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Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation by BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB

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Title: Insensibility During Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
Author: BIGELOW, HENRY JACOB
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston, 1847. 1st Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of the first announcement of the successful use of anesthesia during surgical operations, one of the greatest discoveries of nineteenth-century medicine. A visitor to Boston, Massachusetts would be well advised to take a stroll to the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital to see the amphitheater where surgery without pain began. On October 16, 1846, dentist William T.G. Morton publicly performed a painless surgery through the use of general anesthesia, thereby transforming surgical medicine, and marking one of the greatest advances in medicine, one that not only liberated patients from pain, but enabled surgeons to perform more extensive operations. Offered here is the first edition offprint of the first announcement of Morton's seminal achievement as reported by Henry Jacob Bigelow in the November 18, 1846 issue of The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Vol. XXXV No. 16, pp. 309-316. Interestingly, the offprint omits the last seven paragraphs from the journal article critical of the patent-holders: Drs. Morton and Charles T. Jackson. The redacted paragraphs likely indicates the offprint was issued shortly after the journal. Offprint from: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. XXXV, No. 16. 8 pages. As issued, without wrappers. Paper uniformly toned. First and last leaves detached from stitching. Small closed tear in margin of last leaf, edges rough. Presented in a handsome custom box. RARE.

Verve by TERIADE E.

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Title: Verve
Author: TERIADE E.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1939. First Edition. TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Volume 2, Number 5-6 (July-October 1939). Special Double Number. Paris: (Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts), 1939. Slim folio, original illustrated wrappers by Maillol. $1200.First American edition of this exceptional issue of Verve, with cover art by Aristide Maillol, 13 original lithographs (including Braque, Rouault, Derain, Léger, Bonnard, Matisse and Klee), and articles by Valéry, Gide and Sartre.""Fifty years ago in Paris, the magazine to look for was Verve, which first came out in December 1937 and kept going in one form or another till 1960. That first cover (by Henri Matisse) sang out from the other side of the street in a way that made us run across the road to look at it more closely. And when we turned its pages, Verve had a bosomy, full-fleshed, slightly slithery quality that this former subscriber would know in his sleep"" (John Russell). Art critic Efstratios Eleftheriades, under the nom de plume ""Tériade,"" founded Verve, with the financial assistance of David Smart, publisher of Esquire and Apparel Arts. ""The magazine, a quarterly review of arts and letters, was lavish in design and challenging in content. Teriade's view of the world of art and literature was personal, bold and compelling"" (Rick Gagliano). Once called ""the most beautiful magazine in the world,"" Verve contained original lithographs by the most famous artists of the day Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Miró, Chagall with numerous lithographs appearing for the first time. This issue contains, apart from Aristide Maillol's cover, 13 original lithographs, including those of Braque, Rouault, Derain, Léger, Bonnard, Matisse and Klee. First American edition, published the same year as the French, with English text translated by Robert Sage. Plates and text fine, expert repairs to original wrappers. An attractive copy.

[INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a partially printed leaf with manuscript annotations by Anonymous Indian Artist

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Title: [INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a partially printed leaf with manuscript annotations
Author: Anonymous Indian Artist
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in excellent condition. An intriguing Indian painting with extensive gilding which mimics Persian dynastic or genealogical manuscripts but was in fact written in a fake language. Likely created for the tourist trade, the painting was applied on a completely unrelated, partially printed leaf (lithographed?) which has been annotated in manuscript. The words which appear in the circular portraits are written in a fake language. Clearly the artist did not know Persian (or Urdu since the two languages utilize almost the same alphabet), and thus resorted to writing letters that looked similar. In fact, they are mere squiggles. Suitable for exhibition and study. We are grateful to Kelley Tuttle for her characteristically excellent cataloguing assistance.

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