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193150285NY: Century 1931. Illustrated with graphs and charts. Blue cloth. Ex llibrary with bookplate and stamp. Edges and cover soiled label taped on spine cover little worn at edges o/w VG. Century unknown books
5531319. CHILDREN'S HEALTH. CHILDREN'S HEALTH EDUCATOR. Interest of motherhood and infancy. Devoted to the building of health and education of mother and baby. Boston MA: C.A. Gray & Co. n.d. c. 1920. Folio 8pp. wrappers. Very good. unknown books
194064757NP: np Pennsylvania Dept. of Health 1940. Broadside. Public health notice printed on stiff card stock. 17.5 x 25 cm. Evidence of having been posted with tack holes and old cello tape at corners some moderate soiling and spotting. Signed by two health officers Francis Benwick and E. March Clark sp and dated in ink Feb. 19 1950. The printed text includes the warning that "no person shall be permitted to enter leave or take any article from this house without written permission from a legally authorized agent of the Department of Health excepting physicians and trained nurses in charge of the sick." <br/><br/> np [Pennsylvania Dept. of Health?] unknown books
1978135132The Ministry 1978. v 216p. 8x11.75 inches preface introduction appendices tables figures map very good in original stapled covers. The Ministry unknown books
1952M10276Ann Arbor MI:: Edwards Brothers 1952. 1952. Sixteenth revised edition. Large 8vo. x 494 pp. Photos illustrations figs. index glossary fold-outs. Navy blue cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket has a few minor chips. Near fine. Edwards Brothers, 1952. hardcover books
1952M10277Ann Arbor MI:: Edwards Brothers 1952. 1952. Ninth revised edition. Large 8vo. x 380 pp. Photos illustrations figs. index. Navy blue cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust-jacket; jacket chipped. Very good. Edwards Brothers, 1952. hardcover books
1976021738Lyon: International Agency for Research on Cancer 1976. Editors John Waterhouse et al. xxi 584p. maps dj large quarto format. At head of t.p.: World Health Organization. International Agency for Research on Cancer. International Association of Cancer Registries. IARC scientific publications 15. International Agency for Research on Cancer unknown books
2009M13824Mexico:: Secretaria de Salud 2009. 2009. Series: Salud y humanismo 3. 4to. 214 pp. Illustrated throughout some color pls. Text primarily in Spanish English synopses at rear. Cloth dust-jacket. Very good. Scarce. Fine pictorial and scholarly history of medicine in the sovereign Republic of Mexico. The sections deal with medical training in the nineteenth century hospitals founded in colonial times and into the period of Independence hospital planning under Porfirio Diaz history of medicine and surgery throughout the nineteenth century biomedical research 1850-1900 public hygiene and the improvement of public health including water sewage food markets stables cemeteries epidemics yellow fever smallpox rabies and vaccinations. Contributing authors: Carlos Viesca Trevino Ana Cecilia Rodriguez de Romo Andres Aranda Cruzalta Xochitl Martinez Barbosa Martha Eugenia Rodriguez Perez. Secretaria de Salud, 2009. hardcover books
1966044824Boston: Impressions Workshop 1966. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Booklet with 4 color lithographs laid in slight wear at edges. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 044824. <br/><br/> Impressions Workshop paperback books
2018298353Arles: Taschen 2018. hardcover. fine. Annie Leibovitz. Numerous illustrations in color and in black & white. Small 4to stiff pictorial boards. Arles: Luma Foundation Taschen. 2018. Fine.<br/><br/> Taschen unknown books
1991281803New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1991. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illus. 414pp. 8vo 1/2 black cloth d.w. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1991. Near Fine<br/><br/> Previous owner's signature on preliminary blank page.<br/><br/> Farrar Straus & Giroux unknown books
19836267Firenze Italy: Leo S. Olschki Editore 1983. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1983 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine with light spotting to the top-edge in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 356 pgs. <br/><br/> Leo S. Olschki Editore hardcover books
2013296277Philadelphia: The Print Center 2013. paperback. fine. Emma Wilcox. Exhibition catalog with an essay by Luc Sante and an interview with the artist by John Caperton. 28 pages. Slim 4to paper wrappers. Philadelphia: The Print Center 2013. Fine.<br/><br/> Signed by both Wilcox and Sante on title page.<br/><br/> The Print Center unknown books
193150934NY: Century 1931. First Edition. 8vo pp. xi 365. Green paper over boards. A few markings in margins o/w a VG tight copy. Century unknown books
200079312Santa Fe:: Arena Editions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1892041308 . Introduction by John Yau. Black and white photographs throughout. Stated first edition. Bumped upper corners else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Arena Editions, hardcover books
18802455London: Williams' M. Proprietress c. 1880's. Cards. Cream cards red and black ink. Good. 11.5 x 7.75 cm. Folded cream cards. Small menu featuring prices for Breakfast Dinners and Apartments. Temperance Hotels followed the spread of the temperance movement in the late 1830's - providing a place for the traveling teetotaler. Here a person could eat and drink as well as transact business read the papers and enjoy social interaction. Cards foxed. <br/><br/> Williams', M. Proprietress unknown books
18307704Philadelphia 1830. hardcover. very good-. Volumes I and II volume I is complete in 24 numbers volume II is mostly complete but missing several issues. Thick 8vo 3/4 leather over marbled boards red leather spine label; foxed covers very worn. Philadelphia 1830. A very good - copy.<br/><br/> Each number was issued fortnightly.<br/><br/> unknown books
18641992London: Harvey & Co. 1864. Hardcover. Mauve blind-stamped cloth gilt title on cover. Good. 48 pages 4. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. "The Guide to Manly Vigour." A promotional treatise advocating a remedy for "the forms of Indigestion and Consumption in all their varieties resulting from secret inadvertency in youth or from sensual excesses." Readers were advised to send a urine sample for analysis and diagnosis. An early reprint of this promotional book; 1863 edition came a year earlier. Named after the "Prince of Surgery" Sir Astley Cooper who performed the first successful operation on the common carotid artery for aneurysm in 1808. Spine and board edges sunned and faded front internal hinge split but holding. <br /> Harvey & Co. hardcover books
1976501851976. Health Insurance. United States Congress. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. National Health Insurance: Major Proposals. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representative Ninety-Fourth Congress First and Second Session on Consideration of the Major Proposals Relating to National Health Insurance. Washington: US Government Printing Office 1976. Three volumes. Softbound some shelfwear light markings in pencil in some places. A solid set. $75. unknown books
18971667Toledo Ohio 1897. Pamphlet. Illustrated cream glossy paper. Very good. 14.5 x 9 cm. 34 x 9 fully opened. Illustrated threefold thermal bath pamphlet. Application information along with testimonials with one from the "Home Brewing Co." which leads us to believe these were not just used for medical treatments. Some toning with owners signature on cover. <br/><br/> unknown books
1850766New York: Fowlers and Wells Publishers 1850. First American Edition. Hardcover. Half calf with green and black marbled boards gilt title on spine. Good. 23 x 15 cm. 318 pages. A fascinating look into the world of nutrition in the mid 1800's including diet in American Prisons. Edited by Charles A. Lee. Owners inscription on title page: "Mrs. Francis J. Humphry - bought by her at S. Louis Mo. of an Apothecary. price 50 cents 1857." 1 cm. chips to pages 1-3 not affecting text. Boards and spine rubbed. <br/><br/> Fowlers and Wells, Publishers hardcover books
1954103547New York: Pageant Press 1954. Hardcover. 137p. first edition lightly worn dj with some tape repairs at edges else very good. Spence an Afro-Jamaican author and the principal author creates an adventure story with a California protagonist who travels to the Caribbean then returns to Southern California. Pageant Press hardcover books
154383First Edition. hardcover. 27 folding maps. 8vo cloth; one map with a chip in margin some maps with foxing to verso cloth soiled. Albany: James B. Lyon 1893.<br/><br/> unknown books
1967006892Princeton N.J.: Princeton Univ Press 1967. SCARCE in the 1967 First Edition. Near Fine toning to front wrapper. . First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton Univ Press Paperback books
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 books