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A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist

T. Baron Russell · 1905 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.22 | $759.66 | ¥121,269)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1905 . First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A signed first edition of this vanishingly scarce work in which the author makes predictions about society one hundred years in the future. The first edition of this very scarce work. A US edition, also very sca...

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks · 1973 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.64 | $350.10 | ¥55,889)

London, Duckworth, 1973 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Oliver Sacks's Hawthornden Prize winning account of his treatment of the survivors of the sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's ori...

Einfuhrung in Die Metaphysik

Martin Heidegger · 1957 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Tubingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1957 . Cloth. The second edition of this brief introduction to metaphysics from German philosopher Martin Heidegger. In the original German.The second edition of this introductory work, first published in 1953 from a lecture course given by Heide...

Traite de Chimie Pathologique Apliquee a la Medecine Pratique

Alfred Becquerel; M. A. Rodier · 1854 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Paris, Germer Balliere, 1854. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this uncommon French volume on pathology. A first edition of this uncommon volume in which Louis Alfred Becquerel and A. Rodier apply their knowledge of pathology to practical medicine. Published in Frenc...

What Has Experimental Physiology Done for the Advancement of the Practice of Surgery?

Robert McDonnell · 1882 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

London , J. W. Kolckmann, 1882. Brochure/Pamphlet. An uncommon pamphlet exploring physiology and surgery. A later edition of this pamphlet, with the first edition published on 23rd November 1877. The address asks the question What has Experimental Physiology done for the Adva...

Sea-Water Treatment

J. Roberson Day · 1914 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London , John Bale, Sons & Danielsson , 1914. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Sea Water Treatment with illustrations. A first edition copy of Sea Water Treatment. This volume explores the merits of sea-water treatment in Paris and England, diseases of the...

Uncle Bob&Apos;S Guides: Care of the Skin & Anemia Its Cause and Cure

Uncle Bob · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London, Health & Strength, c1910. Paperback. Two very scarce volumes of guides by "Uncle Bob" with tips on maintaining good health. Two volumes. Very scarce works. Dated from the British Library. Booklets in their original wraps from '"Uncle Bob's" Helpful Manuals on...

Ligaments: Their Nature and Morphology

John Bland-Sutton · 1902 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London, H.K Lewis, 1902. Cloth. Work on ligaments written by eminent surgeon John Sutton-Bland, containing inscription to anatomist and controversial figure Arthur Keith Ink inscription on the half title addressed to anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Keith 'with the aut...

Departures

E. L. Grant Watson · 1948 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Pleiades Books Limited, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this autobiographical work by biologist E. L. Watson in the original publisher's dust wrapper with illustrations. The first edition of Departures by E. L. Grant Watson in the original publis...

Montevideo Bajo El Azote Epidemico

Heraclio C. Fajardo · 1857 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.29 | ¥52,726)

Montevideo, Imprenta del Sr. Rosete, 1857. First edition. Cloth. Colorado Party politician Heraclio C. Fajardo's contemporary account of the mid eighteenth century Uruguayan Yellow Fever epidemic. The very scarce first edition. In the original Spanish.The very scarce firs...

A History of Immunology

Arthur M. Silverstein · 1989 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,818)

London, Academic Press, Inc. 1989. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of this third impression study of immunology by Arthur Silverstein, in the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, third impression of this work. American immunologist Arthur M. Silverstein retraces the ...

Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World

R. T. Pritchett · 1899 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Edward Arnold, 1899. First edition. Vellum. A delightful collection of sketches by R. T. Pritchett relating to ships around the world. Detailing all manner of beautiful boats, including the 'Britannia', 'Sunbeam' and 'Victoria and Albert',...

Collected Works of the New Sydenham Society

Various · 1859 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.02 | $2,906.52 | ¥463,986)

London, The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901. Cloth. A very scarce and important medical collection comprising sixty-one volumes including an index, printed by the New Sydenham Society, with many of the works appearing in the English language for the first time. The New Sydenha...

Collected Works of the Syndenham Society

Various · 1844 · Rooke Books

£4,400.00 (€5,274.04 | $5,813.04 | ¥927,973)

London, The Sydenham Society, 1844-56. Cloth. A scarce set of nineteen of the forty volumes published by the original Sydenham Society, the majority bound in the original cloth. An important collection of medical works. Founded in the early 1840s, the Sydenham Society publishe...

Respiration

John Haldane; John Gillies Priestley · 1935 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,126)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1935. Cloth. The very scarce revised edition of a ground breaking work on the science of breathing. The combined work of John Haldane and John Priestley, physiologists who while working together at Oxford University established the role of carbon dioxi...

Armamentarium Chirurgicum

Johannes Scultetus · 1972 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Germany, Editions Medicina Rara LTD; Druckerei Holzer, 1972. Leather. A near fine limited edition facsimile of Johannes Scultetus' important surgical guidebook, here with the original engravings. A limited edition work, limited to twenty-eight hundred copies, of which thi...

The Wild Flowers of Repton

William Wyatt; C. G. Thornton · 1866 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Bemrose and Sons, 1866. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this very scarce study of the flora of Repton, illustrated with a folding map. The very scarce first edition of this work.A study of the natural wild flora of Repton, a village in South Derbyshire, on t...

Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of Geology British Museum

J W Gregory · 1899 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.57 | ¥30,581)

London, Longmans and Co, 1899. First edition. Cloth. A complete first edition set of this uncommon work regarding the Fossil Bryozoa in the British Museum. Bookplate to the front pastedown of all volumes 'Presented by the Trustees of The British Museum' and to the re...

Medical Notes and Reflections

Henry Holland · 1839 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.02 | ¥40,072)

London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Sir Henry Holland's interesting collection of essays on a variety of medical subjects. The first edition of this work. A collection of essays and articles discussing variou...

Life, Health, and Disease

Edward Johnson · 1852 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,363)

London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1852. Cloth. An uncommon and very smart copy of Edward Johnson's educational work on various aspects of sciences and medicines. In the original publisher's cloth. An uncommon work.With a half-title.Fourteenth thousand.A collection of...