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1754 CE

#7127

Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. qui prostabunt venales sub hasta, apud Samuelem Baker ... Londini, die lunae, 18vo. Novembris, M.DCC.LIV., iterumque die lunae, 7mo. Aprilis, M.DCC.LV.

Mead's library consisted of upwards of 10,000 printed volumes, and many rare and valuable manuscripts. The collection was especially rich in medical works, and in early editions of the classics; it realized over &poun…

1775 CE

#7126

Bibliotheca Askeviana, sive Catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D. quorum auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh....

The auction catalogue of the celebrated library formed by the physician and classical scholar Askew, third owner of the famous gold-headed cane. Askew attempted to secure a complete series of all the Greek classics ev…

1965 CE

#7125

The library of John Locke by John R. Harrison and Peter Laslett.

1698 CE

#7124

A catalogue of the library of the late learned Dr. Francis Bernard....Which will be sold by auction at the doctor's late dwelling house in Litttle Britain; the sale to begin on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1698.

The most extensive library sold at auction in London during the seventeenth century, with almost 15,000 lots, of which only part was medical. Bernard was Physician to James II.

1670 CE

#7123

De bibliothecis incendio. Dissertatio ad filios.

As a result of the burning of his home and the destruction of his library, which included numerous unpublished manuscripts on a wide range of subjects, Bartholin published what was intended to be work of self-consolat…

1710 CE

#7122

A catalogue of the libraries of the learned Sir Thomas Brown, and Dr. Edward Brown, his son, late President of the College of Physicians. Consisting of many very valuable and uncommon books in most faculties and languages. Chiefly in physic, chirurgery, chemistry.... Which will begin to be sold by auction, at the Black-boy Coffe house....by Thomas Ballard bookseller.

Auction catalogue of the libraries of Sir Thomas Browne and his son Dr. Edward Browne. Digital facsimile of a xerographic copy from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1655 CE

#7121

Catalogus librorum rei medicae, herbariae, & chymiae bibliothecae Joannis Riolani medicorum Parisensium primarii.

The earliest sale catalogue of a private scientific or medical library may be that of Jean Riolan the Younger. John F. Fulton (1899-1960) owned a possibly unique copy of an inventory sale catalogue of Riolan’s l…

1966 CE

#7120

Medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences. 2nd. edition, revised and enlarged.

This contains useful information not included in the third edition (1990). See No. 6786.34.

1797 CE

#7119

Versuche über die gereizte Muskel- und Nervenfaser: nebst Vermuthungen über den chemischen Process des Lebens in der Thier- und Pflanzenwelt. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1877 CE

#7118

De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.

De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…

1596 CE

#7117

Reliqua librorum Friderici II. Imperatoris, De arte venandi cum avibus, cum Manfredi Regis additionibus. Ex membranis vetustis nunc primum edita. Albertus Magnus De falconibus, asturibus, & accipitribus.

Books I-II of De arte venandi cum avibus, edited by Marcus Welser from a very old, incomplete defective manuscript, which lacked Books III-IV. More than a dissertation on hunting, this work is considered the first zoo…

1917 CE

#7116

The fundus oculi of birds especially as viewed by the ophthalmoscope. A study in comparative anatomy and physiology. Illustrated by 143 drawings... also by sixty-one colored paintings prepared for this work by Arthur W. Head.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1978 CE

#7115

Contraceptive technology.

Standard work on the subject; 20th edition, New York: Arden Media, 2011. Hatcher originated the work in 1978. Collaborators on the 20th edition are Hatcher, Kowal, Nelson, Policar, and Trusell. An offshoot of the main…

1951 CE

#7114

Schöne Fischbücher: kurze Geschichte der ichthyologischen Illustrationen; Bibliographie fischkundlicher Abbildungswerke.

1951 CE–1952 CE

#7113

Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.

1738 CE

#7112

Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de Piscibus....omnia in hoc genere perfectiora, quam antea ulla. Posthuma vindicavit, recognovit, coaptavit & edidit Carolus Linnaeus.

After Artedi's mysterious and premature death by drowning at the age of 30 Linnaeus raised money to pay off Artedi's creditors and obtained his papers. These he published in the present five part work. The five parts …

1517 CE

#7111

Oppianou Alieuticon biblia pente. Tou autou Kynegetikon biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem De venatione libri IV. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V.

First edition in print of Oppian of Apamea's Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ), a didactic poem in 2144 hexameters and 4 books, dedicated to t…

1908 CE

#7110

Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.

Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed ed…

2004 CE

#7109

The book of skin.

1817 CE

#7108

Medical jurisprudence as it relates to insanity, according to the laws of England.

The first English work on the forensic aspects of mental illness. Digital facsimile from Wellcome Forensics Collection, Internet Archive, at this link.

1995 CE

#7107

Witnessing insanity. Madness and mad-doctors in the English court.

1917 CE–1940 CE

#7106

The Birth Control Review.

Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…

1926 CE

#7105

Happiness in marriage.

Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.

1999 CE

#7104

Teaching America about sex. Marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth.

1938 CE

#7103

The ape in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1997 CE

#7102

Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.

Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacular…

2001 CE

#7101

A history of blood coagulation.

2011 CE

#7100

A world of beasts: A thirteenth-century illustrated Arabic book on animals (the Kitāb Na't al-Hayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū' Tradition.

Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in literature) were Persian or Assyrian Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. The K…

1918 CE

#7099

Married love. A new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties.

One of the first books to discuss the differences between male and female sexual desires, and the first book to note that increased sexual desire in women coincides with ovulation and the period right before menstruat…

1978 CE

#7098

Survivals of Greek zoological illuminations in Byzantine manuscripts.

1924 CE–1929 CE

#7097

A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1828 CE

#7096

Report from the select committee on anatomy. House of Commons, 22 July 1828.

In the first half of 1828, in response to increasing calls for reform, the British Parliament appointed a committee to "enquire into the manner of obtaining subjects for dissection by schools of Anatomy and the State …

1973 CE

#7095

Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.

1908 CE

#7094

Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.

See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…

1796 CE–1800 CE

#7093

Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, auctore Jona Dryander. 5 vols.

Digital facsimile of the 5 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1848 CE–1854 CE

#7092

Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae. A general catalogue of all books, tracts, and memoirs on zoology and geology by Louis Agassiz. Corrected, enlarged and edited by H. E. Strickland. 4 vols. Vol. 4 edited by Strickland and Jardine.

Digital facsimile of the 4 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1916 CE–1923 CE

#7091

A Bibliography of fishes by Bashford Dean, enlarged and edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. 3 vols. Vol. 3 extended and edited by Eugene Willis Gudger with the cooperation of Arthur Wilbur Henn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1686 CE–1704 CE

#7090

Historia plantarum.... 3 vols.

This massive catalogue begins with an extensive general botanical treatise covering plant physiology, plant nutrition and, most importantly, Ray's principles and methodology of botanical classification. Ray adopted Ju…

1676 CE

#7089

Ornithologiae, libri tres....Totum opus recognovit, digessit, supplevit, Joannis Raius.

Ray and Willughby were the first ornithologists to discard the Aristotelian principles of classification by function, replacing them with a morphological system based on beak form, foot structure and body size that re…

1686 CE

#7088

De historia piscium libri quatuor.

A large folio volume with 187 engraved plates considered the first modern encyclopedia on fish, this was largely the work of John Ray, prepared and expanded from Willougby's notes, more than a decade after his death. …

1556 CE

#7087

Claudii Aeliani... opera, quae extant omnia: Graece Latineque e regione, uti versa hac pagina commemorantur... Conradi Gesneri.

First edition in print, edited by Conrad Gessner, of Aelianus's collected works, including On the nature of animals (On the characteristics of animals). Aelianus was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourish…

1478 CE

#7086

Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]

The didactic poem on fish and fishing by Oppian of Anazarbus, a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet, survived the Middle Ages essentially in its entirety, consisting of 3500 lines in Greek. The poem was dedicated to the empe…

1954 CE

#7085

Steroids. LIV.Synthesis of 19-Nov-17α-ethynyltestosterone and 19-Nor-17α-methyltestosterone.

Synthesis of Norethisterone (or norethindrone) (or 19-nor-17α-ethynyltestosterone), the first highly active progestin analog that was effective when taken by mouth. This molecule became part of one of the first …

1949 CE

#7084

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.

This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …

1999 CE

#7083

Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.

2010 CE

#7082

Ancient Babylonian medicine: Theory and practice.

The first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars. Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medici…

1989 CE

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1985 CE–1998 CE

#7080

Handlist of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 2 vols.

1996 CE

#7079

Descriptive catalogue of the Hindi manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the the History of Medicine.

1980 CE

#7078

The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.

The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…