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BACON, FRANCIS:  Novum Organum Scientiarum: containing Rules for Conducting the Understanding in the Search of Truth; and Raising a Solid Structure of Universal Philosophy. Translated from the Latin by Peter Shaw, with notes critical and explanatory.
London:  M. Jones, 1802.
Two volumes, forming Volumes 3 & 4 of the works, but complete in themselves, with general and individual title-pages.  8vo, pp.229 & 264, contemporary full green grained calf gilt;  hinges rubbed, headbands chipped, lacking one lettering piece. 
Quote Item No. 2024
Price:  £30.00

BAILEY, E.B:  Tectonic Essays, Mainly Alpine.
Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 1935.
First edition.  Diagrams, maps, some folding.  Tall 8vo, pp.xii:200, original blue cloth.  Gilt arms of King's College on upper cover and prize label on front pastedown;  a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 5454
Price:   £20.00

BECK, R. THEODORE: The Cutting Edge.  Early History of the Surgeons of London.
London:  Lund Humphries, 1974.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xvi:216, original cloth in dustwrapper;  slight creasing and very small tears to top edge of dustwrapper, page edges slightly yellowed;  generally an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9993
Price:  £30.00

BELL, SIR CHARLES: The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation.  Treatise IV.  The Hand.  Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design.
Brentwood, Essex:  The Pilgrims Press, 1979.
Reprint.  Illustrated in black & white.  Tall 8vo, pp.xvi:314, vinyl faux mottled leather gilt, no dustwrapper;  ink inscription on front free-endpaper;  generally a very good copy.  
Quote Item No. 9883
Price:  £20.00

BELL, HENRY G.  Editor:  Selections of the Most Remarkable Phenomena of Nature.
Edinburgh:  Constable, 1827.
Engraved frontispiece.  12mo, pp.324, contemporary half green calf, spine gilt ruled with burgundy lettering piece, marbled boards; very good. 
Quote Item No. 8390
Price:   £30.00

BORN, M. and GREEN, H.S.:  A General Kinetic Theory of Liquids.
Cambridge:  At the University Press, 1949.
First edition.  Tall 8vo, pp.98, original black cloth, no dustwrapper;  ink name on front free endpaper;  generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8826
Price:  £45.00

BUCHDAHL, H.A.:  The Concepts of Classical Thermodynamics.  Cambridge Monographs on Physics.
Cambridge University Press, 1966.
First edition.  Tall 8vo, pp.xi:223, original red cloth in dustwrapper;  dustwrapper spine and edges browned, with a short tear to upper front edge;  generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8666
Price:  £23.00

BUCKLAND, A.W:  Anthropological Studies.
London:  Ward & Downey, 1891.
First edition.  8vo, pp.xx:295, original blue cloth lettered in black on white panels as issued;  binding a little spotted but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 5304
Price: £15.00

BURN, IAN  [Editor]: The Company of Barbers and Surgeons.  A record of the life and times of the Worshipful Company of Barbers of London over nearly seven centuries, published to celebrate the advent of the third millennium.
London:  Farrand Press, 2000.
First edition.  Illustrated in colour and black & white.  Large 8vo, pp.xxviii:305, original red cloth, no dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9992
Price:  £55.00

DE BEER, G. R:  Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum.
London:  for the Trustees of the British Museum by the Oxford University Press, 1953.
First edition.  Plates.  8vo, pp.192, original cloth;  a very good copy in worn and chipped d.w. 
Quote Item No. 4195
Price:   £15.00

DAY, T. CUTHBERT:  Arthur's Seat, a Ruined Volcano.  Illustrated with 33 photographs by the author.
Edinburgh:  Oliver & Boyd, 1933.
First edition.  Small 8vo, pp.75, original cloth, inscription on front free endpaper, a very good copy in slightly edge rubbed lightly soiled d.w.  
Quote Item No. 5458
Price:  £12.00

DOBSON, JESSIE  and  WALKER, R. MILNES: Barbers and Barber-Surgeons of London:  A History of the Barbers' and Barber-Surgeons' Companies.
Oxford:  Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1979.
First edition.  Colour plates, black & white illustrations.  Large 8vo, pp.xix:171, original green cloth in clear plastic dustwrapper;  plastic dustwrapper with a large piece missing to front top edge and small piece missing at top of spine;  in all other respects an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9872
Price:  £43.00

DOBSON, JESSIE  and WALKER, R. MILNES:  Barbers and Barber-Surgeons of London.  A History of the Barbers' and Barber-Surgeons' Companies.
Oxford:  Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1979.
First edition.   Colour plates, black & white illustrations.  Large 8vo, pp.xix171, original green cloth in clear plastic dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9991
Price:  £45.00

DUNCAN, P. MARTIN and MILLARD, WILLIAM:  A Manual for the Classification, Training, and Education of the Feeble-Minded, Imbecile, & Idiotic.
London:  Longmans, Green, 1866.
First edition.  8vo, pp.xv:191, contemporary half tan calf, spine gilt ruled with lettering piece, marbled boards;  a very good copy in excellent condition.  Inscribed on the half-title, "Presented to Rev. E. Sidney with the respects of the Authors and their grateful appreciation of his noble efforts in behalf of the poor Idiot. Feb. 2nd. 1866". 
Quote Item No. 8387
Price:  £275.00

EDHOLM, O.G. and BACHARACH, A.L:  Exploration Medicine.  Being a Practical Guide for Those Going on Expeditions.  With an Introduction by Sir Raymond Priestley.
Bristol:  John Wright & Sons, 1965.
First edition.  Black & white illustrations.  8vo, pp.xiv:410, original blue glazed cloth. 
Quote Item No. 1749
Price:   £20.00

FORD, EDWARD:  Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790 - 1900.
Sydney:  Sydney University Press, 1976.
First edition. 4to, pp.xv:348, original cloth; very good in torn & rubbed d.w. 
Quote Item No. 2944
Price:   £14.00

FORSYTH, J.S.:  A Dictionary Of Diet;  Being A Practical Treatise On All Pabulary And Nutritive Substances, Solid And Fluid, With Their Compounds, Used As Food;  Including The Observations Of Eminent Philosophers, Physicians, Gastronomers, .......
London:  Henry Cremer, 1834.
Second edition.  Engraved portrait frontispiece of John Abernethy. 8vo, pp.xxvii:403, original cloth-backed boards.  In need of rebinding, the binding very worn and broken.  Damp staining to portrait and to a small extent to title, stitching broken, some foxing, the uncut edges to the text block dusty.  The contents pages at front end with the letter "S" indicating the want of a further leaf but several other copies of the second edition consulted also end at page xxviii;  most likely a printer's or binder's fault at time of publication. 
Quote Item No. 10207
Price:  £30.00

FREYER, P.J:  The Modern Treatment of Stone in the Bladder by Litholapaxy.  A Description of the Operation and Instruments with Cases Illustrative of the Difficulties and Complications met with.
London:  J & A Churchill, 1886.
First edition.  Illustrations.  8vo, pp.viii:[1]:116:(16, publisher's catalogue), original cloth.  Library stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on title and endpaper.  Headbands a little rubbed, else very good.   
Quote Item No.3322 
Price:  £75.00

GODWIN, JOSCELYN:  Robert Fludd, Hermetic philospher and surveyor of two worlds.
Boulder, Colorado:  Shambhala, 1979.
Illustrations throughout.  4to, pp.96, original glazed wrappers;  very good indeed. 
Quote Item No. 4674
Price:  £15.00

HAQ, BILAL U. and MILLIMAN, JOHN D. [Editors]:  Marine Geology and Oceanography of Arabian Sea and Coastal Pakistan.
New York:  Van Nostrand, 1984.
Maps & diagrams.  4to, pp.382, original cloth;  very good in edge chipped d.w.  Inscribed by Bilal U. Haq on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 5465
Price:  £12.00

HULL, EDWARD:  A Sketch of Geological History being The Natural History of the Earth and of its Pre-Human Inhabitants.  With an Illustrative Diagram Drawn by the Author.
London:  C.W. Deacon, [1887].
First edition.  Extensive coloured folding frontispiece.  8vo, pp.179: (4, publisher's catalogue dated 1892], original dark green pebble-grain cloth, all edges gilt; some foxing, inner joints pulled.  
Quote Item No. 5305
Price:  £15.00

JUNG, C.G.  [Edited by Gerhard Adler]:   C.G. Jung Letters.  Bollingen Series XCV.
Princeton University Press, 1973.
First edition.  Portraits.  Two volumes.  Large 8vo, pp.xxv:596 & xxv:716, original cloth;  very good in rubbed, marked & worn d.w's. 
Quote Item No. 6841
Price: £55.00

JUNG, C.G. [CARL GUSTAV]:  Psychologische Interpretation von Kinderträumen. Seminar von Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung, Wintersemester 1939/40. (Redigiertes Stenogramm).
Zurich:  Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, n.d. [ca.1940].
First edition.  Folio, pp.121, "multigraphed" typescript text, original cloth-backed boards;  split to outer joint, headband pulled, inner joints strained.                                
*  Cornelia Brunner's copy with her signature on front free endpaper.  Her paper, the 10th Dream, "jährigen Mädchens", pp.84-96, bearing her annotations in pencil.  The respected Swiss analyst Cornelia Brunner, one of Jung's long-time associates, was the author of the classic Jungian work "Anima as Fate", originally published as "Die Anima als Schicksalsproblem des Mannes", a study from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich; the work originated at the suggestion of Jung.  She was President of the Psychologischer Club, Zurich, and co-authored the 1975 centenary of Jung's birth exhibition catalogue. 
Quote Item No. 6831
Price:   £350.00

JUNG, C.G. [CARL GUSTAV]:  Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology Conducted by Dr. C.G. Jung, Zurich March 23 - July 6, 1925.  Arranged by Members of the Class.
Zurich:  Copyright 1926 by Dr. C. G. Jung.
Folio. Printed title and 'multigraphed' typescript text, pp.[1]: 227, diagrams, old plain wrappers;  wrappers  worn, lacking backstrip.  Stitching broken, title detached and worn on margins, two other leaves worn on margins.
The Foreword, by Cary F. de Angulo, states that, "The multigraphing of these notes has been done at the request of members of the class … … The whole has been reviewed and corrected by Dr. Jung". 
*  From the library of Cornelia Brunner, with her pencilled annotations and underlining throughout.  The respected Swiss analyst Cornelia Brunner, one of Jung's long-time associates, was the author of the classic Jungian work "Anima as Fate", originally published as "Die Anima als Schicksalsproblem des Mannes", a study from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich;  the work originated at the suggestion of Jung.  She was President of the Psychologischer Club, Zurich, and co-authored the 1975 centenary of  Jung's birth exhibition catalogue.  
Quote Item No. 6832
Price:  £400.00

JUNG, C.G. [CARL GUSTAV]:  Interpretation of Visions.  Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology given by Dr. G.C. Jung.  New Edition. [the 2nd edition].  Edited by Mary Foote.
Zurich:  1939-1941.  [Originally published Autumn 1930 - Winter 1934].
Eleven volumes.  Printed titles and "multigraphed" text.  4to, pp.158; 150; 121; 95; 134; 128; 77; 88; 124; 174; & 142, original cloth-backed marbled boards.  Illustrated with mounted photographs within the text and line drawings.
Leaf following the title in each volume states that, "This report is strictly for the use of members of the Seminar, with the understanding that it shall not be circulated.  Dr. Jung asks that it shall not be loaned, nor may any part be copied or quoted for publication without his written permission".
Together with the index volume compiled by Mary Briner, 1939, "multigraphed" text on 59-pages 4to, bound uniform.  The bindings a little rubbed and bumped at headbands but generally very sound.
*  From the library of Cornelia Brunner, with her signature and address on the front free endpapers. Pencilled notes to two rear endpapers.  The respected Swiss analyst Cornelia Brunner, one of Jung's long-time associates, was the author of the classic Jungian work "Anima as Fate", originally published as "Die Anima als Schicksalsproblem des Mannes", a study from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich;  the work originated at the suggestion of Jung.  She was President of the Psychologischer Club, Zurich, and co-authored the 1975 centenary of Jung's birth exhibition catalogue.
Quote Item No. 6833
Price:    £950.00

JUNG, C.G. [CARL GUSTAV]:  Psychological Analysis of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.  Notes on the Seminar given by Prof. Dr. C.G. Jung.  Edited by Mary Foote.  Zurich:  Spring 1934 - Winter 1939.
Zurich:  n.d. [but pre 1942].
Ten volumes.  4to, pp.128; 153; 120; 126;  150; 112; 134;155; 111; & 190.  Printed titles and "multigraphed" text.  Multigraphed by Emily Köppel.  4to, original cloth-backed marbled boards. 
Leaf following each title states that, "This report is strictly for the use of members of the Seminar, with the understanding that it is not to be loaned and that no part of it is to be copied or quoted for publication without Prof. Jung's written permission".
Together with the index volume compiled by Mary Briner,  1st edition, Zurich 1942, printed title and 58 "multigraphed" leaves, 4to, bound uniform. 1 inner joint split, bindings a little rubbed and bumped at headbands but generally very sound.  Presumably the 2nd edition as according to Lisa Ress's 'General Bibliography of C. G. Jung's Writings' [Princeton Univ. Press 1979] the line spacing in all ten volumes of the 2nd edition is uniform, as is here.  Both the 1st and 2nd editions are extremely rare, having been issued in very small numbers.   
*  From the library of Cornelia Brunner, with her signature on the front free endpaper of five of the volumes. The respected Swiss analyst Cornelia Brunner, one of Jung's long-time associates, was the author of the classic Jungian work "Anima as Fate", originally published as "Die Anima als Schicksalsproblem des Mannes", a study from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich;  the work originated at the suggestion of Jung.  She was President of the Psychologischer Club, Zurich, and co-authored the 1975 centenary of Jung's birth exhibition catalogue. 
Quote Item No. 6834
Price: £1800.00

JUNG, C.G. [Carl Gustav]:  Dream Analysis.  Notes of the Seminars in Analytical Psychology given by Dr. C.G. Jung, Zurich:  November 1928 - June 1929.
Zurich: 1958.
Third edition. Two volumes.  4to, pp.215 & 298, original tan linenover boards;  some pencil marking to lower cover of Volume 1, else excellent.  Volume 1 annotated in pencil throughout with notes and alterations  for the fourth edition.  
*  From the library of Cornelia Brunner.  The respected Swiss analyst Cornelia Brunner, one of Jung's long-time associates, was the author of the classic Jungian work "Anima as Fate", originally published as "Die Anima als Schicksalsproblem des Mannes", a study from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich;  the work originated at the suggestion of Jung.   She was President of the Psychologischer Club, Zurich, and co-authored the 1975 centenary of Jung's birth exhibition catalogue. 
Quote Item No. 6836
Price: £250.00

KIDD, JOHN:  On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man.
London:  William Pickering, 1837.
Bridgewater Treatise  No. 2. 5th edition.  8vo, pp.xvi:375, with the half-title. Contemporary attractive full tan calf, spine gilt with double lettering pieces. Armorial bookplate.  
Quote Item No. 2575
Price:  £35.00

LARDNER, DIONYSIUS:  Hand-Book of Natural Philosophy.  Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Heat.
London:  Walton and Maberly, 1858.
Frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text.  Small 8vo, pp.xv:408, contemporary half green calf, marbled boards, spine gilt on raised bands with crimson lettering piece;  generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 8427
Price:  £25.00

LEVORSEN, A.I:  Paleogeologic Maps.
San Francisco & London:  W. H. Freeman, 1960.
First edition.  8vo, pp.174, original cloth;  very good. 
Quote Item No. 5470
Price:  £12.00

LIEBREICH,  DR. R.  [RICHARD]:  Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy.  Representing the normal and pathological conditions of the fundus oculi as seen with the ophthalmoscope, composed of 12 chromolithographic plates, containing 59 figures Drawn from Nature and Accompanied by Explanatory Text.
London: John Churchill; Berlin: August Hirschwald; Paris: Germer Bailliere, 1870.
Second English edition, revised and enlarged, of the first atlas of ophthalmoscopy, and a model for all later atlases.  The text translated by H. Rosborough Swanzy.  Folio, pp.viii:31, 12 chromolithographic plates after paintings by Liebreich and lithographed by Winckelmann & Sohne (1 folding).
Sir John Walton Browne's copy so inscribed and dated, Belfast 1870, on front free endpaper. 
A poor copy, the printed boards very soiled and rubbed, crudely rebacked. Several leaves of text and folding plate reinforced on inner margin. The folding -plate laid down on linen, rubbed, and with several short edge tears repaired. Generally rather dusty and  soiled. A tired copy of a normally very expensive work.
* Sir John Brown (1845-1923) was Honorary Ophthalmologist in the Ophthalmic Hospital Belfast, he was knighted in 1921. 
Quote Item No. 8818
Price:  £90.00

10080MUSPRATT, DR. SHERIDAN: Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical. as applied and relating to Arts and Manufactures. Two volumes (complete).
London:  William Mackenzie, ca. 1860.
Two volumes.  Extra engraved titles, engraved portraits of chemists, and numerous engravings within the text.  4to, pp.8:836 and pp.10:1186, contemporary half green calf, spines decorated in gilt on raised bands, crimson lettering pieces and burgundy numbering pieces.  Some rubbing but generally a very good well and strongly bound copy. 
Quote Item No. 10080
Price:  £125.00

NEUMANN, ERICH:  The Great Mother.  An analysis of the archetype. Translated by Ralph Manheim.  Bollingen Series XLVII. 
Princeton University Press, 1970.
Second edition.  Plates, some folding. 4to, pp.xliii:381, original 2-tone cloth;  a very good copy in edge-rubbed d.w.  
Quote Item No. 6844
Price:  £35.00

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM:  An Introduction to Natural Philosophy, Illustrated with copper plates.
London:  for J. Johnson, 1782.
First edition.  Two volumes.  Engraved title vignettes and 25 folding engraved plates.  8vo, pp.xx:383:(12) & xi:441:(14), contemporary full tan calf.  Text block and spine of Volume 1 split in two, 3 boards detached, margins of half-titles and titles and last few leaves index discoloured, some margins browned.  Fore-margin of one folding plate a little dusty and a trifle worn.  Old initials on upper blank fore-corner of titles.  A suitable candidate for rebacking. 
Quote Item No. 7887
Price:   £180.00

OPHTHALMOLOGY:  Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Volume XXIII Session 1902-1903.
London:  J & A Churchill 1903.
Plates, some coloured.  8vo, pp.413, original green cloth;  very good.  From the library of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital with their label on front pastedown but no library markings.  
Quote Item No. 7143
Price:  £25.00

OPHTHALMOLOGY:  Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Volume XXVI Session 1905-1906.
London:  J & A Churchill 1906.
Plates, some coloured.  8vo, pp.336, original green cloth;  very good.  From the library of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital with their label on front pastedown but no library markings.  
Quote Item No. 7144
Price:  £25.00

OPHTHALMOLOGY:  Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Volume XXIV Session 1903-1904.
London:  J & A Churchill 1904.
Plates, some coloured.  8vo, pp.386, original green cloth; very good.  From the library of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital with their label on front pastedown but no library markings. 
Quote Item No.  7145
Price:  £25.00

OPHTHALMOLOGY:  Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Volume XXVII Session 1906-1907.
London:  J & A Churchill, 1907.
Plates, some coloured.  8vo, pp.311, original green cloth; very good.  From the library of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital with their label on front pastedown but no library markings. 
Quote Item No. 7146
Price:  £25.00

OPHTHALMOLOGY:  Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Volume XV Session 1894-5.
London:  J & A Churchill, 1895.
Plates, some coloured.  8vo, pp.265, original green cloth; very good.  From the library of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital with their label on front pastedown but no library markings.  
Quote Item No. 7147
Price:  £25.00

OSTROWSKI-SACHS, MARGARET: From Conversations with C.G. Jung.
Zurich: Privately Printed, 1977.
8vo, pp.69, original printed wrappers;  wrappers spotted and lightly soiled. 
Quote Item  No. 6843
Price:   £21.00

PATTISON, S.R:  Chapters on Fossil Botany.
London:  Simpkin, Marshall, 1849.
First edition.  Small 8vo, pp.223, original blindstamped glazed ribbed green cloth, one and half inch irregular dark stain to spine else a very nice copy. 
Quote Item No. 5313
Price:   £18.00

PERRIN, JEAN:  Atoms.
London:  Constable & Co., 1916.
Translated from the 4th Revised Edition of "Les Atomes".  8vo, pp.xv:211, original brown cloth, no dustwrapper;  bookplate of "The Library of The Sir John Cass College" to front pastedown and the usual library stamps;  binding tired and slightly faded, corners and edges rubbed, with white ink library number at base of spine;   browning to prelims;  joints cracked, hinges firm. 
Quote Item No. 8704
Price:  £80.00

PHILLIPS, SIR RICHARD:  A Million of Facts, of Correct Data, and Elementary Constants, in the Entire Circle of the Sciences, and of all the Subjects of Speculation and Practice.
London:  Darton & Clark, 1841. 
Stereotyped Edition, much enlarged, and carefully revised and improved.  8vo, pp.xlviii:546, plus unpaginated index.  Contemporary half polished tan calf, spine gilt ruled, raised bands, with lettering piece.  An attractive copy.  Bound without the portrait of the author as called for on title.  
Quote Item No 2360
Price:  £35.00

PLUCHE, NOEL ANTOINE:  Spectacle de la nature:  or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth.  Illustrated with copper plates.  Volume III.
London:  printed for J. and J. Pemberton; R. Franklin; and C. Davis, 1737.
Volume 3 only.   Second edition.  Engraved frontispiece.  Folding engraved plates.  8vo, pp.16:450:17-20:451-454:21-24:455-456, contemporary full calf; very rubbed, joints cracked but firm.  With the engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Eden Bart. (1717-1755). 
The plates depict fishing, ships, shells and other natural history subjects. The "Dialogues" are devoted to Pastures, Domestic Animals, Rivers, Fountains, Mountains, the Sea, the Air, Fossils, Quarrys, Mines, etc.   
Quote Item No. 8314
Price:  £50.00

POWER, SIR D'ARCY:  British Medical Societies.  
London:  Medical Press, 1939. 
First edition. 8vo, pp.xv:312, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; spine slightly darkened with some minor scuffing; internally, excellent, and with a signature on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 1421  
Price:  £30.00

POWER, SIR D'ARCY  [Editor]: British Masters of Medicine. 
London:  Medical Press, 1936. 
First edition. Portraits and plates. 8vo, pp.xv:242, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding generally good; dustwrapper spine browned, small chips along top edge; internally, an ink signature on front free endpaper, else excellent.
Quote Item No. 1420
Price:  £30.00
 

QUINCY, JOHN: [Pharmacopœia officinalis & extemporanea. Or, a complete English dispensatory, in four parts. Containing: I. The theory of pharmacy, and the several processes therein. II. A description of the officinal simples, with their virtues ........].
[London:  J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1733 ].
The 9th edition.  Imperfect, wanting title-page and all before the Preface. 8vo, pp.v-xxiv:504:unpaginated index.  Contemporary full leather;  binding now very worn and boards detached. Last few leaves of index detached but present. 
Quote Item No. 9133
Price:  £40.00

SHAMS, F.A. [Editor]:  Granites of Himalayas Karakorum and Hindu Kush.
Lahore:  Institute of Geology, Punjab University, 1983.

Profusely illustrated with maps and diagrams throughout.  4to, pp.xxv:427, original cloth;  a very good copy in slightly edge chipped d.w. 
"This book is a compilation of 24 papers by 32 scientists belonging to 9 countries .... who have carried out leading researches, directly or indirectly, dealing with granitic and granitic gneisses of the Himalayas..."
With, loosely inserted, a folding map by Kewal G. Sharma being a Geological Map of the Himalaya showing Granitoid Belts, 1982, and a very large coloured folding Geological Map of the Upper Imja Khola by Riccardo Polino, 1981. 
Quote Item No. 5462
Price: 
£38.00

SHAMS, F.A. and KHAN, MRS. KHALIDA  [Editors]:  Resource Potential of Mountainous Regions of Pakistan.
Lahore:  Centre for Integrated Mountain Research, Punjab University, 1987.
Maps.  4to, pp.75, original wrappers; very good. 
Quote Item No. 5466
Price: 
£14.00

SMITH, STEPHEN:  Scientific Research, a View from Within.  Second edition.
London:  Elliot Stock, n.d. ca. 1900.
Coloured plates.  8vo, pp.vii:104, original red cloth. Binding marked and stained, some foxing.
* Anti-vivisection. 
Quote Item No. 4343
Price: 
 £10.00

SOUTTAR, SIR HENRY:  Frederich Von Muller.
British Medical Journal, 1951.
A 4-page offprint from the British Medical Journal August 11, 1951, on Von Muller by Souttar.  Inscribed and signed with initials by Souttar. 
Also a review of his book "Masters of Surgery", this also signed with initials and inscribed by Souttar.
Quote Item No. 3679
Price: 
The two -  £10.00

THE CHEMIST & DRUGGIST (Publisher):  Pharmaceutical Formulas. Two volumes. Selected Formulas from the British, United States and other Pharmacopoeias.....
London:  The Chemist and Druggist, 1944.
Eleventh edition.  Two volumes.  8vo, pp.xvi:1212 & pp.xvi:983, original blue cloth;  bindings white spotted, upper inner hinge of Volume 1 cracked but relatively firm. 
Quote Item No. 8885
Price:   £25.00

VENABLES, ROBERT:  A Literal Interlineal Translation of the First Four Books of Celsus de Medicina;  with "Ordo" and Text.  Translated from the text selected for the Examination of Candidates at Apothecaries's Hall.
London:  Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper,  1837.
Second edition, greatly enlarged and improved. 8vo, pp.xii:303:(1):24(publisher's list) original cloth with label;  label rubbed and browned, binding spotted or marked, upper inner hinge strained.

Quote Item No. 215
Price: 
  £25.00

WATSON, SIR MALCOLM: African Highway. The Battle for Health in Central Africa.
London: John Murray, 1953.
First edition.  Plates & folding maps.  Large 8vo, pp.xxix:294, original blue cloth; a very good copy in browned and stained d.w.  With long inscription from the author on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 8853
Price:   £30.00

WESLEY, JOHN:  Primitive Physic:  Or, an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases.  Bound with:  The Family Physician: or Advice with Respect to Health ... for the Prevention and Cure of Acute Diseases.
London:  Printed at the Conference Office, 1807 & 1810.
26th edition of the first work, 8th edition corrected of the second work.  Two volumes in one.  8vo, pp.108:204, contemporary full calf; spine chipped, boards detached. 
Quote Item No. 3010 
Price:  £45.00

WIDDESS, J. D. H:  An Account of the Schools of Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, 1789 - 1948. 
Edinburgh:  Livingstone, 1949. 
First edition.  Portrait, plates.  Royal 8vo, pp.(6):107, original cloth; very good in faded and chipped d.w.  
Quote Item No. 1424 
Price:  £30.00

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