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Highlights from the Medical Library of the late James Tait Goodrich, Part II

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"UNMISTAKBLY AN EMERGENCY." CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939. Original Photograph annotated by Harvey Cushing, a 5 x 8 inch gelatin silver print depicting Cushing at the emergency entrance to New Haven Hospital, annotated in Cushing's hand "unmistakably an emergency," c. 1937. Sold for US$20,312.50 inc. premium

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919. Two early pamphlets inscribed to "W.A.J." presumably William Arthur Johnson, Osler's first influential teacher, including:. Sold for US$5,100 inc. premium

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919. Typed Letter Signed ("Wm Osler") to [Howard A.] Kelly, referencing the big four at Johns Hopkins,. Sold for US$4,845 inc. premium

$BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. C.1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictus, 1518.$

BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. C.1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictus, 1518.. Sold for US$3,570 inc. premium

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919. Autograph Letter Signed ("Your loving uncle, Willie") to Britton Bath Osler Francis (as "Dear Old Jack"), on leaving Philadelphia for Baltimore,. Sold for US$2,040 inc. premium

OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919. Two Typed Letters Signed ("Wm Osler") to artist Seymour Thomas ("Dear Thomas"), whose portrait of Osler was completed in early 1909,. Sold for US$2,040 inc. premium

BARD, SAMUEL. 1742-1821. PRESENTATION COPY. BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. Engravings of the Arteries; Illustrating the Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1816.. Sold for US$1,530 inc. premium

[CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.] BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682. Certain Miscellany Tracts. London: Printed for Charles Mearne, 1684.. Sold for US$1,147.50 inc. premium

Highlights from the Medical Library of the late James Tait Goodrich, Part II

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1 — ACADEMIAE CAESAREO-LEOPOLDINAE. Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae naturae curiosorum Ephemerides sive observationum medico-physicarum. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Christopher Riegel, 1712.

2 — ALDINI, GIOVANNI.1762-1834. Essai théorique et expérimental sur le Galvanisme.... Paris: Fournier Fils, 1804.

3 — ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E. In hoc volumine haec continentur: De historia animalium libri IX. De partibus animalium... libri III. De generatione animalium libri V. Theodoro Gaza interprete. De communi animalium gressu liber I. De communi animalium motu liber I.... Paris: Simon de Colines, 1533.

4 — ARTICELLA. In hoc volumine . . . continentur infrascripti codices. Liber hysagoge Joannitii [and other texts]. Venice: Petrus Bergomensis de Quarengiis, 1507.

5 — AVICENNA. 980-1037. Arabum medicorum principis canon medicinae. Venice: Giunta, 1608.

6 — AËTIUS OF AMIDA. C.502-C.575. Contractae ex veteribus medicinae Tetrabiblos.... Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius, 1542.

7 — BARTHOLIN, THOMAS. 1616-1680. Anatome, ex omnium veterum recentiorumque observationibus. Leiden: F. Hackius, 1673 [1674].

8 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings. London: Longman and Rees, 1802.

9 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism and Lithotomy. London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1821.

10 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression. London: John Murray, 1824.

11 — BELL, CHARLES. Dissertation on Gunshot Wounds. A Dissertation on Gunshot Wounds. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.

12 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. "Clinical Lectures on Surgery" [FROM:] The London Medical Gazette, 1827-1836.

13 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. The Nervous System of the Human Body. London: Longman, 1830.

14 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. 5 works in 6 volumes,

15 — BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842. 12 volumes,

16 — BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820. The Principles of Surgery. Edinburgh and London: T. Cadell/Longmas, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1801-1808.

17 — BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820. Engravings explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1794.

18 — BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820. A group of 5 works in 9 volumes,

19 — BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. C.1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictus, 1518.

20 — BERNARD, JOHANN STEPHAN. 1718-1793. AND TRILLER, DANIEL WILHELM. 1695-1782. EDITORS. Anonymi Introductio Anatomica.... Leiden: Phillipp Bonk, 1744.

21 — BEROALDO, FILIPPO, the Elder. 1453-1505. Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. [Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 December 1497 (i. e., after 1500?)]

22 — BERT, PAUL. 1833-1886. De la Greffe animale. Paris: Bailliere, 1863.

23 — BONET, THÉOPHILE. 1620-1689. A Guide to the Practical Physician ... to which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician. London: Printed for Thomas Flesher, 1684.

24 — BROWNE, JOHN. 1642-1700. Myographia nova sive Musculorum omnium ... accuratissima descriptio.... Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1694.

25 — BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682. Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. Late of Norwich.... London: Printed for E. Curll, 1712.

26 — BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682. A group of 4 works,

27 — BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682. Religio Medici. Group of 10 editions,

28 — BULLEIN, WILLIAM. C.1515-1576. Here After Ensueth a Little Dialogue, betweene twoo men, the one called Sorenes, and the other Chirurgi.... WITH: The Booke of the Use of Sicke Men. [London]: 1562.

29 — BURDACH, ERNST. 1801-1876. Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Nerven. Königsberg: Bornträger, 1837.

30 — BURTON, ROBERT. 1577-1640. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.

31 — CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS c.25 B.C.E.-50. De re medica libri octo. Lyon: S. Gryphius, 1542.

32 — CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS c.25 B.C.E.-50. & SCRIBONIUS LARGUS. De re medica ... Compositione medicamentorum. Paris: Simon Du Bois for Christian Wechel, 1529.

33 — CHARCOT, JEAN MARTIN. 1825-1893 and ALBERT PITRES. Etude critique et clinique de la doctrine des localisations motrices dans l'ecorce des hemispheres cerebraux de l'homme. Paris: Bailliere, 1883.

34 — COCKS, W[ILLIAM] P[ENNINGTON]. 1791-1878. Pathological Anatomy of the Brain, Spinal Cord and their Membranes. London: S. Highley, 1831.

35 — COLOMBO, REALDO. 1516-1559. De re anatomica libri XV. Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1572.

36 — CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS. C.1020-1087. Opera, co[n]quisita undi[que] magno studio, iam primum typis euulgata.... Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1536.

37 — COTUGNO, DOMENICO. 1736-1822. De ischiade nervosa commentarius. Naples and Bologna: typographia sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 1775.

38 — COWPER, WILLIAM. 1666-1709. Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures after the Life.... London: Robert Knaplock, William and John Innys, and Jacob Tonson, 1724.

39 — CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. 1616-1654. A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the Dispensatory Made by the Colledg of Physitians of London.... London: Peter Cole, 1651.

40 — DESCARTES, RENÉ. 1596-1650. Tractatus de homine, et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevir, 1677.

41 — DESSENIUS VON CRONENBRUG, BERNHARD. 1510-1574. Medicinae veteris et rationalis, adversus oberronis cuiusdam mendacissimi atque impudentissimi F. Fedronis, ac universae Sectae Paracelsicae imposturas, defensio. Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1573.

42 — DIEFFENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. 1792-1847. Vorträge in der chirurgischen Klinik der königlichen Charité zu Berlin. Berlin: Alexander Duncker, 1840.

43 — DIEMERBROECK, ISBRAND VAN. 1609-1674. Opera omnia, anatomica et medica. Utrecht: M. a Dreunen & G. a Walcheren, 1685.

44 — DU LAURENS, ANDRE. 1558-1609. Opera omnia anatomica et medica. Frankfurt: C. Rotel for W. Fitzer, 1627-1628.

45 — EISENMANN, GEORG HENRICH. 1693-1768. Tabulae anatomicae quatuor uteri duplicis observationem rariorem sistentes.... Strassburg: König, 1752.

46 — ENGLISH MEDICAL FOLIOS. A group of 9 works,

47 — ETHERIZATION. A group of 4 works on the use of ether in anesthesia:

48 — FABRICIUS VON HILDEN, WILHELM. 1560-1634. Opera quae extant omnia, partim ante hac excusa, partim nunc recens in lucem edita. Frankfurt: J. Beyer, 1646.

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ACADEMIAE CAESAREO-LEOPOLDINAE.
Academiae Caesareo-Leopoldinae Carolinae naturae curiosorum Ephemerides sive observationum medico-physicarum. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Christopher Riegel, 1712.

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ALDINI, GIOVANNI.1762-1834.
Essai théorique et expérimental sur le Galvanisme.... Paris: Fournier Fils, 1804.

3 —
ARISTOTLE. 384-322 B.C.E.
In hoc volumine haec continentur: De historia animalium libri IX. De partibus animalium... libri III. De generatione animalium libri V. Theodoro Gaza interprete. De communi animalium gressu liber I. De communi animalium motu liber I.... Paris: Simon de Colines, 1533.

4 —
ARTICELLA.
In hoc volumine . . . continentur infrascripti codices. Liber hysagoge Joannitii [and other texts]. Venice: Petrus Bergomensis de Quarengiis, 1507.

5 —
AVICENNA. 980-1037.
Arabum medicorum principis canon medicinae. Venice: Giunta, 1608.

6 —
AËTIUS OF AMIDA. C.502-C.575.
Contractae ex veteribus medicinae Tetrabiblos.... Basel: Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius, 1542.

7 —
BARTHOLIN, THOMAS. 1616-1680.
Anatome, ex omnium veterum recentiorumque observationibus. Leiden: F. Hackius, 1673 [1674].

8 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
The Anatomy of the Brain, Explained in a Series of Engravings. London: Longman and Rees, 1802.

9 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery, Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism and Lithotomy. London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1821.

10 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
Essays on the Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression. London: John Murray, 1824.

11 —
BELL, CHARLES. Dissertation on Gunshot Wounds.
A Dissertation on Gunshot Wounds. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.

12 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
"Clinical Lectures on Surgery" [FROM:] The London Medical Gazette, 1827-1836.

13 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
The Nervous System of the Human Body. London: Longman, 1830.

14 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
5 works in 6 volumes,

15 —
BELL, CHARLES. 1774-1842.
12 volumes,

16 —
BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820.
The Principles of Surgery. Edinburgh and London: T. Cadell/Longmas, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1801-1808.

17 —
BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820.
Engravings explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles and Joints. Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 1794.

18 —
BELL, JOHN. 1763-1820.
A group of 5 works in 9 volumes,

19 —
BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. C.1460-1530.
Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. Bologna: Hieronymus de Benedictus, 1518.

20 —
BERNARD, JOHANN STEPHAN. 1718-1793. AND TRILLER, DANIEL WILHELM. 1695-1782. EDITORS.
Anonymi Introductio Anatomica.... Leiden: Phillipp Bonk, 1744.

21 —
BEROALDO, FILIPPO, the Elder. 1453-1505.
Declamatio philosophi, medici, oratoris. [Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 13 December 1497 (i. e., after 1500?)]

22 —
BERT, PAUL. 1833-1886.
De la Greffe animale. Paris: Bailliere, 1863.

23 —
BONET, THÉOPHILE. 1620-1689.
A Guide to the Practical Physician ... to which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician. London: Printed for Thomas Flesher, 1684.

24 —
BROWNE, JOHN. 1642-1700.
Myographia nova sive Musculorum omnium ... accuratissima descriptio.... Amsterdam: Johann Wolters, 1694.

25 —
BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682.
Posthumous Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Browne, Kt. M.D. Late of Norwich.... London: Printed for E. Curll, 1712.

26 —
BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682.
A group of 4 works,

27 —
BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682.
Religio Medici. Group of 10 editions,

28 —
BULLEIN, WILLIAM. C.1515-1576.
Here After Ensueth a Little Dialogue, betweene twoo men, the one called Sorenes, and the other Chirurgi.... WITH: The Booke of the Use of Sicke Men. [London]: 1562.

29 —
BURDACH, ERNST. 1801-1876.
Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Nerven. Königsberg: Bornträger, 1837.

30 —
BURTON, ROBERT. 1577-1640.
The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.

31 —
CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS c.25 B.C.E.-50.
De re medica libri octo. Lyon: S. Gryphius, 1542.

32 —
CELSUS, AULUS AURELIUS CORNELIUS c.25 B.C.E.-50. & SCRIBONIUS LARGUS.
De re medica ... Compositione medicamentorum. Paris: Simon Du Bois for Christian Wechel, 1529.

33 —
CHARCOT, JEAN MARTIN. 1825-1893 and ALBERT PITRES.
Etude critique et clinique de la doctrine des localisations motrices dans l'ecorce des hemispheres cerebraux de l'homme. Paris: Bailliere, 1883.

34 —
COCKS, W[ILLIAM] P[ENNINGTON]. 1791-1878.
Pathological Anatomy of the Brain, Spinal Cord and their Membranes. London: S. Highley, 1831.

35 —
COLOMBO, REALDO. 1516-1559.
De re anatomica libri XV. Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1572.

36 —
CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS. C.1020-1087.
Opera, co[n]quisita undi[que] magno studio, iam primum typis euulgata.... Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1536.

37 —
COTUGNO, DOMENICO. 1736-1822.
De ischiade nervosa commentarius. Naples and Bologna: typographia sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 1775.

38 —
COWPER, WILLIAM. 1666-1709.
Myotomia Reformata: Or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body. Illustrated with Figures after the Life.... London: Robert Knaplock, William and John Innys, and Jacob Tonson, 1724.

39 —
CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. 1616-1654.
A Physical Directory, or a Translation of the Dispensatory Made by the Colledg of Physitians of London.... London: Peter Cole, 1651.

40 —
DESCARTES, RENÉ. 1596-1650.
Tractatus de homine, et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam: Daniel Elsevir, 1677.

41 —
DESSENIUS VON CRONENBRUG, BERNHARD. 1510-1574.
Medicinae veteris et rationalis, adversus oberronis cuiusdam mendacissimi atque impudentissimi F. Fedronis, ac universae Sectae Paracelsicae imposturas, defensio. Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1573.

42 —
DIEFFENBACH, JOHANN FRIEDRICH. 1792-1847.
Vorträge in der chirurgischen Klinik der königlichen Charité zu Berlin. Berlin: Alexander Duncker, 1840.

43 —
DIEMERBROECK, ISBRAND VAN. 1609-1674.
Opera omnia, anatomica et medica. Utrecht: M. a Dreunen & G. a Walcheren, 1685.

44 —
DU LAURENS, ANDRE. 1558-1609.
Opera omnia anatomica et medica. Frankfurt: C. Rotel for W. Fitzer, 1627-1628.

45 —
EISENMANN, GEORG HENRICH. 1693-1768.
Tabulae anatomicae quatuor uteri duplicis observationem rariorem sistentes.... Strassburg: König, 1752.

46 —
ENGLISH MEDICAL FOLIOS.
A group of 9 works,

47 —
ETHERIZATION.
A group of 4 works on the use of ether in anesthesia:

48 —
FABRICIUS VON HILDEN, WILHELM. 1560-1634.
Opera quae extant omnia, partim ante hac excusa, partim nunc recens in lucem edita. Frankfurt: J. Beyer, 1646.