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VENEREAL DISEASE POSTER Circa World War II: VD. A SORRY ENDING TO A FURLOUGH
by [MEDICINE]
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- Used - Very light soiling. About Fine
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- First Edition
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- [1946?]
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- Poster
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,026.90
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[1946?]. First Edition. Poster. Very light soiling. About Fine. A 15" x 19-1/2" poster in color, apparently produced in 1946 when the U.S. military was trying to enforce a policy of non-fraternization in the occupation zones between the troops and European women. It depicts a sullen soldier sitting on his bunk in uniform above the title of the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,026.90
TIBERII CAVALLOS FULLSTÄNDIGA AFHANDLING OM ELECTRICITETEN. Öfversättning Jemte Tillägg Och Anmärkningar af Carl Gust. Sjöstén, Carl Pet. Ohrling. 1-3
by CAVALLO, Tiberius
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- Used - Moderate to heavy foxing throughout, the folding plates generally clean. While the spine is in very nice shape, the boards are h
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- First Edition
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- 1795-96
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 599.02
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Lund: Prof. Joh. Lundblad, 1795-96. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout, the folding plates generally clean. While the spine is in very nice shape, the boards are heavily rubbed with loss. Good. Three parts in one small octavo (4-1/4" x 7-1/8") volume in calf-backed boards with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; [14], 207, [2]; [2], 387,… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 599.02
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What It Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It. In Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up
by [BURTON, Robert] DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR
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- Used - Small chip to one text page; small library stamp to front pastedown and sticker to verso of dedication leaf; generally clean wit
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- Third Edition
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- 1628
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,567.25
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London: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small chip to one text page; small library stamp to front pastedown and sticker to verso of dedication leaf; generally clean with occasional stain; few pages at beginning and end splitting from binding. Joints split, covers held by cords; minor chipping to spine. Overall a Very Good example of this important book.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 2,567.25
WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BABY
by [MENCKEN, H.L.] HIRSHBERG, Leonard Keene
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- Used - Minor rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine, lacking the impossibly scarce dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1910
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,567.25
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New York: Butterick Publishing, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine, lacking the impossibly scarce dustwrapper. Aside from his nearly impossible to obtain first book VENTURES INTO VERSE, this is Mencken's scarcest book. Though not published under his own name, Mencken wrote most if not all of the text. If you want to know… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 2,567.25
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH MEDICAL CHRONOLOGY, SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA
by GARRISON, Fielding H
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- Used - Light edgewear. Very Good
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- Fourth Edition
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- n.d. [1970s?]
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 128.43
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Philadelphia & London: W. B.Saunders Company, n.d. [1970s?]. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Light edgewear. Very Good. Reprint, cloth; 996 pages. Illustrated with portraits.
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SGD 128.43
A DENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, BRITISH AND AMERICAN, 1682-1880, WITH AN INDEX OF AUTHORS
by CAMPBELL, J. Menzies
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- Used - Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front pastedown. Near Fine in a Very Good, apparently original, slipca
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1949
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 59.97
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London: David Low, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front pastedown. Near Fine in a Very Good, apparently original, slipcase. Blue cloth in slipcase; 63 pages with erratum slip tipped in. Arranged chronologically with over 700 items listed.
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SGD 59.97
EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL IMPRINTS 1668 - 1820
by AUSTIN, Robert B
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- Used - Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front inside cover. Tears to front cover. Good
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- First Edition
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- 1961
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 59.97
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Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front inside cover. Tears to front cover. Good. Printed wrappers; x, 240 pages.
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SGD 59.97
A MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (GARRISON AND MORTON). AN ANNOTATED CHECK-LIST OF TEXTS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
by MORTON, Leslie T
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- Used - Rear hinge broken, no other defects; tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Good in a Good dustwrapper
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- Third Edition
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- (1970)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 128.43
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Philadelphia & Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1970). Third Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge broken, no other defects; tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Good in a Good dustwrapper. Cloth; 872 pages. Essential work in the field with 7,534 entries.
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SGD 128.43
HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE IN A CATALOGUE OF HISTORIC BOOKS IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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- Used - Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 128.43
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Iowa City: Friends Of The University Of Iowa Libraries, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth; xiv, 474 pages. Excellent reference work with illustrations. "This catalogue contains descriptions of 1,196 of the 1,600 books in the John Martin Rare Book Room in the Health Sciences Library. Works were chosen for the catalogue which seemed to illustrate the best… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 128.43
THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN WINES
by HENDERSON, Alexander
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- Used - Foxing to endpapers but text is quite clean with wide margins. Spine leather is dry affecting the royal monogram, which we have
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- First Edition
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- 1824
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 855.75
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London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers but text is quite clean with wide margins. Spine leather is dry affecting the royal monogram, which we have been unable to identify, but the spine label is in very nice condition. The main defect is the missing front cover. Very Good. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-5/8");… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 855.75
ARCHIVE OF 5 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS
by SANGER, Margaret
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- Used - Faint creases from mailing, about Fine
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- Letters
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 5,134.50
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Letters. Faint creases from mailing, about Fine. A collection of 5 Handwritten Letters, 12 full pages of writing, all SIGNED by Sanger with her initials to Peggy [Mrs. Stephen Whitney Blodgett] on various size stationery and dates, mostly about personal matters but also containing references to her work to promote Birth Control. The first two letters are dated… Read more about this item Item Price
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by SANGER, Margaret
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- Used - Very light rubbing to spine. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1938)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,283.62
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Very light rubbing to spine. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece photograph of Sanger. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.
In her job as a nurse for maternity cases for mostly poor mothers in New York, Sanger often observed women resorting… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,283.62
MEDICAL FLORA; OR, MANUAL OF THE MEDICAL BOTANY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: And notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes
by RAFINESQUE, C(onstantine) S(amuel)
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- Used - Minor chip here and there; plate 26 with clean horizontal tear with no loss; contents generally clean and binding Fine. Overall
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- First Edition
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- 1828 & 1830
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 4,278.75
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Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander (first volume); Samuel C. Atkinson (second volume), 1828 & 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor chip here and there; plate 26 with clean horizontal tear with no loss; contents generally clean and binding Fine. Overall Near Fine. Two duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7-1/4") volumes bound in recent burgundy cloth-backed off-white boards with title information printed in… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 4,278.75
THE ANATOMY OF THE BODY OF MAN: WHEREIN IS EXACTLY DESCRIBED EVERY PART THEREOF, IN THE SAME MANNER AS IT IS COMMONLY SHEWED IN PUBLICK ANATOMIES...
by VESLING, Johann
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- Used - Light marginal dampstains, some foxing and soiling; one plate with corner margin tear, affecting only the border of the plate an
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- Second Edition
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- 1677
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 5,134.50
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London: George Sawbridge, 1677. Second Edition. Hardcover. Light marginal dampstains, some foxing and soiling; one plate with corner margin tear, affecting only the border of the plate and not the image. Front cover a little loose but secure, binding rubbed with some edgewear. Very Good. Large quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") in contemporary calf; A4 D-N4 R4 S2; [8],… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 5,134.50
OUTLINES OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY
by HAMILTON, Alexander
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- Used - Occasional foxing or staining, but generally clean in a Fine, handsome binding
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- First Isaiah Thomas Edition
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- 1794
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,283.62
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Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1794. First Isaiah Thomas Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining, but generally clean in a Fine, handsome binding. Octavo (5" x 8-1/8") bound in recent full calf leather with gilt decoration to the boards and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; 302 pages. Complete with the original endpapers. First published in Edinburgh in 1784 and… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,283.62
AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE
by CHEYNE, George
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- Used - Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on the front free endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewe
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- Second Edition
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- 1725
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 427.88
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London: George Strahan, 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on the front free endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewear, short splits in joints. Nice copy. Blindstamped paneled calf leather; xx [24] 232 pages. Chapters on proper diet, exercise, sleeping, etc. Aimed at the lay reader, much of Cheyne's advice was… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 427.88
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. EVERY MAN HIS OWN BOSWELL
by [HOLMES, Oliver Wendell]
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- Used - Contents clean; mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine
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- Forty-Ninth Edition
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- 1888
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 1,454.77
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Forty-Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean; mild rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine. Octavo (5" x 7-1/2") in original gilt-decorated green cloth. A Grolier American 100 book. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank: "Harold C. Ernst/with the kind regards of/Oliver Wendell Holmes./August 7th 1888." Laid in is… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 1,454.77
IATRICA: SEU PRAXIS MEDENDI. THE PRACTICE OF CURING BEING A MEDICINAL HISTORY OF MANY FAMOUS OBSERVATIONS IN THE CURE OF DISEASES, PERFORMED BY THE AUTHOR HEREOF. WHEREUNTO IS ADDED BY WAY OF SCHOLIA, A COMPLETE THEORY, OR METHOD OF PRECEPTS, WHEREIN THE NAMES, DEFINITIONS, KINDS, SIGNS, CAUSES, PROGNOSTICKS, AND VARIOUS WAIES OF CURE ARE METHODICALLY INSTITUTED, DIGESTED AND REDUCED TO VULGAR PRACTICE, TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL OF THE CHOICES OBSERVATIONS OF OTHER FAMOUS MEN....
by SALMON, William
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- The portrait and two title pages (one dated 1681, the other 1684) expertly extended at the inner margin; endpapers renewed. Five
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- Second Edition
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- 1681 (1684)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 2,139.38
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London: Th. Dawks, 1681 (1684). Second Edition. Hardcover. The portrait and two title pages (one dated 1681, the other 1684) expertly extended at the inner margin; endpapers renewed. Five pages with small tears and no loss except for one page number. Fine, attractive copy with minor defects only. Quarto (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in contemporary calf with modern… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 2,139.38
ESSAYS ON FEVERS, AND OTHER MEDICAL SUBJECTS
by MINER, Thomas & TULLY, William
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- Used - Ink stamp of McGill University on title page with "Library Medical Faculty McGill University" written in ink as well. Their book
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1823
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 214.01
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Middletown, (CT): E. & H. Clark, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Ink stamp of McGill University on title page with "Library Medical Faculty McGill University" written in ink as well. Their bookplate on front pastedown, stamped "Withdrawn," along with a Montreal bookseller's ticket. Moderate foxing throughout. Joints splitting but covers tight; spine rubbed with McGill University in gilt at base.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 214.01
RESPONSIBILITY IN MENTAL DISEASE
by MAUDSLEY, Henry
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- Used - Rear hinge cracking but cover still fairly tight. Rubbed, corners worn. Good or better
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- Authorized Edition
- Published
- 1896
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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SGD 77.09
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge cracking but cover still fairly tight. Rubbed, corners worn. Good or better. Contemporary 1/2 morocco and marbled boards. Includes a chapter on Law & Insanity.Rubbed, corners worn. Good or better
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SGD 77.09
