Medicine
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# 45570
BURN, Hilda May (1868-1949)
[NURSING] Scrap album of testimonials compiled by Melbourne, Beechworth and Bendigo nurse Hilda Burn (Morres), 1897-1902.
Quarto album (265 x 215 mm), original limp sheepskin ruled in gilt, the upper cover lettered in gilt ‘Testimonials. Nurse Burn. Melbourne Hospital’ (covers very lightly scuffed, spine ends a little worn); front pastedown with binder’s ticket of Sands & McDougall Bookbinders Ltd, Melbourne, and later inscription in pen by a family member fully identifying …
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# 45552
SLADE, William Joseph
[MEDICINE] Portrait of Andrew W. Nash. Newcastle, New South Wales, c.1884.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘SLADE (Late Williams), Artist in Photography, Hunter Stree, Newcastle, N.S.W.’, and a signed inscription in pencil by the sitter: ‘A. W. Nash, Australian Club, Edinburgh, Scotland. A.W.N.’; the print has some light rubbing and mottling in the negative; …
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# 44733
VALLERY-RADOT, Rene
The life of Pasteur
Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. London : Constable & Company, 1948. Reprint. Octavo, Geelong College prize binding of full calf, ruled in gilt, the school’s motto to upper board, spine sunned, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting morocco title label, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label to upper …
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# 43448
POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)
De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …
Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms to verso; pp. [7] (Dedication to Francesco Maria II …
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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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# 44759
ZACUTUS LUSITANUS (Manuel Alvares de Tavara, 1575-1642)
[MEDICINE] De medicorum principum historia
libri sex. In quibus medicinales omnes medicorum principum historiae, utili, & compendioso ordine disposiate proponuntur, paraphrasi, & commentarijs enarrantur, disputationibus, dubijs, & auctoris peculiaribus observationibus illustrantu. Quorum primus liber nunc primum in lucem exit … … Leiden : Johannes Maire, 1629. Thick octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary full vellum over bevelled boards (lightly marked), spine somewhat darkened …
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# 44900
ELLERY, R. S. (1897 - 1955)
The cow jumped over the moon. Private papers of a psychiatrist
Melbourne : F. W. Cheshire, 1956. Octavo, gilt lettered cloth (marked at foot of spine, canted), dustjacket (chipped with losses, tape repairs verso), pp. 285, internally clean. ‘An essayist and writer of poetry, Ellery was also a peripheral figure in the Angry Penguins movement. He provided the artist (Sir) Sidney Nolan with examples of drawings …
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# 44598
[SIMPSON, John] COWTAN & BLAND
[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.
Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of a quarto bifolium of blue paper; headed ‘Belfast, 2 April 1859’, the letter is addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald’, and is signed at the foot ‘Truly yours, Cowtan & Bland’; front panel addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald by Wycliffe [i.e. …
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# 44287
SAVAGE, Albert William
[GALLIPOLI] Photographs of the Third Australian General Hospital taken on Lemnos (1915-16) and in Egypt (1916).
Group of 13 (thirteen) gelatin silver print photographs in uniform 110 x 150 mm format, versos all with a blue wet stamp ‘Photographed by A. W. Savage, No. 3 Australian General Hospital (Not to be used for Publication)’, and with a fully contemporary handwritten caption (often with a date) in violet ink; the group comprises …
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# 44399
[CROWN STREET WOMEN'S HOSPITAL]
[SYDNEY] Lady de Chair requests the pleasure of the company of Mrs A. Weston at a Meeting at Government House, on 11th March at 11 am, to form a Committee to organise a Ball at “The Wentworth,” for the Babies in the Women’s Hospital, Crown Street.
R.S.V.P. to the A.D.C. in waiting, Government House. Sydney, NSW : Government House, [1924]. Invitation card, 160 x 100 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; old water staining (no loss of text); verso blank. ‘Crown Street Women’s Hospital was established in Hay Street in 1893 and moved to Surry Hills in 1897. …
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# 44396
[ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, AUBURN]
[SYDNEY] The Lady Mayoress of Sydney (Mrs W. H. Lambert) requests the pleasure of Mrs A. Weston’s Company at A Gift Afternoon in her Rooms at the Town Hall on Thursday the 2nd June …
from 3.30 pm to 5 pm. Gifts of linen or money will be thankfully received for the assistance of the St. Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn. Sydney, NSW : Mrs. W. H. Lambert, Lady Mayoress, [1921]. Invitation card, 105 x 130 mm, printed recto only, with name of invitee in manuscript; mild toning; verso blank. ‘The story of …
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# 43300
HOBSON, Benjamin [author]; GUAN, Maocai [translator]; MIYAKE, Gonsai [editor]
The first lines of the practice of surgery in the West [Seii ryakuron] [Xi yi lue lun] [西醫略論]
Edo [Tōkyō] : Yorozuya Heishirō, Ansei 5 [1858]. Four volumes (complete), original decorated Japanese Fukuro-toji binding with title labels, 25.6 x 17.5cm. 62, 48, 62, 22 leaves, woodcut illustrations of (sometimes graphic) surgical practices, previous owner’s stamps (in Japanese) on the wrapper of the first volume, and first & last pages on each volume, pale …
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# 17332
VAN AMBURGH & CO.
[BROADSIDE] Great Living Wonders! / Immense Attraction / The Wild Australian Children
are Evidently of a Cannibal Race! / Judging From Their Natural Proclivities, Their Long Sharp Teeth, etc. / Perhaps the Only Specimen From That Country Now Living … These Wonders of All Wonders were captured about 7 years ago by a party of gold hunters in the mountainous regions of Australia … Can Be Seen In a …
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# 41465
[HODNET-DE-COURTMACSHERRY, Edward Henry; NUTTALL, Henry Clarence Wardleworth; PICKLES, William Norman]
[GALLIPOLI] Logbook kept by the surgeons of H.M.S. Albion during the Dardanelles campaign, 25 January – 21 July 1915.
Government-issue Waterlow & Sons Limited ledger book, folio (320 x 220 mm), original marbled papered boards with hessian backstrip and corners (heavily rubbed and worn from extensive use), upper board lettered in manuscript in black ink: ‘H.M.S. Albion / 25th Jany. 1915 / to / 21st July 1915’; [340] pp. with manuscript entries in the …
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# 41516
FRORIEP, Robert
De lingua anatomica quaedam et semiotica
Dissertatio inauguralis quam consensu inclyti medicorum ordinis Pro Gradu Doctoris in medicina et chirurgica publice defendet auctor Robert Froriep. Bonn : Abbeville Press, 1828. First edition, quarto, contemporary blue boards (corners worn, lightly marked) with linen spine, printed paper label on cover, 89pp, 8 engraved plates (4 hand-coloured). Doctoral dissertation on the anatomy, pathological conditions …
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# 41334
HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]
[QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.
San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on …