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Photo RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

Histoire des progrès récens de la chirurgie. 

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1825.
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120 €

First edition.
It should be noted that the author does not spare Desault, who is nevertheless considered the founder of the 19th century surgical school: "Desault spread his errors on the deluded crowd; deplorable errors which have outlived their author and of which we ourselves have been the dupe and the echo for too long" (p.66).

Photo RAYER, Pierre François Olive. 

RAYER, Pierre François Olive. 

Histoire de l'épidémie de suette-miliaire, qui a régné, en 1821, dans les départemens de l'Oise et de Seine-et-Oise. 

Paris, Haillière, 1822.
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350 €

First edition.
A French physician and dermatologist, Rayer is known above all for his work in anatomo-pathology and physiology.
A complete copy with the maps of the Oise.

Photo GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

Traité complet d'ostéologie rédigé d'après les leçons de Desault. 

Paris, Méquignon, 1805.
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150 €

Third edition.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

Photo GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

Traité de Splanchnologie, suivant la méthode de Desault. 

Paris, Mequignon, 1809.
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100 €

Third edition corrected.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

Photo BRACHET, Jean-Louis. 

BRACHET, Jean-Louis. 

Traité complet de l'hypochondrie. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1844.
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150 €

First edition.

Photo RAMBOSSON, Jean. 

RAMBOSSON, Jean. 

Phénomènes nerveux, intellectuels et moraux, leur transmission par contagion. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1883.
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150 €

First edition.
"In this work, we present the law of transmission and transformation of expressive movement. This law shows how a cerebral movement can be transmitted to other brains, without being distorted [...] It thus demonstrates the remote propagation of nervous disorders and phenomena: yawning, laughter, various tics, epileptiform phenomena, etc...." (extract).
Rambosson continues here his work begun with a memoir presented on June 8, 1880 to the Academy of Medicine under the title "The Remote Propagation of Disorders".
Few pencil notes in margins.

Photo OLLIVIER, Charles-Prosper. 

OLLIVIER, Charles-Prosper. 

Traité de la moelle épinière et de ses maladies, contenant l'histoire anatomique, physiologique et pathologique de ce centre nerveux chez l'homme. 

Paris, Crevot, 1827.
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600 €

Second edition, corrected and augmented of 400 pages.
Pioneering study of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the spinal cord. In it he describes what is probably the first case of a disease now known as multiple sclerosis.
He is also credited with coining the term syringomyelia which appears here in this second edition for the first time on p. 178.

Photo CHOPART, François. 

CHOPART, François. 

Traité des maladies des voies urinaires. 

Paris, Chez L'auteur, 1791-1792.
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300 €

First edition.
Treatise filled with very detailed clinical observations is very didactic. François Auguste Chopart (1743-1795) formed with Pierre Joseph Desault and the Englishman John Hunter a trio of friendly doctors who participated in the knowledge of the urinary system.

Photo LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas. 

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas. 

Traité des sens. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1742.
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500 €

Second edition.
Reprint of the first edition (Rouen, 1740).
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) a surgeon specializing in the operation of bladder stones remains famous for his work on the senses. Mechanistic doctor for whom sensations are the result of the body acting on the body (the soul therefore does not come into play), his main contribution remains on the understanding of the functioning of vision.

Photo LE DRAN, Henry François. 

LE DRAN, Henry François. 

Traité des opérations de chirurgie. 

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1742.
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250 €

First edition.
Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

Photo BICHAT, Xavier. 

BICHAT, Xavier. 

Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort. 

Paris, Brosson, 1802.
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120 €

Second edition.
There we find the famous definition: "life is the set of functions that resist death.".

Photo LE GOUAS, Francois Maurice Victor. 

LE GOUAS, Francois Maurice Victor. 

Nouveaux Principes de Chirurgie, rédigés suivant le plan de l'ouvrage de G. De Lafaye. 

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.
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80 €

Third edition augmented.

Photo ALLEN, John. 

ALLEN, John. 

Synopsis universae medicinae practicae: sive doctissimorum virorum de morbis eorumque causis ac remediis Judicia: Accesserunt nunc demum casus nonnulli oppido rari. 

Francfort et Leipzig, D. Knochi et Jo Georg. Eslinger, 1749.
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120 €

First edition.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

Photo COINDET, Jean Francois. 

COINDET, Jean Francois. 

Mémoire sur L'Hydrencéphale ou Céphalite Interne Hydrencéphalique. 

Paris, JJ Paschoud, 1817.
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120 €

First edition.
Jean-François Coindet (1774-1834) was a Swiss physician and researcher.
Bound to the following:
SENN, Anatomical-pathological research on acute meningitis in children, Paris, Gabon, 1825 xvi-149-(1) pages.

Photo CAZALAS, Louis. 

CAZALAS, Louis. 

Maladies de l'armée d'Orient (campagne de 1854-55-56) : statistique médicale de l'Hôpital de l'École Militaire à Constantinople. 

Paris, JB Baillière, 1860.
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150 €

First edition.
Louis Cazalas (1813-1884), Military doctor, his career took him to Algeria, Egypt and Constantinople. He ended his career as a medical inspector general. He is the author of several works on military medicine.

Presentation copy.

bound with the following :
CHARMEIL, Recherches sur les métastases, Metz, Antoine, 1821. (8)-xix-387-(3) pages.

Photo BOMPARD, Alexis. 

BOMPARD, Alexis. 

Traité des maladies des voies digestives et de leurs annexes, suivi de tableaux des substances vénéneuses. 

Paris, Gabon, 1829.
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80 €

First edition.

Photo NALDI, Mathieu. 

NALDI, Mathieu. 

Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio. 

Rome, Ignatii de Lazaris, 1657.
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350 €

First edition of this commentaries by Mathieu Naldi.
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates were considered until the 19th century as a "bible" of medicine
Matthew Naldi (or matteo / or Naldius), a seventeenth-century physician, born in Siena, became famous for his knowledge of oriental languages, which was used here to serve the Greek aphorisms of Hippocrates.

He taught for some time in Pisa with great brilliance, and became physician to Pope Alexander VII. This high dignity did not prevent him from giving courses in Rome, where he contributed greatly to the flourishing of the University. He died in 1682, at a very advanced age.

Copy in a tinted parchment binding, unusual for the time, probably of Italian manufacture.

Photo [BINET, Benjamin]. 

[BINET, Benjamin]. 

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme. 

Amsterdam, Jean du Fresne, 1699.
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300 €

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

Photo [GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)]. 

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)]. 

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction. 

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1759.
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350 €

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

Photo CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel. 

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel. 

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1767.
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180 €

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

Photo CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain. 

Paris, Froullé, 1787.
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170 €

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

Photo [CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT]. 

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT]. 

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations. 

[Poitiers], Catineau, 1806.
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350 €

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

Photo [CURIOSA]. 

[CURIOSA]. 

Célestine ou la petite bonne. 

Paris, Tiger, [1818].
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150 €

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

Photo GONDRET, Louis François. 

GONDRET, Louis François. 

Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1819.
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300 €

First edition.
Gondret presents among the first explanations of the effect of altitude (altitude sickness) on human physiology. He is the first to describe in this work what we know today as the hyperbaric chamber in order to treat people suffering from acute altitude sickness.
The rest of the volume is exclusively devoted to the study of the influence of simple and scarified suction cups.

Two other works bound together:
- GONDRET, Considerations on the use of fire in medicine, 1819. xvi-94 pages. Second edition.

- HACHETTE || MONGE , Précis des leçons sur le calorique et l'électricité, Paris, A l'Ecole de Sciences et de Belles-Lettres, 1805.
viii-80 pages. First edition.

Photo VAILLANT, Sébastien. 

VAILLANT, Sébastien. 

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. 

Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.
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1500 €

First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

EIFFEL, Gustave. 

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.
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70 €

Rare offprint of an article by Gustave Eiffel written for the Hommage à Louis Olivier.
This choral book was written on the occasion of the death of Louis Frédéric Olivier (1854-1910), a scientist passionate about technical, scientific and cultural progress.
Beautiful full-margin printing on laid paper.

Photo GALIEN (Claudius Galenus). 

GALIEN (Claudius Galenus). 

Claudii Galeni Pergameni Introductio in pulsus ad Teuthram. 

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1550.
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500 €

Collection of four treatises by Galen published by Guillaume Rouillé:
- Introduction in pulsus ad teuthram, 1550 translated by Martino Gregorio
- De Differentiis febrium libri duo, 1570 translated by Laurentiano Florentino
- De Diebus decretoriis libri tres, 1553 translated by Joanno Guinterio Andernaco
- De Elementis libris duo, 1558 translated by Victore Trincavelio.
Galen (129-210 BC) is considered the last of the great creative physicians of Greco-Roman antiquity and, with Hippocrates, one of the founders of the great basic principles on which Western medicine is based.

Photo CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus). 

CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus). 

De Re medica libri octo. 

Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1549.
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900 €

Edition by Jean de Tournes.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine.
It is an extremely interesting history of medicine and surgery, including the symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter, tonsillectomy, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

The edition is followed by the poem De medicina (composed of 1115 hexameter lines) with precepts borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides on the art of healing) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a Latin author assassinated under the orders of Caracalla in 212. At the end is the poem by Q. Rhemnius Palaemon on weights and measures.

The entire work was annotated at the time in the margins in fine 16th-century handwriting. On almost every page, passages are underlined and.

Photo MALPIGHI, Marcello. 

MALPIGHI, Marcello. 

Discours anatomiques sur la structure des visceres, sçavoir du foye, du cerveau, des reins, de la ratte. 

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1683.
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1500 €

First french edition.
French translation of Malpighi's two main works, for which he is considered the founder of histology.
- De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica published in Latin in 1666, a work in which Malpighi describes the renal structure now known as the "Malpighian body"
- De pulmonibus observations anatomicae published in Latin in 1663, a work consisting of two letters to Borelli in which Malpighi sets out his discovery of capillary circulation.

Photo ROTHE, Gottfried. 

ROTHE, Gottfried. 

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol.
Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741.
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350 €

First french edition.
Rothe was a pupil of Stal's, and graduated in medicine at Leipzig University, He died at the early age of thirty-one.
This work on chemistry, first posthumously published in 1717, was one of the best and clearest manuals of its time (Fergusson).
The greatly enlarged, definitive French edition of this important work, containing translations by Clausier of the main text (viz. Antleitung zur Chymie), supplement (Anhang) on metallic salts, and another work by Rothe on the anodyne sulphur of vitriol. In addition there are translations of two works on antomony and its compounds by the Dresden chemist E.P. Meuder, as listed in the title. The book ends with a supplement on Quelques nouvelles préparations du ... médicinal, describing antimonial medicines (pp.499-503).
Meuder was the first to prove that the mineral stibnite is a compound of metallic antimony and sulphur. (Partington II, 198).

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