New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 334 pages. Unclipped dust jacket, with original $2.50 price present; book in green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges and some toning to back. Boards worn at spine ends and corners..... 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
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1830. Fourth Edition. Octavo; 356pp. Ads at front and back. Rebacked with calf retained on front and back boards. Covers bumped at corners with some chips to leather and a good bit of scuffing and soiling. Dampstaining and foxing throughout, but text is all legible. Previous owner's..... 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
![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
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
Cincinnati: Published by the Author, 1866. First Edition. Duodecimo. 82 pages. Pictorial pink wrappers. Medical self-promotion and protest. Tumblety was a known Medical Quack, was accused of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln, and has been a plausible suspect for being Jack the Ripper. Rear wrapper detached with loss..... 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
Lausanne: Éditions Rencontre and Erik Nitsche International, 1963. First Edition. Quarto; 112pp including appended chronology 2000 BCE - 1963. Documentary illustrations in B&W and full color throughout, many of them full page. Bottle green cloth with publisher's device on front panel and spine lettering both embossed in gray. Binding by..... 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
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
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company for the British Red Cross Society, 1917. First Edition. Octavo; 132pp. Diagrams and illustrations throughout. Acknowledgements slip tipped in at contents page. Brown cloth-covered boards with red cross and black lettering. Covers soiled, waterstained, and warped, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Hinges..... 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
First Edition. Hardcover. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Octavo; xv, 481pp. 29 photo illustrations on 23 plates including frontis with tissue guard, all present. Orange cloth-covered boards with green stamped lettering. Christmas 1920 gift inscription from Mrs. E.B. Smith of Cherrydale, Virginia to Dr. S.W. Brewer of Singers..... More