![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
![Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement Upon Health [Inscribed]....](/pictures/thumb/7018.jpg?v=1597775332)
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Third Edition. Small octavo (17.5cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth; xxviii,[37]-204pp. A hint of shelf wear, some rather heavy foxing to textblock, else Very Good or better. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. One of the first popular works of social psychology, 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
![Entretiens Populaires [2e Série]. Association Polytechnique, Évariste Thévenin, ed](/pictures/thumb/7115.jpg?v=1598288714)
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],vii,[1],262pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes a contribution by the French..... More
![Entretiens Populaires [3e Série]. Association Polytechnique, Évariste Thévenin, ed](/pictures/thumb/7114.jpg?v=1598288579)
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],v,[1],253pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes essays on the Suez Canal..... More
![Entretiens Populaires [4e Série]. Association Polytechnique, Évariste Thévenin, ed](/pictures/thumb/7112.jpg?v=1598288334)
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1864. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],410pp. General shelf wear, spine a bit toned, light soil to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes hygienist Apollinaire Bouchardat's..... More
![Entretiens Populaires [6e Série]. Association Polytechnique, Évariste Thévenin, ed](/pictures/thumb/7113.jpg?v=1598288462)
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Two volumes; small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],237; [2],238pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. 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 Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. First Edition. Signed by Pottle on front free endpaper with inscription "To Aunt Bet, Uncle Sid, and Uncle Fred, with the love of The Author, Christmas 1929." Octavo; xvi, 366pp. Eight photographic plates, all present. Red cloth with white lettering. Covers worn at..... 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
Philadelphia: Wm. J. Dornan, 1888. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2],11pp. Title page separated but present, extremities a bit toned and brittle, faint vertical fold; overall Good, internally fresh. Address delivered by the leading Philadelphia physician on the need to reform the legal system in relation to mental illness..... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 238 pages. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Begins with a chapter on "Ancient Dentistry," through the middle ages, and shifts focus to "Early Dentistry in the American Colonies," before focusing on surgical and..... 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. Large quarto; 67pp + 43 unpaginated leaves with engravings on one side only + colophon. Sage green boards with image of forceps stamped in gold on front..... More
Weiler im Allgäu: Editions Medicina Rara Ltd. / Druckerei Holzer, [1972]. Facsimile Limited Edition of 300, this copy numbered (mysteriously) "HC." Large quarto; 67pp + 43 unpaginated leaves with engravings on one side only + colophon. Three-quarters leather, in green, with marbled reverse-bevel boards. Raised bands on spine with gilt..... 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
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1869. Second Edition, Very Much Enlarged. Large octavo (23cm.); publisher's full calf, black gilt-lettered spine label; xx,[1],26,442,[1],[32](ads)pp.; text illus. throughout. Soil along upper edges of both covers slightly bleeding into text, some scuffing with brief exposure, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good..... 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