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London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, 50-[51]; 20 folding plates; spine ends cracked, front hinge starting, else good or better in orig. purple cloth; ex-MHS. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, 50-[51]; 20 folding plates; spine ends cracked, front hinge starting, else good or better in orig. purple cloth; ex-MHS. More
Cincinnati: Office at Cincinnati Hospital, 1891. 8vo, pp. 35; original tan printed wrappers, fine. No copies of this annual report in OCLC. More
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1917. 8vo, pp. 20; original tan printed wrappers (lightly soiled), interior mostly fine. Public Document No. 91. Report announces the registration of 530 nurses in the year 1916, with a total of 7,362 nurses registered since the organization of the Board in 1910. More
[Connorsville, Ind. printed at the Watchman Office, 1838]. Broadside, square 8vo (192 x 186 mm.); text in double column beneath the running head, a bit toned, some minor ink stains. "Presumably printed at Connersville, Ind., where 'Rules to be observed in constructing the Whitewater Canal' was printed at the Watchman..... More
New York: C. Bischoff & Co., ca. 1890s. 8vo (227 x 140 mm.), accordion fold with 11 panels, each displaying 3 or 4 dye-cloth samples numbered 1-36, 2-leaf pamphlet describing the treatment of each sample tipped in to first panel; original white printed wrappers (stained); cloth samples a bit wrinkled..... More
Ottawa: J. de L. Taché, 1915. Large 8vo, pp. viii, 201, v; 3 fold-out maps, one diagram in text; original blue printed wrappers (3 small stains), repaired spine with some water damage, half-inch loss at bottom, corners a bit bumped; small tear to title page not affecting text. "Sessional Paper..... More
[Philadelphia?]: 1891. Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine; one lecture underlined in red. List of lectures "to be given Tuesdays, at 4 P.M.," beginning with hygiene and ending with obstetrical nursing. Not in OCLC. More
[Saigon]: Review Horizons, 1958. Special edition, 8vo, pp. 19; photographic illustrations throughout; original blue pictorial wrappers (soiled), shallow chips and tears along edges and corners not affecing text; interior mostly fine. A brief overview of Vietnamese livestock, including cows, pigs, and chickens. More
[Saigon]: Ministry of Land Reform, Agriculture & Fishery Development, Agricultural Development Bank of Vietnam, April, 1971. Folio, mixed pagination; maps and charts throughout; original cream printed wrappers (soiled), general light edge wear else a fine copy. Former owner Ralph W. Clark, livestock analyst of USAID, with his useful pencil marginalia..... More
[London: Royal Geographic Society, 1884]. 8vo, pp. 141-152; 2 maps on 1 page; extracted from the March issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society and bound in modern blue paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. More
[Baltimore]: The Alumnae Association of the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1939. First edition, 4to, unpaginated; photographic illustrations throughout, map of "J.H.H. Nurses" in the Eastern and Western hemispheres printed on endpapers; original blue pictorial buckram, gilt (slightly soiled); interior fine. Printed for the "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hospital..... More
Tokyo and Meguro: Forest Experiment Station, 1956. Five large folding maps, printed in color, bound in to a printed paper wrapper, this set focusing on Nagoya and being nos. 21-25 of a nation-wide survey; wrappers a touch toned, else fine. The maps are as follows: Dando (34.75" x 24.5"), Ena..... More
Tokyo and Meguro: Forest Experiment Station, 1956. Six large folding maps, printed in color, bound in to a printed paper wrapper, this set focusing on Akita prefecture and being nos. 26-31 of a nation-wide survey; wrappers a touch toned, else fine. The maps are as follows: Nubuna (34.25" x 24.5")..... More
[Willetts Point, N.Y.]: printed on the Battalion Press, Corpl. Carmichael & Pvt. Redfield, printers, 1873. 4to, pp. [5], 16-23, [1] (i.e. 7 leaves); errata slip tipped in between the first and second leaves; original printed yellow wrappers; nibbling along the bottom edge; all else very good. There are several small..... More
Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company; London: Kegan Paul, 1909. Third revised edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, 340, [4]; full brown cloth, red title on spine and front board; edges rubbed, hinges starting, three clippings on endpapers including two magic tricks and an obituary (Edna G. Snyder), magic shop addresses in..... More
Montreal, Canada: McGill University, 1931. 8vo; pp. 97; 11 plates printed recto/verso, frontispiece; good or better copy in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Scuffing on lower cover exposing underlying boards, call numbers lettered in white ink on spine. Bookplate showing that the book was..... More
New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc., [1960]. 8vo, pp. xiv, 290; black & white photographic illustrations; library bookplate on front paste-down with markings, accession numbers on spine, extremities lightly worn, else very good in original green cloth. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1959. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 199, [1]; text in double column, full brown buckram, gilt title on upper cover, text clean and sound, light rubbing to gilt, near fine. More
London: printed for the author, by R. Hindmarsh, 1791. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 500; engraved frontispiece and 32 engraved folding plates; contemporary full tree calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; joints wstarting, else very good. The last 15 pages of text consist of..... More
Philadelphia: W.W. Woodward, also by W. P. Farrand, 1806. First American edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, 43 engraved folding plates, largely of globes and scientific and mathematical instruments; contemporary full calf, red and black morocco labels on spine; some cracking of the joints on volume I, else generally a very good..... More
France: 1849-55. Nonesuch collection of newspaper clippings, advertisements, manuscript notes, in French, kept by one Mr. Bradel, a relative of the bookbinder Bradel De Sceaux, touching on not just surgery and medicine, but also on esoterism, magnetism, poisons, and even quackery and Chinese medicine. Approximately 190 pages, with many fold-out..... More
[Hanoi: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1935.]. Folio, consisting of pp. 49-352; illustrated with tables, maps and photographic illustrations on plates throughout; later native full blue calf, gilt lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine. Spine title: L'Union Indochinoise Francaise: Regions Naturelles et Geographie Economique. More
[Bologna]: [Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali], 1840. 8vo, pp. [16] unpaginated; self-wrappers, unbound; near fine. A short text classifying the families of aquatic fossils found in Italy. Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss biologist and geologist who rejected the theory of Darwinian evolution and was a proponent of scientific racism..... More
Basle: Emanuelis Konig, 1657. Folio, pp. [10], 708, [90]; without blank leaves (:)6 and ζ4; woodcut vignette on title, 2 woodcut plates, unseparated on single folding leaf, and approx. 280 woodcut illustrations in the text, many full-page or nearly full-page, often attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring;..... More
Hanover & London: published for Clark University by University Press of New England, 1986. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, 8vo, pp. xii, 212; text in double column, illustrations in the text; fine copy in original decorative laminated paper-covered boards. More