Medicina e salute

The Roads of England

R.M.C. Anderson; Sir William R. Morris · 1932 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Ernest Benn, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce work on the transportation and roadways of England, with numerous illustrated maps throughout. A fascinating early twentieth-century work on transportation and roadways through England, including...

Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam-Engine.

Samuel Smiles · 1865 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, John Murray, 1865 . First edition. Leather. The first edition of this biography of two steam-engine engineers from the nineteenth century with illustrations. First edition, in full calf binding of Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho MSS. Compr...

Commentarium Nosologicum, Morbos Epidemicos Et Aeris Variationes in Urbe Eboracensi Locisque Vicinis

Cliftono Wintringham [Clifton Wintringham] · 1733 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.17 | ¥232,053)

Londini [London], Gul. Bowyer, 1733 . Leather. The very scarce second edition of physician Clifton Wintringham's pioneering epidemiological survey of early eighteenth century York. In the original Latin. The very scarce second edition of this epidemiological study from Yo...

A Treatise on Uterine Haemorrhage

Duncan Stewart · 1816 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Thomas and George Underwood, 1816. First edition. Cloth. A first edition work by Duncan Stewart, an interesting treatise on uterine hemorrhages. A very scarce work. A very scarce first edition of this work.Half-title is present.An early treatise on midwifery, presentin...

The History of Canine Madness and Hydrophobia: With the Methods of Treatment, Ancient and Modern

George Lipscomb · 1809 · Rooke Books

£1,275.00 (€1,528.27 | $1,684.35 | ¥268,970)

London, Rudd; G. Robinson; Rodwell; Murray, 1809. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition study into the disease of rabies and its treatment, by the physician and antiquarian George Lipscomb. A very scarce first edition of this work. This is a vanishingly scar...

Medical and Chemical Observations Upon Antimony

Doctor Huxham · 1756 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, John hinton, 1756. Leather. The first edition of this work on the uses of antimony by the noted English surgeon John Huxham. With one leaf of publisher's adverts to the rear. Interleaved with blanks for the contemporary owner's notations. However, the leaves ...

The Rhine and Its Picturesque Scenery: Rotterdam to Mayence and the Upper Rhine: The Scenery of Its Banks and the Manners of Its People

Henry Mayhew · 1856 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, David Bogue; George, Routledge and Co. 1856-1858. First edition. Cloth. Henry Mayhew explores the Rhine and its beauty in this charming and scarce collection of two volumes illustrated by Birket Forster. The first edition of both volumes. The first edition of this char...

Wild England of Today

C J Cornish · 1895 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

London, Seeley and Co, 1895. First edition. Leather. A finely bound, charmingly illustrated work on England's wildlife, by accomplished naturalist Charles John Cornish. The first edition of this work.In a very smart Bumpus binding, with their binder's stamp to the ve...

Terrapeutica. Claudii Geleni Pergameni Methodus Medendi, Id Est, de Morbis Curandis, Libri Quatuordecim

Claudius Galenus; · 1519 · Rooke Books

£5,000.00 (€5,993.21 | $6,605.30 | ¥1,054,784)

Venice, Aloysius de Tortis, 1519. Vellum. A very scarce, translation of Galen's 'Methodus Medeni&apos. In a contemporary vellum binding. This is one of many translations of Galen's works by Thomas Linacre. Linacre translated many medical works, to make them acce...

The Water Cure a Practical Treatise on the Cure of Diseases by Water, Air, Exercise, and Diet: Being a New Mode of Restoring Injured Constitutions to Robust Health, for the Radical Cure of Dyspeptic, Nervous, and Liver Complaints, Tic Douloureux, Gout and Rheumatism, Scrofula, Syphilis, and Their Consequences, Diseases Peculiar to Women and Children, Fever, Inflammations, &C.

James Wilson · 1842 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

London, John Churchill, 1842. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this interesting work looking into the effectiveness of the water cure, written by a hydrotherapist Dr James Wilson. The first edition of this work. A significant Victorian scientific work looking at th...

Systematisches Lehrbuch Der Balneotherapie Einschliesslich Der Klimatotherapie Der Phthisis Von Dr. Julius Braun

Dr. Julius Braun; Dr. B. Fromm · 1880 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Berlin, Verlag Von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin (Adolph Enslin), 1880. Leather. A very scarce work of medical history dating from the late nineteenth century. This particular work is written in the original German. Very scarce. Fourth edition, revised. This particular copy in bound in ...

Amid the High Hills

Sir Hugh Fraser · 1923 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, A and C Black, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition copy of this beautifully illustrated natural history work by Hugh Fraser. Signed by the author, with a dedication to the recto of front endpaper, 'E F Bathurst with love and kindest wishes from the...

Traite Ds Maladies Chirurgicales Et Des Operations Qui Leur Conviennent

M Le Baron Boyer · 1831 · Rooke Books

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

Paris, L'Auteur; Bechet; , 1831. Leather. The fourth edition of Alexis Boyer's famed medical work, and one of his two major writings. In a lovely quarter calf binding with paper covered boards. This work was originally published in two volumes from 1814-1826. This la...

Lecons Theoriques Et Cliniques Sur la Scorfule Consideree En Elle-Meme Et Dans Ses Rapports Aved la Syphilis, la Dartre Et L&Apos;Arthritis

Er. Bazin · 1861 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.66 | ¥51,684)

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1861. Leather. An interesting work of a collection of lessons on diseases by the French physician Ernest Bazin, with a folding table of information. The second edition of this work. In the original French. This work is a collection of clinical lessons o...

The Delco-Remy Coil Ignition System

Anonymous [Delco-Remy Hyatt Ltd.] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,227)

London, Delco-Remy Hyatt Ltd. c1937. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce handbook illustrating the principles behind Delco-Remy's new Coil Ignition System, an intriguing piece for looking into the development of motor technology. A very scarce pamphlet and handbook on the De...

The Racing Car: Development and Design

Cecil Clutton, Cyril Posthumus, Denis Jenkinson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, B. T. Batsford, 1956. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of an attractive illustrated history on the development of the racing car, including intricate drawings by George A. Oliver. The first edition of The Racing Car: Development and Design, an attractive illustr...

Select Dissertations on Several Subjects of Medical Science

Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart · 1833 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.51 | $475.58 | ¥75,944)

London, G. and W. Nicol, 1833. Leather. A presentation copy of this scarce collection of essays and observations on medical science. Author's presentation copy, with tipped in handwritten letter, dated 26th December 1860.Featuring a folding table tallying particular disea...

The Common Objects of the Country; British Butterflies; the Common Objects of the Sea Shore; British Ferns and Their Allies

Rev. J. G. Wood; Thomas Moore; W. S. Coleman · 1862 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.48 | ¥54,849)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1862-1867. Leather. Four mid-nineteenth century works of British natural history bound together in a single volume, vibrantly illustrated throughout with colour plates. The first of the four volumes present here is the 1866 'New Edition&...

The Nationalisation of Health

Havelock Ellis · 1892 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of one of Havelock Ellis's early works on early theories for a nationalised health service. First edition of The Nationalisation of Health by Havelock Ellis rebound in modern cloth binding. A very in...

The moderate use of intoxicating drinks, being the substance of a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Isle of Thanet Temperance Society

COURTNEY, Abraham. · 1840 · John Turton

£34.80 (€41.71 | $45.97 | ¥7,341)

London: New British and Foreign Temperance Society, [1840] 2nd edition. 17cm. 36pp. Modern paper wraps, printed paper label to front wrap. Text lightly browned and spotted.