Hardcover. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1830. Fourth Edition. Rebound with calf retained on front and back boards. 365p with ads at front and back. Boards bumped at corners with some chips to leather and a good bit of scuffing and soiling. Dampstaining and foxing throughout, but text is all perfectly legible..... More
Reading: The Board of Managers [of the Reading Hospital], 1942. "On Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Reading Hospital Decem ber 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..... More
![Broadside] Mr. Clother Gifford, Practical Phrenologist and Physiologist. Clother Gifford](/pictures/thumb/5354.jpg?v=1569346671)
First Edition. [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..... 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
Hardcover. Brown's Corner: E.B. Simonton, 1852. Reprint of the handbook first issued in 1850 by John C. Wells. Small octavo; 168pp. 20+ expert engravings. Solid 20th-century rebinding with brown leather spine, new title label on spine with bright gold stamping, and original covers retained. Boards heavily browned and worn but..... 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
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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
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