Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/40/13
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 15: R Lier & Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mt Wi 64 analytique des procédés employés pour les instruire. 280 pp. With frontispiece and 24 plates engraved by Dubois showing blinds exercis- ing different professions. Large 8vo. Original half calf. Paris, im- primé par les*aveugles, 1820. Frs.60, — With autograph inscription of the author: ‘‘ Msgr. le Cardinal de La Luzerne, Hommages d’auteur. Guillié’’. Guillié was director of the ‘¢Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles’’ in Paris. The work men- tions: 1) The instruction of the blind. 2) The philanthropical deeds re- garding the blind up to that date. 3) The first attempt and progress of quite special graphical art for blinds. “The above-described book is one of the very first attempts of printed blind-writing, 20 years before Braille’s invention of a special alphabet for blind. — 01. HALES, Stephen. La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux; expériences lues a la Société Royale de Londres. Two parts. 32 pp., 390 pp., 28 pp., 256 pp. With 20 folding plates. 8vo. Old calf, back gilt. Paris, 1779 and 1780. Frs. 24. — I: Pritzel 3700. Good edition of two important works of this fa- mous investigator. ‘‘ Stephen. Hales was an English clergyman of inven- as the originator of artificial ventilation. In the ‘*Statique des vegétaux, 202. HALES, St. Haemastatique, ou la statique des animaux: 2 leaves. With plate. 4to. Half vellum. Geneve, 1744. Frs. 28. — page OTE Brunet III, 19. First French edition. This is the most important work on the mechanical relations of blood pressure, marking the first real progress in the physiology of the circulation since Harvey and Poi- seuille. 203.|HALLER, Albrecht von. Biblioteca botanica. Qua vols. 16 and 654 pp., 1 leaf, 785 pp. 4to.. Original vellum. Zii- rich, 1771-72. Frs. 70. — Pritzel 3727. ‘‘ Haller was the principal founder of medical and scientific bibliography, his patient, arduous labours in this field being marvels in their kind ’’ (Garrison). . ‘‘ Haller’s Bibliothecae (on botany and anatomy) contain the most und all nations in these fields, including also the older manuscripts and all of them treated with astonishing completeness ’’ (Choulant). aliquot gravioribus et de luis venereae origine, natura et curatione. — Ketelaer, V. De aphtis nostratibus seu Belgarum Sprouw. Two parts. 8 leaves, 216 pp., 4 leaves, 44 pp., 1 leaf. 8vo. Modern half vellum. Amsterdam, 1715. Frs. 25. — Proksch 1, 124. This edition is enlarged by a treatise on syphilis and another work by Ketelaer. nn Xe ——
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