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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

The great medical bibliographers. A study in humanism.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951 CE.

1. The Beginnings: Tritheim, Champier, and Gesner.

2. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Medical Book Sales, à Beughem, Van der Linden, Haller, and the Rise of Medical Biobibliography.

3. Medical Subject Indices: Ploucquet, Forbes, Callisen, and Billings; Choulant and Osler; Keynes and the Rise of Personal Bibliography.

Appendiix I. The Gesner Bibliothecae

Appendix II. List of Early Medical Sales

Appendix III. The Haller Bibliothecae

Appendix IV: Works by Ludwig Choulant

Appendix V:  [Bibliographies by] Geoffrey Keynes

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Entry Number#6785
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Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-great-medical-bibliographers-a-study-in-humanism

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia