Medicina e salute

Supplimento Al Manuale Di Medicina E Chirurgia Legale

Felice Pasqualone · 1820 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Napoli, Stamperia Francese, 1820. Leather. A very scarce medical supplement by Felice Pasqualone, in the original Italian. A very scarce Italian supplement to 'Manuale di Medicina e Chirurgia Legale&apos.This supplement offers a brief medical-judicial commentary on the ne...

Materia Medica Vegetabile Ed Animale Ossi Dizionario Compendioso

L. V. Brugnatelli [Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli] · 1816 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Napoli, Da'torchi di Luca Marotta, 1816 . Leather. A smart copy of Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli's work on medicines derived from animals and plants. In the original Italian.First published in 1811, this is a scarce early edition of this work from the Italian chemist a...

Universae Medicinae Theoreticae Liber I. Anatomia Praelectiones

Francisco Bagno · 1786 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Neapoli, Ex Typographia Amati Cons, 1786 . Vellum. A very scarce late eighteenth century collection of lectures on anatomy. In the original Latin.A very scarce work by Francisco Bagno, the first volume in a three volume medical work, with this volume consisting of lectures on ...

Essai Sur L&Apos;Economie Rurale de L&Apos;Angleterre, de L&Apos;Ecosse Et de L&Apos;Irlande

Leonce de Lavergne · 1882 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Paris, Guillaumin et cie , 1882. Leather. A leather bound copy of Essai sur L'Economie Rurale de L'Angleterre, de L'Ecosse et de L'Irlande by Leonce de Lavergne. A fifth edition copy of Essai sur L'Economie Rurale de L'Angleterre, de L'Ecosse...

Des Maladies Contagieuses Des Betes a Laine

Adrien de Gasparin · 1821 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

Paris, De l'Imprimerie et dans la Librarie de Madame Huzard, 1821. Hardback. A scarce copy of this detailed study of contagious diseases in animals bred for wool, in the original French language. French language. Scarce work. A detailed study of contagious diseases in ani...

Ayurved-Vigyan-Mimansa Scientific Investigation & Exposition of Ayurved

Dr. Prasadilal Jha · 1932 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Cawnpore, Brahman Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An interesting medical account of Ayurved by Dr. Prasadilal Jha in Hindi and English. In Hindi and English. A first edition copy. This volume is a scientific investigation and exposition of Ayurved which is an alternative me...

Colloquia de Morbis, Practica Et Theoretica

Archibaldo Robertson · 1828 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

Edinburgh, Veneunt Apud Adumum Black, 1828. Leather. A scarce edition of this educational work on diseases, in the original Latin. Scarce edition. Issued in presentation from a Dr. Nelson of the Birmingham Medical Institute. A guide for students on diseases with practical and ...

Ethnologische Studien Zur Ersten Entwicklung Der Strafe Nebst Einer Psychologiscen Abhandlung

Dr. S. R. Steinmetz · 1894 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

Leiden, S. C. Van Doesburgh, 1894. Leather. A scarce edition of Dr. Steinmetz's ethnological study into cruelty and vengeance, in the original German language. German language. Two volumes. Scarce work. A detailed ethnological study into acts of cruelty and vengeance, wit...

Birds of the Atlantic Islands

David Armitage Bannerman; W. Mary Bannerman · 1963 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd, 1963-68. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition set of David Bannerman's colourfully illustrated ornithological guide of the Atlantic Islands, a beautiful set in the original dust wrappers. The first edition.Complete in four volum...

Taunton Cider and Langdons: A West Somerset Story of Industrial Development

R. W. Holder · 2000 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Chichester, Phillimore & Co. Ltd, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this story of the development of two substantial businesses in West Somerset. First edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs. The story of the development of the Taunton Cider Compa...

The Capercaillie in Scotland

J. A. Harvie-Brown · 1879 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1879 . First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of the very scarce first edition of J. A. Harvie-Brown's illustrated study of the capercaillie, a large woodland grouse. The scarce first edition of this work from Scottish ornithologist and naturalist Jo...

The Domestic Encyclopaedia; or, a Dictionary of Facts, and Useful Knowledge

A. F. M. Willich · 1802 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Murray and Highley, 1802 . First edition. Hardback. A very smart example of the uncommon four volume first edition of A.F.M. Willich's study of rural domestic economy. The uncommon first edition of this encyclopaedia by German medical writer Anthony Florian Mading...

The Causes of Self-Discharge from Hospital

John Michael Willcox · 1951 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

None, None, 1951. Cloth. A very scarce and unique typed medical thesis written for the University of Cambridge by John Michael Willcox. An otherwise unpublished thesis studying 149 cases of self-discharge of patients from hospital, written by John Michael Willcox.The compiler ...

Aegram Ex Lochiorum Retentione Graviter Decumbentem Iussu Et Aautoritate Illustris Atque Gratiosissimae Facultatis Medicae Praeside Jo. Hadriano Slevogtio

Arnoldus Fridericus Beier; Johann Hadrian Slevogt; Christoph Krebs · 1693 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

Jena, Literis Krebsianis, 1693. Leather. A vanishingly scarce Latin dissertation on medicine by Arnoldus Fridericus Beier, an interesting work published in Jena. A vanishingly scarce work.In Latin.An academic dissertation on medicine. By Arnold Friedrich Beier.Including the me...

London Geological Field Class: Reports of Excursions During the Summers of 1886-1887

Professor H. G. Seeley · 1887 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Philip & Son, 1887-1888. First edition. Paperback. A well presented collection of geological field excursions carried out in 1886 and 1887 by the Geological Field Class in London, with illustrations to the rear of one text. The first and only edition of these re...

Geological Rambles Round London. A Handy Guide to Old-World London.

R. E. B. · 1883 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1883. Paperback. An 1883 geological guidebook to London's various districts in the original paper wraps, complete with in-text illustrations and charming adverts. This 1883 geological guidebook to London takes the reader through various different ...

An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In Which the Different Effects, Advantages, and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet, Are Explain&Apos;D

John Arbuthnot · 1732 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.47 | $515.21 | ¥82,273)

London, J. Tonson, 1732. Cloth. A second edition of this popular medical work by John Arbuthnot, an account of medicines and treatments in the eighteenth century, alongside a treatise on diet. A second edition of this work.This second edition was notable for its addition of a ...

The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design

Sir Charles Bell · 1834 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

London, William Pickering, 1834. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The third edition of this anatomical study from Scottish surgeon and physician Charles Bell, illustrated throughout with vignette engra...

The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon

Robert Buchanan · 1868 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.57 | $422.74 | ¥67,506)

London, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868. First edition. Cloth. A first edition biography of this important American ornithologist and naturalist. A biography of the American ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon. With a full plate frontispiece illustratio...

Cobbett&Apos;S Legacy to Parsons; or, Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to the Tithes, or to Any Thing Called Church Property, Greater Than the Dissenters Have to the Same? and Ought There, or Ought There Not, to Be a Separation of the Church from the State?

William Cobbett · 1835 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Not Stated, 1835. Leather. A lovely modern leather-bound second edition of Cobbett's important pamphlet discussing the Established Church. This work consists of six letters, addressed to the Church Parsons, questioning different ideologies.William Cobbett (1763-18...