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188963031889. Conscience is the Chamber of Justice" Coy Simeon. The Great Conspiracy: A Complete History of the Famous Tally-Sheet Cases. Indianapolis: 1889. Frontispiece portrait. 261 pp. Original brown cloth. Head and foot of spine and extremities rubbed Institutional bookplate with withdrawal stamp. $25. First edition. A convicted politico's attempt at self-justification. "There is an old proverb which says 'Conscience is the chamber of justice.' It does not matter what was done in some other 'chamber of justice' there never was a verdict rendered against me in the chamber of justice where conscience presided and this fact has as I shall hope to show kept me while submitting to the mandate of the law from nursing enmities towards those who in the heat of partisan passion sought my ruin." Preface p. 6. unknown books
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1886216293New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Press 1886. Disbound. Fair binding. Rear cover missing. Scant markings. ; NOT Ex-Library. Fair binding. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press unknown books
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1837Q595London: Suttaby & Co. 1837. Very good. Flexible leather boards with fold-around flap closure pencil holder and pocket inside the cover. All edges gilt. 4.75 x 3.25 inches. Engraved frontispiece and title page plus 10 engavings of various city- sea- and landscapes from Paris to Cornwall printed across 6 leaves. 35pp total with calendar and engravings inserted between 23-25. Very Good to Near Fine condition with mild rubbing; leather still supple and clasp functional. <br /> <br />Sparingly used as a general diary of important dates with entries for deaths and weddings noted up through the 1850s around 15-20 entries in total. Frontis portrait of Rev. Charles Simeon Vicar of Holy Trinity Church who had died in 1836. A good deal of the opening text is dedicated to his biography followed with various scriptural and poetic verses promoting Christian piety. List of London-area churches and meeting houses at rear. An excellent example of the popular pocket book form though this is a particularly nice and rare title with handsome engravings to boot. <br/><br/> Suttaby & Co. hardcover
192247171Cambridge MA: League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. First edition 4to pp. x 222; text illustrations 34 plates of biopsies in back; dark green cloth; light rubbing and wear particularly to corners glue residue from bookplate on upper pastedown text clean and bright. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach J. L. Todd and F. W. Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. Prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus." Garrison & Morton 5393. <br/><br/> League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press hardcover 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
1922M12532Cambridge MA:: Published by the League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press 1922. 1922. 4to. x 222 pp. 13 figs. 6 charts 16 tables bibliog. 34 plates some color. Blind-stamped dark green cloth gilt spine; rubbed. Ownership signature of W. M. Wheeler Sedalia MO on title. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "A landmark in the history of the subject." Bloomfield Bibliography of internal medicine and communicable diseases p. 293. "The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach J. L. Todd and F. W. Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. Prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus." Garrison and Morton 5393. Published by the League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press, 1922. hardcover 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
