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12 Pamphlets and offprints on the history of anaesthesia by ANAESTHESIA

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
12 Pamphlets and offprints on the history of anaesthesia
Author
ANAESTHESIA
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
HAYDEN, Dr. Anaesthesia by etherization, and the Viburnum compound. Bedford Mineral Springs, Mass.: New York Pharmaceutical Company, 1892. 8vo. 29, [1] pp., plus an additional [60] pages of text and testimonials about Dr. Hayden’s Viburnum. With frontispiece illustration of the New York Pharmaceutical Copmpany (“Completed March 1, 1892. One of the most perfect laboratories in this country”) and 3 full-page plates. Original printed wrappers, top wrapper and frontispiece separating from the stapled remainder of the pamphlet. First and only edition. One fascinating publication. KOPEZKY, Benedict Warnung vor den schädlichen Wirkungen der Aether-Einathmung nebst einer Vergleichung der Aetherbetäubung mit den Narkosen durch Weingeist, Opium, Tabak und Coca. Vienna: Karl Haas, 1847. 8vo. [iv], 43 pp. Unbound; very clean. First and only edition, rare, with no copies located in America. This early pamphlet acts as a warning about the harmful effects of ether inhalation, along with a comparison of other methods of anesthesia including ether, spirits, opium, tobacco, and cocaine. SCHLESIGNER, J. Die Einathmung des schwefel-aethers in ihren wirkungen auf menschen und thiere. Leipzig: Wolfgang Gerhard, 1847. 8vo. [ii], 47 pp. With 6 text illustrations of apparatus. Unbound. First and only edition of this work on inhalation of sulphur ether and its effects on humans and animals. Again, no copies are located in America. BIGELOW, Henry J. “Ether and chloroform; their discovery and physiological effects.” Offprint from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and the Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. 1. Boston: David Clapp, 1848. 8vo. [ii], 27; 18 pp. General title reading “Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers, and discovery; the second article, from the Transactions of the AMA, is entitled “Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition and physiological effects.” Original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. SIMS, J. Marion “History of the discovery of anaesthesia.” Offprint from the Virginia Medical Monthly, May, 1877. Richmond: 1877, New York: 1879. 8vo. 14 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Crawford W. Long (“Discoverer of anaesthesia”). Original printed wrappers. MORTON, William J. “The invention of anaesthetic inhalation; or, ‘discovery of anaesthesia.’” Offprint from The Virginia Medical Monthly, March, 1880. 8vo. 48 pp. Without wrappers, but with general title page in tact; stapled as issued. SIMPSON, Sir J. Y. “Historical letter on the introduction of anaesthetics in dentistry and surgery in America and on their first employment in midwifery in Great Britain.” Offprint from Medical Times and Gazette, Jan. 22, 1870. 8vo. 4 pp. (2 separated leaves). SIMPSON, J.Y. “On anaesthetics in instrumental and natural parturition: in a letter to Professor Meigs, of Philadelphia.” Offprint from the Association Medical Journal. London: T. Richards, 1853. 8vo. 24 pp. Unbound, sewn as issued. ARNOTT, James “On the invention of local anaesthesia by refrigeration.” Offprint from the Medical Times and Gazette for March 30, 1867. 8vo. 7 pp. Stapled as issued. Signed by the author on top of the drop title, and with 1 manuscript correction in the text. CUBITT, George Robert “Fatal case of inhalation of chloroform.” Extracted from Dr. Beale’s Archives of Medicine, No. XIII, 1863. 8vo. [3]-16 pp. Stapled at the top left corner. HAIG, Alexander “A contribution to the pathology of chloroform syncope.” From The Lancet of 23rd February, 1895. 8vo. 4 pp. Signed by the author. BRUNTON, T. Lauder “On one of the causes of death during the extraction of teeth under chloroform.” From the British Medical Journal, December 4, 1875. 8vo. 12 Unbound.
Late Victorian/ early Edwardian photo album with thirteen portraits of cross-eyed boys and men

Late Victorian/ early Edwardian photo album with thirteen portraits of cross-eyed boys and men

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Late Victorian/ early Edwardian photo album with thirteen portraits of cross-eyed boys and men
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1890. Very Good. A collection of late 19th portraits of cross-eyed (strabismus) boys and men. Ten cabinet cards, two cartes de visite, and one cardboard mounted black and white photo. Housed in a contemporary Art Nouveau album bound in green tapestry cloth and wooden upper cover carved in the style of Alphonse Mucha; with ornamental brass anchor and catch plates, lacking the clasp; all edges gilt. 10.75 x 8.5 x 2.25". Very Good with light wear to covers. Contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown, some tearing to interior slots with toning throughout. Light foxing and some occasional light staining to photographs. An intriguing object to say the least.
Wise Parenthood . .

Wise Parenthood . . by Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Title
Wise Parenthood . .
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Stopes, Marie Carmichael
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good -
Description
London: A.C. Fifield, 1918. First Edition. Very good -. 7 3/8” x 5 1/8”. Paper over boards. Pp. viii, 34. Very good minus: covers damp-stained, slightly warped and edge-worn; light foxing to front title label, prelims and a few pages' edge. This is the scarce first printing of a work on the status of birth control in the early 20th century, written by a pioneering female expert and advocate, Marie Carmichael Stopes. Born in 1880 in Scotland, Marie Carmichael Stopes has been referred to as “one of the grandmothers of the sexual revolution.” She earned a doctorate and became a lecturer in botany in 1904 (making her the first female faculty member at the University of Manchester), specializing in fossil plants and problems in coal mining. Her first marriage was unconsummated, and its annulment in 1916 led her to studies of sex, marriage, childbirth and their value in society. She founded the first birth control clinic in the United Kingdom and authored multiple scientific and literary works, such as Married Love (1918) and Our Ostriches, a play about working-class women being forced to procreate throughout their lives. Passionate, if problematic, Stopes advocated for suffrage and women's rights, but also supported eugenics among the lower classes. She died in 1958. Marie Stopes International, an NGO working on sexual and reproductive health worldwide, was established in 1976. In this book, written as a follow-up to Married Love (and rife with excerpts from and urges to read that book), Stopes declared that “The question before us is not whether or no[t] birth control should be allowed. It is in daily use by the great majority of the more intelligent married people.” The problem was the “general dissatisfaction with most of the methods used” and the “widespread ignorance of satisfactory methods even on the part of medical practitioners.” “Numbers of people,” she argued, were “in urgent need of a better method . . . The following pages are written for them.” Veering from the norm, well ahead of her time, the author opined that “Churchmen recommend (though I wonder if they practise) 'absolute continence.' Where the mated pair are young, normal, and in love, such advice is not only impracticable, it is detrimental. A rigid and enforced abstinence can be as destructive of health as incontinence.” She proffered a number of suggestions as to pregnancy prevention, some medically valid and many not, asserting that “The ideal method is not yet discovered, though I am following up a line of research at present on a method designed greatly to improve on those now available.” The book also held a page of glowing reviews for Married Love and a list of further reading. A trailblazing, if contentious, effort by an early female birth control advocate. OCLC shows 24 holdings of this first edition, with only 11 in the United States.
THE SERPENT'S TONGUE: PROSE, POETRY, AND ART OF THE NEW MEXICO PUEBLOS

THE SERPENT'S TONGUE: PROSE, POETRY, AND ART OF THE NEW MEXICO PUEBLOS by WOOD, Nancy

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THE SERPENT'S TONGUE: PROSE, POETRY, AND ART OF THE NEW MEXICO PUEBLOS
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WOOD, Nancy
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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Dutton Books, 1997. WOOD, Nancy. THE SERPENT'S TONGUE: PROSE, POETRY, AND ART OF THE NEW MEXICO PUEBLOS. NY: Dutton Books, [1997]. Quarto, pictorial boards in dust jacket. Illustrated. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Wood on the half-title page. Fine in d/j. $27.50.
Helen Lundeberg: Paintings through Five Decades

Helen Lundeberg: Paintings through Five Decades

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Helen Lundeberg: Paintings through Five Decades
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-. Some wear to covers.
Description
New York: Graham, 1982. Softcover. VG-. Some wear to covers.. Red & BW illus. stapled wraps, 32 pp., BW & color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1982 (October 20-December 4) exhibition featuring selections from California Hard Edge painter Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999). With a brief intro, chronology, bibilgraphy, and exhibition catalog, as well as a representative number of illustrations.
Important 19th & 20th Century Master Graphics 1860 - 1930

Important 19th & 20th Century Master Graphics 1860 - 1930

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Important 19th & 20th Century Master Graphics 1860 - 1930
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Chicago, IL: R.S. Johnson International, 1974. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran Winter 1974. Includes illustrations of works by Aristide Maillol, Jean Francois Millet, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, and others. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers.

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