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Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Masson et Cie: 1918

Seller ID: 354

1918 SUMMARY OF HEALTH AND MORTALITY AT PARIS HOSPITALS FOR THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC 100 YEARS AGO. 10 inches tall 2 inches thick hardcover, tan buckram binding, gilt red leather label, marbled edges, bookplate to front paste-down, institutional handstamp to front endpaper, no other library marks; covers soiled, pages age-toned, overall good+. French language. From review in Nature (8 June 2017) of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World: The 1918 influenza pandemic probably infected one-third of the world's population at the time — 500 million people. It killed betwee...
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Mortality Statistics 1918

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1920

Seller ID: 353

US MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR 1918 DOCUMENTS THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC 100 YEARS AGO. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of surplus Library of Congress duplicate to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction m the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this -withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter our Army and Navy would normally reduce tlie general death rate of any...
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The Scientific Study of Marihuana

By: Abel EL;

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall: 1976

Seller ID: 205

1976 COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF MARIHUANA AT THE BEGINNING OF ITS POPULARITY IN AMERICA. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, xviii, 299 pages, green binding, spine gilt, handstamp of Ates Tanin, [Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Toronto] on front free endpaper and edges of text, otherwise unmarked, very good; dust jacket edges rubbed, price-clipped, very good. CONTENTS: Pharmacology of Cannabis Sativa; Common Experiences Reported by Users of Marihuana; Les Paradis Artificiels--Charles Baudelaire; Marijuana Intoxication: Common Experiences--Charles T. Tart; Marihuana Effects: A Survey of Regul...
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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 Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life Considered in their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations

By: Acton, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 715

1895 MONOGRAPH ON THE DANGERS OF MASTURBATION FROM CHILDHOOD TO OLD AGE--8TH EDTION OF A BOOK FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1857. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's black cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, small bookplate to front paste-down, xii, 263 pp, 2 wood engravings. Light wear to covers, front hinge wear, binding tight, pages clean, very good minus. First published in 1857, the book went through 8 editions (the present volume), with reprints into the 21st century. WILLIAM ACTON (1813â€“1875) was a British medical doctor and book writer. He was known for his books on m...
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Ansel Adams

By: Adams, Ansel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, New York Graphic Society: 1980

Seller ID: 762

SIGNED FINE COLLECTION OF 117 ANSEL ADAMS IMAGES SPANNING 50 YEARS OF HIS CAREER: PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, signature of Ansel Adams on half-title page, foreword by Minor White, 117 plates, list of plates, chronology, selected bibliography. Unmarked and very good in very good dust jacket. FROM FRONT JACKET FLAP: This supely proceed book shows the growth and range of Adams's career across the decades since 1920. Here, little-known images are brought together with many of Adams's most famous pictures to provide a t...
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The Treatment of Head Injuries in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648): Joannis Scultetus and His Age

By: Bakay, Louis

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas: 1971

Seller ID: 552

SCARCE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF 17TH CENTURY NEUROSURGERY BY ACADEMIC NEUROSURGEON, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed and signed by author on half title page, to Walter Grand, neurosurgeon at SUNY, Buffalo. 106 pp, many black & white illustrations, fine in fine dust jacket. FROM JACKET FLAP: This monograph represents an approach to the development of modem neurosurgery through the eyes and minds of men of the seventeenth century. Scultetus, his contemporaries and forerunners were selected to supply in their own words the mat...
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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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Atomic Medicine. The Atom Knocks at the Doctor's Door

By: Behrens, Charles F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1949

Seller ID: 373

SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF LANDMARK FIRST TEXT ON ATOMIC MEDICINE WRITTEN DURING THE ATOMIC AGE. Small Quarto black cloth boards, red images of atom and caduceus on cover, bookplates of E. Dale Trout front paste-down. Inscribed and signed by editor on ffep, Inscribed to E. Dale Trout with cordial regards & high esteem, Charles F BEhrens/14 Oct, 1949. Followed by inscription by recipient, I first met Behrens when we installed xray equipment in the first new buildings of the Naval Medical Center in Behtesda--really out in the country at that time. From that time to his death I ehjoyed knowing an...
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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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The Transsexual Phenomenon. A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female

By: Benjamin, Harry

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, The Julian Press, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 744

1966 VERY SCARCE FIRST SCIENTIFIC VOLUME EVER PUBLISHED DEALING WITH CHANGE OF SEX THROUGH HORMONES AND SURGICAL TREATMENT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding with color embossed symbols to cover, gilt title to spine, black & white photographs; unmarked, very good in very good jacket with chipped spine ends. CONTENTS: transvestism, transsexualism, homosexuality; the transvestite in older and newer aspects; the male transsexual; the etiology of transsexualism; nonsurgical management of transsexualism; conversion operation; fifty-one male transsexuals and the results of their opera...
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Image for De l'Identification par les Signalements Anthropometriques. Conference faite le 22 novembre 1885 au Congres Penitatiiaire de Rome [On Identification by Anthropometric Characteristics. Conference on November 22, 1885, at the Penitentiary Congress of Rome]

De l'Identification par les Signalements Anthropometriques. Conference faite le 22 novembre 1885 au Congres Penitatiiaire de Rome [On Identification by Anthropometric Characteristics. Conference on November 22, 1885, at the Penitentiary Congress of Rome]

By: Bertillon, Alphonse

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, G. Masson; Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle et des Sciences Penales: 1886

Seller ID: 925

1886 SCARCE PAPER ON BIOMETRICS IN CRIMINOLOGY BY LEGENDARY FRENCH POLICE OFFICER ALPHONSE BERTILLON, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 9 3/4 inches tall extract from the first volume of Archives de l'Anthropologie Criminelle bound in recent gray paper-covered boards, inscribed and signed on title page, "a Monsieur Pont/ Membre de l'Academie des sciences morales et polque/ Hommage de l'auteur/A Bertillon," 31 pages, 1 page summary of first issues of the journal with list of principal works of Mr. Alphonse Bertillon. Very good in recent fine binding. Text in French. ALPHONSE BERTILLON (1853 -...
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Doctor Spock. Biography of a Conservative Radical

By: Bloom, Lynn Z.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Indianapolis and New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.: 1972

Seller ID: 418

BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY PEDIATRICIAN BENJAMIN SPOCK INSCRIBED TO GEORGE ALBEE, PIONEER IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY. 9 inches tall hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed on title page, To George Albee,/ Without whose midwifery in bringing Spock to Cleveland I would never have written this book!/ With appreciation/ Lynn Z. Bloom. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket with edges chipped (very good-). BENJAMIN MCLANE SPOCK (1903 – 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-sellers of all time. Spock was the first pediatrician t...
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The Evolution of Man

By: Bolsche, Wilhelm

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 478

1905 SCARCE TREATISE ON EVOLUTION BY GERMAN SOCIALIST, PUBLISHED BY RADICAL AMERICAN PUBLISHER. 6 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's sky blue cloth binding, blindstamped cover series title Library of Science for the Workers and embossed title and author to cover and spine, floral design endpapers, age-toning to edges, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good, in custom archival mylar cover. WILHELM BOLSCHE (1861 - 1939) was a German author, editor and publicist. Bolsche studied from 1883 to 1885 in Bonn and moved 1885 to Berlin. Although most of his work covers natural history topics, Boel...
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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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Image for Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation. The Portfolio of Plans. CONTAINING THE PLANS OF THE BEST BRITISH, COLONIAL, AMERICAN AND FOREIGN HOSPITALS, CONVALESCENT INSTITUTIONS, NURSES' HOMES, AND CERTAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CAREFULLY CLASSIFIED AND ACCURATELY DRAWN TO A UNIFORM SCALE, IN ADDITION TO PLANS OF ALL THE HOSPITALS OF LONDON IN THE JUBILEE YEAR OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN

Hospitals and Asylums of the World, Their Origin, History, Construction, Administration, Management, and Legislation. The Portfolio of Plans. CONTAINING THE PLANS OF THE BEST BRITISH, COLONIAL, AMERICAN AND FOREIGN HOSPITALS, CONVALESCENT INSTITUTIONS, NURSES' HOMES, AND CERTAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS, CAREFULLY CLASSIFIED AND ACCURATELY DRAWN TO A UNIFORM SCALE, IN ADDITION TO PLANS OF ALL THE HOSPITALS OF LONDON IN THE JUBILEE YEAR OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S REIGN

By: Burdett, Henry C.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, J. & A. Churchill: 1893

Seller ID: 758

1893 SCARCE GIANT ATLAS OF ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FOR THE GREAT HOSPITALS OF THE WORLD. 13 x 20 inches folio hardcover, red buckram binding, gilt title to spine, Includes 112 diagram plates, some of which are fold-outs. Paper is tender and brittle; consequently some page edges are chipped or torn. Some of the fold-outs are torn along the creases. Additionally, the plates all have small, purple library stamps or perforations on their surfaces. Withdrawn handstamp back free endpaper. US hospitals include Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; Mary Hitchcock, Hanover, NH; Michael Reese, Chicago, IL; Moses Ta...
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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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Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities

By: Campbell, Angus and Schuman, Howard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1968

Seller ID: 289

LANDMARK STUDY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS RIOTS OF 1968--PERSONAL COPY OF NOTED SOCIOLOGIST PETER H. ROSSI. SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, in original black cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine, viii, 248 pages, COPY OF PETER H. ROSSI., his gilt name on cover, fine. FOREWORD TO SUPPLEMENTAL STUDIES: On March 1, 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued its report. In it we said that three supplemental studies were being conducted under the Commission's auspices. The text of ...
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Beach-La-Mar. The jargon or trade speedh of the western Pacific

By: Churchill, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Carnegie Institution: 1911

Seller ID: 646

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON THE TRADE SPEECH OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS, WITH EXTENSIVE INDEX OF VOCABULARY. Two works bound as one. 10 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 brown pebbled calf binding with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt titles, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down (stating Sold to R. Harry 2/5/53), handstamp of R. Harry Jr. to lower front endpaper. Beach-La-Mar: 54 pp including index of vocabulary; A Comparative Study of Temperature Fluctuations in Different Parts of the Human Body by Francis G. Benedict and Edgar P. Slack: 73 pp including tables and graphs. Original p...
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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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