•  Very good, in publisher's cloth. Front free endpaper torn out. Preliminary pages with a few light creases in foremargins probably created from paper clips being fastened to them at one time.  (10711)

Langham's organization is this: “He devoted a chapter to each plant, describing its parts and their uses, the different processes such as distillation that could be applied to it, and how the resulting products could be used for particular diseases. To every item of information he added a number and at the end of the chapter there is an index or table of conditions with the numbers that were in the main text. The reader can thus see at a glance that one herb could be used in a wide variety of conditions, and whether a specific illness could be helped by a particular drug” (Wear, pp. 82–83).

This is the second edition, “corrected and amended,” the first having appeared in 1597. We are sure the reading public, which was sufficient to support a second edition, would have been helped rather more if the work had had illustrations, but that would have increased the cost of the work dramatically and awide audience was sought. The text is printed chiefly in gothic type while the end of chapter “indices” are in roman. This herbal was not printed during a period of good English typography, so the pages are dense with little white space or appreciation for making the text on the page easy on the eye rather than wearying.

•  ESTC S108241; STC (rev. ed.) 15196; Alden & Landis 633/67; Huth Library 817. On Langham, see Andrew Wear, Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680.   Contemporary English calf, boards modestly ruled in blind at edges; rebacked in high quality goat. Age-toning or old soiling, especially at the edges of margins and with offsetting from binding to title-page; some light marginal waterstaining especially at end in index; some tears (one shown here) with last leaves' edges chopped and final two with edges strengthened.Overall, an unsophisticated copy that has been spared being washed, pressed, and gussied up.  (34545)

•  Wellcome, III, 458; Garrison-Morton 154; ESTC T139902; Lowndes II, p.1321 (“a sumptuous edition”); Osler, Bib. Osleriana, p. 283, no. 3178; Bentley Blake Books 481; Ryskamp, William Blake, Engraver, 22. On the parts, see: Arents Collection of Books in Parts, p. 74.   Contemporary calf ruled and tooled in gilt and blind with gilt board edges and gilt turn-ins, rebacked old style; marbled edges, and blue silk marker in all volumes. Extremities rubbed and corners bumped with small loss to leather. At least one small marginal tear in each volume; offsetting from letterpress on a few leaves; very mild to quite moderate foxing (or none) on illustrations, offset onto surrounding leaves; and other occasional minor stains. Most plates protected by tissue. A monument of labor, art, and excellent “system” devoted to an exploded but fascinating theory; in fact, a wonder.  (30974)

The work is a classic in the field of early European accounts of China, of missions to and in China, and of travel in general. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the first edition and may have done so for the work's sections on education.

•  ESTC T140502; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3379?; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1356; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, I, 40-41.   Recent quarter calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt ruling above and below each band; gilt center devices in four spine compartments. Marbled paper sides. Light age-toning to title-page; apart from an old touch of inkstaining at the tips of pages in one section, a very few stray stains only. A very nice copy.  (40384)

This is the third English-language edition, following the first of 1576 and the second of 1581, and it was also the last until the work was reprinted in 1881. The translation into English is by Thomas Newton (1543?–1607), the rector of Little Ilford, Essex.

Provenance:   17th- or early 18th-century signature of Simon Tar(r)ver on verso of title-page and again in lower margin of leaf opposite p 1. On blank recto of dedication page, four lines and a few letters and numbers in a large hand, overall not quite intelligible to us but with “An Bensen” and the date(?) 1764 among the elements certain. 19th-century signature of Joseph Gardner in lower area of the verso of the last printed leaf.

A collector friend who is far more accomplished with English 17th-century hand than I (DMS), wrote me about Simon Tar(r)ver and his writing and jottings: “It is a fascinating example of someone who I would guess is barely able to write and almost certainly self-taught.” For example he uses “Rote” for “Wrote” in association with one of his signatures and penned “Ingold land is my nashion” next to his name in another.

WorldCat and ESTC combine to locate 13 U.S. libraries reporting ownership; however, the copy reported at Claremont Colleges seems to be a microform and the Countway copy is incomplete (lacking leaves 65–88).

It should be noted that several of the reported copies give the book as “printed by E[dward] A[llde] for Michael Sparke,” which is impossible as Edward died in 1628. Rather, “E.A.” is his widowElizabeth Allde.

•  STC (rev. ed.)15458; ESTC E108477; Hunter & Macalpine, Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535-1860.   Contemporary calf with plain boards (blind-ruled borders), rebacked in the 20th century with a small area of the front board's leather replaced at lower outside corner; new, plain endpapers with a collector's pencilled notes and old cataloguing of another copy taped to rear pastedown; archival tape repairs to two upper margins. General age-toning and limited instances of staining from water, ink, and dust; a good to very good copy withpotentially quite interesting provenance.  (36988)

•  Sabin 78417.   Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping.  (26006)

•  Publisher's half roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesque decorations; mildly to moderately scuffed overall, spine sunned and with small tear in upper part of leather. Paper browned and slightly embrittled; one preliminary leaf with a tear from outer margin extending into text without loss. Front joint (outside cracked in top portion, hinge (inside) cracked and with an old repair, board holding nicely. Good condition with faults noted.  (35823)

The final section of the volume is “A Doctor of the Old School,” a loving portrayal of stalwart practitioner Dr. William MacLure.

Binding:  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with double iris design stamped in green, white, and violet.

•  Binding as above, minimal rubbing only. Pages and plates clean. A beautiful copy.  (28613)

Connie King writing in the Library Company of Philadelphia's Winter 2010 newsletter, New & Noteworthy, says of this work: “What makes this . . . tawdry book . . . [extra interesting] is its extra roles as a mail order catalog for condoms and as an advertisement for abortion services. By mailing 'Dr. Mauriceau' five dollars, one might buy a dozen condoms, and have them sent to 'any part of the United States' (p. 144). Only slightly more delicately does he offer his [or Ann Lohman's] services 'to effect miscarriage' at his office at 129 Liberty Street in New York City.”

•  Original publisher's fine grain dark blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, no lettering, spine sunned. A very nice copy of a famous “under the counter book.”  (40370)

Mead was one of England's leading physicians at the beginning of the 18th century and “in 1719, in response to the public alarm over the outbreak of plague in Marseilles, the British government asked [him] to prepare a statement concerning the prevention of the disease. Mead's Short discourse anticipated the development of the English public health system in concluding that isolation of the sick in proper places is more effectual in checking the spread of contagion than either general quarantine or fumigation. Mead's book enjoyed a great popularity, going through seven editions within a year of its publication” (Norman). Garrison and Morton similarly say of the work that it was“a prophecy of what was to develop as the English public health system.”

Provenance:  Huntington Library duplicate (small stamp in lower margin of final blank leaf); most recently from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  ESTC T55657; Blake p. 295; Cushing M250; Garrison & Morton 5123; Heirs of Hippocrates 769 (3rd ed.); Norman 1476; Osler 3364 (9th ed.); Waller 6394.   Apparently originally in marbled wrappers, with the paper of the spine only here surviving, old creases. Two brown stains and a bit of foxing to title-page; traces of old dust- or soot-soiling to upper margins of late leaves especially. Else very nice andhandsomely printed.  (39686)

•  Light discoloration and minor cockling.  (35307)

Borba de Moraes writes of the Relaçaõ cirurgica: “a famous book of Brazilian medicine. The text is seldom studied because of the rarity of both editions.” Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only three U.S. libraries (RPJCB, DNLM, NNNAM) reporting ownership of the first edition.

Binding:  Modern calf excellently executed in the18th-century style, gilt extra spine with red leather gilt label; boards with modestly elegant gilt roll at perimeter of boards, plain endpapers.

•  Alden & Landis 747/30; Borba de Moraes, Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 ed.), p. 572; Silva, Diccionário bibliografico portuguez, III, p. 338 (J582); Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 78.   Binding as above, in excellent condition. Complex stain in inner margins beginning at half-title and extending to folio [21] of the preliminaries, ever diminishing, else very nice throughout and handsomely printed.  (39971)

•  Publisher's cloth, front cover black- and gilt-stamped, spine simply gilt-stamped, binding gently worn with minor spotting to spine and lower edge of front cover. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A nice copy.  (2901)

Provenance:  Each volume with bookplate of Creighton Barker on front pastedown.

•  Garrison & Morton 1817 (for first edition).   Quarter red cloth over deep red paper covered boards, gilt lettering on sun-faded spine; top edge gilt, paper rubbed. Ownership indicia as above, with a bit of glue residue around plate in vol. I and damage from it to endpaper opposite; light pencilling to half-title of same volume. Light foxing very very occasionally, pages untrimmed and very clean. A very good set.  (34623)

Binding:  Publisher's green textured cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title in maritime “rope-style” font, spine with gilt-stamped title. Map endpapers as above.

•  Bound as above, gently rubbed and spine darkened; interior clean. Previous owner's label on front free endpaper. A very nice copy in a chipped but still appealing dust jacket.  (26838)

The “British Association” that visited Bath in 1888 was the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Few U.S. institutions report holding physical copies of this work: WorldCat finds only eight American locations.

•  Publisher's pebbled blue cloth–covered limp boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine cloth slightly darkened and bubbled, extremities rubbed. Pages and color map slightly age-toned, minor offsetting to upper and inner margins of first few leaves (around tipped-in map), overall internally clean.A nice copy of an interesting work.  (40375)

The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.

This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?

•  ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538.   Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean.  (25999)

•  ESTC T63374 & T68757.   Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, rebacked and corners refurbished; marbled paper sides with surface wear. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, pastedown and free endpaper with small pencilled annotations. Octavo history with small portion torn away in outer margin (only) of final “Additions” leaf; quarto history with dust-soiling to title-page around edges of bound-in octavo and following leaves showing impression of bind-in. Occasional light foxing only, to both items, mostly confined to margins; quarto with a very few early inked corrections and annotations.  (33314)

Advertisements on the last page, notably forpatent medicines.

•  Drake 13678.   Uncut copy; later stitching; corners cut. Slight dog-earing, title-page a little tattered. Early inked ownership signature at top of title-page and some marginalia or interlineations.  (9959)

The53 in-text engravings offer iconographic evidence for the Amazons. The majority are numismatic, showing portrayals of Amazons on classical coins. Some others show works of art, especially sculpture, and representations of what Amazonian weapons might have looked like.

The work begins with a dedication to Baudelot de Dairval and a full table of contents. The body of the text is organized into chapters concerning various aspects of the lives and types of evidence relating to the Amazons. There is an “Addenda” on pp. 381–98 that includesdiscussions of Christopher Columbus, cannibalism, and Amazons in the New World. The book ends with another index.

•  European Americana 587/106; Sabin 61256; Hayn, Amazonen-Litteratur, 53.   Recent marbled paper over boards, leather spine label. Added engraved title-page cut down with loss of imprint data and mounted; without the map, often missing. Light staining to the preliminary and first few text pages. Otherwise, a rather nice copy.  (40385)

Provenance: With pencilled dealer's code of Sessler's on the verso; in the collection of Philadelphia collector Robert R. Dearden, Jr.

•  Very good condition. Written in a very clear hand. With pencilled dealer's code on the verso.  (29105)

No copies found via WorldCat or COPAC.

•  Removed from a bound volume; now in modern wrappers. Old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; clean, with wide margins.  (28222)

No copy traced via WorldCat or COPAC.

•  Removed from a volume and laid into modern wrappers. Light stain in outer margin of last leaf with a trace of same showing on a few more inward; old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; generally clean, with good margins. One inked, contemporary marginal note.  (28234)

The printer was Margaret Rhames, scion of a prominent Dublin printing family. WorldCat and ESTC locate only four U.S. institutional holdings of this edition, which preceded the London first.

•  ESTC N5208; Wellcome, IV, 440.   Period-style half calf and antique marbled paper–covered sides, corners tipped in vellum, spine with gilt-stamped leather labels. Title-page with ownership initials (“WS”) inked in upper outer corner; pages age-toned, with mild to moderate foxing. A solid, pleasingly bound copy of an uncommon and interesting piece of medical history.  (30607)

Provenance: The first work's title-page has “Ex dono Autoris” inscribed in the upper margin in an early hand.

•  Pycroft: ESTC T144698; Allibone 1712. Addenbrooke: ESTC T88427.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pycroft half-title lacking; title-page with annotation as above. Pages slightly age-toned, with light spotting to final leaves of Enquiry and throughout Essay. (20760)

The author, who spent most of his life in Derby, was a sculptor as well as a Derbyshire historian, and he appears to have supplied theoriginal illustrations here himself. The two pairs of plates (one lithographed, one steel-engraved) are done in notably different styles — we suspect that two different engravers worked from Robinson's sketches. Robinson wrote one additional Twitcher piece in 1881, describing a visit to the Royal Agricultural Show, not included in this gathering.

All the Twitcher books are now scarce: WorldCat finds very few U.K. holdings of these titles and virtually no U.S.

Provenance: First text page with early pencilled ownership inscription of Mr. H. Mills in upper outer corner.

•  Crismas: NSTC 2R14138; Visit: NSTC 2R14139; Second Visit: NSTC 2R14140; Watter Cure: NSTC 0643751.   Later quarter green calf and fine combed marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; minor shelfwear. Pencilled ownership note as above. Light age-toning; first two works with mild foxing and last leaves with avery light, old waterstain across a lower corner. A highly personal production in text *and* illustration; an entertaining and very uncommon gathering.  (36501)

•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and fish vignette with blind-stamped decorative borders; spine slightly darkened, small spots of light discoloration, extremities rubbed. Sewing just barely starting to loosen but holding; pages clean. A more than decent copy of this interesting and, shall we say, “highly personal” work.  (35139)

Garrison and Morton say of the first edition in English: “Sir Frederick Still considered this work 'the most progressive which had yet been written;' it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of paediatrics.”

Translator Murray (1740–91) was a Swedish student of Linnaeus and later a professor of botany and medicine at Göttingen.

Provenance:  Bookplate of Adamus Elias Schmidt, dated 1784.  Early 19th-century signature of a Philadelphia doctor (erased) at top of title-page.

•  G&M 6323.   Contemporary half calf, well worn: leather dry and gone to red with joint leather lost, cords holding, paper of covers worn through to boards in some places. Text with age-toning. Not a pretty copy but complete, and solid for now. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case.  (22256)

•  Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 1658; Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 922; Shaw & Shoemaker 9289.   20th-century quarter red calf with stone pattern marbled paper sides, round spine, no raised bands; gilt double-rules used to form six spine compartments, five of which have a gilt center device, the sixth containing the author/title label, with the date of publication at base of spine. Plain endpapers. Internally very good. Fascinating not only as to theory, but also for its detailed and very readable notes on symptoms, treatments, and specific epidemic “outbreaks.”  (39068)

Provenance:  Bookplate of Samuel X. Radbill (Philadelphia book collector, bookplate collector, and medical doctor).

•  VD18 11231777 for the first title; second title not in VD18; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 394.   Contemporary German pastepaper over boards; binding very worn. Interior very good.  (39953)

•  Sewn; wrappers chipped, front separating near spine; author's name pencilled on front. Ex-historical society copy with stamp on title-page. Some page edges irregular and with short tears.  (650)

At the time of his death, Rush left an estate of more than one million dollars and his books to The Library Company of Philadelphia, which established the Ridgway Branch in his wife's name. Of historical note, James's father, the noted physician and politician Benjamin Rush, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as was James's maternal grandfather, Richard Stockton.

Provenance:  Ownership signature of S.J.P. Anderson, “Hanover College, In., Jan. 1836"; later 19th-century bookplate of James J. Anderson, Nashville, IL. S.J.P. was among other things afamed pulpit orator for whom a book like this would have been of special interest; he was sufficiently well known as such that the makers of “Brown's Bronchial Troches” long published his testimonial that their lozenges were “EFFECTUAL in removing Hoarseness and Irritation of the Throat, so common with SPEAKERS and SINGERS.”

•  American Imprints 21025; Sabin 74251 (note); ANB online (James Rush). On Rush's contribution to American elocution studies, see: L. Hale, Dr. James Rush, in K. Wallace, ed., History of speech education in America, pp. 219–37.   Publisher's full plain sheep, modest gilt tooling to spine and board edges. A foxed copy, with also a light semicircular waterstain across gutter in lower margins; still, complete and sound with its paper unsoiled, untattered, and strong.  (34827)

“To prevent fraud, the written signature of the proprietor, S.A. Osburn, will be written upon the wrapper[of the bottle], without which none is genuine. Sold, wholesale and retail, by N. Osburn, corner of Main and St. Paul Streets, Rochester, N.Y., general agent for the United States” (p. [4]) — this copy without that signature.

Printed testimonials on p. 4 are dated 1847 and 1855, and a charming wood engraving on p. 1 shows a woman administering medicine to a sick woman in her bed.

Searches of WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (PPL, NRU-Med, MWA, NRMW).

•  Folded, as issued. A clean, attractive piece of medical-commercial ephemera.  (38410)

Provenance:  Title-page with rubber-stamp reading “Bibl. Societ. Psychol. Monac.” and with inked inscription noting ownership of Dr. Franz Carl Gerster, a physician and practitioner of hypnotism; most recently from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards with pebbled black cloth shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with small early hand-inked paper shelving label, edges and extremities rubbed. Paper of the front hinge (inside) cracked. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean; title-page with stamp and inscription as above. Final text leaf with old repair, partially shading text without loss of legibility.  (40033)

Provenance:  Title-page with signed inked inscription noting presentation by the author to a Monsieur Robieux as a mark “d'estime, de considération, et d'amitié.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Stitched in contemporary paper wrappers, faded to rose-pink and worn. Two spots of pinhole worming throughout, touching letters without affecting sense. A solid and very readable copy of this uncommon item.  (40214)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of the Rhode Island Medical Society (with deaccession note); title-page with early inked inscription of N. Cooke. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 1704; ESTC W28189; Evans 32805.   Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled compartments; binding worn and rubbed overall, spine with dark spots and extremities chipped, front joint starting. Bookplate as above. Pages age-toned and lightly waterstained, still very legible. A much-consulted work in its day, here in its initial American appearance. (40383)

Thissole Portuguese edition is now scarce:  WorldCat finds only two institutions reporting copies (Wellcome and the National Library of Medicine). It comes from the press of the Widow Mallen

Provenance:  Spine with printed paper label: “Biblioteca do Prof. C. Sacadura, medicina” — possibly Dr. Sebastiâo Cabral da Costa-Sacadura (1872–1966), a celebrated Portuguese physician, author, medical historian, and professor at the Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 419. Not in Garrison & Morton.   Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-ruled compartments containing small gilt-stamped floral decorations; binding rubbed with portions of leather acid-damaged, spine label now absent, foot of spine with paper shelving label as above. Back pastedown lifted, sewing loosening, small area of pinhole worming in upper inner corner of first few leaves not touching text. A very few small spots, pages otherwise clean.  (40093)

Founded in 1814, the Asylum was by the time of this appeal overwhelmed by the number of County residents needing care, especially from Class III; and, after the failure of efforts to find adjoining land allowing enlargement of facilities on the old mixed principle, decision was taken to build a new center for Class I and II patients within a half-mile's distance. The original provision that better-off patients paying according to their abilities would subsidize the care of the others was explicitly to be maintained, as per the solicitation in hand.

Conjoined is afull-page engraving of the proposed design, signed “Warrington, sc.” The completed Coton Hill opened in 1854. Its main portions have been demolished though the chapel in the engraving and a gatehouse still stand.

Provenance:  “Dr. J.S. Butler” stamped at the top of p. 1; we note that there was a Dr. J.S. Butler who was a noted psychiatrist in Connecticut in the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one copy worldwide, although we know of one other.

•  The two leaves starting to separate at top, with gentle age-toning and small chipping and closed tears to edges and fold; one tear barely touches platemark and there is light offsetting to the plate from something once laid between the leaves. An attractive, unusual, and informative prospectus.  (38890)

Both 1666 editions are rare (a term we shy from using) in U.S. institutions. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate only two U.S. libraries (New York Academy of Medicine, National Library of Medicine) reporting ownership of the London printing, and only four (National Library of Medicine, Yale, The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia) of this Amsterdam edition.

•  Heirs of Hippocrates 352; Garrison & Morton 2198; Biblotheca Osleriana 994 (all three bibliography citations are for the 1676 edition).   Contemporary brown calf with minor scuffing, gilt spine with center devices but no title or author lettering, board edges with a gilt dog-tooth roll. Bookplate as above; text clean with the very occasional dot or small blot of old ink only. A very nice copy.  (39913)

The editor here waslawyer, novelist, and abolitionist Daniel Pierce Thompson, who served as Vermont Secretary of State from 1853 to 1855 and was one of the founders of the Vermont Historical Society, and who is now perhaps best remembered for his historical novel Green Mountain Boys.

•  Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, covers framed in blind roll; joints and extremities rubbed, sides with small scuffs and spots of minor discoloration, hinges (inside) tender. Pages cockled, with mild to moderate foxing and an old inkblot or two; one leaf with chip from outer margin, a few corners dog-eared or creased across.  (36830)

•  NSTC T941; Hugo, Bewick Collector, 253; Johnston, Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, 745; Nissen 1954; Pritzel 9238; Rohde, Old English Herbals, 224 (listing Crosby ed. only).  Contemporary calf, covers framed in blind roll and single gilt fillet, spine with blind-tooled compartment decorations; binding rubbed and scuffed overall, spine label now absent with traces remaining, repair work to splits in spine leather and to short tear from inner margin of front free endpaper, joints and extremities refurbished. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription (“C.M.W.”) dated 1912. Dedication tipped in. Pages gently age-toned with scattered foxing; small inkstain to upper fore-edge of first 30 ff., barely extending onto pages. One contents leaf with short tear (just touching text, without loss) and old repair in lower outer corner. A now solid, even rather distinguished-looking copy of a desirable pharmacopeiaexquisitely illustrated.  (36043)

•  VD16 T1606; Benzing, Hagenau, 39, 184. On Heinrich Gran's device, see: Heitz & Barack 2.   20th-century boards covered with vellum-like paper. Light age-toning with very light waterstaining across corners at end and some light foxing to margins elsewhere; very good and in fact for a “student book” remarkably good. A rare and attractive item.  (37834)

•  Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 455; Alden & Landis 715/174; Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, I, 341.   18th-century quarter vellum with block-printed paper sides; outside lower corner of front board bent but not breaking. Internally a very good copy.  (40092)

Daniel took his medical degree at Heidelberg in 1853 and then visited foreign asylums observing treatments and innovations. Returning to York, he became visiting physician to the York Retreat and the York Dispensary, lecturing also at the York School of Medicine on mental diseases.

In addition to his prize essay, this volume contains a short abstract or classification of cases contributed bySir Alexander Morison.

Provenance:  In a fine hand in ink on verso of title-page: “Presented to the Library of the Charing Cross Hospital Med. College by Jabez Hogg, Esq. 29 Sept. 1856.” Hogg was a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and for two years vice-president of the Medical Society of London. Most recently in the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; dust-soiled overall, spine cloth chipped and sunned, ex-library with bookplate and several rubber-stamps. Clean and sound. An important and now scarce work on the care of the mentally ill, residential treatment, mental hospitals, and physical restraint.  (39786)

•  Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine; text clean. A nice copy, mostly unopened.  (34739)

This would have beena definite must for hydrotherapy and other tourists. Nicely illustrated, it bears a great map.

Provenance:  Ownership signature of Mrs. Edward Brown, Belmont House, 1884. (This may well be the Mr. & Mrs. E. Brown whose “Belmont House” dates from ca. 1880 and is located in Browns Cove, Albemarle County, VA).

•  Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine; text clean. A nice copy.  (33529)

Willems is not fond of this book, saying of it “L'ouvrage est assez peu recherché, et n'a qu'une valeur médiocre.” Its “middling value” in his day may have been due to its typography: Daniel Elzevir had the book printed in the shop of the heirs of Jan Elzevir in Leyden. Our copy is attractive, however, and the work is certainly an important one that was read, loved, and cited in its day with enormous enthusiasm.

With a particularly engaging engraved title-page, and with woodcut ornamental initials and head- and tailpieces.

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of Elizabeth Wade White (1906–1994), an American poet, activist in progressive causes, and author of The Life of Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse. In 1938 she had a brief affair with Valentine Ackland (1906–69, born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland, the English modernist poet). In 1939 White met Evelyn Virginia Holahan (1905–85) who became her life partner. With White's pencil note “August 1929. Bought at the Hague for 22 guilders.”

Binding:  18th-century crushed green morocco, spine with raised bands and a red leather spine-label; covers and spine-compartments double-framed in gilt, the latter with center devices. Gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, silk marker.

•  Willems 1464; Copinger 4882; Goldsmiths'-Kress 01963.   Binding as above, rubbed at joints (outside) and with spine rather attractively sunned to olive. Lacks the index leaves for De prodigiis; still, a text-complete handsome volume with a very interesting provenance.  (39815)

Walker's anthropological works on women were widely read and enjoyed credence as “philosophy” in their time butnow reward students of the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology.  In Beauty he divides the female anatomy into feet and legs, torso, and head, and seeks to define the subtleties of what is pleasing in each and how they mesh for perfection. Also discussed are clothes, health, and hygiene.

An entirely intentional exercise in the objectification of woman, this discusses the differing standards and understandings of female beauty found among Africans, American Indians, Asians, and (separately!) young and older European men.

This American issue was expurgated by the “American physician” who edited the volume: “In preparing the present edition, it has been thought expedient to make some verbal alterations, and omit a few paragraphs, to which a refined taste might perhaps object. . . . “ (p. vi).

Binding:  Publisher's brown ribbed cloth with moiré effect. Signed “E. Walker N. York” (i.e., Edward Walker, 1804–79).

•  American Imprints 40-6763.   Light wear to binding; spine sunned. Foxing and staining, text block skewed in binding, volume yet sound.  (40359)

Handsomely printed, as one expects of the Bulmer firm.

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  NSTC W597.   20th-century plain brown wrappers. A little pencilling, age-toned with a darkened area to facing pages where something was laid in, and otherwise clean.  (39729)

Provenance:  19th-century stamp of the Medic. Chirug. Bibliothek Altenburg (on front wrapper and title-page, but NOT on plates). Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Original blue-green wrappers. Waterstaining to wrappers at spine and onto covers and at rear on portions of the folding plates. Else very nice.  (39793)

The formulae here involve chemical compounds, e.g., the use of rosemary-infused oils, etc., aimed at curing various ailments or alleviating pain or unpleasant conditions. Ferguson writes: “Though this book deals professedly with the treatment of a great number of ailments, and explains the preparation of the necessary remedies, it contains incidentally a good deal of chemistry as applied to pharmacy. This makes it valuable for the history of the science, for here we get the processes employed three hundred years ago for preparing certain well-known compounds, uncomplicated by any theoretical views about elements or transmutation.”

The work was first published in 1577 and had six more 16th-century editions; this is the third. Of this edition NUC and WorldCat locate only the copy at the University of Pennsylvania.

•  Adams Z69 (1577); EDIT16 CNCE 54117; Ferguson, Books of Secrets, Supl. 1, 27 (for the 1586 ed., Ferguson being ignorant of any earlier edition ); Duveen, p. 631. Not in Durling but see 4783–87 for other 16th-century editions.   Recent marbled paper over pasteboards; leather spine label. Age-toning, soiling, variable waterstaining; pinhole and slight meander-type worm tracking in the “tavola” at the front, with pp. 185–88 misbound in the “tavola” and so sharing that worm track. Withal a decent copy of a scarce Renaissance work of popular culture with a science theme.  (40386)