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1860BIB305876London: Ward and Lock. 1860. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Good Condition. Cloth covers are rubbed & worn at corners and spine ends and a couple of nicks to rear spine edge. Has a new front pastedown paper cracked at rear hinge. However the binding is intact and it is complete and readable. Some black and white drawings. 250 pages. Also : Also Children's Complaints; Children's Cookery; Children's Clothing; Children's Amusements; Children's Physical Development; Children's Education; and Children's Moral Training. The whole Classified & Arranged Upon an Entirely New Plan. . Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Ward and Lock hardcover
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
1889M14690Concord NH:: Republican Press Association 1889. 1889. 1 year 12 issues. 8vo. 2 288 pp. Some figs. index. Original brick-red blind- and gilt-stamped cloth by Crawford & Stockbridge Binders Concord NH with their ticket. Bookplate and embossed stamp on title of the New Hampshire Historical Society; Inscribed by the author/editor to the New Hampshire Historical Society 1898. Very good copy. Scarce. "All published." Containing all 12 parts of the first and only year of this publication on public health. / Goodness – after reading some of the comments that the editor published I wonder! This first 7 comments I read are more toward funny and quackery than toward good advice and health as intended. / Good healthful advice is surely intended but really it is a statement of social norms and gossip. Among the stories and contributions printed How long to sleep – How to use milk and avoid its dangers – Contagious and infectious diseases in New Hampshire – To make Koumiss a sweet drink made with champagne – Our insane poor – Sunshine – Employment for young women – A comic cure for insomnia – Muscle and Mint value of muscle culture – The non-ventilated school-room – Lard and oleomargarine – Hot-air inhalations in phthisis etc. Republican Press Association, 1889. 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
1871018147Boston: Colby and Rich 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Rubbing to cloth occasional penciled paragraph markers tape repair to one page age toning 487pp. Colby and Rich Hardcover
1886024688Boston: Cupples Upham and Co.: 1886. 279 pages. Dr. Parker has "carefully examined this book and find in it a thorough and kindly consideration of the subject in all its relations without prejudice and with every desirable concession. The book cannot fail to impress its truth upon the public mind." Chapters on: financial view physical and intellectual view tobacco benefit social & aesthetic view moral & spiritual view and tobacco indicted and tried. VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER. Brown cloth covers lettering is bright on the spine and cover binding is tight some wear to cloth at spine edges internally fine. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket Present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cupples, Upham and Co.: Hardcover
1899051302London: The Ideal Publishing Union 1899. xii 252pp index appendix tables. Burgundy bevelled cloth titled in gilt page edges tinted. Light rubbing to covers minor wear to head and foot of spine some light toning. Ex-Temperance League library with thier stamps. Late 19th century temperance movement essay. Third Edition Revised & Enlarged. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. The Ideal Publishing Union Hardcover
1851WB16357Boston: C.C.P. Moody 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. Original gilt stamped cloth. pp. 36. A nice copy of an uncommon title. <br/><br/> C.C.P. Moody hardcover
183175770London: I. T. Hinton. Very Good. 1831. 1/2 Leather. This book is hard-bound in 1/2 black leather with marbled paper covered boards with gilt stamping and with a gilt stamped leather label on the spine. The covers show light scuffing and soiling edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with very nice engraved illustrations but also with some scattered foxing throughout. . I. T. Hinton hardcover
187597828452234021875, Librairie F. Savy, in-8 demi-cuir brun, plats marbrés, traduit avec de nombreuses additions et augmenté d'un précis des autres questions de chimie légale | Etat : bon état, légers frottements, quelques rousseurs (Ref.: ref96151)
1900087687Paris: Masson et Cie Editeurs 1900 Ex-Library. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. Rebound with marbled boards three-quarter leather - which has only minimal wear; new endpapers. In addition to discussing the nutritional functions this French work also discusses "respiration excretion" and "digestion absorption". Illustrated "avec 167 figures noires et en couleurs". 588 pages. Masson et Cie, Editeurs 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
1860087686Paris: Germer Bailliere Librairie-Editeur 1860 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Mid-19th century French urology text. Illustrated "avec 97 figures intercalees dans le texte". 676 pages. Cover is worn on the edges and has been tape-reinforced on the spine strips light foxing within. Germer Bailliere, Librairie-Editeur 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
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)