![Recreations of a Physician [with ALS to Samuel Courtauld and two original Horace translations]...](/pictures/thumb/001029.jpg?v=1591963123)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Signed handwritten letter tipped in at contents page by the author to industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, with one handwritten and one printed translation of Horace tipped in at pages 159 and 162, respectively. Octavo; vii, 328 pages. Rebound by..... More
[Verona]: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, [1948]. Nuova Editione, Ampliata e Aggiornata. Two volumes; quarto (25.75cm.); publisher's red gilt-embossed pictorial cloth; xv,[1],509,[2],[510]-1002pp.; 10 leaves of color plates (tissue guards), illus. throughout of text. Some internal and external foxing, front hinge of Vol. 1 a bit weak, else Very Good and..... More
Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; xiv + 266pp, including index. Over 260 B&W explanatory photographs, diagrams, and sketches. Teal boards with turquoise and gold stamping on front panel and spine. Binding clean and bright; some nudging to crown and foot of spine, and a spot of..... More
[London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., ca. 1920s]. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's stitched pictorial wrappers printed in red; 24pp.; text printed in red and black. A hint of shelf wear, previous owner's signature to upper cover and underlining to first page, else Very Good and sound. Promotional pamphlet issued by the..... More
Reading: The Board of Managers [of the Reading Hospital], 1942. "On Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Reading Hospital December 9, 1942." Octavo; x + 287pp, including staff list with professional credentials. Ten sketches and full-page photographs, some with tipped-in protective tissues printed with explanatory notes. Ocean-blue cloth with..... More
Paris: Éditions Pierre Belton, [1966]. First Thus. 12mo (17.5cm.); contemporary orange cloth, black velour label lettered in gilt mounted to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine; 374pp. Near Fine condition. First published in 1866. More
![Broadside] Mr. Clother Gifford, Practical Phrenologist and Physiologist. Clother Gifford](/pictures/thumb/5354.jpg?v=1569346671)
[Boston?, n.d., ca. 1850s]. First Edition. Small printed broadside flyer (20x14cm.), accomplished in manuscript. Light foxing, previous folds, else Very Good. Small handbill advertising a lecture delivered by abolitionist phrenologist Clother Gifford on Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18 in the School Room in Mansfield. Gifford, later..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1967]. Revised Edition. Second Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream and green dust jacket; xi,[1],68pp.; illus. throughout. Light chipping along jacket extremities, old red ink price to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Early guide to modern sex education for Junior High..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American Edition. Small octavo; 140pp +4pp ads. Green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Boards dirt-spotted down front and more lightly so on back, with bumping to corners and shallow chips / nudging to spine ends. 1861 A nun's ownership signature dated 1861..... More
New York: T. W. Strong, 1855. Stated 33rd edition, much enlarged and improved. 15.5 x 10 cm; 467 pp. followed by one page of advertisements. Ten black and white illustrations and three color plates. Blind-stamped green cloth binding with text in gold on spine. Corners of cover rubbed through to..... More
New York: T. W. Strong, 1849. 15 x 10 cm; 464 pp., followed by four pages of advertisements. Color frontispiece of Eve with Cain. 51 additional illustrations, two of which are in color. Blind-stamped brown cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Cover rubbed and edges frayed. Pages..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. Stated First Edition. Signed on free front endpaper by both authors. Octavo; xiv + 226, including index. Unclipped dust jacket. White and blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket Near Fine. Binding Fine with small, faint stain on bottom edge..... More
Erie, PA?, 1950? Octavo (23cm.); publisher's red textured cloth lettered in black; 113pp. Light foxing along textblock edges, else Near Fine. Cover title: "Dental Society History / Ninth District Dental Society / 'Old Lake Erie' / State of Pennsylvania / 1864-1950." History of the Society by one of..... More
Weiler im Allgäu: Editions Medicina Rara Ltd. / Druckerei Holzer, [1972]. Facsimile Limited Edition of 2800, this copy out of series and unnumbered. Quarto; 67pp + 43 unpaginated leaves with engravings on one side only + colophon. Sage green boards with image of forceps stamped in gold on front panel;..... More
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1876. Later Printing of the 1873 Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, [17]-393p. Six color plates. Full leather with black title card and gilt lettering. Covers heavily chipped and frayed at spine ends, with a good but of scuffing and smudging to leather and along..... More
New Jersey: Belleville, [1976]. Revised Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],112pp.; illus. throughout. Some minor chipping to jacket extremities, closed tear at the top edge of upper panel touching one letter, else Very Good and sound. Maass, a nurse at the Newark German Hospital..... More
Istanbul: Kader Basimevi, 1947. Side-stapled printed wraps. Tall Octavo. 21 pages. Scarce scholarly monograph of the itinerant 11th-century polymath. "To Dr. Maurice Pechet," handwritten at top of wrapper title. Pechet was an inventory, scientist, doctor, and professor at Harvard. Uzman, known for his research into Gargoylism at Harvard..... More
![No Boundaries: A Cancer Surgeon's Odyssey [Inscribed to William Safire]. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr](/pictures/thumb/5429.jpg?v=1569343709)
First Edition. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 2005. First Edition. Signed by author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / With best wishes and thanks / for all you do for so many at Dana / and the New York Times / LaSalle D. Leffall..... More
New York: Charles T. Hurlburt, 1856. Re-issue of the First Edition, with Hurlburt imprint printed on a small paper slip pasted over the original Henry W. Law imprint on title page. 24mo; [ii], 291pp. Blind embossed black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards a bit warped, with bumps..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. First Thus with full numberline. Octavo. 270 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original $17.95 price present. Red-orange boards stamped in blue. Light rubbing to edge of dust jacket, with a touch of wear to corners of boards. Binding and interior sound..... More
Paris: Société d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1894. First Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth stamped in gilt; 120,[2],18pp. Ex-Hartford Medical Society with their slightly later ex libris to front pastedown and pressure-stamp to title page, spine gilt quite dulled, textblock toned due to poor paper quality, else Very Good and sound..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo; [x] + 251pp, including index. Coated pictorial boards in conventional textbook binding. As new: unmarked, tight, square, seemingly unused. Authoritative textbook covering all aspects of identification, symptoms, and treatment for this group of parasites. More
Walpole: Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Thomas, 1801. First Edition. 12mo; 360 pp. Contemporary calf with black title card in gilt lettering to spine. Speckled page edges.Boards rubbed and worn along edges, corners, and surface, with a few divots to leather and general soiling and smudging. Tugged and..... More