21. Corvisart, Jean-Nicolas – Forestier, Charles.

Original, early 19th-century portrait of french physician and cardiologist, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart [Portrait original du XIXe siècle de Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, médecin et cardiologue français].

Original steelengraving. Pasted on board with two fascimiles of Corvisart’s autograph signature. [Gravure originale. Collé à bord avec deux fac-similés de la signature autographe de Corvisart]. [France], [c. 1850]. Size of the vintage engraving: 16 cm x 20,5 cm. Size of the framed engraving: 29,5 cm x 34,5 cm. Excellent condition (mounted). Frame with minor signs of wear only. Price includes international shipping, framed and insured, per courier (3-5 working days guaranteed delivery).

22. Crawshaw, E.

Scientific Temperance Addresses. Illustrated.

(London), Church of England Temperance Society, no year (c.1900). 8°. 98 pages with additional 15 pages added: Catalogue of Books &c. published by the Church of England Temperance Society. Hardcover / Original cloth. Stronger bump to one corner. Small stamp: “Church of England Temperance Society”. Rare !

23. Cruikshank, William.

The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. The Second Edition – Considerably Enlarged, and Illustrated with Additional Plates.

Special reprint edition of London, G. Nicol, 1790. Birmingham AL, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1991. 18 cm x 23.3 cm. VIII, 214 pages. 5 plates including 2 fold-out anatomical illustrations. Beautifully bound Hardcover with gilt lettering and design on spine with raised bands. Ornate gilt decoration to boards. All edges gilt. Green silken ribbon as bookmarker. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Excellent condition. With protective mylar. Ex-Libris / Bookplate of preowner on front pastedown. Additional bookplate on front endpaper stating that “This is copy number 541 of The Classics of Medicine Library edition”. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

24. Daquin, Joseph.

La Philosophie de la Folie. Présentation de Claude Quetel.

Paris, Frenesie Editions, 1987. 15 x 22 cm. 118 pages. Broché. Etat très satisfaisant. Couverture un peu jaunie. Intérieure très frais. [Collection Insania].

25. Day, Samuel Phillips.

Tea – Its Mystery and History – With a Preface in Chinese and English by Lo Fong Loh. Illustrated [by J.F.Weldon].

Vintage First Edition / Original 19th century Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Small Octavo. Pagination: Vintage Portrait-Frontispiece, Fac-simile of Mr. Lo Fong Loh’s Prefatory Notes in the chinese Hing Shoo, or running hand, [II], 92 pages with six full-page illustrations and several vignettes. Hardcover / Original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and front board. Tiny stamp of preowner on endpaper and verso frontispiece: “Agnes Jeffery Cox”. Unusually excellent and firm, overall very good+ or even better condition of one of the rarest and most sought after books on tea. In this condition scarce !

26. De La Fuye, R./ Schmidt, H.

Die moderne Akupunktur. Theorie und Praxis. Mit zahlreichen Bildtafeln.

Erste Auflage Stuttgart, Hippokrates-Verlag, 1952. 16 x 24 cm. 133 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebunden mit originalem Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

27. De Ropp, Robert S.

The New Prometheans. Creative and Destructive Forces in Modern Science.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1972. 8°. XIII, 288 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. Dircks, Henry.

Perpetuum Mobile; or, a History of the Search for Self-Motive Power, from the 13th to the 19th Century [Author’s own copy]. Illustrated from various authentic Sources, in Papers, Essays, Letters, Paragraphs, and numerous Patent Specifications.

First Edition. London, E. & F.N. Spon, 1861. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XLI, 558 pages. Hardcover / Full leather with gilt lettering and rich ornament on spine and boards. All edges gilt. The author’s own copy with his bookplate to the pastedown. Henry Dircks must have given his special bound “author’s copy” away because the endpaper bears his inscription to Dr. John Waggett MD FRCS (1818-1909), London’s beloved General Practicioner, Vaccinator and Honorary Surgeon to the local dispensary for the poor: “Dr.Waggett – With the author’s compliments – May 1862”. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

29. Enderle, Alfred / Meyerhöfer, Dietrich / Unverfehrt, Gerd.

Small People – Great Art / Restricted growth from an artistic and medical viewpoint.

Hamm, Artcolor Verlag, 1994. 24.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 324 pages. Illustrated with 116 full-colour plates. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

30. Engelkes, P.E.M.

Health for All ? Evaluation and monitoring in a comprehensive Primary Health Care Project in Colombia.

Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute, 1989. 21 cm x 29,5 cm. XXV, 205 pages, XXIII. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out-of-print!