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B & L ROOTENBERG - Fine & Rare Books Post Office Box 5049 B Sherman Oaks, California 91403 Telephone: [818] 788-7765 Telefax: [818] 788-8839 [email protected] www.rootenbergbooks.com A SELECTION OF BOOKS EXHIBITED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE CHICAGO, MAY 9-10, 2014 * * * * * * * * * * * RARE TREATISE ON RESUSCITATION 1. [ANONYMOUS]. Methodo facil de curar la asfixia, ò muerte aparente de los ahogados; sacado de las excelentes obras de Mons. Tisot, Cathedratico de Medicina de la sociedad de Londres, y Mons. Louis, de la Academia de Cirugia de Paris. [n.p.: n.p., ca. 1770]. 4to. First and only edition of this rare (no copies located) Spanish memoir dedicated to resuscitating people that have drowned or suffocated. Included is a full-page woodcut depicting the tobacco smoke resuscitation device used to revive unconscious persons. $ 2500.00 FIRST ILLUSTRATION OF AN EXTRACTED TOOTH 2. [ARISTOTLE]. LEONICO TOMEO, Niccoló. Opuscula nuper in lucem aedita quorum nomina proxima habentur pagella. [Venice: Bernardinius Vitalis, February, 1525]. 4to. Historiated initials and numerous woodcut text diagrams. Eighteenth-century vellum, ties; interior with wide margins. First edition of this celebrated work on the physiology, biology, natural history and embryology of Aristotle. Of major significance is one of the earliest printed commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus, a mythical theory of the universe of phenomena-physiology, nutrition, respiration, disease, and locomotion. This work probably contains the first commentary on dentistry, together with two illustrations of dental forceps holding an extracted tooth. $ 8500.00 B & L ROOTENBERG – Fine & Rare Books IDENTIFYING THE OVUM 3. BAER, Karl Ernst von. De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi epistolam. Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1827. 4to. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. First edition of Baer=s famous discovery of the mammalian ovum, a classic in the history of embryology. $ 38,000.00 SPECIAL COPY -- THE FIRST SKIN GRAFT 4. BARONIO, Giuseppe. Degli innesti animali. Milan: Dalla Stamperia e Fonderia del Genio, 1804. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 2 copperplates. A superb uncut copy on large and extra thick paper in the original hand-blocked printed wrappers. Contemporary (possibly author’s) text annotations. First edition. This landmark work in the history of plastic surgery details the results of Baronio’s experiments on autogenous skin grafting in animals at the close of the eighteenth century, the first such study to be carried out in scientifically organized experiments. $ 4500.00 MEDICINE, WHILE NOT PERFECT, IS INDEED AN ART 5. BARTLETT, Elisha. An inquiry into the degree of certainty in medicine; and into the nature and extent of its power over disease. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth. First edition of this brief treatise in which the author advocates the value of medical treatment. He attempts to show that while medicine is not perfect, it is indeed a science and an art. As an example, he discusses pneumonia and the virtues of bloodletting for favorably influencing the outcome of the disease, if for nothing else but to show the profession’s general knowledge of symptoms and remedies of a particular malady. $ 300.00 DETAILED PLATES OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS 6. BERNARD, C[laude] and HUETTE, Ch[arles]. Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire et d’anatomie chirurgicale. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1854. 8vo. Complete with engraved frontispiece of Vesalius and 113 plates (88 of which are hand colored). Contemporary quarter calf. Third edition. In this enormously popular book on surgical practices, operations ranging from orthopedic to plastic and general surgeries are all shown with amazing, sometimes even disturbing detail. Proper instruments and techniques, such as suturing, are also set forth in the beginning of the volume. As something of a step-by-step guide that provided an enormous amount of practical information, this manual went through several editions and was translated into a number of languages, enjoying popularity through the end of the nineteenth century. Included separately with this copy is a collection of the separate parts, issued to subscribers. $ 900.00 B & L ROOTENBERG – Fine & Rare Books MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF ANAESTHESIA 7. BERNARD, Claude. Leçons sur les anesthésiques et sur l’asphyxie. Paris: Baillire, 1875. 8vo. Text illustrations and diagrams. Original printed wrappers, uncut and partially unopened. First edition. Bernard was one of the first to advocate an adequate oxygen supply during anesthesia, as well as the first to suggest pre-anesthetic medication with morphine and other central nervous system depressants. $ 800.00 ULCER DETECTOR 8. BERNAY, Pierre. La gastrophotographie. Paris: Maison et Cie., 1931. 8vo. With 24 plates containing 94 stereographic photographs tipped in. Original printed wrappers. First edition of Bernay’s notable account of the innovative method of gastrophotography invented two years earlier by the Czech physician Otto Porges and perfected by Bernay and the French clinician Charles Garin through their research. This revolutionary technique allowed not only a more accurate and less painful way to detect ulcers but enabled a clearer analysis of the state of the gastric mucus of ulcers. Accompanying the text are plates of original black and white stereographic photographs, portraying and comparing various states of the normal, pathologic, and post-operative stomach. $ 450.00 A FOUNDATION OF TISSUE PATHOLOGY 9. BICHAT, Xavier. Traité des membranes en général et de diverses membranes en particular. Paris: Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier, An VIII (1800). 8vo. An uncut copy in the original wrappers. First edition of what many consider Bichat’s best work, the foundation of histology and tissue pathology. It is here that he classifies and describes 21 kinds of tissue and membranes, a generalization of Pinel’s earlier work, according to their texture and properties. $ 1200.00 IMPORTANT WORK ON CELL THEORY 10. BORDEU, M. Theophile de. Recherches sur le tissu muqueux, ou l=organe cellulaire, et sur quelques maladies de la poitrine. Paris: Ches Pierre Franc. Didot Le Jeune, 1767. 12mo. First edition. Considered one of the most important works in the history of cell theory, Bordeu Adescribed connective tissue - under the name mucous tissue - showing its role in exchanges, the phenomena of nutrition, and the mechanical equilibrium of organs and tissues@ (DSB). $ 650.00 A BRANDED BOOK 11. BRAVO DE PIEDRAHITA, Juan. De curandi ratione per medicamenti purgantis exhibitionem libri. III. Salamanca: Cornelius Bonardus, expensis Joannis Pulmanni Theod. filii, 1588. 8vo. Contemporary calf, with the top edge branded! First edition of this very rare and influential medical work which pioneered the renaissance of Spanish medicine at the University of Salamanca. Bravo treats the nature of disease and health, covering such topics such as food, environment, treatment of pain, human senses, as well as the use of drugs and narcotics. $ 4500.00 BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE EAR 12. BRESCHET, Gilbert. Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur l’organe de l’ouie et sur l’audition, dans l’homme et les animaux vertébrés. Paris, 1836. 4to. With 13 plates (1 mezzotint). Second edition of this important treatise on the anatomy of the human ear. $ 750.00 B & L ROOTENBERG – Fine & Rare Books WITH A LENGTHY BIBLIOGRAPHY 13. BROUSSEAU, KATE & BRAINERD, H. G. Mongolism: a study of physical and mental characteristics of mongolian imbeciles. Revised by H. H. Brainerd. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1928. 8vo. Complete with 30 photographs on 18 leaves, numerous graphs, tables and text illustrations, index and appendix of case reports, and 19-page bibliography. In the back of the book is a 2-page description of the process of printing the book (“Sans Tache”). Library buckram. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title. First edition of this valuable study of mongolism, the most comprehensive overview of the contemporary literature. The authors show that the generally accepted theories explaining the cause of Mongolism, such as alcoholism and mental strain on the part of the mother during birth, are not supported by statistics. $ 600.00 SIXTEENTH CENTURY HERBAL REMEDIES 14. BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus. Hauss apoteck, zu yeden leibs gebresten fur den gemainen mann und das arm Landvolck. [Augsburg: Hainrich Stainer, 1545]. 4to. Woodcut title by Hans Weiditz depicts a man raking the earth and woman gathering herbs. Among the other woodcuts are illustrations of a herb garden, an apothecary shop, and a banqueting scene. Second edition (first 1537) of Brunschwig’s popular pharmacology and distillation manual, based on his Thesaurus pauperum, which formed Book Five of his Liber de arte distillandi, also called Grosses destillierbuch. Brunschwig’s advice on herbal remedies became the authority throughout the sixteenth century. Prescriptions are offered for marital compatibility, good memory, happiness, drunkenness and fright. In addition, he describes a number of liqueurs and elixirs; the most curious is a section on intoxication with a large woodcut depicting a wild party. $ 6000.00 A MONUMENTAL SURGICAL TEXT 15. CALLISEN, Heinrich. Principia systematis chirurgiae hodiernae in usum publicum et privatum adornata. Copenhagen: Chr. Gottlob Proft., 1788-90. Two volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf, elaborate gilt spines; an extremely attractive set. First edition