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£10,000 - £15,000

Realised Price:

£11,400 ($20,727)

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CARPUE, Joseph Constantine (1764-1846). An Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose. London: Cox and Baylis for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Stipple-engraved, colour-printed frontispiece and 4 plates, one etched [after Tagliacozzi] and 3 stipple-engraved, 2 printed in colours by Charles Turner, woodcut illustration. Half-title and errata/directions to the binder leaf. (Light offsetting and spotting.) Provenance: Perry (presentation inscription on half-title 'Perry Esq with J C Carpue's Comp.') FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. Garrison-Morton 5737; Lowndes p. 377; Waller 1781; Wellcome II, p. 304. [Bound with 3 other works:]

George Buckley BOLTON. On the United Siamese Twins, offprint from: Philosophical Transactions, vol. CXX, pp. 177-186. London: Richard Taylor, 1830. Engraved plate by James Basire after Frederick Harding. Extra-illustrated with a lithographic plate 'The Siamese Youths' by W. Day [R. Ackerman & Co.: c.1829]. (Title lightly browned, occasional light spotting.) Provenance: John Hardwicke (presentation inscription on title 'John Hardwicke Esqr with the author's best regards'). FIRST OFFPRINT EDITION. A RARE PRESENTATION COPY. No copy is recorded at auction since 1975, and COPAC only records copies of the offprint in the British Library and Bristol University Library.

Nathaniel HIGHMORE (1789-1866). Case of a Foetus Found in the Abdomen of a Young Man, at Sherborne, in Dorsetshire. London: J. Cruttwell, Sherborne for the author and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815. 11 engraved folding plates by C. Heath after Clift. Errata leaf. (Spotted.) Provenance: 'J.B.' (pencilled note on title 'I have seen this Foetus J.B.'). FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The subject of the monograph was Thomas Lane. Wellcome III, p. 263.

James WARDROP (1782-1869). History of James Mitchell, a Boy Born Blind and Deaf, with an Account of the Operation Performed for the Recovery of his Sight. London and Edinburgh: W. Bulmer and Co. for John Murray and Archibald Constable and Co., 1813. (Lightly spotted.) Provenance: early, partially-erased inscription on title. FIRST EDITION. An account by Wardrop, the first physician to classify the inflammations of the eye according to the structures affected and the first to use the term 'Keratitis'. Lowndes p.2840.

4 works in one volume, 4° (270 x 222mm). Half roan over cloth boards, bound in 1878 (lacking spine, boards detached, some wear causing losses). Provenance: John Deakin Heaton, M.D. (bookplate; initials on titles of 3rd and 4th works; manuscript list of contents and note on binding).

A SAMMELBAND OF FOUR RARE MEDICAL MONOGRAPHS, INCLUDING CARPUE'S CLASSIC OF PLASTIC SURGERY. Carpue's Account of Two Successful Operations describes two successful operations using the 'Hindu' technique of rhinoplasty (which employed a forehead flap), first described in an article in Gentleman's Magazine in 1794. Carpue's treatise was the most important work on reconstructive plastic surgery since Tagliacozzi's De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (Venice, 1597), a work that, whilst outstanding, had been condemned so violently by both the religious establishment and surgeons such as Paré and Fallopius, that his techniques swiftly fell into disuse. Carpue discusses both the 'Taliacotian' and 'Hindu' methods in his historical survey of the literature in part I of the work, before describing the two successful operations performed upon officers of the British Army. Carpue's work was translated into German and published in 1817 with a foreword by Carl von Graefe, the pioneer of rhinoplasty in Germany and developer of the 'German' method. The first edition is rare at auction. This Sammelband was compiled the eminent Leeds physician John Deakin Heaton, who served as president of the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society from 1868 to 1872 and first chairman of the Council of the Yorkshire College of Science; Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid's A Memoir of J.D. Heaton was published in 1883.