New York, New York: Charles L. Woodward, 1892. Limited Edition. Soft Cover. 48 + (1) pages. One of a limited edition of 200, reprinted for Charles L. Woodward, of the original Middletown Loomis and Richards edition of 1814. Accomplished on quality heavy paper stock, fore-edge deckle. Text with the early.....
Brooklyn, NY: Clarendon Hotel, 1885. Ephemera. Not Bound. "A card..." printed one side, announcing the opening of the Clarendon Hotel's Upper Dining Rooms "...for the accommodation of Ladies and their friends, between the hours of 12 m. and 3 p.m., during which they will supply their now well-known and superior.....
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix + 235 + (4) pages of publishers' announcements at back. Copyright date states 1879. Containing a couple of illustrated document facsimiles: a Miami Land-Warrant and a page showing account certificates. Chapter information regarding the early settlement of the old Northwest.....
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. 86 pages; with black and white illustrations of various apparatus for the use of inhalation therapies, accompanied by recommended usage details. The text is the author's update to an "...essay (which) appeared originally in the September and October numbers.....
New York, NY: Not Published, 1847. Manuscript. Not Bound. A small handwritten note, dated Friday, Feby. 21. "Dear Doctor, I will have the pleasure to call for you this evening in hope you will ride with me to Chancellor Kents' - say at 7 1/2 o'clock I am, Dear Sir.....
Sayville, N.Y. The Suffolk Citizen, 1925. First Edition. Soft Cover. 32 pages; about 1/2 are advertisements for various Sayville, Patchogue and other South Shore businesses of the time. The other content regards the early and continued history of Long Island, especially concerning the South Shore areas and Sayville particularly; along.....
Washington, D.C. Navy Department, 1887. First Edition. Soft Cover. 31 pages; the first half having to do with naval requisitions & purchases, their proper authorizations and procedures and the following are various forms and requisition blanks, including a folding sheet for itemizing clothing and small-stores; according to D.B. Harmony, Acting.....
Liege, Belgium: Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1873. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. 33 pages; French text. The author has inscribed and signed on the title page, "A Monsieur le professeur Hirn hommage a l'autor Folie" to Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (1815 - 1890) French.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. First Edition. Soft Cover. 104 pages. With reports and statistics, fiscal requirements and findings for various naval yards and establishments and the overall health of the U.S. Navy. Especially for the larger facilities, as the Norfolk yards, the report has much detail on nearly.....
Paris, France: Compagnie Des Eaux Minerales Economiques, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. A photograph album, composed of 29 heavy cardstock leaves, each titled with a French hospital, with a mounted photograph of the interns of 1908-09. On the mounts, printed below the images are the surname-identification of the new doctors.....
Paris, France: Ballets De Paris, 1949. Leonor Fini. First Edition. Soft Cover. (24) pages; illustrated in color and black and white by Leonor Fini & (Antoni) Clavie, also with photos of performers; French text. Laid-in is a two-sided printed Programme des 19, 20, et 22 Aout performances. Guide is approx.....
London, England: Linnean Society's Journal - Botany, 1916. Offprint Edition. Soft Cover. C. (55) pages; with 11 very sharply defined black and white photo-plates on heavy paper stock, illustrated in the collotype process taken by the author & printed by the London Stereoscopic Co.; several of the plates with human.....
Albany, N.Y. Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. 96 text pages + plates, illustrations, charts, maps, facsimile - all collated complete according to the list provided: Title page with "...the compliments of James T. Gardiner, Director" tipped-on. According to his biography and material in the NY.....
Gotha Germany: Justus Perthes, 1878. Map. Not Bound. Color map of this area, only. Approx. 10 1/2" x 16" overall size. from Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen, Schnellpressendruck v. C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Small, faint previous ownership stamp on one of the back (blank) panels of the map of collector Dr. George.....
London, England: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First Edition. Leather. xx + 289 pages; errata slip at back; with the half-title. Illustrated with 10 copper-engraved plates, accompanying various articles. The Preface describes the "...nature and objects of this Institution, and the claims which it possesses to professional.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. Et al, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. ii + 408 + (1) page advertising books by B.H. Chamberlain + (1) page Japanese copyright page at back. With a color folding map of Japan in Provinces, inset map of Yezo & the Kurile.....
Lugduni Batavorum: Samuelem Luchtmans, 1720. First Edition. Illustration. (64) + 215 + (57) pages; title page printed in red & black; a few woodcut initial ornaments & tailpieces; Latin text throughout. Title page with the small previous ownership stamp of collector Dr. George R. Brush, U.S. Navy; served as a......
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere Libraire De L'Academie Imperiale De Medecine, 1856. First Edition. Leather. xx + 770 pages; useful index. Black and white illustrations within the text and folding tables, French text; marine medical researches & recommendations by the reforming French naval doctor Jean- Baptiste Fonssagrives (1823-1884). Small bookseller's.....
A Paris: Chez Pierre-Francois Didot Le Jeune, Libraire Imprimeur De Monsieur, Quais Des Augustins, 1785. First Edition. Leather. xvi + 256 pages, with the half-title; French text. Medical climatology & physiological researches concerning tropical climates, especially in the Caribbean, by Jean-Barthelemy Dazille (circa 1733 - 1812) French marine medical surgeon.....
A Verone: De L'Imprimerie Giuliari, 1797. First Edition. Leather. Complete in 4 volumes, bound in two: (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 + (4) + 312 pages, with all the half-titles; French text and occasional sections in Italian, quoting various references. The theories of Pierre.....
Chicago, Illinois: Rand, McNally & Co., 1887. Pocket Map. Hard Cover. Pocket map of Japan, printed in colors, detailing the Japanese island system in two separate maps: Northern Japan with an inset at top of Chishima; with the previous owner noting the location of the volcano Bandai-San. Approx. 13 3/4".....
London, England: Published for the Committee of Council on Education By Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi + 112 + 16 pages of advertisements at back (some unopened); black and white illustrated throughout; with text describing dozens of Japanese pottery-ware, the history of the kilns, types.....
A Paris: Chez J.-B. Bailliere, Libraire De L'Academie Royale De Medecine, 1837. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 424 pages; with the half-title. French text, the author's theories, especially those considering the influence of climate conditions on human development, medicine & the forms illness may take in varying temperature conditions; also.....
New York, New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892. First American Edition. Hard Cover. xiii + 417 pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece & throughout; with color folding "Map Showing M. Bonvalot's Route" in pocket at front, approx. 16 1/4" x 20" size. The Translator's Preface notes that "...Starting from the.....
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. 207 pages + 7 + (1) pages of publishers' advertisements at back. With a useful alphabetically-organized "Index of Authorities" with page number citations at back. John Gamgee (1831-1894) presents his theories on epidemic disease and specifically Yellow Fever.....
