Acta Conventus Tertii de Tropicis Atque Malariae Morbis. Pars 1 and 2
Amstelodami, Societas Neerlandica Medicinae Tropicae, 1938. Text in French. Not inscribed as such, but from the collection of Hedley Marston FRS. More
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Aids to the Investigation of Peripheral Nerve Injuries. Medical Research Council War Memorandum No. 7
London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1946 [revised second edition]/ 1943. More
The Australian Medical Journal .. Volume VI, 1861
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, ranging from adulteration of food, to hydatids and snake-bites. The Hon. William Bland MLC contributed 'Bites of the Venomous Snakes..... More
The Australian Medical Journal for 1864. Volume IX
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1864. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including several short ones on snake-bite (approximately 6 pages), and a series of three important lectures on the heart by..... More
The Australian Medical Journal for 1866. Volume XI
Melbourne, Wilson and Mackinnon, 1866. Twelve monthly issues bound together with a title leaf and a cumulative index at the rear. There are numerous articles of interest in the volume, including lengthy accounts (totalling 36 pages) of the recently concluded Beaney murder trials (the surgeon James George Beaney was acquitted..... More
Chinese Medicinal Herbs of Hong Kong (Chinese-English). Volume 1, Volume 2 [and] Volume 3
Hong Kong, [N.P.], 1984/ 1983. More
Psychopathology and Pictorial Expression. An International Iconographical Collection. Series 1-12 [an unbroken run of the first 12 issues]
[Switzerland], Sandoz, 1963 to 1967. Series 6 was issued with 16 plates; numbers 9, 13 and 14 are no longer present. Series 8 ('The Pictorial Representation of Depression' by E. Cunningham Dax, Chairman, Mental Health Authority, Melbourne), lacks the first of its 12 plates. Apart from minor wear to the..... More
Wellcome's Medical Diary and Visiting List, 1913
London, Burroughs Wellcome, 1913. With the ownership signature of Howard Zelling, sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia. More
The Constitution and By-Laws of the Adelaide Children's Hospital
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
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Letters from a Young Queenslander. [Together with] Mesopotamia and India. A Continuation of 'Letters from a Young Queenslander'
Brisbane, Watson, Ferguson & Co. Ltd., 1916 (second edition)/ 1915 and 1916. The frontispiece of both volumes, and two other plates in the first volume, depict the author, a medical graduate with the RAMC, without naming him. At the outbreak of war, Robert Marshall Allan (1886-1946) was working at the..... More
On the use of the Ophthalmoscope in the Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys.
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1992 [facsimile edition]/ 1871. Copy number 418 with the publisher's bookplate. Classics of Medicine Library. More
On the use of the Ophthalmoscope in the Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Kidneys.
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1992 [facsimile edition]/ 1871. Classics of Medicine Library. More
A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna. Incorporating a Translation of the First Book
Birmingham, Alabama, Classics of Medicine Library, 1984/ 1930. The work of an eleventh century Arabian philosopher. More
General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures. A Text-Book for Students and Physicians. Translated from the fourth German edition .. by Charles E. Hackley
London, Lewis, 1871 (first English translation). "The fact of this publication going through four editions in Germany, and having been translated into French, Italian, Russian, and Hungarian, should be some guarantee for its standing" (translator's preface, dated 1 December 1870). More
In the High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division, June 18th, 1877. The Queen v. Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant. (Specially Reported)
London, A. & H. Bradlaugh Bonner, [circa 1900]. Bradlaugh and Besant were prosecuted for publishing Charles Knowleton's 'Fruits of Philosophy'. The preface states that 'its importance lies in the fact that it is condemned - says Lord Chief Justice Cockburn - because it advocates prudential restraint to population, while also..... More
F.M. The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander, Founder of the Alexander Technique
London, Little, Brown, 2004. More
Two very detailed manuscript ledgers from Boettger's practice as an optician (1886-1894), together with approximately 275 invoices covering importations for his extensive engineering, surveying, optical and scientific instruments business (1892-1900)
The foolscap folio ledgers are uniformly bound in half suede and cloth (with the letters A and B respectively on the spines); the covers show signs of wear, but the volumes are very sturdy, with the contents in excellent condition. The first one contains 21 pages of index and 102..... More
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia
London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Demography in its broadest sense: 'a description of the geographical features of the colony which have a hygienic relationship; of the meteorological conditions and their relation to certain diseases; of the sanitary progress of the colony'. More
A Contribution to the Demography of South Australia
London, Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1891. Demography in its broadest sense: 'a description of the geographical features of the colony which have a hygienic relationship; of the meteorological conditions and their relation to certain diseases; of the sanitary progress of the colony'. Ferguson 7288; Ford 362. More
Progress in Anaesthesiology. Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress of Anaesthesiologists. London, September 9th-13th, 1968
Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica Foundation, 1970. International Congress Series Number 200; the book is over 1300 pages with numerous tables and diagrams (some folding). More
The Life and Letters of Dr Samuel Hahnemann
New Delhi, Jain, 1992/ 1895. More
The Sequelae of Amputation. A Report of an Investigation
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
Anzac Doctor. The Life of Sir Neville Howse, Australia's First VC
Sydney, Hale and Iremonger, 2000. Signed by the author. Major-General Sir Neville Howse VC, KCB, KCMG, KStJ (1863-1930) was the only Australian Medical Officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross and one of only three Australian VCs to be knighted. He served on Gallipoli as the ADMS of the 1st..... More
Facial Prosthetics
Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1973. More
Innamincka
Adelaide, Rigby, 1966/ 1960. With the acquisition date and ownership signature of archaeologist Dr Peter Bell, and the earlier bookplate of Brian Causby (by Neil Marchant). The experiences of an AIM nurse. More