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Highlights From Our Collections & Publications

Vesalius’s On the Fabric of the Human Body. Volume IV: Book V: The Organs of Nutrition and Generation This volume consists of 19 chapters, illustrated with 31 woodcuts reproduced at or near original size. The final chapter contains Vesalius’s detailed instructions for performing an abdominal dissection. More »

Vesalius’s On the Fabric of the Human Body. Volume IV: Book V: The Organs of Nutrition and Generation xxii, 241pp. 31 text illus. 9" x 12". Cloth, dust-jacket, 80-pound Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggshell acid-free paper.

3 original black and white photographs of laboratory equipment, with annotations in Italian on the versos, plus ANs, chart signed. Fermi, Enrico. 1933-35. Fermi’s Work on Nuclear Transmutation in Rome 1934-35: Annotated Photographs. More »

3 original black and white photographs of laboratory equipment, with annotations in Italian on the versos, plus ANs, chart signed.

William Congreve Collection Unique collection of materials by and relating to rocketry pioneer William Congreve, including manuscripts, pamphlets, treatises, personal letters and engravings. Download the collection description or Purchase »

Morton’s Medical Bibliography. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged.

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