The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Illus. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2006). Very good. More
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The Life of Florence Nightingale
London: Macmillan, 1913. 2 volumes. Each volume has a frontispiece portrait and three illustrations. xxxi + 507 pages and xiv + 509 pages (some foxing on preliminary and ending pages, text block clean), large 8vos, blue cloth, spines a bit faded. London: Macmillan, 1913. First edition. A very good copy. Volume I, 1820-1861. Volume II, 1862-1910. Multiple previous owner's, bookplate, label, and inscription on front endpapers. More
The Life of Florence Nightingale
London: Macmillan, 1913. 2 volumes. Each volume has a frontispiece portrait and three illustrations. xxxi + 507 pages and xiv + 509 pages, large 8vos, blue cloth, spines and board edges faded. London: Macmillan, 1913. First edition. A very good(-) solid copy. Volume I, 1820-1861. Volume II, 1862-1910. More
Water for Gotham
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Illustrated. xiv + 355 pages, 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2000). First Edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Recollections of an Old Cartman, (Old New York Street Life)
New York: New York Bound Bookshop, 1984. Illustrated. xvii + 125 pages. 8vo, black cloth. New York: New York Bound Bookshop, (1984). A very good(+) copy. Facsimile of the Newark, 1872 edition. Author was a cartman at Broadway and Houston Streets from 1836 to the late 1850s. More
Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York, the Last Two Hundred Years
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Illustrated. xxii + 414 pages, 8vo, printed wrappers; small tear at top of spine. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, (2000). Very good. More
Practical Hints showing how the Refuse of Towns may be easily & cheaply Converted into Money...
New York: 1872. Several text illustrations. 25 pages. Slim 8vo, original paper wrappers; a bit chipped at edges and along spine. N.Y., 1872. Advertisement for the Goux Fertilizing & Sanitation Co. More
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