Blood, Sweat and Fears. Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australia who Served in World War 1
Adelaide, Army Health Services Historical Research Group, November 2014/ July 2014. Signed by all four authors on the title page. More
Adelaide, Army Health Services Historical Research Group, November 2014/ July 2014. Signed by all four authors on the title page. 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
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
Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1980 (facsimile edition)/ 1774. Mounted on an early blank is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 376), with the original subscriber's name blacked out. More
Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1982 (first thus, this combined edition)/ 1802, 1803 and 1829. Mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper is the publisher's numbered bookplate (copy 376), with the original subscriber's name blacked out. More
Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1985 (third reprint)/ 1978 (second, revised, edition)/ 1974. More
Adelaide, Government Printer, [1973]. More
Adelaide, Stump & Co. (credited in the negative), [circa 1896]. The bottom margin of the mount is inscribed 'Yours faithfully, A. Watson. Oct. 1896'. Archibald Watson was an 'erratic, histrionic genius', as his entry in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' proceeds to demonstrate. 'Appointed Elder professor of anatomy at the..... More
North Ryde, Harper Collins/ Angus and Robertson, 1990. 'Includes many references to Aboriginal plant and animal remedies, their preparation and use; native tobacco, pituri and other narcotics' (Trove). More
[Adelaide, Stump & Co., circa 1900]. An example of this photograph is in one of the University of Adelaide's special collections, where it is credited to Stump & Co., and given the date 1910. However, Watson appears in uniform as consultant surgeon in the Natal Field Force during the Boer..... More
London, Royal College of Physicians of London, 1995. Subtitle: 'An anthology of 'Notes from the Registrar' published in the College commentary during the period 1975-1992 when David Pyke CBE MD FRCP was Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians'. More
[Adelaide], The author, 1995. Signed by the author. A personal history of the Adelaide Children's Hospital, now called the Women's and Children's Hospital. More
New York, The Modern Library, [circa 1950s]. More
Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1981. Provenance: the eminent Australian neurosurgeon Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), with his inscribed and signed compliments slip indicating that he 'inadvertently bought two copies'. Also loosely inserted is printed letter referring to the book (annotated in ink). More
Taos, Nighthawk Press, 2015. Presentation copy. Warmly inscribed ('a lifetime of sustained friendship'), and signed in ink by the author on the title page. More
Sydney, printed by Arthur McQuitty and Co. [and distributed by Tyrrell’s Limited], [1919, re-issue in boards]/ 1919. A superior re-issue in boards (possibly for presentation) of 'Remnants from Randwick. N[umber] 2. No. 4 Australian General Hospital, 1919'. Contents include memoirs, short stories, verse, jokes, cartoons and drawings (not least, by..... More
London, H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1918. Loosely inserted is a small mimeographed slip reading 'With the Author's Compliments'. James (later Sir James) Barrett (1862-1945), a leader of the medical profession in Melbourne and an able publicist, was Assistant Director of Medical Services, Australian Forces, in Egypt until August 1915..... More
[Adelaide], 'Printed and Published At "the Horace Walpole Press"' [The Author], 1941. Inscribed 'To Eric & Jean McLaughlin, with the Compliments & Best Wishes of F.E. Rogers, Xmas /41'. The book was hand-set and printed by the author, who apologizes in the preface for the many errors present. 'These errors..... More
Glebe, The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (University of Sydney), Commonwealth Department of Health, 1946. Service publication (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine) Number 6. 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
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1947. 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
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. '55 of the most common eponyms related to the neurological examination, neuroanatomy, and neurological disease' (dustwrapper blurb). More
New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965. '52 of the most outstanding written contributions in the field of neurological surgery, compiled into 38 groups, each accompanied by a commentary and a list of related references' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Stockholm, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1955. One of 1600 sets. [2 items]. More