1833 ATKINSON, James (1759 – 1839)
Medical bibliography, A and B.
Although of limited scientific value, this extensively annotated work is the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published, even if the humor is of a "rarified" nature. Atkinson, surgeon to the Duke …
GMN 6754.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8173
1835 FORBES, Sir John (1788 – 1861)
A manual of select medical bibliography, in which the books are arranged chronologically according to the subjects, and the derivations of the terms and the nosological and vernacular synonyms of the diseases are given. With an appendix, containing lists of the collected works of authors, systematic treatises on medicine, transactions of societies, journals, &c. &c &c.
“First serious attempt by anyone in the English-speaking world to give a subject classification for medical literature” (Fulton). This was first published in volume 4 of Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, edited by Fo…
GMN 6755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8176
1835 KLOSS, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787 – 1854)
Catalogue of the Library of Dr. Kloss, of Franckfort a M., Professor; including many original and unpublished manuscripts and printed books with ms. annotations by Philip Melanchthon. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son. on Thursday, May 7th, and nineteen following days, Sundays excepted).
"The Kloss library was the most important collection of early printed books ever made by a medical man." (Note by William Osler in Bibliotheca Osleriana No. 7150). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15705
1837 DUNGLISON, Robley (1798 – 1869)
The medical student; or, aids to the study of medicine. Including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing,--bibliographical notices of medical works; the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c.
A remarkable survey of medical education in the U.S. at the time, with a thorough analysis of the different medical schools and the courses they offered, and an extensively annotated bibliography of 195 recommended me…
GMN 10107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12296
1837 ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
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.
GMN 13056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15307
1838 –1840 PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
Medical portrait gallery. Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc. etc. who have contributed to the advancement of medical science. 4 vols.
Includes engraved portraits as well as text. The text frequently contains extensively annotated bibliographies of key works of the physicians portrayed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7816
1839 –1861 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); LITTRÉ, Émile Maximilien Paul (1801 – 1881)
Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.
The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…
GMN 13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4475
1840 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
GMN 6502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8045
1840 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)
Verzeichniss der vom weil. Obermedicinalrath Blumbach nachgelassen Bucher. . . .
Catalogue of the library of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, prepared for its sale at auction. Books were listed for sale individually, organized by size. Author and title and place published were listed, as were the numb…
GMN 6946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9111
1841 –1846 CHINCHILLA Y PIQUERAS, Anastasio (1801 – 1867)
Anales históricos de la medicina en general, y biografico-bibliográficos de la española en particular. 8 vols.
Includes No. 6576, together with Historia particular de las operaciones quirúrgicas, 1841; Historia general de la medicina, 2 vols. 1841-43; and Vade mecum histórico y bibliográfico, etc., 1844. Facsimile reproduction…
GMN 6575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8286
1842 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861); ROSENBAUM, Julius (1807 – 1874)
Bibliotheca medico-historica: sive, catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus.
Additamenta, by Julius Rosenbaum, 2 parts, 1842-47. Reprinted (without Additamenta), 1960.
GMN 6756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8195
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
1842 WENRICH, Johann Georg (1787 – 1847)
De auctorum graecorum versionibus et commentariis syriacis, arabicis, armeniacis persicisque commentatio.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10601
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
1845 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844)
Catalogue des livres de sciences particulièrement de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et d'anatomie philosophique composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,...: dont la vente se fera le jeudi 20 novembre 1845, et jours suivants, à midi précis, au Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, n° 33.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15696
1846 WHEATLEY, Benjamin Robert (1819 – 1884); ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. [By Benjamin Robert Wheatley].
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Between 1907 and 1909 the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London became one of 17 English medical societies that joined to form the Royal Society of M…
GMN 11213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13410
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
1846 BRESCHET, Gilbert (1784 – 1845)
Catalogue des Livres composant la Bibliothèque de feu … Gilbert Breschet.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15690
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
1849 TIEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781 – 1861)
Friedrich Tiedemann’s Bücher-Sammlung.
"After resigning his professorship of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg due to deteriorating eyesight, Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) sold his extensive personal library—over 4,600 volumes, assembled over fifty ye…
GMN 11432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13631
1849 SANDIFORT, Gerard (1779 – 1848)
Catalogus librorum cum medicorum, anatom., chirurg., artis obstetr., materiei medicae et chemiae, tum historiae natural., geogr, itin. litteraturae, historiae, item effigierum, nec non praeparatorum ad anatomen tum sanam tum morbosam pertinentium, et partem musei efficientium, quibus usus est ... Gerardus Sandifort ... quorum publica fiet auctio ... die XXIX Octobris MDCCCXLIX et seqq. Lugduni Batavorum per E.J. Brill ...
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15712
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
1850 BLAINVILLE, Henri Marie Ducrotay de (1777 – 1850)
Catalogue des livres de géologie, botanique, zoologie, médecine, anatomie, physiologie, physique, littérature, histoire, français et étrangers … de Feu M. H. D. de Blainville.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15689
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
1853 DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)
Notices et extraits des manuscrits médicaux grecs, latins et français, des principales bibliothèques de l'Europe. 1er partie. Manuscrits Grecs d'Angleterre.
All published. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10595
1856 –1879 WHEATLEY, Benjamin Robert (1819 – 1884); ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London [by Benjamin Robert Wheatley]. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from Google Books at this link, of Vol. 2 at this link.
GMN 12026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14234
1857 FISCHER, Emil (librarian)
Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…
GMN 7470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9642
1857 GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823); GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
Noticia da vida e trabalhos scientificos do medico Bernardino Antonio Gomés.
Biography and annotated bibliography of the physician and botanist Gomés senior, written by his son. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13985
1857 –1889 PAULY, Alphonse (1830 – 1909)
Catalogue des sciences médicales. Bibliothèque nationale, Département des imprimés. 4 vols.
When the first volume was published in 1857 the library was designated Bibliothèque Impériale. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15034
1857 JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent de (1748 – 1836); JUSSIEU, Bernard de (1699 – 1777); JUSSIEU, Antoine de (1686 – 1758); JUSSIEU, Adrien-Henri de (1797 – 1853)
Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique de MM. de Jussieu, dont la vente aur lieu le lundi 14 janvier 1858 et jours suivants, à sept heurs du soir....
Auction catalogue of the library of the de Jussieu dynasty of botanists. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15221
1857 –1889 BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
Catalogue des sciences médicales. Publié par ordre de l'Empereur. 3 vols.
Catalogue of the medical books in what is now the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but which was called in 1857 the Bibliothèque Impériale. By the second volume published in 1873 the library was renamed the Bibliothè…
GMN 13732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16016
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
1858 MÜLLER, Johannes Peter (1801 – 1858)
Catalog der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des am 28 April 1858 verstorbenen Geh. Medicinal-Rathes, Professors der Anatomie und Physiologie, Dr. Johannes Müller.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15708
1860 VROLIK, Gerardus (1775 – 1859)
Catalogue de la bibliothèque d’histoire naturelle, de médecine et d’ autres sciences de feu M. G. Vrolik.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13633
1861 FÖRSTER, August (1822 – 1865)
Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.
An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.
GMN 534.63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1828
1861 –2005 MUNK, William (1816 – 1898)
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.
“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…
GMN 6715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7824
1861 CARUS, Julius Victor (1823 – 1903); ENGELMANN, Wilhelm (1808 – 1878)
Bibliotheca zoologica. Verzeichniss der Schriften über zoologie, welche in den Periodischen werken enthalten und vom Jahre 1846-1860 selbständig erschienen Sind. Mit Einschluss der allgemein-naturgeschichtlichen periodischen und palaeontologischen Schriften. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 12462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14695
1861 AMMON, Friedrich August von (1799 – 1861)
Verzeichniss der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des Geh. Medicinalrathes Dr. v. Ammon in Dresden, welch nebst mehreren anderen Bibliotheken, sowie einem Anhange von Musikalien und Büchern über Musik....
GMN 13416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15688
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
1863 POGGENDORFF, Johann Christian (1796 – 1877)
Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. 8 vols. in 11 pts.
Brief biographies, fuller bibliographies. Erster Band. A–L. 1863 . Zweiter Band. M–Z. 1863 . Dritter Band (1858 bis 1883). 1898 Vierter Band (Die Jahre 1883 bis zur Gegenwart umfassend). 1904: T. 1. A-L. T. 2. M-Z Fün…
GMN 6759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8202
1863 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); STEVENS, Henry Jr. (1819 – 1886)
The Humboldt Library. A catalogue of the library of Alexander von Humboldt. With a bibliographical and biographical memoir by Henry Stevens.
GMN 13431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15703
1864 FRANKLIN, Alfred (1830 – 1917)
Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, d'après des documents entièrement inédits, suivies d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this liink.
GMN 12726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14972
1865 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863)
Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....
The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…
GMN 6938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9103
1866 DUREAU, Alexis (1831 – 1904)
Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.
Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.
GMN 7378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9550
1867 –1925 ROYAL SOCIETY, [The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge] (1660 – )
Catalogue of scientific papers. Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols.
An author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, published from 1800 to 1900. Continued by the international catalogue of scientific literature, wh…
GMN 6760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8205
1867 GOODSIR, John (1814 – 1867)
Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library of works on anatomy, physiology, medicine, natural history, and relative sciences, which belonged to the late Professor Goodsir, comprising ... to be sold by auction, by Mr. Dowell, within his book rooms, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday and Friday, 28th and 29th November, 1867. Commencing at twelve o'clock each day. On view on Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th and 27th November.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15755
1868 FOLLIN, Eugène (1823 – 1867)
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Docteur E. Follin.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15766
1868 SERRES, Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin (1786 – 1868)
Notice de livres d'histoire naturelle, de médecine et de la litérature composant la bibliothèque de fe M. E. R. A. Serres.
GMN 13493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15767
1869 HOEVEN, Johannes van der (1802 – 1868)
Catalogue de la bibliotheque delaissé par Mr. J. van der Hoeven.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15702
1871 GRAEFE, Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von (1828 – 1870)
A. von Grafe's hinterlassene medizinische u. ophthalmologische Bibliothek, sowie ein Anhang von diversen medizinischen Werken und Suiten von medizinischen Journalen zu Antiquarpreisen durch die Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.
GMN 13426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15698
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