COOPER, Samuel

The First Lines of the Practice of Surgery: Being an Elementary Work

1815. COOPER, Samuel. THE FIRST LINES OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY: BEING AN ELEMENTARY WORK FOR STUDENTS, AND A CONCISE BOOK OF REFERENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS. Hanover (NH): Justin Hinds, 1815. Second American edition (with an appendix) from the third London edition. 463 pp. + [1] pp. advertisement + 9 b/w plates. 8vo. full calf, gilt brown leather spine label. Covers worn, label faded. Foxing throughout. Title page slightly chipped, not affecting text. Last few plates dampstained. Complete. As is. .

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COOPER, Samuel

Treatise on the Diseases of the Joints

1811. COOPER, Samuel. A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE JOINTS. Hanover, New Hampshire: Justin Hinds, 1811. 165p. 2nd American Edition. Printed by Charles Spear. Small octavo volume. signatures unopened. The leaf making up pages 51 and 52 is torn, though text is still attached at top of sheet. In need of rebinding: boards detached and spine is split at page 73. Ink spine lables partially intact. Ex-library, bears stamps in text and lables to endpapers. As is. (Shaw & Shoemaker 22618; Austin 533). .

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COOTE, HOLMES

Some of the More Important Points Connected with the Treatment of

1857. COOTE, HOLMES. A REPORT UPON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT POINTS CONNECTED WITH THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS. London: John Churchill, 1857. 141p. Partially unopened, needs rebacking. Front board detatched. As is. .

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COPERNICUS, Nicolaus

De Revolutionibus: Preface and Book I.

1947. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus, translated by John F. DOBSON & Selig BRODETSKY. DE REVOLUTIONIBUS: PREFACE AND BOOK I. London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1947 (printed originally as Occasional Notes, No. 10, 1947 May). 32 pp. 8vo. blue wrappers printed in black. Corners bumped, light soil to wrappers with a few small stains to front cover. One b/w plate, and illustrations in the text. With a brief biographical note and notes to the translation. .

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CORNWELL, Patricia

Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation. Sixth Edition

2000. [CORNWELL, Patricia] TECHNIQUES OF CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION. SIXTH EDITION. By Barry A. J.Fisher, Crime Laboratory Director, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles, California .. With a foreword by Leroy D. Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County. Boca Raton: CRC Press, (2000). Later printing. Lengthy inscription on the ffep. from the author to Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling crime writer and creator of the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Illustrated. xxix, 552 pp. Octavo, illustrated paper boards. Fine. .

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COTTING, John Ruggles

An Introduction to Chemistry, with Practical Questions

1822. COTTING, John Ruggles. AN INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY, WITH PRACTICAL QUESTIONS: Designed for Beginners in the Science from the Latest and Most Approved Authors. To which is added a Dictionary of Terms. Boston: Charles Ewer, May 1822. vii + [5] + 420 pp. 12mo. tree calf with gilt leather spine label. Boards worn, joints tender. Front flyleaf missing. Folding table (frontispiece) complete with small edgetears, not affecting text. Text is age-toned with occasional neat underlining. B/w plates. This is Cotting's first book and was used at Harvard College; a nice example of an early text book in original leather. .

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Provisional Council, Ontario College of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Act: Sale of Poison Books, for Registering All Poisons Sold

1871. Provisional Council, Ontario College of Pharmacy. PHARMACY ACT: SALE OF POISON BOOKS, FOR REGISTERING ALL POISONS SOLD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PHARMACY ACT OF 1871. Toronto: Provincial Council of the Ontario College of Pharmacy, 1871. Small 4to. 7"x 9 1/4". Brown cloth gilt lettering to front and blind-stamping front and back. Corners bumped. Cloth on spine cracked about half way down but still attached to rear hinge. Ex-library with a few stamps and throughout and bookplate to ffep. First 6 pages contain text of the Pharmacy Act of 1871 and "Useful Information", including antidotes for poisons and correct dosages of certain drugs. The rest of the book is a blank register for recording the names, addresses, and signatures of customers purchasing poisons. Very Good. .

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COXE, JOHN REDMAN

American Dispensatory, Containing the Operations of Pharmacy

1806. COXE, JOHN REDMAN. THE AMERICAN DISPENSATORY, CONTAINING THE OPERATIONS OF PHARMACY; TOGETHER WITH THE NATURAL CHEMICAL, PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT SUBSTANCES EMPLOYED IN MEDICINE .. Philadelphia: Printed by A. Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1806. First edition. 8vo. xvi + 787 pp. Some copperplate engravings in the text. Title continued: "Illustrated and Explained, according to the Principles of Modern Chemistry: comprehending the Improvements in Dr. Duncan's Second Edition of the Edinburgh New Dispensatory. The arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the Practice of Medicine and Pharmacy in the United States." Coxe was chair of materia medica and pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1818; he was "Active in the field even before joining the University, he is regarded by many as the father of pharmacy in Philadelphia .. The present work is one of the earliest American drug compendia" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Calf. Boards, ffep & rfep detached, spine chipped and cracked. Gilt morocco spine labels worn. Ex-library with usual markings, bookplates of Boston pharmacist Samuel A. D. Sheppard and Samuel Robinson. Text block has moderate foxing and staining, some pages slightly chipped at bottom with no loss of text. As is. Heirs, 1289; Wellcome II, p. 402 (1818 ed.). .

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CULLEN, William

Treatise of the Materia Medica. Vol. I Only

1789. CULLEN, William. A TREATISE OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. Vol. I. Edinburgh: Printed. re-printed for, and sold by, J. Crukshank and R. Campbell, Philadelphia, R. Hodge, S. Campbell, and T. Allen, New York. 1789. Volume 1 (of 2) only. First authorized American edtion. xiv, 312 pp. 8vo. full calf, worn, with weak hinges. Front free endpaper is missing, as is the top half of the half-title page, and a thin strip has been clipped along the top-edge of the title-page (10 mm in depth). Ex-library, with a few stamps and labels. Text is very good; binding as is. This work is an expansion and a corrective to the author's popular LECTURES ON MATERIA MEDICA (1773), which had been pirated, and even translated into foreign languages, in incomplete and/or inaccurate editions. (see HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES 906; WELLCOME II, p 413; GARRISON-MORTON 1838 for the British ed.; Austin, EARLY AMER. MED. IMPRINTS 587.). .

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CULVERWELL, Robert James

Porneiopathology: A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases

1844. CULVERWELL, R. J. PORNEIOPATHOLOGY: A POPULAR TREATISE ON VENEREAL AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE MALE AND FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; WITH REMARKS ON IMPOTENCE, ONANISM, STERILITY, PILES, AND GRAVEL, AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THEIR TREATMENT. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1844. Probable first American edition. (The bibliographic record of Culverwell's several treatises on sexual hygiene, behavior, disorders, etc. is very confused. Part of the reason lies in the possibility that completely different works may have been published under the same title on occasion. -- Atwater 1, 1, pp. 237-238.) Title-page says illustrated "with one hundred plates" but the reality is many small (creepy) wood-engraved text illustrations. 215 pp. 12mo. bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped title on upper board and spine. Ex library, with spine label and an ink stamp on front pastedown and on the title-page. Heavy foxing throughout. Large chip missing from front flyleaf. This popular treatise, published by J. S. Redfield -- Edgar Allen Poe's chief publisher, was written for "the young and the thoughtless," explaining "the structure and anatomy of the parts primarily affected by venereal disease, and describing its first as well as its subsequent and aggravated symptoms, and pointing out the safest treatment of it in experienced hands." It is a scarce title, offered as is. (Atwater Collection 1, no. 848, and a note in 3, no. S-702.). .

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CURIE, Pierre

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie

1908. CURIE, Pierre. OEUVRES DE PIERRE CURIE. Publiees par les soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique. Paris: Guthier-Villars, 1908. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, two plates, and text illustrations. Octavo. xxii,621 pp. Text is quite clean overall and complete; eventhough the bookblock is very lightly foxed, just at the fore-edge and on a few final pages, and is split into two parts. There is a tiny puncture, not really noticeable, through the initial pages until p. 12. Original printed paper wrappers are present. However, the top wrap is detached and edge-chipped, with a small sticker affixed to one corner, and the spine is heavily chipped. It is offered as is. In 1896, at the suggestion of Henri Bequerel, Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, his wife, began to intensively examine the peculiarly powerful radioactive properties of pitchblende. In a series of papers beginning in 1897 they reported their progress in isolating new substances they called polonium and radium. In 1903 Pierre and Marie Curie shared the Noble Prize for Physics with Henri Bequerel. (PMM 394b). .

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JOLIOT-CURIE, Irene

Progres Recents En Radioactivite Et En Physique Nucleaire

1950. JOLIOT-CURIE, Irene. LES PROGRES RECENTS EN RADIOACTIVITE ET EN PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE. Conference faite au Palais de la Decouverte le 5 Novembre 1949. Paris: Universite de Paris, (1950). Part of the series "Les Conferences du Palais de la Decouverte." 13,[3] pp. 7 1/8 by 5 1/4 in. (18x13.5 cm.) Slim pamphlet, orange paper wrappers, stapled once at the center. Wrappers are slightly toned around perimeters, else crisp and clean; a near fine copy. Irene Joliot-Curie was the daughter of Nobel Prize winning scientists Marie and Pierre Curie; she and her husband, Frederic Joliot, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. .

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CURIE, Maurice

Recherches Sur la Photoluminescence

1923. CURIE, Maurice. RECHERCHES SUR LA PHOTOLUMINESCENCE. Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1923. Theses presentees la Faculte des Sciences de l'Universite de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur es sciences physiques par M. Maurice Curie. Serie A 922, no. d'ordre: 1744. Inscribed by Curie on the title-page, although the ending of the recipient's name has been trimmed ("A mon ami A. Bau..", as well as an ink annotation to the text on p. 37 by Curie. One plate and many figures in text. Octavo. [4],48,[4] pp. Blue cloth library binding, gilt-stamped title to spine, with originl top wrapper bound-in. Ex-library; cancel stamp at front pastedown and no other marks. Cloth is lightly sunned at spine and top-edge of upper board, but very good plus overall. .

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CUSHING, Harvey

A Large Epidermal Cholesteatoma of the Parieto-Temporal Region

1925. CUSHING, Harvey. A LARGE CHOLESTEATOMA OF THE PARIETO-TEMPORAL REGION DEFORMING THE LEFT HEMISPHERE WITHOUT CEREBRAL SYMPTOMS. Chicago: Surgical Pub. Co. 1922. Offprint from Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, May 1922, pp. 557-566. 10 pp. 4to. blue printed stapled wrappers. Near fine. Some edgewear (a few nicks), minor soil and sunning to covers. Case presented at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. B/w photos. .

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BUCHAN M.D., W(illiam)

Observations Concerning the Prevention and Cure of the Venereal Diseas

1796. BUCHAN M.D. W(illiam). OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF THE VENEREAL DISEASE. Intended to guard the Ignorant and Unwary.. With an Appendix Containing a List of the most approved Medicines.. Dublin, P. Wogan, J. Milliken et al. 1796. 8vo, (vi)144pp. Published in the same year as the first edition (London, Chapman, for the Author). Foxed throughout, in worn quarter-leather, nicely rebacked with gold spine titling. (Blake 18cp.69). .

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