Medicina e salute

Traite Des Maladies Du Sein Et de la Regio Mammaire

A. Velpeau · 1858 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

Paris, Librairie de Victor Masson, 1858. Leather. A second edition copy of this French medical volume, with illustrations. A second edition. In the original French. A French medical volume on a treatise on diseases of the breast and the mammary region. With in-text illustra...

De Sedibus Et Causis Morborum Per Anatomen Indagatis Libri Quinque

Giovanni Battista Morgagni · 1820 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

Lutetiae, Apud M. C, Compere Juniorem , 1820-1821. Cloth. Volumes one and four of this important medical work by Morgagni, in the original Latin language. Latin language. Ninth edition. Volumes one and four of five only. A significant contribution to the study of medicine, con...

Physiologie: Medecine Et Metaphysique Du Magnetisme

J. Charpignon · 1851 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Bruxelles, Societe Typographique Belge, 1851. Leather. A detailed study on the medicine and metaphysics of animal magnetism, in the original French language. French language. A comprehensive study of animal magnetism, with reference to pheromones, nervous phenomena, ecstasy an...

1856 Essai Sur la Philosophie Mãƒâ©Dicale Et Sur Les Gãƒâ©Nãƒâ©Ralitãƒâ©S de la Clinique Mãƒâ©Dicale, Prãƒâ©Cãƒâ©Dãƒâ© D&Apos;Un Rãƒâ©Sumãƒâ© Philosophique Des Principaux Progrãƒâ¨S de la Mãƒâ©Decine

J. Bouillaud · 1836 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Paris, Rouvier et E. Le Bouvier, 1836. Leather. An uncommon essay in which the French physician Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud reflects on the progress of medicine. In this leather bound volume, French physician Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud summarises the main areas of progress in medicin...

The Harveian Oration on the Influence of Harvey&Apos;S Work in the Development of the Doctrine of Infection and Immunity

J. Mitchell Bruce · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1913. Cloth. A detailed account of the Harveian Oration as of 1913, written by John Mitchell Bruce. An account of the speech given by John Mitchell Bruce at the 1913 Harveian Oration. The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal ...

A Pharmacopoeia for Diseases of the Skin

John Startin · 1907 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Bristol, John Wright & Co. 1907. Cloth. A scarce sixth edition of this list of medicinal drugs for diseases of the skin. Sixth edition. Scarce work. An official publication containing a list of medicinal drugs intended for the treatment of diseases of the skin, with informatio...

Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic: Volume I

Sir Thomas Watson · 1871 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1871. Cloth. Volume I of a two volume set of this medical work by Sir Thomas Watson, known for the diagnosis of Watson's water hammer pulse. The fifth edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. A comprehensive Vic...

The True Theory and Practice of Husbandry: Deduced from Philosophical Researches, and Experience.

Cuthbert Clarke · 1781 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, G. Robinson; T. Slack, 1781. Leather. Cuthbert Clarke's very scarce late eighteenth century guide to animal husbandry, illustrated with five folding plates. A very scarce work, a reissue of the very scarce 1777 first edition, with a new title page and preface.Illu...

Human Osteology: Comprising a Description of the Bones

Luther Holden · 1857 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London , John Churchill, 1857. Leather. A second edition copy of Human Osteology, with plates. A second edition copy. Human Osteology: Comprising A Description of the Bones, with a delineation of the attachments of the muscles, the general and microscopic structure of bone an...

Buchan&Apos;S Domestic Medicine, Enlarged and Improved; or the Complete Family Physician

William Buchan · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Mathew Brown, c1850. Leather. A leather bound copy of Buchan's Domestic Medicine Or the Complete Family Physician. This is a copy of Buchan's Domestic Medicine, Enlarged and Improved; Or the Complete Family Physician: wherein are described the sy...

Recovery from Early Blindness a Case Study

Richard Langton Gregory; Jean G. Wallace · 1963 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Not Stated, Experimental Psychology Society Monograph, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this medical case study of recovery from blindness from the 1960s. First edition of Recovery From Early Blindness A Case Study by Richard Langton Gregory and Je...

A Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty

John Alexander Harvie-Browne; Thomas E. Buckley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this work cataloguing the animals inhabiting mainland Scotland's northernmost region Naturalists John Alexander Harvie-Brown and Thomas Buckley provide a comprehensive catalogue of the animals found ...

The Birds of Shetland

Mike Pennington; Kevin Osborn; Paul Harvey; Roger Riddington et al. · 2004 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Christopher Helm, 2004 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful copy of this beautifully illustrated study of the birds of Shetland. The first edition, first impression of this work, authored by seven committee members of the Shetland Bird Club.In the publisher's origi...

Historia Vitae Et Mortis

Francis Bacon · 1637 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Not Stated, Lugduni Batavorum; Joannis Mairs, 1637. Vellum. An early edition of this influential medical treatise on prolonging life by Francis Bacon, a sought after work by the important Tudor figure. In the original Latin.Register runs as *-******6, A-Q6, R4, T-Nn6, Oo10. C...

Dr Timothie Bright: A Survey of His Life with a Bibliography of His Writings

Geoffrey Keynes · 1962 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A highly illustrated survey of Dr Timothie Bright's life and works. First edition. First edition. Highly illustrated with 17 plates. Collated complete. The life and works of Dr Timothie Bright, a...

A Treatise on Diet

J. A. Paris · 1828 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Thomas & George Underwood, 1828. Cloth. A fascinating 19th century treatise on diet by distinguished physician and medical researcher John Ayrton Paris. The third, corrected and enlarged, edition of this work in a cloth library binding, with a binder's label to th...

The Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Thomas Browne Including Miscellany Tracts and Repertorium

Sir Thomas Browne; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. Cloth. A scarce anthology of works by the polymath Sir Thomas Browne, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This edition of Sir Thomas Browne&apos...

Institutions de Chirurgie

Laurent Heister [Lorenz Heister]; Paul [trans.] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

Paris, P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, 1771. Leather. Two volumes of Laurent Heister's impressive work of surgical history, illustrated with forty folding plates depicting surgical procedures and tools. The first two volumes only of the four volume second French language translati...

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 · 1985 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Southampton , Ashford Press Publishing , 1985. Cloth. A handsome new edition of this classic work regarding wildfowl and seafowl, with shooting instructions. The second edition. Handsomely bound in the original full cloth with gilt detail and pictorial cover. With a frontispie...

The Flora of Oxfordshire

Richard Walker · 1833 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Oxford, Henry Slatter; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; and Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1833 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this early nineteenth century botany book with illustrations/ First edition of The Flora of Oxfordshire, and its ...