Budapest: February 5, 1951. A unique album with 30 black and white original photographs on 18 album card leaves, separated with tracing paper. In red leatherette binding. This photo album was supposedly given as a farewell gift to Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky (1908–2004) the Soviet surgeon, who worked in Hungary between..... More

Budapest: Fejér és Glatter, [1909.]. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In publisher's printed wrappers, with coloured photographic vignette on front cover. (20) p. Advertisement brochure of the first private sanatorium in Budapest. Sámuel Batizfalvy (1826–1904) was a Hungarian physician, a pioneer in Orthopedics in Hungary. He established..... More

Budapest: Novák Rudolf és Társa Orvosi Szakkönyvkereskedés és Könyvkiadóvállalat, [N.d. but ca. 1935]. First edition. Photographically illustrated. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 54, (2) p., and one plate (the original red cellophane sheet, accessory of the illustration, included). Richly illustrated publication on cosmetic surgery, illustrated with forty-four photographic reproductions. More

Prague: Fiedler, 1867. Albumen photograph. Signed and dated on the verso. Ca. 6 × 10 cm. A scarce signed photograph of Purkyně, founder of experimental physiology and namesake of the Purkinje cells and fibers. Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869) was a Bohemian physiologist and a central figure in the development..... More

[Vienna]: [Dr. L. Wittelshöfer (Druck der k. Wiener Zeitung)], 1884. First edition. Complete issues without covers. Printed in two columns, each counted as a page. Freud’s paper appears on pp. 389–392; 425–429. Modern half leather, marbled paper boards. pp. [385]–416; [417]–448. Freud’s early neurological research, one of his only three..... More

Zurich: Kusnacht, 1937. Numbered 219. Typewritten on one sid. In original halfcloth. 115 p. Interesting typescript of seminars given by the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology C. G. Jung. - Rare typed reports, originally intended exclusively for seminar participants. . - C. G. Jung studied law, medicine and..... More

Kassán (Kassa): Füskúti Landerer Ferenz betűivel, 1801. First Hungarian edition. Signed by Kéler on last page of text. Text in Hungarian, and in German on the engraving. In contemporary coloured hard paper wrappers. 16, (4) p. and 1 folding plate. Bártfa or Bártfafürdő (today: Bardejov or Bardejovské Kúpele in Slovakia)..... More

Erlangen: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke, 1864. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. VIII 58 p. Krafft-Ebing’s first published work: his scarce doctoral thesis on hallucinations and illusions. Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Die Sinnesdelirien (1864) is his first work to appear in print and a pioneering study of hallucinations and..... More

Hannov. et Gurlpherpit (Hannover, Wolfenbütte: Gothofredi Freytagii (Gottfried Freytag), 1696. First edition. Papered spine. Printer’s device on last page. 8º; (a)1–(b)8, (c)1–3 .; 37, (1) p. Scarce pharmacological work on the ipecacuanha root, that can be used as an emetic, nauseant, expectorant and diaphoretic. “Relatio ad inclytam Societatem..... More

Moscow: Priroda, 1917. Second edition. In original decorated cloth. [1] leaf with portrait of the author; XVI, 230, (1), [1] p. One of the most important books in the history of biology and neurology by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936) the Russian psychologist and physiologist. He performed and directed experiments and..... More

Amstelædami (Amsterdam): Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios (Elzevier), 1661. With an engraved portrait of Regius (by Theodor Matham after Hendrick Bloemaert on a4 verso), an engraved folding map and a celestial map. With numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, some full-page. Third edition (first in 1654, under the title “Fundamenta..... More

Leipzig: Dr. Willmar Schwabe, Centralhalle, 1872. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schwabe to councilor Wenzel Emanuel Hikisch. Text in German, English, and French. XXXII, (1)–351, (1) p. First edition of Dr. Schwabe’s trilingual book for homeopathic pharmaceuticals, the first generally applicable and recognized compendium of quality specifications for homeopathic..... More

Sent from Switzerland, Arosa. Dated on August 24, 1948. Two bifolios of lightweight paper. Manuscript in ink, signed as "Prof". Text in Hungarian. 145 × 208 mm. Holograph letter by Albert Szent-Györgyi to his trustee to distribute tasks among his assistants at his laboratory. Szent-Györgyi gives tasks to seven..... More