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Health and Safety Executive (HSE)Biblio.com

Health and Safety in Motor Vehicle Repair HSG

Women's Reproductive Health Solis Cohen MyerABAA

Life Knowledge or A Woman's Responsibilities and Duties at All Periods of Life

19092291N.P.: W.E. Scull 1909. First Thus. Near Fine copy in contemporary quarter calf over green cloth with bright gilt to spine; some bumping to crown of spine and corners. All edges marbled. Hinges professionally strengthened. Collating xxii 1 manikin 469 p.: complete including all manikin flaps functional and intact. Some offsetting to pastedowns front and rear. Internally a clean and pleasing copy else with multiple illustrations to guide women in the management of their own health and that of their families. While the two later editions of the same year contained a variant front plate and title page with publisher's information this first edition first issue was released without it. No institutions report holdings of this version; similarly there are no other copies of this edition on the market.<br/><br/>Initially released in 1906 under the title "Woman in Girlhood Wifehood Motherhood" this educational guide was updated and revised in 1909 to reflect improved medical knowledge and to put emphasis in particular on maternity. "The young mother commits many grave errors when caring for her baby by too often relying solely upon her own intuition or or upon the advice of ignorant friends." To help young mothers fill the gap in their reproductive educations Life Knowledge provides extensive illustrations and accompanying explanations to increase transparency. "Great care has been used in the selection of illustrations that they be both appropriate and sufficient in number to elucidate the text.a manikin drawn colored and put together with great exactness and explained in a descriptive key accompanies each book.any unavoidable medical terms requiring elucidation are fully explained in a glossary." An important detailed medical guide for young mothers at the turn of the century. W.E. Scull unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

(MENTAL HEALTH: ASYLUM) MAZUR, Michael [artist]Biblio.com

Images from a Locked Ward.

196575157Boston: Impressions Graphic Workshop Inc. 1965. First edition. One of 75 copies this being #54. Folio 20 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches. Title page and fourteen loose plates by Mazur all pencil signed and numbered by him. Compete. In the publisher's clamshell case with gilt morocco lettering labels to spine and front. An excellent copy.Artist Michael Mazur first came to public notice in the early 1960s with his series of etchings and lithographs depicting inmates in a mental asylum in Howard Rhode Island where Mazur volunteered as a hospital aide. â€œImages from a Locked Wardâ€ a portfolio of 14 lithographs created with master printer George Lockwood has been called Mazurâ€™s â€œfirst artistic descent into Hell.â€ This was a theme he later explored while illustrating poet Robert Pinskyâ€™s translation of Danteâ€™s Inferno. â€These lost soulsâ€ John Canaday wrote in The New York Times â€œhave the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached whose ugly physical presence is only the symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation.â€ Born in New York city in 1935 Michael Mazur was an inventive printmaker and painter whose work encompassed social documentation narrative and landscape while moving back and forth between figuration and abstraction. Educated at Horace Mann Mazur received his BA from Amherst College where he arranged to study with Leonard Baskin who taught at Smith College. He later received both his BFA and MFA at Yaleâ€™s School of Art and Architecture and was in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Internationally recognized Mazur exhibited widely and his work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum NYC; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Museum of Modern Art NYC; Whitney Museum of Art NYC. "Mazur remembers growing up as the only child in a well-to-do Jewish family in Manhattan; his demanding education at the Horace Mann School where he worked on a literary magazine with Edward Koren the cartoonist; studying with an artist in Greenwich Village; and his early determination to be an artist. Academic challenges and social conservatism at Amherst College B.A. 1958 where he studied printmaking and drawing with Leonard Baskin an arrogant and limited artist and working to his advantage with the gifted young printer George Lockwood in Baskin's studio. The year of self-directed study in Florence Italy and the lasting effect on him of the great European art tradition; his marriage to the poet Gail Mazur; being a student at the Yale School of Art BFA 1959 MFA 1961 and the contrast of the teaching methods of the autocratic Josef Albers and the congenial Gabor Peterdi; and his valuable experience as a volunteer assistant to Naum Gabo who introduced him to monoprints. Teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design 1961-64 and the faculty there; and the development of his first well-known work the "Locked Ward" series of prints based on observation at mental hospitals" Archives of American Art.In 2000 a large exhibition of the artistâ€™s prints in different mediums from etching and woodblock to lithography and monotype toured the United States. The exhibition was accompanied by the catalogue The Prints of Michael Mazur: with a Catalogue RaisonnÃ© 1956-1999 New York: Hudson Hills in Association with Jane Voorhees ZimmerlÃ® Museum 2000 with an introduction by the showâ€™s organizer Trudy V. Hansen and essays by Ackley Barry Walker and Lloyd Schwartz. Impressions Graphic Workshop Inc. unknown

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

Iowa. Public HealthABAA

Record of the Board of Health of Liberty Township Clinton Coy. Iowa manuscript caption title

19181716Toronto Ia. 1918. Good plus. 224pp. Folio. Original black half calf and cloth spine gilt. Corners and spine ends a bit worn. Text block separating from spine but still sound. Several leaves loose lightly soiled. Large folio ledger recording thirty-five years of health data for Clinton County Iowa comprising the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Health as well as a "Record of Cases of Disease Dangerous to Public Health." Clinton County is located just north of Davenport on the border with Illinois. Names of doctors patients and board members are all recorded providing an interesting glimpse into the life of the county over a significant span of time and a period of substantial growth in knowledge in the field of public health.<br/><br/>The opening leaf contains local health regulations such as burning or burying dead animals and livestock within ten hours and removing "nuisance sources of filth or sickness" from one's premises within twenty-four hours. The next item in the ledger is an emergency meeting dated January 24 1883 discussing an outbreak of diphtheria and the measures taken to quarantine and contain it. The first two-thirds of the volume is comprised of such meeting minutes. There is also a record of accounts paid and receivable for the county's Board of Health for the period covered. Some of the funds were spent on activities such as improving the cemetery April 1904. Interestingly part of the activity recorded is also for highway maintenance. The final section of the volume contains pre-printed ledger space for recording cases of disease deemed dangerous to the public health. Part of the space has been used to record births and deaths in 1905. Final pages record minutes of special meetings concerning outbreaks and quarantines in 1917 and 1918 particularly of scarlet fever diphtheria and measles. A wonderful record of public health in one rural county of Iowa. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

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