1842 –1852 HERNÁNDEZ MOREJÓN, Antonio (1773 – 1836)

Historia bibliográfica de la medicina española. 7 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6576.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8288

1843 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)

Bibliotheca epidemiographica.

A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.

GMN 1677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2343

1846 ENGELMANN, Wilhelm (1808 – 1878)

Bibliotheca historico-naturalis. Verzeichniss der bücher über naturgeschichte, welche in Deutschland, Scandinavien, Holland, England, Frankreich, Italien und Spanien in den jahren 1700-1846 erschienen sind.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 12461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14694

1848 –1854 AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873); STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin (1811 – 1853); JARDINE, Sir William (1800 – 1874)

Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae. A general catalogue of all books, tracts, and memoirs on zoology and geology by Louis Agassiz. Corrected, enlarged and edited by H. E. Strickland. 4 vols. Vol. 4 edited by Strickland and Jardine.

Digital facsimile of the 4 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 7092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9259

1850 MEISSNER, Friedrich Ludwig (1796 – 1860)

Grundlage der Literatur der Pädiatrik.

An extensive bibliography of pediatric literature, containing about 7,000 references.

GMN 6351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8191

1852 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861)

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.

In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…

GMN 440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1098

1858 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861)

Graphische lncunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Medicin. Enthaltend Geschichte und Bibliographie der ersten naturhistorischen und medicinischen Drucke des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts, welche mit illustrirenden Abbildungen versehen sind.

Reprint, Munich, 1924, Hildesheim, 1963.

GMN 6757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8199

1863 ZEIS, Eduard (1807 – 1868)

Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.

A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supplement 275 m…

GMN 5767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6755

1874 DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872); PAULY, Alphonse (1830 – 1909)

Bibliographie des sciences médicales.

Cites books and articles. Author index. Begun by Daremberg and completed by Pauly.

GMN 6760.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8209

1876 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)

History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.

GMN 6761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8216

1890 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)

Rare medical books. Remarks made by Dr. John S. Billings at the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society, December 16th, 1889.

This three page paper is primarily a detailed bibliographical listing of a selection of rare books that Billings brought from the Army Medical Library for exhibition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This was probably the fi…

GMN 13587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15865

1906 YOUNG, James (1811 – 1883); FERGUSON, John (1837 – 1916)

Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.

One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…

GMN 8473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10650

1912 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)

Texts illustrating the history of medicine in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Arranged in chronological order. Reprint from volume xvii, second series, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

In 1912 Garrison was Assistant Librarian of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. At the suggestion of Sir William Osler, Garrison prepared this classified listing of medical classics across the full range of the h…

GMN 11252 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13449

1917 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)

Illustrations of the bookworm.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

GMN 11277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13474

1923 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); SCHOLDERER, Victor (1880 – 1971)

Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.

Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introduction by …

GMN 6769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8257

1929 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); MALLOCH, Archibald (1887 – 1953); FRANCIS, William Willoughby (1878 – 1959); HILL, Reginald Harrison (1894 – 1976); MACKALL, Leonard (1879 – 1937)

Bibliotheca Osleriana. A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. and bequeathed to McGill University. [Edited by . W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch.]

This bibliography of over 7,500 titles, edited by W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch, is the catalogue of Osler’s magnificent library. For it Osler wrote an unfinished Introduction entit…

GMN 6772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8274

1933 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)

Revised students’ check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine, with references for collateral reading.

An expansion of Garrison's original list which appeared in the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, 1912, 2 ser. 17, 89-178. Garrison was inspired to draft the 1912 list by a sug…

GMN 6773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8282

1934 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

GMN 11358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13556

1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)

Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.

Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…

GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922

1977 BEDFORD, Brigadier Davis Evan (1898 – 1978)

The Evan Bedford library of cardiology. Catalogue of books, pamphlets and journals.

Descriptions of 1112 items, many with very informative annotations by Bedford, who donated his collection to the Royal College of Physicians. In addition to his clinical and research work in cardiology Bedford was an …

GMN 3161.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4105

1991 HOOK, Diana Hainault (1955 – ); NORMAN, Jeremy Michael (1945 – )

The Haskell F. Norman library of science and medicine. 2 vols.

Fully annotated descriptions, mostly with complete collations, paginations, and plate counts, of 2600 classics covering the spectrum of the sciences, emphasizing medicine, from circa 1470 to 1950, in the library of Ha…

GMN 6786.36 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8422