Early American Veterinary Recipe Broadside
Circa 1850s. Broadside measuring 11 x 6", containing recipes for veterinary cures for diseases in horses and cattle. Very good, creased, toned, bit foxed.
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Eleven Items Relating to the Victoria Home for Aged British Men and Women
Ossining, New York: 1930-1932. Includes three pamphlets titled "Annual Report of Victoria Home for Aged British Men and Women (Inc.) 'Hillside,' Ossining, New York," each 40-50pp. These are the 16th, 17th, and 18th annual reports for 1930-1932. Plus two programs, each 66pp, for "Ye Olde English Faire Plaza Hotel November.....
Join Your American Red Cross
Circa 1920. 8vo, leaflet, 4pp, soliciting members to the Red Cross. Very good with hint of toning and creasing.
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.
Letterhead and Circular of the International Narcotic Education Association
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.....
Meinecke Book of the Sick-Room Practical Points on Home Care of the Sick and The Best Sick-Room Appliances
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.....
Photograph Album Belonging to a Philadelphia Nursing Student
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.....
Relief For The Feet! Walking Made Easy. Dr. Twombly of Littleton, N.H.
New Hampshire: Circa 1890s. Small broadside measuring 3.5 x 8", advertising an appearance by a podiatrist in the White Mountains for "the painless removal of corns, bunions, club and in-growing nails." Toned, very good.
Diseases of the Arteries Including Angina Pectoris.
London: Macmillan, 1915. First edition. Two volumes. 8vos, original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Inscribed to pastedowns by Herbert Watney, a London physician, landowner and philanthropist, and a strong supporter of Christian missions, with with underlining and notes to text in color pencil. Good with wear and discoloration to.....
The Woman's Doctor
New York: The Macaulay Co, 1933. 8vo, original brown cloth with red titles to cover and spine, in the original dust jacket illustrated by Gretta. Second printing, published a month after the first. A novel about the experiences of two Toronto gynecologists, who eventually come into conflict after one is.....
Prize Essay. The Excito-Secretory System of Nerves. Its Relations to Physiology and Pathology.
Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1857. 8vo, 48 pp, plain yellow wrappers, illustrated. Extracted from the transactions of the American Medical Association. By one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, and Professor of Anatomy in the Medical College of Georgia (Augusta). Removed from nonce volume with tiny stab holes along margin, text.....
Manual of Tropical Medicine
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.....
Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease and the Use of Mercury
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.....
A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius
New York: Schuman's, 1943. Small 4to, green cloth, 264 pp. Second edition. An excellent copy with bumping to corners.
Die Thrombose nach Versuchen und Leichenbefunden
Stuttgart: Verlag Von Ferdinand Enke, 1888. Large 8vo, yellow printed wrappers, 144 pp, illustrated. First edition. A paper on thrombosis by prominent German pathologists Karl Joseph Eberth and Curt Schimmelbusch. 1966 German bookstore receipt laid in, filled out to Dr. Arthur Bleakley Chandler, prominent Augusta, Georgia pathologist and inventor of.....
The Practitioner's Pharmacopoeia and Universal Formulary: Containing 200 Classified Prescriptions
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.....
Diseases of the Dog and How to Feed
New York: H. Clay Glover, 1897. Stapled booklet, 32pp, red printed wrappers. By the maker of "Glover's Mange Remedy." Stamped "Statesville Drug Co Statesville, N.C." to front cover. Bit creased, tiny chips to corners of rear wrapper, very good overall.
The History of the Medical Department of the University of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia: Ridgely-Tidwell Co, 1928. 8vo, black boards lettered in red with purple cloth spine, 215 pp, two illustration plates. Slight toning and slight foxing to pages, soiling to covers, fading to spine, bit of wear to spine tips, "From Your Alma Mater" slip tipped on to title page.
The Health Index of Children
San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co, 1910. Octavo, 188pp, blue cloth with black lettering. First edition. A book on children's health by the Medical Director of Berkeley Schools, teaching students how to recognize physical defects in their students (i.e. poor eyesight, "nervous disorders", ringworm, poor posture) and offering suggestions for.....
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease discovered in some of the Western Counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the Cow Pox
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.....
The Science of Life: Or Self-Preservation, a Medical Treatise on Nervous and Physical Debility, Spermatorrhea, Impotence and Sterility
Boston: Peabody Institute, 1881. 334pp, purple marbled wrappers with gilt title. Good with wear to covers, toning and minor soiling, lower spine covering chipped.
Myomata of the Uterus
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.....
The Tuberculosis Nurse Her Function and Her Qualifications A Handbook For Practical Workers in the Tuberculosis Campaign
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. Toning to pages and covers, wear to corners and spine tips, wear to text block edges, slight cracking to front hinge. A handbook for.....
Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body
New York: Cornell University Press, 1968. Two volume set, octavo hardcovers, orange cloth, in original slipcase, 461 pp and 802 pp. A very attractive set with mild wear and fading to covers.
Paleopathology An Introduction To The Study Of Ancient Evidences Of Disease
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.....