Antiquariat - Michael Kühn

September 2015
Antiquariat
Michael Kühn
Berlin
Science Medicine History of Ideas
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First Monographs on Smell and Taste
Boyle, Robert.
Experiments, Notes, &c about the Mechanical Origine or Production of divers
particular Qualities: among which is inserted a Discourse on the Imperfection of the
Chymist’s Doctrine of Qualities, together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum. E. Flesher, for R. Davis, Bookseller in Oxford, 1676.
Eleven parts in one vol., 8vo, [1 leaf, blank], pp. 21, [1, blank]; [1 leaf], pp. 105
[recte 107], [1]; pp. 35, [1, blank]; pp. 31, [1, blank]; pp. 50, [1 leaf, blank]; pp.
38, [1 leaf, blank]; pp. 56, [7], [1, blank]; pp. 34, [1 leaf, blank]; [1 leaf], pp. 69,
[1, blank]; ff. [3], pp. 46; ff. [2], pp. 20; [1 leaf], pp. 38; two leaves with dusty
outer margins, one torn there; headlines on three or four leaves just touched by the
binder’s knife; a very good copy in contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, upper
joint cracked, lower joint cracked at head; 18th-century inscription ‘Geo[rge] Chadwicke’ on title; discreet ‘Shelbourne Library’ stamp to verso of title and lower margin
of one text leaf.
EUR 4.800.A very good copy, complete and with all the blanks
preserved, of the first edition, second issue, with cancel
title and ‘directions to the binder’ leaf.
‘This collection of eleven tracts [all issued with a separate title page and dated 1675], is rare and often imperfect, and it contains two of Boyle’s major contributions
to physical science … The rare first issue bears on the
general title-page the date 1675 but most copies have
a cancel general title bearing the date 1676 … The collection is important because of the tracts on magnetism
and electricity … The tracts on taste and smell are the
first monographs are the first monographs in the history
of physiological literature to be devoted to these special
senses (Fulton).
‘[The] “mechanical” [in the title], to Boyle and his
contemporaries, was always in opposition to both “Aristotelian” and “mystical”; mechanical explanations were
rational and also, inasmuch as they dealt with particles
of matter and their motion, consonant with the newly
formulated laws of mechanics’ (DSB).- Wing B3977;
Fulton 124; Duveen p. 95; Wheeler Gift 178; Wellcome
II, p. 223; Waller 10765; Partington II, p. 493; Ferguson
I, p. 120; Neu 613; Neville Historical Chemical Library I,
p. 196 (1675 issue).
Medical Malpractice denounced &
Medical Tips for Explorer
Hagecius, Thaddaeus [i.e. Thadeás Hajek, or Hayek].
Actio medica … adversus Philippum Fanchelium Belgam, incolam Budvicensem,
Medicastrum et Pseudo-paracelsistam. Cuis actionis praecipua capita versa pagellâ
annotantur … Amberg, Michael Forster, 1596.
[bound with:]
Pictorius, Georg [i.e. Georg Maler]. Raiss Büchlin. Ordnung wie sich zu halten /
so einer raisen will in weite und onerfarne Land / Unnd wie man allen zufällen / so
dem raisenden zustehn mögen / mit guten mitteln der arczney begegnen soll. Mit
angehencktem regiment / wie sich of dem Möre / oder anderen wassern zu schicken
… Strasburg, Hans Knoblauch, 1557. 8vo, pp. [2], 89, [4], with large printer’s
device on penultimate leaf; ff. [2], xxvii, [2], [1, blank]; the first work with large
printer’s device on penultimate leaf; title to the second work printed in red and
black; faint dampstain to outer margins of the second work, and the final leaf a little
soiled on verso; lovely copy in contemporary vellum, using an earlier manuscript
leaf.
EUR 6.600.-
A very attractive Sammelband with an attack by the
bohemian savant and personal physician to Rudolff II.
on the belgian ‘quack’, Philippe Fanchel, and Georg Pictorius’ medical guide for tra-vellers, a rare early treatise
in the vernacular on this subject.
I. The Actio is a fierce attack on
Fanchel for his treatment of a 10
year old girl affected by ringworm,
with Hagecius accusing the Belgian
physician of having caused the girl’s
death through ignorance, having
had the temerity of treating the
child through Paracelsian medicines, without an understanding of
their actions.
Divided into three parts, the first
contains Hagecius’ account, the
second Fanchel’s response, and the
third Hagecius’ final reply. Pages
34 to 44 print extracts, both in Latin and German, of the Nuremberg
Senates’ medical laws, here used to
underline Hagecius’ argument.
II. Sanitary officer and coroner at Ensisheim, Alsace,
Pictorius here provides a succinct medical guide for
travellers. He advises on diet, what to do when food
is sparse, sleep deprivation, general fatigue, lack of
appetite, constipation, heartburn, nose bleeds, urinary
infections, diarrhoea, fevers, poisoning, as well as on
the treatment of blisters, snow blindness, and frost bites. A second part is on travelling by water, with notes
on sea sickness, general hygiene, and how to deal with
drinking water that is putrid. Interspersed are recipes
for a number of remedies.
I: VD 16 H 234; STC German p. 380; II: VD 16 P 2708;
STC German p. 696; both works are very rare, with OLC
locating copies of the Actio medica at Bern, Erlangen,
British Library, Cambridge, and two in Denmark, and
the Raiss Büchlin at Universitätsbibliothek Johann
Christian Senckenberg, Universitätsbibliothek München,
Berlin, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, British
Library, National Library of Medicine, and Chicago.
Early Modern Hospitals
Held, Johann Theobald.
Kurze Geschichte der Heilanstalt der Barmherzigen Brüder in Prag.
Nebst Rückblicken auf Entstehung, Verbreitung und Schicksale dieses
Ordens überhaupt. Zum Besten dieser Anstalt herausgegeben … Mit
Kupfern und Beilagen.- Prag: Gottlieb Haase, 1823. 8°. 107 pp. with
three fold engraved plates from Hass after Döbler. Green morocco, red label, gilt edges. Copy on strong paper. Foxed throughout.
Maroquinband d. Zt. mit rotem goldgeprägten R.schild u. reicher
R.goldprägung. Exemplar einer Vorzugsausgabe auf starkem Papier.
EUR 800.Description and history of the hospital of the Merciful
Brothers in Prague; it is said that the german romancier
Kleist stayed there in 1809. Johann Theobald Held
(1770 - 1851), a bohemian erudite doctor, anatomist,
composer and famous guitarist, was director of the
hospital of the Merciful Brothers, which since 1783 was
important for a systematic care of mentally ill people.
Joseph II., the Austrian emperor (Czech and Moravian
countries were ruled by the Austrian monarchy since
1620 till 1918) legislated on March 19th, 1783 by his
court edict an establishment of a hospital department
for mentally ill priests, which was attached to the Hospital of Merciful Brothers in Prague. As early as 1784, this
regulation was extended to all groups of population.
Beginning of Modern Brain Research
Golgi, Camillo.
Untersuchungen über den feineren Bau des centralen und peripherischen Nervensystems von Camillo Golgi. Aus dem italienischen
übersetzt von Reinhold Teuscher. 2 Vols. in 1.- Jena: Gustaf Fischer,
1894. Folio 272 pp. with [29] leaves text and with 30 plates. Contemporary Halfcalf, spine restored, Library Ex-Libris cancelled, else fine
copy. Plates fresh.
EUR 6.500,–
Rare first german edition of „Studi sulla fina organisazione del sistema nervoso centrale e periferico“ to
include famous illustrations with the Golgi method.
Golgi‘s method is a silver staining technique discovered
by Italian physician and scientist Camillo Golgi (1843 –
1926) in 1873 that is used to visualize nervous tissue
under light microscopy. It was initially named the black
reaction (la reazione nera) by Golgi, but it became
better known as the Golgi stain or later, Golgi method.
Golgi‘s staining was used by spanish neuroanatomist
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934) to discover a
number of novel facts about the organization of the
nervous system, inspiring the birth of the neuron doctrine. Ultimately, Ramon y Cajal improved the technique
by using a method he termed „double impregnation.“
Ramon y Cajal‘s staining technique, still in use, is
called Cajal‘s Stain. Both received the Nobel- Prize in
physiology in 1906.
Cogito ergo sum
(Museum Specimen)
Six glass jars with brain slices to show the internal structure. The brain
slices are preserved in alcohol and suspended in glass jars with thread.
Labelled: KV. (around 1910) Whilst most of the brains are normally
whole, this specimen has been dissected to show the internal anatomy.
EUR 6.000.-
Unusual and rare survivor.
The encyclopaedic comparison and classification
of specimens became a key method for the natural
scien-ces in the 19th century, and the emerging brain
science was no exception. Once methods for preserving
putrescent neural tissue were invented, scientists began
to gather brains with the intention of classifying their
original owners as normal or abnormal, sick or healthy,
genius or idiot, respectable or criminal. Ambitious
anatomists published lists of the brain weights of
eminent persons, and their journals were embellished
with biographical detail, attempting to correlate the
observed traits of notably gifted, depraved or disabled
individuals in life with the measurable properties and
descriptions of their brains in death. A few ‚anthro-pometric’ brain collections were established in France, the
US, Japan, Russia and Sweden in the hope of identifying
the substrate of genius, and were graced with the cere-
bral matter of statesmen and men of letters, including
Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein and the writer Anatole
France, with one of the lightest brains on record.
Indeed it became quite the fashion for the enlightened
classes to bequeath their illustrious grey matter for investigation by their colleagues by means of ‘brain clubs’.
Neuroscientific collecting has also had an en-during
impact on popular culture through the image of the
brain in the jar, resting pale, resentful and blood-less
in its clear suspension, as if waiting to be reconnected
with the world to wreak its heartless revenge. It has
proved fertile ground for fears and fantasies about
agency, identity and control, from the time of James
Whale’s Frankenstein of 1930, with, in a flagrant travesty of Mary Shelley’s original 1818 novel, a blundering
Igor substituting the ‘dysfunctio cerebri’ of an executed
criminal for a nobler specimen.
Science of Agriculture & Forestry in Japan
in Early 20th Century
Three photograph albums regarding japanese science & the agriculture of mulberries
and production of silk in early 20th century.
EUR 2.200.-
I.) Japanese printed album (180 x 270 mm) with 85
leaves printed one side with photographs and 85 overlays with printed titles regarding to the photographs.
Most of the titles are translated into german in fine
handwriting with ink. Two photographs (approx. 70 x
110 mm) are on each leave. The images are related to
the Sapporo Agricultural College and Tohoku Imperial
University which incorporated the Agricultural College
in early 20th century. The album begins with photographs of William S. Clark (1826-1886), american
agricultural adviser to the Sapporo Agricultural College
and Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840-1900), prime minister of Japan in the Meiji Era. Then we have Seitaro
Sawayanagi (director of Tohoku University), Shoshike
Sato, Prof. Dr. Kingo Miyake, Prof. Dr. Takajiro Minami,
Seed Laboratory („laboratorium der Samenkunde“),
greenhouse & garden („Treibhaus“, „Obstgarten“), Prof.
Kajihiko Tokito, Prof. Yuzo Hoshino, ass.Prof. Akemine,
ass.Prof. Shoji, going on to assistents, laboratory for
zoology, botanical lecture hall, Prof. Saburo Hatta, Prof.
Naoe Ono, plant pathological laboratory, laboratory of
agricultural chemistry, Prof. Togozo Yoshie, Prof. Kintaro
Oshima, laboratory of bacteriology, ass.Prof. Miyake,
ass.Prof. Itanzawa, Prof. Dr. Kumao Takaoka, lecture
hall of entomology, insect collection room, silkroom
collection room, Prof. Matsutoshi Matsumura, forestry
modell room, Prof. Fusakichi Koide, Prof. Jenchoku
Niejima, Forest of the University in Teshio, Prof. Dr. Sagoro Hashimoto, Prof. Kotaro Ogura, veterinary station,
military drill of the students, Prof. Watanabe, Prof. Aoba,
Prof. Mitamura, Prof. Arishima, Prof. M. Sakuma, Prof. S.
Kondo, Prof. J. Kimura, Prof. S. Suzuki, Prof. K. Takehara,
Prof. Tatsusaburo Nishida, Prof. Suetaro Sakaoka, School
of Fishery, Marine Laboratory, et al.
(together with) Two private photography block-books
(albums, portfolios) (size: 180 x 260 mm) of a japanese
biologist with 156 original- photographs mounted recto
and verso.- ( Japan: Sapporo (?), around 1915). Each
portfolio includes 78 photographs (image-size: 63 x
40 mm to 70 x 95 and 105 x 140 mm) mounted on
black card board, and titled by hand in japanese. The
first album shows images of the family, private pictures,
friends, co-worker, family member, at home and at
work, and some landscape images. The second album
is concentrated on his work on mulberries. It is on plant
physiology and on the agriculture of mulberry. It shows
one person at the laboratory and his work, partly at the
microscope. The images show plant diseases, different
sorts of mul-berry, parts of the plant, parasites, Xylotrechus chinensis and Glyphodes pyldalis walk, cocoons of
the silkworm (?), and microscopical images, also some
hand-drawn sketches (photographed) signed with Nozu
& Sonoyama, probably one of them is the person who
made the albums and was working on silk, silkworm,
and mulberry and was probably assistent at Tohoku
Imperial University. Mulberry is native to Japan and
originally grew wild in the mountains. Early in history it
be-came a cultivated plant, not so much for its fruit, but
rather for its leaves. In ancient Japan, the primary cloth
was silk - Japanese people relied upon the silk worm for
the raw fiber used to make thread and in turn cloth. The
silk worm feeds upon the leaves of the mulberry tree. It
was for the silk trade the tree was cultivated.
Dangerous Milk
Microscopy, Manuscript
»Mikroskopie der Milch nach Dr. Ernst, München« (cover-title) 14 manuscript
drawings showing bacteria within milk seen through a microscope, lettered and
titled in german. Hand-made cloth box, early 20th. century, labelled: Mikroskopie
der Milch nach Dr. Ernst - München. (Germany, not dated but around 1910-14)
Box size: 270 x 220 x 65 mm. 15 card-boards (heavy paper stock): 14 with mounted
drawings (ink wash-colors) in different colors and within frame, one board with
handwritten text of plate content. EUR 2.300.–
Interesting german manuscript by one of the important
figures of german milk industry and milk control, later
Prof. in Munich and founder of the bavarian center of
milk control (Amt für Milchwirtschaft und Kontrolle der
Milch). The images show different bacteria and diseases
of milk and the manuscript seems to be intended to be
published.
Milk is an excellent medium for microbial growth, and
when stored at ambient temperature bacteria and other
pathogens soon proliferate. The US Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) says improperly handled raw milk is
responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations
than any other food-borne disease outbreak, making it
one of the world‘s most dangerous food products.
Before the widespread urban growth caused by
industrialization, people kept dairy cows even in urban
areas and the short time period between production
and consumption minimized the disease risk of drinking
raw milk. However, as urban densities increased and
supply chains lengthened to the distance from country
to city, raw milk (often days old) began to be recognized
as a source of disease. For example, between 1912
and 1937 some 65,000 people died of tuberculosis
contracted from consuming milk in England and Wales
alone. Developed countries adopted milk pasteurization
to prevent such disease and loss of life, and as a result
milk is now widely considered one of the safest foods.
Pasteurization is a process invented by French scientist
Louis Pasteur during the nineteenth century. In 1864,
Pasteur discovered that heating beer and wine was
enough to kill most of the bacteria that caused spoilage,
preventing these beverages from turning sour. This was
achieved by eliminating pathogenic microbes and lowering microbial numbers to prolong the quality of the
beverage. Today, the process of pasteurization is used
widely in the dairy and food industries for microbial
control and preservation of the food consumed.
The author (W. Ernst) seems to use different staining
techniques in microscopy as for instant the Nissl
method (Thionine) refering to the staining of the cell
body by using various basic dyes (e.g. thionine) and also
Sudan stain and van Gieson stain.
Rare d‘ Agoty Color Printing
Chabert, Philibert.
Traité du Charbon ou Anthrax dans les animaux. Par M. Chabert, … A Paris: de L’ Imprimerie
Royale, 1782. 8° (195 x 120 mm) 109 pp., (1, blank) (bound with) Chabert, Philibert. Traité des
maladies vermineuses dans les animaux par M. Chabert, .…- A Paris: de L’ Imprimerie Royale,
1782. 120 pp. with two folding plates printed in color. Contemporary Calf gilt spine in compartments, red edges, little spotted throughout, else fine copy. EUR 1.800.Rare work on worms in animals with two rare color
printed plates by Edouard d’ Agoty (1745-1783), third
son of Jacques Gautier Dagoty (1710-1781). The son
claimed himself as inventor of color printing which
he was in fact not. His father, Jacques Gautier Dagoty
(1710—1781), had widely claimed to be the inventor.
Yet it was actually Jacques Christophe Le Blon (1667–
1741) who, using Newton’s theories of light and the
prism as a guide, arrived at the multi-plate method. The
method is at once simple and extremely challenging.
The final colored print is created by combining several
plates inked with the primary colors (red, yellow, and
blue). The mezzotint method was the starting point, as
it allowed for a more painterly look.
Le Blon received privileges in both London and Paris for
the exclusive practice of his color mezzotint method.
Jacques Gautier d’ Agoty worked with Le Blon very
briefly in Paris and upon the latter’s death applied for
his privilege, claiming that by adding a fourth plate
(black), he, d’ Agoty, had in fact created and perfected
true color printing. The privilege was granted, but
then revoked after protests by those associated with
Le Blon’s studio. Nonetheless, d’Agoty was later reawarded the privilege.
His five sons took up the family business. Édouard,
the third son, is widely described as the most capable
printmaker of the d’Agoty, and he specialized in recreating Renaissance paintings (some writers have pointed
out that he seemed especially drawn to subjects of
a licentious nature). He was known to use up to six
different plates for his prints. Having run into what
are ambiguously described as “difficulties” in his later
life, Édouard left Paris for Florence. There, he trained
students in the multi-plate color printing method.
Philibert Chabert (1737-1814) was a pioneer of veterinary medicine and is best remembered for giving the
first important clinical description of anthrax. Anthrax
was originally known as Chabert‘s Disease and played a
central role in the proof of the germ theory of disease
and the foundation of bacteriology via the anthrax
studies of Davaine, Koch and Pasteur later in the nineteenth century. A student at the first veterinary school,
in Lyons, Chabert came to Paris where he taught at and,
in 1780, took over the Royal Veterinary School.
Healthy Life-style invented
Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm.
Hufelands Therapia Specialis. Erster Theil (bis) Vierter Theil. In den Vorlesungen
nachgeschrieben von J. B. Kottmann, Helvet. Jena im November 1798 (bis) Maerz
1799. 4 Vols. Manuscript lecture notes by Johann Baptist Carl Kottmann (17781851) in the lecture of Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland in 1798 – 1799.- [Universität
Jena 1798 – 1799] Quarto [225 x 190 mm] 237 pp., [4]; 196 pp., [2]; 232 pp., [4];
277 pp., [4]. and D. C. W. Hufeland’s Semiotik. In den Vorlesungen nachgeschrieben von Joh. Baptist Carl Kottmann, m[ed] St[udent] helv[etica]. Jena die 5to
Augusti [17]99. Quarto [225 x 190 mm] 310 pp. Contemporary marbled papercovered boards, red morocco label, red edges, each vol. stamped by Kottmann on
front-fly. Little used, else fine.
EUR 4.800.-
Two extensive manuscripts on lectures held by Hufeland in Jena in 1798/99 and 1799 written by the
later clinical doctor, J. B. Kottmann (1776-1851), who
worked in Baden and Solothurn. These lecture notes are
from the last lectures Hufeland held before he turned
to work in Berlin. The lectures included many special
cases of illness,- vol. 2 is devoted to mental diseases
(Mania, Hypochondry, etc.), the two last volumes to
Scorbut, arthritis, and similar diseases. Mentioned are
at title: Catarrhus Tursis Rheumatismus, Dysanteria,
und im Anhange die Krankheiten der Schwangern,
Gebährenden und Kindern, Hysterie, Hypochondrie,
Manie, u.a.s. Nerven, u. Gemüthskrankheiten, dann
Blutflüsse und Abzehrung, Hydrops, extravas. Aerea,
morb. Vener, scorbutus, exanthemata chronica, Icterus,
Cephalolgia, Asthma, fluxus hepat. Diarrhora, Diabetes).
Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland (1762-1836)
was a German physician, famous as the most eminent
practical physician of his time in Germany and as the
author of numerous works displaying extensive reading
and a cultivated critical faculty. After assisting his father
for some years at Weimar, he was called in 1793 to
the chair of medicine at Jena, receiving at the same
time the positions of court physician and professor of
Pathology at Weimar. In 1798 Frederick William III of
Prussia granted him the position director of the medical
college and generally of state medical affairs at the
Charité, in Berlin. He filled the chair of pathology and
therapeutics in the University of Berlin, founded in
1809, and in 1810 became councillor of state. In time
he became as famous as Goethe, Herder, Schiller, and
Wieland in his homeland. Hufeland was the inventor of
the term macrobiotic, was Physician Royal to the King
of Prussia, as well as giving medical attention to the
following illustrious patients: Johann Wolfgang Goethe
(1749-1832), Johann Gottfried v. Herder (1744-1803),
Schiller (1739-1805), and Christoph Martin Wieland
(1732-1813).
On Anatomical Collections & Collecting
Dzondi, Carl Heinrich.
Carolus Henricus Dzondi, … De colligendo, conservando, disponendo et inspiciendo Museo Anatomico- Pathologico. Commentatio Anatomico-Pathologica. Cum
tabulis duabus lapidi inscriptis.- Halae Saxonum (Halle an der Saale): supt. auctoris,
Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1825. 8° (210 x 120 mm) (6, incl. title-page and 2 leaves
introduction), 3-59 pp., (1, blank), one fold. sheet with two lith. plates. Modern papercard boards with mounted original printed front wrapper, inside heavier foxing,
the plate quite fresh.
EUR 1.200.Rare commentary on anatomical museums by a lesser
known anatomist: how to properly dispose anatomical
collections, how to conserve and inspected specimens.
The plate show cabinets and forms to present the specimen. The Hunterian Collection in London, the Sandifort
and Brugmann collection in Leiden, the Bleu-land
collection are mentioned as well as Pockels collection
in Brunswick (Braunschweig), Hendriksz collec-tion in
Gronningen, the Macartney collection in Dublin, the
Vrolik collection in Amsterdam, and the Walter collection in Berlin.
Carl Heinrich Dzondi (Schunde) (1770-1835) studied
theology and medicine at Wittenberg University. In
1806, French troops were stationed in Wittenberg,
and Dzondi joined the service in a hospital, and was
a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, where he read
general and special therapeutics especially. He also
worked intensively on Gall’s phrenology. 1811 traveled
to Vienna Dzondi to undergo training in the field of
ophthalmology. In Wittenberg he was scheduled for
an extraordinary professorship and head of the newly
founded as a school of midwifery, but competed in
Vienna at the Westphalian government to a professorship at the University of Halle. The newly created Chair
of Surgery, he joined in the summer semester 1811
(The subject was previously under one group Chair of
anatomy, surgery and obstetrics represented). Dzondi
read here successfully surgery and ophthalmology,
general Therapeutics and Obstetrics. He did research on
inflammation and burns and improved several surgical
treatments. During the battles at Halle Dzondi 1813
made as a surgeon for the wounded of both warring
parties. A call to Greifswald he declined from 1820
as well as a professor at the University of Erlangen.
The Prussian Ministry of Culture increased Dzondis
pro-fessor’s salary and allowed him to study trips to
southern Germany and France (1821), Holland and
Great Britain (1822).
Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum in Strasbourg
Ehrmann, Charles Henri.
Nouveau Catalogue du Musée d’Anatomie Normale et Pathologique de La Faculté
de Médicine de Strasbourg, avec indication des ouvrages, mémoires et observations
ou se trouve consignée l’ histoire de chaque maladie … Strasbourg: Berger-Levrault,
1843. 8° (210 x 130 mm) X, (2), 252 pp. New Papercard boards period style with
mounted front original wrapper, inside some foxing, else fine. EUR 800.The catalogues were published by the director of the
museum, which was created in 1819. Jean-Frederic
Lobstein (1777-1835) was the first to hold this position. Lobstein was succeeded as director of the museum
by Charles Henri Ehrmann (1792-1878). Ehrmann
adopted what he called a more methodical categorization in the 1837 catalogue, grouping organic systems
and then considering successively: physiological state,
or alteration of structure or tissue. This reflected his reorganization of the museum shelves which grew rapidly.
One of the six catalogues detailing the contents of the
anatomy museum in Strasbourg (France), which were
published between 1820 and 1857. These catalogues
circulated alongside other catalogues of European anatomical museums. Those interested in anatomy and pathology collections could learn what preparations could
be seen or studied in Strasbourg and how Strasbourg
anatomists and pathologists categorized them.
In 1804 the collection consisted of 212 pieces and in
1820 it numbered 3074 and the numbers continued to
rise. We know that 1820 300 cadavers were dissected
or autopsied and the preparations were largely from
hospital cadavers made. The transition from postmortem to anatomy collection was facilitated because
those responsible for autopsies were simultaneously in
charge of the museum.
Lobstein arranged the normal human organs physiologically in 20 cabinets, followed by analogous animal
organs and 18 cabinets of pathological organs. The
pieces were labelled in french with reference number
that corresponded to the catalogue entry. As the collection grew this ordering scheme became more and more
important. The six catalogues are indicative not only of
the flourishing anatomo - clinical approach in France,
but also of an age of museum medicine.
„Charles-Henri Ehrmann (1792-1878), en 1835, prend
la direction du musée et n’aura de cesse d’inventorier,
classer et enrichir les collections. Ainsi, le musée
connaîtra tout au long du XIXe siècle un essor exceptionnel.“
see: T. Close-Koenig. Cataloguing Collections. The
Importance of Paper Records … in: Rina Knoeff; Richrd
Zwijnenberg (ed.). The Fate of Anatomical Collections,
2015. pp. 211 ff.
Colour Printing
Bleuland, Jan.
Icon Hepatis Foetus octimestris, quam, impletis vasculis arteriosis, Naturali colore
expressam edidit J. Bleuland,… Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht): apud B. Wild & J.
Altheer, 1789. quarto (257 x 220 mm) 8 pp. with one color printed plate and 1 leave
text. Early 19th cent. plain blue wrappers.
EUR 2.000.This is one of a series of Bleuland‘s anatomical monographs, illustrated with his pioneering method of
tissue fixing and dyeing and colour - printing. These are
among the first such illustrations, and established the
basis of histological illustration.
„During his career Bleuland published a number of
illustrated anatomical works printed in color, showing
a special interest in the fine structure of healthy and
diseased states of the organs and tunics of the digestive
tract. Bleuland made a collection of over two and a half
thousand anatomical preparations, with the assistan-ce
of Petrus Koning, whom he had trained as his attendant
and as a surgeon from 1800, when the boy was thirteen. The government bought Bleuland‘s collection for
the Utrecht anatomical museum, and starting in 1826,
Bleuland began producing both an inventory, Descriptio
musei anatomici (Utrecht, 1826) and a more detailed
illustrated catalogue of select specimens, Otium academicum (Utrecht, 1826-28).
A notable feature of Bleuland‘s work is that he often
tells us how his preparations were made, which vessels
he injected, how slowly he injected them, which colors
and at times which substance he used-such as mercury.
As in previous works he published, Bleuland was especially interested in the vascular structure of tunics and
membranes and focused on what he called anatomia
subtiliore, relying on microscopy; plate after plate of
his Icones anatomico - physiologicae display tunics and
membranes. Overall, Bleuland tried to present an integrated approach.“ not in Goldschmid.
Lit.: Domenico Bertoloni Meli, The Rise of Pathological
Illustrations: Baillie, Bleuland, and Their Collections.
History of Medicine, vol. 89, no. 2 (Summer 2015)
Collection Specimens Described
Bleuland, Jan.
Icones anatomico - physiologicae partium corporis humani et animalium, quae in
descriptione Musei Academiae Rheno-Trajectinae inveniuntur. 2 Fasc. in 1.- Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht): ex Officina Joh. Altheer, 1826 (- 1827). Quarto (257 x 220
mm) VIII, 24 pp., (2, Prospectus), 6 color printed plates; pp. 25-55, (1, blank),
plates 7-12 (12 plates with 35 figures). Modern half calf period style. Little used and
unfresh inside, title stamped, else fine.
EUR 6.000.-
„Exceptional for their time and original in art, drawing
and color – these pictures are the most interesting,
which have come to us to face.“ (Goldschmid)
This is one of a series of Bleuland‘s anatomical
monographs describing specimens of his collection, illustrated with his pioneering method of tissue fixing and
dyeing and colour-printing. These are among the first
such illustrations, and established the basis of histological illustration. Bleuland perfected a technique of injec-
ting tissue structures with fixatives and dyes to reveal
anatomical details, especially under magnification. His
plates, mostly drawn by I. van der Jagt and engraved by
I. Kobell, are remarkable for their precision in depicting
microscopic detail. Goldschmid considered them pieces
of exemplary printing, unusual in subject and make-up
for the period. They are probably the first examples of
colour-printing of microscopical subjects. Bleuland
(1756-1838) was professor of anatomy, surgery, and
obstetrics at Harderwyck and later Utrecht. He prepared
more than two thousand anatomical specimens, which
were bought in 1825 by King William I of Holland for
the University of Utrecht.- Goldschmid, Entwicklung
und Bibliographie der pathologisch-anatomischen
Abbildung 121.
„Die technisch interessante Sammlung, schon von
Cruveilhier bewundert, die uns leider nur in einem
unvollständigen Exemplar der Göttinger Bibliothek vorgelegen hat, zeigt farbige Radierung(en) von tierischen
Organen, durchwegunbezeichnet, lassen z.T. einen
doppelten Plattenrand deutlich erkennen. Die Technik
ist Aquatinta und illuminierte Radierung, die verwen-
deten Farben sind ziegelrot, bläulich-grün und gelb;
auf 11 und 12 auch hellblau und grau (offenbar mit
der Hand aufgetragen). Die Abbildungen machen einen
ungewöhnlich lebendigen und frischen Eindruck. Auf
Tafel 6 findet sich die mikroskopische Abbildung einer
„pluma branchialis“. Einzelne der interessanten Tafeln
erwecken vollkommen den Eindruck von (orientalischen
!) kolorierten Handzeichnungen. … Außergewöhnlich für
ihre Zeit und originell in Technik, Zeichnung und Farbe
gehören diese Abbildungen zu den interessantesten,
welche uns zu Gesicht gekommen sind.“ (Goldschmid
121); Engelmann wrongly with 13 plates.
Note: The Dutch National Library collates as our as
Goldschmid does; Oxford collate: 160 pp., plates; other
collate different. In the same year Bleuland published
another publication: Otium academicus, continens
descriptionem ... (2 volumes with 8 installments) which
reprints this publication in vol. 2, part one with now 24
plates and a new „elenchus“.
The Bleuland Collection
Bleuland, Jan.
Descriptio Musaei Anatomici, quod Universi Belgii Regis Augustissimi Guilielmi I.
… concessit J. Bleuland.- Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht): ex Officina Joh. Altheer,
1826. Quarto (257 x 220 mm) XVIII, (4, publ. cat.), 415 pp., (1, blank) Modern
half calf period style. Title & one page stamped, little unfresh inside (dustsoiled and
a few stockings), one page with old ink spot. Without the portrait present in some
copies.
EUR 1.600.Description of the collection of Jan Bleuland (17561838), a medical doctor and professor of anatomy
and obstetrics at Utrecht University. Bleuland was well
known for the high quality of his anatomical models,
which he prepared himself using highly innovative techniques. Among Bleuland‘s greatest achievements were
preparations displaying vascular systems, in which he
made even the tiniest blood vessels visible by injecting
concoctions of dye or mercury. Another of Bleuland‘s
specialties was in finding methods which accurately
preserved the true colors and textures of organs, which
in less careful hands might become bleached and
shrunken.
One fine example to be found on display in the museum
is Ruysch‘s “Kinderhoofdje met Turkse muts” (Child‘s
head with Turkish cap).
In addition to creating his own preparations, Bleuland
actively acquired examples of earlier masters, most
notably specimens crafted by Amsterdam anatomist
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731), whose elaborate
and often allegorical presentations disguised the
voorsnijder‘s cuts with items of jewelry and clothing.
Today, the Museum Bleulandinum includes the original
475 objects purchased from Bleuland (Collectie
Bleuland), anatomical waxes by Petrus Koning (17871834), a library of important historical medical texts,
and several other anatomy and embryology collections
— including examples of modern plastination.
In 1815, Willem I of the Netherlands (1772-1843)
purchased Bleuland‘s collection and donated it to Utrecht University, which took ownership upon Bleuland‘s
death in 1838. Clearly enthusiastic about the benefit
this collection would have in the education of future
doctors, Willem issued a royal decree the following
year that all Dutch universities install such cabinets,
which was surely a boon to education in general and
anatomists like Bleuland in particular.
plagiat - „using“ the images of others
Rosenberger, Otto Friedrich.
De viribus partum efficientibus generatim et de utero speciatim;
ratione substantiae musculosae et vasorum arteriosorum. Consensu
facultatis medicae … pro gradu Doctoris Medicinae …. Halae (Halle
a. d. Saale): litteris Trampianis, (o.J. 1791) 2 Bll., 28 pp. with 3 (2
fold.) plates. Contemporary boards, handwritten label, spine defective, inside some browning. Else fine.
EUR 450.Rare work on the arteries and muscles of the uterus with fine plates.
Otto Friedrich Rosenberger (17661850) was born in Neuenburg,
studied at Halle with Meckel, made
his doctorate in 1791, worked in
Berlin, and Neuenburg, bevor he
went to Königsberg. He married a
daughter of the philosopher Johann
Georg Hamann. Later in life he
work in Dresden.- SGC I, XII, 317.
The plates by Daniel Berger, sculpsit
Berolini 1769 & 1770 after J.B.G.
Hopffer ad nat. delin. The plates
seems to be borrowed from another
author.
Anatomy & Neurology
Bock, Carl August.
Beschreibung des fünften Nervenpaares und seiner Verbindungen mit anderen Nerven, vorzüglich mit dem Gangliensysteme. Mit Kupfertafeln.- Meissen: bei Friedrich
Wilhelm Goedsche, 1817. Folio. XII, 90 pp.; with 5 engraved, partly colored plates
by J. F. Rosenmüller, del. and J. F. Schröter, sculp., numbered Taf. 1/2 and Tab. 1-3
(with:) Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung des fünften Hirnnerven und seiner Verbindungen mit andern Nerven, vorzüglich mit dem Gangliensysteme. Mit Kupfertafeln. Meissen: bei Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, 1821. Folio 15 pp., (1, blank), 4
engraved plates (colored and uncolored). Contemporary black paper boards, rubbed
and soiled, especially spine. Two Ex lIbris on inner front cover: Richard M. Wegner
and Prof. Eßbach. Ownership inscription on title: A. Otto. Browned and stocked,
second work with waterstain in lower right corner.
EUR 1.400.Rare first edition, complete in two parts on spinal
nerves, which carries motor, sensory, and autonomic
signals between the spinal cord and the body. August
Karl Bock (1782 - 1833), german anatomist, working in
Leipzig at the anatomical theatre. He mainly wrote on
anatomical subjects.
August Karl Bock (1782-1833) war der Sohn armer
Eltern, erzogen wurde er von seinem Stiefvater, einem
Chirurgen, in Genthin. Später gelangte er als medizinischer Gehilfe nach Halle und Leipzig. Er machte durch
sein Interesse für Anatomie auf sich aufmerksam, wurde 1814 Prosektor des Anatomischen Theaters an der
Universität Leipzig und 1815 in Erfurt zum Doktor der
Medizin promoviert. Einen Ruf nach Königsberg lehnte
er aus Dankbarkeit zu seiner Lehrstätte ab. Er wirkte bis
zu seinem Tod in der Position des Prosektors in Leipzig.
Als medizinischer Schriftsteller lag sein Schwerpunkt
auf beschreibenden Darstellungen anato-mischer
Gegenstände (ADB).
Anatomy Atlas - not yet published
Anatomical Manuscript Atlas.
German anatomical manuscript atlas by unknown hand. 18 sheets with
around 42 finely sketched drawings. Beginning from the head it finishes with the feet. Pencil and black chalk drawings finished with red
chalk. Titles in ink, also the descriptive text and lettering. The german
handwriting and the binding indicate a date in the early 19th century,
maybe around 1800 to 1820. The authorship remained unknown.
Folio (480 x 275 mm) 18 sheets with drawings in ruled black frame,
numbered 1-18. Marmorated Paperboards imitating a leather binding,
without title, missing pieces on upper and lower spine. One edge of
the cover-board broken. Some spotting, else a very fine survivor.
EUR 7.000.Very fine and unusual medical manuscript of the early 19th century, an
anatomical atlas probably intended to be published, maybe for artists to
study anatomy. Coming with the atlas are two fine drawings in watercolor of
internal diseases by the same (?) artist.
Anatomy Lecture Course for Artists
Schulz, Adolf (?); Kunstschule Düsseldorf.
German Anatomical Manuscript before 1915. 39 sheets of anatomical drawings in black pencil or charcoal with little uses of brown and
blue. The drawings after originals and after illustrations in anatomical books (like Roth’s anatomy) or after sculptures. The images
show proportional studies, bones, skull, often the drawings are titled
in german and in the later part of the manuscript the handwritten
commentary become more extensive. Folio (485 x 307 mm) 40 leaves.
Cloth-backed papercard boards in brown with traces of use. The Front
Inner cover has a mounted original drawing, signed by Adolf Schulz in
1915, indicating the authorship. This drawing show „Germania“ and
is a curious example of German Propaganda at the beginning of World
War I.
EUR 1.000.40 leaves of anatomical studies, probably made during a lecture course
on anatomical drawings at the Düsseldorfer Kunstschule, before 1915, for
students of art.
Teaching the Body – Artistic Anatomy
Theophil Melicher (1860-1926), Vienna
40 anatomical drawings, partly dated 1879, often signed, probably
made at the Vienna Academy of Arts (Wiener Akademie der bildenden Künste). Theophil Melicher (1860-1926) studied there with
Josef Matyáš Trenkwald (1824 - 1897), a Czech/Austrian painter, best
known for his religious and historical paintings. Melicher himseld
became a restorer, conservator and painter, specialized in fresco painting. Folio (510 x 330 mm). Mounted within Passepartout. Drawings
in pencil & water-color. In Original half-cloth folder.
EUR 2.500.-
In the Morgue
French medical manuscript.
Medical manuscript by Reignier (?), no place, no date
but France around 1910.
82 original pen- and ink drawings, many heightened
with body-colors and water-colors and 7 photographs
after drawings. All variant sizes and variously mounted
on recto and verso of 21 cardboard leaves, 3 blank cardboard leaves. Contemporary red morocco spine over
red cloth boards. oblong folio (340 x 240 mm)
EUR 5.200.-
A fine album with professionally drawn anatomical
images, a few of them signed Reignier, del. The album
starts with 5 images of post-mortem examinations,
followed by 27 images of parts of female and male
genitals with various diseases (cancer, cyst formation
and tumours); another important feature of this album
is the kidney and its diseases.
Chemical Warfare shown
Hygiene-Museum, Dresden.
4 Wax Models (Moulages) for educational purposes showing the influence of chemical warfare on the skin:
Verletzung durch hautätzenden Kampfstoff (Wallartige Blasenbildung
etwa 24 Stunden nach der Verletzung) (= Injury of corrosive chemical
warfare agent; Wall-like blistering about 24 hours after the injury)
Verletzung durch hautätzenden Kampfstoff (Blasenbildung mit hochgradiger Rötung u. Schwel-lung der Umgebung etwa 24-36 Stunden
nach der Verletzung) (= Injury of corrosive chemical warfare agent;
Bubbles with severe redness and swelling around about 24-36 hours
after injury)
Verletzung durch hautätzenden Kampfstoff (Blasenbildung der Haut
etwa 24 Stunden nach der Verletzung) (= Injury of corrosive chemical
warfare agent; Bubbles about 24 hours after injury)
Verletzung durch hautätzenden Kampfstoff (Studium des Platzen’s der
Blasen, hochgradige Entzündung, daneben noch einige erhaltene Blasen) (Injury of corrosive chemical warfare agent; Bursting of bubbles,
high-grade inflammation, and beside a few bubbles preserved)
Size: 1 to 3.) 337 x 257 mm (frame) and 4.) 340 x 340 mm (frame).
Wax Models mounted on a wood-plate, titled and within wooden
frame to hang on the wall. Two stamps / marks by Dresden Hygiene
Museum, 1930 and little later on frame.
EUR 4.800.-
Four Moulages or Wax Models made after the first
World War to show the influences of „Gas Poisons“ on
the skin to the public. These wax models were distributed until 1955 to other museums and similar institutions
(Universities, etc) to educate people or to hang in
offices of doctors.
„Many people, however do not know that the Deutsche
Hygiene-Museum is at the same time the largest centre
of production of anatomic and biologic educational
supply …“ (Export Catalogue)
The German Hygiene Museum is a medical museum
in Dresden, Germany, founded in 1912 by Karl August
Lingner, a Dresden businessman and manufacturer of
hygiene products, as a permanent „public venue for
healthcare education“, following the first International
Hygiene Exhibition in 1911. It conceives itself as a „forum for science, culture and society“.
The second International Hygiene Exhibition was held
in 1930/1931, in a building erected according to
plans designed by Wilhelm Kreis, which became the
museum‘s permanent home. One of the biggest attractions was, and remains, a transparent model of a human
being: the Gläserner Mensch or Transparent Man, of
which many copies have subsequently been made for
other museums.
During the Third Reich the museum came under the
influence of the Nazis, who used it to produce material
propagandising their racial ideology and promoting eugenics. Large parts of the building and collection were
destroyed by the bombing of Dresden in 1945.- not in
Export Catalogue
Prosthetics
(Hand Prosthetics)
An example of a simple hand prosthetic of the early to mid 19th cent.
(?). No name or place given. Probably a German manufactuerer.
Iron and hempseed cords. Wooden panel to hold it probably within a
leather case. EUR 1.500.-
Prosthetics have been mentioned throughout history.
The earliest recorded mention is the warrior queen
Vishpala in the Rigveda. The Egyptians were early pioneers of the idea, as shown by the wooden toe found
on a body from the New Kingdom. An early mention of
a prosthetic comes from the Greek historian Herodotus,
who tells the story of Hegesistratus, a Greek diviner
who cut off his own foot to escape his Spartan captors
and replaced it with a wooden one.
Pliny the elder also recorded the tale of a Roman
general, Marcus Sergius, whose right hand was cut off
while campaigning and had an iron hand made to hold
his shield so that he could return to battle. A famous
and quite refined historical prosthetic arm was that of
Götz von Berlichingen, made at the beginning of the
16th century. In 1508, German mercenary Gotz von
Berlichingen had a pair of technologically advanced iron
hands made after he lost his right arm in the Battle of
Landshut. The hands could be manipulated by setting
them with the natural hand and moved by relaxing a
series of releases and springs while being suspended
with leather straps.
Around 1512, an Italian surgeon traveling in Asia recorded observations of a bilateral upperextremity amputee
who was able to remove his hat, open his purse, and
sign his name. Another story surfaced about a silver
arm that was made for Admiral Barbarossa, who fought
the Spaniards in Bougie, Algeria, for a Turkish sultan.
Around the same time, Francois de la Noue is also
reported to have had an iron hand, as is, in the 17th
Century, Rene-Robert Cavalier de la Salle. Only the
wealthy could afford anything that would assist in daily
life. During the Renaissance, prosthetics developed
with the use of iron, steel, copper, and wood. Functional
prosthetics began to make an appearance in the 1500s.
An Elephant Folio as Guide for Operations
Nuhn, Anton, Franz Xaver Wagner [artist]
Erklärungen der chirurgisch-anatomischen Tafeln.- Mannheim, [1856] 8°. 336 pp.
[and] Nuhn, Anton. Chirurgisch-anatomische Tafeln nach der Natur gezeichnet
und lith. von F. X. Wagner. 30 lith plates & 30 linear plates.- Mannheim; Bassermann, 1856. Elephant folio (755 x 565 mm) Original half calf, spine repaired,
rubbed and soiled, little spotted, else fine.
EUR 4.000.Rare first edition of his book of anatomical plates
for surgeons. Nuhn integrated a selection of surgical
procedures with special techniques or ligatures, similar
to an earlier work by Bougery and Jacob. Anton Nuhn
(1814-1889) was a German anatomist. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he was a
student of Friedrich Tiedemann (1781–1861). In 1842
he was a lecturer at Heidelberg, and shortly afterwards
worked as prosector. In 1849 he became an associate
professor at the institute of anatomy in Heidelberg,
and in 1872 received the title of honorary pro-fessor.
„Nuhn‘s glands“, also known as anterior lingual glands,
are named after him. They are described as small,
deeply placed seromucous glands located near the tip
of the tongue on each side of the frenulum.
In den Anfängen seiner Karriere fand er die nach ihm
benannte Nuhn- auch Blandin-Nuhn-Drüse, oder heute
Glandula lingualis anterior genannt, welche sich in der
Zungenspitze befindet. Er erforschte die Lymphgefäße
und deren Verbindung zu den Venen, und er ist der
Namensgeber des Nuhn- Fascientrichters, in der Hernienchirurgie bis heute als Processus vaginalis fasciae
transversalis bekannt.
Nuhn präparierte viel und gerne; seine Veröffentlichungen belegen dies eindrucksvoll. Über 40 Tätigkeitsjahre
in der Anatomie prädestinierten ihn, seine große Erfahrung nicht nur an angehende Mediziner, sondern auch
an fertige Ärzte weiter geben, die Lust und Liebe an der
praktischen Arbeit vermehren und fördern zu wollen.
Er schrieb eine Präparieranleitung und erstellte
anatomisch-chirurgische Tafeln, um den Bogen zur
topographischen Anatomie, die seiner Meinung nach
in Deutschland zu wenig Beachtung fand, zu schlagen.
Hier integrierte er, ähnlich wie Bougery et Jacob
zuvor in ihrem Anatomie Lehrbuch, eine Auswahl an
chirurgischen Eingriffen, die bestimmten Ligaturen oder
Schnitttechniken darstellten.
Landmark Atlas on Leprosy
Danielssen, Daniel Cornelius; Wilhelm Boeck.
Atlas Colorie de Spedalskhed (Elephantiasis des Grecs). Publie aux frais du Gouvernement Norvegien. Les planches dessinees par J(ohan). L(udvig). Losting.- Bergen
en Norvege: Libraire Fr. D. Beyer par Chr. Fr. Nissen, 1847. Imp.- Folio [500 x
340 mm]. Complete with 24 hand colored lithographs and a printed title-page Loosely inserted in the orig. printed wrappers. The folder is good, with some edge-wear
and tears, especially to the spine. The lithographs are overall in a near fine condition
with minor dustsoiled and small tears on the edges to some of them and as always
browned.
EUR 12.000.The very rare atlas volume (but without the equally
rare text volume, see below), a landmark in the medical
history of leprosy, [representing] the beginning of the
modern understanding and classification of this disease’
(International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases vol. 72, 2), and superbly illustrated by the
Norwegian „romantic“ artist Johan Ludvig Losting and
printed in Bergen by Prahl‘s lithographic Institute
‘Daniel Cornelius Danielssen made Bergen a world
centre of lepra research in the middle of the nineteenth
century … At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed at
Svaneapotheket [Swan pharmacy] in Bergen. He had
been in this position for four years when an inflammation of the hip joint kept him bed ridden for one and a
half year. This was probably a case of tuberculosis and
caused a slight drag of his one leg for the rest of his life.
‘Following his cure he travelled to Christiania, where
he passed the preliminary examination in the end of
January 1835. The summer that year he accompanied
professor Matthias Numsen Blytt (1789–1862) on botanical excursions in the mountain area Dovrefjell. The
autumn that year he commenced the study of medicine,
graduating on June 2, 1939 with outstanding marks.
He then worked for one year as a [squadron] surgeon to
the ‘ Corps of Mounted Chasseurs’ in Akershus county
and as amanuensis under brigadier surgeon Jens Johan
Hjort (1798-1873). He was also district physician in
Stavanger and Ryfylke before he returned to Bergen.
On September 3, 1840, he was appointed physician
to the ‘Nordfjordske nationale Musketercorps’. During
this period he also studied physiology, chemistry, and
diseases of the skin.
‘During the winter of 1839-1840, Danielssen began
investigating lepra at St. Jørgens Hospital. In July
1840 Carl Wilhelm Boeck (1805-1875), then miner’s
physician spent a few weeks in Bergen on a scholarship
to learn more about lepra. He worked with Danielssen
at St. Jørgens and the two of them agreed to cooperate
on what eventually became their famous work on
lepra, Om Spedalskhed (1847). Boeck subsequently
proposed to the government that Danielssen should
receive public support for continuing his studies at St.
Jørgens. His work in Bergen marked the beginning of
the modern medical history of leprosy. Danielssen,
and his son-in-law Gerhard Armauer Hanssen, were the
two most important figures in the study of lepra in the
nineteenth century.
By royal decree of February 12, 1841, the government
granted St. Jørgens 120 speciedaler pluss the annual
amount of 450 speciedaler over two years for instigating observations and investigations concerning the
leprosy disease. From March 1841 Danielssen was in
charge of this with an annual salary of 240 speciedaler. From January 1st that year he had been appointed
physical to the Stiftelsen with an annual salary of 50
speciedaler. From 1843, on his own expenses, he spent
one year abroad, visiting Berlin, Vienna and Paris to
study diseases of the skin, physiology, and pathological
anatomy. On November 21, 1846, Danielssen was
appointed physician-in-chief to the lepra institution to
be established in Bergen. He was then granted a travel
scholarship of 800 speciedaler which enabled him to
undertake another educational journey abroad. This
time he visited Switzerland, Lombardy,, Sardinia, and
Paris, where he spent most of the time. In 1847, with
Carl Wilhelm Boeck, he published his famous book
Om Spedalskhed (on leprosy). This was printed with
government support in Christiania, and in French translation in Paris, supervised by Danielssen. Danielssen
and Boeck gave an exact description of the disease
picture of leprosy. To this work was added a large
atlas with drawings of leprosy patients by J. L. Losting
(1810-1876). This work became the foundation of the
modern medical history of leprosy and made Bergen an
international centre of leprosy research’ (Whonamedit,
online).
In 1859 the famed pathologist Rudolf Virchow visited
Danielssen in Bergen to study lepra.
Whilst offered here without the 8vo text volume, both
the text and atlas volume are extremely rare and are
notably absent from the major collections in the history
of medicine.
He‘s a Pain in the Neck
Heiberg, Jacob; Fosterud, Alfred (artist).
Atlas der Hautnervengebiete, ein Lehrmittel für Aerzte
und Studirende von Dr. Jacob Heiberg, gezeichnet von
Alfred Fosterud.- Christiania (Oslo): Alb. Cammermeyer, 1884. 4°. (260 x 154 mm)
(4), (10) Bll., 10 chromolithographed plates. Original
cloth backed printed paercard, stamped and with ownership inscription on cover: Paul M. Fürst and label:
„fra forfatteren“ (from the author). Inside cover Ex
Libris: Carl M. Fürst. Little stocked, a few stamps.
EUR 250.Graphically unusual atlas of the cutaneous nerve supply
of the human body
Jacob Munch Heiberg (1843 - 1888 Christiania) was a
Norwegian doctor and anatomist. After studying he was
involved as a volunteer and unpaid doctor on the German side in the Franco- Prussian War of 1870 - 1871.
With scholarship, he studied at clinics in Berlin, Rostock,
Königsberg, Dresden, Leipzig and Vienna, before he
returned home and opened the Eye Clinic in May, 1873.
In 1878 he became professor of anatomy, histology and
embryology in Oslo and in 1881 he was the only professor at the medical faculty who voted that women are
allowed to study. An engl. & an italian edition appeared
in 1885.- SGC II: VI, 986.
First Photographic Atlas of
the Peripheral Nervous System
Rüdinger, Nicolaus (1832-1896).
Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers. … Nach der Natur photographirt von J(oseph) Albert … Lichtdrucke von M. Gemoser … Mit einem
Vorwort von Professor Dr. Th. W. L. Bischoff. Zweite Auflage. / Atlas du systeme
nerveux peripherique du corps humain . …- Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1872.
Folio (510 × 365 mm). [13] ff. Parallel text in German and French. With 46 plates,
partly folded photographic plates. Loose in modern cloth-backed portfolio with
mounted original cover; portfolio lightly soiled and worn, some light foxing and
browning, but very good copy. EUR 3.800.Very rare second edition of Rüdinger‘s excellent photographic atlas of the peripheral nerves, an important
pioneering effort in medical photography.
The first edition of Rüdinger’s atlas (1861-1867)
appeared in 10 parts, with the first two devoted to the
peripheral nerves of the head, the third through fifth to
the nerves of the back, neck and arm, and the last four
parts to the nerves of the torso, lower extremities and
the sympathetic nervous system. For the illustration
he used mounted original photographs by the renown
Munich court photographer Joseph Albert after photographs of the human body in frozen state. In this
second edition they used the same images, but they
were now printed in the new heliography technique by
Gemoser. See Meyer, Historical Aspects of Cerebral Anatomy pp 146 ff; Hirsch vol. IV, 913 - 914: ‚Ruedinger
hat sich durch Einführung der photographischen Nachbildung seiner ausgezeichneten anat., besonders der
Nervenpräparate ein dauerndes Verdienst erwor-ben…’;
Not in Taureck, or van Haaften, N.Y.P.L.: Gernsheim 2nd
ed., 548: Eder, Hist. of photography, p. 619: ‚About the
end of 1868 M. Gemoser, a lithographer at Munich,
introduced collotype on lithographic stone as base and
called the proces ‚photolithography‘... Gemoser asserted
that he was the inventor of collotype, but J. Albert
established his claim to priority succesfully.‘ Heidtmann
14002 for the 1861-67 edition.
Science or Voyeurism –
Early Stereoscopic Medical Atlas
Neisser, Albert
Stereoscopischer medicinischer Atlas. Sammlung photograph. Bilder
aus dem Gesammtgebiet der klinischen Medicin, der Anatomie und
der pathologischen Anatomie etc. Herausgegeben unter der Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen von Prof. Dr. A. Neisser.6 vol. - Cassel: Th. G. Fischer & Co., 1895 – Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth,
1903. With together 84 stereo-photographs.
EUR 2.500.Very rare, only the Bodleian Library seems to hold a
complete set / copy of Neisser’s Atlas; other libraries
have only parts of it, as here.- Hirsch-H. IV, 350 (not
known); not mentioned by Rowley. Medical Incunala;
Lit.. Albert Neissers (1855-1916) „Stereoscopischer
medicinischer Atlas“: eine ... herausgegeben von Frank
Stahnisch, Ulrich Schönherr, Antonio Bergua. (2012)
A lot 6 installments incl. I.) Vierte [4.] Lieferung [installment]: Abteilung Chirurgie. Aus der Kgl. Chirurgischen
Klinik in Breslau ( J. Miculicz). 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 11
text leaves, 12 plates on heavy card stock with stereo
- photographs, numbered 37-48 of the complete set.
Original clothbacked portfolio with cover title, ties
brocken. Stamped: Georg Weiss. II.) Dreizehnte [13.]
Lieferung. 4. Folge der Abtheilung Chirurgie.- Cassel:
Th. G. Fisher [sic] & Co., 1896. 8°. [185 x 135 mm] 2
Bll., 12 stereo-photographs on heavy stock, numbered
145-156, and 12 text leaves. Loosely inserted in
original printed Halbfcloth folder, used and rubbed.
III.) Vierzehnte [14.] Lieferung. 3. Folge der Abtheilung
Chirurgie.- Cassel: Th. G. Fisher [sic] & Co., 1896. 8°.
[185 x 135 mm] 3 pp., 12 stereo-photographs on
heavy stock, numbered 133-144, and 12 text leaves.
Loosely inserted in original printed Halfcloth folder,
used and rubbed. IV.) Achtzehnte [18.] Lieferung:
Abteilung Chirurgie.- Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth,
1897. Mit jeweils 12 montierten Stereophotographien
und begleitendem Text. Octavo (19 x 14 cm). Lose in
original bedruckten Halbleinwand-Portfolios (fleckig
und bestoßen, Bibliotheksmarken auf dem Rücken). V.)
Einundzwanzigste [21.] Lieferung: Abteilung Chirurgie.Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1898. 8°. [190 x 140
mm]. with 12 Stereo-Photographs on heavy stock and
text. Loosely inserted in original printed Halbfcloth
folder, used and rubbed. VI.) Achtundvierzigste [und]
neunundvierzigste [48. & 49.] Lieferung [installment].
Chirurgie redigiert von J. Mikulicz und C. Partsch. 7. und
8. Folge. Aus der chirurgischen Universitätspoliklinik
in München.- Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1903.
8°. [185 x 135 mm] 4 pp., 24 stereo-photographs on
heavy stock, numbered 565-588. Loosely inserted in
original printed Halbfcloth folder, used and rubbed.
Man Machine
Fritz Kahn. Der Mensch als Industriepalast.
Farbige Lithographie. 1926. 958 x 480 mm. Gedruckt bei Fricke &
Co, Stuttgart. – Im Unterrand typographisch bezeichnet.
EUR 1.500.Pioneer of Infographics, also known as „grandfather of modern data visualization.“
Around the time when Austrian sociologist, philosopher, and curator Otto
Neurath was building his ISOTYPE visual language, which laid the foundation for pictogram-based infographics, another infographic pioneer was doing
something even more ambitious: The German polymath Fritz Kahn (18881968) — amateur astronomer, medical scientist by training, gynecologist
by early occupation, artist by inclination, writer, educator and humanist by
calling — was developing innovative visual metaphors for understanding
science and the human body, seeking to strip scientific ideas of their alienating complexity and engage a popular audience with those essential tenets
of how life works. Best-known today for his iconic 1926 poster „Man as
industrial palace“, Kahn inspired generations of scientific illustrators. His
influence reverberates through much of our present visual communication
and today’s best infographics.
Durchblick – Optical Glasses
Nachet & Fils.
Trial lens case. Nachet & Fils. Paris, Rue St. Séverin 17 (ca 1870). Oblong folio (490
x 90 x 60 mm). Comprising 30 pairs each of spherical concave and spherical convex
lenses; 18 pairs each of cylindrical concave and cylindrical convex lenses; 10 prismatic lenses and 10 tinted lenses. One adjustable trial frame and one half trial frame.
Contained in a wooden leather covered case, with two brass clasps and catches and a
brass lock at front edge. All compartments velvet-lined, with gilt lettered manufacturer’s name and address inside top lid, and gilt number
at front edge No 3717. Gilt lettered leather strips with numbers and
sizes at each compartment for each lens. Case rubbed at edges, key is
lacking.
EUR 3.800.The manufacturer Nachet & fils was founded by Camille Sebastien Nachet
(1799-1881), a Paris based optician, who started business by producing
lenses for the famous microscope manufacturer Chevalier. The sets of
lenses are obviously complete and comprise a total of 212 lenses. The
concave prismatic and tinted lenses all have gold-plated brass rims with
twisted cord- shaped handles: the convex lenses have nickle plated brass
rims and handles. The two trial frames are also gold plated with blued steel
ear-pieces. The full trial frame is graduated and adjustable for nose- piece
distance and inclination, and for pupillary and temple distance. The half trial
frame has slotted eye rims and a c-shaped bridge. All contents in very good
condition. The address stamped in the case dates it to anywhere between
1863 and 1880.
Staphyloma
Ritterich, Friedrich Philipp.
Die Hornhautbeere. Staphylom der Hornhaut. Mit 6 lithographierten Tafeln d. Lith. Anst. J. G. Bach, Leipzig.- Leipzig: Leopold
Voss, 1859. Folio. (460 x 320 mm) (4), 30 pp. with six plates with 57
colored original drawings or illustrations. Cloth backed original publ.
paper covered boards, title on cover, title stamped, else fine and clean.
EUR 800,–
Rare work on the Staphyloma of the cornea. Friedrich
Philipp Ritterich (1782 - 1866 Leipzig) was a German
ophthalmologist. He studied medicine in Leipzig and
Jena, and following graduation continued his education
in Vienna with the ophthalmologist Georg Joseph Beer
(1763-1821) and Johann Adam Schmidt (1759-1809).
In 1807 he became privat-docent to the medical faculty
at Leipzig University, where in 1820 he was appoin-ted
professor of ophthalmology. In 1820 he also founded a
private eye clinic in Leipzig.
During the late 1850s he succumbed to severe amblyopia, causing him to quit his practice and limit his workload to literary pursuits. Eventually he went completely
blind and died in 1866 at the age of 83. Ritterich made
contributions involving writings on squint, and investigations on diseases of the lachrymal nasal canal and the
effect of the eye muscles (with the anatomist Eduard
Weber 1806 - 1871).
Erste Ausgabe in einem schönen und gut erhaltenen
Exemplar. F. P. Ritterich (1782–1866; Prof. für Augenheilkunde in Leipzig), „war ein scharfsinniger, hochgebildeter Arzt, ein ebenso geschickter wie glücklicher
Operateur. Seine umfassendste Veröffentlichung ist die
Lehre von den blutigen Augen-Operationen.“
(Hirschberg I, 525, 324 und 328).
In the Eyes of the Tiger
Artificial mammalian eyes produced by Anton Greiner - Vetter, Lauscha. (no date,
after 1908) Leather covered box with claps containing 100 artificial eyes for mammals, birds, reptils, etc., coming with two advertisement resp. order pamphlets with
price list in original wrappers (4 and 6 leaves). The price of the box is marked with:
50 Mark. Box size: 355 x 310 mm; one artificial eye partly damaged, otherwise complete as distributed.
EUR 4.500.Rare survivor of time. A presentation or advertisement
box with 100 artificial mammals eyes (produced around
1908) by one of the best (world-wide) producer of
artificial glass eyes around 1900. The box contains eyes
of mammals, apes, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and
eyes of fishes (like „shark’s eyes with greenish luminous
pupils“).
In the mid 19th century, glass artisans in Thuringia, a
region in eastern Germany, developed a superior glass
for-mula for the making of artificial eyes. Combined
with their techniques of blowing hollow glass objects,
the center for glass eye making moved to Germany.
The methods of making hollow kryolite glass prosthesis
are still used today in Germany and many parts of
the world. Glass eye making was introduced in the
United States in the mid 1800‘s by immigrant German
ocularists. Although the American Ocularists of this era
continued to make glass prostheses, the kryolite glass
material itself was exported from Germany. The GreinerVetter company was founded in 1853 and worked since
1867 with gas; gas-flames could produce finer and
more artificial glassware.
In the advertisement in three languages (german,
french, english) they praised themself: „More than
twenty years of experience… After long experiments
I have succeeded in imitating the eyes of mammals
with remarkable truth to nature. Enamel-corners are
used in the construction. The colouring of the iris is
exceedingly beautiful and true to nature. … Owing to
my own personal studies in Zoological Gardens and my
constant connections with the foremost expert preparators throughout the country I am well instructed on
the colour and size of the mammals, …“ He cites further
on recommandation letters by Schröder (Zoologisches
Museum Berlin), Stainsky (Colorado Spring), Grimm
(Bern), Böhler (Furtwangen).
Lauscha in Thuringa is since early times best known for
his glasblowing industry and his production of glass
baubles, which were first made by Hans Greiner (15501609) who produced garlands of glass beads and tin
figures that could be hung on trees. The popularity of
these decorations grew into the production of glass
fi-gures made by highly skilled artisans with clay molds.
In the 1880’s, american F. W. Woolworth discovered
Lauscha’s baubles during a visit to Germany. He made
a fortune by importing the German glass ornaments to
the United States.