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Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine]

Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine] by TAKEBE, Yu

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine]
Author
TAKEBE, Yu
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Seven full-page woodcuts & a few smaller text illus. 49 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title label on upper cover with title in manuscript, modern stitching. Wakayama: Kasedaya Hiemon et al., 1818. First edition of Takebe’s translation and commentary of Lorenz Heister’s writings on infections and their treatment. Heister (1683-1758), wrote one of the best and most complete works on surgery of the 18th century. Translated into Japanese, it was enormously successful, introducing Western methods to many Japanese surgeons. Takebe (1782-1842), a samurai, has included here all of Heister’s writings on infections and has provided a number of his own cases histories. A number of pharmaceutical recipes are described including aloe (the plant is illustrated on two pages). Methods of lancing are illustrated along with a number of Western surgical instruments. Very nice copy.
To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston

To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston by Smith, Gerrit

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
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To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston
Author
Smith, Gerrit
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
[Peterboro, NY]: [N.P.], 1847. First edition. Broadside sheet measuring 12 x 7.75 inches and printed recto and verso. Later ink docketing to upper left corner. Faint toning along horizontal foldlines to verso (not apparent on recto) and minor chips to upper margin. A just about Fine copy of a scarce tract calling out the hypocrisy of contemporary media in its representation of the equality cause. OCLC reports only 6 surviving copies in institutions, with this the only example in trade. A philanthropist, reformer, and cousin of the famed activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith is best known for his anti-racist and abolitionist work. A close associate of William Lloyd Garrison and a financial backer of John Brown, he wrote numerous broadsides calling to the end of slavery, the purchase of land tracts to be provided to freed people, and the expansion of Black Americans' rights. The present broadside is an example of such work, calling out the hypocrisy of the publication The Emancipator in using an outdated piece of his writing to support the current Liberty Party as well as outlining the Liberty Party's past mission and current failings. At his opening, Smith points to a recent issue of The Emancipator, wherein is printed "an extract of a letter, which I wrote four years ago...however proper that argument may have been, as applied to the Liberty Party four years ago, is it proper, as applied to it now? -- and are you serving the cause of truth, in applying it to it now?" Clearly Smith has seen the party devolve from its original mission of operating as a temporary party "made up of persons who have agreed to stand out from their old parties, and to stand together in a new one until, and only until, those old parties shall consent to go for the abolition of slavery." The Liberty Party was a means of pressuring the existent parties to add a crucial component to their platforms: one emphasizing the dignity and rights to freedom of Black Americans. Notably, Smith has seen members of the Liberty Party speak but not act on their commitments -- a deep hypocrisy which he calls out in print in the hopes of adjusting the party's future. "For obvious reasons, it has been the policy of the Liberty party newspapers to print but little of what I have written the last few months," and so he has taken to the broadside for recourse. Indeed, only two months earlier Smith had engaged in another public act of defiance against the Party's complacency and performativism: he, Frederick Douglass, and William Goodell organized a convention in Macedon, New York to announce the development of a rival party, the Liberty League. Among the seventy attendees were Lydia Maria Child and Lucretia Mott. "Each woman received a vote in the early ballotting. Women present were permitted to vote on nominations, a first in American politics; the votes for Child and Mott marked the first time in history that women received votes for president of the United States at a bona fide political convention" (Freethought Trail).
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One Arm and Other Stories by Williams, Tennessee

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Title
One Arm and Other Stories
Author
Williams, Tennessee
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition, usual second state with cancel title page. Cloth backed boards, a very good copy in lightly worn slipcase. Inscribed by Williams to William Targ, later one of his publishers. Ownership signature of Benjamin Crowell, dated 1949. Crandell A8.1.a2.
Village management book

Village management book

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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books
Title
Village management book
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
[Saigon, 1970. 4to, pp. 34; printed from typescript; full-page generic plan of a village; pro-forma tables in the text; original cream and yellow printed wrappers stapled at the top corner, manuscript "LCDR Pozzi" at top right-hand corner of upper cover, corners dog-eared. A tool created by the Vietnam government to assist the village governments to complete its mission of identifying problems, coordinating plans, establishing priorities, and allocating resources and delegating work responsibility. Not in OCLC.
My Memory Book

My Memory Book by HILL, Mabel Betsy

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Title
My Memory Book
Author
HILL, Mabel Betsy
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York City: C.R. Gibson & Company, 1921. Mabel Betsy HILL. [ALBUM] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Unused Album. 12mo oblong (7 13/16" x 9 7/16"); [70]pp; textured cloth over board, gilt stamped lettering and vignette of a diploma, mortar board and book on front; light gray endpapers; bookseller's ticket on front pastedown "Dickson's Book Store, New Britain, Conn."; pictorial title page; vignette on copyright page; line drawings and decorations on every page; light scratch to front board; near fine. A lovely turn of the 20th century woman's unused album in which to record memories of school. Small charming illustrations are on each page.

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