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“Ether and chloroform; their discovery and physiological effects.” From The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and the Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. I. by BIGELOW, Henry

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“Ether and chloroform; their discovery and physiological effects.” From The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and the Transactions of the American Medical Association, Vol. I.
Author
BIGELOW, Henry
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston: David Clapp, 1848. FIRST EDITION TOGETHER. Complete the general title page (Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers, and discovery). Original blue printed wrappers. An excellent copy. First edition together of the most significant early American papers on anaesthesia. The first part, “Ether and chloroform,” was first printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal six months prior to this printing; the second part, “Anaesthetic agents, their mode of exhibition and physiological effects,” was originally written for the Surgical Committee of the National Medical Convention. This is the first time the two parts were published together. “The author, for almost forty years the dominant figure in New England surgery, was quick to recognize the value of ether after witnessing Morton’s celebrated demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. Morton’s plan to patent the new agent and his unwillingness to divulge its composition prevented further experimentation until Bigelow forced the issue. Three weeks later an amputation was performed using the ether, and Morton authorized Bigelow to publish a full account of its use resulting in this fascinating paper, the first published report of the new anesthetic” (Eimas). Bigelow here discusses the pros and cons of using ether vapors or chloroform comparing these with other anesthetic agents. “Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery, and his subsequent advocacy of ether assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the priority claims in general and with a defense of Morton’s claim in particular and contains detailed information on their surgical use, dangers and history” (Garrison & Morton). Garrison & Morton, 5730.
The life and times of Alexander Hamilton

The life and times of Alexander Hamilton by SCHMUCKER, Samuel M.

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The life and times of Alexander Hamilton
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SCHMUCKER, Samuel M.
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton, tissue guard present. Publisher’s decorated cloth, author and title in gilt on spine; interior very clean, 1 quire a bit loose, but overall an excellent copy. First edition of this in-depth biography. Though the author does write a bit about Hamilton’s personal life, including his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler and his affair with Maria Reynolds, the focus is more toward Hamilton’s involvement in the economy, politics and law. His relationships with Lafayette, Washington, Burr and Jefferson are well known and eloquently narrated here, as is his role in the formation of a national bank and America’s involvement in foreign affairs. This is clearly a biography meant for the general public who might be interested in learning about one of the country’s founding fathers.
OFFICIUM HEBDOMADAE SANCTAE [Office of Holy Week]

OFFICIUM HEBDOMADAE SANCTAE [Office of Holy Week]

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OFFICIUM HEBDOMADAE SANCTAE [Office of Holy Week]
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Near fine.
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Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti [Plantin Press Balthasar Moretus], 1684. Near fine.. Beautifully bound Plantin edition of this fundamental collection of liturgies for the week leading up to Easter. An important and commonly reprinted liturgical collection in a finely printed Plantin edition in black and red ink. This copy was rebound in the Victorian era with traits typically found on more deluxe productions of religious texts in that era: goatskin leather, brass clasps, gilt and gauffered edges. USTC locates nine copies, with FirstSearch adding a few more, but none recorded at American institutions. A striking artifact of Victorian aesthetic transformation. 12mo, 6'' x 3.5''. 19th-century full brown goatskin with multiple rules in blind, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, two brass clasps at fore-edge. Marbled endpapers, gauffered edges, multiple ribbon markets. Illustrated with engraved title-page vignette, 5 engraved plates, and woodcut initials. Printed in red and black. 655, [1] pages, collated complete. Ink gift inscription dated 1879 to second fly leaf; embossed bookplate of Hallam Webber laid in. Light rubbing to joints; text with some foxing and browning. Housed in custom paper faux-vellum solander case with marbled interior.
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DIE FORM Monatsschrift für gestaltende Arbeit. Vols 3 -7 (57 issues) 1928 - 1932 by Riezler, Walter (editor)

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DIE FORM Monatsschrift für gestaltende Arbeit. Vols 3 -7 (57 issues) 1928 - 1932
Author
Riezler, Walter (editor)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf, 1928. Soft cover. Very Good. A non-continuous run of 57 issues of the German magazine dedicated to architecture, design and graphics as follows: 1928 3 Jr, Heft 1-4, 9-14; 1929 4 Jr. Heft 1, 3 - 8, 10, 18 - 21, 23 - 24; 1930 5 Jr. Heft 1, 3 , 4, 7, 8, 11/12, 14, 16 - 19/20, 23/24; 1931 6 Jr. Heft 1, 3 - 12; and, 1932 7 Jr. Heft 1, 3, 4, 6 - 12. Some covers worn more than others, interiors consistently nice.
Fair Warnings to a Careless World, or, The Serious Practice of Religion Recommended by the Admonitions of Dying Men, and the Sentiments of All People in Their Most serious Hours: and Other Testimonies of an Extraordinary Nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, Serious Advice to a Sick Person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also, a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay. With Suitable Cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals

Fair Warnings to a Careless World, or, The Serious Practice of Religion Recommended by the Admonitions of Dying Men, and the Sentiments of All People in Their Most serious Hours: and Other Testimonies of an Extraordinary Nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, Serious Advice to a Sick Person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also, a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay. With Suitable Cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals by Woodward, Josiah

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Fair Warnings to a Careless World, or, The Serious Practice of Religion Recommended by the Admonitions of Dying Men, and the Sentiments of All People in Their Most serious Hours: and Other Testimonies of an Extraordinary Nature. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. To which is added, Serious Advice to a Sick Person by Archbishop Tillotson. As also, a Prospect of Death: A Pindarique Essay. With Suitable Cuts. Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals
Author
Woodward, Josiah
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
London: Printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer Senr & Junr, 1707 First edition. Rebound in modern vellum, title hand-lettered in ink on spine, new endpapers. . Octavo. Illustrated with six full-page cuts reminiscent of the "Danse Macabre" depicting skeletons, sepulchers piled high with skulls, and other morbid imagery Scattered light foxing throughout with greater degrees of foxing to signatures K-M. Repair to p. 15, touching text, but not affecting legibility. Union Theological Seminary's blindstamp on title-page, p. 113, and p. 235, and rubber ink stamp to gutter margin of p. iii. A very good copy. Josiah Woodward (1660-1712) was a Church of England clergyman, moral reformer, and writer of penny tracts, which were often published anonymously. Fair Warnings is a conduct book that serves to inspire the reader to live a moral, Christian life via frightful pictures of people on their deathbeds, "living" skeletons, powerful men contemplating their deaths, Roman Emperor Adrian leading his own funeral march while a portrait of a robed skeleton is held high, and other such morbid illustrations and content (Oxford DNB)
Ming Yellow

Ming Yellow by John P. Marquand

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Ming Yellow
Author
John P. Marquand
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Heartwood Books (United States)
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Very Good
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Book Condition: Very Good: A firm square copy with foxing to the cover cloth and inside cloth edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good: A three-quarter inch partially closed tear to the upper spine edge and minor chip, minor chips to corner tips. Not price-clipped. Clear cover.Published March 1935, stated.
THE BIRTH OF MEDICAL GENETICS. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Human Genetics. Copenhagen, August 1-6, 1956

THE BIRTH OF MEDICAL GENETICS. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Human Genetics. Copenhagen, August 1-6, 1956 by Kemp, Tage, Hauge, Mogens and Harvald, Bent

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THE BIRTH OF MEDICAL GENETICS. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Human Genetics. Copenhagen, August 1-6, 1956
Author
Kemp, Tage, Hauge, Mogens and Harvald, Bent
Seller
Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
Basel, New York: S. Karger, 1957. First edition. "THE BIRTH OF MEDICAL GENETICS": COMPLETE PROCEEDINGS OF 1956 COPENHAGEN HUMAN GENETICS MEETING WITH SIGNED TAGE KEMP ANNIVERSARY VOLUME. 17.3 x 24.3 cm gray paperbound volumes (Parts I-V): Part: I: [2],vii-xvi,[157]-316; Part II: [2],[321]-502; Part III: [2],505-613; Part IV: [2],3-248; Part V: [2],251-512, Index, and 17.3 x 24.8 cm Anniversary Number in Honour of the Sixtieth Birthday of Tage Kemp, August 28, 1956, Part I: [i-iv], pp [287]-422; Part II: 1-155. Anniversary number is inscribed and signed in ink on title page by Tage Kemp, "Hr. professor overlage, dr. med Erik Stromgren med hjertelig tak venhigst from Tage Kemp". Near fine in archival case. N. Comfort in The Science of Human Perfection (Yale, 2012): "The 1956 Copenhagen meeting looms large in the mythology of medical genetics, because it occurred at what has become known as the birth of the field. McKusick called it a "very defining experience" in his medical-genetic education. It is a trough in the medical-genetic landscape; events on either side tend to roll mnemonically into the summer of 1956, and Copenhagen gets credit for publicizing and therefore originating them. Nearly four hundred delegates attended, and fourteen countries sent national committees to the meeting. The prewar and immediate postwar cohort who had established the heredity clinics and founded the ASHG still dominated the American committee, which included such representatives as Sheldon Reed, Pete Oliver, Eldon Gardner, and Arthur Steinberg. An ambiguous group of respected geneticists with Nazi ties represented Germany: Otmar von Verschuer, Fritz Lenz, and Hans Nachtsheim all sought reintegration into the international genetics community. The British committee included Lionel Penrose, the Galton Professor, and Harry Harris, a biochemical geneticist at London Hospital Medical College, among others. Many Scandinavian medical geneticists attended, of course. Their noncoercive medical eugenics established a model for volunteeristic state control of heredity; several delegates reported on recent efforts to institute genetic registration of infants as an experiment in socialized genetic medicine. The formal government apparatus provided a supporting structure for voluntary eugenics, which scientists such as Kemp deemed not only acceptable but necessary for the responsible stewardship of the race. The Danish minister of education, Julius Bomholt, opened the proceedings by invoking the atomic age and how it had shaped human genetics as a field. He stressed its role in making the prevention of spread" of hereditary disease a topic of intense interest. Kemp took up this question in his presidential address, sharpening it in genetic terms. Invoking H. Muller's paradigm-generating paper of 1950, Kemp wrote. 'Within recent years, very much attention has been drawn to the dangers which load of mutations involves for the human race." Indeed, Muller's paper, "Further Reflections on the Load of Mutations in Man," followed Kemp's remarks in the proceedings. But one could turn this observation around, Kemp noted, and recognize the "treasure of normal genes" we harbor in our cells. Medical geneticists were the stewards of the gene pool. 'It is the task and responsibility of mankind in our generation, and in particular of the students of human and medical genetics, to protect this treasure and to shelter this heritage from harmful influences and threatening hazards." For Kemp, the "rise and rapid progress" of human genetics during the previous half-century-particularly in blood group studies, radiation genetics, population genetics, genetic epidemiology and control, medicogenetic registration, and genetic counseling-meant that the dream of genetic control was at hand. "The time is drawing near," he wrote, "when man can control his own biological evolution and also command his environments and conditions of life to an increasing extent." The medicalization of human genetics would enable mankind to at last realize the fantasy of self-directed evolution. Much of the meeting concerned topics that would have been familiar to any human-geneticist back to the beginning of the century. It featured twin studies and pedigrees; studies of inbreeding and cousin marriage; studies of color-blindness, hemophilia, and polydactylism; studies of race mixing; studies of intlligence and psychological disorders. Medicine, anthropology. and psychology still vied for predominance. President Kemp, describing Denmark's "medico-genetic or genetic-hygienic registration," outlined a method of field work indistinguishable from that of William Allan and Nash Herndon: Although analytical techniques had grown more sophisticated since 1940, the end was the same: "Using the experiences gained in the medico-genetic registry it will be possible to exercise a genetic-hygienic or eugenic activity as adviser on questions of sterilization, induced abortion, marriage, adoption and special relief" Such was the reality of preventive medicine in the atomic age. Although the bomb had rung in a new era filled with newly powerful sources of genetic risk, the means for reducing and ameliorating that risk remained about what they had been in the Progressive era. The gentle socialism of northern Europe provided the centralization necessary to consider such a project; American medical geneticists could only sigh and hope for such a system." TAGE KEMP (1896 - 1964) graduated in 1921 in medicine and from 1923 he researched the fields of bacteriology, blood typing, tissue typing, endocrinology and heredity. In 1927 he earned a doctorate with the thesis Studies of sex characters in foetuses. By February 1935, Oluf Thomsen proposed the foundation of an Institute for Human Genetics and Eugenics in order to render possible research in this field. The result was the erection of the building at Tagensvej 14, although without the later addition of a first floor. The University Institute for Human Genetics was inaugurated 14 October 1938 with Tage Kemp as the leader. Young researchers carried out comprehensive medical-genetical investigations resulting in twenty-five theses during the first ten years. In August 1956 in Copenhagen Tage Kemp hosted the first International Congress in Human Genetics. PROVENANCE: ERIK STROMGREN (1909-1993) was a Danish psychiatrist, a consultant at the Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus and professor of psychiatry at the University of Aarhus 1945-80. He was the author of numerous scientific articles in the field of psychiatric genetics, demography, epidemiology, and general psychiatry, with a major impact on scientific psychiatry in Denmark. The Strömgren Medal is awarded to honor prominent psychiatric investigators.
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The Portable Transit Instrument .... by Abbe, C

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The Portable Transit Instrument ....
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Abbe, C
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A near fine copy.
Description
Washington: GPO, 1870. First Edition.. orig. printed stiff cloth.. A near fine copy.. 8vo. An explanation of the Doellen's portable transit instrument and its use in determining time.
Robert Salmon (Painter of Ship and Shore).

Robert Salmon (Painter of Ship and Shore). by Wilmerding, John.

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Robert Salmon (Painter of Ship and Shore).
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Wilmerding, John.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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V G. in D J.
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Peabody Museum of Salem, (1971). V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 123 pp. B/W and Color plates.
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Easter Parade. by Berlin, Irving.

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Easter Parade.
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Berlin, Irving.
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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Sheet music, square folio (9 " x 12") red and black top cover with title, 6 pp. Slight edgewear, normal aging; otherwise very good plus plus. Classic Irving Berlin song that would be popular for decades.
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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise, Vols. 1 and 2 by Stratonovich, R. L., Richard A. Silverman (trans.)

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Topics in the Theory of Random Noise, Vols. 1 and 2
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Stratonovich, R. L., Richard A. Silverman (trans.)
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
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VeryGood
Description
New York: Gordon and Breach [1981]. Hardcovers. Both 9'' x 6''. xi, 292pp; xiv, 329pp. 1981 printings. Various diagrams throughout. Publisher's black and white boards; no DJs as issued. Ownership signatures on half-title pages. Scuffing to Vol. 1 front board. Near Fine. . VeryGood. Hardcover .
More Die of Heartbreak

More Die of Heartbreak by Bellow, Saul

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More Die of Heartbreak
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Bellow, Saul
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780688069353
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 335pp. Sharp Stated First Edition. First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout save some scattered spotting to the fore-edges. A touch of softness to the spine ends. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($17.95) has a touch of surface rubbing and toning to edges. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.
Gedenkboek FranzJunghuhn, 1809-1909

Gedenkboek FranzJunghuhn, 1809-1909

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Gedenkboek FranzJunghuhn, 1809-1909
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McBlain Books (United States)
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Very Good
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's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (portrait), photos, 2 fasimiles (1 folding), x, 361p. Original cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. 25cm. Scattered pencil (and a couple in ink) line markings in margins (mostly erased). No jacket. Dutch text.
"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described...": Photographs 1840-1998, from the Collection of Arlette & Gus Kayafas

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described...": Photographs 1840-1998, from the Collection of Arlette & Gus Kayafas

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"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described...": Photographs 1840-1998, from the Collection of Arlette & Gus Kayafas
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ReadInk (United States)
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Near Fine
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Brockton MA: Fuller Museum of Art. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [minor smudging to a couple of pages, otherwise as new]. (B&W photographs) Catalogue for an exhibition at the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton, Massachusetts, from March through June of 1998. Apart from a one-page explanation about the collection, the publication is entirely given over to reproductions of some of the photos in the exhibition. Including the cover shot, there are twenty images altogether (presented either two or one on a page), including work by Lewis W. Hine, Julia Margaret Cameron, August Sander, Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Lisette Model, Harry Callahan, and Garry Winogrand. 16 pages, including covers. .
The Curate's Wife (Virago Modern Classics)

The Curate's Wife (Virago Modern Classics) by Young, E.H.

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The Curate's Wife (Virago Modern Classics)
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Young, E.H.
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780140161090
Condition
Very good
Description
NY: Penguin Books, 1985. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Pages tanned, textblock edges foxed, wraps lightly rubbed, else very good.

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