Edwards, H.M.

A Manual of Surgical Anatomy, Containing a Minute Description of the Parts Concerned in Operative Surgery, with the Anatomical Effects of Accidents...

Philadelphia, Thomas Desilver, 1828. First American Edition, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No Binding. 382pp. Boards not present, leather spine with red label and gilt lettering present, text block is complete and firm, contents are age-tanned and moderately foxed throughout, a bit of dampstaining to lower inner margin first several pages. Book could be restored to very presentable condition. First American Edition, from the first London Edition. Poor/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004609

Catalogue: Medicine, Reference, Science

Keywords: Medical Physician Operations Surgery Medical

Fabricius, Hieronymus and Franklin, K.J. (Editor and Translator)

De Venarum Ostiolis 1603 of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1533?-1619)

0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 98pp. FIRST EDITION thus. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Very light wear, spine slightly darkened, text is slightly age-toned, bit of paper clip rust on rear endpapers,former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Diagrammatic illustrations. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004620

Catalogue: Medicine, Science

Keywords: Heart Cardiology Valves Anatomy

Key, Wilhelmine E. Key

Heredity and Social Fitness; A Study of Differential Mating in a Pennsylvania Family

Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1920. First Edition, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 102pp. Gilt lettered blue buckram, 2 fold-out charts. Extremities very lightly rubbed, faint spot near top edge, contents tanned but clean. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in pencil on front free endpaper "Mrs. Francis B. Key, Somers, Conn." , short margin tear to one chart. An attempt to promote selective breeding by means of segregation and sterilization of "the socially unfit." Very Good.

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Book number: 001301

Catalogue: Medicine, Science and Mathematics

Keywords: Heredity Eugenics Mating Lineage Singed

Vallery-Radot, René

The Life of Pasteur

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Hardcover. 484p. Blue cloth. Fading mainly to spine, splitting to endpapers, contents age-toned. What's interesting about this volume, is the inscription on the front free endpaper : "Pasteur said: Study great men and worship them, little realizing that he was one. The inspiration which I received from this book won for me two trips to Europe. I hope it takes you around the world. Jan. 11, 1923 Pasteur Centennial." Author's inscription? Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002158

Catalogue: Medicine, Biography, Science and Mathematics

Keywords: Invention Vaccination "Louis Pasteur"

Tanner, T.H.

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood.

Philade;phia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1861. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 464pp. Brown blind-stamped cloth, paper spine label. Chipping and lower 1/4 of backstrip missing, covers lightly worn, contents have scattered foxing but otherwise sound and binding is tight. Tipped-into the text is an old handwritten prescription from a druggist in West Meriden, Connecticut. Good.

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Book number: 004352

Catalogue: Medicine, Science

Keywords: Heakth Pediatrics

William Wood & Company

The Prescriber's Memoranda

300pp. William Wood & Company, 1877. 1st Edition, 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Hardcover. Alice B. Woodward. 300pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Light wear and light spotting to cover, endpapers missing, light soiling to pastedowns, contents clean, last page (301) missing. Descriptions of compounding medications and instructions on how to administer them. Good.

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Book number: 004381

Catalogue: Medicine, Science

Keywords: Medicine Treatments Prescriptions Cures