This House of Noble Deeds.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002. Illustrated, 494pp, 8vo, cloth. New York: New York University Press, 2002. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed presentation copy.
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The Rotunda Hospital, 1745-1945.
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1947. 44 illustrations. 44pp, tall 8vo, blue cloth; small ownership signature on front endpaper. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1947. Very good (+).
The Breaking of Ground For a Medical Center in the City of New York.
New York: 1925. Illustrated, 18pp, thin 8vo, gilt- bordered blue cloth; ownership stamp on front endpaper and title page. New York, 1925. First Edition. Very good.
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained.
New York: Knopf, 1970. 231pp., 8vo, red cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1970. First Edition. Fine in very good d.w. First edition of Crichton's second book.
A View of the City of New York from Brooklyn Heights, foot of Pierrepont St. in 1798 by Monsieur C. B. Julien, de St. Memin with a Pantograph invented by himself
New York: D. T. Valentine, 1861. Engraving with hand color. 5 3/4" x 58". Stunningly long view of New York Harbor from Brooklyn as it looked at the end of the 18th century. Shows Trinity Church, Wall St., St. Paul's Church, and the New York Hospital. Beautiful color. David Thomas Valentine (1801-1869) served as the Deputy to the Clerk of the Common Council for thirty-seven years and began publishing the "Manual for the Corporation of the City of New York"...
A Unique Hand-Illuminated Document, Signed by 150 Colleagues from Lennox Hill Hospital.; Presented to Dr. Einhorn at a special dinner commemorating his 50 years at Lennox Hill Hospital. Accompanied by a small sewn pamphlet detailing the speakers and the menu.
New York: 1935. 5 single-sided, folded vellum sheets with lovely hand-colored illuminations and typography, followed by the signatures. Thin 8vo. New York, 1935. First Edition. A finely preserved piece of unique ephemera with striking calligraphy. "Einhorn is the inventor of many new instruments and pieces of aparatus which have become well known throughout the medical world, such as the fermentation saccharometer, the stomach-bucket, the gastro-diaphane, the deglutitive stomach electrode, the stomach spray apparatus, the gastrograph, etc." -Herman Rosenthal.
Westminster Hospital 1716 - 1966.
London: Pitman, 1966. 81 illustrations. Oblong 8vo, black cloth backed white pictorial boards. London: Pitman, (1966). Very good (+).
To Her most Excellent Maj.ty Queen Caroline, this Perspective View of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich is humbly inscribed by Her Majesty's most Dutiful Subject Thomas Lawranson
London: John Boydell. Engraving in two parts. Joined sheet measures 54" x 20". This circa 1770 perspective view by Thomas Lawranson shows the Royal Hospital of Greenwich in London. The view, in two sheets, shows the elegant building of the Royal Hospital (now the Old Royal Naval College) in Palladian style architecture. Several figures are seen within the large central court and the grounds, including men, women, and wounded men on crutches. In the foreground a boat is pulling up...
100 Years... A History of the Mount Sinai Alumni.
Illustrated. 160pp., 4to, cloth. New York: The Mount Sinai Alumni, 1996. A very good copy.
Surgery at the New York Hospital: One Hundred Years Ago.
24 full page plates, 188pp, 8vo, linen-backed boards. New York: Paul Hoeber, 1929. A near fine copy. Number 8 of 230 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper with the illustrations on Japanese vellum.
House of Healing: The Story of the Hospital.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. Illustrated, 288pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; jacket worn and torn. Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. A very good copy in a good dust jacket.
The History of the First Inebriate Asylum in the World, by its founder.; An account of his indictment. Also a Sketch of the Woman's National Hospital by its Projector.
New York: Privately Printed, 1888. Includes index and numerous engraved plates and portraits, among them of the author, Dr. Francis and Dr. Mott. Tall 8vo, original black cloth (spine faded and ends neatly repaired; ex-library copy with various stamps on endpapers and title, but otherwise clean). New York, Privately printed, 1888. First edition. A very good(-) copy of this uncommon book.
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