Medical History, Mary Shelley, & Frankenstein


WORKS FROM THE JOHN MARTIN RARE BOOK ROOM

ANATOMY

1. Bell, Charles. The anatomy of the brain, explained in a series of engravings, 1802. (xfQM455 .B44)

2. Bidloo, Govard. Anatomia hvmani corporis, 1685. (xfQM21 .B58)

3. Bourgery, Marc Jean. Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme, 1831-1854. (xfQM25 .B76)


SURGERY, DISSECTION, & BODYSNATCHING

4. Bell, Charles. A system of dissections, explaining the anatomy of the human body, the manner of displaying the parts, and varieties in disease, 1799. (xfQM33.5 .B44 1799)

5. Turner, Daniel. The art of surgery, 1736. (xRD30 .T88 1736)

6. Bailey, James Blake. The diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812, 1896. (xRA637 .B3)

7. Christison, Robert. A treatise on poisons, 1829. (xRA1211 .C56 1829)

8. Knox, Robert. Man, his structure and physiology: popularly explained and demonstrated, 1858. (xQM23 .K56 1858)


ALTERNATIVE SCIENCES (GALVANISM, PHYSIOGNOMY, & PHRENOLOGY)

9. Aldini, Giovanni. An account of the late improvements in galvanism, 1803. (xQC517 .A36 1803)

10. Carpue, J. C. An introduction to electricity and galvanism, 1803. (xRM870 .C37 1803)

11. Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essai sur la physiognomonie : destiné ŕ faire connoître l'homme & ŕ le faire aimer, 1781. (xfBF843 .L343 1781)

12. Spurzheim, Johann Gaspar. Phrenology: or, The doctrine of the mind, and of the relations between its manifestations and the body, 1825. (xBF870 .S57 1825)


ALCHEMY & NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS (DR FRANKENSTEIN’S INSPIRATIONS)

13. Boyle, Robert. Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental natural philosophy, 1664. (xQ155 .B683 1664)

14. Darwin, Charles. On the origin of the species, 1859. (xQH365 .O2 1859)

15. Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia, 1803. (xQP29 .D22 1803)

16. Magnus, Albertus. De secretis mulierum, 1598. (xRG85 .A33 1598)

17. Paracelsus. Astronomica et astrologica, 1567. (xQB26 .P2)


WORKS FROM SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

18. Polidori, John William. The Vampyre; a Tale. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection. (x828 .P766v)

19. Godwin, et al. The Elopement of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. 1911. (xPR5432. G6)

20. “William Godwin to Mrs. Shelley: Autograph letter in re Frankenstein.” Received by Mary Shelley, 29 July 1823. (MsL G95s Leaf7)

21. “Mary W. Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Autograph letters to Mrs. Leigh Hunt.” Received by Marianne Hunt, 16 August 1817. (MsL S54hu)

22. Lackington, James. Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of the Life of James Lackington, the Present Bookseller in Chiswell-street, Moorfields, London. 1791.(B .L141L)

23. Lackington, James. Memoirs of the Forty-five Years of the Life of James Lackington, the Present Bookseller ... /. Ninth Edition Cor. and Much Enlarged .... ed. 1794. (CT788.L25 A3 1794)

24. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Barry. Moser, and Ruth. Mortimer. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus. 1983. (FOLIO PR5397 .F7 1984)

25. Shelley, Pearson, Henry, Pearson, Edmund Lester, Henry, Everett, and Limited Editions Club. Frankenstein ; Or, The Modern Prometheus. 1934. (PR5397 .F7 1934)


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