Category: Society

Mortality Statistics 1918 TOGETHER WITH Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Washington AND Paris, Government Printing Office AND Masson & Cie : 1918, 1920

Seller ID: 3534

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. 1) Mortality Statistics 1918. 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 in the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter...
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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 cultu...
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An Address to the Graduating Class of the Medical School in the University at Cambridge [Harvard University] on Wednesday, March 9, 1864

By: Andrew, John A.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: : 1864

Seller ID: 1108

1864 ADDRESS OF ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS INVITED BY HARVARD LUMINARIES TO GRADUATING CLASS OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, EXTOLLING CONTRIBUTIONS OF MASSACHUSETTS MDs TO WAR EFFORT--INSCRIBED TO POPULAR CRITIC E P WHIPPLE. 9 inches tall pamphlet, gray printed wrappers, inscribed top cover, "E. P. Whipple Esq with regards of J. A. Andrew." iv, 28 pp. Soiling to covers, string binding perished, contents complete, pages unmarked, good+. JOHN ALBION ANDREW (1818 – 1867) was a Massachusetts lawyer and politican. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between...
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Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

By: Babbage, Charles

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, B. Fellowes : 1830

Seller ID: 1236

FIRST EDITION OF SCATHING DIATRIBE AGAINST THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY ENGLISH ORIGINATOR OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL COMPUTER--COPY OF PROMINENT JOURNALIST OF THE PERIOD. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches hardcover, 3/4 brown calf with marbled cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, with red leather label gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate to front paste-down, ink signature of George Augustus Sala on paper affixed to front free endpaper, xvi,+ 228,+ (4). Cover edges worn, scattered foxing, binding tight, very good. CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, philosopher,...
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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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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: $200.00

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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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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Image for Dissertation sur les Generalites de la Clinique Medicale, et Sur le Plan et la Methode a Suivre dans l'Enseigement de de Cette Science; Presentee au Concours Ouvert le 20 Juin 1831 Pour Une Chaire de Clinique Medicale, Vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris TOGETHER WITH original lithograph of Dr. Bouillaud signed by him

Dissertation sur les Generalites de la Clinique Medicale, et Sur le Plan et la Methode a Suivre dans l'Enseigement de de Cette Science; Presentee au Concours Ouvert le 20 Juin 1831 Pour Une Chaire de Clinique Medicale, Vacante a la Faculte de Medecine de Paris TOGETHER WITH original lithograph of Dr. Bouillaud signed by him

By: Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, J. B. Bailliere : 1831

Seller ID: 1234

DISSERTATION ON MEDICAL PRACTICE, NOSOLOGY, AND EDUCATION BY NOTED FRENCH PHYSICIAN, INSCRIBED TO HIS MENTOR, WHOSE AUTOGRAPH CRITIQUE IS INCLUDED, COPY OF PREMIER MEDICAL PUBLISHER, JB BAILLIERE - PLUS LITHOGRAPH OF BOUILLAUD. 8 inches tall hardcover, period red cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, 83 pp, signed association copy. Front paste-down: Ink inscription (presumably by J.-B. Bailliere): Ce volume contient: 1) Jugement de Bouillaud par M. Ph. J. Roux; 2) Dedicace a Broussais; 3) Jugement de Broussais, comme juge du concours ou M. Bouillaud a été nomme Professeur; 4...
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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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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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Science and Human Affairs from the Viewpoint of Biology

By: Curtis, Winterton C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co. : 1922

Seller ID: 569

1922 FIRST EDITION SUPPORT FOR THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION BY EXPERT WITNESS FOR DEFENSE AT SCOPES TRIAL IN 1925. 9 inches tall hardcover, publisher's blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, vii, 330 pp, previous owner pencil signature front endpaper, otherwise unmarked, tight binding, no dust jacket, very good in custom archival mylar cover. WINTERTON CONWAY CURTIS (1875-1966) received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1901 and immediately joined the faculty of the University of Missouri, where he taught for the rest of his career. Curtis was an expert witness for the defense in 192...
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The Evolution of Man and Society

By: Darlington, Cyril Dean

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1969

Seller ID: 463

EMINENT BRITISH GENETICIST FRAMES HISTORY IN TERMS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt author initials to cover, gilt title to spine, color printed endpapers with world map showing human distribution before and after development of agriculture. 753 pp. Very good (no dust jacket). CYRIL DEAN DARLINGTON (1903 - 1981) was an English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolution. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany at the Univers...
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Atlantic Monthly Volume VI, 1860

By: Darwin, Charles and Gray, Asa

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1860

Seller ID: 1296

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 black leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled compartments, and gilt title and initials of previous owner (Fr. A. Bryan). Edges marbled, marbled endpapers with armorial bookplate of Fr. A. Bryan to front paste-down, iv, 764 pp; joints starting, binding tight, light foxing to endpapers, pages crisp and unmarked, very good. Darwin first wrote to Asa Gray in ...
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Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher

By: Davy, Humphry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1830

Seller ID: 1238

1830 FIRST EDITION EARLY VICTORIAN BESTSELLER ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY BY AN EMINENT BRITISH CHEMIST. 6 1/2 x 4 inches hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate to front paste-down, vi, [vi], 281, [i]. Corners bumped, wear to covers, bottom 3/4 inches of spine chipped, binding tight, text unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY (1778 - 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched ...
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Techniques of Birth Control

By: Dickinson, Robert Latou

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Co. : 1942

Seller ID: 1024

1942 ILLUSTRATED WARTIME GUIDE TO CONCEPTION CONTROL BY PROMINENT NEW YORK GYNECOLOGIST AND ARTIST. 10 inches tall pamphlet, printed paper covers, stapled binding, 56 pp, illustrations, light soiling to covers, unmarked, very good minus. ROBERT LATOU DICKINSON (1861 - 1950) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor and medical illustrator, and research scientist. He became Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Brooklyn Hospital and at Methodist Episcopal Hospital. During the First World War, he was Assistant Chief of the Medical Sect...
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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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Category: Society