Medicina e salute

Ligaments: Their Nature and Morphology

John Bland-Sutton · 1902 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.34 | ¥28,479)

London, H.K Lewis, 1902. Cloth. Work on ligaments written by eminent surgeon John Sutton-Bland, containing inscription to anatomist and controversial figure Arthur Keith Ink inscription on the half title addressed to anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Keith 'with the aut...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Pleiades Books Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by biologist E. L. Watson in the original publisher's dust wrapper with illustrations. The first edition of Departures by E. L. Grant Watson in the original publis...

Montevideo Bajo El Azote Epidemico

Heraclio C. Fajardo · 1857 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Montevideo, Imprenta del Sr. Rosete, 1857. First edition. Cloth. Colorado Party politician Heraclio C. Fajardo's contemporary account of the mid eighteenth century Uruguayan Yellow Fever epidemic. The very scarce first edition. In the original Spanish.The very scarce firs...

A History of Immunology

Arthur M. Silverstein · 1989 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Academic Press, Inc. 1989. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this third impression study of immunology by Arthur Silverstein, in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, third impression of this work. American immunologist Arthur M. Silverstein retraces the ...

Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World

R. T. Pritchett · 1899 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Edward Arnold, 1899. First edition. Vellum. A delightful collection of sketches by R. T. Pritchett relating to ships around the world. Detailing all manner of beautiful boats, including the 'Britannia', 'Sunbeam' and 'Victoria and Albert',...

Collected Works of the New Sydenham Society

Various · 1859 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.01 | $2,906.33 | ¥464,105)

London, The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901. Cloth. A very scarce and important medical collection comprising sixty-one volumes including an index, printed by the New Sydenham Society, with many of the works appearing in the English language for the first time. The New Sydenha...

Collected Works of the Syndenham Society

Various · 1844 · Rooke Books

£4,400.00 (€5,274.02 | $5,812.67 | ¥928,210)

London, The Sydenham Society, 1844-56. Cloth. A scarce set of nineteen of the forty volumes published by the original Sydenham Society, the majority bound in the original cloth. An important collection of medical works. Founded in the early 1840s, the Sydenham Society publishe...

Respiration

John Haldane; John Gillies Priestley · 1935 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935. Cloth. The very scarce revised edition of a ground breaking work on the science of breathing. The combined work of John Haldane and John Priestley, physiologists who while working together at Oxford University established the role of carbon dioxi...

Armamentarium Chirurgicum

Johannes Scultetus · 1972 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Germany, Editions Medicina Rara LTD; Druckerei Holzer, 1972. Leather. A near fine limited edition facsimile of Johannes Scultetus' important surgical guidebook, here with the original engravings. A limited edition work, limited to twenty-eight hundred copies, of which thi...

The Wild Flowers of Repton

William Wyatt; C. G. Thornton · 1866 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Bemrose and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce study of the flora of Repton, illustrated with a folding map. The very scarce first edition of this work.A study of the natural wild flora of Repton, a village in South Derbyshire, on t...

Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology British Museum

J W Gregory · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Longmans and Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition set of this uncommon work regarding the Fossil Bryozoa in the British Museum. Bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes 'Presented by the Trustees of The British Museum' and to the re...

Medical Notes and Reflections

Henry Holland · 1839 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sir Henry Holland's interesting collection of essays on a variety of medical subjects. The first edition of this work. A collection of essays and articles discussing variou...

Life, Health, and Disease

Edward Johnson · 1852 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1852. Cloth. An uncommon and very smart copy of Edward Johnson's educational work on various aspects of sciences and medicines. In the original publisher's cloth. An uncommon work.With a half-title.Fourteenth thousand.A collection of...

Leãƒâ§Ons de Clinique Medicale Faites a L&Apos;Hopital de la Charitãƒâ©

S. Jaccoud · 1874 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, Libraire-Editeur, 1874. Leather. A nicely bound collection of illustrated medicals lessons by the Swiss physician Sigismond Jaccoud. Including lectures on the treatment of pneumonia, bronchial dilatation, aortic insufficiency, and pericarditis. Sigismon...

The Natural History of Selborne and Observations on Nature

Gilbert White · 1904 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Toronto , Musson Book Co. Ltd, 1904. Cloth. A pleasing two-volume set of White's illustrated Natural History of Selborne and Observations on Nature with black and white photographic illustrations by Clifton Johnson throughout. In the publisher's original cloth. Compl...

The Fowler in Ireland: Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wild Fowl and Sea Fowl

Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey · 1882 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

London, John Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Cloth. A comprehensive guide into shooting birds across Ireland, including a variety of illustrations and boat designs, written by ballistics expert Ralph Payne-Gallwey. The first edition of The Fowler in Ireland: Notes on the Haun...

The Household Physician in Four Volumes

J. M'Gregor-Robertson · 1897 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin, Blackie & Son, Limited, 1897-1898. Cloth. A set of medical reference books: The Household Physician. Complete in four volumes. Talwin Morris Bindings. A Family Guide to the Preservation of Health and to the Domestic Treatment of Ailments...

Nutritional Ophthalmology

Donald S. McLaren · 1980 · Rooke Books

£107.99 (€129.44 | $142.66 | ¥22,781)

London, Academic Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. A clean copy of Donald McLaren's 'Nutritional Ophthalmology&apos. Nutritional Ophthalmology is "an updated, totally revised and considerably expanded edition" of Donald McLaren's 1963 text, Malnutrition and the...

Tables of Interest, Discount, Annuities &C First Published in the Year 1724 by John Smart and Now Revised, Enlarged and Improved

Charles Brand · 1780 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.09 | ¥21,094)

London, T Longman, 1780. Leather. This is an uncommon (fifth) edition of the noted actuary guide by John Smart. To which is added an appendix containing some observations on the general probability of life. John Smart was a pioneer of the actuarial science and his original tab...

Fibroids of the Uterus Their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment

Sir John Bland-Sutton · 1913 · Rooke Books

£78.00 (€93.49 | $103.04 | ¥16,455)

London, Science Reviews, 1913. Leather. A medical reference work entitled 'Fibroids of the Uterus', illustrated with several digrams throughout. Produced as a part of the 'London Series of Handbooks' from Science Reviews Ltd. Undated, dated from preface and...