Leonardo da Vinci on Movement of the Heart and Blood
London: Harvey and Blythe, 1952. Small 4to, 142 pp, red cloth with gilt lettering and red morocco leather spine. Very good with minor wear along spine, light page toning.
London: Harvey and Blythe, 1952. Small 4to, 142 pp, red cloth with gilt lettering and red morocco leather spine. Very good with minor wear along spine, light page toning.
Los Angeles: 1929. Quarto, single folded leaf with typed letter signed to recto and two pages of printed text within. A brief typed letter from Richmond P. Hobson, United States Navy rear admiral, politician, and anti-drug activist, to Mason Letteau of Los Angeles, on the letterhead of the International Narcotic.....
New York: Meinecke & Company, 1914. 7 x 4.75", blue illustrated wrappers, 80, [2] pp, illustrated. A nice copy with mild soiling and staining to covers. A do-it-yourself guide to at home care of the sick, published by a manufacturer of "sick-room appliances" and written, according to the preface, "by.....
Stanislaus County, California: 1951 to 1954. String tied brown faux leather photo album binding, 14 x 10", with 36 black paper leaves containing 199 black and white photographs, most captioned in the margin of the image, together with various ephemeral items and clippings laid or pasted in. A compelling vernacular.....
Philadelphia: 1923 to 1927. Photo album binding measuring 11.5 x 7.5", containing 118 pasted in photographs, together with 41 loose photographs, accompanied by handwritten captions in white ink on album leaves. Overall in very good condition, with one photo missing. A well annotated photograph album compiled by an unknown Philadelphia.....
Colorado Springs, Colorado: 1930. String tied black leatherette photograph album binding measuring 14 x 11", inscribed "Tyler Sennes" to front cover, containing 488 black and white photographs, most cornered onto album leaves, some taped in, and a few laid in loose. Many of the images are captioned on the album.....
New York: William Wood and Company, 1920. Large thick 8vo, brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 2436 pp. Third edition. This copy inscribed to front endpaper "W.L. Moss Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass," i.e. William Lorenzo Moss, a tropical disease specialist, pathologist at Johns Hopkins, Acting Dean of the School.....
Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1837. First American edition, part of the "American Medical Library" series. 8vo, 211pp, orange marbled boards with black morocco and gilt spine. The author was was Professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. An important treatise on venereal disease in.....
New York: Schuman's, 1943. Small 4to, green cloth, 264 pp. Second edition. An excellent copy with bumping to corners.
New York: Samuel S. and William Wood, 1855. 8 x 5.25", original tan leather, 388 pp. This copy belonged to Doctor Valentine Mott Francis of New York, with his bookplate. Foxing and damp staining to pages, wear to covers with a few tears to leather, lacking spine label, rear joint.....
Milan: R. Lier & C., 1923. 4to, 75, [4] pp, green boards with beige printed title labels. Facsimile edition published in a limited edition of 500 in 1923, the centenary of Jenner's death. Mild toning, creasing and foxing to pages, spine sunned, wear to corners and spine ends, slight discoloration.....
Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Company, 1909. 4to, original green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 723 pp. First edition. Color plates and black and white illustrations within text by August Horn and Hermann Becker. A study of myoma, or non-cancerous growths that may develop in or around the uterus, by.....
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. First Edition. 8 x 5.25", blue cloth with white lettering, xxiii, [1], 292, [8] pp, photographic illustration plates. A handbook for nurses involved in the fight against tuberculosis, written by Ellen La Motte, a prominent American nurse, journalist, and author who was.....
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1923. 4to, 567 pp, original green cloth with gilt, numerous illustration plates. First edition. Ownership inscription to front endpaper of Arthur Chandler Bleakley, a prominent Augusta, Gerogia pathologist and inventor of the "Chandler Loop". A good plus copy with toning to pages, foxing to first.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American Edition. 8.25 x 5.5", black cloth with gilt lettering, [2], 140 pp plus [4] pages of ads. Mild wear to covers, fraying to spine ends with slight loss to cloth, foxing to pages, damp staining to lower margin of many pages.....
San Francisco: Bonnard & Daly, 1876. 9.25 x 6.25", light brown cloth with gilt lettering, 203 pp. Inscribed by author to front endpaper. A scarce medical treatise examining the health of women and girls in California, written by an English doctor who emigrated to that state in the 1870s. The.....
USA: American Psychological Association, 1954. 10 x 7", stapled booklet with manilla covers and black ink, 17 pp, numbered 135-151. Offprint "Reprinted from The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology". A study by Thigpen and Cleckley, members of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Medical College of Georgia.....
Birmingham: Classics of Cardiology Library, 1991. Large 8vo, brown leather decorated with gilt, gilt spine titles, text block edges gilt, decorative endpapers and silk bookmark. A fine copy, signed by Fye on the title page.