in the publisher's boards
BELL, Charles.
An Essay on the Forces which Circulate the Blood; being an examination of the difference of the motions of fluids in living and dead vessels.
London, for Longman & Co.; and Burgess & Hill, 1819.
Bell undertook his surgical training in Edinburgh during the 1890s and at the same time studied art with the painter David Allen. He published his System of Dissections, a guide for anatomy students, while himself still a student in 1798.
Bell worked as a surgeon in Edinburgh before moving to London, where he purchased a share in the Hunterian School of Medicine and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He published a number of significant anatomical works, many illustrated with his own drawings, and taught anatomy to artists as well as surgeons. By 1807 he had 'developed an ambition to make a grand discovery comparable to William Harvey's demonstration of the circulation of the blood', focusing his attention on the nervous system.
First edition; 12mo; 12 page publisher's ads at rear, contents spotted, particularly the early and late leaves; publisher's blue boards, printed paper spine label, bookplate of John Mount, Ulverston, boards worn and marked, joints cracked, some loss from the ends of spine and the paper label, a very good copy; 83pp.
Stock code 113533
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An Essay on the Forces which Circulate the Blood;
EVERARD, Giles.
De Herba Panacea,
1587.
First edition of the first book devoted entirely to tobacco.
$20,611.00
[Manhattan Project]. Manhattan Engineer District.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [and] Photographs of the Atomic Bombings
[June 29, 1946].
First edition, the complete set with both text and photo volumes, of this important, early scientific report on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by representatives f the Manhattan Project.
$7,832.00
BELL, Charles.
A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves.
1803.
First edition of this early work by the prominent surgeon and anatomical illustrator Charles Bell, A Series of Engravings, Explaining the Course of the Nerves, published in 1803.
$1,718.00
