Paris, chez Vincent, 1772, in-8, XVI-623 pp, Veau marbré brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, tranches rouges, ÉDITION ORIGINALE de la traduction française du Principia medecinae du médecin écossais Everard Home, par Gastellier. Cet ouvrage a eu un certain succès en France et a longtemps servi de manuel pour l'enseignement de la médecine. Il comprend in fine un extrait intitulé "Observations et expériences de médecine" (Medical facts and experiments) du même auteur. Épidermures. Couverture rigide
Bon XVI-623 pp.
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1813). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1813 - Part I. Pp. 126-130 and 1 engraved plate.
First printing of this paper in which Home describes a female skull of the Narwhale given to him by Mr. Scoresby. The plate is a drawing of this skull.
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1810). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1810 - Part II. Pp. 205-222 a. 5 engraved plates (sharks and physiological details). Last leaf and 3 plates a bit foxed.
A classic paper on the reproduction, anatomy and physiology of the shark (squalus maximus).
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1812). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1812 - Part II. Pp. 206-220 a. 4 engraved plates (1 large and folded showing a fine engravingof Squalus maximus). Faint foxing to plates.
A classical taxonomic study of the shark,
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1819). 4to. No wrappers as issued in ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCXIX"", pp. 59-68 and 7 engraved plates with many figs.
First edition. In the periodical printing.
(London, Bulwer and Co., 1812). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London."" Year 1812 - Part I. Pp. 163-168 a. 3 engraved plates.
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1807). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1807 - Part I. Pp. 139-179 (p. 179, describing the last plate is in xerox-copy) and 9 fine engraved plates (different stomacs).
London, W.Nicol, 1827. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1827 - Part I. Pp. 39-48 and 4 fine engraved plates. The palets having a faint dampstai to lower part of inner margins.
First printing of a classic study on the reproduction of the oyster.
(London, G. and W. Nicol, 1820). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1820 - Part II. Pp. 315-323 and 7 engraved plates depicting the Dugong and its internal parts.
(London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 25-46 and 7 engraved plates.
Depicting nerve structures of the brain.
(Leiden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1804.). [25], [9], [3], [17] pp. 8vo (13,5 x 23 cm.). Modern blue wrappers with new end-papers, uncut.
First Dutch translation of Cooper's classic "Observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the membrana tympani of the ear"[In Phil. Transactions of the Royal Soc. Vol 90 (1800) and Vol 91 (1801). "In it Cooper showed that two patients with perforatons of both eardrums could hear perfectly well although it had always been thought that this condition resulted in deafness". The second paper was entited "Futher observations.... Cooper read it before ther Royal Society on June 25, 1801 and in it demonstrated that deafness caused by obstruction of the Eustachian tube could be relieved by myringotomy, which equalized the air pressure on each side of the tympanic membrane and restored the patient's hearing: (H. of Hippocrates, 1224); Garrison & Morton, 3361; Wellcome II, 387. -- (Separated from: Verhandelingen en Waarneemingen t.b.d. Genees- Heel- Verlos- en Scheikunde, Uitgegeven door H.A. Bake, R. de Kruyff, en J. Logger; volume II, pp. 111-164, 1804).
RUSSELL, PATRICK & EVERARD HOME. - THE CHANNELS OF SNAKE-POISON OBSERVED.
Reference : 44173
(1804)
(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1804). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1804 - Part I. Pp. 70-76 a. 1 fine engraved plate (snake heads and glands).
Together with CHARLES HATCHETT ""Analysis of a triple Sulphuret, of Lead, Antimony, and Copper from Cornwall"", pp. 63-69.