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1794
#7659
Instructions for collecting and preserving various subjects of natural history; as animals, birds, reptiles, shells, corals, plants, &c. Together with A treatise on the management of insects in their several states; selected from the best authorities.
Digital text available from ECCO TCP Eighteenth Century Collections Online at this link.
1796
#7723
Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.
Includes fine hand-colored plates of kidney stones and gall stones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1796
#11958
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or a catalogue of plants, indigenous and foreign, cultivated in the Walkerian Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
The Walkerian Botanic Garden was the first botanical garden founded in Cambridge. It is the ancestor of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1800
#13392
Der botanische Garten der Universität zu Halle im Jahre 1799.
Digital facsimile from digitale-sammlungen.de at this link. Followed by Erster Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung des botanischen Gartens der Universität zu Halle (1801). Digital facsimile of the 1801 Nachtrag from bab-muen…
1801
#7683
A concise and descriptive catalogue of all the natural and artificial curiosities in the museum of W. H. Yate, Esq. at Bromesberrow-Place near Glocester: being the extensive and valuable collection of the late Dr. Greene, of Lichfield, with many additions, collected by the present proprietor.
Publication date is estimated. Digital facsimile from the Beinicke Library, Yale University, at this link.
1801
#12053
Observations sur la maladies appelée peste, le flux dissentérique, l'ophtalmie d'Égypte, et les moyens de s'en préserver. Avec des notions sur la fièvre jaune de Cadix, et les projet et plan d'un hôpital, pour le traitement maladies épidémiques et contagieuses.
At the time of publication Assalini, a military surgeon with Napoleon, characterized himself on the title page as "Docteur en Médecine et Chirugien de 1re classe de la Garde des Consuls..." Digital facsimile from well…
1801
#13846
Précis historique, physiologique et moral des principaux objets en cire préparée et coloriée d'après nature qui composent le muséum de J.-Fois. Bertrand-Rival.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1804
#11317
Catalogue of the natural productions and curiosities, which compose the collections of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened for public exhibition, at No. 38, William-Street, New-York.
One of the first natural history museums in the U.S., supported by subscription. According to the text, David Hosack and Wright Post were among the supporters of the project. The copy at the U.S. National Library of M…
1805
#12049
Mémoire sur les hôpitaux civils de Paris, dans lequel on traite de la situation de chacun d'eux, comparé avec les anciens, des améliorations qui y ont été opérées, de celles dont ils son susceptibles, et de la forme de leur administration. Avec des notes historiques sur leur origine et leur accroissement successif; et sur les moyens de former un seul hôpital capable de recevoir tous les malades indigens d'une ville du premier order.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1806
#7658
Catalogue of the Leverian Museum : part I[-VI] ... the sale of the entire collection by Messrs. King and Lochee will commence on Monday, the 5th of May, 1806 at twelve o'clock.
Auction catalogue in six parts. Digital facsimile from Biodiviersity Heritage Library at this link. Facsimile reprint, London: Harmer Johnson and John Hewett, 1979 with a 69-page manuscript appendix of an extra five d…
1806
#10379
A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.
Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…
1807
#13348
De l'établissement des principaux jardins de botanique.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Edited English translation by Roger L. Williams as "On the establishment of the principal gardens of botany: A bibliographical essay by Jean-Philippe-François Deleuze,…
1808
#7682
A catalogue of the anatomical preparations, casts, drawings, machines, instruments, &c. in White's Museum, Lying-in hospital.
1808
#7685
Catalogue of the principal objects of curiosity [in the collection of Edward Donovan] contained in the London Museum and Institute of Natural History, Catherine Street, Strand, now open to the inspection of the public.
1808
#10067
The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,
The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1808
#11955
A catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1809
#7610
Directions for preserving animals and parts of animals for anatomical investigation; and concerning extraneous fossils.
"The following Directions, framed by the late Mr. John Hunter, are intended to facilitate, and render effectual, the Endeavours of such Friends to scientific Inquiries as shall be inclined to futher the designs of the…
1809
#10267
Recueil général des lois, réglemens, décisions et circulaires sur le service des hôpitaux militaires. 2 vols.
On the organization and administration of French military hospitals during the Napoleonic era, and probably the most comprehensive account published up to this time on the administration of military hospitals in gener…
1809
#10465
A companion to the Liverpool Museum, containing a brief description of upwards of seven thousand natural and foreign curiosities, antiquities and productions of fine arts, collected during several years of arduous research, and at an expense of upwards of twenty thousand pounds. And now open for inspection, in the Great Room, No. 22, Piccadilly, London, which has been fitted up for the purpose in a manner entirely new.
Bullock founded his Museum of Natural Curiosities at 24 Lord Street in Liverpool in 1795. While still trading as a jeweller and goldsmith, in 1801 he published a descriptive catalogue of the works of art, armor, objec…
1813
#7586
A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, & c. in that celebrated collection.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1814 –1828
#315
Lectures on comparative anatomy, in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection
Home plagiarized this large work from the manuscripts of John Hunter, his late father-in-law, and, as a result, of immense importance for publication of Hunter’s researches, and for aspects of Hunter's collection on w…
1814
#10761
Hortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1815
#7684
A descriptive catalogue of a museum of antiquities and foreign curiosities, natural and artifical, including models illustrative of military and naval affairs, armour and weapons, instruments of torture, polytheism, sepulchres, with the manner of depositing the dea, the costume of different nations, manuscripts, natural history, including anatomy &, &c, &c. Collected by P. Dick, Sloane-Street.
Publication date is estimated.
1816
#12024
A catalogue of the library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. With a supplement.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1818
#10614
Catalogue of the museum of John Heaviside, Esq.: Comprising human anatomy, natural and morbid, comparative anatomy, and natural history.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1818
#13644
Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.
Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.
1820
#7632
Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg sur l'état actuel de son muséum anatomique suivi du catalogue des objects qu'il renferme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. See also Lobstein's Compte rendu à la Faculté de Médicine de Strasbourg sur les travaux anatomiques exécutés à l'amphithéâtre de cette faculté pendant les années 18…
1823
#13349
Histoire de description du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle, ouvrage rédigé d'après les ordres de l'administration du muséum.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1824
#11315
Report on the state of the anatomical museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 30th June, 1824.
This 36-page pamphlet is the earliest printed record of Caspar Wispar's museum collection. It was augmented by William Horner, whom Wistar appointed to manage the collection. The combined collections beame known as th…
1825
#7603
Catalogue of the anatomical museum in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1826
#7511
Descriptio musei anatomici.
Bleuland's catalogue of his museum of anatomical and pathological specimens. Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.
1827
#13198
Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late The Allan, formerly The Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum: To which are prefixed Memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the Late Proprietor, of the collection; with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor.
Ornithologist and collector Marmaduke Tunstall began collecting for his private museum in London in the 1770s, acquiring numerous 'curiosities brought by Captain Cook'; he moved the collections in 1776 to his home at …
1828
#7512
Otium academicum, continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustrator.
Issued in 12 fascicules from 1826 to 1828. Consists of 3 parts concerning anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy specimens and pathological specimens. Includes 37 plates printed in color; 35 plates in black & whi…
1828
#7605
A prodromus of a synopsis animalium, comprising a catalogue raisonné, of the zootomical collection of Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S. etc. Part the first; and of the anatomical preparations; part the second, which will be sold by auction in various lots about the middle of May, unless the whole be previously purchased by private contract, including the large and interesting department of nature history, etc. & c., the catalogue of which is now preparing, and will be published as speedily as possible. Likewise the extensive premises....2 vols.
Brookes initially tried to sell his collection en bloc before consigning it to auction in 1830. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1829
#7497
A catalogue of the preparations in the anatomical museum of Guy’s Hospital arranged and edited, by desire of the Treasurer of the Hospital, and of the teachers of the Medical and Surgical School.
Digital facsimile of Part II, Morbid Anatomy, from the Internet Archive at this link.
1830
#7604
Museum Brookesianum: A descriptive and historical catalogue of the remainder of the anatomical & zootomical museum, of Joshua Brookes, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. &c.: comprising nearly one half of the original collection, and embracing an almost endless assemblage of every species of anatomical, pathological, obstetrical, and zootomical preparations, as well as subjects in natural history, of the choicest and rarest species in every department : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Wheatley & Adlard, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Blenheim Street, Great Marlborough Street, on Monday, the 1st of March, 1830, and 22 following evenings, (Saturdays & Sundays excepted,) at half-past six o'clock precisely
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1830 –1860
#7606
Catalogue of the contents of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Parts I-II , Plants and invertebrate animals in the dried state (1860); Part III, The human and comparative osteology (1830); Part IV, Fasiculus I, Comprehending the first division of the preparations of natural history in spirit (1830); Part V, comprehending the preparations of monsters and malformed parts in spirit, and in a dried state (1831); Part VI, Comprehending the vascular and miscellaneous preparations in a dried state (1831).
By numerous authors, many unidentified. All published. From the Preface to part I: "The present Volume... completes the series of Hunterian Catalogues. The specimens included in it consist of Plants and Invertebrate A…
1831
#7741
Icones selectae praeparatiorum Musei Anatomici Universitatis Fridericiae Wilhelmiae Rhenanae.
Discussion of various specimens in the anatomical museum of Medical Faculty of the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, highlighting a number of embryological, teratological and obstetrical items, some of…
1831
#9807
Beredeneerde beschrijving van het Museum Anatomico-Physiologicum van P. de Riemer.
Digital facsimile from Universiteit Utrecht at this link.
1831
#10441
Circular of the Philadelphia Museum: Containing directions for the preparation and preservation of objects of natural history.
1831
#12025
Catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1831
#13405
A catalogue of the medical library of the Philadelphia Alms-House, prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Board of Managers.
First edition, 1824. Founded in 1732/33, this institution became known in the 19th century as "Old Blockley" after it moved to the Blockley Township in West Philadelphia. It was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital i…
1833 –1840
#326
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons of England]. 5 vols.
I. Organs of motion and digestion. 1833.--II. Absorbent, circulating, respiratory, and urinary systems. 1834.--III. pt. I. Nervous system and organs of sense. pt. II. Connective and tegumentary systems and peculiariti…
1833
#11308
A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834 –1840
#10380
Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Vol. I. (Anatomy). Vol. 2. (Pathology).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1836
#7674
The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion; being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums.
"Dr Frederick Knox was the librarian of New Zealand's first public library. He emigrated from Scotland in July 1840 and within days of arriving in Port Nicholson became involved in establishing the country's first pub…
1836
#13037
Catalogue des oiseaux.
Catalogue of the collection of over 3400 New World, Africa, Asian, Australian and European stuffed birds gather by the ornithologist, botanist and politican, following the order of the display of these specimens in La…
1837
#7633
Musée d'anatomie de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, ou Catalogue méthodique de son cabinet d'anatomie physiologique, comparée et pathologique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. See also Ehrmann's Nouveau catalogue du musée d'anatomie normal et pathologique de la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (1843) and his Notice sur les accroissements du …
1837
#13056
Catalogue raisonné, or, classified arrangement of the books in the Library of the Medical Society of Edinburgh.
Classification by subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1838
#7672
Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et de l'histoire naturelle suivie de procédés nouveau.
Gannal discovered the efficacy of solutions of aluminum acetate and chloride for preserving anatomical preparations. His method of embalming involved injection of solutions of aluminum salts into the arteries. Transla…