Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1863. xvi, 13-604 pages. While known as the first American physician to devote himself entirely to neurology and the author of the first treatise on the subject, it was his role in the Civil War and this major work for which he is best remembered. When Secretary... More
[Lederer, Street and Zeus, Printers; Berkeley, California; 1946]. Oblong Quarto. Construction battalion detachment was the one assigned to the Solomon Islands where they performed major tasks to create a major docking facility while fighting malaria and insects. This remarkable volume has hundreds of photographs that document the 1008th which was... More
16 unnumbered pages. The Programme shows the speakers, the music, the patriotic themes. Much of the book have the sponsors (all Philadelphia businesses). The cover of the booklet is in full color and was printed by John C. Winston Company (which also has a full page ad). The Philadelphia Enquirer... More
Springfied, IL. (1935): Charles C. Thomas. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 369 pages, index. Dr. T.W. Corlett became interested in the medicine man in 1879 when he was stationed among the Ojibway Indians of Northern Canada. He uses the term "shaman" for the Indian Medicine man. He writes of the... More
1989. Oblong Quarto. 120 pages. Japanese and English text. Copy at the Japanese Diet Library. p. 112-119 in English as a guide to his remarkable sculptures. There is a list in English also that notes which public collections have his works. Bound in gold cloth, spine lettering in black, corners... More
Kerrville, Texas: Privately Printed, 1961. Quarto. 124 pages, illustrations of saddles ranging from the development of the fork, the horn, the stirrup and Tapadero. The Miller $10,000 saddle, the Buscadero Belt, the Tom Threepersons Holster; Cowboy Headquarters and many more. This work was a labor of love with help from... More
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. First edition of the English translation - "Über die Entstehung maligner Tumoren" (1914), with a foreword by Maynard M. Metcalf. Theodor Boveri (1862-1915), professor and director of the Zoological-Zootomical Institute at Würzburg, in 1888 defined the splitting of the chromosomes as a.... More
4 pages, autographed, letter, signed. September 6, 1830. After graduation from Dickinson College, he studied law with Judge Thomas Duncan and began his practice in Loudoun County, Virginia. While residing at Leesburg {see postmark on letter), he edited the memoirs of his grandfather, Richard Henry Lee which was issued in... More
During the Civil War, Confederate political prisoners and prisoners of war could be released on taking an "Oath of Allegiance." Signed by Thomas H. Barnes, County Clerk (see also 1860 U.S. Census) and J[ohn] W. Bourne, Presiding Judge of the County. The two who swore the Oath of Alligiance were... More
measures approximately 7" x 6 5/8" handwritten on wove paper. Dr. Elijah L. Griffiths, surgeon, 79the Regiment, excuses John R. Reder for rheumatic disease preventing him from performing military duty. Dated, June 12, 1839, at Philadelphia. The History of Salem County, New Jersey notes he died in 1847 and had... More
New York; Nd(ca.1908): Appleton. Small Octavo. The International Scientific Series edited by F. Legge. 301 pages, index. illustrations. One of the earliest books on radioactivity. After a series of studies on the radium, he collaborated with Prof. S. Russ on radioactive recoil, with Fajans on the beta-rays from radium B.... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. xix, 534 pages, John Allen Wyeth (1845-1922) joined the Confederate Cavalry of Nathan Bedford Forest, CWB, I, 183. He was taken prisoner in October 1863 and released in April 1865. He studied medicine under Dr. James M. Jackson of Guntersville, Alabama... More
Document measures approximately 5 3/4" x 3 1/2" and is in very good condition with the ink writing easily read. Captain John C. Wyman had been one of the leading speakers at anti-slavery rallies in the 1950's. William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator notes his fiery speeches brought the crowds to... More
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 276 pages. index. illustrations. Inscribed by Dr. Charles B. Johnson on May 23, 1918 at a meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society. It is also signed by the owner, John Benjamin Haeberlin, a Professor of Medicine at Loyola University and staff... More
Document measures 5 1/2" x 4 3/4". As the needs for the Confederacy grew more desperate, the demands placed on the South Side Rail Road had increased demands placed upon them by Lee's Army. While it was still privately owned business, its infrastructure was in decline as rails were often... More
The document measures approximately 5" x 5". Written a week after the end of Cold Harbor as the men of the 2nd Regiment of Connecticut's Heavy Artillery moving slowly toward Richmond. In Vaill's History of the Second Connecticut Volunteer Artillery, p. 75ff., Colonel Randl [sic] S. McKenzie yelled: "Tell Meramble... More
2 page document of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania drawn up by Matthew Irwin, Master of Rolls for the State of Pennsylvania, a true copy (or exemplification) of a certain Patent enrolled in his office. On sixth day of March, 1779. Signed boldly at the bottom of the document by Thomas... More
sepia original wet-dry sepia photograph of Major-General Ambrose Burnside with Major-General Robert Anderson measuring approximately 6 3/8" x 5". The previous owner Edward Krengel was a collector who obtained this as part of a collection of an unknown itinerate Civil War era photographer. Krengel wrote regarding Bruce Catton's article: "The... More
London: for Lockyer Davis, 1780. Folio. 164 full page engraved plates of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes along with maps drawn by the author and portrait of the author by Martin Teuscher of Nuremburg. The author was the Commander of a Vessel sent by the King of Denmark to collect materials... More
London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1893. Quarto. Reprinted from the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. .LI, pages [45]-52. 2 full page plates illustrating 12 observations of Mars. Bound in green stiff paper wraps printed in black. From the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N.Y. Scarce locating only 5 copies via OCLC... More
San Diego, CA: (1897): James Edward Friend. First Edition. Small Octavo. (3) preliminary leaves, 65pp., In his introduction, the author states "Believing that this little book contains some original, interesting and important truths, and that several great accepted and leading errors are herein successfully controverted and exposed; all of which... More
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820. Octavo. In two volumes. xcii, 429pp. and v. 415pp. Beautifully illustrated with engravings by Thomas Strothard. This work has been considered Defoe's most brilliant work, his masterpiece. It was a powerful influence of the juvenile mind of England during a period when... More
Edinburgh: For Robert Cadell, 1833. Octavo. Second edition, revised. In two volumes. 525pp. and 544pp. large folding map with a closed tear repair to margin near gutter (though the repair did not hold and is still split). After being acquitted of murder during a duell in which he shot his... More
London: Robert Barker and Assigns John Bill, 1603. Quarto. Black letter. Double column. [Herbert 273] Both title pages and colophon bear the words "Printer to the Queenes...."Maiestie. The leaf after the general title is signed & para; iij . Bound with: Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances... collected by R.... More
London: Robert Barker and John Bill (Printers), 1830. Quarto. Black letter, double column. Title page before genealogies. [Herbert-430] The names Barker and Bill occur on both titles and in colophon. Distinct from the preceding edition. Wisd. xix. 22: "neither diddest thou..." Title page with a few marginal chips, occasional spots... More