Abstract
E. P. GOLDSCHMIDT AND Co., of 45 Old Bond Street, W.I, have recently issued an illustrated and annotated catalogue of works of old science and medicine, comprising important books in the history of the mathematical and physical sciences, biology and medicine. The most valuable works figuring in the catalogue are the complete manuscript of the "Chirurgia Magna" of Bruno de Longoburgo (1250), Pierre Franco's treatise on hernia (1561), the Aldine editio princeps of Galen's works in five volumes (1525), Robert Hooke's Cutlerian Lectures on physics, mechanics, geography and astronomy (1674-1678), Claude Perrault's memoirs on the natural history of animals in two volumes (1671-76), and theses by pupils of Linnaeus (1749-1769) and Purkinje (1824-1840). The catalogue also contains first editions of works by Tycho Brahe, Euclid, Fracastor, Goethe, Laennec, Lamarck, Lavoisier, Napier, Rontgen, Schwann, Sirturius, Steno, Tartaglia and Willis. Modern literature is further illustrated by works by Edison, Freud, Casimir Funk, Metchnikoif, and Hugo de Vries.
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