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A Londres. Se vend à Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy, 1786. xvi,184pp. Contemporary calf and boards, spine gilt extra. Light scattered foxing and occasional mild spotting, a few rubs and light stains to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this substantial collection of verse, epigrams, translations, and letters.....
Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1822. 396pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked in matching style. A very good copy. A "regular" medical handbook, intended for physicians and medical students. The work is alphabetically arranged and includes the American pharmacopoeia.
Albany: Printed by Webster and Skinners, 1833. lv,471pp. Modern cloth, spine gilt. Some scattered light foxing. A very good copy. Intended as a "text-book for the beginner, as well as a convenient manual for the more advanced botanist" (Preface).
[ London]: Turret Books, [ 1968]. Stiff printed wrappers. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, signed by the author.
Chicago: Published by the Author, [nd but ca. 1920s]. [4],147,[1]pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Third, revised and enlarged edition. Small snag to fore-edge of title leaf, crown and toe of spine nicked, otherwise a very good copy.
Philadelphia: A. Comfort, 1843. xv,514pp. plus medicinal advertisement leaf. Original speckled calf, gilt morocco label. Spine rubbed. Lightly worn at hinges, edges, and corners. Early ink ownerhip inscription and ornaments on front two free endpapers. Later genealogical ink notes about original owner by descendant. Newspaper clipping laid in. Light scattered.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1929. Quarto. Cloth. Portrait and plates. First American issue, bound up from British sheets. Patches of flecking to sizing, otherwise a very good copy with panels of the dust jacket laid in.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. 523,[1]pp. plus three folding tables. Speckled calf, spine gilt, morocco label. Corners bumped, head of spine chipped, outer hinges cracked. Owner's inkstamp on titlepage. Old stain on second fold-out table, otherwise quite clean. About very good. A "regular" medical guide with a materia medica.....
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1847. 704pp. Over 300 illus. Half title. Modern calf, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Early ink note on half title. Old tideline in first fifteen leaves. Scattered light foxing. Very good. A well-illustrated work by a "regular" physician. The bulk of MEDICAL BOTANY... is devoted to.....
Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837. 71pp. Dbd. Some scattered light foxing. Very good. A "regular" materia medica, including mineral, plant, and animal substances. The prominence of mineral compounds and decidedly clinical language in this work let it stand in contrast to the popular alternative materia medica of the day.....
London: Constable & Co., 1932. Cloth. Frontis and illustrations by George Morrow. First edition. Spine slightly cocked and darkened toward crown, but a very good copy in chipped, spine-sunned, internally mended dust jacket.
Philadelphia: M. Carey and Sons, Printed by T.H. Palmer, on Ramage's Ruthven Press, and on J. & T. Gilpin's Machine Paper, 1821. [8]pp. plus seventy-one double-page colored maps or charts (twenty-eight of which are maps). Folio. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Titlepage soiled and somewhat chipped at edge, with.....
New York: Seltzer, 1924. Gilt cloth. First American edition. Neat ink name, else a very good, bright copy.
New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1848. iv,64pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, with some scuffing and small chips. Light stains and scattered foxing in text, occasional ink scribbles in outer margins. About very good. A comprehensive catalogue of New York plant species with medicinal properties. Entries are.....
Philadelphia: Patterson & Cochran, 1800. 30pp. Dbd. Light foxing and toning. A good copy. The second edition, following the first printed in Lancaster the same year, of this pamphlet promoting economic development in Pennsylvania. Logan, a thorough- going Jeffersonian farmer, was also a physician, author, and senator. According to the.....
Philadelphia. 1830. 16pp. Dbd. Light foxing. Very good. The same author wrote a critique of "Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple." This painting was on exhibition for many years in Philadelphia. A Boston edition was also published in the same year.
Dublin: Wm. Carson [et al], 1838. xii,126pp. plus blank. Small octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, occasional light foxing, else a near very good copy. First edition. Meyler was an active speaker and pamphleteer on the Catholic question, and in line with his.....
Hartford: F.C. Brownell, 1857. [1],[629]-641,[1]pp. with rear wrapper printed on both sides. Original printed wrappers. Early dampstain in upper margin, not affecting text. Number ink-stamped in upper outer corner of front wrapper. Overall very good. First edition thus (a separate offprint); originally published in BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION for.....
London: John van Vorst, 1869. vi,[2],62,[2]pp. Octavo. Green cloth, stamped in black. Color lithographed frontis. Rear endsheets browned from now absent clippings (a bit of residue from where they were tipped in), a bit of wear at edges, otherwise a very good copy. Second edition, with additions. Formerly Arthur Upson's.....
New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1826. 44pp. Original paper wrappers. Lower corner of front wrapper chipped, rear wrapper not quite detached. Scattered light foxing. Otherwise good, untrimmed. A "regular" materia medica, used in the lectures of the author to "a private class of students" (Preface). An unusual.....
Boston: Ezra Read, 1817. 744pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, morocco label. Ink inscription on front free endpapers. Scattered foxing and some chipping in the text-blocks of a few pages. Overall very good. A general textbook of "regular" medicine. The work begins with a "Historical Sketch of Medical Science," which includes.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, [ 1979]. Gilt cloth and boards. First U.S. edition of the author's first novel. Some faint discoloration on boards, foxmarks on edges and endsheets, but a good, sound copy in dust jacket with publisher's adhesive label on front panel.
[ New York]: Viking, [ 1987]. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Review copy with slip. Fine in dust jacket.
[ New York]: Viking, [ nd]. Printed wrappers. Unrevised page proofs of the first U.S. edition. About fine.
Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, 1811. 263pp. Modern three quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt, raised bands. Handsome bookplate. Ownership signatures on titlepage and dedication page, the latter dated 1811. Bright and clean internally. A near fine copy. Waterhouse was a distinguished Boston physician best known for his work on smallpox.....
