179 résultats
1875095212Wien: Verlag von Karl Czermak 1875 Book. Fair. Soft cover. First Edition. Very RARE copy of this 118 page illustrated 19th century German work on rupture of the uterus. Illustrated "mit vier lithographirten tafeln". Cover is faded and quite worn; many pages are uncut thus unread; illustrations have minor age-marks; text block is split. Verlag von Karl Czermak paperback
1890e2790London: Macmillan & Co. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. Cover rubbed and marked. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing and marking. Tear at a fold of map. 1890. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xxiv 653pp ads. 9 plates 8 with colour fold-out colour map of 'The Main Drainage System' fold-out chart fold-out plan. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Macmillan & Co hardcover
188097828452289231880-1883, librairie R.Simon, in-4 brochés, Nouvelle botanique médicale, tome 1, 3 et 4, nombreuses planches dessinées et peintes d'après nature, puis chromo-lithographiées. Comprenant les plantes des jardins et des champs susceptibles d'être employées dans l'art de guérir, de leurs vertus et de leurs dangers, d'après les anciens auteurs et les auteurs modernes. | Etat : mauvais état, les ouvrages se séparent en cahiers, dos absents, manquent une partie du 1er plat et des pages de titre du 1er tome. Moisissures et mouillures intérieures (Ref.: G9471)
185535629New York: Harper and Brothers 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 1 vi pages 7- 193 29 pages "Notes" 1. Sketched illustrations of the human body in the text. Brown cloth hardcover with blind decorative stamped covers and spine. Title on the spine. Cloth is chipped head of the spine. Light scattered toning and foxing to the contents. Contents also cover Domestic Economy and includes a list of "Board of Managers on the American Woman's Educational Association. Harper and Brothers hardcover
18892086Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co. 1889. Wraps. Oversized pink paper wrappers staple bound. Very good. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets and Preserves; and How to Make Bread. The binding style and large type set likely indicates that this publication was meant for display in the kitchen. The inside cover purports the benefits of a healthy diet especially focused on wheat and grain's positive effects on the brain. The following pages outline recipes and instructions for proper food preparation taking care to mention the repercussions of poorly tended food ranging from indigestion from unchopped capers to dangers of under or overcooked vegetables. The final page includes helpful hints for food shopping health and safety suggestions as well as a treatise on the proper diet for invalids. <br />The Home Magazine a monthly illustrated periodical ran from 1888 to 1908 serving as a guide to social domestic and business life. Mrs. John A Logan served as editor for the Home Magazine following the death of her husband a Civil War general and statesman John A. Logan. Born Mary Simmerson Cunningham an educated woman from Missouri she played an active role in her husband's political life accompanying him on campaigns and organizing volunteers. Mary became a prominent figure in Washington society in her own right often meeting with Adele Douglas wife of Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant to discuss political happenings and social issues. Mary was a celebrated American writer and editor authoring two books and contributing to several publications including William Randolph Hearst's monthly syndicate Cosmopolitan. She was committed to social causes dedicating herself to the women's suffrage movement and was an early supporter of the American Red Cross. Weak fold across cover wear to edges and small paper loss to inside pages not effecting text. <br/><br/> The Brodix Publishing Co. paperback books
18322818baCPhiladelphia PA: Henry H. Porter 1832. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First presumed edition. Octavo 8vo. 80 pages of text. Hardcover; brown cloth spine lacking; blue-green paper covered boards nearly detached. Original orange printed paper front cover label intact. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Medicine; influenza; rhinovirus. Measures 22.9cm height. Henry H. Porter Hardcover books
1871BN030572Boston: Wright & Potter State Printers 1871. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. 8vo size original printed stiff blue wrappers xii preliminary pages and 433 pages of text followed by 2 blank leaves. Errata at end of the alphabetical index Sections include The Causes of Typhoid Fever Health of Towns Homes for the Poor The sewage Question and Analyisis of the Mortality of the City of Boston. Illustrated including a large foldout plan Imroved Homes for the People. Laid in is a large folded detailed map "Health Disctricts of the City of Boston" the map being once tipped in at page 368. Also illustrated with 6 full-pag plans/printed drawings showing among other things the plan of a small country school-house for fifty-six scholars. There is also a foldout map showing the regions drained by Mystic Pond. Text is complete some pages at the front loose but present. Some edge chipping to wrappers. The text is clean and not brittle. There is varied material on typhoid. A rare book on American medical history. Wright & Potter, State Printers paperback
1877800664New York: J.B. Ford & Company 1877. Best known as a leader in American homeopathy the Italian physician Tullio Suzzara Verdi writes here about female physiology health hygiene and development as a sort of guide to mothers raising their daughters. The volume reflects distinctly 19th-century attitudes about health and hygiene promoting the curative values of sea and mountain air and warning of the dangers of excessive exercise during menstruation. It is a scarce volume. This copy is in Good condition overall with some foxing and cover soil. 287 pages including index plus advertisements; approx. 5"x8". Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. J.B. Ford & Company Hardcover
1869e2395London: John Churchill & Sons. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Ex-Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. Cover rubbed. Some foxing. 1869. 3rd Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 140mm 9" x 6". xxxi 472pp lx plates. 70 b/w plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . John Churchill & Sons hardcover
1875028455Paris: Librairie J-B Balliere et Fils 1875. xvi 980pp text-figures additions table analytique des matieres erratum marbled endpapers. Occasional foxing. Hinges slackening. Page edges toned lightly foxed. Prev owner's two stamps on the title page no text affected. Marbled boards worn at the edges; quarter bound with gilt spine titles and decorations and six raised bands. There is a little insect damage at and by the spine. A paper sticker has been attached to the panel by the spine foot. This edition is revised and enlarged with 464 figures in the text. Text in French/en Francais. Second Edition deuxieme edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Librairie J-B Balliere et Fils Hardcover
1843B99061Louvain, chez Dusart et Vandenbroeck 1843-1844 311pp., édition originale de 1843), reliure moderne cart. avec titre doré au dos, brochure originale conservée et reliée, très bon état, rare, B99061
187297828452233441872, J.-B. Baillière et fils, in-8 demi-cuir marron, plats marbrés, couverture conservée (en fin d'ouvrage), 15 fac-similé d'écritures d'aliénés | Etat : bon état (Ref.: ref96105)
18740085923Boston: Wright and Potter 1874. Paperback. Very Good. 1874 reprinting of the original 1870 document one of 3000 copies. Softcover original blue wraps. viii 58 pp. Very Good; minor sheflwear to the wraps; clean contents; tight binding. OCLC locates 6 copies. Includes sections on bone-boiling pit breeding poisons slaughtering alcohol homes for the poor and much much more. Wright and Potter paperback
1888100720Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co. 1888 Book. Fair. Leather. First Edition. Leather binding is faded soiled and worn rear board is detached; interior is very good. Late 19th century OB text illustrated with a colored plate and three hundred and nine engravings on wood. 808 pages. Lea Brothers & Co. hardcover
18584079Charleston SC: Henry R. Frost 1858. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 6"x9". 318pp. Brown cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine blue endpapers. Slight spine slant. Slightly warped boards: lightly rubbed/scuffed several dampstains and an ink spot. Endpapers toned: pencil marks to front and rear fep. Toned textblock edges and interior. Slightly musty. Binding tight. Covered in seller's mylar. Scarce. Henry R. Frost hardcover
1815060264Boston: T. B. Wait & Sons 1815 Book. Good. Leather. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED. First Edition. RARE PRESENTATION COPY of this early 19th century work on the epidemic diseases in the state of Vermont "from its first settlement to the year 1815 with a consideration of their causes phenomena and treatment. To which is added remarks on pulmonary consumption". Written in pencil on the flyleaf "Wmle Bradley Presented by the Author". 419 pages. Front board is partially detached; moderate spine strip wear; rubmarks; foxing on endpapers; text is in very good condition for a nearly 200 year old book!. T. B. Wait & Sons hardcover
1846048217London: Simpkin Marshall and Co. 1846. xi viii 194pp 9 diagrams. Or brown cloth. Fading to spine and upper 3cm of front cover 1cm chip at top of spine and 2 small scuffs to spine unobtrusive stamp of Iodine Education Bureau on rear free endpaper. Nice early Victorian treatise on hydrotherapy water cure/taking the waters. Third Thousand. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Hardcover
1855073909Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo & Co. 1855 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. Second Edition. Nicely rebound with gilt-embossed black pebble cloth; new endpapers. Some light foxing within the text and on the plates. Very RARE copy of this mid-19th century text on operative surgery this being Volume II of the two-volume work. "With a bibliographical index and historical record of many of their operations during a period of two hundred and thirty-four years" - an important work in the history of American surgery and medicine. This 2nd edition is "with numerous additions in both the text and illustrations". Illustrated with 43 plates each containing 4 to 12 figures of "engravings on steel". 488 pages. Lippincott, Grambo & Co. hardcover
189463203Boston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1894. 4to. vii 1 380 pp. Photo frontisp. 267 text illustrations 1 very large folding chart in rear pocket. Brown publisher’s cloth red lettering on front cover gilt lettering on spine very minor bumping to head of spine slight shelfwear rubbing still VG bright copy. Revised and renamed third edition originally published under the title “The Swedish System of Educational Gymnastics†and often mistakenly referred to as a first. At the end of the 19th-Century several exercise and gymnastics systems were in competition with each other whereas Posse’s and Hartvig Nissen’s Swedish gymnastics emphasized a health-oriented approach underlying medical treatments and light gymnastics with focus on calisthenics and exercises as opposed to the rigid fixed apparatus system based on the ideas and work of Charles Beck and Friedrich Jahn. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., hardcover
1852DEMO015876INew York: Harper & Brothers 1852. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. a few woodcuts. 8vo; 306 24 12 pages original embossed cloth splitting at outer joint foxed Marginal damage to leaves 65/66 67/68 with minor textual loss some foxing. Ex libris Lucy S. Watson. Scarce. <br/><br/>Catherine Beecher was sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. She was an ardent advocate for education for females. Her first of seven object in this work was "to furnish an original collection of receipts which shall embrace a great variety of simple and well-cooked dishes designed for every-day comfort and enjoyment." Second "to include . only such receipts as have been tested by superior housekeepers and warranted to be the best." With some simple woodcuts. see Bitting p. 34. This is a Supplement to her TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY FOR THE USE OF YOUNG LADIES AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL the notable Preface to which is included in this volume with the extensive publisher's advertisements. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1886047157Chicago: Private By Author 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 76pp. Green cloth moderately rubbed otherwise tight copy with decorative endpapers. Lovely quote penned to front fly signed J. H. R. Private By Author Hardcover
18922963State Board of Health; New Hampshire; circa 1892. 1892 Stapled wraps printed front cover 8 7/8 x 5 13/16 inches 23 pp. Fair front cover nearly detached; some chipping corners and edges with no loss of text; modest uniform browning of paper; minor creasing. Rare no OCLC library holdings. Contents: Precautionary Measures; Practical Suggestions Relative to Cholera; The German Government Suggestions Relative to Cholera "The following excellent circular embodies the most recent suggestions of the health authorities of the German government relative to Cholera. The State Board of Health of New Hampshire has deemed it of sufficient importance to publish the following translation in connection with their own circular upon the subject: Berlin July 28 1892. 3214018. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. State Board of Health; New Hampshire; (circa 1892). paperback
1899039464Lond: J. & A. Churchill 1899. xxi 511pp 16pp publishers catalogue at rear index over 200 bw ills. Or green cloth. Hinge cracked at half-title but holding 2 prev owners names written in some rubbing to edges of boards with a few white spots and small scuff at edge of spine occasional light foxing. Scarce first edition. Deals mainly with plants based drugs and medicines with a short section on those derived from animal sources. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. J. & A. Churchill Hardcover
1892011864Bristol: John Wright & Co. 1892. xi 143pp appendix bw ills. Or blue cloth with title in gold to front and spine. Bears stamps of San Diego Society of Natural History and O'Rourke Zoological Institute as well as previous owners label on front pastedown several news clippings laid on to endpapers slight rubbing at head and foot of spine some light toning to pages edges. Investigation of the occurence of nystagmus in coal miners under varying forms of illumination and working positions. Includes a section specifically of the Cornish mines. Nystagmus in a few other occupations is very briefly discussed. Quite a bit of information on various mining lamps pit mining seam mining etc. Quite early consideration of ergonomics. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. John Wright & Co. Hardcover
1842100116083J.-B. Baillère 1842 in8. 1842. Relié.