79 150
171
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ACKERMANN, JACOB FIDELIS.
Über die Kretinen, eine besondere Men-
schenart in den Alpen.
Folding engraved plate. 124 pages. 8vo, 186x117 mm, contemporary
boards; dampstain in lower outer corner of a few leaves toward beginning.
Gotha: in der Ettingerschen Buchhandlung, 1790
[150/250]
FIRST EDITION
of a study of the occurrence of cretinism in the Swiss Alps.
172
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ALPINI, PROSPERO.
De medicina methodica libri tredecim.
[44], 424
pages. Folio, 298x203 mm, later boards, top of spine damaged; occasional heavy browning.
Padua: Lorenzo Pasquato for Francesco Bolzetta, 1611
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
of a treatise on the doctrines of the methodist school of Greco-Roman medi-
cine. Krivatsy 238.
173
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(ANESTHESIA.) Morton, W. T. G.
Remarks on the Proper Mode of
Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation.
44 pages, including half-title; text
complete, lacking only unnumbered final leaf with “Opinions of the Press.” 8vo, 169x106
mm, 20th-century blue buckram, spine faded; contents toned, portion of blank lower mar-
gin excised from 2 leaves.
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1847
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
of a booklet containing complete instructions for administering ether, “one of
the rarest and most important of Morton’s publications”—Fulton & Stanton IV.22. Garrison-
Morton 5653; not in Howell.
174
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ARTEMIDORUS.
Dell’Interpretatione de Sogni.
[16], 293, [1] pages. 8vo,
165x102 mm, contemporary limp boards, worn; intermittent browning or toning, marginal
dampstaining through much of volume. Bookplate of Brooklyn Public Library on front
pastedown, their perforated stamp and accession number on title.
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547
[250/350]
Italian version by Pietro Lauro of a 2nd-century A.D. work on dreams, “the most important of
the ancient treatises on the subject” (Sarton); the Greek original was first published by the
Aldine press in 1518. Durling 324; Hoffmann I, 383; Sarton I, 295.
175
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BARTHOLIN, THOMAS.
Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria
I et II [III et IV].
14 (of 15) engraved plates; lacks plate in second volume. [16], 360, [8];
[8], 430, [8], 45, [2] pages. Together, 2 (of 3) volumes. 8vo, 147x85 mm, 18th-century
1
/
2
sheep gilt; contents browned.
Copenhagen: Petrus Hakius for Petrus Hauboldus, 1654-57
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
The third volume appeared in 1661. “The present set of anatomical observa-
tions . . . contains descriptions and illustrations of anatomical anomalies and normal structures,
together with some brief case histories of unusual anatomical and clinical structures”—Heirs of
Hippocrates 512. Krivatsy 831.
MEDICAL BOOKS
Lots 171-235
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