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Very rare thesis on nephritis, printed and published in Rio de Janeiro

ALMEIDA MARTINS COSTA, Domingos de. Do diagnostico das diversas formas clinicas do mal de Bright - These de concurso ...
Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Academica, 1879. 8vo. With 2 woodcut illustrations and a full-page letterpress table of medical data. 20th-century marbled boards. [4], 94 pp. Full description
€ 875
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Hawaiian lepers

BECHTINGER, Joseph. Ein Jahr auf den Sandwich-Inseln. (Hawaiische Inseln.) ... Memoiren. - Band I. [all published].
Vienna, for the author (colophon: printed by W. Jacobi), 1869. 8vo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 illustration plates (showing 14 numbered wood-engravings with letterpress captions), 3 woodcuts in the text, and a tinted lithographic folding map. Original publisher's yellow printed-paper wrappers with wood-engraved vignette. [7], [1 blank], 202, [4] pp. Full description
€ 750
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Five rare works by the Italian orthopaedist Lorenzo Bruni (1804-1848) bound together

BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'Achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1845.
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(2) IDEM. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano...
Naples, [Filiatre Sebezio?], 1845. With 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs.
(3) IDEM. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1844.
(4) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.
Naples, Ministero di Stato degli affari interni, [1841]. With 4 folding lithographed plates.
(5) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, [1842]. With 3 lithographed plates, including 1 folding.
5 works in 1 vol. Super Royal (except ad 1 Demy) 8vo, mostly in 4s. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, marbled sides, gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. 24; [38]; 14, [2 blank]; [4], 24; [2], 43, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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A collection of articles on Spanish medical history

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.
Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in. 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 400
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A scarce Arabic bestiary

DAMIRI, Muhammad ibn Musa al-. Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan [= Book of the life of animals].
Meknes, Morocco, 1267 AH [= 1851 CE]. 4to (19 x 23 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper, brown maghribi script in two hands with important words and phrases in red and blue. With an illuminated head-piece at the start of the text in red, blue, green, and gold. Contemporary gold-tooled red leather with a fore-edge flap. 62 ll. Full description
€ 7,500
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Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia in Portuguese

DARWIN, Erasmus. Resumo do systema de medicina, e traducção da materia medica do Doutor Erasmo Darwin, com varias notas por Henrique Xavier Baeta.
Lisbon, João Rodrigues Neves (sold by Pedro & Jorge Rei), 1806. Narrow 4to (20.5 x 14 cm). With 1 engraved plate. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine with title label, marbled sides. [12], 408, [1], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 450
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Killing the pain of dental cavities

DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades.
Metz, the author (back of the title-page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on spine. 12 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
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How to make artificial teeth and dentures that are more beautiful, lasting and perfect

DIDIER, Joseph-Maximilien. Mémoire sur de nouvelles dents et de nouveaux dentiers en pate minéro-adamantine, présentés à l'Académie Royale des Sciences, ou Nouveau système de prothèse dentaire dont la beauté, la propreté, la durée, l'utilité et la perfection de l'ajustement, obvient à tous les inconvénients des dents et des dentiers actuellement en usage, suivi de quelques conseils sur la conservation des dents chez l'adulte et chez l'enfant.
[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1846]. Small 8vo. Recent dark blue-grey cloth over boards. 16 pp. Full description
€ 2,100
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