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By: Bland Sutton J;
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1930
Edition: First American edition
Seller ID: 118
1930 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON, NOTED BRITISH SURGEON AND FRIEND OF RUDYARD KIPLING. 9 inches blue cloth binding, xii, 204 pages, gilt title on spine, frontis photograph of author with Rudyard Kipling, 26 photographic plates. spine faded, bookplate of previous owner (Hortense and George Piness) on front paste-down, otherwise very good. SIR JOHN BLAND SUTTON (1855-1936) was a British surgeon specializing in pelvic operations on women. He was knighted in 1912,... View more info
By: Bloom, Lynn Z.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Indianapolis and New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc.: 1972
Edition: First edition (second printing)
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 ... View more info
By: Eberle J
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Grigg & Elliott: 1840
Edition: 3rd edition
Seller ID: 3
AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY GUIDE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE. 7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, black cloth recent binding with bright gilt title to spine, vii, 248 pages. Age toning and light scattered foxing to first and last pages, otherwise very good. Preface: 'This little work is published expressly for the use of the students attending the author's lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine.' Contents include: Angina pectoris, Arachnitis, or Hydroc... View more info
By: Eldredge, Niles
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, London, W.W. Norton & Co.: 2005
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 510
THOUGHTFUL BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN, TRACING THE FACTORS LEADING TO HIS MONUMENTAL THEORY PUBLISHED IN 1859. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, lime green paper covered boards, gray paper covered spine with gilt title, 256 pp, richly illustrated in color and black and white, fine in fine dust jacket. NILES ELDREDGE (born 1943) is a U.S. biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. It describes patterns of de... View more info
By: Thomas, Lewis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1983
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 522
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICIAN PHILOSOPHER AND SOCIAL COMMENTATOR LEWIS THOMAS, AUTHOR FOR THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, beige paper covered boards, gilt author's initials to cover, black cloth spine with gilt title, 270 pp, very good in very good dust jacket. LEWIS THOMAS (1913 - 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. He was invited to write regular essays in ... View more info
By: Williams, Henry Smith and Williams, Edward H.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Co.: 1912
Seller ID: 479
1912 SMALL VOLUME SUMMARIZING ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AT TURN OF CENTURY, FOLLOWED BY BRIEF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES. 6 inches tall small hardcover, publisher's olive green cloth binding, decorative embossed title to cover and spine, photographic portraits of scientists; Some Great Contemporaries and Their Achievements--list of Nobel winners to date, and a Dictionary of Biography. Light wear to corners and spine ends, initials on front endpaper, pages age-toned, otherwise unma... View more info
