Medicina e salute

Navy (Health). Statistical Report on the Health of the Navy

Algernon Egerton; C. Inigo Thomas; O. Murray et al. · 1869 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.11 | ¥61,177)

London, HMSO, 1869-1915 . First edition. Paperback. Six fascinating and very scarce volumes of Royal Navy medical reports and statistical health data, offering insight into the health of the navy between 1869 and 1915. Six very scarce 19th and 20th century reports of the healt...

The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable

Allan Ovenden Collard · 1902 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Joseph Collard, 1902. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this illustrated study of the oysters and dredgers of Whitstable, a town on the north coast of Kent, England. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images including a doub...

The Domestic Dictionary: Comprising Everything Pertaining to Cookery, Diet, Economy, and Medicine

Gibbons Merle; John Reitch · 1857 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, James Blackwood, 1857 . Leather. A fascinating dictionary of cookery terms, recipes, medical terms and treatments, written by Gibbons Merle and Dr. John Reitch. First published a decade prior, this is an impressive and extensive dictionary, documenting many useful word...

The Book of the Havana Cigar

Brian Innes · 1983 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Orbis Publishing, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated compendium about the "king of cigars" from member of The Temperance Seven, Brian Innes. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.An intriguing history o...

The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing Them

Sir Ralph Payne Gallwey · 1882 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Jan Van Voorst, 1882. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Ralph Payne-Gallwey's sporting work on hunting wildfowl and seafowl with notes on their habitats, beautifully illustrated and bound in crushed half morocco. The first edition. Illustrated with a m...

Some Lectures by the Late Sir George E. Paget

Sir George E. Paget; Charles E. Paget · 1893 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Cambridge, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1893. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of lectures from English physician Sir George Edward Paget, with a memoir of his life. First edition. Uncommon work. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of lecture...

A Labrador Doctor

Sir Wilfred Grenfell · 1930 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930 . Cloth. A signed example of the autobiography of Sir Wildred Grenfell, with an original illustration from the author to the front free endpaper. In the original dust wrapper. Inscribed by the author 'Wilfred Grenfell, Labrador, Oct. 193...

A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, and State Medicine

Michael Ryan · 1836 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1836. Cloth. A very scarce textbook on medical jurisprudence, by Michael Ryan, this being the enlarged second edition. The second edition, enlarged and improved.A very scarce work.A fantastic explorination on medical jurisprudence, explori...

The Works of Aristotle in Four Parts

Aristotle [William Salmon] · 1793 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, Printed for and sold by all the Booksellers , 1793. Leather. An eighteenth century edition of this important and controversial work on sex, childbirth and pregnancy, considered to be the first English sex manual and written anonymously under the guise of being a work o...

Gilpin&Apos;S Forest Scenery

William Gilpin; Francis George Heath [editor] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Cloth. A scarce copy of this illustrated work on English woodlands and forestry. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A commentary on English woodlands and forests, with cha...

The Theory of Decrementless Conduction in Narcotised Region of Nerve & the Further Studies on Decrementless Conduction

Genichi Kato · 1924 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Hongo, Tokyo , Nankodo , 1924 . First edition. Cloth. A pair of works by Japanese physiologist Genichi Kato, presenting his theory of decrementless conduction. Comprised of the first edition of 'The Further Studies on Decremtless Conduction' and the second edition of...

The Disorders of Speech

John Wyllie · 1894 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1894 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dr. John Wyllie's very scarce illustrated discussion of speech disorders, and their causes and treatments. Retaining the 'physiological alphabet' frontispiece. A very scarce first edit...

Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord

John Abercrombie · 1829 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Edinburgh, Waugh and Innes, 1829 . Leather. The enlarged second edition of John Abercrombie's detailed account of his research into the diseases of the brain and spinal cord, a significant early work in neurology and neuropathology. The second edition of this work.Author ...

Epilepsy and Other Affections of the Nervous System

Charles Bland Radcliffe · 1854 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, John Churchill, 1854 . First edition. Cloth. An authors presentation copy of the first edition of this vanishingly scarce mid-nineteenth century study of epilepsy and the nervous system. Inscribed by the author to the half title head with 'Dr. Fincham, from the au...

Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice

Marie Carmichael Stopes · 1927 · Rooke Books

£158.00 (€189.39 | $208.73 | ¥33,331)

London, John Bale, Sons & Danielson, 1927 . Cloth. An excellent copy of the "new and enlarged" second edition of Marie Stope"s enormously influential guide to the use of contraception, illustrated with plates. First published in 1923, this is the enlarged second edition, with ...

New and Correct Tables of Interest

John Bettesworth · 1778 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Alex Hogg, 1778. First edition. Cloth. A scarce mathematical volume presenting various interest rates through accessible tables, the first edition of this work by John Bettesworth. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, depicting the Ban...

Recollections of Edward Bury

Priscilla Susan Bury · 1860 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.24 | $1,710.77 | ¥273,189)

Windermere, John Garnett, 1860. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this touching memoir on the life of locomotive manufacturer Edward Bury, a very scarce work written by his widow. The first edition of this very scarce work.Original wraps are bound in.Illustrated with ...

Le Tresor de la Cuisine Du Bassin Mediterraneen Par 70 Medecins de France

Prosper Montagne · 1938 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

None stated, Laboratories Du Dr Zizine, [1938]. First edition. Paperback. The first edition of this fascinating collection of recipes from doctors in the Mediterranean Basin, in the very scarce original glassine and previously owned by cookery writer Elizabeth David. The first...

The Practical Measurer; or, Tradesman and Wood Merchant&Apos;S Assistant: Containing a Variety of Tables, Showing the Superficial and Solid Content of Round, Square, and Unequal Sided Timber or Stone; Designed for the Use of Artificers, Wrights, Carpenters, Sawyers, Plasterers, Glaziers, Builders, Masons, Bricklayers, Wood Merchants, Painters, Ditchers, Causeway-Layers, Etc.

Alexander Peddie · 1833 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Glasgow , Blackie and Son, 1833. Leather. An impressive practical measuring guide, intended for tradesmen and wood merchants, from Scottish physician Alexander Peddie. This work of metrology comprises a series of tables, showing the contents of round, square and unequal sided ...

A Short Inquiry Into the Profitable Nature of Our Investments

Robert Lucas Nash · 1880 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, Effingham Wilson , 1880 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of R. L. Nash's guide to public securities and investments, partially compiled from his articles in The Economist. The first edition of this very scarce work.By Robert Lucas Nash,...