SEMINAR TO DISCUSS THE CARCINOGENICITY AND MUTAGENICITY OF WOOD DUST
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, 1982. 4to. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. 43, illus with b&w figures (no inscriptions). More
Medicine
MORBID CURIOSITIES Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Oxford University Press, 2011. 9780199584581. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (rear flap creased - otherwise Fine). Pp. xiii +238, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions). More
ATLAS ANATOMIQUE DE L'HOMME ET DE LA FEMME Anatomie et physiologie du corps humain.
Paris: Alfred Costes, c. 1920. 4to (10½ x 8 ins). Original printed card covers (softback) (poor - upper cover detached and heavily worn, lacks lower cover). Pp. xii, illus with 6 coloured moveable plates (lacks plate 7; last page with partial loss). [French text]. More
THE MIND ELECTRIC Stories of the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains.
Virago Press, 2025. 9780349019109. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original turquoise lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. ix + 275 (no inscriptions). More
WORST CASE BIOETHICS Death Disaster and Public Health.
Oxford University Press, 2010. 9780195391732. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xxiv + 335 (no inscriptions). More
AN AMBULANCE ON SAFARI The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 9780228003304. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. xviii + 311, illus with b&w photos in text and b&w maps (no inscriptions). More
THESAURUS CHIRURGIAE The Chirurgical and Anatomical Works of Paul Barbette Composed according to the Doctrine of the Circulation of the Blood [&] MEDICINA MILITARIS Or, a Boby (Body) of Military Medicines experimented by Raymundus Mindererus
Printed for Henry Rhodes, 1687 [&] Charles Shortgrave, 1686. 2 vols in 1: THESAURUS CHIRURGIAE 4th edn [&] MEDICINA MILITARIS bound with Cista Militaris or a Military Chest by Gulielmus Fabritius Hildanus. 8vo. Rebound in recent gilt lettered brown buckram cloth with new endpapers (VG). Pp. 394 + index [&]..... More
NEEDLES HERBS GODS AND GHOSTS China Healing and the West to 1848.
Harvard University Press, 2007. 9780674023970. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. xiii + 458, illus with figures (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
ISSUES IN FETAL MEDICINE Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Symposium of the Galton Institute London 1992
Galton Institute [&] Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. 031212161X. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. xiii + 180, illus with b&w photos and figures (no inscriptions). More
OUTCAST A History of Leprosy Humanity and the Modern World.
Faber and Faber, 2025. 9780571384303. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 384 (no inscriptions). More
ANAPHYLAXIS AND ANTI-ANAPHYLAXIS And Their Experimental Foundations
William Heinemann, 1919. 8vo. Original blind ruled gilt lettered black cloth (faded at spine and part of lower board, endpapers stained and tanned). Pp. xiii + 143 (previous owner's light margin annotations and neat inscription and date (the latter in red biro) on front free endpaper). More
THORNTON'S MEDICAL BOOKS LIBRARIES AND COLLECTORS A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences.
Gower, 1990. 9780566054815. 3rd edn revised. 8vo. Original gil lettered turquoise cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xxi + 417, illus with b&w drawings (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down). More
DISPARATE REMEDIES Making Medicines in Modern India
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. 9780228017530. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. xii + 257, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions). More
MY MOORLAND PATIENTS By a Yorkshire Doctor the Late Dr R.W.S. Bishop.
John Murray, 1922. 1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blind ruled green cloth (faded at spine, edges a little spotted - otherwise VG). Pp. x + 242, illus with b&w frontispiece and plates (previous owner's pencil inscription on front free endpaper). More
STRESS Evolutionary Biosocial and Clinical Perspectives Studies in Biology Economy and Society
Galton Institute [&] Palgrave Macmillan, 1996. 031212161X. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. xiv + 203, illus with b&w figures (some faint spotting on fore-edge; no inscriptions). More
MINORITY POPULATIONS Genetics Demography and Health Studies in Biology Economy and Society
Galton Institute [&] Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. 0333546946. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (some light spotting on top edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. xi + 276, illus with b&w figures (some faint spotting on fore-edge; no inscriptions). More
RENAL DISEASE
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1964. 3rd printing. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth (casing has slight warp; spine a little worn, otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xi + 636, illus with b&w diagrams and photos (no inscriptions). More
A GUIDE TO HUMAN PARASITOLOGY For Medical Practitioners.
H.K. Lewis & Co., 1961. 7th edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. viii + 223, illus with b&w plate an figures in text (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpapers). More
OLIVER TWIST AND ME The True Story of My Family and Charles Dickens's Best-Loved Novel.
Bridge Street Press, 2025. 9780349136387. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 328 (no inscriptions). More
TOWARD THE HEALTH OF A NATION The Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation - The First Seventy Years
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xvi + 645, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES How Contagion Class and Captivity Shape Us from Cholera to Covid-19.
Dialogue Books, 2025. 9780349704364. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered dark grey cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xxix + 286 (no inscriptions). More
MARITIME QUARANTINE The British Experience c. 1650-1900 (The History of Medicine in Context).
Ashgate, 2007. 9780754661788. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (bumped at head of spine and tail of spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (nicked at top corner of upper cover - in protective cover). Pp. xviii + 624, illus with b&w photos, maps and tables (previous owner's light pencil..... More
INSULIN A Hundred Year History.
Polity Press, 2023. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. xiv + 246, illus with b&w images, no inscriptions. More
GALEN ON BLOODLETTING A Study of the Origins Development and Validity of His Opinions with a Translation of the Three Works.
Cambridge University Press, 1986. 9780521320856. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xiii + 189 (previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down). More
ABORTION IN ENGLAND 1900-1967.
Croom Helm, 1988. 9780709950462. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (top edge dust stained - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 195 (no inscriptions). More