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Medicine and Ethnology. Selected Essays

By: Ackerknecht, Erwin H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press: 1971

Seller ID: 851

KEY ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF CULTURE IN MEDICINE BY ONE OF ITS PIONEERS. 9 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gil title to cover and spine, 195 pp, very good. ERWIN HEINZ ACKERKNECHT (1906 - 1988) was an active and influential Trotskyist in the 1930s who had to flee Germany in 1933 after Hitlerâ€™s rise to power. It was in the United States, the country that granted him citizenship, that Ackerknecht became an influential historian of medicine. He wrote groundbreaking works on the social and ecological dimensions of disease and was a forerunner of contemporary trends in social and ...
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The Natural Bent. The Memoirs of Dr. Paul B. Barringer

By: Barringer, Paul B.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press: 1949

Seller ID: 632

1949 FIRST EDITION POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF PRESIDENT OF VIRGINIA TECH AND UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EDITED BY HIS DAUGHTER, INSCRIBED BY HER TO A FAMILY FRIEND BRIDGING 3 GENERATIONS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, vii, 280 pp, ink inscription to Mrs. Gordon Gray and signed by Anna Barringer, daughter of the author and editor of these posthumous memoirs, It is pleasant to know that this book is for Mrs. Gordon Gray whose Craige and Boyden's grandfathers shared Dr. Barringer's boyhood days and who carries this old acquaintance into today. Anna Barr...
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Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck

By: Bass, George F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society: 1967

Seller ID: 709

UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY: FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO ENTIRELY EXCAVATE AN ANCIENT SHIPWRECK. 12 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 177 pp, 162 figures in text. Age-toning to cover edges, spine darkened, unmarked, unread, very good. GEORGE FLETCHER BASS (born 1932) is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, He was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of the Bronze Age,...
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Looking Backward 2000-1887

By: Bellamy, Edward;

Price: $700.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 183

1888 VERY SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK UTOPIAN AMERICAN NOVEL. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, vi, 470 pages, in original slate green binding with gilt publisher's emblem to cover. Copyright page with 'Press of J. J. Arakelyan', and misprint ('wore' rather than 'were', line 8, page 210). Wear to rear cover, corners and spine ends worn, hinges starting, overall very good. EDWARD BELLAMY (March 26, 1850 - May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Although Bellamy retrospectively cl...
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a Symposium on Continental Drift Oranized for the Royal Society

By: Blackett, P.M.S., Bullard, Edward and Runcorn, S.K.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, The Royal Society: 1965

Seller ID: 661

1965 MAGNIFICENT LARGE ILLUSTRATED PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON CONTINENTAL DRIFT CHAIRED BY NOBEL LAUREATE, COPY OF PROMINENT ICHTHYOLOGIST. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's maroon cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to spine, illustrated bookplate of Neal R. Foster to front paste-down, vi, 323 pp, index a1-a6, many illustrations, including color fold-out maps. Binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good in very good dust jacket. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: During the 30 years from 1920 to 1950, continental drift appeared to a few geologists and geophysicists as the obvious explan...
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The Sea. Its History and Romance

By: Bowen, Frank C.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London, Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd.: [1924]

Seller ID: 899

1924 FIRST EDITION DELUXE BINDING FOUR-VOLUME HISTORY OF THE SEA, SHIPPING AND EXPLORATION ILLUSTRATED WITH HUNDREDS OF PLATES. Four hardcover volumes, 11 1/4 inches tall, navy blue cloth binding, gilt title, galleon, border to covers, gilt title to spine, Vol. I color frontis, [viii], 308 pp, 143 plates; Vol. II color frontis, [viii], 284 pp, 142 plates; Vol. III viii, 289 pp, 153 plates; Vol. IV color frontis, x, 290 pp, 126 plates. Light edgewear, no marks, very good+. FRANK CHARLES BOWEN (1894 - 1957) devoted his life to maritime research and writing. His interest in ships began as a youn...
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Science and Medicine in the People's Republic of China

By: Bowers, John Z.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Asia Society: 1972

Seller ID: 875

ILLUSTRATED ISSUE OF THE ASIA SOCIETY ON SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA--1972--THE YEAR THAT NIXON VISITED CHINA. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8 inches tall softcover, color printed covers, 84 pp, illustrated with photographs, published by the Asia Society, New York, No. 26, Summer 1972; light wear to cover edges, SIIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by John Z. Bowens. Text unmarked, very good. INTRODUCTION by John Z. Bowers, M.D. THE ASIA SOCIETY The Asia Society is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization founded in 1956 in the belief that there is an urgent need for greater knowledge of Asia in...
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Pediatrics. Devoted to the Diseases of Infants and Children

By: Brown, Dillon (owner) and Carpenter, George (editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Van Publishing Co.: 1896 (original publication)

Seller ID: 732

FINE FACSIMILE COLLECTION OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF A SHORT-LIVED PEDIATRIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE US AND UK IN 1896. 9 1/2 inches tall black custom screw post binder covered in black pebbled cloth, pictorial book plate to front paste-down Presented by Pet Milk Company, Saint Louis, Missouri, containing facsimile copies of Pediatrics, A Semi-Monthly Journal. Included are Vol. 1 (issues 1, 3, 4-12) and Vol. 2, issue 1. Condition: fine. GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER, M.D. (1859 - 1910) was an English physician and paediatrician. Carpenter syndrome is named for him. He was a medical stu...
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Image for Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

Myographia Nova: or, a Graphical Description of all the Muscles in Humane Body, as they arise in Dissection, together with an Accurate and Concise Discourse of the Heart and its Use; as also of the Circulation of the Blood, and the Parts of which the Sanguinary Mass is Made and Framed. Written by the late Learned Dr. Lower

By: Browne J

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Medicina Rara Ltd.: 1697

Seller ID: 49

SUMPTUOUS DELUXE FOLIO FULL LEATHER BINDING OF FINE PRINTING FACSIMILE OF RARE 17TH CENTURY MUSCLE ANATOMY. 8 x 12 1/2 inches tall full leather binding, gilt border to cover, spine with raised bands, gilt title, top edge gilt, 109 pages, 37 plates, fine condition. In ivory paper covered slipcase lightly soiled with crayon mark on one side. Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., plates made from the original 1697 London edition. The paper is permanent, natural Curtis Rag, bearing the watermark of Medicina Rara. 300 copies bound in full leather numbered in roman numerals (deluxe binding) of which this is ...
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Religio Medici. A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-Burial, and Other Papers

By: Browne T;

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1862

Seller ID: 219

THIS COPY OF RELIGIO MEDICI IS THE PRINTING (BOSTON, 1862) TREASURED BY SIR WILLIAM OSLER. 7 inches tall hardcover, xviii, 432, blindstamped brown pebbled cloth binding, edges red-stained, engraved portrait frontis with tissue guard. Corners worn, spine ends frayed, spine faded, binding tight, pages age-toned but unmarked, overall very good minus. Edited by Fields with a 'Biographical Sketch' of Browne on pp. vii - xviii. The portrait is newly engraved from the folio published in 1686. Sir Thomas Brown was born in London in 1605 and died in 1682. Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) is a ...
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My Flight to the North Pole

By: Byrd, R. E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, B. G. Teubner: 1931

Seller ID: 876

1931 ABRIDGED ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BYRD'S EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH POLE PUBLISHED FOR GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING HITLER'S RISE TO POWER--ANNOTATED IN GERMAN. 7 3/4 inches tall softcover booklet, printed paper covers, frontis map of north pole, 52 pp, 9 photo text figures, covers soiled, spine frayed, tears to edges of title page, marginal notes in German. tissue repair to closed tear p 15. Published in the series Teubners Neusptachliche Lekture fur sechsstufige lehranstalten und die mittelklassen von vollanstalten [Teubner's New Language reading for six-level teaching institut...
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A History of Medicine

By: Castiglioni, Arturo

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1941

Seller ID: 799

1941 LANDMARK 1000-PAGE HISTORY OF MEDICINE BY ITALIAN-AMERICAN YALE PROFESSOR. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, xxviii, 1013 pp, index, xl, [ii], very good, no dust jacket. ARTURO CASTIGLIONI (1874 - 1953) was an Italian-born American medical historian and professor at Yale University. GARRISON-MORTON No. 6418 Storia della medicina. Milan: Soc. Ed. Unitas, 1927. This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance I...
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A History of Comparative Anatomy from Aristotle to the Eighteenth Century

By: Cole, F.J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: 1944

Seller ID: 736

1944 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, physician's bookplate to front paste-down, viii, 524 pp, 200 figures; corners bumped, gilt title bright, binding tight, front hinge starting, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. GARRISON-MORTON No. 356. FRANCIS JOSEPH COLE (1872 -bio 1959) was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Liverpool from 1897 until 1906, when he became Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading, the first holder of the post. He then began sett...
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History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series: Surgery

By: Cope, Zachary

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationary Office: 1953

Seller ID: 785

1953 FIRST EDITION LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGICAL MEDICINE DEVELOPED DURING WORLD WAR II--BY EMINENT BRITISH SURGEON. SIR ZACHARY COPE. 9 3/4 inches tall, 2 1/2 inches thick hardcover, red cloth binding, armorial bookplate to front flyleaf, xix, 772 pp, 92 plates, 14 figures. Corners bumped, abrasions to spine, bottom spine end frayed, page edges soiled, binding tight, pages unmarked, good+. FOREWORD: This volume of the Official Medical History of the War of 1939~45 chronicles the chief advances made in Surgery during that War. The History owes much to all those distinguished contrib...
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Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume I, Number I

By: Danielli, J. F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Academic Press: 1961

Seller ID: 966

1961 FIRST ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY NOW IN 60TH YEAR, PUBLISHED PAPERS BY LUMINARIES OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY. 9 inches tall volume, printed green paper covers and spine, preface and 106 pages, Instructions to Authors; age-toning to cover edges, no ownership or institutional marks, very good. CONTENTS: Williams, R. J. P., Possible Functions of Chains of Catalysts; Hail, G. G., Permeation through a Spherical Membrane; Elsasser, Walter M., Quanta and the Concept of Organismic Law; Amesz, J., Duysens, L. X. M. and Brandt, D. C. Methods for Measuring and Correcting the Absorption ...
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Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

By: Darwin, C. and Gray, A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1860

Seller ID: 909

1860 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY JULY-DECEMBER 1860--CONTAINS 3 REVIEWS OF DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES AND AN EDITORIAL PROMOTING LINCOLN'S CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT (BOTH MEN WERE BORN FEBRUARY 12, 1809. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with brown pebbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, iv, 764 pp; wear to cover edges, hinges cracked but secure, binding tight, old water stains to bottom of first pages, pages crisp and unmarked with scattered light foxing, very good minus. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in 1855. A correspondence and intellectual comradeship quickly dev...
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Some Human Oddities. Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny and the Fanatical

By: Dingwall EJ;

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Home & Van Thal Ltd.: 1947

Seller ID: 166

COLLECTION OF DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF BIZARRE PEOPLE THROUGH HISTORY. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, 198 pages, original red cloth binding, 12 black and white plates. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front endpaper. Very good, no dust jacket. PREFACE: 'Books about queer people are usually of two main types. There those in which a vivid presentation of each character is made, unencumbered with any references to the documentary and other sources consulted. Then there are the more technical accounts which are mainly medical and psychological monographs, which make no pretence to being anything ...
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Back-Bone; Photographed from 'The Scalpel'

By: Dixon EH;

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. de Witt: 1866

Seller ID: 151

1866 SCARCE ANTHOLOGY OF ARTICLES FROM POPULAR AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL WITH ORIGINAL PHOTO OF AUTHOR. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvii, 396 pages, brown cloth binding with spine gilt. Original 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inch original albumen photographic portrait of the author tipped as frontispiece. Dedication to Horace Greeley [editor of the New York Tribune] and Peter Cooper [American industrialist]. Spine ends frayed, light soiling of covers, bookplate to front paste-down, lacking front free endpaper, old water stains to corners of pages. Overall good. CONTENTS (selected): Scenes in Western practice...
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Human Physiology, illustrated by numerous engravings

By: Dunglison R;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey and Lea: 1832

Seller ID: 231

1832 SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, FATHER OF AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGY. Two volume work, 9 inches tall hardcover, original full leather bindings, volume 1 with hinges reinforced, and volume 2 with recent leather spine expertly restored with gilt bands. Dedication 'To James Madison, Esq. ex-president of the United States, Rector of the University of Virginia, &c. &c. alike distinguished as an illustrious benefactor to his country, a zealous promoter of science and literature, and the friend of mankind; this work, intended to illustrate the functions executed by that be...
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Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M.D.

By: Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, John F. Trow: 1862

Seller ID: 651

SCARCE MEMORIAL BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES OF PROMINENT NEW YORK COUPLE BY A SON, THIS COPY SIGNED BY ANOTHER SON, DEAN AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, pebbled black cloth binding, blindstamped, gilt title to cover, In Memoriam, ink signature front endpaper, Theo. W. Dwight; 91 pp divided into 3 sections: 1) In Memoriam, Benjamin Woolsey Dwight; 2) A Brief Sketch of Dr. B. W. Dwight, published by permission from the sermon, delivered at his funeral, from Mark 6:20 by Rev. Simeon North, D.D., then President of Hamilton College; 3) Reminiscences of the Life and Character of Mrs. So...
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