New York, N.Y. Cassell Publishing Company, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. 134 pages; historical novel of the Napoleonic wars by the British writer Edith E. Cuthell (1853 - 1929) Title listed as # 21 in the publisher's listing of The "Unknown" Library of this publisher; printed by the Mershon Company.....
New Orleans Louisiana: Roy L. Alciatore, 1935. Soft Cover. (16) pages; with two folding plates and illustrated in black and white with portraits of the owners & a few interior views of the various dining facilities. Folding plate at front with quotes from Irwin S. Cobb, in the form of.....
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club By Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover with Dustjacket. 187 pages; "First Edition" stated on copyright page. Dustjacket cover art by Giusti. Approx. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" size; jacket over gray polished linen covered boards. Jacket with.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1855. Second Edition. Hard Cover. In two volumes: 493 + 608 pages; each volume has its own useful index. Vol. I with a folding Map of New Netherland as frontispiece (tear at attachment; no loss); a folding plate with the facsimile signatures of.....
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1862. First American (Pirated) Edition. Hard Cover. vii + 623 + 4 pages of publishers' announcements. Contents with the author's rambling travels about the North American continent, in the U.S. & Canada; with the distinction that it was written during the American Civil War.....
New York, NY: Ivison & Phinney, 1857. Second Edition. Hard Cover. 400 + (8) pages of publishers' announcements at back; the printed endpapers at front and back also with book advertisements. Contents with the author's presentations on the study of the mind, anthropology, empirical psychology, in four 'Divisions": of the.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1861. Second Edition with Critical Notes. Hard Cover. 440 pages + (12) plates at back + (12) pages of publishers' advertisements. This is the author's updated edition printed at the outset of the Civil War, with the critical notes on the Mexican and.....
Philadelphia PA: Porter & Coates, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. (7) + xvi + 425 pages + 70 + (2) pages of advertisements at back, many illustrated and including a separate index for these businesses. With 4 folding maps in pockets at front and back: Centennial Grounds Fairmount Park; a......
New York, NY: Published By E. Bliss and E. White, 1822. First Edition. Leather. vii + 528 pages; usefully indexed at back; the contents pages also give descriptions of the articles within. Illustrated with a folding plate of a massive tumor operation by Delpech; also an engraving of the Otsego.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. A New and Corrected Edition. Hard Cover. 508 + 4 + 4 + (32) pages of publishers' announcements, many of which are illustrated. Wood-engraved frontispiece, two folding maps & illustrated throughout all collated complete according the list provided. Contents with the expedition's visits to.....
London, England: Printed for J. Callow, Medical Bookseller, 1811. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 208 + (2) page index + (2) page publication list; with the half-title page. John Ring (bap. 1752 - 1821) British surgeon and vaccinator and "...a man of extraordinary energy. He was an active member of.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Henry F. Anners, 1846. First Edition. Leather. 390 pages; useful index. "...Intended to preserve the Recollections of olden times, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements....embellished with pictorial illustrations...." that are interspersed throughout.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition. Hard Cover. 242 + (2) pages of publisher's announcements. Illustrated with 10 plates, (6 folding) of historic American locomotives and also with related black and white pictures in the text. Chapter material on history of early railroads in the world.....
Brooklyn, N.Y. F.G. Fish, 1845. First Edition. Hard Cover. 220 pages; with a lithographic frontispiece of St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn. Contents with historical information on early pastors, the establishment of the church, the Sunday School, extracts from the records, officers of the first school; the teachers of the first.....
New York, N.Y. Published By the Author, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. (8) + 492 pages; useful index; with 11 tissue guarded engraved portraits of Connecticut worthies, including the frontispiece of Abraham Davenport; portraits collated complete according to the list provided; text also with woodcuts of various prominent Stamford residences.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. 178 pages. Contents with sections on the history and symptoms of the disease, including those of the nervous system, sense organs, digestive organs, skin and others; also details duration, convalescence, relapse, mortality; theories on causes; on the prognosis, diagnosis, nature.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. First Edition. Hard Cover. 326 pages; with two folding maps; the later, separate Supplement is 11 pages, printed on one side only. Front endpaper of the 1918 volume with the presentation stamp, "From Frederick C. Hicks, Congressman from Long Island." Frederick C. Hicks (1872.....
Paris, France. Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1863. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 278 pages. French text; historical information on the climatology of Spain, and of various regions, cities, coastal areas and a chapter on the mineral waters of the country. Title page with the small previous owner name-stamp of collector George.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Printed By William Duane, 1811. First American Edition. Leather. viii + 268 pages; useful subject index at back. This the First American, from the Sixth London Edition, of the work of James Lind (1716 - 1794) British naval surgeon and physician, whose "...final book, his Essay on Diseases.....
New York, NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. 401 pages; tipped-in opposite the title page is an albumen photograph of the author, Friedrich Hassaurek (1831-1885) a German-American who had been Abraham Lincoln's appointed ambassador to Ecuador during the period of the American Civil War. Chapter content on.....
A Vienne & A Strasbourg: Chez Les Freres Gay Imprimeus-Libraires et al, 1784. Premiere Edition. Leather. Four eighteenth century publications; all French texts, bound in one volume. All regarding the plague, especially in Russia & Europe, as below: De Mertens, Charles. Traite de la Peste, Contenant L'Histoire de Celle qui.....
Paris, France. Libreria De Parmantier, 1825. First Edition. Leather. 234 pages. The 17th century text regarding the Portuguese 1640 Revolution against Spain, translated into Spanish by Pages; printed by de Rignoux in Paris. Title page with the previous owner name-stamp of collector George Brush M.D., U.S. Navy; in service as.....
Barcelona Spain: Empresa Editorial La Ilustracion, 1874. First Edition. Leather. lxi + 266 pages + (1) page plate list + (1) publisher's announcements. With 10 black and white plates illustrating the cantos of the poem, collated complete. Luis de Camoes (c. 1525 - 1580) Portugal's greatest poet, the Lusiads his.....
Paris, France. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1853. Later Edition. Leather. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered.....
Paris, France. J. B. Bailliere et Fils, Libraires De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine, 1860. Deuxieme Edition. Leather. 255 + (1) Table des Matieres pages; text in French throughout. Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben (1806 - 1849) Austrian physician, poet and philosopher. Not dated and circa 1860. Title page with the small.....
