[Edward Cox]; R. Davis
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1866.

Particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists. With plain rules for taking the medicines, to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of Asiatic or spasmodic cholera. Pocket guide for the medical practitioner at sea. Includes a summary of drugs for the doctors medicine chest, with corresponding labels at the rear to be cut out and applied to bottles, here still intact.

George Wilson
Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox, 1855.

With a Supplement on the Danger Attending the Present System of Railway and Marine Coloured Signals. Early work on colour blindness and one of the most important books on the subject which led to testing for colour-blindess in many critical jobs. This copy inscribed by the author to Alexander Russell, Dean of Adelaide and relative by marriage to Wilson, and with an engraved portrait of Wilson mounted to the front pastedown

J. M. Thurston
Richmond: Nicholson Printing & Mfg. Co., 1900.

A late text in the school of Physiomedicalism, a natural medicine system which grew out of Thomsonianism in the United States and was influential in modern herbalism and holistic approaches to health.

[Hartland Law]; [Herbert E. Law]; Almah Lawson
San Francisco: The Viavi Company, 1914.

Health guide published by the San Francisco based Law brothers, Hartland and Herbert, who throughout the late 19th century established a line of Viavi medicines growing to an international company with offices around the world, in the process making them two of San Francisco’s most wealthly citizens. This copy with the stamps of the NSW Viavi office and their office address at 350 George St, Sydney in manuscript. Also mounted in at the front endpaper is a 4 page booklet of the New South Wales Viavi Co., with an introductory pitch by branch manager Almah Lawson.