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Historia Vitae Et Mortis

Francis Bacon · 1637 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

Not Stated, Lugduni Batavorum; Joannis Mairs, 1637. Vellum. An early edition of this influential medical treatise on prolonging life by Francis Bacon, a sought after work by the important Tudor figure. In the original Latin.Register runs as *-******6, A-Q6, R4, T-Nn6, Oo10. C...

Dr Timothie Bright: A Survey of His Life with a Bibliography of His Writings

Geoffrey Keynes · 1962 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962. First edition. Cloth. A highly illustrated survey of Dr Timothie Bright's life and works. First edition. First edition. Highly illustrated with 17 plates. Collated complete. The life and works of Dr Timothie Bright, a...

A Treatise on Diet

J. A. Paris · 1828 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Thomas & George Underwood, 1828. Cloth. A fascinating 19th century treatise on diet by distinguished physician and medical researcher John Ayrton Paris. The third, corrected and enlarged, edition of this work in a cloth library binding, with a binder's label to th...

The Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Thomas Browne Including Miscellany Tracts and Repertorium

Sir Thomas Browne; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.] · 1946 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. Cloth. A scarce anthology of works by the polymath Sir Thomas Browne, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This edition of Sir Thomas Browne&apos...

Institutions de Chirurgie

Laurent Heister [Lorenz Heister]; Paul [trans.] · 1771 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥115,997)

Paris, P. Fr. Didot le Jeune, 1771. Leather. Two volumes of Laurent Heister's impressive work of surgical history, illustrated with forty folding plates depicting surgical procedures and tools. The first two volumes only of the four volume second French language translati...

The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl, Including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing Them

Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey · 1985 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,491)

Southampton , Ashford Press Publishing , 1985. Cloth. A handsome new edition of this classic work regarding wildfowl and seafowl, with shooting instructions. The second edition. Handsomely bound in the original full cloth with gilt detail and pictorial cover. With a frontispie...

The Flora of Oxfordshire

Richard Walker · 1833 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Oxford, Henry Slatter; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman; and Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1833 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition of this early nineteenth century botany book with illustrations/ First edition of The Flora of Oxfordshire, and its ...

Toilers of the Field

Richard Jefferies · 1892 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1892. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of essays by Richard Jefferies. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Frontispiece of a photograph taken by J. Owen, of the Margaret Thomas's bust of Richa...

Motor Roads to London

Mitchell Motor Works & Garage · 1912 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

London , Mitchell Motor Works & Garage, 1912. Cloth. A comprehensive pocket guide of motor roads to London, with a colour folding map. A third edition copy of Motor Roads to London. The volume details various routes into London from various locations including Dover, Margate, ...

A Complete Treatise of Land Surveying, by the Chain, Cross, and Offset Staffs Only

William Davis · 1802 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

London, H. D. Symonds; W. Baynes; Lackington, Allen, and Co; et al, 1802. Leather. The very scarce second edition of this interesting volume on land surveying and agriculture, complete with many folding plates. The very scarce second edition of this work.Illustrated with seven...

Norfolk Broads and Rivers or the Water-Ways, Lagoons and Decoys of East Anglia

G. Christopher Davies · 1884 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,036)

Edinburgh , William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Cloth. A charming new edition on the rivers and waterways of the Norfolk Broads, with illustrations throughout. A charming new edition with illustrations of Norfolk Broads and Rivers or The Water-Ways, Lagoons and Decoys of East An...

The Birds of Surrey

John A. Bucknil · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

London , R. H. Porter , 1900. First edition. Cloth. A lovely illustrated first edition copy that details the local natural history of Surrey and its Birds. This is an ornithological history of the birds of Surrey with six photogravure plates and further illustrations throughou...

Gibson&Apos;S Treatise on Land Surveying

Robert Gibson; Marcus Trotter · 1839 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Dublin, John Cumming, 1839. Cloth. Marcus Trotter's very scarce edition of Robert Gibson's mathematical guide to methods of land surveying. Illustrated with three folding plates. First published in 1752 under the title 'A Treatise of Practical Surveying', t...

The Works of John Burroughs

John Burroughs · 1889 · Rooke Books

£490.00 (€587.34 | $647.36 | ¥103,342)

Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889-1891. Leather. A very scarce eight volume collection of the writings of this American naturalist and conservationist, in smart half calf bindings. A very scarce set of the writings of John Burroughs, an American naturali...

Mr. Spencer Wells&Apos;S Note Book for Cases of Ovarian and Other Abdominal Tumours

Spencer Wells · 1877 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, J. & A. Churchill, 1877. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce notebook for cases of ovarian tumours, by Spencer Wells, filled out with a case of an old maid by a Mr. Greig Smith. A very scarce work.The fifth edition of this work.An interesting note book by Spencer Wells, i...

A Dissertation on the Gout, and All Chronic Diseases, Jointly Considered, As Proceeding from the Same Causes; What Those Causes Are; and a Rational and Natural Method of Cure Proposed. Addressed to All Invalids. Observations on Dr. Cadogan&Apos;S Dissertation on the Gout and All Chronic Diseases

William Cadogan; William Falconer · 1771 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

London; Bath, J. Dodsley, 1771-72. Leather. Two volumes bound in one, being William Cadogan's treatise on gout, and William Falconer's reply attacking Cadogan. Two volumes in one.'A Dissertation on the Gout', the seventh edition of this work, published in t...

An Account of the Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat or Scarlatina Anginosa

William Withering · 1779 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,543)

London, T. Cadell, 1779. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, first edition copy of this eighteenth-century treatise on scarlet fever, in particular its prominence in Birmingham during 1778. Written by noted English botanist and physician William Withering. Presenting the ...

The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design

Sir Charles Bell · 1852 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.93 | ¥24,254)

London, John Murray, 1852. Cloth. An impressively detailed and illustrated study of the comparative anatomy and physiology of the hand. The revised fifth edition of this anatomical study from Scottish surgeon and physician Charles Bell, illustrated throughout with vignette eng...

Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea or a Body of Medicines Containing a Thousand Select Prescripts

Thomas Fuller · 1714 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.56 | $2,378.06 | ¥379,625)

London, William Innys, 1714. Fine Binding. A very scarce second edition of Thomas Fuller's important medical treatise, which provides previously guarded medical recipes. In English. Fuller produced this work with hope that it may be some service to beginners and although...

An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery Vol. I; Observations on the Cure of Cancer

Thomas Denman · 1801 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,216)

London, Printed for J Johnston, 1801-10. First edition. Leather. An attractively bound copy of some early printings of two very scarce medical works in one by Thomas Denman, presented by the Birmingham Medical Institute. Two medical works bound in one by Thomas Denman. Present...