Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
20th February 2013
Sometimes, as a bookseller, you come across something which you really can’t quite believe exists, and something that you will probably never see again. Here is one such item, two leaves of occasional printing produced following the death of one Anna Maria Löffelholz von Colberg in 1727, when an enormous kidney stone, weighing 29½ loths […]
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2nd August 2012
Who’d have thought it…? This extraordinary (and rare) poem, from 1751, was written in honour of an amputation performed by Jean-Nicolas Moreau, for over 40 years chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu. Le Roy, a lawyer, praises Moreau for removing his lower arm, which was shattered in a hunting accident, recounting the process in some (rather […]
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