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1879051455London: S.W. Partridge & Co. 1879. xi 328ppsubsciber list. Brown cloth titled in gilt decorated in black and blind. Ex- Queensland Temperance League with their stamps paper label to spine-otherwise a nice copy. 19th century temperance volume. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. S.W. Partridge & Co. Hardcover
1847e5549London: John Churchill. Part I with front cover missing and lower detached. Parts III IV and V with cover rubbed with scattered browning. Part VI with front cover detached and text block split in several places. Some pages uncut. Ex.-lib. Royal College of Surgeons. 1847. Fourth Edition Re-written and much enlarged. Grey card cover. 200mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 596pp. Part II missing. . John Churchill unknown
1853050271Philadelphia: Edmond Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell 1853 Book. Fair. Leather. First Edition. Boards are detached but present; moderate edgewear being significant to the top of the spine; minor age-marks. Very rare copy of this mid-19th century "Obstetric Catechism Containing Two Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Seven Questions and Answers on Obstetrics Proper". With one hundred and fifty illustrations. Edmond Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell hardcover
1896233271Harrisburg Pennsylvania: The Minter Company 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with a line drawing on the front and another on the spine; decorated in gilt green black and blue on the front panel and spine; decorated endpapers; headband; illustrated with drawings and half-tone plates. The full title is: THE GLORY OF WOMEN - or Love Marriage and Maternity containing full information on all the Marvelous and Complex Matters Pertaining to Women including Creative Science Bearing Nursing and Rearing Children; Hereditary Descent; Hints on Courtship and Marriage; Promoting Health and Beauty Vigor of Mind and Body etc. Together with Diseases Peculiar to the Female Sex - Their Causes Symptoms and Treatment the Whole Forming a Complete Medical Guide for Women. At times this gets quite for the time sexually explicit. The Minter Company Hardcover
1819046457Philadelphia: Collins & Croft 1819 Book. Near Fine. Leather. First American Edition. Beautifully and professionally rebound in black leather with gilt spine lettering and patterned endpapers. Original text block is uniformly age-toned and lightly foxed as is normal for a book this age. The title continues ".of Each Species to Which is Added an Appendix on the Preparation and Use of Lactucarium or Lettuce-Opium." This is stated to be the "First American Edition from the Second London Edition." Author was "Physician Extraordinary to the King and Senior Physician to the Prince Regent for Scotland; One of the Physicians in Ordinary to the Public Dispensary for the City and County of Edinburgh etc." 155 page early Scottish work on tuberculosis. All over a very nice collectible first American Edition. Collins & Croft hardcover
1884058966Paris: A. Coccoz Libraire-Editeur 1884 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. RARE copy of this late 19th century French work on the tuberculosis bacillus in the products of expectoration. Discusses historique technique recherche du bacille de la tuberculose dans les produits de'expectoration de la recherche du bacille de la tuberculose dans l'hemoptysie and deductions pathogeniques et prophylactiques. 78 pages. A. Coccoz, Libraire-Editeur hardcover
1869059013Berlin: Verlag Von August Hirschwald 1869 Book. Good. Hardcover. Believed First. Interior is VG; cover has significant wear along the spine strip moderate edgewear and part of the cloth on the front cover is removed. Scarce copy of this late 19th century German work on tuberculosis "nach historischen und experimentellen studien". Discusses "Geschichtliche Entwicklung der Lehre von der Tuberculose und der Lungenschwindsucht" "Die gegenwartige Grundlage der Lehre von der Tuberculose der Lungenschwindsucht und der Scrofulose" "Experimente zur Erzeugung der Tuberculose" "Allgemeine Ergebnisse der experimentellen Untersuchungen" and "Anwendung der durch die Experimente an Thieren gewonen Resultate auf die Tuberculose und die Lungenschwindsucht des Menschen". Verlag Von August Hirschwald hardcover
1830M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover
1826056166London: Longman Rees Orme Brown And Green 1826 Book. Fair. Soft cover. Original Edition. Pages are uncut; cover has edgewear lacks the spine strip covering and exterior soils. RARE copy of this early 19th century work on fever - "deduced from physiological analysis and illustrated by critical remarks and practical observations". The author was a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green paperback
18898279Atlanta Ga.: Holliday Bros. Very Good. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards brown leather corners & spine with raised bands & gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers. Text tight clean & intact. Engraved illustrations. Ex-lib with Grosvenor Library book plate. Medical Dental Dentistry ; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 528 pages . Holliday Bros. hardcover
18442598Boston: William Hall & Son 1844. 6 pp. Removed from a bound volume and in good condition. William Hall & Son unknown
1874094089NY: William Wood & Co. 1874 Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Binding is faded and has light edge wear scuff marks on endpapers where stickers have been removed. Scarce copy of this late 19th century work on the acute infectious diseases of typhoid fever relapsing fever typhus fever cholera the plague the black death yellow fever dysentery and epidemic diphtheria. 708 pages. William Wood & Co. hardcover
1875094088NY: William Wood & Co. 1875 Ex-Library. Good. Leather. First American Edition. Text is in very good condition; leather binding is quite worn; end papers have moderate foxing. Scarce copy of Volume II of this late 19th century work on the acute infectious diseases of varicella measles rubeola scarlet fever small-pox erysipelas miliary fever dengue influenza hay fever malaria and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis. 751 pages. William Wood & Co. hardcover
1874ck-13London: W. Isbister and Co. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Split to outer hinge. Pencil annotations on Contents page. 1874. Reprint. Brown leather cover with yapped edges. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 411pp. Unusual binding by William Clowes and Sons. . W. Isbister and Co hardcover
1847e5549aLondon: John Churchill. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and edge faded. Ex.-lib. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 1847. Fourth Edition Re-written and much enlarged. Blue hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xv 355pp; xii 362pp. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . John Churchill hardcover
1891069955Baltimore: Privately Printed 1891 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. Lacks the spine strip; cover has significant rubmarks and edgewearm - good candidate for rebinding. Pencil notes on some of the blank pages facing each page of text and pencil lines in the margins of the text pages. RARE copy of this late 19th century work on the diseases of women and children. Author's name is pencilled in on the title page. Privately Printed hardcover
1863073472Paris: E. Thunot et Cie 1863 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. Original Annual Edition. Cover has moderate edgewear; pages are quite age-toned pencil drawing on rear endpaper. RARE copy of this 19th century French work on pathology of various illnessses "fait a la faculte de Medecine de Paris". Contains writings on a variety of illnesses including cholera diphtheria typhus typhoid fever scarlatina syphilis rheumatism hemorrhages phthisie tuberculosis virulent maladies etc. E. Thunot et Cie hardcover
1884051432Sydney: George Coffey 1884. 686pp index bw ills col diagrams one folding. Contemporary half leather brown cloth with leather spine and corners marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine titled in gilt. Ex- Queensland Temperance League with their stamps. Joint cracking at preface otherwise a very nice copy. 19th century temperance volume-very early for an Australian edition on the subject. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo. George Coffey Hardcover
1876021665Paris: V. Adrien Delahaye et Cie Librairies-Editeurs 1876 Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. RARE copy of this late nineteenth century collections of lessons on obstetrics. Text accompanied "avec figures" including a table reflecting case observations. 804 pages. Cover has moderate edgewear; few rub marks. FFEP separating from the binding. V. Adrien Delahaye et Cie, Librairies-Editeurs hardcover
1891069713Battle Creek Mich: Health Publishing Company 1891. Textured cloth over boards with three-quarter leather binding much rubbed; leather rubbed through at corners. All page edges gilt. Binding firm. Marbled endpapers. Initials and date inked on second front flyleaf. Frontis. image of Kellogg with tissue overlay. xx 604pp. 25 plates plus in the Preface a Dissected Plate and an anatomy plate with fold-outs lettered to the Index on facing page. In a back pocket is a stapled pamphlet titled Venereal Diseases 24pp. plus Plates A through E. John Harvey Kellogg 1852-1943 was an American medical doctor nutritionist inventor health activist eugenicist and businessman. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan. The sanitarium was founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. -- Heavy book: NO international or priority orders. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Health Publishing Company Hardcover
1884033066Paramus NJ: Octave Doin Editeur 1884 Ex-Library. Very Good -. Half-Leather. Deuxieme Edition. Faint dampstain along top page edges no impact on content light edgewear. Scarce copy of this late 19th century French gynecology text "avec 181 figures dans le texte". 994 pages. Octave Doin, Editeur hardcover
1899084972Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders Co. 1899 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. Second Edition. VERY RARE copy of this late 19th century text on obstetrics illustrated with 653 illustrations. This work "is the result of a practice devoted for the past twelve years exclusively to gynecology in both its branches - obstetrics and gynecic surgery" with this text focused on obstetrics. Inner hinges are cracked; moderate wear to the spine ends; text and illustrations are in very good condition. W. B. Saunders Co. hardcover
1875102492Paris: G. Masson Editeur 1875 Ex-Library. Fair to Poor. Soft cover. Late 19th century French manual of births of pregnancy and postpartum. Illustrated "avec 155 figures intercalees dans le texte". Covers are soiled detached and are worn spine strip lacks much of the cover text block is loose; however the text itself is in very good condition - thus making this a candidate for rebinding. 744 pages. G. Masson, Editeur paperback
1846074145Paris: Germer Bailliere Libraire-Editeur 1846 Ex-Library. Very Good -. Half-Leather. Believed First. Light edgewear and a 3/4 inch split at the head of the spine. Pages have minor foxing. RARE mid-19th century French gynecology text illustrated "avec 63 figures intercalees dans le texte"; 656 pages. Germer Bailliere, Libraire-Editeur hardcover
1898038291NY: D. Appleton and Co. 1898 Book. Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Interiors are VG to VG; exteriors are VG- to good with wear to edges and few marks; light endpaper foxing. RARE First American Edition of this noted late nineteenth century Textbook of Surgery translated from the Third and Fourth German Editions by John Rogers MD and Benjamin T. Tilton MD; edited by Lewis A. Stimson MD. Volume I translated from the Third German Edition covers the principles of surgery and surgical pathology also discussing general rules governing operations and the application of dressings and has four hundred and forty-one illustrations. Volume II from the Fourth German Edition discusses Regional Surgery and has four hundred and seventeen illustrations; and Volume III from the Fourth German Edition continues the discussion of Regional Surgery and has five hundred and twenty illustrations. From Appleton's Medical Library series. D. Appleton and Co. hardcover