Physics: Facts and Theories. by SAVAGE, Minot Judson (1841-1918) - 1893

Creasing to ffep & half title page. Rubbing along spine, edges & corners. One-quarter leather. Four raised bands on spine. 626 p.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Danielem Elsevirium, 1671 A very good copy of the '3rd and Final' edition of Richard Lower's major treatise on the working of the heart and lungs. Richard Lower (1631-1691) was the first person to perform a blood transfusion, reporting in 1666 that blood had been successfully transferred between 2 dogs. Shortly afterwards he carried out an experiment to transfuse some blood from a sheep to a man - with some hopes that the gentleness of the lamb would be carried in the blood. He counted Thomas Willis (founder of the Royal Society) and Robert Hooke as close associates and was a follower of William Harvey. Tractatus de Corde (roughly translated as Treatment of the Heart) was his most important work, detailing his experimental surgery and findings. This copy, in contemporary full leather binding, formed part of the Selbourne Library - acquired by the late Hugh Selbourne - and has the Selbourne Library stamp to the verso of the title page, and the bottom margin of p 51.… Read More

Full vellum with titles inked to spines. 6 raised bands. Red speckled edges. Fissure in vellum at front hinges, but quite firm. Wine colored stain to front cover of vol. II near spine. Many foldout plates. Late 17th century compilation of medical specialties. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1072; 1223 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of… Read More

Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.

Creasing to ffep & half title page. Rubbing along spine, edges & corners. One-quarter leather. Four raised bands on spine. 626 p.

Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good -. 174, [2] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Black cloth with white spine title. Orange and black dust jacket. "The author has established some hereditary regularities of papillary patterns by his new method of cellophanedactylograms . . . The described dactyloscopical method has been tested and successfully used in 1600 paternity law suits." Very scarce. Book is in Near Fine Condition: some sunning to page edges; otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; 1-cm. tear in lower edge of front section and in upper edge of back section.

New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851. Paperback. Good. 132, [8] p.; 20 cm. Tan wrapper printed in black. "Mail Edition" -- at top edge of front wrapper. Spine title: Lectures on Hygiene and Hydropathy. Back wrapper bears advertisement for The Water-Cure Journal and Herald of Reform published by Fowlers and Wells. Eight unpaginated pages following text contain: a publisher's advertisement for Bulwer and Forbes on the Water Treatment, edted with additional matter by Roland S. Houghton -- the advertisement for The Water-Cure Journal -- a publisher's catalog. Contents: Preface -- Constitution -- List of Officers -- Address at the Hydropathic Convention -- Hygiene the True Moral of the Cholera -- Hydrotherapy Rational, and Not Empirical. The author, the Rev. Roland Stebbins Houghton (1824-1876), was a friend of Edgar Allan Poe, who dedicated two poems to Houghton's wife, Marie Louise Shew Houghton. She had previously been married to Dr. Joel T. Shew (1816-1855), an early… Read More

Erlangen: Hilpert, 1815. Paperback. Very Good. 26 p.; 24 cm. As printed, the title page left the specific date of the lecture blank; in pencil it was changed to "Die 3. Januar MDCCCXVI," indicating that, rather than being delivered in Dec. 1815, it was delivered on Jan. 3, 1816. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). The author, Johann Christian Friedrich Harless (1773-1853), was a German physician who served as a director of a clinical institute in Erlangen beginning in 1805 and in 1818 went to Bonn as a professor of pathology. Based on the natural philosophy of Schelling, he developed a theory of electropathology. In Very Good Condition: lacking stitching; title page slightly darkened along fore-edge; title page and p. 26 lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright. Scarce.

Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of… Read More