Amstelodami, Societas Neerlandica Medicinae Tropicae, 1938. Text in English, French and German. Not inscribed as such, but from the collection of Hedley Marston FRS. More

Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr J.C. Ayer & Co., Practical and Analytical Chemists, 1894. Largely an advertisement for Ayer's Saraparilla and other tonics, along with a calendar for the Australian colonies and New Zealand. Printed on the rear wrapper is a small panel reading 'Presented by T. Kast & Co., Hair Dresser..... More

Adelaide, The South Australian Trained Nurses' Centenary Committee, [1945, revised third edition]/ 1939 (revised second editon)/ 1938. With the 146-page World War 2 supplement bringing the history up to September 1945. More

Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas, Printer, 1876. We successfully tendered for a large quantity of duplicate pamphlets from the SLSA in 2001; this is one of them, which we are finally getting around to processing. More

Adelaide, [AAMC Reunion Committee], 1938. 'Ever since the cessation of hostilities of the Great War, 1914-1918, it has been the wish of Australian Army Medical Corps AIF ex-servicemen in South Australia, that we should have some permanent record of our Fallen Comrades, and to those who have "Passed On" since..... More

Kathmandu, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests, Department of Medicinal Plants, 1967 and 1968. Each volume is one of 1000 copies. More

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1935. More

Melbourne, F.F. Bailliere, 1872. James George Beaney (1828-1891), surgeon, politician and philanthropist, settled in Melbourne in 1857, and 'after a period as locum tenens, acquired the practice of Dr John Maund when he died in 1858. Beaney rapidly established himself as a prominent surgeon, a position he maintained although he..... More

London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. With the armorial bookplate of 'George Bennett, MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, England'. Dr George Bennett (1804-1893), naturalist and doctor, migrated to Australia in 1836, 'developing a successful medical practice in Sydney and becoming a leading figure in..... More

Melbourne, The Trustees of the Services Canteen Trust Fund, 1955. Melbourne neurosurgeon and anatomist Keith Bradley was selected by the Trustees for this study; from 2nd January 1951, he spent three years studying the subject, including one year abroad. More

Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864. Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist, was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated 'March 1988 Italy'). More

London, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1988. With the bookplate of eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), annotated with his acquisition date: '31 August 1989, Adelaide', mounted on the front pastedown. 'Medical History', Supplement No. 8. More

Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1980 (facsimile edition)/ 1833. With the publisher's bookplate personalised for the subscriber (copy number 222). Complete with the 'Notes from the Editors' booklet. [2 items]. More