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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The Medical Sciences in the German Universities. A Study in the History of Civlization, with an introduction by William H. Welch

By: Billroth, Theodor and Welch, William H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1924

Seller ID: 657

1924 MONOGRAPH ON MEDICAL EDUCATION BY LEADING GERMAN SURGEON WHO INFLUENCED WILLIAM WELCH IN ESTABLISHING JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped, glilt title to spine, pictorial bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid to front paste-down, xiii,, 292 pp. Covers with minimal edgewear, spine title bright, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. THEODOR BILLROTH (1829-1894) was an Austrian surgeon. regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. In 1860, Billroth accepted an offer from the University of Zurich to beco...
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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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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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The Way of an Investigator. A Scientist's Experiences in Medical Research

By: Cannon WB;

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. : 1945

Seller ID: 108

1945 SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF LANDMARK AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY WALTER CANNON, WHO DEFINED THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, 229 pages, red cloth binding, covers lightly stained, spine darkened, corners and spine ends rubbed, residue from rusty paper clip on front paste-down and front free endpaper, text unmarked. First printings of this wartime book, an autobiography published the year of Cannon's death, are very scarce. WALTER BRADFORD CANNON (1871 - 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coin...
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Medicine Old and New. An Introductory Address, delivered on the occasion of the opening of the winter session 1899-1900 at St. George's Hospital Medical School on Oct 2nd, 1899

By: Dickinson, W. Howship

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. : 1899

Seller ID: 1291

1899 ADDRESS TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL BY PROMINENT LONDON NEPHROLOGIST--COPY OF LEADING NEW YORK PSYCHIATRIST. 12 1/2 inches tall slim hardcover, brown pebbled cloth covers, gilt emblem of St. George & Dragon and title to cover, 47 pp, corners rubbed, decorative bookplate of Charles W. Pilgrim front paste-down, very good. WILLIAM HOWSHIP DICKINSON (1832 - 1913) was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George's Hospital. He authored several comprehensive monographs on kidney disease, and wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease in which affected fa...
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Studies in Pathology and Therapeutics

By: Dickson SH

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, William Wood & Co. : 1867

Seller ID: 5

SCARCE FIRST EDITION 19TH CENTURY COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS BY A FOUNDER OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, recent slate blue cloth boards, spine title gilt, embossed seal of Columbus State Hospital to title page, 201 PAGES. Pages age-toned, otherwise very good. CONTENTS: Disease: its Character and Tendency; The Causation of Diseases; Of Certain Morbid Conditions of the Sensorial System; Pneumonia; Scrofulosis and Tuberculosis; Therapeutics. SAMUEL HENRY DICKSON (1798-1872) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvan...
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A Medical Review of Soviet Russia

By: Gantt WH

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, British Medical Association : 1928

Seller ID: 11

AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN REPORTS ON SOVIET MEDICINE AT THE START OF THE FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN. 8 3/4 inches tall hardcover, black leatherette with gilt title to cover, 112 pages. Unmarked copy, very good. Reprinted from the British Medical Journal. TABLE OF CONTENTS: A Review of Medical Education in Soviet Russia; Hospitals and Health Conditions Scientific Work; Change in Type and Incidence of Disease; The Medical Profession, Soviet Science, and Soviet Sanitation ; Work of Pavlov, and Other Scientists. W. HORSLEY GANTT (1892-1980) was born in Wingina, Virginia. He received his B.S. in 1917 from th...
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Lectures on the Study of Fever

By: Hudson A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea : 1869

Seller ID: 25

SCARCE 1869 FIRST EDITION LECTURES ON FEVER FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS AT MEAD HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. 9 inches long hardcover, 3/4 leather with brown cloth, edges worn, spine with gilt title and raised bands, library numbers. Pages age-toned, no marks to text. FROM THE PREFACE: 'It has long appeared to me that the student usually has a less clear idea of fever than of any disease which he meets with in the wards of the hospital. ... The object I have had in view in delivering the ensuing Lectures to the students of the Meath Hospital, and in now publishing them, is to furnish the student with a guide to ...
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Papers Written by Holders of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship 1894-1909: Embryology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

By: Kofoid, C.A., Gerould, J.H., Goto, S., Bancroft, F.W., Rand, H.W., Bigelow, M.A., Smallwood, W.M., Carpenter, F.W., Larrabee, A.P., Congdon, E.D. and Hargitt, G.T.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoology : 1894-1909

Seller ID: 635

1894-1909 THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELL BIOLOGY: COLLECTION OF 14 ILLUSTRATED OFFPRINTS FROM HARVARD'S ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY INSCRIBED BY ITS DIRECTOR. Two hardcover volumes 10 inches tall, full black leather binding with raised bands, gilt title to covers and spines, gilt tooled leather interior borders with fine decorative paste-downs and free endpapers. Each volume contains 7 offprints retaining original wrappers, most published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, containing 71 lithographic plates, some folding and/or color. Volume I contains an engraved...
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An Essay on Neuralgia

By: Murray, John W. B.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, J. Seymour : 1816

Seller ID: 1041

1816 DISSERTATION FOR THE M.D. DEGREE AT C. P. & S., NEW YORK, DEDICATED TO PROFESSORS WHO WERE LUMINARIES OF EARLY AMERICAN MEDICINE AND INSCRIBED TO HIS AUNT. 8 inches tall slim volume, marbled paper covers, spine perished, front cover separated from text, string binding secure, text block unmarked and very good. Ink inscription verso dedication page, "Sent by the author as an affectionate remembrance to his cousin Mrs. Lyman." The essay is "An inaugural dissertation on Neuralgia, submitted to the publick examination of the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the Univerist...
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Character & Opinion in the United States, with Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America

By: Santayana, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1920

Seller ID: 722

1920 FIRST EDITION OF HARVARD PHILOSOPHER SANTAYANA'S OBSERVATIONS ON AMERICAN CULTURE. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, viii, 233 pp; corners bumped, spine faded, ends worn, lacking half title page, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text unmarked, good+. GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863 - 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States from the age of eight and identified himself as an American. He wrote in English and is generally considered an Americ...
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Clinical Lectures on Certain Acute Diseases

By: Todd RB

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea : 1860

Seller ID: 97

1860 SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF LECTURES ON ACUTE DISEASES BY INNOVATIVE BRITISH PHYSICIAN AND EDUCATOR. 9 1/2 inches tall harcover, xxvii, 308 pages, original brown pebbled cloth binding, small dent edge front cover, bottom front hinge weak, light foxing to first and last pages, unmarked and very good. T0 THE FORMER AND PRESENT HOUSE-PHYSICIANS AND CLINICAL CLERKS OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, WHO HAVE FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS KINDLY AND ABLY ASSISTED THE AUTHOR IN HIS CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS, THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED. PREFACE: 'The conclusions, which the clinical observations detailed in t...
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The Book of the Jacob Wendell Scholars

By: Wendell, William G.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press : 1925

Seller ID: 664

1925 COMMEMORATIVE BOOK HONORING HARVARD COLLEGE--COPY OF FORMER PRIZE RECIPIENT WHO BECAME NOTED MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, burgundy cloth binding, gilt title anc Harvard seal to cover, gilt title to spine, signature of Jeffries Wyman Jr./ London 1925 (Oct) to front free endpaper, [xii], 90 pp, engravings of Jacob and Barrett Wendell, statement that 150 copies were printed by D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, Boston, July 1925. Sunning to cover and spine, 1/4 inch spot back cover, otherwise very good. Laid in: TLS from William G. Wendell (1888-1968) to Jeffries Wyman Jr (1...
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The Pathology and Treatment of Childbed: A Treatise for Physicians and Students

By: Winckel F

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Lea : 1876

Seller ID: 29

1876 SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF MAJOR GERMAN 19TH CENTURY MONOGRAPH ON OBSTETRICS. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original green cloth boards, 484 pages. Corners bumped, joints weak, brown stain to lower left corner of first pages, not affecting text, no markings in text. Publisher's catalogue at back. German medical practice dominated American medicine in the 19th century. FRANZ WILHELM CARL LUDWIG RITTER VON WINCKEL (1837-1911) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician. He graduated in 1856 from the University of Berlin and in 1864 he became a professor of gynecology in Rostock . In 18...
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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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Category: Education