MEDICINE from Forest Books

London: Printed by James Young, for O.P. 1653. First English edition, 12mo (139 x 80 mm), [36], 211, [3]pp., first and last leaves blank (here lacking), title printed within a ornamental border, lower portion shaved into lower portion of ornamental border, small repair to lower outer corner, some light foxing but a very good copy, recent black morocco, spine… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Murray, W. Gordon and G. Mudie, 1793. First edition, 8vo, [4], 59, [1]pp., recent calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered red morocco spine label.

London: Printed for Rivington and Sons, 1741. Second edition, 8vo, [4], 23, [1]pp., some light spotting, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. ESTC locating just 3 locations (all UK) for the first edition of the same year and none of this second edition. Wellcome II, p.532.

Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Inches, 1851. First edition, 8vo, 57, [1]pp., disbound.

Edinburgh: Printed by R. and R. Clark, 1857. First edition, 8vo, 70pp., disbound.

London: Printed by William Tyler, 1851. First edition, 8vo, 22pp., presentation inscription from the author to Glasgow University Library at head of title page (cropped), disbound.

London: Printed for John Wilkie, 1770. First edition, 8vo, [2], viii, 68pp., modern marbled wrappers, a nice copy. Blake, p.134.

London: Printed for Johnson and Payne, 1770. First edition, 8vo (205 x 130mm), [4], 64pp., title page rather soiled, endpaper renewed, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, morocco title label to upper cover. Fordyce published this 'Part I' on The Natural History of the Human Body after his 'Part II' Fevers and Internal Inflammations which was published in… Read more about this item

London: Printed for A. Linde, 1755. First English edition, 8vo, [7], iv-xvi, 131, [1]pp., recent quarter calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.

London: Printed by Joseph Cooper, [1788.]. First edition, 4to (239 x 190 mm), [2], 57, [1]pp., recent calf-backed marbled boards, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a faint neat ink stamp to margin of title. Wellcome II, p.176.

London: J. Robson, 1790. First edition, 4to (239 x 190 mm), [4], 38pp., recent calf-backed marbled boards, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Provenance: Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a faint neat ink stamp to margin of title.

Londoni: typis T. Bensley, veneunt apud J. White, 1800. First edition, 4to (220 x 175 mm), [4], 18pp., upper margin of title closely shaved but not effecting text, recent red morocco-backed marbled boards, morocco title label lettered in gilt to upper cover.

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1803. The rare first edition, 4to (217 x 170 mm), 9, [1]pp., upper margin running title and one line of text shaved by the binders knife, recent red morocco-backed marbled boards, morocco title label lettered in gilt to upper cover. Not in the Wellcome catalogue.

Paris: Cosson, 1824. First edition, 8vo, [2], 41pp., disbound.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Second Edition, with additions, iv, 110 + 8pp., of advertisements tipped in before front fly-leaf, title in red and black, original boards, uncut, lacks back-strip, hinges cracked.

London: Published by J. Churchill, 1829. First edition, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), [4], 185, [1] + 6pp., of publisher's adverts, one engraved diagram, recent quarter-calf, patterned paper boards, spine green morocco title label lettered in gilt.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Adam Black, Edinburgh, 1834. First edition, 8vo (230 x 145), [8], 96pp., half-title, original boards, uncut, printed paper label, spine chipped. Veratria is a poisonous vegetable alkaloid or mixture of alkaloids, obtained especially from various species of veratrum, particularly the white hellebore. It was used as an ointment for… Read more about this item

Edinburgi: apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. First Edition, half title, [8], 21, [1] pp., uncut, disbound.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1781. Third Edition, with considerable improvements, half-title (with short tear on upper blank margin), 5 engraved plates with some browning (2 folding), [4], 28, [4] pp., disbound. An enlarged edition of the first and second of 1767, with the addition of two folding engraved plates. The edition statement is taken from the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Apud Balfour et Smellie, 1789. First Edition, half-title, corrigenda slip pasted on blank verso of dedication leaf, [6], 20 pp., disbound.