Search Results: Medicine and Health from Sweet Beagle Books

Columbus, OH. Columbus, OH: Fred. J. Herr. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1905. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Light rubbing to extremities of maroon, pebbled cloth cover with bright gild titles. Foxing to a few pages. Tight, square, pages clean and bright. . Author had 30 years of experience in the education of the blind, as a teacher and later Superintendent of the Ohio State School for the Blind. Short biographies and anecdotes relating to the blind and their accomplishments. General theory of education for the blind. A nice copy of the first edition. . Photographs. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 518 pages. H2 .

NY. NY: Van Nostrand. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. No defects. Pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . A comprehensive treatment of problems, standards, techniques, designs, equipment, etc. , related to air pollution. Book is As New. . Van Nostrand Reinhold Environmental Engineering Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 489 pages. M3 .

Washington DC. Washington DC: Linacre Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1948. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book has owner bookplate on ffep, no other defects. Bound in maroon cloth; binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Maroon cloth covers with bright gilt titles. Includes three large fold-out charts summarizing the author's theoretical models. This is a classic study, sponsored by the Washington Institute of Medicine Research Foundation. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 241 pages. U1 .

Vantage Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine book in VG dust jacket, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Scarce. . Novel about a fictional hospital run by very bright doctors. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 175 pages. B4 .

NY. NY: J. S. Redfield. Fair with no dust jacket. 1846. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Full leather covers are worn at extremities, scraped and gouged, loose but still attached. Backstrip is lacking bottom two inches, smaller chip at top edge. Black spine label is a little chipped and worn but still quite readable. Inside, one section is completely free of the binding, the remaining text pages are still fairly firmly attached. There is light foxing throughout, but all the pages are quite readable; many pages have little or no foxing. All seven plates and tissue guards are present but foxed. . This is the First American Edition of Victorian physician William Acton's comprehensive work on venereal diseases, with seven plates and numerous drawings. His work led to the Contagious Diseases Act of 1866, which required that all prostitutes be examined for venereal disease and treated at government expense. . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 334 pages. H6 .

M. Parish. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1961. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Former owner name inked to front pastedown, no other defects. Short tear to top edge of front panel of jacket, minor rubbing to edges, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. . Who discovered ether as an effective agent of anaesthesia? A handsome copy of the first printing. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 224 pages. K3 .

Mount Kisco. Mount Kisco: Futura. As New with no dust jacket. 1989. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Comprehensive review of research on this disturbing medical syndrome. Tight, square, pages clean and bright. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 324 pages. L3 .

MacMillan. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1977. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. A little scuffing to brown cloth covers, no other defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, bright gilt titles to spine. . Fifty-seven papers in this collection, divided into 14 subsets of the general subject area. Extensive references. A handsome copy. . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 559 pages. L7 .

Perth Amboy Evening News. Very Good+. 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 96-page hardback book published in 1915. Black cloth covers are rubbed at extremities. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. This is a "Special Edition," number 1993 of a limited edition. . Doctor and medicine humor from more than a century ago, including cartoons, puns, riddles and poems. An example: Prospective Country boarder -- "Is the water you have here healthy?" Landlady -- "Yes, sir. We use only well water." . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 96 pages. F5 .

Geneva. Geneva: Ferni. Near Fine. 1976. Hardcover. Red paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and bright gilt titles to front cover and spine, lacking a small piece of red paper at top edge of back cover, no other defects. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. . Translated from the French. This is volume three in the series Doctors of Death, describing the evil work of the Nazi death doctors in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. This edition reserved for the Friends of History. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 254 pages. J4 .

Yale University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A little stressing and tiny edge tears in jacket, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. No defects in book; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 303 pages. S6 .

Univ. of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1974. Softcover. Light bump to top margin of booklet, no other defects. This is a 16-page stapled exhibition catalog with tan card covers. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 16 pages. S2 .

Longman Group Limited. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. No defects in book or dust jacket, jacket now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Printed on coated paper with many illustrations. . A beautiful copy of the first edition. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. E6 .

Oxford University Press. As New. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. No defects, book is As New. Lacking a dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 560 pages. C3 .

Duke University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket has short tear and slight rubbing, corner crease to front flap, still bright and attractive, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. Book has no defects; binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 249 pages. M3 .

New Haven. New Haven: Yale U. Press. Fine. 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. no defects, lacking the dust jacket. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in tan cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. . This is the first edition, not a reprint. A handsome copy. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 217 pages. I1 .

Eerdmans. Fine. 2019. Paperback. No defects. Includes Bibliography, Index. . Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 200 pages. B2 .

NY. NY: Springer-Verlag. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. 3rd Edition. Softcover. Wrappers are lightly rubbed. . Fundamentals of clinical genetics and practical guidelines to the assessment of risk factors involved with the most common genetic disorders. . Trade PB. Octavo - 8vo. 188 pages. M2 .

Chicago. Chicago: The Year Book Publisher. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. Vol. 4 in the Practical Medicine Series. Illustrated, index, 227p. Red cloth cover w bright gilt decoration and lettering. Owner's name on front pastedown and stamped lightly in various other places in the books, as well as blindstamped on title page and elsewhere. Corners of cover and extremities of spine are lightly rubbed, no other defects. Pages are clean, bright and crisp, binding tight and square. A beautiful copy of a medical book that is more than 100 years old. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A1 .

Robert P. Morhardt. Near Fine. 1946. Hardcover. Yellow titles on front cover and spine are dulled but still quite readable. Bound in tough buckram, the book has no real defects. . Author had impressive credentials to write a book about causes of death: he was a professor of pathology, a consulting pathologist and Deputy Coroner for Los Angeles County, among other qualifications. This is CSI circa 1940s. Each cause is discussed in a page or so, followed by examples. From abortion to whooping cough. Inscription to former owner, a physician, by another physician. "To Paul Dunbar [or Dauber] D. O. With best personal regards and wishes in achievements of desire. Dr. Minnick" . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 376 pages. E6 .