Category: Education

A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine for the Use of Students and Practitioners

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co. : 1880

Seller ID: 57

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN MEDICAL TEXT. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xvi, 853 pages, original brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine, bookplate of Dr. John A. Murphy to front free endpaper, his signature to title page. Illustrated with 46 wood engravings. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Spine ends frayed, corners bumped, library handstamp to fore-edge and title page, library due date slip and pocket at rear. Good condition. ROBERT [aka ROBERTS] BARTHOLOW (November 28, 1831 - May 10, 1904) earned his MD from the University of Maryland in 1852, served as surgeon in the U...
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Image for La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de Sieur de Chevigni, dans laquelle, outre les Matieres contenues dans les Editions precedentes, on trouve une Instruction plus ample sur la Religion, l'Astronomie, la Chronologie, la Geographie, la Guerre, les Fortifications, le Blason, les Fables

La Science des Personnes de Cour, d'Epee et de Robe, de Sieur de Chevigni, dans laquelle, outre les Matieres contenues dans les Editions precedentes, on trouve une Instruction plus ample sur la Religion, l'Astronomie, la Chronologie, la Geographie, la Guerre, les Fortifications, le Blason, les Fables

By: Chevigny, S. D. V. de and de Limiers, Henri Philippe

Price: $800.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain : 1729

Seller ID: 1084

1729 PORTABLE ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE IN COURTLY AFFAIRS, ILLUSTRATED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVED MAPS AND ROYAL PEDIGREES. Four hardcover volumes, each 6 1/2 inches tall, 3/4 leather binding, brown paper covers, spine gilt with gilt red leather labels, Vol. I, engraved frontispiece titled, Trahat sua quemque voluptas [To each his own taste, explained in a 5-page ode in the preface], [54], 427, 17 folding plates; Vol. II, [8], 479, 33 folding plates; Vol III, [4], 408, 11 folding plates; Vol IV, [4], 410 (lacking pp 131-134, inserted in facsimile), 7 folding plates. Cove...
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Fifty Years a Surgeon

By: Morris, Robert T.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. : 1935

Seller ID: 1209

1935 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CELEBRATED NEW YORK SURGEON INSCRIBED TO NEW ZEALAND ARTIST WITH ALS TO HER DISCUSSING HER LACK OF CHILDBEARING. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, navy blue cloth binding, top edge stained green, author's photographic portrait frontis, 347 pp, spine sunned, edges and corners heavily worn. binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, good +. Ink inscription to ffep by author: Dr. Robert T. Morris hopes that Betty Lewis Isaacs may approve of the description of 'beauty' in the chapter on the Red Gods even though more technical matters may safely be left to physicians. Stamford, Conn....
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The Anatomic Histological Processes of Bright's Disease and their Relation to the Functional Changes

By: Oertel, Horst

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co. : 1910

Seller ID: 618

1910 SCARCE ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON KIDNEY PATHOLOGY BY DISCIPLE OF VIRCHOW AND SEVERE CRITIC OF AMERICAN MEDICAL EDUCATION. 10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, bright gilt title to spine, color frontis of nephron anatomy, xi, 227 pp, 5 color plates, 40 black and white photomicrographs. Light wear to covers, corners worn, light pencil marginal notations, pencil notes on back endpaper, good+. PREFACE: Contains an extensive condemnation of medical education practices, with a plea for a more enlightened approach: These lectures were delivered at the request of the Resident...
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Anatomy Notes

By: Towles, W.B.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Anderson Bros., University of Virginia : 1890

Seller ID: 352

1890 LITHOGRAPHED CURSIVE ANATOMY NOTES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BY BELOVED UVA PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY, WILLIAM B. TOWLES. 11 inches tall hardcover, new black cloth binding, gilt leather label to spine, new endpapers, signature of "'Colonel Jube' Woods, Buckingham Palace" top of title page, "University" spelled as "NNiversity", edges darkened, pages age-toned, text in cursive script reproduced by lithography. Copious pencil notes inscribed between the printed lines throughout, presumably by a medical student. These notes include the date "Nov 1 '92" on page 176. Overall...
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Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects, delivered Chiefly Before the Medical Classes of the University of Pennsylvania

By: Wood GB;

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. : 1872

Seller ID: 141

Binding: viii

1872 INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. LECTURES TO MEDICAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERED BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR BY FORMER PRESIDENT OF AMA9 1/2 inch tall hardcover, original black pebbled cloth binding, expertly rebacked preserving original gilt spine. Bookplate of Luzerne County Medical Socity Library and of O. F. Harvey's library on front paste-down. Library handstamps and ink inscription 'With the kind regards of the Author' on front endpaper, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page. Text otherwise unmarked, overall very good.Dedication 'TO THE MEDICAL GRADUATES OF THE UNIV...
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