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The principles and practice of medicine by OSLER, Sir William

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The principles and practice of medicine
Author: OSLER, Sir William
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Appleton, 1892. FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. Finely bound in full morocco, gilt lettering and decorations on spine, a very fine copy belonging to Robert Saundby, president of the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society, with his bookplate. With an autographed letter tipped into the book, written by Osler, concerning a lecture by Ronald Ross (Nobel Prize winner for medicine, 1902) on maleria in Greece. Osler invites Saundby to the lecture and a dinner to be held prior to the lecture. First edition, second issue, with Plato’s Gorgias corrected on the verso of the third leaf. Osler’s textbook was considered the best English work on medicine of its time, and became a standard text for students and practitioners in every country and language in the world. It provided a systematized text on internal medicine as well as relevant information from great advances in the laboratory sciences, particularly bacteriology. The chapters describe specific diseases by systems, a pattern since followed by most textbooks. Osler (1849-1919) was a clinician, pathologist, and historian of medicine. His warm and charming personality, his great skill as a physician, his innovative structuring of the medical school curriculum, and his many significant writings have made him the most important figure of his time in both English and North American medicine. Handwritten letters by Osler and very scarce and rare. Garrison & Morton, 2231; Golden & Roland, Sir William Osler, an Annotated Bibliography, 1375; Lilly Library, Notable Medical Books, 233; Norman, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine, 82.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day by Browning, Robert

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Author: Browning, Robert
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [iv], 142, [1] pp., no advertisement pages at rear as issued. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth (Carter's Variant C) blind ruled with ornamental gilt titles and frame at upper board with plain spine. Very Good with lean to binding, rubbing at extremities with soiling and rippling to cloth; light scratching to rear board. Inner gutter tender with small abrasion at center, blind embossed ex-libris stamp of British bookseller W. H. Smith at front free endpaper. Offsetting at half-title and verso of last leaf,scattered marginal foxing. Two of the Victorian writer's religious narrative poems published together just after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Broughton A54.

The Four Georges (Four volumes bound in two) by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Title: The Four Georges (Four volumes bound in two)
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1866. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Extra-illustrated, with autographs of George I through George IV. 8vo. [5], 105, 105-226 pp., with 92 and 108 additional illustrations in the two volumes, respectively. Signatures of George I and II in the first volume, III and IV, in the second.

Archive Pertaining To Asher Merrell, Soldier Killed During American Revolution, To Ensure Payment For His Service by (REVOLUTIONARY WAR)

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Title: Archive Pertaining To Asher Merrell, Soldier Killed During American Revolution, To Ensure Payment For His Service
Author: (REVOLUTIONARY WAR)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: (CONTINENTAL ARMY SOLDIER). This archive consists of the following three items related to a Continental Army soldier, Asher Merrell, who was killed: a.DS. 1 pg. 4 x 6. January 12, 1781. Hebron. Document signed Sam Gilbert Jus Pea and addressed To the Committee of Boy Soldiers: This may certify that Asher Merrell of Hebron is Natural Guardian & Parent to Asher Merrell Jun of Hebron a Soldier in the Continental Service Deceased he was a Minor and Under Age at the Time of his Death. b.DS. 1 pg. 4 x 6. January 12, 1781. Hebron. This is a document signed by two Selectmen of Hebron: This may certify that Asher Merrell Jun. Served in Connecticut Line in the Continental Army in Col. Chandlers Regiment before the fifth of Jany 1780. c.DS. 1 pg. 6 x 8. March 10, 1781. Hartford. A printed document indicating payment of Nine Pounds eight shillings & five pence as the payment due since January 5, 1780 to Asher Merrell Junr Deceased and Paid to Asher Merrell Parent. These three documents reflect the documents certifying the death of Asher Merrell and his payment for his service in the Continental Army. Ensuring timely payment for casualties of war has long been a difficult task, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries with limited records and overwhelmed governments. So, a positive resolution in 14 months was relatively fortunate for Merrells family. Additionally, Merrell fighting as an underaged soldier reflected a common occurrence in an era before verifiable birth certificates, and the existence of a Committee of Boy Soldiers reflected such regularity. All three documents are in very good condition and unique windows into wartime bureaucracy during the American Revolution. Included with the archive is a typed page with additional contextualization.

Note Signed By Famous British-American Arist, Benjamin West by BENJAMIN WEST

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Title: Note Signed By Famous British-American Arist, Benjamin West
Author: BENJAMIN WEST
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: BENJAMIN WEST (1738-1820). West painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.ANS. 1 pg. 3 x 7. March 7, 1785. N.p. An autographed note signed Ben West: The Note given to Col Hunt by Col Morey in June 1782 was 43~2~6 Interest to March 7th 1785 7~1~10. This note appears to be an informal affidavit indicating the amount of money paid to Col Hunt and the accruing interest on it over the intervening three years, totaling 50 pounds, four shillings, and four pence. In the late 18th century, Hunt was historical painter to the Court of St. James at an annual fee of 1,000. The note is in very condition.

The Argument of the Lord Keeper Sommers, On His Giving Judgment.. by Somers, John Somers, Baron

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Title: The Argument of the Lord Keeper Sommers, On His Giving Judgment..
Author: Somers, John Somers, Baron
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description: 1733. A Low Point in Somers's Career Somers, John, Baron [1651-1716]. The Argument of the Lord Keeper Sommers, On His Giving Judgment in the Bankers Case: Deliver'd in the Exchequer-Chamber, June 23, 1696. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, 1733. [ii], 128 pp. Quarto (8" x 7"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into recent quarter calf over cloth, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering piece to spine. Some toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves. A handsome copy. $600. * Only edition and the only complete account. This case was an unfortunate moment in Somers's otherwise brilliant career. (He was an important Whig jurist, Lord Chancellor during the reigns of William & and Mary and Queen Anne and framer of the English Bill of Rights). "In the most important case which came before him in the exchequer chamber, that of the bankers who had recovered judgment in the court of exchequer for arrears of interest due to them as assignees of certain perpetual annuities charged by Charles II upon the hereditary excise as security for advances, he expended some hundreds of pounds and an immense amount of thought and research, with no better result than to defeat an intrinsically just claim, on the technical ground that it was not cognisable in the court of exchequer, but only by petition of right. No judgment so elaborate had ever been delivered in Westminster Hall as that by which, in November 1696, he reversed the decision of the court of exchequer" (Dictionary of National Biography). This decision was reversed by the House of Lords three years later. Despite Somers's importance, few accounts of his legal work exist today; it is known mostly through summaries. This is a scarce title. OCLC locates 7 copies in North American law libraries. Dictionary of National Biography XVIII:632. English Short-Title Catalogue T79392.

[Letter Concerning Sheep Farming in Australia]. ; Women by Burrell, Mrs

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Title: [Letter Concerning Sheep Farming in Australia]. ; Women
Author: Burrell, Mrs
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Broken Hill, Australia, 1937. Good. Two 8¾” x 6 7/8” sheets folded inside original 3½” x 5½” envelope. Four-page handwritten letter, about 575 words plus sketched drawing. Letter very good, creased at old folds; envelope about good, lacking 2” section, though both addresses unaffected. This is a fantastic letter written by an American woman describing sheep farming and fleecing in the Australian outback. Signed “Aunty” and addressed to “My dear Charles” (clearly a nickname for the recipient, one “Miss Alice C. Smith” of Watertown, Massachusetts), this letter goes into all-encompassing detail about working with sheep on an Australian farm. Mrs. Burrell observed that her present location, Netley Station, was “much like our large ranches in the west” and ran to about 600,000 acres with a whopping 85,000 sheep. “This is shearing time,” she wrote, and “it is very interesting.” The letter meticulously describes the work entailed in shearing and transporting the animals, sorting and grading the fleece, and the climate affecting the whole process. She also addressed other aspects of her sojourn (“I have not yet been into one of the mines – women are not very welcome underground”) and sketched out a drawing of the “sheep run and sheds,” tables and stalls where the fleecing occurred, and the “press where wool is baled.” A delightful introduction to sheep farming in Australia written by an American woman.

Alameda County California by [ALAMEDA COUNTY]. BRADLEY, Daniel H

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Title: Alameda County California
Author: [ALAMEDA COUNTY]. BRADLEY, Daniel H
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Oakland, Board of Supervisors, 1915., 1915. First edition. 8vo (5 3/4" x 8 3/4"). Illustrated with 39 halftone photographs. 64 pages + original stiff pictorial wrappers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Two Tales by S.Y. Agnon - Betrothed & Edo Enam by AGNON, S.Y

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Title: Two Tales by S.Y. Agnon - Betrothed & Edo Enam
Author: AGNON, S.Y
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: New York, Schocken Books [1966]., 1966. First edition thus, third printing (so stated). 8vo. Translated from the Hebrew by Walter Lever. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. 237 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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