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1888106806Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1888. Rare first edition presentation copy of the father of American neurology's most popular work. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Mrs. Johnson with the author's regards." Weir has also noted "25 copies large paper No. 19." In near fine condition. One of Mitchell's most popular works Doctor an Patient provides a prime example of the eminent physician's direct appeal to the common sense and intelligence of the layman at large. Addressed chiefly to women the essays include: The Physician Convalescence Pain and Consequences The Moral Management of Sick or Invalid Children Nervousness and it Influence on Character and Out-Door Camp-Life for Women. The work quickly gained popularity upon publication and went through four revisions. Mitchell's more prominent patients included Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Virginia Woolf who wrote a savage satire of his treatments in her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1872D17717Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. viii 9-377 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine brown coated endpapers. Some wear to spine ends and extremities with some loss to head of spine splitting to endpapers library stamps and pocket otherwise very good. Provenance: Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings bookplate stamps to title and endpapers pocket to r.f.e.p. BAL 14075; Cushing M401; Garrison-Morton 4544; Heirs of Hippocrates 1956; Norman 1520. <br/><br/>First edition of this "basic and time-honored work on the symptomssigns and treatment of nerve injuries. Together with his other major work Gunshot wounds 1864 it established fundamental lines of treatment which remained essentially unchanged until World War I" Heirs of Hippocrates. This copy with an ALS of Mitchell undated reading "Dear Dr What a fellow you are to grow books It is amazing even to a man of my industry this nice book is strangely interesting - Thanks". J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
18972478Philadelphia PA: Lea Brothers 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf wear hint of foxing at text block edges non-penetrating prior owner embossed mark on fep notation of prior owner above mark Dr. Coombs else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements in blind decorative elements pale green endpages. 8vo. 305pp. plus 16pp ads. Illus. color and b/w plates. Index. <br/><br/>Silas Weir Mitchell 1829-1914 "published two general neurological works "Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System-Especially in Women" 1881 and "Clinical Lessons on Nervous Diseases" 1897. His preeminence as a neurologist brought him many patients with functional and neurotic complaints." DSB 9 422. A very handsome and bright copy of this scarce classic in early neuro-science. Lea Brothers hardcover books
188911005ELondon: Turnbridge Wells 1889. First Edition. Quarto. One of 120 special large paper copies numbered and signed by the author Harrsion Weir. Illustrated with 72 engravings and a frontisportrait of the author. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Front exterior cloth joint partially split with occasional slight foxing with one word underlined in ink on the dedication page and some moisture stains to the cloth otherwise a very good copy. A landmark study and reference work about cats with chapters discussing their temperaments habits mating feeding variety scoring at cat shows superstition and folklore and art relating to cats. Harrison Weir was the President of Britain’s National Cat Club and was the organizer of the first cat show at the Crystal Palace. Rare book. Turnbridge Wells hardcover books
185426508London: Geo. Routledge & Co 1854. 1st Edition in English Howes G-142; Sabin 27191. Brown half calf with yellow marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. Overall VG some minor rubs to extremities/usual light foxing. xi 1 396 pp. Frontis 7 tinted inserted plates. 8vo. 7-1/8" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>A chronicling of the author's experiences while visiting the "wilds of America" which was primarily a 'leisurely' journey from New York to New Orleans Louisiana including adventures in Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri & Arkansas. Somewhat uncommon- last at auction in 1989. Geo. Routledge & Co hardcover books
1889320030Tunbridge Wells: R. Clement and Comapny Mount Pleasant 1889. First edition Number 101 of 120 signed by the author. With 72 engravings and a frontispiece portrait of the author. viii 248pp. 4to. Original brown cloth. First edition Number 101 of 120 signed by the author. With 72 engravings and a frontispiece portrait of the author. viii 248pp. 4to. R. Clement and Comapny, Mount Pleasant unknown books
1895226146London: Longmans Green 1895. Third. hardcover. near fine. With contributions from the Duke of Beaufort the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire Alfred E.T. Watson the Earl of Onslow and E.L. Anderson as well as a chapter on Polo by J. Moray Brown. Illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan. 448 pages title page foxed. Thick 8vo rebound in 3/4 green morocco decoratively gilt spine with red leather label London: Longmans Green and Co. 1895. Third edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> From 'The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes' edited by The Duke of Beaufort K.G.<br/><br/> Longmans, Green unknown books
1867D17724Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Plate illustrations. 79 pp. Title page in red and black. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Spine and extremities rubbed some bubbling to cloth scattered staining and toning else very good. BAL 14065. <br/><br/>First edition of Mitchell's anonymous collection written and published for the benefit of the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Blanck's "Intermediate sheets" binding B with a gift inscription to the front free endpaper "Emily Yarnall/from Aunt Sally/December 25/66." The book was advertised as "just published" on December 15 1866. Blanck cites this very copy which was once in the collection of Harvard. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1898511571898. Weir Robert Stanley. The Civil Code of Lower Canada and the Bills of Exchange Act 1890: With All Statutory Amendments Verified Collated and Indexed. Montreal: C. Theoret 1898. ix 462 pp. Octavo 4-3/4' x 6". Original cloth gilt titles to front board and spine. moderate shelfwear hinges cracked but secure front free endpaper lacking. Toning internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine small inkstamp to title page. $450. OCLC locates 11 copies. "The publisher claims that this is the most accurate English edition of the Code yet published. The concordance of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Napoleon is to be found at the foot of each article. This compilation will no doubt be of great use to our professional brethren in the Province of Quebec as well as to those in other provinces who are interested in codified law. This again brings to one's mind the wish that there might be one law for every province of this Dominion.": Canada Law Journal New Series 34 1898 364. Not in Sweet & Maxwell. unknown books
1897223233New York The Century Co. 1897. 1897. First edition first issue with title pages on a stub. 8vo. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Original gray stamped in orange. 2 volumes. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a 1/2 gray morocco over brown cloth slipcase with brown leather spine labels. BAL 14178. F. Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1897. hardcover books
1877316316Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1877. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. Modern crimson cloth. First edition. 101pp. 8vo. "For some years I have been using with success.certain methods of renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and of excessive feeding made possible by passive excerise obtained through the steady use of massage and electricity" Chapter I.<br/><br/>Mitchell used this resty cure on Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it provided her the idea for "The Yellow Wallpaper" a short story in which the narrator is driven insane by this treatment.<br/><br/>This treatment was also used on Virginia Woolf who wrote a savage satire of it in her novel Mrs. Dalloway : "you invoke proportion; order rest in bed; rest in solitude; silence and rest; rest without friends without books without messages; six months rest; until a man who went in weighing seven stone six comes out weighing twelve" G-M 4554 J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown books
186078884Washington: Smithsonian 1860. hardcover. very good. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Bound with: Mitchell and Reichert Edward T. Researches upon the Venoms of Poisonous Serpents. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. With 5 chromolithographic plates. Two works in 1 vol. large 4to contemporary 1/2 cloth marbled boards. Washington 1860 and 1886. Very good.<br/><br/> First Editions. GM 2104; 2106. Mitchell 1829-1914 and Reichert showed snake venom to be protein in nature and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate the snake venoms; he was the first to point out that snake venom is a double not a single poison. Hideo Noguchi's great work done many years later had its origin in Michell's early researches.<br/><br/> Smithsonian unknown books
18971342New York: The Century Co. 1897 2 volume set. First issue of the first edition. 12mo. Illustrated with black & white frontis plate. Gray cloth with red printing and decoration. Spines of both volumes slightly cocked and soiled light wear to spine ends else a near fine set. . The Century Co. hardcover books
1878D17718Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1878. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 109 pp 10 page publisher's catalog at back. Original brown limp cloth stamped in gilt dark green endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities very good. Provenance: Egerton L. Crispin noted American physician bookplate and ownership signature. <br/><br/>Second edition revised of a work much admired and positively reviewed by Freud who was significantly influenced by Mitchell's ideas and who himself undertook Mitchell's rest cure. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
189791473New York: The Century 1897. First Edition. hardcover. near fine. Two frontispieces by Howard Pyle. 2 vols. gray cloth stamped in red. N.Y.: The Century 1897. First Edition. First issue.<br/><br/> The Century unknown books
1860149London: James Clarke & James Nisbet Company 1860. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with superb gilt design on cover black-stamped decorative borders by John Leighton. Color title page photographic frontispiece and woodcut illustrations throughout by Leighton Harrison Weir and others. Some cover wear and a little foxing internally else very good. <br/><br/> James Clarke & James Nisbet Company hardcover books
1890D17725Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 6 70 pp. Original white cloth-backed green paper-covered boards paper spine label. Boards soiled wear to label internally fine. BAL 14141. First edition inscribed on the f.f.e.p.: "My dear Ned If you find anything within to interest I shall be glad Weir". One of 322 copies printed. Loosely inserted is a 12 line poem of Mitchell's printed on a card with a botanical illustration at top printed Corell Press from its Mount Washington Mass. shop 1917. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1891118774London: Longmans 1891. hardcover. very good. With other authors' contributions as well as a chapter on Polo by J. Moray Brown. Illustrated by G.D. Giles Frank Dadd and J. Stuart Allan thick 8vo brown pictorial cloth; some foxing. London: Longmans Green 1891. Very Good.<br/><br/> Previous owners' inscription from 1893 on half title. The Badminton Library.<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
1860D17715Washington:: Smithsonian Institute 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With 12 woodcuts in text. x 145 pp. Modern black library buckram. Very good. Provenance: Findlay Russell 1919-2011 American toxicologist bound for him with his last name stamped to foot of spine. One of the first definitive studies on rattlesnake venom. This copy from the library of noted American toxicologist Findlay Russell whose ancestor of the same last name wrote a treatise on snakebites in the 19th century which Mitchell cites several times in the work. Garrison-Morton 2104. <br/><br/> Smithsonian Institute hardcover books
18958707New York: The Century Co 1895. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. The 1895 1st edition in its decorative light-brown suede. Clean and VG with patterned blindstamping to the panels. 64mo miniature 165 pgs. all edges gilt. An elegant celebration of the Portuguese wine Madeira. <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1878706991878. MITCHELL S. Weir. FAT AND BLOOD: AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1878. 12mo. brown cloth over limp boards lettered in gilt. Second printing of second revised edition. Slight scuffing and spotting to front board which is also slightly bowed. Spine just cocked. Overopened at the title page. In all a very good plus copy. unknown books
1885289945Philadelphia.: Lea Brothers & Co. 1885 . 2nd Edition. Publisher’s green cloth blind ruled borders gilt spine title. . Very good some darkening and a spot to spine contents tight and unmarked. . 20.2x13 cm. . Mitchell was a noted neurologist and also an author of popular fiction. Virginia Woolf was one of his famous patients Lea Brothers & Co. hardcover books
1900D17723New York: The Century Co 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small 8vo. 8 47 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gold. A near fine copy. BAL 14191. First edition inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear Mrs Hamill I venture to contribute this volume as my personal gift. S. Weir Mitchell." <br/><br/> The Century Co hardcover books
1899414071899. MITCHELL S. Weir. HEPHZIBAH GUINESS; THEE AND YOU; AND A DRAFT ON THE BANK OF SPAIN. NY: The Century Co. 1899. 16mo. brown half-calf leather & marbled boards. Signed presentation from Mitchell on the front endpaper. Very Good rubbing edges and along spine. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1900442111900. MITCHELL S. Weir. THE WAGER AND OTHER POEMS. NY: The Century Company 1900. 16mo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. Signed. Initialed by Mitchell on the half-title page: "by S. W. M." Very Good some rubbing quarter-inch loss at head of spine front cover reattached. $85.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books