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Catalogue 180: the Physician's Pulse-Watch The Physician’s Pulse-Watch JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS C A T A L O G U E · 1 8 0 The Physician’s Pulse-Watch Catalogue 180 2105 This instalment of the MEDICAL CATALOGUE series offers all recent acquisitions in the history of medicine. The reader will find a selection of eighteenth century and earlier works, including Albinus, Cruikshank, Fouquet, Goulard, Hahnemann, Haller, Hoffman, Malpighi, Pellerin and perhaps highlighted by a lovely copy of Jenner’s Cow-Pox, 1798, and a choice copy of Floyer’s The Physician’s Pulse-Watch , is found at item 51. NO BOOKS OR LIQUOR met with a determined end back in 1839. For that story read entry #14 Bell and learn of the remarkable affection for books and booze that were one man’s vice, being his lust for life and all things tasteful (that without them he would not want to live!). www.WeberRareBooks.com On the site are more than 10,000 antiquarian books in the fields of science, medicine, Americana, classics, books on books and fore- edge paintings. The books in current catalogues are not listed on-line until mail-order clients have priority. Our inventory is available for viewing by appointment – though a move is in the offing and no place found yet…. Terms are as usual. Shipping extra. RECENT CATALOGUES: 176: Revolutions in Science (469 items) 177: Sword & Pen (202 items) 178: Wings of Imagination (416 items) 179: Jeff’s Fables (127 items) COVER: (clockwise) PELLERIN/ARNAUD, JENNER, HALLER (2) Jeff Weber & Mahshid Essalat-Weber J E F F W E B E R R A R E B O O K S PO Box 3368, Glendale, California 91221-0368 1274 Via Conejo Escondido, California 92029 TELEPHONES: cell: 323 333-4140 e-mail: [email protected] 1. ADLER, Robert E . Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome . New York: John Wiley and Sons, (2004). ¶ 8vo. vii, 232 pp. Illus., index. Hardback, dust-jacket. Very good +. ISBN: 0471401757 / 0-471-40175-7 $ 12 2. [Academie Royal de Chirurgie ]. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Parisischen Akademie der Chirurgie. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Johann Ernst Zeiher . Altenberg: Paul Emanuel Richter, 1755-60. ¶ Small 4to. 2 volumes [vols. 2 & 3 of 5]. a 4, a- l4, m 2, A-3Y 4, 3Z 2; [*] 4, a-s, A-4P 4, 4Q 2. Pagination: [8], LXXXXII, 548; [VIII], 144, 672, [4] pp. Black letter. Vol. 2 contains 22 1 engraved folding plates; vol. 3: with 19 engraved folding plates, list of plates, errata, index. Original paper boards, manuscript titles on spine; corners bumped, foxing, light toning, dampstains on covers and pages. $ 235 First German edition, translated from the French. The essays are written by some of the leading members of the French Academie in the mid eighteenth century. “Two steps more put the surgeons on a social and scientific level with the doctors, viz. the foundation of the Academy of Surgery, the first session of which was held on December 18, 1731; and the ordinance of Louis XV (1743), delivering the surgeons from further association with barbers and wig-makers, who were forbidden to practice, while no one could be a master in surgery thereafter without being a master of the arts.... The King was inspired to make this wise move by François de la Peyronie (1678-1747) the eminent Montpellier surgeon who, with Georges Mareschal (1658-1736) had founded the Academy of Surgery and, in fact, devoted his entire fortune to the advancement of his beloved art.” – Garrison. The prefatory history of the French Royal Academy of Surgery is a valuable resource (in 2 parts: pages I-LXXXXII; 1-144), “Historie der Königlichen Akademie der Chirurgie” begins with the 1731 founding of the society, and carries it through (in volume III) to 1757. The French original “Memoirs” were begun in 1743. In all there are 71 medical papers translated from French to German. In the original Ash lists four Garrison and Morton papers (Virgil 3248, François de la La Peyronie 4163, Jacques Daviel 5829, Henri François Le Dran 2607). Jean L. Petit’s paper on ulcers of the liver appears on p. 54. Other contributors include Verdier, Morand, Benomont, Talin, Recolin, R.J.C. de Garengeot (amputation of the leg), Belloq, Louis, Thränensistel, de la Fouse, Guerin, Lafette, la Faye, Veyretm Boucher, Simon, Suret (a belt device for exomphalos during pregnancy), Daviel, Coutavos, Hoyn, Bordenave, Foubert, Guiot, Le Dran, Mareschal, 1 Bound correctly, but numbered out of sequence, thus starting with plate II, but plate I appears later, plates XIX and XX correctly placed, but again out of sequence. Moreau, Bertrandi, H. Houstet on swelling of the bones [Abhandlung von den Geschwulsten der walzenförmigen Knochen], Recolin, Levret, Hevin, Guattani, Sabatier, Pipelet, Pibrac, Düphenir, Moscati, Foubert, Andouille, Civadier, Vercher and often there are multiple papers by these persons. ☼ Waller 7196 (vols. 1 & 2 only). OCLC: 183354013 (1 copy). Not in Blake/NLM, Wellcome. RLIN, KVK. 3. AELIAN, Claudius [Aelianus] (circa 175 - 235 AD); Johann Gottlob SCHNEIDER (1750-1822) (ed.). Ailianou peri zoon idiotetos biblia iz [Greek]. Aeliani de Natura Animalium libri XVII. Graece et Latine cum priorum interpretum et suis animadversionibus edidit Jo. Gottlob Schneider. Lipsiae: E. B. Schwickerti, 1784. ¶ Two parts in one. Greek and Latin text. 8vo. X, 585, [21]; 228, [44], [2 blank] pp. Indexes; split btw. pp. [7-8 of first index]. Original half leather over brown and black marbled boards, all edges red; heavily worn, front cover off and spine fragmented. Red ink signatures on titles. As is: internally very good internally but with a poor binding. RARE. $ 125 First Schneider edition. On the Nature of Animals (“On the Characteristics of Animals”), is a collection of curious brief stories of natural history or the animal kingdom. The present volume offers stories relating to animal coitus (IX, 63), ants (formicae), beaver (castoreum), crocodiles, dragons, elephants, hippopotamus, horses, hyena, Ibis, lapis, lion, Moon (Lunae), partridge (perdicis), poultry (gallinacius), rabbit (lepus), sheep (ovis), vultures, creatures from mythology, etc. Sandys comments on the advances in Greek lexicography made by Johann Gottlob Schneider, “in critical skill and method.” “Schneider did much in the way of collecting and explaining technical and scientific terms. His knowledge of natural science, in combination with classical literature, is exemplified … in his editions of the zoological works of Aelian and Aristotle. (p. 11). ☼ Wellcome [2432048R]. See: John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship , III, p. 11. 4. ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770). Academicarum Annotationum …. Leidae: J. & H. Verbeek, 1754-1758. ¶ Four (of 8) parts in two volumes. 4to. 104, [2], 114, [2 blank]; 120, 118, [2] pp. 28 folding plates (7 at (or near) rear of each section), index; some crinkling, light browning esp. at edges, ink stain on title of part one. 20 th century textured brown gilt-stamped cloth; extremities rubbed, rear library pockets removed. Bookplates of Columbia University and small aqua rubber ink stamps [“dupl.”] on titles with ink signature of H.D. Kalmus [etc.] on side edge margin of titles. Very good. $ 200 FIRST EDITION. Parts one through four, of the eventual eight published between 1754-1768. With the full complement of plates associated with the first four parts, each executed by Jan Wandelaer. These works includes Albinus’s anatomic-physiologic studies on humans, including the teeth, and even animals. Interestingly, Albinus denied the concept of a “nerve liquid” (supported by both Boerhaave and Haller), not believing that nerves played a primary role in muscular contraction, he stated that the “movement principle” resided in the muscle fiber itself. He also denied that the body consisted entirely of vessels, and sought to find the body’s primal substance in its membranes. These views brought Albinus into dispute with Haller. Nevertheless, Albinus experimented with membranes before Haller did and “it seems plausible that Albinus even simulated Haller’s efforts in this direction” - Punt, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus…, p. 94 and pp. 90-93. ☼ Blake, NLM, p. 9; Choulant-Frank, p. 283; Cushing A102; Heirs of Hippocrates 838 [7 parts of 8]; Waller 336 (parts 1-3 only); Wellcome II, p. 26. 5. Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770). Historia Musculorum Hominis . Leidae Batavorum: Apud Theodorum Haak & Henricum Mulhovium, 1734. ¶ [Head of title:] Bernardi Siegfried Albini, Anatomes & Chirurgiae in Academia Batava, Quae Leidae est Professoris. 4to. 696 pp. Printer’s device on title, initials, head and tailpieces, 4 copperplate engraved plates by Jan Wandelaar are numbered as pages (pp. 631, 635, 639, 643) as part of the collation, each plate shows an outline drawing of a life-size hand with detailed labels (letters/numbers) for the anatomical parts, each of the four plates respectively represent the muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones of the hand; Missing the 4 fine engraved plates of the hand, occasional light foxing, browning esp. at deckled edges. Later quarter gilt-stamped maroon cloth over original marbled boards; board edges frayed, hinges reinforced with white tape, library envelope mounted on rear pastedown, book description mounted on front pastedown. Bookplates of George Sumner Huntington and Columbia University. Very good. $ 200 First edition. “The aspect of suffering and pain is totally absent from Albinus’s Historia musculorum hominis, published in 1 734, almost 50 years after Bidloo first published his anatomical atlas. Together with his work on the human bones, Albinus’s atlas has been seen as one of ‘the most influential atlases of the idealized sort’ The ‘repulsive’ image of anatomical reality, which was so striking in Bidloo’s atlas, is completely absent in Albinus’s work. His skeletons and musclemen are clean and attractive representations of perfectly proportioned bodies. … I argue that even though the skeletons and muscle manikins do not carry traditional vanitas motives, they still have a moral message, which is closely connected to Albinus’s particular notion of perfection.” p.
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