New York: Wm. Wood & Co., 1882. Second Enlarged Edition. 280 [2] pp. Original black pebbled flexible leather wallet-style binding, spine titled in gilt, with integral wraparound flap and clasp device. All gilt edges. Heavy exterior rubbing and scuffing; spine ends and corners worn; clasp damaged with fraying and partial.....
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1901. Octavo. Publisher's decorative grey-green cloth stamped in black, gilt, and bronze on front board and spine; marbled edges. Mild fraying and small punctures along front outer hinge; light chipping to spine head/tail; spotting and shelf soil to rear board. Interior lightly toned; includes red-ink frontispiece.....
Philadelphia: The Vir Publishing Company, 1908. 16mo. 293 pp. Maroon cloth over boards with blind-stamped titles on the front, spine stamped in gilt; minor edge wear and light fraying to the spine ends, small abrasion to the lower front board. Complete with photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Tissue gaurd.....
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin: Berndt Printing Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover early 20th century memoir of surgeon Ernest V. Smith. Some stains on dust jacket. Internal text generally clean with minor blemishes and no fading. $3.00 dust jacket price. 344 pages. Includes illustrations, charts, and photographs. Inventory: 35.
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 1885. Octavo. 468 pp., plus publisher's advertisements. Revised and combined edition. Publisher's original dark cloth, upper board elaborately decorated and ruled in black with diagonal "Miscellany" device; spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine ends frayed with some loss at head; corners bumped.....
Paris: Froullé, 1785. Complete in 5 volumes. Bound in contemporary full mottled calf with gilt spines. Wear and rubbing to leather, but internally clean and sound. 5 volumes, Octavo. Features original marbled endpapers and red-stained edges. Spines feature dual labels in black and burgundy leather with ornate floral gilt-tooling. Includes.....
Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Octavo. 264 pp. Black cloth boards with silver gilt to spine. Original pictorial dust jacket, unclipped. Clean, tight copy with no internal markings, light shelf-wear to jacket.Jan Goldstein's critical study of 19th-century French psychiatric history, medical diagnosis, and religious mysticism. Grounded in a previously unpublished.....
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Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, 1823. Octavo. Contemporary full sheep, spine with raised bands and burgundy morocco gilt title label. Leather heavily scuffed, and worn along extremities; chipping and loss of leather to spine head; hinges cracked. Ink ownership signature across top margin of title page and preliminary.....
Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1954. First Edition. Very minor softening to spine ends and light rubbing to boards. Internally clean; mylar; spine tight. A comprehensive and scholarly history of medical science, spanning from primitive medicine and ancient civilizations through the modern era. Dr. Major emphasizes the human element of medical.....
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co, 1885. Octavo. vii. 246, [2] pp. First American Edition, published simultaneously as UK Edition. Original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped. Spine head significantly frayed with some cloth loss; tail frayed; corners worn. Gilt spine titles dulled. Internal state remains clean with mild toning. Notable contemporary ownership.....
Henry C. Lea, 1880. Third American Edition. Hardcover. This is the 19th century, rare, Midwifery manual "A Treatise on The Science and Practice of Midwifery" by W.S. Playfair. The book is in near very good condition, and contains two plates and 183 illustrations. There is some light fraying on the.....
Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1919. Original publisher's red cloth. Near fine; 331pp. with text illustrations and photographs. Slight cock to spine. Previous owner sticker and handwriting on the inside cover. A landmark in 20th century psychiatry, introducing the clinical framework that shaped the concept of schizophrenia and paraphrenia into the.....
Philadelphia & New York: Lea & Febiger, 1912. Large Octavo. viii, 1423 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, stamped in blind. First American Edition. Illustrated with figures and diagrams throughout. Minor shelfwear and softening to spine ends and corners. Text block clean. Neat professional blind ownership stamp of C. G. Carleton.....
New York: Tavistock Publications, LTD., 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover in Mylar. This is a very good condition, first American edition copy of "The Birth of the Clinic" by Michel Foucault. This is a penetrating analysis of the invention and practice of medicine in the modern age. Book has some.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Single-Volume Edition. 1,036 pp. 8vo. Original maroon cloth boards with faded gilt or blind-stamped lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Spine ends frayed with some loss to cloth; boards show light rubbing and minor shelf wear; corners bumped. Internally clean with light toning.A monumental.....
New Hyde Park: University Books, 1967. First University Books Edition. 251 pp. 8vo. Original mustard buckram. Dust jacket present and unclipped. Minimal shelf-wear to jacket edges; a few small creases and a price sticker to the rear, along with black circle sticker covering price on DJ. Internally clean. A lucid.....