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CATALOGUE 8 (Spring 1943) issued by Schunian's, 20 East 70th Street, New York, contains 485 items, the great majority of which are of medical interest, but including a number of non-medical scientific works as well. Special mention may be made of the following: several works by Vesalius including the third edition of the “Fabrica”, the first edition of Casserio's “Tabulæ Anatoinicæ”(1627), Fallopio's “Institutiones Anatomicæ”(1585), the first edition of Acosta's “Herbal”(1578), Cesalpino's “De Plantis”(1583); Fracastor's “Opera Omnia”(1555), the first edition of Conrad Gesner' s “Surgical Tracts”(1516-65), Hans Sachs' folk poem (c. 1550), the first edition of Guido Guidi' s work on surgery (1544), the first edition of Cockayne's “Leechdoms”(1864-66), the first edition of Morgagni' s “De Sedibus et Causis Morborum”(1761). The non-medical works include the first edition of Goethe' s “Metamorphose der Pflanzen”(1790), the first edition of Lyell' s “Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Men”(1863), the first edition of Newton' s “Optics”(1704) and the first edition of the “Origin of Species”(1859), and Francis Hauksbee's “Physico-Mechanical Experiments on various Substances”(1709).
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Rare Scientific Books. Nature 152, 562 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152562c0
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