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STOCK Johann Adolph c18th century. c. 18ABAA

Kurtz gefasste Franckfurther Chronik in welcher das Denckund Merckw¸rdigste so sich vom Jahr 742

Americana 20th Century Manuscript WWII Home Front PennsylvaniaABAA

1943 - 1953 Collection of Letters Greeting Cards Including Ephemeral Materials Written to a Woman Veteran of the WWII Coast Guard SPARS

194326376Williamsport Pennsylvania: Not Published 1943. Over 300 individual pieces of correspondence sent to Betty I. Carvell later Eckert mostly from her parents and with a few from friends. A few of the letters are from women who served with her in the SPARS the women's branch of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve established in 1942. Ms. Carvell Eckert's service career is documented by her mailing addresses: March of 1943 she attempted to join the USMC there is an official letter from their office requesting information; by August she is a A.S. W-10 billeted at the USCG women's training facility at the Palm Beach Biltmore Hotel Florida; becomes S 2/c advances to S 1/c and finally addressing her as Coxswain. Her living & working "barracks" address throughout 1944-45 was at the Embassy Hotel 154 W 70th Street NY. According to the official site 978 women officers and 11868 enlisted women served in the SPARs during World War II. Most letters are from her parents in Williamsport Pennsylvania. They usually consist of a letter each from father & mother and detail the vicissitudes of living in poverty their continuous and debilitating ill-health and their nearby relations and the struggle of finding work; having to buy expensive medicines required for their numerous maladies: rheumatism pneumonia high blood pressure sciatica nearly constant colds and bed-ridden bouts of collapse from various causes. Several letters written by the father go into great detail concerning meals that they occasionally are bought or can afford - the most basic of foods and preparation are appreciated as great important feasts. Occasionally having mashed potatoes are noteworthy as a luxurious culinary event. Local news is of great importance to Ms. Carvell who asked for the 2 Williamsport newspapers to be sent. Her parents are so poor they have to ask for money from their daughter to pay for the newspapers use the phone to call her and pay their rent as they move from place to place in the town. The father's writing is fairly literate and well-composed; the mother's is at an early grammar school level and still legible. Content includes local gossip neighborly strife and griping along with church school and other news regarding the town. During and after wartime there are concerns about brownouts due to the coal shortage worries about another war and labor & strike fears. A couple of elderly aunts run a shop rent out rooms and work until they die. At one point while still in the USCG Betty marries Robert Eckert and moves to Baltimore. Her parents are so poor they can't afford to attend. She also has a friend in Sheffield England who writes several letters to her over the years describing a pitiless tedious overworked life; a hard pregnancy; sick blind burned bruised children the telling of which hints at parental abuse; the injuries while severe are always reported as 'accidental' because the children are 'clumsy.' The post-war situation in England is rife with poverty; the most basic amenities are scarce. It was worth reporting that someone had traveled and been able to gain 4 pounds due to better nutrition possibilities and who promptly lost on return to the daily grind. Many of the greeting cards for holidays or personal events are sent unsigned. Also Betty's mom invariably signs her letters "Mother Carvell" not Mom or Mother; as if she may have been an adoptive parent; her father is always simply signed 'Dad'. A few SPARS-related items include a couple of decals and a one-stripe shoulder patch; also an official letter asking her to promote others to join the Coast Guard after her service commitment with guidelines for prospects & requirements for enlistment. There are a couple of dozen loose greeting cards and loose empty envelopes some of which may belong to the cards. There are a few news-clippings related to Williamsport news a letter from France from a service friend with a one-franc coin taped-in and some Methodist church bulletin ephemera from the town. Condition: For convenience the letters have been chronologically grouped by year and we will ship them thus. The first few years' envelopes are lacking stamps as Betty's father was collecting them; later years have their stamps & cancellations intact. Some soiling wear & tear to the envelopes; everything in very good condition. The content portrays small-town Pennsylvania American life in the 1940s and early 1950s the importance of family support and connection in the face of economic uncertainty ill-health and the struggle to start support and maintain families at all stages of life especially for women. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published paperback books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis475,00 $US≈ 401,90 €

Fahrney PeterABAA

MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK Ledger - Dr. Peter Fahrney

2085Hardcover. Tan smooth calf morocco boards. Good in custom matching slipcase good. 37 x 17 cm. 119 linen-backed leaves of manuscript notations and paste down documents. Peter Fahrney 1840-1905 president and founder of Fahrney & Sons Co. was born in Maryland to a family of herbal practitioners. His grandfather known as Ole Dr. Peter Fahrney was well known in the Boonsboro area of Maryland and his office has been preserved to this day. Peter Fahrney grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Jefferson Medical College and the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy. He began practicing medicine in Pennsylvania in 1861 at the age of twenty-one. During the Civil War Fahrney left Pennsylvania and moved to Chicago. His practice grew from general practice to the manufacturing of natural remedies which were sold nationwide. His factory burned down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 but he was back in business within days. The Fahrney & Sons Company and his uncle Daniel manufactured similar products under Dr. Daniel Fahrney & Son. The ledger is most likely Fahrney's first: it begins in his first year of practice and in addition to patient accounting records includes costs of building his office digging the foundation laboratory supplies etc. An original order form for Dr. Fahrney's blood vitalizer is included. Many patients are listed. Included in the front of the ledger and stapled to the frond endpaper are three notarized statements authenticating the ledger. The first is by Edward J. Ryan of Cook County Illinois a former employee of Dr. Fahrney swearing to the authenticity of the ledger and confirming the handwriting found within is that of the doctor. A statement of John E. Burget confirms the validity of 21 of the persons named in the ledger with notes added: John W. Brumbaugh - My Grandfather; George W. Brumbaugh - My Mother's Uncle; John Dilling - Farmer; Dr. John Wengert - Drugs; Samuel Grabill - Merchant; David Wineland - Black smith; J.C. Sanders - Druggist; Daniel M. Holsinger - Minister; and several more. An affidavit of Christie Meyers a former patient and friend of the doctor confirms that Fahrney had a practice in Fredericksburg PA. Bound in custom later smooth calf morrocco boards gilt-lettered spine with raised spine bands with a custom matching slipcase lightly rubbed. Pages are tanned with dampstaining and spotting throughout. hardcover books

lizzyoung bookseller · États-Unis475,00 $US≈ 401,90 €

18th Century Mathematics Puzzles The Ladies' Diary or Woman's AlmanackABAA

1777-1797 The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack.Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences and Many Entertaining Particulars: Designed for the Use and Diversion of the Fair-Sex.

177726884London England: Printed for the Company of Stationers 1777. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black have the tax stamps on the margins of the title pages and are of 32 pages' length with exceptions or notes as below: 1782: On page 31 the section "VI Rebus by Mr. R. Richardson of Frosterly" has been solved with the manuscript letters & names of clues neatly written at the margins. 1786: pgs 1-2 15-32; However another issue is bound after this incomplete issue that is entire in 48 pages. These almanacs are noted on the title pages as printed for the Company of Stationers; and this "extra" issue is noted on the title page as "Printed for T. Carnan in St. Paul's Church Yard; who after an expensive Suit in Law and Equity by the unanimous Opinion of the Judges of the Court of Common Please dispossessed the Stationers' Company of their pretended exclusive Privilege of Printing Almanacks which they had usurped for two Centuries; a convincing Proof that no unjust Monopoly will ever stand the Test of an English Court of Justice." 1788: pgs 1-2 15-32 only. 1793 Misbound pages out of order and complete 32 pages. 1795: A name of "Old Batholomew" has been added in ms. at the 4th Sept. in the monthly almanac pages section. 1797 pgs 1-16 only. "The existence of the Ladies' Diary or the Woman's Almanack an 18th century English magazine devoted largely to problems and puzzles in mathematics indicates that stereotypes about the inability of women to understand and enjoy mathematics were less strongly believed in the 18th century than they are today.The Ladies' Diary became one of the widely read 18th century magazines devoted to the popularization of science and mathematics; these were addressed mainly to readers with no specialized training in the subjectsThe Ladies' Diary differed from these others primarily in the language used in some of the problems--language which reminds the reader that the problems were addressed to women" from the excellent overview of the magazine its influence & impact by Teri Perl San Francisco State Univ. Historia Mathematica 6 1979 article on the 'Diary' Indecipherable by us previous owner name on back endpaper.Approx. 4" x 6 3/8" size; bound in marbled-paper covered boards leather corners edges tinted yellow; spine covering gone; wear to the edges tips of the binding; bottom cord of top board let go; the block still solidly sewn some edges trimmed close; contents generally clean and in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Printed for the Company of Stationers hardcover books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Americana 19th Century BrooklynABAA

Manual of the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn for 1871 Compiled By William G. Bishop City Clerk Brooklyn 1871

187127075Brooklyn NY: Common Council of the City of Brooklyn 1871. 395 pages; with a useful index; tinted lithographed title page with illustration of the Brooklyn Hall now the Borough Hall. Illustrated with the following: a frontispiece folding hand-colored map of the City of Brooklyn approx. 20" x 24" overall size tears at the attachment and just touching the inner margin; otherwise clean and in very good condition; a tinted portrait of Mayor Martin Kalbfleisch; folding Diagram of the Common Council Chamber; four pages printed one side only of the facsimile signatures of the Mayor and Aldermen of 1871; a color folding Design for Prospect Park in The City of Brooklyn 1870 approx. 13 1/2" x 21" size Olmsted Vaux & Co. listed as the landscape architects; also a color Design for the Arrangement of Pedestrian Concourse scale: 120 feet to one inch approx. 9" x 10 1/2"; a color Design for Laying out Tompkins Park-Brooklyn also by Olmsted Vaux & Co. approx. 9" x 10 1/2" now Herbert Von King Park; a color tinted folding plate of the steamship Florence off shore at the beach resort "Oceanus Association" Rockaway Beach in that section of the text; 9" x 10 1/2"; and a tinted plate of the Fulton Ferry as it appeared in 1740. Text contents with the Charter of the City of Brooklyn the rules & orders of the Common Council officers of the various departments salaries election returns fire & police departments parks school districts with teacher names board of supervisors details on the courts and other municipal authorities. Front endpaper with the small previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Volume approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" size; bound in the original decoratively blind-stamped and gilt titled teal blue cloth gilt spine titles. A little edge tips wear spine with tiny chips to the surface cloth; in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Common Council of the City of Brooklyn hardcover books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Americana 19th Century History of Medicine New YorkABAA

Pharmacopoeia Nosocomii Neo-Eboracensis; or The Pharmacopoeia of the New-York Hospital

181626868New York NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution 1816. x 2 contents 180 2 Table IV Finis pages last page blank. Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top; and with another name lined-through of William Chambers. Concerning this book ". New York Hospital's pharmacopoeia was published in 1816 four years before the publication of the United States Pharmacopoeia. This caused considerable concern among the attending physicians about the potential abridgement of the physician's right to prescribe." from: New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell site Dr. James Rushmore Wood 1816 -1882 "began the practice of medicine in his native city and in 1847 he became a member of the medical board of Bellevue hospital New York. At that time this institution was a receptacle for lunatics paupers criminals and other victims of a depraved life. The most rudimentary hygienic laws were grossly violated in its management and the nursing was inefficient and untrustworthy. With the assistance of Morris Franklin president of the board of aldermen Dr. Wood set about reforming this state of things and labored so successfully that he soon reduced the annual death-rate by 600. He also made all the post-mortem examinations amounting to many hundreds yearly established Saturday surgical clinics and founded the Wood prize for the best anatomical dissection."Appleton Dr. Wood was also Chair of Operative Surgery and Surg. Path. in Bellevue Hosp. Coll. and Emeritus Prof. of Surgery until 1882.the most famous American surgeon of his day and the pioneer in periosteal surgery. Author of many papers and treatises." Title page also with the previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894; his medical education was accomplished in NY at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons 1858. Printer A. Paul. Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" size; bound in later 19th century dark brown textured cloth dark brown morocco leather corners & spine gilt spine titles & lines simple gilt rules on the boards block edges lightly sprinkled red. Cloth with loss of color at edges; binding with edge tips wear; contents foxed spotty; in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution hardcover books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

History of Medicine 19th Century Science Surgery Great BritainABAA

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions Published By the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Volume the First.

180926943London England: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. xx 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the ".nature and objects of this Institution and the claims which it possesses to professional patronage." with background on the early history of the Society's founding and organization. The members from its formation to March 1809 are listed alphabetically along with their positions and qualifications; this is followed by the lists of the council members for the years 1805 through 1809 and finally the list of Trustees elected at its formation. The contents consist of a group of medical accounts and cases observations and descriptions of various diseases conditions and effects by Astley Cooper Christopher Stanger Richard Pearson John Abernethy David Dundas; John Bostock Alexander Marcet William Babington Thompson Forster James Moore H.L. Thomas Thomas Chevalier Thomas Blizard James Wilson John Yelloly George William Young and Edward Jenner. The last four pages of the volume are devoted to the list of donations to the Society consisting of a list of the books and publications various manuals and pharmacopoeia given by the named benefactors. Text printed by G. Woodfall London. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; bound in contemporary full polished tree-calf; flat spine with a few small gilt decorations faded. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the binding; spine ends chipped away; leather at hinges split; text block solidly sewn. Contents with only the occasional spot of foxing; overall very clean fairly fresh and in good condition. First Edition. Leather. Good. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme books

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ITALIAN OPERA 19th centuryABAA

Bound volume of 19th century Italian operatic excerpts in piano-vocal score most Neapolitan imprints and associated with contemporary performances

36029Includes works of Battista 5 Donizetti 6 Mercadante 7 Pacini 1 Petrella 1 and Verdi 1. With contemporary mansucript index to front free endpaper. Contents: BATTISTA Vincenzio 1823-1873 Ermelinda Dramma lirico in Quattro Atti di Domenico Bolognese. Monaco: Orlando e C. after 1850. - Duetto Signor Capitano. PN 599. 19 pp. - Coro alla danza. PN 600. 14 pp. - Terzettino Febo ei vieni. PN 606. 8 pp. - No. 13. Scena e Romanza. Partenopeo. PN 12093. 4 pp. Anna La Prie. Tragedia lirica di Nicola Leoncavallo. Napoli: Fabricatore e Co. ca. 1845. - Scena e cavatina Alboix. PN 105. 10 pp. DONIZETTI Gaetano 1797-1848 La Favorita Melodramma tragico in 4 atti Posto in musica pel Real teatro di Parigi. Napoli: Girard e Ci. ca. 1844. - Aria O mio Fernando. PN 5181. 9 pp. - Scena e Duetto Ah moio bene un Dio t'invia. PN 5185. 12 pp. - Quartettino Deh paventa il furor. PN 5197. 4 pp. - Scene e Duetto Ah va t'invo la e questa. PN 5184. 13 pp. Maria di Rohan Melodramma tragico in tre atti di S. Cammarano . Riduzione per Canto con accompo. di Pianoforte di C. Czerny. Milano: Giovanni Ricordi 1843 - N: 14. Scena e Freghier . No osoalzarcilumi! PN 14914HH. 6 pp. - Scena e Ballata . Cavalieri che veggio. Napoli: F. Fabricatore e C.; Palermo: R. Zerega. PN 146 ca. 1845. 7 pp. MERCADANTE Saverio 1795-1870 Violetta Opera semiseria in 4 Atti . Rappresentata per la prima volta nel Teatro Nuovo di Napoli li 10 Gennajo 1853. Napoli: Partenopeo ca. 1856-60. - No. 22. Rondo Finale. PN 10756. 10 pp. Virginia Tragedia Lirica in tre atti di S. Cammarano . Rappresenta per la prima volta nel R. Teatro S. Carlo di Napoli il 7 Apr. 1866. Napoli: T. Cottrau ca. 1866. - No. 10. Preghiera di Virginia. PN 14610. 4 pp. - No. 14. Terzetto di Virginia Appio ed Icilio. PN 14614. 8 pp. Stratira opera tragica in tre Atti. Esuguita nel R. Teatro di S. Carlo li 8 Gennajo 1853. Poesie di Domenico Bolognese. Napoli: Partenopea ca. 1866. - No. 3. Scena e cavatina Cassandro. PN 10757. 15 pp. - No. 14. Romanza Cassandro. PN 10758. 4 pp. Orazi e Curiaze Tragedia lirica in 3 atti di S. Cammarano. Posta in musica per il Teatro di S. Carlo ov'Ã© stata rappresentata Ã¡ 10 Novembre 1846. Napoli: Girard ca. 1846 - No. 2. Scena Romanza e Cavatina. PN 7555. 14 pp. - No. 13. Scena Preghiera ed Aria Finale. PNs 7565 7560 7567. 13 pp. Later issue of ca. 1856-60. PACINI Giovanni 1796-1867 Malvina di Scozia. Opera in 3 acts Grande Scena Preghiera ed aria. L'orror mi rese immobile. Napoli: Fabricatore e C. PN 725 ca. 1852. 19 pp. PETRELLA Errico 1813-1877 Elena di Tolosa. Melodramma in tre Atti. Eseguito nel R. Teatro del Fondo li 112 Agosto 1852. Poesia di Domenico Bolognese. Napoli: Successori della Ditta Girard ca. 1852. - No. 6. Duetto. Dembra mesta! . male! male! PN 10466. 14 pp. VERDI Giuseppe 1813-1901 Rigoletto. Melodramma di F.M. Piave. Milano: Giovanni Ricordi after 1852 - No. 9. Scena ed Aria "Coro nome che'il mio cor." PN N23079N. 7 i list of publisher's plate numbers for excerpts of piano-vocal piano 2-hands and piano 4-hands pieces pp. Oblong folio. 19th century black leather-backed boards. Binding somewhat worn and abraided; joints split. Occasional minor wear and soiling; some small tears. In very good condition overall. An interesting collection of scarce mostly Neapolitan imprints in all likelihood associated with contemporary performances. unknown books

J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC · États-Unis402,00 $US≈ 340,13 €

MORANDI Antonio fl. 18th century; RASTRELLI Giovanni RanieriABAA

Trattato Universale Teorico e Pratico dei Parti necessario alle mammane ai chirurghi ed ai medici. Bound with: Documenti morali e civili da un padre diretti al suo figlio.

1781D8826Venice / Naples: Antonio Graziosi / Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola 1788 / 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. Morandis rare treatise on operative midwifery with Rastrellis even rarer work on wisdom and morals. MORANDI Antonio fl. 18th century. Trattato Universale Teorico e Pratico dei Parti necessario alle mammane ai chirurghi ed ai medici. Venice: Antonio Graziosi 1788. 8vo 190 x 120mm. v-xxx 399 pages; lacks 2 blanks at beginning. Bound with: RASTRELLI Giovanni Ranieri. Documenti morali e civili da un padre diretti al suo figlio. Naples: Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola 1781. xii 80 pages. Oval portrait of Rastrelli signed by Joseph Tronus. Woodcut chapter head- and tail-pieces throughout. Near contemporary Italian vellum edges speckled; contents clean only some slight foxing at front and back of volume. Few lines of contents written in Italian script on front free endpaper and signed G. Viparelli on title. The rise of obstetrics in the early modern period had a mixed effect on midwifery. Some midwives clung to their traditional ways. Others embraced the new science and sought retraining. National policies also shaped the contours of midwifery practice. Overall the art of midwifery could no longer be considered a subdivision of medicine but must be regarded as a branch of surgery requiring a thorough knowledge of surgical principles. The title of this work does not indicate its comprehensiveness; it is more than an operative midwifery for it includes much that belongs to a general treatise on the subject. Rastrellis work and portrait cannot be found elsewhere suggesting it is commonly an addition to texts and the title translated is a moral and civil work directed by a father to his son. Rastrelli was a noted poet in the latter half of the 18th century. While both parts are exceedingly rare the first is only located at the Wellcome Library and the Biblioteca della Fondazione Biblioteca San Bernandino in Italy. Antonio Graziosi / Per Vincenzo Mazzola-Vocola hardcover books

Sanctuary Books · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

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