Publisher:
by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne : 1938
Seller ID: k180620a
2d edition; first published in 1939. 8vo. Vol I only [of 3]
Blue cloth; xxvi + 873pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, appendices., bibliog., indexes.
A fine copy. A clean, bright, and tight copy. Some light toning adjacent to gutters of end papers; very light wear to edges; some very minor spotting on fore-edge. View More...
Facsimile edition of Bidloo's noted atlas of human anatomy first published in Amsterdam in 1685. Large 4to (11"x16"), bound in burgundy leatherette, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. No. 411 of 2000 copies printed. A bit of rubbing at top and bottom of spine, otherwise fine. The atlas is illustrated with 105 plates by Gerard de Lairesse, showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers. The book was later plagiarized by English surgeon William Cowper for his Anatomy of the Humane Bodies (1698), which gave no credit to either Bidloo or de Lairesse. This led to... View More...
Early American herbal with ten full-page illustrations, 3 hand-colored. This work offers various botanical remedies for a range of common ailments. The book also attacks the practice of medicine at that time.
2d edition. 16mo, original calf but rebacked to match the original. Xii. [13]-181pp.+advert;
Condition: Good: significant wear to covers, but intact. Corners rounded and rubbed. Endpapers foxed; only occasional light foxing elsewhere. Several small inked notations inside back cover. View More...
12mo. Half leather over marbled boards. Tight, square binding. Four of four volumes. Very good; some fading at extremities and spine, several small nicks to spine ends, end papers toned. Internally clean and tight. View More...
