[Boston: Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 15, 1902, 1902]. 12mo, pp. 22; original tan printed wrappers; wrappers offset onto recto of first leaf and verso of terminal leaf; all else very good. This copy inscribed by the author on the front wrapper. George J. Engelmann (1847-1903)..... More
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press, [1963]. Edition limited to 75 copies (this, no. 34); 8vo, pp. [12]; printed in green, red and black; original wrappers printed in green and black; fine. Not in Ishall who cuts off at 1953. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 239; original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, the spine and front cover faded, extremities a little worn, and the binding a little shaken; still a good, sound copy. More
Boston: printed by David Clapp, 1847. First edition, 8vo, pp. 29, [3], xviii; original printed terracotta wrappers; ex-Sheppard Library, Mass. College of Pharmacy, with their stamp on front wrapper and first page of text, and with a "discard" stamp on the front; all else about fine. More
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, [1994]. First edition, 4to, pp. 458; photographic illustrations in color, drawings in the text, contains appendix, bibliography, and index; full brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. More
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 447; 32 plates; hinges starting, else a very good copy in original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
New York: Edward P. Allen, 1855. First separate edition, (the text appeared in January 1856 in the Transactions of the American Medical Association); 8vo, pp. 42, [6]; original printed green wrappers (dated 1856); very good. Green was the first American physician to specialize in diseases of the throat, and his..... More
Boston: printed by Hosea Sprague, 1807. 16mo, pp. 96; disbound; small tear on the last leaf (no loss), all else very good. Originally published in 1774. An elderly and infirm doctor writes letters to his daughters on the conduct of life. American Imprints 12694; see Osborne, p. 712 and Rosenbach..... More
[London]: reprinted from the British Medical Journal, December 23, 1961. First edition, 8vo, pp. 8; staple-bound; fine condition. Presentation at the head: "To Dr. E. I. Kittle M.D. with kindest wishes from Douglas Guthrie Jan. 31, 1962." Also contains a type-written note to Kittle, dated January 31, 1962. A short..... More
London: printed by Richard Clay ... and sold by Hatchard & Son [et al.], 1828. 8vo, pp. 24; bound with: [Worcester, Noah]. Tract no. 1 ... The substance of a pamphlet entitled a solemn review of the custom of war; showing that war is the effect of popular delusion, and..... More
Chicago, Ill: McIntosh Galvanic & Faradic Battery Co, [1884]. Third edition. 8vo, pp. v, [2], 6-426; numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text, several full-page; original pebble-grain brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, very good with front hinge starting and a small tear to the cloth on the top of the spine..... More
Boston: David Clapp, printer, 1850. First edition, 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; ex-Sheppard Library, Mass. College of Pharmacy, with their stamp on front wrapper and first page of text, and with a "discard" stamp on the front; all else about fine. More
Philadelphia: printed by P. Byrne, 72, Chesnut-Street, 1802. First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 404; 11 engraved plates (3 folding, all composite); contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; rubbed and scuffed, but sound. With an early ownership inscription on the title page: "Leod. H. Lyne /..... More
London: Smith, Elder & o., 1861. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 202; text in double column; top of spine rubbed,else very good in original green cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Not in Vancil or Zischka. More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1847. 4to, pp. [16], 40, 4 (testimonials); engraved frontispiece of the author; 1 colored anatomical lithograph with five flaps; 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original leather-backed pictorial boards; some dampstaining and foxing, more prevalent on the pastedowns and endpapers; neatly rebacked. Bookplate of James Mead..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; removed from binding; wrappers wanting; shadow at the top of the title page; very good. Samuel Gridley Howe was a Boston physician and abolitionist. More
Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Adverrtiser, 1829. 8vo, pp.16; removed from binding, wrappers perished; slight chipping in the fore-margin of the title page; all else very good. Gorham graduated from Harvard in the class of 1801 and later received two medical degrees there, and later taught chemistry and mineralogy..... More
Philadelphia: published by M. Carey and Son, 1820. First edition, 8vo, pp. 38; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; the whole rather browned, waterstain at the top of the title page; all else very good. Jackson was president of the Philadelphia Board of Health. He believed that Yellow Fever was associated..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. Third edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 410; 20 plates from photographs; fine and bright in original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt, a.e.g. More
Boston: published by John P. Jewett, no. 23 Cornhill, 1849. 12mo, pp. 200, [4] ads; engraved frontispiece portrait; original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine ends chipped, cloth with small crack along the front joint; some foxing, otherwise good and reasonably sound. This copy with a lengthy biography of the..... More
Londini: J. Robinson, J Lawrence [et al.], 1709. 2 parts in 1, 8vo, pp. [30] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; [16] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; both title pages printed in red and black; full contemporary paneled calf, slightly later red morocco label on spine slightly chipped; in..... More
Boston: printed by John Wilson and Son, 22, School Street, 1860. First edition, 8vo, pp. liii, [1]; original printed salmon wrappers with small stain in the gutter and with some chipping along the spine; all else very good. Established in 1747, the Redwood Library and Athenaeum was "the first library..... More
St. Louis: published by James M. Crawford, 1862. 2 parts in 1, as issued; 8vo, pp. 132; 81, [1]; original brown cloth; pages a little toned, spine ends chipped; all else very good. Numerous essays on a variety of subjects including Philosophy of language, Varieties of races, Public morals, Political..... More
Boston: James Campbell, publisher, 1869. 8vo, pp. [16]; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; title a little dusty, else very good. Comprises a list of contributors and contents of the first volume, and recommendations of the press, followed by ten pages of ads for medical books and instruments available from Campbell. This..... More
Chicago: Hyatt & Calhoun, printers, 1862. 8vo, pp. 22, [4]; removed from binding; page numbers in red ink at the top of each page based on the pagination of likely a nonce volume; all else very good. Ludlam was a Professor of Physiology, Pathology, and Clinical Medicine at Hahnemann. University..... More
