WARREN, SAMUEL

Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. 2 Volume Set

Edinburgh: William Blackwood / T Cadell, 1833. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). xii, 379pp; 395pp. 1: Early Struggles; II: Cancer; III: The Dentist and the Comedian; IV: A Scholar's Deathbed; V: Preparing for the House!; VI: Duelling; VII: Intriguing and Madness; VIII: The Broken Heart; IX: Consumption; X: The Spectral Dog; XI: The Forger; XII: A Man About Town; XIII: Death at the Toilet; XIV: The Turned Head; XV: The Wife; XVI: Grave Doings; XVII: The Spectre-Smitten; XVIII: The Martyr Philosopher; XIX: The Statesman; XX: A Slight Cold; XXI: Rich and Poor; XXII: The Ruined Merchant; XXIII: Mother and Son. Six further chapters were published subsequently.. G: in good condition. Minor scuffing to leather at corners. Light rubbing to marbled boards. Contents clean and tight. Gilt decorated spine remains bright. Previous owner bookplates to fep of first volume and front paste-down of second. Inner hinge cracking. Page edge browning. Sporadic foxing .

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Book number: 2826b

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Keywords: Diaries 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian Medicine

WEDEKIND, FRANK; YUILL, W E [TR.]

Diary of an Erotic Life

Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1991. Reprint. Black hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xix, 283pp.. G: in good condition with rubbed and faded dust jacket .

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Book number: e4401

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WHITMAN, WALT

Specimen Days in America

London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd, 1887. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. 170mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 312pp + ads. Camelot series.. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded.Corners bumped. Endpapers browned. Inner hinges cracked .

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Book number: k1746

Catalogue: Diaries

Keywords: Diaries Travel America