KOS Collection, Italian Magazine on Antique Medicine

have a great reference about antique medicine: the first 10 issues of "KOS", from 1984, A A rare opportunity to have a great reference about antique medicine: the first 10 issues of "KOS", from 1984, absolutely one of the best magazine dedicated to the antique medicine and natural science, by the well known editor Franco Maria Ricci.

In every issue few great articles comes with fantastic colour full size pictures, for example:

- the only available colour pictures of the Brambilla's surgical sets, from Malliard, now in the Florence museum

- pictures from the Historical Medical Museum in Rome

- great pictures of the wax anatomical models in the Florence Specola

- antique engravings and draws related antique surgical instruments and operations

- ...

Please note: all the issues are written in ITALIAN, but even if you cannot understand it I can guarantee that the iconographical documentation makes this magazines an important source of reference, and you'll will enjoy them a lot.

NOT all the magazines all related just to medecine, also natural history and antique science is cover, but at least two articles for issue is fully dedicated to antique medicine.

Every issue got around 110 - 130 pages, and measures 30 x 23 cm.

The set comes with the original black cardboard cover, that contain the whole collection of the first 10 issues.