Lot 719
719
[PHYSIOLOGY, NERVOUS SYSTEM]. -- GUTHRIE, James (1785-1856). Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye. London: Burgess and Hill, 1823. 8o (230 x 145mm). Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine, marbled edges (spine chipped, edges worn). 5 engraved plates (three finely hand-colored) by J. Stewart after William Mulready (lacking a1 [half-title?]). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed at top of title-page in ink: "To T. Frankland Lewis Esq. M.P. with the Author's best respects." Guthrie "was the first in Britain to give a systematic course of lectures on the anatomy and diseases of the eye" (Norman). Garrison & Morton 5845; Norman 958. -- Charles de SAINT-YVES. Nouveau trait des maladies des yeux, les remedes...& les operations de chirurgie que leurs gurisons xigent. Paris: Pierre-Augustin le Mercier, 1722. 12o (168 x 97mm). Contemporary speckled calf gilt, edges speckled red (rebacked, preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author (to protect against piracy) at end of dedicatory epistle. "Includes accounts of a number of innovations, including his cataract operation, the extensive use of silver nitrate in treating eye diseases...and the first exact description of gonorrheal opthalmia" (Norman). Garrison & Morton 5827; Norman 1880. -- MAHON. Le dentiste observateur. Paris: Millet, An VI [1797/98]. 2 parts in 1, 8o (187 x 113mm). Half-title, woodcut illustrations. Original blue paper wrappers, uncut, revolutionary broadside used for pastedowns (slightly worn). FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author on E9v as a protection against piracy. Mahon "noted the effects of hereditary, congenital and environmental factors on children's teeth" (Norman). Norman 1421. -- Joseph DUCHESNE [Josephus Quercetanus]. Tetrade des plus grieves maladies de tout le cerveau. Paris: Claude Morel 1625. 8o (164 x 105mm). (Light dampstains, first several quires partially loose in binding). Contemporary vellum (stains, sewing sprung). First Edition in French of this prolific author's treatise on the four diseases of the brain: epilepsy, apoplexy, vertigo and paralysis; Duchesne identified the cause of epilepsy as the noxious fumes of vitriolic vapor of mercury. Norman 662. NLM/Krivatsky 3475. -- Franz Joseph GALL (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar SPURZHEIM (1776-1832). Recherches sur le systme nerveux en gnral, et sur celui du cerveau en particulier. Paris: F. Schoell; H. Nicolle, 1809. 4o (308 x 231mm). Half-title, engraved plate by Bouquet after J.G. Prtre (minor spotting). Original publisher's plain paper wrappers (pastedowns comprise sheets from an 1821 edition of Byron in French and a Latin grammar), UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, paper spine label (part of spine renewed). FIRST EDITION. An anatomical memoir submitted to l'Institut de France, and published with the report of the Institut's commission (headed by Philippe Pinel); later reissued as the first volume of Gall and Spurzheim, Anatomie et physiologie du systme nerveux (Paris, 1810-1819). Wellcome III, p.84; Norman 861. (5)

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[PHYSIOLOGY, NERVOUS SYSTEM]. -- GUTHRIE, James (1785-1856). Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye. London: Burgess and Hill, 1823. 8o (230 x 145mm). Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine, marbled edges (spine chipped, edges worn). 5 engraved plates (three finely hand-colored) by J. Stewart after William Mulready (lacking a1 [half-title?]). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed at top of title-page in ink: "To T. Frankland Lewis Esq. M.P. with the Author's best respects." Guthrie "was the first in Britain to give a systematic course of lectures on the anatomy and diseases of the eye" (Norman). Garrison & Morton 5845; Norman 958. -- Charles de SAINT-YVES. Nouveau trait des maladies des yeux, les remedes...& les operations de chirurgie que leurs gurisons xigent. Paris: Pierre-Augustin le Mercier, 1722. 12o (168 x 97mm). Contemporary speckled calf gilt, edges speckled red (rebacked, preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author (to protect against piracy) at end of dedicatory epistle. "Includes accounts of a number of innovations, including his cataract operation, the extensive use of silver nitrate in treating eye diseases...and the first exact description of gonorrheal opthalmia" (Norman). Garrison & Morton 5827; Norman 1880. -- MAHON. Le dentiste observateur. Paris: Millet, An VI [1797/98]. 2 parts in 1, 8o (187 x 113mm). Half-title, woodcut illustrations. Original blue paper wrappers, uncut, revolutionary broadside used for pastedowns (slightly worn). FIRST EDITION. Signed by the author on E9v as a protection against piracy. Mahon "noted the effects of hereditary, congenital and environmental factors on children's teeth" (Norman). Norman 1421. -- Joseph DUCHESNE [Josephus Quercetanus]. Tetrade des plus grieves maladies de tout le cerveau. Paris: Claude Morel 1625. 8o (164 x 105mm). (Light dampstains, first several quires partially loose in binding). Contemporary vellum (stains, sewing sprung). First Edition in French of this prolific author's treatise on the four diseases of the brain: epilepsy, apoplexy, vertigo and paralysis; Duchesne identified the cause of epilepsy as the noxious fumes of vitriolic vapor of mercury. Norman 662. NLM/Krivatsky 3475. -- Franz Joseph GALL (1758-1828) and Johann Caspar SPURZHEIM (1776-1832). Recherches sur le systme nerveux en gnral, et sur celui du cerveau en particulier. Paris: F. Schoell; H. Nicolle, 1809. 4o (308 x 231mm). Half-title, engraved plate by Bouquet after J.G. Prtre (minor spotting). Original publisher's plain paper wrappers (pastedowns comprise sheets from an 1821 edition of Byron in French and a Latin grammar), UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, paper spine label (part of spine renewed). FIRST EDITION. An anatomical memoir submitted to l'Institut de France, and published with the report of the Institut's commission (headed by Philippe Pinel); later reissued as the first volume of Gall and Spurzheim, Anatomie et physiologie du systme nerveux (Paris, 1810-1819). Wellcome III, p.84; Norman 861. (5)