican system, and rather dismisses those of Ptolemy and Brahe: ‘Ptolémée qui vivait au commencement de notre ere donna un système contraire aux observations astronomiques, aux lois de la mécanique, aux principes de la physique. Tycho-Brahé, noble danois, chercha vainement dans les derniers siècles à réformer le système de son précurseur, il ne fit que remplacer une erreur par une autre’ (p. 2). Copernicus however destroyed these assumptions. ‘Il annonce le double mouvement de la terre sur son axe, & autour du soleil immobile au centre du monde. Il apprit aux hommes qu’il n’existoit aucun mouvement dans ces milliers d’étoiles suspendues au firmament ; qui semblent circuler au-dessus de nos têtes: il leur dit que le mouvement accéléré des planètes dans les directions, anéanti dans les stations, contre l’ordre des signes dans les rétrogradations n’étoient que des prestiges d’optique’ (ibid). According to Robert, ‘L’Europe savante’ listened and soon recognised the accuracy of this system. He goes on to recognised the invention of the telescope as having been pivotal in the progress of astronomy, and which helped to reveal the truth of the Copernican system, ‘comme les ombres devant la lumière’ (p. 13).

François Robert (1763–1826), played a political rôle during the Revolution, and was appointed a member of the Council of Cinq-Cents.

Poggendorff II, 662; Querard VIII, p. 69; OCLC locates copies at Emory, Duke, Rice University, Virginia, Oklahoma and the BnF.

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154 SAVERIEN, Alexandre. HISTOIRE DES PHILOSOPHES MODERNES Avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon d’après les planches in 40 dessin par les plus gds peintres. I. Partie [-Tom VIII. Histoire des Naturalistes]. Contenant les Metaphisiciens. A Paris, de l’Imprimerie de l’Academie ... Avec Aprobation et Privilege du Roy. 1760–1773.

Eight volumes, 8vo; I. pp. lvii, [3], 360, with engraved title-page and frontispiece and 10 engraved portraits; II. pp. lix, [1], 366, engraved title-page, frontispiece and 11 portraits; III. [ii], [lxxvi], 377, [1], engraved title-page, sepia frontispiece and seven portraits; IV. pp. lxxx, 309, [1], with engraved title-page, frontispiece and seven portraits; V. pp. [ii], lxxxviii], 273, [1], engraved title-page, pen and ink frontispiece and ten engraved plates; VI. pp. [ii], [ii], 398, with engraved title-page, frontispiece and eight engraved plates; VII. pp. [ii], lxvi, 300, engraved title-page, frontispiece and nine engraved portraits; VIII. pp. [ii], [v]-lxxxii, [ii], 258, engraved title-page, frontispiece and 10 engraved plates; in all 16 engraved title-pages and frontispieces and 72 portraits and allegorical plates, nearly all soft-ground etched engravings in the style of chalk using the crayon method; some occasional light foxing and soiling, with sporadic light marginal dampstaining, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary marbled calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, attractively tooled in gilt, with two morocco labels lettered in gilt, head-bands exposed on volumes VI and VIII, with light wear to the heads of all spines with some minor nicking, minor soiling to covers, extremties lightly bumped and rubbed; an attractive, clean, fresh set. £1,750

An attractive set of the third edition of this striking illustrated biographical com-pendium of noted scientists and philosophers from the 16th to the 18th centuries. First published in 1760, a second edition appeared in 1769, before this, the final revised edition. Saverien drew upon the rich source of academic éloges available to compile his work, and though perhaps largely anecdotal, the underlying plan of the work was significant and original. The biographies are grouped by class, beginning with metaphysicians and philosophers, moralists and legislaturists, before turning his attention to the exact and natural sciences, including chemists, astronomers, natural philosophers, naturalists,geometers, algebraists, opticians, and mechanicians. Each volume is prefaced with a ‘preliminary discourse’ giving an overview of the history of the discipline, and in so doing Saverien inaugurated a style combining historical narrative with biography, which was to influence successive works.

The remarkable feature of the work, however, lies in the illustrations, which are the work of the French engraver and printmaker Jean Charles François (1717–1769). As seen here, François was the innovator of the crayon method in 1757 through which the engravings imitate chalk drawings, a process which is described in a letter addressed to Saverien in Vol. I (p. 347 ). Though two colleagues, Gilles Demateau and Louis Bonnet, both claimed to have made the discovery, it was François who was officially acknowledged by the French Royal Academy, given a Royal Pension and the title ‘graveur du Roi’. The work includes a number of attractive allegorical plates in addition to the portraits, after artists including Boucher and Eisen.

Seemingly a slightly complicated publication bibliographically, it also appeared in various formats, including eight parts in four 4to volumes, and sometimes four volumes bound in two. The number of plates also seems to vary. At least, copies should have eight frontispieces and 67 portraits. The present copy is one that has the attraction of having additional engraved title-pages, as well as 52 portraits and 20 allegorical


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figures (substituted for portraits, and in four cases additional to the portraits). In more luxurious copies, the plates are all in red and sepia, though here predominantly

plain. Amongst the luminaries includes are Hobbes, Locke, Clarke, Grotius, Wollaston, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Halley, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, Kepler, Hygens, Boyle, Hartsoeker, Paracelsus, Boerhaave, Gesner, Hales and Reaumur.

Saverien (1720–1805), wrote several books on marine science, and is noted for having invented two machines for determining the speed of a ship. He also edited the French edition of Maclaurin’s Traité des Fluxions (1749). As is reflected by the present work, he was also the author of several historical works on the exact and natural sciences, which reflected a deep knowledge of the history of science and philosophy. He published a separate five volume biographical work Historie des Philosophes anciens jusqu’à la renaissance des letters (1770–1773).

Cohen de Ricci 942; Brunet V, 154; Querard VIII, p. 496; for a detailed discussion of the work see Ribard, Raconter, vivre, penser: histoire(s) de philosophes, 1650–1766, ff. 357; Hind, A Short History of Engraving & Etching, p. 287–288 and reproducing the image of Newton.

155 SCHEINER, Christoph. OCULUS HOC EST: fundamentum Opticum, in quo ex accurata Oculi anatome, .... Londini, Excudebat F.Flesher, & pros-tant Williel. Morden, Cantabrigiæ. 1652.

4to, pp. [xiv], 254; with woodcut head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut illustrations; aside from some occasional light spotting and foxing, clean and crisp; an attractive copy in early vellum, covers a little soiled. £2,250

Second edition (first 1619)with a London imprint, and an attractive copy, of one of the most famous and important works in the history of optics, by the noted Jesuit mathematician, astronomer and contemporary and adversary of Galileo, Christopher Scheiner (1575–1650). In this book, Scheiner demonstrated for the first time that the retina is the actual organ of sight and explained the pupil changes known as ‘accommodation’. He also devised the pin-hole test (‘Scheiner’s test’) to illustrate accommodation and refraction.

Scheiner’s studies in astronomy mainly concerned the surface of the sun and in this context the observation of sunspots, which lead to a long priority dispute with Galileo from 1612. A summary of his examinations was published in Bracciano in 1630 entitled Rosa ursina with a dedication to his patron the duke of Bracciano.

D.S.B., XII, pp. 151–52; GM 1480 ( first edition); Hirschberg 310; British Optical Cat. II, p.94; Krivatsy, 10365; Sommervogel VII, 738; Wing S858; see Linda Hall Library, Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo, 9; for a detailed discussion of his life, work and correspondence see Franz Daxecker, The Physicist and Astronomer Christopher Scheiner (2004).

How much to send a telegraph

156 SCHÜCK, Rudolph. TASCHENBUCH FÜR DEN TELEGRAPHISCHEN VERKEHR von Hamburg nach sämmtlichen Telegraphen-Stationen Eu-ropa’s. Hamburg. Verlag von Fritz Schuberth. 1856.

8vo, pp. 64; some minor dust-soiling and creasing; uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers, lower wrapper loose but holding, spine and extremities a little chipped; still a good copy of an ephemeral item. £110

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An appealing copy of this scarce portable tariff guide for sending a telegraph across Europe, listing the different telegraph stations in each country, and how much it will cost to send a message from Hamburg.

Not located on OCLC or KVK.

157 SCHULZE, Gottlob Leberecht. DARSTELLUNG DES WELTSYSTEMS: ein Leitfaden für den unterricht in der Astronomie auf Schulen. Abgefaßt und, zur erleichterung des eigenen weitern studiums der sternwissen-schaft, mit den nöthigsten literärischen anmerkungen und nachweisun-gen versehen. Mit vier kupfertafeln. Leipzig, in der Baumgärtnerschen Buchhandlung, 1811.

8vo, pp. xxiv, [ii] errata, 390; with four folding engraved plates; final plate a little spotted and browned, prelims a little foxed and browned with stain affecting upper margins of a couple of leaves, aside from some occasional light foxing, clean and crisp; in modern half morocco, some light scuffing to spine; a good copy. £285

Rare first edition of this introduction to astronomy for schools, one of several popular astronomical works published by Gottlob Leberecht Schulz (1779–1856). Schulze studied theology, but was a keen mathematician and astronomer, and from 1803 held popular lectures on astronomy, before embarking on a publishing career after his move to Polenz where he had been appointed minister. He was later to become a prominent public education reformer, particularly in the sphere of elementary education.

Of particular note is the astronomical bibliography found between pp. xvii-xxii. In addition to his works on astronomy, he published a number of theological, mathematical and educational treatises.

Houzeau &Lancaster I, 8965; OCLC locates only three locations in Germany.

158 SIBLY, Manoah and Placido de TITI. ASTRONOMY AND ELEMENTARY PHILOSOPHY translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus: Wherein is shewn, from Physical and Astronomical Principles, the Nature of Atmos-pherical Influx, communicated to Earthly Substances by the Motion, As-pects, and Position of the Heavenly Bodies, in forming the whole Anima of Nature, particularly in Man, the Epitome of the Creation!– The World in Miniature!– The whole comprehending, by these efficient Causes and their Effects, the true Doctrine of calculating Nativities, in so plain and simple a Method, as to be perfectly attainable by the meanest Capacity, and in a Manner superior to any yet published in the English Language. To which are added, introductory notes and observations, With a Concise Method of judging Horary Questions, select Aphorisms, and every other Requisite to elucidate Elementary Agency, and to form a complete Body of Astral Knowledge. The whole carefully revised by M. Sibly. London: Printed by W. Justins, Blackfriars … M,DCC,LXXXIX. 1789.

8vo, pp. 254, [14] of which 12 are engraved tables of houses; with engraved frontis-piece and 13 finely engraved plates; one plate somewhat foxed otherwise clean and bright impressions; some occasional light foxing and soiling (one gathering more particularly foxed), though generally clean and crisp; with the flyleaves excised; in


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contemporary calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, attractively tooled in gilt with black morocco label lettered in gilt, joints and covers a little rubbed, corners worn; a good copy. £475

First edition of this scarce and attractive illustrated treatise on astrology, by the noted Swedenborgian Manoah Sibly (1757–1840).

Placidus de Titus (1603–1668) was an Italian astrologer, mathematician, and Catholic monk, who became a reader of mathematics and physics at the University of Padua and in 1657 was appointed professor of mathematics at the Milanese University in Pavia where he remained for the rest of his life. Placidus served as astrologer to a number of prominent political leaders, including Leopold William (1614–62), the archduke of Austria. In his studies he focused upon Ptolemy’s ancient astrological work the Tetrabiblos, and believed that he had discerned Ptolemy’s lost method of ‘dividing houses’, and he published his findings in two works in 1650 and 1657. With the revival of astrology in England at the end of the century if fell to Manoah Sibly to bring his teachings to a wide audience through the present translation and study. The Placidian astrological system was later more famously employed by R. C. Smith, better known as Raphael.

Manoah Sibly was the brother of the popular medical writer and fellow astrologer Ebenezer. Manoah was an erudite, largely self-taught man who was fluent in several languages including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Syriac. With his wife Sarah they opened a bookshop, which was chiefly managed by his wife, whilst Sibly himself set up a school, studied books on alchemy and astronomy, and for a time was employed as a shorthand reporter in the law courts. In 1787 he embraced the tenets of the Swedenborgians, and soon became known among them as a preacher. In addition to the present work he published a number of theological works.

OCLC locates copies at Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Texax, Monash, Berlin, the Wellcome and the British Library.

159 SIMSON, Robert. DE TRENNE FORSTA BÖCKERNE om coniske section-erne; sammanskrefne af Robert Simson ... och nu ifrån latinen på swen-skan öfwersatte af Fredric Palmquist ... Norrköping, tryckte hos Johan Edman, 1764.

4to, pp. [iv], 138; with attractive woodcut device on title-page, and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, and fourteen engraved throw-out plates; some occasional light foxing and soiling, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary calf backed speckled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, spine a little rubbed and worn with some loss of gilt decoration, prominent stain affecting head of upper cover, covers with further staining and light surface wear, extremities bumped and worn; still, an appealing copy. £385

Scarce and attractively published Swedish translation by Fredrik Palmquist (1720–1771), of the first three books of Robert Simson’s noted Sectionum Conicarum, and predating the first English translation published in Glasgow in 1775.

Simson (1687–1768) was one of the great mathematicians of the early Scottish enlightenment. After completing his studies at the University of Glasgow he went to London for a year in order to devote himself to perfecting his knowledge of mathematics. While there, he made the acquaintance of several prominent mathe maticians including John Caswell, James Jurin, and Humphrey Ditton. He was most profoundly influenced by Edmund Halley, who urged him to direct his attentions to the Greek geometers, and upon his returned to Glasgow in 1711 and his appointment as professor of mathematics

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at the University, he devoted his study to the restoration of “lost” works and to the preparation of definitive editions of those works that had survived. ‘In 1735 Simson published Sectionum Conicarum Libri V (Edinburgh, 4to), which he partly intended as an introduction to the treatise by Apollonius of Perga on the subject. Simson had an aversion to the algebraical treatment of ‘conics’ that was prevalent, and in his own work returned to ‘the purer model of antiquity,’ deducing the properties of the various curves without the aid of symbols. An enlarged edition appeared in 1750’ (DNB). The first three books of this treatise were translated into English, in 1775 as The Elements of the Conic Sections and went through a number of editions.

Palmqvist was himself a noted mathematician and the author of several original works, though was most noted for his translation of foreign publications.

Smith, History of Mathematics, I, p. 456; OCLC locates only one copy at the National Library of Sweden.

160 SPRENGER, Johann Theodore. SUCCINCTA PRAXIS & USUS GLOBI COELESTIS & TERRESTRIS Aliquot propositionibus in fine adjectis aucta. Holmiæ, [Stockholm], Apud, Thoedorum Gotthardum Volgenau, Anno MDCCII [1702].

Small 8vo, pp. 72, [erroneously paginated and so 56]; with appealing title-page woodcut, and seven attractive astronomical woodcut figures in the text; lightly browned with some occasional soiling and foxing, outer margin of p. 56 with small tear (not touching text); with numerous contemporary manuscript scrawlings and signatures on front and rear paste-downs (including a poem), with signatures on title-page and at tail of final verso, though all illegible; in contemporary sheep backed marbled boards, spine slightly cracked, head and tail bumped, with faint signs of manuscript lettering, boards scuffed, extremities lightly bumped and worn; an appealing, unsophisticated copy. £450

Scarce and seemingly variant issue of this appealing treatise on the use of globes, by Johann Theodore Sprenger, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Heidelburg. The present treatise, seemingly his final publication, was first published in 1666. Of particular appeal are the illustrations that depict in turn the ‘Systema Mundi Ptolemaicum’, the ‘Systema Mundi Copernicanum’, ‘Systema Mundi Tychonicum’, the ‘Sphaera recta’, ‘Sphaera parallella’ and ‘Sphaera ob-liqua’. The final seven pages include a ‘Tabella Climatum & Parallelorum’ as well as a table giving the longtitude and latitude of several major cities.

In 1662 Sprenger was made a member of the Court of the Palatine, and was later sent as Ambassador to Salzburg. He was the author of a number of legal texts, including Institutiones Jurisprudentia publicae (1659), this appearing to be his only venture into the scientific arena. He died in 1668.

Three further issues also dated 1702 have been traced. One with an imprint of Michael Laurelius, and with a collation of pp. 80, and another Volgenau issue also with 80 pp. There is an on-line copy of this available for view, which includes an additional gathering of Propositiones Addendae at the end of the work, not present here, and having seemingly never been included. Our collation matches the 1691 Jena edition published by Crocker (i.e. 72, but 56), and which was itself re-issued in 1702. This may be an early issue published by Volgenau, having recently acquired the text from Crocker, and before the Propositiones were added later in the year. As the text was clearly being passed from publisher to publisher, it seems understandable that some variants may have occurred: all editions of the work are scarce.


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Houzeau & Lancaster I, 9723; OCLC locates copies of the first 1666 edition at Edinburgh, Cambridge and the BnF, with the 1691 edition at the British Library, Berlin, Minnesota and Brigham Young in addition to a number of European locations; no copies of the present issue recorded in the US, with OCLC citing copies in Sweden.

161 TACQUET, André. ELEMENTA GEOMETRIAE Planæ ac solidæ, quibus accedunt selecta ex Archimede theoremata ... In had nova editione inserta est Trigonometria plana ejusdem auctoris, et sphærica aliunde desumpta. Patavii, Ex Typographia Seminarii. 1694.

8vo, pp. [xiv], 364; with seventeen folding engraved plates, and woodcut head- and tail-pieces; some occasional light browning and foxing throughout, otherwise clean and crisp; one plate a little creased; some occasional neat ink corrections; in contemporary speckled calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, spine a little cracked, joints, bands and extremities lightly rubbed and worn, corners a little bumped; with eighteenth century ownership signature of Alex Funck at head of front paste-down, and somewhat faded and unidentified armorial book-plate; a good copy. £650

An attractive copy of this noted and popular mathematical work, by the Belgian Jesuit Andreas Tacquet (1612–1660), professor of mathematics at Louvain and Antwerp. One of several elementary textbooks written by Tacquet for use in Jesuit colleges, the Elementa (first 1654) was no doubt one of his most famous and went through numerous editions during the 17th and 18th centuries, being subsequently edited and revised by Whiston, Musschenbroek and perhaps most notably by Roger Boscovitch. The book was essentially constructed from Euclid’s Elements with material from Archimedes, but is particularly noted for the clarity that Tacquet demonstrated in presenting the material. Indeed his importance lies largely in this clarity of dissemination, and for the fact that in many ways his approach was important in preparing the way of Newton and Leibniz’s integral and differential calculus. Tacquet’s is probably best remembered for his important work Cylindricorum et Annularium (1651), on cylinders and rings, which followed the approach of Valerio but was largely based on the mathematics of Archimedes. Seventeenth century editions of the present work are uncommon.

Sommervogel VII, 1807–9; OCLC: 15339434 locates copies at Columbia, Burndy and the New York Public Library and notes sixteen rather than seventeen plates.

162 [THAMES TUNNEL]. EXPLICATION DES TRAVAUX ENTREPRIS pour la construction de la tonnelle ou passage sous la Tamise, entre Rotherhithe et Wapping à l’effet d’ouvrir une Communication permanente entre les deux rives de ce fleuve. Londres, W. Warrington, Graveur et Imprimeur, 27, Strand. 1836.

Small Oblong 12mo 102mm x 135mm, pp. [iv] title-page and list of company directors, [5]–24; with nine steel engraved plates, including 1 folding map, 3 folding plates (one triple) and 5 single page (one with an overlay); somewhat spotted and browned throughout with some faint dampstaining to lower outer corners of plates; faint ownership signature at head of title-page; in the original stiff publisher’s wrappers, pink printed label ‘La Tonnelle’ on upper cover, spine a little chipped and nicked with some loss, covers a little foxed and soiled, extremities stained and a little rubbed; still a reasonable copy. £225

Scarce first French edition of An Explanation of the works of the Tunnel under the Thames

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(1836), one of a number of small portable guidebooks published to celebrate Brunel’s famous engineering project. The project, begun in 1825 and completed in 1843, is described and illustrated, with a number of sectional drawings included illustrating the tunnelling shield. It includes Cruikshank’s famous view of the western archway of the tunnel, lighted by gas with Marc Brunel standing on the extreme left. The other figures are believed to be Beamish, Isambard Brunel and Gravatt. The plate facing p. 21 includes an overlay,

Triumphant Bore, 66b; OCLC cites copies at the Boston Athenaeum, and the BnF, with COPAC locating one copy of the extended 1839 edition at the Guildhall Library.

163 [THAMES TUNNEL – TEAPE ENGRAVED BROADSHEET]. THE THAMES TUNNEL. Open to the Public Every Day (except Sunday) from Nine in the Morning, until dark. Both Archways are lighted with Gas: and the descent to them is by a new and commodious Staircase. The works are now in ac-tive progress ... Printed by Teape & Son, Tower Hill, Thames Tunnel Office, Walbrook Buildings, Walbrook, February, 1839.

Single sheet, engraved broadsheet; 403mm x 267mm; with three wood-engraved views, and text in two columns; a little foxed and dust-soiled, with evidence of previous horizontal and vertical folds; neatly mounted on thin card; a couple of small holes visible along one vertical fold though with no loss, some marginal nicks and tears, with lower right hand corner torn and missing, just touching ruled border; still, a nice example. £325

A scarce survivor. One of the greatest innovations in the history of civil engineering, progress on Brunel’s Thames Tunnel was widely reported and celebrated throughout the twenty year construction process, and indeed generated more printed material than any other great engineering project.

The present broadsheet was one of several publications produced over the years by the Thames Tunnel Company, to help keep the project in the public eye, and encourage paying visitors to help raise funds for the project. Printed by Teape & Son of Tower Hill, the earliest appeared in May 1828 and were printed in updated issues until as late as 1866. The broadsheets included a number of wood-engraved views, together with text updating the public on progress, and were similar to the various guidebooks that could also be purchased. As a result there were many issues, some with quite small differences noting changes in opening times or public transport details, whilst some changes were more substantial, including new illustrations and revised text.

The broadsheet offered here is most similar to Triumphant Bore number 94 (dated July 1839). The longitudinal view illustrates the tunnel below the Thames, with a number of tall ships on the river. The left-hand tunnel view is entitled “Perspective view of both arches”, whilst the the third view of the shield is now entitled “Front elevation of the shield”. Inside each ‘cell’ is a man at work. Variants in the text are most often found in the final paragraph, which updated progress. The text here reads: ‘They have now, however, been recommenced under the most favourable auspices, and have advanced to upwards of 850 feet in length, and are completed to within a distance of less than 70 feet of low water mark on the Middlesex shore. The entire length of the Thames Tunnel will be 1300 Feet’. Similarly, details of public transport methods found at the foot of the broadsheet


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were also subject to alteration. The present broadsheet notes that: “Conveyances to the Thames Tunnel, by an Omnibus, from Charing Cross, Fleet Street, and Gracechurch-street; also by the Woolwich and Greenwich Steam Boats, at Hungerford, Queenhithe, Dyer’s Hall Wharf and London Bridge, every half-hour. Books descriptive of the Works are sold at the Tunnel, price one shilling”.

See Triumphant Bore ff. 61, cf 94.

[TRADE CATALOGUE]. LEPARD & SMITH. 164 PRINTERS’ UTILITY BOOK Revised, Improved and Enlarged. Being a book containing further matter of interest to printers and users of printing. Including a full set of Messrs. Lepard & Smiths’ Limited Well-Known “Britain’s Castle Covers”. With some suggestions as to material and designs for the production of high-class modern printing. Second edition. Lepard & Smiths, Ltd. 29 King St., Covent Garden, London ... 1907.

Large 4to, ff. [2], 139 card samples on a variety of coloured stock, [2] price lists; with sixteen sectional tabs along upper margin (some a little frayed and worn through use); generally fresh and clean, occasional light marginal soiling and wear; in the original cloth backed pictorial boards, spine lettered and retaining the original silk hanging loop at head of spine, cloth along spine quite soiled and cockled, splitting along lower joint, inner hinges weak but holding and the whole somewhat shaken due to size and weight, covers scuffed and soiled, extremities bumped, corners worn; nevertheless a very good copy of a scarce ephemeral item. £385

A most attractive and striking trade catalogue issued by the London based firm of Lepard & Smith, and which provides a fascinating and highly visual insight into the printing industry at the start of the 20th century. The second and revised edition of this guide (first 1905), the Utility Book, it is hoped ‘will serve, firstly, to show a complete range of our cover papers; secondly, give suggestions as to printing the same to the best advantage; and finally, giving information as to where to obtain the best Printers’ Machinery, Type, Inks etc’. The wonderful selection of sample sheets, grouped together in ‘series’ and in a variety of weights, include examples of brochures, music programmes, and advertisements, many promoting the services of printing firms, printing suppliers and techniques available. This highly evocative catalogue displays a fine range of Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Glasgow School of Art style designs.

OCLC locate a third edition of 1911, with the V & A citing a 1920 edition.

165 [TRADE CATALOGUE]. PACE PRESS PROMOTIONAL BOOK. PROC-ESS PRINTING SAMPLE SHEETS Taken from various creations in proc-ess colors produced by our craftsman. Pace press Incorporated, Graphic Arts Building, New York City, [n.d. but 1927]. [together with]. OSWALD, John Clyde. HOW TO BUY PRINTING PROFITABLY. New York, Pace Press. 1927.

Large 4to, pp. [58], [ii] blank, 134, [ii] blank, viii, index; some light browning and occasional soiling, but otherwise clean and bright; contemporary elaborately blind-stamped publisher’s boards, with gilt embossed printing press ‘crest’ on upper cover, attractive pressed decorative endpages, all edges gilt and with silk tie, head and tail of spine and joints a little rubbed and worn, with minor wear and bumping to extremities and corners; a very good copy. £225

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First edition thus, and a most handsome copy, of this beautifully executed and uncommon promotional book, published by the Pace Press of New York: a valuable insight into printing history. This highly evocative and striking publication includes specimen pages ‘of practical display’ advertising a range of colour printing processes, various modern typefaces and distinctive typography, examples of borders, ornaments and initials. The images reproduced have been drawn from a number of sources, and advertise famous firms and organisations such as Charles Scribner’s Sons, the American Type Founders Company, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer; Paramount; and the Electro-Tint Engaving Co., The present copy has also been bound with John Oswald’s noted and popular introduction to print purchasing, and which was ‘intended for business executives who buy printing of any kind in any quantity and who wish to secure full value for every dollar expended. It shows them how to avoid costly errors in the design of the printed piece as a whole, or in any of its various elements, such as paper, typography, and binding. It enables them to cooperate with the printer to the best advantage’ (foreword).

OCLC: 222475518 locates a copy at the Clark Art Institute and which gives a complete list of the advertisers.

166 [TRADE CATALOGUE – PHOTOGRAPHY]. ROCHESTER CAMERA MANUFACTURING COMPANY. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, Manufactured by Roches-ter Camera Mfg. Co., 13 Aqueduct Street. Rochester, N.Y. May, 1894.

8vo, pp. 28, with numerous illustrations of cameras and other photographic equipment; a little marginal browning, otherwise clean and crisp; stapled as issued in the original gilt embossed wrappers, together with the original mailing envelope (a little soiled), else very good. £275

A fine copy of this trade catalogue in the publisher’s original mailing envelope, of this detailed catalogue of photographic equipment for 1894.

‘The Rochester Camera Manufacturing Company was founded in 1891 by H.B. Carlton (the brother of W.F. Carlton, who founded the Rochester Optical Company in 1883), and immediately went into the production of view cameras and related accessories for professional and advanced amateurs. Noting the success of the earlier Lucidograph series, and then the sudden impact of the Folding Kodak and the Henry Clay, they sought to improve upon and emulate the self-casing design with a model of their own that would provide even lighter weight and more simplified function without sacrificing high quality professional potential. The result was the Folding Rochester of 1892. Like its predecessors, it was internally a simple view camera, a folding bellows stretched across a focusing track between a front lens standard and a rear ground glass screen, built into an integral boxy case that provided support when shooting and immediate protection when stored. However, it incorporated the varied aspects of the others into a more logical and cohesive whole for the first time’ (Silver, The 1892 Folding Rochester on-line resource).

OCLC lists no holding for this 1894 catalogue, and only lists two holding for the 1892 publication.

167 TROMMSDORFF, Johann Bartholomaus. CHEMISCHE RECEPTIR -KUNST oder Taschenbuch für praktische Aerzte welche bey dem Verord-nen der Arzneyen Fehler in chemischer und pharmaceutischer Hinsicht vermeiden wollen. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe. Erfurt, bey Beyer und Maring, 1799.


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8vo, pp 350, [2] blank; some foxing and browning throughout; upper corner of front free endpaper neatly excised (seemingly removing a signature); in nineteenth century? half-vellum over marbled boards, spine lettered in manuscript, spine rather soiled, covers slightly rubbed; a good copy. £385

Scarce second edition first issue (first 1797) of this extensive chemical receipt book, by the noted German chemist Johann Trommsdorff, described by Duveen as ‘probably the first textbook for making out prescriptions’ (Duveen p. 655). According to Cole, ‘the nomenclature used is that of Gren. The first edition was 1797, there was also a second edition dated 1799 with a third 1802, 4th 1807’ going through to a fifth edition in 1826 (seemingly also reprinted in 1844).

‘Johann Bartholomä Trommsdorff ... the professor of medicine at Erfurt, was first an apothecary and then professor of physics and chemistry in the university of Erfurt from 1795 till its dissolution in 1816. He also founded in 1796 a Chemico-Physical-Pharmaceutical Institute in Erfurt, which boarded the pupils and functioned for 33 years. Trommsdorff was a very highly esteemed man, well known in public life, becoming Director of the Academy of Applied Science at Erfurt. He was the author of many books and edited several journals… on analysis, gases, pharmacy, manufactures … and a history of chemistry’ (Partington III, pp 587–8). ‘The great aim of his life was to improve the scientific position of pharmacy, and the value and success of his efforts were universally recognized... His library, laboratory and apparatus, all provided by himself, were superior to those of many public institutions’ (Ferguson II p. 473).

Cole 1290 (1800 issue of the second edition); Duveen p. 654; Ferchl p. 543; Ferguson II p. 473 for the first edition of 1797; see Partington III, pp 587–8; OCLC: 14842919 cites copies at Chicago, the National Library of Medicine, Wisconsin and the Wellcome.

168 WEIDLER, Johann Friedrich. INSTITUTIONES GEOMETRIAE SUBTER-RANEAE Cum figuris Aeneis. Witembergae, Apud Vidvam Gerdesiam. MDCCXXVI. [1726].

4to, pp. 80; with four folding engraved plates; somewhat browned and foxed throughout due to paper quality (quite prominent in places), with dampstain affecting the upper margin of the four plates; in half-vellum over speckled boards, all edges red, head of spine lettered in manuscript; with faint armorial book-plate on front paste-down; a good copy. £675

First edition of this noted mathematical work in relation to mine surveying and engineering, and the first systematic compendium of ‘bergmännischen markscheidekunst’ (ADB). The plates show a number of geometric and geodical instruments. A second expanded edition was published in 1751, with a German translation by Fuxtaller in 1765.

Weidler (1691–1755) was professor of astronomy and mathematics at Wittenberg, and is also remembered for his noted astronomical history of 1741.

Poggendorf II, 1281; Dawson 7081; Sotheran, First supplement, 6644; OCLC: 17011995 cites copies at Berkeley, Michigan, Linda Hall, Oklahoma and Cambridge.

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