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1880320579Derby 1880. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. Usual fold. Old tape repair on conjugate leaf with resulting stain affecting a few words of text but not affecting signature. 3pp. folded sheet mourning stationery. With the original mailing envelope. "I am very glad that there is to be a real life of the never to be forgotten glorious Dr. Livingstone. I wish Dr. Blaikie God speed. With regard to my private letter to you it was I need hardly say from the depths of my heart & not written with a view to publication and I cannot recall a word that was in it. But if you think that my poor words can contribute anything to what must be the object of every English speaking nation & not only this but of every man woman & child all over the world viz. to make known one who has opened the way of peace & not terror to those who were 'lying in darkness & the shadow of death' on so large a portion of the globe. I feel that I cannot decline what otherwise is so repugnant to me . And pray believe me ever the faithful servant of yourself & the great memory of as true a hero saint as ever lived ."<br/><br/>Written on the occasion of the preparation for imminent publication of William Garden Blaikie's biography of Livingstone published 1880 the letter gives permission for a letter of hers to be published in which she said of Livingstone: "We cannot console ourselves for our loss. He is irreplaceable" p. 458 and called him "the greatest man of his generation. unknown books
199050373Cambridge MA: Harvard 1990. First printing. 8vo pp. xii 461. Chronology glossary bibliography index.Edited by Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard. With several lillustrations. Maroon cloth. A nice copy in dj. Harvard unknown books
199037757Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1990. First edition; large 8vo pp. xii 461; 2 illustrative plates; original red cloth in good dustjacket interior mostly fine. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press hardcover books
15510Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. ALS London 1864. on her '115 Park Street W' stationery. To Richard Baggallay. Dated July 21 1864 Nightingale writes 4 pages in her hand 7" x 4.5". Black rule borders to pages. She writes:<br/><br/>"My dear sir I was extremely sorry to hear of your approaching resignation of the post of Treasurer of St. Thomas' Hospital. It seems to me poor St Thomas' is in such a "fix" & has so many bad friends that he ought to keep all his good ones. But I was not so much sorry as shocked & surprised to hear the language used concerning Mr. Whitfield. Those persons may rest assured that I should never have placed my Probationers at St. Thomas but that Mr Whitfield & Mrs Wardroper were there. and when St Thomas' with its ample income has not contributed one farthing to but has profited by the services of my Training School." <br/><br/>The Nightingale Home and Training School for Nurses opened its doors to trainees in July 1860 as part of the newly built St. Thomas's Hospital in London. One of the first institutions to teach nursing and midwifery as a formal profession the training school was dedicated to communicating the philosophy and practice of its founder and patron Florence Nightingale. The Nightingale Home and Training School is now part of King's College London and known as The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery. Important content. unknown books
2006024066Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006. Gérard Vallée editor. xv 1024p. maps dj. Collected works of Florence Nightingale 9. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
2009030598Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009. Lynn McDonald editor. xiii 946p. b/w illus. dj The collected works of Florence Nightingale 13. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
2009034973Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009. Lynn McDonald editor. xii 907p. stiff wrappers Collected works of FLrence Nightingale 1. Wilfrid Laurier University Press unknown books
1987299969New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Frontis. Illustrated in color and black and white. 223 pages Oblong 8vo pictorial stamped cloth d.w. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1987. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Weidenfeld & Nicolson unknown books
289639hardcover. near fine. Mounted Frontispiece. Illustrated with plans 4 folding. 2 volume bound in one. 8vo full leather a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Medicine 1982. Near fine.<br/><br/> Notes on Nursing is the most famous classic in the history of nursing. GM 1612. Notes on hospitals "Includes four plans of hospitals" GM 1611. Facsimile of the London 1860 and 1859 editions respectively.<br/><br/> unknown books
19007547nd circa 1900-1950s. Unique. Hardcover. Very Good. Minor shelf/edge wear pasted in envelop with duplicates owner signature at front else bright and clean. Brown cloth boards. <br/><br/>A dense and well-organized collection of publishers' marks and booksellers' tickets many reflecting various iterations that evolved over the years. hardcover books
1731S13115Lugduni Batavorum:: Joan. et Herm. Verbeek 1731. 1731. Two parts bound as one. 4to. xvi xlviii vii 193 1; 192 xiv pp. Title printed in red & black 32 engraved folding plates 1 folding table index; margin of p.99 trimmed 1 ¾ x 2" away. some foxing browning of leaves title very browned due to offsetting. Beautifully preserved original mottled calf raised bands gilt spine compartments red leather spine label. Ownership mark on title of "Mr. Al. Liotard." Very good. FIRST EDITION incorporating the first Latin edition of the Saggi di naturali esperienze 1667 prepared by the Accademia del Cimento Florence with substantial additions throughout by Musschenbroek. Musschenbroek was one of the great physical experimenters and lecturers of the eighteenth century and the teacher of Nollet. This book contains the first description of the pyrometer an instrument for measuring the expansion of solid bodies under the influence of heat. Like many of Musschenbroek's books the Tentamina contains fine illustrations and is concerned with experiments in measuring humidity magnets and electricity air pressure the structure of ice heat and cold capillarity optics the motion of sound etc. / "He devised many of his experiments in the process consulting records of other experimenters among them those of the Accademia del Cimento. Musschenbroek translated their accounts into Latin adding reports concerning his own work 1731." :: Encyclopedia. / The work opens with Musschenbroek's Oratio de Methodo Instituendi Experimenta Physica regarding his views on experimental philosophy as inspired by Newton. "Underlying Musschenbroek's lectures demonstrated with experiments was the experimental philosophy the principal source of inspiration was Newton but Galileo Torricelli Huygens Reaumur and others were important to this school." :: DSB IX p. 596. The Accademia del Cimento Academy of Experiments was founded in Florence in 1657. Among the founding members were Borelli Steno Redi Cassini Viviani and Torricelli these final two being disciples of Galileo. This makes the Accademia older than either the Royal Society or the Academie des Sciences. Count Lorenzo Magalotti's text includes accounts of experiments on temperature and air pressure including Torricelli's invention of the barometer the velocity of sound and light phosphorescence magnetism amber and other electrical bodies the freezing of water etc. The many fine plates in this translation illustrate the Accademia's work as well as Musschenbroek's own subsequent experiments. :: Wolf History of science I pp. 55-59.2 parts in 1. / Musschenbroek 1692-1761 professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Utrecht and later professor of experimental physics at Leyden. He was one of the most celebrated physicists and investigators of his time; the experiments he describes are classics in primary instruction. / "Musschenbroek's earliest account of electricity 1731 the estimable notes to his Latin translation of the Saggi is fuller more circumspect and less coherent than 's Gravesande's which he later entertained favorably. Two curious points emerge from the notes. To resolve the discrepancy between the results of Boyle and Hauksbee who respectively did and did not succeed in generating electricity in vacuo Musschenbroek hit on an unprecedented and prescient idea; remarking that Boyle used amber and Hauksbee glass he concluded that these substances have different electricities. . . The second point concerns repulsion. Musschenbroek records without emphasizing Hauksbee's observation that light bodies are sometimes repelled farther than they are attracted; he squeezes it into a note that also gives an excellent prescription for rubbing the tube :: always end with your hands together :: and a warning about atmospheric humidity. He does not recognize that the Saggi require updating about repulsion and concentrates on the perplexing behavior of screens the opacity of muslin and the transparency of glass." :: J. L. Heilbron Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics 1979 p.242. / Wheeler Gift 276. Not in Bakken. FULL TITLE: Tentamina experimentorum naturalium captorum in Academia del cimento sub auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Leopoldi Magni Etruriae Ducis et ab ejus Academiae Secretario Conscriptorum: Ex Italico in Latinum Sermonem conversa. Quibus commentarios nova experimenta et orationem de methodo instituendi experimenta physica addidit Petrus van Musschenbroek Joan. et Herm. Verbeek, 1731. hardcover books
194778089New York: A. A. Wyn 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. index viii 392p. dj. 23cm. Minor cover spotting. Head of backstrip lightly frayed. Endpapers browned. Jacket rather chipped along edges and the backstrip is faded. <br/><br/> A. A. Wyn hardcover books
1960177560Mexico: Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia 1960. Softcover. VG sticker residue to front of wraps light age toning to wraps and pages small tear to rear map but pages are otherwise clear. Tan illustrated wraps with black lettering 54 pp illustrated in bw with a large fold out map in rear. Text in Spanish. Volume 2 of a 3 volume set this one titled "Campeche". Archaeological Atlas of the Mexican Republic. Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia unknown books
2014405049Rizzoli 2014. As-new in original shrinkwrap. 8vo. 152 pages. Original black cloth with photograph mounted on front cover. FIRST EDITION. "Reaching beyond the intimate setting of the fashion show the photographer paints a portrait of haute couture that takes the couturier's intention to enchant the public and elevates it to the level of the sublime. The great names in photography the mythical photos that have constructed Dior's image and the emblematic subjects of the house's iconography--whether they are dreams of a faraway place or captured in the vast open-sky "studios" of Paris or Versailles--are all evoked in this vast panorama that takes us through more than sixty years in the history of fashion photography. Published to accompany the Dior and Fashion Photography exhibition presented at the Musée Christian Dior in Granville France this lavish volume presents a wealth of gorgeous photographs that bring the character of the couturier's dresses to life with each photographer interpreting them in his or her unique style. Legendary contributors include Horst P. Horst Richard Avedon Irving Penn Cecil Beaton Norman Parkinson Henry Clarke William Klein Helmut Newton Guy Bourdin Sarah Moon Paolo Roversi Nick Knight Ines Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Tim Walker Willy Vanderperre Patrick Demarchelier and many more. Stunning glamorous and iconic Dior and Fashion Photography exemplifies how the haute couture house transcended fashion to enter the realm of legend" The Publisher. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
SKU1034572Syros-Alternatives. PAPERBACK. Good. 2867388724 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. French text. Syros-Alternatives paperback books
19141312024Blackie and Son Limited London 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in a good dust jacket. The Jacket is very rare. The spine of the dj is separated from the front and back covers and there are a few tears; good condition; dj missing front and back flap. Book in very good condition. 20cm-26cm with 194 pp. 16 richly colored tipped-in plates by Florence Harrison. The book is further enhanced by many more of her decorations/illustrations. Blackie and Son Limited, London hardcover books
1983Embry 127183W. W. Norton 1983. First edition first printing. Fine in fine faintly rubbed price clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations. W. W. Norton, 1983. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1970247518New York: Viking 1970. hardcover. very good/very good. Color frontispiece and illustrated with 428 plates a few in color. 379 pages. Thick 4to red cloth d.w. New York: Viking Press 1970. A very good copy.<br/><br/> A Winterthur Book.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
1970244835New York: Viking 1970. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Color frontispiece and illustrated with 428 plates a few in color. 379 pages. Thick 4to red cloth d.w. New York: Viking Press 1970. Very good copy signed on the title by the author.<br/><br/> A Winterthur Book.<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
19849005329New York: Norton 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has one minor closed tear. <br/><br/> Norton hardcover books
1970WN2817New York: The Viking Press 1970. A bit of fading at book spine ends and faint shelfwear. Dust jacket spine a little sunned. Price clipped. This is the standard work on the subject written by the wife of Charles Montgomery noted expert on 18th century American furniture. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. The Viking Press Hardcover books
197046870New York: Viking 1970 . First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Viking 1970 . First edition. Copious b/w illustrations with a few in color. 379 pp. Hardcover. Large 4to. Coral cloth. A production mistake has resulted in the frontispiece being laid-down as the front pastedown else a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper with a touch of wear to the head of the spine. Very good/Very good. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Viking hardcover books
1984192541W W Norton & Co Inc 1984-07-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Dust jacket is faded around spine has minor overall wear; jacket is now wrapped. HB HS W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover books
1984SKU1033321W W Norton & Co Inc 1984-07-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. 0393017036 Dust jacket is wrapped- dust jacket has minor sunning to the spine and front edges. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia S.C. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover books
1872242124London: Richard Bentley 1872. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very Good lendinbg library lael removed on upper cover of each volume. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Sadleir 1761 second edition; Wolff 4849 Richard Bentley unknown books
