Medicine & Natural History

Photographic portrait of Chinese physician Liu Noni, 1861

Rare 19th-century French lifesaving report with Ward’s cork lifejacket

Bovio's polemic works defending Paracelsian medicine

Biblical botany, 1584

First edition of a thorough treatise on the use of opium

3rd copy located of Antwerp medical textbook, with treatise on syphilis, 1726

An early 19th-century case of intersexuality, gender and sex, with 5 plates

A 1598 edition of Lemnius's Secrect miracle of nature

A 1784 defense of animal magnetisme

Four medical works by Jean Varandal in one volume, from the library of Bob Luza