A fascinating and unique World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album, with an accordion-folded sheet the length of 10 pages, containing the title page, 8-leaf colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and 1-page description of the layout, followed by 11 original photographs, 9 of which..... More
Leningrad: Leningrad: Narkomzdrav SSSR, Medgiz, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1941. Octavo (19 × 13 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. With 102 anatomical drawings. Some wear to spine extremities and spine stop; diagonal creases and light soil to front wrapper. Erased inscription in blue ink to top of title page. Internally very..... More
272, XVI pp. facsimile of the Strasbourg 1497 edition of the treatise on surgery, one of the earliest German books on medicine, with an essay by Henry E. Sigerist, bibliogrpahy, illustrations reproduced from woodcuts. 4to. Cloth. Milan (R. Lier) 1923. More
Unpaginated (circa 250 pp.) facsimile reproduction of the famous work discussing surgical methods that was printed in 1497, illustrated throughout with color wood prints. Tall small 4to. 1/2 parchment and boards. Weiler im Allgäu (Druckerei Holzer) n.d. (circa 1968). More
Berlin: Izdatel'stvo Ol'ga D'iakova, [1929]. Octavo (20.3 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with publisher's mark to rear wrapper; 218, [1] pp. Wrappers worn and creased; tape repair to spine; internally good. Nikolai Rominskii (1868-1943), who used the pseudonym Donets, was a Russian painter, graphic artist, pedagogue and writer who..... More
Kharkiv: Derzhavne Vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1930. Octavo (17.5 × 12.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers (signed IS, but by K. S. Kaganov?); 99, [1] pp. With sixteen photographs. Wrappers somewhat worn and discolored; old creases to front wrapper; still about very good. First and only edition of this guidebook to health resorts..... More
Khar'kov: Izdanie Vseukrainskogo Instituta Endokrinologii i Organoterapii, 1934. Octavo (22 × 15 cm). Original printed wrappers; 120 pp. With 75 illustrations. Wear to wrappers and partial loss to spine extremities; else about very good. Early Soviet study of anomalies of growth caused by hormonal disorders, illustrated with drawings, tables, and..... More
Prague and Kroměříž, 1966 and 1975. Oblong and square octavos (15 × 21.3 and 20 × 20.5 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [8] pp. and [12] pp. of black-and-white reproductions with [16] pp. text part. One volume lightly creased; else very good. Two publications exploring the creative output of the..... More