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Collection: Highlights from the Ruth and Lyle Sellers Medical Collection
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06087
Book is in complete condition which is rare but also shows the widespread and prolonged use of the item. Early missals like this one were printed without notation for the owner to fill in.
06799
Second and finest of eight edition of the Latin Bible published by Anton Koberger between 1475 and 1501. In this 1477 printing, textual additions by Menardus Monachus provide an abstract of the contents for each book of the Bible.
06800
This treatise concerning permissible marriages was published by Augsburg's first printer, Gther Zainer. The author of this text, the Bolognese canon lawyer Johannes Andreae, explained that marriages along direct blood lines ("consanguinity") or as…
06801
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle may be considered the first scientist to compile empirical data about the biological world by means of direct observation. His De animalibus includes sections on the history of animals, the first work on animal…
06802
'Abd al-Malik ibn Abi al-'Alā Ibn Zuhr was a native of Seville and a highly regarded physician in Islamic Spain. The Teisir, his most famous work, describes preparations for medicines and diets, provides insightful clinical descriptions of many…
06803
Originally assembled at the medical school in Salerno, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum was a popular late-medieval medical compilation with accompanying commentary. The text is often mistakenly ascribed to Arnoldus de Villa Nova because of his…
06806
Known in Europe as Mesue, Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh was the chief physician at the ninth-century medical school in Baghdad and wrote prolifically in Syriac and Arabic. Best known for his expertise in ophthalmology, gynecology, and anatomy, his were among…
06810
The Persian Mohammed al-Razi (Rhasis) was considered one of the great early physicians of the Islamic world, and he had widespread influence upon late medieval European medicine as well. This ninth volume of the set of ten medical textbooks he…
BRA0822
Few monuments of literature can claim the social and political influence achieved by Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the decade preceding the American Civil War, during which the book sold an astounding three million copies, its story of a family torn apart by…
BRA0823
This copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the first American edition, first issue. It is housed in a slipcase with Tom Sawyer.
BRA0824
This copy of Tom Sawyer is from the first edition, second printing, issue "A," which preserves its original gilt blue cloth binding. It is housed in a slipcase with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
BRA0827
Mark Twain's descriptions from a round trip between St. Louis and New Orleans became the basis for Life on the Mississippi, first published in 1883. This copy is the first state of the first edition.
BRA0832
No work of nineteenth-century English literature remains as widely popular and recognized as A Christmas Carol. Dickens expended enormous effort to make the book appealing to prospective buyers. The title was printed in two colors, John Leech's four…
BRA0834
Dodgson and the illustrator Sir John Tenniel had the initial Macmillan edition of two thousand copies recalled in July 1865 due to faulty reproductions. Although approximately fifty copies were kept privately, the remaining books from the first…
BRA0835
Dodgson and the illustrator Sir John Tenniel had the initial Macmillan edition of two thousand copies recalled in July 1865 due to faulty reproductions. Although approximately fifty copies were kept privately, the remaining books from the first…
BRA0838A
Audubon's masterpiece, the famous double-elephant folio Birds of America, comprised 435 hand-colored lithographs published between 1827 and 1838. The smaller octavo format Birds of America, subsequently issued in seven volumes, contains the original…
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Audubon's masterpiece, the famous double-elephant folio Birds of America, comprised 435 hand-colored lithographs published between 1827 and 1838. The smaller octavo format Birds of America, subsequently issued in seven volumes, contains the original…
BRA0841
One publishing trend of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was the production of printed Books of Hours. Replacing hand-illuminated manuscripts with moveable type, woodcuts, and interchangeable marginal motifs, printers created a…
BRA0842
The texts of the Psalms in Latin and vernacular German translation are printed here side by side in this early sixteenth-century edition. Includes index.
BRA0847
Reisch's illustrated encyclopedia compiles information from various branches of medieval knowledge: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and philosophy as well as the natural and human sciences. Compiled by the Prior of the…
BRA0853
Dioscorides' De materia medica was the most authoritative and influential botanical and pharmacological text prior to the work of the eighteenth-century Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The Euporista, a compilation of simple remedies, appears here in…
BRA0854
Bewick was one of the most skilled and popular English illustrators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Quadrupeds, a text compiled by the naturalist Ralph Beilby, is an early example of Bewick's artistry with the engraved…
BRA0866
This is the first English translation of the Hebrew Bible produced and published in the United States. The translator, Rabbi Isaac Leeser (1806–1868), was the head rabbi of the Synagogue Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, where he became America's most…
BRA0875
This 1706 version of the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer was specifically designed to fit a choir desk or lectern for public prayer. The large engraved frontispiece is a copy of that produced for the 1662 edition, showing worshippers…
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This comprehensive encyclopedia of Renaissance learning includes discussions of arithmetic, geometry, astrology, physiology, medicine, economics, politics, moral philosophy, poetry, music, rhetoric, dialectic, and grammar.
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