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1726 CE
#7578
Promtuarium rerum naturalium et artificalium Vratislaviense.
Digitall facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1704 CE
#7577
Museum museorum, oder, Vollständige Schau-Bühne aller Materialien und Specereyen : nebst deren natürlichen Beschreibung, Election, Nutzen und Gebrauch, aus andern Material-, Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, Oost-und-West-Indischen Reisz-Beschreibungen, Curiosen Zeit- und Tag-Registern, Natur- und Artzney-Kündigern, wie auch selbst-eigenen Erfahrung, zum Vorschub der Studirenden Jugend, Materialisten, Apothecker, und deren visitatoren, wie auch anderer Künstler, als Jubelirer, Mahler, Färber, u.s.w. also verfasset, und mit etlich hundert sauberen Kupfferstücken unter Augen geleget
Of particular value for reprinting many early museum catalogues. The second edition issued in 1714 reissued the first volume together with a second and third volume. Digital facsimile of the 1704 first edition from th…
1710 CE
#7576
Museum curiosum auctum Oder Neu-Verbesserte Beschreibung Derer raren und Ausländischen Sachen...Bey Tit. Herrn Christian Nicolai.
Description of the cabinet of Wittenberg apothecary Christian Nicolai by Christian Warlitz, professor of medicine at Wittenberg. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1674 CE
#7575
Gottorffische Kunst-Kammer: worinnen allerhand ungemeine Sachen, so theils die Natur, theils künstliche Hände hervor gebracht und bereitet : vor diesem aus allen vier Theilen der Welt zusammen getragen, und vor einigen Jahren beschrieben, auch mit behörigen Kupffern gezieret.
First published in 1666. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
1622 CE
#7574
Continuatio rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis quae collegit et suis impensis aeri ad vivum indici curavit atque evulgavit....
This was the second edition, with 7 additional plates, of the privately printed catalogue of the natural history collection or museum of the Nuremberg botanist Basilius Besler, author of Hortus Eystettensis (1613). Th…
1746 CE
#7573
Description abregée du fameux cabinet de Mr. Le Chevalier de Baillou pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des pierres précieuses, métaux, minéraux, et autre fossiles.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1677 CE
#7572
Museo Cospiano: annesso a quello del famoso Vlisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall' illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi ..., fra' gli Accademici Gelati il Fedele, e principe al presente de' medesimi.
As the title indicates, the Cospi collection incorporated the earlier museum of Ulisse Aldrovandi, and Legati's catalogue is sometimes regarded as forming a 14th or supplementary volume to Aldrovandi's encyclopedic Op…
2006 CE
#7571
From Wunderkammer to museum.
Revised and expanded finely printed edition of a rare book catalogue originally issued by Diana Parikian in association with Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
1992 CE
#7570
Finders, Keepers: Eight collectors.
A spectacular book on eight medical and natural history museums: text by Gould, superbly reproduced dramatic photographs by Purcell. Chapter 1: "Dutch treat: Peter the Great and Frederik Ruysch".
2008 CE
#7569
The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.
1950 CE
#7568
An inferometer microscope.
Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.
2009 CE
#7567
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine 1880-1930.
2016 CE
#7566
The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death.
1582 CE
#7565
Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, que à generoso viro Franciso Drake quite Anglo, & his obseruatae sunt, qui eum in long illa nauigatione, qu proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuits ....
Botany of the circumnavigation of Sir Francis Drake. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1778 CE
#7564
Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy. Especially on 1. The earth and its strata, 2. Water and the ocean, 3. The atmosphere, 4. The changes of the globe, 5. Organic bodies, and 6. The human species.
The natural history of Captain James Cook's second voyage in the Pacific; Forster and his son Georg were appointed naturalists to the voyage after Joseph Banks withdrew from the position. Digital facsimile from Google…
1983 CE
#7563
Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).
1999 CE
#7562
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
1994 CE
#7561
Possessing nature: Museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy.
2003 CE
#7560
Medicine man: The forgotten medical museum of Henry Wellcome.
A collective work edited by Arnold and Olsen.
2002 CE
#7559
Cabinets of curiosities.
1985 CE
#7558
The origins of museums: The cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe.
A collective work edited by Impey and MacGregor.
1648 CE
#7557
Musaeum metallicum in libros IIII distributum Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... labore, et studio composuit cum indice copiosissimo.
Digital facsimile from the University of Bologna at this link.
2013 CE
#7556
A history of geology and medicine.
1584 CE
#7555
De reconditis et praecipuis collectaneis ab honestissimo et solertissimo Francisco Calceolario Veronensi in Musaeo adservatis, Joannis Baptistae Olivi medici testificatio.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1622 CE
#7554
Musaeum Franc. Calceolari Jun. Veronensis, a Benedicto Ceruto, medico, inceptum, et ab Andrea Chiocco, med. physico, descriptum et perfectum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1599 CE
#7553
Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano Libri XXVIII. Nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante et animali; sin hora non date in luce.
The famous illustration of Imperato's museum or "cabinet of curiosities" published in this work was the first pictorial representation of the natural history research collection formed by Renaissance humanist". The co…
1734 CE
#7552
Historia musculorum hominis.
Very detailed descriptions of all the muscles of the human body, with illustrations drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar depicting the muscles of the hand, life-size with all the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones.…
1655 CE
#7551
Museum Wormianum, seu, historia rerum rariorum: tam naturalium, quam artificialium, tam domesticarum, quam exoticarum, quae Hafniae Danorum in aedibus authoris servantur.
Edited for publication by Worm's son, Willum Worm. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1970 CE–1971 CE
#7550
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
1988 CE
#7549
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
2009 CE
#7548
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
1994 CE
#7547
La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.
Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
1999 CE
#7546
Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)
Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…
1855 CE
#7545
Physical, sexual and natural religion: by a student of medicine.
Drysdale emphasized that sexual intercourse should be pleasurable for both sexes, but believed that the ever-present possibility of pregnancy prevented it from being so. He also believed that overpopulation itself was…
2013 CE
#7544
The drug book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs.
1813 CE
#7543
Pedestrianism; or, An account of the performances of celebrated pedestrians during the last and present century : with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches; and an essay on training.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1913 CE
#7542
The complete athletic trainer, by S. A. Mussabini in collaboration with Charles Ranson.
Includes advice on health, diet, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2011 CE
#7541
A history of British sports medicine.
1969 CE
#7540
Gandhi's truth: On the origins of militant nonviolence.
1992 CE
#7539
The history of British pathology.
1958 CE
#7538
Young man Luther: A study in psychoanalysis and history.
1950 CE
#7537
Childhood and society.
2002 CE
#7536
Sexual blackmail: A modern history.
1999 CE
#7535
Twentieth-century sexuality: A history.
2007 CE
#7534
Impotence: A cultural history.
1990 CE
#7533
A history of contraception from antiquity to the present day.
1996 CE
#7532
Kunst & Medizin: Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, Vincent van Gogh.
1989 CE–1991 CE
#7531
Musik und Medizin. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik; Vol. 2: Am Beispiel der deutschen Romantik; Vol. 3: Chopin, Smetana, Tschaikowsky, Mahler. The three volumes were translated into English by Bruce Cooper Clarke, and published i…
1997 CE
#7530
Literatur & Medizin: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich Heine.
1927 CE
#7529
