Huntington, NY: Robert Krieger Publishing, 1971. Hardcover. Faint speckling to top edges. Slight nudges to lower front corners of both volumes. Gilt lettering debossed to spines, deep midnight blue cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. 348 pp / 1,173 pp with index of names, index of subjects and corrigenda et... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Second Printing. Hardcover. A look at mental illness and psychosis from a nursing perspective. Octavo. Harriet Bailey was a pioneer in the field of psychiatric nursing. More
Detroit: F.B. Dickerson Company, 1901. Hardcover. 865 pages. Frontis of Chase, 6 illustrations in red. Brown pebbled illustrated cloth, thick octavo. Corners bumped, spine titles and illustration bright. Cover a little faded. Binding sound. Interior clean, some light spotting to front edge. Alvin Wood Chase [1817-1885] was born in New... More
Cleveland: Lakeside Press, 1920. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION 35/100. Extensive inscription to front free endpaper (Corlett's friend Henry J. Bohn, called "the king of the hotel press") BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper -- TOP EDGE GILT. Front hinges starting. Moderately scuffed and stained boards. Edges and corners worn and spine... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lee and Blachard, 1833. Second Edition. Hardcover. 833 pages plus 22 page publisher catalogue. Calf binding with black paper label. Text clean, stains to rear endpapers and some margins of cataloge. Binding shaken but sound. Spine has two short tears at top, corners worn and scuffing to boards... More
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co. 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. 320 pages. Brown cloth, octavo. Cover titles embossed over black design which continues on spine with those titles in gilt. Top of spine frayed with 1/8 inch chip at top and continuing about an inch down the outer hinge. Corners bumped... More
Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Fourth edition. Hardcover. FULL LEATHER. FOURTH EDITION. Tan leather boards are lightly soiled and edge - worn. Corners worn through to cardboard. Hinges started. Age - tanned. Gilt lettering on contrasting spine label to spine with 3 worn raised bands and four panels. 1,070 pp... More
London: J. & A. Churchill, 1890. Third edition (Revised). Hardcover. Dark brown cloth, ruled on blind. Recently rebacked with full calf spine, ruled and decorated in gilt, five raised bands with medallion gilt stamp repeated in each section. Previous owner's, physicians both, have stamped preliminary pages. Very occasional bracketing/notes in light... More
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Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1878. 8th edition. Leather. 8th edition. 983 pages, index plus short publisher catalogue. 522 wood engravings. Full brown leather, short, thick quarto. Corners bumped, chafing and scratches. Top of spine frayed and chipped, gilt title in spine compartment is scratched. General wear overall, textblock square and... More
New York: Hafner Publishing Co. 1960. Hardcover. REPRINT of 1936 Original. Volume II. Previous owner's inscription on FPDEP. "Originally published in 2 volumes in 1936" stated on copyright page. Light smudge to top edge. and bottom edge. Many black and white line illustrations throughout. Dark maroon boards. Gilt lettering to... More
Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1900. Hardcover. Single volume, two books, both German-language. 714 pp. Krafft-Ebing was instrumental in solving the problem of the general paralysis of the insane, inoculating paralytics with syphilis. Second book by Remak is another landmark work in early neropathology. Light sunning to spine. Light rubbing to extremities... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First Edition. Leather-bound. First American edition. Translated from Volume IV of Larrey's five volume memoirs. Brown morocco-grained cowhide spine over original boards. 293 pages. Five copper plates at rear. Title blind stamped in gilt to spine, boards show some scuffing and wear, spine is fine... More
Baltimore: Joseph Cushing, 1814. First Edition. Leatherbound. Stated First American edition from the Second Paris edition. Two volumes: 415, 434 pages. Wih the ten published copper plates. Full Tree Calf leather binding with contrasting black and red spine labels, spine double-ruled in gilt. Previous owner's name to title page, small... More
LONDON: Oxford University Press, 1960. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Tribute to the life and work of Charles Sherrington which serves as a historical outline of the subject of neurophysiology. Includes chapters on "The Nerve Cell and the Microscope," "Animal Electricity," "Experimental Approaches," and "Sherrington and his Times." 174 pp. with several... More
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966. HARDCOVER. Diagrams, photographs, and photos of the original manuscript. Charcoal grey cloth over boards. One nudged corner. Very tight. More
LONDON: Oxford University Press, 1971. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Landmark text, concentrates on morphological aspects of the central nervous system. Describes regions scarcely covered in earlier works, such as the diencephalon, the basal ganglia, and the olfactory system, showing how modern knowledge of brain structures has come about 230 pp. Slightly... More
New York: Hafner, 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. Completely REVISED. Faint speckling to top edge. A gentle spine lean. No DJ. Gilt lettering to spine, apricot cloth-covered boards. With 59 illustrations. Clean, unmarked. Solid binding. 292 pp with appendix, bibliography, and index. Nielsen proposes that with the advancement in neurosurgery, these... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Investigates the pathology of families, groups, societies or larger populations. 123 pp. Slight rubbing to spine, and corners. Corners slightly nudged. More
New York: Lea Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. Comprehensive treatment of organic nervous diseases, illustrated with 275 engravings in the text and 26 plates in color and monochrome. 751 pp. Beveled edges to boards. Slight edgewear to boards. Previous owners' names on front paste-down endpaper and interleaf. No other markings. HEAVY BOOK (weight 6 lbs, 273 gms). More
Philadelphia: American Dermatological Association, 1976. Hardcover. SHARP CORNERS. Gilt lettering to spine and seal to front of red textured boards. 560 pp with index of members. Clean, tight, bright. The major portion of this book depicts and decribes the 499 members elected in one hundred years. More
BOSTON, MASS: Marshall Jones Company, 1922. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Third volume in "Our Debt to Greece and Rome" library. Study of the Greek figures- Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen- who laid the foundations for the modern sciences of medicine and biology. 151 pp. Gilt top-edge, blue cloth binding with gilt lettering... More
New York: Harper, 1958. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION BOLDLY INSCRIBED WITH A PERSONAL NOTE ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Set in the Southwest in the 1860's and 1870's, this swift-moving adventure story is notable both for its vivid depiction of American frontier life and for the authenticity and vigor of... More
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1902. First Edition. Leather_bound. xv+752+2 pages. Frontis engraving of Larrey. Red moroccan leather over red marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with title in gilt. Corners scuffed, a few scratches to spine. Interior clean, pages lightly toned. Binding strong. Dominique Jean Larrey [1766-1842] was... More
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1967. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE IN HARDCOVER. Heavy bleach-like spotting to boards. Edges moderately worn and rubbed. Corners and spinecaps worn through to cardboard. Twenty clinics with discussions ; 48 black and white photographic figures. Gilt lettering debossed and worn to spine and front of grass-green... More
Vienna: Springer-Verlag, 1964. Paperback. FIRST EDITION. English language text with preface in English and German. Report on the proceedings of a conference which endeavored to develop a classification system for brain tumors for the Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum. Also discussed were numerous problems in the field of brain tumor medicine... More
