Hamburg: Lucas Grafe, 1911. 6 volumes. Band XVII Heft 1 - 6. Numerous photographic plates. Slim 4to, original printed wrappers (rubbed and chipped, one cover detachedand another repaired). Hamburg: Lucas Grafe & Sillem, 1911. First Edition. Very good (-). More

New York: Butterick, 1890. 8vo, brown cloth( one corner bumped; light staining on back cover). New York: Butterick Publishing Co., 1890. First Edition. A "how to" book with advice on care of the hair & skin, baths, digestion, lotions & potions etc. Part of the Metropolitan Culture Series. More

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. 26pp. Very slim 4to, orange boards. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (1943). Edge worn, but still a very good copy. Translated from the French with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist. Foreword by Warfield T. Longcope. More

1980. 5 x 3.5 inches, no place, no date, circa 1980 -- a black-and-white image signed "Chris Barnard," depicting the doctor in his trademark turtleneck sweater. Fine contrast. South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. More

1910. 9.75 x 7.25 inches, heavy stock deckle-edged black-and-white portrait, no place, no date, circa 1910, signed "S. Baruch" -- a distinguished shoulder-up image with his trademark small rimmed glasses and Van Dyke beard. Outstanding contrast as Baruch has signed on the white border below his image. Near fine condition. Jewish physician and pioneer of hydrotherapy in the United States but best known as the father of financier Bernard Baruch. He began his career as a surgeon in the Confederate... More

New York: 1937. Very scarce T.L.S. 4to. 1 page, The American Foundation For Mental Hygiene, New York City, October 15th 1937, to the acclaimed photographer Pirie MacDonald. Iin full: "I wish to order six glossy publicity prints of my photograph, for delivery at your earliest convenience, with the bill for them--unless you are giving them away these days!" MacDonald has placed a large red check mark through the letter indicating that he has answered it. Very good (+). American mental... More

New York: 1937. Scarce A.L.S. of "Clifford W. Beers". 4to. 1 page, International Committee for Mental Hygiene, New York, October 18th 1937, to acclaimed photographer Pirie MacDonald. It reads in full: "Instead of re-reading some of the first pages of my story before we meet tomorrow, it will I believe, be more helpful if you will read the enclosed "personality" story from the Survey Graphic. It tells me what I have accomplished since I began my work about twenty-five years... More

Charleston, VA: 1855. 1 page, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, Charleston, Virginia, October 1, 1855, to Dr. Rufus Woodward, during Bell's brief retirement, in full: "Your letter was received just as I was leaving home, and with some others accidentally overlooked until to-day, when the application of an interested party to learn where a patient could be sent when insane, to a State Hospital, reminded me of it. I need scarcely say that I shall be very willing to be referred... More

New York: 1886. Signed by Dr. Fordyce Benjamin Barker (1818 - 1891), credited with introducing the hypodermic needle into American medicine and for his ability to tend to former President U.S. Grant while on his death bed. 3 pages each measuring 7 x 4.5 inches, New York, December 27, 1888. Written to British author William Winter, thanking him for a signed edition of his book on Shakespearian England, in part: "...I shall have it handsomely bound to be right next... More

London: J. & R. Tonson, 1752. 8vo, contemporary calf, with leather spine label. London: J. &. R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752. First Edition The book contains 11 tracts, each with a separate title page & date, but only one continuous pagination. The subjects include Thoughts on Tar-water, Proposal for converting the Savage Americans to Christianity by a College to be erected...in Bermuda, Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland, Discourse to Magistrates, etc. More

Paris: 1925. 1 page on heavy-stock construction paper, 5.75 x 9.25 inches, (Paris), no date, circa 1925. Signed "G. Bertrand" and written in French. Translated in part: "...I have come here as an apostle of Science, that inexhaustible solace of progress. I have found masters as passionate to teach as their students are to learn, but an organization that is too inadequate from the point from the point of view of scientific research. In exchange for some of the associations... More

1926. Very scarce sepia signed photograph "John Bland Sutton - 1926", 5.75" x 8.25", adhered to a larger matte, 7.5" x 10", a waist-up image of the surgeon attired in a suit and top coat. *Embossed with photographer William Surrey's studio signature aback-stamp. Very minor surface striations to the left of Bland-Sutton's image - otherwise in Fine condition. British pioneering surgeon who became the first to identify the thyroid gland and the pathology associated with it - and to then... More

Leipzig: Thieme, 1935. 92 illustrations mostly photographic. tall 8vo, blue cloth. Leipzig: Thieme, 1935. Very good (+). Methodology of vitamin investigation. More