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
Bangor: Totts Gap, 1989. Foreword by Stewart G. Wolf, Jr.Illustrated. x + 458pp., 8vo, cloth. Bangor PA: Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories, Inc., 1989. A near fine copy. 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
Lugano: L'Art Ancien. Frontispiece. 722 pages, printed on brittle browning paper, tall 8vo, red cloth (top of spine repaired). Lugano: L'Art Ancien, ca 1930. Very Good. 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
1812. 1 page, 10 x 8 inches, no place, August 9, 1812. In this letter, written to Allsops Bindings, Bancroft accepts the terms from his publisher in releasing an updated edition of the "...Philosophy of Colours," in full: "I am willing to accept the terms on which you propose to publish my work on the Philosophy of Permanent Colours, requesting only that you will allow me to take such copies not exceeding thirty or forty, as I may wish to... 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
Boston: Countway Library, 1985. Translated by Joan Bond Sax. Historical Introduction by Robert M. Goldwyn. 87p., leather backed patterned boards. Boston: Countway Library of Medicine, 1985. Limited Edition. One of 325 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Garrison-Morton 5730 (1st edition, 1804). More
London: Nourse, 1785. 6 copper plates, 4 folding. 370 pages + 10 page index. Small 8vo, full tan polished calf with red leather spine label; rubbed and joints cracked but still holding. London: C. Nourse, 1785. Very good. 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
1897. Four pages written front and back with each two-page spread measuring 7 x 9 inches, no place, December 12, 1897, in small part: "...Do you remember the pleasant evening we spent years ago at 'Nouron Ayers' where my fellow citizens entertained us at dinner on the occasion of my election as President of the Royal Society. Since then a lot has happened..." Small pieces of mounting tape on the left margin of the first page. Very good condition. 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
1935. Very scarce T.L.S. 4to. 1 page, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, January 7th, 1935, to acclaimed photographer Pirie MacDonald. Because of the Great Depression, MacDonald has reduced Beers unpaid photography invoice, in part: "...You are a great scout. When you have so many calls upon you and have your own troubles during these depressed times, it was mighty fine of you to make any contribution at all to our work. I greatly appreciate your cutting in half of... 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
London: George Bell, 1877. 20 plates and several illustrations throughout the text. 251 pages, 12mo, full blind stamped brown morocco, gold crest on front cover, rubricated edges. Loondon: George Bell, 1877. Very good (+). "Bell's artistic and literary skills combines with his knowledge of anatomy and physiology to make the work a tour de force of art history and the anatomical and physiological basis of facial expression." GM 6604.92. 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
Canton: Science, History Publications, 1987. Illustrated. 326pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, d.w. Canton, MA.: Science History Publications, 1987. Fine. Presentation Copy. 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
Magdeburg: 1735. 20 pages. Slim 8vo, modern wrappers. Magdeburg, 1735. Inaugural Dissertation in Medicine. 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: Bailliere, 1859. Volume 1 only. 526 pages, uncut & unopened (some staining from a newspaper offset. 8vo. original gray printed wrappers. Paris: Balliere, 1859. Very good (+). Waller. Osler 1510. Not in Cushing. 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
1786. Exceedingly rare and historically important autographed document signed, 2 pages (front and back), oversize folio, 14.75 x 9 inches, signed twice "Barnabas Binney" (obverse and recto), November 21, 1786. In this document, Binney is agreeing to sell his various accumulated parcels of land under the guidance of Samuel Nicholson, in small part: "...in consideration of the sum of one thousand pounds Pennsylvania currency...I do hereby assign unto Samuel Nicholson, of the County of Franklin, all my right and title... 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
London: Chapman Hall, 1864. Frontispiece, and several other in-text illustrations. xvi, 304pp. Short thick 8vo, recently rebound in tan cloth with brown leather spine label (inked signatures at top of title; light penciling in margins of several pages, otherwise a near fine copy in a handsome binding). London: Chapman & Hall, 1864. First edition. Very scarce. A history of exercises and gymnastics from its earliest development among the ancients through the ages. Among the topics discussed are public baths, the... More
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