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Alcott, Louisa May Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories
Boston Roberts Brothers 1869 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Complete. 379 pages. Tissue-protected frontispiece and eight additional full-page b/w plates. This is the expanded edition that includes fourteen of Alcott's Civil War writings; six are her original 1863 "hospital sketches" describing her work in the Georgetown Union Hospital, the other eight are from PIckett Duty and other publications. Sound binding with intact hinges. Slightly uneven text block. Clean pages with an occasional finger smudge and folded corner. Two overlapped bookplates inside front cover; top bookplate for Ralaph and Ann Woods appears to be from the early 1900s. There is a small 19th century label for the Atlantic Cotton Mills Library (of Lawrenceville, Massachusetts) affixed to the margin of page 168. Light cover wear. Gilt medallion decorations and lettering is in nice shape.
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400.00 USD
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Borodin, Andrei N. And Paavo Salminen Handbook of Brownian Motion - Facts and Formulae
Basel, Boston, and Berlin Birkhauser Verlag 1996 First Edition Hard Boards with Cloth Spine Like New No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
This is the publisher's hardcover edition; it is not a print on demand book. First printing bookplate from Birkhauser Bostonaffixed to the front free endpaper. "The primary aim of this book is to give an easy reference to a large number of facts and formulae associated with Brownian motion. . . . It is our belief and experience that such a material would be very much welcome by students and people working with applications of diffusions and Brownian motion."
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150.00 USD
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Brode, Bernice Tales of Los Alamos; Life on the Mesa 1943 - 1945
Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos Historical Society 1997 First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
157 pages. Photographs throughout. Brode's memoir of the years her family spent in Los Alamos, while she and her husband worked on developing the atomic bomb as part of J. Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project. Chapters include: Arrival, An Unsual Community, The Army, The Tech Area, Apartment House, Maid Service, The School, Mesa Business, Sunday Trips and Sports, Social Events, The British Mission, Los Alamos and the Indians, Miss Edith Warner, ALAS: Scientists in Politics, Los Alamos and Santa Fe, and Water Crisis and the Great Exodus. Tight binding. Clean pages. Minor cover wear.
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35.00 USD
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Celsus, Aulus Cornelius (with Short Writings By Robert Constantin, Isaac Casaubon, Johan Rhode) Edited by Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen De Medicina Libri Octo (On Medicine Eight Books)
Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden), Netherlands) 1730 Hard Cover Good to Very Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Complete: three blanks, two illustrated title pages, one blank, one title page in red and black, one blank, 2-688 numbered pages of text, 1-49 numbered pages of scholar notes with two illustrations, thirty-six page un-numbered index, three-page un-numbered publisher catalog, two blanks. The second volume of Western medical writings, preceded only by Hippocrates. De Medicina is believed to be the only extant section of a much larger encyclopedia written by Celsus sometime between 20-40 A.D. and is the best source of information about medicine in the Roman era. Sound binding. Clean, uncut pages. Two owners' names in fore-matter. Small bookstore label inside front cover. Original boards with worn spine; lettering in nice shape.
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250.00 USD
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Cullen, William (translated from Latin by Eldad Lewis) A Methodical System of Nosology
Stockbridge Cornelius Sturtevant 1808 Leather Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Printing date on last page. 231 pages. Cullen was an 18th century Scottish physician who developed an influential classification of diseases (nosology) consisting of four major divisions: pyrexiae, or febrile diseases; neuroses, or nervous diseases; cachexiae, diseases arising from bad bodily habits; and locales, or local diseases. Tight binding with sound hinges; some old, unobtrusive reinforcement of front gutter. Clean pages, foxing at endpapers. Tiny "not accessioned" stamp inside front cover. Minor cover wear; spine title is legible.
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400.00 USD
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Deems, James M. The Telegraph Quick Step [Sheet Music]
Baltimore F. D. Benteen 1844 Sheet Music Near Fine No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
2 leaves (2 pages of music inside of two blank pages). Once bound in a private volume. "As performed by the Independent Blues Band" and "Respectfully Dedicated to Professor S. P. Morse Inventor of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph." On 24 May 1844, the first telegraph line (between Washington DC and Baltimore) officially opened with the transmission of the test message, "What hath God wrought?" Later that year, Deems composed this piece in honor of the telegraph's inventor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse. Music is clean with very light soiling. Slight wear along one edge where it was previously bound.
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300.00 USD
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Diesel Rudolf The Present Status of the Diesel Engine in Europe and a Few Reminiscences of the Pioneer Work in America
St. Louis, Missouri Busch-Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Company 1912 First Edition Wrapper Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
"A Lecture delivered before The Associated Engineering Societies of Saint Louis, April 13, 1912. Sibley College, Cornell University, April 18, 1912. United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., April 26, 1912. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, April 30, 1912. Promotional booklet provided upon request by Busch-Sulzer. 48 glossy pages. B/w photographs, illustrations, schematics, and charts throughout. One of Diesel's earliest publications about his revolutionary engine. Discusses four-stroke cycle engines, horizontal stationary engines, small engines, two-stroke cycle engines, industrial plant applications, vessel applications, and locomotive applications, Quite scarce. Tight stapled binding. Clean pages with some minor foxing on front and rear fly leaves and the two center leaves. Paper wrapper cover is in nice shape; some minor soiling and a 1" closed tear at top left front.
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175.00 USD
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Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine Sunset National Garden Book
Menlo Park, CA Sunset Books 1997 First Edition, 1st Printing Soft Cover Near Fine No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
656 pages. Color photos and drawings throughout. "More than 6,000 plant listings keyed to 45 climate zones. Sunset's proprietary climate maps presented in full color. 2,500 color photos, illustrations, charts, and diagrams. Over 50,000 plant facts, concerning everything from acid soil to zoysias. Complete Guide to Plant Selection to help you landscape your garden. Hundreds of how-to-tips and techniques from Sunset's garden experts. Nice shape. Not used much if at all. Sound binding. Clean pages. Light cover wear and soiling.
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45.00 USD
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Elphinston, Sir Howard, W.L. Walton, and A. Y. Nutt Tree Prints
London Longman's Green & Co. 1875 Print Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Elphinsotn, Sir Howard, W.L. Walton, and A.Y. Nutt
I have over fifteen beautiful tree chromolithographs done by M. & N. Hanhart after water-colors by Sir Howard Elphinstone, W. L. Walton, and A. Y. Nutt. From "Forest Trees and Woodland Scenery" by William Menzies. Leaf size is approximately 10" x 14". THIS PURCHASE IS FOR ONE PRINT ONLY. If you simply place an order, I'll pick out a nice one for you. Or, please contact me if you are looking for a specific type of tree or would like to order more than one print. (Discounts for orders of multiple prints.) Currently, I have prints of the following types of trees available: Beech, Birch, Cedar, Chestnut, Elm, Avenue of Limes, Oak, Pine, Pinaster, Plane, Poplar, Scotch Fir and Yew. Prints are all in nice shape. Some minor toning at the edges. A couple have faint water spots in the margin. All have a small library stamp and discard annotation on the reverse.
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75.00 USD
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Green, Thomas The Universal Herbal; or Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an Account of all the known Plants in the World, Arranged According to the Linnaean System. Specifying the Uses to which they are or may be Applied . . . .
Liverpool Nuttal Fisher & Co./Printed at the Caxton Press by Henry Fisher 1816 _ Leather Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Title continuation: Whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and Manufactures. With the Best Methods of Propagation, and the Most Recent Agricultural Improvements. Collected from Indisputable Authorities. Adapted to the use of the Farmer, the Gardener, the Husbandman, the Botanist, the Florist, and Country Housekeepers in General. Individual plates dated from 1816-1820. 106 hand-colored botanical plates (each usually illustrating more than one plant). 2 colored frontispieces and 1 colored title page. Vol 1, 790 pages. Vol 2, 885 pages plus a list of plates. Prints are crisp with excellent color. Tight bindings with neatly done, old gutter reinforcement. Clean pages. Minor water stain to upper fore-edge corner of Vol 1 with corresponding discoloration of some leaves. Original full leather bindings have typical wear. Original red, black and gilt spine labels show some wear. An encyclopedia of plants and herbal knowledge augmented with cooking and gardening information. Plates are from original drawings of live plants as well as copies of famous botanical artists. See Great Flower Books, p58. A very presentable set that is uncommon to find with original endpapers and binding.
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2500.00 USD
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Kelland, Clarence B. The American Boys' Workshop
Philadelphia David McKay 1914 Pictorial Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
339 pages. Illustrations throughout. Fold-out boat plan is present and securely attached. Tight binding. Front hinge just starting; rear hinge sound. Clean pages; presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Very little wear to cover. Pictorial and title are bright and crisp.
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45.00 USD
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Kendall, Dr. B. J. Advertising Broadside for Dr B. J. Kendall's Blood Purifier, Pectoral Exilir Blackberry Balsam, and Dr. Hamilton's Quick Relief Pills.
Enosburgh, Vermont Dr. B. J. Kendall 1885 Broadside Very Good
Circa 1885. Approximately 23 1/2" by 5 1/2". Minor wear. Some words have small gaps or extra ink from the printing process. Kendall was a 1868 graduate of the University of Vermont Medical College who practiced medicine in Enosburgh, Vermont. He began developing patent medicines for human and animal ailments in the 1870s and incorporated the Dr. B. J. Kendall Company in 1883. Kendall Company sales wagons traveled widely to sell his medicines and medical pamphlets. This medicine was claimed to be "the very best remedy for Scrofulous and Syphiltic Affections, Eruptive and Cutaneous Dieseas, Pimples, Tumor, swelled Neck, Blotches, Boils, Salt Rheum, Ulcers and Sores, Scald Head, Rheumatism, Erysipelas, Female Weakness, Pain in the Chest, Joints Limbs or across the back, Dropsy, Liver Complaints, Constipation, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsia, Neuralgia, Headache, Abuse of Mercury and all conditions accompanied by General Debility and requiring an Alternative and Tonic Medicine." Whew! Will be shipped rolled.
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50.00 USD
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McAfee, C. M. Eighty Famous Prescriptions: Obtained from the Best Known Physicians and Scientists of Europe and America for Home Treatment
Cincinnati C. M. McAfee 1895 Cardboard Near Fine No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Circa 1895. Issued by Stone & Hassell, Druggists, Lancaster, Wisconsin. 40 pages. Instructions for preparing prescriptions to treat human maladies including, abcesses, biliousness, cholera, cracked nipples, dysentery, flux, jaundice, nervousness, ring worm, toothache, worms, and more. Also includes treatments for for some veterinary problems. Ingredients include: calomel, belladonna, opium, paragoric, capsicum, lead, laudanum, rum, cannabis, and turpentine.
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75.00 USD
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Miner, Harriet Stewart Orchid Prints
Boston Lee and Shepard 1885 Print Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Miner, Harriet Steward
I have over twenty prints available from the first American color-plate orchid book, "Orchids: The Royal Family of Plants." Some of the most famous and attractive orchid plates around. "This is the ranking work on the subject, and very striking" - see Bennet, "American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books", p 78. Leaf size is approximately 10" x 14". THIS PURCHASE IS FOR ONE PRINT ONLY. If you simply place an order, I'll pick out a nice one for you. Or, please contact me if you are looking for a specific orchid or would like to purchase more than one print. Currently, I have prints of the following orchids: Dendrobium Devonianum, Dendrobium Ainsworthii, Dendrobium Nobile, Masdevallia Veitchii, Cattleya Trianae, Cattleya Chocoensis, Cattleya Mossiae, Cattleya Loddigesii, Laelia Autumnalis, Laelia Dayeana, Phalenopsis Stuartiana, Phalenopsis Schilleriana, Oncidium Barkerii, Calanthe Veitchii, Aerides Quinquevulnerum, Odontoglossum Roezlii Album, Odontoglossum Alexandrae, Lycaste Aromatica, Vanda Suavis, Cymbidium Hookerianum, Cypripedium Niveum, Cypripedium Haynaldianum, and Cypripedium Spicerianum. Prints are all in nice shape. Some have some minor edgewear or a few tiny spots. All have a small library stamp; I'll send a long a copy of an email from the library verifying that the prints were discards.
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75.00 USD
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Nelson, Byron C. Before Abraham: Prehistoric Man in Biblical Light
Minneapolis, Minnesota Augsburg Publishing House 1948 Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Concise defense of Creationism published in the 1940s. Not intended to pass as science rather it is "directed againist mistaken ideas in religion on one hand and against false notions of science on the other. It is intended to show . . . from facts brought to light by science . . . that the human race has apparently been from the earliest times mentally and physically what it is today, and that man should be regarded, therefore, as created rather than evolved." Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on front free endpaper; empty card folder attached to rear free endpaper. Very light wear to cover.
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40.00 USD
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Norris, George W. Letter from Dr. George W. Norris, Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital and Vice-President of the College of Physicians to Dr. George Clymer, Naval Surgeon Aboard the U.S.S. Cyane at Norfolk, Virginia
Philadelphia 1841 Letter Very Good
Autograph letter signed by Norris to Clymer (the son of a founding father who had signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution) introducing Robert Stevenson, who Norris had engaged to serve as Clymer's assistant aboard the Cyane. In addition to praising Stevenson's character and confirming his competency "to put up medicines, bleed, & cup" while serving for three years as a nurse at the Frankfod Asylum for the Insane, which is still an accredited psychiatric hospital (the Friends Hospital) today, Norris also informs Clymer that Stevenson will be delivering a "vaccine scab . . . taken from a healthy child." During the past year an epidemic of small pox had occurred in Philadelphia, and patients at most institutions had been revaccinated. When vaccine lymph, that is vaccinia virus collected from inoculated calves, was in short supply, dried human vaccine scabs were used to provide material for inoculations. Apparently, small pox was a concern on the Cyane as it prepared to depart Norfolk, Virginia, for duty with the Pacific Squadron. The following year, in response to false rumors that the U.S. and Mexico were at war, the Cyane along with two other American ships sailed into Monterey Bay and demanded the garrison surrender in an embarrassing diplomatic blunder. A blue circular Philadelphia postmark is on the reverse of the letter along with Dr. Clymer's shipboard address.
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375.00 USD
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Parey, Ambrose (Ambroise Pare) Restoring a Dislocated Elbow - Leaf
Frankfurt, Germany Jacobi Fischeri Bibliopolae 1610 Leaf Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Leaf (pp. 337-338) from Thesaurus chirurgiae Continens Praestantissimorum Autorum, Utpote Ambrosii Parei Parisiensis. . . edited by Peter Uffenbach. Parey was a famous 16th century French surgeon who reintroduced many of Hippocrates methods in a published collection of his surgical practice. The first part of this book (from which this leaf comes) is a Latin version of Parey's own, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey. The leaf includes hand-colored illustrations of two different methods to reduce elbow dislocations. It has some minor toning, some corner creases and several small, marginal wormholes.
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150.00 USD
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Parey, Ambrose (Ambroise Pare) Restoring a Dislocated Shoulder - Leaf
Frankfurt, Germany Jacobi Fischeri Bibliopolae 1610 Leaf Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Leaf (pp. 329-330) from Thesaurus chirurgiae Continens Praestantissimorum Autorum, Utpote Ambrosii Parei Parisiensis. . . edited by Peter Uffenbach. Parey was a famous 16th century French surgeon who reintroduced many of Hippocrates methods in a published collection of his surgical practice. The first part of this book (from which this leaf comes) is a Latin version of Parey's own, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey. The leaf includes three hand-colored illustrations of different methods to reduce shoulder dislocations. The leaf has some minor toning, some corner creases and several small, marginal wormholes.
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