Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher [1958], 1958. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xix, [3], 3-372 pp. Brown cloth with red lettering on the spine. The publisher's seal in blind on the rear board. Illustrated with eight color photographs and with several black and white photographs of various skin..... More
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [1], 1-536 pp. Quarter turn of the twentieth century red leather over paper boards with the spine in five compartments, gilt lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound without the original wrappers. With in-text figures..... More
London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1938. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, 1-259, [1] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decoration and borders in blind on the front board, gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. With two color plates and 152 illustrations (black and white) in the text..... More
Edinburgh: William F. Clay, 1895. Third edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5] vi-xii, [1], 2-659, [1], [6], (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. A Corrigenda slip tipped in on the first page of text..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, 1-234 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $22.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Light wear to the extremities. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], ix-xv, [5], 5-231, [7] pp. Red cloth with black decoration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An address label..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 6-67, [1], [12] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the boards and spine. A guide to raising children, with sections on common childhood diseases suffered in the nineteenth century, how a parent should feed..... More
New York: S.S. Fitch & Co., 1856. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xv, [4], 20-384, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Blindstamped brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Dr. Fitch, and with thirty or so in-text engravings..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1973], 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xix, [3], 3-215, [5] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith. Translated from the French by..... More
New York: William Wood & Company, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [1], 1-255, [1], [1]-46, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering and black decorations on the front board and spine, gilt lettering on the spine. With a few in-text diagrams..... More
Woodbury N.J. G.G. Green, 1881. Wraps. 23 cm x 17 cm. Pamphlet. [2], 3-32 pp. Green wrappers printed in white and black, with black and white illustrations. Staple-bound. With several in-text illustrations (done in black and white) and charts, as well as a fold-out map of the United States. The..... More
Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1881. First trade edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 6-131 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. A privately printed edition was issued before this trade publication. The title page and dedication repaired, the rear..... More
Chicago: W.T. Keener & Company, 1908. Early Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-197, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Illustrated by selected portraits and cuts (full-page and in-text). An address delivered in abstract before the section of ophthalmology of the American Medical Association, June..... More
New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers, 1887. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-319, [3] pp. Green cloth with black lettering and black decorations on the front board, gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine; all edges in red. Red and white endpapers and pastedowns with publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with..... More
New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers, 1880. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-270, [2] pp. Green publisher's cloth with black lettering and black decorationson the front board, gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine. Illustrated with two color plates, a few full-page black and white illustrations, and several in-text..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1999), 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [7], 4-520 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue paper boards with silver lettering and two silver rules on the spine. Jacket design by Kathleen Szawiola. Illustrated with a few full-page maps and with a full-page..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. [1939], 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-313, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and rules on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Stanley M. Dell. Illustrated with several plates of..... More
Paris: Chez Pierre-Alexandre le Prieur, 1751. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], ii-xxvii, [1], 1-56, [13], 2-199 (should be paginated as 189), [3] pp. Contemporary mottled calf with the spine in six compartments, gold tooling and floral decorations on the spine; all edges sprinkled red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound with..... More
New Hyde Park, New York: University Books [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [10], 11-159, [1] pp. Black and red pictorial boards with green, white, and black lettering on the front board, green and red lettering on the spine; red topstain. Red and black endpapers and pastedowns, very decorative..... More
London: Watts & Co., 1880. Third edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-72 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the front board, a yellow paper label printed in black on the spine. Edited by Thalassoplektos. First published in 1873 under..... More
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1894. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-556, [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with a few borders in blind on each board, gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. With eight chromo-lithograph plates of various dermatological disease..... More
New York: The Free Press / A Division of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-244, [4] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver. Noonan's..... More
Chelsea, Mass. 1846. Letter. Letter. Single sheet. 25 x 21 cm. [3] pp. Folded into nine compartments and addressed to Dr. Nathaniel R. Boutelle of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA on the verso of the final page. Letter dated October 26th 1846, starts off with "Friend Nath., what means..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-197, [3] pp. Quarter brown cloth over light brown cloth with brown lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with black and white full-page and in-text illustrations. A..... More
Missoula: Montana State University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], vi-xxi, [2], 2-564, [2] pp. Red and white cloth with red and white lettering on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several full-page black..... More