Medicine
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![[SYDNEY] St. Vincent's Hospital, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. The Sisters of Charity request the favour of Mr & Mrs J. G. O'Connor's presence at the Blessing by His Eminence the Cardinal, and Public Opening of the New Wing ... by Lady Carrington, on Saturday, the 21st [October, 1887]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2419-300x300.jpg)
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ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL
[SYDNEY] St. Vincent’s Hospital, Victoria Street, Darlinghurst. The Sisters of Charity request the favour of Mr & Mrs J. G. O’Connor’s presence at the Blessing by His Eminence the Cardinal, and Public Opening of the New Wing … by Lady Carrington, on Saturday, the 21st [October, 1887]
[Sydney : s.n., 1887]. Duodecimo card, 76 x 114 mm, printed recto only in gold on white card; the O’Connors’ names recorded in manuscript; stain at left edge, verso with some superficial loss and residual glue from where the card was once mounted in an album, otherwise in good condition. Provenance: Removed from a dilapidated …
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![[MEDICINE] Epistola admonitoria Iohannis Michaelis Bayer Oenipontani philosophiae et medicinae doctoris ad Franciscum Cimam medicum Venetum.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2581-294x300.jpg)
# 49952
BAYER, Johann Michael
[MEDICINE] Epistola admonitoria Iohannis Michaelis Bayer Oenipontani philosophiae et medicinae doctoris ad Franciscum Cimam medicum Venetum.
Padua : Typis Caroli Rizzardi, 1662. 16mo (140 x 86 mm), later full calf; pp. 142, 1, [1 blank]; title with woodcut vignette, and an early (ducal?) collection stamp in violet; a few leaves with loss at fore-edge margins (and with resultant loss of a couple of letters), and a few (including some preliminary leaves) …
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# 50170
[Photographer unknown].
Front view of the Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital, Concord West, Sydney, c.1893.
Albumen print photograph, 138 x 206 mm, laid down recto of a 19th-century album leaf of heavy cardstock; mount with fully contemporary caption in pencil: ‘Walker Hospital, Parramatta River’, and another in a different hand: ‘near Sydney’; a very strong print in excellent condition; mounted on the verso is another print in identical format (so …
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# 49929
WITHER, George
Britain’s Remembrancer. Containing a Narration of the Plague lately past; A Declaration of the Mischiefs present; And a Prediction of Judgments to come; (If Repentance prevent not.).
It is Dedicated (for the glory of God) to Posteritie; and, to These Times (if they please) by Geo: Wither. Imprinted for Great Britaine, and are to be sold by John Grismond in Ivie-Lane, 1628. First edition. Duodecimo (150 x 85 mm), early full calf double-ruled in gilt (boards heavily rubbed and scuffed), spine also …
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![[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_DSFB_7153-300x300.jpg)
# 49083
Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.
[Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …
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# 49173
LEDWARD, Rodney S. (editor)
Saudi Medical Journal. Volume 1, Number 1 – 6 (finely bound by Asprey of London)
Published quarterly by the Riyadh Al-Kharj Hospital Programme. Patron : HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. Riyadh : Riyadh Al-Kharj Hospital Programme, 1979 – 1980. Six issues, Volume 1, Number 1 (July 1979) – Volume 1, Number 6 (October 1980) bound together. Large octavo (245 mm tall), pp. 340 plus preliminaries, illustrated. In a magnificent and …
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# 49770
[NIXON, J. H. or GINNINGS, J. T., attributed]
Mount Gambier Hospital, south-eastern South Australia, c.1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Mount gambier Hospitle‘; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in good condition, as is the mount. This carte was sourced with others taken by travelling photographer J. T. Ginnings. However, the State Library of …
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# 38365
POMPE VAN MEERDERVOORT, Johannes Lijdius Catharinus (1829-1908)
Beknopte handleiding tot de geneesmiddelleer : ten gebruike van de Keizerlijke Japansche Geneeskundige School te Nagasaki.
Desima [Nagasaki] : ter Nederlandsche Drukkerij, 1862. Octavo (190 mm), contemporary Japanese binding of half calf over marbled papered boards, mauve endpapers, the front free-endpaper with early inscription in Japanese and straight-line stamp of the Deutsche Jesuiten-Mission Japan e. V. Köln, half title with circular stamp of the same library and early Japanese owner’s seal stamp …
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# 49228
WALSH, E. H. C.
The Tibetan anatomical system
Hertford : printed by Stephen Austin and Sons for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1910. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 1215 – 1245, unopened, text in English with some words in Sanskrit, large folding anatomical diagram, a fine copy. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, October, 1910
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![[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers's Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3681-300x300.jpg)
# 47522
REIMERS, J. W.
[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers’s Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.
Never Before Exhibited in London. Saville House, Leicester Square. Open every day. Reimers’s Anatomical & Ethnological Museum, consisting of upwards of Several Hundred Magnificent Preparations in Wax, &c. … Anatomical Figures … Human Brain and Five Sense … Gallery of All Nations … Great Human Family … For Gentlemen Only…. London : J. W. Peel, …
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# 48979
BERNDT, R. M. and T. VOGELSANG
The initiation of native doctors, Dieri tribe, South Australia.
Adelaide : The Hassell Press, 1941. “From Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28, 1941”. Large octavo (245 x 175 mm), original printed wrappers; pp. 369-380; an excellent copy. This paper records some observations and discussions on the methods and beliefs concerning medicine-men among the Dieri on the eastern shores …
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# 48801
OPIUM INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE
Use of opium and traffic therein : message from the President of the United States,
transmitting the report of the committee appointed by the Philippine Commission to investigate the use of opium and the traffic therein, and the rules, ordinances, and laws regulating such use and traffic in Japan, Formosa, Shanghai, Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Burma, Java, and the Philippine Islands, and inclosing a letter from the Secretary of War submitting …
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# 48117
HARVEY, Dr. [Gideon]
The City Remembrancer : being historical narratives of The Great Plague at London 1665, Great Fire 1666, and Great Storm 1703;
to which are added, observations and reflections on the plague in general, considered in the religious, philosophical, and physical view: with historical accounts of the most memorable plagues, fires and hurricanes. The whole compiled from the curious and authentic papers of the late very learned Dr Harvey, His Majesty’s Physician to the Tower of London. …
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# 48366
GHOSH, Radha Kanta
Cholera and its treatment on homoeopathic principles
(Based mainly on the results of fourteen years practice as a homoeopath.) Calcutta : published for the author by Berigny & Co, 1887. Printed by G. P. Roy & Co, Calcutta. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth with blind decoration, lightly rubbed at edges, pencilled ‘Duplicate’ on front free endpaper, title leaf, pp. ii; 56; (3), a fine …
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# 41889
TOLLET, Casimir (1828-1899)
De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)
Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l’auteur, 49, rue d’Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges …
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# 27137
KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)
Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.
Paris : Annales maritimes et coloniales. II.e partie. Année 1824. – Juin. Octavo, bound in contemporary marbled wrappers, pp [2], 457-541, with an engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator (p.540); light browning to some of the leaves, but a very good copy. Text in French. An important treatise on the causes of, and preventive measures …