Lot 513
Eighteenth century British medicine -- A quantity, including Langrish, Browne
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
A new essay on muscular motion. London, 1733. 4to, original boards, pp.63-4 soiled and loose, dampstained & soiled; Hendy, James A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes. London, 1784. 8vo, engraved frontispiece & folding plate, half calf, cover detached; Leake, John A dissertation on the properties and efficacy of the Lisbon diet-drink. London, [c.1767]. 1 mezzotint plate; Dawson, Thomas Cases in the acute rheumatism and the gout. London, 1775; Smith, Hugh A treatise on the use and abuse of minerall waters. London, [c.1780?]; Rowley, William An essay on the cure of ulcerated legs. 1771. 4 works in one volume, calf, lacks upper board; Heister, Lorenz A compendium of the practice of physic. London, 1757. 8vo, calf, board detached; Haygarth, John A sketch of a plan to exterminate the casual small-pox from Great Britain. London, 1793. 2 volumes, 8vo, board detached; Greenfield, John A treatise of the safe, internal use of Cantharides in the practice of physick. London, 1706. 8vo, boards detached; Hewson, William Experimental Inquiries; part the First. London, 1772. 8vo, half-title, calf, rebacked; Home, Francis Medical facts and experiments. London, 1759. 8vo, calf, rebacked; Haller, Dr. Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and experiments communicated by Dr Haller. London, 1757. 8vo, half-title, 4 plates on 2 folding sheets, calf, covers detached; Monro, Alexander The anatomy of the human bones, nerves and lacteal sac and duct. Edinburgh, 1763. 12mo, calf; Gilchrist, Ebenezer The use of sea voyages in medicine. London, 1771. 8vo, half-title, boards detached; Pearson, John Principles of surgery... Part the First. London, 1788. Volume 1 only, calf, cover detached; Peart, E. The generation of animal heat. Gainsbrough, 1788. 8vo, original boards, uncut; Pemberton, Henry A course of physiology. 1773. 8vo, calf, boards detached; Pearson, John Practical observations on cancerous complaints. London, 1793. 8vo, calf, boards detached; Paxton, Peter A directory physico-medical. London, 1707. 8vo, calf, lacks part of advertisement leaf at end; Paxton, P. Specimen physico-medicum. London, 1711. 8vo, calf, board detached; Parsons, James Human physiognomy explain'd. London, 1747. 4to, 9 engraved plates (erratically numbered), half calf, boards detached; Girdlestone, Thomas A case of diabetes. Yarmouth, 1799. 8vo, disbound, soiled Gibson, Thomas The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized. London, 1716. 8vo, calf, excision at head of title affecting one letter, and at head of A3 affecting several words, boards detached; Parsons, James A description of the human urinary bladder. London, 1742. 8vo, 7 folding plates, boards detached, a few leaves loose; [Anonymous] The London practice of physic. London, 1793. 8vo, Lommius, J. A treatise of continual fevers. London, 1732. 8vo, head of title cropped without loss of text, calf, covers detached; Gooch, Benjamin The chirurgical works. London, 1792. 3 volumes, 8vo, folding plates, calf and half calf, two boards detached; Langrish, Browne The modern theory and practice of physic. London, 1738. Second edition, 8vo, inscription and 3 different bookplates of Robert Scott M.D.; Lieber, Ferdinand Praelectiones anatomicae. Edinburgh, 1790. 8vo, calf, board detached; Kirkpatrick, James The analysis of inoculation. London, 1754. 8vo, calf, title and boards detached; Latta, James A practical system of surgery. Edinburgh, 1795. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved folding plates, half calf, worn; Latta, John A practical system of surgery. Edinburgh, 1795. 3 volumes, 8vo, engraved folding plates, half calf, volume 1 bound without plates, covers detached; Lind, James A treatise on the putrid and remitting marsh fever, which raged at Bengal. Edinburgh, 1776. 12mo, lacks wrappers; sold not subject to return (36)