Edinburgh: Mundell, 1800. With the two fine engraved plates. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, smooth polished calf with leather spine label and simple decorations. Edinburgh: Mundell, 1800. Second Edition. "A founder of the modern surgery of the vascular system... Bell's most enduring contributions to surgery are his Discourses &c. the second of which is a valuable historical discussion of the surgery of the arteries."-Garrison. Light age-browning. Austin 192. More

Illus. N.Y., 1934. More

Illustrated. 11 pages, slim 8vo, original gray printed wrappers; chipped. St. Louis, 1887. Author's presentation copy. "Chips from a Surgeon's Workshop", Chip. No. XI. More

Turin: Fratelli Reycends, 1787. Pubblicate, e accresciute di note, e di supplementi dai chirurghi Gio. Antonio Penchienati e Gioanni Brugnone. 6 (of 7) volumes. LACKS the second volume. Illustrated with 14 large folding engraved plates depicting surgical instruments and procedures. 200; ...; [xvi], 384; [lxx], 311; [xv], 368; [xvi], 376; [viii], 396pp. Thick 8vos, bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt spine labels (well-rubbed and with some damage at spine ends but still very firm; interiors clean). Torino: Presso I...... More

1 page (pp. 90) IN: American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. 24, no. 42, July 1852. Thick 8vo, modern wrappers. Phila., 1852. Bigelow, one of America's greatest surgeons of the time, was the first in America to perform excision at the hip-joint. GM 4461. More

New York: Gryphon Editions, 1984. Translated by Charles E. Hackley. Illustrated. xviii + 676pp., thick 8vo, gilt-decorated leather, a.e.g. New York: Privately Printed for the Classics of Surgery Library, Gryphon Editions, 1984. A fine copy. Contains the separately printed Editor's Notes. "Billroth...was the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery. He has also been called the founder of modern abdominal surgery...The above work, which placed him in the front rank, was translated into ten languages." GM 5608. Facsimile of the..... More

Illus. 10pp. IN: Surg., Gyn., & Obstets., vol. 3, pp. 721-30. 4to. Chicago, 1906. First Edition. Entire number offered. Bloodgood's theory of the causation of chronis mastitis. GM 5780. More

23 pages with text in Italian. Tall 4to, stitched. Pavia, 1829. Inaugural Dissertation in medicine, University of Pavia. Wellcome ii, 196. More

Birmingham: Classics of Ophthalmology, 1984. 422pp. 4to, full tan leather, a.e.g. (Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Ophthalmology, 1984). Fine. Contains "Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure on the retina." "Bowman did more than any other man to advance opthalmic surgery in England. The above work is the first to include a sound description of the microscopical anatomy of the eye..." GM 1505. Facsimile of the Collected Papers of Sir..... More

Paris: Boyer, Richerand et al. 1803. 3 fold-out copperplate engravings. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, full contemporary calf backed marbled boards, worn. Paris: Boyer, Richerand, Migneret, An XI -1803. Boyer, (1757-1833), one of the most famous surgeons of his time, was Napoleon's physician and professor of surgery. His lectures were collected by the equally prominent surgeon Anthelme Richerand 1779- 1851). The book was immediately translated into German, English and Italian. Hirsch. I.665 and IV.796. Wellcome Cat. II.218. First few pages..... More

Birmingham: Classics of Surgery, 1984. Volume One: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary. Color Frontis., 8 black & white plates. xxiv + 596pp. 4to, gilt-decorated full leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Classics of Surgery Library, (1984). A fine copy. The original text of the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus was written about 3000 B.C., and the present manuscript is a copy dating about 1600 B.C. It is the oldest known surgical treatise and consists entirely of case reports; it describes 47 different cases of..... More

Trad. par Leon Marchant. 248 pages. Thick 8vo, original plain blue wrappers with paper spine label, uncut edges. Spine paper worn but still quite solid. Paris, 1819. First Edition in French of "Brodie's Best Work." GM 4311. More

A Series of Essays on Various Aspects of Surgery and Medicine Written by his Pupils and Friends. Illus., 571pp., 8vo. Univ. of Ca. Press, 1942. More