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***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT CONTAINS 14 BOXES*** OFFERED AS A COLLECTION Professor Eoin OBriens important collection of books on medicine, medical history and biography, Irish medical institutions, his clinical specialty of cardiology and hypertension, etc., a lifetimes collection in 14 boxes, including special, limited and signed editions, generally clean, mostly with wrappers where called for: an ideal opportunity for an institution or a collector to acquire a significant medical library in excellent condition. Contents briefly as follows: Box 1. Classics of Medicine Library. Special Editions in full leather. Cushings Life of Osler, 2 vols; Osler, Collected Papers on the Cardiovascular System; Osler, Principles and Practice of Medicine; Harvey, De Motu Cardis; Browne, Religio Medici; Thomas Sydenham, Works; Larrey, Memoirs of Military Surgery; Jenner, Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, all handsome editions in fine condition; a few other items (not leather bound), about 11 in all. Box 2. The Keynes Press Special Editions [B.M.A.] A collection including Lowbury, An Anthology; Mackenzie, Fredk The Noble, slipcase; Marks, A Varied Life; Pickles, Epidiomology; Keynes, Portraiture of William Harvey; Blatt vs. Pickering (2 copies); Trotter, Instincts; Ross, Malaria (slipcase); A Sense of Asher; Greenwood, The Medical Dictator, slipcase; Allbutt, Composition; Moynihan, Truants; Lord Moran, The Anatomy of Courage; Osler, Aequanimitas; Ryle, The Natural History of Disease; others, about 17 in all, handsome editions virtually in mint condition, mostly in cloth with original glassine wrappers. Box 3. High Blood Pressure. A collection including Birkenhager & Reid, A Handbook of Hypertension v. 14, Blood Pressure Measurement (ed. OBrien & OMalley); Naqvi & Blaufox, Blood Pressure Measurement; Postel-Vinay (ed.), A Century of Arterial Hypertension 1896-1996; White, Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, 2nd ed.; Oliver, Blood and Blood Pressure; Dally, High Blood Pressure, 3rd; OBrien & OMalley, High Blood Pressure; Mancia, Grassi, Kjeldsen, Manual of Hypertension; Mackenzie, The Study of the Pulse; others including some pamphlets and paperbacks,about 30 in all. A number of these books have contributions by Prof. Eoin OBrien, a distinguished specialist with an international reputation in cardiology research. Box 4. Medical History General. Including Hamusco, Anatomia, plates, facsimile edition in slipcase, letter; Gribbin, Science: A History; Morton, A Medical Bibliography; Garrison, History of Medicine; Major, Classic s of Disease; Porter & Wear, Problems in the History of Medicine; Ahrens, The Crisis in Clinical Research; Lock, A Difficult Balance; Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius; Stevenson, Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine and Physiology; some pamphlets and paperbacks, about 14 items in all. Box 5. Medical History. Portraiture, Photography, Instruments. A collection including Bruno, The Tradition of Science; Royal Coll. of Physicians of London, Portraits; Fannin (Dublin), Surgical Instrument Catalogue 1908; Bennion, Antique Medical Instruments; Bettmann, Pictorial History of Medicine; Emery, Medicine and Art; Burns Archive, Masterpieces of Medical Photography; OBrien, A Portrait of Irish Medicine; others, about 15 in all. Box 6. Medical History. US, Canada, international. A collection including Cheney & Reiner, An American Medical Odyssey; Connor, The Book of Skin; Illustrated Catalogue of the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at Stony Brook; Mayo Clinic, Dermatology, The First 90 Years; Hellstedt, Gold Medallist, autobiography; Oslers Principles & Practice of Medicine; Heymans Institute of Pharmacology 1890-1990; Medicine in Colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820; Essays in appreciation of Dr. Harold Nathan Segall; Pioneers of Cardiology in Canada; English, Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain; others, including pamphlets and paperbacks, about 20 in all. Box 7. General Cardiolog