[No Place]: [No Publisher], c. 1890. A collection of late 19th portraits of cross-eyed (strabismus) boys and men. Ten cabinet cards, two cartes de visite, and one cardboard mounted black and white photo. Housed in a contemporary Art Nouveau album bound in green tapestry cloth and wooden upper cover carved..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy signed by Clara Barton on the front free endpaper with a lengthy and warm inscription, "Will Mrs. Wersfall [?] accept this little volume as a sometimes reminder if the days we passed together and which to..... More
Geneva: Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. First edition of this early annual report of the International Red Cross. A presentation copy, signed by Clara Barton and warmly inscribed "To Senator Preston U. Plumb of Kansas, from a friend who honors him, Clara Barton, President of the American National Red..... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1915. First edition. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. First edition, first printing of the first book by the first female physician in the United States. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in blind with spine title lettered in gilt, all edges stained maroon, pale brown endsheets. Near Fine with slight loss at..... More
[Los Angeles]: Holloway School of Philosophy and Religion, 1952-1955. First editions of the pioneering wellness guru's self-help guides. 28, 24, 16 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled multi-color wraps printed on rectos only. Near Fine with former owner's name is written on the top edge of two of the publications, light..... More
Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836. First American edition, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spines. Very Good. Cloth faded and lightly worn at the spine ends. Pages heavily foxed, marginal tear to pp. 195..... More
Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624. Second edition and first folio edition. [iv], 64, [4], 188, [4], 189-332, [2], 333-379, 370-382, 389-391, 385, 387-557, [7] pp. Two pages misnumbered; pagination eccentricities as issued with no break to text. Printed on laid paper. Divided into..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First edition. Signed by Walter Cannon on the front free endpaper, "With cordial regards." xiii, 311 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with darkened spine lettering, worn tips, diagonal crease to ffep, lacking dust jacket. Quite rare..... More
New York: [No Publisher], 1926. Notecard signed by French surgeon and biologist Dr. Alexis Carel inscribed "to a small [?] boy" in New York, dated June 5, 1926, mounted to cardboard underneath an article about him winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1912 with a photograph. Cardboard..... More
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Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Physical Society, 1913. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains..... More
Paris: D’Edouard Bautruche, 1848. First edition. The author's own copy, signed and inscribed by him to Monsieur Regnate on the title page with his numerous holograph corrections and annotations throughout. 56 pp. Bound in contemporary wrappers; housed in folding cloth chemise and slipcase with title labels. Text in French. Very..... More
London: E. Nutt, J. Roberts, A. Dodd, & J. Graves, 1722. First edition, first printing of Daniel Defoe's fictional account of the Great Plague of 1665. [iv], 287 pp. (three pages misnumbered without interruption to text: 281 for 218, 290 for 270, and 291 for 271). Octavo, full calf, laced..... More
[New York]: [No Publisher], ca. 1920s. Collection of over 200 pages of typescript notes annotated by Blanche DeVries, signed by her on an interior page. In modern Indian binding, full red leather, all edges flecked red, handmade red-flecked endpapers. Near Fine with light soiling and moderate rubbing to covers and..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1946. First edition, first printing. vi, 128 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with spine a little sunned, spine lettering mostly rubbed-off, slight lean, hint of foxing to edges. Lacking dust jacket. Rare. British physician, later Buddhist monk Michael Dillon..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. First edition. Inscribed by author to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould and signed. xv, 240 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876. First American edition. (Follows the British, the same year. Morton 3rd edition 1409.) Copy of contemporary female physician Elmira Y. Howard with her signature at front and date of 1877, her numerous underlines and brackets throughout in pencil, which is easily erasable with patience..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot, light wear. A philosophical whodunit in 19th century France..... More
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1899. First edition. xxvi, 17-589pp. with illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth, ruled and stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, letter "Y" in "Anatomy" on spine rubbed off, former owner's name on paste down, light wear. A very bright..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Signed by Anthony Hallam and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "To Steve With best wishes to a courageous friend and ardent hopes for full recovery [signed] Tony." x, 182 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine original..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. First edition. 66, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's olive cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board, former owner's name stamped on front paste down and front free endpaper. Pages free of marking. Rare in the first edition. The..... More
Amsterdam: Foundation for Independent Thinking, 1970. Presumed first edition of Hugo Bart Huges' 1970 medical tract. [2], 48 pp. Bound in plain stapled wraps with hand-lettered front cover. Very Good with light wear and soiling to covers. Staples rusted, interior clean. A scarce work on trepanation, the surgical drilling of..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing..... More
Zurich; New York; et al: Analytical Psychology Club of New York, et al, 1930-1961. Large archive of notes from seminars taught by Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, between 1930 and 1945. From the collection of one of his pupils. Together with publications by several other Jungian psychoanalysts, including Kristine..... More
Battle Creek, MI: The Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1932. First edition. Presentation copy signed by John Harvey Kellogg on the half-title page and inscribed to a previous owner on the front free endpaper "with the author's compliments." [6], viii, 13 - 498 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped in..... More