Category: Surgery

Advances in Military Medicine Made by American Investigators Working under the Sponsorship of the Committee on Medical Research. Volume I (of 2) only. [Science in World War II series].

By: Andrus, E. Cowles, et al., eds.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown & Co., 1948. First Edition.

Seller ID: 4232bd

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), liv + 472 pp. Photos., illustrations. Very Good in dust jacket.
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Insitutes of Surgery: Arranged in the Order of the Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh.

By: Bell, Sir Charles.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1840. First American Edition.

Seller ID: 3498bd

Octavo, 3/4 black calf & marbled boards (hardcover), viii, 416, [ii] pp. Fair; ex-library copy, bearing several small stamps from the New York Mercantile Library, front cover detached, some foxing.
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Recherches Physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort... Troisieme Edition.

By: Bichat, Marie Francois Xavier.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris: Chez Brosson et Gabon, Ann. XIII-1805.

Seller ID: 4259bd

Octavo, full polished calf (hardcover, leather), calf labels, blind-stamped decorations to spine, xx, 347 pp. Bichat, the French anatomist and pathologist, is best known as the Father of Histology. For his research in this particular work, he obtained permission to examine recently guillontined bodies in order to perform his experiments and propose his theories of the relationships of the brain, heart, and lungs in violent or sudden death. Third edition of Garrison & Morton (5th) 597. Very Good, bearing the bookplate of David Gibson, M.D.
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Recherches Physiologiques sur La Vie et La Mort [with:] De la Division la Plus Naturelle des Phenomenes Physiologiques, par F.-R. Buisson [with:] Experiences sur le Principe de la Vie... par C. Legallois.

By: Bichat, X. [Marie Francois Xavier].

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1855.

Seller ID: 4213bd

Octavo, calf & patterned boards (hardcover), double-columned, vii, 406 pp. Bichat famously defined life as Òthose set of Functions which resist death.Ó His career is recounted in George Eliot's Middlemarch. Very Good.
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Historische Studien uber die Beurtheilung und Behandlung der Schusswunden vom funfzehnten Jahrhundert bis auf die neueste Zeit.

By: Billroth, Dr. Theodor.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1859. First Edition.

Seller ID: 5765fd

Octavo, original green printed wrappers bound in red cloth (hardcover), iv, 92 pp. Known both as a surgeon and a musician, Billroth was a close friend of Brahms and is generally regarded as the founder of modern abdominal surgery. Fine, bearing the bookplate of Sven Wall.
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Chirurgishe Briefe aus des Kriegs-Lazarethen in Weissenburg und Mannheim 1870. Ein Beitrag zu den Wichtigsten Abschnitten der Kriegschirurgie, mit Besonderer Rucksicht auf Statistik.

By: Billroth, Dr. [Christian Albert] Theodor.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1872. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3421bd

Octavo, quarter green calf & marbled boards (hardcover, leather), vi, 349 pp. Illustrated. Billroth is remembered as the Father of Abdominal Surgery and one of the most innovative medical surgeons and educators of the 19th century. Because of his interest in military surgery, he volunteered to work in the field hospitals of Mannheim and Weissenburg during the Franco-Prussian War. Fine.
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The Hunterian Oration on British Military Surgery in the Time of Hunter and in the Great War.

By: Bowlby, Sir Anthony.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London: Adlard & Son & West Newman, 1919. First Edition, Presentation copy, with a slip, With the Author's Compliments, tipped-in.

Seller ID: 4155bda

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), 47 pp. Very Good, bearing several small stamps indicating that this copy is from a medical college library.
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Das Buch der Cirurgia des Hieronymus Brunschwig. Begleit-Text von Gustav Klein.

By: Brunschwig, Hieronymus.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Munchen: Carl Kuhn, 1911. Facsimile of the 1497 Strassburg edition, with commentary by Gustav Klein.

Seller ID: 3409bd

Small folio, vellum over boards (hardcover), 272, xxxviii pp., 16 plates. Facsimile woodcuts. Good to Very Good; covers have warped out and have some soiling; interior clean and tight.
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Journal de Chirurgie: Revue Critique.

By: Cuneo, B., et al., eds.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris: Masson et Cie., (1928). volume XXXII, Part 2.

Seller ID: 3412bd

Royal octavo, quarter red claf & marbled boards (hardcover), marbled endpapers, 764, 196 pp., plus ads. Photos., illustrations. Very Good; some shelfwear. International orders will require additional postage.
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A Bibliography, 1545-1940, of the Works of Ambroise Par?, 1510-1590, Premier Chirurgien & Conseiller du Roi. Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of the Original Books, Collected Works, Extracts and Translations, with an Introduction, Appendixes and an Index.

By: Doe, Janet.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Amsterdam: Gerard Th. Van Heusden, (1976). First Edition.

Seller ID: 5770fd

Octavo, softbound, xx, 275, [viii ads] pp. Illustrations. Near-Fine.
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Die Drankheiten im Feldzuge, gegen Russland (1812). Eine Geschichtlich-Medizinische Studie.

By: Ebstein, Dr. Wilhelm.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1902. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3502bd

Octavo, printed cream wrappers (paperbound), 82 pp. Very Good; small chips at head and foot of spine, otherwise clean and tight.
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Principes de Chirurgie. Septieme Edition.

By: Faye, George de la.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Avignon: Jean-Albert Joly, 1792.

Seller ID: 4234bd

Duodecimo, original calf (hardcover, leather), gilt-decorated spine, xii + 456 pp. Woodcut headpieces. Near-Fine.
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Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France and the Netherlands, From the Battle of Rolica, in 1808 to That of Waterloo, in 1815, Showing the Improvements Made during and since that Period in the Great Art and Science of Surgery on All the Subjects to Which They Relate. Revised to October 1855.

By: Guthrie, G. J.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London: Henry Renshaw, 1855. Sixth edition.

Seller ID: 3510bd

Octavo, original blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), xxiv, 672 pp. Illustrations. Fair; joints and hinges reinforced with cloth tape front and rear.
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A German Doctor at the Front (Die Front Der Arzte). Translated from the Original German by Colonel Gustavus M. Blech and Brigadier General Jefferson R. Kean.

By: His, Dr. Wilhelm.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington: National Service Publishing Co., (1933). First American Edition.

Seller ID: 4264bd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), xiv 230 pp. Frontis., Portrait, maps. Very Good, with light wear, bookplate.
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Surgeon James's Journal 1815. Edited by Jane Vansittart.

By: James, Dr. Haddy.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London: Cassell, (1964). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4160bda

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xv, 175 pp. Portraits, maps. Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Kriegschiurgische Erfahrungen aus dem Sudafrikanischen Kreige 1899-1900.

By: Kuttner, Dr. Hermann.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tubingen: H. Laupp, 1900. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3512bd

Octavo, stiff printed wrappers (softbound), uncut, 116 pp., 11 plates. Illustrations. Good; head of spine badly chipped, otherwise clean and tight.
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Gunshot Injuries: How They Are Inflicted, Their Complications and Treatment.

By: La Garde, Colonel Louis A.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York: William Wood, 1916.

Seller ID: 4247bd

Second, Revised Edition. Prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General United States Army and published by the authority of the Secretary of War. Octavo, brick-red cloth, xii, 457 pp. Photos., illustrations, fold-out table. Very Good.
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Gunshot Injuries: How They Are Inflicted, Their Complications and Treatment.

By: La Garde, Colonel Louis A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Mt. Ida, Arkansas: Lancer Militaria, (1991).

Seller ID: 4248bd

Facsimile reprint of the 1916 edition. Second, revised edition. Prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General United States Army and published by the authority of the Secretary of War. Octavo, brick-red cloth, xii, 457 pp. Photos., illustrations, fold-out table. Fine.
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Memoire sur les Plaies Penetrantes de l'Abdomen: Compliquees d'Issue de l'Epiploon.

By: Larrey, [Felix] Hipp[olyte].

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1845. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3514bd

Square octavo, modern quarter gray polished calf & marlbed boards, calf label, gilt-decorated spine, 21 pp. Larrey became the chief medical officer for the French army in 1870, and personal physician to Napoleon III. Fine.
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La Guerre en Bulgarie et en Turquie: Onze Mois de Campagne. I. Notes et Impressions. II. Les Blesses.

By: Laurent, Professeur Octave.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris: A. Maloine, 1914. First Edition.

Seller ID: 4250bd

Octavo, late 20th century binding of half quarto morocco & marbled boards (hardcover, leather), calf label, [viii], 383, [1 table] pp. Illustrated with 302 black & white photographs. Near-Fine.
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Category: Surgery