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199226934West Chester: Schiffer Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0887403786 . Color photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Schiffer Publishing hardcover books
290728London; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode E. & J. B. Young & Co. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. With frontispiece and ten additional full page chromolithographic illustrations. Quarter green cloth over pictorial paper boards. Very Good binding. Eyre & Spottiswoode | E. & J. B. Young & Co unknown books
18897621London and New York: Offices of "Engineering" and John Wiley & Sons 1889 First edition. 4 200pp. plus 20 pages of advertisements. 28 illustrations. Index. Olive green cloth gilt. Rubbing to extremities a bit of spotting to covers endpapers darkened. A very good copy. Chapters include Some Properties of Gold; Occurrences; Remarks on the Procedure of Late Years; Losses; Remedies; Free Milling etc. Offices of "Engineering" and John Wiley & Sons hardcover 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
1860014565D.Appleton-Century and Company 1860. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy Without Wear in Prefered Brown Pebble Cloth First Edition First Issue Ownership Name Gorgeous Fresh Copy Scarce In This Condition. D.Appleton-Century and Company Hardcover books
185947915London: John W. Parker and Son West Strand 1859. First Edition Bishop & Goldie 100 iii; Garrison - Morrison 1611. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Rust colored eps. Cloth along joints splitting. Rub mark to front paste-down. Prior owner signature to h.t. Withal a VG copy. 8 108 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue at rear. Charts including one fold-out 8 intra-textual figures & 4 fold-out plates at rear. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8" <br /><br />Per B & G "One result of the publication of Notes on Hospitals was to bring upon Miss Nightingale requests for advice on the building of hospitals and infirmaries from all over the world. She devoted much time and endless trouble to dealing with such requests ."Somewhat uncommon title in the trade. John W. Parker and Son, West Strand hardcover books
19222287051Cupples & Leon Company 1922. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Gooch Thelma. First edition. Board edges a bit faded jacket toned with tears along front flap and minor loss from edges. 1922 Hard Cover. vi 4 316 2 pp. 8vo. Color cameo on front board black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations by Thelma Gooch. An English translation of the French original entitled En Famille which has also been translated as The Story of Perrine. Both this work and Malot's Sans Famille Nobody's Boy have been adapted as Japanese anime features. Both stories involve child protagonists confronting independence and growing into young adults. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover books
19621322701New York: Platt & Munk Publishers 1962. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 301; VG/G; pink pictorial spine with white text; later edition; dust jacket shows slight shelf wear to exterior; lightly sunned spine; few chips to edges; price clipped flap; cloth clean; strong boards; text block shows mild toning to exterior edges; interior clean; tight binding;. 1322701. FP New Rockville Stock. Platt & Munk, Publishers hardcover books
15151NIGHTINGALE Florence. Collection of 32 pieces celebrating the first 50 years of nursing education which made nursing into the first respected medical profession for women. This collection includes a First Edition of Nightingale's influential guide Notes on Nursing 1859 and a handwritten Nightingale letter with wonderful content on her training school and hospital followed by many more tactile and visual pieces from the period ranging from approximately 1880-1930 when women entered the first official nursing programs to obtain theoretical education on disease prevention and antisepsis practical training in patient-centered care and certification and accolades for their excellent work. <br/><br/>While nursing was initially considered a volunteer service the founding of the Nightingale School of Nursing in 1862 caused rapid changes developing nursing into a true medical profession. Programs opened worldwide basing their training on the "Nightingale Principles" that emphasized patient-centered care through systemic cleanliness and stemming of infection in hospitals. The first time these important ideas were placed in print was in Nightingale's 1859 Notes on Nursing¸ a guide to patient care within the hospital and community which has remained relevant to the present day. A First Edition of Nightingale's Notes on Nursing published before even her training hospital was founded is included with this collection. A wonderful early letter on St. Thomas Hospital the site of Nightingale's first training school which she wrote in 1864 shortly after its founding is included here are well. In this letter Nightingale laments that "poor St. Thomas is in such a "fix & has so many bad friends that he ought to keep all his good ones." She is no doubt referring to the back-handed business deal that led to the hospital's moved to an abandoned music hall with sub-par hygiene for nine years starting shortly after her training program had found its home there. She discusses the immediate effects on her own students "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." Nightingale herself championed the creation of a new building and helped design it for modern standards of safety and hygiene. Among the first programs to model itself after Nightingale's example wertr the Spelman Nursing Program founded in 1886 and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1889. In order to distinguish nurses' uniforms from those of servants the programs instructed nurses to wear pocketed aprons for carrying tools and the schools provided ruffled caps that were easy for patients to identify in hospital hallways. An early vintage cap from circa 1880 is included in this collection.<br/><br/>By the turn of the century nursing education had aligned with university criteria and rigorous training became mandatory. In 1902 the U.S. and New Zealand initiated standard requirements for registered nurses to pass medical examinations; and by 1909 the University of Minnesota was the first to award a bachelor's degree in nursing. In 1919 the U.K. passed the Nursing Act requiring all nurses to join a registry; and in 1923 Yale University School of Nursing became the first autonomous college in the field. Such programs required women to take 2-3 years of medical coursework and pass certification exams. As is evident by this collection's handwritten nursing class notebook these women gained intensive knowledge about anatomy nutrition and disease. The notes in this collection include anatomical drawings as well as detailed information on "the practice of hygiene important in care of patient.how to prevent infection.uses to body of food and amount of food needed by individual patient" based on condition and diagnosis. It comes with a very rare 1911 "The Trained Nurse" booklet which contains educational matter on sexual and dental hygiene for patients to lower the risk of infection as well as information about a nurse's commitment to her training program. OCLC Worldcat lists no other known copies.<br/><br/>After completing classes nursing students apprenticed in their program's hospital until graduation. Instructors and administrators continued to value the use of uniforms and they made the clothing more functional for women whose daily tasks ranged from explaining doctors' diagnoses and treatments during consultations to the dressing of wounds. While uniforms evolved to become more streamlined they still bore visual signs of a student's experience and accomplishments. The nursing cap continued to be the most recognizable sign of entrance to the profession and getting her cap was a formal right of passage to a young nurse. Women only obtained the cap during a ceremony in which nurses from the program pinned the caps to the new nurses' heads. As students rose through the ranks and ultimately graduated they would receive a nursing lapel pin showing their entrance into a specialized field. This collection includes each of these important pieces: a white vintage nursing cap and lapel pin. In addition it contains a handwritten journal with beautiful colored handdrawn illustrations poems and diary entries by a nurse during her hospital training.<br/><br/>The women who graduated from nursing programs had met the mandatory benchmarks; indeed these women also often exceeded requirements and won honors for their work. Celebrating these landmark accomplishments this collection includes a set of 5 turn of the century graduation invitations an early commencement booklet with individual nursing graduation photos 3 early diplomas for women graduating from nursing programs 8 class photos and 7 individual female graduate portraits. The photos visually document the collective changes that these nurses' uniforms underwent across the decades as well as the women's pride in obtaining their degree. The collection also contains a "Champion of Head Nurses" trophy awarded to a young nurse for her leadership within her new hospital.<br/><br/>As this collection shows these women's educations led them to become proud and dedicated professionals excited to apply their knowledge in ways that made a difference. University of Pennsylvania "American Nursing" p. 1-11. "A Nurse's World" p.1. Heineman "Timelines in American Women's History" p. 219. unknown books
19979023866New Orleans: Batture 1997. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Batture hardcover books
1968288015Reading PA: Culinary Arts Press 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Collection of early New England recipes. Stapled softcover with photographic color paper covers. Four ring binding with wooden front and rear boards. Very Good binding. Culinary Arts Press unknown books
192830738London: Hogarth Press 1928. First edition. Red printed wrappers spine covered with cloth tape and stapled. Library stamp on cover. Corner of wrapper and title page bent small chip from back wrapper. 1500 copies were printed 1066 later pulped. Woolmer 182. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press hardcover books
1989qms1314Norfolk Virginia: The Donning Company 1989. First Edition. Quarto green leatherette hardcover gilt letters photo. illus. endpapers 208 pp. Fine As New in a Fine As New dust jacket. From dust jacket: .This book presents in pictorial form with enough text to outline the historical facts a review of how Nashua has evolved into the city we see today. Through the visual elements of maps artists’ sketches and most of all photographs this evolution is presented. The Donning Company, (1989). First Edition. hardcover books
174038135En Sevilla: En la Imprenta de las Siete Revueltas 1740. 4to 20 cm 8". 8 194 4 pp.; illus. <br><br>Beautifully printed this is the second edition of a major account of a New World wonder by the first Florida-born author Francisco de Florencia 161995 who entered the Jesuit Order in 1642 and became a noted preacher as well as a highly regarded writer.<br>Â Â Â Â First published in 1692 in Seville the Narracion essays the apparition in 1631 of St. Michael to an Indian named Diego Lázaro de San Francisco who lived in Santa María Nativitas on the PuebaTlaxcala border in Mexico. Miracles were attributed to the apparition to the spot of the manifestation and to nearby water as well; the miracles included various forms of spiritual healing including via holy water administered at a distance as recounted here.<br>Â Â Â Â The work received the patronage of Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz the bishop of Puebla Mexico. It contains a => full-page woodcut of St. Michael offers novenas specific to his chapel and of course gives a full account of the apparition. =>That long account includes a few lines in Nahuatl on p. 119.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: 18th-century ownership signature of Francisco Antonio Ximenez del Arenal on front free endpaper. Unidentified marca de fuego on top edge of volume. Handsome 20th-century bookplate of Jose Rodriguez Familiar on front pastedown.<br>Â Â Â Â => There seems to have been NO Mexico-printed edition of this work. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â DeBacker-Sommervogel III 798; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815; Alden & Landis 740/121; Medina BHA 6467. Publisher's limp vellum with evidence of ties now perished title in old ink on spine all edges speckled red; stain on front cover and another on rear. Bookplate and markings as above. => Overall a clean crisp copy in very good condition. En la Imprenta de las Siete Revueltas hardcover books
19946360Lewisburg PA: The Press of Appletree Alley / Bucknell University 1994. 1st edition limited 1/125 numbered and signed cloth spine with paper over boards without dust jacket as issued. "To illustrate the book Florence Putterman has created exciting colorful images influenced by Native American imagery and reflecting the nature of the poems" taken from the prospectus. The printed text includes twenty-one poems. The original illustrations by Florence Putterman were rendered into linoleum engravings by Colleen Shannon. The book was designed and printed by Barnard Taylor. Both the author and illustrator have signed the book on the colophon page. Bright fine condition. The Press of Appletree Alley / Bucknell University unknown books
V06K-00224Albert Whitman & Co. Used - Good. Good condition. Albert Whitman & Co unknown books
1899164203Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press 1899. Hardcover. VG-. Minor shelf wear. Ex-library with usual marks stickers stamps bookplate. Pages tanned with age but clean and tightly bound. Brown cloth over boards with mauve lettering. 171 pp. An interesting look at the lives of early Mormons in Utah through the eyes of Florence Merriam discussing their religious doctrines and practices. Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press hardcover books
194414708JNew York: Simon & Schuster 1944. Two copies of this book one belonging to Fredric March and the other to his wife Florence Eldridge. The poem was written during World War II and was presented in adapted dramatic form several times over the NBC radio network. The copy belonging to Fredric March is a second printing and is signed by him in pencil on the flyleaf - Fredric March November 1944. With some pencil notes by him referring to the text. At a later date the author has inscribed the book to his friend - For Fred March - Concerning whose reading of this poem words fail me - Russell Davenport. On the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945 the NBC Radio Network had March give a dramatic reading of the poem as part of its tribute to the fallen wartime President. The first printing copy belonging to Florence Eldridge is heavily annotated by her in pencil for an earlier radio reading in which she acted. Her copy is a first printing and inscribed by the author - For Florence Affectionately Russell Nov 30 / 44 And don’t for Dec 11!. There is an Autograph Letter Signed by Russell Davenport to Eldridge taped to the front pastedown tape browned dated December 12 1944 written after her radio reading - Dear Florence- This is just a little note wholly inadequate to express my appreciation for all your effort and care in the reading of My Country. You gave a superb performance. If there is ever anything that an unlikely scrivener can do in return you know where to come. Let me see you soon. Affectionately Russ. Both books are enclosed together in a custom clamshell box. Russell Davenport 1899-1954 was a very interesting man and close friend of the Marchs. As Wikipedia notes he “.served with the U.S. Army in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre. He enrolled at Yale University and graduated in 1923 where he was classmate of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden who founded Time magazine. While at Yale he became a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In 1929 he married the writer Marcia Davenport; they divorced in 1944. He joined the editorial staff of Fortune magazine in 1930 and became managing editor in 1937. At age forty-one he turned to politics and became a personal and political advisor to Wendell Willkie. Willkie was the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election and lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Willkie's death in 1944 Davenport became a defacto leader of the internationalist Republicans. Following World War II he was on the staff of Life and Time until 1952.†Simon & Schuster unknown books
197273033NY:: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0070278636 . No statement of printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . McGraw-Hill Book Company, hardcover books
198859415Boston:: Little Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0316058424 . Newbery Honor Book. Fifty-sixth printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket with the Newbery Honor emblem on the front panel. . Little, Brown, hardcover books
1963173601963. Softcover. VG/VG- some wear to extremities and DJ ex art library copy. Black wraps color DJ. 265 pp. Hundreds of bw plates. Text in Italian with translations in English French and German at the end. This catalog was prepared to accompany the 1963 Florence art fair and has works by close to 200 artists. A wonderful glimpse into the time period. paperback books
1989149724Los Altos California: Leone Publications 1989. Softcover. VG. Red & color illus. 80 pp. many color illus. Showcases quilts rendered by Native American women living on five reservation in Montana North Dakota and South Dakota. Beautiful work vibrant quilts! Leone Publications unknown books
1976264613Montrose Alabama: Garden Club 1976. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy with no marks of any kind. This copy appears to be unmarked and unopened. The dustjacket is not price clipped and is now protected in a mylar cover. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket. Garden Club unknown books
189236796New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher 1892. 1st printing of this edition of which OCLC shows no holding institutions. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning to paper which is becoming fragile. Two stab holes in margin along spine. Minor edge rash. A VG copy. 16 pp. Last page "The Engineer." Text triple column. Wood engraved masthead. Wood engraved illustrations p. 13 & p. 15. 11-3/8" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> F. M. Lupton, Publisher unknown books
197828460Bridgewater CT: The Flume Press 1978. cloth leather spine label. Papermaking. 8vo. cloth leather spine label. 1011 pages. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at The Red Mill located in Bridgewater CT. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book a signed poem by Garrett a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill. The Flume Press unknown books
