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FIRST OFFPRINT EDITION OF BLALOCK AND TAUSSIG’S LANDMARK
THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MALFORMATIONS OF THE HEART
BLALOCK, Alfred and TAUSSIG, Helen B. The Surgical Treatment of Malformations of the Heart. Chicago, 1945. First offprint edition of this landmark paper on cardiac surgery. $4500.
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“GET FROGSPITTLE, FRESH AND CLEAN…”
MACKENTOSH, John. Receipts for the Cure of Most Diseases Incident to the Human Family. No place, circa 1827. Contemporary manuscript copy of Cherokee doctor John Mackentosh’s medical treatise, the first work in English to publish traditional Native American remedies for a wide variety of 19th-century ailments. $4500.
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“THE LARGEST AND MOST SPECTACULAR OF THE EARLY CLASSICS OF DERMATOLOGY”
[ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc. Description des maladies de la peau. Paris, 1806. First edition of the plate volume for Alibert’s dermatological landmark, with 53 of the original 56 lithographs, and six additional plates from other works. $4200.
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“ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE PICTURES OF EASTERN MANNERS EXTANT”
RUSSELL, Alexander. Natural History of Aleppo. London, 1794. Two volumes. Second and “best” edition of this comprehensive documentary of 18th-century life in Aleppo, Syria and the effects of the plague of 1741. Revised and expanded by Patrick Russell, it is illustrated with 19 finely engraved plates (six folding) of people, flora and fauna, and a topographical plan of the city. $3800.
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DRAKE’S LANDMARK STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN DISEASES: “AN EPIC STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL STATE OF THE NATION DURING THE DECADES OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT”
DRAKE, Daniel. Treatise on the Diseases of North America. Cincinnati, 1850. First edition of Drake’s landmark study of North American diseases, with 19 maps (one folding), and numerous in-text tables. $3500.
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SIGNED BY RONALD A. FISHER
FISHER, R. A. Contributions to Mathematical Statistics. New York, 1950. First edition of this compilation of Fisher’s important monographs in the field of statistics, a very scarce copy signed by him on the title page and dated 18 Dec 1957. $3000.
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CHEYNE’S ENGLISH MALADY, 1733, THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT BOOK ON NEUROSES
CHEYNE, George. The English Malady. London, 1733. First edition of one of the most influential early books on what was to become the discipline of psychiatry. $2800.
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“A DISTINCT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPIRICAL SCHOOL”
MILL, James. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. London, 1829. Two volumes bound as one. First edition of this groundbreaking work. $2800.
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JUDAH ABRABANEL’S DIALOGHI DI AMORE, 1558
[ABRABANEL, Judah]. Dialoghi di Amore. Vinegia, 1558. Later edition of this compelling philosophy of a universe based on love, “one of the most important works in metaphysics produced by the European Renaissance” (Encyclopaedia Judaica). $2800.
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“MEN GO MAD IN HERDS”
MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London, 1852. Two volumes. Second edition of this important, entertaining and influential early study of crowd behavior, subsequently used both to explore popular psychology and to chart the stock market. $2650.
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