Elements of Electric Lighting
New York: D, Van Nostrand Company, 1892. Seventh Ed., Revised & New Additions. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Wear to board edges, and front/back cover. Illustrated, index and adds. More
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LE RAVENNATE ET SON EXPOSE COSMOGRAPHIQUE
Rouen: Imprimerie De Esperance Cagniard, 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 117 pp.text in French, nice fold-out circluur map at rear, bound in original wraps with original glassine wrapper. Spine of wrappers deteriorated and held by glassine wrapper, internally clean. More
The Dramatization of 365 Days.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 147pp. Uncommon cloth bound edition of this powerful staging of Glasser's "365 Days" a huge novel of a soldier's tour in the Vietnam War. Bound in black cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (light rubbing and..... More
2 Page Autographed Letter re: Medical Exam
Denver: 1922. . 2 page, autographed letter from Dr. G.E. Cheley to Mrs. Charles Robetson of Wiggins, Colorado. He reports on his incision and x-ray examination of her brother on July 31, 1922 who passed away. He notes that once inside the numerous abscesses, the bleeding could not be stopped..... More
Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 186, (117)pp. Scholarly treaties on the weaves and woven arts of Peru. Illustrated with demonstrations of a weave, plus 117 b&w plates. Bound in yellow cloth boards, with red and black dust jacket (1/8" chippings on..... More
Argument in the Hill Street Tunnel Cases (In the Superior Court of the State of California Holden in and for the County of Los Angeles Before the Hon. Leslie R. Hewitt.
Np./Nd (Los Angeles): Np. Octavo. 75 pages. As automobile use and streetcar ridership skyrocketed, the city introduced the Hill Street tunnels. By 1913 the tunnel had been built and was a fate accomplished but the issue in the case asks: whether the city had the right to do so. Once..... More
10th Anniversary Symposium Proceedings of the Samual Roberts Noble Foundation, Plant Biology Division, 1988-1998
Ardmore, OK: The Samual Roberts Noble Foundation, 1999. First Edition. Decorated Boards. Ocatvo. viii, 241pp. Collected papers, with posters exhibited. List of Plant Biology Division Publications and Personnel 1988-1998. In illustrated paper boards. More
Nitrogen Fixation: Global Perspectives. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2-7 July 2001.
New York: CABI Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Decorated Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 553pp. Collected papers, each with figures and references. Poster session abstratcs. Both author and subject indexes. In decorated boards. More
Tobacco, and Its Effects. A Prize Essay, Showing That the Use of Tobacco is a Physical, Mental, Morals, and Social Evil.
New York: Philips and Hunt, 1868. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo., 48pp. An early protest against the various uses of tobacco. Dr. Gibbons was Professor of the Toland Medical College and Editor of the Pacific Meedical and Surgical Journal. Toxicity of "nictonia" and..... More
1 Page, ALS, Excuse from Militia, June, 1843
Measures approximately 7 3/4" x 4 1/2" handwritten on wove paper. Dr. Elijah L. Griffiths, surgeon, 79the Regiment, excuses John Parry for a bad fracture below his knee, incapacitating him and rendering him unable to perform military duty. Dated June 15, 1843. Dr. Griffiths was noted as an intimate friend..... More
Sketches of landscapes in Pencil, Dated 1845
One of his 12 sketches is dated at base of the drawing, 1834, another with the number 31 at the base (1831?), one showing two children and a raised outhouse has a space where an image was removed measuring approximately 3 3/4" x 5". Dr. Griffiths served as a surgeon..... More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1853. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 562 pp. George M. Grant's article on the sanitary conditions in Memphis, Tennessee in the early 1850's (open piles of excrement, left as food for dogs and hogs; He has also contributed an article on a new..... More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES - NEW SERIES VOL. II
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Limited. 535 pp. Moderate foxing in text. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. IX
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 532 pp. Sporadic browning and foxing in text. M.H. Houston's article on treating gunshot wounds to the chest. Graphic pictures on p. 99 of huge tumors, also dislocation with twisted rope on p 355. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. VII
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1844. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). One colored plate, pages wavy and water damaged, edges stained. Spotting on lower cover, boards bowed. Scarce in any condition. Article on colored insane of the free states (with chart comparing insane African-Americans in the North and..... More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. X
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 548 pp. Moderate foxing throughout. small tear at corner of p. 261-261 on American intelligence with about 20 words missing. Plates, woodcuts of Uterus. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. XXII
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1851. A good copy with some rubbing. J. Mason Warren's "Occlusion of the Vagina" with wood cut. William Maxwell Wood, Navy Surgeon's account of two suits of malpractice in Erie County, PA; Henry H. Smith on Molluscum and Medullary cancer. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. XXIV
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1852. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). Slight dent in front board at upper corner, light browning through text. Blake on California illness; Porter on US-Mexican War. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. XXXIX
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 582 pp. Corners lightly turned, light rubbing on boards, text clean. More
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW SERIES VOL. XXXVI
Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1858. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 586 pp. Very clean text. Some rubbing on boards. More
The Boy in the Bush
New York (1956): Thomas Seltzer, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo. . [1] pp. ad, 388pp., This is a story set in Western Australia when Lawrence and his wife visited Mollie Skinner. This story was taken from Skinner's own manuscript which was originally titled The House of Ellis. The first edition..... More
Notes of Travel through the Territory of Arizona (being an Account Fo the Trip Made By General George Stoneman and Others in the Autumn of 1870 )
Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1965. Octavo. 62p. 2 maps, notes and bibliography. Marion traveled to California then on to Arizona where he mined in Yuma, then on to prescott where he took up mining again. He later decided to purchae the Miner newspaper which was started in Whipple..... More
A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
London: for B. And R. Crosby and Co., 1814. Octavo. 2nd edition considerably enlarged and improved. one volume in two. Engraved portrait frontispiece 480 through 902pp [1]pp. table and [13]pp. general index(though it is paginated [899]-901) Volume two contains the half-title. Contains 258 hand-colored engravings by Henderson and engraved by..... More
A New Family Herbal: Or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants Used in Medicine, Diet and Their Arts
London: For Richard Phillips, 1810. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, 901pp., [17]pp. publisher's ads. plants drawn from nature by Henderson and engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick, who brought the art of engraving on wood back into popularity. His wood engravings of birds and animals were exquisite. Wood engravings were also..... More
The Preservation of Health with Remarks on Constipation, Old Age, Use of alchohol in the Preparation of Medicines
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Original Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 140p. Vastly expanded over the 1846 edition which had 98 pages, here the renown Dr. John C. Warren (see DAB), expanded the subject to deal with all aspects of constipation, sound sleeping habits (no doublebeds, a...... More
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