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[Wedel, Georg Wolfgang.] Fasch, Augustin Heinrich / Herwig, Johann Friedrich.
De cancro occulto. Jena, Krebs, 1688.
24 SS. Papierfalz. 4to. Einzige Ausgabe. - Inauguraldissertation über den Krebs, dem Thüringer Medizinstudenten J. F. Herwig abgenommen vom kurfürstlich-sächsischen Leibarzt A. H. Fasch (1639-90), der in Jena außer der Botanik noch Chirurgie und Anatomie lehrte. "Diese vielseitige Funktion [...] mag verhindert haben, dass eine größere zusammenhängende Schrift von ihm verfasst wurde. Gegen 50 Dissertationen über alle möglichen klinischen Fragen tragen seinen Namen" (Hirsch II, 340). Am letzten Bl. verso Widmungsgedicht vom Niederlausitzer Mediziner Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645-1721). "Seit 1667 Stadtphysikus in Gotha, wurde er 1672 zum Dr. med. promoviert und übernahm 1673 in Jena den Lehrstuhl für Medizin. Seit 1672 war Wedel Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. 1685 wurde er fürstlich sächsischer Leibarzt, 1694 kaiserlicher Pfalzgraf. Sein rund 375 Titel umfassendes Schriftenverzeichnis enthält ausschließlich Dissertationen, Programme und Gelegenheitsreden" (DBE). - Mit zahlreichen griechischen Einsprengseln. Papierbedingt gleichmäßig schwach gebräunt, sonst gut. Der im leichten Überformat bedruckte Titel vor dem Beschneiden unten eingefaltet. - Recht selten; nicht auf Auktionen der letzten 30 Jahre oder in Wolfenbüttel; das Exemplar in Gotha ohne Einfaltung beschnitten und so des Impressums verlustig. VD 17, 39:163638E.
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Weiss, Otto von.
Eigenh. Widmung mit U. ("der Verfasser") in: Das Curettement bei Endometritis puerperalis mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Endometritis putrida sub partu. Wien, Moritz Perles, o. J.
(2), 88 SS. 8vo. OBr. Erste Ausgabe. - Die Widmung an Rudolf Rt. von Vivenot jr. - Sauberes, unaufgeschnittenes und unbeschnittenes Exemplar.
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Weiss, Otto von.
Eigenh. Widmung mit U. ("der Verfasser") in: Über Dammplastik im Wochenbette. Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1891.
9, (1), SS. 8vo. OBr. Separatabdruck aus der Wiener klinischen Wochenschrift, Nr. 29 (1891). - Die Widmung an Rudolf Rt. von Vivenot jr. - Sauberes Exemplar.
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Weiss, Otto von.
Eigenh. Widmung mit U. ("der Verfasser") in: Zur Behandlung der Vorderscheitellagen. Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel, 1892.
18 SS. 8vo. OBr. Erste Ausgabe. - Die Widmung an Rudolf Rt. von Vivenot jr. - Sauberes Exemplar.
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Westwood, [John Obadiah].
An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families. London, (A. Spottiswoode für) Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839-1840.
2 Bde. XII, (2), 462 SS. XI, (1), 587, (1) SS. Mit einem altkol. gest. Frontispiz (J. Swaine sc. nach Westwoods Zeichnungen) und zahlr. Illustrationen im Text. Restaurierte Halblederbände der Zeit mit doppelten goldgepr. Rückenschildchen (fehlt eines bei Bd. II). Marmorierter Schnitt. Buntpapiervorsätze. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe. - "Synopsis of the genera of British insects" (Nissen). Frühes Werk des Sheffielder Entomologen und Paläographen J. O. Westwood (1805-93). "His drawings of insects were masterpieces of correct delineation" (DNB). Später lehrte er in Oxford. - Einbände berieben; Ecken etwas bestoßen. Übergreifende Lederpartien der Rücken erneuert (unter Verwendung der originalen Rücken). Innen sauberes Exemplar. DNB XX, 1292, 2. Nissen, ZBI 4380. OCLC 3737585.
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Wiessner, Gottfried.
Praktische Anweisung zur Feldmeßkunst mit der Kette, dem Meßtische und Winkelspiegel zur Selbstbelehrung für alle, welche mit den ersten Lehren der Arithmetik und Geometrie nicht ganz unbekannt sind. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1835.
8vo. VI, (2), 80 pp. With 9 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary brown calf with giltstamped label to richly gilt spine; elaborately gilt covers with heraldic supralibros (Bavarian arms). Leading edges gilt; edges gilt. Uncommonly attractive school prize binding. Front flyleaf with ms. dedication for Ludwig von Bar, "Schüler des II. Kursus der Landwirthschafts- und Gewerbsschule Freysing" (dated 7. IX. 1839), stamped and signed by the director Dr. Kinderen. - Text slightly browned (plates somewhat more strongly, with slight dampstain). Not in Engelmann (Bibl. mech.-tech.).
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Wilkinson, C[harles] H[unnings].
Neue Methode, den Tripper zu heilen, wobey Strikturen in der Harnröhre verhütet werden können, nebst Bemerkungen über die Ursachen der Saamenschwäche, des männlichen Unvermögens, der Unfruchtbarkeit u.s.w. und die Mittel, solche zu heilen. Leipzig, Johann Conrad Hinrichs, 1803.
8vo. X, (11)-306, (2) pp. With a folding engr. plate. Contemp. boards with gilstamped red label to spine. First German edition of Wilkinson's 1801 "Treatise on a New Method of Curing Gonorrhoea"; translated by G. W. Töpelmann). - Binding rubbed; lower spine-end damaged. Interior browned and foxed. Proksch II, 47. OCLC 14527905. Not in Waller or Osler.
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Wolff, Christian Freiherr von.
Allerhand nützliche Versuche, dadurch zu genauer Erkäntniß der Natur und Kunst der Weg gebähnet wird, denen Liebhabern der Wahrheit mitgetheilet. Halle, Renger, 1745-1747.
3 Bände. Titel, (12), 599, (9) SS. Titel, (12), 568, (8) SS. Titel, (12), 625 (recte: 624), (8) SS. Alle Titel in rot und schwarz gedruckt. Mit zus. 3 gest. Frontispizen und 49 mehrf. gefalt. Tafeln. Pergamentbände der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Etwa vierte Ausgabe (EA 1721-29). - Enthält Untersuchungen zur Physik und Chemie mit Anleitungen zu zahlreichen Experimenten, letztere durch Kupfertafeln illustriert. "Wolff here describes in detail his simple, chiefly wooden instruments, with which he carried out his experiments" (Faber du F.). Der Leibniz-Schüler Wolff (1679-1754) gilt als "der bedeutendste Philosoph der deutschen Aufklärung" (DBE); "siebzig Jahre vor Kants berühmtem aufklärerischem Appell schrieb Wolff: 'Jeder sollte nach so hurtigem Gebrauch der Kräfte des Verstandes streben, als nur immer möglich ist'" (Metzler Phil. Lex.², 931). - Schönes, kaum gebräuntes Exemplar. Heinsius IV, 451. Vgl. Poggendorff I, 1355. Ackermann V, 1313. Faber du Faur II, 1577a.
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Woyt, Johann Jacob.
Gazophylacium medico-physicum, oder Schatz-Kammer medicinisch- und natürlicher Dinge, in welcher alle medicinische Kunst-Wörter, inn- und äusserliche Kranckheiten [...], alle Mineralien, Metalle, Ertze [...] vorgestellet werden. Leipzig, Friedrich Lankischens Erben, 1740.
4to. (6), 1035, (68) pp. Title printed in red and black. With engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full calf on five raised bands with gilt label to elaborately gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Tenth edition of this popular dictionary of scientific and pharmaceutical terms. Contains extensive descriptions of various disorders with their indications and treatments, including medical recipes. The headwords, often discussed in lengthy articles, include "amor insanus" ("the best and surest cure is intercourse"), anorexia and bulimia, pineapples (with tasting notes), melancholy, opium, "orgasmus seminis", tinnitus, etc. - Woyt (1671-1709) was a plague doctor and professor of medicine at Königsberg. - Spine-ends a little bumped and chipped; interior somewhat browned due to paper stock. Zischka 205. Lesky 721. Cf. Hirsch/H. V, 999. Ferchl 589. Waller 10401. Blake 495 (other editions). Not in Osler.
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Wredow, Johann.
J. C. L. Wredow's Gartenfreund, oder vollständiger auf Theorie und Erfahrung gegründeter Unterricht über die Behandlung des Bodens und Erziehung der Gewächse im Küchen-, Obst- und Blumengarten, in Verbindung mit dem Zimmer- und Fenstergarten. Sechste Auflage. Berlin, Carl Friedrich Amelang, 1843.
Titel, IV, 771, (1) SS. Zeitgenössischer grüner Ganzleinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückenschild. 8vo. Ohne das Frontispiz. Rücken gebräunt an den Kapitalen bestoßen und im Falz vereinzelt angeplatzt, Buchblock locker, innen stellenweise stockfleckig.
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Wright, M. W. / Wright, F. von.
Svenska faglar efter naturen och pa sten ritade. Med Text af E. Lönnberg. Stockholm, Förlaget Svenska Fåglar, 1927-1929.
Folio. 3 vols. 9, (3), 295, (1) pp. 9, (1), 296-546 pp. 16, 547-902 pp. With 364 colored lithogr. ornithological plates and numerous text illustrations. Conmtemp. half calf with title to gilt spine; faux raised bands colored black and raised with gilt fillets, enclosing the image of a bird). All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. A magnificent publication and the standard work on Scandinavian ornithology. Originally published between 1828 and 1838 in 105 installments. In addition to the original 184 plates, the present second edition contains reproductions of further drawings by the Wright brothers newly discovered in the Kungl. Vetenskaps-Akademien Stockholm and in the Helsingfors University Library. - "[D]ie Bilder schwedischer Vögel der Brüder von Wright [sind] so vorzüglich [...], daß man sie noch ein Jahrhundert später einer Neuausgabe für wert gehalten hat, wobei noch fast die gleiche Anzahl bisher unveröffentlichter Tafeln ans Licht gekommen ist" (Nissen, p. 54f.). - A fine, appealingly bound copy. Nissen, Vogelb. 1026. Anker 544. Wood 637.
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Zippe, F[ranz] X[aver] M[aximilian].
Geschichte der Metalle. Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1857.
XV, (3), 364, (2) SS. Bedruckte Originalbroschur. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe; hervorgegangen aus einem 1855 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften gehaltenen Vortrag über die Gecshichte des Goldes, Kupfers und Eisens (1856 in den Sitzungsberichten veröffentlicht) und hier auf alle Metalle ausgedehnt. - Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Verfassers an den Botaniker Eduard Fenzl (1808-79): "Dem verehrten Freunde und Collegen Herrn Professor Dr. Ed. Fenzl vom Verfasser". Titel mit Stempel des Botanischen Instituts der Universität Wien. 1967 erschien ein Nachdruck des seltenen Werkes. Zum Wiener Mineralogen F. X. M. Zippe (1791-1863) vgl. ADB und Wurzbach. Wurzbach LX, 171 ("1855").
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Wenckebach, Karl Friedrich, Internist (1864-1940).
Das Beriberi-Herz. Morphologie. Klinik. Pathogenese. Berlin und Wien, Julius Springer, 1934.
VI, (2), 106, (2) SS. Broschur der Zeit. Gr.-8vo. Mit Verfasserwidmung: "Herrn Dr. Rob. Teufel mit fr. Gr. v. K. F. Wenckebach". - Karl Friedrich Wenckebach war Professor für Innere Medizin in Groningen, Straßburg und Wien. "Als einer der ersten Internisten spezialisierte sich Wenckebach auf Kardiologie. Besondere Verdienste erwarb er sich bei der Erforschung der Herzrhythmusstörungen, die er noch vor der Entwicklung der Elektrokardiographie diagnostizierte und erforschte. Als Wenckebach-Perioden werden periodisch wiederkehrende Anomalien des Herzrhythmus bezeichnet. 1906 beschrieb er das nach ihm benannte 'Wenckebach-Bündel'. Wenckebach war Begründer und Mitherausgeber des 'Wiener Archivs für innere Medizin' und machte sich um das Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Universität Wien verdient. 1931 hielt er sich im Auftrag der niederländischen Regierung zum Studium der Beri-Beri-Krankheit in Batavia auf" (DBE).
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Bosch, Robert.
Betriebsordnung für die Gefolgschaft der Robert Bosch G.m.b.H Verkaufshaus Wien. Wien, H. Kapri & Co., Wien 7, 1940.
24 Seiten; 3 Tafeln mit SW-Fotografien. Zeitgenössische Broschur. Betriebsordnung der Robert Bosch GmbH, Verkaufshaus Wien. Erläutert Einstellung und Kündigung, Arbeitszeit, Verdienstberechnung und Auszahlung, Urlaub, Erfindungen von Gefolgschaftsangehörigen und Ordnungsbestimmungen. 3 Tafeln mit SW-Fotografien bilden den ordnungsgemäßen Arbeitsablauf ab.
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Danreiter, Franz Anton.
Lust-Stück der Gärten. Parterres ou Broderies des Jardins. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, [1728], [1740s].
Oblong folio (245 x 375 mm). 2 engr. title pages and 22 + 20 engr. plates by Pfeffel after Danreiter. - (Bound with) II: Steingruber, Johann David. Architecture civile. Erster Theil [= all published]. Architecturally engr. title-page, engr. preface (misbound before title-page), and 25 numbered engr. plates by J. D. Ringlin after Steingruber; explanatory text engraved within the plate in German and French. - (Bound with) III: Charmeton, Georges. Plans de divers edifices et corniches choisies. Abriße unterschiedener Gebälcke und Kronwercke. 12 engr. plates, including the title-page. Contemporary German half vellum over paste boards and beige paper covers (a little foxed); slightly faded red stained gilt lettered label tooled directly onto spine. Red speckled edges. A remarkable sammelband of three rare architectural and garden ornament works (the first in two parts), all of which were published by the important Augsburg print publisher Johann Andreas Pfeffel. I: First and only edition of a very scarce ornamental garden pattern book by the newly appointed court gardener and inspector of the Salzburg gardens, Franz Anton Danreiter (1695-1760). In 1728 Danreiter was appointed court gardener and inspector to related buildings by the ducal bishop of Salzburg. He translated Dezallier's "La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage" into German and became one of the more important mediators of French garden design to the German-speaking countries. His own designs issued in the present work, in two parts, with the second part particularly rare, show more than 100 ornamental and fanciful planting patterns on 42 plates. This was his first and rarest model book with garden plans for parterres. They show that far from endlessly repeating the strict symmetrical canon of French Baroque garden design, Danreiter developed a never-ending variety in ornamental designs which herald the German rococo. Danreiter served five successive bishops in Salzburg. Between 1727 and 1735 he also engraved a number of large-scale views of the city which represent a unique documentation of Salzburg in its 18th century baroque glory. - II: First edition of Steingruber's first published architectural book, showing designs for town houses and palaces. In total Steingruber shows seven scaled designs from a garden pavilion in an aristocratic park (2), several ever more lavish town houses for the haute bourgeois (4), and finally a ducal residence (1). Each design is shown in as much detail as possible with elevations and plans, but also several sections. The grander houses are shown with views of street and garden elevations; some designs have differently laid out plans. The architect J. D. Steingruber (1702-87) was appointed court architect by the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1734. In the course of his near sixty-year tenure of this position he was able to transform the townscape of Ansbach after his own designs. He is best remembered for his playful "Architektonisches Alphabet" (1773), a remarkable series of designs in which each building has a ground plan based on a different letter in the alphabet. - III: Scarce 18th century copy of Charmeton's rare "Diverses corniches choisies sur l'anticque", originally issued in 30 plates in c. 1670 (cf. Guilmard, 68). Pfeffel decided to issue only a selection of the designs. - Very rare: the only three complete copies of Danhauser's work located in libraries worldwide are at Augsburg (cf. KVK), Dumbarton Oaks (cf. OCLC), and the National Gallery, Washington (cf. Millard, Northern, no. 18). The Bavarian State Library and the British Library have only the first part; Olschki, Choix, 645 offered a copy with the second part, but lacked 2 plates in that part. - First leaf with near-contemporary aristocratic illegible ownership stamp. A fine architectural sammelband in excellent fresh condition with the plates in strong impressions, all printed an thick paper. I: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3332 (wrong collation). II: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 2006. Cicognara 676. OCLC records copies at Avery and Getty; as well as 4 copies in Germany (including Berlin). III: Kat. der Ornamentstichslg. Berlin 3929.
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Gärtner, Andreas.
Langwirige Lampen, oder Sonderbare [...] Erfindung, Lampen auf eine leichte Arth also zuzurichten, dass sie geraume Zeit [...] fortbrennen. [...]. Nebst angehängter Nachricht von denen Antiquen [...], vorgestellet von J. G. G. Hübschen. Leipzig & Frankfurt, 1725.
(6), 110 pp. With engr. frontispiece (M. Rein sc.). Modern marbled boards. 8vo. First edition in book form (parts had been published in 1720 in the periodical "Berlinische und Cölnische ordinaire Post-Zeitung"): descriptions of lamps capable of burning for prolonged periods without having to be refueled, invented by the Saxonian court mechanic Andreas Gärtner (1654-1727). Gärtner, a cabinet maker and mechanic, had learned his trade over twelve years travelling throughout Germany and Italy (Venice, Bologna, and Rome). By 1686 he was royal cabinet maker to the Dresden court, and later also royal mechanic. Delighting in complicated machanical models and devices, he soon became known as the "Saxon Archimedes". Unfortunately, most of his works perished in a fire at the Wackerbarth Palace in 1728. Gärtner's famous world clock (c. 1700), boasting 365 dials, has survived and still draws crowds at the Dresden Zwinger. The frontispiece shows some of his newly-invented lamps. - Rare; KVK locates 4 copies in Germany (Erlangen, Augsburg, and Munich); OCLC locates no copies in the U.S.; not in COPAC. - Insignificant browning. A very good, clean copy. Thieme/Becker XIII, 37ff.
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Kestner, Christian Wilhelm.
Medicinisches Gelehrten-Lexicon. Darinnen die Leben der berühmtesten Aerzte, samt deren wichtigsten Schrifften, sonderbaren Entdeckungen und merckqürdigen Streitigkeiten [...]. Jena, Johann Meyers seel. Erben, 1740.
(16), 940, (4) SS. Halbpergamentband der Zeit. Verblasster dreiseitiger Farbschnitt. 4to. Erste Ausgabe. - Frühes medizinisches bio-bibliographisches Standardwerk. Ein Reprint erschien 1971 bei Olms. Der thüringische Arztsohn Kestner (1694-1747) studierte in Jena zunächst Theologie, dann "wegen seiner schwächlichen Gesundheit" Medizin "und brachte seine Zeit, weil er keine Lust zu practiciren hatte, mit Untersuchung der Historie der Gelehrsamkeit, und vornehmlich der Artzneykunst zu" (Jöcher). - Einband berieben; Ecken und Kanten bestoßen; oberes Kapital leicht eingerissen. Innen wie meist teils etwas gebräunt. Aus der Bibliothek des Nürnberger Chirurgen Karl Daniel Nopitsch (um 1795-1838; vgl. Hirsch IV, 382) mit dessen Besitzerstempel am Titel. ADB XV, 664. Petzholdt (Bibliotheca bibliographica) 575. Jöcher II, 2073f. Jöcher VII, 498. Nicht bei Besterman.
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Kreysig, Friedrich Ludwig.
De peripneumonia nervosa seu maligna commentatio. Leipzig, Siegfried Crusius, 1796.
(6), VI, 122 SS. Marmorbroschur. Dreiseitig gesprenkelter Rotschnitt. 8vo. Seltene Abhandlung über die Lungenentzündung. Leipziger Habilitationsschrift des Arztes und Reiseschriftstellers Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig (1769-1839), der im selben Jahr einer Berufung als ao. Professor der Medizin und Chirurgie nach Wittenberg folgte. "Sein Ruf als Gelehrter und Arzt verbreitete sich bald über weitere Kreise und veranlaßte seine Ernennung zum Leibarzte am Hofe des Kurfürsten (späteren Königs) Friedrich August von Sachsen nach Dresden, wohin er 1803 übersiedelte. Mit voller Hingebung an seinen königlichen Herrn hat er an allen Schicksalen desselben Theil genommen; er begleitete den Fürsten auf seinen Reisen nach Polen und folgte ihm in die Gefangenschaft während der Jahre 1813-15 in Berlin" (ADB). - Durchgehend gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig. Blake 247. Vgl. ADB XVII, 154.
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Maugendre, Adolphe.
Société anonyme des mines et fonderies de zinc de la Vieille Montagne. Album de 30 vues. Paris, [printed by Auguste Bry], 1850-1851.
Oblong folio (555 x 385 mm). Tinted lithographed title-page and 30 tinted lithographed plates (555 x 385 mm, one slightly smaller: 350 x 505 mm), all in fine contemporary hand colour. Loose in modern clamshell box. Extremely rare first edition of an impressive series of lithographed views showing the zinc mines, foundries and factories in Belgium and Germany owned by the "Société Anonyme de Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vieille Montagne". The series includes views of Moresnet, Welkenraedt, Rabotraedt, Angleur, Saint Léonard (Liège), Valentin-Cocq and Bray, all beautifully rendered by the French landscape painter Adolphe Maugendre (1809-1895). The Vieille Montagne society was founded in 1837. Its history goes back to 1806, when Jean-Jacques Daniel Dony (1759-1819) was granted the sole mining rights to the calamine deposits of Vieille Montagne (or Altenberg), between Liège and Aachen. Dony had invented a new method for extracting zinc and casting it in ingots. In 1809 he established a rolling mill at Saint-Léonard, apparently the first plant for the industrial production of zinc. The series shows the complete process of producing zinc, from the zinc ore extraction to the stoking, pouring and refilling of the crucible, and finally the production of sheets of zinc in a rolling mill. It includes four detailed views of the Saint-Léonard plant (one, surprisingly, featuring a woman and two children). In the 20th century the Vieille Montagne society, together with a number of other mining and smelting companies, evolved into "Umicore", a global materials technology and recycling group still active today. A second edition was published in 1855 as Album des usines et etablissements de la société and is much less rare than the present first edition. - Some light marginal spotting, the title-page more severely, title-page with a tiny tear, otherwise in very good condition. An important visual record of the history of the zinc industry. WorldCat (only a catalogue entry, not listing any copies); no further copies in KVK. For Dony: Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, pp. 376-377; for Maugendre: Benezit VII, p. 273.
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Müller, Ludwig Theodor.
Äquatorial-Reisesonnenuhr. Augsburg, um 1750.
Messing, vergoldet und graviert. Oktogonalform mit zentral eingelassener, verglaster Kompassdose. Aufstellbarer Schattenwerfer mit Stellzeiger für Polhöhen. Auf der Unterseite des Bodens Polhöhenangaben und Monogramm "L.T.M". 49 x 53 mm. Hübsche Taschensonnenuhr des Augsburger Instrumentenmachers L. T. Müller (1710-70), auf der Unterseite des Deckels sind die Polhöhen von 9 Städten eingraviert, darunter Lissabon, Venedig, Wien, München und Krakau. Tadellos erhalten mit intakter Stundenskala und Gradbogen. Vgl. Syndram, Wissenschaftliche Instrumente und Sonnenuhren, Kataloge der Kunstgewerbesammlung Stiftung Huelsmann Bd. 1, Nrn. 182/183.
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Vivenot jr., Rudolph Rt. von.
Über den Einfluss des veränderten Luftdrucks auf den menschlichen Organismus. Wien, Anton Schweiger, 1860.
21 SS. 8vo. Bedr. OBr. Erste Ausgabe. - Unaufgeschnittenes, etwas gebräuntes Exemplar.
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Wedel, Georg Wolfgang.
Opiologia ad mentem academiae naturae curiosorum. Jena, Samuel Krebs' Wwe. für Johann Bielcke, 1682.
4to. (16), 170, (20) pp., final blank. With engraved vignette to title, printed in red an black. (With:) Ettmüller, Michael. De virtute opii diaphoretica dissertatio. Leipzig & Jena, Krebs for Bielcke, [1682]. 48 pp. Contemporary marbled half vellum. Second edition of this early monograph on the pharmacological and therapeutic aspects of opium. "The main text is a reissue of the 1674 edition" (Krivatsy). Wedel not only evaluates the medical literature but also all available travel reports. The chapter entitled "An aphrodisiacum sit opium & mulierem excitet?" provides an overview of the various opinions, including Saar's account from his East Indian journeys noting the use of opium in Batavian brothels, as well as Garcia's contradictory information that opium leads to infertility and impotence (p. 128f.). The title vignette depicts a Turkish opium picker: scratching the poppy seed capsule with his knife, he collects the sap. The appendix contains the first printing of a dissertation on the qualities of opium, written by Michael Ettmüller (d. 1683), who dedicated his work to his colleage Wedel. - G. W. Wedel (1645-1721) was one of the principal physicians of his age. He authored 49 books and was the teacher of several progressively minded medical men. He is credited with the timeless aphorism that "medicine is nothing but the incessant renewal of ignorance." His "Opiologia" won him admission to the Academy of Naturalists, the still-extant "Leopoldina" in Halle. "Wedel stood midway between medieval and modern world views, defending astrology and alchemy and championing iatrochemistry" (DSB XIV, 212). "Wedel appears to have been one of the first to employ the word physiology in its present restricted sense" (Thorndike VIII, s. v.). - Evenly browned throughout; binding slightly rubbed. A fine copy. VD 17, 12:166680Q. Krivatsy 12664. Pritzel 10054. Ferchl 570. Hirsch/H. V, 875.
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[Wiener Medizinische Schule].
Sammelband mit 9 Wiener medizinischen Dissertationen. Wien und Pest, 1816-1827
I: Vering, Joseph Ritter von. De convalescentia ejusque cura. Wien, Karl Gerold, 1816. 51 SS. II: Eissner zu Eissenstein, Anton Ritter von. Observationes XXV alteras docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Edba., Mechitaristen, 1824. XVIII, (2), 69, (1) SS. III: Zebisch, Johann. Observationes XXV. tertias docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1825. 6, 57, (1) SS. IV: Czermak, Joseph Julius. Observationes XXV. docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1823. VIII, 64, (2). Mit 1 gest. Tafel. V: Kassowitz, Joseph. Observationes XV. docimasiam pulmonum hydrostaticam illustrantes. Ebda., Mechitaristen, 1827. (6), 36, (2) SS. VI: Sistens expositionem generalem anatomicam organi auditus per classes animalium. Ebda., 1818, Anton Pichler. (6), 48 SS. 5 lith. Tafeln. VII: Schäffer, August von. De lusus et ludorum vi diaetetica. Ebda., Anton Pichler, 1816. 48, (2) SS. VIII: Koppi, Alexander. Fontes generales merita medicorum dijudicandi sistens. Pest, Thomas Trattner, 1817. 30, (1) SS. IX: Rinna von Sarenbach, Ernst. De nutrice optima. Wien, Georg Überreuter, 1816. 68 SS. Reichhaltiger Sammelband medizinischer Dissertationen angehender Medizinier des 19. Jahrunderts. So z.B. jene Joseph von Verings (1793-1826) über die Wiedergenesung. Sein Vater Gerhard von Vering (1755-1823), Dermatologe und Audiologe behandelte unter anderen auch Ludwig van Beethoven wegen seines rapiden Gehöhrverlusts. Da der Behandlung kein Erfolg beschieden war, wandte sich der Komponist an Dr. Johann Adam Schmidt. Weiters findet sich ein Werk des angesehen Prager Mediziner Joseph Julius Czermak (1799-1851), welcher durch seine Dissertation einen Grundstein für sein weiteres Forschungsgebiet der vergleichenden Anatomie setzt. Während seiner Professur in Wien besuchten u.a. Nikolaus Lenau seine Vorlesungen. - Titelblatt zum ersten Band am Oberrand teilweise ausgerissen. Durchgehend wasserrandig, gebräunt und stockfleckig. Zu Band IV: Wurzb. III, 99.
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Lier, Johannes van.
Verhandeling over de Slangen en Adders die in het Landschap Drenthe gevonden worden. Amsterdam & Groningen, Erven Houtuin and L. Huisingh, 1781.
4to. (6), 372 pp. Engraved additional pictorial title with letterpress explanatory leaf, 3 hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, marbled edges. First edition of this rare monograph on snakes. Text printed intwo columns throughout in Dutch and French. The fine plates, drawn from nature by W. Veltman and engraved by J. C. Philips, show an unidentified snake, a viper, and a slow-worm. A printed explanation is provided opposite the engraved title. - Johannes van Lier was a politician, lawyer, tax collector and Deputy of Drenthe. He wrote several treatises on a wide variety of subjects including history, archaeology and natural history. - Marginal adhesion mark to L4 and M1, very faint dampstaining to some gatherings. Extremities lightly rubbed, head- and tailcaps more heavily, spine label slightly defective. Nissen ZVB 2509.
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Mayer, Julius Robert.
Die Torricellische Leere und über Auslösung. Stuttgart, J. G. Cotta, 1876.
8vo. 16 pp. Original printed wrappers, bound within modern boards. With the author's three-line-autograph inscription to his friend Friedrich Schwandner, with whom he had studied at Tübingen and formed an illicit students' union, the "Corps Guestphalia", for which reason the two had been arrested in 1837. Both works, "Über die Torricellische Leere" and "Über Auslösung", were separately published in 1875 and 1876 within the "Beilage des Staatsanzeigers für Württemberg". Eisert 29.
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Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von.
Abbildungen und Beschreibungen einiger Misgeburten die sich ehemals auf dem anatomischen Theater zu Cassel befanden. Mainz, kurfürstl. privilegirte Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1791.
Small folio (210 x 342 mm). 38, (2) pp. With engr. title vignette and 12 engr. plates by J. C. Berndt. Contemp. marbled boards. Only edition of this profusely illustrated collection of human malformations. "Achondroplasia is first described on page 30 and pictured on plate 11" (Garrison/M.). An English translation appeared in 1932 in R. H. Major's "Classic Descriptions of Disease". The versatile German anatomist S. T. von Soemmerring (1755-1830), one of the first members of the Senckenbergian Society, is hailed as the discoverer of the eye's Macula lutea, one of the earliest scholars to describe the Pterodactyl, and inventor of a telescope as well as of an electrical telegraph. He also was an early champion of smallpox vaccination. - Binding bumped at extremeties. Ms. inscription (c. 1820) on flyleaf: "Zum Beweise der reinsten Achtung | Aug. v. Tournier" [?]. Corners of flyleaf clipped; slight worming throughout (insignificant loss to text; more pronounced near beginning and end), otherwise fine. Extremely rare; last recorded on a German auction in 1964. Garrison/Morton 4306. VD 18, 14590689-001. E. Goldschmid, Entwicklung und Bibliographie der path.-anatom. Abbildung 78. OCLC 67960624.
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Vietz, Ferdinand Bernhard.
Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicarum cum earum fructus usuque descriptione [...] Abbildungen aller medizinisch-ökonomisch-technologischen Gewächse mit der Beschreibung ihres Gebrauches und Nutzens. Vienna, Joseph Eder, 1800.
4to. 2 vols. (out of 10). XVI, 222 pp. IX, (1), 256 pp. With 2 hand-coloured, engraved title pages and 225 hand-coloured, engraved plates (some folding), numbered 1-222, with a/b numbers for 114, 172, 198). Contemporary half calf with giltstamped green spine labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled in red. The first two volumes of this rare work of decorative plates showing flowers and other plants, including fruits. Contains the first 225 of a total of 1090 engravings published until 1820. The Viennese physician Vietz, who combined artistic talent with a penchant for botany, began publication of this monumental ten-volume work in 1800; only the first three volumes were edited by him personally. The Natural History Museum, London, described its own copy thus: "Today, the work appears to be of extreme rarity, not being held in any other of the United Kingdom's national or public library collections. Only three copies have been found in North American libraries, of which two are certainly fragile and in need of conservation. One copy is in the Austrian National Library" (Great Flower Books [1990], p. 147). - Clean and well-preserved throughout. Nissen, BBI 2062. Stafleu/Cowan 16.153. Pritzel 9764. Wurzbach 50, 282f.
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Prechtl, Joh[ann] Jos[eph].
Anleitung zur zweckmäßigsten Einrichtung der Apparate zur Beleuchtung mit Steinkohlen-Gas. Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1817.
Large 8vo. XIV, 138 pp. With 2 folding lithographed plates. Contemporary marbled boards with giltstamped label to spine. First edition of the first German monograph on gas lighting; preceded only by Lampadius's translation of Accum's "Practical Treatise on Gaslight". J. J. Prechtl (1778-1854) initiated the foundation of the Vienna Polytechnical Institute in 1815, the first educational institute of its kind in the German-speaking countries, and served as its first director. The institute became a decisive force in the industrialization of Austria. In the autumn of 1815, Prechtl and the engineering professor Johann Arzberger developed a lighting apparatus based on coal gas, thus becoming a pioneer of continental gas lighting. He introduced the system at his Polytechnical Institute in 1817. - The plates are lithographed by the trained engraver Ignaz Kühn, later to become director of the Vienna Lithographic Institute (cf. Schwarz, 43); in 1817, when Senefelder left Vienna, he became Friedrich Kunike's principal assistant (cf. Thieme/B. XXII, 58). He took his life in 1822. - One corner slightly bumped; otherwise a good, clean copy. Poggendorff II, 519. Feldhaus 357. Ferchl 423. Engelmann (Bibl. mech.-tech.) 291. Not in Winkler.
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Paine, Thomas.
The Cause of Yellow Fever; and the Means of Preventing it in Places not yet Infected With it: Addressed to the Boards of Health in America. London, Clio Rickman, 1807.
13 pp. Disbound. First edition of Thomas Paine's final work: his essay on the cause of yellow fever, written during the summer of 1805 while Paine was at New Rochelle. "As he explained, 'the fever breaking out in the city prevented my sending it for publication'. Although he had intended to let his house in New Rochelle 'to some New Yorker for the summer', the outbreak of fever in New York led to his spending most of the latter half of 1805 and the first half of 1806 at home" (Speck, A Political Biography of Thomas Paine, p. 190f.). Paine held that the illness (now known to be transmitted by the yellow fever mosquito) was generated by "the impure air or [pernicious] vapour [issuing] from the [...] new made earth, raised on the muddy and filthy part of the river". - One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Paine in 1776 authored the electrifying pamphlet "Common Sense", inspiring Americans to declare independence from Britain. The present treatise, first published in newspapers in 1806, bears witness to the strong scientific interests that Paine maintained beyond his many political activities. He died in 1809, his health having been failing for some time. - Very rare: WorldCat records only eight copies worldwide (seven in the U.S. and one in the National Library of Australia); no copy in British Library or COPAC. This copy removed from the Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society (their stamp on title page), inscribed in a contemporary hand above the title: "Presented by the Hospital Medical Board". Sabin 58232. Not in Wellcome, Waller or Osler.
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Darwin, Charles.
Insectivorous Plants. London, John Murray, 1875.
8vo. X, 462 pp. With woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary full calf with spine gilt in six compartments, giltstamped green spine label, gilt inner dentelle, leading edges gilt. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. First edition. - Presentation copy from the library of the British architect William Cecil Marshall (1849-1921), inscribed to him on the half-title ("From the Author") by a clerk at the publisher's, and with Marshall's autograph ownership above that. Darwin and Marshall had corresponded over insectivorous plants the previous year (cf. Darwin Correspondence Project no. 9627F, letter dated 7 Sept. [1874]). In 1876 Darwin would engage the architect's services to build an extension to Down House on the north side (a billiard room with dressing room and bedroom above). - Extremeties worn; front marbled flyleaf weakened. Still an appealing copy.
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Liegelsteiner, Georg.
Georg Liegelsteiners wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz-Bäume gewartet werden müssen, daß selbige bald und gute Früchte bringen, und damit grösserer Nutzen, als mit hohen Bäumen zu schaffen [...]. Leipzig, Wolfgang Deer, 1747.
8vo. (10), 143, (9) pp. With fine woodcut frontispiece showing saw and pruning knife, 1 engraved folding plate, and 30 woodcut text illustrations. Contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spine richly gilt with gilt lettered label. The first western book on the cultivation of dwarf trees, or "bonsai". Georg Liegelsteiner was court gardener to the Archbishop of Salzburg in Austria, Count Franz Anton Harrach. His book on dwarf trees, although now largely forgotten and overlooked in botanical and horticultural literature, proved extraordinarily successful in its day, achieving six editions including the original edition of 1705. Liegelsteiner "writes about dwarfing trees so that they look like a very beautiful big tree, but only much smaller. He understands tree physiology like only a small minority of bonsai enthusiasts today. He explains in detail how to shorten roots and transplant trees often, how to shorten branches, how to correct a one-sided tree. He explains how to cut back a tree to a stump, let the new shoots grow, cut them back at strategic points, let the new shoots grown again and cut them back. It is exactly the 'Chinese' clip-and-grow technique. He makes drawings which explain the development of a dwarf tree in a way that could not be improved" (Walter Pall, Dwarf Trees of George Liegelsteiner, in: Bonsai Magazine 3 [2000]). The edition offered here is the final one, published after the death of its author, with a very interesting new preface which attempts to sketch a history of dwarf trees in Europe. It suggests that the art of growing Bonsai trees came to Versailles in the late 17th century. One of the Versailles gardeners, Grottendorf, settled in Berlin and experimented more on it. Eventually he was appointed head gardener to the wealthy merchant and Councillor Georg Bose's garden, the "Kleinbosischer Garten", in Leipzig. Liegelsteiner received advice from Grottendorf about the art of growing dwarf trees. - OCLC locates the 2 copies in US: Berkeley and National Agriculture Library; also: Berkeley (1703 ed.); Delaware, Agricult. Library, and Berkeley (1716); Berkeley and Cincinnati Museum Centre (1725)]; COPAC locates only British Library (1702 ed.) and Kew Gardens (1702 ed., their 1716 ed. 'is lost at binders' ). A very good copy. Not in Dochnahl, Hunt, Lindley Lib., Nissen, Plesch, Pritzel, Oak Sprink Sylva.
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Dziatzko, Karl.
De mammarum structura. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-anatomica [...]. Berlin, Brüschcke, 1830.
8vo. 39, (1) pp. Papered spine. Rare Berlin anatomical dissertation about the female breast. With a life of the author (born in Oppeln in 1802; died 1852), a son of the professor of obstetrics, Jacob Dziatzko, on pp. 38f. - Some brownstaining and waterstaining throughout. OCLC 257740654. Not in Kayser, Engelmann, Wellcome or Waller.
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Froriep, Robert.
De funiculi umbilicalis defectu, commentatio academica. Berlin, Trowitzsch & Sohn, 1832.
8vo. 42 pp., final blank. With a lithographic plate. Contemporary wrappers. Very rare study of the defects of the umbilical cord, with a plate (showing embryos) lithographed after the author's own drawings. With this habilitation, Froriep (1804-61) gained a Professorship of Medicine in Berlin, but he had to forsake this career in 1845 when his father, himself once a great surgeon and obstetrician, fell ill and Robert had to take over the publishing house "Landes-Industrie-Comptoir" which Ludwig Friedrich v. Froriep - the son-in-law of and successor to the famous publisher Bertuch - had headed. A correspondent with Goethe, Robert Froriep also taught anatomic drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts. "Obgleich er in den von ihm besonders cultivirten Wissenschaften, der beschreibenden und pathologischen Anatomie, keine hervorragenden Entdeckungen gemacht hat, hat er durch seine zahlreichen Unternehmungen [...] die Wissenschaft wesentlich gefördert und namentlich zur Popularisierung von kostspieligen ausländischen Abbildungswerken, die ohne ihn daselbst nur wenig bekannt geworden wären, wesentlich beigetragen" (Hirsch II, 455). - Slight waterstaining near end (mainly affecting the plate's lower margin). Only three copies in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins-Welch Med. Library; Coll. of Physicians of PA; CRL Chicago). Hirsch II, 454. OCLC 258086847. Not in Kayser, Engelmann, Wellcome or Waller.
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Günz, Justus Gottfried (resp.) / Crell, Johann Friedrich (praes.).
De mammarum fabrica et lactis secretione [...]. Leipzig, Langenheim, 1734.
4to. (4), 44 pp. Papered spine. Very rare dissertation on the female breast and human lactation, written by the versatile J. G. Günz (1714-54) from Königstein, who went on to become an eminent surgeon and ophthalmologist, Professor in Leipzig, and personal physician to the Elector of Saxony (cf. ADB X, 181; Hirsch II, 685). His large medical library was dispersed by sale in 1755. - The author describes the locale of breasts, their size, shape, and structure, noting that they are mainly composed of fatty tissue. He gives an account of the milk ducts, the areola and nipple, as well as of the blood vessels and their connection with other parts of the body. Separate chapters treat the chests of newborn babies and the development of breasts around the 14th year. The final part of the thesis is devoted to human breast milk, its composition, and the lactation process. - Title page slightly duststained, with old library shelfmark label and ms. subject headings. A single copy in the U.S. (Countway Library of Medicine - Harvard University). OCLC 312080582. Not in Hirsch, Blake, Wellcome or Waller.
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Gutermann, Georg Friedrich (auct.) / Zeller, Johannes (praes.).
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de mammis & lacte, in qua status tam naturalis, quam praeternaturalis, hujusque therapia rationalis [...]. Tübingen, Josef Sigmund, 1727.
4to. 43, (1) pp. Papered spine. Edges sprinkled in red. Very rare dissertation on the female breast and human lactation, written by Georg Friedrich Gutermann (1705-84), later a highly regarded obstetrician and in 1741 ennobled as "Gutermann Edler von Gutershofen". The author describes the healthy human breast, its locale, number, size, and shape, the areola and nipple, characterizes it as a gland, and gives an account of the nerves, milk ducts, and blood vessels. While their principal purpose, writes Gutermann, is that of producing milk for nourishment, he notes that the breasts are also regarded as things of beauty and enumerates those features of the female bust which are considered the most graceful (p. 13). The second section of the dissertation is devoted to pathology: ailments of the nipples, problems with lactation, inflammatory breast cancer, etc. The third and final section gives an account of various possible treatments. - Born in Biberach an der Riss in Swabia, Gutermann later worked in Kaufbeuren and Augsburg. Here he was a fierce adversary of the local obstetrician Johann Andreas Diesch, whose sad record of disastrously failed childbirths (brought about by a stubborn insistence that sharp instruments were necessary) had earned Diesch notoriety as the "butcher of women and children" (cf. Hirsch II, 705). Perhaps most remarkably, Gutermann was the father of the famous writer and salonnière Sophie von La Roche (1730-1807), sometime fiancée of C. M. Wieland. Gutermann saw to it that the young girl enjoyed a strict but encompassing Pietist education: she learned to read and write early and was instructed in languages, art, literature, music, and housewifery (though in spite of her pleas she was denied instruction in Latin). - Some browning and occasional waterstaining throughout, more pronounced in title and final leaf. Only two copies in the U.S. (National Library of Medicine; Cornell University). OCLC 311673497. Not in Hirsch, Blake, Wellcome or Waller.
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Kölpin, Alexander Bernhard (resp.) / Westphal, Andreas (praes.).
Dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de structura mammarum sexus sequioris, nuperrimis observationibus et experimentis superstructa. Greifswald, Röse, 1764.
4to. (6), 32 SS. Papered spine. Edges sprinkled in red. First edition. Very rare anatomical dissertation on the female breast, written by the German physician and botanist A. B. Kölpin (1739-1801). Formerly a theologian, Kölpin had to forsake a career as a preacher due to a thoracic illness, whereupon he took up medicine. From 1765 onwards he served as director of the Greifswald Botanical Gardens before moving to Stettin as professor and county physician. A Freemason, Kölpin corresponded with Carl von Linné and published a German translation of Pehr Löfling's botanical travelogue. - Kölpin discusses the overall structure of breasts, the areola, and the exterior and interior parts of the nipple, noting its faculty for "erection in sexual arousal and other states of irritation" (p. 8). He gives an account of the blood vessels, nerves and muscular tissue throughout the breasts. Also, he describes an experiment by which he drives coloured liquids through various lactiferous ducts, proving by the several colour mixtures that they all branch out from a single papilla. - Very slight browning. Wants the plates and their explanation found in some copies. OCLC 14335139. Not in Blake. Cf. Wellcome III, 407; Engelmann 307 (other editions).
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Lasker, I[sidor].
Foetus humani brevis historia. Berlin, Nietack, 1833.
8vo. 35, (5) pp. Papered spine. Rare anatomical dissertation on the human fetus by the gynecologist I. Lasker (born in Breslau in 1811). - Some brownstaining throughout. OCLC 312415523. Not in Engelmann, Wellcome or Waller.
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Leiner, Adolph Julius Ferdinand.
Enteroraphiae historia. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica [...]. Berlin, Brüschcke, 1830.
8vo. 26, (2) pp. Papered spine. Only edition of this rare surgical thesis on the history of enterorrhaphy, or the suture of the intestine. With a biography of the author (born in Torun in 1808) on pp. 24ff. - Some brownstaining and a repaired paper flaw. Wellcome III, 483. Callisen XI, p. 217, no. 1375. OCLC 246267418. Not in Engelmann or Waller.
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Mencel, Franz Wilhelm (resp.) / Honert, Taco Hajo van den (praes.).
Dissertatio inauguralis physiologico-anatomica de structura mammarum [...]. Leiden, Janssonius van der Aa, 1720.
4to. 32 pp. With a woodcut title vignette, headpieces and initials. Papered spine. Edges sprinkled in red. First edition. - Very rare anatomical dissertation on female breasts, constituting one of the first monographs on the subject. F. W. Mencel (1697-1773) had not only studied medicine, but also mathematics and physics; he would later serve as physician in his native Magdeburg as well as draw maps and architectural elevations in Prussia before going on to teach medicine in Halle and Zerbst (cf. Jöcher/A.). - In his introduction, the author states that humans at various ages favour different foods, but only at the youngest age can they draw nutrition from the human body alone, "for which purpose the female sex has been given two peculiar organs, which rise as prominences from the chests of young women and have been referred to by anatomists under the name of 'mammae', 'breasts', providing nourishment, called 'milk', to the tenderest of beings. These organs (as such) have not been hitherto dealt with frequently," for which reason he has chosen them as the subject of his thesis. Mencel elaborates on the classical derivation of the term 'mamma' before giving a description of the mammary glands, their different appearance in males and females, and their locale on the body. The author notes that there are usually two such glands, one right, the other opposite, on the left. The reason for this, says Mencel, is both functional and aesthetic: "for one thing, it is prettier that way, and for another, if one of them is injured or cannot produce sufficient milk, the other will serve" (p. 9). He goes on to discuss the varying size, shape, colour, and tissue density of breasts, "not the same in all women, but subject to their age, temper, and region": they develop some time before the first menstrual cycle, then expand (supposedly being bigger among married women than virgins), and are at their largest among pregnant women shortly before childbirth, while they tend to sag among the elderly - and even more so among the women of India and Senegal, where they are reported to droop to the stomach. Even in Europe, however, there are areas (says Mencel) where girls are so well-endowed that their breasts resemble pillows, indeed not little hills but enormous mountains. Mencel points out how it has often been observed that women with large breasts are more libidinous and more exposed to venereal disease, a fact reflective of the adage that "every excess turns into vice" (p. 11), then adds anecdotes about unusually buxom women from Utrecht, Elsinore and other places. Proceeding into anatomy proper, Mencel discusses the veins, arteries and nerves throughout the mammary glands, the milk ducts, and the nipples. Another chapter discusses the movement of the breasts during breathing, their "rise and subsequent fall, alternatingly, as we can observe in girls every day". The reason, he adds, "is not hard to guess, for as the breasts are situated on the thorax, so inhaling causes them to expand, and exhaling to constrict themselves", noting the health risks (including lung constriction) involved in the custom of breast binding (p. 26). After a final discussion of the human milk and lactation, Mencel concludes that much could be added on the subject, in particular about the inflammation of the breast, growths, breast cancer, excessive lactation, breast defects, and similar conditions, but his dissertation purposely omits these, as so many medical men have already written about them that to include them in his thesis would be like once more reheating leftover cabbage, and similarly likely to induce nausea, for which reason he will leave it at that. - Indeed, although Mencel's work is not absolutely the first monograph on the subject, nearly all previous studies had focused on diseases, specifically breast infection or cancer. Moritz Hoffmann had in 1662 published a 32-page dissertation "De naturali ac praeter naturali mammarum constitutione" containing an account of the healthy breast, but the book's second half was entirely concerned with pathology, while Johann Arnold Friderici's more general anatomical disputation "De constitutione mammarum" (Jena 1669) comprised a mere 18 pages. Mencel's dissertation, so frequently couched in a disarmingly coy tone, is thus the most extensive early monograph wholly devoted to the healthy female breast. It was reprinted in Franz Joseph Oberkamp's 1767 collection of excellent Leiden dissertations. - Somewhat browned throughout due to paper; old ink number annotated to title. Only three copies in the U.S. (National Library of Medicine; Cornell University; Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia). Waller 6462. Jöcher/Adelung IV, 1388. OCLC 14324433. Not in Blake or Wellcome.
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(Schenström, Magnus).
Afhandling om Strömsholms Canal och Slusswärk. Uppsala, Johan Fredrik Edman, 1797.
4to. (6), 36, (4) pp. With a folding table and a folding engraved map in hand colour, 147 cms in length. Modern marbled boards. First monograph about the just-completed Strömsholm Canal connecting Grangärde (in Dalarna, middle Sweden) with Strömsholm on Lake Mälaren, from where ships have easy access to Stockholm. Work on the 62-mile canal, intended to facilitate transport for the numerous steel works along the waterway, had begun in 1772: based on plans by Johan Ullström, a series of lakes were connected by short canals and a total of 25 locks. The fine map, nearly one and a half metres long, shows the entire stretch of the structure. Earlier the same year, the author Magnus Schenström (1775-1848) had published an eight-page Latin dissertation "De canalibus et catarractis in Svecia generatim, speciatim vero Strömsholmensibus", which he subsequently expanded into the present account of the canal. - Some slight marginal waterstaining, but a good, wide-margined copy. Rare; only four copies listed in OCLC (Baker Library-Harvard Business School; National Library of Sweden; Danish National Library; Staatsbib. Berlin). OCLC 186273921.
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Vittadini, Giovanni.
Delle fisionomie dissertazione inaugurale. Pavia, Fratelli Fusi, May 1852.
8vo. 28 pp. Upper cover preserves original green printed wrapper. Very rare, curious medical dissertation on physiognomy - in particular, how emotions and traits of character express themselves in the human face. The study of physiognomy is mainly associated with Charles Le Brun and Johann Kaspar Lavater in earlier centuries (and their approach resounds in the present dissertation), but it is well worth remembering that Charles Darwin made his principal contribution to human psychology with his book on "The Expression of Emotion in Animals and Men" as late as 1872, a study of genetically determined aspects of behaviour. - Some slight waterstaining to the top corner of the first few leaves. Apparently printed with a minimal press-run: no other copy traceable in library or collection catalogues internationally.
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Wilde, Friedrich Adolf.
De cognoscendis et curandis placentae morbis libri quator […]. Berlin, A. G. Hayn, 1833.
8vo. X, 86, (2) pp. Papered spine. Rare habilitation thesis on illnesses of the placenta. The German physician F. A. Wilde (1801-51), a pioneer of birth control, would go on to invent the rubber cervical cap (pessary). - Some waterstaining. Engelmann 636. Hirsch VI, 274. Kayser VIII, 536. OCLC 46162934. Not in Waller.
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Born, Max, Physiker (1882-1970).
Eigenh. Widmung in: Ders.: Die Theorie des starren Elektrons in der Kinematik des Relativitätsprinzips. Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1909.
(2), 56 SS. Bedruckte Broschur. 8vo. Separatum aus: Annalen der Physik (Folge 4, Band 30). "Mit herzlichem Gruße" am Umschlag. Der daneben stehende Namenszug "Born" nicht von eigener Hand.
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Fuchs, Samuel.
Metoposcopia & ophthalmoscopia. Straßburg, Theodosius Glaser für Paul Ledertz, 1615.
(16), 140 SS. Mit 24 Kupfer- und 2 Holzschnitt-Porträts. Halbpergamentband der Zeit. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Seltene einzige Ausgabe eines der frühesten Werke über die Semiologie des Auges. "Samuel Fuchs, a native of Koslin in Pomerania, was professor of rhetoric at Königsberg. In this curious and little known work the author suggests a system for the estimation of character based on the shape of the head and eyes [...] Among the finely executed engravings and woodcuts are portraits of Cosimo Medici, Andrea Doria, Christopher Columbus, and Philip II, Duke of Pomerania" (Becker). - Papierbedingt wie stets etwas gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig; einige Blätter der Vorstücke angerändert. Zeitgenöss. Besitzvermerk (mit Verzeichnung des Kaufpreises und der Bindekosten) am vorderen Innendeckel. BM-STC F 1306. Krivatsy 4457. Waller 3303. Wellcome I, 2468. Becker Coll. 95. Hirschberg 483 (III, S. 20, 1). Sabin 26106. Caillet 4248. Graesse, Bibl. mag.-pneum. 104. Rosenthal 953 ("Piece fort rare").
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Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich.
De generis humani varietate nativa liber. Editio altera. Göttingen, Abr. Vandenhoeks Wwe., 1781.
(6), 128 SS. Mit 2 gest. Tafeln. Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen. Buntpapiervorsätze. 8vo. Zweite Ausgabe des Gründungsdokuments der Anthropologie. J. F. Blumenbach (1752-1840) "is [today] chiefly remembered for his work 'On the Native Varieties of the Human Race', now considered as the foundation of the science of physical anthropology - the study of the origin and evolution of the races of men [...]. Blumenbach was able to develop the thesis that all living races are varieties of a single species, homo sapiens, and that their differences were small compared with those between man and the nearest animal; 'innumerable varieties of mankind run into each other by insensible degrees'. It is not surprising therefore that Blumenbach was opposed to the practice of slavery and the then current belief in the inherent savagery of the coloured races" (PMM). "Blumenbach was the founder of anthropology. In this, his dissertation, he classified mankind into four races, based on selected combinations of head shape, skin colour and hair form. In the second edition (1781) he found it necessary to expand this division into five races, but his famous terms 'Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malayan' were not used until the third edition of 1795" (Garrison/M.). - Einband berieben; Ecken bestoßen; Rücken mit Fehlstellen. Innen gebräunt; alte gestempelte und hs. ungarische Bibliothekssignaturen. Blake 51. Garrison/Morton 156 (Anm.). Vgl. PMM 219. Waller 1153 (EA). Wellcome II, 183 (3. Ausg. 1795).
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Hellwig, Christoph von.
Nosce te ipsum, vel Anatomicum Vivum, oder: Kurtz gefasstes doch richtig gestelltes Anatomisches Werck, worinnen die gantze Anatomie, nebst ihrer Eintheilung deutlich zu finden [...] Nebst nöthigen Kupffern, wovon die Invention gantz sonderlich, indem man die Viscera heraus nehmen [...] und wiederum einsetzen kann [...]. Auf Begehren zum andernmahl zum Druck befördert [von Theodor Andreas von Hellwig]. Frankfurt & Leipzig, [Ritschel, 1720].
Kl.-Folio (200 x 305 mm). (8), 42 SS. Mit gest. Titelvignette und 4 (davon 2 gefalteten) gest. Tafeln mit ca. 80 beweglichen Teilen. Halbleinenband des 19. Jhs. mit goldgepr. Deckeltitel "Anatomie". Zweite verbesserte und noch zu Lebzeiten Hellwigs erschienene Ausgabe des erstmals 1716 erschienenen anatomischen Ansichtenwerks, einer Überarbeitung von Johann Remmelins "Catoptorum Microscosmicum". Von besonderem Interesse sind die vier von J. H. Werner gestochenen anatomischen Tafeln mit vielen ausklappbaren Teilen (einige lose in der Bauchhöhle; sichtlich jedoch alle Teile vorhanden). Christoph von Hellwig (1663-1721) war Stadtphysicus zu Erfurt, Publizist und Schöpfer des "Hundertjährigen Kalenders". - Einband etwas beschabt und gering bestoßen Titelblatt aufgezogen und knapp beschnitten, dadurch fehlt ein Teil des Impressums. Tafel IV im Falz hinterlegt. Durchgehend gebräunt und braunfleckig sowie wasserrandig. Wellcome III, 240. Waller 4288.
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Manetti, Saverio.
Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione. Florence, Moücke f. Giovacchino Pagani, 1765.
4to. (8), 237, (3) pp. Bound in contemporary 'carta rustica', faded manuscript title to spine. Rare first edition of this treatise on bread and bread-making, by the physician and naturalist Saverio Manetti (1723-85). The work deals with wheat, flour, different kind of bread (corn, rye, buckwheat and sweat bread, donuts, farinata, waffles, bread with raisins etc.), how to prepare and bake it, substitutes of bread and molds and worms that can grow on it. A separate section details the specifics of oriental bread - "Pane Etiopico, e Saracenico", and varieties "in grand' uso appresso l' Egitto" (pp. 148ff.). "This work precedes Parmentier's 'Parfait Boulanger' by 13 years" (Westbury). - Very lightly foxed, but a very good copy, uncut. With Lord Westbury's bookplate to front pastedown. Bitting 185 (1766 edition only, s.v. "Ginori"). Gamba 2328 (1768 ed. only). Re III, 103. Westbury 138-140.
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Hen(c)kel, J. F.
Flora saturnizans, die Verwandtschafft des Pflanzen mit dem Mineral-Reich, nach der Natural-Historie und Chymie aus vielen Anmerckungen und Proben. Nebst einem Anhang vom Kali geniculato germanorum oder gegliederten Saltz-Kraut, insonderheit von einer hieraus neu-erfundenen dem allerschönsten Ultramarin gleichenden blauen Farbe. Leipzig, Johann Christian Martini, 1722.
(10), 671, (17) SS. Titel in rot und schwarz gedruckt. Mit gest. Frontispiz und 9 Kupfertafeln. Pergamentband der Zeit auf 3 durchzogenen Bünden mit hs. Rückentitel. Dreiseitiger Rotschnitt. 8vo. Erste Ausgabe. "The best early accounts of arsenic, zinc, and a variety of pyrites" (Hoover). Bei dem von Henckel beschriebenen neuen Blau handelt es sich um das Soda-Ultramarin, das er mit dem Berlinerblau verwechselte. Zur wissenschaftshistorischen Einordnung vgl. Partington: "Henckel accepts Becher's theory of three earths. He also accepts Stahl's phlogiston theory. Henckel thought minerals were formed on the third day of Creation and increased and improved since" (II, 707). - Vorsatz und Titel mit zeitgenöss. hs. Rezensionsnotizen. Das Frontispiz am linken Seitenrand knapp beschnitten. Gutes Exemplar. Partington II, 706. Pritzel 3955. DSB VI, 259. Ferchl 225. Hoover 399.
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L'Admiral, Jacob.
32 plates for: [Naauwkeurige waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele insekten of gekorvene diertjes]. [Amsterdam?, ca. 1774].
Folio. With 32 (of 33) mostly numbered plates showing the metamorphosis of butterflies, moths and other flying insects. Mounted in passe partouts and kept in a half cloth clamshell box. 32 (of 33) plates depicting the metamorphosis of 67 (of 70) sorts of butterflies, moths and other flying insects in their natural surroundings, the specimens collected, drawn, and here in all but the first ten plates also etched and engraved, by Jacob l'Admiral (1700-70), first published in 1740 with only 25 plates and in 1774 with 33 plates. The first 10 plates in the present set are 18th-century copies that we have not found recorded in the literature. They were apparently copied from the first (1740) edition, for plate VII includes l'Admiral's name as in that edition, removed before the second (1774) edition. Most plates show the species as egg, larva, pupa and adult, both male and female, placed on the plants they frequent in their natural habitat. Scientifically they were a great advance over all that went before, including the pioneering work of Maria Sibylla Merian. L'Admiral began studying butterflies at the age of ten. He collected the specimens during 30 years of travel and intended the first edition with 25 plates to be one of 4 parts for a total of 100 plates. He finished only 8 additional plates before his death in 1770 and had not yet published them or his descriptions. After l'Admiral's death the bookseller Sluyter bought all the copperplates at auction and produced the second edition, including the 8 additional plates. Plate XII depicts a tulip. - Plate 30, though printed from the original copper plate, has one butterfly additional to those in the 1774 edition. Plate II is unnumbered. Although the first 10 plates are copies, all 32 may have been printed on the same mix of paper stocks. There are at least three different paper stocks, but in many cases the watermarks are mostly obscured by the image: Strasbourg arms above 4 & WR, Strasbourg arms with nothing below it, and Strasbourg bend, and countermarks "IV" and "I Villedary". At least some of the Strasbourg arms have a crown similar to Heawood 1819 and 1828, possibly the watermark of the 1774 edition (with countermark IV). Watermarks in all three general styles were already in use before 1740, so a close dating would require a detailed study. - An unscrupulous dealer changed the plate number XXXIII to XXVIII to suggest a complete set of 32 rather than a set of 33 with one plate lacking. The margins have been trimmed close to the plate edge and the paper stock with the "I Villedary" countermark is slightly browned, but the plates are still in good condition. Cf. Nissen, ZBI 2357-2358 (1740 & 1774 eds.). Horn/Schenkling 52-53 (1740 & 1774 eds.). Hunt 514 (1740 ed.). Landwehr, Coloured Plates 104-105 (1740 & 1774).
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Vivenot jr., Rudolph Rt. von.
Leitende Gesichtspunkte eines Organisations-Systems zur Förderung und Durchführung der Gesundheitspflege. Wien, Selbstvlg. der k.k. Gesellschaft der Ärzte., 1869.
10, (2) SS. 8vo. Lose Bll. Geleimt. Separatabdruck aus dem Wochenblatt der k. k. Gesellschaft der Ärzte in Wien, Nr. 6 und 7. - Sauberes, frisches Exemplar.
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