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Paris: Laurent d'Houry, 1707. First edition. 1707 RARE FIRST EDITION OF ILLUSTRATED MANUAL OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS BY SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. 8 inches tall hardcover (octavo) [28]-746-[23] pages, 11 copper plate engravings (portrait frontispiece & 10 plates, including anatomy theater engraved by J. B. Scotin), 52 woodcuts in the text (numbered in sequence with copper plates, including un-numbered woodcut page 163 depicting stones from the kidneys of Pope Innocent XI in 1689. The remaining woodcuts and plates depict surgical instruments used in operations ranging from ophthalmic surgery to abdominal, obstetric, urologic, and orthopedic operations. Contemporary full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, and gilt red leather title. Corners and spine ends worn, cover edges abraded, joints cracked but binding firm, 1 mm pinhole through upper corner of first 100 leaves, light marginal browning to pages, and scattered light foxing. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and folding plate…
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by Weaver, Benjamin Franklin
Physical Chart of Pains, Aches and Tender Spots. An Up-to-Date Family Doctor Book, with nine illustrations and 400 Modern and Up-to-Date Recipes For Treating both General and Special Diseases of Men, Women, and Children
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Dayton, Ohio: The Weaver Publishing House, 1911. 5th edition, revised and enlarged.
1911 CURIOUS ILLUSTRATED HOME HEALTH GUIDE INDEXED BY CHIEF COMPLAINT WITH HUNDREDS OF REMEDIES.
11 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding with decorative title to cover, [5]-52 pp, CONTENTS: Physical Chart: Weights and Measures, Table of Doses for Children, Alimentatry Canal, Treatments [numbered 101 - 433, Index of Diseases, Diseases of Women, Diseases of Children]. Wear to corners and spine ends, hinges starting, ink notation verso of front flyleaf and inscription of patient names following several recipes (John Horner and Mrs. John Horner), titles of several recipes circled, ink blot margin of p 42; otherwise tightly bound with clean pages; good+. LAID IN: newspaper clippings taped to 8x11 inch Milk Wanted dairy card. An interesting early 20th century home health guide with recipes for treatment of every ailment from Impaction of ear-wax to St. Vitus Dance and Dropsy with Feeble Heart Action. This book is included in a listing of 3 publications by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WEAVER (b. 1839) in Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform (2001) Boydell & Brewer, University of Rochester Press.
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SURGEON TO KING LOUIS XIV. Cours d'Operations de Chirurgie, demontrees au Jardin Royal
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Sally Lucas Jean, 1878-1971: Health Education Pioneer
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Geneva, Switzerland: The International Journal of Health Education, 1973. First edition. SCARCE BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING AMERICAN EDUCATOR WHO COINED "HEALTH EDUCATION" AND DEVELOPED HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Slim volume 9 1/2 inches tall; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in dark red, French flaps; xi,[1]. 115pp. Wrappers a bit worn with spine ends bumped and slightly chipped, textblock uniformly toned, later descriptive print-out of the book taped to rear free endpaper, very good. Autograph letter signed by the author on her personal letterhead (recipient unknown) taped inside wrapper, dated April 27, 1974: "This has been a long time in the preparation - first as a dissertation and then as this publication. So much has happened and so many changes in my life since Gertrude Robinson-Smith died - and the Gladstone in NY came down. I now go to Maine where I have a cottage a [sic] Pemaquid Point summers so no more Tanglewood." SALLY LUCAS JEAN (1878 – 1971) was an American…
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Medical Mussolini
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Washington, DC: Columbia Publishing Co., 1938. First edition. 1938 SCARCE VIRULENT DIATRIBE AGAINST THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE EDITOR OF "PLAIN TALK," A LIBERTARIAN MAGAZINE. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding with embossed title in blue to cover and spine, copy of Rochester Anti-Vivisection Society, inscribed and hand stamped on front endpapers and embossed seal on title page. 255 pp, 12 plates, very good in good jacket with soiling and chips top of front cover and spine--protected by mylar cover. LAID IN Two clippings from Liberty newspaper referencing Medical Mussolini and the dangers of organized medicine, affixed to verso of last page of text AND a printed testimonial for the book on a perforated sticker affixed to the back endpaper. MORRIS A BEALLE (1891-1972), from a prominent Maryland family, was editor and publisher of Plain Talk, a libertarian magazine. A pamphlet advertising Plain Talk stated that "the subjects which the new magazine will cover will range widely…
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Anaphylaxis
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Liverpool: The University Press, 1913. First English edition. 1913 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF RICHET'S MONOGRAPH ON ANAPHYLAXIS, FOR WHICH HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE THE SAME YEAR. 7 1/2 inches tall hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xii, 266 pp. Small circular sticker to upper left corner of cover, spine ends frayed, institutional library handstamp to front flyleaf and title page, Wellcome Institute stamp to verso of title page with "withdrawn" cancel, binding tight, text pages unmarked and crisp, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: "In the progress and development of the Science and Art of Medicine, and of the kindred Pursuits of physiology and Pathology, successive investigators find themselves confronted with facts and with difficulties of which their predecessors were unaware, or whose significance and importance they overlooked. The more closely the phenomena of life, whether in health or disease, are examined, the more complex they are found to be; the…
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The Lightning Doctor a Self-Diagnostician and Practical Doctor Book
by Weaver, Benjamin Franklin
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LIGHTNING DOCTOR A Self-Diagnostician and Practical Doctor Book for Private Families, Students and Physicians
by Weaver, Benjamin Franklin
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New York, NY: Saalfield Publishing Company. FR/No Dustjacket. 1905. ........ Cloth. Sm 4to., 484 pp., cover rubbed, frayed, bumped, hinges broken, page toning, shaken .
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THE LIGHTNING DOCTOR A SELF-DIAGNOSTICIAN AND PRACTICAL DOCTOR BOOK
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Attempt on Roosevelt Life
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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DOLLY MADISON: WOMEN OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21
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Samuel The Seeker
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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BOSTON ~ 150 VIEWS: One Hundred and Fifty Glimpses of Boston and Historical Surroundings
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Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.
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