Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First US edition. xxiv, 175 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped jacket with spine panel darkened and edge-wear heaviest at head and tail. Former owner's bookplate on paste down. A rare double work of nonfiction by... More about Mea Culpa & The Life and Work of Semmelweis
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937. First British edition. 175 p. Pink cloth with black lettering on spine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on fore edge and endpapers. Name penned on front endpaper, some offsetting. Jacket spine panel sunned and soiled, worn along edges, price has pencil... More about Mea Culpa & The Life and Works of Semmelweis
London, Paris, & Leipzig: Hippolyte Balliere, J.B. Balliere, & T.O. Wiegel; Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1843-1856. Complete run of the publication in 13 volumes. Various cloth bindings: vols. 7 & 11 are original, the others are in 20th century institutional cloth. A Fair+ ex-library set deaccessioned from the John... More about The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism and Their Applications to Human...
Springfield, Illinois & Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas, 1942. First edition. 337, (1) pp. Navy Holliston Sturdite lettered in gilt. Very Good+ in rare original two-sided dust jacket, a little soiled and edge-worn. Light wear to bottom board, very slight wrinkling to endpapers, bookseller's ticket to paste down. The primary published... More about Psychosurgery: Intelligence, Emotion and Social Behavior Following Prefrontal Lobotomy for Mental...
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 about A Physician's Counsels to His Professional Brethren by A Practicing Physician
Battle Ceeek, MI: The Modern Medicine Publishing Company, 1922. First edition, first printing. 160pp. Illustrated in color. Green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling. Very Good with a few light stains and faint insecting to cloth, internally fine.The doctor, cereal company namesake, and early 20th century health guru's thoughts on... More about Tobaccoism: or How Tobacco Kills
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled brown cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends, light soiling to yellow coated endsheets, and contents toned and foxed. A beautiful copy, uncommon... More about Notes on Nursing
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1889. First edition. Offprint from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, September 1889. 5, [1] pp. Original blue wraps. Very Good+ with toning to edges of wraps, small stain to front wrap. [Golden & Roland 575.]. More about On a Case of Simple Idiopathic Muscular Atrophy, Involving the Face and the Scapulo-Humeral Muscles
Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812. First edition, second issue with gathering "H" reset. 367, (4, ads) pp. Publisher's leather with crimson title label, lettered in gilt. Leather chipped and worn along edges, especially at corners. Small chip to edge of title label. Some stains and foxing to text, ffep creased... More about Medical Inquiries and Observations, upon Diseases of the Mind
Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press, 1990. Signed by both authors with inscription by Schultes. First edition. 484 pp. Bluish green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners in Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine, two small tears at head and tail, lightly worn at edges. Warmly... More about The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia
Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1837. First American Edition. x, 407, [1, Pathological Index] pp. Period half calf and marbled boards with newer morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, former owner's name written in pencil on blank page... More about Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic