81. Faught, Francis Ashley.

Blood-Pressure Primer – The Sphygmanometer and its Practical Application. Containing One Full-Page Plate and Numerous Explanatory Diagrams in the Text. (Copyright 1914 by Francis Ashley Faught).

Philadelphia, Published by G.P.Pilling & Son Co., 1918. Small Octavo. 123 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Upper hinge slightly damaged. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare ! From the library of Robert Mowbray, with his Exlibris to the pastedown. Subsequently from the library of irish Cardiologist Eoin O’Brien.

82. McDonnell, Robert / [Sir William McCormac].

On the Torsion of Blodd-Vessels [Excellent Association-Copy: Inscribed by the Author Robert McDonnell, Surgeon at Dr.Steeven’s Hospital in Dublin, to notable British Surgeon Sir William MacCormac].

First Edition. New York, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1874. Octavo. 6 pages. Original Softcover [original printed wrappers]. Upper corner of binding and first 25 pages cocked. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscription of McDonnell to Sir William McCormac slightly cropped.

83. [Briquet, Paul] Ancell, Henry / Wilson, Erasmus / Edited by Thomas Wakley.

The London Lancet – Edited by Mr. Wakley – Volume I, No.8. [With the rare report on Paul Briquet’s findings on the “Employment of the Sulphate of Quinine in the Treatment of Acute Rheumatic Gout”.

New York / London, Wilson and Company / John Churchill, 1843. Octavo. 31 pages [pages 249 – 280 of Volume I]. Softcover / Original printed wrappers of the Publishers. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

84. Barry, Sir Edward / [Provenance: Charles Robert Scott-Murray (British Conservative politician)].

Observations Historical, Critical and Medical On The Wines Of The Ancients. And the Analogy between them and Modern Wines. With General Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in Particular on Those of Bath [The City of Bath in Somerset]. Indagatio ipsa rerum tum maximarum tum etiam occultissimarum habet oblectationem. Si vero aliquid occuret quod verisimile videatur, humanissimacompletur animus volupate. CIC. in Lucullo. By Sir Edward Barry, Bart. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Society.

First and only Edition. London, Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand, 1775. Quarto (22.5 cm wide x 27 cm high). Pagination: Frontispice Engraving and Title Vignette by eminent english engraver, Isaac Taylor (1730-1807), XII, 479 pages, including an Appendix which is included in the pagination but focuses on an entirey of 58 pages on “Modern Wines” and their behaviours after being imported etc. Includes the Errata leaf to the rear. Original full calf with gilt lettering on spine. Front board cleanly detached. Bookblock in excellent, very clean condition and unusually wide margined for an 18th century Quarto. Provenance: This very rare publication by Cork City – born physician and MP, Sir Edward Barry, is known to be a pioneering study “in the scientific [and medical] analysis of wine, [it was] an influential work on the history of wine which ‘combined a good knowledge of classical literature, chemistry and worldly wisdom’ (Ó Raifeartaigh, 2)” (DIB). Provenance: The book has a fascinating history of provenance and belonged to two important libraries, manifested by two armorial bookplates, preserved on the pastedown and the endpaper. Provenance I: Charles Robert Scott-Murray (1818-1882) of Danesfield House in Medmenham, near Marlow, Buckinghamshire / Provenance II: The book was held until recently in one of the world’s most important collections on Wine and Oenology: The Library of Dr. Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (Bookplate present). The price of this book includes a repair or new binding to the liking of the buyer and also included is the creation of a Solander Box.

85. [Optician / Optiker / Optische Instrumente] – Tauber, Gottfried.

Small Collection of very rare original materials from the library german Mathematician and Inventor of Optical, Medical & Scientific Instruments, Dr. Gottfried Tauber. The collection includes: 1. A stunning, allegorical Painting of Gottfried Tauber by Daniel Caffe (pinxit 1808) which is beautifully framed, with a significant but repairable tear 2. Gottfried Tauber’s personal Manuscript-Notebook [which he obviously kept during his early studies at “Schola Altenburgensis”], titled: “Physic a Tauber – Penticoste’s Tempore – 1784” with Drawings and detailed scientific experiments, 3. An important, printed publication from Tauber’s Institute, titled: “Anweisung Anweisung für auswärtige Personen, wie dieselben aus dem Optisch-Oculistischen Institute zu Leipzig… mit Zuverlässigkeit solche Augengläser bekommen können”. The publication explains not only in detail Tauber’s ability to select the right eye glasses for different stages of loss of sight. The publication, printed in 1851, also advertises the optical and medical inventions of Tauber (Microscopes, Tattoo-Presses, Needles for Inoculation, Camera Lucida, Camera Obscura, Thermomoeters, Meteorological Instruments etc. etc.). Gottfried Tauber was the founder of the Optical – Oculistic Institute in Leipzig / Germany and became famous for the invention of Glasses and several scientific instruments in the fields of Optic and medicinal as well as meteorological instruments . The Manuscript Notebook in the collection includes Gottfried Tauber’s personal elaborations on significant scientific experiments, even mentioning Benjamin Franklin’s Kite-Experiment from 1752 (″Doct. Fränklin in Amerika gab 1752 die erste Nachricht im Dienst von Ableitern…”). Tauber’s many talents led to him being installed as teacher of mathematics already six years after starting his manuscript notebook in 1784. Many of the experiments Tauber noted down in his manuscript and embellished with drawings, would later lead to his own inventions of tools and instruments useful for medicince and science in the ever experimental 19th century.

Altenburg / Leipzig, Gottfried Tauber, 1784 – 1851. Octavo / Quarto. Pagination: Manuscript – 146 pages with numerous drawings (some in ink and some in watercolour) / Pagination: Pamphlet: Portrait: The Portrait is framed, a tear in the portrait is visible / Manuscript: Both Hardcover boards of the manuscript are cleanly detached and rubbed with some minor damages. Drawings and interior manuscript notations very good. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

86. [Wherland, James Richard (M.D. Cork)] Hamilton, Alexander.

Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery [Personal copy of Cork Doctor James Richard Wherland (son of Cork Engineer James Wherland (1815-1889)].

Third Edition, Improved. London, Printed for T.Kay / Sold by W.Creech, 1791. Octavo. XIII, 426 pages. Hardcover / Original, full leather with original spine-label with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Remains of abookplate to pastedown. From the personal library of Cork Doctor James Richard Wherland with his entry to the endpaper: “James Richard Wherland – Medical Student – Cork”.

87. Slater, John.

Hospital Sanitary Fixtures [Historical Sales Catalogue No.314 of Fireclay Ware for Autopsy and Pathology-Departments in Hospitals [Post Mortem Tables and Sinks], Dental Basins, Foot Baths, Surgeons Lavatory Basins etc.

Berry Hill / Stoke-on-Trent, John Slater Ltd. / Westwood Fireclay Ware, Octavo. 115 pages, illustrated throughout. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very Rare !

88. Kietzmann, Otto.

Zur Lehre vom Vibrationssinn.

Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1927. 8°. S. 377-422. Softcover. Originale Titelbroschur. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren an der Broschur. Dublette der Uni Mainz.

89. London Hospital – Maitland, William. (18th century).

“The Charter House Hospital” [London]. / Hand Coloured Architectural Birds Eye View of The Charter House Hospital, London

Handcoloured Copper Engraving. London, for “The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to the Present Time…”, c. 1750. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with engraving: 43.5 cm x 33.5 cm. Size of the actual engraving: 36 cm x 24 cm. Frame with some minor signs of wear (rubbing to the frame with some discoloration). The engraving in excellent conditon with only faint signs of a former fold to upper left corner.

90. Cope, Sir Zachary.

The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. With colour frontispiece illustration of the partial abdomen muscles, and 13 black and white illustrations throughout.

Twelfth Edition. London and others, Oxford University Press, 1963. 22.3cm x 14.5cm. (8) 196 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Exceptional condition.