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Pennsylvania Medicine, 1968., 1968 19 p. Monochrome illustrations Author's offprint from Pennsylvania Medicine, March 1968, Vol. 71, No. 3. Thin small 4to. Stapled self wrappers. MED 9 Language: eng. Soft cover. Very Good.

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, New York: 1984., 1984 pp. xxx, 575. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Third Edition. Sixteenth Printing. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 3 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Rinehart & Co. Inc., Toronto & New York: 1955., 1955 pp. xxi, 599. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Slightly worn dust jacket. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! EROS1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Fowlers and Wells, New York: 1847., 1847 pp. 392, 40. Numerous portrait engravings. 8vo. Original cloth binding. Small loss at top of spine. Text very damp stained and foxed. Early ownership of John B. Bachman. PHREN 1 **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Samuel S. & William Wood, New York: 1855., 1855 pp. xii, 265, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Damp stain. Age stain. Lacks rear fly leaf. Many signatures loose. Penciled ownership of H. G. Kurtz, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia with his numerous margins notes. XLib stamp on title page. 150mm. Original cloth binding very worn. Lacks spine. Charles Edward Isaacs (1811-1860) was an anatomist working in New York. His most famous medical work is a series of studies which attempted to define the microscopic structure of the nephrons in a variety of species. MEDICINE BX 5 0.0. Hardcover.

Samuel S. & William Wood, New York: 1855., 1855 pp. xii, 265, (2)[Publisher's catalogue]. Signatures loose. Foxed and stained. Lacks front fly leaf. Title page inked stained with some loss. L. L. Skelton's paper label. 16mo. Original full cloth binding, spine taped. MED 3 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Frankfurt and Leipzig: 1775., 1775 Seven volumes in one. pp. (16) 175; (16) 80; (4) 120; (4) 96; (8) 96; (4) 32; (8) 203. Contents: Osteologie; Syndesmologie; Myologie; Angiologie; Neurologie; Adenologie; and Splanchnologie. Old damp stain. Small 8vo. Almost disbound. **Contemporary manuscript ownerships and notes of a German-American physician, Samuel Wistling. Also with early Ehrenfeld family book plates, etc. Schaarschmidt was a physician at the Charite, Professor in Buetzow, and the founder of a school for midwives. German-American owned medical books from this early era are important, fascinating, and very scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 9 Language: eng. Disbound. Good.

Government Printing Office, Washington, DC: 1901., 1901 pp. 759; 738 + Numerous plates, color folding charts and figures. Thick 8vo. Original publisher's cloth bindings. Includes papers by George Sternberg on Transmission of Yellow Fever by Mosquitoes and Malaria. Gilbert H. Grosvenor (Founder of the National Geographic) paper on Geographic Conquests. Thomas E. Curtis's paper on Zeppelins. Plus important papers on: Anthropological Studies in California ; Aboriginal American Harpoons; Ceramic Art in China; Musical Scales and Instruments; Hopi Art; Steelyards; Color Photography; Use of Kites in Meteorological Observations; Life in the Ocean; Ice Breaker Ship in the Arctic; Radiation; Photography of Sound Waves and Cinematograph; Electricity; Zeppelins; Notes on Mars; Nature Pictures; and a valuable Catalogue of the Collection of Gems. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover.. Very Good.

Printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, at The Curwen Press Ltd., London, England: 1972., 1972 pp. [7] + 13 Remarkable prints reproducing Baskin's original pen and ink drawings on Bugra laid paper, bearing the private watermark [two snakes around a tree] of Editions Medicina Rara. Large portfolio. 390 x 570 mm. Portfolio and box created at the bindery of Richard Mayer, Stuttgart. The box is quite worn, but the portfolio and plates are still clean and attractive. No. 1186 an edition limited to 2500 copies, singed by Baskin. Very good. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a remarkable and accomplished American sculptor, book illustrator, printmaker, graphic artist, writer, teacher and polymath. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Top Center Stack Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

J. F. Lehmann, Muenchen: 1920., 1920 pp. xvi, 399 (28)[Publisher's advertisements] + Thirty fascinating color chromolithographed plates. Lehmann's Medizin. Handatlanten, Band XXXI. The color plate show eye diseases and operations in remarkable detail. Any one of them would make a great gift for an eye doctor. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 9 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover. Very Good.

Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London: 1946., 1946 pp. 137 + (1) [Publisher's advertisement]. Text pages browned (as usual) but not brittle. 8vo, 220 mm. Original green cloth binding, lettered in gilt. Original printed dust jacket. Edited by Ernest Jones. "This work appeared originally in 1925 in volume IV of Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen (Leipzig: Felix Meiner), a collection of short studies by various members of the medical profession designed to give a picture of the present state of medicine as revealed in the autobiographies of its leaders. The stress was thus laid by implication upon the professional rather than the personal histories of the contributors." This is not to be confused with Freud's prior autobiographical studies, as he states in the first chapter that this edition is based more on his professional work, rather than his personal experiences in the field. This Second (first British) Edition was "completely revised and… Leer más

Modern Library, New York: (1938)., 1938 pp. vi, 1001. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice condition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 4 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

The Modern Library, New York: ()., 1938 pp. vi, 1001. Inked ownership of Sam Schwartz on first fly leaf. Large 8vo. 205mm. Original full cloth binding very spotted. Original dust jacket very worn with loss. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MOD LIB BX 1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Carleton, Publisher, New York: 1862., 1862 pp. 490, (4). Some age and damp stain. 12mo. Original full embossed blue cloth binding, worn. Pleas Note: End leaf describes frontispiece as : Heads contained in Hogarth's Undertakers' Arms. This copy's frontis is the publisher's promotional. Anecdotal history of the (English) medical profession. "Charming book . with the genuine flavor of letters" - Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 663. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

(Printed by Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge for) Ticknor and Fields, Boston: 1862., 1862 80p. Note original pagination errors in last signature. Bookplates of Bayard Henderson Christy, Ornithologist, 1899 and W. Emmert Swigart. Small 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed and lettered in blind. Spine lettered in gold. Slight sun fading top of front board. Holmes began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into academics, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838-40), dean of Harvard Medical School (1847-82). He published two important medical lectures, including this one - promoting scientific discoveries in opposition to the practice of homeopathy, phrenology, and other `alternative' therapies. (The other was on the nature of fevers). His main fame though comes as a poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. Most famous of these are `The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table' (1858) and several subsequent volumes where he presents… Leer más

Bellefonte, Pa: 1967., 1967 pp. vii, 213. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. A study of Dr. Chapman's life, and the views of a majority of contemporary medical practitioners. PA 9 Language: eng. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1994 160 p. Well illustrated. 8vo. Wraps. Very good. An excellent guide to over 100 ancient herbal healing techniques. Beyond the mythic tales about each herbs's origins, there is simple guidance to their uses. W131. Soft cover. Very Good.

P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia: 1903., 1903 pp. 270, (32)[Catalogue of Medical Books]. Illustrations. Paste downs and fly leaves Publisher's advertisement. Inked ownership of H. L. Hafer. 8vo. Original gold stamped full brown cloth binding. MED 6 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: 1826., 1826 612 p. + 13 Plates. Foxed. 8vo. Contemporary full leather binding, worn. Early printed bookseller's label: "J.G. Auner. Philadelphia" Dewees was one of a small group of physicians who successfully fought the then overwhelming prejudice against the right of physicians to practice midwifery. He was probably the first American physician ever to deliver a full course of lectures upon the subject. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED11 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

George A. Chapman, Boston: 1838., 1838 216 p. Lacks first fly leaves. Penciled manuscript ownership of David. B. Franklin, 1888, with his red penciled text underlinings and margin notes. Age stain. 24mo. 150 mm. Original very worn muslin cloth binding, frayed. Spine perished. Front board detached. Title continues: "In Which The Various Theories That Have Preceded It Are Reviewed And Compared. Delivered In Cincinnati, Ohio, By Samuel Robinson. With Introductory Remarks By The Proprietor." S&S/AI 52688. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 5 Language: eng. Hardcover.. Good.