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1951047125London: Aiglon Press 1951. 160p. dj. Aiglon Press unknown books
1952221864San Francisco: Delo 1952. Paperback. 338p. very good paperback text in Russian. On the Doukobhors in Canada and in California; 72 small black and white illustrations including photos of life at various settlements. Delo paperback books
19587856Toronto: The Champlain Society 1958 4 volumes 1958; 1961; 1967; 1978. First editions. Volumes XXXVI XXXIX XLIII and L of the Champlain Society. Printed in a limited edition for subscribers. Edited with an Introduction by Dr. D. C. Harvey. Notes by Dr. C. Bruce Fergusson. Pp. lviii 531 xliv 477 lxxii 550 liii 520. 5 illustrations 3 maps. Three spines slightly faded two frontis leaves in the second volume with tape stains at gutter repaired else a fine set. Scarce. Lacking the first part of the diary published in 1948 and covering 1766-1780. Limited to 600 650 775 and 1400 copies respectively. During the period covered by these volumes Perkins as merchant magistrate or member of the Legislative Assembly recorded the daily community life and interests of Liverpool in Nova Scotia Canada. These important volumes cover the maritime war with the Thirteen Colonies the impact of Nova Scotia of the war with Revolutionary France etc. etc. Nova Scotia was the base of operations for British privateers during the American Revolution and War of 1812. Perkins' diary provides an invaluable source of economic social and political history of the area during this critical time in American history. The Champlain Society unknown books
192245478Cambridge: Harvard U.P. 1922. <p>Wolbach Simeon Burt 1880-1954; John L. Todd 1876-1949; Francis W. Palfrey 1876-1953. The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland. x 222pp. 13 plates in the text plus 34 plates including 2 in color at the end; text diagrams. Cambridge MA: The League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. 267 x 192 mm. Original cloth some wear at spine and corners but sound. Very good. Presentation Copy inscribed by Wolbach on the front free endpaper: "Miss Clara A. Ricketts with the compliments of S. B. Wolbach." Bound in is a typed presentation letter signed from Wolbach to Miss Ricketts dated 23 October 1922 with the postmarked cover laid in loosely.</p> <p> First Edition of Wolbach's classic work identifying Rickettsia prowazekii as the pathogen causing epidemic typhus; Presented by the Author to the Sister of Pathologist Howard Taylor Ricketts 1871-1910 whose pioneering researches led to the identification of the Rickettsia genus of typhus- and Rocky Mountain spotted fever-causing bacteria. </p> <p> Wolbach is best known for elucidating the infection vectors—lice and ticks respectively—of typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In the present work Wolbach and his co-authors definitively identified the human body louse as the vector for epidemic typhus. Working on behalf of the League of Red Cross Societies' Typhus Research Commission to Poland Wolbach and parasitologist John Todd carried uninfected lice to Poland to demonstrate that these insects transmit the typhus-causing bacteria Rickettsia prowazekii to human subjects. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach Todd and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazekii was the causal agent in typhus" Garrison-Morton.com 5393.</p> <p> Wolbach's presentation letter to Clara Ricketts reads as follows:</p> <p> "My dear Miss Ricketts: I take great pleasure in sending you a copy of the Typhus Report of the League of Red Cross Societies Commission to Poland as I have learned through J. Christian Bay that you are anxious to obtain one. Sincerely yours S. B. Wolbach."</p> <p> Clara Ricketts a senior assistant at the John Crerar Library in Chicago would naturally have been interested in Wolbach's work which built upon and extended her late brother's investigations. Jens Christian Bay 1871-1962 mentioned in Wolbach's letter served as Chief Librarian at the Crerar Library from 1928 to 1947. </p> . Harvard U.P. unknown books
1920LD5788Paris: Chez Andre Coq 1920. Limited Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps in glassine dust jacket; 4to; with woodcut illustrations in text and illuminated initials. Number 3 from a limited edition of 5 copies on Japon Imperial paper total limitation of 550 copies signed by "A. Coq" on the limitation page and with two additional suites of plates. One set of plates printed in black on China paper the other set of plates printed in sepia on Japanese vellum. Plus an original ink drawing a botanical motif and an original pencil and ink drawing heightened in white a street scene. Covers a bit dusty wrinkled along the edges. Glassine chipped along the edges. Plates and contents bright and clean. <br/><br/> Chez Andre Coq paperback books
