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188510092London; Longmans Green and Co. 1885. 1885. Hard Cover. First edition. Duodecimo two volumes. octavo pp. 8 292; 6 258. Bound in half dark blue straight grained morocco effect roan and red marbled paper over boardswith gilt fillets across spine and gilt spine ornaments and titles. A touch of wear to spine tips and corners. Both volumes holding firm with a small crack just starting at the lower joint of Volume II hinge of Volume I starting. Contents clean and bright and free of ownership inscriptions or annotations. A very good set. A collection of varied essays by Lady Verney a writer journalist and sister of Florence Nightingale. Many of the essays show folklorist interest with titles including "The Powers of Women and how to Use them" "Mythical and Mediaeval Swords" and "Old Welsh Legends and Poetry". London; Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. hardcover
18901809200005London: Hansard Publishing Union 1890. Paperback. Acceptable. Suffragette Pamphlet Rebound in clth wraps. Publisher's original wraps bound in. Cover margins chipped with loss. 16 pages. Signed on the title page. The Women's Franchise League was a British organization created by the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Subjects: Women's Franchise League; Female suffrage; Electoral reform London: Hansard Publishing Union paperback
1888345785London : Eyre & Spottiswoode 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy bound in quarter cloth over warm paper boards. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Front board starting. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 38 pages. Subjects; Conduct of life ; Juvenile literature. Nannies ; Juvenile literature. Children's stories 19th century ; Juvenile literature. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover
188914905NY: John Wiley & Sons. Very Good. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. The covers are soiled and the front inner hinge is starting to crack. Just a bit of rubbing at the corners & spine ends. Otherwise nice & tight. The contents are "fine". Owner's stamp inside the covers an early assayer . ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 200ads pages . John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1860951P35London: Harrison 1860. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 8.5" by 5.5"; 9" by 6". None. Florence Nightingale's pioneering work on nursing written after her time in Crimea the first edition second issue of this monumental publication. The first edition second issue with "The right of Translation is reserved" to the tail of the title page and adverts for the 1860 'Burke's Peerage' and 'The Foreign Office List' to the front paste down and the final advert to the rear paste down being for 'Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian'. Endpapers feature adverts and are pale yellow.In a custom cloth solander box in a very good indeed condition.Florence Nightingale's sought after significant volume on nursing giving a variety of hints and advice written after her times in Crimea.This is an incredibly important work the first of its kind ever written and is modern in its practice written both for study of professionals and for people who would be nursing at home. Nightingale used this work as a basis for the curriculum at the Nightingale School. 'Notes on Nursing' also sold very well to the general public.Chapters include 'Ventilation and Warming' 'Health of Houses' 'Noise' 'Taking Food' 'Bed and Bedding' 'Light' 'Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls' and more. In the original publisher's cloth binding in a custom cloth solander box. Externally a little worn front joint and hinge are tender and require careful handling. Loss to the backstrip. Rear joint and hinge are starting with a tear to the tail. A few light marks and rubbing. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean. Solander box is smart with a few light marks and a small tear to the spine in a very good indeed condition. Good Only Harrison hardcover
1860355490723774London 1860. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: Harrison 59 Pall Mall Bookseller to the Queen nd 1860. First UK Edition First Issue. 79 pages. Publisher's dark brown pebbled cloth-covered flexible paper boards with gilt stamped title lettering to front board and triple blind rules to perimeter. Yellow end-papers with the Publisher's printed advertisements on front pastedown dated 1860 for Burke's Peerage and on the rear end-papers for the Foreign Office list. This copy does NOT carry 'The right of translation is reserved' on title page under the publisher's imprint. The earliest examples of the first issue were printed with plain end-papers but almost immediately the publisher's put in advertisement end-papers as per this copy. Some time in February 1860 the book was reissued its many textual errors still uncorrected but with the 'The right of translation is reserved' inserted on the title page. NB: what differentiates this copy is that it does not have the the Right of Translation slug to the title page so it is definitely first issue. A VG copy that has benefitted from the spine having been professionally and sympathetically replaced and the inner hinges strengthened by a skilled bookbinder. There is a neat inscription from 1876 to the verso of the title page. Bishop & Goldie: A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale 1962. Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 was an English social reformer statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
1860140947035London: Harrison 1860. First Edition Early Issue. Near Fine. First Edition early issue. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed "From Florence Nightingale Mar 14 1860"; additional ownership signature in a different hand of "A. Russell Pollock Greenhill Paisley" inked beneath Nightingale's inscription. Bound in twentieth-century blue morocco with spine lettered in gilt with original brown limp cloth covers bound in at front and rear cup ring stain to upper cover. With "The Right of Translation is reserved." at foot of title page original yellow endpapers with printed advertisements dated 1860. Near Fine with light wear to binding fading to spine and lightly so to covers. Offsetting to modern cream endsheets from wide turn-ins former owner name in light pencil to front free endpaper. Inked date to original front pastedown contents tanned. <p>Alexander Russell Pollock 1821-1884 was the son of James Pollock and Isabella Russell of Greenhill Paisley Scotland. Alexander was a partner in the firm James Pollock and Co. a merchant and yarn agent based in Causeyside. He married Margaret Amelia Pollock the daughter of Matthew Pollock in Stillorgan Dublin on 27 April 1859 and they had 19 children in the space of 16 years. Alexander died on 23 October 1884 in Dieppe Seine-Maritime France at the age of 63 and was buried in his hometown. An obituary was published in the Paisley Gazette on November 1 1884. Alexander amassed a large library and collection of coins medals manuscripts and other antiques which were sold in a series of auction sales in 1889.<p>Signed copies of this landmark medical work are scarce. "Defining nursing as 'helping the patient to live' Nightingale 'introduced the modern standards of training and esprit de corps and early grasped the idea that diseases are not 'separate entities which must exist like cats and dogs' but altered conditions qualitative disturbances of normal physiological processes through which the patient is passing. While she did not know the bacterial theory of infectious diseases she realized that absolute cleanliness fresh air pure water light and efficient drainage are the surest means of preventing them" Garrison-Morton History of Medicine p. 773. Bishop & Goldie p. 16. Harrison unknown
1860DR6BRWN1302London: Harrison 1860. Original limp cloth covered covers gilt title to spine. 21.5cm x 14cm. 2 ads to front end-papers 79pp 2 ads to rear end-papers. 1st edition later issue 1860. Adverts on front end-papers for 1860 edition of Barker's peerage. Slight fraying to spine edges. Small water staining to lower edges of end-papers. A decent copy. dr6. Soft Cover. Good. Harrison Paperback
18604447264<p>20cm by 13cm 1402pp covers worn slight spine lean light pencil marks on flyleaf blank page beside title page missing rear flyleaf missing smudge on title page one page loosefrom binding no missing pages otherwise unmarked very good condition.</p> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
186019423New York: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good-. 1860. First American Edition. Hardcover. Full dark green pebbled cloth. Lettered in gilt to the front. Four pages of publisher's ads to the rear. Bumps and wear to the corners and spine ends. The boards are showing at the corners. Chips to the upper spine end. A 5/8" split to the lower front spine end. To pages 31-76 there are tears and creases to the fore edge margins. Foxing in varying degrees is found throughout. The upper 3/4" is clipped off the title page. No lettering is affected. Good-very good-. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages . D. Appleton and Company hardcover
186096102New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. 140p. plus 4p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Rebacked in black with new backstrip tight against spinespine glued down. Original front and back covers preserved with some loss of cloth at cover corners. New yellow front free endpaper added closely matching the color of the otherwise original yellow endpapers. Visible evidence of neat removal of bookplates or labels from front pastedown. "17802" inked on title-page. Scattered mostly light to moderate foxing. Covers slightly worn. Tape remnants inside front cover. New front free endpaper. Moderate foxing on some pages. Modest page rippling. First American edition of a cornerstone book on nursing. Among the other books listed in Appleton's advertisements is the recently published first American edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
18608138London: Harrison 59 Pall Mall 1860. 1860 79. 1 p. Publisher's limp black cloth titled in gilt to the front cover. The spine expertly repaired and it has a small chip to the cloth at the top of both boards. The yellow endpapers are printed with advertisements including Burke's Peerage for 1860 and The Foreign Office List for 1860. 'About 1860' written at he foot of the title page by a more recent owner. The text is otherwise clean and crisp. Published at 5/- the book proved extremely popular and 15000 copies were printed by March 1860. This copy is in an early state with The right of Translation is reserved at the foot of the title page but with all the textual errors mentioned by Bishop and Goldie uncorrected. London: Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, hardcover
186077671London: Harrison and Sons 1860. First edition first printing. 79 pages with 'The right of translation is reserved' printed on title page. Undated but the date 1860 is listed on the advertisement pages on front endpapers. Advertisement pages also on rear endpapers. Front endpaper and title page detached from spine but extant. Front board nearly detached from spine only held to binding in two places. Very light spotting on some pages but mostly clean. Chipping to edges of boards with some loss to boards on head and foot of spine. Please inquire for photos of the book. First Edition First Printing. Hard. Good. 8vo. Harrison and Sons Hardcover
186041976London: Harrison 1860. First edition second issue. 8vo. 79 1 pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to the upper board. Later signature to title page. Neatly rebacked with a near matching cloth else very good. Nightingale's second published work an immense success that sold 15000 copies in a couple of months. ".an incomparable treatise but. more than that; it is an alphabet of household hygiene. Dealing as it does with the basic principles of nursing it has never dated and the principles are as valid today as when first formulated." Bishop & Goldie pp. 15-18. First published the same year. The second issue includes the "Right of Translation" note to the title page absent from the first issue. The advertisements to the endpapers feature Burke's Peerage and Baronetage for 1860 on the front pastedown and the "Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian" appears as the last item on Harrison's list to the rear. This copy also accords with all of the issue points of the early issues recorded by the bibliographers apart from the final one the last chapter headline reads "Conclusion". This point however features less consistently than the others. London: Harrison unknown
1860540671New York: D. Appleton and Company 1860. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition wrappered issue. Small octavo. 140 4pp. Owner signature of Mrs. Annie H. Kimball on front wrap some light spotting on the wrappers and first and last leaf lacks about the bottom third of the paper covered spine but a sound and attractive about very good copy in the fragile wrappers. The record of Nightingale's experiences as a manager of nurses in the Crimean War the book was heavily relied upon during the American Civil War. The first American edition is moderately uncommon the wrappered issue is excessively so. D. Appleton and Company unknown
18605434London: Harrison Bookseller to The Queen 1860. FIRST EDITION early issue 8vo pp. 79 1. Original dark brown limp pebbled cloth boards boards bordered with triple blind rules front board lettered direct in gilt. Spine rather nibbled front joint correspondingly weakened boards somewhat mottled. An early printing of Nightingale’s enormously influential nursing book first published in 1860 and reprinted frequently over the following decades. This copy has ‘the right of translation is reserved’ on the title-page ads to the endpapers dated 1860 and 5 of the 6 issue points identified by Bishop & Goldie as denoting an earlier printing. The sixth issue point the corrected heading on p.73 is noted as potentially later being found in both states in copies with all other corrections made. But in this copy that ‘later’ correction is accompanied by the other five in the earlier uncorrected state - perhaps disproving the assumed priority. Bishop & Goldie 4. Harrison, Bookseller to The Queen hardcover
186142364NY: D. Appleton & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1861. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled cloth gilt titles. Spine perished tape strips hold spine. Bottom edge of book 2" dampstained. Bookplate. First signature nearly detached. Pages lightly browned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 4 ads pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1863161784London: Longman Green Longman Roberts and Green 1863. Inscribed to her only supporter in the British military establishment Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Major General Sir Henry Storks &c &c offered by one who has had the honour to serve under his command. F.N. 5/11/64 Inkermann Day". During the Crimean War Henry Knight Storks 1811-1874 commanded the British military establishments in Turkey from the Bosphorus to Smyrna and was promoted major-general. He superintended the final British withdrawal from Turkey at the end of the war. Nightingale inscribed this copy on the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman a major British victory. Storks was a key ally in Nightingale's efforts to reform nursing in the Crimea reforms she often felt were obstructed by the British military authorities. She wrote on 6 March 1856 "I have therefore fought my own battles. I can truly say unsupported by any official out here with the exception of Genl. Storks" in Goldie p. 225. In May 1856 Nightingale was so exhausted by illness and overwork that she thought she was dying and wrote to Storks with her last requests: "As you are of all those in office whether at home or abroad the officer who has given the most steady and constant support to the work entrusted to me by her Majesty's Government I venture to appeal to you to continue that support after my death and to carry out as far as possible my last requests" Goldie. p. 265. Nightingale recovered and in 1857 secured Storks's appointment to the Royal Commission on the sanitary condition of the army. For many years after they continued to correspond on the welfare of soldiers. Nightingale's Notes on Hospitals was first published in 1858 and the second edition in 1859. This third edition was completely revised and substantially expanded and as Nightingale wrote in her preface "it is in reality a new book". The work addresses sanitation and hospital architecture arguing for the "pavilion" plan in which wards were separated into wings to improve ventilation and sunlight and to reduce infection by isolating contagious patients. The book "won Nightingale praise and inaugurated her career as an advisor to medical professionals all around the world especially those involved with hospital and infirmary construction" Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles. Quarto. With 11 plates 2 maps of London and Paris 3 tables all folding. Original purple cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorated in blind brown endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. Minor repairs to spine joints and inner hinges wear at extremities with loss at head of spine not affecting lettering contents clean plan of Paris with small chip to outer edge affecting border without loss to image. A good copy. Bishop & Goldie 101. Sue Goldie ed. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea 1997. hardcover
18548183H81215London: Bell & Daldy. Notes and Queries A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men General Readers Etc Notes and Queries A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men General Readers Etc January - June 1854 Vol 9. . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1854. Bell & Daldy hardcover
185014722H80839London: George Bell. November - May 1850 first series volume 1. . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1850. George Bell hardcover
185322824H80204London: George Bell. January - June 1853 first series volume 7. Some cracking to upper spine. . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1853. George Bell hardcover
1865187671London: Emily Faithfull Printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty Victoria Press 1865. The work of destruction has at the same time begun First edition offprint issue of Nightingale's study of the treatment of indigenous Australians in British hospitals. Amid the European expansion and settler conflict of 19th-century Australia the Aboriginal population was declining rapidly. British hospitals continued to provide treatment to indigenous Australians whose survival in the colony was viewed as a matter of national concern. By 1865 Nightingale was working to implement her reforms on an institutional scale and had contributed several commissions examining public health in British colonies. Much of her data for the current paper was gathered by missionaries: a key recommendation was an official infrastructure for collecting mortality statistics. Nightingale concludes that poor sanitation and alcohol were among the primary causes for higher death rates but she also notes that European contact itself was damaging the Aboriginal population: "as soon as native habits and customs begin to undergo change under European influences the work of destruction has at the same time begun" p. 3. Nightingale's paper was originally published in Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science the same year: Bishop and Goldie list the journal issue first but no formal priority has been established. Octavo pp. 8. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper re-attached otherwise a very good copy indeed. Belt 15; Bishop & Goldie 95 ii. Lynn McDonald Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family 2010. unknown
1900100113Ess Ess 1900/1901. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Clean tight & unmarked deckle cut text. Frontis and 6 illustrations on coded stock by Gustav Verbeek. Blue Cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine. 2 black cats on a hill with gold gilt moon and stars black lettering on white clouds. Just a hint of wear to edges of boards now protected in custom clear archival mylar jacket. A very well preserved book. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation. Ess Ess hardcover
1818349880Paris : Volland le jeune 1818. PublishedParis : Volland le jeune 1818. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; volume 3 ; 21 cm. Subjects; France Court and courtiers. French history. French history. French literature; history. Paris : Volland le jeune, 1818. PublishedParis : Volland le jeune hardcover
187610123120Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1876. Brown cloth. Front free endpapers neatly removed from both volumes; cover extremities lightly rubbed else clean tight copies: VG. 12mo. Bernhard Tauchnitz hardcover
