Medicin og sundhed

A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry, and Fishing

Oswald Crawfurd [editor] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Chapman & Hall, 1895. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this commentary of a year of sporting from British journalist Oswald Crawfurd. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed record of a year of ...

Alcohol and the Human Body, an Introduction to the Study of the Subject

Sir Victor Horsley; Mary D. Sturge; Arthur Newsholme · 1909 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1909 . Cloth. Horsley and Sturge's highly informative scientific account of the human body and its response to alcohol, illustrated with a wealth of charts and tables. First published in 1907, this is a fascinating scientific and medical study on...

Tratado Elemental de Fisiologia Que Comprende Las Principales Nociones de la Fisiologia Comparada

J. Beclard · 1877 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,334)

Madrid, Carlos Bailly-Bailliere, 1877. Leather. The second edition of this treatise on human physiology by Jules-Auguste Beclard, with many in-text illustrations. The second Spanish edition of this work. First published in the French in 1856. Bound in full calf, with marbled e...

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of Fever; Experiments on the Red and Quill Peruvian Bark

Caleb Dickinson; Ralph Irving · 1785 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.43 | $2,510.18 | ¥400,716)

Edinburgh, C. Elliot; G. Robinson; W. Gilbert, 1785 . First edition. Leather. Two very scarce 1785 first edition medical works, discussing the causes of fevers, and the potential medicinal properties of Peruvian bark. Two very scarce first edition works, bound together. Presen...

L&Apos;Encephale; Journal Des Maladies Mentales Et Nerveuses

B. Ball; J. Luys · 1886 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.78 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,813)

Paris, J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1886 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the sixth volume of Luys and Ball's journal of mental and nervous diseases: 'L'Encephale; Journal des Maladies Mentales et Nerveuses&apos. In the original French.Volume VI only of ...

The Conquest of Cancer

H. W. S. Wright · 1925 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, 1925. First edition. Hardback. A scarce copy of this insightful exploration into the fight against one of humanity's most challenging diseases. The first edition of this scarce work. From the series 'To-day and To-morrow&ap...

Copy of Proof Sheets U. S Pharmacopoeia

Dr Elisha De Butts · 1820 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

None stated , None stated , 1820. Paperback. A very scarce facsimile of the original proof sheets for the U.S Pharmacopeia, a compendium on medicines. In the publisher's original paper covers. A very scarce facsimile of the original proof sheets. This volume features the ...

Dr. John Fothergill and His Friends: Chapters in Eighteenth Century Life

R. Hingston Fox · 1919 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1919. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated medical historical work focusing on English physician John Fothergill. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. A biographical w...

Pensees de Blaise Pascal Precedees D&Apos;Une Notice Sur Sa Vie Pur Madame Perier, Sa Soeur

1844 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.34 | $62.09 | ¥9,912)

Paris , Didier, Libraire-Editeur, 1844. Cloth. A French philosophical work from child prodigy and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, in the smart gilt-decorated cloth binding. A French collection of fragments written by the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. ...

De la Phthisie Pulmonaire

Ld. Meessen · 1846 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Gand, Librairie General De H. Hoste, 1846. Leather. A very scarce copy of this work on the causes and treatments of Pulmonary Phthisis, in the original French. French. Very scarce. A detailed medical exploration of pulmonary phthisis, which would be interpreted during the nine...

Physical Expression: Its Mode and Principles

Francis Warner · 1885 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co , 1885. Cloth. A smart second edition of this thought-provoking exploration into physical expression, with illustrations throughout. The second edition of this work.Volume II from 'The International Scientific Series&apos.In the publisher...

The Physiology of Common Life

George Henry Lewes · 1859 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.92 | ¥59,053)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons , 1859-1860. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this two-volume Victorian study of physiological theories, from the philosopher and long-term partner of George Eliot, George Henry Lewes. The first edition of this physi...

Practical Anatomy: A Manual of Dissections

Christopher Heath · 1864 · Rooke Books

£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,671)

London, John Churchill , 1864. First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this illustrated scientific work on human anatomy by Christopher Heath, bound in half morocco. The vanishingly scarce first edition of a scarce work. Illustrated throughout with mono...

Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature Display&Apos;D. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History, As Were Throught Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth.

Mr Humphreys · 1744 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

London, R. Francklin, 1744. Leather. The sixth edition of this work on natural history, translated from the original French by Mr Humphreys and bound in full calf with copper plates. The sixth edition, corrected. Bound in full calf. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece a...

The Key to Astrology, Containing a Complete System of Genethliacal Astrology; Raphael&Apos;S Medical Astrology; Raphael&Apos;S Mundane Astrology

Raphael [Robert Cross Smith] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.61 | $376.53 | ¥60,107)

London, W. Foulsham & Co, 1909-1910. Cloth. Three fascinating early twentieth century works on astrology, with a particular focus on the manner in which the cosmos influences health and politics. Three astrological works credited to 'Raphael', which was the pseudonym...

The Modern Practice of Physic: Or, a Method of Judiciously Treating the Several Disorders Incident to the Human Body

John Ball · 1762 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.32 | ¥57,998)

London, A. Millar, 1762 . Leather. The enlarged two volume second edition of John Ball's very scarce medical work. The two volume second edition of this work, 'with large additions, and amendments&apos. Very scarce in all editions.Ball's work provides informatio...

An Introduction to the Study of Hypnotism

H. E. Wingfield · 1920 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,763)

London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1920 . Cloth. The second edition of Hugh Edward Wingfield's informative introduction to hypnotism. The enlarged second edition of this work, which was first published in 1910.Chapters discuss sub-consciousness, methods of the induction ...

Nights with an Old Gunner and Other Studies of Wild Life

C. J. Cornish · 1897 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

London , Seeley And Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition on wildfowling and wild life written by Charles John Cornish. The first edition. Very scarce.Nights With an Old Gunner and Other Stories of Wild Life is a book that explores the observation of wild...

Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea. Or, a Complete English Dispensatory

John Quincy · 1742 · Rooke Books

£345.00 (€413.53 | $455.80 | ¥72,762)

London, Thomas Longman, 1742 . Leather. A smart example of the twelfth edition of John Quincy's popular and impressively detailed materia medica. The enlarged and corrected twelfth edition of this work, which was first published in 1721.Widely used by medical professional...

Nouvi Elementi Di Medicina Operatoria

Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau; Felice de Bensis [trans.]; Salvatore de Benzi [trans.]; Achilles de Benzi [trans.] · 1836 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.82 | $171.75 | ¥27,417)

Napoli, Dalla Tipografia del Filatre-Sebezio, 1836 . Leather. A very scarce Italian language translation of the first volume only of Velpeau's discussion of surgery. Translated from the original French into Italian by Felice de Bensis, Salvatore de Benzi and Achilles de B...