Adam's Works on Paper Art & Literature 12th March 2019

43 www.adams.ie Works on Paper 12 th March 2019 98 A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON WORLD HISTORY AND WAR Three boxes, including The Battle of Normandy 1944 (2 vols, slipcase); Liberation of Saint-Lo (in French, Beckett interest); Pimlott, World War II in Photographs; Foot, SOE in France; Ani- mals inWartime; The Irish Nuns at Ypres; books on Hitler, Speer, Churchill, T.E. Lawrence; Vietnam, photo-book; Palin, Himalaya; a small collection of books on Bahrain; some paperbacks and pamphlets, about 45 in all. As a collection, w.a.f. € 80 -120 97 OFFERED AS A COLLECTION Professor Eoin O’Brien’s important collection of books on medicine, medical history and biography, Irish medical institutions, his clinical specialty of cardiology and hyper- tension, etc., a lifetime’s 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. Cushing’s 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, Tru- ants; 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. O’Brien & O’Malley); 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; O’Brien & O’Malley, 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 O’Brien, a distinguished specialist with an international reputation in cardiology research. € 3,000 - 5,000 THE COLLECTION OF PROF. EOIN O’BRIEN.