Operative Gynecology
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, Ltd., 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1898. [2 items]. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, Ltd., 1992 (facsimile edition)/ 1898. [2 items]. More
Birmingham, Gryphon Editions, Ltd., 1985. More
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1979 [facsimile edition]/ 1785. Loosely inserted is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 227) and the original subscriber's name. More
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2012/ 2011. More
Brisbane, The Society, 1996. Not least, 5 articles over 28 pages on the Bligh mutiny; penology and transportation (80 pages); and a short article on the bifurcated transmission of Spanish Influenza to South Africa in 1918. More
United State of America, MSD Merck Sharp & Dohme International, 1981. More
London, William Heinemann Medical Books, 1972. More
Farnham, Ashgate, 2010. With the contemporary ownership signature of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018). The History of Medicine in Context series. More
Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi B.V., 1995. 'Due to its unique richness and variety of facts, interpretations, theoretical models, and moreover unanswered questions, physiology remains a matter of considerable, historical and epistemological interest'. Clio Medica 33, the Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. More
Veurne, De Klaproos Editions, 1993. During World War I, 'Talbot House served as a rest and recuperation centre for the British armies who defended the Salient' (rear cover). More
Paris, Jean-Marie Farina, [early 1800s]. The broadsides advertise products stocked by Farina, a Paris perfumer. The first lists the extraordinary properties of the dentifrice of J.C. Dominique Merellini, while the second promotes a skin-whitening cream by way of inflated references to Ariosto's 'Orlando Furioso'. [2 items]. More
Auckland, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1935 [second edition]/ [1918]. Issued under the Auspices of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children and the Australian Mothercraft Society. Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938), bank clerk, asylum superintendent, child health reformer ('Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'). More
Alice Springs, IAD Press, 1998. More
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1972. Not least, Duguid's pre-eminent role in the establishment of Ernabella Mission. More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. Presentation copy. To Trevor Alfred Ridley ('Jim') Dinning (1919-2003), warmly inscribed, 'In appreciation of Trevor Dinning's mastery in the field of Brain & Spinal Cord Surgery'; dated (2 December 1966) and signed by the author (and amending one of his qualifications from FRFPS to FRCS)..... More
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1957. A memoir of Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), former Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, by one of his students (the well-known 'Doctor among the Aborigines'). The author has inscribed and signed the title page, and amended one of his qualifications (from FRFPS to FRCS)..... More
Reading, The Alden Press for The Library, University of Reading, 1969 and 1975. Provenance: Dr Milton Roxanas, with his 1981 purchase receipt loosely inserted. More
New York, Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., [1970s] (facsimile edition)/ 1828. Number 1762 of 2500 copies thus (there were also 300 copies of a leather-bound deluxe edition). Loosely inserted is the publisher's 10-page booklet by Colonel Harold Wellington Jones, 'Charles Bell and the Origin of his Engravings of the Arteries' (slightly..... More
Boston, Editions Medicina Rara, [1980s] (facsimile edition)/ 1828. Number 290 of 2500 copies thus. Text in the original French; the publisher's 20-page introductory booklet (loosely inserted, now slightly creased and foxed) is in English. [2 items]. More
Adelaide, The Author, 2012. 'The sequel to the acclaimed book "Vietnam: the War Within"' (cover sub-title). A compilation of personal reflections by veterans of the Vietnam War and their families, with a particular focus on mental health. More
London, Wm Heinemann Medical Books Ltd, 1946. With a later ink gift inscription to 'Donald', being eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO, MC (1927-2018). Not least, occasional Australian aboriginal references. More
London, Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. More
Manchester, Manchester University Press for The University Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1981. Provenance: Dr Milton Roxanas, with his 1983 purchase receipt from Jeremy Norman loosely inserted. More
Stuttgart, Editions Medicina Rara, [c. 1975]/ 1714. Copy number 2016 of 2300 copies bound in quarter-leather (with a further 500 copies bound in full leather). Facsimile reprint of the original 1714 edition. Together with the 20-page publisher's introductory pamphlet (front cover lightly creased). Bartolomeo Eustachius (circa 1510/20-1574) completed the plates..... More
Dublin, Parkside Press, 1949. With the contemporary ownership signature of [Dr] L[eslie] O.S. Poidevin and his annotations, a few years before he was appointed Director of Obstetrics at the University of Adelaide. Some thirty years later Poidevin was to author several medical memoirs, including his time as a Japanese POW..... More