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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

London, England: Printed for Robert Cadell, et al, 1831. A New Edition. Leather. xxiii + 514 + (1) page double-column poem,"Farewell to the Reader" + (8) pages of Caddell's publisher's announcements. With the half title & a useful index; the author's Preface to the seventh edition adds the line-title &.....

Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1863. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 144 + 3 pages of corrections and additions + (1) author publications list + 16 pages of publishers' announcements at back. Illustrated with a tinted folding plate of the Caribbean, specifically of the Hurricane of.....

United Kingdom: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1835. Extracted from Original Volume. Soft Cover. (329 - 343) pages; extracted from the Royal Society Transactions. James Farquharson (1781 - 1843) British writer on science, among his several scientific interests here "...explained the formation of ice at the bottom of.....

New York, N.Y. Wm. C. Martin, Print. 1840. First Edition. Hard Cover. 71 + (1) errata pages; tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait engraving of the author Smith P. Gammage by A. Sealey & V. Balch. The Christian biography of Mrs. Louisa Liscum (1808 - 1834) of Patchogue, Long Island, NY; her husband.....

New York, N.Y. Friedr. Bayer & Co. - W.H. Schieffelin & Co. U.S. Agents, 1892. First Edition. Soft Cover. Three informational pamphlets for these Bayer pharmaceutical products, all three 24 pages in length; with descriptive notes on the products, usage, dose information, testimonials, case reports, physical, chemical properties, modes of.....

New York, N.Y. D. Appleton and Company, 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. xv + 832 + (4) pages of publisher's announcements; a useful index at back. With illustrations in the text as well as plates in pockets at front and back; all collated complete; also included in the pocket contents.....

New York, N.Y. J. & H.G. Langley, 1843. First Edition. Leather. 431 pages; with a frontispiece plate illustrating a "Cot for the Treatment of Fractures at Sea. by J. M. Foltz Esq. Surgeon U.S.N." - Dr. Foltz also has contributed the extensive first article within, on the topic of "...The.....

New York, N.Y. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American Edition. Soft Cover. 57 + (1) blank + (6) pages of publisher's announcements. By William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898) British prime minister and author; "...In 1869 he played the chief part in drawing up the Irish Church Bill, a measure.....

Venetiis: Laurentium Basilium, 1757. First Edtion Thus. Leather. (22) + 536; 591-621 (pagination mis-numbered, content consecutive) + (1) pages Catalogus Laurentium Basilium. Frontispiece portrait illustration of the author; woodcut title, chapter & tailpiece ornaments. Latin text, with occasional Greek. The works of Hermann Boerhaave (1668 - 1738), Dutch physician, associated.....