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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First edition, first printing, 1929. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering, frontis plate of a gyroscope, figures throughout the text, 192 pages. Very little wear but bottom of spine and far lower inside corners of pages affected by what was apparently a brief exposure to water, good hinges, firm text block, pages otherwise… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Carlton and Porter, 1857. Fair to poor condition in faded purple cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, title page absent, four color plates, many additional engravings throughout the text. Covers heaviy worn and unevenly faded, rear hinge lightly cracked, title page and rear free endpaper absent, text block sound, pages age-toned with some spotting, name in pencil… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Stated first edition, 1950. Black cloth, black and white illustrations from photos, with dustjacket. The book is in good used condition with some cover edgewear and soil, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [4.00] and is in good condition with some… Saber más sobre este artículo

La Crosse, WI: S. M. Wells, 1879. Stated fifth edition 1879. Medical quackery. Directions for curing disease with use of the author's Electro-Medical Instruments and Apparatus. Final two pages advertise Electro-Medical Instruments and Apparatus including Wells' Battery and a full case of treating instrucments. Brown cloth lettered in gilt, 96 pages plus ads. Remarkably nice condition with light rubbing to… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.P.: St. Luke's Hospital, 1892. Original 1892 booklet setting forth medicines and supplies kept by St. Luke's Hospital, location unknown. Softcover, stapled binding, 14 pages of text and 5 pages of handwritten notes on previously blank pages. Some edgewear, binding sound, pages clean. Name of George E. McClellan at the top of the front cover.. Soft Cover. Good. 32mo -… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed for C. Nourse; J. F. And C. Rivington; S. Crowder; G. G. J. And J. Robinson; W. Stewart; T. Lowndes; and J. Pote, at Eton, 1785. Eleventh edition, 1885. Poor condition, reading or rebinding copy. Complete with frontis and five plates, 4 of which ar folding. Brown leather, xxviii, [1]-370p, [10]p index plus plates. Covers only attached (and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1957. Stated first edition. Harrowing story of a successful man who descended into addiction, surviving 18 months on New York's Bowery with 27 hospitalizations for acute alcoholism and three suicide attempts, and on to his hard won recovery and his efforts to help others. Black cloth with dustjacket. Very well kept copy, the book… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Victorian guide to food and nutrition. Brown cloth over beveled boards with blue cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, 426 pages. Light shelfwear, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: N. D. Berry, 1874. First edition, 1874. A sharply critical expose on patient treatment in insane asylums, the isolation of patients from contact with family members and the state of 19th century mental health "cures". Victorian binding in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, brown endpapers, 351 pages. Some cover wear with ink spotting to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1826. New edition [1826] with An Account of the Author. First published 1621. Two volumes in basic period bindings, paper covered boards with faded cloth spines and remains of paper spine labels, decorative engraved title in first volume. Covers worn, spotted and chipped at the extremities, good hinges, firm text blocks, heavily foxed endpapers, light… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1827. First American edition, 1827. Two volumes in basic period bindings, brown paper covered boards with brown cloth spines and paper labels, edges untrimmed, about 9.5 inches tall. Covers scuffed and spotted with additional wear to the spines and labels, internally better with good hinges, sound text blocks, heavy foxing to endpapers, text lightly to moderately… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Churh, 1842. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged, 1842. Plain paper covered covers with blue cloth spine, paper spine label, untrimmed edges, 4 pages of testimonials at front, 171 pages plus 16 pages publisher's catalog. Covers rubbed and spotted, spine label chipped and rubbed, good hinges, text block sound but not tight, some light foxing to endpapers, pages clean,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Malvern, PA: J. Bishop & Company Platinum Works, 1927. Original 1927 catalog featuring industrial and laboratory products of platinum and other metals along with introduction of use, substitution and replacement of platinum products along with their properties. Illustrated in black and white. Blue softcover printed in silver gilt and black, 94 pages including some tables and an informative 32 page… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Ginn & Company; Athenaeum Press, 1901. First edition, title page dated 1901. Black and white illustrations throughout, including decorative little bird illustrations in the margins. Lovely binding, green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Some light rubbing to corners and spine ends, spine a bit sunned but readily legible, good hinges, sound text block,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Published 1916, this copy number 463 of 550 of the Large Paper Edition. Illustrated with black and white plates from photographs plus a color frontis. Light green hardcover with darker green cloth spine, dark green spine label lettered in gilt, 220 pages. Some soil to the light green covers, otherwise very good… Saber más sobre este artículo

Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Co. For Index Office, Inc., Collegiate Press, 1915. First edition, stated first issue, December 1915. With inscription to Basil Condax (of Condax Cigarettes) from the president of the publishing house dated Christmas 1915. Brown cloth printed in gilt, top edge gilt, frontis plate printed in brown, 222 pages. Covers rubbed with additional wear to corners… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1851. 1851 American edition, from the fourth London edition. Include hand colored folding plate and additional plates in black and white. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Heavily worn with chips to wpine head and some pinholes along the spine, sound binding, plate have some foxing that also affects the adjacent pages, some have old transparent… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: John Wiley & Son, 1872. Early printing, 1872, originally published 1861. By the author of Notes of Travels among the North American Indians. Illustrated with line drawings by the author. Stresses the ills of breathing through one's mouth during sleep rather than through the nose as the author observed during his time with the Mandans and other Native… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: W. Innys and J. Richardson; C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1755. Third edition, 1755. Externally poor, internally good. Full brown leather, xvi, 444, [4] pages, woodcut headpieces, initial and title page vignette. Front cover detached with prominent tape marks to both covers both covers and spine worn, text block sound, bottom third of front free endpaper absent, pages age… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First edition, 1939, with the numeral I on the copyright page. Juvenile non-fiction with four full color plates and many additional black and white illustrations throughout the text, illustrated by the author. Turquoise cloth, map endpapers, no dustjacket. Fair to good with uneven cover fading, fraying to spine ends, good hinges, sound text… Saber más sobre este artículo