Studies in Physiological Optics
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1965. More
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1965. More
Stuttgart, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., [circa 1972] (facsimile edition)/ 1587. Number CCV of 300 copies bound in full vellum of this facsimile reprint of the original 1587 Frankfurt edition; a further 2500 copies were bound in half vellum. 'Jacob Rueff (1500-1558), a surgeon and obstetrician in Zurich. Rueff was responsible..... More
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1921. More
London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 2000. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 20. More
New York, Classics of Medicine Library, 1997 [facsimile edition]/ 1794. Copy number 418 with the publisher's bookplate. Classics of Medicine Library. More
Parkville, Melbourne University Press, 1963. Number 469 of only 750 copies numbered and signed in ink by the author. Loosely inserted is a 7-page article by the author, 'Anatomy and the Barber-Surgeons' (removed from The Medical Journal of Australia, 2 June 1973). More
Winchester, St Paul's Bibliographies, 1987 (second, revised and reset, edition)/ 1963. Dr Milton Roxanas; with his 1988 invoice loosely inserted. With many new entries, with many of the original entries expanded - and sometimes rearranged. (Preface). More
Flinders University, Women's Studies Unit, 1994. Warmly inscribed, dated (13 December 1994) and signed by Ryan and Ripper to Margaret Allen, and with her contemporary ownership signature. More
Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1955. One of 1600 sets. [2 items]. More
London, Cape, 1923 [first English edition]. First published in New York the previous year; this edition has a new eight-page preface by H.G. Wells. An important early work on birth control: 'Mrs Sanger with her extraordinary breadth of outlook and the real scientific quality of her mind ... has lifted..... More
Adelaide, W.C. Cox, Government Printer, 1876. South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1876. Detailed answers to 3897 questions; with much on contemporary manufacturing industries in their relation to public health. More
Burnside, Adelaide Academic Press, 2005. More
[Camperdown], Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 1978. Number 132 of an unspecified upper limit; dated (16 August 1979) and signed by the author. More
Melbourne, William Ramsay, 1927 (second, completely rewritten and enlarged, edition)/ 1920. 'The book has been completely rewritten ... The endeavour has been made ... to eliminate whatever is useless, and to put forward the present state of our knowledge, briefly and yet reasonably fully' (Preface to Second Edition). More
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839. Offered with a copy of the Classics of Neurology and Neurosurgery Library 1985 facsimile edition of MAYO, Herbert: 'Anatomical and Physiological Commentaries'. Octavo, two volumes (originally published August 1822 and July 1823) here bound as one, [iv] (new preliminaries), [iv], 120, [ii]..... More
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985. With the personal bookplate and acquisition details of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018) on the front pastedown. Not least, Cuba, North America and Jamaica. More
Kathmandu, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests, Department of Medicinal Plants, 1967. One of 1000 copies, this copy bears the ink annotations and ownership details of botanist, author and sometime South Australian television presenter on ABC's 'Gardening Australia', Malcolm Warren Campbell (dated February 1978), including a Kathmandu address..... More
Oakland, The Scrimshaw Press, 1977. Photographs taken at the section of the Stanford Children's Hospital devoted to cancer therapy 'to record on film the inner spirit of the place'. More
Adelaide, Department of Recreation and Sport, 1986. Presentation copy. Loosely inserted is an ALS from the author on Department of Recreation and Sport letterhead (slightly creased and marked on the leading edge). More
Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox, 1853 (third edition). Loosely inserted is an 'In Memoriam' bookplate noting that this book had been presented to the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh by Sir Alexander Russell Simpson (the author's nephew). The bookplate has been stamped 'Withdrawn'. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Obstetrics and Gynecology Library, 1990 [facsimile edition]/ 1752, 1754 and 1764. Octavo, three volumes; gilt-decorated full leather; a fine set with a bookplate and related form letter (attached to a rear blank with clear tape) in each volume. More
London, Methuen, 1922. Stamped 'Presentation Copy'. More
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1906. 'Private Print' is printed at the head of the front cover and the title page; 'With Dr Ramsay Smith's compliments' is written in ink across the top of the front cover. More
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. 'Herbert Spencer's "Principles of Psychology" (1855, first edition) was regarded by his contemporaries, including William James and John Dewey, as a major contribution to what was then a very new discipline. In this book he first expounded his ideas about both evolution of..... More
Naracoorte, Naracoorte Herald, 1989. Australian Women's Army Service recollections. More